Switching to Scarecrow

[Dane Regan]

Mark handled approving the old Scarecrow app if I remember he said the toxin couldn't fully work unless my tec was higher then the opponent. He also never said anything about Telepathy.

There was some debate over telepathy a while back (you might remember it, it was linked to CP's moves). But, in short: you must have telepathy to directly influence someone's mind. You can show them "scary" illusions and mess with their senses without telepathy. But you cannot forcibly induce emotions or thoughts of any kind without the power. So, you could have someone see scary illusionary eldrich horrors that distract them somewhat, but if you don't get telepathy they won't have to be scared by it. In short, you need telepathy to cause "mass hysteria, paranoia, insanity", as well as "fear". Unless you wish for those aspects to become roleplaying fodder.