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Where the Sidewalk Ends “One false move and you're over your head.“
The sound of rain drowns out all sound as dark gray droplets start to slick the ground. Cigarette smoke wafts through the air, assaulting the senses and making maintaining composure next to impossible. The world around the detective has become identical to that of a Noir film, with all of the common tropes to boot.
A last ditch effort in which Frank lets loose a sudden burst of imbued energy from his body, coating the nearby world in the same monochrome shades that paint his body. It takes about a day to recoup that exhausted energy, going beyond that would almost certainly see him dead.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You create a hemispherical dome of Film Noir tropes originating at your Location, with a radius of 60 feet. and lasting for 5 minutes. You are fully immune to the effects of your zone. The area inside your zone is affected in the following ways:
- Overwhelming: Anyone inside the zone cannot Exert their Mind, and Mind rolls made within the zone are at -2 dice.
- Slippery: All movement distances are halved within the zone. Anyone who wishes to move further than their Free Movement within a Round must roll Dexterity + Athletics. If they fail, their movement is limited to their Free Movement and they fall down.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
- Affected targets may still spend Source.
- The Effect does not follow you after you activate it.
- If you select a location at the edge of your range, you will be just outside the zone once the Effect is activated
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
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Charlatans
“Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.”
― Criss Jami
Nowadays you can't go a day without some phony prophet trying to peddle their wares to you.
Driven by the increased interest in the supernatural, charlatans from palm readers to televangelists are everywhere. And while the vast majority of witches, psychics, magicians, hypnotists, cures, potions, faith healers, and clairvoyants are complete fakes, they do make a living.
As the saying goes, "it's easier for an actor to make it in alternative medicine than Hollywood."
Most people scoff at these clearly-phony supernatural services, yet those same people often buy into at least one scam.
The most dangerous charlatans are the self-styled monster hunters who carry a mall-ninja arsenal and guns with silver bullets. Most have never encountered anything supernatural and do absolutely nothing besides burn some sage and patrol the area for a night or two. Even so, those who are superstitious, fearful, or desperate enough will hire them to solve the problems they simply don't understand. In some cases with disastrous results.
For Contractors, charlatans are red herrings and obstacles. Clumsy fakes that conjure a smokescreen of misinformation and escalate the situations they're in.
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Environment Control Gifts
Trickmaster - Tumble
This Spell makes a 5-6 meter radius area act as if coated with grease, causing people to slip and fall, or it could make a designated target’s footing slip directly.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within 20 feet of you.
You create a hemispherical dome of Grease 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:
- Slippery: All movement distances are halved within the zone. Anyone who wishes to move further than their Free Movement within a Round must roll Dexterity + Athletics. If they fail, their movement is limited to their Free Movement and they fall down.
Any time someone leaves your zone, they remain affected by your Zone Effects for an additional 3 Rounds as if they were still within the zone.
- If you select a location at the edge of your range, you will be just outside the zone once the Effect is activated
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
Aspect of the Fae Wylds: The Deep
Sebastian splashes out a waterskin, before he coils up around himself, before expanding rapidly, sending out a wave of dark wave of water all around him, releasing a burst of fae magic and making the area around him become a mimicry of the deepest part of the sea.
the area is as dark as the deep sea, and light has equal difficulty passing through it as it does in the actual deep, those within who are not built to handle the crushing pressure of the deep sea slowly get compressed by the sheer weight of the water around them.
Sebastian, of course, being adapted to this environment, finds it rather comfortable.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action. You must use up water skin in order to activate this Effect.
You create a hemispherical dome of Deep Sea originating at your Location, with a radius of 60 feet. and lasting for 5 minutes. The area inside your zone is affected in the following ways:
- Danger Zone: The zone contains the Crushing pressue of the deep sea. At the end of each Round, everyone in the zone must roll Body at Difficulty 8. Anyone who fails or botches receives a Severity-1 Injury.
- Obscured Vision: The zone is partially blocked from view. Anything within the zone will have difficulty seeing anything or being seen from the outside. Any rolls that rely on sight are made at -3 dice, and rolls that would benefit from sight are rolled at -1 dice.
- The Effect does not follow you after you activate it.
- If you select a location at the edge of your range, you will be just outside the zone once the Effect is activated
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
Sodom’s smog
Suffered the fallout for vengeance is mine blessed he, the irradiated Lord
Eden scars from Cyber Genesis Begin to open up and those that are paying Attention will notice that the smart bugs and animals begin to run and the small plants immediately begin to decay as the field around him begins to mimic the same field that gave him his health scare.
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As the Zone covers more and more ground. Anything caught inside of it that does manage to stay alive is immediately hit with the sound of an engine or nuclear reactor running at full blast not allowing you to hear anything.
Basically, ever since Eden’s brush with cancer and his hazard surgery to try to fix said cancer His body has been changing more and more. The surgery initially restrained the effects and made him more resistant to radiation, but once the disease was “Cured” Or at least the harmful symptoms disappeared. He started to notice that his body physiology began to change more and more in the cybernetics he put into himself after the surgery began to evolve, as if they were alive. This development is his body. Airing out overflowing radiation that it produces
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You create a hemispherical dome of radiation originating at your Location, with a radius of 60 feet. and lasting for 5 minutes. While active, you are always fully affected by your zone as if you were standing in it. The area inside your zone is affected in any number of the following ways:
- Danger Zone: The zone contains radiation. The area is extremely inhospitable. At the end of each Round, everyone in the zone must roll for Acute Exposure.
Any time someone leaves your zone, they remain affected by your Zone Effects for an additional 3 Rounds as if they were still within the zone.
Your zone blends with the environment, seeming to arise naturally from local effects. Observers who roll Perception + Alertness and achieve an Outcome 4 or higher notice that it is unnatural.
- The Effect does not follow you after you activate it.
- If you select a location at the edge of your range, you will be just outside the zone once the Effect is activated
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
Song of Storms
Tumultuous emotions give birth to a raging storm.
A rainstorm begins to gather, no matter the environment. Lightning sparks and thunder rumbles as rain begins to fall.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You create a hemispherical dome of rain and lightning originating at your Location, with a radius of 60 feet. and lasting for 5 minutes. The area inside your zone is affected in any number of the following ways:
- Danger Zone: The zone contains lightning. At the end of each Round, everyone in the zone must roll Body at Difficulty 8. Anyone who fails or botches receives a Severity-1 Injury.
- Obscured Vision: The zone is partially blocked from view. Anything within the zone will have difficulty seeing anything or being seen from the outside. Any rolls that rely on sight are made at -3 dice, and rolls that would benefit from sight are rolled at -1 dice.
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
- The Effect does not follow you after you activate it.
- If you select a location at the edge of your range, you will be just outside the zone once the Effect is activated
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.