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Ubuhlungu besikhashana "I don't go down without a fight"
Nyoka keeps their fighting stance up at al times. Their eyes emboldened by the fire of combat, and their hands wrapped in Ancestral blessing.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action. You must actively and obviously use Knuckle Wraps to activate this Effect.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0. Lasts three hours.
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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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Vampiric Will
How can I call myself a king if I can't push forward.
Whenever Jio is in a situation where he's injured mentally or physically, his eyes continue to display a weirdly unusual sense of calm.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0. Lasts three hours.
Maikendo Mouse
A little friend.
She is a roughly 5 foot tall anthropomorphic mouse teenager. At a glance she just seems to be a normal person, if a bit strange looking. With a much closer inspection, the mouse details become obvious. But such details are excusable as what could be strange medical conditions.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Summon the one and only Sapient small mouse with glasses, named Mimi at your location. They last until they are destroyed They are controlled by you. This Artifact may have at most one minion active at a time.
- Initiative: Minions act directly after you in Combat starting the Round after they are summoned.
- Combat: Minions roll 4 dice to dodge, Grapple, or make throwing knife Attacks. Their unarmed Attacks are melee range and deal +0 Damage.
- Body/Mind: Minions have 5 Body. Your minions roll 7 Mind resistance dice.
- Armor: Minions have 1 Armor.
- Movement: Minions can move 20 feet per Round as Free Movement and double that when performing an all-out Sprint.
- Intelligence: Minions have human-level intelligence and can speak your language. They can use equipment, Artifacts, and Consumables. However, they cannot Exert their Mind.
- Actions: Any Perception checks they make are rolled with 4 dice. Any other roll is made with 4 dice. They can lift and haul as though they have 2 Brawn.
- Powers: Your companion can Exert their Mind using your Mind and spend your Source.
- Unusual: Minions are not obviously Alien.
If killed, you cannot re-summon your minion until after your next Contract.
- Your companion heals fully during each Downtime, but is not healed fully when you re-summon them.
- Your companion is affected normally by Artifacts and Energy Transfer.
- Your minions may count as additional targeting types based on their flavor. For example: Living, Computer, Creature, etc.
No Pain No Gain
Flex and fight through, feel the burn!
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is 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.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see Masochism.
- When narrating disturbing content, be cognizant of your group's tone and accommodating to those who would like to "fast forward" through the description.
Dead Nerves
"Hehehe, I can't feel my toes!"
Ichabod's body has gone cold, and so he looses most of his bodily feeling. Crossing over more and more.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is divided in half.
Everything is a Game
His Bodily fanctions translate to just HP(hit points) to him as in a game hence he doesnt feel pain as normal people.
His Mind becomes twisted and all knowledge and experience he has playing games materialize in his real body making him calm and collected.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Body and Mind Penalties are divided in half (rounded up).
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Stop Whining
The mobster's been through tougher scrapes than this. A few cuts and bruises won't stop them.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries is reduced to 0. Does not reduce Stress from Mind Damage.