Therapy:
quote:
So you've gotten some cyberware installed, maybe some bioware, but it's starting to eat into your psyche. Well there is hope. Come see me at my clinic and we can work on a program to help you adjust to the new and better you.
-- Doctor Quinton Callahan
It is possible to recover some humanity from cybernetic or bio implants, though it is costly and it is per piece of cyberware or bioware installed, using the following as a basis for the rules:
Per Chrome 2 pg 101:
Therapy is a regimen (referred to as "torture" by patients) designed to assist the patient in recovering use of damaged muscles and nerves. In game terms, therapy lowers the humanity loss from any injury/implant as the patient is helped to understand what has happened and how to use his/ her new parts; and is given practice in using them.
There a re three levels of therapy: Outpatient, where the patient attends therapy sessions at the clinic/hospital; Inpatient, where the patient lives in the hospital and practices every day under medical supervision; and Intensive Care Therapy, where the patient not only lives in the facility but has his/her nervous system and psyche probed each day for "fine-tuning" (in essence, a trained psychological team rebuilds the patient's personality into one that minimizes identity loss. By the time they're done, the psych team knows more about the person than the person does, so you'd better trust these people with all of your innermost secrets). The time needed for successful therapy is based on the complexity of the operations performed. Add up the surgery codes as follows:
- 4 Negligible = 1 Minor
- 2 Minor= 1 Major
- 2 Major = 1 Critical
The time needed for each kind of therapy is listed below. The surgeries add together, so the therapy time for multiple surgeries is determined by the surgery total. For instance, a patient who experienced 1 Major surgery and 3 Minor surgeries would treat therapy time as if he had had 1 Critical and one Minor surgery ( 1 Major + (3 Minors/ 2))=22 weeks of out-patient therapy or 11 weeks of inpatient/IC therapy.
THERAPY |
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Surgery | Out | Inpatient/ICT |
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Negligible | 2 weeks | 1 weeks |
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Minor | 6 weeks | 3 weeks |
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Major | 8 weeks | 4 weeks |
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Critical | 16 weeks | 8 weeks |
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THERAPY COSTS AND EFFECTS |
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Therapy | Cost/Week | Time Required | HP** |
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Outpatient | 1,000 eb | 14 hours/week | 25% |
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Inpatient | 5,000 eb | 168 hours/week | 33% |
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ICT | 10,000 eb | 168 hours/week | 50% |
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In these sorts of therapy, you live in the facility 24 hours a day and they don't wont to let you out ...
** Humanity Points Regained