From:	Rand Ratinac docwagon@*******.com
Subject:	Psionics 2
Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:59:35 PST

>In a message dated 2/16/1999 10:29:11 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
>EdgeWalker@*****.net writes:

>> What's everyone's take on that idea?
>>
><snip an idea of a "psionic user" appearing as a "mundane" in a
bar>
>
>Ha Ha, very cute (NOT!). Sadly, this won't happen by your own
definitions
>within the given boundaries of Aura Reading in SR. That individual is
going
>to have a very (okay, LIKELY to have), very vibrant quality to
his/her(its?)
>aura. And, due to various consequences, as the person "thinks the
usage of
>the talent to exert control actions over the target", the target of the
talent
>is going to have a reflective/similar aspect within their own aura to
that of
>the user.
>
>We've had another option for a setting....
>
>-=-=-
>
>Team of runners is hiding out, about to break in to a lab located on
Xocatli-3
>(an orbital factory owned by Aztechnology). The team's magician is
there
>mostly for her expertise in electronics (that, and she owns the highest
grade,
>to SOTA standards, Maglock in the party). The whole time, the magician
keeps
>feeling like she's being watched, but can't quite figure it out, and is
>deathly afraid to perform an astral perception action.
>
>Next thing anyone knows, the doors are opening at the end of the gantry
>access, and a couple of armored suit types are drifting their way,
lasers
>brought to bare. Just as the team's samurai are about to respond, the
sammie
>on the left reaches out and slaps the sammie on the right. The goons
keep
>approaching, not even going to have to deal with the team's
counteractions.
>
>There's "Control Actions" for a Psionic's User (your definition, and to
an
>extent, ours as well).
>
>-K

The only thing is, you have to remember that this scenario only works if
your psionicist is totally non-magical. If psionics are a magical
offshoot in your game, you try this, your head pops.

*Doc' concentrates really hard on using "Control Thoughts" to make his
boss give him a raise and his head explodes...*

Doc'

.sig Sauer


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