Body Control

Prerequisites: Trained By A Master,
Breath Control, and Meditation.
This ability lets you affect involun-
tary bodily functions such as heart
rate, blood flow, and digestion. One
use of this skill is to enter a deathlike
trance, during which only those who
can win a Quick Contest of Diagnosis
vs. your Body Control skill even real-
ize that you are alive. This requires (30

• skill) seconds of concentration, min-

imum one second.
You can also use this skill to flush
poisons from your body. To do so, you
must first roll against Poisons (or
Alchemy, Pharmacy, etc., as appropri-
ate) to identify the poison. You cannot
attempt this roll until you know you
have been poisoned. In most cases,
you only discover this when the first
symptoms show! A successful Body
Control roll – adjusted by any modifi-
er to the HT roll to resist the poison –
flushes the poison in 1d hours, after
which it has no further effect.
Finally, you may use the higher of
this skill and basic HT to resist any
Affliction, magic spell, or psionic
attack that is normally resisted by HT.