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Clairsentience
is the discipline of extending or projecting ones
senses beyond the physical body. |
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There are essentially only
two varieties of Clairsentience: Sense Extension
and Sense Projection. |
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In its Latent form,
clairsentience manifests as brief smells, sounds, or sights. These sensations are either
just out of normal sensory range (such as just around a corner or on the other side of a
door, or just over a hilltop), or are connected in some very familiar way to the psychic.
A psychic child, for example, might "overhear" his mother talking about him
while she is visiting a neighbor, for example, or might "just know" that his
older brother was hiding up in the hayloft, without ever seeing or hearing him. This kind
of "sixth sense" is often confused with latent manifestations of ESP, since the
two are often indistinguishable to inexperienced latent psychics. The two are very
different in actuality. ESP is an added "sense" which manifests, especially
among latent psychics, as an intrusion onto the normal physical senses. Clairsentience
will not detect anything that the psychics normal senses would not detect if the
psychic were present at another location. For example, a blind man cannot see
using Clairsentience, because he lacks the sense of sight. He could hear using
Clairsentience, however, so long as he wasn't deaf as well. |
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Sense Extension
is the ability to extend ones senses a short distance from ones body in
order to overcome some barrier to normal sensing. In order to use Sense Extension, only
barriers to sensing other than distance may limit the psychic. For example, a psychic is
hiding behind a door. By using Sense Extension, the psychic can see what is on the other
side of the door, or even what is in the next room or on the next floor, because if the
intervening door, walls, or ceiling/floor were not in the way, the psychic would be able
to see that far. The senses of hearing, smell, and even touch can be similarly extended
(although extending the sense of touch has a much more limited application - feeling the
texture and shape of something without removing the covering or wrapping, for example). |
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Sense
Extension: |
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Default Difficulty |
Routine (4) |
Marginal Success |
The psychic may extend one sense anywhere
within the Primary Zone. |
Complete Success |
The psychic may extend one sense anywhere
within the Secondary Zone. |
Superior Success |
The psychic may extend one sense anywhere
within normal sensory distance. |
Extraordinary Success |
The psychic may extend up to two senses
anywhere within normal sensory distance. |
Mythic Success |
The psychic may extend up to three senses
(typically sight, hearing, and smell) anywhere within normal sensory distance. |
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Sense Projection
is the ability to project ones senses far away from ones body. In order
to do so, the psychic must meet one of two criteria. The psychic must be very familiar
with a specific location, or must be very familiar with a specific person or object.
If the psychic can locate a person using ESP, the difficulty for using Sense Projection is
reduced by one for each level of success above Marginal on the ESP trial. |
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Once the psychic has
projected her senses to a location, she can sense things as if she were actually present
at that location, subject to the limits imposed by the Degree of Success she attains. With
higher degrees of success come increasing clarity of sensation and control over
perception. |
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Use of Sense Projection
requires the psychic to make a Fatigue Trial with a difficulty equal to the difficulty of
the Sense Projection Trial. |
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Sense
Projection: |
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Default Difficulty |
Moderate (9) |
Marginal Success |
The psychic may project her senses to any
familiar location, object, or person, but the resulting sensory impressions are very vague
and blurry. |
Complete Success |
The psychic may project her senses to any
familiar location, object, or person, but the resulting sensory impressions are generally
vague and blurry. Up to one sense will be slightly clearer. |
Superior Success |
The psychic may project her senses to any
familiar location, object, or person. The resulting sensory impressions are generally
vague, except for one sense, which will be very clear. |
Extraordinary Success |
The psychic may project her senses to any
familiar location, object, or person. The resulting sensory impressions are somewhat
blurry, except for two senses, which will be very clear. |
Mythic Success |
The psychic may project her senses to any
familiar location, object, or person. The resulting sensory impressions are clear. |
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