Charlatans

You gain the following benefits as long as you are in this artifact’s alternate form and you are wearing this Artifact.

You can run at three times your normal movement speed.

You may bring another being along without affecting your Encumbrance, so long as you maintain contact with them for the duration and they consent or are grappled.

You gain the following benefits at all times.

You are permanently and visibly transformed: Large knife like ears and long green hair. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living being when targeted. Your Dexterity is increased by 1 and your Intellect is increased by 1.

You no longer age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.

You may make a +2 Weapon Damage Magic bow (Bow (Dex+Archery)) and Fire storm (Assault rifle (Dex+Occult)) attack without additional equipment.

Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Wheezing.

Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Delusions of Grandeur and Schizophrenia You have trouble discerning what is real and what isn’t sometimes; at least once a day the GM fabricates a false reality for you–should you interact with this false reality in a major way you may roll Self Control to discern it. Whenever you majorly encounter something weird, unusual, extraordinary, supernatural, or otherwise pivotal: roll Self Control–on a failure, you believe them to be a false reality, and will act accordingly..

The Severity of any Injury caused by pure iron is increased by 2.

You gain the following benefits at all times.

You can interact with things that are within 75 feet without needing to physically touch them or be near them. Any rolls made for Actions taken in this way use a Mental Strength of 4 in place of your Brawn rating, a Mental Agility of 1 in place of your Dexterity, and otherwise use your own Attributes and Abilities.

Telekinetic actions have the following restrictions and behaviors:

• Heavy Lifting: You may Exert your Mind to increase your Mental Strength by 4 for the next non-combat action you take with this Effect.
• Line of Sight: You must be able to visually observe anything you interact with, and any actions that you are taking will end if their target moves out of sight.
• Unarmed Combat: You can use this Effect to deal damage through unarmed attacks, grapples, and thrown objects. Attacks deal +1 Damage. Unarmed Mastery does not apply.
• Weapons: You cannot wield weapons effectively in combat.
• Fine Tools: You are otherwise limited to actions that a normal human could do with their bare hands.
• Maintaining Focus: You must maintain Concentration while taking Actions in this way. If you are Injured or interrupted, you must roll Mind at Difficulty 9 to maintain Concentration. If you fail, you cannot engage in telekinetic actions for the next 6 - Intellect rounds.
• Levitation: If you are strong enough to lift yourself, you may levitate up to within 75 feet away from the ground. Movement is limited to 5 feet per Round.
• Multiple Items: You can only interact with one thing or take one Action at a time.

Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: chronic headache.

You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in combat with melee weapons.

+2 dice to all rolls with melee weapons. You may Defend against firearm attacks from any range using melee weapons.

Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: bleeding more.

You also gain the following effects:

• Assassin: If your attack Injures your target, they cannot make a sound, even incidentally, for a single Round. Even the sound of their body and equipment dropping to the ground is silenced.
• Two Swords are better than One: If you are wielding more than one melee weapon, you may Attack with all using the highest Weapon Damage, plus 1 for each additional weapon. If you reserve a weapon, any Clash or Defend roll you make is -1 Difficulty, and mob penalties are ignored. Maximum +5 Damage from bonus weapons.

You gain the following benefits at all times.

Your senses are enhanced in the following way.

• Smell: Your nose is highly sensitive and can differentiate between scents the way a dog can, as well as recognize things you have smelled before.

You gain the following benefits at all times.

Your senses are enhanced in the following way.

• Sight: You can see things that are normally invisible to the naked eye, such as fingerprints and bacteria.

You gain the following benefits at all times.

Your senses are enhanced in the following way.

• Hearing: You are capable of perceiving physical shapes via sound. You must produce a cricket chirp to “ping” with your echolocation each Round you wish to use it.

You gain the following benefits as long as engaged in combat with wooden longbows.

You receive +2 dice to all rolls using wooden longbows. Reloading is a Free Action, and drawing your weapon does not require a Quick Action as long as it is on your person.

You also gain the following effects:

• Bullet Parry: You may use a Reaction to Defend against any Melee, thrown, or projectile Attack in range of your Attacks.
• Bullseye: If you are not making an attack or activating an Effect, any projectile you fire will be considered a complete success without needing to make a roll.

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:

• Assassin: If your attack Injures your target, they cannot make a sound, even incidentally, for a single Round. Even the sound of their body and equipment dropping to the ground is silenced.
• Falling Crane Strike: If you move and then make a successful attack against a target closer than the full distance you could have moved, you may choose to travel the excess movement in a straight line beyond the target.

You gain the following benefits at all times.

All Stabilizations you attempt are considered Proper Stabilizations.

You also gain the following effects:

• In-Network Coverage: Any rolls to provide medical treatment to treating an Injury, including Effect activations, receive +2 dice.