"If you weren't supposed to be able to drown them then it wouldn't work like that."

"I don't tend to play video games since the lack of minds behind the characters puts me off, so I can't comment on my own habits."

"What about puzzle games?"

"Those can be fun, but they don't have any opportunities to be a troll or not, so I wasn't counting them for relevant habits."

"What about, like, multiplayer stuff?"

"It's alright, but then you're judging how much of a jerk you want to be to your friends, not fictional characters."

"It could be total strangers on the internet."

"If it's total strangers on the internet, I can't feel their minds, and then we're back to square one."

"What is your range? And parameters for finding people within it?"

"My range is...pretty wide. Several miles at least. I'm one of the three most powerful known telepaths back home. If I know what someone's mind feels like, and I check to see if they're there, I can find them if they're within my range. It's also possible to check for other things--if I were alright with reading peoples' minds I could look for 'the person who knows this thing' or 'dudes named Gilbert' or something like that, and one thing I have searched for in the past is 'intention to cause harm.'"

"What kind of information will a search like that turn up for you about people who aren't named Gilbert or don't know the thing or don't intend to cause harm?"

"Very little. It's a case of...it's less that I'm checking each mind to see if it has the information and more that I'm checking the mindscape for instances of the information? Gilbert's the sloppiest one, for that I'd have to check for prominent emotional attachment to the name, and then I'm getting false positives from people whose loved ones have the name and I have to check for context."

"Gotcha. How do intentions register? If somebody's deluded about it, say, or prone to impulse harm but not actually planning on it?"

"If someone thinks they can harm me and intends to try, it counts. If someone might do harm but isn't planning to when I check it doesn't count."

"Can you do 'don't object to mind reading' and only get anything meaningful from people with that characteristic?"

"...Eenh, that one's a little less...either you know something or you don't, but how you feel about something is a sliding scale. I can establish a threshold and say that someone has to be at least this okay with the idea, but at that point I have to give the individual mind a poke to check where on the scale it falls. I can still get, say nothing other than one's opinion on being mind read from a given mind, but it's not the same kind of thing."

"Yeah, not really, kind of fails at relevant purpose out of the gate."

"It's better than nothing if for some reason I have to read someone more deeply than that but I can pick from a handful and for some reason can't consult them but as I'm sure you can imagine that doesn't happen very often."

"Yeah."

"I mean, I can imagine scenarios like that, they're just not very likely."

"What kind of scenarios do you tend to handle when it's not silly putty monsters? My universe is pretty low on professional superheroes and supervillains."

"Your powers are a little more... broad spectrum than gemini bonuses tend to be. Some gemini try superheroism or supervillainy - I have been told that I'd make a really good thief - but eventually somebody shoots you, and if your power isn't immunity to bullets, this is bad."

"I can actually deflect bullets."