Do the above with varying clarity depending on circumstances and vividness of thoughts and emotions.Do so at varying distances depending on the strength of their abilities, but not through monitors, obviously.Feel another character's current mood (angry, sad etc.).Read another character's current thoughts.If you have a Telepathic or Empathic character, s/he can.They would need to build familiarity, linguistic expertise and gain long experience reading individual species. In summary, a character cannot read the thoughts or emotions of an unknown entity. Anger may not feel exactly like anger in all known species. The empath would not have a point of reference. If an empath come across an alien they are not familiar with, they wouldn't be able to immediately know the minds and sensibilities of this alien. Empathy work along the same lines, but is more generalised than the nuance of a language. Always assume that a character is thinking in their native tongue unless otherwise specified in the post in which they are writing the thoughts. Do not assume a character is thinking in Federation Standard just because that species is a member of the UFP. Same as with a Betazoid attempting to read the mind of a Bajoran, etc. Meaning, if a Romulan is thinking about something, a Deltan is not going to be able to read those thoughts, unless they also know Romulan to a sufficient enough degree. There is no Universal Translator for thoughts or emotions. Perhaps there is difficulty interpreting what a lizard people’s thoughts really mean. This will give you a reason for not uncovering everybody’s secrets. Assume your character and culture has a taboo about freely entering the minds of others.What is it like to be on the Theurgy with minds all crying out? Or if your character look into the mind of a killer, perhaps s/he cannot sleep for the next week, and end up in sickbay. Keep in mind the down-side of being a telepath serving among those who have little control over their minds and emotions. No silver lining is without a disadvantage.
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Essentially Telepathy is just another sense. For instance: if your character is in a rose garden, you might mention the scent of flowers in your sim.
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Mention it in sim the way you would mention any other sense. 3.2 Psionic Ratings for Unique Characters.3.1 List of Psionic Ratings for Psionic & Non-Readable Species.