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Exert your Mind (unless you are Sculpting) and spend one minute. Select a Location within arm's reach. You must be in an area abundant with Underground.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of stone originating at the target:
- Sculpt: Sculpt a surface made of stone up to 20 feet by 20 feet. You may make aesthetic changes or minor functional improvements like a ladder or stairs. You may sculpt windows, doors, and similar alterations into structures you created with this Effect.
- Wall: Create a straight wall made of stone up to 20 feet long, 5 feet high, and 6 inches thick. This wall can also be used to create a bridge, ramp, or similar. It must be free-standing.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts indefinitely but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 3 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
You may sculpt your walls, domes, or tunnels as you create them, without any additional activation time or cost.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see Unholy Blood Magic Ritual.
- When narrating disturbing content, be cognizant of your group's tone and accommodating to those who would like to "fast forward" through the description.
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-shredding attacks.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- This Effect produces the substance you are controlling unless it is drawn from the environment via “Required Environment” Drawbacks.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
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Charlatans
“Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.”
― Criss Jami
Nowadays you can't go a day without some phony prophet trying to peddle their wares to you.
Driven by the increased interest in the supernatural, charlatans from palm readers to televangelists are everywhere. And while the vast majority of witches, psychics, magicians, hypnotists, cures, potions, faith healers, and clairvoyants are complete fakes, they do make a living.
As the saying goes, "it's easier for an actor to make it in alternative medicine than Hollywood."
Most people scoff at these clearly-phony supernatural services, yet those same people often buy into at least one scam.
The most dangerous charlatans are the self-styled monster hunters who carry a mall-ninja arsenal and guns with silver bullets. Most have never encountered anything supernatural and do absolutely nothing besides burn some sage and patrol the area for a night or two. Even so, those who are superstitious, fearful, or desperate enough will hire them to solve the problems they simply don't understand. In some cases with disastrous results.
For Contractors, charlatans are red herrings and obstacles. Clumsy fakes that conjure a smokescreen of misinformation and escalate the situations they're in.
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Concert Barrier
Stop the haters from getting to me!
Mariana uses her abilities in waterbending and is able to construct objects using water.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action. Select a Location within 50 feet. You must be in an area abundant with water.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of Water originating at the target:
- Sculpt: Sculpt a surface made of Water up to 40 feet by 40 feet. You may make aesthetic changes or minor functional improvements like a ladder or stairs. You may sculpt windows, doors, and similar alterations into structures you created with this Effect.
- Wall: Create a straight wall made of Water up to 40 feet long, 10 feet high, and 12 inches thick. This wall can also be used to create a bridge, ramp, or similar. It must be free-standing.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts indefinitely but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 6 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
You may sculpt your walls, domes, or tunnels as you create them, without any additional activation time or cost.
You may choose to make your modifications dangerous. If you do, anyone who tries to climb or move across your alterations takes 2 Damage each time they do so. Such alterations are obviously dangerous.
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-shredding attacks.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- This Effect produces the substance you are controlling unless it is drawn from the environment via “Required Environment” Drawbacks.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
Textbook Projection
The Dream Engine's preliminary calibrations have begun. Fine detail is still a little tricky, but the hardlight projector can now reliably produce simple shapes at scale. If you can imagine it, you can build it, provided "it" is a smooth, mostly featureless polyhedron of translucent blue light.
Exert your Mind (unless you are Sculpting) and spend an Action. Select a Location within 50 feet.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of hard-light originating at the target:
- Sculpt: Sculpt a surface made of hard-light up to 40 feet by 40 feet. You may make aesthetic changes or minor functional improvements like a ladder or stairs. You may sculpt windows, doors, and similar alterations into structures you created with this Effect.
- Wall: Create a straight wall made of hard-light up to 40 feet long, 10 feet high, and 12 inches thick. This wall can also be used to create a bridge, ramp, or similar. It must be free-standing.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts one minute but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 6 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
You may sculpt your walls, domes, or tunnels as you create them, without any additional activation time or cost.
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-shredding attacks.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
Unexpected Wall
We chased ‘em round the corner and found ’em on the other side of a brick wall, speeding away
The spy can twist the urban environment to their whims, erecting fences, walls, and barriers as needed. They whistle and gesture to where the wall should be, and the surrounding materials fly into place.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within 50 feet. You must be in an area abundant with man-made structures and materials.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of standard building materials originating at the target:
- Wall: Create a straight wall made of standard building materials up to 40 feet long, 10 feet high, and 12 inches thick. This wall can also be used to create a bridge, ramp, or similar. It must be free-standing.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts one minute but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 6 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-shredding attacks.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
Librarian's Dominion
Over spectacles he peered and saw all within his influence.
Sergeres held his creation forward and the manuscript flipped open. The pages slowly turning, revealing a soft light within. His power was that of the author. But this power was even more sacred. As it's caretaker, the manuscript was his charge. Just like a Librarian, it was his duty to protect it. In turn, it would protect him.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend one minute. Select a Location within arm's reach. You must be in an area abundant with The Firmament.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of Paper originating at the target:
- Sculpt: Sculpt a surface made of Paper up to 20 feet by 20 feet. You may make aesthetic changes or minor functional improvements like a ladder or stairs. You may sculpt windows, doors, and similar alterations into structures you created with this Effect.
- Wall: Create a straight wall made of Paper up to 20 feet long, 5 feet high, and 6 inches thick. This wall can also be used to create a bridge, ramp, or similar. It must be free-standing.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts indefinitely but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 3 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
You may sculpt your walls, domes, or tunnels as you create them, without any additional activation time or cost.
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-shredding attacks.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- This Effect produces the substance you are controlling unless it is drawn from the environment via “Required Environment” Drawbacks.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
Burrow
Daisy digs through the earth, hands and feet kicking earth away and opening a yawning tunnel in seconds flat.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within arm's reach. You must be in an area abundant with natural earth and/or raw minerals.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of earth originating at the target:
- Tunnel: create a tunnel through earth that is up to 6 feet in diameter and 20 feet long. It may curve as desired.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts three hours but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 6 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
- Creating a tunnel through / under the supporting parts of a structure may collapse it.
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-shredding attacks.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- This Effect produces the substance you are controlling unless it is drawn from the environment via “Required Environment” Drawbacks.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
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Unexpected Wall
We chased ‘em round the corner and found ’em on the other side of a brick wall, speeding away
The spy can twist the urban environment to their whims, erecting fences, walls, and barriers as needed. They whistle and gesture to where the wall should be, and the surrounding materials fly into place.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within 50 feet. You must be in an area abundant with man-made structures and materials.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of standard building materials originating at the target:
- Wall: Create a straight wall made of standard building materials up to 40 feet long, 10 feet high, and 12 inches thick. This wall can also be used to create a bridge, ramp, or similar. It must be free-standing.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts one minute but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 6 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-shredding attacks.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- This Effect produces the substance you are controlling unless it is drawn from the environment via “Required Environment” Drawbacks.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.