Shattered Kingdoms

It is only unrealistic because when you normally go to sleep,
you want mostly to rest your mind and body from the tiring day.

When I meant realistic I should have said, realistic for our characters, not us.

I had a character some time ago, that he went to sleep for 8 hours a day.
Every day, mostly in night time.

I admire your dedication, sir.

Being able to send and receive tells while asleep will throw off the sleep spell because now you can alert others to the fact you are being PK'd. Someone will suggest well then you just make it so you can only respond to the receiver. Fine, but then you'll have some idiot who goes to some OOC contact method and tells them and suddenly help arrives to save the day.

I like the idea of being notified that someone is trying to reach out to me while I'm asleep and being able to toggle that on and off.

if I have it off because I don't want to be disturbed period, the message they get should be that the spirits are blocking any communication with this soul.

What NativeWolf said, regarding balance. And yes, when I say "realistic" I always mean within the SK setting

In regards to this, a development within the area of brain research in the last few years has shown that it should be possible for us to have telepathic communication with devices implanted in the brain. As to when such technologies would be developed, your guess is as good as mine.

This is already in practice though, at least for deaf people with auditory implants which enable them to hear, and was developed, I believe, in the 20th century.

The talk of "realism" is awfully skewed these days.

And in the '50s, they had all kinds of crazy ideas regarding the technology they thought would be common by now. I'm sure there are tons of theories these days that would blow my mind, but until they're proven to work, I have no reason to give them any more credit than being a possibility, someday, maybe.



The fact that the possibility is there is pretty fascinating, I'll give you that. As for realism being skewed, I won't deny that statement. There are plenty of things perceived to be very real that can't be proven or explained. But the kind of technology you're talking about that would allow people to communicate telepathically doesn't exist yet. It's just a theory, based on a technology we do have, which helps the hearing impaired to do something very real and measurable - hear.



Fair enough. In any case, the original idea is an awesome one.

As long as a non-god/goddess isn't crapping out unicorns, realism in SK is very fluid. I like the OP's idea.

This is a fantastic idea!

This is a good idea.

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