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Textbook Projection
The Dream Engine's preliminary calibrations have begun. Fine detail is still a little tricky, but the hardlight projector can now reliably produce simple shapes at scale. If you can imagine it, you can build it, provided "it" is a smooth, mostly featureless polyhedron of translucent blue light.
Exert your Mind (unless you are Sculpting) and spend an Action. Select a Location within 50 feet. You must use up 30 minutes of charge from your internal battery per Potency of the created structure in order to activate this Effect.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of hard-light originating at the target:
- Sculpt: Sculpt a surface made of hard-light up to 40 feet by 40 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 hard-light 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.
You may sculpt your walls, domes, or tunnels as you create them, without any additional activation time or cost.
- 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.
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Charlatans
“Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.”
― Criss Jami
Nowadays you can't go a day without some phony prophet trying to peddle their wares to you.
Driven by the increased interest in the supernatural, charlatans from palm readers to televangelists are everywhere. And while the vast majority of witches, psychics, magicians, hypnotists, cures, potions, faith healers, and clairvoyants are complete fakes, they do make a living.
As the saying goes, "it's easier for an actor to make it in alternative medicine than Hollywood."
Most people scoff at these clearly-phony supernatural services, yet those same people often buy into at least one scam.
The most dangerous charlatans are the self-styled monster hunters who carry a mall-ninja arsenal and guns with silver bullets. Most have never encountered anything supernatural and do absolutely nothing besides burn some sage and patrol the area for a night or two. Even so, those who are superstitious, fearful, or desperate enough will hire them to solve the problems they simply don't understand. In some cases with disastrous results.
For Contractors, charlatans are red herrings and obstacles. Clumsy fakes that conjure a smokescreen of misinformation and escalate the situations they're in.
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Terrain Control Gifts
Paving the way
Sometimes, when in favor of the road lady, she will give you a favor in your time of need, offering a literal hand.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action. Select a Location within 50 feet. This Effect cannot be used unless must verbally pray to the Road Spirits.. You must be in an area abundant with roads. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of pavement originating at the target:
- Wall: Create a wall made of pavement up to 20 feet long, 5 feet high, and 6 inches thick. This wall may twist, turn, and be shaped as desired. It can hang in the air in a fixed position.
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 three hours 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-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.
Father nature
Trees that start to grow around him, he becomes something out of legend as the Earth and the foliage starts to obey his command as he becomes a being of nature itself
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 trees and foliage.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of wood and Leaf originating at the target:
- Sculpt: Sculpt a surface made of wood and Leaf 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 wood and Leaf 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.
- 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.
Command Water
Otto's influence over the sea is beginning to return, allowing some basic sculpting of water into walls.
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 water.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of water originating at the target:
- Wall: Create a straight wall made of water 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.
Multiply
Wall breaks off a piece of his brick exterior which grows to create a new wall or other similar type of structure.
Increase your sacrificial Injury's Severity by 1 and spend an Action. Select a Location within arm's reach.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of Brick originating at the target:
- Wall: Create a straight wall made of Brick 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 three hours 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.
If you do not have a sacrificial Injury when you activate this Effect, take a new Severity-1 Injury.
- The sacrificial Injury received from activating this Effect cannot be prevented by any means or healed before 1 day has passed. It is shared with all Effects that use sacrifice. This Injury does not requires Stabilization or cause Battle Scars when it becomes Severe.
- 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.
Bring my own Board
This time, I am cheating
While before I used my wit and planning to get my way, now I will alter the board directly.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within 50 feet.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of Checkered Wood originating at the target:
- Wall: Create a straight wall made of Checkered Wood 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.
- 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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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.