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One key thing that I think often gets skimmed over and forgotten when
people are dealing with shielding around vampires, and specifically large
number of vampires who may or may not be in very good control of their
draw on others' energy (the latter being extremely common in fairly newly
awakened psi vampires), is that the presence of a shield doesn't stop
a psi from being able to feed--it's simply redirects what or where the
psi is feeding on and from. Almost all shield techniques put out to newbies
involves something along the line of envisioning a ball of light and spreading
it out to cover them, or a box or bubble of light/energy around them,
etc.
The key point is that those shields, and all shields, are still energy.
Which means that while the psi might have difficulty accessing the person
directly, they can now simply feed off of the shield. Unfortunately, in
most "beginner" techniques, no one mentions where the energy
is to come from to make the box/bubble/energy ball, so a very good majority
of people tend to take the energy to generate and maintain their shields
from themselves. Obviously, this means that instead of the vampire snacking
on them by drawing from them directly, they're now being drawn on via
proxy, as the vampire draws on the shield and they have to put more of
their energy into the shield to counteract it.
So the solution? There can be many, some nicer than others. One I'm fond
of for newbies and beginners, that is fairly simple, is to have them set
up the shield to draw from the ambient energy around them. There are a
few obvious drawbacks to this, namely that if the ambient energy is lower
somewhere, the shields will tend to be weaker. However, it's simple and
easy for most people to do. Also, it means any psi coming around to munch
is going to get what they want and move on, without any real effect on
the person who is shielded.
Other...less friendly, and more complex, methods would be things like
shielding using a feedback system when someone draws on the shield, they
get some sort of undesirable element with it, be it a high-pitched frequency,
barbed energy, etc. Drawbacks here are that it typically takes more energy
to sustain that type of shield and that not all people will be bothered
by it, as a number of people tend to "filter" whatever is drawn
in. Another option is to set up a multi-layered shield system that is
a series of one-way walls, with the outer layer only allowing energy in
and the inner only allowing energy out. That way anyone attempting to
feed off of the shield will have a much more difficult time. Some might
still manage, but there is usually easier food to be found, since the
effect is like trying to feed against a vacuum.
~Isealdor, Feb 2009
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