**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.
You no longer age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.
Your appendages can reach an additional 30 feet.
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.
Born as only a half blooded child to a thin blood that barely even counted as a vampire, Lucas's inheritance is at best "Weak" by his own admittance he doesn't even really count as a cainite, but he isn't about to let that stop him. He researches tirelessly to find new ways to move forward, and has broken his fingers and forced them into particular shapes great for killing. All to prepare himself for what comes next as his dissolute heritage is made whole again, at least, if you ask him.
You gain the following benefits as long as So long as he has fed on blood in the past 24 hours.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Receded lips that peel back to reveal rat like teeth, yellowed jaundiced eyes, and exposed gums and canines. 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 Intellect is increased by 1.
Your Injuries no longer degrade with time.
Your appendages can reach an additional 30 feet.
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.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: That sweet smell. It's enough to make a man sick: Roll self control to not lick up or drink blood when you see it.
The Severity of any Injury caused by Blessed weapons is increased by 2.
Encounters with the supernatural have opened up opportunities for communion with exotic spirits, one of which has partially merged with Erron. In exchange for light magic, he has also been given augmented looks such as elongated teeth and nails, and two pointed, furred ears which he hides within his hat. Whenever he focuses intently to let out his power, a large glowing white tail emerges from behind him. The holder of his power. Once his energy is used, it disappears
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Kitsune. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living Creature when targeted. Your Dexterity is increased by 1.
You no longer age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.
Almost as if Mickeymouse were ported into the real world, a real 3D Model of him, he is him: mickey mouse, in the flesh, walking the world.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: mickeymouse. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living being when targeted..
Your appendages can reach an additional 30 feet.
You can squeeze through any cracks and passageways a cat would be able to.
You may make a +2 Weapon Damage Mousakatool! [Pistol], Mickey Mouse may use his pointer finger on his left hand as a pistol to fire imaginary cartoon bullets! attack without additional equipment.
You are incapable of fine object manipulation and can only hold or grasp things in a crude, clumsy way.
Pieces of metal run around the crown of my head from my temples back. Some of them have cable ports and some switches, though I have no idea what the switches do.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Cyborg. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living Computer when targeted. Your Intellect is increased by 1.
Your body is adapted to hacking. You receive +3 dice on non-attack rolls related to hacking.
Your body provides you with the functionality of a cellular enabled laptop. If used to attack, these "tools" use the same stats as a small knife.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Missing right ear; +1 hearing difficulty.
Hardened skin makes Billy immune to the heat, and lets him live as long as needed in order to slay those who've wronged him.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Blazing Form: Skin is hot to the touch, eyes faintly glow and a smell of smoke always follows in your wake. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living being 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 are immune to damage from heat and flames. If heat is a substantial component of other damage you would take (e.g. slashed with a flaming sword), that damage is reduced by 2 (in addition to Armor)
Any Animate being that consumes or is injected with your bodily fluids receives a Severity-1 Injury. Every Round, they must roll Body Difficulty 9. If they fail, the Injury worsens by 1 Severity. If they succeed, the Injury stops worsening.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Righteous Anger: You must roll Self-Control to avoid fighting anyone who commits an injustice, even if it would put your life at risk.
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 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.
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 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.