Thought Control

“ Ability to influence the minds of other living creatures through mental suggestion and domination. Also the ability to focus and enhance your own mental processes and to take greater control of your body. ”

— In-game description

Thought Control is a psi skill which allows to learn and use thought control psi abilities effectively. Your effective skill level (the number shown in parentheses on Character Sheet S and in Combat Stats C) is used for combat calculations and other skill checks, but a certain base skill score is required to learn new psi abilities.

Related Base Ability	Skill Synergies
Will	Psychokinesis 10% Metathermics 10% Temporal Manipulation 10% ^E

Details

Thought Control is one of the disciplines of psi, along with Metathermics, Psychokinesis and Temporal Manipulation ^E. Thought Control is considered by many to be difficult and nefarious - mind controllers are often untrusted. Offensive thought control abilities consist of manipulating the minds of living targets, such as overloading their brains, making them flee in fear or attack everything in blind rage. Besides pure crowd control, thought control abilities can also deal a good amount of damage, but only on living targets and sometimes even only on human targets.

There is only one Thought Control teacher in the game: Ezra, head network administrator at South Gate Station, can teach the player up to three thought control abilities. However, psionic mentors can be found throughout the game and teach many more abilities.

Thought Control abilities

Ability	Base skill required	Learned from
Neural Overload	-	Ezra in South Gate Station
Frighten	30 Thought Control	Ezra in South Gate Station
Bilocation	35 Thought Control	Mysterious Pillars of Silent Isle
Motor-cognitive Transference	40 Thought Control	Psionic Mentor: Motor-cognitive Transference
Mental Breakdown	45 Thought Control	Ezra in South Gate Station
Psychosomatic Predation	50 Thought Control	Psionic Mentor: Psychosomatic Predation
Psi-cognitive Interruption	55 Thought Control	Psionic Mentor: Psi-cognitive Interruption
Enrage	60 Thought Control	Psionic Mentor: Enrage
Pseudo-spatial Projection	65 Thought Control	Psionic Mentor: Pseudo-spatial Projection
Neurovisual Disruption	70 Thought Control	Psionic Mentor: Neurovisual Disruption