I understand. I have a vague idea of the scale you awareness was operating on.

Talked to someone you couldn't see? Did she mention their name? Did she mention her name?

That must have been some wind to rip rocks off of you.

In reply to Magnus (msg # 457):

We're still not big on names.  Yes, there have been a few other winds as big since then, but not many.

I understand. Thank you for telling me all that you have told me. I'm going to try to teach my friend how to talk with you.

After that, I'll comment to Tyler
"Well. That was unexpectedly literal. Literally talking with the rocks about what came before. Here try it with this rock you carved."

I'll show him what he needs to copy the psionic power.

In reply to Magnus (msg # 459):

He quickly gets it with another rock, and you see the look of astonishment on his face as he silently communicates with a rock.

I'll focus and open my third eye again to view psionic energy. I'm observing Tyler as he communicates with his rock. Trying to determine if the rock has its own psionic power or if Tyler's psionic power is what is running the Rock's mind.

I would think that the rock has its own psionic power because it observed things while own its own.

Anyway. I will also note how psionic power flows through the rocks mind.

In reply to Magnus (msg # 461):

The rock does have its own psionic power.  Its on a very different setup than that of your partners, and it radiates very little energy, unlike your partner who glows in your psionic sight.

"Interesting. I wonder if the rocks could learn psionics. Would they be more fatiguing due to the relative lack of psionic power?..."

There is something that I want to try before we head back to the tower.
I'll move about 50 feet away from Tyler to give him room in case I mess up.

In Dungeons and Dragons 3e and 3.5e there is a class called a soulknife that can produce a blade of Psionic force. It should be telekinetic in nature. Basically concentrating psionic energy into a solid blade that I can use to cut.

I will focus my will and psionic power into manifesting a small blade the size of a knife.

In reply to Magnus (msg # 463):

OOC: This sounds like a wonderful time to have a botch.  Well, the evil GM will bow to the dice...

You try for nearly forty minutes until something just clicks, and then suddenly you have a glowing knife without a handle or guard just floating in front of you.  Your partner cheers.

1@3 skill.

I'll test it by cutting off a small stick and whittle on it. Making as small of cuts the I can to see how fine my control with the psionic knife is.

After the test run, I'll show Tyler the psionic pattern for the knife.

After he is done learning it. I will comment.
"Hmmmm... I wonder. Could I make mind bullets? It would be similar to the knife. A small solid bit of psionic force moving at high speed... Let's save that experiment for later. I have probably pushed my luck enough.

Let's head back and report to the Dean."

In reply to Magnus (msg # 465):

You report back to the Dean, and at first he is glad to see you, then shocked and pleased at your report, and then he starts to scoff, and then you show him all that you learned, and he is blown away.  He wants you to start teaching a class on it right away with the senior faculty as the students.

"Ok, We will need to divide the Senior Staff into two classes. Each day I will teach one class and Tyler will teach the other class. We will also teach these classes far enough from the city that if there is an explosion like what destroyed the Old Mage Tower it will be far enough away to not hurt the city. I have already singed my eyebrows off with an explosion.
And I have a feeling that the Explosion could be bigger.

Therefore, That is why I want two classes. So If we mess up fatality, we only wipe out half of the Senior Staff. Instead of all the Senior Staff.

I suppose  that the Senior Staff will be smart enough to not teach it to Lord Temerance and the other power-hungry aristocrats. Psionics is basically reintroducing Old Magic back into the world. Honestly, I think we should teach psionics to everyone. If everyone has psionic powers then people like Lord Temerance can't use it to bully the rest of the population. What do you think?"
"

In reply to Magnus (msg # 467):

He blinks. You can see you're racing far ahead of his thoughts.  After a second, he nods firmly.

"Yes, I think you are right.  Its going to be exciting. We're going to see wonders and the world change.  If everyone has power, its the best way for things to work out better in the end.  So we will do as you say, teach half at a time, and with the goal of them teaching others quickly, and those teaching others.  This means you don't just teach us how to do it, but teach us how to teach others."

He's bought into your plan, and accepted the goal as one of his own.

OOC: Good dice roll, and your fully thought out plan helps because it gives him the impression you know what you're doing.

As such, you find yourself two days later with half the Senior Faculty, and some porters walking out of the city.  Some folk that look suspicious to you are eyeballing you as you leave, but your teacher/students have turned aside questions with practised ease from those with normal curiosity, and from those whose curiosity seems less benign.

A few miles away, the temporary camp is set up, and you begin teaching.

Time for some dice rolls. I roll 4d10.
General: 12. That's pretty good, not great, but good.
Dangerous Botch Prevalence: 17. Not great. You will have at least one serious problem.
Lethal Botch to you likelihood: 14. You're fine.

In the first hour, you get a few of them to demonstrate psi talents of their own, and over the next two hours, everyone gets at least the most minor application of skill involved.  There is a clear difference as some few pick up things faster than Tyler, and a few others try and fail over and over, eventually succeeding, but most are not as good as Tyler.  Its the standard bell curve effect.

In the fourth hour, one man is struck by lightning from the clear air, and he's knocked down, and rolled.  He's got second degree burns on a fourth of his legs and arms, and half his beard is gone.

I would have probably asked for a fairly large supply of food for the base camp. Because I know injuries are fairly likely and that my method of healing makes you ravenously hungry.

If I didn't think of all that, it is a base camp. You would expect us to take a fair bit of food with us.


I rush over to the guy that was hit by lightning. I touch him and send in psionic power to diagnose how hurt he is like I did before with Tyler. I am expecting internal electrical burns or electrical burns on the skin.
Once I know where to heal. I will send in even more psionic power and use it to direct his body to heal the electrical damage.

In reply to Magnus (msg # 469):

There is plenty of food as per your request.

He has electrical burns on the skin of his face.  It seems as if his beard shielded him.  On his legs, the burns are both skin and internal, however not much internal.

You push psi power into him to begin the healing process as he asks what happened.  You heal his face first, have to refocus for a few minutes as everyone is yelling, and then heal his legs.

As I heal I reply to his question loud enough so that all the others hear.

"You where struck by lightning on a clear day. You probably messed up your control of psionic power and then it when wild. Unleashing the Electricity on you.

Theoretically anything is possible with psionic power as demonstrated by the wide variety of powers that Tyler and myself where able to manifest. I've experienced explosions  and switching bodies with someone when I messed up. I am forced to conclude that it is possible to produce an explosion that rivals the one that destroyed the First Mage's Tower every time you use the power of psionics."

I let that sink in for a moment then continue. Intending this as a lesson for everyone.

"Therefore, When you use psionics, make sure the task is worth the risk. Can you accomplish it another way? Consider your situation.

We have been given a great power. Therefore it is our responsibility to use it wisely. Now, Even more so that when we merely use our Fire Wands, We walk with Death. Every use of psionics has the chance to end us and everyone around us."

I finsh my healing and say
"Now you need to eat. I know how much my healing takes out of you. So you must be ravenous."

I turn to the others.
"Let's continue.  Practice will probably help us control psionic power and lower the chance we mess up."
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In reply to Magnus (msg # 471):

They take your words very seriously, and start focusing more on making sure they get it right than on exploring new powers.  One of them asks you if there is some way to drain the 'wild energy' away to something safer.

"Like, when we use acids, we have a bucket of water nearby for eyes, and sand for tossing on the acid."

"I haven't considered it. I could emulate a lightning rod to draw the excess energy through myself and ground it out in the physical world."

The inspiration for this comes from Final Fantasy 6 And the Runic Knight Class. In the game, the Runic Knight character can use their action to cause the next spell cast in the battle to target them instead where they take apart the spell so that it doesn't affect them and absorb the magic from the casting.

It's not one to one but it does give me an idea.

I make myself into a metaphorical lighting  rod for psionic power. It will be drawn to me preferably before it has time to properly manifest. I will pass it through me to the ground without trying to get anything out of it. Where it will be dissipated by the mundane physical world.

This will make it harder to do psionics,  but it should also draw in the excess wild psionic power when we mess up so that it doesn't hurt us.

"Try connecting to me with the mind wire link. If you get through, you will be able to observe my experimental technique."

In reply to Tadeusz (msg # 472):

You try it, and seem to get it.  Another person uses psi energy, and moves his focus your way, not trying to do anything, and it grounds.  He does say he felt your presence as an inhibitor.  Your partner nods that he got it.

It seems to work, but you can't really know until someone botches if it will work.

"Well. I could will try to maintain this for a while. But, I don't think I can teach while maintaining this. I think I could make a psionic item to do the same thing. But, The item would be self defeating because it would also ground out the psionic energy that it powering it."

A rock could theoretically do it by incorporating the psionic device into their structure. But I would question if they have enough to power it. And it does feel bad treating a sentient as a tool.
I could probably make their mind stronger but I still have the ethical problem.

I let the power fade and turn to the one that learned psionic grounding.
"Ok. Go ahead and activate psionic grounding and let me feel how much harder it makes psionics."

I'll pick up a rock with telekinesis near him to feel how it affects psionics.
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In reply to Magnus (msg # 475):

It makes it, you decide about twenty percent harder.  Its not a hard and fast number as being that precise is impossible.  But it feels more than one in ten and less than one in three.

You keep it up for a while, and while you're working on reupping it someone else has a botch.  However, he just floats three feet into the air, and stays there for a while.  Do you want to try to drain off his energy?

Let's give it a shot.
I will walk up to him and activate my psionic grounding.

In reply to Magnus (msg # 477):

You begin to draw off the energy.  You notice a couple things. One the energy is fading on its own.  In a few minutes he would have dropped to the ground on his own.  Second, the energy has a semi stable formation with flaws that move unpredictably.  This makes it harder for you to drain the energy, both the stability and the instability.  Your skill was designed to draw still unformed, wild energy and ground it.  But as you pull at it, you pull it apart, and ground it, and the man drops lightly to the ground.  He's unharmed.

"Hmmm... I think that I could use this to counteract other people's psionic power.

Well. Lets continue. I will have to build something to help with the major mistakes we make."

I will continue to teach them while protecting them with the psionic grounding.


How far did they get in the first day?
After the day's teaching I will head to Tol's workshop.

I am looking for a iron rod that is about a foot long and a quarter inch to a half inch thick.

I will activate my psionic sight and look at the rod. Do I detect a mind like the rock's?

I will also ask Tol to hold something red hot. Explaining that I am doing a experiment with a new set of abilities that I developed.

The main source of damage from red hot iron is the denaturing of protein and other organic compounds from the heat and the oxidation of those compounds when in contact with the red hot iron. There isn't a way I can think of with biology that can explain how Tol and other dwarves handle red hot iron.

So it is ether some sort of innate magic. Or it is some sort of subconscious psionic power. Or it is possible that it is some sort of biology that I don't understand.

So if it is Psionic based then I should detect it with my Psionic Sight.
If I don't detect him using psionics to do it then I will try a medical scan near his hands to try to see how his biology is doing that.

In reply to Magnus (msg # 479):

You've got a bright group, used to puzzling things out, and they work together well.  Everyone is talking mentally to each other, and able to defend their minds. Some use TK on rocks, and one guy has figured out how to fling a rock at great speed.  Most of them have learned how to drain psi energy as that seemed most important to them after learning how to do the imparting of psi pattern, and mind defense and mindwire.

Tol nods when he hears what you want, and gets a rod, and with hammer and chisel cuts it to size in a couple minutes.

No mind in the iron.

He's working on something right now, and heats it up a bit more to get it red hot.  Its a hoe. Prosaic, but useful.

It looks to be innate psi as you scan him.

"Feels like you're tickling my hands whatever you're doing." He grunts as he holds the hoe in his right hand.

Once I Realize that Tol's ability is an innate psionic power, I switch to a wide scan of his body to see how psionic power is flowing through him to achieve this effect. The pattern itself will be different from how a human would do the same thing but it should be similar in principal. Enough so that I should be able to intuit how to do it from watching how Tol does it.

If I had to guess, it should be a Mind over Body thing. A dwarf's innate stubbornness allowing him to negate the damage that the red hot iron should do to him.

In response to Tol commenting that my scan tickles

"Huh, Interesting. You can feel scan with psionic power.
Psionic power is basically a kind of power that comes from minds and thoughts.
I have spent the past few days researching and developing these powers.

A few days ago I decided to follow the Aqueduct south of the city to see if I could repair it. I found a lake with a broken dam with the intake of the aqueduct about ten feet above the water. A dragon was using it to dive into the lake.

I was curious if Dragons where intelligent or beasts like everyone says. But I realized that dragons would have no reason to know my language, so I attempted to contact it's mind with magic. This obviously failed because the Seal on most of the magic in this world. But the Dragon felt my attempt and contacted my mind with it's own.

The Dragon asked why I was here bothering it. I replied that I was curious. The Dragon demanded that I pay it to answer any questions. It really wanted gold. but I managed to trade knowledge for knowledge. The Dragon got the sciences that I knew. But I got A thought pattern that awakens psionic power in a draconic mind and a list of what psionic powers are possible and what order to attempt to learn them in.

These powers are
Reading minds.
Hiding your mind from others.
Talking mind to mind with those you have seen before.
Compel other in a contest of wills
Tell if their words are true as they know it.
See things from far away as in mists or waters. Whatever that means. Presumably he means Scrying.
Dream of past or future events. Although I have no clue how one would learn to dream like that. Perhaps Lucid Dreaming...
Hit others with the power of the mind.
Float by lifing yourself up with telekinesis.
Apparently the great dragons of the past could bend the jetstreams to their will.
Infuse items with powers.
Heal the mind or harm it by causing madness.
Burn thing by agitating the molecules that make them up.
Remove yourself from one space to another.  Sounds like teleportation.
And ask rocks what came before.

I reported all this to the Dean and I got a research partner to help me learn Psionics. Since many powers require a target mind. We walked a few miles outside the city in case we messed up and caused an explosion or something.

This is an entirely new field of knowledge for me. In my home world things like this only appeared in fiction. Unfortunately do to how versatile psionics is, I fear that this will be the equivalent to reintroducing Old Magic back into the world. And I will not let the few lord their power over everyone. Therefore I need to teach these powers to everyone.

It seems that your ability to handle red hot iron is psionic in nature. Some sort of innate Psionics. I did an overall scan with psionics. That is what you felt tickling you. But I would get a better look if I connected to your mind. It would be a fair demonstration of the most basic of psionic powers. So can I go ahead and connect my mind to yours for this?"