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Architect
As you activate this effect, the cube floats in between your arms as you rotate its sections. It's grooves glow with a dim purple light.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within 50 feet. You must be in an area abundant with man-made structures and materials.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of Man-Made Construction Materials originating at the target:
- Dome: Create a dome or other simple, enclosed structure made of Man-Made Construction Materials up to 40 feet in radius, 24 feet high, and 24 inches thick.
- Wall: Create a straight wall made of Man-Made Construction Materials up to 80 feet long, 20 feet high, and 24 inches thick. This wall can also be used to create a bridge, ramp, or similar. It must be free-standing.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts one minute but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 12 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-piercing sword, unarmed mastery with Armored Fist.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
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The Sons of Salem
We swear to secure our people against the wickedness and evil of the invisible world.
We swear to aid the afflicted.
We swear to stay ever vigilant and seek out the abominable witchcrafts committed in this country.
We humbly pray to be blessed by God to hold all those who consort with the Devil accountable. Amen
—Opening and closing prayer for Sons of Salem meetings.
The Sons of Salem is a loosely-organized conservative populist movement in the United States that preaches violent opposition to anything they perceive as witchcraft, demonic, or monstrous.
Blowhard podcaster Ted Gundy and former general of the mercenary group “Hognose,” Roland Rush, founded the movement in 2010 after a series of violent werewolf attacks and unexplained, supernatural murders in Tennessee. Memberships grew quickly, stoked by Ted’s fiery doomsday rhetoric on his podcast "Truth Seekers" and the aspiration of the masculine power embodied by Roland.
Although they speak of duty, honor, and maintaining the “natural order” of things, the Sons of Salem are driven by fear. They collect guns and appear at protests en-masse as a way of easing the all-consuming terror of their powerlessness. At the same time, they have conditioned themselves to respond to fear with “strength” (read: violence).
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Terrain Control Gifts
Ice Fabrication
Careful, it's cold.
Cole's forearms and hands freeze, and upon placing them on the target surface, the ice grows from his hands to the surface, and grows into the desired structure.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within arm's reach.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of Ice originating at the target:
- Dome: Create a dome or other simple, enclosed structure made of Ice up to 10 feet in radius, 6 feet high, and 6 inches thick.
- Sculpt: Sculpt a surface made of Ice up to 20 feet by 20 feet. You may make aesthetic changes or minor functional improvements like a ladder or stairs. You may sculpt windows, doors, and similar alterations into structures you created with this Effect.
- Wall: Create a straight wall made of Ice up to 20 feet long, 5 feet high, and 6 inches thick. This wall can also be used to create a bridge, ramp, or similar. It must be free-standing.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts one minute but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 3 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-shredding attacks.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
Passengers Dark Dealings
Gustav acts as a conduit for his dark passengers to broker a deal with the target, as this negotiations go gustav draws demonic symbiology on the target and speaks in a cascade of different voices and languages finally finishing the contract and leaving the target with a small scar. the scars look varies depending on the power gifted but will always look like a body part from an animal that best fits the augment.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Living target within arm's reach. You must make a Trauma roll when you use this Effect. Its Difficulty cannot be reduced by any means. If you fail or Botch, you receive one Mind Damage and a new Trauma. 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:
- Specialized: You receive +2 dice to a particular non-combat, non-Effect Action.
- Environmental Adaptation: You do not suffer harm from heat, cold, pressure, or lack of oxygen in a particular environment, provided that challenge normally exists in that environment.
- Implanted Tool: You have access to the functionality of some common Device at all times. The selected Device can be no larger than a motorcycle helmet.
- Armor: You have 2 Armor at all times. As always, Armor from multiple sources does not stack.
- Pouch: Part of your body functions as a hidden pocket. It can hold no more than a briefcase (15 liters).
- Zippy: Your Free Movement is increased by 10 feet.
- Maws and Claws: Your unarmed attacks do +2 Weapon Damage instead of -1.
By transplanting a body part from an Alien being, you can grant an intrinsic Effect from that part to the subject. Its power level should be limited to one Gift Point or less.
The augmentations you provide are not outwardly visible nor obvious.
- The systems for any Powers or Effects granted by splicing from other creatures are subject to Playgroup Leader approval and may be adjusted from their NPC counterparts.
- Remember: A Contractor’s Body rating is reduced by 1 for each Battle Scar after their fourth.
- You may not augment targets with pouches or implanted devices that are larger than they are.
- Targets without Body ratings may have a maximum of 4 augmentations.
- Example environments for adaptation: space, all saltwater, all fresh water, all water under 50 feet deep, all water deeper than 50 feet, the jungle, radioactive areas, a specific alien world, etc.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
Grave Digger
Rest in peace stranger.
Following the will of the mother of death, the ground opens up to receive the dead... or not so dead. Causing two small hills of earth to pile on either side of the hole. Once the effect is ended, instantly slides back into the whole, leaving a small loose mound on top where the ground is disturbed by what is now in it.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action. Select a Location within 50 feet. You must be in an area abundant with natural earth and/or raw minerals.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of natural earth originating at the target:
- Tunnel: create a tunnel through natural earth that is up to 6 feet in diameter and 20 feet long. It may curve as desired.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts one minute but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 6 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
You may opt to have your alteration form immediately. If you do, it falls apart in exactly one Round.
- Creating a tunnel through / under the supporting parts of a structure may collapse it.
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-shredding attacks.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- This Effect produces the substance you are controlling unless it is drawn from the environment via “Required Environment” Drawbacks.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
Exert your Mind (unless you are Sculpting) and spend one minute. Select a Location within arm's reach. You must be in an area abundant with Underground.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of stone originating at the target:
- Sculpt: Sculpt a surface made of stone up to 20 feet by 20 feet. You may make aesthetic changes or minor functional improvements like a ladder or stairs. You may sculpt windows, doors, and similar alterations into structures you created with this Effect.
- Wall: Create a straight wall made of stone up to 20 feet long, 5 feet high, and 6 inches thick. This wall can also be used to create a bridge, ramp, or similar. It must be free-standing.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts indefinitely but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 3 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
You may sculpt your walls, domes, or tunnels as you create them, without any additional activation time or cost.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see Unholy Blood Magic Ritual.
- When narrating disturbing content, be cognizant of your group's tone and accommodating to those who would like to "fast forward" through the description.
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-shredding attacks.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- This Effect produces the substance you are controlling unless it is drawn from the environment via “Required Environment” Drawbacks.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
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Terrain Control Gifts
Unexpected Wall
We chased ‘em round the corner and found ’em on the other side of a brick wall, speeding away
The spy can twist the urban environment to their whims, erecting fences, walls, and barriers as needed. They whistle and gesture to where the wall should be, and the surrounding materials fly into place.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within 50 feet. You must be in an area abundant with man-made structures and materials.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of standard building materials originating at the target:
- Wall: Create a straight wall made of standard building materials up to 40 feet long, 10 feet high, and 12 inches thick. This wall can also be used to create a bridge, ramp, or similar. It must be free-standing.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts one minute but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 6 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-shredding attacks.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- This Effect produces the substance you are controlling unless it is drawn from the environment via “Required Environment” Drawbacks.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.