| From: | kyle kohler <kkohler@**.UCR.EDU> |
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| Subject: | PSI: List of possible powers |
| Date: | Sat, 16 Jul 1994 00:41:34 -0700 |
composed a list of possible powers. I know it is a little early, but I
did this in the hopes of acting as a break from our current state of
debates (as we seem to be stuck in a loop of Astral vs.
non-Astral, powers vs. skills, etc.). I'll just post the list and then
comment on it and some other stuff at the bottom. Note that the
descriptions are very small, just to get an idea of the types of powers
available. This is by no means a definitive list or only explanations of
powers. Hell, some of them might not even work or be in the right
category, but bear with me. The names of these powers are just the ones
that were given to them from my sources. They can easily be changed for
purposes of copyrights, misleading name, or finding a cooler sounding one.
I have also neglected to put in game mechanics, since we don't have the
ground rules down yet.
Telekinesis:
Manipulate Air - Allows user to manipulate air, causing gusts of wind or
controlling gas
Compression - Force pushes in on target from all sides, harming opponents
and crushing objects
Perpetual Motion - Uses TK to cause an object to continue moving in current
direction, thus causing arcing objects to overshoot.
Remove Air - Removes air from a target location, useful for knocking out
people
Control Fluid - Allows user to manipulate any fluid and control it's
motion or flow
Density Manipulation - By directing TK down on target or up, can cause
targets weight to double or be cut in half.
Kinetic Reverse - Can reverse the direction of the target by pushing with
TK in opposite direction
Mold Earth - Can cause earth to fly up and form rudmentary shapes (possibly
more accurate with more successes) such as pillars or encasing an opponent
in an earth shell.
Molecualr Dampening - slows down movement of molecules, causing objects
to become colder and colder (allowing, eventually, say a metal wall to
become brittle due to intense cold)
Molecular Agitation - speeds up movement of molecules causing obvjects to
heat up
Psychic Guidance - Guides small projectiles (not bullets unless
you get a hell of a lot of successes). Usefule for throwing a knife and
guiding around a bystander to nail that Streetie who is pointing a gun at
you.
Psychokinetic Punch - Like Clout from the Grimey
Velocity Control - Double a target's speed or halve it by applying TK in
right direction
Magic Fingers - Same as Grimey Spell
Barrier - Same as Grimey Spell
Levitate Item - Same as Grimey
Levitate Person - Same as Grimey
Poltergeist - Same as Grimey
Armor - Can either be same as Grimey or perhaps a thin TK barrier
surrounding target that moves along with him/her/it.
Ignite - Same as Grimey
Repulsion - Projection of TK outward from users body pushing everything
away (possibly even air if wanted)
Bind - User entwines target in objects in immediate vicinity (i.e. pipes
break off and wrap arround target, maybe even a car at higher force/successes)
Heat - Stimulates molecules in the air, causing an overall increase in
temperature. Can be focused on a person - causing uncomfortableness and
irritability, or an object (you could be an asshole and go around melting
everyone's ice cream)
Disruption - Shakes apart an object with TK
Teleportation:
Dimensional Warp - Causes two portals to appear at users choice of
locations. Step through one, pop out in the other.
Conjure - Teleports an object to users hand
Interchange - Switches locations of two targets
Sending - Opposite of Conjuring. Sends an object from user's hand (great
for those runs where you steal data, put in on a chip, and pop!)
Teleloction - Detects where a target is
Blink (Arrgghh, he's resorted to ??&?) - Yes, the power you all know and
love
Passwall (has he no respect?) - Sorry
MetaPsionics:
Psionic Awareness - Allows user to detect psionics and psionic activity,
even allowing him/her to detect what powers is being used assuming he/she
knows it, or of it.
Group Defense - Similar to a magic user using his Magic pool to protect a
mundane, a psionic can do the same with his psionics.
Psychic Armor - Allows extra protection from psionic attacks/effects
Psionic Concealment - Hinds the users psionic activities and power from
those attempting to discover it
Link - Allows user to link with another psionicist (willing, or not at
higher levels) to use that person(s) power(s).
Telepathy:
Mimic - Can read a skill off of another and temporarily have it and use
it.
Control Dream - Can enter another's dream and sculpt it to the users
desires (can you say, DreamScape?)
Mind Blast - Pure psionic energy directed at a living target
Paralyze - Blocks the brains commands to the body
Disconnect Skill - Temporarily causes a target to forget how to use a
skill ("Say,Mr. Sniper, you weren't going to shoot me with that big rifle
were you? Didn't think so!")
Equilibrium Distortion - Distorts target's sense of balance (like
spinning around in those Tea Cups at Disneyland).
Glibness - Subtly manipulate target so that whatever B.S. you're trying
to pass sounds reasonable ("Uh, yes Mr. Lonestar sir. I was, uh, just
walking down the street when this guy just attacked me and slipped and
fell and hurt himself.")
Induce Pleasure - Better than any drug, and safer too
Induce Pain - "Ow, quit it. Ow, quit it."
Memory Summoning - Forces a target to bring a certian memory to the
surface (great when combined with Mental Probe)
Negate Sensory Input - Removes one sense from target (i.e. "I've gone
blind" or "Speak up!")
Communicate with Animals - "If I could walk with the animals, talk with
the animals, think of all the things that I could say..." Like, "Hey
bear, I'll give you a steak if you kill that Renraku Red over there!"
Mind Probe - Same as in the Grimey
Invisibility - Same as in the Grimey - It would correspond to Mana only
Sleep - "Say goodnight Gracie"
Chaos - Same as in the Grimey
Chaotic World - Same as in the Grimey
Mask - Same as Grimey - Mana only
Influence - Same as Grimey
Mob Mind - Same as Grimey
Mob Mood - Same as Grimey
Mind Link - Same as Grimey (is that in the Grimey or am I hallucinating?)
Linguistics - Gleans just enough knowledge of the language to speak to
whoever is talking to you
Confusion - Same as Grimey
Stimulation - Same as Grimey
Control Actions - Same as Grimey
Control Emotions - Same as Grimey
Control Thoughts - Same as Grimey
Forget - Removes the knowledge of one memory (kinda powerful)
Insert Memory - Inserts a false memory into a target (very powerful)
Clairaudience:
Aura Reading - Allows the user to pick up psychic "fingerprints" on an
object. If the "impression" is strong, then the user may even relive
those events (i.e. If reading a knife used by a mass murderer, you might
relive those events.) If used in an area, it's kind of like a background
count with Magic (i.e. at Stonehenge, you see druids doing weird
druid-type stuff).
Environmental Awareness - Tunes the user in with the environment. Allows
the user to predict weather, sense fault lines, and crap like that
Clairvoyance - Same as Grimey
Clairaudience - Same as Grimey
Danger Sense/Combat Sense - Same as Grimey
Empathy - Allows the user to pick up on the overall emotinal status of
the target(s). Such as, "boy are they pissed" or "She's not really
mad..."
Postcognition - Allows the user to experience events that occured in a
specific place or possibly to an specific item (such as the
aforementioned knife)
Precognition - Can attempt to forsee the future (not very accurately). A
derivation of this power is the Danger Sense which isonly for a split
second in the future.
Analyze Truth - Same as Grimey
True Seeing - Allows the user more dice when attempting to pierce
illusiions and such.
Detect Individuals - Same as Grimey
Detect Life - Same as Grimey
Detect (Life Form) - Sameas Grimey
Radar Sense - Ever wonder how those Kung-Fu masters fought blind-folded?
Detect Invisible - Works only on invisible living things as this power
sees the mind of the invisible person instead of the body
PsychoMetabolics:
Enhanced Combat - Personal Combat Sense or possibly bolstering physical
abilities/skills with Psionic energy
Fortiturde - Enhances body with Psionic Energy (When you got the glow, for
the Last Dragon fans)
Psi-Sword - Creates a sword of pure Psionic Energy. Only affects living
stuff. Kinda like Psylocke from the X-Men
Heal - Same as Grimey
Speed - Like Increase Reaction/Initatinve from Grimey
Enhance Sense - Allows the user to enhance one sense. Possibilities include
gaining infravision, ultrasound sight, hearing radar, etc.
Resist Pain - Same as Grimey
Age Shifting - By doing weird psionic stuff, allows the user to appear to
be any age, from a young kid to a wizened old man (does not change
physical dimensions)
Oxygentate - Same as Grimey
Antidote - Same as Grimey
Cure Disease - Same as Grimey
Increase Attribute - Same as Grimey
Decrease Attribute - Same as Grimey
Hibernate - Same as Grimey
Detox - Same as Grimey
Well, that's it. A couple of points, I did not include any
CyberPsioncis because of the debate and questions that have arisen. Well
that and the fact that I'm not crystal clear on the exact limits on the
category. For telekinesis, a lot of the powers may seem too specific, but
I think they have to be. I mean TK can do a lot and we have to limit it
by breaking it down. A lot of the powers overlap too, but we can fix that
later. The teleportation seems like a very powerful category, so we will
probably have to limit that too. I stuck a lot of "sensing" powers in the
Clairaudience category because I wasn't sure where to put them. I also
stuck all the healing in PsychoMetabolics because it works on the body.
As for healing spells that affect others, I suggest the same power but
with a higher drain/cost.
Hope this helps. Next I shall begin work upon drain and a system
for creating a new psionic power (they do kind of go hand in hand). Then
it is on to Initiation and Psionic Groups (included the corps involvement
in this whole thing).
Sorry if I jumped the gun, but I had nothing better to do.
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