>>I've received this message a couple of times, and I was wondering what it meant, exactly. It usually pops up about 20 seconds after I do a 'perceive health', but not every time. Just once in a while.

It generally means you've bitten off more than you can chew.

You will get that if there is more to perceive than your skill can handle, generally in large groups of people/things. If the group is large enough you can even give yourself a head bleeder.

Think of it as brain overload.

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Pol-i-tics (pol-i-tiks) n. 1. "Poli" meaning many. 2. "Tics" meaning blood-sucking insects.

I've never seen it take 20 seconds to appear, but as far as Perc Health goes it means you succeeded at perceiving more things than you've got ability for.

PH has two forms of tracking, which I refer to as the "what" and the "who". "What" consists of the categories--empath, non-empath, critter, etc. These come roughly every 50 ranks combined of PP and Empathy.

"Who" refers to how many of each/all you can find (it's one large pool, so it's not like you can find say 10 empaths without a problem while 1 non-empath will overwhelm your system). This number increases on a rank-by-rank basis, or some multiple thereof (ie, 1 per X ranks).

You will notice definite periods where crowds become alternatingly easy to work and hard to work because of these tracking aspects.

J'Lo, no that other one
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What are the factors that affect whether or not I will be stunned?

Sometimes I can see 11 or 12 people... and sometimes 10 or 9 will stun me.

Can anyone explain?

Thanks

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Wounds, scars, disease, vitality, and poison all factor into the equation. The main reason you see such variance is because the people you are sensing are more injured than usual.

Your own such items will also inhibit your ability, at least as far as your head and nerves go.

J'Lo, I'm a ranger.. I'd believe anything.....
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I've not noticed any difference in my wounds and my effective perceive health abilities. If you have a bad enough head wound you just can't do it at all, but other than that, it's a do or do not thing. Chaos theory would be more accurate to describe other's wounds and the effect, not to mention I think it would be an incredible drain on resources, so I doubt that their wounds play into it with any more relevance than their current vitality


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