Basic Technique

Self-Mastery: This most rudimentary of Biokinetic Techniques allows the Psion an intimate awareness of his own body and its many states all the way down to the most subtle of changes and processes. The Psion will also be able to control some of these processes in a gross manner, causing his stomach to start or stop rumbling, his blood pressure to rise or lower, his skin to flush or not, is immune system to heighten production or become supressed, etc. These effects are highly useful in recovery from injury, slowing bleeding, staving off infection, avoiding shock and so forth, perhaps helping to explain why some Biokinetics often seem to recover from injuries a bit faster than expected.

System: For the self-diagnostic functions or the healing boost, roll Psi. Number of successes indicates what sort of information will become available in the former case. “I feel the poison numbing my nerves and cells in my brain are dying off in alarming numbers, it must be a eurotoxin!” In the latter case, each success allows the Biokinetic to heal one of his current wound levels at the rate for the wound level one less on the chart on p 253.

Thus, a Norça who had suffered 4 Lethal Wounds in the last fight would normally take a month to heal just so much (with bed rest but no access to 2120 medical aid) to reach Injured! But after activating this power and getting two successes, her Wounded HT level will heal in only a week and her Injured HT level in a mere 3 days! She could not re-utilize this ability to affect the additional wounds, but she has still turned a 5 week and 4 day ordeal into a two-week siesta! (In the case of a single Lethal wound it will heal in 12 hours, and in the case of a single Bashing wound, it will be gone by scenes end!) This effect is cumulative with that of good hospital care, and even allows a Biokinetic who is unable to get the food and / or bed rest required for the normal rate of healing on p 253 to use those charts anyway.

This effect has no bearing on the possible use of Vitakinetic healing Techniques as these two Aptitudes do not work particularly well together. An Iatrotic will gain no benefit from trying to heal a Biokinetic using this talent as the effects will have to be carefully controlled on both sides to keep from undoing each other! (No game effect, this is not a defense against Vitakinesis.)