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Arrest Freeze! This is the police!
Sheriff Perkins pummels a criminal with his ethereal Phantom Limb, incapacitating them so he can restrain them and bring them to justice.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate. Select a Animate target within arm's reach. Roll Brawn + Alertness at Difficulty 7. The target may contest by Dodging or Defending.
If you succeed, the target will suffer a dice penalty equal to the Outcome for the next 5 rounds. Dice pools may be reduced all the way down to 0 by this penalty.
- If a character has a dice pool reduced to 0, they cannot attempt that action.
- If a character Exerts their Mind to ignore penalty, it also ignores penalty from this Effect.
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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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Stun Gifts
God's Gaze
Kneel, for you stand in God's presence.
As white mist forms at the feet of the user, with a white flash in their eye, the person targeted by the gift experiences a great sudden shock, that fills their head with fear and confusion - seemingly paralyzing their actions in fear of disturbing a greater will throughout the duration of the gift until that divine presence retreats. Along this, the user becomes incapable of looking into the sky completely - in fear of witnessing the divine presence.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate. Select a Animate target within 20 feet. You must actively and obviously use Cross Pendant to activate this Effect. Roll Brawn + Athletics at Difficulty 7.
If you succeed, the target will suffer a dice penalty equal to the Outcome for the next 2 Rounds. Dice pools may be reduced all the way down to 0 by this penalty. This breaks Concentration.
You may Exert your Mind and spend a Reaction to contest an Action someone is taking. Roll Brawn + Athletics at Difficulty 7. Subtract your Outcome from theirs, and they use the Contested Outcome to determine if their Action succeeds.
- This Penalty is not removed if a character Exerts their Mind to ignore penalty.
- If a character has a dice pool reduced to 0, they cannot attempt that action.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
Bust-it down
UGGHH UGH
User will dance in a way to distract the target in a seductive manner no matter who the target/targets is.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate. Select a Animate target within 20 feet. Roll Charisma + Influence at Difficulty 7.
If you succeed, the target will suffer a dice penalty equal to the Outcome for the next 2 Rounds. Dice pools may be reduced all the way down to 0 by this penalty. This breaks Concentration.
- This Penalty is not removed if a character Exerts their Mind to ignore penalty.
- If a character has a dice pool reduced to 0, they cannot attempt that action.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
Demonic Tutor
Gustave evokes his demonic dark passengers through his archaeologist Grimoire. he walks around the area taking notes occasionally placing lose objects in the area in to the shadowy journal. as he does so a long arm from a well dress individual will stretch out from the journal to return the items back to Gustave. the info gathered is written in Latin with intricately drawn details.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Investigate an area with a radius of up to 100 feet 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. At the end of your investigation, roll Intellect + Occult at Difficulty 6.
You learn the following information about the area:
- You can tell which entities lay claim to each part of the area and how these borders have shifted over time.
- You can tell the age of any structure or natural formation in the area. This includes trees and plants growing in the area.
- You learn about any traps or ambushes in the area. Using this power does not trigger said traps or ambushes.
- You choose a specific type of event and receive a vision of the last time it occurred here.
You cannot investigate the same area more than once per day.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
Cosmic Tazer
Using cosmic energy to empower his non-lethal weapons
Marshall Marshall has learned that it is not merely The Great Monkey King that he gains powers from, but from the cosmos itself, including imbuing his non-lethal weapons with the otherworldly power of cosmic lightning. This ability temporarily impeeds the target's chi paths with cosmic energy, slowing or even outright stopping his opponents. His quick reflexes even allow him to shoot this energy to stun an opponent mid-action, making it ineffectual.
(Note, despite the selected skill, this is intended to be used with Non-Lethal Weapon Mastery)
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Animate target within 20 feet. You must actively and obviously use a Nonlethal Weapon to activate this Effect. Roll Perception + Alertness at Difficulty 7.
If you succeed, the target will suffer a dice penalty equal to the Outcome for the next 2 Rounds. Dice pools may be reduced all the way down to 0 by this penalty. This breaks Concentration.
You may Exert your Mind and spend a Reaction to contest an Action someone is taking. Roll Perception + Alertness at Difficulty 7. Subtract your Outcome from theirs, and they use the Contested Outcome to determine if their Action succeeds.
- This Penalty is not removed if a character Exerts their Mind to ignore penalty.
- If a character has a dice pool reduced to 0, they cannot attempt that action.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
Dark Grasp
Shadowmancer
From the darkness of your shadow there is a ripple, tearing through the light as a tentacle of deep black color grows solid, heading at a great speed towards the target and wrap around it.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Animate target within 20 feet. Roll Intellect + Occult at Difficulty 7.
If you succeed, the target will suffer a dice penalty equal to the Outcome for the next 2 Rounds. Dice pools may be reduced all the way down to 0 by this penalty. This breaks Concentration.
- This Penalty is not removed if a character Exerts their Mind to ignore penalty.
- If a character has a dice pool reduced to 0, they cannot attempt that action.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
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Stun Gifts
Slo-mo
Take a minute, won't you?
By slowing the hands of one of their watches, the time-traveler may interrupt and slow a target's movement through time. The target appears to be moving in slow motion for the duration.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Animate target within 20 feet. You must actively and obviously use a watch or clock to activate this Effect. Roll Intellect + Science at Difficulty 7.
If you succeed, the target will suffer a dice penalty equal to the Outcome for the next 2 Rounds. Dice pools may be reduced all the way down to 0 by this penalty. This breaks Concentration.
You may activate this Effect as a Reaction to contest any Action a valid target is taking, reducing their Outcome by your own. Your command has no impact beyond disrupting their Action.
- This Penalty is not removed if a character Exerts their Mind to ignore penalty.
- If a character has a dice pool reduced to 0, they cannot attempt that action.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.