Broadcast

Broadcast Mystic Apprentice 400 hours Psionic Requires: Telepathy I and Public Speaking Apprentice You can yell inside someone's head. This is not properly a mental attack, and can do no more harm than shouting unpleasant things at someone. Think of it as a loudspeaker… inside your head. The effective 'volume' level is no more than someone talking very loudly at most—conversational level for common uses. As the messages broadcast are mental, it can be 'heard' clearly even with loud background noises or through intervening barriers. As with telepathy, a single image can be sent, but most messages using this skill will be verbal. An apprentice can broadcast to everyone in the room—about thirty feet. A journeyman can send much farther, and can send a message to everyone in a large hall—about a hundred feet. The master has an even greater range. She can cover a large arena or field—about a thousand feet. These messages are all one-way, so that a psionic reply would require telepathy used by the recipient. This is good; could you imagine having to deal with listening in on the conversations of everyone in a stadium while still concentrating on delivering your speech? Everyone within the radius will receive the message. It is not possible to exclude recipients or to send more than a single message at a time. However, a more advanced mentalist can choose to limit the range by using a lower level of this skill. It is possible to send an extended message; a long rant can be broadcast just as well as a terse sentence.