Carpathia speaks in Italian (her first language) to her target, who appears to be comprehending what she's saying and responds with their respective form of communication, whatever that may be.
Carpathia gains an instinctual knowledge of how animals communicate with eachother and is able to translate it to her human tongue, and when they take a close enough look at her they can feel her ties to the spirit of the natural world, and by extension, them.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You may understand and communicate to Creatures as if you are fluent in a relevant language.
Humility is lowering oneself to the level of the beasts. As Margaretโs occult heritage asserts itself, she finds she may converse with animals. Usually this conversation is whispered and private.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You may understand and communicate to Creatures as if you are fluent in a relevant language.
This also includes understanding any recorded communications from the relevant targets, including writings, scent trails, etc.
This rugged book comprised of damaged leather and pristine white blank pages, with a polaroid stapled to the front, feels rough to the touch yet warm, and the pages feel clean no matter the environment
The book seems to be of magical origin, perhaps even cursed
This Artifact cannot be broken. If this Artifact is lost and in no one elseโs possession, it finds its way back to its true owner during the next Downtime.
By default, the creator of this Artifact is its true owner. The true owner may formally bequeath this Artifact onto another person within armโs reach, after which they are its true owner. If the true owner dies or is destroyed, their ownership ends. If this Artifact has no true owner, anyone may spend one day attuning to it to become its true owner.
If this Artifact is in no one elseโs possession, its true owner may Exert their Mind and spend two Actions to bring it to themselves.
Whenever this Artifact is unattended and within 300 feet of its true owner, it will fly back to them. When not held or stowed, it floats beside its true owner, moving with them. While within 10 feet, the true owner does not need to touch it to use it.
Anyone who touches this Artifact will notice it warping their mind and may drop it. If they choose to hold or use it, they immediately receive the following Trauma: Whispers of the Lost. If they lose possession of this Artifact, the Trauma heals over the course of the next day.
Put on a new face and saunter off, a new man.
You gain the following benefits as long as you have regenerated fewer than 12 times.
If you would take an Injury that would kill you, you donโt die. Instead, you survive in an Incapacitated state. While incapacitated, you can take one Action per minute, starting one minute after you were incapacitated. This state lasts for the next hour, at which point you fully return to life.
If, while you are unconscious, your wound level rises above your rating in Body + twice your Intellect, or if you take an Injury with Severity greater than twice your rating in Intellect, you die. After you return, the Injury that would have killed you, as well as any Injuries sustained while Incapacitated, are healed. Battle scars obtained during this time remain.
After you recover from near death, you may roll Body at Difficulty 7. Success will stabilize any remaining Injuries.
Ry'mone West Has took the training that he has received from his family and combined it with the thing he enjoys most in this world, looking good. While in combat West uses his open palm techniques from his Baguazhang family teachings, every strike lead to a fluid runway pose, leading to fights looking almost choreographed.
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 +0 Weapon Damage (instead of -1). The target's Armor is fully effective against this damage.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Blandophobia: Roll self-controll to wear anything that is not extravagant or outwardly flamboyant..
You also gain the following effects:
RA77LE has a robotic body, with a very obvious intent of it being to be a musician for others, given how his entire torso is taken up by a large disc that plays off of a MIDI system. Additionally, RA77LE's body is equipped with various other types of musical equipment and battery systems, which allow for an extremely long battery life that grants him near-constant uptime.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Robotic form. You are considered to be a Sapient, Non-Living Computer when targeted. Your Dexterity is increased by 1.
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.
Your Injuries no longer degrade with time.
You cannot ignore or decrease the effects of Stress for any social rolls you make.
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.
Years of scouting in dangerous areas has left the survivalist hyper-vigilant. They are impossible to catch in a trap.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Perception rating is increased by 1. You may Exert your Mind to automatically gain an Outcome of 5 on any roll that uses Perception (Cannot be used on combat rolls or Power activations).
You also gain the following effects:
This device is a piece of chrome the size and shape of the back of a spoon. When placed against the skin, small hypodermic needles sprout from the device and attach it to the user's bloodstream. There, it filters and releases lifesaving drugs into the bloodstream, granting complete immunity from contracting new diseases and added resiliency in all other cases.
WARNING: The immunizing drugs have been shown to reduce inhibitions in test subjects.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
You get +2 dice to any Body resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
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.
Finally, the girls are fusing the way theyโve wanted to since they began Contracting, three and a half years ago. It took Graceโs left eye for them to try this, but the girls are now able to spend a week focusing their energy towards a Battle Scarred area and permanently replacing it with The Spiritโs ghostly flesh. The replaced chunks, eyes, arms, whatever may come, appear just as The Spiritโs: bluish and semi-transparent, but now function just as the respective physical flesh would.
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.
All Injuries you receive are considered Properly Stabilized. You may also choose to heal any Battle Scar on yourself that may not have been caused by an Injury. Doing so takes one day, and the Battle Scar affects you fully until that time.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: any scars that heal this way leave the flesh in that area bluish and semi-transparent, causing you to be viewed as a freak by most people who see you.
The Ninja is so attuned to the sounds of their surroundings, they may focus their mind to "see" using the subtle acoustic vibrations.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.