Crystalline Binder

Sometimes, when a phantom binds itself to the material
plane, it binds to a spiritualist’s psicrystal, instead of to
the spiritualist.

consciousness. The crystalline binder gains Psicrystal Affinity as a bonus feat, even if she doesn’t meet the
prerequisites. She uses the higher of her manifester
level (if any) and her class level to determine the power
of her psicrystal. This ability otherwise functions as the
phantom class feature.

This ability alters phantom.

### **Shared Wills (Su)**

At 1st level, while a phantom is
confined inside the crystalline binder’s psicrystal (but
not while it's fully manifested or banished to the Ethereal
Plane) and while the psicrystal is within arm’s reach of
the crystalline binder, it grants the crystalline binder a
+2 bonus with two skills determined by the phantom's
emotional focus. It also grants a +2 bonus on saving
throws against mind-affecting effects. These bonuses
increases to +4 at 12th level.

Lastly, once per day, when the crystalline binder
fails a saving throw against a mind-affecting effect, as
an immediate action she can shunt that effect into her
psicrystal’s consciousness instead of her own. When
she does so, she is not affected by the mind-affecting
effect, but for the normal duration of that effect, the
crystalline binder loses the bonuses on saving throws
against mind-affecting effects, the skill bonus, granted
by her phantom, psicrystal personality benefits, and
can't use this ability to shunt a mind-affecting effect into
the psicrystal's consciousness or manifest her phantom
in any way. When a mind-affecting effect is shunted into
the psicrystal's consciousness, spells such as *dispel magic*
and *break enchantment* can be cast on the crystalline
binder to end the effect's duration as if the crystalline
binder were affected by the mind-affecting effect.

This ability alters shared consciousness.

### **Crystalline Bond (Su)**

At 3rd level, as a swift action,
a crystalline binder can merge her psicrystal and
phantom into one, heavily armored creature of crystal
and ectoplasm. In order to use this ability, the phantom
must be either confined in the psicrystal’s consciousness,
or the psicrystal must be within reach of the phantom.

During a crystalline bond, the psicrystal can't be
damaged in any way, is not able to be targeted, and shares
its location with your phantom. A crystalline binder can
use crystalline bond a for number of rounds per day
equal to 3 + her crystalline binder level. The rounds
need not be consecutive. She can dismiss the effects of a
crystalline bond as a free action, but even if she dismisses
a crystalline bond on the same round that she used it, it
counts as 1 round of use. When a crystalline binder uses
this ability, her phantom immediately takes ectoplasmic
form if it has not already. If the phantom was previously
not in ectoplasmic form, it appears in ectoplasmic form
adjacent to the crystalline binder’s psicrystal.

In addition to all the benefits a phantom receives in
ectoplasmic form, while under the effects of crystalline
bond the phantom receives a +2 natural armor bonus
to its AC, and its damage reduction 5/slashing becomes
damage reduction 5/– during a crystalline bond. At 8th
level, the phantom gains a bite attack, as it grows a
crystalline jaw. This bite is a primary natural attack that
deals 1d6 points of damage plus the phantom’s Strength
modifier. At 13th level the natural armor bonus gained
from crystalline bond is increased to +4. At 15th level, the
phantom gains damage reduction 10/–. At 18th level, the
phantom gains a +2 size bonus to Strength, Constitution,
and Dexterity as it perfectly meshes the crystal and
ectoplasm of its form. At 20th level, the phantom gains
damage reduction 20/–.

This ability replaces bonded manifestation.

### **Phantom Recall (Su)**

When the crystalline binder
uses this ability to call the phantom back to her
consciousness, it is instead stored in her psicrystal. She
can activate crystalline bond as part of this action, but
doing so costs 1 extra round of crystalline bond. This
ability otherwise functions as normal.

This ability alters
phantom recall.

### **Fused Consciousness (Su)**

At 10th level, a crystalline
binder always gains the benefits of her shared wills
ability when her phantom is manifested, even if the
phantom is not bound to her psicrystal’s consciousness.
She can shunt the effect of a mind-affecting effect into
the consciousness of her psicrystal as the shared wills
ability even when the phantom is manifested, but doing
so causes the phantom to immediately retreat back into
the psicrystal's consciousness.

This ability alters fused
consciousness.

### **Dual Bond (Su)**

At 17th level, a crystalline binder can
use her crystalline bond ability a number of rounds per
day equal to 3 + twice her crystalline binder level.

This
ability alters and replaces dual bond.