South America 2, pg 150 wrote:1. Supernatural Transformation: The neo-human can transform himself into a supernatural being. While transformed, the neo-human's strength becomes supernatural, and his S.D.C. and hit points become M.D.C. points! The transformation temporarily halves the neo-human's I.S.P base. Any I.S.P. points over half are "spent" and cannot be regained until the transformation is over. Further more, every hour after the transformation, 2 I.S.P. are subtracted from the character's I.S.P. base, and cannot be regained until after the tranformation is over. When the I.S.P. base is utterly depleted, the transformation ends.
Example: Mentallia, a 6th level neo-human, has 312 I.S.P. She spends 37 I.S.P. on diverse powers during the course of a fight with an Arkhon cyborg (275 points remain). before she decides to undergo the transformation. This reduces her I.S.P base from 312 to 156 (of the 275 points she had, 119 are "lost"). She spends an additional 60 points in the fight (leaving her with 96 I.S.P) and after defeating the Arkhon cyborg, she remains super-charged for 2 more hours. During that time, her I.S.P. capacity is lowered by an additional 4 I.S.P., to 152; this does not affect her current I.S.P. (remains at 96), but even if she meditates, she can't regain more than 152 I.S.P. until the transformation power runs its full duration.
My question is, can the neo-human control the duration of his/her transformation? The line "She spends an additional 60 points in the fight (leaving her with 96 I.S.P) and after defeating the Arkhon cyborg, she remains super-charged for 2 more hours" seems to indicate that it was by choice she stayed transformed for 2 more hours, then willingly ended it. However, the next line "During that time, her I.S.P. capacity is lowered by an additional 4 I.S.P., to 152; this does not affect her current I.S.P. (remains at 96), but even if she meditates, she can't regain more than 152 I.S.P. until the transformation power runs its full duration" implies that he/she cannot.
Now, I've rolled up a first level neo-human who has 426 I.S.P. Using half to transform, that leaves him with 213 I.S.P. If he did nothing else psionicly, and could not end the duration voluntarily, that would make him stuck like that for 106.5 hours, or a little under 4 1/2 days (213 I.S.P./2 I.S.P. per hour).
I believe the neo-human should be able to choose, but others interpret it the other way. What say you?