Mental Illusions....

[bryanb]

I've got a MI question that I hope Herodom assembled will be able to help me with:

Set scenario = Heroes fighting giant lizard creature
Mentalist creates an illusion that a Gunship flies through the city and shoots the creature in the eye, effectively blinding it - how would you handle this?

To me it simulates a flash with an extended time advantage -calculated by the AP on the MI dice rolled? Does the "Does STUN" and/or "Does BODY" adder need to be applied?

If this is the case can MI simulate any power?

Thanks

[Pattern Ghost]

Since the lizard probably doesn't know what a Gunship is, nothing much would happen. =)

j/k

Technically, you'd use a Major Transform for permanent blinding instead of Flash. Though, since it's an illusion, I probably wouldn't worry about mapping all that out to the FX. I'd just have the critter think it's blinded if the illusion works. (Provided it can think that well...)

[Lord Liaden]

According to The Ultimate Mentalist (p. 36), if you want a Mental Illusion attack to do some type of damage other than Stun and Body (e.g. Flash or Entangle), you need to roll +20 effect vs Ego in addition to any other appropriate modifiers. A Constant effect like Entangle would require the illusionist to continue paying END to maintain it.

[Morsamare]

Sorry about the necro, but for this it seems like it's simply a major change of setting (+20 effect) the entire world to black. Don't really need to do more than that, the jet and such is just the means used to help suspend disbelief about the action.

[dsatow]

I agree with Morsamare. The illusion is really about being blinded which would be a +20 effect, IIRC.