Edgar's powerful hands & hooked talons are uniquely adapted for burrowing in soft materials. He moves through mud, snow, sand, & loose soil with relative ease, body compressing & flexing to great effect. Likewise, the Ghoul is adept at slithering along solely with the use of stomach, tongue, & powerful arms.
Future Effects: Slither
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You may move easily and without a roll in any of the following situations. Lasts 2 hours.
Taking out a spray can, Jami will shake it to spray a shifting, congealing slime of mixed colors from its spout, which will solidify in around a minute, shaping itself to replace what the host lost
Exert your Mind and spend a minute to activate. Select a Living target within arm's reach. You must actively and obviously use Spray paint can to activate this Effect. Select a Battle Scar on your target to treat.
The treated Battle Scar will heal immediately.
Healing a Battle Scar in this way leaves behind shifting colorful inks covering the affected area/replacing the missing part/limb on the target which cannot be healed.
The symbiotic organism has fully bonded with the host. They no longer risk rejection or sudden germination, & have full access to the cognitive enhancement of the symbiote. Sometimes, while thinking hard, onlookers might note unsightly bulges in the cranium where the tendrils pulse rhythmically.
You gain the following benefits as long as you have your Algernon's Flower.
Your Intellect rating is increased by 1. You may Exert your Mind to automatically gain an Outcome of 5 on any roll that uses Intellect (Cannot be used on combat rolls or Power activations).
If you are witnessed actively using this Effect, whoever sees it can make a Perception + Alertness roll at Difficulty 6. A complete success reveals the source of your power.
You also gain the following effects:
Once the deal is made and both parties shake hands, afterwards both parties will have a black dot in the palm of their hand until the deal is broken.
You may make an oath with any number of physically-present, Sapient targets. Communicate the oath's terms to the targets, including the requirements and penalties for each participant. If all agree to the terms, you must Exert your Mind and all participants must Shake hands to seal the deal.
Record the oath as a Condition. If a party breaks the oath, the Condition ends and they suffer the oath's penalty.
When crafting your oath, you may incorporate any of the following penalties:
The targets cannot be compelled to agree via a direct threat of violence, another Effect, or another oath. If you would like to use clever wording to mislead the targets, you must succeed a contested Intellect + (Culture or Influence) roll.
All oaths you create last 12 hours maximum
Litia touches someone whose metabolic processes slow down, then stop for the next 24 hours. The initial stopping visibly messes with time dependent activities around Litia and her target, leaves falling in reverse, insects stopping in mid-air for a fraction of a second, sweat returning to the pores and sounds speeding up or slowing down.
The immense metaphysical pressure this puts on a living being prevents the repeated use, if you don't want to freeze in place forever.
Spend an Action. Select a Animate target within arm's reach. This Effect cannot be used unless the target wasn't targeted for the last 28 days.
For the next 24 hours, your target does not require any food, water, sleep, or air. Any roll to resist an Effect dependent on any affected requirement is made at -1 Difficulty.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
Working in many places as a park ranger, Janice has grown to be able to track any being throughout any sort of environment. Her discerning eyes can keep track of her target once she spots any sign that they left.
This ability has been honed throughout years of hunting throughout the night for intruders in deserts and forests. She's not using just physical hints, like footprints, but also patterns of movement from a litany of people trying to evade her.
By taking a close look, with a magnifying glass, Janice is able to use any trace of even the most minuscule of debris to see where the target has been. Even from the depth of their prints, she's able to tell if the footprint is a red herring left by the evader. Janice is able to keep track of the target well enough that she could teach a toddler how to follow them.
Looking at the gait of the target, and the depth of the footprints, Janice is also able to tell if the target is limping, going slower than normal. She's even able to find out their weight.
However, following their trail, and judging their health together is too much for Janice. Her mental endurance isn't enough to be able to juggle these. She has to focus down on one concept beforehand.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Select a Sapient target or a Creature within arm's reach. You may select a target at any range if you use up Footprints of the target. You must actively and obviously use Magnifying Glass to activate this Effect. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Investigation 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.
The Necromancer stands over a corpse and makes a series of grandiose lifting gestures. The corpse rises from the ground as though suspended by invisible strings, barks a pained groan, and lands on its feet, now a full-fledged member of the living dead.
Increase your sacrificial Injury's Severity by 1 and spend an Action. You must use up corpse in order to activate this Effect.
Summon up to 3 Non-Sapient, Animate zombie at your location. They last for two hours or until they are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. You may have at most 3 minions active at a time.
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
If you do not have a sacrificial Injury when you activate this Effect, take a new Severity-1 Injury.
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. Your target should be intuitively based on the triggering event.
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 mobster knows a guy they can call for a hired goon, who arrives about a minute later. The goons are dumb as bricks, but tough nonetheless, perfect for sending a message when you need to keep your hands clean.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must actively and obviously use cell phone to activate this Effect.
Summon a single Sapient goon at your location. They last for two hours or until they are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. You may have at most one minion active at a time.
When the Vampire's lust for blood is satiated, their injuries heal at a remarkably fast rate and new injuries are quickly stabilized. While healing, the Vampire's skin retains its deathly pale appearance, as any blood he consumes is being used to repair his wounds.
You gain the following benefits as long as as long as you have drank a half gallon (lethal) amount of blood in the past 24 hours.
Any Injury you receive heals quickly, reducing its Severity by one level each hour. 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.
The vampire sucks a copious amount of blood from a human and replenishes their own cursed flesh.
Exert your Mind and spend 1 minute. This Effect cannot be used unless you drink blood directly from a human until it injures them. Choose a specific Injury on yourself that has not yet been treated with this Effect and roll Brawn + Occult at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, the Injury is reduced in Severity by your Outcome. If you reduce its Severity to 0, the Injury is fully healed. Otherwise, it is partially healed and will heal the rest of the way at its natural rate.
This counts as a successful Makeshift Stabilization if the Injury was not already Stabilized; any Battle Scars caused by the Injury will remain.
If your Outcome is greater than the Severity of the Injury you were attempting to treat, you may apply any excess Outcome to other Injuries on yourself.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see you drink blood directly from the vein.