Phantom Limb:

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Phantom limb: [Minor] by Iczer

'Look Buddy..I feel your pain. I feel your anguish. Mostly, I feel your liver, so don't push me today until I've had my coffee'

The character can cause a limb to simply vanish, becoming insubstantial and invisible to normal sight. The character retains a sense of touch (but not pain) while it is 'phantomised' giving him several advantages. Primarily he can extend his sense of touch to inside objects, allowing to feel out the contents of a safe, or the condition of a target's bones. This x-ray touch allows him to add +10% to relevant technical, mechanical and medical skills, assuming such an insight is viable (feeling the inner workings of a lock you are picking is fine, as is diagnosing broken bones and internal injuries.) In addition, a limb made 'phantom' can strike intangible characters, as well as astral creatures. The limb can be 'phantomised' at instantaneous speeds. The character can phase his limb out, strike a ghost and then phase it back in all as part of a normal action. As a phantom limb is intangible, it makes an effective escape from handcuffs.
The character can make even his head 'phantomised' allowing him to peer around corners without having the head shot at. While his head is phantomised, the character is immune to knockout and stun attempts, and he is able to see invisible and astral creatures.