Step: Rank+WIL
Action: Standard
Strain: 0
Skill Use: No
The adept commits the content of a book or other written text to memory for use at a later time. They need not know the language the text is written in.
The adept makes a Book Memory test against the book’s Mystic Defense — typically 5 for ordinary books, but higher for magical texts. The Mystic Defense of a grimoire is equal to the Dispel Difficulty of the highest-Circle spell it contains (Player's Guide, p. 252 and p. 265). If successful, the adept memorizes Book Memory rank pages per minute.
While the book remains memorized the content is readily accessible — the adept can read, transcribe, or look up information as though they have an actual copy of the book in front of them.
An adept can have up to Book Memory rank texts memorized at one time. They may voluntarily discard currently memorized texts to memorize new ones.
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