Silas's study of Cryptic creatures fused with his body's growing ability to store a cryptid's true essence allow for him to study a creature's biology deeply to serve as a gateway to use the cryptid for his own desires.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Select a Sapient target or a Creature within 20 feet. You must actively and obviously use Journal and Pen to activate this Effect. At the end of your investigation, roll Intellect + Investigation at Difficulty 6.
You learn all the following information about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.
Nyambe is a name for the Supreme Being, he is considered the creator of the world and the source of all life, embodying divine authority, wisdom, and creativity in Kuba cosmology. This blessing to create is bestowed to ZedMan in the form of fire, smoke and earth, just as humanity was made, so too is this creation.
Born with a spiral of flame, smoke and lights births a human person with a part of Nyambe's fire; a creation of true birth.
Exert your Mind and spend two Actions performing the following ritual: casting a 'blessing' in the form of a song, Zedman throws up gang signs which align to be actual movements of magic. You must actively and obviously use a Mic to activate this Effect. You must maintain Concentration while activating this Effect, and it fails if you are interrupted.
Summon the one and only Sapient Human with dimly lit golden eyes and an unnatural glow at your location. They last for two hours or until they are destroyed. They are controlled by you. You may have at most one minion active at a time.
If you die during a Contract and your companion goes on to claim victory, they may permanently sacrifice themselves to bring you back to life and safety. If this happens, you may refund this Gift to a minimum cost of 3.
If killed, you cannot re-summon your minion until after your next Contract.
After you finish activating this Effect, you cannot move quicker than a walk (max 15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour. Exhaustion’s penalty and duration stacks with multiple activations.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
The werewitch lets out a guttural growl as she suddenly bulks up to the size of a certain green superhero.
Exert your Mind and spend a Quick Action.
You transform into a comically muscular old lady (7ft 2in, 800lbs) for 3 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are a comically muscular old lady (7ft 2in, 800lbs), and you can use your equipment. Your Battle Scars, Injuries, and physical Liabilities are carried over between forms. Reverting from your Alternate Form cannot cause your existing Injuries to kill you. Instead, you remain Incapacitated.
While transformed, your Brawn is increased by 3. Your Stress is reduced by 2.
Your alternate form is its own deadly weapon. Unarmed attacks made in your alternate form deal +3 Weapon Damage (instead of the typical -1).
After this Effect ends, you cannot move quicker than a walk (15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour.
While transformed, you automatically fail any Mind roll to resist an impulse and suffer -3 dice on all other Mind rolls.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Come, Deary! - You have supernaturally strong grandmotherly instincts. (Whenever you would be talking with a young person or especially a child, roll Self-Control not to be forced to spoil them and treat them like a beloved grandchild).
Spending his entire life honing his knowledge on nature and forestry, and being attuned to the surroundings around him, Akira’s senses have been enhanced to superhuman levels. Allowing him to navigate in environments that were normally arduous to the average person.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
Performing several complicated gestures, the Stormcaller draws moisture from everywhere around them and coalesces it into the desired shape, the flash-freezes it. They are left with a slightly dripping object made purely of ice that will last until it melts.
Exert your Mind and spend 1 minute.
Choose an Object which could fit inside a regular backpack (up to 27 liters). It must be Non-Alien and generic. You cannot create explosives. You cannot create firearms.
Roll Dexterity + Thievery to fabricate your chosen Object. The Difficulty is assigned by the GM and depends on the specificity of your chosen Object. The created item lasts 2 hours.
After vanquishing The Spirit, Frank found himself with an uncomfortable calm. It was almost terrifying, the sheer quiet of it all. For once in his miserable life, his mind didn't race. The constant arguments were done away with; all that remained was a lonely feeling and a desire to never be controlled again.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You get +0 dice to any Mind resistance rolls you make.
Nature is the beastmaster's domain. While in the wilds, they can climb trees and cliffs with ease and dash through dense underbrush that anyone else would need a machete to navigate.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You may move easily and without a roll in any of the following situations.
You only gain the benefits of this effect if you are in an area without a human building within 300 feet.
The mystic enters a meditation while focusing on a remote location. A glowing sigil of an eye appears on their forehead, and a ghostly image of themselves meditating appears at the location they are envisioning. For a brief period, they may see the area they are projecting to as though they were standing there.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a target Location within 75 feet.
You may perceive things as if you were standing at that Location. The effect lasts indefinitely but you must maintain Concentration to keep it up. You cannot perceive anything at your physical location while the effect is active.
You create a visible manifestation at the Location where your senses are projected which looks like a ghostly image of yourself meditating.
The Ninja is a master at blending in to any crowd or organization. If they can find complete privacy, they may channel their ninjutsu to temporarily create the illusion of any outfit or uniform they desire. The new clothes shimmer into existence over their existing garb over the course of a minute of meditation.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute.
You become disguised in a manner of your choosing. The disguise lasts for two hours, or you may end it early at will.
The new appearance must have a similar sex, age, and race to your own. You cannot significantly change your height and weight. Your disguise cannot directly mimic an existing person. You may change the appearance of your outfit. A disguise cannot affect your Attributes or other stats.
You may roll Charisma + Crafts to attempt to make your disguise Beautiful. If your Outcome is 6 or higher, non-Effect Charisma rolls where your good looks could help are rolled at -2 Difficulty. If you fail or botch, you are ugly instead, and non-Effect Charisma rolls are made at +2 Difficulty.
You cannot alter the appearance of your flesh and blood.
All it takes is a flick of your hair and a bat of your eyelashes, and you’ve got their attention.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. A number of Sapient, Living targets within 50 feet who can perceive you through no greater than your Charisma rating are affected. Audiences or mobs with a singular focus count as one target. Roll Charisma + Performance at Difficulty 6. All affected targets may resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 7.
If you succeed, the targets will keep their full attention focused on you for Contested Outcome in Rounds. They will automatically fail any rolls related to noticing anything other than you.
If you pass from their perception and they are unable to pursue you, the Effect ends. If they can follow you, they must do so for 2 Rounds or the Effect will end. The Effect ends early if the target is Injured or violence occurs nearby.
This does not affect the target’s opinion of you or their mood, and they may take any Actions while affected (including attacking), as long as that action centers on you. Fascinated targets cannot Concentrate.
The Ninja's incredible dedication to their discipline grants them supernatural dexterity and agility.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Dexterity rating is increased by 1. You may Exert your Mind to automatically gain an Outcome of 5 on any roll that uses Dexterity (Cannot be used on combat rolls or Power activations).