@phaedrusxy, it's bad, it's REALLY, REALLY BAD. The way i read it, it goes on basically like this: Everytime you use a psionic ability, roll a dice. If you pass, it's all good. If you don't, then it means that the Elder Brain has sensed a psionic mind, and now has it's eyes set on you. I recall this is checked once per week. At first, it's only dreams, unsettling visions on the corner of your eye. Every time you fail, the notoriety level rises by 1. Once it reaches 5, the God Brain uses it's powers to project Bluetspur's reality in your location, and, in your eyes, every single person around you is now an Illithid and starts attacking you. The attacks are REAL. If you take damage, then you take damage. If you attack the Illithids, they take damage, but the person that's actually there is also taking the full beating. If you succeed in staving off the attack, then you're home free for a while(can't remember for how long), but it also means you have butchered a bunch of people that have nothing to do with any of it. Not cool. If you lose, you die, and the cause of death is a missing Cerebelum, as your consciousness got integrated into the God Brain itself. This means, no ressurrection. Even Speak with Dead fails. If you run away, you get physically transported to the God Brain. You can also make a Wisdom Check to superimpose your will and terminate the actions of the Elder Brain, but only for that encounter.
See how bad it is? Yes, it is very, very bad. The God Brain is also the Darklord of Bluetspur, who commands a veritable host of Illithids. Not a pushover to defeat. But in Dementlieu there's an organised crime ring composed of psionic users and commanded by a Psionic Brain in a Jar. They must have found out a way of keeping the God Brain away from their businesses, so if i am to function properly if at all as a Psionic User, i must either have a massively high Wisdom score (gonna need a Periapt of Wisdom +6 ASAP) or somehow get in touch with the fellas and discover what is their secret. Hiding innawoods is also somewhat of an option, but given the nature of the Ravenloft woods, and the fact that we're in a quest, not a viable choice. But, as long as there aren't people around me, there ain't no one for the Illithid to mind-switch into and attack.
But, despite all that, this is actually really kind of nice in a sense, because makes it easier for me to have an actual goal and background in-universe. Just need to hear more from dna1 about how exactly this is going to be approached in-game, and especially if Calm Emotions can be used as a way of "snapping out of it" and retaining my sanity. Oh, did i forget to mention? I slowly get insane because of the God Brain.
