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[cutejustice]

[Well. Maya had gotten settled, such as it was. She had found a place to live for the time being. But so far not really doing much of anything was driving her up one wall and back down the other. So, it was clearly time to change that.

The screen flashed on. She at least had figured out how to access the network. Though it had taken many questions (sometimes asked more than once!) of her long suffering robot buddy, Helper.]

Hi! For those of you who don't know, I am Maya! I know there are a lot of people and robots and stuff I probably haven't met yet!

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone needed a lawyer around here? Or a spirit medium/ghost talker type person? Don't think it's weird that I'm mentioning the two of those things in close proximity. You'd be surprised at how often the two intersect!

[Robots could get into trouble, right? Besides, there were human people around. Besides... Maya didn't want to know know about the existence of robot ghosts, thanks. Though she had a feeling she might find out before she got to go home.]

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[thankyou4myheart]

Oh? May I ask what a spirit medium is?

[He honestly doesn't know, oops.]

I see. Does it? That doesn't sound like it's healthy, to be honest.

[cutejustice]

Um... we channel spirits? Like... [Oh god, how to explain this to a robot?] If a person dies, the a spirit medium can channel that person's spirit through their body, and let that person talk to the living.

Does that make sense?

[Did robots have ghosts or spirits for that to make sense? She really couldn't comment on the waterfall bit. It might not be healthy. It certainly wasn't pleasant.]

[thankyou4myheart]

You mean, you let spirits possess you? How much control do you retain? That could be dangerous, if an evil spirit manages to slip in.

[Yep, it makes sense. It helps that he's a robot built and programmed by humans.]



((ooc: Oh, man, and now I kinda want somehow for her to figure out that he's got a soul too! They don't find this out until the VERY END of the series, but the BP units are, in fact, alive - either have been all along, or an instant in the series climax pushes them that last little bit over the edge, it's not wholly clear [Deckard's pulled from about two months before that], but...yeah... XD))

[cutejustice]

[Huh, okay, he got the basic concept. Sort of. that made this a little easier.]

Well... it's not quite possession. It's more like I let the spirit into my body for awhile. I just... don't really remember what happens while the spirit is there.

[Okay, so channeling is totally like a controlled possession. Maya just isn't admitting that.]

But we don't just channel any random spirit. Generally the spirit medium knows who she is calling, so there is a measure of control there. And the medium's spiritual power has to be strong enough to channel the spirit in the first place.




((ooc: The way I tend to play it, Maya tends to see people's souls as their Auras. If Deckard has a soul, Maya will probably be able to see it as an Aura. It will just sort of need to come up, since I doubt she's going to declare "Oh hay! You have a soul!" in the middle of conversation. XD))