Telepath RP

[Myself]

I have an idea for story in which people around the world are discovering telepathic abilities. In some cases, this comes with an additional ability, which combines with the telepathy in many ways. For instance, if someone with body swapping (the power to swap bodies at will) switches a telepath into a non-telepath's body, they keep their powers (but they are weaker). If someone with precognition is switched into a body switcher's body, both keep their secondary power.

Telepathy:
-Mind reading: Any telepath can read a mind.
-Mental immunity: Telepaths are immune to their own power.
-Mind control: Telepaths can control a target.
-Mental communication: Communicate with others, with other telepaths at a range of a mile and normal people within range of mind reading. Takes practice to communicate with those without telepathy.
-Mind Transference: If acted upon before death, one with this power can transfer their consciousness to another. This requires many years of experience to use and if messed up, it can cause serious brain damage.

Powers (do not work without telepathy):
-Precognition: Several methods of predicting the future. Can be used with telepathy to read the thoughts a person will have in future and affect the minds in visions.
-Enchantment: Essentially Ability Imbuing. Has no known synergy with telepathy (unless someone makes one up).
-Reality warping: Essentially Power of Imagination, only one must deactivate telepathy to use this and it does not affect other telepaths.
-Telekinesis: Self explanatory. I may add this as a standard ability when I write the story.
-Psionic healing: Use a target's psionic field (if normal, another's field) to heal them. However, during the process (which may take weeks), they lack telepathy. Fotunately, this requires permission, else the telepath will not let their guard down.
-Teleportation: Allows the user to teleport great distances with the power of their thoughts.
-Ghost form: Whenever telepathy is used, an equal amount of opposite energy is released, which gets captured in those with a power. In this case, when the person dies, they can enter a "ghost" form and survive. They can telepathically assault people (though this leaks energy rapidly) including possessing people. The energy is used to sustain them, but is burned off dangerously fast when using telepathy. Some experienced users can absorb negative energy to sustain them in this form and live even longer. In this form, one can only be harmed by telepathy, soul eating or a ghost form.

Techniques (other uses of telepathy not normally seen):
-Memory manipulation: View, distort, erase, create and otherwise manipulate memories without effort.
-Dream manipulation: Manipulate dreams of people, bringing several into the same one. Telepathy can be used to affect those in the dream as well. In any dream, the user is essentially omnipotent. They can also use this at any range while sleeping, whereas a normal telepath can only enter a dream within range while awake and then only read minds, communicate with others and control minds.
-Communication: Can communicate with any telepath at any range. Can also be used to read minds at great distance (though they can't do anything else).
-Empathy: Manipulate emotions (subtly controlling others, even other telepaths without empathy) and scan emotions as easily as reading minds for a normal telepath.
-Consciousness Transfer: Safely transfer consciousness to an unconscious body, suppressing the consciousness until they wake up when their tyrant leaves, Otherwise, it is identical to the power on the site.
-Persuasion: Channel the full blast of empathy, telepathy and telekinesis to make someone to perform an action, simply by speaking. This is more stable as normal mind control.
-Body swapping: Switch bodies with anyone you can see. This even affects telepaths. Combined with telepathy, you can make other switch bodies without switching yourself, even if they lack this power.
-Telepathy bestowal: Can unlock the mental keys for telepathy. In rare cases, this grants a power/technique for the person, as long as they would have had it normally with telepathy.
-Mental healing: Can use their telepathy to repair mental disorders and with experience, neurological conditions.
-Soul eating: Can consume another's higher brain functions and telepathy to gain their knowledge, memories and boost telepathy.

I'll post some more ideas later. What do you think? Again, I got the basic idea from Wild Cards, with the Takisian aliens and their telepathy, with some members having additional techniques/powers. I'm not sure about all telepaths being able to transfer consciousness (though I'm leaning towards it) or having telekinesis being a separate ability (though I'm leaning towards it being a special power), as opposed to being a standardized extra, even as something which must be learned.

I still have no idea to explain why they appeared though.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Have you decided what kind of RP you'd like this to be?

Evolutionist's Stone Style or Substitute Battle Arena or New Beginning Style?

[neogenetica]

Ohh, I like the sound of reality bending even with it's drawbacks.

[neogenetica]

Its a good idea!

[neogenetica]

Those abilitys sound good and I will probably ask for reality bending but in case you needed one more then here:

Thoughtform creation:The power to create energetic beings or constructs to serve the creator. They would have to have some sentience and the user would have to turn off telepathy while creating or destroying them.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

And where the heck is Panmnesia (Total Recall)? That should definitely be an option as well.

And Knowledge/Skill Mimicry

And Intuition, as well as its numerous variations: Mathematical Intuition, Anatomical Intuition, Mechanical Intuition, Medical Intuition, Social Intuition, Predator Instinct, Prey Instinct, etc. (Those which are not part of the List already will be added in the future)

And Animal Communication (and its variation Insect Communication)

And Psychometry, of course...

And Mediumism/Mediumship...

And MANY others...

[Myself]

Yeah, I've got it one a word document (I haven't written down all yet) and it's there, though it's called Eidetic Memory. Animal Communication (including insects), Mediumship and Psychometry are there too.  Unfortunately, if one revives a dead psychic with mediumship, there is nothing preventing them from utilizing their gifts, such as possessing one of the living to live without the help of a medium.

IMy character has enchantment, but this next ability can strip the powers of an object completely:
Soul Eating: One with this ability can remove the psychic energy from something, leaving it a powerless zombie until it is mentally healed. This requires touch, but it kills nearly everything -think Immortal Slayer. These guys get a boost to their telepathy (if the victim is telepathic) and all memories, skills and knowledge of the target.

I'm glad everyone likes the idea.

[Myself]

It's really a book I might right, but the RP would probably be Evolutionist's Stone/Apocalypse RP style.

[neogenetica]

O.o What exactly could reality bending do, since now I'm torn between it and soul eating.

[Philote]

How would we incorporate everyone having the power to read minds into an RP with other characters that we can't really read the minds of?

[Celadon's Penultimate]

@Myself:

@Neo: I'd go for reality bending. It's likely you can mess with souls using that as well...

@Phi: With the normals of course...

[neogenetica]

Oh wait, I forgot that soul eating was a technique, not a full blown power. Hehe, my bad.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

[Myself]

No, the "techniques" are treated in the same ways as powers. Only one technique or power.

I'd say go for reality manipulation; you may not be able to directly warp a telepath, but you can create a train directly above them to crush them immediately.

@ Philote: This may be an RP, but at the moment it's book help.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Um, you're confusing Mediumship with Necromancy...

[Myself]

Don't worry, I know the difference.

With Mediumship, do you not call upon the spirits of dead (well, in the story, the ability does this)? If so, when you bring back a telepath, their powers will still be attached to their consciousness, so they could telepathically possess one of the living if they wanted to.

Any ideas for origins? I've got one in mind:
A virus begins to sweep through the suburbs changing different people in different ways, here are two possibilities:
1) 50% gain telepathy (and possibly a secondary power) and 50% lose their higher brain functions, becoming zombie-like creatures dedicated to hunting the living. They gained telepathy, but it destroyed their minds in the process, leaving them unable to use it normally, but still able to hunt with it (acting as a 6th sense, with some abilities providing a 7th, like psychometry).
2) 25% become thin, healthy, eternally young telepathic people ("primes"), 50% become the monsters described above (called "zombies") and 25% become fat, unhealthy, people with protection by the zombies ("grassa"). There are two treatments:
-Reset formula: Resets the transformation into any of the three forms. First used by those rendered obese.
-Extention formula: Turns a "zombie" into one of the other forms. First used in dart form against a mob of "zombies" when swarming New York.

Some facts about the disease (either one):
-It become a recessive trait in the affected, creating two types "carriers" and "affected".
-Each year, millions of non zombie/grassa's are slaughtered when born to wild zombie packs.
-It can activate at any time, leading to "latents" and "actives".
-There are three types who carry the genes/virus for it: carriers (who can pass it on to their children, but not manifest it themselves), latents (who can manifest at any time), zombies, grassas (if the second one) and primes.

P.S. Yes, I got the word "grassa" from the Italian word (which is the base for the Esperanto one "grasso") meaning "fat".

[neogenetica]

Um, okay. But I'm confused., you said that persuasion is empathy, telepathy, AND telekinesis. Isent that two things? But anyway, I'll go with reality bending. If any soul eater tries to touch me I can just fire a melschee's lance at them.

[neogenetica]

Thin and eternally  youthful, hmmm. I like the sound of that.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Yeah, Mediumism senses spirits, and can call on spirits but can't compel them (the compulsion is Necromancy)

But I'm still not sure about the parameters of your telepathy...whose mind can and can't be read? Does an unreadable mind just come with the fact of your telepathy, or does that occur as a separate ability?

[Zaleramancer]

Zombies...



Would you accept a few suggestions?


25% of the population remains more or less normal. Others call them "Baselines" or "Basics".

The other 75% of the population.. is not so lucky.
 All of these gain telepathic powers in varying degrees. One out of every thousand of them becomes a "Prime". Eternally young and healthy, with amplified telepathic powers.


Out of them, 25% become atavistic and increasingly impulsive. Most of them shun laws and follow gut instincts. They are reffed to as "Wild People" or "Wilds".

 They aren't mindless "RAWR I EAT YO FACE" zombies. If you want to get psychological about it, They have an increase of Id(Wants, Desires, Instincts).

25% show no abnormal psychology or physiology. Beyond the telepathy.

The last 25% seem to show a reverse of the "Wilds". They are methodical where the Wilds are impulsive, Passive where they are emotional and aggressive. They are called "Royals" because of their well mannered and somewhat.. superior manner.