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 Otherwise, when not performing operations with the underground, operatives are to maintain a normal life as a cover for their activities. If blown, the operative may live at the base indefinitely.  Otherwise, when not performing operations with the underground, operatives are to maintain a normal life as a cover for their activities. If blown, the operative may live at the base indefinitely. 
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 +[[dark_conspiracy:empathic_underground|Click here for a list of members]]
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 +===== Base Security Protocols =====
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 +Obviously the location of the base should not be revealed to anyone. If necessary to bring anybody into the base, they should be blindfolded, and their ears covered to prevent them from understanding where they are. No communications electronics are allowed inside the base, they must be turned off before arriving at the base and checked in at the door. All weapons must also be checked in at the door. 
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 +The base is empathically shielded at all times, with one empath taking over this duty before the one on duty may step down. It is assumed that the conspiracy has empathic elements on the lookout for the base at all times. 
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 ====== The Conspiracy ====== ====== The Conspiracy ======
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 ====== Empaths ====== ====== Empaths ======
  
-There are a number of types of empaths. +There are a number of types of empaths, and there are a large number of empathic abilities that these people possess. These range from mental abilities such as reading minds, telepathic communication, projecting emotions upon others, and even altering memories to moving through space in our dimension and to others (which has a number of applications that one might not expect; see Sorcery below). Others have powers of extra-sensory perception. Some can manipulate matter, from healing bodies to heating or cooling things, or manipulating plants or computers.  
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 +The full extent of what humans are capable of using empathy is unknown. 
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 +===== Darkling Empathy ===== 
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 +Many darklings (though not all), possess their own form of "empathy" that varies substantially from that of humans. One of their most common abilities is to cause the minds of nearby humans to percieve them as other than their true form. They often use the power to project emotion mercilessly to create fear and then feed off of that fear
  
 ===== Latent ===== ===== Latent =====
  
-Most people with empathic talent never discover that they have it. This isn't to say that their empathic potential doesn't occasionally help them. But that these types often just put down their premonitions or feelings as being lucky or just perceptive and intuitive in the normal fashion. +Most people with empathic talent never discover that they have it. This isn't to say that their empathic potential doesn't occasionally help them. But that these types often just put down their premonitions or feelings as being lucky or just perceptive and intuitive in the normal fashion. If something happens to catch fire around them out of the blue it's just "spontaneous combustion."
  
 ===== Neuropaths ===== ===== Neuropaths =====
  
-Neuropaths are individuals who have (usually) accidentally gone down a path of self-training that essentially involves a lot of emotion and stain. Almost all trained empaths believe that this is a very detrimental road down which to travel, because the results almost always include extreme negative effects by the users. That said, some Neropaths are capable of rather extreme feats of empathic power. They simply tend to pay far too high a price for using these abilites, up to and including dying from over-use. +Neuropaths are individuals who have (usually) accidentally gone down a path of self-training that essentially involves a lot of emotion and stain. Almost all trained empaths believe that this is a very detrimental road down which to travel, because the results almost always include extreme negative effects to the users. That said, some Neropaths are occasionally capable of rather extreme feats of empathic power. They simply tend to pay far too high a price for using these abilites, up to and including dying from over-use. 
  
 ===== Mystics ===== ===== Mystics =====
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 ===== Sorcery ===== ===== Sorcery =====
  
-Sorcery is an expanded use of the ability known as dimension walk (see below), where portals are opened to other worlds, and the differences in the worlds exploited to create effects. What effects can be created are myriad. Before one can be a sorcerer, one has to learn dimension walk as either a mystic or a psionic. Sorcery is a huge array of abilites, and most sorcerers tend to focus on one type of sorcerous power associated with a single alternate dimension. +Sorcery is an expanded use of the ability known as dimension walk (see below), where typically very small portals are opened to other worlds, and the differences in the worlds exploited to create effects. For instance, opening up a portal to a proto-dimension of fire in one's hand in order to let a jet of fire spew forth. What effects can be created are myriad. Before one can be a sorcerer, one has to learn dimension walk as either a mystic or a psionic (it's not known if any neuropaths have ever advanced to sorcery). Sorcery is a huge array of abilites, and most sorcerers tend to focus on one type of sorcerous power associated with a single alternate dimension. 
  
 Panix is a psionic sorcerer specializing in fire sorcery, Spenser is a mystic sorcerer speciaizing in water sorcery.  Panix is a psionic sorcerer specializing in fire sorcery, Spenser is a mystic sorcerer speciaizing in water sorcery. 
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