Invisibility and Obvious focii

[dsatow]

I understand if an obvious focus is used to turn invisible, the obvious focus stays visible.  What if you buy invisible power effects on the invisibility?  Does that make the focus invisible too?

[Steve Long]

My apologies for the delay in responding — I’ve been ill.

 

Technically speaking, for the Focus to be able to use Invisibility, it requires its own Invisibility power (and some means of knowing how and when to activate it, such as being a Computer). However, that would get unnecessarily complicated, and this is a situation that shouldn’t need so much fuss. So the answer is this:

 

A character who has an Obvious Focus that provides him with Invisibility can buy the Invisible Power Effects Advantage for the power so that the Invisibility affects the Focus as well. For this to apply, the IPE must be bought to make the Focus “imperceivable” to all the Senses/Sense Groups covered by the Invisibility (see 6E1 338 for more info on IPE).