Contortionist
You are unusually flexible, and may squeeze through small spaces with ease.
Reduce the Difficulty of any roll to escape a grapple or Dexterity roll involving flexibility by 2.
Convenient Klutz
Your manner of tripping over yourself is so unpredictable, it makes you difficult to target.
When you are attacked, you may spend a Reaction to instead fall on your face and take a Severity-1 Injury, avoiding the attack. Only works if your Dexterity rating is 1.
Focused
You’re cool under pressure.
Stress from Mind Damage is reduced by 2.
Hemophilia
Your blood doesn't clot as normal, making any Injury a potentially lethal one.
All Injuries Severity 2 or higher degrade at a rate of 1 Severity per minute. Stabilizations are made at +2 Difficulty, and all Proper Stabilizations require a blood transfusion.
Illiterate
Your reading and writing are rudimentary at best.
If you are capable of reading or writing at all, it is restricted to 5-6 year old level.
Nightmares: eaten by ducks
Your sleep is plagued with horrible nightmares.
At the start of each Contract and each time you fall asleep, make a Self-Control roll. If you fail, you take one Mind damage.
Short
You are very short, 4’6” at most.
You have difficulty reaching or manipulating objects designed for normal adults, and your move speed is reduced by half.
Mute
You cannot speak.
You may communicate with the GM and describe your actions, but cannot talk to a player character or an NPC unless everyone concerned uses sign language or you write things down.
Vengeful
An insult to or an attack on your person simply cannot be tolerated.
Each time someone wrongs you or disrespects you in a major way, you must succeed a Self-Control roll to resist taking revenge.
Anti-Social
You struggle with engaging in social interaction.
In order to start a conversation with someone you have known for less than an hour, you must succeed a Self-Control roll. If you become the center of attention in a large group, you must succeed a Self-Control roll or Exert your Mind to avoid fleeing or shutting down.
Compulsive Liar
You have trouble with honesty and generally find it much easier and safer to make things up.
Any time you are asked about yourself, or are offering information about yourself, you must succeed a Self-Control roll in order to tell the truth. If you are ever caught in a lie, you must Exert your Mind in order to come clean; otherwise you must attempt to justify the initial lie with more lies.
Paranoia
You have a natural distrust of everyone around you, and are always on edge looking for threats.
You must roll Self Control in order to let another person remain in a position where they could easily hurt you, or to allow someone else to perform a task which is necessary to keep yourself safe. If you fail, you may Exert your Mind to overcome your fear.
Delusions of Grandeur
You believe yourself to be the very best, one of the elite, superior to anyone else you meet.
You must succeed a Self-Control roll in order to believe something or take an action which contradicts this delusion.
Lycanthropy
You are possessed by an impulsive aspect that physically and mentally transforms you on the full moon and the surrounding nights.
At the start of each Contract, roll a d10 and multiply the result by 2 to determine how many nights until the full moon. On the two nights leading up to the full moon, you experience minor physical changes and all Mind rolls are +1 Difficulty. On the night of the full moon, you transform fully into an obviously unusual creature and all Mind rolls are +2 Difficulty.
Bane: water
You are weak to a specific material or type of attack.
All Damage you take from your weakness is increased by 2 and ignores any non-material Armor you may have.
Sore Thumb
You stick out like a. . .
You automatically fail all Stealth rolls, and rolls to notice or locate you always succeed.
Deaf
You cannot hear.
You automatically fail any rolls which require hearing, and are at -3 dice for multi-sensory rolls.
Sensitive
You're emotionally fragile, and very likely to be mentally and emotionally scarred by your experiences.
You have four Limits, instead of the usual three.
Weak Willed
You are highly susceptible to any attempts to influence you.
You are at +2 difficulty to resist mental, emotional, or social Effects, as well as to resist standard social rolls.
Blind
You cannot see.
Any rolls which require sight fail automatically, and any actions which are made easier by sight are rolled at up to +3 Difficulty, depending on the specific action.
Dark Fate
When things go wrong for you, they go very wrong.
Any time you roll an Outcome of 0, it counts as a botch (-1). You also cannot use Will to Survive to reduce the Severity of incoming Injuries.
Giftless: preventing mold
You have some pressing issue which forces you to spend your rewards from Contracts on simple survival.
You cannot receive Gifts, or spend Gift or Improvement points.
Imbued
After accepting your first Invitation to a Contract, you are Imbued, altering you in several ways.
After completing a Contract, your learning and conditioning improves rapidly. However, you require the Contracts to advance. You have an indomitable Will to Survive. You may Exert your Mind to improve the Outcome of your Actions. You are highly receptive to therapy and may "cure" one of your Traumas with counseling on a Downtime.
Unshakable
You're hardly human anymore, and actions that once troubled you hardly seem to matter at all anymore.
You are at -2 Difficulty to all Trauma rolls. You receive this automatically upon reaching Veteran status (25 victories), and cannot take it prior to that.
Seen Things
Your exposure to unspeakable horrors has hardened you.
You are at -1 Difficulty to all Trauma rolls. Requires Seasoned status (10 victories).
Pathetic
You are so pathetic, no one takes you seriously as a threat.
As long as your Brawn rating is 1, opponents must roll Mind and achieve an Outcome of 4 or higher to attack you instead of other targets in Combat.
Less Than Human: Ducks
There is some particular class of person that you consider wholly deplorable and undeserving of compassion.
If you have the Limits Murder, Atrocities, and/or Life-Saver, they do not apply to your chosen class of person.
Beautiful
You're quite the specimen!
Rolls where your good looks could help– be it via sexual attraction, first impression, or trustworthiness– are at -2 Difficulty. Social interactions should be role-played accordingly. Effect activations are unaffected.
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