The user twists the top of the totem. With a slight click, the pictographic representations of flames running through beating hearts glow like a gentle flame.
The Stubborn Flame calls upon the spark of life that everything shares. Stoking it to a roaring flame that stands in defiance of the the mortal shell's injuries, helping the user compensate for even the most gruesome of wounds and light the way through the thickest of mental fogs.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0. Lasts three hours.
Doesn't matter
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
Stress from Injuries acts as a dice bonus instead of penalty.
Through ancestral training in his dreams, the husband-for-hire learned to tame the beast within, mastering the relentless urge to kill and devour. This mastery granted him an unintended gift—supernatural resistance to pain and suffering, a testament to his enduring control.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
To not break down when presented with no choice but to complete an impossible task is true grit to continue forwards in the face of hopeless ness is the prime example of the human spirit. To continue getting closer and closer to completion to continuously seek self-improvement is nothing if not the essence prime example of a human being.
The Hand of the Ancients now allows its wearer to exemplify these virtues. To move forward in the face of death and fear.
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.
His Bodily fanctions translate to just HP(hit points) to him as in a game hence he doesnt feel pain as normal people.
His Mind becomes twisted and all knowledge and experience he has playing games materialize in his real body making him calm and collected.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Body and Mind Penalties are divided in half (rounded up).
You breathe deep, grounding yourself in the security of the Kevlar weave around your neck. The pain and stress of the situation recedes, leaving you thinking clearly.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
You may move at your normal speed and still maintain Concentration. Taking an Injury less than Severity 6 no longer interrupts Concentration.
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.