Analyze - The Path of Technomancy

Initiates of the Path of Technology learn to tap into the fundamental truth behind a device. With a touch, you can project your perceptions into a device and glean an understanding of its purpose, the principles of its technology, and how to operate it. Analyze does not grant permanent knowledge, only a momentary ﬂash of insight, which fades within minutes.

Cost

1 Blood

Focus

Intelligence

Analyze can also be used to understand a digital technological innovation, allowing you to read software and electronic ﬁles. For example, you can read the entire ﬁle contained on a ﬂash drive, know all of the software installed on a computer, or peruse a cell phone’s recent caller list — all without turning the devices on.

System

To activate Analyze, you must touch a technological device, spend 1 Blood, and use your standard action. Thereafter, you project your consciousness into the device, granting you temporary, but comprehensive, understanding of its purpose, the principles of its functioning, and its means of operation. In this manner, you can touch a computer and learn its speciﬁcations, touch an alarm and know under what conditions it will sound, or touch a car and determine its condition, top speed, and so forth.

All but the basic knowledge gained through the use of Analyze fades at sunrise, unless the thaumaturge has perfect recall or enhanced memory. A thaumaturge can preserve such information, if she takes the time and effort to write it all down.

Source: MET - VTM - Core Book