Third Eye Blind
Description
The first step along the path to mastering Elemental Darkness, the new symbiont learns to attune their senses to the darkness within and around them, this process is initiated with meditative trances and hypnotic practices in lightless places for prolonged periods. As first steps go, this is one that is fraught with risks to the new symbiont's mind. The symbiont's ability to still their own identity and pair their senses with the darkness elemental grows ever faster with practice and mastery allows the symbiont to achieve the harmonious awareness within seconds.
The benefits of harmonious awareness with elemental darkness is the ability to project one's senses through nearby sources of darkness: shadows, into dark rooms, through night bound jungle or forest, wherever darkness reigns the elemental symbiont can project their senses. Skill of course increases both the distance of projection and the reception of detail and as with all things, there is risk in error of use or unpredictable circumstances, so let the practitioner beware.
System
The player rolls: Perception + Occult at a variable difficulty based on distance and lighting conditions. A dimly lit room downstairs/upstairs from the character would equal a difficulty of four (4), while dimly lit room fifty stories up would equal a difficulty of eight (8). Difficulty increases by plus one (+1) for every hundred feet (100ft) and the brightness of the target location adds a variable difficulty up to plus three (+3); a maximum difficulty of ten (10) could theoretically occur.
