Mind Poke

This page needs content: Message without Electronic Understanding against Positronic Robots

Go to Psion Skills (level 1 skill, starting skill)

Skill ID: 150
(view in-game)

Mind Poke

Your slowly developing psychic powers can't manage much more than a poke, but it can work in a pinch to get you out of a tight squeeze, if you don't mind all the grasping metaphors.

Deals psychic damage

Combat Skill
Cost: 1 PP

When Used

• Against Positronic Robots, without Electronic Understanding:

Unknown

• Against Electronic Robots, without Electronic Understanding:

You reach out with your mind, prying at your opponent. There's no mind behind the mechanical shell, but you can sense some hint of a pattern in the electronic device that confronts you. Unfortunately, you can't quite latch on to the electronics to do anything about it.

• Otherwise:

You locate your opponent's mind and reach out with your own, giving a moderate poke for X damage.

Notes

• X is 3-6 + S, capped at 10+S, where S is the number of skill points invested. However, any damage above 10 + S is halved.
• Even with Electronic Understanding, it does less damage to Robots:
  • Electronic Robots take 50% + 5*T% of the original damage, where T is the number of skill points invested in Electronic Understanding.
  • Positronic Robots take 10% + T% of the original damage.