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The Science of Psionics, Wednesday
"Telekinesis."
The group had been summoned to the Danger Shop this week, though it didn't appear to be much of anything - just a very large room with no visible exits beyond the way they'd gotten in.
"It's a field of psionics that covers many possible abilities and strategies," she continued. "With the use of telekinesis, you can lift objects--" she hovered a pen up into the air without even lifting a finger, "Move them--" With an idle gesture of her hand, the pen went soaring at the wall. It bounced off and back towards her. "Repel them--" An invisible shield came into being with another flick of her arm, and the pen bounced harmlessly off it.
In that moment, anyone sensitive to it might have picked up on the sheer waves of power coming off Kerrigan; a second later her shields had covered the worst of it again.
She halted the pen's movements, then peeled every individual part off it with a thought. "And, of course, use subtle manipulation. Essentially, telekinesis is the ability to manipulate the physical world through the mental. Where I'm from, it's a very rare talent among human beings. It takes... a great deal of power."
The pen popped back together, and she placed it down on the table. "There have been mechanical attempts to reproduce it, but we'll go into that later," she said. "Today is meant to send you all thinking about the possibilities, if you don't possess it yourself, and to experiment -- in a safe environment -- with your powers if you do. The Danger Shop has been programmed to simulate telekinetic abilities as soon as I say the word. If you don't have powers, you can then manipulate the world around you with physical cues. Reaching, moving your hands, that kind of thing. Crude, but for those of you who are ill-equipped, the only way you can have even an inkling of how this works, and the complex skills it takes to make it work."
She walked towards the wall panel and pressed her hand to it. The empty room filled up with random objects, though nothing with sharp edges. She leaned against the wall.
"You have thirty minutes. We'll talk about your findings at the end of the class."
The group had been summoned to the Danger Shop this week, though it didn't appear to be much of anything - just a very large room with no visible exits beyond the way they'd gotten in.
"It's a field of psionics that covers many possible abilities and strategies," she continued. "With the use of telekinesis, you can lift objects--" she hovered a pen up into the air without even lifting a finger, "Move them--" With an idle gesture of her hand, the pen went soaring at the wall. It bounced off and back towards her. "Repel them--" An invisible shield came into being with another flick of her arm, and the pen bounced harmlessly off it.
In that moment, anyone sensitive to it might have picked up on the sheer waves of power coming off Kerrigan; a second later her shields had covered the worst of it again.
She halted the pen's movements, then peeled every individual part off it with a thought. "And, of course, use subtle manipulation. Essentially, telekinesis is the ability to manipulate the physical world through the mental. Where I'm from, it's a very rare talent among human beings. It takes... a great deal of power."
The pen popped back together, and she placed it down on the table. "There have been mechanical attempts to reproduce it, but we'll go into that later," she said. "Today is meant to send you all thinking about the possibilities, if you don't possess it yourself, and to experiment -- in a safe environment -- with your powers if you do. The Danger Shop has been programmed to simulate telekinetic abilities as soon as I say the word. If you don't have powers, you can then manipulate the world around you with physical cues. Reaching, moving your hands, that kind of thing. Crude, but for those of you who are ill-equipped, the only way you can have even an inkling of how this works, and the complex skills it takes to make it work."
She walked towards the wall panel and pressed her hand to it. The empty room filled up with random objects, though nothing with sharp edges. She leaned against the wall.
"You have thirty minutes. We'll talk about your findings at the end of the class."
Re: Experiment!
Once she got the feel for various objects and how much heft and concentration to took to move them, she practiced with juggling three basketballs, careful not to drop anything.