#120, RE: Entr'acte: The Courtship of Princess Dessler: Discussion
Posted by Pasha on Sep-05-01 at 05:19 PM
In response to message #111
>>Considering the fact that a large number of the attendes are, or were >>military, I kinda doubt it. There is also the "what weapon sir?" "Oh, >>yeah. Must have been an error in the scanner." bit. There are >>advantages to being a teep. > >Being a teep doesn't mean you can do Jedi mind tricks. As evidence in >the source material, B5, people tend to know when they are being >scanned. Trying to manipulate someone's thoughts takes a LOT of power >and skill, to do so without being detected is something I'd expect >only a mere handful of teeps can do - and they have had years of >practice. > >I don't have the encyclopeadic knowledge of B5 that some here do, but >the only instance I can recall of someone having reality bent for them >and not realizing it was when Lyta and a group of teeps united to fool >Bester. And even then it was obvious he thought *something* wasn't >quite right, but he just couldn't put his finger on it. Then again, Bester is an incredibly powerful teep. A P12, and has been training for six decades. He's almost 60 in the series, so he has a very good sense of how teep works, and a very strong mind. P8's and up can project what they want to see into a mundanes mind. Or a teeps mind, but a teep can try to resist it. -- -Pasha Umm, right....I'll be with you in just a sec now...
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