Mind Rape/Tabletop Games: Difference between revisions

*** And since [[Psychic Powers]] are drawn from a [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|hell-dimension]] Psykers in general face a lifetime with the threat of suddenly being Mind Raped at any moment. For the lucky ones, [[Mind Rape]] is the worst thing that happens. For the unlucky ones [[The Corruption|there]] [[Body Horror|is]] [[The Dark Side|worse]]. [[Demonic Possession|Much worse]]. For the very lucky, it's a [[Burn the Witch|short]] [[Better to Die Than Be Killed|lifetime]].

*** The entire [[Training from Hell]] of a ''normal'' psyker is like this too, as evidenced by the "sanctioning side effects" table in [[Dark Heresy]]. Among the results are: [[Eye Scream|eyes burned out]], [[Locked Into Strangeness|white hair]] and gibbering, hair loss, chanting scripture in your sleep, visibly grimacing and twitching whenever you hear mention of Holy Terra, and believing that parts of your personality that were ''forcibly removed'' have gained sentience and are tracking you down.

** Inquisitors frequently use this one. Inquisitor [[Ravenor]] is particularly adept at this. Partially subverted in the Ravenor series of novels where the titular character performs the closest thing to a benign [[Mind Rape]], taking physical and mental control of the wearer but still being them at the same time. This is almost always traumatic and allows Ravenor total access to any and all of the persons memories. He only does it as a last resort.

** What the Emperor uses on Horus destroying, destroying his soul, which was some really nasty business -- ending the [[Horus Heresy]].

** [[Mind Rape]] tends to be what [[Changeling: The Lost|changelings]] go through during their stay in Arcadia. Notably, the driving ethos of many of the changeling Courts seem akin to the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

** The Earthbound of ''[[Demon: The Fallen]]'' have access to the Lore of Violations. Its second rank is called "Mind Rape," which allows an Earthbound to rummage through a mortal's thoughts and memories, causing physical damage in the process.

** The ''flavor'' explanation is that a discard spell functions by reaching into the enemy mage's mind and destroying their knowledge of particular spells before they can be cast. There's an example in the Ice Age block novelisations where the protagonist, Archmage Jodah, engages in a battle with an evil wizard. He gains an advantage by using mass-discard spells to tear apart his opponent's mental library of spells.

** And there's an in-story example in ''Agents of Artifice'', where {{spoiler|Jace Beleren does this to Tezzeret after winning a duel against him, in a rare hero-to-villain example.}}

** On a different line of logic, if a player cannot draw a card because his/her library (Magic-speak for a player's deck while in a game) is empty, he/she immediately loses, described in-universe as that planeswalker going insane and being unable to continue fighting. There are some spells like [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=190177 Traumatize] and [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=83597 Glimpse the Unthinkable] that put cards directly from your opponent's library into their graveyard, which tend to have this type of theme.

* ''[[Exalted]]'' has quite a lot of mindrape powers, most spectacular being the Border of Kaleidoscopic Logic Kung Fu style, which cannot only fundamentally and permanently rewrite one's mind, but also do things like permanently locking the target in an illusion of being a perfect, flawless being, or denying the target the capability to comprehend any spoken or written language, ever.

** Oh, there is one that beats this by several orders of magnitude: the process of [[Deal with the Devil|becoming an akuma]]. The ''mind''rape part, which goes on for hours, is bad enough. The next part, the ''soul'' rape, goes on for ''days''. At the end of it, your personality and memories have been hacked up with a rusty cleaver and put together in a variety of horrible fashions (such as your happy childhood being converted into fifteen years of hellish abuse), and your former Motivation has been violently ripped out and replaced with an Urge, essentially a command that you can't gainsay (such as to end the worship of Ahlat or corrupt the Dragon-Blooded with demonic taint). And [[It Got Worse|it gets worse]]. If you complete your Urge, you have to ''go through the whole thing again in order to get a new one''. (And if your Urge becomes impossible, such as if you're programmed to kill someone and he gets hit by a stray Death of Obsidian Butterflies, you almost invariably go mad.) Unsurprisingly, the Yozis take care not to advertise that this is what happens when you sign up to their "get more power by serving the Yozis" deal.