Reserve Vitality

Reserve vitality [Major] by Iczer

'Erghhh......wow, how long was i out?'

The character has a backup reserve of health and vitality, which act as HP and SDC, but take some time to take effect.

1) Reserves: The character possesses a number of reserve HP equal to his normal HP total. His reserve SDC is equal to 10 times his PE score, Plus 25 per level.

2) Recovery: After 15 minutes of rest (even unconsciousness, and even death in some cases counts as rest), the character starts recovering 1 HP and 1 SDC per minute, bleeding them from reserve to normal, until His HP and SDC are full, or until his 'reservoir' runs dry.

3) Enhanced recovery: By directing his recovery, he may use 25 SDC to repair a broken limb, or 60 to regrow it. An eye or small organ requires 30 SDC and major organs require 90 (and the character may expire in the meantime). In all instances it takes the usual 1 minute per point transferred, but no HP or SDC are restored in this process, only basic repairs and replacements.

4) Surviving death: Once a character is dead this power may stop functioning, but until then it is tenacious, when the character is below his PE in HP he is usually deceased. After the 15 minutes of rest, if the body is still mostly intact, it recovers it's first HP. The character must make a saving throw VS Coma (Base chance of 15% plus any PE or superpower bonus). If he is successful, he has passed from the realm of dead to the very nearly dead. the healing rate slows, every 5 minutes he recovers another HP from his reserves until he is at 1 HP or more. At this point he is alive (but not conscious for 6d6 minutes) if he runs out of reserve HP at any point, he reverts to his dying status until something revives him, or he passes away. If it is necessary to grow a new organ, he must regrow that first before climbing his way through the negative HP.

5) Increasing the reservoir: The reserve HP and SDC recover at one half the normal rate as the character, but recover at the same time (so a day of medical treatment heals 6 SDC AND 3 reserve SDC). Healing factors and regenerative powers work at 1/10th normal rate on reserves.