I'm with Indirik on this, I thought certamen was supposed to resolve the real-time/game-time issue. You continue to accrue stuff as normal, but you only have whatever you had at the start of the "action" sequence to do stuff.
I would also strongly disagree that the system only supports blasters as ^ban^ suggests. It may make certain archetypes difficult (though I think that has more to do with the GM approvals than anything inherent in the system) and I have a whole plan laid out on how to do a mind-control character that should work just fine.
