Sensing Through the Border (GEP)

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A body can peer into another plane from its Border area and see what's going on, but not clearly or to any great depth. All colors on the abutting plane are reduced to shades of gray. Furthermore, vision into that plane is limited to just 12 feet in daylight, 6 feet in torchlight, and only 3 feet in candlelight-assuming this light shines from the adjoining plane and doesn't emanate from the Border. A basher with a light shining from the Ethereal discovers that there is no leakage of energy in the opposite direction. The light from an ethereal lantern doesn't reflect off nonethereal objects and thus doesn't illuminate objects on the bordering plane.
Some sound passes from a plane to its Border area, but a body perceives these sounds like a land-adapted organism hearing noise underwater-it's muffled and difficult to male out dearly. Complex conversations are impossible to discern from the adjoining planes. Simple sounds, including short, emphatic statements such as "Help!" or "Look out!" remain understandable across the interface at ranges of up to 10 feet. Taking this a step further, a body listening to sounds made on a bordering plane by an underwater source finds it twice as difficult to hear what's being said (a body can hear loud noises only at a distance of 5 feet).
Sound originating on the Border Ethereal doesn't penetrate another plane; a concussive ethereal blast doesn't even produce the tiniest of peeps on the adjoining plane. See "Senses on the Ethereal" on page 10 for more general information on vision and hearing.