Experimental blood transfusions performed using the Montaigne’s Vileblood and the blood of beasts both natural and abnormal can yield intriguing results.
The procedure is beyond painful. Lumps form underneath the skin as the blood travels throughout the body, attacking major organ systems and... reshaping them. Improving them.
The blood is empowering. Sharpens your sight, enhances your physical prowess, provides you with... adaptations.
You’re ready now. Join the Hunt.
Exert your Mind and spend eight hours. Select a Living target within arm's reach. The target can easily Resist.
You may add one augmentation to your target. Each augmentation counts as a Battle Scar and can have exactly one of the following Effects:
The augmentations you provide are not outwardly visible nor obvious.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see violent pain from the blood ravaging their body and organs, reshaping them into something... greater.
Via latent draconic heritage deep in Ryan's blood activating, his body gained the ability to force a rapid and temporary change, taking on an extremely dragon-like physiology as his strength rapidly increased, scales coated where skin used to be.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You transform into Black Dragon for 3 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are Black Dragon, 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 2. 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).
Your alternate form renders you unable to speak any human language and incapable of fine object manipulation. You can only hold or grasp objects in a crude, clumsy way.
You focus... breathe... and study the being before you. Are they bleeding, ill, mentally scarred, or just dehydrated? A hundred-thousand thoughts fire over billions of neurons every second from the moment the patient meets your eyes. No medical anomaly is too great, no injured soul too far gone. If they're still breathing, you can fix them. It's in your blood.
After a month of med school, he left the "university" with a PhD. The surgeon studied human medicine, and applied his knowledge of health and science from his own home far, far away. It was a curious thing, their theories and speculations - some broadened his horizons, and others narrowed them. Together, their harmony has allowed for him to do miraculous works with his own two hands.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
All Stabilizations you attempt are considered Proper Stabilizations.
You also gain the following effects:
control water in area 300 foots of her she can create three form water whip that made of her pressure water that can cut with precision Second water web that help her defense against i’m coming damage for herself or someone Else the third form is water Lance that is for extreme stress situations like that whip can help with like power clashes she there more that attack is invisible to all spectators that see her performance of this technique and she can use it with her echolocation
Spend an Action to activate. Select a target within 300 feet. You must actively and obviously use Bracelet to activate this Effect. Roll Perception + Occult Difficulty 6. The target may contest by rolling Body, Difficulty 6.
If the contested Outcome is positive, the target takes that much damage plus 1. Armor is fully effective against this damage.
You may use this Effect to Defend or Clash in Combat, including against ranged attacks such as firearms.
This Gift's level is capped at 2 Gifts and cannot be increased further.
Mae kneel down and with a gentle eye, they would offer a treat for the animal and touch their head to connect Mae's mind with the animal mind. Her eye roll backwards and start to mumbling. Afterward Mae would feel exhausted and sweat roll down her forehead and cough up some blood.
Exert your Mind and spend a Free Action. Select a Non-Alien Creature within arm's reach.
For the next day, you may issue specific commands to your target which they will be compelled to follow.
Your commands can be complex and multi-layered, though they must still be specific. You cannot make them obviously endanger themselves or violate their instinct for self-preservation. The effects of the command will fade after a day has passed. You must maintain Concentration while your commands are being carried out, or the effect will end prematurely.
The beast on human legs has blood-red eyes, elongated fangs, and all-too-pale skin.
Lorelei is a bloodfiend, nightwalker, draugr, empousa, undead, ghoul, et cetera et cetera. It's a vampire. A creature of the night who desperately craves the taste of blood above anything else.
You gain the following benefits as long as you have sated your Hunger condition in the last 24 hours.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: you have pale skin and vibrant red eyes, and two pointed fangs. You are considered to be a Sapient, Non-Living being when targeted..
Your Injuries no longer degrade with time. You do not age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.
You may make a +2 Weapon Damage wicked fangs (knife) attack without additional equipment.
Any Animate being that consumes or is injected with your bodily fluids receives a Severity-1 Injury. Every Round, they must roll Body Difficulty 9. If they fail, the Injury worsens by 1 Severity. If they succeed, the Injury stops worsening.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Bloodthirst. You are uncannily fixated on the blood of living beings. Any time you're exposed to blood, you must roll Self-Control. If you fail, you must feed, and if you botch, you will make a mess of it. You are unable to regain any Mind from resting unless you have consumed the substance that day.
The Necromancer stands over a corpse and makes a series of grandiose lifting gestures. The corpse rises from the ground as though suspended by invisible strings, barks a pained groan, and lands on its feet, now a full-fledged member of the living dead.
Increase your sacrificial Injury's Severity by 1 and spend an Action. You must use up corpse in order to activate this Effect.
Summon up to 3 Non-Sapient, Animate zombie 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 3 minions active at a time.
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
If you do not have a sacrificial Injury when you activate this Effect, take a new Severity-1 Injury.
The ninja does not approve of guns; they prefer using the bow for its stealth and versatility.
You gain the following benefits as long as engaged in combat with wooden longbows.
You receive +2 dice to all rolls using wooden longbows. Reloading is a Free Action, and drawing your weapon does not require a Quick Action as long as it is on your person.
You also gain the following effects:
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 beastmaster closes their eyes and channels nature's bloody struggle for survival. When their eyes reopen, they catch the light and glow red like a dog's. While in this heightened state, they may sense heat signatures and triangulate the tiniest sound.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way. Lasts for three hours.
The Thief casts a container's worth of fine powder into the air. The particulates are drawn to any sort of object that is designed to detect people, including tripwires, security cameras, detection lasers, heat sensors, etc. The powder will not trigger these devices or interfere with their operation, but it does reveal their presence to the Thief.
The cloud drifts and swirls, subtly following the Thief for a minute.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must use up a container of fine powder in order to activate this Effect.
You automatically detect all object that are designed to detect people, including tripwires, security cameras, detection lasers, heat sensors, etc within 50 feet of you for the next hour. You have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected items. When you detect objects, instead of learning nothing about them, you may observe each object with all of your senses.