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Promises Made “I will *never* let you go.”
Lilith smiles kindly at the new member of her Family. Piercing both of her own and her partner’s palm, she interlocks their fingers into hers. On the Family Member’s palm appears a small blister that quickly callouses over and disappears beneath their skin
Should the Family Member decide to remove the Mark, they will find that they must dig deep underneath their flesh, and will pull out a veiny, arm-length clot of solidified blood… followed quickly by a liter of their own essence.
Exert your Mind and spend at least two Actions performing the following ritual: Link hands with the target and share blood from an incision made in the palm to activate. Select a target within arm's reach. You must maintain Concentration while activating this Effect, and it fails if you are interrupted. The target may Resist.
Your target is marked with blood blister just underneath the skin. until it is removed or until you choose to end the Effect. The mark can only be discovered with a deep medical inspection or Effect. Removal inflicts a Severity 1 Injury on the target.
You are aware of the marked target's vital status, injuries, direction and distance from you. You can have up to 3 marks active.
You receive +2 dice to any rolls made against a marked target.
Your Marked targets are all similarly aware of your direction and distance from them while the Mark is active.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
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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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The Black Spot
What if ye wanted to go to port but David Jones said
Once David Jones touches any part of the body of an opponent he wishes to mark, the Black Spot appears on their palm or equivalent.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate. Select a target within arm's reach.
Your target is marked with The Black Spot until it is removed or until you choose to end the Effect. The mark can only be discovered with a deep medical inspection or Effect. Removal inflicts a Severity 1 Injury on the target.
You are aware of the marked target's direction and distance from you. You can have up to 1 mark active.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
You Can Run
Those who flee the nightmare are marked with an infernal soot stain. So long as they are marked, the nightmare knows where they are.
This Effect activates whenever someone runs in fear from you or your gifts. It does not require an Action or Exertion. Select a target within 20 feet. “Your target should be intuitively based on the triggering event.
Your target is marked with a black soot stain. Your mark can be discovered if the target is inspected visually. Removal inflicts a Severity 1 Injury on the target.
You are aware of the marked target's direction and distance from you. This lasts for an hour, or until either the mark is removed, or you choose to end the Effect. You can have up to 3 marks active.
You receive +2 dice to any rolls made against a marked target.
- When triggered, the Effect activation resolves immediately after the triggering Action. It is not Reaction speed.
- Marked individuals satisfy the line of sight requirement for targeted Effects.
- 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.
Spend an Action. Select a Animate target within arm's reach. This Effect cannot be used unless must have a magnetic surface to attach it to.
Your target is marked with small magnetic disk. The mark can be easily removed if it is discovered.
You are aware of the marked target's direction and distance from you. This lasts for the next month, or until either the mark is removed, or you choose to end the Effect. This Artifact can have up to 3 marks active.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
- Marked individuals satisfy the line of sight requirement for targeted Effects.
- 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.
Follow The Money
No, I have to do this my way. You tell me what you know, and I'll confirm. I'll keep you in the right direction if I can, but that's all. Just... follow the money. - Deep Throat, in All The President's Men (1976)
Through clever sleight of hand, or through a simple financial transaction, Bill places a coin on his target's person - could be a quarter, could be a penny, whatever he has on hand - and will be able to detect the how far away the coin is, as well as in which direction. It feels slightly warm to the touch, as if it had been sitting in a hot car earlier that day, and if anyone looks closely at it, the eyes of Mr. Lincoln (or Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and occasionally Kennedy) seem to follow them, like a painting in an episode of Scooby Doo.
Spend an Action. Select a Animate target within arm's reach.
Your target is marked with a small coin. The mark can be easily removed if it is discovered.
You are aware of the marked target's direction and distance from you. This lasts for the next month, or until either the mark is removed, or you choose to end the Effect. You can have up to 1 mark active.
Marked targets leave a trail wherever they go that is visible only to you and those you teach to see it. This trail shows how long ago the target was there and is followable even when they are in a vehicle.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
- Marked individuals satisfy the line of sight requirement for targeted Effects.
- 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.
Poker Fish
“If you've been playing poker for a half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.“
Like cards, Chance marks a target to keep track of. The card shark needs to find his fish, after all. Once a target is chosen, he reflectively does a bit of sleight-of-hand, mimicking the motions of applying juice daub onto a card, then it's hook, line and sinker, as images of where the targets are fill his head.
Spend an Action. Select a target within 20 feet.
Your target is marked with an unusually reflective spot. The mark can only be discovered with a deep medical inspection or Effect. Removal inflicts a Severity 1 Injury on the target.
You are aware of the marked target's direction and distance from you. This lasts for an hour, or until either the mark is removed, or you choose to end the Effect. You can have up to 3 marks active.
You receive +2 dice to any rolls made against a marked target.
This Gift's Cost is capped at 2 and cannot be increased further.
This Effect ends if you are stunned, fall asleep, go unconscious, are incapacitated, die, or if your total Stress ever exceeds 5.
- Marked individuals satisfy the line of sight requirement for targeted Effects.
- 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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Unfinished Business
Once the werewolf tastes the blood of their prey, there's no escape. Those injured by the beast's claws and teeth are marked with its saliva. Their wounds smell strongly of blood, and it's only a matter of time before the werewolf returns with a vengeance to finish the kill.
This Effect activates whenever a target you have injured with your teeth or claws escapes the range of your unarmed attacks. It does not require an Action or Exertion. Select a target within arm's reach. Your target should be intuitively based on the triggering event. This Effect cannot be used unless the target is alive and bleeds.
Your target is marked with a throbbing wound that smells strongly of blood. The mark can only be discovered with a deep medical inspection or Effect. Removal inflicts a Severity 1 Injury on the target.
You are aware of the marked target's direction and distance from you. This lasts for the next month, or until either the mark is removed, or you choose to end the Effect. You can have up to 1 mark active.
You receive +2 dice to any rolls made against a marked target.
- When triggered, the Effect activation resolves immediately after the triggering Action. It is not Reaction speed.
- Marked individuals satisfy the line of sight requirement for targeted Effects.
- 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.