Cyberart of the Expert Tattooist

**Slot** None **Weight** None

**Implantation** 1

Psionic tattoos have been a tradition for as long as manifesters have practiced their craft and have transitioned rather fluidly into a world of cybernetics. Cyberart has taken the place of traditional ink in these cultures, but the principles of psionic scribing still apply to this new medium. These shifting patterns have become powerful matrices for psionicists who understand how to use them.

## **Base Augmentation**

*Pattern Fluidity*: Psionic tattoos applied to the augmented creature blend seamlessly with this piece of cyberart, enabling one to channel their own powers to harness the effects of tattoos. When the augmented creature activates a psionic tattoo on their person, they may expend a number of power points equal to the normal cost of the power in order to manifest the power without causing the psionic tattoo to vanish.

## **Advanced Augmentations**

*Accelerated Pattern*: The augmented creature gains the ability to utilize psionic tattoos with greater rapidity, allowing them to activate a psionic tattoo as a move action rather than a standard action by expending psionic focus

*Augment Pattern*: The augmented creature learns to enhance tattoo powers with their own psionic abilities. Whenever they activate a psionic tattoo, they may expend their psionic focus to augment the power using points from their own power point pool to a maximum effective power point cost of the creature’s manifester level. A single metapsionic feat may also be applied using this ability, but the additional power point cost counts towards the maximum number of power points spent and must be paid for using the activator’s power point pool.

*Chain Pattern*: The augmented creature gains the ability to instill a chain reaction with his psionic tattoos, triggering them to activate in succession. When the augmented creature activates a psionic tattoo, he may select another tattoo on his person to activate automatically at the start of his next turn.

*Pattern Reserve*: This augmentation grants the psibertech the ability to store power points in a manner similar to a cognizance crystal. This piece of psibertech can store a number of power points equal to the augmented creature’s level. Whenever the wearer activates a psionic tattoo, they may expend their psionic focus to augment the power by a number of power points up to half the number of power points stored in the pattern reserve (rounded down). This augmentation does not consume power points from either the pattern reserve or the manifester, but the total effective power point cost of the manifested power cannot exceed the augmented creature’s manifester level.

*Subtle Activation*: The augmented creature can activate tattoos without having them actively exposed or manipulated. The augmented creature does not need to touch a tattoo on his body to activate it and activated tattoos do not need to be in plain sight to be activated.

## **Ultimate Augmentation**

*Absolute Pattern*: The augmented creature’s ultimate ability is to control and activate many of his psionic tattoos in rapid succession. As a full-round action, the augmented creature may expend psionic focus to activate a number of tattoos equal to his Intelligence modifier.