**Description:** The "Body of the Ancient Cryptic" passively alters the user’s body, giving them a primal, beast-like appearance combined with ancient, mystical energies. These physical changes not only enhance their combat abilities but also make them appear more formidable and inhuman to those around them.
Visible Changes:
- Beastly Claws: The user's hands and fingers elongate slightly, ending in sharp, retractable claws. These claws appear to be made of a dark, obsidian-like material and can tear through most materials with ease.
- Feral Eyes: Their eyes take on a bestial quality, with slit-like pupils and a glowing, predatory hue—often amber, red, or another unnatural color. These eyes grant heightened vision, especially in darkness.
- Rugged, Enhanced Physique: The user’s muscles are denser, their bones more robust, and their posture slightly hunched, resembling a primal predator. This gives them enhanced strength and agility beyond normal human limits.
- **Roughened Skin:** Their skin takes on a tougher, almost hide-like texture, with patches of scales or hardened ridges in certain areas, providing natural armor.
- Elongated Teeth: The user’s teeth sharpen into fangs, giving them a fearsome grin and enabling them to bite with great force when necessary.
- Beastial Presence: A low growl or snarl might be heard from the user when they are angered or in danger. Their overall demeanor is predatory, making others instinctively sense danger in their presence.
These beastly transformations, combined with ancient, arcane markings and energies, make the user a terrifying force, blending primal strength with cryptic wisdom.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: perfect bodys. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living Creature when targeted. Your Brawn is increased by 1, your Dexterity is increased by 1, your Perception is increased by 1, and your Charisma is increased by 1.
Your appendages have 30 feet of reach.
Whenever you enter Combat, roll Self-Control. If you fail, you cannot choose which targets to attack and cannot stop fighting until there are no targets remaining.
You cannot speak any coherent verbal language and must resort to other means of communication.
You cannot ignore or decrease the effects of Stress for any Self-Control rolls you make.
The Severity of any Injury caused by Sliver is increased by 2.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: ________. You are considered to be a Sapient, Non-Living being when targeted..
You no longer age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.
Your Injuries no longer degrade with time.
The Severity of any Injury caused by Silvered weapons is increased by 2.
The gills on his chest flare outward & suddenly a high-pressure cutting torrent of high-PSI water blasts outwards from his mouth--cutting the man Infront of him in half.
Alternatively; he can purify salt water & dispense it from his gills for people to drink.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: visible gills on his chest. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living Creature when targeted. Your Brawn is increased by 1 and your Charisma is increased by 1.
While in the ocean, heat, cold, pressure, and other atmospheric hazards do not affect you, and dangerous local flora and fauna will not bother you unless you give them a reason.
Your body provides you with the functionality of water purifier. If used to attack, these "tools" use the same stats as a small knife.
You may make a +2 Weapon Damage high pressure hydropump (Shotgun; Brawn + Athletics) attack without additional equipment.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Just Add Water (On a normal day you must "take in" atleast 5x (5 gallons) the typical amount of liquids a person would normally consume. You roll at +2 Difficulty against any Exposure made against excessively hot or arid enviorment, or water deprivation.) and Deepman (Ontop of additional Dice Penalties, you suffer up to 3 Dice Penalty when in excessively dry or hot enviorments & roll at up to +2 Difficulty to resist Exposure against them. This does not apply if you, at the GM's discretion, are regularly and excessively hydrated.).
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Lord of the Sea (You must roll Self Control to ever hurt any ocean, sea, or marine animal--any animal which dwells in the sea, for any reason.).
You cannot ignore or decrease the effects of Stress for any Self-Control rolls you make.
TBD
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: lines in skin that could be passed off as tattoos. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living Computer when targeted. Your Dexterity is increased by 1.
Your body provides you with the functionality of Lockpick set. If used to attack, these "tools" use the same stats as a small knife.
You may make a +2 Weapon Damage A large durable blade that extends from the entire forearm and Hand turns into a gun that fires energy attack without additional equipment.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Cyberpsychosis-TBD.
You cannot speak any coherent verbal language and must resort to other means of communication.
The sacred blood running through Lucan's veins grants him additional strength.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Dark red veins. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living being when targeted. Your Brawn is increased by 1.
REX's design is an unique blend of alien, apocalyptic, and ancient-looking technology, which, along with the beastly head and tail, give off the vibe of an odd, constructed creature more than just a plain old robot.
Altough they often complain about shoddy and maintenance costs, the chassis has seemingly whistood the wastes REX calls home for an unknown amount of time-- though that is no doubt partly due to its owner's expertise in engineering.
You get a cookie if you tell me which song that tagline references.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Xenometric Android. You are considered to be a Sapient, Non-Living Computer when targeted..
No single organ in your body is critical for life. If any of your body parts are separated from your body, you may take Actions with the severed part for three hours. You may reattach severed body parts by spending an Action and Exerting your Mind.
You no longer age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.
Your Injuries no longer degrade with time.
You cannot ignore or decrease the effects of Stress for any social rolls you make.
The Severity of any Injury caused by Electricity is increased by 2.
The mutant has left humanity behind. They're are muted to the core, with glowing blue blood and a hunched posture that makes them more suited for running on all fours than using equipment and vehicles.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: you have blue, bioluminescent blood and a hunched posture adapted to running on all fours. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living Creature when targeted. Your Dexterity is increased by 1.
Your body is adapted to sprinting. You receive +3 dice on non-attack rolls related to sprinting.
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.
You cannot be mistaken for a normal human. You cannot always use standard human clothes, equipment, vehicles, and facilities, and when you can, you suffer an increased Difficulty.
You cannot ignore or decrease the effects of Stress for any Self-Control rolls you make.
The Vampire was cursed to forever be a vile creature of the night! Their skin has faded to a deathly pale, only regaining something close to human complexion in the immediate aftermath of feeding on human blood. They are weakened when exposed to direct sunlight or when they have been unable to feed in the past day, but otherwise has gained inhuman strength, speed, and irresistibility from their devil's bargain.
You gain the following benefits as long as you have fed on fresh human blood in the past 24 hours and you are not in direct sunlight.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: a seductive and powerful humanoid, with pale skin and wicked fangs. You are considered to be a Sapient, Non-Living being when targeted. Your Brawn is increased by 1, your Dexterity is increased by 1, and your Charisma is increased by 1.
Your Injuries no longer degrade with time. You do not age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.
The Severity of any Injury caused by fire and heat is increased by 2.
The Android's skin is extremely pale, their eyes are yellow, and their body stays at room temperature. They do not bleed, and traditional medicine is ineffective at treating them. Furthermore, they may be hacked by any supernatural effect that could hack a computer.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: you are an android, with pale skin and yellow eyes. You are considered to be a Sapient, Non-Living Computer when targeted..
You are immune to damage from cold. If cold is a substantial component of other damage you would take (e.g. falling from a great distance into a vat of liquid nitrogen), that damage is reduced by 2 (in addition to Armor)
No single organ in your body is critical for life. Called Shots do no additional Damage to you. You may perceive the world through separated body parts, take Actions with them, and reattach them by spending an Action and Exerting your Mind.
Your Injuries no longer degrade with time. You do not age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.
You cannot ignore or decrease the effects of Stress for any social rolls you make.
The Severity of any Injury caused by electricity is increased by 2.