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Natural Weapons
Xaursi are always considered armed.
They can deal 1d3 lethal damage with unarmed strikes and
the attack doesn’t count as archaic. Xaursi gain a unique
weapon specialization with their natural weapons at 3rd
level, allowing them to add 1–1/2 × their character level
to their damage rolls for their natural weapons (instead of
just adding their character level, as usual)

Xaursi Resistances
Xaursi gain a +2 racial bonus to saving
throws against darkness, light, and shadow effects

Faerie Feathers
A xaursi can create motes of light that
dance across their bodies with incredible accuracy. Each
time the xaursi uses this ability, they choose one of the following benefits to gain. Activating or dismissing this
ability or changing to a different benefit is a move action.
»» The xaursi’s body sheds light in a 10-foot radius, as if they
were a lantern.
»» The xaursi gains a +2 racial bonus to one of the following:
Bluff checks to create a distraction or feint, Disguise checks
to change their appearance, or Stealth checks to hide. This
benefit is a sense-dependent ability that functions only
against creatures that can see the xaursi.
»» The xaursi gains a +2 racial bonus to dirty trick combat
maneuver attempts used to blind a creature. This benefit
is a sense-dependent ability that functions only against
creatures that can see the xaursi.
»» The xaursi gains resistance 2 against a single energy type (fire
or electricity)

Personal Communicator
Mk I Healing Serum (1)
Professional Clothes
Professional's Tools
Fire Extinguisher
Hygiene Kit
Basic Medkit

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Envoy Improvisation: Clever Feint
As a standard action, you can fake out an enemy within 60 feet, making that enemy open to your attacks. Attempt a Bluff check with the same DC as a check to feint against that enemy (though this isn’t a standard check to feint, so Improved Feint and Greater Feint don’t apply). Even if you fail, that enemy is flat-footed against your attacks (see page 276) until the end of your next turn. If you succeed, the enemy is also flat-footed against your allies’ attacks
until the end of your next turn. You can’t use clever feint against a creature that lacks an Intelligence score.
{The DC of this check is equal to either 10 + your opponent’s total Sense Motive skill bonus, or 15 + 1-1/2 × the opponent’s CR, whichever is greater.}

Skill Expertise Bluff and Sense Motive
Roll 1d6 (your expertise die) and add the result of the roll to your check as an insight bonus. You can use this and other expertise abilities as long as you have at least 1 Resolve Point remaining.
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Mystic Connection: Overlord

Connection Power (1): Inexplicable Commands (Su)
When one of your mind-affecting charm or compulsion spells
or spell-like abilities ends, the target loses all memory that
it was magically controlled or influenced. That creature still
remembers the actions it took, but may be confused by them.

Healing Touch
Once per day, you can spend 10 minutes to magically heal an
ally up to 5 Hit Points per mystic level.

Mindlink
You can form a mental link with creatures you touch, communicating information rapidly through it. You can use mindlink at will as a spell-like ability, though only once per day on any given individual.
Mindlink
School divination (mind affecting)
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range touch.
Area one creature
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw Will negates (harmless); Spell Resistance yes (harmless)
You link your mind to that of a touched creature to swiftly communicate a large amount of complex information in an instant. You decide what the target learns, limited to any amount of information that otherwise could be communicated in 10 minutes. This information comes in a series of visual images and emotional sensations, and it isn’t language dependent.

Forced Amity
You can spend 1 Resolve Point as a standard action to shunt positive emotions and thoughts through your connection, forcing a humanoid creature to become friendly to you for a time. This functions as charm person.

School divination
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range 25 + 5 ft./2 levels.
Target one creature or object
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance yes (harmless)
You determine whether a creature or object has been poisoned, is diseased, is cursed, or is suffering a similar affliction. If the target is poisoned or diseased, you automatically detect that fact and can determine the exact type of poison or disease with a successful DC 20 Intelligence or Wisdom check. If you are trained in Life Science or Medicine (depending on the nature of the poison or disease), you can attempt a DC 20 check of that skill if you fail your Wisdom or Intelligence check. If the target is cursed or suffering from a similar affliction, you must succeed at a DC 20 Intelligence or Wisdom check to determine that fact. You can then determine the exact nature of the curse with a successful DC 25 Mysticism check.

School divination
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range 60 ft.
Area cone-shaped emanation
Duration concentration, up to 1 minute/level
Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no
You detect all magic spells, effects, items, and objects (including those on or affecting creatures you can see), as well as hybrid items, in the area. You can’t detect magical traps in this way, as they are created with additional magic that wards them from this common spell. Each round you concentrate on the same area, you can determine if one magic source you detect is from a spell, magic item, or other effect, and the caster level (or item level) of the effect. You can’t determine if there are magic sources in areas you can’t see, or if there was a magic source in an area at one time but that has since expired.

School illusion
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Effect illusory sounds
Duration 1 round/level (D)
Saving Throw Will disbelief; Spell Resistance no
You create a volume of sound that rises, falls, recedes, approaches, or remains fixed. You choose what type of sound this spell creates when casting it and cannot thereafter change the sound’s basic character.

The volume of sound created can produce as much noise as 20 normal humans. Thus, you can create shouting, singing, talking, marching, running, or walking sounds, as well as sounds of battle or small explosions. You can make noises that sound like machines, the general chatter of distant conversation, or the roar of an alien predator, but you can’t make specific sounds such as intelligible speech or the exact hum of a particular starship’s engines.

School transmutation
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Targets one unattended object of no more than 10 lbs. or 1 bulk
Duration concentration
Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no
You point your finger at the target object, gaining the ability to lift it and move it at will from a distance. As a move action, you can propel the object as far as 15 feet in any direction, though the spell ends if the distance between you and the object ever exceeds the spell’s range. You can’t perform complex operations, such as firing a gun or using a computer, but you can shut a mechanical door or lid and work simple buttons to open or close automated doors or trigger an alarm.

School conjuration (healing)
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Targets one living creature
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw Will negates (harmless); Spell Resistance yes (harmless)
If the target of this spell has 0 Hit Points and is dying, it automatically stabilizes. If the creature later takes damage, it is no longer stable.

School tranmutation
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range 10 ft
Targets See Text
Duration See Text
Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance yes
Token spells are often some of the first minor changes that spellcasters produce when they begin experimenting with magic. Once cast, token spell enables you to perform simple magical effects for 1 hour. The effects are minor and have severe limitations. You can slowly lift one item of light bulk. You can alter items in a 1-foot cube each round, coloring, cleaning, soiling, cooling, warming, or flavoring them. You can create small objects, but they look artificial and are extremely fragile (they can’t be used as tools or weapons). You can illuminate an object to shed dim light in a 30-foot radius.

Token spell lacks the power to duplicate any other spell effects. Any actual change to an object (beyond moving, cleaning, or soiling it) persists for only 1 hour.

School enchantment (charm, mind-affecting)
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Targets one humanoid creature
Duration 1 hour/level
Saving Throw Will negates; Spell Resistance yes
This charm makes a humanoid creature regard you as its trusted friend and ally (treat the target’s attitude as friendly). If the creature is currently being threatened or attacked by you or your allies, however, it receives a +5 bonus to its saving throw.

The spell does not enable you to control the charmed creature as if it were an automaton. It is unlikely to attempt to harm you, but it is also unlikely to attack any of its true friends or allies. You can try to give the target suggestions, but you must succeed at an opposed Charisma check to convince it to do anything it wouldn’t ordinarily do. (Retries of this check are not allowed.) An affected creature never obeys suicidal or obviously harmful suggestions. Any act by you or your apparent allies that threatens the charmed creature breaks the spell. You must speak the creature’s language to communicate your suggestions, or else be good at pantomiming.

School enchantment (compulsion, language-dependent, mind-affecting)
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Targets one living creature
Duration 1 round
Saving Throw Will negates; Spell Resistance yes
You give the target one of the following commands, which it obeys to the best of its ability at its earliest opportunity. If the target can’t carry out your command on its next turn, the spell automatically fails.

Approach: The target moves toward you as quickly and directly as possible for 1 round, taking no other actions and triggering reactions (such as attacks of opportunity) for this movement as normal.

Drop: The target drops whatever it is holding. It can’t pick up any dropped item until its next turn.

Fall: The target falls to the ground and remains prone for 1 round. It can otherwise act normally.

Flee: The target moves away from you as quickly and directly as possible for 1 round, taking no other actions and provoking reactions (such as attacks of opportunity) for this movement as normal.

Halt: The target is dazed for 1 round.

School divination (mind-affecting)
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Targets one creature
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw Will half; Spell Resistance yes
You divine the most vulnerable portion of your opponent’s mind and overload it with a glut of psychic information. The target can attempt a Will saving throw to halve the damage dealt by this spell. This spell has no effect on creatures without an Intelligence score.

1st: When you cast mind thrust as a 1st-level spell, it deals 2d10 damage to the target.

School conjuration (healing)
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range touch
Targets one living creature
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw Will half (harmless); Spell Resistance yes (harmless)
With a touch, you heal and invigorate your target, restoring a number of Hit Points. If the target regains all of its Hit Points as a result of this healing, you can apply the remaining healing to yourself, as long as you are a living creature. On the other hand, if this isn’t enough to restore all the target’s Hit Points, you can transfer any number of your own Hit Points to the target, healing the target that amount. You can’t transfer more Hit Points than you have or more Hit Points than the target is missing.

Mystic cure restores a number of Hit Points to your target depending on the spell’s level.

1st: 1d8 + your Wisdom modifier
2nd: 3d8 + your Wisdom modifier
3rd: 5d8 + your Wisdom modifier
4th: 7d8 + your Wisdom modifier
5th: 9d8 + your Wisdom modifier
6th: 11d8 + your Wisdom modifier

In addition, unlike most healing, when you cast mystic cure as a spell of 4th-level or higher, you have two options to enhance its effects. The first option is to restore an extra 5d8 Hit Points with a 4th-level mystic cure spell, an extra 7d8 Hit Points with a 5th-level mystic cure spell, or an extra 9d8 Hit Points with a 6th-level mystic cure spell. The second option is to bring a target that died within 2 rounds back to life. In addition to healing such a creature, the spell returns the target to life, and the target takes a temporary negative level for 24 hours. This spell can’t resuscitate creatures slain by death effects, creatures turned into undead, or creatures whose bodies were destroyed, significantly mutilated, disintegrated, and so on.

Casting this spell doesn’t provoke attacks of opportunity.

School divination
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range touch
Targets one creature
Duration 24 hours
Saving Throw Will negates (harmless); Spell Resistance yes (harmless)
For 24 hours, the target can read, understand, and communicate to the best of its ability in up to three languages that you already know. This doesn’t change the physical nature of the creature (if it lacks a means of speech, it still can’t talk) or its attitude toward you. It does, however, allow intelligent creatures that normally have no language to understand and (if physically capable) communicate in the languages granted by this spell.

Professor Spectrum Silvervanes is a pudgy (mostly feathers … honest!) little owl man, standing a whopping three feet tall, and weighing in at a grand total of 50 pounds … possibly soaking wet? His feathers are a medium charcoal grey, tending towards ash on the outer edges. Upon close observation, the vanes of the feathers are actually a metallic silver, but most people never bother to look that closely at his otherwise drab plumage. Unless of course he happens to be doing his impression of a solar-powered lightshow …. Then the silver is really set off by the point of light cascading across his feathers (easily most visible on the wings.)

He is most often found dressed in a tweed coat and slacks, thick spectacles, and a distinct lack of shoes or gloves (as talons tend not to mix well with these things.)

Many species are just getting going in their third decade, but since xaursi become adults somewhere between 5-8 years of age and rarely live beyond 50-55 without technology, he considers himself to be “getting on in years” at 38.

Spec, as his few friends call him, is often easily distracted, tends to fixate on minutiae, and sometimes a little out of touch with others. On the other hand he is also kind and sympathetic, loves to talk, and will help most people for the price of asking.

Spectrum Silvervanes was once a young xaursi on a planet called Ashaleth in the outer region of the Xa-Osoro system out in the Vast. He was born about 270 years after a hideous event where one of the divine stars in the center of the system essentially exploded …. And took the xaursi homeworld and most of the inner system with it.

Now, xaursi are dimorphic, born to subraces “blessed” by one of the two stars. Spec happens to be Oso, blessed by Osoro the Dark … also the star that exploded. The young owl never could get his head around the idea that Osoro was dead, but xaursi were still born dedicated to him. This just didn’t make sense, especially in light of young Spec’s seemingly mystical way of convincing people to do what he wanted, and then mysteriously forget why they would do such a thing.

So despite the laughter of his fellow gloom-birds, Spec set out on a personal quest to prove his own theory. He believed that Osoro did not abandon his people, but instead was a fledgling god whilst in a star, and upon his maturation burst out from his physical stellar form and spread out through the galaxy as an idea or pattern of thought.

To prove this, Spec slowly made his way to the Arcanamirium on Absalom Station and enrolled in classes to pursue Xenoneurology (to better understand the new realms of Osoro) and classic Hypnotism (to get answers from said realm.) He also quickly realised that advanced schooling is definitely not cheap, and was forced to work and save creds to take classes when he could.

It took many many years, but eventually his moonlighting at the Eyeswide Agency was sufficient to seem him through to his degrees. He was even offered an adjunct professorship. Unfortunately it was teaching a hated second year class that no one else wanted (The Principles of Applied Psychic Manipulation on Conflict De-escalation.)

During his second semester teaching and snooping simultaneously, he realized that he was never going to see more than what was directly available at that point. Serendipitously, the evening of that revelation he received an invitation to a dinner party that promised to be anything but ordinary...

Dataphiles Champion

Spec Silvervanes is a….. well he tries really hard in combat.. In the first round of combat, he usually flies up to some advantageous position. He also likes to distract people with his Clever Feint ability

(Natural Weapon)
[dice=Attack]1d20+2[/dice]
[dice=Slashing Damage]1d3+6[/dice]

(Tactical Numbing Beam)
[dice=Attack]1d20+3[/dice]
[dice=Cold Damage]1d6[/dice] non-lethal

(Azlanti Pacification Rifle)
[dice=Pacify!]1d20+3[/dice]
[dice=Damage]1d8[/dice]

(Static Arc Pistol)
[dice=Attack]1d20+3[/dice]
[dice=Damage]1d6+2[/dice]

Mind Thrust - Will Save 15 [/ ooc]
[dice=Psychic Damage]2d10[/dice]

[ooc]Clever Feint
[dice=Bluff]1d20+8+2+1d6[/dice] If successful, opponent is flat footed to everyone until the end of Spec's next turn

In ship combat, he serves as Captain, 2nd rate science officer, or 3rd string Gunner. As a Captain, she likes to lead off with a nice spot of encouragement.

[spoiler=Mystic Gunnery]
[dice=Attack]1d20+7[/dice]
[dice=Laser]2d4[/dice]