History Main / PokeInTheThirdEye

** A seer in Trademeet will offer to read you and your companions' fortunes. The companions' fortunes are fairly interesting and hint at their personal quests, possible epilogues, [[spoiler:and in one case a betrayal]]. Trying to read ''your'' future traumatizes the poor woman so badly that she won't read anyone else's fortunes for the rest of the game. Of course, you are carrying a rather powerful piece of M''urder god'' inside yourself.

** Two simultaneous attempts by villains and heroes results in a BodySwitch between Lex Luthor and TheFlash. HilarityEnsues (literally).

* A major quest in NeverwinterNights: Hordes of the Underdark is centered around the results of some queen trying to spy on an archmage. In this case, he poked her with a big enough stick to [[spoiler: turn her entire city into a BizzaroWorld]].

->-- '''Gromph Baenre''', ''[[ForgottenRealms Condemnation]]'' by Richard Baker

Turns out the "[[PalantirPloy undetectable]]" SinisterSurveillance the MadScientist cooked up ain't so undetectable. Somehow the subject can detect BeingWatched and does ''not'' take kindly to it. The voyeur will slowly be creeped out when the subject does not break eye contact with them despite supposedly being invisible, kilometers away, or ''centuries in the future'', only to follow it up by somehow [[ExplosiveInstrumentation overloading the system]] or jamming the transmission. If the viewing method is mystical or psychic (or [[ClarkesThirdLaw sufficiently advanced]] [[ArtificialLimbs cyber]] [[UnusualUserInterface implants]]), it can get painful for the voyeur.

* Harry does this to the BigBad in the first DresdenFiles book to prove his point that Council wizards know more tricks than "independent" warlocks. And to piss him off.

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* Apparently not so uncommon in the WhateleyUniverse. For example, even as a freshman fairly new to the school, ki mistress Chaka once tricked the infamous 'Don' Sebastiano into allowing himself to be found out trying to use his mind control on her by first closing her relevant chakra to stop his attempt and then distracting him enough that he completely forgot to drop the link as he would otherwise have -- cue detention. Ironically, she didn't plan the second part. And Eldritch ([[spoiler:nee range instructor Erik Mahren]]) is not just certifiably crazy, but has deliberately turned her mind into a kind of psychic 'minefield' for snooping telepaths to run into and experience some of the unpleasant parts of her former life as a marine firsthand...
** And Phase has now figured out a way to do this. She drove off the most powerful psychic on campus. By concentrating on a BritneySpears song until said psychic begged her to stop.

* In ''{{Homestuck}}'', part of a normal session of Sburb involves an Exile contacting one of the players from the future, and helping to guide their actions. However, when it happens to Sollux the first time, he flips out and ''blows up the Exile's monitor'' with his PsychicPowers.

* A major quest in NeverwinterNights: Hordes of the Underdark is centered around the results of some queen trying to spy on an archmage. He poked her with a really big stick...

Give them a Poke In The Third Eye.

** [=LotR=]'s "fancy crystal balls" were called Palantirs (accent mark omitted due to this page screwing them up), and the problem with using them was that Sauron had acquired one and could turn his will against anyone who tried using the others. Only Aragorn was strong enough (barely) to resist.

* In ''{{Homestuck}}'', part of a normal session of Sburb involves an Exile contacting one of the players from the future, and helping to guide their action. However, when it happens to Sollux the first time, he flips out and ''blows up the Exile's monitor'' with his PsychicPowers.

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* While playing ''MageTheAscension'', this troper cast a post-cognition spell to see how a murder took place. At one point in the viewing, the BigBad ''directly addressed'' this troper's character, said "Show's over," and proceeded to kill her victim, whose eyes this troper was looking through, thus ending the vision and dealing three levels of lethal damage to this troper's character. Yeah, the Storyteller could write villains like nobody's business.

** In ''ForgottenRealms'' books some wizards use spells that cause backlash strong enough to explode an opponent's crystal ball. Remember, folk: while properly working scrying spells seem to be safe, they all are ''at least'' the same power level as fireball, usually higher. Though usually it happens when secondary functions (at least communication) are used. This trope is so well rooted there was even a subversion in ''CounselorsAndKings'' when the wizard falling to it ends up merely dazed, instead of blindly flailing through his room, burned and bleeding from a dozen of shrapnel wounds.