Psychophagy

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Psychophagy

Psychophagy

Consume the psychic sensitivity of a target. The invoker will increase their psychic sensitivity for a period of time. The effect does not stack. The target will suffer brain damage, causing them to fall into a coma for several days.

Base Stats

Type
Psychic ritual

Creation

Required Research
Psychophagy
Ritual Duration
10,000 ticks (2.78 mins)
Ritual Cooldown
300,000 ticks (83.33 mins)
Resources to make
Bioferrite 20

Psychophagy is a psychic ritual that provides a long duration buff to the invoker's psychic sensitivity at the cost of rendering the target permanently psychically dead.

Acquisition[edit]

The psychophagy psychic ritual can be performed once every 300,000 ticks (5 in-game days) at a psychic ritual spot at the cost of Bioferrite 20 Bioferrite, once the Psychophagy research project has been completed. Note that this research requires dark study to unlock. The ritual takes 10,000 ticks (4 in-game hours) to complete.

Summary[edit]

  • 1 day gained per 1% ritual quality
  • Grants 50% psychic sensitivity to the invoker for the duration of the effect.
  • Has a chance of:
    • liquefying targets brain, killing them in the process,
    • applying a psychic scarring to the brain. [Verify]
  • Target becomes psychically dead, permanently setting their psychic sensitivity to 0%. This effectively prevents consequent usages of Psychophagy (or any phage rituals) on same pawn.
  • Applies a −3 / −6 / −10 guilt thought for participants.[Thought Template] This thought is nullified by the Psychopath traits, being Inhumanized, as well as Psychic rituals: Exalted precept.Content added by the Ideology DLC

Analysis[edit]

Version history[edit]

  • Anomaly DLC Release - Added.
  • ? - Description changed from "[...] target. This will cause the invoker's psychic sensitivity to be increased for several days, and for the target becomes psychically dead and suffers from Psychic Shock." changed to "[...] The invoker will increase their psychic sensitivity for a period of time. The effect does not stack. The target will suffer brain damage, causing them to fall into a coma for several days.".[Verify old version existed]