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--- vikaas_aquerna_psionic_paths [2022/01/12 19:43]
conan created
+++ vikaas_aquerna_psionic_paths [2023/08/11 14:49] (current)
conan EFFECT > IMBUE, and Card draw action changes
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 **Cost:** 1 Psi Point\\
-**Effect:** EFFECT Calm (1 minute duration)
+**Effect:** IMBUE Calm (1 minute duration)
-By spending 1 Psi Point, the psion can call ‘EFFECT Calm’ (1 minute) to a single target. If the target is the Psion, the effect lasts for 10 minutes.
+By spending 1 Psi Point, the psion can call ‘IMBUE Calm’ (1 minute) to a single target. If the target is the Psion, the effect lasts for 10 minutes.
 The first discipline any Aquerna Psion learns is to quiet their own emotions, to break the circuit of escalation that can occur in Aquerna communities. By providing a bulwark of calmness, spreading escalating storms of destructive emotion can be quietened, and allow the community to return to normal if things start to get out of hand.
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 **Cost:** 2 Psi Points\\
-**Effect:** MASS EFFECT (The emotion that the Psion is currently feeling) (5 minutes)
+**Effect:** MASS IMBUE (The emotion that the Psion is currently feeling) (5 minutes)
-By spending 2 Psi Points, the Psion can unleash the emotion that they are currently most strongly feeling in an empathic wave that washes over nearby minds, using a MASS EFFECT call and specifying the emotion that they are currently gripped by. The MASS component of this power cannot be directed - it must be unleashed in all directions.
+By spending 2 Psi Points, the Psion can unleash the emotion that they are currently most strongly feeling in an empathic wave that washes over nearby minds, using a MASS IMBUE call and specifying the emotion that they are currently gripped by. The MASS component of this power cannot be directed - it must be unleashed in all directions.
 This power amplifies the “mental porosity” of Aquerna Psions, by projecting their inward emotions outwards onto others nearby. Aquerna Psions with this power can occasionally unleash it unintentionally, especially during moments of intense emotion.
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 **Cost:** 1 Psi Point\\
-**Effect:** EFFECT (Emotion the Psion is currently feeling) (10 minutes) to a target within 10m
+**Effect:** IMBUE (Emotion the Psion is currently feeling) (10 minutes) to a target within 10m
-By honing the powers of the Hydrolysis path, the Psion can control the direction of the emitted emotions somewhat, allowing them to focus on a single target. By spending 1 Psi Point, the Psion can call EFFECT (10min) at a target within 10m, and specifying the emotion that they are currently gripped by.
+By honing the powers of the Hydrolysis path, the Psion can control the direction of the emitted emotions somewhat, allowing them to focus on a single target. By spending 1 Psi Point, the Psion can call IMBUE (10min) at a target within 10m, and specifying the emotion that they are currently gripped by.
 === Rank 2 - Harnessing the Tide ===
 **Cost:** 1 Psi Point\\
-**Effect:** EFFECT (Any Emotion) (10min) to the Psion.
+**Effect:** IMBUE (Any Emotion) (10min) to the Psion.
-Having developed a form of psionic homeostasis, the Psion can unleash an array of stored or remembered emotions within their own psyche. In a mental mimicry of their own homeostasis clusters, the Psion stores patterns of different emotions within pockets of neural tissue suspended in their hemolymph, which can be released at will to suffuse the Psion’s own mind. By spending 1 Psi Point, the Psion takes an EFFECT call of 10 minute duration, with any emotion that they choose. This emotion then becomes the primary emotion that will be emitted by powers such as Focusing the Storm and Heart of the Storm.
+Having developed a form of psionic homeostasis, the Psion can unleash an array of stored or remembered emotions within their own psyche. In a mental mimicry of their own homeostasis clusters, the Psion stores patterns of different emotions within pockets of neural tissue suspended in their hemolymph, which can be released at will to suffuse the Psion’s own mind. By spending 1 Psi Point, the Psion takes an IMBUE call of 10 minute duration, with any emotion that they choose. This emotion then becomes the primary emotion that will be emitted by powers such as Focusing the Storm and Heart of the Storm.
 === Rank 3 - Eye of the Storm ===
- - suppresses roleplay effects on self while still allowing them to be used for psionic powers.
- - Reverse Osmosis-  perhaps some sort of 'self purge' that allows them to expel toxins (but not radiation or disease) from themselves, as long as they can concentrate and have sufficient time?  Heart of the Storm now costs 1 Psi point
+**Cost:** 2 Psi Points\\
-- MASS emit any emotion(undirected).
+**Effect:** Suppresses roleplay effects on the Psion for 2 hours while still allowing them to be used for powers. Psionic Ritual.
+The Psion learns how to erect temporary mental barriers, placing emotional blocks around the core decision-making components of their psyche. These barriers allow empathic emotions to be absorbed by the psion while allowing them to act from a position of relative calm.
+The Psion activates this power by spending 2 Psi Points and roleplaying meditation for 1 minute to create the emotional blocks. For the next 2 hours, the Psion does not have to adjust their roleplay in response to the IMBUE call or other roleplaying effects. However, any roleplaying effects or calls that target them do still take effect, and are treated as being the Psion’s dominant emotion for the purposes of powers such as Heart of the Storm and Focusing the Storm.
+=== Rank 4 - Cleansing Diffusion ===
+**Cost:** 3 Psi Points + 1 damage on each body location.\\
+**Effect:** Reduces the effect of TOXIC and RADIATION Conditions, as if they had been treated. Psionic Ritual.
+The Psion has gained a certain amount of psychosomatic control over their own internal systems, allowing them to increase the rate of diffusion into the surrounding environment. As within, so without.
+By spending 2 Psi Points and roleplaying a meditative practice involving movement for 5 minutes (something similar to yoga, tai chi or ritual dance), the Psion can purge some of the effects of a RADIATION or TOXIC Condition from their body. The exact effects of this will vary depending on the Condition treated, but generally will act as the equivalent of a successful treatment of that Condition (usually this will either cure the condition or reduce its severity by 1 level). Use of this power does not count towards any limits on conventional treatment. In order to expel the contaminants, the Psion must also expel a considerable amount of their hemolymph and other fluids, so each use of this power causes the Psion to lose 1 body hit on each of their locations.
+In addition, the Psion’s ability to diffuse their emotions into the environment is made easier, and the Heart of the Storm power now costs them 1 Psi point
+=== Rank 5 - Crown of the Sea-foam ===
+**Cost:** 2 Psi Points
+**Effect:** MASS IMBUE (Chosen emotion) (5 minutes).
+A Master of the Diffusion Path can, in a moment, call upon any emotion they desire and pour it forth into their surroundings in an unstoppable emotive wave, all without it affecting themselves. For 2 Psi Points, the Psion can call MASS EFFECT (5 minutes) with an emotion of their choosing. The MASS Call created by this power can be directed.
+=== Rank 6 – Diffusion Summit ===
+Obtaining rank 6 in Diffusion grants 1 additional Psi Point
 ==== Osmosis ====
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 **Cost:** 1 Psi Point\\
-**Effect:** Diagnose Conditions in living organic beings as if you were a Diagnosis Module.
+**Effect:** Examine [[Conditions]] in living organic beings as if you were [[Scanners|Scanner]] with the Diagnostic Focus Mod.
-By building up a repertoire of the feelings of others, the Psion can use their knowledge to aid in diagnosis. By spending 1 Psi Point, and concentrating on the subtle feelings emitted by an organic living target (not an Energy Being or Mineral), the Psion can diagnose a Condition that affects them, as if they were a Diagnosis Module.
+By building up a repertoire of the feelings of others, the Psion can use their knowledge to aid in diagnosis. By spending 1 Psi Point, and concentrating on the subtle feelings emitted by an organic living target (not an Energy Being or Mineral), the Psion can diagnose a Condition that affects them - using this power counts as either Rank 2 of the Physician Skill, or an Examine action gaining 2 automatic successes for the purposes of diagnosing a Condition.
 === Rank 2 - Clouds of Living Breath ===
 **Cost:** 1 Psi Point\\
-**Effect:** Analyse and detect [[Life Science]] phenomena as if you were a Scanner. Psionic Ritual.
+**Effect:** Examine and detect [[Life Science]] phenomena as if you were a Scanner. Psionic Ritual.
-By paying close attention to the flow of emotions and feelings in a particular area or living thing, an Aquerna Psion can discern information about the life within it. By spending 1 Psi Point, and meditating on the empathic resonance in the area the Psion can perform an analysis of a phenomenon as if they had a Scanner and 3 ranks of Life Science.
+By paying close attention to the flow of emotions and feelings in a particular area or living thing, an Aquerna Psion can discern information about the life within it. By spending 1 Psi Point, and meditating on the empathic resonance in the area the Psion can perform one of the following actions as if they had a [[Scanners|Scanner]]:
+  * [[scanners#Survey]] the area for __only__ Life Science phenomena, with the equivalent of 3 automatic successes.
+  * [[scanners#Examine]] a Life Science phenomenon as a Card Draw action with an additional 3 Green Cards (equivalent to having Life Science 3). Red and Black card draws will affect the Psion directly.
 === Rank 3 - Deep Currents of the Unknown ===
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 By opening themselves up to the deepest emotions and feelings of a target character while they perform a complex and intricate task, an Aquerna Psion can identify subconscious cues before the target notices them. Acting on this knowledge at the right time, by providing advice or a subtle empathic nudge can prevent the target making mistakes or allowing their deep emotions to cloud their judgement, resulting in better outcomes.
-By spending 2 Psi Points and roleplaying assisting or advising the target character while they perform a card draw action (Surgery, Engineering tasks or Scientific Analysis) allows the target character to draw 2 cards instead of 1 and choose which of the two cards are applied to the result. The Psion must use this power and be roleplaying before the cards are drawn, and it applies only for the next card draw (although the power can be used again for subsequent draws for the same activity).
+By spending 2 Psi Points and roleplaying assisting or advising the target character while they perform a card draw action (Surgery, Engineering tasks or Scientific Scanning) allows the target character to draw 2 cards instead of 1 and choose which of the two cards are applied to the result. The Psion must use this power and be roleplaying before the cards are drawn, and it applies only for the next card draw (although the power can be used again for subsequent draws for the same activity).
 === Rank 4 - Ripples of Past Feeling ===
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 Using this power, a psion can absorb and analyse the empathic residues of their surroundings and gain an understanding of the emotions of past events that occurred there. Using this power requires 1 minute of meditative roleplay, and spending 2 psi points. The referee will then give a short (and vague) brief about the emotional imprint of past events that happened in the immediate vicinity. This could provide useful information or hidden clues, or could be entirely useless. Using this power in the common area at main events is unlikely to produce any useful information, as the emotional residue is too scattered and overwhelming due to the large number of people. This power is mostly useful at smaller events or on missions.
-=== Rank 5 - Ocean of Oneness ===
+=== Rank 5 - Crown of the Deep ===
 **Cost:** 3 Psi Points\\
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 Obtaining rank 6 in Osmosis grants 1 additional Psi Point
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