Empathic healing

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This ability is both beautiful in it’s own way and quite dangerious to its practitioner. There healer in effect joins her mind and body with that of the sick or injured subject. She then absorbs his hurts into her own body, where they heal normally. Empathic healers can even repair the most horrible of aggravated damage which makes such practitioners quite valuable. The drawback is, ofcourse, that it may take months before the healer is able to function after using her powers. Usually the healer will hae an assistant or friend who can watch over her during the healing process. Most practitioners push themselves past their own limits in using this power to help others.

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Each level of healing requires a minimum of three successes (Char + Empathy) to be effective successes can be cumulative, though the strain on the healer is harder to bare. The base difficulty is 6 but increases by one per level level of empathetic healing beyond Sooth the Spirit. Thus Knit flesh would be diff 7 and mend bones is diff 8 and so on.

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Roll: Charisma + Empathy

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• Soothe the Spirit
The healer absorbs minor bruises, simple depression and grief. She can heal damage of the bruised health level. Her own body recovers in about a day. Diff 6.

•• Knit the Flesh
The psychic can heal deep cuts and stop blood loss, Hurt and Injured health levels heal, though it takes about a week for the psychic to regain her strength. Diff 7.

••• Mend Bones
Wounded and Mauled levels disappear from the subject, as the empathy mends shattered bones and connective tissue. At best she can hope for her own recovery after several months. Diff 8.

•••• Organ Repair
The healer can repair severe internal injuries and even bring back patients for the brink of death. Crippled and Incaped health level are healed. Minimum recovery time for the healer is a year. Diff 9.

••••• Pacify Madness
Only the most able psychics ever reach this level of training for it requires strict mental discipline and great courage. The healer actually absorbs the most severe forms of mental illness into her own mind and falls into the same state of psychosis she alleviates in her patient. Some healers never recover, at the least it usually takes many many months of rest. Diff 10.