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In a monochromatic flash, Liam is gone. If filmed in slow motion, a viewer would see a rift open around him, & the ghosts of the dead pull him out of harm's way. Use of this ability often causes small haunting effects in the area that can linger for a time (orbs, cold spots, etc).
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. If you fail or Botch, you receive one Mind Damage and a new Trauma.
You phase out of reality for 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot perceive or affect the outside world but may take mental and self-targeting Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you phase out, you may bring up to 1 additional target in arm's reach with you. While phased out together, you may interact as if standing in an empty void that extends infinitely in all directions.
- If you use this Effect to dodge as a Reaction, it succeeds without the need for a roll. Cannot be used as a Desperate Defense.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
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Dec. 17, 2023, 7:54 a.m. - Revision Cost: 1. Added Enhancement: Too Slow!, Added Drawback: Traumatic
The Sons of Salem
We swear to secure our people against the wickedness and evil of the invisible world.
We swear to aid the afflicted.
We swear to stay ever vigilant and seek out the abominable witchcrafts committed in this country.
We humbly pray to be blessed by God to hold all those who consort with the Devil accountable. Amen
—Opening and closing prayer for Sons of Salem meetings.
The Sons of Salem is a loosely-organized conservative populist movement in the United States that preaches violent opposition to anything they perceive as witchcraft, demonic, or monstrous.
Blowhard podcaster Ted Gundy and former general of the mercenary group “Hognose,” Roland Rush, founded the movement in 2010 after a series of violent werewolf attacks and unexplained, supernatural murders in Tennessee. Memberships grew quickly, stoked by Ted’s fiery doomsday rhetoric on his podcast "Truth Seekers" and the aspiration of the masculine power embodied by Roland.
Although they speak of duty, honor, and maintaining the “natural order” of things, the Sons of Salem are driven by fear. They collect guns and appear at protests en-masse as a way of easing the all-consuming terror of their powerlessness. At the same time, they have conditioned themselves to respond to fear with “strength” (read: violence).
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Phase Out Gifts
Dimensional Cower
The user simply sees their vision shift to become a bit blurrier, if bloodshot. The rest of the world sees their body fold in from the center, stretches of flesh, sinew, and bone ripping the body into an invisible point before disappearing entirely. Standing directly near the point of disappearance will occasionally result in hearing otherworldly mutters, moans, and flesh contorting.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You phase out of reality for up to 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot affect the outside world or take any Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you activate this Effect, you may limit its duration to a period of your choosing. If you are able, you may also end it as a Free Action on your initiative.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see body folding in on itself with a ringing sound of flesh squelching and bones snapping.
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.
- When narrating disturbing content, be cognizant of your group's tone and accommodating to those who would like to "fast forward" through the description.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
Unexploding
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Ellis has become one with the bomb, allowing himself to re-integrate his body back together when it has been disintegrated in an explosion, and can even save another person in this manner, providing he was able to reach them before the explosion went off. Anyone watching the area for ten seconds or so after the fact would see a sort of abstract impressionist painting of him, dots expanding apart and then reforming into a solid person.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action or Reaction to activate. This Effect cannot be used unless you are within the radius of an active explosion.
You phase out of reality for 3 Rounds. During this time, you cannot perceive or affect the outside world or take any Actions. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you phase out, you may bring 1 other targets you are touching with you.
You leave an image of yourself in an abstract impressionist style exploding and then unexploding in slow motion behind at your location in the real world when you use this effect.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
Darkest Depths
Prison Pocket Dimension
You drag one unlucky, and often unwilling, participant with you into a murky reflection. Then, you both find yourselves in your Dark Place.
They're not going to like the Dark Place.
The Dark Place consists of a black sky and endless pool of equally black water, a little less than ankle-deep, spreading in every direction as far as the eye can see. There are no noises around but the ones you make.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. This Effect cannot be used unless your suit is in physical contact with water - at least enough surface area to cover the soles of your shoes.
You phase out of reality for up to 10 minutes. During this time, you cannot perceive or affect the outside world but may take mental and self-targeting Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you phase out, you may bring up to 1 additional target in arm's reach with you. While phased out together, you may interact as if standing in an empty void that extends infinitely in all directions.
When you activate this Effect, you may limit its duration to a period of your choosing. If you are able, you may also end it as a Free Action on your initiative.
You leave a hazy reflection or shadow in the water at your location.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
Good Luck Charms
This charm glows brightly, as your luck is pushed to its absolute limits, making you bang your head on the table one second, but the next you are dodging bullets by sheer happenstance by tripping and slipping and hilarious luck.
Use up this good luck charm and spend an Action to activate.
You phase out of reality for 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot affect the outside world but may take mental and self-targeting Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
You leave yourself, bumbling comedically at your location.
- This consumable is destroyed when used and cannot be used again.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
A Greyscale Wasteland
"You can see it too, can't you?"
The user takes a firm grasp of this artifact and lets out a solemn prayer to the Spirit of Film Noir, begging for it's aid in this time of need. Within seconds, their form is crumbling apart, leaving little of them behind but dust.
The user has been briefly transported into the World of Film Noir, the abode of Frank's benefactor. It appears as an almost endless greyscale city, its streets lined with collapsing buildings and tired denizens. Cigarette smoke forms an impenetrable smog around the city, accompanied by an ever-present smooth jazz soundtrack.
Over-exposure to this world can cause adverse various mental effects, often slowly morphing the user's mind into a flanderized mess of Film Noir tropes.
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. If you fail or Botch, you receive one Mind Damage and a new Trauma.
You phase out of reality for 1 Round. During this time, you cannot perceive or affect the outside world or take any Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
- If you use this Effect to dodge as a Reaction, it succeeds without the need for a roll. Cannot be used as a Desperate Defense.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
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PSG Omega Shield
"Incoming!"
The Future Soldier's PSG is capable of briefly supercharging its effectiveness with a jolt of Omega Cell energy. While active, the future soldier glows with an extremely bright golden light.
While the shield is supercharged, the Future Soldier cannot move or see the outside world, but they are completely isolated from anything that occurs outside the shield.
Expend a point of Battery and spend an Action or Reaction.
You phase out of reality for up to 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot perceive or affect the outside world or take any Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you activate this Effect, you may limit its duration to a period of your choosing. If you are able, you may also end it as a Free Action on your initiative.
You leave a golden glow shaped like yourself at your location.
- If you use this Effect to dodge as a Reaction, it succeeds without the need for a roll. Cannot be used as a Desperate Defense.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
Skip Ahead
Here is hoping 12 seconds in the future is a lot less hostile.
The time-twister presses a button on one of their wristwatches, and, in a flash of orange light, disappears. They have skipped 12 seconds forward in time. To them, the travel is instantaneous, but everyone else must wait until they reappear.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must actively and obviously use a clock or watch to activate this Effect.
You phase out of reality for 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot perceive or affect the outside world or take any Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you phase out, you may bring up to 1 additional target in arm's reach with you.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.