Two crows with red eyes. Sometimes accompanied by a third, with eyes darker than night. All three leave trail of dissipating darkness.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Summon up to 3 Sapient Crows at your location. They last until they are destroyed They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. This Artifact may have at most 3 minions active at a time.
Paper animals are a standard practice among even initiate origami artists, but none can make them the way Bryan can. After imbuement, the art prodigy has learned that he can create animated, permanent familiars through the use of the paper of his physiology. Information the familiars survey is momentarily printed onto their paper, as well as read aloud in a voice similar to Bryan's when necessary.
While Bryan primarily creates paper cranes through this technique (hence the name Orizuru), he is capable of designing his summon to match the shape of any creature. The information on the paper is usually drawn through supernatural ink in the form of small sketches or kanji.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. This Effect cannot be used unless you are in your Amorphous Transformation.
Summon a single Non-Sapient, Animate origami animal at your location. They last until they are destroyed They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. You may have at most one active at a time.
As I snap my fingers my shadow starts to deform and rise up to create a shadowy humanoid being with crimson red eyes a body covered in thick black wisp of shadows. it communicates in shadow puppets images.
Everyone call me a demon but I am your protector. As you lay there helpless conscious of you Surroundings paralyzed. I watch over you. I have always been by you I know you as much as you know yourself. I am your shadow
Exert your Mind and spend one minute.
Summon a single shade at your location. They will last until they are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. You may have at most 1 minion active at a time.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
Kirk fires the pistol at the ground, ripping into the deepest reaches of hell. Clips, his old friend, crawls up into reality from this place and clambers onto Kirk's back. Clips, while not wholly existent once his form connects with Kirk's, has a facial structure of a healthy person, despite having the oddity of a pierce wound on his cheek, which seems to be locked in time, as if Clips was removed from reality the second he were to die. Clips, nicknamed because of his over insistence on using scissors for everything, has ugly hair and other features, with facial hair that seems like a bear hacked at it in a maniacal frenzy.
Exert your Mind and spend two Actions performing the following ritual: Kirk pulls a weapon out and loads one singular bullet into the magazine. After saying a short prayer, he fires the weapon into the ground, piercing into the dirt/ground, opening a hole into hell. You must actively and obviously use a firearm to activate this Effect. You must maintain Concentration while activating this Effect, and it fails if you are interrupted.
Summon a single ghost soldier at your location. They will last until they are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. You may have at most 1 minion active at a time.
A black rock with the symbol for "kimi" (Mayan symbol for death) heald by the caster releases a black smoke as they pray. the smoke solidifies into a solid obsidian skeleton once the prayer is completed.
When the skeleton attacks a ranged target they shoot obsidian arrows from their hands
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Summon a single Non-Sapient, Animate Obsidian Skeleton at your location. They last until they are destroyed They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. This Artifact may have at most one minion active at a time.
A talking black cat with little white dots on his head when flying he sprouts wings from his back and little horns
Increase your sacrificial Injury's Severity by 1 and spend an Action.
Summon the one and only Sapient demon cat at your location. They last until they are destroyed They are controlled by you. You may have at most one minion active at a time.
If killed, you cannot re-summon your minion until after your next Contract.
If you do not have a sacrificial Injury when you activate this Effect, take a new Severity-1 Injury.
Any successful musician knows the value of a good roadie. The musician calls for a roadie, and one will promptly arrive. The roadie doesn't talk much, and they aren't too bright, but they can sure haul gear.
After a couple hours of work, the roadie will retire to smoke and get some sleep.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Summon a single Sapient roadie at your location. They last for two hours or until they are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. You may have at most one minion active at a time.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
The mobster knows a guy they can call for a hired goon, who arrives about a minute later. The goons are dumb as bricks, but tough nonetheless, perfect for sending a message when you need to keep your hands clean.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must actively and obviously use cell phone to activate this Effect.
Summon a single Sapient goon at your location. They last for two hours or until they are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. You may have at most one minion active at a time.
The Vampire is able to turn one of their victims into a lesser vampire, a pale shadow of a full creature of the night but useful nonetheless. Having drained and killed their target, the Vampire performs a brief ritualistic bloodletting, wherein they spill their own blood into the target's mouth, forcing them to drink, and bonding them together as child and sire.
Shortly afterwards, the fledgling vampire will rise from death, hungry for blood and eager to serve.
Increase your sacrificial Injury's Severity by 1 and spend one minute. Select a Dead target within arm's reach that has died within the last hour. This Effect cannot be used unless you drained the target's blood while they were still alive.
Your target rises as an Animate being. The raised creature is totally mindless, with no memory of its past life or hint of its old personality. They cannot communicate. They will follow any command you speak.
The creature lasts until it dies again. It is revived at full health. Any Injuries it had in life are not accounted for when determining its penalties or progression towards re-death, though they may affect its ability to perform certain actions at GM's discretion. The raised creature must consume flesh every day or it will die again.
Raised creatures have their Abilities set to the same that they were in life. Their Charisma and Intellect are set to 1, but their Dexterity, Brawn and Perception are the same as they had in life. A raised creature cannot use any Effects.
Your revived targets deal 2 Weapon Damage with their unarmed attacks.
If you do not have a sacrificial Injury when you activate this Effect, take a new Severity-1 Injury.