Mind Over Matter adventure hooks for Ravenloft

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For those that don't know "Mind over Matter" is a very good book by Steve Miller that proposes an alternate system for psionics. Instead of Power Points and manifestations the system uses some feats that give access to psionic skills. The player has ranks, rolls the skill check normally and the results vary according to how much he ended up with and his total ranks in the skill.

Anyone can have these skills.

So to Ravenloft staff:

- You all know the items that give +5 to a skill right? They are cheap enough and easy to make. Not so for items that boost the psionic skills.

Still: A powerful psion has found a way to trap the knowledge and potentional of others in items. The unlucky victim is sacrificed and the psion traps a portion of his soul and potentional in the process. He has created various items that give him a +5 bonus to some psionic skills and a few more that give his apprentices a +2 bonus.
In order to create the +5 items, he has to sacrifice an innocent with psionic skill or potentional in that skill.
In order to create a +2 item, he has to sacrifice someone that is not necessarily an innocent. However, people with latent or little psionic power are easier to handle than powerful psions. So kidnappings and abductions of non-combatant commoners (with 1-2 ranks in psionic skills) arise.
Needless to say, that psion has lost a couple of Power checks too.

Obviously the torment of this sacrifice has created a few angry ghosts. One of them starts drawing attention in the village. => Incert the PCs. They come to investigate a ghost and end up fighting against weird powers.
Complications: OK the Villain is dead... what about those nifty items? Should the PCs take them and use them for good purposes? Or they should bury them along the victims or even destroy them?

- An unknown killer is terrorizing the countryside. He always seems to be some steps ahead of the local authorities as if he knows when they will come. Outside help is called for. => Incert the PCs.
The creature here may be a human, a calliban, a werewolf, practically anyone. The twist is that the creature has some psionic powers that allow him to constantly spy on the authorities. Perhaps he has been a mistreated criminal that remembers very well the Captain's office since he was tortured there and can easily peek in it to see the plans.