Gustav's unholy pact aligns him with Narcotix, the Tempter of Vice. Gustav brandishes a Clear sealed scale covered pouch containing a dark, powdery substance akin to midnight sand. As he unseals the bag and exposes its contents to the air, the once-ebony powder undergoes an eerie transformation, morphing into a blinding, incandescent white. With a flourish, Gustav Winds up to slap the blizzard-like unholy substance into there system. The Target is raked with intense demonic visions of pleasures that leave the users traumatized.
Spend an Action and use up this ________ (unless you succeed on 1d10, Difficulty 7). Make a Brawl attack at a Living target within normal attack range. Roll a single D10 as a critical failure check. If you roll a 1, the Effect fails, and you Bad Batch: Major scar Limp. Your target must make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect. The target may roll to dodge or defend, as normal for Brawl attacks. The attack does not deal Damage, but the Effect does.
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. Your patient is required to Must weekly partake in a dose of cocaine and study. for the next month. If they violate this rule, your treatment is immediately reversed.
The Witch can access various important details about a person simply by engaging in a short conversation with them for a minute or so, knowing their name (if they are a person) and asking a specific trigger question
Exert your Mind (unless When used on people, i must know their name for it to take effect) and spend at least two Actions performing the following ritual: I must use the phrase "Would you mind telling me a secret?" to activate. Select a Sapient target within arm's reach. You must continuously interact with the individual in question in order to gather any information. You must maintain Concentration while activating this Effect, and it fails if you are interrupted. At the end of your investigation, roll Charisma + Influence at Difficulty 6. The target resists by rolling Mind at Difficulty 7.
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.
Devonia will place their hand near the target, as a amber, primordial fluid flows from their hand into the target, causing small grows of feathers, horns and fur to grow before aging and withering away afterwards
The target will notably grow older overtime, and with repeated use, will eventually start sporting the same horns, feathers, and fur with enough uses (roughly 10 uses, not set in stone currently)
Spend an Action. Select a target within arm's reach.
For the next 24 hours, your target does not require any food, water, sleep, or air. Your target ages 1 year over the duration of the Effect. Supernatural attempts to age you are 5 times as effective.
This Gift's Cost is capped at 2 and cannot be increased further.
Working closely with the negative spirits she normally uses, she has finally refined a method of communicating to more friendly ones..
If she finds something she needs more information on, she can bury a coin and state it is an offering for the spirits, and a local spirit will enter the item to examine it, and whisper the information on the wind for momma ettu to hear.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute to activate. Select a target Object within arm's reach. You must use up a silver coin, buried in order to activate this Effect. At the end of your investigation, roll Charisma + Occult at Difficulty 6.
You learn all the following information about your target:
Mira's jokes are so bad they make people fall asleep :3
Better description:
Mira awkwardly shuffles onto the stage, adjusting the microphone and clearing her throat. The mic rings throughout the room, Mira taps it, "Hello everyone!", "Why don't oysters donate to charity?" .... silence .... "Because they're SHELLFISH!" Mira struggles to contain her laughter at her own joke, the crowd is dead silent.
This goes on and before long nearly the entire crowd have fallen asleep. Mira looks at the crowd, dejected and steps off stage...
Spend an Action. Select a Location within 30 feet. All Living targets within 20 feet of the chosen location are affected. This Effect cannot be used unless Mira is performing in front of a crowd of people or on a stage of some sort and Mira is making jokes continously for at least 1 minute. You must make a Trauma roll when you use this Effect. Its Difficulty cannot be reduced by any means. Roll Charisma + Influence at Difficulty 6. Affected targets may resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, affected targets becomes drowsy for the next 30 seconds, during which time they suffer an additional -2 dice Penalty to all Actions. At the end of their drowsiness, they fall asleep for Outcome x 3 minutes.
Sleeping targets will not prematurely wake up on their own, but may still be woken up by sudden loud noises, being jarred or splashed with water, taking Damage, or similar rousing events. They will also awaken before dying of hunger, thirst, or suffocation. Drowsy targets always fall asleep, regardless of what happens while they are drowsy.
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.
This Gift's Cost is capped at 2 and cannot be increased further.
I have a voice in my head that tries to keep me mentally healthy. I recognize the irony in talking to a voice in my head for therapy but what the hell else am I supposed to do? Ignore it? It's very helpful!
Exert your Mind to activate. You may only target yourself. Over the course of one day, your patient must communicate with you and reveal at least one of their Traumas to you, including the details of those Traumas and the circumstances of how they were acquired. After the full treatment time has elapsed, roll Charisma + Technology at Difficulty 6.
Your target may Resist. If your treatment is successful, you may remove one of the patient's revealed Traumas without incurring any Experience cost.
The priest channels their true faith into a brutal assault on the consciousness of demonic or unholy creatures. By wielding their favored holy symbol, a gilded crucifix, they can put a proper fear of god into them, leaving them cowering at any truly holy things they encounter.
Exert your Mind (unless you have been recently attacked by your target) and spend an Action. Select a Sapient target within 20 feet. This Effect cannot be used unless the target is undead, demonic, or another evil creature. You must actively and obviously use a gilded cross to activate this Effect. Roll Charisma + Occult at Difficulty 6. Affected targets may resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 8 with a -3 dice penalty. If they are incapacitated or unconscious, they fail automatically and their Outcome is 0.
If the Contested Outcome is positive, the target takes Mind damage equal to the Contested Outcome. If you deal at least 3 Mind damage, the target will gain a phobia of holy things as a Trauma. This Trauma may be removed by Effects or mundane therapy, as normal. Affected targets are aware that they are being attacked and can generally tell who did it.
The mad scientist produces thorium cores that can be used to upgrade tools and other devices. The core supercharges the item, increasing its quality and rendering it indestructible for a period. However, once the core runs dry, the object is rendered less useful than it was before. The core crackles with blue electricity while active.
Spend 1 Action and use up this glowing blue disk. Select a non-Alien Device within arm's reach. Cannot be used to improve Armor.
Lasts the next two hours. Your target receives 2 extra dice to all actions taken for its intended use. Attacking with an upgraded weapon grants +2 Weapon Damage instead of additional dice. While it is upgraded, the item cannot be destroyed.
After the Effect ends, any upgraded targets suffer a -2 dice penalty until they are either repaired or upgraded again.
The influencer is 100% tuned-in to any sort of chatter about themselves. Any time someone nearby so much as whispers about them, they know who they were and what they said.
This Effect activates whenever someone talks about you. It does not require an Action or Exertion. Select a target Location within 75 feet.
You may perceive things through hearing as if you were standing at that Location for the next 30 minutes. You must maintain Concentration to keep up the effect. You cannot perceive anything at your physical location while the effect is active.
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 arm's reach. 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 beastmaster puts their nose to the ground and sniffs about the area. Their feral nostrils tell them what sorts of creatures live in the area, and who lays claim to each region.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Investigate an area with a radius of up to 100 feet Can only be activated while you are in the wilderness. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Survival at Difficulty 6.
You learn the following information about the area: