Deep Whisperers

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| Rumors have begun to circulate among the svirfneblin of |

|              Wickwellin that one of their number is performing dangerous    |
|              experiments related to empathic bonding.                       |

Possible Bonds: Psicat, Jing Shen, Fox, Octopus, Sunfish, and Sunray.

You can also "Concentrate on transmitting information about my experiences to Byundi", though the effects of this are largely unknown.

Requirements

You must have telepathy. Joining is somewhat difficult - info Byundi for more information.

[OOC Marcosy] in the interest of people not running around like headless chickens, hear ye this: Deep Whisperer Psibond Compatibility is not 
based on quests, or race, or level or anything like that.  It's entirely based off factors under your control and there is no randomness to 
it whatsoever.
[OOC Marcosy] when you attempt to join the Deep Whisperers, the game calculates three factors - Psychic_Flexibility (how open-minded you 
are), Psychic_Rigidity (how fully-formed your psychic fixations are), and Interpersonal_Compatibility (how big of an asshole you are)
[OOC Marcosy] the combination of these three factors determines your Psibond_Compatibility, which is either 1 or 0 - if it's 1 you can 
join, if it's 0 you can't and your head might explode

It seems lots of empathy as well as other skills might be needed for the requirements. Possibly psychology and/or philosophy. I was able to join after getting an enlightenment boosting both my philosophy and empathy. When i joined, my alignment was caring/undisciplined, but i'm unsure if this is also part of the requirements. Kaess says: Alignment is confirmed. With enlightenment buffing empathy and philosophy, as well as telepathic capacity, I was unable to join. Once I did this and was also saintly chaotic, I got in.

    You echo, |- I vooolunteer tooo gather data ooon psiooonic booonding -| in rapidly-accented
Anglic.

    Byundi exclaims, " Oh, so you wanna become one of my test subjects,  figure?  Okey-doke, let me
just attune your psyche to the cosmic wavelengths required.  Oh, and uh, you should probably try to
remain calm, no matter what sort of horrible sensations you may feel or experience! " to you in
Nanomi.

    Byundi begins to concentrate, staring at you intently.

    You feel a questing, tingling sensation deep within your mind, which withdraws after a long
moment.

    Byundi says, " It seems your mind is suitable for the act of forming a psionic bond with a
familiar.  I will now awaken within you the capability to do so. " in Nanomi.

    Byundi begins to concentrate again, this time with much greater intensity.

    You experience a strange sensation within your mind of ebb and flow, a sort of rhythmic pulse
composed not of sensation but rather of modes of thought.

    Different ideas begin to move rapidly through your thoughts, shaping an organic and purposeful
train of intent which culminates in a profound and thorough understanding of the natures of
oneness, companionship, and the relationships between all beings.

    You feel a new desire beginning to stir deep within your psyche, a longing for companionship
and unity at both the mental and spiritual level.

    Byundi says, " Excellent!  It seems the procedure was completely successful.  Good thing, too,
sometimes the results aren't very pretty.  Lots of blood and goopy stuff.  Anyhow, just go out
there and find yourself a familiar; I'll be monitoring your progress and gathering your
experimental data telepathically. " in Nanomi.

    You sense a new emotional need opening up within you -- an incompleteness you never fully
grasped, the need for a true soulmate of some kind -- along with the desire and ability to fulfill
that need and to complete yourself.

Specialties upon joining

You are now a first-degree specialist in animal lore, empathy, introspection, philosophy, and psychology.

Advancing

• Advancing within DW is...odd to say the least. Unlike other guild progressions which are managed by code which determines real-time your advancement, DW requires you to constantly be transmitting data (via the transmit command) to Byundi to ensure that you don't "miss out" on any data blocks (aka guild XP).

• The reason for this is how the data is handled once sent. As it's XP based, if you gain say 30k XP and transmit you'll get ONE block. But if that 30k was received in 3 10k blocks and you transmit between each one you get THREE blocks.

• What this means for the Player is in order to progress effectively through DW you will need a MUD Client that has trigger capabilities, so that every time you gain X amount/% of XP it does a Transmit. Whether this is from compressing you nihilspeara, exploring, arbitrage, trav challenge, killing a mob, healing, whatever. Trigger trigger trigger.

• If you don't do this and forget to transmit or transmit infrequently then you will NOT progress in the Guild, or at least progress extremely slowly. This is a known "issue" so don't bring it up, maybe it'll get "fixed", maybe it won't. For now it's manageable with a MUD Client. If you don't have a good MUD Client or aren't well versed in client-side scripting I recommend not joining DW.