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Being Psychic...

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The city of Dweomer has a Psi-Enclave ghetto where they put any psychics, because they don't like psychics, but what makes one a psychic?
A Mystic uses both magic and psionics, they are allowed in the city though.
Cyber-Knights are psychic, but they run the university police force.
Hell, 25% of the entire human population, this also includes all human magicians, uses psionics; that's before you include any of the master psionic classes. Most of the population of the city is human.
So who are they sticking in the Psi-Enclave ghetto?
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Was this added in revised? My guess is master psis only.
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Axelmania wrote:Was this added in revised? My guess is master psis only.


It has been a while since I read it but I am guessing master psis or ones like psi hounds/psi stalkers. A lot of random people have some psychic abilities but nothing that is really dangerous to anybody.
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i'd say if they have a psychic OCC.
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Yeah, this was added in revised.

They even have a psychic "Starchild" doctor that one of the Lords is friends with and has discussions/arguments about the evilness of psionics.

I was asking because we couldn't figure out whether or not my Mystic Knight of the White Rose would be allowed in the city, based on the whole "No Psychics" thing being rather arbitrary.
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Star Children are merely major.

I doubt they care about dog boys. Stalkers are only a problem due to PPE Vampirism.

Idontthink Bursters.would be that hated.

The major threat I think is super psi like Mentally Possess Others, Mind wipe, Hypnotic Suggestion.

Probably spells to mimic that but the Three have better saves.
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What's the page number for the Psi-Enclave ghetto?
What's the page number for the Star Child doctor?
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Mack wrote:What's the page number for the Psi-Enclave ghetto?
What's the page number for the Star Child doctor?


These are all on the Revised FoM:

Psi-Enclave is on page 136
Star Child is on page 153, with stats on page 154
Cyber-Knight Campus Police Chief is on page 132
Psionic Cat Merc Group is on page 149
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HarleeKnight wrote:
Mack wrote:What's the page number for the Psi-Enclave ghetto?
What's the page number for the Star Child doctor?


These are all on the Revised FoM:

Psi-Enclave is on page 136
Star Child is on page 153, with stats on page 154
Cyber-Knight Campus Police Chief is on page 132
Psionic Cat Merc Group is on page 149


Thank you. Apparently I've always glossed over the Star Child.
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This mean Star Children can be born in North America now?
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Axelmania wrote:This mean Star Children can be born in North America now?


No. The Star Child in question came over from Scotland.
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HarleeKnight wrote:
Axelmania wrote:This mean Star Children can be born in North America now?


No. The Star Child in question came over from Scotland.



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kaid wrote:
HarleeKnight wrote:
Axelmania wrote:This mean Star Children can be born in North America now?


No. The Star Child in question came over from Scotland.



Rifts happen!

star children can travel at extreme speeds as a beam of light iirc. no rifts needed.
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Shark_Force wrote:
kaid wrote:
HarleeKnight wrote:
Axelmania wrote:This mean Star Children can be born in North America now?


No. The Star Child in question came over from Scotland.



Rifts happen!

star children can travel at extreme speeds as a beam of light iirc. no rifts needed.

But they have to know where they're going.

Regardless, this one came over via traditional means.
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Hypothetically speaking if this Scottish Star Child were to woo a local Dweomer human and procreate, could a Star Child be born in Dweomer?

Come to think of it, could one be born to one of the Mystic Triad in Magestar? I'm not sure what becoming a Lord Magus does to reproductive ability.
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Axelmania wrote:Hypothetically speaking if this Scottish Star Child were to woo a local Dweomer human and procreate, could a Star Child be born in Dweomer?

Come to think of it, could one be born to one of the Mystic Triad in Magestar? I'm not sure what becoming a Lord Magus does to reproductive ability.

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Since it is not exactly clear what is involved in Star Children and Earth Children being born in the first place.
There seems to be an environmental aspect to it that may, or may not, be simply the presence of other Star Children (and if so in unknown number(s))

Thus the answer boils down to "If the GM wants it thus, then it is so."
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I took a look at this and while it is not very specific in another section it calls out master psionics like mind melters/mind bleeders/psi slingers as well as psi stalkers and psi hounds. They seem to have good relations with some groups of mystics as well as techno wizards who basically all have some level of psionics. So it looks like mostly its the ghetto for psychic focused OCC.
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I've often wondered where this anti-psi stigma of the 3 Lords came from. Dunscon's theory about the 3 having originally all been one being, and then separated makes me wonder if some psychic god or AI was responsible for them splitting into three beings. Maybe that's where their stigma comes from?
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Maybe this is what happens when Tentac kills a deity, he can't fully digest their soul and just splits it?
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