Rauð was fated to be a god in human form. A god of Iron, with impenetrable skin and destined to slay a million men. But when he was born frail and his blood did not clot, leaking rivers of red from the smallest cut, they realised the seers had been wrong.
They had not birthed a God of Iron, a metal man to break any blade that dared touch his flesh. They had made a God Of Blood, who would stain rivers so red with it their bank sands would be iron.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Any Injury you receive heals quickly, reducing its Severity by one level every 6 hours, starting once it becomes stabilized. You may also Exert your Mind and spend an Action to reduce the Severity of a single stabilized Injury by 1. Does not affect Injuries suffered as an activation cost for Effects.
Battle Scars caused by your Injuries will remain. Any Injuries you receive automatically count as a successful Makeshift Stabilization and do not deteriorate further.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Burn of Iron: Your flesh cracks and constantly bleeds like your blood is boiling. Your Penalty is always at a minimum of -2.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Frenzy: You must roll Self-Control to stop attacking a target you have dealt an Injury to.
Bartenders don't just mix drinks, no.. They're therapists, friends, confidants.
The best ones, you walk away feeling like you just had a chat with your best friend.
O'Malley has years of practice, and knows how to make a patron feel comfortable. Full attention, a warm smile, and a twirl of a bottle tends to make people want to open up to him.
You gain the following benefits as long as as long as He must have a passenger and you are piloting any vehicle.
You receive +2 dice to any rolls to pilot a vehicle.
You also gain the following effects:
Her hair being whipped around akin to a hurricane, water droplets form around Brooke and coalesce around her body, encompassing her. The water buckles and glows, then finally spreads out to release Brooke as it swirls around her, glowing eyes and whiskers forming from the water. The Lake Lord has awoken.
The Lake Lord is a spirit. It is bound to its lake, but it learned how to split off fragments and send them far away, then reabsorb them when they return. After a terrible accident renders the Puddlings unable to return to the main body to join the whole, Brooke must take up the task of finding and returning them all so that the Lake Lord may become whole again.
The Lake Lord counts as a Construct, being both Sapient and Non-Living. The Puddlings, being lesser in mind than their larger form, count as Animate Non-Living Creatures.
Increase your sacrificial Injury's Severity by 1 and spend an Action.
Summon the one and only Sapient Lake Lord at your location. They last until they are destroyed They are controlled by you. You may have at most one minion active at a time.
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
If killed, you cannot re-summon your minion until after your next Contract.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Conduit - Your minion may only be understood by you, not by anyone else unless they have a Commune power targeting Sapient beings. Additionally, whenever your minion takes a severity 3 or higher injury, roll Mind at difficulty 8. On a failure, take one mind damage.
If you do not have a sacrificial Injury when you activate this Effect, take a new Severity-1 Injury.
Beco's golden shield jumps to a nearby ally to protect them from projectiles.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You have 4 Armor, which reduces incoming damage from all sources of physical attack except Melee Attacks. Armor from multiple sources does not stack. This Armor cannot be circumvented with Called Shots.
You may transfer your Armor to another target within 30 feet once per Round as a Free Action. You may transfer it back to yourself at any range.
You may spend an Action or Reaction and Exert your Mind to double your Armor rating for one Round.
Any time your Armor prevents Damage, your Armor rating is temporarily decreased by 2. Whenever it goes five Rounds without preventing any Damage, it is restored back to its full value.
Through harrowing near-death experiences and sustaining injuries that would’ve put a normal group of men down, Akira’s body has underwent an extreme change down to a cellular level. Producing a continuous form of super platelets that allows him to regenerate far beyond what any normal human could do. To a point where entire body parts can be replaced in under an hour or so.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Any Injury you receive heals quickly, reducing its Severity by one level every 10 minutes. Any Injuries you receive while this Effect is active do not deteriorate over time. However, any Battle Scars caused by such an Injury will remain unless it is Properly Stabilized as normal.
You may Exert your Mind and spend an Action to reduce the Severity of one of your Injuries by 2. Does not affect Injuries suffered as an activation cost for Effects.
All Injuries you receive are considered Properly Stabilized. You may also choose to heal any Battle Scar on yourself that may not have been caused by an Injury. Doing so takes one day, and the Battle Scar affects you fully until that time.
Too slow to see with the naked eye, it is still obvious to anyone paying attention that traumatic injuries speed through the healing process, producing granulated tissue within hours, before scarring and eventually fully remodeling within the day. Even severe injuries often heal before it’s time to return home.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Any Injury you receive heals quickly, reducing its Severity by one level every 6 hours. Any Injuries you receive while this Effect is active do not deteriorate over time. However, any Battle Scars caused by such an Injury will remain unless it is Properly Stabilized as normal.
All Injuries you receive are considered Properly Stabilized. You may also choose to heal any Battle Scar on yourself that may not have been caused by an Injury. Doing so takes one day, and the Battle Scar affects you fully until that time.
The detective squints, drawing on years of police experience to find any hidden drugs, weapons, or other illegal objects, no matter how well-hidden.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You automatically detect all illegal materials within 50 feet of you for the next hour. You have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected items. You do not learn any details about the detected items.
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 Witch summons a crow, whispers a message to it, and sends it off to deliver her words. Half an hour later, the crow arrives at the recipient and repeats her message aloud in its croaking, animal voice.
Spend an Action. Select a target any distance away from you. You must have a specific target in mind, but you require only an intuitive understanding of them, such as their name, face, or Location.
You may send a single message to your target. It can be as complex or as large as you like. It takes at least 30 minutes before it is received.
The message may be intercepted while in transit, and may be overheard, read, or otherwise understood by anyone near either you or the recipient. You must share a common language for your target to understand the message.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
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Exert your Mind and spend eight hours. Select a Living or Animate target within arm's reach. Roll a single D10 as a critical failure check. If you roll a 1, the Effect fails, and you cause a major Battle Scar instead of an augmentation. Your target must make a Trauma roll to reap the benefits of this Effect. They may choose to Resist the Effect and not make the roll. The target can easily Resist.
You may add one augmentation to your target. Each augmentation counts as a Battle Scar and can have exactly one of the following Effects:
The augmentations you provide are not outwardly visible nor obvious.
The werewolf's gnashing teeth sheer through steel and bone alike. Those caught in their maw rarely make it out alive.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are in werewolf form, and you are engaged in unarmed combat.
+2 dice to rolls for Attacking, Defending, and Clashing without a weapon. Unarmed attacks do +0 Weapon Damage (instead of -1).
You may Defend against melee, projectile, or firearm Attacks from any range and Clash with those in range of your Attacks. Attacking materials like steel or spikes will not Damage you unless it has an Effect that does so.
You also gain the following effects: