Cleansing Touch

Cost: 4
Ability Type: Optional Spell Enhancement
Related Skill: Spellcasting
Prerequisites: Advanced Healing

By incorporating magical techniques designed to purge disease and poison into your healing spells (or vice versa), you are able to perform both tasks at once – adding a purifying effect to your healing magic, or a healing effect to your purifying spells. In either case this increases the spell's Difficulty by 2.

The bonus healing provided by this ability is equal to Power x 6 and causes Stun Shock equal to half the Wound Penalty healed (round up). This can be applied to any Essence spell that is capable of purging drugs, poison or disease, with anyone that the spell attempts to purge also receiving the healing effect.

When applying this ability to a healing spell, it gains the ability to purge all drugs, poisons or diseases with an Effect Strength of 2.5 x Power or less (round up). This can be applied to any Essence spell that heals damage – although in cases where a spell heals one person to harm another (or vice versa) only the recipient of the healing is purged. This purging effect also causes additional Stun Shock equal to Power x 1/2 (round down).