The Telepathic Path
The mind is a dangerous thing when aptly put together. When a Psychic has educated himself in the ability to use his mind to touch others, it puts fear and suspicion into the hearts of others. Through telepathy, the Psychic is able to commune with the minds of his targets as well as even affect them. With enough control, a well-disciplined Psychic may possibly mentally dominate his target.
Beastmaster
Rank 1
Cost: 200 Deras
Description: You stretch out your thoughts to an animal of your choosing. You become able to perceive their emotions.
Effect: The animal can share how they are feeling through emotions or images.
Rank 2
Cost: 600 Deras
Description: You are able to dominate the targeted animal due to the simplicity of its mind.
Effect: The animal is dominated for up to two hours. You are able to command the animal to ‘come’, ‘guard’, ‘flee’, ‘heel’, ‘attack’, and so on.
Rank 3
Cost: 800 Deras
Description: You are able to connect with the animal on a deeper level than a Ranger could.
Effect: The animal is dominated for up to five hours. You are able to command the animal with simple commands as well as read images and emotional states from the animal to communicate.
Rank 4
Cost: 1,025 Deras
Description: You are able to connect with the animal at the deepest level such a connection can happen.
Effect: The animal has chosen to become a permanent friend to you. You are able to communicate with a clarity that even just a few images given you know what your new companion is talking about.
Dominate
Cost: 700 Deras
Description: One of the most infamous telepathic skills, the ability grants you the power to mentally dominate your target. (This can only be used on NPC targets.)
Effect: Mentally dominate your target. [Depending on the situation and target chosen, the DM may have an action skill check rolled to determine level of success.]
Compel
Cost: 1,000 Deras
Description: A very direct psychic mind trick, this power allows you to probe the dark recesses of the target’s mind and briefly get them to act against their will to serve your needs.
Effect: The target may make an action skill check against the telepath. Acceptable commands would be ‘flee’, ‘attack the target’, ‘dance a jig’, and so on.
Mind Reading
Rank 1
Cost: 500 Deras
Description: This is what makes most psychics feared. The ability to read minds is yours.
Effect: Contact – the psychic contacts the target’s mind learning basic information such as name, mood, physical health, insanity (points), and so on.
Rank 2
Cost: 750 Deras
Description: This is what makes most psychics feared. The ability to read minds is yours.
Effect: Surface thoughts – The psychic investigates the thoughts of the target which are uppermost in its mind; these are things such as opinions, on the psychic, immediate fears, conscious lies, a location, object, or even that is relevant to the target. It is not apparent why this is significant, only the emotions surrounding it.
Rank 3
Cost: 850 Deras
Description: This is what makes most psychics feared. The ability to read minds is yours.
Effect: The psychic’s skill allows him or her to rifle through the memories of the past 12 hours of the target’s life. The psychic may uncover two further significant memories, such as location, objects or events. It is still not apparent why this is relevant, only the emotions associated with it. Additionally the psychic may learn simple information as the amount of deras the person has, frequent habitual behavior, etc.
Rank 4
Cost: 5,000 Deras
Description: This is what makes most psychic’s feared, the ability to read minds is yours.
Effect: The psychic may gain an understanding of why the significant person, place or thing holds importance to the target. The target’s motivations, goals and ambitions as are the targets. Complicated secrets are also available to the psychic (such as things they would hide from someone and with good reason, like if they murdered someone, a drug addiction, conspiracies, etc.) The psychic is also aware of pivotal moments in the target’s life (from adolescence to adulthood.)
Rank 5
Cost: 10,000 Deras
Description: This is what makes most psychics feared. The ability to read minds is yours.
Pre-requisite: In order to use this psychic power, you must be at least a Beta level psychic.
Effect: The psychic may plunder the target’s mind at will. Any information the target may have contained within their mind. Additionally the psychic may attempt to covertly read a mind. [An action skill check of hard is to be made for delving any deeper into the target's mind.]
Astral Projection
Cost: 1,250 Deras
Description: Your ability to use your mind’s power extends even further. You are able to project yourself to the astral plane. Here you can see and move as freely as you wish, but be careful of the Astral Predators.
Effect: Your mind physically becomes separated from your body. You are incorporeal and you may only be seen by those who make an opposed psychic check with the psychic. If there is one who is known to not like having their thoughts invaded, they too may make the psychic check. If they pass, the psychic is forced back into their body.
While in this form, you are considered unconscious. You are able to communicate with any creature you know well and they can communicate back.
Psi-Shriek
Cost: 1,500 Deras
Description: An individual’s scream is subject to how loud their voice can get in reality. For a psychic, this limitation does not exist by channeling mind you let out a psychic wail that pierces the minds of all within the vicinity.
Effect: All targets within the vicinity of the psychic are rendered stunned for 3 rounds.
See No!
Cost: 1,000 Deras
Description: First they see the psychic, and then they don’t. You are not the psychic they are looking for. Using your psychic powers you erase one trace of your existence from a group of targets.
Effect: Select two targets. Those targets must make an action skill check of hard. If they fail, the targets can no longer detect your presence by sight, sound, touch or smell.
Telepathy
Cost: 500 Deras
Description: With your mind, you reach out with your senses and send a message to one or more people.
Effect: This can be used on any target that allows this message to be received. Depending on the psychic's rank determines how easy it is to read someone's mind. Omega requires the target to accept the communication. Whereas Alpha can easily read surface thoughts without the target even knowing.
Terrify
Cost: 1,100 Deras
Description: Your psychic reach can drag up the target’s deepest, darkest nightmare causing them to break from the terror.
Effect: The target must make an action skill check of hard to be able to avoid reacting to their nightmares coming to life. The Psychic is able to discover the target's nightmares and capitalize on them to manipulate the target as they need to. The Psychic must be at least Delta for this.
Beastmaster
Rank 1
Cost: 200 Deras
Description: You stretch out your thoughts to an animal of your choosing. You become able to perceive their emotions.
Effect: The animal can share how they are feeling through emotions or images.
Rank 2
Cost: 600 Deras
Description: You are able to dominate the targeted animal due to the simplicity of its mind.
Effect: The animal is dominated for up to two hours. You are able to command the animal to ‘come’, ‘guard’, ‘flee’, ‘heel’, ‘attack’, and so on.
Rank 3
Cost: 800 Deras
Description: You are able to connect with the animal on a deeper level than a Ranger could.
Effect: The animal is dominated for up to five hours. You are able to command the animal with simple commands as well as read images and emotional states from the animal to communicate.
Rank 4
Cost: 1,025 Deras
Description: You are able to connect with the animal at the deepest level such a connection can happen.
Effect: The animal has chosen to become a permanent friend to you. You are able to communicate with a clarity that even just a few images given you know what your new companion is talking about.
Dominate
Cost: 700 Deras
Description: One of the most infamous telepathic skills, the ability grants you the power to mentally dominate your target. (This can only be used on NPC targets.)
Effect: Mentally dominate your target. [Depending on the situation and target chosen, the DM may have an action skill check rolled to determine level of success.]
Compel
Cost: 1,000 Deras
Description: A very direct psychic mind trick, this power allows you to probe the dark recesses of the target’s mind and briefly get them to act against their will to serve your needs.
Effect: The target may make an action skill check against the telepath. Acceptable commands would be ‘flee’, ‘attack the target’, ‘dance a jig’, and so on.
Mind Reading
Rank 1
Cost: 500 Deras
Description: This is what makes most psychics feared. The ability to read minds is yours.
Effect: Contact – the psychic contacts the target’s mind learning basic information such as name, mood, physical health, insanity (points), and so on.
Rank 2
Cost: 750 Deras
Description: This is what makes most psychics feared. The ability to read minds is yours.
Effect: Surface thoughts – The psychic investigates the thoughts of the target which are uppermost in its mind; these are things such as opinions, on the psychic, immediate fears, conscious lies, a location, object, or even that is relevant to the target. It is not apparent why this is significant, only the emotions surrounding it.
Rank 3
Cost: 850 Deras
Description: This is what makes most psychics feared. The ability to read minds is yours.
Effect: The psychic’s skill allows him or her to rifle through the memories of the past 12 hours of the target’s life. The psychic may uncover two further significant memories, such as location, objects or events. It is still not apparent why this is relevant, only the emotions associated with it. Additionally the psychic may learn simple information as the amount of deras the person has, frequent habitual behavior, etc.
Rank 4
Cost: 5,000 Deras
Description: This is what makes most psychic’s feared, the ability to read minds is yours.
Effect: The psychic may gain an understanding of why the significant person, place or thing holds importance to the target. The target’s motivations, goals and ambitions as are the targets. Complicated secrets are also available to the psychic (such as things they would hide from someone and with good reason, like if they murdered someone, a drug addiction, conspiracies, etc.) The psychic is also aware of pivotal moments in the target’s life (from adolescence to adulthood.)
Rank 5
Cost: 10,000 Deras
Description: This is what makes most psychics feared. The ability to read minds is yours.
Pre-requisite: In order to use this psychic power, you must be at least a Beta level psychic.
Effect: The psychic may plunder the target’s mind at will. Any information the target may have contained within their mind. Additionally the psychic may attempt to covertly read a mind. [An action skill check of hard is to be made for delving any deeper into the target's mind.]
Astral Projection
Cost: 1,250 Deras
Description: Your ability to use your mind’s power extends even further. You are able to project yourself to the astral plane. Here you can see and move as freely as you wish, but be careful of the Astral Predators.
Effect: Your mind physically becomes separated from your body. You are incorporeal and you may only be seen by those who make an opposed psychic check with the psychic. If there is one who is known to not like having their thoughts invaded, they too may make the psychic check. If they pass, the psychic is forced back into their body.
While in this form, you are considered unconscious. You are able to communicate with any creature you know well and they can communicate back.
Psi-Shriek
Cost: 1,500 Deras
Description: An individual’s scream is subject to how loud their voice can get in reality. For a psychic, this limitation does not exist by channeling mind you let out a psychic wail that pierces the minds of all within the vicinity.
Effect: All targets within the vicinity of the psychic are rendered stunned for 3 rounds.
See No!
Cost: 1,000 Deras
Description: First they see the psychic, and then they don’t. You are not the psychic they are looking for. Using your psychic powers you erase one trace of your existence from a group of targets.
Effect: Select two targets. Those targets must make an action skill check of hard. If they fail, the targets can no longer detect your presence by sight, sound, touch or smell.
Telepathy
Cost: 500 Deras
Description: With your mind, you reach out with your senses and send a message to one or more people.
Effect: This can be used on any target that allows this message to be received. Depending on the psychic's rank determines how easy it is to read someone's mind. Omega requires the target to accept the communication. Whereas Alpha can easily read surface thoughts without the target even knowing.
Terrify
Cost: 1,100 Deras
Description: Your psychic reach can drag up the target’s deepest, darkest nightmare causing them to break from the terror.
Effect: The target must make an action skill check of hard to be able to avoid reacting to their nightmares coming to life. The Psychic is able to discover the target's nightmares and capitalize on them to manipulate the target as they need to. The Psychic must be at least Delta for this.