Magic Material: Memori Foam

How much memory foam do I have to eat to remember why I put up with most of this shit?

- Jon Baker

No information is truly lost to entropy. It sublimes into the seething sea of virtual particles and quantum interactions. But sometimes this potential information can accumulate as Memori Foam, a semi-tangible substance:  In areas with unusual energy qualities, in the tissues of some strange creatures, or through specific scientific or magical processes.

Memori Foam comes in accumulations of one or more doses, which can have many functions.  The more common uses include:

• Recovery:  If a dose is smeared across the surface of a broken item or damaged text, then it forms a powerful psychic impression, allowing all people who touch it in the future to gain an insight into the complete text or shape of the item. Those with the right skills may use this ability to recreate a copy of the item.
• Spellcasting:  Ingesting the foam allows one to cast or write down any spell, even if they are not of an appropriate level/tier or have not studied it before.  The spell cast depends on the number of doses consumed:
• One dose per spell level.
• If the spell is not one allowed by your classes, it requires 2 extra doses.
• Wish spells may not be case in this way.
• Remembrance:  A piece of information is revealed to the ingester. At their preference this information is either something they are specifically seeking out, or something generally relevant and useful to the situation. The number of doses consumed dictates how obscure the information may be:
• 1 Dose – Reveals a memory from their own past.  This may be a lost or suppressed memory.
• 2 Doses – Information relevant to the ingester’s own skills, training, or history, but not necessarily something the ingester has been directly exposed to in the past. This includes anything which might reasonably be gleaned with a skill check of up to DC 30.
• 4 Doses – Information that is not relevant to the ingester’s own personal skills, training, or history. But this excludes concealed knowledge.
• 8 Doses – May be used to gain even a concealed or hidden piece of knowledge being sought.  If there is some reason the knowledge does not exist or would be completely inaccessible (e.g. due to godlike power) or is uncertain (i.e. some aspects of the future are uncertain), then the ingester gains this information, but finds they’ve only consumed one dose of foam.