[Basic] Advantage of the Week: Invisibility

[Prince Charon]

Originally Posted by awesomenessofme1

Obscure (Touch) feels... very odd to me conceptually. Like, obviously, having it wouldn't mean people could reach through you, that would be Insubstantiality, and it's a lot more costly. So if they touch you, even if they don't feel you, it's still going to stop them and make space. I really don't understand how it makes sense.

Well, if it's telepathic or otherwise a mental effect, it's like a post-hypnotic suggestion: You have a mental block on noticing that you've been touched by this source, so you unconsciously justify any change caused by them touching you as something else, if you fail the roll to perceive them.

[Daigoro]

Originally Posted by Plane

I guess for tight crowds you'd need not just sight but also obscure:touch so people don't feel the bumping or lack of bumping.

Yet with Stealthy they don't know they're not feeling things?

Depends on what you're modelling. If it's optical only, I don't think there's any compunction for a visible Obscure field to have to fool touch. It will seem odd to nearby observers if they try to touch someone who appears a metre away.

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by Plane

I guess for tight crowds you'd need not just sight but also obscure:touch so people don't feel the bumping or lack of bumping.

I don't think that will pass a test of "What does this look and feel like to a member of the crowd?"

When I said "You might be able to build that with Obscure . . ." I meant some kind of contorted build that doesn't attempt to conceal that someone is present, but makes them uninteresting.