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====== Psionic Surgery (Talent) ======
===== Psionic Surgery (Wis) =====
Psionic Surgery allows you to remove other psionic influences or to alter memories and behavior.

**Requirements:** [[telepathy_feat|Telepathy]] feat

**Check:** Make a Psionic Surgery check, with the DC determined by the task.

**Remove Psionic Influence:** Make a Psionic Surgery check with a DC equal to the check result of the psionic skill currently affecting the subject. If you succeed, that skill no longer affects the subject. Note that this only removes the effects of ongoing psionic skills, not permanent aftereffects. So you can use Psionic Surgery to remove Domination or Illusion affecting a victim, but not to restore ability score points lost to Drain Ability or damage suffered from Psionic Blast: for that, use the Psionic Healing skill. You can undo the effects of Psionic Surgery used to alter the subject’s mind in any way by equaling or exceeding the Psionic Surgery check result used to cause the alteration.

**Alter Psyche:** You can effect changes in the subject’s mind. The DC is based on the extent of the change you wish to make.

  * **DC** 	**Alteration Time**
  * 15 	Alter a single unimportant 1 full round fact or brief recollection, about 5 minutes worth of memory.
  * 20 	Alter a single fact or an 1 minute hour’s worth of memory
  * 25 	Alter a single significant fact 10 minutes (such as the name of the subject’s spouse) or a day’s worth of memory.
  * 30 	Alter a deeply personal fact, 1 hour such as the subject’s name or alignment. Alter a week’s worth of memory.
  * 35 	Alter up to a month’s 6 hours worth of memory
  * 40 	Alter up to a year’s worth of 10 hours memory. Give the subject an entirely new personality, complete with false memories, or erase the subject’s entire memory, causing total amnesia.

False or altered memories can cause dissonance within the subject’s mind, depending on how well they fit into the subject’s other memories. If the subject notices a conflict between the false and true memories (GM’s discretion), he gets an additional Will save to shake off the effect and regain his true memory. He gains a bonus of +1 to +4 on the save, depending on how strong the dissonance is between the true and false memories.

**Implant Knowledge:** You can use Psionic Surgery to implant knowledge of a particular skill in the subject’s mind. You can implant knowledge of any skill that you know, up to your rank in that skill or your Psionic Surgery rank, whichever is less. If the subject lacks a necessary prerequisite, then they have knowledge of the skill but cannot use it effectively. The subject uses his own ability score modifier with the implanted skill. Implanted skills fade at a rate of one skill rank per hour until they are gone. You can make an implanted skill permanent by paying 2,000 XP per skill rank made permanent.

**Special:** You must be in [[mental_contact_talent|mental contact]] with the subject. You can take 10 or take 20 on a Psionic Surgery check. Taking 20 requires twenty times the usual time. Generally, this means the subject must be cooperative, unconscious, or restrained in some way.

**Time:** A full round to remove psionic influence. Altering psyche as given above. It takes 1 minute per skill rank to implant knowledge.

**Retry:** If you fail a Psionic Surgery check, you must wait at least 24 hours before attempting the same task again. 

**Strain:** 2 to remove psionic influence, half the DC (rounded down) to alter psyche, and 2 per skill rank to implant knowledge.
{{tag>skill psi wisbased telepathy}}
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