Valeria Remsen

Valeria is considered a strong telepath with an exceptional ability to shield from prying psychic eyes. This makes her a valuable asset during confidential meetings to ensure that no one is being unduly influenced and to make sure corporate secrets aren’t leaked on sensitive projects. What you won’t find on her personnel file however is her ability to enter and affect the dreams of those around her.

Power Breakdown

• Influence - May roll Rapport vs Will. On success, may give the target a simple, short term command. Named NPCs or PCs opt to take 1 mental stress instead of following the command. No character will follow a command that will lead to obvious self harm.
  
• Telepathy - Choose one: Read emotions with Empathy, surface thoughts with Notice or deep thoughts and memories with Investigate in your zone or adjacent zone. Targets aware of telepathic capabilities may oppose with Will.
  
  • Mental Blasts - You can make mental attacks with Will. Range is 3 zones. Someone taken out by a mental attack may be mind controlled or rendered comatose.
  • Dreamwalk - You may interact with sleeping minds within range of your telepathic abilities by entering their dreams. You may communicate with the target and interact with the dream itself but have no control over what happens outside your own actions.
  • Dreamshape - You may affect the environment, nature or course of a dream you have entered, changing details such as events, settings or even your own manifestation. These changes are made with Empathy. Lucid Dreamers may attempt to resist them with Will.
  • Dream Psychologist - As per the Psychologist stunt. Can only be done via dreams. - Once per session you can reduce someone else’s consequence by one level of severity (severe to moderate, moderate to mild, mild to nothing at all) by succeeding on an Empathy roll with a difficulty of Fair (+2) for a mild consequence, Good (+3) for moderate, or Great (+4) for severe. You need to talk with the person you’re treating for at least half an hour in order for them to receive the benefits of this stunt, and you can’t use it on yourself. (Normally, this roll would only start the recovery process, instead of changing the consequence level.)
  • Psychic Shield x2 - +2 to Will to yourself or another to resist psychic intrusion or attack

Special Effects

• Inflict Condition - You add an aspect to the target which you can invoke once for free
• Mental Recovery - You recover from all mental stress

Drawbacks

• Tend to Abuse Your Power -When you can read others’ thoughts but nobody’s reading your own, you Tend to Abuse Your Power. -

Collateral Damage

• Psychic Maelstrom - Anyone who ends their turn in your zone takes 2 mental stress, and anyone who ends in a zone adjacent to yours takes 1 mental stress. This effect persists until you choose to end it or the end of the scene.