Mrs. Ross has a gift. One that has been built over a good many years. First they started as whispers in her dreamscape, moans that clouded her mind like a fog in the late evening hours. She doesn't quite remember how it happened, the moment was vague. She heard a lamenting echo from a body in a casket, a relative who must've just died. Though she cannot speak, The Voice in her head certainly can, and she tried to reach out to the whispers like she never could anyone else. To her immense surprise, the urn responded, a cavalcade of emotions from the recently deceased.
When Ripley Ross focuses on the body of the recently deceased, she is able to open a line of communication with the entity. The event is extremely distracting, as opening this line of communication beyond the veil invites the whispers of all manners of entity.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate. Select a Dead target within arm's reach. In order to target the Dead, you must have piece of their remains. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect.
The target can communicate in your language for the next ten minutes.
This Effect is not obvious, and the only sign you are using an Effect is that your eyes shimmering purple. If someone suspects that an Effect was used, they must roll Perception + Alertness, Difficulty 8 to pick up on your Tell.
You may only use this Effect once per target per day.
I take a deep breath in and concentrate, I then close my eyes and miraculously I can understand this being word for word. What do you know I understand languages beyond my capabilities.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You may understand and communicate to Creatures and humans as if you are fluent in a relevant language for the next hour.
This also includes understanding any recorded communications from the relevant targets, including writings, scent trails, etc.
Johnny Rook is just waffling, usually a bit too much
Voice sounds similar to those he's just been talking to, like a sapient parrot.
Johnny can only communicate to English speaking humans and other caracaras, all other animals are off limits.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You may understand and communicate to humans as if you are fluent in a relevant language.
Neil gathers Miasma, which coalesces into a humanoid shape, and chants the name of the one he wishes to speak with. After a minute, a phantasmal mimicry of the deceased's form appears, allowing Neil to speak with them.
Exert your Mind and spend one minute. Select a Dead target within 50 feet. For dead targets, you must possess their Their full, True Name.
The target can communicate in your language for the next hour.
Amy glimpses thousands of possible futures to find where she says the right thing. She simply repeats what she hears, whether it's merely translating a language or saying exactly what someone wants to hear.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action.
You may understand and communicate to humans and Sapient beings as if you are fluent in a relevant language for the next 30 seconds.
While active and speaking to a single individual, you may choose to use glib tongue. When you do, anything you say to them (even gibberish) will be exactly what they want to hear. You gain no understanding of what that might be.
While this Effect is active, you are at -2 dice to all Actions and cannot Concentrate.
Taking a long puff on your inhaler, you remember speaking to the target at some point, allowing you to fluently converse with them for an hour.
Exert your Mind and spend one minute. You must actively and obviously use an inhaler to activate this Effect.
You may understand and communicate to humans and Sapient beings as if you are fluent in a relevant language for the next hour.
This also includes understanding any recorded communications from the relevant targets, including writings, scent trails, etc.
Whenever you encounter a Language you could commune in with this Effect, you immediately understand which language it is, the dialect, region, and other details about it.
If you use this Effect to spend an hour speaking with a native speaker of a human language you don't know, you may Exert your Mind and roll Intellect + Culture Difficulty 7. With Outcome 4 or higher, you permanently learn that language and accent.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
The Necromancer spits into the mouth of a recently deceased corpse. For the few minutes, the corpse's head comes back to life and speaks to the Necromancer.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Dead target within 50 feet. Dead targets must have died within the past week, and you must have their remains in your possession.
The target can communicate in your language for the next hour.
The beastmaster can speak to and understand any animal.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You may understand and communicate to terrestrial animal as if you are fluent in a relevant language.