No, not at all. If it were that, I'd have seen two squished thinkers thinking beneath each ivory dome, but instead they've only got one bloke apiece, each who's thinking for two. No, where things get supernatural is that each of the real people imagine that their imaginary friend, being an actor who's in the same room as the others, can obviously see and talk to each other, and even talk to each other out of character.

And these supposed flights of fancy are consistent with each other.

Naturally.

You mean supernaturally.

Unless it's Creation's wackiest coincidence, yes. 

If all they had going for them was the extremely roundabout telepathy, I think you'd be approaching this conversation in a different way. So what else can they do?

The other powers I've observed include that they think sloppily but very quickly, especially in combat, just making wild assumptions about what conclusions their imaginary friends would eventually reach whenever they don't have the time to carefully reason something through, or making wild assumptions about what's going on behind them when they aren't able to directly observe it - these assumptions are never wrong.

One of 'em took a scorching ray and tried to die about it, would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for magic healing. But her dying dreams were coherent, accurately portrayed the tactical situation, and were consistent with the assumptions the other two were coming up with. They imagined that they were all having a conversation, even.

...Whack.

What are the limits on this, can they just assume the password to get through a teleport trap?

As far as I know, anything that they imagine their imaginary friends should know, their imaginary friends can pass along. This apparently includes everything that's happening on any battlefield where they're fighting, on account of how they (imagine that they) start every fight by drawing a map and setting down figurines to represent all the combatants.

That seems like a useful ability.

Have you tried using suggestion to convince one that their imaginary friend should know what happens to people who fail the test of the starstone?

Obviously I haven't had the chance yet. 

Anyhoo, I think that they gained this power when they explored a dungeon the door to which has unfortunately been stoneshaped shut on the orders of a paranoid fighter in red armor who figured that if we don't know where or if it lets out, it might connect to somewhere shadowy.

If those four guys it, though, it shouldn't be any trouble for four of us, and there are other people who are also curious about what happened in there, so if we want their power for ourselves that's something to look into sooner rather than later. Does anyone have dimension door?

None of the Arkonas here are 4th-circle, alas.

Melyia, try and recruit us a fourth-circle wizard. Diplomatically; everyone and their mother is wearing arcane sight. Stretch goals: if you can get a 5th-circle on board, I'm sure we'd all love a teleport in our back pocket.

Next order of business: the Church of Asmodeus. Asmodeus is crazy invested here and I don't know why or what He'd do if we try and fight him on it. We've already seen one miracle today. One of our main priorities should be getting the fuck out of here. If there is a fight between the Church of Asmodeus and anyone else, though, we need to kill xyz shadows, stationed there and there and there &c, in such and such an order, or else we're going to die in this hole. Samudra, if you ever kill another shadow whose spawn are still alive, I'm not going to need to murder you about it because the shadows will do that job for me.

Good talk!

If you're all finished up, Watch Sergeant Kroft would like to have a word.

...Were you listening in on us?

I'm sure one of you would have noticed if I were doing that.

The way that there's a tag from you that says "What's Lord Arkona up to?" and then a bunch of stuff from us, and then a tag from you that says "If you're all finished," really makes it look like you were listening in on us.

I guess kinda?

But realistically, probably you had your all-hands meeting way earlier, so the tags probably are only conveying the general gist of what was said rather than making any strong claims to the temporal order.

I think that the format where the Arkonas talk about a subject, and that conversation of ours is sandwiched with tags from you, implies that - even if the meeting took a different form at a different time - you somehow overheard it or otherwise learned or inferred the pertinent information in it.

Look, if you want to argue that position, I'm hardly going to argue against it. Anyway, I wanted to talk to Glorio because people say that he's organizing a fight against the Church of Asmodeus?

Bluff check to pass the secret message that I don't want to start the fight, but if someone else starts it I want to make sure that all of the Asmodean's shadows are dead as fast as is possible.

"As fast as possible" is not fast enough. 

A shadow will slip free and everyone will die. Also, not all of the people who might die and loose a shadow are part of the Church of Asmodeus.

I'm aware of this, yup.

Again, I'm not planning to throw rocks at this particular beehive. 

Right. Noted, and thank you.