Perception through Many Shadows Simultaneously-How to Buy?

[Marcus]

Okay, situation is as follows.

Midnight can sit in one place and 'scan' all the shadows within a certain range. As long as it could be seen from the shadows, within the range of this power, she can see it. The character in question is mostly mortal (mutant, not goddess-of-night style) and is thus limited to vaguely realistic processing capability (no omniscience).

 

Currently, im knocking around buying it as 360 on vision, scads of extra range on hearing and sight, with a massive increase in 'speed of perception' to the sight, and a limitation to restrict it to percieving from shadows. All of the above as a sense, and Indirect of course. This simulates a power that continual 'flips' through all the potential perception points visually, at an incredibly high speed, but without full comprehension and retention, until/unless something noteworthy causes her to stop and focus on that area. Once she focuses on that area, if its within her silly scads of telescopic, she can see and hear out of the shadows there as if she was there.

 

Problem-It sounds ALOT like clairsentience, but some of the basic nature of clairsentience (the fact that your casting your vision to a specific place that you have to know about before hand, etc) makes Clairsentience 'feel' unsuitable. Im sure with the right arry of advantages on Clairsentience you could get the same effect, but Clairsentience always seemed to me more a power-you-bought or a spell you cast, rather than an innate ability (which this is meant to be)

 

I personally kinda like the first version, for (among other reasons) the fact that doing it with Clairsentience would bring a character to their knees in total points spent. Then again, near-omnicognizance for some large range in all directions perhaps should be mind-crushingly expensive.

 

Anyway, thoughts from the assembled?

[SleepyDrug]

I'd say clairsentience combined with 360 to give multiple viewing locations at once.

[Talon]

I have always combined Clairsentience with Area of Effect to get the "huge number of viewpoints" effect.