Psychic Surgery? [Spoilers]

[Mergy]

I will be beginning the first book of this adventure soon, so I don't expect this to come up for awhile, but I want to get ahead of the problem.

Regaining memory for the PCs is a plot-significant event, and yet psychic surgery seems to be a cure-all for any amnesia or fugue state. The PCs even receive two of these scrolls in the notes from the count. So... is this an exception? Do the scrolls simply remove mental damage, and the fugue state mysteriously remains?

[voideternal]

I'm treating the PC's fugue as plot insanity only curable in book 3. My reasoning is that unlike normal insanity, the PCs' memories and (evil) personalities are irreversibly separated due to the sacrifice. When the PCs wake up in Briarstone Asylum, mentally, they are fresh new individuals, and later castings of psychic surgery will do nothing because their memories and personalities are healthy.

The plot twist is that the PCs were never insane to begin with. They are new individuals mistaking their lack of memory as amnesia.

[Mergy]

That's a good enough interpretation to run with. Thanks voideternal.