Mental powers questions

[Barton]

Steve Long wrote:

"If a character has used a standard continuing-effect Mental Power on a target, and the victim at some point succeeds in making a Breakout Roll, the attacker does not automatically know that the Breakout Roll has been made. In most cases the fact of breaking out is obvious based on the victim’s conduct, but the attacker might not be around to observe that. Therefore, faking still being subject to the Power might be possible. However, if the character with a continuing-effect Mental Power is feeding it END to keep it from deteriorating, or otherwise actively maintaining some sort of “mental connection†between himself and the victim, he does know that the victim has broken free as soon as the Breakout Roll succeeds."

 

Questions:

1) Based on answer above, I am assumming that this is correct if the mind control did not have telepathy adder?

2) If mind control was purchased with telepathy adder, I assume breakout roll means that the telepathy goes dead instantly and you would know the breakout had occurred. Yes/no/maybe???

[Steve Long]

Re: Mental powers questions

 

1. The Telepathic Adder for Mind Control does not imply ongoing mental contact sufficient to alert the attacker to a successful Breakout Roll by the victim.

 

2. No. The Telepathic Adder for Mind Control only allows mental communication of the Mind Control command. It doesn’t allow for any sort of reading of the target’s mind or other forms of mental contact, so it provides no knowledge of a successful Breakout Roll.