The black sections on Exe's flesh has taken on a more metallic shimmer, resistant to the blood and plasma let loose with wounds, and the data corruptions of insanity with a deteriorating mind.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
A black hoop helix piercing on Wren's left ear shows how cool and unbothered she is.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
When fighting game music starts, Keys gets in the Zone! Increasing his focus by 10000%, making it so it's virtually impossible to hit him!! Or at least to see the damage.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
You may move at your normal speed and still maintain Concentration. Taking an Injury less than Severity 6 no longer interrupts Concentration.
He takes all the damage head on and turns the tables in the matter of seconds. He's not afraid of any little bullets, he's more afraid of the infant growing up to become a villain he might have to one day take down. So he decides to show that even normal people can fight back!
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Your Stress from Injuries is reduced to 0. Lasts three hours. Does not reduce Stress from Mind Damage.
Stress from Injuries acts as a dice bonus instead of penalty.
Ellis' time spent with the sword Esperachius has deepened his faith and helped him to rise above concerns of the flesh or the mind. He is no longer held back by injury or distraction of any kind, choosing instead to persevere and act in accordance with the Lord.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
Your Body and Mind Penalties are reduced to 0.
If you are Stunned, you may Exert your Mind to instead still take actions, but at a -2 penalty, for the duration of the Stun. If you are knocked out, drugged, or otherwise made unconscious, you may Exert your Mind to wake up.
Any dice penalty from being stunned, diseased, cold, hot, dizzy, sick, distracted, or similar circumstances is reduced to zero. Does not affect penalties from Effects you activated.
When the user is injured or mentally drained, the pictographic representations of flames running through beating hearts glow like a gentle flame.
The Stubborn Flame calls upon the spark of life that everything shares. Stoking it to a roaring flame that stands in defiance of the the mortal shell's injuries, helping the user compensate for even the most gruesome of wounds and light the way through the thickest of mental fogs.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
The mobster's been through tougher scrapes than this. A few cuts and bruises won't stop them.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries is reduced to 0. Does not reduce Stress from Mind Damage.