Excision

Ability Type: Spell, Difficulty 19
Provided By: True Healing

Spell Type: Essence, Healing
Form: Direct Touch
Function: Healing
Power Cost: Special (equal to one third of target's Physique, round up)
Duration: Fleeting
Notes: Refusable

Rather than exposing a patient to the crudities of conventional surgery, this spell allows a true healer to excise foreign matter or diseased tissue from a patient by simply provoking their own body to reject it – while simultaneously using life energy to minimise the damage this causes.

Successfully casting Excision does not guarantee that the surgery itself is successful; instead when performing surgery using the spell its Surgery Total is used in place of the normal First Aid Check to determine success or failure. Whether or not the sugery is successful however, Excision provokes only half the damage that would be normal for the procedure. Excision is particularly useful for removing Embedded projectiles, in order to facilitate proper healing.

Surgery Total: Equal to Casting Total +3
Injury Inflicted: Half the normal amount provoked by this form of surgery.