bibliophile20 wrote:

Assess Mental Health Psi Type: Active Action: Complex Range: Touch Duration: Instant Strain Mod: +1 Skill: Sense Assess Mental Health allows an async to determine the state of an ego’s mental health (aside from their own). The async probes the target mind and determines how well it is currently functioning; for every 10 full points of MoS the async achieves on their test, they retrieve one piece of information, from the following: approximately what proportion of the target’s Lucidity is filled with mental stress, how many traumas they currently have, if they are currently under the effects of any derangements, the classification of one active derangement, and the classification of one mental disorder (if any). An Academics: Psychology or related test may be required to interpret/diagnose the identity of any mental disorders, at the gamemaster’s discretion. Trigger Disorder Psi Type: Active Action: Complex Range: Touch Duration: Temp (Action Turns) Strain Mod: +2 Skill: Psi Assault Trigger Disorder is an offensive sleight that allows for an async to bring a currently inactive mental disorder in the target into an active state; characters with General Anxiety Disorder may have a panic attack, characters with Impulse Control Disorders will suddenly feel the need to engage in their behavior at that exact moment, and so forth, for the duration of the effect. The GM is encouraged to be creative. Characters currently in the midst of combat should gain a +10 to +20 bonus to their Willpower x2 roll, if their mental disorders would be actively harmful to them if triggered. On a critical success, the duration increases to Temporary (Minutes). Detect Psychosurgery Psi Type: Active Action: Complex Range: Touch Duration: Instant Strain Mod: +1 Skill: Sense This sleight allows for an async to detect the presence of psychosurgical modifications in a target ego, learning about one procedure per use of this sleight. A Psychosurgery test might be required to determine the precise extent of the modifications, but, if successful, the async should be able to determine roughly what procedures have been done. An Excellent Success or Critical Success should allow for more precise details. For example, an ordinary success might tell the async that the target has had their behavior modified, but an Excellent Success would tell the async that the character has had their Loyalty boosted. Note that older or more subtle psychosurgeries are harder to detect, but conversely, more recent or more overt psychosurgeries are extremely hard to conceal. As a general rule, the sleight cannot detect any psychosurgery that is older than the MoS, as a percentage, of the target's life (so a MoS of 40 could not detect a major psychosurgery done to the target half of their life ago). This value can be modified by the GM depending on how extreme the psychosurgery was (i.e. a complete Personality Edit may be noticeable, regardless of how old it is, but the regular psychotherapy psychosurgeries may be nearly undetectable).