Gird
Name
Gird
Type
Devotion
Field
Psychometabolic
MAC
7
PSP (Initial)
2
PSP (Ongoing)
0
Range
0
Area of Effect
Personal
Prerequisites
3rd level
Power Score
Critical (20)
The gird attempt disrupts the power.
Description
Each time a psionicist girds another power, he can maintain that power automatically i. e., without mental concentration. Thus, a psionicist who is maintaining only girded powers can sleep without disrupting those powers. To use gird, the psionicist must first initiate and maintain the power he intends to affect. Then he must make a girding power check. If he succeeds, he automatically pays twice the normal maintenance cost for the girded power-or a minimum of 1 PSP per hour. To remove the girding, he must consciously decide to do so (no power check is required). Otherwise, the girding remains in place until the psionicist runs out of PSPs. That means a psionicist who's unconscious or sleeping could awaken to find all his psionic strength girded away. If the psionicist wishes to reestablish a gird that he discontinued, he must make a new power check.
