Lie Detection (Technique)
A Technique whose effects vary according to whether the target speaks the truth or not.
Technique Type: Specialty / Support
Performance: Standard Action
Delivery: Selective
Range: 20ft. (Selective)
Effect Type: Active Channeling
Duration Tier (DT): Mn
Duration: 1 Minute
When acquiring this Technique, the first thing the player designs is how the effects bestow themselves. As an unmodified Technique, these effects can be any harmless auditory, visual or any other similar manifestations— for example, a red light at the tip of the user's finger for a lie, and a green one for the truth. These effects cannot extend too far from the user or subject, cannot serve another purpose other than distinguishing between truths and falsehoods, and as already mentioned, must be harmless in nature. That being said, this Technique can be improved to bestow such types of effects for either a truth or a lie through the use of Modifications.
When adding Modifications to Lie Detection, some of the usual requirements of Modifications are ignored, utilizing the following rules instead:
The Modifications are explicitly added as the manifestations of either a truth or a lie.
Only Technique Features with a Delivery of Selective can be added as a Modification to this Technique.
The effects hailing from the Modification affect only the target subject.
The effects from the Modification must be exclusively detrimental (left up to the GM's discretion).
The Modifications do not adopt Lie Detection's Effect Type or Duration; they maintain their own, commencing the moment the triggering lie or truth is stated.
Passive or Active Channeling Techniques Features cannot be added as Modifications to this Technique.
These specific set of rules prevent the abuse of this Technique as a method of generating limitless advantages by purposefully triggering its effects. I.e., so that the Technique is not customized to provide beneficial effects when used on allies.
Withheld Information: A third manifestation reveals when the speaker is consciously withholding information relevant what was asked of them. This additional manifestation, as with the original two, can also be Modified.