Imperceptibility

Level: 2

Quantum Minimum: 2

Dice Pool: Charisma + Imperceptibility

Range: Line of Sight

Area: N/A

Duration: Maintenance

Effect: Prevents the nova from being detected by any senses

Multiple Actions: Yes

Description: This power allows the nova to send out a telepathic signal that allows him to travel about and be completely ignored by all around him. Imperceptibility is not Invisibility, it does not affect light in any way, it affects only the mind of all viewers, whether they perceive the subject nova by sight, hearing, touch, scent or some quantum-based nova sense.

To use the power, the nova rolls Charisma + Imperceptibility (gaining automatic successes equal to ones Quantum) and with even a single success (let alone three) can walk about unseen. But the additional successes are important, since any action that would normally call attention to the nova could break the effect for various bystanders!

Actions possible

1 success - Slow movement (half-speed)

2 successes - Normal movement, whispering or murmuring

3 successes - Swift movement (sprinting), gentle contact, humming or

subdued speech

4 successes - Special or unusual movement forms (flight, hyper-speed),

pushing or loud speech

5 successes - Physical attacks, jumping up and down and shouting while

waving semaphore flags

At each success level the nova can remain hidden while performing any action normally listed or a similar action at the ST’s discretion. If he tries to do something at a higher rating, any observer is allowed a roll of Perception + Awareness to spot him and gets to cancel out each success scored by the character *vs. himself only* for the duration!

Willpower can also be spent on a 1 for 1 basis to cancel successes for this form of non-detection for that viewer only.

Once no successes remain, the character can see the nova normally and this effect remains until the character becomes unseen again. An attempt to vanish directly in front of people requires a resisted roll

between the novas Charisma + Imperceptibilty and the viewers Awareness scores, and the effects will be limited by however many successes are scored over the resisted roll, causing a nova to perhaps be perceptible to some people and concealed to others!

Since this form of ‘invisibility’ affects minds instead of light or sound, cameras and motion sensors can sense the presence of the nova normally, although the people holding the cameras at the time might not be able to perceive the novas presence.

Psychic Shield and Invulnerability (mental attacks) do not add their automatic successes to uses of this power, but those novas who have these abilities automatically deduct their automatic successes from the success level of the Imperceptible character in their presence, usually being able to see them right off, and, even in the case where they cannot, being able to pick them out the instant they make any move that would normally require a roll, since the effect is already so much weaker against them!