Consume Mental Resources

Consume Mental Resources  Mystic   Proficiency (Wits)   60 hours   Psionic

By tying up the cerebral power of your brain you can make your mind resistant to psychic attack. Counting backwards from ten-thousand, thinking of all the offensive words that have the letter 'E', doing long division in your head, playing two irritating songs at once ("The Song That Never Ends" & the Smurfs theme are perennial favourites here), and more locks your thoughts into these difficult patterns, leaving less for a telepath to work with. Anyone trying to contact your mind will automatically pick up these forced-forward thoughts rather than the deep memory they are seeking, and must fight past the noise to implant a suggestion or force control. Contest your skill check against theirs to have any effect. This is a fairly low-tech mental defence, and has the side effect that it is harder to shake off the effects after someone has breached this defence. Also, this skill requires all of your concentration (inherently); anything that breaks that concentration destroys the effectiveness.