Basic Technique

Refinement: This basic technique functions much like The Sight, in that it is not so much a new Technique per se, but is, as its name implies, a refinement of the basic Attunement awareness possessed by all Psions. It serves to tighten the focus of perception, making the power far more useful, especially for the farsensing Clears and other powerful Psions.

System: Roll Psi in an active use of Attunement, this power does not effect the normal passive uses of that power. The Psion has refined their Attunement to the degree that they can choose to scan actively a smaller radius than their normal (often enormous and impractical) radius of effect. Each success determines detection of Taint and/or familiar noetic auras normally and also allows the Clear to subtract a point of Psi for the purposes of range. The range bonus imparted by The Sight may be cancelled out with an act of will by anyone skilled in Refinement and need not be bought off in this manner.

Example: Marak has a 6 Psi, which would normally impart a 15 kilometer radius of Attunement, and with hir rating of 3 in Telesthesia increasing Sight range to 50,000 kilometers! But being able to sense the presence of Aberrants in 50,000 kilometers isn't particularly going to help the Psion tell roughly where in the devastated lunar base the creature is hiding, so s/he uses Refinement to try and 'tighten' the search. Scoring 3 successes on the Psi roll, Marak can not only completely forego the extra range conferred by The Sight, but can also reduce hir effective Psi up to 3 levels, to a range of 20 meters if s/he so chooses. Marak only chooses to subtract 2 levels from hir Psi of 6, sweeping a range of only 75 meters, roughly limiting hir search to any Aberrants inside the base proper and not any present all the way out to Lagrange 5…