Chaos Rising:Partial Powers Trump Tricks
Contents
Trump Tricks
Anybody can learn these tricks.
- [05] Sensitivity To Your Trump
- [05] Trump Defense
- [05] Trump Caller Identification
- [10] Trump Spying (Prerequisites: Amber level psyche)
- [05] Bypass Call Refusal
- [10] Trump Jamming
- [10] Trump Spying (Prerequisites: Amber level psyche)
- [05] Block Out Background
- [05] Trump Gate (Prerequisites: Chaos level endurance)
Sensitivity To Your Trump [05]
Prerequisites: Chaos level psyche
This trick allows you to sense it whenever someone is handling a trump of you. You don’t know who it is, or what they’re doing with it, but you can sense it.
Trump Defense [05]
Prerequisites: Chaos level psyche
Using a Trump card (your own card works best) and concentrating on it, you evoke a Trump defense.
As long as you can continue to concentrate, you are protected against intrusions of Pattern, Logrus, Psyche and most Magic. Maintaining a Trump defense depends on the your character’s Endurance. Against major powers, maintaining a Trump defense is just as difficult as a mind to mind battle.
Trump Identification [05]
Prerequisites: Chaos level psyche
Upon receiving a Trump Contact check through your Trump Deck.
The card of whoever is making the call will be psychically active.
Obviously, this works only if you happens to have the caller’s Trump.
Keep in mind that also trumps of any other person in a Trump conversation will be active.
This also can be used to monitor trump activities.
Trump Spying [10]
Prerequisites: Trump Caller Identification, Amber level psyche
There is another level of concentration where you can simply observe the operation of Trump.
This allows you to overhear conversations as the Trump is being used.
However, you must actually touch the specific trump.
If you have Trump for only one of the participants in a Trump Contact, you will overhear only what that one person says, and will be unable to "hear" the other end of the conversation.
Be careful a person with a high level psyche might spot you.
Bypass Call Refusal [05]
Prerequisites: Trump Spying
If the person you are attempting to contact is blocking you, you can attempt to bypass the block and contact them anyway. You spy on their trump and when they accept a call from someone else and their mental Trump 'door' is open, you insert yourself into the call. You just add yourself to the conversation as a silent third party, and when they end the call, they’re still in a Trump contact – with you. Drawback at this point, now they notice you and can try via psyche battle to end the contact. Be careful a person with a high level psyche might spot you beforehand.
Trump Jamming [10]
Prerequisites: Trump Caller Identification
With intense concentration, you can attempt to jam any one, or any number, of trumps. This requires the actual cards of the subject of the jam.
When you concentrate on a single card the victim will be blocked from sending or receiving trump calls.
When you concentrate on several cards, none of the targets will be able to receive calls.
If the contact to the jammed target is pushed, you will be involved in a Psychic contest.
Block Out Background [05]
Prerequisites: Chaos level psyche
With this trick, and an effort of will, you can allow a contact without including any visual component, your surroundings, even yourself. This is a taxing effort that must be maintained through the length of the contact.
Trump Gate [05]
Prerequisites: Chaos level psyche, Chaos level endurance
The ability to create an open doorway from any one place to any other.
It requires a Trump Sketch or card for the destination point.
It requires tremendous amount of personal energy in order to be opened, and even more for the maintenance of the Trump Gate.
The larger the gate the more energy is needed.
As long as you maintain concentration the trump gate will stay open but this effort quickly drains the endurance of even the most High Ranked person.
It is possible to use other sources of energy like the Jewel of Judgment or a spikard.
