Lightning Mind (Mesmerist Knack) (2)

"Clurman! We have to be in Lhasa in 3 days. Fetch my overnight bag and my Tibetan dictionary!"

You have the ability to quickly process information and retain large amounts of information in memory for a time. You amaze people with your mental feats of recall.

System: When dealing with any task that involves rapid processing of information (speed reading, target recognition, converting Fahrenheit to celsius in the middle of burning building...) you may add your intuitive inspiration score to your dice pool.
You also have the ability to cram a large amount of information into your mind for short periods. The mesmerist rolls Intelligence+Academics and adds his Reflective Inspiration as automatic successes on the roll (assuming he has at least one success) he then divides the success in order to determine how long it takes to learn, How deep the information is, and how long it will last. The Mesmerist may hold only Knowledges in memory, and may only hold one at a time. Clearing memory takes a single day. The roll may be modified by up to +3 by a lack of learning resources.

Successes	Knowledge Score	Time To Learn	Duration
0	0	7 days	2 days
1	1	6 days	4 days
2	2	5 days	1 week
3	3	4 days	3 weeks
4	4	3 days	6 weeks
5	5	2 days	3 months

Example: Dr. Boniface has a brilliant idea for an innovation to a firearm. The only problem is that his main sphere of learning is Pharmacology. Undaunted, he decides to cram heavily before going into the lab and taking a whack at the new idea. He rolls Int+Academics and closets himself into the library. He scores 3 successes on his roll and has 3 reflective inspiration. Since he needs at least 3 dots to work on the project with his super scientific acumen and knacks, He elects to take six days with the material and splits his successes among knowledge score and duration. For a week, Boniface has effectively 3 dots in Science (Ballistics). Which is hopefully enough time for his R&D.

Later Boniface has to go to Portugal in search of certain types of roots for a particular medicine. Since Boniface speaks no Portuguese. He grabs a Portuguese dictionary on his way to board the plane. He gets 6 successes + an additional 3 for his reflective inspiration. At the hotel, He takes three days, learns Portuguese idiomatically(2 dots) and it lasts for 2 weeks... long enough to mount the necessary expedition.
on the last day of duration, the crammed knowledge begins to rapidly fade (with increasingly difficult skill checks as the day wears on.