·· Icing: The Psion has combined his talents at Telekinesis, however rudimentary, to his Cryokinetic gift, allowing him to pull water vapor out of the surrounding air and drape it in a specific icy patina over any surface chosen, even a person. He can use this to hinder foes, create slicks to trip people up, coat objects that he wants to render momentarily unsafe or unusable or even to simply write a message in ice across a wall. However used, this power does not allow him to more specifically control the shape, only to cause it to adhere as he wills, thus a Psion could create an outline of a dagger on a wall, but not actually just create a dagger of ice to use in a fight.

System: Roll Psi and spend a point, each success on the die roll allowing another Mode rating in 1 meter squares to be affected or another centimeter of thickness to be added to the ice in a certain square meter. Thus a Legionnaire with Cryokinesis 3 and scoring 4 successes on her Psi roll could create up to a dozen one meter patches of ice (contiguous only), allowing her to scrawl her insignia on the wall in ice as a warning to foes or coat an adversary or surround a firearm with a massive chunk of ice or simply ice up a staircase or seal a door shut as a surprise for pursing opponents. Her ice-slick could be a 1 cm thick sheet of ice covering a 2 meter wide hallway over 6 meters in breadth for example, or she could layer the ice thicker over a 2 meter by 1 meter doorway (though she’d better extend the ice sheet a half-meter to each side, above and below to freeze the door shut), allowing her to double the thickness to 2 cm. Each cm of thickness takes a single HT level of damage or Strength success to bash through, and the thickness can reach an unmanageable thickness quite quickly on a small item, such as a Firearm. If used on a person, suffocation might well result as the persons rolls to smash through the ice are at +1 Difficulty on straight Strength rolls to break free (although some sort of weapon in hand might simplify the process as that weapon can be fired to shatter ice off of the firing hand at least). Otherwise, our sample Legionnaires ice-slick coated over a person would cover the average person, with 2 meters square of surface area, about 4 cm thick, requiring 4 HT levels or Strength success to break free. Any extra damage applied by friends to break one free is of course as damaging to the former prisoner… Stepping on an ice slick requires an Athletics roll to maintain ones footing, jogging on one or encountering one on a slope or staircase requires a +1 Difficulty (cumulative) and running on one adds another +1 Difficulty. Walking carefully at half walking speed negates the need for any sort of check, but slowing you down may have been her thought all along. This power has a range of only Psi meters at Cryokinesis 2, but increases to Psi x5 meters at level 4 in the Mode. Attempts at artistry with this power require an appropriate Arts roll, and attempts to directly coat a moving target (such as a person) are at a +1 Difficulty.