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You gain the following benefits as long as engaged in combat with bows, crossbows, slingshots, and slings.
You receive +2 dice to all rolls using bows, crossbows, slingshots, and slings. Reloading is considered a Free Action.
You also gain the following effects:
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Smoke has been blessed with the permanance one needs to continue being a hip popstar. His pale skin is often hidden with excessive makeup, his fangs are trimmed or hidden on set and befitting of a baron he spends his days exploring the cities he tours and meeting people from all sides of life to add to his menagerie.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Paler skin and extended fangs. You are considered to be a Sapient, Non-Living being when targeted..
You are immune to damage from cold. If cold is a substantial component of other damage you would take (e.g. falling from a great distance into a vat of liquid nitrogen), that damage is reduced by 2 (in addition to Armor)
Your Injuries no longer degrade with time.
You may make a +2 Weapon Damage Bite/Claw 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.
The Severity of any Injury caused by Fire is increased by 2.
Ghouls are notoriously resistant to hydrostatic shock, a fact that has doomed more than a few intrepid investigators over the years. Bullets tend to puncture them with relatively little harm inflicted.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You have 7 Armor, which only reduces damage taken from Bullets. Any armor piercing effects from Bullets are ignored. Armor from multiple sources does not stack. This Armor cannot be circumvented with Called Shots.
Iryna focuses her immense draw of energy, her ability to consume the heat and light of a flame magnified and channeled into a single spot. An infinitely small point of Absolute Zero. In that instant, everything implodes, and heat begins to funnel into that single spot, creating a swirling twisting storm of ice, begging to restore equilibrium. But it will last for hours on end, flinging snow, ice, and death out of its chilling vortex only when it is made even.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You create a hemispherical dome of blizard originating at your Location, with a radius of 60 feet. and lasting for 2 hours. The area inside your zone is affected in any number of the following ways:
The bird speak.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You may communicate to humans as if you are fluent in a relevant language.
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Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Living target within arm's reach.
The target's sense of smell and taste becomes suppressed for the next minute. Any roll requiring smell or taste automatically fails, and other relevant rolls suffer up to a -3 dice penalty at the GM's discretion.
Nature is the beastmaster's domain. While in the wilds, they can climb trees and cliffs with ease and dash through dense underbrush that anyone else would need a machete to navigate.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You may move easily and without a roll in any of the following situations.
You only gain the benefits of this effect if you are in an area without a human building within 300 feet.
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. 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.
Finally, the girls are fusing the way theyโve wanted to since they began Contracting, three and a half years ago. It took Graceโs left eye for them to try this, but the girls are now able to spend a week focusing their energy towards a Battle Scarred area and permanently replacing it with The Spiritโs ghostly flesh. The replaced chunks, eyes, arms, whatever may come, appear just as The Spiritโs: bluish and semi-transparent, but now function just as the respective physical flesh would.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Any Injury you receive heals quickly, reducing its Severity by one level every day. Any Injuries you receive while this Effect is active automatically count as a successful Proper Stabilization and do not deteriorate further. Any Battle Scars caused by such an Injury will heal with the Injury.
You may choose to heal any Battle Scar on yourself that is not caused by an Injury. Recovery takes one day, and the Battle Scar affects you fully until that time.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: any scars that heal this way leave the flesh in that area bluish and semi-transparent, causing you to be viewed as a freak by most people who see you.
The Witch is a master herbalist and can cure any number of illnesses and diseases with her special potions. She goes into the wilderness to find the proper set of herbs. Once she has what she's looking for, she mixes them together and boils the concoction. Steam rises from the mixture, twisting into recognizable shapes such as animals and spirits. The whole process takes about fifteen minutes, after which the patient must drink the entire mixture. They are immediately cured.
The proper preparation varies from person to person, so a single batch cannot be used to treat multiple people.
Exert your Mind and spend 15 minutes. Select a Living target within arm's reach. This Effect cannot be used unless you can forage for herbs. You must actively and obviously use water, a container, and heat 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.
Whenever you cure a disease, poison, or toxin, if it had inflicted any Damage, your target is healed for half that Damage.
The time-traveler spins the second hand on one of their watches and speeds up until they are a blur.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must actively and obviously use a watch to activate this Effect.
Whenever you use your Movement, after all other calculations, the distance you may travel is doubled.
Outside of Combat, any non-Gift, non-movement Actions you attempt take drastically less time to complete, as long as your personal speed is a factor in the Action. Total time reduction is determined by the GM and capped at 90% (executing the Action takes no less than 1/10th the normal time).