A clown in the wild is so brazen and eye-catching that it wraps around and allows Mori to be completely invisible! How does it work? Psionic Powers oooooooooo scawwy!
The next step in Mori's training as a Psychic Assassin is to develop a form of stealth to allow her to reach marks and leave without being noticed. Mori is not yet able to properly focus her power on her own, and instead channels it through her Psionic Blades.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using Purple Plastic Psychic Blade to gain the benefits of this Effect.
You are obscured in one of the following manners. You may Spend an Action to change the way in which you're concealed.
While this Effect is active, any Effect that would obscure you from other, additional senses fails automatically. If someone discovers you, this Effect will not help you hide from them for the next minute. Activating a targeted or obvious Effect, attacking, or being Injured ends the Effect. When the Effect ends, it is disabled for one minute.
The subject was designed to be a rapidly evolving being. It resembles a hulking monster with physical aspects meant to kill and overpower other beings.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: purple flesh, sharp teeth, large claws, prehensile feet, and no hair. You are considered to be a Sapient, Non-Living being when targeted..
You are immune to damage from cold. If cold is a substantial component of other damage you would take (e.g. falling from a great distance into a vat of liquid nitrogen), that damage is reduced by 2 (in addition to Armor)
No single organ in your body is critical for life. Called Shots do no additional Damage to you. You may perceive the world through separated body parts, take Actions with them, and reattach them by spending an Action and Exerting your Mind.
While in Space (Vacuums), heat, cold, pressure, radiation, and other native hazards do not affect you. Dangerous local flora and fauna will not bother you unless you give them a reason.
Your Injuries no longer degrade with time. You do not age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.
You cannot be mistaken for a normal human. You cannot always use standard human clothes, equipment, vehicles, and facilities, and when you can, you suffer an increased Difficulty.
You cannot speak any coherent verbal language and must resort to other means of communication.
You are incapable of fine object manipulation and can only hold or grasp things in a crude, clumsy way.
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:
Vein's metal fibres have embedded themselves permanently into Felix's brain stem. When activated (or reactivated), Vein will momentarily take control of their host, allowing for superhuman feats of dexterity.
The extradimensional symbiote Vein peers through Felix's eyes, ever alert and vigilant on his behalf. At times, Vein will react independent of Felix, or the two will focus their collective thought for one action. Both cases display the masterful grace and finesse that comes with such presence of minds.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Dexterity rating is increased by 1. You may Exert your Mind to automatically gain an Outcome of 5 on any roll that uses Dexterity (Cannot be used on combat rolls or Power activations).
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Fear of Losing Vein.
You also gain the following effects:
Red's ears aren't just cosmetic.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
"...I have been wounded before. I am not infallible... But remain unscathed! Proof of the love of the cosmos and importance of my cause! Stand by me, my brethren, solid in the knowledge that I am in the right! Solid as my flesh will bubble and knit! Solid as the fluidity of the universe!..."
The nebulous flow of cosmic energy and the empowerment bestowed by the parasites combine into a roiling, bubbling mass under the skin. It externally appears a mild bump that shrinks over time as the injury mends.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Any Injury you receive heals quickly, reducing its Severity by one level every 6 hours. Any Injuries you receive while this Effect is active do not deteriorate over time. However, any Battle Scars caused by such an Injury will remain unless it is Properly Stabilized as normal.
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:
By focusing, the Thief may shroud their hands in shadowy tendrils that seek nearby objects like static-charged hairs. They cast themselves across any surface the Thief touches, acting as anchors that allow the Thief to scale even the sheerest walls.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You may move easily and without a roll in any of the following situations. Lasts 2 hours.
The beastmaster shouts, and their human voice cracks into a deep, bestial roar. Their body swells with muscle, clothes melting into a thick pelt of fur. Seconds later the beastmaster is gone. Standing in their place is a massive grizzly bear.
However, even in human form the beast within remains close to the surface, and the beastmaster finds highly civilized social situations unbearable.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You transform into a brown bear for two hours or until you choose to end the Effect. See the Extended System text for stats.
While transformed, you cannot use any equipment (including Artifacts and Consumables), and you cannot use your Active, Targeted, or Trap Powers. However, you can use your Passive Powers. Any equipment you are wearing transforms with you.
Injuries and Wound Level are carried over between forms. However, transforming can never kill you; you merely remain Incapacitated until your Injuries are sufficiently healed.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Intolerance for society. When you are in a situation with strict social protocols (like a trial or a formal dinner) roll Self-Control not to enter a flight or fight response.
Once the werewolf tastes the blood of their prey, there's no escape. Those injured by the beast's claws and teeth are marked with its saliva. Their wounds smell strongly of blood, and it's only a matter of time before the werewolf returns with a vengeance to finish the kill.
This Effect activates whenever a target you have injured with your teeth or claws escapes the range of your unarmed attacks. It does not require an Action or Exertion. Select a target within arm's reach. Your target should be intuitively based on the triggering event. This Effect cannot be used unless the target is alive and bleeds.
Your target is marked with a throbbing wound that smells strongly of blood. The mark can only be discovered with a deep medical inspection or Effect. Removal inflicts a Severity 1 Injury on the target.
You are aware of the marked target's direction and distance from you. This lasts for the next month, or until either the mark is removed, or you choose to end the Effect. You can have up to 1 mark active.
You receive +2 dice to any rolls made against a marked 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.