The chemist jabs a needle filled with viscous silvery liquid into his forearm. The affected hand begins to grow, fingers elongating and nails falling out to give room to razor-sharp claws. As the concoction spreads through his body the muscles swell and grow more dense, veins bulging out around them.
The serum itself is carefully crafted by Vincent and is custom tailored to his anatomy. It is still imperfect, overworking the body while it is in effect. It also has a chance to be rejected by the recipient's immune system, causing strife that may lead to internal bleeding or extreme exhaustion.
Exert your Mind (unless Severity-3 or deadlier Injury) and spend an Action. You must use up a biochemical serum in order to activate this Effect.
You transform into a mutant for 3 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are a mutant, and you can use your equipment. Your Battle Scars, Injuries, and physical Liabilities are carried over between forms. Reverting from your Alternate Form cannot cause your existing Injuries to kill you. Instead, you remain Incapacitated.
While transformed, your Brawn is increased by 1 and your Dexterity is increased by 1. Your Stress is reduced by 2.
Your alternate form is its own deadly weapon. Unarmed attacks made in your alternate form deal +3 Weapon Damage (instead of the typical -1).
After this Effect ends, you cannot move quicker than a walk (15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour.
When you activate this Effect, roll a single D10. if the result is 5 or lower, you receive a Severity-1 Injury and a Minor Battle Scar.
Girthery very quickly stabs himself with the syringe, activating his latent ULTIMATE MUSCLE GOD ABILITIES!
You gain the following benefits as long as the user is working out.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Ultimate Muscle God. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living being when targeted. Your Brawn is increased by 1.
Your body is adapted to Weight Lifting. You receive +3 dice on non-attack rolls related to Weight Lifting.
Gustav has created a spell to completely fuse his soul with his dark passengers, as he chants in Hebrew An invisible force strikes his body, stripping away layers with ruthless precision. First, the skin is torn asunder. Then, muscles and sinew are ripped away, leaving only the untouched skeleton in its wake.
From this skeletal core, Gustav rapidly regenerates into a new, infernal form. His face becomes angular and almost sculpture like. His once-brown skin now takes on an obsidian hue. A blood-red, upside-down cross adorns his forehead. His height expands to a towering 6'7", Dark shadowy claws drip with a putrid icier from the tips of his fingers. Ripped, jet-black feathers sprout from the back of his hips, forming a pair of dark wings.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. 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.
You transform into Fallen angel for 3 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are Fallen angel, and you can use your equipment. Your Battle Scars, Injuries, and physical Liabilities are carried over between forms. Reverting from your Alternate Form cannot cause your existing Injuries to kill you. Instead, you remain Incapacitated.
While transformed, your Brawn is increased by 2. Your Stress is reduced by 2.
While transformed, instead of your normal clothes and equipment, you are equipped with: Large Waterproof Phany pack with 5 Baggies of cocaine, 1 Narcotix's White gold, 3 Bloody Doctor, 4 Regenerative Ecstasy, 3 Unholy Purification, 1 Truth Serum, flowing white toga dress, Archeologist Grimoire
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see Demonic Visage.
From the ashes of despair a God appears before you. Anubis has returned to deal death and destruction in the name of the Goddess. The bearer of the ring transforms into a God like figure and is able to cause wanton destruction around him.
Expend a point of Battery and spend a Quick Action. This Effect cannot be used unless you are fully within shadow.
You transform into Jackal-Headed Monster for 30 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are Jackal-Headed Monster, and you can use your equipment. The Injuries and Battle Scars of your Alternate Form and your true form are tracked separately.
While transformed, your Attributes are the same. Your Stress is reduced by 2.
Your alternate form is its own deadly weapon. Unarmed attacks made in your alternate form deal +3 Weapon Damage (instead of the typical -2).
Your alternate form renders you unable to speak any human language and incapable of fine object manipulation. You can only hold or grasp objects in a crude, clumsy way.
As Clyde is about to fight, if he sees his combatant being an actual issue, or danger to all, he starts to morph his body, re-figuring and moving his bones at a fast pace, fur growing off of him, claws growing out of his finger.
Exert your Mind and spend a Quick Action.
You transform into Werebear for 3 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are Werebear, and you can use your equipment. Your Battle Scars, Injuries, and physical Liabilities are carried over between forms. Reverting from your Alternate Form cannot cause your existing Injuries to kill you. Instead, you remain Incapacitated.
While transformed, your Dexterity is increased by 2 and your Perception is increased by 2. Your Stress is reduced by 2.
Your alternate form is its own deadly weapon. Unarmed attacks made in your alternate form deal +3 Weapon Damage (instead of the typical -1).
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see Fur sprouting on his body, his body morphing, skin slightly stretching to fit the new figure.
Your alternate form renders you unable to speak any human language and incapable of fine object manipulation. You can only hold or grasp objects in a crude, clumsy way.
Victims of viral lycanthropy are known to transform into a monstrous liminal form in situations of high stress or danger. In this form, they are impulsive and act more on instinct than intellect, fleeing or fighting until they eventually revert back to their human form.
I turn into a humanoid green turtle
Exert your Mind and spend a Quick Action.
You transform into Were-turtle for 3 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are Were-turtle, and you can use your equipment. Your Battle Scars, Injuries, and physical Liabilities are carried over between forms. Reverting from your Alternate Form cannot cause your existing Injuries to kill you. Instead, you remain Incapacitated.
While transformed, your Brawn is increased by 1 and your Dexterity is increased by 1. You do not suffer any Stress while transformed.
Your alternate form is its own deadly weapon. Unarmed attacks made in your alternate form deal +3 Weapon Damage (instead of the typical -1).
Your alternate form renders you unable to speak any human language and incapable of fine object manipulation. You can only hold or grasp objects in a crude, clumsy way.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Roll Self-Control not to enter Liminal Form at the start of Combat. Whenever you fail any Trauma or Self-Control roll, you must immediately transform into your Liminal form.
The werewolf unleashes their inner beast, transforming into an imposing hybrid of human and wolf. Their head reforms into that of a wolf, robbing them of speech but bestowing a maw of deadly fangs. Grey fur sprouts from their body as it swells with muscle, ripping any tight-fitting clothes. While transformed, the werewolf is impulsive and driven more by instinct than logic.
If The Werewolf is struck my moonlight, they are compelled to transform.
Exert your Mind and spend a Quick Action.
You transform into a werewolf for 3 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are a werewolf, and you can use your equipment. Your Battle Scars, Injuries, and physical Liabilities are carried over between forms. Reverting from your Alternate Form cannot cause your existing Injuries to kill you. Instead, you remain Incapacitated.
While transformed, your Brawn is increased by 2 and your Dexterity is increased by 2. You do not suffer any Stress while transformed.
Your alternate form is its own deadly weapon. Unarmed attacks made in your alternate form deal +3 Weapon Damage (instead of the typical -1).
Your alternate form renders you unable to speak any human language and incapable of fine object manipulation. You can only hold or grasp objects in a crude, clumsy way.
After this Effect ends, you cannot move quicker than a walk (15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour.
While transformed, you automatically fail any Mind roll to resist an impulse and suffer -3 dice on all other Mind rolls.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Whenever you are struck by the light of a full or gibbous moon, you must roll Self-Control to resist transforming. Triggers a max of once per night.