09-03-2015, 05:49 AM
(09-03-2015, 05:45 AM)Shaadaris Wrote:(09-03-2015, 05:42 AM)SilverOtter Wrote: 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.
So psionics are always venting their energy at a violently increased rate even when not actually using their abilities for anything?
Might as well layer that on there. New first skill: learn how to expel excess energy safely.
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