That’s the end of the sob story portion of the evening.
3 Comments
StLOrca
on July 27, 2018 at 4:41 pm
Telepathy would be a curse, not a gift.
danuttall
on July 27, 2018 at 7:36 pm
The X-Men have explored what it would be like to Professor X to lose his ability to shut out other people’s minds.
As a teenager, I created a telepathic character who could read all the minds around him, but with very limited mentality otherwise. His personality would be an amalgam of the personalities of the people around him, with the inverse-square law applying as to how much of his personality came from each person near him. Trying to figure out how this guy would react was very challenging. Often his actions are just pure chaos.
Imagine this guy as a witness in a court room. He would be “borrowing” the intelligence, wisdom, ethics, emotional management, etc. of everybody in the court, including at least three post-graduates (both lawyers and the judge), two of whom are pretty close to him. The lawyers and the judge have to abide by a strict code of conduct and let’s say they have strong personal ethics as well. The defendant is an intelligent, smug, psychopathic rapist with poor emotional control. He will lie on a whim and can usually build a plausible story and keep his lies straight. He finally got caught because his victim last time was tough enough to survive but so scared she might not testify anyway, but his DNA is tying him to a series of fatal rapes over the last few years. In the court room is a group of angry and scared family members and friend of the defendant’s various victims.
My “telepathetic” character would be combining all the mental elements of each person to come up with his motivations and actions.
UniPrae
on July 28, 2018 at 8:24 am
I get the feeling Seer should remember this famous quote from Abraham Lincoln “When you look for the bad in man, expecting to find it, you surely will.” She found bad behaviour and then expecting it ended up looking for it, aparently.
Telepathy would be a curse, not a gift.
The X-Men have explored what it would be like to Professor X to lose his ability to shut out other people’s minds.
As a teenager, I created a telepathic character who could read all the minds around him, but with very limited mentality otherwise. His personality would be an amalgam of the personalities of the people around him, with the inverse-square law applying as to how much of his personality came from each person near him. Trying to figure out how this guy would react was very challenging. Often his actions are just pure chaos.
Imagine this guy as a witness in a court room. He would be “borrowing” the intelligence, wisdom, ethics, emotional management, etc. of everybody in the court, including at least three post-graduates (both lawyers and the judge), two of whom are pretty close to him. The lawyers and the judge have to abide by a strict code of conduct and let’s say they have strong personal ethics as well. The defendant is an intelligent, smug, psychopathic rapist with poor emotional control. He will lie on a whim and can usually build a plausible story and keep his lies straight. He finally got caught because his victim last time was tough enough to survive but so scared she might not testify anyway, but his DNA is tying him to a series of fatal rapes over the last few years. In the court room is a group of angry and scared family members and friend of the defendant’s various victims.
My “telepathetic” character would be combining all the mental elements of each person to come up with his motivations and actions.
I get the feeling Seer should remember this famous quote from Abraham Lincoln “When you look for the bad in man, expecting to find it, you surely will.” She found bad behaviour and then expecting it ended up looking for it, aparently.