Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter Two: Character Creation (section)

====Regaining Mania:====

A genius can regain Mania in one of four ways: contemplation, research, diatribes, and editing. A Genius can also be the subject of a Mania transfer, at some risk to her sanity.

=====Contemplation:=====
Geniuses are constantly thinking and scheming. Every morning, when she wakes up, a genius regains one point of Mania. The exception is an unmada, who instead loses a point of Mania every day to sustain her unmada field. (See Madness, Page 289.) Very rarely, during a Maniac Storm, geniuses may recover additional Mania per day due to the transformative insanity swirling around an area, but Maniac Storms are rare, unpredictable, and impermanent.

=====Research:=====

A genius can also perform research to generate Mania. "Research" can take several forms: building interesting but useless gadgets, reading the latest literature, talking with other scientists or researchers, performing experiments and test-runs, even just standing in front of a blackboard and thinking very hard. A genius with some kind of "prop" upon which to work (some tools and cogs, a Scientific American she hasn't read before, another scientist to talk to, or even a note pad and paper) regains one point of Mania per hour of research. A genius who is simply thinking recovers one point of Mania per two hours. Research dominates a genius' full attention: she cannot perform research while building wonders, making repairs, conducting investigations, or even participating usefully in a stake-out or negotiation.

A genius can normally spend up to six hours per day in this kind of research. Every additional hour in one day requires an unmada check, with a cumulative -1 penalty per additional hour.

=====Before I Kill You I Will Tell You My Plan:=====

If the genius has an unwilling person captured and restrained, he can regain a number of Mania equal to his Inspiration + Presence. This requires at least thirty seconds of ranting and can only be done once per day. This triggers an unmada check. The act itself is not a transgression, but getting there often is (kidnapping is an Obligation-6 transgression), and triggering an unmada check is an Obligation-8 transgression.

=====I Hope This Wasn't Important To You: =====

The unmada (and only they) have one additional avenue of Mania recovery. Destroying an object of particular value that the genius disagree with, such as burning an ancient scroll containing "unlawful" secret techniques or smashing a laptop that was set to broadcast the indiscretions of the unmada's group, nets a number of Mania equal to the genius' Inspiration + Resolve. This can only be done once per day. Lemurians call this technique "editing" and use it to dispose of unwelcome ideas and artifacts that contradict their pet theories. Editing, whatever a genius calls it, is an Obligation-6 transgression.

=====Manes and Beholden:=====
Only geniuses can recover Mania in these ways. Manes that are not Inspired are limited to calculus vampirism or voluntary transfers. Beholden are usually limited to voluntary transfers.