"We had stuff like that like a hundred years ago where I'm from," she says, hefting her bat and starting on some big, bulky thing almost as tall as she is. It's got some sort of tray on top and a glass display.

(It's a copy/print/fax machine, one of the big old ones)

"I've never heard of a tulpa. It sounds about right though - except this is bigger. It's definitely some kind of astral stuff. They use tech to get at it, but there's magic involved here." She says this with the certainty of experience. "I wish Scylla were here - oh, well. You see that post by Quaestor?"

They're in a pocket reality and the camaeras don't work anyway. She's not ready to cop to her anon handle yet, but it's worth bringing up.

"That noosphere stuff?"