Retrospection

Retrospection [minor] by Iczer

‘You tell me the precise date, and I will tell you what I was doing’

The character can look backwards through time, to relive events as they happened rather than as he remembers. This effect is similar to an eidetic or enhanced memory, except that recall is not instantaneous and events have to be trawled through to recover them. Unlike a really good memory, the character see’s things as they happened to him (the memory is a shocking liar in a human being). The character can stop, rewind and pause a memory, going over subtle nuances again and again. He does have to search time though. Asking him to relive a memory without attaching a time frame means the character has to basically guess when he wants to look and then fast forward and rewind as necessary. A specific event that occurred at a memorable time in the character’s life takes 2D4 minutes to find. If a date is given, then the event can be found in 1D4 melee’s. The time required is halved if the event was a moment of particular focus (such as an exam studied for specifically for recall later) or of particular importance (the character’s wedding day for instance). Events with no particular time frame in mind takes 3 times as long to find (Last time you met Steve, was he carrying an I-Pod?) and really general events take twice as long again to find (when you go shopping, have you ever seen coffee on special?). events are witnessed in the character’s minds eye exactly as he witnessed them then. The GM will need to determine if an event was actually viewed from the character’s Point of view at the time of the recollection. (If he passed a cultist at a rally he may not have been directly looking at his face for instance).