As for the telepathy thing, I guess I'll compromise and say that for most people who at least have an active aura going on, they may feel something strange in his presence if he's trying to read their mind. I just don't want people to get this feeling and then realize he's reading their mind, least of all when all he's doing is reading and not trying to communicate. I hate it when I play a telepath and people just suddenly start discovering their ability to ward themselves against mind reading or become able to pin down exactly who is looking into their heads just by the "strange feeling" they're getting.
There is a reason people do that. Playing a telepath is
always risky cause it essentially lets you bypass one of the basic rules of RolePlaying without actually breaking the rules. People post stuff internally for a character because they feel confident in revealing certain things about there character to the audience that they wouldn't want the other characters to know. When suddenly you have a character that essentially is able to read the white text no one feels safe anymore. They can't talk about this or that IC without the telepath suddenly knowing about it. Nobody likes to RP with a guy that has no boundaries were information is concerned and so they not wanting to break the rules themselves suddenly develop the ability to counter it.
Telepathy is a risky thing to deal with even when you're writing a story on your own, it has a lot of nuances that must be observed and generally a number of characters that
can counter it so that your character can still be put in a vulnerable position to make the story interesting. Personally I don't like including it in RPs unless it has a very clear set of restrictions, weaknesses and drawbacks. Honestly the day that you submitted Ebon for character review I wasn't doing my job as CoGM, I simply glossed over it cause it was a lot of text that I didn't want to read. Lug said it was fine and I figured that was good enough. If I had realized what the semblance was back then I would have raised the issue and had it sorted out from the get go. I didn't and for that I'm sorry but the fact is that you
can't have a character that can learn everything about a person, sort through there memories, learn there innermost secrets without being detected. No one wants to RP with a character like that and while I don't have the power to make you change anything if you keep up that he can do that it will get to the point where everyone is going to keep there characters fifty feet away from him at all times. I know once Sapphire realized what his semblance is she'll probably push him into the lake.
