Trauma and Healing
Trauma is damage inflicted to your psyche by mind bending events that are all too common After the Fall. Exposure to extreme violence, the death of those close to you, encounters with the TITANS and their minions: all of these and more can whittle away at your sanity.
Trauma is tracked via the Sanity Track.
Sanity Track
[] +odd [] +odd [] +odd [] +eccentric [] +disassociated [] Insane
Each of these applies the respective tag to your character. For ease of reference these tags are reproduced here:
+odd– You’re a bit off, no game mechanical detriment+eccentric– Gain the Eccentric move+disassociated– You are+glitchedon all trauma move rolls.Insane– Not a tag, so much, as a state of being. You are unrecoverably insane. Retire your character.
Trauma
At the GMs direction (via spending hold), or as a consequence of your or another’s move, you may be asked to roll the Trauma Move as below.
Trauma Move
When you experience horror, a loss of continuity, or an ego-hacking attempt, roll+Willpower. On a 10+, you shake it off to no effect. On a 7-9, the GM chooses 1:
- You lose your grip on, or otherwise damage whatever you’re holding. Lose an item of gear.
- You reel from the trauma.
+glitchedongoing until the situation is more clear. - You panic and take a single concrete action of the GM’s choosing.
On a miss, mark 1 off the Sanity track.
Healing Trauma
Trauma is much harder to heal than damage to your morph. As damage to your very psyche it persists with your Ego and travels with you from morph to morph.
- You can get someone to perform Psychosurgery on your ego
- You can allow an async to perform the Downtime move on you
- You can wait it out, working on it with the aid of your Muse or an external Therapist
For the latter option you can cure one box of odd per month of Therapy in which you do not accrue any further trauma. eccentric takes three months of uninterrupted therapy to heal before you can start on the odd boxes. disassociated requires Psychosurgery or the Downtime move as above.