Vita doesn't fully understand what Azazel is. She just knows that when people hurt her, he shows up. She doesn’t call him—he just comes. Every time someone lands a real hit, the air tears, the lights dim, and this giant thing—part man, part beast—crawls out of her shadow like it's been waiting down there, bored and hungry.
She usually just tilts her head, smiles a little, and signs “Uh-oh.”
Azazel doesn’t ask questions. He only understands one thing: if there’s fighting, he’s fighting. And if someone touches Vita? They go first.
As soon as Vita is wounded, a jagged rift rips through the space behind her. It smells like burnt copper and old incense. From it emerges a 6'2" figure: all twisted muscle, ritual scars, and a goat’s skull for a head, wreathed in shadow and bone dust. It doesn’t roar. It doesn’t speak. It just snaps to life and starts attacking everyone in combat range like it was summoned to punish.
Combatants feel it before they see it—like cold sweat dripping down their spine. Vita, meanwhile, just keeps skipping through the chaos, probably eating fruit snacks.
Azazel is a guardian spirit. Or maybe a curse. Vita doesn’t remember when he started following her—it was sometime after Bapha, sometime before she stopped having normal dreams. He never speaks. He doesn’t obey. He decides.
Some think Azazel is a punishment she unknowingly brought on herself. Others believe he’s a protective ward, a pact signed in blood and forgotten in sleep. Vita? She thinks he’s “kind of sweet.” He watches out for her.
And if that means he tears through a room the second someone throws a punch?
Well, that’s not her fault.
This Effect activates whenever Vita, Takes a severity 2 damage. It does not require an Action or Exertion. Your target should be intuitively based on the triggering event. You must make a Trauma roll when you use this Effect. Its Difficulty cannot be reduced by any means. If you fail or Botch, you receive one Mind Damage and a new Trauma.
Summon a single Non-Sapient, Animate goat, headed goliath at your location. They last for two hours or until they move more than 150 feet from you or are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM, do not follow orders, and only act to to fight all Combatives. You may have at most one active at a time.
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
At times, a quick investigation and a bit of pleading to your benefactor is all you need to solve the case. In turn, there's a decent chance you might be thrown that small scrap of evidence that blows the case wide open.
Brief visions granted to Frank by the spirit of film noir (as opposed to the whispers). Typically used as a last resort once an investigations reached a dead in, there's a great shame involved in utilizing glances. It's like confessing that you've got nothing left, that you're not good enough for the case... not without this crutch.
Exert your Mind and spend 2 Actions. Investigate an area with a radius of up to 100 feet At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Investigation at Difficulty 6.
You learn the following information about the area:
You cannot investigate the same area more than once per day.
Ta feo.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: El cuerpo de una aberración aún "humana".. You are considered to be a Sapient, Non-Living being when targeted. Your Brawn is increased by 1.
No single organ in your body is critical for life. If any body part is separated, it lives and can take Actions for one hour. Attacks do not get bonuses from targeting specific body parts. You cannot suffer an Injury with Severity greater than 6.
You no longer age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.
Your Injuries no longer degrade with time.
Any creature that consumes or is injected with your bodily fluids receives a Severity-1 Injury. Every minute, they must roll Body Difficulty 9. If they fail, the Injury worsens by 1 Severity. If they succeed, the Injury stops worsening.
Whenever you enter Combat, roll Self-Control. If you fail, you cannot choose which targets to attack and cannot stop fighting until there are no targets remaining.
You cannot be mistaken for a normal human. You cannot always use standard human clothes, equipment, vehicles, and facilities, and when you can, you suffer an increased Difficulty.
Otto's influence over the sea is beginning to return, allowing some basic sculpting of water into walls.
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:
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.
Nothing is observed, just the pure raw perseverance of an eastern European Balkan male.
The hardened environment that Dimitry has grown up in for 26 years of his life has taken a toll both on himself and his body, and therefore he has learned to endure and survive that which may normally break the average man. The Balkan blood that runs through his veins is that of steel, and his will is iron.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in combat with thrown weapons.
+2 dice to all rolls utilizing thrown weapons.
You also gain the following effects:
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:
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.
The beastmaster can speak to and understand any animal.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You may understand and communicate to terrestrial animal as if you are fluent in a relevant language.
The ninja is a master of a wide variety of martial weapons. They kill quickly and quietly.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in combat with melee ninja weapons.
+2 dice to all rolls with melee ninja weapons. You may Defend against firearm attacks from any range using melee ninja weapons.
You also gain the following effects:
The magician places a mirror to reflect a subject and conjures an illusion that perfectly replicates it!
If the illusion is touched, it shatters into a thousand tiny shards of glass.
Exert your Mind and spend two Actions performing the following ritual: place a mirror such that it reflects the subject of your illusion. Select a target within 45 feet. You must maintain Concentration while activating this Effect, and it fails if you are interrupted.
a reflection of something else in the area, which can be no larger than a person is generated at your target, and it will remain in place for the next minute or you choose to end it. It can be perceived by people through their sight. The illusion cannot be used as an attack. You may create a replica of a specific being or Object, though it is still limited by what you do or do not know about the subject.
Anyone who touches the illusion (or who would be able to perceive it significantly through a sense it cannot fool) realizes it is an illusion, and the entire effect will be ended for all targets.
The illusion will remain fixed to its initial target, and can only change locations if the initial target is mobile in some way. It may have moving parts and engage in simple, predetermined movements but cannot perform anything complex or interactive unless you maintain Concentration and “puppeteer” it.
By focusing and whispering a prayer under their breath, the priest may invoke their god to protect those who have good works left to do.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action or Reaction. Select a Animate target within 20 feet. This Effect cannot be used unless the target is a living human. Roll a single d10, Difficulty 4. If you fail or botch, the Effect fails and you cannot activate it again for an hour. Roll Charisma + Occult at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, you create a barrier around your target, which absorbs the next Outcome +2 Damage. The Damage reduction from the barrier is applied before Armor. You may only have 1 active barrier at a time.
You must maintain Concentration while using this Effect. The barrier will fall if you are interrupted, or if it absorbs the full amount of Damage. When a barrier falls, you cannot use this Effect again for a minimum of 2 Rounds.
This Effect is not obvious, and the only sign you are using an Effect is you whispering a prayer under your breath. If someone suspects that an Effect was used, they must roll Perception + Alertness, Difficulty 8 to pick up on your Tell.