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This is where I'll put my musings about LS and probably of more interest my knowledge of Psionics and how they work (or in some cases don't).

Contents 1 Followers & Familiars 1.1 What They Are 1.2 How to Get Them 1.3 How to Keep, Control & Command Them 1.4 How to Make Efficient Followers 2 Psionics 2.1 Psionic Introduction 2.2 How to pop Wild Talents 2.3 Why aren't my Wild Talents revealing? 2.4 How to Not Suck at Psionics 101 2.5 Psionic Access

Followers & Familiars

What They Are

Followers are anything that you control, they generally fall into the following categories:

• Sentient - Knight's Squire, ELF's Gogtzul, Equites Adventurers, etc.
• Summons - Spirits, Amalgamals, Druidic Summons, etc.

Familiars are self explanatory, aka anything received via an Empathic Bond. You'll have both more and less options on how to control these than you'll have a Sentient follower.

How to Get Them

• Sentient:

1. Equites - Best followers as you have a variety to choose from, unfortunately you need to join Equites to get one and only 1 (random type) is available per day
2. Deck - Risky and can totally F up your character, but if you're lucky (and Saintly/Ordered) you can get a Human Deck Knight
3. ELF - Gog's and possibly others, note if you leave ELF they depart
4. Dream Walker - Sweet follower that you can get by acquiring a Jeweled Skull from a Demilich in The Aumbrie, sadly they can (and will eventually) leave after they hit Lvl 50+

• Summons: Bonds, various Guilds

How to Keep, Control & Command Them

• Keep:

1. Have a Guild\Bond that can memorize your followers, currently this is Equites and Osprey
2. Get a Gem of Perpetuation (will periodically memorize follower), info gem for instructions on how to use

• Control (aka Aliases):

1. Abbrev, come up with a 2-3 letter abbreviation for your follower, i.e. if their name is Felix it'd be fel
2. First alias, "set alias fela to show aliases like fel*" ~This will allow you to quickly see all your follower's aliases
3. Second alias, your generic command alias. Examples are as follows:
   1. Follower - "set alias feldo to whisper $* to felix"
   2. Familiar - "set alias feldo to concentrate on urging felix to $*"
4. Third alias, reporting (for Followers only and some Familiars), "set alias felrep to feldo report $*"
5. Other aliases, pick whatever you want, but always precede with your first 3-chars, some examples:
   • set alias feldef to feldo set combat mode to defensive
   • set alias felbal to feldo set combat mode to aggressive
   • set alias feldeg to feldo set specialty degree in $*
   • Etc, etc.

• Command:

1. Urge - Familiars
2. Whisper/Say - Followers
3. Shout - Followers, useful when they are room(s) away
4. Mindspeaker (Project) - Gets ALL followers, which can be very nice
5. Mindspeaker (Link) - Gets the one follower, can conceptually be done over great distances which has it's advantages
6. Ringwielder (Mind Rune) - This should allow you to control your followers, has yet to be tested

How to Make Efficient Followers

• Utility Followers - They (probably) will never fight, they are just there for support purposes. Some examples:
  • Cleric, Druid, OZM, Stalker

• Combat Followers - Much harder to manage, some suggestions below:
  • Good Guilds (for sentient followers)
  1. Aisenshi - Minimal Effort, Maximum Gain ~The Millennial of Guilds!
  2. Zet - Lots of excellent bonds and good Assoc access
  3. SS - Solid bonds and good assoc Access
  4. VV - Large variety of bonds, sadly shite Assoc access
  5. Aliavelyrae - If you have an Elf race this can be good
  6. Ringwielders - Probably best for a Melee focused RW
  • Attributes - USE THIS (Chaos created it for yooooouuuu): set attribute development focus
  • Specialties - Subordination and to a lesser extend Leadership are crucial so your Follower doesn't become an XP Sink

Psionics

Psionic Introduction

How to pop Wild Talents

This is probably what people care about most, so I'll do this last! Muahahahahahaha.

Why aren't my Wild Talents revealing?

Here I'll list what you can do to reveal almost all talents, that way people won't bug me or have to pour through the CF that is the Wild Talent page. Huzzah!

• Battledancer - Pops in combat, don't be a wuss, fight something!
• Bladeturner - Pops in combat, don't be a wuss, fight something!
• Dexter - Pops in combat, don't be a wuss, fight something!
• Dowser - Become thirsty (very), and/or hang out over water ~Then cry softly if you have it
• Empath - Hang around people babbling sh*t, and/or babble sh*t to people
• Eyewyrd - Flee combat
• Farstriker - Have one of your critical body parts (head, body) be at 50% health and fight in combat
• Fetch - Drop stuff
• Firestarter - Pops in combat, don't be a wuss, fight something!
• Fixer - Have broken equipment in your inventory, also possibly look at it a bunch (annoying to pop)
• Harmonist - Look at people
• Ironman - Pops in combat, don't be a wuss, fight something! (may require like Farstriker that you be 50% HP)
• Levitator - Fall
• Longshot - Just stand around
• Mindblaster - Pops in combat, don't be a wuss, fight something!
• Mindreader - Look at and talk to people, it'll pop eventually (also may just show up from idling)
• Mindshielder - Get Psi-attacked, or (if you can) try to defend yourself from mental attack (if you have basic telepathy)
• Mindspeaker - Babble to people and have them babble back, also can show up from idling
• Planeswalker - in;out of a doorway/entrance a bunch
• Psychic Healer - 9l at something a bunch
• Psychic Vampire - Defend yourself from mental attack (if you have basic telepathy), not sure beyond that
• Seer - This just happens, maybe looking at people, or possibly scrying?
• Sensitive - Be around Psionic people, also can just happen
• Soothsayer - 9l at a player
• Strongman - Pops in combat, don't be a wuss, fight something!
• Stormlord - Get hit by electricity, should also pop in combat if you're outside in sh*tty weather

How to Not Suck at Psionics 101

• This is one of the more painful things to answer so lets get this out of the way first; at the moment there is only 1 Guild (Traveler) and 2 Bonds (Psicat and Fox) which give broad psionic specialty access (aka Psi Access). Like most things on LS psionics requires specs to be good at, so that average Planeswalker isn't much good to you if you only have 1 spec in Translocation (hello random location! lol), or that high Levitator will barely get you off the ground with only 1 or 2 Psychokinesis.

• So that's the bad news, the good news is there are a FEW Assocs that also give Psi Access (see below), but like most things on LS not everything can be combined. So yes Infucted gives 4 Redaction and Telepathy, but it can't be combine with the somewhat broad 1's of Garlic. That's also assuming you even want to join the Assocs in the first place, no Assoc at this point is worth joining JUST for their Psi Access.

• Additionally there are a handful of other bonds that give focused Psi Access but that won't help a "good" broad psionic character. If though you're fortunate enough to pop Firestarter and Ironman and that's about it, sure you can bond an iFish and that'll be perfect access wise for both those talents.

Psionic Access

• EDIT ME if you have Assoc information that is not already listed.
• Base Access is only given in the Skill if you have a Talent that utilizes it, i.e. Planeswalker for Translocation, Firestarter for Metacreativity, etc etc.

Access List

Races/Affils/Bonds	Matrix Interface	Metacathexis	Metaconation	Metacreativity	Metasenses	Psychokinesis	Psycholeptesis	Redaction	Telepathy	Translocation
Access - Base*				1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Race - Kedeth				1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Race - Svirfneblin						1	1
Guild - Aligned				5
Guild - Lightbringers				2
Guild - Shemsu Sutek						1
Guild - Traveler	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Guild - Zetesai	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Assoc - Agnihotri				1
Assoc - Attuned								1
Assoc - Brotherhood of W&S (Zilch)
Assoc - Chosen of Vashanka						1
Assoc - Collegium Magistrorum (Zilch)
Assoc - Crafty Linguists (Zilch)
Assoc - Explorers (Zilch)
Assoc - Fianna (Zilch)
Assoc - Followers of Apollo (Zilch)
Assoc - Garbage Thondur (Zilch)
Assoc - Garlic		1		1		1	1	1	1
Assoc - Glomerates (Zilch)
Assoc - Hellwalkers (Zilch)
Assoc - Infucted								4	4
Assoc - Jinxian Plutocracy (Zilch)
Assoc - Legion of Dynamic Discord (Zilch)
Assoc - Losthaven Guard (Zilch)
Assoc - Maiden's of the Spear (Zilch)
Assoc - Ollin Tonatiuh (Zilch)
Assoc - Pantarchic Church of Yehovah (Zilch)
Assoc - Questor's of Axa (Zilch)
Assoc - Rebels (Zilch)
Assoc - Shadow Brethren (Zilch)
Assoc - Sodality of the Nine-Spoked Wheel (Zilch)
Assoc - Stalkers of the Gate (Zilch)
Assoc - Steel Serpents (Zilch)
Assoc - Storm Walkers							1
Assoc - Synousia Algesis (Zilch)
Assoc - Wandslingers						1
Assoc - Wardens (Zilch)
Assoc - WoV (Zilch)