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Many have claimed the capacity to project their minds out into the world, witnessing its ills. To those whose action must remain secret, there's nothing more terrifying than the prospect of an enemy who watches over your shoulder invisibly, safe in another realm.
While projected, you can move twice as fast as you normally move.
The conditions of the mental world allow you to move at the speed of thought while projected. You can be anywhere in the recursion you’ve ever been, just by thinking of it.
This Focus allows you to exit your body, projecting your mind into another world. This might be the “astral plane,” a spirit world, or a place that only advanced physics could explain, depending on the recursion. While there, your body is comatose and you cannot defend against physical attacks. Your mind can be attacked by those who can see into your plane of existence and have the ability to do psychic battle. Creatures native to this other plane can “physically” attack your mind, doing Intellect damage. You can see and hear the real world, but cannot interact with it. You move at your normal walking pace.
You project your mind, able to move up to Long distance from your body. This lasts until you choose to jump back into your body or are reduced to zero Intellect pool.
Action to initiate.
You may now travel any distance while projected.
While projected, you are now able to make psychic attacks against other minds in the mental realm you can see, dealing 4 damage with each attack. You have 3 Armor against psychic attacks while there.
Whenever you choose, while projected you may make your “astral body” seen by those in the real world, and you may speak and be heard there.
You may now use Sword and Shield against targets in the physical world you can see.
You take a journey into the deeper realms of thought, allowing you to find lost secrets and minds. You may take additional people with you as fellow astral travellers, at a cost of 2 Intellect per person. Action to initiate.
GM Intrusion: You are attacked by a monstrous mind that exists within the mental realm.