Tactile Telepathy

Tactile Telepathy Mystic Basic 300 hours Requires: Telepathy I

Perhaps it is because the neural impulses can traverse the skin barrier better than the open air, or simply because of the empathic benefits of physical contact. Regardless, by knowing how your tangible caress benefits your telepathic one. Tactile Telepathy acts as a tool for psionic use, giving a +3 on checks & challenges for telepathic & related rolls affecting the person you are touching. Any sustained light touch will work; it does not need to be a specific melding grip on the target's face. As an added bonus, any telepathic conversation aided by this skill is completely private, even if a third party is reading the mind of one of the participants. Multiple mental contacts may be made--provided you have the requisite other skills--up to as many people as can touch you, and this telepathic conversation can be shared, but an outside party cannot psionically eavesdrop.