Psionics
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"You will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs..."
[edit] Levels
| Level | Icon | Name | Increased Stats | Granted Ability | Description |
| 1 | 
| Narcosomatic Induction |  +1
| Narcosomatic Induction | Sleep, now. Puts an enemy into a mildly painful, suffocating sleep. |
| 2 | 
| Psychokinetic Shove | +1
| Psychokinetic Shove | Shove, now. Uses violent force to push a mass of enemies (and other things) away from you. |
| 3 | 
| Crystal Healing | +1
| Crystal Healing | Heals yourself with the power of crystals. Ooooh! Step on the shinies to enjoy their healing effects. |
| 4 | 
| Nerve Staple | +1
| Nerve Staple | Deals crippling existential damage to one being. Indiscrete use of this spell may provoke economic sanctions. |
| 5 | 
| Pyrokinesis | +1
| Pyrokinesis | You're a firestarter, a terrific firestarter. You can set them alight with your mind. |
| 6 | 
| Unconditional Love | +1
| Unconditional Love | Magically charms a monster into giving up their evil ways to become your buddy ... for a short time. Then they just stab you in the back again. |
[edit] Granted Abilities
| Name | Cost 
| Effect |
| Narcosomatic Induction | 5 - (   0.15 ) 2 Min
| Puts a single monster to sleep and damages it for  (  0.1 ).
The sleep effect is not 100 % reliable. Sometimes the target doesn't fall asleep, or falls asleep but then is immediately awoken (effectively just losing 1 action). Even if it does fall asleep, the sounds of combat will easily wake it. Therefore the spell is most effective when facing a single monster. |
| Psychokinetic Shove | 5 - ( 0.2 ) 1 Min
| Knocks monsters, items, traps and furniture in a 33 square around the targeted area up to 3 squares back and damaging monsters for  ( 2 + 0.15 ).Some care should be taken with the knockback effect. In some circumstances it is possible to move monsters to the space between rooms where killing them becomes problematic (but avoiding them becomes trivially easy). It is also possible to accidentally block (and render unusable) stairways by pushing gargoyle heads on, or furniture in front of, the stairs. |
| Crystal Healing | 14 - ( 0.3 ) 3 Min
| Creates a 33 square of crystals on the ground, healing for  4 each when stepped upon.
If monsters pass through a space with crystals on them, the crystals vanish. Enemy monsters are not healed. Crystals stack and all crystals on a given tile are used at once. |
| Nerve Staple | 14 - ( 0.25 ) 3 Min
| Paralyzes a single monster for 3 turns and damages it for  ( 9 + 0.45 ) once. Also de-buffs the target by  -3  -3  -3 -3 -10 and buffs it by  +20 for 20 turns, these effects stack up to 3 times.
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| Pyrokinesis | 10 - ( 0.3 ) 5 Min
| Sets a single monster on fire and damages it for  ( 3 + 0.75 ) once. Additionally causes Fire 1.
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| Unconditional Love | 32 - ( 0.45 )
| Charms a single enemy for 16 turns. Will NOT unsummon pets the player has created. |
[edit] Trivia
- The skill description is a quote from David Lynch's adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune.
- The Narcosomatic Induction skill description is a reference to the movie Dark City.
- The Nerve Staple skill and its description are a reference to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
- The Pyrokinesis description is a reference to The Prodigy’s song “Firestarter.”
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