Traveller T20 Subsector

[brian 333]

Wanted: Elinn Nang
(Hologram of a black-haired young woman with hazel-green eyes, with the vitality of youth rather than beauty.)
Elinn Nang is an armed and dangerous escaped convict. Any who encounter her should avoid contact and immediately inform the nearest Imperial authority. A Cr 10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to her arrest.
Repeat: do not attempt to apprehend this dangerous escaped convict for your own safety and the safety of innocent bystanders.

Encounter notes:
Elinn is a powerful trained telepath with a Special Psionic Ability. Her Psi Rating is 18. She will use her power sparingly, but strategically.

Her Special Ability is Empathic Projection.

Level 1: the ability to add or subtract 2 to any Reaction roll she observes, so long as her interference is declared prior to the roll.
Cost = 1 point per target influenced.

Level 3: the ability to add or subtract 2 to any social skill roll. Thus, Intimidate, Persuade, Perform, etc. can be affected whether she or another uses the skill.
Cost = 2 points per person influenced.

Level 5: the ability to adjust a single target's attitude toward a person by one category, Friendly to Neutral to Hostile. Or the other way around.
Cost = 5 points when the target is a stranger to the person, 7 points if known, and 10 points if the target and the person to whom the attitude adjustment is directed are friends.

Level 9: the victim of this power will feel protective of Elinn, though he is unlikely to risk his life or his position in society to help her. Instead, he will do what he can to make her feel comfortable and to prevent harm from his comrades or strangers. This ability persists for as long as the victim is in contact plus Cha Bonus days.
Cost = 9 points

Level 11: with this power Elinn can double her Cha Bonus for a single social skill roll. She must be the one making the skill roll.
Cost = 4 points

Level 14: this ability can influence a crowd which can see her to feel sympathy for her. Any social skill rolls she makes with any or all members of the crowd have their result improved by one category in her favor. This effect is broken when line of sight between her and the individual is broken, but if some are still in her line of sight the effect persists for them.
Cost = 12 points

Level 16: Elinn can make an individual love her. This effect persists for Cha Bonus weeks.
Cost = 16 points

Level 18: this ability allows Elin to impose a mood on a crowd. Fright, peace, anger, disgust, or whatever emotion she wishes to project. The effect requires that she maintain line of sight to each affected individual, but some who lose line of sight and are freed of the compulsion do not affect those who remain in her line of sight.
Cost = 12 points plus 1 point per minute to maintain.

As a child Elinn began to show her potential. Theobald Komacher, PhD, director of the Imperial Applied Social Dynamics Research Institute discovered her and persuaded her parents of the supposed danger she repsesented to their other children and eventually to them. They signed her custody over to the Institute.

Since then she has been his lab rat. He and all Institute personnel always wear psionic helmets to nullify her ability to manipulate them, but she has been exposed to convicts, some of whom were very dangerous psychopaths, to test the limits of her powers.

The last convict was an exceptionally gifted mass murderer whom she manipulated into helping her escape before she directed him to deal with Dr. Theo and the other tormentors of the Institute.

She has been on the run for six months, one step ahead of the Imperial Civil Constabulary, who are aware of her Psionic ability and the dozen dead researchers. (Dr. Theo lost an eye and three fingers of his left hand, but survived.)

Her goal is to leave the Empire.