Hey All! I'm a little delayed on this, but this was my section for the True Psychic Tales Psychonauts Zines. Got the go-ahead a while ago that I could put these up. Really enjoyed doing this project.
Here's Zine physical I got a long with all the goodies! Everyone did such a great job! Would love to do something like this again!
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Ok so we know that in the Psychonauts Universe, the purple rock psitanium can amplify psychic energy
and the yellow psilirium distorts Psychic energy.
But what if there was a third type of psycho-reactive mineral? I'm of course, talking about, RED PSITANIUM.
Red psitanium is ten times stronger than normal psitanium, but is more unstable and harder to control then purple psitanium. And Exposure to the red rock can cause the person to become more aggresive and feral, removing their mental inhibitors. and for psychics using it can become addictive because of the power it grants them. That's why any traces of red psitanium are locked up in a secure facility and people have to were psychic hazmat suits to avoid getting affected.
Also, I would like to thank mjackson97 on Tumblr for providing the image for my Red Psitanium theory.
Mindwarp. Illusionist extraordinaire. Weapon of choice: A helmet powered by the smallest amount of psilirium, which she uses to distort and alter the minds of her enemies as well as manipulate innocent people into zombie-like obedience. Only a handful of Psychonaut agents- including myself, are capable of resisting her mind bending waves. Otherwise, her influence can be undone by music.
Mindwarp is a protege of Sandmind, the most prolific criminal to ever be taken down by the Psychonauts since the downfall of Maligula. Before the reign of Mindwarp, she was known as Betty Nott, a former mentee of Otto Mentallis. She showed promise under his tutelage, but ran away to avoid punishment after she tried to control the mind of her mentor with his own devices. Some few years after that, she joined Sandmind, who trained her further in the arts of Illusion and encouraged her work in mind-controlling devices.
Her latest work; the mindwarp broadcast. Her helmet alone isn’t as powerful as she’d like it to be (I’m guessing too much psilirium would be counterintuitive), so she has attempted to create an amplified version of her helmet’s power by hijacking public broadcasting systems and devices. Most recently, Agent Zanotto and I unearthed her temporary lair off the coast of Southern Oregon. We didn't find any psilirium at the scene, but we did find a personal laptop with coded messages to an outsider. Couldn’t be Sandmind, he’s in a coma and being heavily guarded in a max GPC in a remote location only known to the Psychonauts.
Mindwarp’s current status: Thwarted, but still at large for nearly a month.
Headcanon that totally has nothing to do with anything at all I'm writing rn (this is a lie but spoilers):
In the Psychonauts universe, wishes made on shooting stars are a big risk. If it's a psitanium meteor, it does come true, in a manner that is usually explained by coincidence. However, if it's a psilirium meteor, it acts more like the monkey's paw, in that the wish will come true but in a very twisted manner.
For instance, if you wish to be a millionaire, a psitanium meteor will get you there through hard work, effort, and a lot of luck. A psilirium meteor will kill off your family with an unexplained sickness to get you that million through inheritance.
Or, at least... That's how the children's tale goes. Very few people really believe that, like stepping on cracks and walking under a ladder, but it's a common enough warning.
(Also: Feel free to reblog this with ideas about other wishes, I'd be excited to see y'all's thoughts on this!)
In honor of the revelation that Otto Mentallis smokes Psitanium, here's art of Otto fucked up on it while air-drumming to Blue Oyster Cult. Drawn by some anonymous madlad on 4chan who will always have my deepest respect.