Pen transforms into a large, tattooed raven. It can speak, and her Left Hand of Darkness wraps tightly around its torso, allowing her to manipulate objects that would normally require a human hand even in this form.
Pen performed a dream ritual to bring a familiar into this world. Most of the time, that familiar is locked in her mind, but sometimes, it allows her to use its physical form.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. This Effect cannot be used unless Pen is unobserved.
You transform into a large black raven, with white markings on its beak and the underside of its wings until you transform into something else or choose to return to your original form. See the Extended System text for stats.
While transformed, you cannot use any equipment (including Artifacts and Consumables), and you cannot use your Active, Targeted, or Trap Powers. However, you can use your Passive 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.
While transformed, you may speak and use any Influence or Communication Powers you posses.
While transformed, you are obviously unusual, unnatural, or alien, and the average person will take a special interest in you.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect.
You transform into Honey Badger until you transform into something else. 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.
Red lunges forward and transforms before your eyes. Bones break, muscles stretch, and fur sprouts across her form. She can either take the form of a small juvenile wolf that's pretty easy to mistake for a dog.. or a juvenile dire wolf, shoulder to shoulder with a grown man.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You transform into wolf or dire wolf until you transform into something else or choose to return to your original form. See the Extended System text for stats.
While transformed, you cannot use any equipment (including Artifacts and Consumables), and you cannot use your Active, Targeted, or Trap Powers. However, you can use your Passive Powers. The equipment you are wearing does not transform 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.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: False Form: Your bipedal form makes a lot of people uncomfortable, including yourself. All social rolls are made at +1 Difficulty. The Beautiful Asset is suppressed as long as you have this Battle Scar.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Easily Distracted: Roll self-control to stay on task when performing any task longer than 15 minutes.
Your human skin shreds off of your expanding form and turns to ash in the wind as your flesh hardens to a cracked, flaky substance similar to stone, with heavy chains wrapping around your wrists and a cruel-looking metal death's head mask affixed to your face.
Take a Severity-1 Injury and spend an Action.
You transform into the Chained Demon until you transform into something else or choose to return to your original form. See the Extended System text for stats.
While transformed, you cannot use any equipment (including Artifacts and Consumables), and you cannot use your Active, Direct, or Trap Powers. However, you can use your Passive 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.
While transformed, you may speak and use any Influence or Communication Powers you posses.
While transformed, you are obviously unusual, unnatural, or alien, and the average person will take a special interest in you.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
The beastmaster shouts, and their human voice cracks into a deep, bestial howl. Their body tightens with muscle, clothes melting into a thick pelt of fur. Seconds later the beastmaster is gone. In their place is a large grey wolf.
Or they shout, and their human voice cracks into a deep, bestial roar. Their body swells with muscle, clothes melting into a thick pelt of fur. Seconds later the beastmaster is gone. Standing in their place is a massive grizzly bear.
Or they shout, and their human voice cracks into a terrifying shriek. Their body shrinks down, their clothes melt into a layer of feathers. Seconds later the beastmaster is gone. Standing in their place is a fierce little falcon.
Anyway it goes, their eyes glow with a golden light when in animal form.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You transform into a peregrine falcon, a timber wolf, or a brown bear for two hours or until you choose to end the Effect. 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.
While transformed, you may speak and use any Influence or Communication Powers you posses.
While transformed, you are obviously unusual, unnatural, or alien, and the average person will take a special interest in you.
Will sniffs the air curiously, then stretches out his limbs one by one. His body seems to shiver, and then suddenly, he looks as though he is falling through the floor, shrinking down into the pile of his clothes. What steps out from the neck-hole of his shirt is no longer Dr. William Wallace, but a creature. Either a cat, or a medium-sized creature appropriate for the region (often feline).
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You transform into cat or any region-appropriate medium-sized animal for two hours or until you choose to end the Effect. 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. The equipment you are wearing does not transform 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.
The beastmaster shouts, and their human voice cracks into a deep, bestial roar. Their body swells with muscle, clothes melting into a thick pelt of fur. Seconds later the beastmaster is gone. Standing in their place is a massive grizzly bear.
However, even in human form the beast within remains close to the surface, and the beastmaster finds highly civilized social situations unbearable.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You transform into a brown bear for two hours or until you choose to end the Effect. See the Extended System text for stats.
While transformed, you cannot use any equipment (including Artifacts and Consumables), and you cannot use your Active, Targeted, or Trap Powers. However, you can use your Passive 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.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Intolerance for society. When you are in a situation with strict social protocols (like a trial or a formal dinner) roll Self-Control not to enter a flight or fight response.