Surgical Awakening is a gruesome spectacle that blurs the lines between science and bio-horror. In a quiet lab, Oleg meticulously performs the painful open procedure, using chemicals, surgical tools, and a touch of source magic to awaken dormant potential within the target's nervous systems. The subject’s body thrashes and protests as the flesh is reformed, reshaped, and augmented—an eerie blend of organic tissue and the unnatural. The results are profound, granting the subject new abilities like unnatural strength, hidden compartments within their body, or adaptations to extreme environments. The process is raw and visceral, with the flesh itself rebelling against its forced transformation, leaving an no marks upon the skin, but psychological scars that can take a while to fade.
Exert your Mind and spend eight hours. Select a Living or Animate target within arm's reach. Your target must make a Trauma roll to reap the benefits of this Effect. They may choose to Resist the Effect and not make the roll. The target can easily Resist.
You may add one augmentation to your target. Each augmentation counts as a Trauma and can have exactly one of the following Effects:
The augmentations you provide are not outwardly visible nor obvious.
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see a delicate open surgery where the flesh and nerves visible deform and struggle against the procedure.
The Kitsune softly rings a bell charm, waits a moment, then deftly reaches out into thin air in a seemingly random direction. Pulling her arm back, she produces a small spark of light which materializes into a spirit, detailing to her the information she needs.
The bell charm acts as a channel for Kayleigh to give an immaterial spirit the slightest amount of form, upon when she reaches out and deftly grabs it before the spirit dissipates back into whatever realm it lives in. If she misses her grab on the spirit it decides to stay away from her for the future, making her unable to try to speak to it twice. Kayleigh's manual dexterity has become so incredibly refined that she can grab hold of even the immaterial.
Exert your Mind and spend 2 Actions. Investigate an area with a radius of up to 100 feet You must actively and obviously use a wooden bell charm to activate this Effect. At the end of your investigation, roll Dexterity + Athletics (7 dice) at Difficulty 6.
You learn the following information about the area:
This Effect is obviously Alien and eye-catching across its range to those witnessing it, and you are obviously the source.
You cannot investigate the same area more than once per day.
Like a cicada molting its skin, Nathan's spirit splits its way out of his body, a terrible gaseous form with conjoined masses flailing underneath. Reaching their target, Nathan expels their spirit, clawing into and imprisoning it into a nearby reflective surface before digging into them, remaining there.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Living or Sapient target within 20 feet. This Effect cannot be used unless the target is Sapient (cannot be just Living. ). Roll Intellect + Occult (6 dice) at Difficulty 6. The target may resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, you possess your target for the Contested Outcome in hours. The target has no control over their body or actions, though they retain consciousness and will remember anything that occurs during the possession.
Your original body will be left behind, unconscious. You may perceive through your original body's senses by Concentrating. If your original body is touched, you may roll Perception + Alertness to notice. You may spend an Action to end the possession early.
Stats: During the possession, you use the host body’s Body rating, but your own Mind rating. Any rolls you make use the host body’s Brawn, Dexterity, and Perception but your own Charisma, Intellect, and Abilities. You gain the effects of any physical Assets and Liabilities they have. You cannot read the target’s mind or memories.
Gifts: You have access to and can use any of your own Powers which are not intrinsic to your biology or physical body. You cannot access any Powers or other supernatural effects which the target has, unless they are intrinsic to the target’s biology or physical body.
Death: If the host body is killed or destroyed while you are still possessing it, you will die along with it. If the possession ends and your original body was killed or destroyed in some way, your disembodied spirit will haunt the location where your body died, and the only action you can take is activating this Effect on a new target within 20 feet.
Eviction: If you attempt to force your host to take actions which would violate one of their Limits or their instinct for self-preservation, they may resist by rolling Mind. If their Outcome is higher than or equal to the contested Outcome, the possession ends and you are evicted from their body.
While possessing your target, you may put them into “autopilot.” During this time they will act as they would normally for the situation without the knowledge that you are/were possessing them. This allows them to act “normal” around social contacts, type in passwords if they want to log in, etc. You have no control during this time.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see spirit mutilation and imprisonment.
If you become Incapacitated or suffer an Injury Severity 4 or greater, this Effect ends.
With blinding speed and a beer in hand roni turns raw materials (trees, sand dirt and rocks) into concrete, two by fours, glass, ext and at blinding speed assembles them into the needed building.
Exert your Mind (unless you are Sculpting) and spend one minute. Select a Location within arm's reach. You must use up a beer in order to activate this Effect. You must be in an area abundant with natural earth and/or raw minerals.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of construction materials originating at the target:
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts indefinitely but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 3 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
You may sculpt your walls, domes, or tunnels as you create them, without any additional activation time or cost.
Brody heats up the area around him, his arms crackling into burnt cinders, and he fires off a wave of heat at his target, trying to cook them from the inside out, as his arms cool down back to regular skin.
Spend an Action. Select a target within 50 feet. Roll Dexterity + Occult Difficulty 6. The target may contest by rolling to Dodge or Defend as a Reaction, Difficulty 6.
If the Contested Outcome is positive, the target takes that much Damage plus 2.
You may use this Effect to Defend against any melee, projectile, or firearm Attacks within range or Clash against any Attack targeted at you. Using it to Defend deals no Damage but does not cost Exertion.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see his arm crackling into burnt cinders before reforming into skin.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
The one using this rapidly flips through the book ending up on a specific page they then begin to rapidly read through the pages of the book and begins to spout off in an occult language, they then begin to vomit forth an ocean of Black blood with the consistency of tar covering the ground up to twenty feet away if this blood comes in contact with undead it then begins climbing up the legs of undead continuing on to the head it the begins to seep into the eye sockets, head or whatever is left of it on the undead, while they are under the control of this effect a tar like substance slowly leaks out of any wounds or holes that the undead suffers as well as the eye sockets or head.
Increase your sacrificial Injury's Severity by 1 and spend an Action. Select a Non-Sapient, Animate target within 300 feet. This Effect cannot be used unless used on undead.
For the next day, you may issue specific commands to your target which they will be compelled to follow. All other Non-Sapient, Animate targets which are the same species as your target will also be compelled to follow commands that you issue if they are within 300 feet when the command is given.
Your commands can be complex and multi-layered, though they must still be specific. You can make them endanger themselves or otherwise go against their self-preservation instincts. The effects of the command will fade after a day has passed.
If you use this Effect on the same Creature two days in a row, the effect lasts indefinitely.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see The user vomits forth a large amount of blood.
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.
If you do not have a sacrificial Injury when you activate this Effect, take a new Severity-1 Injury.
The Toon performs some sort of cartoonish act of violence. This may be handing someone a bomb, hitting someone with a cartoon mallet, burping a burp that is so noxious it melts flesh, or anything else as long as it is cartoonish.
The attack is more of a throwaway gag than a plot element, so any props or properties of the attack are incidental and disappear immediately. Animated mallets evaporate in a puff of smoke, fire does not spread, and electricity cannot power devices.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a target within 45 feet. Roll Charisma + Performance Difficulty 6. The target may contest by rolling to Dodge or Defend as a Reaction, Difficulty 6.
If the contested Outcome is positive, the target takes that much Damage plus 4. Armor is fully effective against this damage.
The detective can learn a lot by watching someone for a minute. Each subtle detail, every unexplained stain, reveals something about where the target has been. Ocassionally, they'll drop a business card, or explain how to contact them. The detective is listening.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend a minute. Select a Sapient target within 20 feet. This Effect cannot be used unless the target does not know you're watching them. At the end of your investigation, roll Charisma + Investigation at Difficulty 6.
You learn a single specific piece of information, chosen from the following list, about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.
By focusing and whispering a prayer under their breath, the priest may invoke their god to protect those who have good works left to do.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action or Reaction. Select a Animate target within 20 feet. This Effect cannot be used unless the target is a living human. Roll a single d10, Difficulty 4. If you fail or botch, the Effect fails and you cannot activate it again for an hour. Roll Charisma + Occult at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, you create a barrier around your target, which absorbs the next Outcome +2 Damage. The Damage reduction from the barrier is applied before Armor. You may only have 1 active barrier at a time.
You must maintain Concentration while using this Effect. The barrier will fall if you are interrupted, or if it absorbs the full amount of Damage. When a barrier falls, you cannot use this Effect again for a minimum of 2 Rounds.
This Effect is not obvious, and the only sign you are using an Effect is you whispering a prayer under your breath. If someone suspects that an Effect was used, they must roll Perception + Alertness, Difficulty 8 to pick up on your Tell.
The mystic channels and communes directly with another person's spirit, allowing the two of them to freely exchange both physical and mental wounds between each other.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Sapient target within arm's reach. Your target may Resist to cancel the transfer.
You may choose a single instance of one of the following to transfer from your target to yourself, or from yourself to them:
Whenever you transfer an Injury, it's Severity increases by 1. Whenever you transfer Mind damage or Traumas, the recipient takes an additional Mind damage.
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.
The detective pulls out their magnifying glass and investigates the area, learning details about any nearby structures and picking up details on what sorts of beings have passed through and when.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Investigate an area with a radius of up to 100 feet You must actively and obviously use a magnifying glass to activate this Effect. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Investigation at Difficulty 6.
You learn the following information about the area:
You cannot investigate the same area more than once per day.