Jordan talks to people in a way that is weirdly comfortable to them, even though he’s often a complete stranger to them. He’s really good at mixing into human conversation and custom, almost like he was custom designed to infiltrate it. He has almost a cultural and situational lexicon in his head that allows him to adapt and slip through any social situation.
Jordan was literally custom designed to infiltrate human societies by his alien masters. Now that he’s awakening to his true nature, his sleeper powers are slowly coming online, with his hardcoded social training finally activating. He came prebuilt with a Lexicon of many human social and cultural norms, which his brain can now access.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Charisma rating is increased by 1. You may Exert your Mind to automatically gain an Outcome of 5 on any roll that uses Charisma (Cannot be used on combat rolls or Power activations).
Edgar, by his unique physiology & his profession, has little to fear from disease, poison, or most other toxins. However, the ghoul is a natural carrier for disease - & can continue to spread them even after the symptoms have passed.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You get +0 dice to any Body resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
Roots slowly extend out from Carpathia, their ends glowing gently. They hang suspended in the air as Carpathia speaks into an acorn under her breath. After a minute, the roots all rapidly withdraw beneath Carpathia's skin.
All of the events that transpire in a location, all the thoughts and feelings of the creatures that inhabit the area, all of these things come together to form a spirit that reflects all these things. Technically, the entire universe has formed a spirit. Carpathia is just able to speak to a specific piece. But these spirits are unknowable, and if Carpathia is not careful she can be overcome by the sheer weight of the history around her. The world is rarely so directly hostile towards one of it's inhabitants, especially one as tied to it as Carpathia, but it can overestimate her psyche.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Investigate an area with a radius of up to 500 feet You must actively and obviously use Acorn to activate this Effect. You must make a Trauma roll when you use this Effect. Its Difficulty cannot be reduced by any means. At the end of your investigation, roll Charisma + Influence at Difficulty 6.
You learn the following information about the area:
You cannot investigate the same area more than once per day.
Veronica takes a little vaping break and comes back feeling incredibly refreshed.
Uses Moe-Magic instead of culture.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend 2 Actions. You must actively and obviously use a Vape to activate this Effect. Choose a specific Injury on yourself that has not yet been treated with this Effect and roll Charisma + Culture at Difficulty 8.
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.
I am no longer human, the, all remnants of such has left my body, and I am now a vessel for the growing spirit of the Wendigo, my body is cold to the touch, my heart frozen.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: _Skin is pale and very cold_. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living being when targeted..
You are immune to damage from cold. If cold is a substantial component of other damage you would take (e.g. falling from a great distance into a vat of liquid nitrogen), that damage is reduced by 2 (in addition to Armor)
While in Cold, heat, cold, pressure, and other atmospheric hazards do not affect you, and dangerous local flora and fauna will not bother you unless you give them a reason.
Michael is an expert soldier, able to shrug off pain and distraction without a thought, but is unfortunately not great at distinguishing friend from foe.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Your Body and Mind Penalties are reduced to 0. Lasts three hours.
If you are Stunned, asleep, drugged, or otherwise made unconscious for any reason other than being Incapacitated, you may Exert your Mind to wake up. Any penalty which was caused by this condition is removed.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: While this effect is active, you must roll Mind difficulty 9 to not attack the closest target to you.
The Necromancer temporarily assumes the form of their own corpse, complete with maggots, spilled entrails, and exposed bone. They cannot move while transformed, but their empty eye sockets see as well as ever.
Exert your Mind and Spend an Action.
You transform into your own corpse for one minute. While transformed, you may control the functioning of the object you have transformed into. You can perceive your surroundings as normal. You can be targeted as a Non-Living, Sapient Object.
If you are damaged while transformed, the damage is realized when you return to normal. If you are damaged before you transform, your inanimate form will appear partially damaged.
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
The Thief examines an object closely for a minute to appraise its value. As their eyes dance across the subject, their pupils split vertically, and their irises fade to gold. If it is a particularly valuable item, the Thief may greedily lick their lips, revealing a forked tongue.
Within a minute, they have determined how materially valuable the object is and why.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Select a target Object within arm's reach. At the end of your investigation, roll Charisma + Culture at Difficulty 6.
You learn all the following information about your target:
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.
The beastmaster closes their eyes and channels nature's bloody struggle for survival. When their eyes reopen, they catch the light and glow red like a dog's. While in this heightened state, they may sense heat signatures and triangulate the tiniest sound.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way. Lasts for three hours.
The survivalist spends a moment setting up a makeshift booby trap. The tripwires and pressure plates are so expertly hidden, they can only be noticed by those who have fallen victim to them before.
The victim is hit with a tiny curare dart. Pain wracks their body as a potent neurotoxin spreads through their veins.
Exert your Mind and spend 30 seconds to trap a region of any shape that contains your current location and fits entirely within 300 feet. This trap lasts one day or until triggered or disarmed. You must use up a dart in order to activate this Effect. Roll Intellect + Survival Difficulty 6.
The trap looks like a tripwire, a pressure plate, or a hidden switch. Only those who have seen this trap before can identify it as a trap. Anyone who is aware of the trap may intuitively avoid, trigger, or destroy it.
Any Living target that enters the chosen region will trigger the trap. The target may contest by rolling Body, Difficulty 6.
If the Contested Outcome is positive, the target takes that much Damage plus 2. The target's Armor is completely ignored.
The target suffers a -3 dice penalty for the next hour or until the Injury is healed. This dice penalty does not stack multiple times on the same target.
Instead of dealing Damage all at once, the Injury caused by this Power starts at Severity 1 and worsens at the rate of one level per Round until it reaches the Severity it would have otherwise been.
The Vampire may channel their inner beast and take the form of an animal. It is said they may transform into either a wolf or a bat. If used too often, the Vampire risks losing themselves to their beast forever.
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 a vampire bat or a wolf until you transform into something else or choose to return to your original form. See the Extended System text for stats.
While transformed, you cannot use any equipment (including Artifacts and Consumables), and you do not have access to any of your Powers. Any equipment you are wearing transforms with you.
Injuries and Wound Level are carried over between forms. However, transforming can never kill you; you merely remain Incapacitated until your Injuries are sufficiently healed.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: A disfigured face with bat-like ears.