**Description:** The "Body of the Ancient Cryptic" passively alters the user’s body, giving them a primal, beast-like appearance combined with ancient, mystical energies. These physical changes not only enhance their combat abilities but also make them appear more formidable and inhuman to those around them.
**Visible Changes:**
- **Beastly Claws:** The user's hands and fingers elongate slightly, ending in sharp, retractable claws. These claws appear to be made of a dark, obsidian-like material and can tear through most materials with ease.
- **Feral Eyes:** Their eyes take on a bestial quality, with slit-like pupils and a glowing, predatory hue—often amber, red, or another unnatural color. These eyes grant heightened vision, especially in darkness.
- **Rugged, Enhanced Physique:** The user’s muscles are denser, their bones more robust, and their posture slightly hunched, resembling a primal predator. This gives them enhanced strength and agility beyond normal human limits.
- **Roughened Skin:** Their skin takes on a tougher, almost hide-like texture, with patches of scales or hardened ridges in certain areas, providing natural armor.
- **Elongated Teeth:** The user’s teeth sharpen into fangs, giving them a fearsome grin and enabling them to bite with great force when necessary.
- **Beastial Presence:** A low growl or snarl might be heard from the user when they are angered or in danger. Their overall demeanor is predatory, making others instinctively sense danger in their presence.
These beastly transformations, combined with ancient, arcane markings and energies, make the user a terrifying force, blending primal strength with cryptic wisdom.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: perfect bodys. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living Creature when targeted. Your Brawn is increased by 1, your Perception is increased by 1, and your Charisma is increased by 1.
Your appendages can reach an additional 30 feet.
You may make a +2 Weapon Damage claws and fangs attack without additional equipment.
Whenever you enter Combat, roll Self-Control. If you fail, you cannot choose which targets to attack and cannot stop fighting until there are no targets remaining.
You cannot speak any coherent verbal language and must resort to other means of communication.
You cannot ignore or decrease the effects of Stress for any Self-Control rolls you make.
The Severity of any Injury caused by Sliver is increased by 2.
Stinky Pete’s transformed body is uniquely adapted for various practical uses, resembling a living toolkit. His tail, long and prehensile, is remarkably strong and flexible, capable of acting as a makeshift crowbar for prying open doors or lifting heavy objects. The tail’s dexterity also allows it to function like a slim jim for unlocking car doors or a screwdriver for turning screws and bolts.
His fur, while coarse and rugged, hides an unusual ability: individual hairs can be plucked and used as lock picks, perfect for delicate lock-picking tasks. These hairs are surprisingly tough and flexible, making them effective tools for manipulating locks and small mechanisms.
His hands, though larger and less capable of fine manipulation, have the strength and shape to serve as glass cutters or portable angle grinders. By using the edge of his palm or his nails, he can score and break glass or grind down surfaces with surprising efficiency.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Monkeyish Humanoid. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living Creature when targeted. Your Brawn is increased by 1.
Your body is adapted to Sprinting. You receive +3 dice on non-attack rolls related to Sprinting.
While in Mountainous Areas, heat, cold, pressure, and other atmospheric hazards do not affect you, and dangerous local flora and fauna will not bother you unless you give them a reason.
You no longer age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.
Your body provides you with the functionality of Breaking And Entering Tools- Crowbar, Lock Picks, Screwdrivers, Glass Cutters, Slim Jims, Drills, Portable Angle Grinder (Tail and Plucked Hair). If used to attack, these "tools" use the same stats as a small knife.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Self Sufficient- You can not trust another with your life without a self control roll.
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 ignore or decrease the effects of Stress for any Self-Control rolls you make.
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You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: ________. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living being when targeted. Your Brawn is increased by 3.
You get +3 to your Body rating, but -1 to your Mind rating.
Due to the nature of his botched Embrace, Elías is unable to reach his full potential without a Harbinger's Reward. With each Gift, Elías will mutate a further step toward perfection. As long as he keeps himself well-fed and avoids silver, he will benefit from the power of his new bloodline.
The Gift of Baba Yaga's Storybook has bestowed the Fledgling with a supernatural physique and sharpened fangs. His strikes are capable of delivering an incredible amount of force and his teeth can easily become deadly when a target has left themselves open.
You gain the following benefits as long as you've drank human blood within 24 hours.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Sharpened Canines. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living being when targeted. Your Brawn is increased by 1 and your Dexterity is increased by 1.
You may make a +2 Weapon Damage Fist or Fang attack without additional equipment.
The Severity of any Injury caused by Silvered Weapons is increased by 2.
There is blood in your veins that is not your own. And yet, your body has embraced it, making it yours, and changing itself to fit. Your skin can stretch beyond its limits, and your bones can break themselves, to create new vertebrae in their place, the skin and meat around them changing to be more muscular and lithe, even going as far as fusing together limbs. 𝘚𝘯𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦. That is the only word for what you've become, aside from maybe monstrous. The good part is, normally, only your eyes betray your nature, large and green and slit.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Mutated Accumulation. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living Creature when targeted..
No single organ in your body is critical for life. If any body part is separated, it lives and can take Actions for one hour. Attacks do not get bonuses from targeting specific body parts. You cannot suffer an Injury with Severity greater than 6.
Your appendages can reach an additional 30 feet.
You can squeeze through any cracks and passageways a cat would be able to.
Has now 2 more set of eyes.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: More eyes. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living being when targeted. Your Perception is increased by 1.
The mutant has left humanity behind. They're are muted to the core, with glowing blue blood and a hunched posture that makes them more suited for running on all fours than using equipment and vehicles.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: you have blue, bioluminescent blood and a hunched posture adapted to running on all fours. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living Creature when targeted. Your Dexterity is increased by 1.
Your body is adapted to sprinting. You receive +3 dice on non-attack rolls related to sprinting.
Any creature that consumes or is injected with your bodily fluids receives a Severity-1 Injury. Every minute, they must roll Body Difficulty 9. If they fail, the Injury worsens by 1 Severity. If they succeed, the Injury stops worsening.
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.
The Vampire was cursed to forever be a vile creature of the night! Their skin has faded to a deathly pale, only regaining something close to human complexion in the immediate aftermath of feeding on human blood. They are weakened when exposed to direct sunlight or when they have been unable to feed in the past day, but otherwise has gained inhuman strength, speed, and irresistibility from their devil's bargain.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are not in direct sunlight and you have fed on fresh human blood in the past 24 hours.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: a seductive and powerful humanoid, with pale skin and wicked fangs. You are considered to be a Sapient, Non-Living being when targeted. Your Brawn is increased by 1, your Dexterity is increased by 1, and your Charisma is increased by 1.
Your Injuries no longer degrade with time.
The Severity of any Injury caused by fire and heat is increased by 2.
The Android's skin is extremely pale, their eyes are yellow, and their body stays at room temperature. They do not bleed, and traditional medicine is ineffective at treating them. Furthermore, they may be hacked by any supernatural effect that could hack a computer.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: you are an android, with pale skin and yellow eyes. You are considered to be a Sapient, Non-Living Computer 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)
You no longer age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.
Your Injuries no longer degrade with time.
The Severity of any Injury caused by electricity is increased by 2.