Dead-Channel

Silent mind-to-mind comms with known minds; unjammable.

The psion opens a channel that runs beneath every frequency the living and the machines know. Linked minds speak mind to mind in words shaped like text on a dark screen: silent, precise, overheard by nothing with ears or antennae. Unjammable and unmonitorable: it uses no electromagnetic broadcast. Each mind in the net is a node the psion has touched before -- strangers cannot be pulled in without a separate telepathic lock.

Rules Reference

FieldValue
Area Of Effectpsion plus known minds in range
Duration / Minutes10 min/level
Duration / Typefixed
Fold Point Cost1
Maintenance
Perils Trigger / Additional Conditions
Perils Trigger / On Catastrophetrue
Perils Trigger / On Natural1true
Power Dn11
Range / Base100
Range / Unitfeet
Saving ThrowNone
Tierminor

Notes

Effect: The psion establishes silent, text-feel telepathic communication with any number of known minds within 100 feet for 10 minutes per level. A "known mind" is any creature the psion has met and whose mental presence they have sensed -- typically anyone they have spent at least a few minutes with or previously read with another telepathic power. Communication is at the speed of thought and carries the approximate fidelity of written text: clear words, no emotional bleed, no deep reading, no visual transmission. The channel cannot be jammed, intercepted, or detected by technological means. Each participant may send and receive. The psion may end the channel for any participant as a free action.

Effect Params

script

FieldValue
namescript
valuedead-channel

maxTargets

FieldValue
namemaxTargets
valueunlimited-known-minds-in-range

fidelity

FieldValue
namefidelity
valuetext-level

unjammable

FieldValue
nameunjammable
valuetrue

undetectable

FieldValue
nameundetectable
valuetrue

Prerequisites

type: level

FieldValue
value1

type: tier

FieldValue
valueminor