Telepathy Permissions
Mar. 6th, 2024 11:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
telepathicignoranceSidestep is a telepath. A very, very powerful telepath. Though their mind control abilities are nerfed for the sake of the game, they still have some pretty impressive mind reading, projection, and other capabilities, some of which necessitate discussing player permissions, hence this post.
Can Sidestep read your characters mind?
This covers whether Sidestep is able to read your character's mind in the first place as well as whether you as a player want to allow Sidestep to read your character's mind. Sidestep's power is wide ranging and they can even read the minds of animals (birds and mammals) and sometimes machines (mostly either partially organic machines or ones with telepathic interfacing or capabilities built in) but they're unlikely to be able to get past strong defenses or items/magic/drugs that block telepathy without a lot of work and they can't interact with epileptic minds at all outside of very specific circumstances that are unlikely to ever occur in game.
If you don't want Sidestep to read your characters mind/they're unable to, is there anything you want them to pick up instead?
Sidestep's telepathy isn't so much a power so much as an extra sense. It's near constantly on and active to some degree, and even if they can't read a mind they'll typically still perceive the absence of that input, like a silence where there should be sound or a numbness where there should be pain. The most typical versions of this are walls (for people strongly shielded), static (epileptics), a thoughtless haze (telepathy blocking drugs), or just a straight up void, but I'm absolutely willing to do something custom here. Perhaps contact with your character's mind causes stabbing pains? Maybe all they get from your character no matter how hard they try to read their mind is a mental image of a cheese sandwich?
If Sidestep can read your character's mind, what are they likely to pick up?
Basically what the question says. Is there anything you want them to know?
Notes for the psychically sensitive/telepaths:
Sidestep, according to word of God, gives off extremely bad vibes to other telepaths and those especially psychically sensitive. This is less an innate thing and more a function of being "contaminated" by the various experiments and telepathic phenomena they've been subjected and exposed to.
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Can Sidestep read your characters mind?
This covers whether Sidestep is able to read your character's mind in the first place as well as whether you as a player want to allow Sidestep to read your character's mind. Sidestep's power is wide ranging and they can even read the minds of animals (birds and mammals) and sometimes machines (mostly either partially organic machines or ones with telepathic interfacing or capabilities built in) but they're unlikely to be able to get past strong defenses or items/magic/drugs that block telepathy without a lot of work and they can't interact with epileptic minds at all outside of very specific circumstances that are unlikely to ever occur in game.
If you don't want Sidestep to read your characters mind/they're unable to, is there anything you want them to pick up instead?
Sidestep's telepathy isn't so much a power so much as an extra sense. It's near constantly on and active to some degree, and even if they can't read a mind they'll typically still perceive the absence of that input, like a silence where there should be sound or a numbness where there should be pain. The most typical versions of this are walls (for people strongly shielded), static (epileptics), a thoughtless haze (telepathy blocking drugs), or just a straight up void, but I'm absolutely willing to do something custom here. Perhaps contact with your character's mind causes stabbing pains? Maybe all they get from your character no matter how hard they try to read their mind is a mental image of a cheese sandwich?
If Sidestep can read your character's mind, what are they likely to pick up?
Basically what the question says. Is there anything you want them to know?
Notes for the psychically sensitive/telepaths:
Sidestep, according to word of God, gives off extremely bad vibes to other telepaths and those especially psychically sensitive. This is less an innate thing and more a function of being "contaminated" by the various experiments and telepathic phenomena they've been subjected and exposed to.
Comments are screened.
