Cram Session

(••• Time, • Mind) Guide to the Technocracy 216

Investigation takes research and plenty of time. Anyone who's faced the occult knows that tracking down enough clues to piece together the truth can take countless hours—or even weeks—of searching through musty tomes. If 90 percent of all occult research is garbage, recognizing and sorting through the remaining 10 percent is an epic undertaking.

Enlightened investigators learn how to sort such data with amazing speed. This Procedure allows agents to process vast amounts of data quickly, using a combination of research skills and intuition to find useful information most efficiently. Information specialists, especially those in the Ivory Tower, can base entire careers on this Procedure. The Effect is coincidental; after all, in a proper research institution, computer-aided searches and keyword engines have an amazing reputation. When consulting musty Lovecraftian tomes, it takes a truly Enlightened mind to separate brilliant insights from a meandering mess.

[Scoring two successes reduces research time to half normal, three successes to a third and so on. Alternatively, you can run this system like the Intel Procedure. Set a base number of successes to find the information, and decrease the time required for each additional success.]