09-03-2015, 05:42 AM
(09-03-2015, 05:22 AM)Shaadaris Wrote:(09-03-2015, 05:10 AM)SilverOtter Wrote: Whelp I guess I have to raise the Psi restriction.
How does 1.4 sound to you guys? You can do mind throttling and almost do sensory override!*
*Don't expect every single character to get the O.K. to be 1.4. Because of the barrier cliff that is 1.0, there are very few Psionics and even fewer as you go up ranks. Don't even try two 1.4 characters at the same time, or even in a row.
Although, to note, one's Psi presence has a correlation to the average of your parents. This, by the way, allows for goverments/companies/drug lords on the scale of governments and companies to basically play Pokemon with Psionics if you're willing to go through the pain of raising a kid with 1.5 Psi packed into his/her brain. Just never ask how there always seem to be parents with good psi levels.
Also to note: Once in a blue moon, I might let a character above 1.4 in. But you better be prepared to play that part, because the repercussions of your psi powers will come down hard.
Speaking of which, could you go into more detail about the reprucussions?
"This [the psi number] can either be raised through years of training and/or psi use, or by invasive cybernetics and the complimentary chemical cocktails. Unsurprisingly, one raises your lifespan and the other drastically cuts it short."
What reprocussions face natural psionics who don't use cybernetic or chemical augmentation? Judging by the whole parent thing, too, I assume psionic powers are at least somewhat influenced by genetics?
Well, Psionics is an output of power, and all that power just doesn't come out a perpetual motion machine stored inside your head. So, it sucks from your body reserves of energy, meaning a Psionic may have anywhere from twice to five times the metabolism normals have. Hope you like being hungry every waking moment of your life, with the only release being sources of carbohydrates that stopped tasting good a decade ago! As a result, Psionics have minimal muscle mass, weak immune system, and basically fragile everything.
Oh, and although high-Psi babies are tested, and it does show they have that Psi level immediately, it doesn't suddenly make training easier. as they found out, it only makes it marginally easier. But that margin is good enough for the top towers of corruption to enforce sins against the laws of god and man in the quest to make the ultimate Psi warrior, dirt cheap!
Also, when you start having untrained Psionics above 1.2, things start happening. Outbursts of raw Psi, to be exact: If regular Psi is a Vulcan neck pinch, raw Psi is a throat strangle. These outbursts are triggered by stress or stressful emotions, and are completely out of the Psionic's control, meaning the only way to stop them is to wait for their energy reserves to run out,which ends with the Psionic falling unconscious.
I make such lovely ability systems.
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