With a primal scream or a silent, gritted determination, they reach down and, with tremendous force and pain, tear their own arm from its socket. The sound is gut-wrenching, a mix of ripping flesh and snapping bone, and blood spurts violently from the wound, soaking their clothes and the ground around them.
The arm, still warm and perhaps twitching slightly from residual nerve impulses, is used like a brutal club. The jagged, exposed bone at the severed end becomes a crude, makeshift blade, capable of tearing through flesh.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Walking Corpse. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living being when targeted..
No single organ in your body is critical for life. If any of your body parts are separated from your body, you may take Actions with the severed part for three hours. You may reattach severed body parts by spending an Action and Exerting your Mind.
You may make a +2 Weapon Damage Melee attack without additional equipment.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Delusions of Invincibility.
The surgeon's hand has become an instrument of death; he has long since forgotten the ways of the sharp scalpel, now is the time for the blunt fist to operate.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in unarmed combat.
+2 dice to rolls for Attacking, Defending, and Clashing without a weapon. Unarmed attacks do +2 Weapon Damage (instead of -1).
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: disfigured.
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 Lake Lord narrows its eyes in concentration, and the borders of its liquid body begin to shift and shimmer while Brooke holds up a colander for it to see. After activation, the Lake Lord looks the same, but can maintain its form as it passes through anything that water could pass through.
The Lake Lord, indeed, is made of water. It's force of will is what allows it to create a semi-physical form, and maintaining that will becomes second nature. It takes time to lower those barriers to the self, allowing itself to diffuse itself and return to it's primordial form of water.
The colander looks out of place, but is actually the method by which Brooke coaches the Lake Lord through the process of loosening it's form. Just like the colander allows water to pass through while remaining it's own object, the Lake Lord can allow things to pass into and out of itself without compromising its own identity.
Exert your Mind and spend one minute. This Effect cannot be used unless this power is being used by the Lake Lord itself. You must actively and obviously use a colander to activate this Effect.
You transform into water for the next hour. You may end the effect early and return to your normal form at will. Your structure must remain relatively contiguous. Observers will view you as an unusual entity moving with a singular purpose.
While in this form, you can squeeze through any gap that is not water-tight.
Damage from standard attacks is halved, but Damage from AOE effects is increased by 1. You may spend an Action to reduce one of your Injuries’ Severity by 2, as long as you obtained the Injury while transformed and the separated pieces could reasonably be rejoined.
You cannot communicate, use equipment, or use Gifts while transformed. Your equipment does not transform with you beyond basic body coverings. Carrying capacity is unaffected.
While transformed, you can make an unarmed attack using Body as your attack roll. The target may contest by dodging or Defending. This attack deals +2 damage.
Ugg seem reeeeaaallly strong. Like...really strong! Strong as dinosaur!
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Brawn rating is increased by 0. You may Exert your Mind to automatically gain an Outcome of 5 on any roll that uses Brawn (cannot be used on combat rolls or Effect activations).
You also gain the following effects:
Temperance clutches the Mask to his chest as a small flame flickers behind it, growing larger until the mask itself begins to grow and begin to hover in the air in front of him as a wisp is reborn
by combining his latent abilities with those of Neo-GENIS, Temperance is able to temporarily return life to what was once lost.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must use up carved mask in order to activate this Effect.
Summon a single Non-Sapient, Animate Greater Wisp 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 active at a time.
Connecting to time, Amaranth is learning how to manipulate his connection to it's flow and while he's yet to figure out how to make it go backwards he has been able to make it go forwards and now with that solidly figured out he is able to stampede his way through just about any situaiton just much much faster.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must actively and obviously use A time piece to activate this Effect.
Lasts 1 hour. Whenever you use your Movement, after all other calculations, the distance you may travel is increased by 25 feet.
Outside of Combat, any non-Gift, non-movement Actions you attempt take drastically less time to complete, as long as your personal speed is a factor in the Action. Total time reduction is determined by the GM and capped at 90% (executing the Action takes no less than 1/10th the normal time).
The Witch is a master herbalist and can cure any number of illnesses and diseases with her special potions. She goes into the wilderness to find the proper set of herbs. Once she has what she's looking for, she mixes them together and boils the concoction. Steam rises from the mixture, twisting into recognizable shapes such as animals and spirits. The whole process takes about fifteen minutes, after which the patient must drink the entire mixture. They are immediately cured.
The proper preparation varies from person to person, so a single batch cannot be used to treat multiple people.
Exert your Mind and spend 15 minutes. Select a Living target within arm's reach. This Effect cannot be used unless you can forage for herbs. You must actively and obviously use water, a container, and heat to activate this Effect.
You may cure any Non-Alien diseases, toxins, or poisons afflicting your target even if you have not diagnosed or fully understood it. You may cure diseases or poisons even if they are not treatable through modern medicine. During treatment, the malady you are treating does not progress or cause additional Damage or other effects.
Whenever you cure a disease, poison, or toxin, if it had inflicted any Damage, your target is healed for half that Damage.
As long as the Ninja is dressed in an appropriate uniform, their movement is almost silent.
You gain the following benefits as long as as long as you are visibly dressed head to toe in black with hardly any skin showing.
You and everything you are carrying is 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 or your equipment specifically 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.
You may turn this Effect on and off at will during its duration.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: compulsion to test the awareness of allies by sneaking up on them with a weapon.
The Doctor examines their patient and gives a standard medical checkup, asking them questions, nodding to themselves, and muttering arcane medical jargon. The examination reveals an extraordinary amount of detail about any medical issues suffered by the patient.
Spend one minute. Select a Sapient target or a Creature within arm's reach. You must actively converse with the individual in question for one minute in order to gather any information. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Medicine at Difficulty 6. The target may Resist.
You learn all the following information about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.
The creature's claws rip through the poor, defenseless doctor's coat, opening deep gashes in their gut. It bares its fangs to lunge for the killing blow, but the doctor looks up at the attacker. Their eyes filed not with utter terror at their imminent demise, only a look of disappointment and pity. Touched, the monster hesitates. . .
This Effect activates whenever you receive a Severity 2 or higher Injury from an attack. It does not require an Action or Exertion. Select a Living target within 45 feet. Your target should be intuitively based on the triggering event. Roll Charisma + Influence at Difficulty 6. Affected targets can resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, for the next minute, your target will do things they otherwise wouldn’t have done, inspired by remorse for hurting such a pure soul. They will not necessarily display their emotions in an obvious way.
Actions they take will be in keeping with their character and the way they tend to deal with strong emotions. They will be unlikely to change their mind about any actions taken or decisions made until after the Effect ends.
No terrestrial animal dares defy the will of the beastmaster. The beastmaster exerts their dominance over an animal by locking eyes and giving a primal cry. The creature immediately becomes docile and eager to please.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Non-Alien Creature within 20 feet. This Effect cannot be used unless the target is a terrestrial animal.
For the next day, you may issue specific commands to your target which they will be compelled to follow.
Your commands can be complex and multi-layered, though they must still be specific. You cannot make them obviously endanger themselves or violate their instinct for self-preservation. The effects of the command will fade after a day has passed.