The neural scourge is a great and terrible instrument of the Machine God’s will. Few are the disciples who know the proper incantations to activate and guide the thought eating engines. Fewer still are those who, with the correct rites, are able to fearlessly pluck valuable memories out of the scourge’s ravenous maw before they are consigned to oblivion forever. Held captive in the techpriest’s own mind and cranial circuitry, such memories can still serve a purpose once liberated from the confines of a heretical brain.
Required Career: Tech-Priest
Alternate Rank: 4 or higher
| Advance | Cost | Type | Prerequisites |
| Common Lore (Machine Cult) +20 | 100 | S | Common Lore (Machine Cult) +10 |
| Evaluate +10 | 100 | S | Evaluate |
| Forbidden Lore (Archaeotech) | 100 | S | – |
| Interrogation | 100 | S | – |
| Medicae +10 | 100 | S | Medicae |
| Scholastic Lore (Cryptology) | 100 | S | – |
| Scholastic Lore (Numerology) +10 | 100 | S | Scholastic Lore (Numerology) |
| Trade (Technomat) +10 | 100 | S | Trade (Technomat) |
| Scrutiny | 100 | S | – |
| Concealed Cavity | 100 | T | – |
| Exotic Weapon Training (Needle Pistol) | 100 | T | – |
| Exotic Weapon Training (Webber) | 100 | T | – |
| Exotic Weapon Training (Web Pistol) | 100 | T | – |
| Ferric Lure | 100 | T | – |
| Heightened Senses (Smell) | 100 | T | – |
| Mechadendrite Use (Manipulator) | 100 | T | Tech-Priest |
| Mechadendrite Use (Optical) | 100 | T | Tech-Priest |
| Resistance (Poisons) | 100 | T | – |
| Takedown | 100 | T | – |
| Total Recall | 100 | T | Int 30 |
| Awareness | 200 | S | – |
| Secret Tongue (Acolyte) +10 | 200 | S | Secret Tongue (Acolyte) |
| Master Chirurgeon | 200 | T | Medicae +10 |
| Orthoproxy | 200 | T | – |
| Resistance (Fear) | 200 | T | – |
| Sound Constitution | 200 | T | – |
| Mind Ripping | 300 | T | Mind Ripper Alternate Career |
Mind Ripping (Talent)
By subjecting a restrained, unconscious or otherwise helpless victim to mind scrubbing in a neural scourge, the Mind Ripper may extract a single Intelligence-based skill possessed by the victim. This skill, including any skill mastery in it, is now usable by the Mind Ripper. The Mind Ripper will be able to use the skill until they choose to extract a new skill from another victim, in which case the new skill replaces the previously extracted skill. The procedure renders the victim mindless, effectively killing them, though still suitable for conversion into a servitor.
Example: A Mind Ripper oversees the scourging of a recently apprehended heretek. The heretek possesses amongst other skills Forbidden Lore (Xenos). The Mind Ripper decides to acquire this knowledge and is now treated as possessing Forbidden Lore (Xenos) themselves. Later, the Mind Ripper intrigues against a fellow techpriest, leading to the accused being sentenced to servitordom. The Mind Ripper uses this opportunity to acquire their rival’s Chem-Use +20 skill, replacing the Forbidden Lore (Xenos) in the process.
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