Psychic [Damaged] Questions

[ken]

Correct. The rule is pretty clear:

"You must refuse all healing effects by Medicine if you are conscious, and you are very reluctant to allow other forms of healing. If someone delivers any effect by Medicine and you end up conscious afterwards, you also take a Short Frenzy effect which you cannot resist or use any defense against, granted or otherwise. The initial target of your Frenzy will always be the person who used the Medicine effect on you, if you can tell who they were."

This means if someone uses an affect that makes you conscious (which is likely Heal by Medicine), then you frenzy on them. If they use Expose Unstable by Medicine, you're not brought to consciousness by this skill, so you wouldn't frenzy.

The general feel of the skill is that most Damaged have had very unpleasant experiences with Doctors. If you wake up and see a Doctor standing over you, you'll flip out on them, since you're crazy.

Roleplay everything else. Like, if you're Stable and someone hits you with called damage (like 1 Damage by Medicine), you'd likely be pissed since they just attacked you, regardless of the carrier.

-Ken-

[ken]

Also, with Expose...

The response to Expose is supposed to be an Out of Character response to the call (which is why you make a noise even if you're bleeding out). Expose Unstable by Medicine means "I'm a doctor and my medical knowledge is such that if a dude is bleeding out in front of me, I can tell immediately he's dying". Your character doesn't "know" he used this knowledge on you. This is true with all Expose calls, unless you have a special mechanic to resist it (like Xenos).

Now, if you're immune to medicine, it basically means you're not human enough to answer in this manner, since medical science doesn't know what to do with you. Or, you're adept enough at hiding your wounds from doctors (resist).

So, the short answer is, someone hitting you with an Expose is not enough to frenzy you. However, let's be real: The majority of healing is by medicine, so the odds of you freaking out eventually (or dying) are pretty strong.

[PoeticJustice]

Is Psychic Scream a "skill"? I know you can't do anything to purposefully trigger it, but if you are suffering from something that prevents you from using skills (like a Drain) and you lose your last Sanity, does the Drain prevent your Psychic Scream from triggering?

[Jacob]

No such luck, I'm afraid.

[Tempest]

should the damaged ware some contacts or attempt to hide their eyes when they have "When You Gaze Long Into the Abyss" as an ability.

[Jacob]

Such is not required, but if you want to rock it, that's your business (so long as it doesn't make you look like anything you're not.).

[Tempest]

ok thank you.