Appearing out of the smoke, comes out an Elderly man wearing a butler's attire. They are brittle and unassuming; it's not that they have a dog-like intelligence; it's just that they are not paid enough to have an opinion.
We went exploring and found something extraordinary! Geoffrey's soul got trapped in something, so I took it and placed it with my own. He will be my indentured servant till the end of my time
Exert your Mind and spend two Actions performing the following ritual: Benedict Hollysmith claps his hands in the air and puff up his chest. "Geoffrey!". You must actively and obviously use A Smoking Pipe to activate this Effect. You must maintain Concentration while activating this Effect, and it fails if you are interrupted.
Summon a single Butler (Geoffrey/Sigfried) 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 2 minions active at a time.
June 4, 2024, 5:56 a.m. - Improvement Cost: 4. Parameter Maximum Active Minions changed from 0 to 1.
Kirk fires the pistol at the ground, ripping into the deepest reaches of hell. Clips, his old friend, crawls up into reality from this place and clambers onto Kirk's back. Clips, while not wholly existent once his form connects with Kirk's, has a facial structure of a healthy person, despite having the oddity of a pierce wound on his cheek, which seems to be locked in time, as if Clips was removed from reality the second he were to die. Clips, nicknamed because of his over insistence on using scissors for everything, has ugly hair and other features, with facial hair that seems like a bear hacked at it in a maniacal frenzy.
Exert your Mind and spend two Actions performing the following ritual: Kirk pulls a weapon out and loads one singular bullet into the magazine. After saying a short prayer, he fires the weapon into the ground, piercing into the dirt/ground, opening a hole into hell. You must actively and obviously use a firearm to activate this Effect. You must maintain Concentration while activating this Effect, and it fails if you are interrupted.
Summon a single ghost soldier 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.
He summon ghost to fight with him
Exert your Mind and spend at least two Actions performing the following ritual: Hand signals to activate. You must use up Small vile of blood in order to activate this Effect. You must maintain Concentration while activating this Effect, and it fails if you are interrupted.
Summon a single ________ 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 4 Body and can make ranged attacks at targets up to 30 feet away with 5 dice to attack and +1 Damage. They cannot move faster than a walk and cannot dodge incoming attacks. They have dog-level intelligence, but are capable of communicating information back to you. Any Perception checks they make are rolled with 8 dice.
Clenching the fist with the ring on it causes screams of victims souls who are inside of the ring to be heard. The ring starts to faintly glow red and something akin to red mist exists the ring covering a smaller area next to the contractor. The mist fades quickly as it came only leaving behind a mindless humanoid being resembling Gladys Newman looks, which has access to a part of her fighting power.
Her actions in the war have left her be feared by her enemies and respected by her comrades. Her country send them there to help people there against the communists ruining their country. What ended up happening was that they were the ones to ruin their lives instead. The many atrocities she committed for “democracy” imbued the wedding ring she bought for her husband, with the hate , fear and pain of all the victims. She tried to leave it all behind by moving with her husband to London. Frederick Newman Senior sadly passed away through a tragic , unlucky car accident leaving Gladys a Women. Freddy still tries to spend as much time as he can with his mother but sometimes her mind wanders off , wanders off back in to the war. She always tried to raise Freddy to be a man that follows the law and helps people, to raise a man and to not make the same mistakes she did. The only thing that she has left from the war is the smell of burning human flesh in her nose and sleepless nights.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Summon the one and only Sapient Clone of Gladys Newman at your location. They last until they are destroyed They are controlled by you. This Artifact may have at most one minion active at a time.
If killed, you cannot re-summon your minion until after your next Contract.
Leonard surges forward, as his back jerks upwards. In a flurry of mana particles and bloody red, crystalline shards begin to tear themselves free. Soon after, following the emergence of its extensions, the Guardian raises its primary body, in a gruesome display of warping its physical form outside of its host. Almost as if his spine were the entity itself, the Guardian would fully tear itself out his back, arching out its enormous crystalline 'limbs', as it stretches out several meters, taking careful guard behind its host.
The guardian is a mana symbiote long forgotten by history, almost all knowledge having been lost to the careful work of the Sabisians. The rare few scholars that still hold existing records of these beings believe them to long be extinct, lost to mana wars passed long since and the Sabisian incursion.
While in its docile state, the Guardian appears as a crystalline growth connected directly to its hosts nervous system through the spinal cord, easily being visible to the naked eye underneath the skin, alongside visible patches of mana-crystalline material left in patches above the skin containing it. While in its docile form, the guardian remains in a sort of dormant state, co-existing with its host and feeding off of its body.
During its active phase, the Guardian appears to burst out of body of its host. Despite this appearance, this process is all but a trick of the eyes, in reality being no more than an energy transference as the Guardian takes form, leaving behind no actual wounds on the host's body. The crystalline being seen during its active phase is not in reality the entity's true form, that being the crystaline growth located inside the host. Henceforth, destroying the active entity does little but return it back into its primary shell, where it can recover.
In appearance, during the active phase, the Guardian is a large, several meters tall crystalline biomechanical creature. It is composed of a long lanky crystalline 'spine' flanked by long sharpened shards that it uses to strike at the enemy or otherwise carry out its commands. When out of range, it uses a head-like appendage, which it can seemingly use to see, to fire a directed burst of energy.
The Guardian forms a bond with its host during the symbiotic period, carrying out their commands on its own free will, in exchange, the host provides it safety and nutrition.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate.
Summon a single Guardian 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 ranged attacks at targets up to 30 feet away with 5 dice to attack and +1 Damage. Your minions can move 20 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, and cannot communicate back to you. Any Perception checks they make are rolled with 8 dice.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see The guardian 'tears' itself out of the hosts back.
Possession of this Artifact causes the following Battle Scar to manifest over the course of a day: Crystalline-mineral growth around the spine. If you lose possession of this Artifact, the Battle Scar heals over the course of the next month.
The little girl's black orbs for eyes glow red as her unusually large pitch black shadow twists and lifts up from the surface, forming into a large, taloned, bone-spined black demon with flaming red eyes.
This Effect activates whenever fail the Tantrum Trauma roll, suffer a Severity 2 Injury or greater, or you are restrained against your will. It does not require an Action or Exertion. “Your target should be intuitively based on the triggering event. Roll a single D10 as a critical failure check. If you roll a 1, the Effect fails, and you it rages wildly upon arrival, causing a Severity 2 Injury to the child and all allies within a 25 ft radius.
Summon a single Sapient a large, taloned, bone-spined black demon with flaming red eyes at your location. They last for two hours or until they are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM, do not follow orders, and only act to protect Violet from further harm and help her meet her basic needs. You may have at most one active at a time.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: always followed by a large black shadow that seems to have a mind of its own.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Tantrums: at least 2x per Contract, you MUST have that thing that you really really want (but have no business having) / do that (unhelpful) thing / go over there (out of the way). Roll Self-Control to keep this at a pouty sniffle and avoid devolving into a loud, paralyzing tantrum.
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.
Take a Severity-1 Injury 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.
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 one minute. You must actively and obviously use a cell phone to activate this Effect.
Summon a single goon 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.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
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 roadie 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.
You may only use this Effect once per day.