Transplant Organ

	Transplant Organ
Ingredients	1 cloth, 3 blood
Cost	5 work units
Key words	Anatomist
Description	This procedure allows the surgeon to replace a lost organ (eyeball, kidney, liver, etc.), either restoring the original part or substituting the equivalent part taken from another natural creature. The new or restored organ becomes a permanent part of the patient’s pattern, and can be healed etc. normally as part of their body. The surgeon cannot replace the patient’s heart or brain; in particular, removing a living creature’s heart instantly kills them, without death count. By default, this has no mechanical effect beyond reversing evisceration, although it can reverse the mechanical effects of the lost organ (e.g. stopping the disease-like symptoms of some organ loss). It may be possible to transfer specific qualities such as spellcasting from the donor to the patient with research. This procedure cannot be used to graft organs from an undead or other supernatural creature, or organs invested via thaumaturgy; grafting such organs requires specific research. Note that this procedure can only replace like with like: it can, for instance, be used to replace one of a character’s kidneys with a different arm, but not to grant them a third kidney. This also applies to attempts to “replace” body parts missing from birth – if they were never part of the patient’s pattern, there’s nothing to replace. See Disability and Surgery for a statement on this subject.

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