The user drinks the vial of Pure Blood, which gives them superhuman willpower and allows them to channel their pain into their will.
Use up this Vial of dark blood and spend an Action.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0. Lasts three hours.
Stress from Injuries acts as a dice bonus instead of penalty.
When fighting game music starts, Keys gets in the Zone! Increasing his focus by 10000%, making it so it's virtually impossible to hit him!! Or at least to see the damage.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
You may move at your normal speed and still maintain Concentration. Taking an Injury less than Severity 6 no longer interrupts Concentration.
Animal spirits allow Ethan to ignore pain and distractions, but start to suppress his higher thoughts.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Concussive Neuropathy.
The most painful times in Hezalea's life has left her indifferent to the pain. If she tries hard enough, she can tune it out as if it's background noise.
On pain:
One might say suffering is part of being human. Does that mean those who have yet to suffer are yet to be fully human? If that were true, if pain and sadness were a prerequisite for recognition, Hezalea would rather shirk it all.
On willfulness:
Muting any of the senses takes more than being told, "Just deal with it." But now... Hezalea can indeed say that to herself and expect herself to stop being so flustered by the incessant agony that hovers around her. It's all just a placebo. She's incredibly annoyed that this very power has validated all the insensitive words thrown her way.
On heroism:
Was numbness always part of being a hero? She doubts it. Often the most questionable heroes are ones who have become desensitized from the horrors that plague their lives. She wishes she could feel visceral disgust at all the atrocities in the world again, she wishes she could say that was the drive for her ambitions, but really, why does she continue moving forward?
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
The Sparkman's experiences have lead him to this point. His body is a battery for a greater purpose, for a storm brewing within. Lightning itself seems to stimulate his being, pain receptors nullified by a change in neuroelectric flow to other parts of themselves.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
The users blood vessels swell to the point of slightly limiting nerve function. They don't experience pain or distress. With the slight side effect of slower thought processes and reaction time.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
While Incapacitated, you may Exert your Mind to take a single action.
You may move at your normal speed and still maintain Concentration. Taking an Injury less than Severity 6 no longer interrupts Concentration.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Concussive Neuropathy.
The mobster's been through tougher scrapes than this. A few cuts and bruises won't stop them.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries is reduced to 0. Does not reduce Stress from Mind Damage.