The contractor's noticeability increases, which makes sneaking around harder. However, they can easily play the role of a distraction or charm their way into possibly learning secrets or getting into private functions. The flashy smile puts those at ease.
For Troy, this means that people recognize him from his YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram. Maybe he gets approached by fans; young adults know of him (mostly in bigger cities with influencer crowds (like NYC or LA)); older persons, mostly those with kids, have heard of him or recognize his voice. His smile is charming, he has a trustworthy face, why would anyone assume he's a bad person?
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Charisma rating is increased by 1. You may Exert your Mind to automatically gain an Outcome of 5 on any roll that uses Charisma (Cannot be used on combat rolls or Power activations).
You also gain the following effects:
To others he simply looks at the eyes of a target and speaks his command, while holding his necklace.
This supernatural ability amplifies your already formidable skills in persuasion, making you an even more dangerous and effective force in any situation. Whether you're manipulating foes or leading allies, your words carry the weight of compulsion, ensuring that your influence is felt far and wide.
Dimitry is able to compel his mind and attack other people and make them do what he wants while channeling his opal necklace.
Exert your Mind and spend at least one Action. Select a Human target within 20 feet. You must actively and obviously use Opal necklace, helps dimitry channel his mind via to activate this Effect. Your target may be actively engaged in Combat. Communicate a command to your target. Roll Charisma + Influence at Difficulty 6. The target may resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 7.
If the contested Outcome is positive, your target will be compelled to follow your command to their best understanding of the letter and spirit of the command until they have completed it or for your Contested Outcome in minutes. You cannot issue another suggestion to the target until 10 minutes after they have completed the first command or 10 minutes after a failure.
The target is unaware that they are under supernatural influence and feel they are acting of their own free will. If you fail, they realize that you were attempting to influence them supernaturally with your command.
Your command can be an order to take an immediate Action. You cannot order a target to "do nothing," and they are free to take other Actions as they fulfill your request. Your command cannot be obviously self-destructive. Commands may force a target to violate one of their Limits, and they will need to make a Trauma roll once the suggestion wears off.
You must have some means of communicating this command to your target, but no one other than you and them will understand or perceive it.
This Effect ends if you are stunned, fall asleep, go unconscious, are incapacitated, die, or if your total Stress ever exceeds 5.
Squirrel stops, holds up his hand to stop the group and leans over the ground, pulling back the grass to reveal a footprint. "Yee yee, we got'eeem now boys!" He leans over the print, sniffing it with the his nose just over it, then you hing his finger to it and having a taste of the soil...
He spits it out. "Tiger. Recently fed... Seems like it ate a family pet yesterday, still a tinge of dog blood in his prints.. We'll get him." He continues to search the area and eventually finds the trail again, only to take off running like a madman.
The Mind roll represents how "obvious", simple minded, and bestial the creatures behaviors, and thus, squirell's predictions, are.
Exert your Mind to activate. Select a Sapient target or a Creature at any range. Activation requires possession of the target's Track/Prints of the target, which is used up during the process. This Effect cannot be used unless Target can't be human. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Animals at Difficulty 6. The target resists by rolling Mind at Difficulty 7.
You learn all the following information about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Compulsion to hunt the last creature I used this power on immediately..
After becoming one of the undead, your skin paled in complexion, your canine teeth turned to fangs, you no longer age, and your heart no longer beats at a normal pace.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are not in direct sunlight.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: A powerful humanoid, with pale skin and elongated fangs. You are considered to be a Sapient, Non-Living being when targeted..
You no longer age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.
Your Injuries no longer degrade with time.
You may make a +2 Weapon Damage sharpened nails attack without additional equipment.
The Severity of any Injury caused by silver is increased by 2.
Ringo uses his cells and solidifies them to form a jet black reddish blade-like tendril, wrapping it around his arm and using the high density of the tendril as either a sword or a hammer for combat.
Exert your Mind 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 hammer and sword.
Your extra appendage can stretch to reach an additional 30 feet.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see a bladed flesh-like tendril coming out from the back of your shoulder.
Your Extra Appendage is incapable of fine object manipulation.
i do a little flute song and a rat scurries along
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Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend at least two Actions performing the following ritual: funne song to activate. You must actively and obviously use flute of rat charming to activate this Effect. You must maintain Concentration while activating this Effect, and it fails if you are interrupted.
Summon a single rat 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.
Minions have 6 Body and can make melee range attacks with 5 dice to attack and +1 Damage. Your minions can move 45 feet per Round as Free Movement, and double that when performing an all-out Sprint. They cannot dodge or Defend. They have dog-level intelligence, but are capable of communicating information back to you. Any Perception checks they make are rolled with 8 dice.
Doc puts his hands on you and begins to mutter to himself in french. The effect is instant and horrible. You begin to remember all of the sins of your past, all the ways that you've wronged those who loved you. All of the terrible, evil things you've done on these contracts in order to survive. Doc seems to be in the grips of similar memories, tears running down his chin and dripping onto his hands that are pressed tightly against you. At the point where your mind feels like it's about to break, it's over. Just as quickly as it began. You feel your wounds begin to close.
Exert your Mind and spend 1 minute. Select a Living target within arm's reach. 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. Your target must make a Trauma roll to reap the benefits of this Effect. They may choose to Resist the Effect and not make the roll. Choose a specific Injury on your target that has not yet been treated with this Effect and roll Charisma + Medicine 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.
The ninja does not approve of guns; they prefer using the bow for its stealth and versatility.
You gain the following benefits as long as engaged in combat with wooden longbows.
You receive +2 dice to all rolls using wooden longbows. Reloading is a Free Action, and drawing your weapon does not require a Quick Action as long as it is on your person.
You also gain the following effects:
Perform the Five Point Technique via a series of quick pressure point hits on the target’s chest. As you do, channel your chi and speak a condition involving the number five. If the target cannot stop you from performing the technique, their heart will take a direct hit when they fulfill the chosen condition.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Living target within arm's reach. Roll Dexterity + Brawl Difficulty 6. The target may contest by rolling Body, Difficulty 6.
If the Contested Outcome is positive, the target takes that much Damage plus 2. The target's Armor is completely ignored.
When you activate this Effect, instead of occurring immediately, you may choose to delay its effects until the target takes a particular Action. For example: "when they fire a gun" or "when they swim in deep water."
Instead of dealing Damage all at once, the Injury caused by this Power starts at Severity 1 and worsens at the rate of one level per Round until it reaches the Severity it would have otherwise been.
The Thief casts a container's worth of fine powder into the air. The particulates are drawn to any sort of object that is designed to detect people, including tripwires, security cameras, detection lasers, heat sensors, etc. The powder will not trigger these devices or interfere with their operation, but it does reveal their presence to the Thief.
The cloud drifts and swirls, subtly following the Thief for a minute.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must use up a container of fine powder in order to activate this Effect.
You automatically detect all object that are designed to detect people, including tripwires, security cameras, detection lasers, heat sensors, etc within 50 feet of you for the next hour. You have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected items. When you detect objects, instead of learning nothing about them, you may observe each object with all of your senses.
The aristocrat knows a ritual that allows them to rent the best version of any item. They set $10,000 worth of cash on fire and place the item to be upgraded in the fire as well. While in the flame, the item morphs into a high-end version of itself. After a while, it reverts.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Select a non-Alien Device within arm's reach. You must use up $10,000 cash (or equivalent) in order to activate this Effect. Cannot be used to improve Armor.
Lasts the next two hours. Your target receives 3 extra dice to all actions taken for its intended use. Attacking with an upgraded weapon grants +3 Weapon Damage instead of additional dice.