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Grim Determination Shrug It Off. You Have Work To Do.
The eyes of the carabao glow crimson red. The necklace begins to feel heavier and reminds you of your burden to bear.
The pain begins to dull and your mind begins to clear as the weight of the necklace gives you something to focus on.
Nothing short of death will relieve you of your duty.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
If you are Stunned, asleep, drugged, or otherwise made unconscious for any reason other than being Incapacitated, you may Exert your Mind to wake up. Any penalty which was caused by this condition is removed.
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The Sons of Salem
We swear to secure our people against the wickedness and evil of the invisible world.
We swear to aid the afflicted.
We swear to stay ever vigilant and seek out the abominable witchcrafts committed in this country.
We humbly pray to be blessed by God to hold all those who consort with the Devil accountable. Amen
—Opening and closing prayer for Sons of Salem meetings.
The Sons of Salem is a loosely-organized conservative populist movement in the United States that preaches violent opposition to anything they perceive as witchcraft, demonic, or monstrous.
Blowhard podcaster Ted Gundy and former general of the mercenary group “Hognose,” Roland Rush, founded the movement in 2010 after a series of violent werewolf attacks and unexplained, supernatural murders in Tennessee. Memberships grew quickly, stoked by Ted’s fiery doomsday rhetoric on his podcast "Truth Seekers" and the aspiration of the masculine power embodied by Roland.
Although they speak of duty, honor, and maintaining the “natural order” of things, the Sons of Salem are driven by fear. They collect guns and appear at protests en-masse as a way of easing the all-consuming terror of their powerlessness. At the same time, they have conditioned themselves to respond to fear with “strength” (read: violence).
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Grit Gifts
Hivemind’s Resistance
“Do not struggle. It will only hurt you more.”
Though it is unclear if UA-566 ever felt pain or stress, the host body certainly performed worse as it continued intense testing. Now, however, UA-566 seems to be capable of ignoring all of circumstances that might stress or harm another person. Be advised, bullets are no longer a strong deterrent to the creature.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Body and Mind Penalties are reduced to 0.
Stop Whining
The outlaws been through tougher scrapes than this. A few cuts and bruises won't stop them.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using a valuable looking locket to gain the benefits of this Effect.
Your Stress from Injuries is reduced to 0. Does not reduce Stress from Mind Damage.
While Incapacitated, you may Exert your Mind to take a single action.
If you are Stunned, asleep, drugged, or otherwise made unconscious for any reason other than being Incapacitated, you may Exert your Mind to wake up. Any penalty which was caused by this condition is removed.
Berserker State
Rip and Tear
Amaranth is perhaps the progenitor of the vaunted berserker state, in moments of intense stress he is able to work himself into such a frenzy that pain and fear become motivators rather than detractors and in a screaming ball of frothing fury he can throw himself towards his opponents as a ball of teeth, fury, and displeasure.
Exert your Mind 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.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
Steel Cares Not
The Kuznya's steel mind and body are simply unfettered by the woes of such petty things as stress.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
Compensator design
Maximum efficency
The black sections on Exe's flesh has taken on a more metallic shimmer, resistant to the blood and plasma let loose with wounds, and the data corruptions of insanity with a deteriorating mind.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
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Stop Whining
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.