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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mal Malenkirk" data-source="post: 4491511" data-attributes="member: 834">[sblock=Ithuriel]His mind has definetely been tempered with though you are equally certain that telepathy wasn't involved.  You can't be sure exactly what means was used, though drugs and hypnosis are the most common altermative.His behaviour hasn't been directly tempered with as far as you can tell.  There is no secret 'Manchurian Candidate' type of brainwashing going on and his behaviour has only been modified in the sense that he is confused and has difficulty focusing.  Therefore you can guess by elimination that it's just a spillover from having some of his memory erased.  Whenever you attempt such a feat by means other than telepathy, you are bound to make a bit of a mess instead of a surgical removal.  To get more details, a use of Mindshare 3 would be needed to be used to go pilfering in his brain and get a better picture of what seemed to be missing or perhaps even recover some mangled data than he is no longer able to readily recall.  BTW : I accept boosting modes as per the PG though I double the penalty (+2difficulty instead of +1 by level boosted) and require the expenditure of 1 point of willpower every time it's done.  In my experience during my live campaign, just bumping difficulty by +1 was so cheap that just about everyone routinely used it.  Since spending a Psi point gives 2 success, 1 time out of 2 it made little difference anyway in your management of Psi so you could as well have considered a psion with one mode at 3 as having all modes at 3 for all intent and purpose since it was so easy to boost the other modes at will.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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