Cognitive Trance

4-level Psychometabolic

PSP Cost 6

Time to Invoke: Variable

Range: self

duration: Permanent

A psionicist with this power can place himself in a trance that clears his mind for calm and contemplative thought. Anything the psionicist sees. Hears, or reads while under the mindsharpening influence of the cognitive trance can be committed to his memory verbatim, for precise recall at a later time. Photographic Memory. The player running the psionicist character can use this ability to remember detailed instructions or conversations to the word, even if he himself does not remember the exact content. If used for photographic memory, the trance lasts as long as it takes to completely take in all the information to be remembered. An extended trance may last for several hours. Entire books may be memorized in this way.
Cognitive Trance. The psionicist can also enter the trance to consider any problem, puzzle, or riddle, gaining advantage to his Insight check to find a solution. If used to solve a puzzle, the trance lasts as long as it takes the psionicist to make a single attempt to arrive at a solution for the situation at hand. While in cognitive trance, combat or even conversation of the slightest sort will break the trance.