[FOCI]
Cypher System Rulebook 1e
Other people are a little in awe of your mind, though you feel normal enough. Admittedly, you are sometimes surprised when others fail to grasp easy concepts, or how they don't share your appreciation of the beauty in dynamical systems theory, elliptic curve geometry, Riemann meromorphic functions, and all the other wondrous things.
You live a little too much in your head to concern yourself with how you look. Your hair is probably slightly too long and tousled, your clothing is casual and stained with coffee, and your socks don't match.
This focus is draggable.
If this is your starting focus, choose one of the following connections.
Earth: Street clothes, chalk, laptop, eyeglasses, either a Fields Medal (recognizing your achievements in math) or one weapon of your choice, smartphone, $45.
Ardeyn: Ardeyn clothing, an abacus, a weapon of your choice, 70 crowns.
Ruk: Ruk clothing, an umbilical, a graft that can holographically project calculations as you draw them in thin air, a weapon of your choice, an account with 40 bits.
You don't have to spend an action observing to make your next predictive equation or predictive model.
Intuition flares, and you can ask the GM one question about what you're looking at.
You observe or study a creature, object, or location for at least one round. The next time you interact with that creature or object (possibly in the following round), the difficulty of a related task (such as persuading the creature, attacking it, or defending from its attack) is reduced by one step. If you also have the spinner twist Understanding, one use of either ability reduces the difficulty of two related tasks.
Action to observe.
You are trained in standard and higher mathematics.
If you've used Predictive Equation on a creature, object, or location within the last few days, you can learn one random fact about the subject that is pertinent to a topic you designate. If you also have the paradox revision Premonition, one use of either ability grants you two random but related facts about the subject. In addition, you can use Predictive Model on the same subject multiple times (even if you've learned a creature's level), but each time you do, you must apply one additional level of Effort than on your previous use.
Your subconscious constantly runs predictive models for avoiding danger. The difficulty of your Speed defense tasks is reduced by one step.
During combat, your brain shifts into a sort of battle mode where all potential attacks you could make are plotted on vector graphs in your mind's eye, which always provides the best option. The difficulty of your attacks is reduced by one step.
The more you use your brain, the better it gets. You add 5 points to your Intellect Pool.
You are specialized in higher mathematics. If you are already specialized, choose some other sphere of knowledge to become trained in.
Few things elude your intellectual grasp. Ask the GM one question and get a general answer. The GM assigns a level to the question, so the more obscure the answer, the more difficult the task. Generally, knowledge that you could find by looking somewhere other than your current location is level 1, and obscure knowledge of the past is level 7.
Gaining knowledge of the future is impossible, unless you also have the Knowing the Unknown paradox revision, in which case you could predict something that is slated to happen within a day (if you ask the right question).