Mind Blank
Art Statistics | |
| Focus: | none Dreamsoul |
| Cost: | 5 |
| Orbit Required: | 30 |
| Affected: | Target |
Duration
5 minutes.
Description
Prevents the user from being located via Locate Dreamer.
Plateau Effect
Duration increased by 5 minutes.
Decreased evoke time.
Art Research
Art History
Mind Blank was reportedly created by Dalis. Dalis had long been a first hand witness to the forgetfulness a pretty face can create on the members of the opposite gender though this effect is quite more predominant among men. Guilty as charged I'm afraid. After spending some time studying this effect sometimes rather enthusiastically she found that certain actions could enhance this forgetfulness.
By combining these actions she could reproduce an effect much similar to the current version of Mind Blank we all know and use. Of course since most of these actions could not be repeated in public she had to find a different way. Dalis examined the very nature of our avatars and found that there is one portion of us, which is always active but when deactivated, does not cause any noticeable effect, save one. Naturally, as I'm sure you can guess, it prevents Location.
There's been a fair amount of speculation about how exactly the Art works or where this portion of our avatar is... But not much holds water. So we are left with an Art that we know vaguely how it works but not it's deepest secrets. There's about three major schools of thought on it, though one is ridiculous and held only by the very newly awakened. The first school as I mentioned, states that the art "turns off" a portion of our Avatar namely the one that allows us to be located.
The second states that Mind Blank erects a sort of protective shield around us that blocks the emanations from this particular portion of us. The last school, and keep in mind this is quite silly really, thinks that there is some sort of "flag" set by Mind Blank and when Locate Dreamer sends a "request" to some nonsensical Dream central... it will refuse to report their location. This disagrees with what we know of Locate Dreamer too, so it's widely rejected.
Alternate History
Prior to The Great Loss and even before the Dreamstrike Wars, during the up rise of the Entropy Coalition and the Overscanners, there was a little known group known as only "The Reclusive." These dreamers were a small group of some of the most intellectual dreamers there were. These dreamers considered themselves an elite group of dreamers who smarter and more intelligent than your average dreamers, and whose time was spent purely on intellectual pursuits.
These dreamers were often sought by the dreamers who considered themselves as part of this group. Eventually, these dreamers became so sought after because of their exclusive nature, that they decided that they would bar membership. This did not deter the dreamers from accosting the Reclusive in an attempt to gain their favor. The Reclusive used Mind Blank to hide themselves though.
The original intent of Mind Blank was to wipe the memories of dreamers in order to allow the reclusive to not only hide, but to maintain their anonymity when confronted by dreamers who did not know of their existence. This art however was changed when during an experimentation, one of the gatekeepers of the reclusive decided to evoke the art on himself.
The effect was that it deleted a portion of his knowledge of the art. When the gatekeeper tried to evoke it again, he found that he could not be located as his memory had fused with his surroundings. The Dreamsoul his memory was captured in had basically become part of the plain he was dreaming on so that locate could never quite get a bead on where that dreamer currently was. Being amused with himself, he taught it to a Dreamseer trying to con him into wiping out his own memory. This Dreamseer, evoking the art on himself discovered that he could hide anywhere in the dream provided he wasn't seen. This led to the use of the art of Mind Blank as we know it.
Researched by OfF KiLTeR
Notes
This art does not protect the user from Sense Dreamers.
This art cannot be evoked upon a dreamer under the effect of Soul Shield.
