A hand made of a swirling golden-black sludge bursts forth from your upper back, wielding dangerous looking claws.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action.
You gain an additional limb that functions as a standard human arm and hand. Lasts two hours.
Each additional limb you posses can take one Quick Action per Round without incurring a -2 dice penalty to your main Action. Any Battle Scars that affect or remove your additional limb will heal in a single week.
Your extra appendage can be used to attack in exactly the same manner as a Knife.
Your appendage is capable of bending and squishing in normally-impossible ways. It may fit through any gap that is not water-tight and retain its functionality.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see The extra limb bursts forth in a violent display at a chosen location, the sudden addition is not comfortable and barely resembles a human hand. While the effect is active Deckard is noticably twitchy.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Parasitic Symbiosis - Your mind shares a conscious that is not your own, any time you undergo mental stress (such as gaining traumas), roll your mind to avoid losing control for a DM-Decided number of rounds. While in this state you have little to no say over what you do, but may roll mind once every round to regain control.
His skin sheds and becomes loose as a larger creatures forms underneath this husk. Erupting from the hollowed shell is a monsterous bipedal snake man.
A gift from the spirit of the king of snakes, the Titanoboa.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend a Quick Action. This Effect cannot be used unless the Moon is out. Whenever you fail or botch a Trauma or Self-Control roll, you must activate this Effect.
You transform into monstrous man snake for 3 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are monstrous man snake, 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. You do not suffer any Stress while transformed.
Your body is adapted to climbing. You receive +3 dice on non-attack rolls related to climbing.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see his skin tear away like a reptile shedding skin.
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.
For when things get too tight, Ains has learnt the capability to almost literally "tune" himself out of any conversation or interaction, when activated, everyone and everything within sight suddenly and seemingly begins to lose interest in Ains, as if the part of their brain that acknowledged Ains was shut off.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You are obscured in one of the following manners. Lasts 30 minutes.
While this Effect is active, any Effect that would obscure you from other, additional senses fails automatically. If someone discovers you, this Effect will not help you hide from them for the next minute. Activating a targeted or obvious Effect, attacking, or being Injured ends the Effect. When the Effect ends, it is disabled for one minute.
Futuristic armor that shapes itself to the wearer, even showing previous scars.
Expend a point of Battery and spend an Action to activate.
You and any clothes or equipment you are wearing are partially obscured from sight for the next 10 minutes. All attempts to detect you using sight are rolled at a -3 dice penalty, and all attempts to detect you where sight would assist are rolled at -1 penalty.
Entering Combat or being Injured does not cause the Effect to end early. Anyone you attack will immediately notice you; anyone else may re-roll to notice you each time you take a Combat action, at -1 Difficulty per Combat action you have taken. When the Effect ends, it is disabled for 1 hour.
You may turn this Effect on and off at will during its duration.
Possession of this Artifact causes the following Trauma to manifest over the course of a day: has a directive that cannot be explained driving you mad. If you lose possession of this Artifact, the Trauma heals over the course of the next month.
The Smith's hands glow red, surging with heat, as he molds and shapes a lump of raw iron to his wishes, shaping it into whatever he can imagine. More complex shapes are more difficult for him to mold, but the quality of his work is undeniable
Exert your Mind and spend 1 minute to activate. You must use up Lump of Raw Iron in order to activate this Effect.
Choose an Object which could fit inside a messenger bag (up to 10 liters). It cannot be Alien and must be relatively basic. You cannot create explosives. You cannot create firearms.
Roll Brawn + Crafts to fabricate your chosen Object. The Difficulty is assigned by the GM and depends on the specificity of your chosen Object. Created item lasts 1 hour.
You may keep up to three fabricated objects at a time that do not expire after an hour.
The user slits their wrists and spends a moment, carving, etching, and shaping a piece of steel with her tools into what seems to be any object that she chooses to come into being. The observers see a gun just pop out of the iron residue of the blood. for firearms, the user motions their hands in a way that looks like the weapon is supposed to be held. For explosives, it simply appears when the user creates a ball-shaped cup in their hands.
Take a Severity-1 Injury and spend 1 minute. You must actively and obviously use Industrial tools to activate this Effect. You must make a Trauma roll when you use this Effect. Its Difficulty cannot be reduced by any means.
Choose an Object which could fit inside a regular backpack (up to 27 liters). It must be Non-Alien and generic. You can create explosives, but they are limited in size to being no larger or more powerful than a satchel charge. You may create firearms.
Roll Dexterity + Crafts to fabricate up to 5 copies of your chosen Object. The Difficulty is assigned by the GM and depends on the specificity of your chosen Object. Your created items no longer expire, and will last until they are destroyed.
After you finish activating this Effect, you cannot move quicker than a walk (max 15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour. Exhaustion’s penalty and duration stacks with multiple activations.
The Necromancer stands over a corpse and makes a series of grandiose lifting gestures. The corpse rises from the ground as though suspended by invisible strings, barks a pained groan, and lands on its feet, now a full-fledged member of the living dead.
Take a Severity-1 Injury and spend an Action. You must use up a corpse in order to activate this Effect.
Summon a single zombie at your location. They will last until they are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. You may have at most 1 minion active at a time.
The magician waves a handkerchief over an item, and it disappears! They may produce the object later by fluttering a scarf.
Spend a Quick Action. You must actively and obviously use a scarf, sheet, or handkerchief to activate this Effect.
You may withdraw an item from your stash, or add an item that is within arm’s reach to your stash. You may only stash targets which are in your possession, grappled, or otherwise controlled by you.
You may store Objects in your stash, each no larger than something which could fit inside a briefcase (15 liters), and you may store up to 3 things at a time.
You may choose to equip any equipment you withdraw at no additional cost.
The survivalist is an expert at wildlife survival in any natural environment. Even in the harshest climates, they have the capacity to find food, water, and shelter.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend 15 minutes. This Effect cannot be used unless you are in a wilderness environment.
Choose a specific type of food, water, or survival supply which could fit inside a regular backpack (up to 27 liters). It must be Non-Alien and generic. You cannot create explosives. You cannot create firearms.
Roll Perception + Survival to fabricate up to 5 copies of your chosen Object. The Difficulty is assigned by the GM and depends on the specificity of your chosen Object. Your created items no longer expire, and will last until they are destroyed.
The vampire sucks a copious amount of blood from a human and replenishes their own cursed flesh.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend 1 minute. This Effect cannot be used unless you drink blood directly from a human until it injures them. Choose a specific Injury on yourself that has not yet been treated with this Effect and roll Brawn + Occult at Difficulty 6.
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.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see you drink blood directly from the vein.
By focusing, the Thief may shroud their hands in shadowy tendrils that seek nearby objects like static-charged hairs. They cast themselves across any surface the Thief touches, acting as anchors that allow the Thief to scale even the sheerest walls.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You may move easily and without a roll in any of the following situations. Lasts 2 hours.