<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=348967.msg16409820#msg16409820">Quote from: HairyHeretic on 22-02-2023, 00:11:33</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">@Muse<br/><br/>Can you expand a bit on what you envision each of these as being capable of?<br/><br/><em>Supernatural Abilities: <br/>--Basic telepathy and clairvoyance. <br/>--Psychic Healing<br/>--High level pyrokinesis.</em><br/><br/>I'm hesitant to allow mind reading, as that could easily wreck any kind of intrigue based storyline.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Yes, Hairy, these are questions I'm asking you! :P<br/><br/>:P  Seems like everyone thinks Mandy is going to take one look at them and start teasing them about childhood humiliations.  :p<br/><br/>Hairy I addressed telepathy when I had multiple people telling me they were going to be telling Mandy to stay out of their minds.  ^_^;;<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=348967.msg16404131#msg16404131">Quote from: Muse on 15-02-2023, 08:59:15</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">  *chuckles*  Oh, dear...  I'm not going to be able to use telepathy to communicate with this group, am I?  <br/><br/>  Mandy:  "I'll respect your wishes of course, Glorious.  Honestly, I'm not an incredible telepath.  I certainly can't make you think or feel something.  I mostly use it for communication.  I can't dive deep inside your mind and uncover secret memories.  I can barely perceived surface thoughts.  <br/><br/>  "We had a captive bandit once.  The father of the girl the bandits took wanted to torture the bandit 'til he revealed the stolen girl's location.  Dain and I asked him to let us try first.  Dain asked the bandit leading questions, manipulating the bandit into thinking about his hideout, his captive, and his allies.  Because Dain brought those thoughts to the front of the bandit's mind, i was able to perceive them and get the information we needed to save the girl without torturing the bandit.  <br/><br/>  "I'm really not good at much besides burning.  Truly Pelor favors you, gifting you the power to bless and to heal.  Psychic healing is nowhere near as strong or as fast." <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><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/><br/>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/><br/>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/><br/>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/><br/>*  *  *<br/><br/>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/><br/>*  *  *<br/><br/>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/><br/>*  *  *<br/><br/>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/><br/>*  *  *<br/><br/>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.