There's another cute "power" in Avoirdupois that might be appropriate for a post-Apoc psychic power. Locutions is basically the power of having spirit guides that speak to you at times.
You can include your Locutions dice with any tasks that involve piety or white magic or spreading goodness and decency. They aren't very good with worldly things like names and current events, though.
They can also be called upon to guide a group of folks, which lets them include your Locutions dice with spell-resistance rolls for a short period. After that, though, the voices fall quiet for a long period.
I'm not sure what the Nuclear Beasts equivalent would be. Spirits of dead humans? Relatives? Or just mysterious voices? Mysterious voices might work best. Whenever you ask them about themselves, they shut up for a few hours to a few days, then come back, apparently having forgotten the question. It might be that they forget their own death and asking them questions that reminds them of it drives them away... or there could be some metaphysical reason why they can't answer.
Channeling: you hear at least one strange voice periodically. The stronger this ability, the more likely you are to hear multiple voices. These spirits make occasional comments on events in your life and can sometimes answer questions, but no one can hear them but you.
Once in awhile, when you really need them to, one of them can take over your body, using its skills and your flesh to perform some sort of task.
They generally can't answer questions about themselves or their nature. When asked such a question (e.g. "What's your name?"), they simply go silent for hours or days at a time. Once they return, they won't remember the question that upset them. A character who has possessed this ability for years will generally have come to understand what sort of things the spirits can talk about and what sort of things that they know, but it can be very confusing for someone who only recently manifested this power.
Posted by Kiz at June 3, 2004 06:26 PMCommentsPost a comment