Wip
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action. This Effect cannot be used unless you have a severity 4 injury.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0. Lasts three hours.
You may move at your normal speed and still maintain Concentration. Taking an Injury less than Severity 6 no longer interrupts Concentration.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Your Body and Mind Penalties are reduced to 0. Lasts three hours.
Jessica’s mental resilience is one of her greatest strengths. With a combination of discipline, perseverance, and optimism, she pushes through challenges that would make others give up. No matter how tough things get, her unwavering determination keeps her moving forward.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
You may move at your normal speed and still maintain Concentration. Taking an Injury less than Severity 6 no longer interrupts Concentration.
This discreet patch attaches to your side, just above the kidney, with eight shallow needles. It carefully monitors and manages your levels of cortisol (among other hormones and enzymes), keeping your body and mind relaxed in times of crisis.
While the patch is in use, your movements are visibly sluggish and floaty, and your wounds ooze a clear, syrupy liquid. A blinking light on the patch indicates the amount of stress it's working to mitigate; green for a penalty of 1 or 2, orange for 3 or 4, and red for 5+.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
Anyone who touches this Artifact will notice it warping their body and may drop it. If they choose to hold or use it, they immediately receive the following Battle Scar: Sedated - You always act last in initiative, except for mobs. If they lose possession of this Artifact, the Battle Scar heals over the course of the next day.
When living the life of a drifter, there’s no room for belly aching. In times of darkness, Donald looks within to shrug off the pain and punch on.
Ever since the day he survived the accident, perhaps by the being he say, or awakening a buried will power. He’s had a high tolerance for the pain of life.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
When Benny is fed, he is focused and alert, and barely feels pain.
You gain the following benefits as long as you have fed in the last 24 hours.
Your Body and Mind Penalties are reduced to 0.
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.