Art of Memory (Black Hand)
Description
One of the most highly prized traits a member of Caine's Chosen can possess is the ability to retain and to store vital information in the most secure place possible:her own mind. This Knowledge represents the possessor's level of dedication to this endeavor, the quick and traceless cataloging of data in the deepest recesses of the brain.
This Knowledge draws upon age-old mnemonic techniques of translating facts and figures into a symbolic language of unrelated images, whereby the brain can store and quickly recall the information at a later date simply by returning itself to the basis of the symbology in question. Each piece is then translated back into its root form, allowing quick and efficient voluntary recall while simultaneously protecting the data from unwanted scrutiny. If one reads the mind of someone skilled in this Ability, all the intruder is likely to get for the effort is a jumbled series of seemingly random images, or possibly even simple shapes or colors.
A character's rating in this Knowledge is added to the dice pool of any roll whose function is to protect information hidden within the mind. This obviously goes for things like Telepathy and certain applications of Dominate, but it's also apt in torture situations. The Hand encourages all its recruits to study the fundamentals of this Knowledge, and those who excel at the technique are often granted increasingly greater responsibilities in the sub-sect, often with resultant social and political rewards
- Novice: You know one or two tricks of cerebrally converting information.
- Practiced: You can bury significant amounts of data in symbolic code.
- Competent: It would take a skilled interrogator to uncover your secrets.
- Expert: Processing information symbolically is second nature to you now.
- Master: Moon, tin can, razor blade, mirror, thirteen . Exactly .
Possessed by: Black Hand members & some other rare individuals.
Specialties: Vast Cerebral Storage, Resisting Interrogation,Rapid Processing.
