Setsuke's eye twitches briefly, and her smile widens into a grotesque grin, as a small finger-width protrusion, slimy and black as ink extends from her face, either out of the ear, eye, or nostril, deforming slightly to make room. Highly flexible, and free of bones or hard cartilage, it can change shape and stretch up to 30 feet, grabbing items, grappling targets, or impaling them- though its no stronger than her at this point.
Her body is not fully accustomed to the readjustments needed, and there is the risk that her face will fail to rearrange properly- causing a nasty deformity (or loss of eye, ear, something else on the face) in the process.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You gain an additional limb that functions as a standard human arm and hand. Lasts two hours.
Each additional limb you posses can take one Quick Action per Round without incurring a -2 dice penalty to your main Action. Any Battle Scars that affect or remove your additional limb will heal in a single week.
Your extra appendage can be used to attack in exactly the same manner as a Rapier.
Your appendage is capable of bending and squishing in normally-impossible ways. It may fit through any gap that is not water-tight and retain its functionality.
Your extra appendage can stretch to reach an additional 30 feet.
Your extra appendage is not connected to your nervous or circulatory systems, and you will not take damage if it is hit by an attack or destroyed.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see Bones readjust and her neck thickens as the tentacle extends, revealing her as a deeply inhuman.
Grasp the target by the throat, sending them flying.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Animate target within 20 feet. Roll a single D10 as a critical failure check. If you roll a 1, the Effect fails, and you The effect fails, you’ve made a mistake. The target can take an action now.. Roll Brawn + Alertness at Difficulty 7.
If you succeed, the target will suffer a dice penalty equal to the Outcome for the next 3 Rounds. Dice pools may be reduced all the way down to 0 by this penalty. This breaks Concentration.
You may Exert your Mind and spend a Reaction to contest an Action someone is taking. Roll Brawn + Alertness at Difficulty 7. Subtract your Outcome from theirs, and they use the Contested Outcome to determine if their Action succeeds.
“Feline Heritage” is a transcendent ability that allows Darren to embrace the full extent of his mystical connection, transforming his eyes into those a white cat. This power is not merely a change of form but a profound alignment with his feline essence, enabling him to navigate the world through the senses and spirit of a cat.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way. Lasts for three hours.
The user tastes the blood of the one they wish to track, their eyes flashing red for a moment as the target’s trail becomes clear to the individual. . .unable to hide from the hunter while the gift is in effect.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Select a Sapient target or a Creature within 20 feet. You may select a target at any range if you use up Blood of the target. At the end of your investigation, roll Brawn + Alertness at Difficulty 6.
You learn a single specific piece of information, chosen from the following list, about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.
LT. Renzo Corsetti presses the target in a very soft friendly manner beguiling them with well place words and spoken traps leading to the target revealing more then they intend and spilling the beans on there internal struggles.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Select a Sapient target within 20 feet. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Investigation at Difficulty 6.
You learn all the following information about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
Any information you gather is Spoken in a frustrating dialogue with user and made publicly available.
Desdemona made her career as a keen observer of her surroundings, which has also protected her in many dangerous situations over the years. When using this Gift, Desdemona sidesteps or otherwise dodges the source of damage, reducing its effect.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You have 2 Armor, which reduces incoming Damage. Armor from multiple sources does not stack.
Be amazed as the magician wields a deck of simple playing cards with all the poise and precision of a ninja's shurikens. Fear not, for they will not hit you, unless they want to.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in combat with playing cards.
+2 dice to all rolls utilizing playing cards.
You also gain the following effects:
The psychic can glean various important details about a person simply by engaging in a short conversation with them.
Spend one minute. Select a Sapient target within 20 feet. You must actively converse with the individual in question for one minute in order to gather any information. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Influence at Difficulty 6.
You learn all the following information about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
Any information you gather is spoken aloud in conversation and made publicly available.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.
The priest's miracles expand into the treatment and curing of poisons and diseases. To do so, they require a ceremonial dedication (or often re-dedication) to the service of their god, during which the priest and the patient pray together and perform ritualistic bloodletting. These wounds burn with holy, golden fire, attacking the sinful malady and expelling it from the body.
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
By slowing the hands of one of their watches, the time-traveler may interrupt and slow a target's movement through time. The target appears to be moving in slow motion for the duration.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Animate target within 20 feet. You must actively and obviously use a watch or clock to activate this Effect. Roll Intellect + Science at Difficulty 7.
If you succeed, the target will suffer a dice penalty equal to the Outcome for the next 2 Rounds. Dice pools may be reduced all the way down to 0 by this penalty. This breaks Concentration.
You may activate this Effect as a Reaction to contest any Action a valid target is taking, reducing their Outcome by your own. Your command has no impact beyond disrupting their Action.
All it takes is a flick of your hair and a bat of your eyelashes, and you’ve got their attention.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. A number of Sapient, Living targets within 50 feet who can perceive you through no greater than your Charisma rating are affected. Audiences or mobs with a singular focus count as one target. Roll Charisma + Performance at Difficulty 6. All affected targets may resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 7.
If you succeed, the targets will keep their full attention focused on you for Contested Outcome in Rounds. They will automatically fail any rolls related to noticing anything other than you.
If you pass from their perception and they are unable to pursue you, the Effect ends. If they can follow you, they must do so for 2 Rounds or the Effect will end. The Effect ends early if the target is Injured or violence occurs nearby.
This does not affect the target’s opinion of you or their mood, and they may take any Actions while affected (including attacking), as long as that action centers on you. Fascinated targets cannot Concentrate.