<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=348967.msg16410288#msg16410288">Quote from: Muse on 22-02-2023, 15:15:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><br/>The telepathy I had in mind was:  <br/>A.  Something you actively activate, initiating on someone within line of sight.  <br/>B.  It's mostly communication.  I can hear the thoughts on the surface of their mind, the things you're actively thinking.  I can send words and images to your mind in the same way.  n that fashion we can converse and share images.  <br/>  If you're not actively thinking about stuff relevant to the investigation, then I can't get that information.   However, I can use this in questioning--which is a very nice alternative to torture--because when someone asks you a question you usually think about the answer--even if you're not intending to share that information.  Especially if you're thinking about how you can deceive us with the answer.  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>So how's this for a thought. The more familiar she is with a mind the more she can do. Someone she's never interacted with, she'd be able to manage surface thoughts with effort, someone she is friends with, she can do effective two way telepathy, sending messages, and picking up responses in return. She can also reach them further away, and perhaps be able to sense their location and general emotional state.<br/><br/>"X is about half a mile that way, and something just spiked their fear and aggression levels"<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=348967.msg16410288#msg16410288">Quote from: Muse on 22-02-2023, 15:15:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Clairvoyance, there are several powers i could have, if you wanted me too:  <br/>6th Sense:  This gives me up to a minute's warning before being in danger.  (We can cut this forewarning time down.)  This lets me do things like warn my friends that there's about to be danger and draw my weapons.  If I had a "mage armor" type effect--which I don't--it would give me time to activate it.  Through the danger it gives me a minor advantage in defending myself with flashes of intuitive guidance about where I'm about to be attacked and from what direction.  Obviously this isn't a perfect effect.  it's a "+2".  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Deja-fu .. the martial art whereby you pick up your opponents moves just before they make them. No armour, but your body responds on instinct dodging. Might work better as a psychic effect? Ties in with the danger sense being a broad application of this power and in combat, its focus narrows greatly.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=348967.msg16410288#msg16410288">Quote from: Muse on 22-02-2023, 15:15:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I might be able to have visions that myself or my loved ones are in danger.  This makes for a great plot device--an excuse to send me narratives relevant to the plot.  But we can do fine without.  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>We can keep it on hand, but we probably won't need to use it to start with.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=348967.msg16410288#msg16410288">Quote from: Muse on 22-02-2023, 15:15:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Likewise I could be able to handle an item and get a vision of emotionally impactful scenes the item was a part of.  I can do without this one if it's going to mess with your plot.  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Psychometry. Maybe later on, if it would serve plot development. It's a fairly interesting power.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=348967.msg16410288#msg16410288">Quote from: Muse on 22-02-2023, 15:15:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Psychic healing:  This is very much up to you!   This is one of the reasons I asked what "level" you wanted this game to be at.  I should be able to heal wounds and diseases to extent appropriate to the power level of the game, but it should require me to take a little time.  I'll need to touch the patient.  I'll need to close my eyes and extend my perceptions into their body, find what's injured, see what kind of healing it needs, and actively heal it.  A cleric is more the kind of person who just touches you and calls upon their god and the wounds are healed--or even calls upon their god to create a hemisphere of healing energy that heals everyone around him.  In the middle of a fight the best I could do is touch you and will your wounds to stop bleeding, and therefore keep you alive until the battle is over and I have time to do this properly.  <br/>  I might also be able to force out a foreign entity or intrusive mind, if you want.  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Maybe not healing directly, but a very powerful regeneration type effect? Encouraging the body to heal itself, only orders of magnitude more powerfully than what it could normally do?<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=348967.msg16410288#msg16410288">Quote from: Muse on 22-02-2023, 15:15:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Pyrokinesis especially is where I was asking "what level" we should be. Mandy should basically play like a fire bender from Avatar.  She can produce fire from nothing.  It arguably takes less personal energy to work with preexisting fire but keeping preexisting fire in a controllable state is its own challenge.  She should be able to produce minor attacks like bolts of flame that strike at a distance or arcs of flame that hit 2 or 3 enemies in close proximity, both with about the strength of conventional weapons.  This is something she should be able to do somewhat indefinitely, like 5th edition cantirps.  She should be able to do utility things of similar power.  <br/><br/>But from there it's a question of how strong are we?  I should have the ability to do something stronger than that a few times a day, but how often, and how strong?  Can I make a larger fan that hits a little harder?  Or can I throw a fireball that goes up like a hand grenade?  Or can I make a tornado of flame rampage across the battlefield?  <br/><br/>You need to tell me this.  I don't know!  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I would look at making the powers equivalent to other abilities. A small fireball would do as much damage as a spear or arrow perhaps, with the added advantage of potentially setting the target on fire and/or having a blast radius. More powerful blasts either require a bit of time to power up, or maintenance of focus (if you're sending flaming monkeys to attack your enemies kinda thing)<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=348967.msg16410288#msg16410288">Quote from: Muse on 22-02-2023, 15:15:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I was sincerely asking <em>you</em> if Mandy should be able to heal or not and I need to know the answer before I can do more.  Mandy who can heal is a very different person with very different motivations from Mandy who can't.  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>At the end of the day, she's your girl. Do you want her to be able to heal or not?<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=348967.msg16410288#msg16410288">Quote from: Muse on 22-02-2023, 15:15:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">  I'm very nervous about being grouchy right now, people.  I've been unable to get one of my psychiatric medicines for a week now so I'm more paranoid than usual.  I'm equal parts seeing you talk and feeling like you're contemptuous of me--and trying to use my reason to determine if this is accurate or not--and looking at what I'm writing and trying to determine if I'm being offensive or not.  <br/><br/>Hopefully my meds are at the pharmacist now and--once they open--I can go pick them up and start to get better. <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>All good.