"What you do with your reincarnations is a completely personal matter. The System does not judge those who are good or evil. If you earn a Skill, it is yours to do with as you wish. There will come a time when you will be confronted with a choice; to either reveal that you are more than you appear to be or let others suffer. It is up to you whether the risk of exposing yourself is worth the suffering of others."
- Arthur McMillon, 9th-grade teacher at Western Regional High School
I will need to prioritize which abilities will be important going forward. What do I want to do in this life? My goals so far have been short-term, but my life will continue after high school. If I am going to purchase abilities they need to be usable outside of just helping Clark. Since I have Psi Pool committing in that direction would be the easiest. There are plenty of mind readers and mind controllers out there in the DC universe and I cannot let any of them get ahold of my memories. I cannot assume that the first mind reader will come through Smallville after Clark and I get to high school, so I will have to purchase something to defend my mind sooner rather than later.
-Exchange
- Search: Psionic Mind Defense
Mind Blank (Psionic Ability): Completely separate your mind from the psionic plane. The user will be completely immune to all mental influences and intrusions for as long as the ability is active. Warning: The user will be unable to use any psionic abilities while active. Overuse may result in feelings of isolation, paranoia, and hallucinations. Cost: 50 Experience
- Mind Bunker (Psionic Augment Enhancement): The boundaries of the user''s Memory Library become psionic walls to prevent influence and intrusion. Psionic walls need to be maintained with psionic energy and will fail if completely depleted. Any actions taken to breach the psionic walls by foreign minds will result in a drain on psionic energy stores. Cost: 100 Experience
-Mind Fortress (Psionic Augment): Expand the user''s Mind Library to include psionic walls, traps, barracks, empty rooms, weapons, and escape routes. All psionic constructs need to be maintained with psionic energy or become inactive. Any actions taken to breach the psionic walls by foreign minds will result in a drain on psionic energy stores. Warning: Using escape routes will result in the user''s mind being whole in the psionic plane. Spending too long disembodied in the psionic plane may result in mind dissolution. Cost: 1000 Experience
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Mind Bunker is a good backup. It just seems to be a small upgrade to Mind Bunker, which makes the enhancement description self-evident. On the other hand, I am not touching Mind Blank with a ten-foot pole. What the fuck is that warning! May result in isolation, paranoia, and hallucinations... More like may drive the user insane. No wonder it is so cheap, it''s for those too desperate to be able to afford anything else, and need an immediate solution. Note to self, not all abilities are positive; just because The System offered the ability does not mean it is good. Moving on from that, defending my mind will not help me introduce the fact I have abilities to my family. Out of all the abilities I had perused over the last year, Telekinesis seems to be pretty easy to prove and is not too scary. It will also be useful no matter what I end up doing and will give me a tool to help around the farm beyond just being a farmhand. In a moment of reflection, it looks like I just gave myself a bunch of new goals to work toward.
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