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Psychic Invisibility is a cascade
skill from Project Thought, and is closely-related to its illusory
powers. For a mystic, though, the concepts of cloaking oneself
in illusion is alien and mechanical. Psychic Invisibility is a
blending process, where mystics attempt to merge with the universe,
to hone their psychic vibrations to match the cosmic background and
broadcast this harmony to other minds around.
In practice, Psychic Invisibility
is simple to use. Such empaths spend five minutes attuning
themselves to the frequency of the universe, and make their Psychic
Invisibility test, modified as per circumstances — it's easier to
concentrate on being invisible when you're not under stress.
The stage of success achieved can be used in two ways, at a empath's
option: each stage of success can subtract one minute from the
time required for universal tuning, or it can subtract two points
from the Observation
skill of every living thing that perceives the "invisible" empath.
Psychic Invisibility does not
actually make the empath invisible. Instead, it clouds the
perceptions of all living things that see, hear, touch, or smell the
protected empath, as long as they perceive the empath directly.
Such empaths are still fully visible to mechanical senses — they
show up on TV cameras (but the camera operator has trouble seeing
them, even though a viewer at a remote location wouldn't have any
problems), they photograph normally, they trip infrared and sonic
sensors, etc.
Using Psychic Invisibility
precludes the use of any other empathic skill (except Astral
Travel). It can be used while in a trance, but empaths can't
do anything else at the time — they're just invisible to people that
perceive them.
Psychic Invisibility can be used
in the astral proto-dimension, to screen an empath from notice.
In the astral proto-dimension, Psychic Invisibility works against
empathic perceptions, lowering the success stage of
Human Empathy by
one per success state of the Invisibility. If the searching
empath manages even Basic Success despite the subtractions, the
Invisibility is stripped away and the shielded empath exposed.
Outside the astral
proto-dimension, Psychic Invisibility is not as effective against
empathic perceptions. It still lowers the success stage of
Human and Darkling Empathy as above, but any success at all with
Human Empathy alerts the probing empath that there is another
presence in the area, and it's shielded.
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