Scan

Scan: [minor] by Iczer

'i only saw him for half a second officer. 5 foot 8, dark hair, brown coat, suspicious gun bulge in pocket, blue jeans, faded and old, white sneakers with a bloodstain on the left instep. sorry but i only saw him for half a second.'

The character's brain sorts and collects data that passes infront of it, analysing and recalibrating it as necessary. a half second is equivilant to a minute's observation. even better, his brain collates this information for easy retreival. this is not photographic memory per se, more like a functional catalogung system.

[Rodney enters a bar. a simple sweep of the room finds his ex girlfriend and three armed men, as well as a guy at a pool table with a prison tattoo, all int he time it takes for the door to shut behind him.]

The scan works pretty much constantly, adding the following bonuses:

• Opponents are -50% to prowl checks around him.
• +2 to aimed and called shots.
• Limited eidetic memory: The character has a memory just as good as anyone else. This power does point out things and makes them obvious though. the scan reveals a lot of data in a short amount of time, but the character forgets it at his normal rate. this allows him to read twice as fast as any other person, and makes him a snap at visual puzzles (his brain automatically finds Wally)