Moonstone shimmers with blue-white light, and her body is covered in transparent stone.
The power the flows through moonstone becomes a barrier.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action. This Effect cannot be used unless you are in the form of Moonstone. Roll Brawn + Brawl at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, you create a barrier around yourself, which absorbs the next Outcome + 4 Damage. The Damage reduction from the barrier is applied before Armor. You may only have 1 active barrier at a time.
The barrier will fall after two hours, or if it absorbs the full amount of Damage. When a barrier falls, you cannot use this Effect again for a minimum of 2 Rounds.
This Effect is not obvious, and the only sign you are using an Effect is A slight shimmer across the skin. If someone suspects that an Effect was used, they must roll Perception + Alertness, Difficulty 8 to pick up on your Tell.
The Soldier has spent a healthy ten thousand hours training with the weapons of their military. They are deadly when wielding any firearm made in their home country. Drawing their standard issue at the start of a confrontation is pure reflex, and they may plan their shots to deal collateral damage to those behind their target.
You gain the following benefits as long as engaged in combat with firearms made in your home country.
+2 dice to all firearms made in your home country rolls.
You also gain the following effects:
As Blood is drawn from an artery or vein it began to spread across the whole body why simultaneously also twisting, reshaping, and changing bones, ligaments, tendons, and tissue. The body began to heat up unnaturally as the blood around this Beast began to start to form what looks to be fur taking the shape of a more lycanthrope-humanoid. This is only the top of the iceberg as the body raises in heat causing a mistful smoke that soon surrounds the body with the user feeling immense pain throughout this whole process far greater than that of a normal werewolf.
Take a Severity-1 Injury and spend an Action to activate. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect.
You transform into Full Blood for 30 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are Full Blood, and you can use your equipment. Your Battle Scars, Injuries, and physical Liabilities are carried over between forms. While transformed, your Brawn is increased by 1, your Dexterity is increased by 1, and your Perception is increased by 1.
Your body is adapted to Dodging. You receive +3 dice on non-attack rolls related to Dodging.
Your alternate form is its own deadly weapon. Unarmed attacks made in your alternate form deal +3 Bonus Damage (instead of the typical -2).
You do not suffer any Penalty while in your Alternate Form.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see They think of me as a Beast.
After this Effect ends, you cannot move quicker than a walk (15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour.
You cannot speak any coherent verbal language while transformed and must resort to other means of communication.
You are incapable of fine object manipulation while transformed and can only hold or grasp things in a crude, clumsy way.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
Any senses which have been heightened cannot be overloaded. Battle Scars you receive cannot affect these senses.
Flying, biting, stinging insects suddenly swarm into the area, attacking anyone and anything in their path, clouding the air with their bodies.
Future Upgrades:
Range - 60 feet; Zone Effect - Slippery; Willful End; Zone Effect - Disorienting; Natural Habitat (Seasoned); Zone Effect - Overwhelming (Seasoned); Range - 200 feet (Seasoned); Ephemeral Storm (Seasoned); Zone Effect - Suppress Vision; Zone Effect - Off Balance (Veteran)
Exposure rolls are a Body resistance roll at Difficulty 6. Protective measures can reduce the Difficulty by 1 or 2, and specialized environmental adaptations or self-contained environments (such as a space suit) can exempt Contractors from making these rolls entirely.
Poor Outcomes on this roll incur a stacking Exposure penalty that reduces all dice pools. This penalty stacks with Stress and is not reduced by Effects that reduce Stress.
Botch: Exposure increases by 2
Failure: Exposure increases by 1
Outcome 1-3: Exposure increases by 1 unless you Exert your Mind
Outcome 4+: No additional Exposure
Exposure cannot exceed -3. Whenever Exposure would increase beyond -3, you gain a minor Battle Scar or a Severity 1 Injury as decided by the GM.
Acute Exposure: Contractors must roll Exposure at the end of each Round. Once removed from the environment, Exposure penalty decreases by one level each minute.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within 20 feet of you.
You create a hemispherical dome of flying insects originating at the chosen Location, with a radius of 20 feet, and lasting for 5 minutes. The area inside your zone is affected in any number of the following ways:
You slowly shift into a new form of your choice, changing both your body and clothes.
The changes are physical, but when examined very closely, will appear just ever so slightly off.
Spend a minute.
You become disguised in a manner of your choosing. The disguise lasts for two hours, or you may end it early at will. Your disguise will not hold up to close scrutiny.
The new appearance may have a different sex, age, and race to your own, and you may alter height by up to a foot and your weight by 50%. Your disguise cannot directly mimic an existing person. You may change the appearance of your outfit. A disguise cannot affect your Attributes or other stats.
You may roll Charisma + Crafts to attempt to make your disguise Beautiful. If your Outcome is 6 or higher, non-Effect Charisma rolls where your good looks could help are rolled at -2 Difficulty. If you fail or botch, you are ugly instead, and non-Effect Charisma rolls are made at +2 Difficulty.
This Gift's Cost is capped at 2 and cannot be increased further.
This Effect ends if you take an Injury or are stunned or incapacitated.
While disguised, you cannot use any Activated or Targeted Powers.
The Blademaster is so attuned to blades that they may manipulate any bladed object at a range simply by willing it. Observers see translucent spider-silk connecting the Blademaster's fingers to the blade, allowing them to puppet it.
You gain the following benefits as long as the target object has a cutting edge.
As long as you maintain Concentration, you can take Actions and interact with things that are within 75 feet without needing to physically touch them or be near them. Any rolls made for Actions taken in this way use a Mental Strength of 2 in place of your Brawn rating, a Mental Agility of 2 in place of your Dexterity, and otherwise use your own Attributes and Abilities.
Telekinetic actions have the following restrictions and behaviors:
The werewolf's gnashing teeth sheer through steel and bone alike. Those caught in their maw rarely make it out alive.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are in werewolf form, and you are engaged in unarmed combat.
+2 dice to rolls for Attacking, Defending, and Clashing without a weapon. Unarmed attacks do +0 Weapon Damage (instead of -1).
You may Defend against melee, projectile, or firearm Attacks from any range and Clash with those in range of your Attacks. Attacking materials like steel or spikes will not Damage you unless it has an Effect that does so.
You also gain the following effects:
The spy is able to transform an ordinary ballpoint pen into a monitoring device that is inconspicuous enough to blend in to most settings, but advanced enough to allow 360 degree surveillance as well as audio capture, which is sent to their smartphone.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within 10 feet. You must actively and obviously use a ballpoint pen to activate this Effect.
You place a ward, which is fixed to its initial location. You can hear and see through the ward as though you were standing at its location. Your wards last 3 hours. You may have at most 3 wards active at once.
The ward requires Concentration to monitor, though it will remain active until you deactivate it. It can be detected with a roll and destroyed through mundane means.
As a free creature, The Fairy cannot withstand being caged or imprisioned in any way. Luckily, they possess a glamour that allows them to unlock any lock binding them with a wink of their eye. The lock falls open with a sparkle of light and a sound like a ringing bell.
Spend an Action. Select a Non-Alien door, container, knot, or lock within arm's reach. This Effect cannot be used unless the targeted lock or door is being used to restrain or imprison you.
You may lock, unlock, and/or open your target.
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.