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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mal Malenkirk" data-source="post: 4468846" data-attributes="member: 834">K ; yes, you wear civilians clothes.  You have Trinity accreditations that you can present to any proper authorities.  I can deduce so far that Kerry and Suria will take a trip to the Beaulac clinic to take a peek at John Doe.Ghost; Carlos and Pat; what will you do?  Either way, I'll probably post something about Beaulac clinic tomorrow.---To those going to Beaulac; I will remind the concept of Attunement.Every psion has a certain sensibility to noetic phenomenon within his attunement radiusPsi 4 = 75 meterPsi 5 = 750 meterPsi 6 = 15 kilomrter (roughly 10 miles)Psi 8 = 1,000 kilometer (that would be Carlos range because Clear add their strongest mode to the Psi score to determine attunement; 5 + 3 ).A psion is often able to sense another psion and his use of psi powers.  In the Beaulac clinic, there is about 40 trained psion ou of maybe 200 people working there, some fairly powerful (noetically speaking) so if you go in all psi powers blazing, it could be noticed, especially if powers are used directly on another psion.  And it's usually considered impolite to try to mindcontrol your host or hack their computer with technokinesis.  Just saying.The saving graces are :1 - Attunement doesn't provide very accurate direction if the target is out of sight.  And most psion not actively searching tune out everything minor that occurs out of immediate environment (you'd go mad trying to track everything within 1000 kilometer, for example)   2 - It doesn't distinguish a use of Vitakinetics from Telepathy or Psychokinesis.Therefore if you are out of sight when using psi, odds are a vitakinetics sensing your use of power will assume it's just a colleague doing his thing.3 - Using a minor power (mode rank 1 or 2) require 3 success on the attunement test to notice while a medium power (3 to 4) requires 2.  The attunement test is simply made by rolling your psi.  So if you feel like gambling, you can try a minor power right in front of another psion and still get away with it if if you are lucky.  Personnaly I cut one success to the difficulty when the person making the attunement test is also the target of the power.  Also, if you are observed while using Psi, a a Psion can substitude his awareness roll if it is higher (also a personal rule).</blockquote>

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