OKAY GUYS~
See the icon? That is Serious Schuldig. Because this is SERIOUS THREAD. >:[ Also long overdue, but hush.
Anyway, as some of you know and most of you have been made aware by Schuldig's flaunting what ability he has left to him all over the damned place, Schu is a telepath. A quite powerful one, at least outside Landel's and its power-suppressing magic. Even inside Landel's, he can hear most people's surface thoughts without even trying - the way you can hear a TV playing in the background whether or not you're even paying attention to what's on. He picks up a lot of general info about characters from that - name, gender, appearance, some of their more accessible basic info, and usually a little bit of whatever they're currently thinking about. (For instance, Schuldig tends to ruin people's anonymity on the message boards because people thinking about what they've written = him being able to identify them.)
Now, this power is easily abused - not just by Schu, who'll happily abuse it seven ways from Sunday in any case, but by me as his player because there's quite a lot of stuff I can have Schuldig know that people might not want me to. It can also mess up people's plans considerably, both player and character. Obviously, I do not want to do that. There's also another factor for screwing up this introduces; given that all characters in Landel's are pulled from different times, I may wind up having Schuldig 'know' something about the character that hasn't happened to them yet if I don't know that they come from earlier in the timeline than that. (Example - Schuldig finding out about Rufus' geostigma if he's FFVII era Rufus.)
There are, however, solutions to these problems! One, and I cannot stress this enough, is this - PLEASE PUT YOUR CHARACTER INTO THE LANDEL'S WIKI. It's really easy, for one thing; the process is really simple and most of the fields you need to fill out for character profiles you already wrote up in your character's Landel's app. And that information can be really vital - not just to me, but to the other psychics in the game(Lyta, for example). That at least helps to keep us from making factual errors because we don't know enough about the character as you're playing them - plus it makes it easy for everyone to access info about your character at their leisure, not to mention showcases the hard work you did on the app. :D
The second, even more important solution so that the psychic characters don't use their powers to do anything you'd rather they didn't is right here. IN THE COMMENTS OF THIS POST, PLEASE DETAIL THINGS YOU SPECIFICALLY DO OR DO NOT WANT NOSY TELEPATHS TO KNOW/TELL ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER(S). I could possibly even go one step further and make this post a place for announcing threads where players have things worked out specifically in advance and don't want telepaths mucking things up - something Schuldig in particular is marvelous at doing at the worst times, thanks to his charming personality.
I'm hoping this will keep me from doing things with Schuldig and his telepathy that will annoy other players, although I expect him to annoy the piss out of other characters just the same. :D
Anyway, as some of you know and most of you have been made aware by Schuldig's flaunting what ability he has left to him all over the damned place, Schu is a telepath. A quite powerful one, at least outside Landel's and its power-suppressing magic. Even inside Landel's, he can hear most people's surface thoughts without even trying - the way you can hear a TV playing in the background whether or not you're even paying attention to what's on. He picks up a lot of general info about characters from that - name, gender, appearance, some of their more accessible basic info, and usually a little bit of whatever they're currently thinking about. (For instance, Schuldig tends to ruin people's anonymity on the message boards because people thinking about what they've written = him being able to identify them.)
Now, this power is easily abused - not just by Schu, who'll happily abuse it seven ways from Sunday in any case, but by me as his player because there's quite a lot of stuff I can have Schuldig know that people might not want me to. It can also mess up people's plans considerably, both player and character. Obviously, I do not want to do that. There's also another factor for screwing up this introduces; given that all characters in Landel's are pulled from different times, I may wind up having Schuldig 'know' something about the character that hasn't happened to them yet if I don't know that they come from earlier in the timeline than that. (Example - Schuldig finding out about Rufus' geostigma if he's FFVII era Rufus.)
There are, however, solutions to these problems! One, and I cannot stress this enough, is this - PLEASE PUT YOUR CHARACTER INTO THE LANDEL'S WIKI. It's really easy, for one thing; the process is really simple and most of the fields you need to fill out for character profiles you already wrote up in your character's Landel's app. And that information can be really vital - not just to me, but to the other psychics in the game(Lyta, for example). That at least helps to keep us from making factual errors because we don't know enough about the character as you're playing them - plus it makes it easy for everyone to access info about your character at their leisure, not to mention showcases the hard work you did on the app. :D
The second, even more important solution so that the psychic characters don't use their powers to do anything you'd rather they didn't is right here. IN THE COMMENTS OF THIS POST, PLEASE DETAIL THINGS YOU SPECIFICALLY DO OR DO NOT WANT NOSY TELEPATHS TO KNOW/TELL ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER(S). I could possibly even go one step further and make this post a place for announcing threads where players have things worked out specifically in advance and don't want telepaths mucking things up - something Schuldig in particular is marvelous at doing at the worst times, thanks to his charming personality.
I'm hoping this will keep me from doing things with Schuldig and his telepathy that will annoy other players, although I expect him to annoy the piss out of other characters just the same. :D