Auric plate-mail

[Intrigue]

If you think I'm kidding... I'm dead serious.

Essentially the goal here is to create a relatively thin, compressed layer of energy around your body capable of resisting certain levels of physical contact & energy. This was developed by yours truly, though I doubt the idea hasn't been done by someone else at some point or another.

Disclaimer: This ability was originally intended for natural empaths to filter out foreign energies, up to and including other's emotions and psi-'probes'.

As with anything I say, belief, and faith in that belief, is extremely important. If you do not believe you are capable of an action then it will be exceedingly hard to do so.

First, I would advise meditation. Close your eyes, and relax. Feel the warmth of your body and your own heartbeat. Feel your awareness spreading, slowly, around you into the natural energy field, or aura, around your body. If you can see or otherwise sense auras, this should be relatively easy. Now, once your mind has been broadened into your aura, bring out energy from within your own body to supplement the pre-existing power.

In your mind's eye, you should feel a slight tingle and an increase in your area of awareness as your aura extends. Now compress that very same energy towards your skin and clothing, folding it over into layers atop itself, reinforcing and tempering the field repeatedly. Now, for empaths, what you invision next will have dramatic effects on the outcome. Color is naturally associated with emotions from teachings while you are young, so your mind will naturally associate whatever color you create that aura to be with an emotion. For example, red is usually associated with anger.

But for our purposes, we'll use black. By choosing this, one blocks all forms of energy away from one's body. If you should choose, say, white, your aura would be responsible for gathering latent nearby energies and storing them within it. It all depends on what you associate the visualization with.

Now, as you fold this energy around your body, you should be visualizing a plate-like structure, segmentations of energy folded around a specific area. For example, the aura-segment encompassing your leg could be split into shin, foot, and joint with each segment directly connected, do not leave an open gap within the aura (odds are leaving a gap won't work anyway, since your aura would naturally fill it, but still, it weakens the final effect).

If you're feeling creative, the 'luster' of the armor may have an effect, for example, a brighter, shinier plating will generally reflect or simply deflect energy, whereas a darkened plate will absorb the energy and disperse it around the area.

If it helps, focus solely on one limb at a time, working from legs, to arms, to chest, and finally the head.

What does this do? Well, as I mentioned above it has slight physical resistances, as well as a formidable energy resistance. A maintained and well-constructed auric-plate is capable of withstanding a significant amount of power directed at it and also prevents psi-vampirism or other attacks.

Downside is, your energy & auric energies build up within the shell and give a nasty headache if you leave it up to long without releasing them somehow, as they will not naturally exit your body. Nor can you gain energy from outside sources.

If you have any questions, feel free to post/pm them, I'll be happy to help.

[stolide]

Or, you could make an empathic sheild, designed to let your empathic energy through but none back. Like a semipermiable membrane for empathy. This would let you gather energy and such but prevent empathic energy, only, from affecting you. And if you want to you can make it look like real plate mail.

[Intrigue]

Yes, something similar to that is how I developed this particular idea.

However, there is a point to plating. It allows you to consciously re-layer as well as requiring more concentration, which helps strengthen the overall effect. It also serves as imagery for one to visualize while cocnstructing it.

Along with this, plating allows you to concentrate a greater quantity of energy in a localized area to reinforce if it weakens from stress or lack of concentration. A nice side effect of the focus involved in constructing it also means it is easier to maintain unconsciously, and you aren't focusing on the 'programming' of a semi-permeable membrane (which is an excellent idea, and one perhaps someone could work into this shield).

Along with this, the plating is also intended to retain one's own energy as a defensive measure, say against psi-vampirism which absorbs energy from your body, not necessarily sending it in. Compression of the aura in this manner results in a greater resistance to the energy-draining effects of psi-vamps, and prevents them from reaching farther than the aura itself.

[stolide]

"Along with this, the plating is also intended to retain one's own energy as a defensive measure, say against psi-vampirism which absorbs energy from your body, not necessarily sending it in. Compression of the aura in this manner results in a greater resistance to the energy-draining effects of psi-vamps, and prevents them from reaching farther than the aura itself."

That is an advantage. I always layer my sheilds. I usually put them in this order starting closest to me with: standard, goo(marshmellow) which is also programmed to absorb negative energy and regenerate the sheild, standard, mirror. Then the whole sheild set is programmed to suck energy out of the earth to power itself.

[neopsychic]

stolide said:

Or, you could make an empathic sheild, designed to let your empathic energy through but none back. Like a semipermiable membrane for empathy. This would let you gather energy and such but prevent empathic energy, only, from affecting you. And if you want to you can make it look like real plate mail.

^ so logical and effectice, plus no side effects. If I where you Intrigue I'd listen to stolide.

[Intrigue]

I have no doubt he's right, and if you would read more thoroughly you might notice that I was, in fact, listening to him. Both achieve similar goals, and 'if I were you' I would consider both. Each has it's own benefits, but you aren't considering the myriad possibilities of both at the same time.

I designed mine more specifically for defensive measures, this implies that for whatever reason you are being actively targetted by someone else, whether they do it consciously or not. The downside of an easily generated, maintained, and strong defense in this manner results in aforementioned side effects, which can be avoided if you were to add more effort into qualities such as Stolid was describing.

The final result of the shield I was describing was originally intended as an empathic defense, but resulted in a more varied usage as I tweaked it. Stolide's shield is equally, if not more effective, in the the empathic arena... Whereas the 'plating' is designed with multiple uses.

If you have something you'd like to modify, try it out and see if your idea is more logical and effective, I'll be happy to listen.

[shadowchild]

sounds good iv never heard of anything like this before. i`m gonna try it.

[psionwannabe]

Just to clarify, you're condencing the aura/energy field itself, not making a dense psionic shield and then compressing your aura inside it?

[Intrigue]

Exactly, you're condensing the field itself. This way, the energy within your aura itself helps support it.

Creating a psionic field and compressing the aura is interesting though, but it might be more difficult, try it out and let me know, I like the idea.

[psionwannabe]

I would, but I just spent all of today putting up a system of three very unconventional shields which took some programming effort, so I dont guarantee any sucess. Will try though.