Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter Four:Special Rules and Systems (section)

=== Detecting Wondrous Things: ===

While a genius can build Apokalypsi wonders to detect any Mania-based activity, her naked eyes can also reveal information about wonders, manes, and other phenomena. A genius can detect the following automatically:

* When someone is in the process of creating or modifying a wonder
* When someone transfers Mania into a wonder or capacitor (and the target of that transfer)
* When someone channels Mania into an object (and the target of that channeling)
* When someone is performing Deep Inspiration
* Whether or not the genius is in an unmada field, and the Inspiration level generating the field: "low" (Inspiration 1-3), "medium" (4-6), or "high" (7+)

To gain more information, the genius can spend a minute examining the object. A genius also needs to analyze an object this way if it is partially hidden (a mane in a long coat, for example) or if a wonder has the "concealed" or "normal-looking" variables. Roll Inspiration + Wits.

''Dramatic Failure:'' The genius completely misinterprets what he's seeing.

''Failure:'' The genius gains no further information, and cannot try again on that subject for the rest of the scene.

''Success:'' The genius gains more information, answering the following applicable questions:

* Whether something is a wonder; its rank, primary Axiom, and any "support" Axioms of a wonder
* Whether a wonder is an orphan
* Whether something is a mane
* Whether something is a Larva, and if it is a transgressive Larva
* Whether something is a capacitor, and how much Mania it currently holds
* A genius' Inspiration (low, medium, or high)
* A Clockstopper's Acedia (low, medium, or high)
* How much Mania someone or something has spent with its last action

''Exceptional Success:'' The genius gains even more information, answering the following applicable questions in addition to those available from a regular success:

* A wonder's faults
* A wonder's creator (if the genius knows the creator)
* What Axioms are influencing a person or object (Exelixi stat boosts, Metaptropi polymorphing, etc.)
* The idea or philosophy that birthed the mane
* A genius' catalyst, foundation, and highest Axiom
* Whether or not a genius is unmada (this will not reveal Illumination)
* A Clockstopper's highest Void
* How much Mania a genius, mane, or automaton currently possesses

Suggested Modifiers: Genius has a relevant Apokalypsi gizmo (bonus equals rank of wonder), genius cannot touch subject (-2), genius takes only one turn in analysis (-2), genius has encountered a genuinely new or unique phenomenon (-3), genius has encountered a "common" mad science phenomenon (+1), genius is studying a member of his own foundation (+2), target is partially concealed (-1 to -3)