Ianthe is a very reasonable loan-giver, a stunning beauty, and a kind soul who couldn't possibly hurt a fly. People naturally gravitate to her side in any argument. How could this tiny, delightful woman be in the wrong?
Ianthe knows how she comes across. She's weak and harmless, yet fun and pretty enough for people to loose their lips around. She plays into it often in order to get people on her side. By far the most devilish part of her facade is that she is usually genuinely concerned.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Charisma rating is increased by 1. You may Exert your Mind to automatically gain an Outcome of 5 on any roll that uses Charisma (Cannot be used on combat rolls or Power activations).
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Flawed Arm - Your right arm, even healed, is fundamentally incompatible with your basic code. You suffer a -1 dice penalty against any roll requiring your right arm, and it renders in golden wireframe instead of normal flesh and blood.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Catagelophobia: if you allow yourself to be ridiculed or if someone gets the better of you in a social situation you must make a trauma roll.
You also gain the following effects:
REX's design is an unique blend of alien, apocalyptic, and ancient-looking technology, which, along with the beastly head and tail, give off the vibe of an odd, constructed creature more than just a plain old robot.
Altough they often complain about shoddy and maintenance costs, the chassis has seemingly whistood the wastes REX calls home for an unknown amount of time-- though that is no doubt partly due to its owner's expertise in engineering.
You get a cookie if you tell me which song that tagline references.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Xenometric Android. You are considered to be a Sapient, Non-Living Computer when targeted..
No single organ in your body is critical for life. If any of your body parts are separated from your body, you may take Actions with the severed part for three hours. You may reattach severed body parts by spending an Action and Exerting your Mind.
You no longer age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.
Your Injuries no longer degrade with time.
You cannot ignore or decrease the effects of Stress for any social rolls you make.
The Severity of any Injury caused by Electricity is increased by 2.
Spend an Action to activate. Select a target within 20 feet. You must use up Cigarette in order to activate this Effect. Roll Perception + Investigation at Difficulty 6. The target] may contest by Defending or Dodging.
If you succeed, your target will be restricted at their location by a physical, tangible binding. They cannot move to a new location, and any physical actions they take suffer a dice penalty equal to twice the contested Outcome from the Effect activation, except attempts to escape or break the binding, which only suffer half this penalty.
The binding around a target must be destroyed in order for them to break free. Breaking the binding requires a total amount of damage equal to twice the contested Outcome from the Effect activation. Damage from multiple attacks is cumulative and stacks linearly.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see Smoky tendrils.
This Gift's Cost is capped at 2 and cannot be increased further.
You must retain Concentration to keep up the effect; if your Concentration is interrupted, the effect will end.
After extensive training and practice, Bankston has mastered the art of inflicting overwhelming pain with his lash. Each strike is potent enough to leave his targets Suffering, making it difficult for them to speak or breath. The sound of his strikes echoes like an industrial weapon designed solely for delivering excruciating pain.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in combat with Whip like weapons (Ropes, Chains, Snakes).
+2 dice to all rolls with Whip like weapons (Ropes, Chains, Snakes). You may Defend against firearm attacks from any range using Whip like weapons (Ropes, Chains, Snakes).
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: The Crimson Curse Roll self control when a enemy is felled to not start consuming parts of them..
You also gain the following effects:
A puff of smoke occurs and as it dissipates a majestic white arctic fox appears.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate.
You transform into Arctic Fox for one hour or until you choose to end the Effect. You cannot transform into a flying creature. See the Extended System text for stats.
While transformed, you cannot use any equipment (including Artifacts and Consumables), and you do not have access to any of your Powers. Any equipment you are wearing transforms with you.
Injuries and Wound Level are carried over between forms. However, transforming can never kill you; you merely remain Incapacitated until your Injuries are sufficiently healed.
Target sees a traumatic memory from their past, or a traumatic memory from the user's past meshed into the targets memories.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Sapient target within 20 feet. Affected targets may resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 8. If they are incapacitated or unconscious, they fail automatically.
If they fail, your target will take 1 point of Mind damage and gain a new Trauma selected by the GM. This Trauma may be removed by Effects or mundane therapy, as normal. Affected targets are aware that they are being attacked and can generally tell who did it.
The detective has trained their eyes to notice the smallest of details.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
By focusing, the Thief may shroud their hands in shadowy tendrils that seek nearby objects like static-charged hairs. They cast themselves across any surface the Thief touches, acting as anchors that allow the Thief to scale even the sheerest walls.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You may move easily and without a roll in any of the following situations. Lasts 2 hours.
By slowing the hands of one of their watches, the time-traveler may interrupt and slow a target's movement through time. The target appears to be moving in slow motion for the duration.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Animate target within 20 feet. You must actively and obviously use a watch or clock to activate this Effect. Roll Intellect + Science at Difficulty 7.
If you succeed, the target will suffer a dice penalty equal to the Outcome for the next 2 Rounds. Dice pools may be reduced all the way down to 0 by this penalty. This breaks Concentration.
You may activate this Effect as a Reaction to contest any Action a valid target is taking, reducing their Outcome by your own. Your command has no impact beyond disrupting their Action.
The Android's skin is extremely pale, their eyes are yellow, and their body stays at room temperature. They do not bleed, and traditional medicine is ineffective at treating them. Furthermore, they may be hacked by any supernatural effect that could hack a computer.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: you are an android, with pale skin and yellow eyes. You are considered to be a Sapient, Non-Living Computer when targeted..
You are immune to damage from cold. If cold is a substantial component of other damage you would take (e.g. falling from a great distance into a vat of liquid nitrogen), that damage is reduced by 2 (in addition to Armor)
No single organ in your body is critical for life. Called Shots do no additional Damage to you. You may perceive the world through separated body parts, take Actions with them, and reattach them by spending an Action and Exerting your Mind.
Your Injuries no longer degrade with time. You do not age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.
You cannot ignore or decrease the effects of Stress for any social rolls you make.
The Severity of any Injury caused by electricity is increased by 2.
The survivalist spends a moment setting up a makeshift booby trap. The tripwires and pressure plates are so expertly hidden, they can only be noticed by those who have fallen victim to them before.
The victim is hit with a tiny curare dart. Pain wracks their body as a potent neurotoxin spreads through their veins.
Exert your Mind and spend 30 seconds to trap a region of any shape that contains your current location and fits entirely within 300 feet. This trap lasts one day or until triggered or disarmed. You must use up a dart in order to activate this Effect. Roll Intellect + Survival Difficulty 6.
The trap looks like a tripwire, a pressure plate, or a hidden switch. Only those who have seen this trap before can identify it as a trap. Anyone who is aware of the trap may intuitively avoid, trigger, or destroy it.
Any Living target that enters the chosen region will trigger the trap. The target may contest by rolling Body, Difficulty 6.
If the Contested Outcome is positive, the target takes that much Damage plus 2. The target's Armor is completely ignored.
The target suffers a -3 dice penalty for the next hour or until the Injury is healed. This dice penalty does not stack multiple times on the same target.
Instead of dealing Damage all at once, the Injury caused by this Power starts at Severity 1 and worsens at the rate of one level per Round until it reaches the Severity it would have otherwise been.