The Dream Engine is calibrated to detect the final, lingering brainwave patterns of the departed, ready for their integration to the Unconscious Collective. As of Firmware Update 2.0, it can also detect the delta wave fluctuations caused by the presence of objects of paranatural or alien origin.
Upon activation, faint blue waves pulse from the device, cascading across the ground, becoming more vibrant around any detected objects in the area.
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Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You automatically detect all objects with Alien properties and humanoid remains within 300 feet of you for the next hour. You have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected items. When you detect objects, instead of learning nothing about them, you may observe each object with all of your senses.
Neil's eyes fill with black Miasma for a short time, a small stream emerging from his nose and ears, temporarily augmenting his senses to allow him to feel the necromantic energy generated by a corpse, and home in on it.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You automatically detect all corpses at least as big as a mouse within 50 feet of you for the next hour. You have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected items. You do not learn any details about the detected items.
Even if there are no corpses at least as big as a mouse within 50 feet of you, you become aware of the direction the closest one is in, as well as a rough sense of its distance from you.
Ware looks around the area almost obsessively, seeming to quantify each item around.
Exert your Mind and spend one minute.
You automatically detect all objects designed to hurt people, including explosives and weapons within 50 feet of you for the next hour. You have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected items. When you detect objects, instead of learning nothing about them, you may observe each object with all of your senses.
Vivian's eyes glisten for a moment with a golden sheen, before shifting back to normal; her spirituality expanding itself subtly, like strings that poke and prod on objects, sensing anything that could be of value to her and highlighting them in a gold aura with blue sparkles glimmering within.
Upon advancement, Marauders have an intuition of and are able to directly see where valuable items are within a 15 meter range.
This intuition can be so powerful, that they can sense if there is something valuable in a drawer or cupboard, without actually being capable of seeing what's inside.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You automatically detect all Item's of Value within 50 feet of you for the next hour. You have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected items. You do not learn any details about the detected items.
If no Item's of Value targets are within 50 feet of you, and then one enters range, you automatically detect it, even if this Effect is not active.
Ellis has spent so much time working with explosives that he can distinctly remember how they smell, to the point where he can pinpoint the location of any explosives or volatile chemicals that are nearby simply by sniffing the air.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You automatically detect all explosives / volatile chemicals within 50 feet of you for the next hour. You have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected items. When you detect objects, instead of learning nothing about them, you may observe each object with all of your senses.
The means by which any explosives / volatile chemicals are hidden or disguised is made clear to you, as well as how to access them if they are secured. This includes objects secured via the Stash Effect.
The detective squints, drawing on years of police experience to find any hidden drugs, weapons, or other illegal objects, no matter how well-hidden.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You automatically detect all illegal materials within 50 feet of you for the next hour. You have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected items. You do not learn any details about the detected items.
The Thief casts a container's worth of fine powder into the air. The particulates are drawn to any sort of object that is designed to detect people, including tripwires, security cameras, detection lasers, heat sensors, etc. The powder will not trigger these devices or interfere with their operation, but it does reveal their presence to the Thief.
The cloud drifts and swirls, subtly following the Thief for a minute.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must use up a container of fine powder in order to activate this Effect.
You automatically detect all object that are designed to detect people, including tripwires, security cameras, detection lasers, heat sensors, etc within 50 feet of you for the next hour. You have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected items. When you detect objects, instead of learning nothing about them, you may observe each object with all of your senses.
The detective squints, drawing on years of police experience to find any hidden drugs, weapons, or other illegal objects, no matter how well-hidden.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You automatically detect all illegal materials within 50 feet of you for the next hour. You have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected items. You do not learn any details about the detected items.