"Samantha, what's wrong?" You decide to cut right to the heart of the matter.
Diplomacy Check: 2 Checks passed. Total reduction= 25.
Speech: Diplomacy: 115+ 210(Education Perks)+110(Education bonus)+180(Paragon)+25(Experienced)=640. Required: 100-50(Diplomacy Check)-75(Diplomacy Perks)+ 50(Jealousy:Minor)+ 50(Blunt)=75. Passed.
640: Required: 100. Passed.
640: Required: 125. Passed.
640: Required: 150. Passed.
Gained one Level. Currently possess 4 Perk points. 30/380 to Level 29.
Samantha drew in on herself for a moment, then relaxed, breathing out explosively. "I'd ask if you read my mind, but my reaction was more than enough to tip you off." She sighed out, before her tone turned bitter. "Besides, I wouldn't notice if you had unless you let me." she added.
"Are you jealous?" You ask, concerned.
"Yes!" Samantha cried out. "You've completely outshone every achievement I've ever made, never failed at anything I can think of, and you refuse to show some kind of flaw so I could at least tell myself 'She's not perfect either.' instead of stewing in my own inferiority!" She vented.
Karma Check: 360: Required: 100+50(Jealousy:Minor)+50(Blunt)=200. Pass. Gained 20 Karma.
You consider your words, not because you're not sure what to say, but because you're not sure how to say it without making things worse or simply failing to make things better. "Well, just because your talents aren't as great as mine doesn't invalidate them. How many geniuses have discovered much of anything without help of some kind?" You asked.
"Not to mention, I'm actually a very selfish person. I barely recognize people I don't know personally as people unless I'm actively forcing it. I'm doing all of this stuff with motivations besides making people's lives better. Curiosity, building up to start taking planets into the fold via having things they want or being militarily superior, or simply to ensure survival against a threat to all of us. I'm not some perfect person who does everything to benefit the people around them. I have selfish motives when you get down to it, just like everyone else." You explain.
Samantha thinks this over for a moment. Then a minute. Then a minute and a half. Finally, she sighs. "I guess it was a little silly of me to think of you that way." she muses.
"A little, but I don't think I would handle someone casually trivializing all of my achievements well either." You respond.
"How human of you." Samantha said with a smile.
Reward: SL has advanced to 4. Karma has increased to 380. +15 to Psyker: Willpower.
Psyker: Willpower: 190. You have set horrific traps within your mind, sending mimetic junk into those who try to pierce your defenses, or simply annihilating them depending on the degree of assault and power of the offender. Thousands of lesser Warp Horrors working in concert don't make it past your passive defenses, while it would take hundreds of Greater Warp Horrors to break through, by which time you'd be alerted to the attempt. You can root around in the minds of anyone who isn't an Alpha-level psyker completely at your leisure, but they have a very small chance of noticing if they're of Alpha-level. +95 to attempts at mind-reading/domination, and to defending against such attempts. Daemons will find your soul impossible to take by force, and will get themselves killed on your passive defenses whether they try force or stealth. Greater Daemons will find your soul impossible to take by force. Even a Chaos God wouldn't be able to just waltz in if you were prepared.
Psyker: Willpower: 200. You have set unbelievably horrible traps within your mind, sending memetic junk into those who try to pierce your defenses, or simply annihilating them depending on the degree of assault and power of the offender. Tens of thousands of lesser Warp Horrors working in concert don't make it past your passive defenses, while it would take thousands of Greater Warp Horrors to break through, by which time you'd be alerted to the attempt. You can root around in the minds of anyone who isn't an Alpha-level psyker completely at your leisure, but they have a very small chance of noticing if they're of Alpha-level. +100 to attempts at mind-reading/domination, and to defending against such attempts. Daemons will find your soul impossible to take by force, and will get themselves killed on your passive defenses whether they try force or stealth. Greater Daemons will find your soul impossible to take by force, and may get themselves killed on your passive defenses. Even a Chaos God wouldn't be able to just waltz in.
Psyker: Willpower has Advanced to Psyker: Spirit.
Psyker: Spirit: 0. Your soul rejects Daemons who do nothing more than become too close, but you've reached the limit of known psychic resistance among humans.
