With a chant and a proper portal to the mirror-lands, a shade is drawn forth, serving for a time in exchange for a gift of mystic power.
Exert your Mind and spend two Actions performing the following ritual: Press your hand to a reflective surface and chant. You must actively and obviously use a reflective surface to activate this Effect. You must maintain Concentration while activating this Effect, and it fails if you are interrupted.
Summon a single Mirror Shade 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.
Vita doesn't fully understand what Azazel is. She just knows that when people hurt her, he shows up. She doesn’t call him—he just comes. Every time someone lands a real hit, the air tears, the lights dim, and this giant thing—part man, part beast—crawls out of her shadow like it's been waiting down there, bored and hungry.
She usually just tilts her head, smiles a little, and signs “Uh-oh.”
Azazel doesn’t ask questions. He only understands one thing: if there’s fighting, he’s fighting. And if someone touches Vita? They go first.
As soon as Vita is wounded, a jagged rift rips through the space behind her. It smells like burnt copper and old incense. From it emerges a 6'2" figure: all twisted muscle, ritual scars, and a goat’s skull for a head, wreathed in shadow and bone dust. It doesn’t roar. It doesn’t speak. It just snaps to life and starts attacking everyone in combat range like it was summoned to punish.
Combatants feel it before they see it—like cold sweat dripping down their spine. Vita, meanwhile, just keeps skipping through the chaos, probably eating fruit snacks.
Azazel is a guardian spirit. Or maybe a curse. Vita doesn’t remember when he started following her—it was sometime after Bapha, sometime before she stopped having normal dreams. He never speaks. He doesn’t obey. He decides.
Some think Azazel is a punishment she unknowingly brought on herself. Others believe he’s a protective ward, a pact signed in blood and forgotten in sleep. Vita? She thinks he’s “kind of sweet.” He watches out for her.
And if that means he tears through a room the second someone throws a punch?
Well, that’s not her fault.
This Effect activates whenever Vita, Takes a severity 2 damage. It does not require an Action or Exertion. Your target should be intuitively based on the triggering event. You must make a Trauma roll when you use this Effect. Its Difficulty cannot be reduced by any means. If you fail or Botch, you receive one Mind Damage and a new Trauma.
Summon a single Non-Sapient, Animate goat, headed goliath at your location. They last for two hours or until they move more than 150 feet from you or are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM, do not follow orders, and only act to to fight all Combatives. You may have at most one active at a time.
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
"The tendril like tattoos started move erratic and slowly dispatched themselves from Wevill's body,in a mix of blood,black ink,and salt water,surges a black and blue octopus,that immediately climbed Wevill shoulders takeing watch ready to serve its captain."
"Welp meet my second in command,when I'm not around HE is in charge of my ship."
"The octopus waved at the team."
Increase your sacrificial Injury's Severity by 1 and spend an Action.
Summon the one and only Sapient azure,the octopus at your location. They last until they 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.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: facial disfigurement -1 to social rolls/ may face is riddle with eerie dark tendril tattos that almost look alive..
If you do not have a sacrificial Injury when you activate this Effect, take a new Severity-1 Injury.
With the clap of Mort's hands, "Chuckles" crawls out of the ground. His paint is smeared with gore, his innards leaking ever so slightly out of his multi-colored waistcoat. He's capable of slight speech, although all you'll get out of him is bad jokes.
Chuckles acts completely separately to Mort and therefore cannot take commands from him unless he makes a Cha+Influence roll (Difficulty 8). Every 30 minutes he is active, Chuckles must attack somebody. He prefers to target civilians over the supernatural, they apparently "taste funny". He cannot be dissuaded from attacking a person, a Cha+Inf roll can be made to try to convince him to switch targets though.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Summon a single Chuckles The Maneater at your location. They will last for two hours, or until they are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM and will not necessarily obey your commands. You may have at most 1 minion active at a time.
"Hey, hey THORN? Little help here please?!"
Thorn is by all means a normal looking crow, stubborn, insistent, and generally giving the impression that he's here because he wants to be. He is almost completely vocally silent and sticks to Sycamore for reasons they can't quite figure out yet, humoring their trust building exercises and now offering aid when he knows they need it.
Thorn was found at the same time as the first body Sycamore discovered. He seems to fill the role of familiar; Syc knew his name as soon as he addressed him, and always did, instinctively. Thorn has been in the shadows since Syc was 10.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Summon a single Thorn at your location. They will last for two hours, or 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.
A portal opens in front of the user which vanishes as quickly as it appears after spewing a Guardian Angel.
The creature looks like a old depiction of humanoid angels, dressed elegantly but seemingly without mind or morals.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Summon a single Sapient Angel at your location. They last for two hours or until they are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. This Artifact may have at most one active at a time.
Any successful musician knows the value of a good roadie. The musician calls for a roadie, and one will promptly arrive. The roadie doesn't talk much, and they aren't too bright, but they can sure haul gear.
After a couple hours of work, the roadie will retire to smoke and get some sleep.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Summon a single Sapient roadie at your location. They last for two hours or until they are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. You may have at most one minion active at a time.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
The Vampire is able to turn one of their victims into a lesser vampire, a pale shadow of a full creature of the night but useful nonetheless. Having drained and killed their target, the Vampire performs a brief ritualistic bloodletting, wherein they spill their own blood into the target's mouth, forcing them to drink, and bonding them together as child and sire.
Shortly afterwards, the fledgling vampire will rise from death, hungry for blood and eager to serve.
Increase your sacrificial Injury's Severity by 1 and spend one minute. Select a Dead target within arm's reach that has died within the last hour. This Effect cannot be used unless you drained the target's blood while they were still alive.
Your target rises as an Animate being. The raised creature is totally mindless, with no memory of its past life or hint of its old personality. They cannot communicate. They will follow any command you speak.
The creature lasts until it dies again. It is revived at full health. Any Injuries it had in life are not accounted for when determining its penalties or progression towards re-death, though they may affect its ability to perform certain actions at GM's discretion. The raised creature must consume flesh every day or it will die again.
Raised creatures have their Abilities set to the same that they were in life. Their Charisma and Intellect are set to 1, but their Dexterity, Brawn and Perception are the same as they had in life. A raised creature cannot use any Effects.
Your revived targets deal 2 Weapon Damage with their unarmed attacks.
If you do not have a sacrificial Injury when you activate this Effect, take a new Severity-1 Injury.
The mobster knows a guy they can call for a hired goon, who arrives about a minute later. The goons are dumb as bricks, but tough nonetheless, perfect for sending a message when you need to keep your hands clean.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must actively and obviously use cell phone to activate this Effect.
Summon a single Sapient goon at your location. They last for two hours or until they are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. You may have at most one minion active at a time.