Psionics

	PSIONICS
Expunge              Your mind must never be corrupted.
Splinter             A spike of psychic force.
Comprehend           A simple application of your intellect.
Expand               The mind shall not be constrained.
Imprint              Communication is key.
Insertion            A subtle touch of misdirection.
Ironwill             Your mind against theirs.
Radiate              Your will is implacable.
Muddle               A gentle touch to confound and mislead.
Sensitivity          The faintest changes are yours to know.
Manipulate           Controlling the self is of paramount concern.
Breakthrough         Pain is a warning.
Link                 Your mind is far superior.
Blast                Sometimes a hammer can replace the scalpel.
Projection           Your will made manifest.
Vanish               Perception is everything.
Transcend            Perfect unity of the mind and body.
Combustion           Just like heating water.
Excise               A single cut at the fundamental level.
Foresight            The pinnacle of mental might.


EXPUNGE
Syntax:
PSI EXPUNGE

Works on/against:
None

Cooldown:
3.00 seconds of equilibrium
Details:
Purge your mind of a single mental affliction. If you have impatience,
this will always be cured first. If you are confused, you will be unable
to focus enough to carry out this psionic act.


SPLINTER
Syntax:
PSI SPLINTER <target>

Works on/against:
Adventurers and denizens

Cooldown:
2.00 seconds of equilibrium
Details:
A precisely targeted spike of psychic force will shatter the magical
shields surrounding your opponents.


COMPREHEND
Syntax:
PSI COMPREHEND

Works on/against:
None

Cooldown:
2.80 seconds of equilibrium
Details:
Direct your considerable intellect towards the process of understanding
all racial languages(*).

* This has the same restrictions as the necklace of comprehension
artefact.


EXPAND
Syntax:
PSI EXPAND

Works on/against:
None

Cooldown:
3.00 seconds of equilibrium
Details:
Expand your mental faculties, restoring some mana.


IMPRINT
Syntax:
PSI IMPRINT <RETRIEVE|message>

Works on/against:
None

Cooldown:
3.00 seconds of equilibrium
Details:
You may imprint a psionic message upon a location, after which any other
also practiced in psionics may retrieve said message. There may only be
one psionic message per location and the act of retrieving the message
will damage said message. If damaged too much, the message will fade.


INSERTION
Syntax:
PSI INSERTION <target> <CITY|PARTY|ARMY|TELL> <talker> <message>

Works on/against:
None

Cooldown:
2.40 seconds of equilibrium
Details:
Interfering in an individuals telepathic communication channels is a
trivial enough process if one knows how. It is said that the true born
Aldar could project their influence across an entire network, but alas
such is lost to all but the barest few. You may target an individual and
make them see a message on the channel you so desire, though the
telesense defence will make it apparent to them that someone is
interfering (though they will not see who).


IRONWILL
Syntax:
PSI IRONWILL

Works on/against:
None

Cooldown:
3.00 seconds of equilibrium
Details:
By focussing all of your attention on the process(*), you may drive out
foreign influence upon your mind, breaking any mindlocks targeting you
if one is present.

* This is a channeled action: you may perform no other actions while
focussing on severing the mindlock.


RADIATE
Syntax:
PSI RADIATE

Works on/against:
Adventurers and denizens

Cooldown:
4.00 seconds of equilibrium
Details:
Radiate a circle of psychic force outwards, knocking all that stand in
your location off their feet: friend and foe alike.


MUDDLE
Syntax:
PSI MUDDLE <target>

Works on/against:
None

Cooldown:
3.00 seconds of equilibrium
Details:
This subversive psionic art will not harm your enemy directly, but will
cause mental maladies to affect them more significantly(*).

* They shall have a greater chance of failing actions due to stupidity,
and are more likely to suffer the adverse affects of dizziness.


SENSITIVITY
Syntax:
passive

Works on/against:
None

Details:
Your mind is now so attuned to those around you that you will be able to
detect when the body, mind or spirit of someone you have began the
unweaving of reaches a critical level.


MANIPULATE
Syntax:
PSI MANIPULATE

Works on/against:
None

Cooldown:
3.00 seconds of equilibrium
Details:
Drive your body into action even when paralysed through sheer force of
will.


BREAKTHROUGH
Syntax:
PSI BREAKTHROUGH

Works on/against:
None

Cooldown:
3.00 seconds of equilibrium
Details:
By pushing your mind beyond its safe limits, you will temporarily speed
your focus balance.


LINK
Syntax:
PSI LINK

Works on/against:
None

Cooldown:
3.00 seconds of equilibrium
Details:
Link your mind to another and you will take attacks against their mind
upon yourself. Be warned, if your mana falls below half of your maximum
you will die outright and if not resurrected by a starburst tattoo or
similar shall find your soul lacking significantly in substance(*).

* You will die and be left on low mana as a soul.


BLAST
Syntax:
PSI BLAST <target>

Works on/against:
None

Cooldown:
3.00 seconds of equilibrium
Details:
Sometimes you require a more overt display of force. Though your gifts
do not lend themselves overly to offensive acts, an unfocussed blast of
psychic power is more than within your grasp. Providing a target's mind
is sufficiently weakened(*), you may direct this blast to ravage their
mind, leaving their mental defences in ruins. This will permit you to
not only strike at their flesh with your woven weapons, but also at
their mind(**).

* They must have at least three of: impatience, stupidity, blackout,
stuttering, and unwoven mind.
** Your weaving attacks shall drain mana when striking a target with a
ravaged mind.


PROJECTION
Syntax:
PSI PROJECTION

Works on/against:
None

Cooldown:
3.00 seconds of equilibrium
Details:
By creating a psychic projection of yourself in a location, you may
overlay it with yourself from anywhere on the same plane and continent.
Doing so will swap your location with the projection(*).

* The projection will fade after three swaps.


VANISH
Syntax:
PSI VANISH <PARTIAL|TOTAL>

Works on/against:
None

Cooldown:
2.50 seconds of equilibrium
Details:
This advanced psionic ability will permit you to consistently annihilate
the knowledge of your presence from the minds of those in your
proximity. You may select partial(*) or total(**), total having all of
the benefits of partial but lasting half as long. This ability is very
taxing, and you may only enact any form of vanish every so often.

* A partial vanish shall hide your presence in a room.
** A total vanish shall hide your entry and exit, as well as your
presence on alertness.


TRANSCEND
Syntax:
PSI TRANSCEND

Works on/against:
None

Cooldown:
3.00 seconds of equilibrium
Details:
By attaining a truely transcendent mind, you may operate your physical
and mental abilities in complete harmony(*). To attain this state of
mind you must exercise your bodies potential while focussing on the
state of transcendence(**).

* Once your mind and body achieve full transcendence, you can perform a
psionics action while off equilibrium and for no incurred balance cost.
** Each time you perform a weaving based attack while transcendence is
active you will increase how harmonised your mind and body are. A
failure to attack after some time will cause your state to regress.


COMBUSTION
Syntax:
PSI COMBUSTION <target>

Works on/against:
None

Cooldown:
3.00 seconds of equilibrium
Details:
One of the basic exercises for budding psion students was to heat a cup
of water with their will alone. Unfortunately, during the War of
Humanity where death was the business of the Aldar, one particularly
malicious student under Han-Silnir's command determined that at its
heart blood is simply liquid too, and equally available for
manipulation.

Though boiling the blood inside a person's veins is fortunately beyond
modern psionics users, blood that is open to the air is an easy
target(*). While the blood forged flames burn upon someone's skin, they
will find it impossible to apply salves(**).

* If someone is bleeding sufficiently, you may set their blood aflame
with this technique.
** This affliction is cured once all bleeding is clotted away.


EXCISE
Syntax:
PSI EXCISE <target>

Works on/against:
None

Cooldown:
3.00 seconds of equilibrium
Details:
If your enemy's mind is sufficiently weakened, you can deliver a single
precise stroke to cause the whole to collapse in upon itself(*).

* Requires below 30% of mana.


FORESIGHT
Syntax:
PSI FORESIGHT <target> <TREE|SHIELD>

Works on/against:
None

Details:
In ancient times the Aldar Caymus drove his mind's potential beyond all
others, able to pierce the very fabric of time and gaze upon events not
yet transpired. While no other has achieved the mastery he claimed
since, a lesser form of such foresight is available to you. By fixating
on a possible eventuality in the future, if such an eventuality comes to
pass you will be able to act with unnatural speed to disrupt it. While
this will not foil the action entirely, it will cause it to have
undesirable consequences. If your foresight fails however, and the
action is not performed, you will be stunned.

Tree: foreseeing a tree touch will extend the recovery period.
Shield: foreseeing a shield tattoo shall extend the equilibrium recovery
period.