Abbas, using goggles to shield his eyes from the glare of the environment and has the goggles act akin to animals eyes and he stares into it.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using Goggles to gain the benefits of this Effect.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
Adelia is a puppet made of porcelain, clockwork and oil brought to life by magic rather than being a person of flesh and blood.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: puppet. You are considered to be a Sapient, Non-Living Computer when targeted..
You no longer age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.
Your Injuries no longer degrade with time.
Sora is not one to make promises often, so when he does, he intends to see it through. When pushed to the edge, He will continue to fight in spite of injuries to fulfill those promises.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
Vel reaches into the air and winds a spectral key against the back back of a toy, or similarly human representing golem. The toy animates and grows in size to a friendly helper of Vel.
If there is no toy, starting the process as if there were one will slowly make a basic enlarged teddy bear.
This artifact relies on the cultural idea of toys, and the cultural idea of wind up toys, especially in the minds of children. The basic idea of these wind up toys is that you wind them up, then let them go and they move around doing toy things, seeming almost alive. This artifact takes that idea, and merges it with a few other ideas of ways to create useful servants to make an artifact capable of making a useful friendly minion.
Specifically it creates the unique minion Mr. Bear who animates a toy of Vel's choosing
The ritual to create this artifact relies on a ritual involving
- A variety of children's toys which are popular in the shared imagination
- A collection of stories and myths about the Hebrew golumn
- Mary Shelly's frankenstein
- Carefully shaping the pattern of a wind up key while reading various relevant parts of these stories
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Summon the one and only Sapient Animate Teddy bear at your location. They last until they move more than 150 feet from you or are destroyed They are controlled by you. You may have at most one minion active at a time.
If killed, you cannot re-summon your minion until after your next Contract.
Frankie channels the spirit. Their features warp to mimic the ghost's face and body. Their movements become stiff and jerky, making cracking noises. Their hair stands on end, and their jaw opens up beyond normal human capabilities, and a bright, ghostly light gleams from within.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Dead target within arm's reach. For dead targets, you must possess their True Name.
The target can communicate in your language for the next hour.
Communicating with a being cannot directly damage your Mind or cause Injury. All rolls to resist Effects that rely on communicating with you are made at -1 Difficulty.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see you channel the ghost as your hair stands on end, you make cracking noises, your movements turn jerky, and your appearance changes to match the ghost.
Maw of teeth appear around the circumference the object takes. Inside this area a red liquid starts to pool up either absorbing the object above or have a stored object float to the surface.
A denizen of xibalba attached to the fallen Xic and Patan lends it's services for the opportunity to fell full even if it can never actually be satisfied. Might be ironic since their old masters induced death to travelers by causing them to cough up blood. Now it's helping a traveler by coughing objects.
Spend a Quick Action.
You may withdraw an item from your stash, or add an item that is within 30 feet of you to your stash. You may only stash targets which are not possessed by someone else, and are freestanding and unattached. You may Exert your Mind and spend an Action to stash items in others' possession, but they automatically notice that you stole the item.
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.
This is a doctor who exists on the front lines. They're most at home working under stressful conditions when the stakes couldn't be higher.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
All Stabilizations you attempt are considered Proper Stabilizations.
You also gain the following effects:
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 musician pours their heart and soul into their music, giving others some much needed perspective and solace and all around good vibes. This can be a temporary easing of the mind, but with prolonged music therapy it can even permanently cure psychic damage.
Exert your Mind to activate. Select a Living target within arm's reach. You cannot target yourself. This Effect cannot be used unless you continuously play music for your target during the activation. Over the course of one Downtime, your patient must communicate with you and reveal at least one of their Traumas to you, including the details of those Traumas and the circumstances of how they were acquired. After the full treatment time has elapsed, roll Charisma + Performance at Difficulty 6.
Your target may Resist. If your treatment is successful, you may remove one of the patient's revealed Traumas without incurring any Experience cost.
Once per day per target, you may choose to use this Effect to stabilize the Mind of a target within arm's reach. Treatment takes 30 seconds but will not remove any Traumas. If you are successful, restore 2 Mind damage.
You may choose to use this Effect to temporarily relieve any number of the patient's Traumas (including mental Conditions). In this case, Treatment takes an Action and the effect lasts two hours. If the Patient is currently experiencing an episode, Difficulty is increased by 2.
Driving rugged vehicles in a combat situation is second nature to the Soldier. They measure their shots and navigate obstacles with a subtle timing that doesn't affect the steadiness of their own or their passengers' weapons. Firing a few shots through the windshield or window while performing dangerous driving maneuvers is also no problem.
You gain the following benefits as long as Must be driving a rugged vehicle such as an SUV truck or armored car. and you are piloting any vehicle.
You receive +2 dice to any rolls to pilot a vehicle.
You also gain the following effects:
The survivalist is adept at following an animal through any terrain. Once they find a recent track, they may focus their will to illuminate the trail of their target. Any part of the target's trail within eyeshot glows a bright, misty green. Even the trails made by vehicles the target was riding in are illuminated.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Select a Sapient target within 20 feet. You may select a target at any range if you use up fresh tracks of the target. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Survival at Difficulty 6.
You learn all the following information about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
Any information you gather is revealed by illuminating the trail in a glowing light and made publicly available.
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.