Azik, holding his book in his hand, flips open to the very first page. Inscribed on it, is a language no one, not even azik can understand, yet he managed to pull together one word. "Protect", with that, letters from the page comes flying out akin to magic, arranging themselves in the air before turning into a protection barrier on the person it is casted upon.
Attested in English since 1530, from Latin prōtēctus (“covered, protected”), past participle of prōtegere (“to cover the front, protect”) from prō, prō- (“before, in front of”) + tegere (“to cover”), see tegument. Displaced native Middle English shelden, from Old English sċildan (“to protect,” literally “to shield”).
A word of benevolence, love, and understanding.
באַשיצן : Ashiten
A - Shi - Te(a)n
Exert your Mind and spend an Action or Reaction. You must make a Trauma roll when you use this Effect. Its Difficulty cannot be reduced by any means. Roll Intellect + Culture at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, you create a Barrier extending out 15 feet from yourself, which absorbs 2 times the next Outcome + 4 Damage. Only applies to attacks which originated outside the 15 foot radius, and protects anyone who is within that radius. You may choose to create a bubble barrier. If you do, no physical objects or entities can pass into your bubble until the barrier is broken, but you and the barrier cannot move. Half any Damage absorbed by the barrier is reflected back to the attacker. They may attempt to Dodge or Defend using a Desperate Defense, and their Armor applies in full. The Damage reduction from the barrier is applied before Armor. This Artifact 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.
- Jan. 30, 2024, 3:58 p.m. - Major Revision Cost: 1. Parameter Barrier Strength changed from 0 to 1.
Taking out a syringe, Morgan prepares to extract the lifeblood of his test subject. Injecting the creature is a relatively simple process, as is pulling back the plunger to extract the building blocks of life. Once Morgan injects himself with the creatures blood, the target begins to dissipate, crumbling away to dust. A copy of them has been saved within him, waiting to be freed.
Freeing them involves a reversal of the procedure. Morgan must inject himself with a syringe and extract a fair portion of his own blood, then pour it out into an area large enough to hold the selected creature. From the spilt ichor, the creature is finally birthed anew.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must actively and obviously use a syringe to activate this Effect.
You may withdraw an item from your stash, or add an item that is within arm’s reach to your stash. You may only stash targets which are in your possession, grappled, or otherwise controlled by you.
You may store Creatures in your stash, each no larger than something which could fit inside a rolling luggage bag (50 liters), and you may store up to 3 things at a time.
Time is effectively frozen in your Stash. Sapient targets still experience a local passage of time inside the stash, and this does not extend the duration of Effects inside the stash.
Animate targets may Resist being stashed. You must Exert your Mind to stash Sapient targets.
The pendent on your chest has gone beyond the mundane it is allowing you to do things you never thought possible in you are now able to transform into creatures and animals and the world a power that could be useful in espionage mission
Exert your Mind and spend a Quick Action to activate. You must actively and obviously use Gold Pendent to activate this Effect.
You transform into the last Creature you touched 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 cannot use your Active, Direct, 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.
While transformed, you are obviously unusual, unnatural, or alien, and the average person will take a special interest in you.
Chaudhry recites a prayer, invoking Allah to seek protection and safety. At the end of the prayer, nothing overt changes - however, he becomes unusually difficult to notice. He is not invisible, nor is he cloaked in shadows or even blurry: he simply adopts the aspect of a small detail in a magic eye puzzle or a where's Waldo picture. The composition of the world around him becomes much more eye catching, much more alluring to the senses, such that he simply blends into it as an unremarkable component of the greater whole.
Exert your Mind and spend two Actions performing the following ritual: A prayer invoking the protection of God. You must maintain Concentration while activating this Effect, and it fails if you are interrupted.
You and everything you are carrying is obscured in one of the following manners. Lasts 30 minutes.
While this Effect is active, any Effect that would obscure you or your equipment specifically from other, additional senses fails automatically.
If someone discovers you, this Effect will not help you hide from them for the next minute. This Effect does not end early when you activate an obvious Effect, attack, or receive an Injury.
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.
Saint has found that the threat detection system follows him into the other worlds he enters.
(check extended description for what songs should play in what areas)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctNH9lN0vt4&list=PL47RgcQ099QbXDzQ27vcRWLO3PaQ6Uwa1&index=1 (countryside/wilderness)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWOVyT2oq4U&list=PL47RgcQ099QbXDzQ27vcRWLO3PaQ6Uwa1&index=2 (industrial)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqAUp5T_p58&list=PL47RgcQ099QbXDzQ27vcRWLO3PaQ6Uwa1&index=12 (urban/day)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTVL0Gdj7lM&list=PL47RgcQ099QbXDzQ27vcRWLO3PaQ6Uwa1&index=13 (urban/night)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZaHq92nBcA&list=PL47RgcQ099QbXDzQ27vcRWLO3PaQ6Uwa1&index=4 (shore/water)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxC8CzNmwnc&list=PL47RgcQ099QbXDzQ27vcRWLO3PaQ6Uwa1&index=5 (caves)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snd1c_ntzb8&list=PL47RgcQ099QbXDzQ27vcRWLO3PaQ6Uwa1&index=6 (heights)
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You automatically detect all beings with malicious intent within 50 feet of you for the next hour. This includes any who come within range during the duration. You have a sense of how many valid targets are nearby, as well as their distance and direction.
If no beings with malicious intent targets are within 50 feet of you, and then one enters range, you automatically detect it, even if this Effect is not active.
The magician dons an unusual piece of clothing and immediately shifts their appearance to be completely different! However, they must reveal their true identity before they can cast any more spells.
Exert your Mind and spend 2 Actions. You must actively and obviously use a piece of clothing you wouldn't normally wear to activate this Effect.
You become disguised in a manner of your choosing. The disguise lasts for two hours, or you may end it early at will.
The new appearance may have a different sex, age, and race to your own, and you may alter height by up to a foot and your weight by 50%. Your disguise cannot directly mimic an existing person. You may change the appearance of your outfit. A disguise cannot affect your Attributes or other stats.
You may roll Charisma + Crafts to attempt to make your disguise Beautiful. If your Outcome is 6 or higher, non-Effect Charisma rolls where your good looks could help are rolled at -2 Difficulty. If you fail or botch, you are ugly instead, and non-Effect Charisma rolls are made at +2 Difficulty.
This Effect ends if you take an Injury or are stunned or incapacitated.
While disguised, you cannot use any Activated or Targeted Powers.
The werewolf unleashes their inner beast, transforming into an imposing hybrid of human and wolf. Their head reforms into that of a wolf, robbing them of speech but bestowing a maw of deadly fangs. Grey fur sprouts from their body as it swells with muscle, ripping any tight-fitting clothes. While transformed, the werewolf is impulsive and driven more by instinct than logic.
If The Werewolf is struck my moonlight, they are compelled to transform.
Exert your Mind and spend a Quick Action.
You transform into a werewolf for 3 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are a werewolf, and you can use your equipment. Your Battle Scars, Injuries, and physical Liabilities are carried over between forms. Reverting from your Alternate Form cannot cause your existing Injuries to kill you. Instead, you remain Incapacitated.
While transformed, your Brawn is increased by 2 and your Dexterity is increased by 2. You do not suffer any Stress while transformed.
Your alternate form is its own deadly weapon. Unarmed attacks made in your alternate form deal +3 Weapon Damage (instead of the typical -1).
Your alternate form renders you unable to speak any human language and incapable of fine object manipulation. You can only hold or grasp objects in a crude, clumsy way.
After this Effect ends, you cannot move quicker than a walk (15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour.
While transformed, you automatically fail any Mind roll to resist an impulse and suffer -3 dice on all other Mind rolls.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Whenever you are struck by the light of a full or gibbous moon, you must roll Self-Control to resist transforming. Triggers a max of once per night.
The vampire sucks a copious amount of blood from a human and replenishes their own cursed flesh.
Exert your Mind and spend 1 minute. This Effect cannot be used unless you drink blood directly from a human until it injures them. Choose a specific Injury on yourself that has not yet been treated with this Effect and roll Brawn + Occult at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, the Injury is reduced in Severity by your Outcome. If you reduce its Severity to 0, the Injury is fully healed. Otherwise, it is partially healed and will heal the rest of the way at its natural rate.
This counts as a successful Makeshift Stabilization if the Injury was not already Stabilized; any Battle Scars caused by the Injury will remain.
If your Outcome is greater than the Severity of the Injury you were attempting to treat, you may apply any excess Outcome to other Injuries on yourself.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see you drink blood directly from the vein.
The Necromancer stands over a corpse and makes a series of grandiose lifting gestures. The corpse rises from the ground as though suspended by invisible strings, barks a pained groan, and lands on its feet, now a full-fledged member of the living dead.
Increase your sacrificial Injury's Severity by 1 and spend an Action. You must use up corpse in order to activate this Effect.
Summon up to 3 Non-Sapient, Animate zombie at your location. They last for two hours or until they are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. You may have at most 3 minions active at a time.
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
If you do not have a sacrificial Injury when you activate this Effect, take a new Severity-1 Injury.
The time-traveler spins the second hand on one of their watches and speeds up until they are a blur.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must actively and obviously use a watch to activate this Effect.
Lasts 1 minute. Whenever you use your Movement, after all other calculations, the distance you may travel is doubled.
Outside of Combat, any non-Gift, non-movement Actions you attempt take drastically less time to complete, as long as your personal speed is a factor in the Action. Total time reduction is determined by the GM and capped at 90% (executing the Action takes no less than 1/10th the normal time).