Charlatans

Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Living target within 30 feet. You must use up a paw full of sand in order to activate this Effect. Roll Dexterity + Athletics ( dice) at Difficulty 6. Affected targets may resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 6.

If you succeed, your target becomes drowsy for the next 3 Rounds, during which time they suffer an additional -2 dice Penalty to all Actions. At the end of their drowsiness, they fall asleep for Contested Outcome x 3 minutes.

Sleeping targets will not prematurely wake up on their own, and can only be awoken by taking Damage or nearing death from hunger, thirst, or suffocation. Drowsy targets always fall asleep, regardless of what happens while they are drowsy.

You may determine the content of an affected target's dreams while they are asleep, but they must involve you in some way, and will reveal you as the source of their sleep as well as reveal secret information about yourself to them. By maintaining Concentration, you may enter their dreams and converse with them directly.

When activating this Effect you may attempt a knockout. If you do and your Contested Outcome exceeds 4, the target falls asleep immediately. Otherwise, they suffer the drowsy penalty for 2 Rounds.

Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see people see their worst nightmares writhing in the sand as it flows..

Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Hypnagogic hallucinations: whenever you sleep make a self control roll, if you fail when you wake you still believe you are in the dream and lack self preservation for the next hour or until you find sufficient proof that you are awake (GM’s discretion).

You gain the following benefits at all times.

You are permanently and visibly transformed: Muscle bound.. You are considered to be a Sapient, Non-Living being when targeted. Your Brawn is increased by 1.

No single organ in your body is critical for life. Called Shots do no additional Damage to you. You may perceive the world through separated body parts, take Actions with them, and reattach them by spending an Action and Exerting your Mind.

Your Injuries no longer degrade with time. You do not age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.

You may make a +2 Weapon Damage fires silver needles from his palm attack without additional equipment.

Whenever you enter Combat, roll Self-Control. If you fail, you cannot choose which targets to attack and cannot stop fighting until there are no targets remaining.

You cannot be mistaken for a normal human. You cannot always use standard human clothes, equipment, vehicles, and facilities, and when you can, you suffer an increased Difficulty.

The Severity of any Injury caused by fire is increased by 2.

You gain the following benefits at all times.

You no longer require any food, water, or air in order to survive.

You gain the following benefits at all times.

You may go five times longer than a normal human without food, water, and air. You no longer age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.

You gain the following benefits at all times.

You are permanently and visibly transformed: Gills on neck / chest.. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living Creature when targeted. Your Brawn is increased by 2, your Dexterity is increased by 2, and your Charisma is increased by 2.

While in the ocean, heat, cold, pressure, and other atmospheric hazards do not affect you, and dangerous local flora and fauna will not bother you unless you give them a reason.

You may make a +2 Weapon Damage high-pressure water-machinegun spit (Assault Rifle; Dex + Athletics) attack without additional equipment.

Any creature that consumes or is injected with your bodily fluids receives a Severity-1 Injury. Every minute, they must roll Body Difficulty 9. If they fail, the Injury worsens by 1 Severity. If they succeed, the Injury stops worsening.

Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: (Disfiguring) Hydrotrothe (he can't spell it): You need water & moisture, alot, like alot of it alot of the time. ((Any time you are talking or otherwise spotlighting a scene; you must drink atleast a pint of water. You are at +3 Difficulty to resist any water-deprivation or Exposure against water deprivation.. If you ever fail an Exposure roll against water-deprivation, you take a Severity 1 Injury or similar.), Concussive Neuropathy: Intellect rolls take twice as long (minimum of two Actions) and you receive a -2 dice penalty to all Initiative rolls., Always Wet: You are always wet, like perpetually wet, any rolls made to detect you or otherwise find you are made at -2 Difficulty as a water-trail / the smell of your sweat is pungent & obivous., and (Disfigured) Dive Ears (You suffer a -2 dice penalty to any roll which benefits from hearing. You cannot distinguish the words of others in loud situations.).

Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Delusions of Grandeur, Seasavior: You must roll Self Control to ever harm, through inaction or action, sea or marine life (even though you regularly consume them)., and Delusions of Invincibility: You wholly believe yourself to be invincible, roll Self Control to ever back out of a life-threatening risk.

You cannot ignore or decrease the effects of Stress for any Self-Control rolls you make.

Exert your Mind and spend 1 minute. Select a Living target within arm's reach. You cannot target yourself. Your target takes a Severity 1 Injury. You must actively and obviously use a ceremonial dagger blessed with holy water to activate this Effect.

You may cure any Non-Alien diseases, toxins, or poisons afflicting your target even if you have not diagnosed or fully understood it. You may cure diseases or poisons even if they are not treatable through modern medicine. During treatment, the malady you are treating does not progress or cause additional Damage or other effects.

You may use this effect to sanitize a 15-foot radius, destroying all poisons, toxins, diseases such that they are inert and cannot affect any new targets

Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a target within 20 feet which has both fuel and oxygen available (if you are starting a new fire). You must actively and obviously use a laser pointer to activate this Effect.

You may start or extinguish a fire as large as a fire in a residential fireplace at your target. Extinguishing a fire does not cost Exertion. You may create or extinguish fires the size of a lighter or candle flame without Exerting your Mind. Your fires require fuel and oxygen in order to continue burning.

Lighting a target on fire deals 3 Damage each Round on your turn, starting in the Round after the one in which they caught fire. This Damage is reduced by Armor, but the target’s Armor rating will be shredded by any Damage dealt, destroying material Armor once it reaches 0.

You may extinguish flames as a Reaction. This does not extend to explosives.

You may spend a Free Action on your initiative move a fire as large as a fire in a residential fireplace that is within 20 feet to another location within 20 feet. You may Exert your Mind to draw a line which a fire up to twice as large as a fire in a residential fireplace cannot cross.

You gain the following benefits at all times.

You may move easily and without a roll in any of the following situations.

• Amphibious: You are able to move about in liquids using standard Movement rules rather than any special swimming rules.

Exert your Mind and spend an Action. 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 transform into a vampire bat or a wolf 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 do not have access to any of your 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.

Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: A disfigured face with bat-like ears.

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.