Adrammalech
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Nika has very begrudgingly and reticently apologized. Emily really had to drag it out of her.
X-COM RP THINK TANK (part2)
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Frostlich1228
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Translate digital video to optical sight eh?
Thank goodness...
DarkGemini24601
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Shadows: Something short, and admittedly, fairly dark and unsettling. Short for a style reason.
Adrammalech
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Thank Modya
DarkGemini24601
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I guess you could say Sunny's not the only one that's overworked, to make things more clear.
I'm actually wondering how Nika will feel when she learns about X-COM's tall guest in the alien containment facility. Or Emily, for that matter.
Adrammalech
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Would she learn about it? Neither of them have much reason to go into the labs.
Maybe not, but news spreads fast when you're trapped in an underground base with no fresh air or Playstation.
Adrammalech
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Nika would be clawing at the walls. Emily would be a little cooler as long as she knew that it was being studied and it was suffering/guaranteed to die in some fashion.
DarkGemini24601
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Atka has a talent for being nice enough to piss people off. You're still racist against Thin Men, though.
Well, it is a little earlier then I was expecting to, but I'll go over some of the basics for how Psionics will work. Note that the reason I am posting it here and not in the rules section is because it is not finalized, and is subject to change, either because I decide something won't work or will work better, I'm given a good suggestion, or I just plain change my mind about something. And if you have any questions, you can ask me here or privately.
Availability:
Please note that, if you are holding off on Meld because you would rather have psionics, while I plan to make it more accessible then in the game, not everyone will be a psionic master. I'm not entirely set on how it will work yet, but while practically anyone will be able to get the basics, only a few will be able to advance to the higher levels of power. After all, it wouldn't be as special if everyone could do it.
Control and Accessibility:
The best way to describe the level of control one has over their powers is to think of it in terms of a fairly simple analogy. Imagine a pool of water with a bucket sitting next to it. This represents your psionic energy. Allow me to elaborate.
A character's psionic bucket capacity is a representation of how much energy they can gather at one time (in a sense, how much psionic water they can pull out of the pool). The stronger a psionic ability one is trying to use, the more energy one needs to channel to use it. Thus, to use some of the stronger psionic abilities, one would need to build up they're bucket capacity.
A character's psionic pool capacity is a representation of how much energy they have in total. The larger one's pool capacity, the more energy they have available to use, and thus the more abilities they can use in succession without tiring.
As I've seen it, Desmond tends to use incredibly strong abilities, but he tires really quickly after doing so. This means he has a high bucket capacity to build energy, but a somewhat low pool capacity to draw energy from. Atka, on the other hand, uses much weaker abilities, but it comes natural to her, meaning her bucket capacity is too low for really strong abilities, and her pool capacity is comparatively high, allowing for more uses.
Unfortunately for Atka, she'll have a slightly harder time training her abilities. Increasing one's pool capacity can be done by simply using one's abilities over and over again, but one's bucket capacity requires gathering large amounts of energy again and again to try and use stronger and stronger abilities. Lucky for her, with her high pool capacity, she'll be able to have longer training sessions from the start then Desmond.
Abilities:
Here is a quick list of all the psionic abilities I plan to make available. It is not all inclusive, and I might add to it later on. I'm open to suggestions, but remember that I don't want to go too crazy. Too many different abilities will make it a lot harder to keep things in order.
Tier One:
Mind Fray - Mental attack that breaks down the opponents will and ability to fight, while causing physical damage by temporarily disrupting the nervous system.
ESP - Extrasensory Perception, allowing one to see things beyond one's normal five senses. First manifests itself as uncontrollable clairvoyance, but with time, can be strengthen and upgraded to remote viewing.
Telepathy - Then ability to speak to others through one's mind. First manifests itself as the ability to send and receive messages. Can be strengthened to allow for mind reading.
Tier Two:
Psi Inspiration - Enhance the mental strength of all the soldiers nearby, enhancing willpower and fighting spirit, while decreasing doubts and fears.
Psi Panic - Send the opponent into a panic, temporarily destroying their will to fight and causing them to act irrationally.
Pyro-conjuring - The ability to conjure fire. This is not pyrokinesis. The user can only make fire, not control it, and there must be some source of combustion available. Control over the strength of the conjured fire and how easily one can direct it must be developed over time.
Psi Lance - The ability to manifest pure psychokinetic energy and fire it as a projectile. Extremely draining, and must be strengthened over time.
Tier Three:
Telekinesis - The power to move things with one's mind. Must be developed over time to increase how large of an object can be lifted and how quickly the object can be moved, and to decrease the strain it puts on the user.
Biokinesis - Control over the biological aspects of another. Can be used to heal others through the manipulation of another on a cellular level. Can also be used to cause physical harm to another. As these process are vastly different, one can only learn to do one or the other.
Telemagery - Project illusions to fool the enemy into thinking something is there when it is not. How convincing the illusions are, and how realistically they move, must be strengthened with time.
Tier Four:
Telekinetic Field - Project a telekinetic barrier that blocks in coming projectiles. Incredibly useful defense, but uses a lot of energy and the user must remain immobile.
Mesmerism - Power of mind control. First manifests itself as a simple power of suggestion. Can be strengthen to full physical control over time.
Physical Enhancement - Manipulation of one's body chemistry, vastly increasing the release of endorphins and adrenaline, allowing for a temporary boost in physical strength far beyond normal limits and a near elimination of pain, at the cost of an extended recovery time upon use, lasting for days.
Tier Five:
TBA
Availability:
Please note that, if you are holding off on Meld because you would rather have psionics, while I plan to make it more accessible then in the game, not everyone will be a psionic master. I'm not entirely set on how it will work yet, but while practically anyone will be able to get the basics, only a few will be able to advance to the higher levels of power. After all, it wouldn't be as special if everyone could do it.
Control and Accessibility:
The best way to describe the level of control one has over their powers is to think of it in terms of a fairly simple analogy. Imagine a pool of water with a bucket sitting next to it. This represents your psionic energy. Allow me to elaborate.
A character's psionic bucket capacity is a representation of how much energy they can gather at one time (in a sense, how much psionic water they can pull out of the pool). The stronger a psionic ability one is trying to use, the more energy one needs to channel to use it. Thus, to use some of the stronger psionic abilities, one would need to build up they're bucket capacity.
A character's psionic pool capacity is a representation of how much energy they have in total. The larger one's pool capacity, the more energy they have available to use, and thus the more abilities they can use in succession without tiring.
As I've seen it, Desmond tends to use incredibly strong abilities, but he tires really quickly after doing so. This means he has a high bucket capacity to build energy, but a somewhat low pool capacity to draw energy from. Atka, on the other hand, uses much weaker abilities, but it comes natural to her, meaning her bucket capacity is too low for really strong abilities, and her pool capacity is comparatively high, allowing for more uses.
Unfortunately for Atka, she'll have a slightly harder time training her abilities. Increasing one's pool capacity can be done by simply using one's abilities over and over again, but one's bucket capacity requires gathering large amounts of energy again and again to try and use stronger and stronger abilities. Lucky for her, with her high pool capacity, she'll be able to have longer training sessions from the start then Desmond.
Abilities:
Here is a quick list of all the psionic abilities I plan to make available. It is not all inclusive, and I might add to it later on. I'm open to suggestions, but remember that I don't want to go too crazy. Too many different abilities will make it a lot harder to keep things in order.
Tier One:
Mind Fray - Mental attack that breaks down the opponents will and ability to fight, while causing physical damage by temporarily disrupting the nervous system.
ESP - Extrasensory Perception, allowing one to see things beyond one's normal five senses. First manifests itself as uncontrollable clairvoyance, but with time, can be strengthen and upgraded to remote viewing.
Telepathy - Then ability to speak to others through one's mind. First manifests itself as the ability to send and receive messages. Can be strengthened to allow for mind reading.
Tier Two:
Psi Inspiration - Enhance the mental strength of all the soldiers nearby, enhancing willpower and fighting spirit, while decreasing doubts and fears.
Psi Panic - Send the opponent into a panic, temporarily destroying their will to fight and causing them to act irrationally.
Pyro-conjuring - The ability to conjure fire. This is not pyrokinesis. The user can only make fire, not control it, and there must be some source of combustion available. Control over the strength of the conjured fire and how easily one can direct it must be developed over time.
Psi Lance - The ability to manifest pure psychokinetic energy and fire it as a projectile. Extremely draining, and must be strengthened over time.
Tier Three:
Telekinesis - The power to move things with one's mind. Must be developed over time to increase how large of an object can be lifted and how quickly the object can be moved, and to decrease the strain it puts on the user.
Biokinesis - Control over the biological aspects of another. Can be used to heal others through the manipulation of another on a cellular level. Can also be used to cause physical harm to another. As these process are vastly different, one can only learn to do one or the other.
Telemagery - Project illusions to fool the enemy into thinking something is there when it is not. How convincing the illusions are, and how realistically they move, must be strengthened with time.
Tier Four:
Telekinetic Field - Project a telekinetic barrier that blocks in coming projectiles. Incredibly useful defense, but uses a lot of energy and the user must remain immobile.
Mesmerism - Power of mind control. First manifests itself as a simple power of suggestion. Can be strengthen to full physical control over time.
Physical Enhancement - Manipulation of one's body chemistry, vastly increasing the release of endorphins and adrenaline, allowing for a temporary boost in physical strength far beyond normal limits and a near elimination of pain, at the cost of an extended recovery time upon use, lasting for days.
Tier Five:
TBA
Nice job. Some of those powers sound really cool and I wouldn't have thought of them. I do like the idea of psionic nature (differentiation of the power classes) so that while humans have these powers, instead of having one main nature humans have many different natures depending on a variety of factors. I would also be curious to see where Desmond's unique psionic move he developed would rank on that scale...
BTW, if you didn't pick up on it, Desmond now has full control of his psionics. No more of that sissy purple stuff, he is now full on blood red hued. This will really effect how he can now research psionics as he is now (At least somewhat) near Atka's level of control in a short amount of time. He may have less energy capacity than Atka, but this dude will punch a hole through you and rip out your spine if he wanted. (A little extreme but the point is there, he will soon become a match for Viktor in time as he trains.)
Grelite
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Well, yeah. The technology necessary to make her see is naturally preceded by technology that allows for artificial eyes. Given that "(...) he used his company's Infrawave Technology to develop the SAaIDA (Sound Amplification and Infrawave Detection Apparatus) Prototype, This earpiece was surgically connected to the area of Ammelia's Brain associated with sight; it allowed Ammelia to finally "see" her surroundings by using Infrawaves to scan the Environment and Sound Waves to help identify targets at a distance (...)". Since it has to translate sound and infrawave signals into optical signals, it makes translating regular video representation into optical signals seem like child's play. You know, gotta invent human vision before you can have superhuman vision.
Also, nice work on the Psionics, Zombie.
Well, if it is any consolation, I took into your consideration your ideas in nature by having psionics in each Tier that correspond with a different personality trait, so while they are all technically available to any one person, one of a certain nature will learn towards one or the other. So Desmond will likely be more inclined towards the less defensive, more destructive powers.
Adrammalech
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Whee, I get to be a secret agent I have so many plans, so many plans...mwahahahahaha...
I have so many plans, so many plans...mwahahahahaha...
Yeah, I was thinking of sending Emily on this one, but that kind of won't work with her being injured. But she'll be on the next one, as long as she doesn't nearly die before it happens again.Whee, I get to be a secret agent
Adrammalech
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No promises.
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