Matter Agitation

Psychokinesis

Level: Psion/wilder 1

Display: Auditory and material

Manifesting Time: 1 standard action

Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)

Area: 2 sq. ft. of surface area of an object or creature

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 min./level

Saving Throw: None

Power Resistance: Yes

Power Points: 1

You can excite the structure of a nonpsionic, nonmagical object, heating it to the point of combustion over time. The agitation grows more intense in the second and third rounds after you manifest the power, as described below.

*1st Round:*Readily flammable material (paper, dry grass, tinder, torches) ignites. Skin reddens (1 point of damage).

*2nd Round:*Wood smolders and smokes, metal becomes hot to the touch, skin blisters (1d4 points of damage), hair smolders, paint shrivels, water boils.

*3rd and Subsequent Rounds:*Wood ignites, metal scorches (1d4 points of damage for those holding metallic objects). Skin burns and hair ignites (1d6 points of damage), lead melts.