(05-16-2024, 08:17 PM)Erremnart Wrote: Spacebound Nomads can control and indoctrinate humans through "verbal" manipulation and lies. Still, they cannot force it as Infiltrators can via long-term exposure (unless character is a Cardamine addict or an Outcast). In this regard, they are in a very similar situation to other humans—their victims might block off their "words" or "visions" by their own will.

Nomads don't speak English. They project raw ideas to their target. Visions and/or words are much more like speaking. You absolutely can choose to simply not listen, the same way you'd ignore some lawful telling you to cut your engines. It should end the same way too.

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For the most part, there are two flavors of infiltrator. There is the passive version, who is the ones you know and love, who crawl into your human body, and subtly influence themselves into full control of the victim. They retain human mannerisms, and a large part if not all of the human identity. Then there are the active ones (for pvp or event participation or other throwaway type characters), because Nomads know that humans have infected scanners and, probably more effectively, paranoia, so actually infiltrating is much harder and generally worthless on a large scale. The active ones are just nomads wearing human skinsuits, very very little of the human remains beyond the body, because they only need to act human enough to get within killing-you range.

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