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Numenera Character Options 2
The voice has always been there, whispering, whispering. At first, you couldn't make it out. But through practice and devotion, you have learned to decipher messages coming out of thin air. And what's more, you learned to talk back. Now the voice sometimes does things for you. The datasphere is your friend.
Most people can't tell you have this ability just by looking at you, although you have a special device that you carry or that is implanted somewhere on your body that helps you decipher and speak with the datasphere.
You have a numenera device (worn or implanted on your skin) that adds 1 point to your Intellect Pool. If you're ever without the artifact, subtract 5 points from your Intellect Pool; the points are restored if you regain the item.
If you have the Scan ability from your type, you're automatically trained in it.
You learn an additional piece of information about the object, person, or topic in question.
You can take another action on that same turn.
Except in places where your access is cut off from the datasphere, you can tap in briefly and learn a bit more about something you can see. You get an asset on a task involving that person or object.
The difficulty of discerning the level, function, and activation of numenera devices that you touch is decreased by one step for one minute.
At the beginning of each day, choose one task (other than attacks or defense) for which you will connect to the datasphere and receive a rush of images, information, and borrowed reflexes. For the rest of that day, you're trained in that task. You can't use this ability with a skill in which you're already trained.
By exploiting your connection to the datasphere, as well as the connection most other devices of the numenera share, you infuse a powered device of level 3 or lower within short range with more energy than it can handle. If affected, the device is destroyed or disabled for at least one minute, depending on its size and complexity. It may be that the disabling overload a level 5 device (two levels above the normal limit), you must apply two levels of Effort.
By exploiting your connection to the datasphere, you can attempt to route your senses through it and look out through devices also connected to it up to a long distance away. (Most devices are connected, and even in places where no devices exist, a spray of nanites in the air likely have such a connection.) For up to ten minutes, you can see and hear through those devices using their senses as if they were your own. Creatures in the area might have a chance to note that devices near them are acting oddly, at the GM’s discretion.
Action to initiate.
When using Datasphere Update, you can also become trained in attacks or defenses that you are not already trained in.
Tapping into the datasphere, you can 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. If you already have Knowing the Unknown, you gain +1 to any die roll you make using either ability.
Exploiting your connection to the datasphere, you can control the functions of any item of the numenera, automaton, or machine (intelligent or otherwise). If you use an action to concentrate on the device, you are aware of what is going on around it (you see and hear as if you were standing next to it, no matter how far away you are). You must touch the device to create the bond, but afterward, there is no range limitation. This effect lasts for one week. You can master only one device at a time.
Action to initiate.
GM Intrusions: Others with close connections to the datasphere seek to destroy those like themselves out of jealousy and fear. Some may even try to control the character through their shared datasphere connection.