Skills/Techgnosis

Abilities and Housing

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Technopath	Dead-Strain, Reading	Free	Rite of Initiation: House a willing AI.
Self-Improvement	Technopath	2	You may house and Advanced AI
Compartmentalise	Technopath	2	You may house an additional AI in your ka
Thread the Needle	Technopath	2	Once per day you may attempt to improvise a techgnostic ritual with all the risk that carries.

Rituals

These skills provide rituals a Technopath can cast

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Request	Technopath	2	Summon a Basic AI
Petition	Request	3	Summon a Advanced AI
Beseech	Petition	4	Contact a specific Super AI you know.
Create Shell	Technopath	2	Animates and gives voice to a dead body using scrap. If done soon after death, temporarily brings the target back.
Empower Shell	Create Shell	3	Empowers a created shell to house an AI. This increases the capability of the shell and potentially removes the temporary nature of the shell.
Identify	Technopath	2	Identifies the purpose of a machine or the name and nature of a housed AI.
Form Housing	Technopath	4	Creates a device capable of housing an AI using scrap.
Dispatch	Technopath	1	Dehouses a willing AI without harming it or the housing.
Isolate	Dispatch	3	Isolate an AI from interacting with its housing, rendering it inert. May be used to modify a housing into a trap. May also be used to reduce the effects of the housing on the AI.
Expunge	Isolate	3	Dehouses or rehouses a resisting AI.