A bright spark leaps from a magnet in Lev's fingers to a nearby lock or other mechanism, causing it to activate in one way or another.
The zap effects metal or electronic objects much quicker than non-conductive ones.
Spend an Action. Select a Non-Alien door, container, knot, or lock within arm's reach. You must actively and obviously use a magnet to activate this Effect.
You may lock, unlock, and/or open your target.
The Gift bearers eyes turn a golden hue when activated.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way. Lasts for three hours.
Brioche's meat is iron-rich! He can feed it to someone, making them extremely tough and visibly swole af. Their altered appearance will begin to fade once the barrier falls, but will not fully go away until the next day.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Animate target within arm's reach. You must use up a piece of meat in order to activate this Effect. Roll Brawn + Alertness at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, you create a barrier around your target, which absorbs the next Outcome +4 Damage. The Damage reduction from the barrier is applied before Armor. You may only have 1 active barrier at a time.
The barrier will fall after two hours, 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.
Ellis has become one with the bomb, allowing himself to re-integrate his body back together when it has been disintegrated in an explosion, and can even save another person in this manner, providing he was able to reach them before the explosion went off. Anyone watching the area for ten seconds or so after the fact would see a sort of abstract impressionist painting of him, dots expanding apart and then reforming into a solid person.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action or Reaction. This Effect cannot be used unless you are within the radius of an active explosion.
You phase out of reality for 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot perceive or affect the outside world or take any Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you phase out, you may bring up to 1 additional target in arm's reach with you.
You leave an image of yourself in an abstract impressionist style exploding and then unexploding in slow motion at your location.
A cybernetic prosthesis that replaces the index finger, a biomechanical relic engineered from damascened orichalcum layered over carbon-shielded tungsten, embedded with a rotating matrix of self-replicating circuits and microscopic gears modelled after Heronian pneumatics allowing blood to flow. Its joint casings resemble miniature Roman arches, each housing magnetic servos that emit a faint, harmonic vibration calibrated to stellar drift, and a obsidian fingernail. Glyphs resembling a fusion of Arabic script, lauburu spirals, and machine-readable code scroll across its surface in response to proximity with encrypted or anomalous data.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using Finger of the Omnissiah to gain the benefits of this Effect.
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.
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.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Finger of the Omnissiah.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Visions of Machines.
Aurel's eyes are different from the average, allowing him to see more than the average individual, yet he can never turn them off; it constantly hurts to use without some facial covering. They are easy to overload, as he has soon found out, painfully.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
Years of scouting in dangerous areas has left the survivalist hyper-vigilant. They are impossible to catch in a trap.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Perception rating is increased by 1. You may Exert your Mind to automatically gain an Outcome of 5 on any roll that uses Perception (Cannot be used on combat rolls or Power activations).
You also gain the following effects:
This witch is a cruel and vengeful creature who works her vile arts against those she deems worthy of punishment. All she must do is point. A flash of green lightning strikes her victim and disappears. Immediately, or upon the completion of some condition, if the witch chooses, the victim's body warps and shifts into a gross mockery of its former self. Whether she's giving someone the head of a donkey or stealing their voice, the witch's enemies always get what is coming to them.
The sheer wickedness of this spell corrupts the witch, giving her a disgusting, witchy appearance.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and Spend an Action. Select a Living target within 45 feet. Roll Intellect + Occult at Difficulty 6. The target may roll Body, -2 dice at Difficulty 7, as a Free Action to resist.
If you succeed, the target receives a new Battle Scar of your choosing, limited by the contested Outcome:
When you activate this Effect, instead of occurring immediately, you may choose to delay its effects until the target takes a particular Action. For example: "when they fire a gun" or "when they swim in deep water."
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Witchy Appearance. You have a long, warty nose and chin, wrinkled skin, and a hunch back. Social rolls are at +2 Difficulty, and your free movement is reduced by 10 feet.
Your alteration "heals" over the course of the next month, after which it is fully cured.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Compulsion for payback. You must roll Self-Control to avoid using this Gift on anyone who wrongs you in a major way.
As long as the ninja is carrying a weapon, their self-defense is almost subconscious. Subtle twitches and lighting-fast feints and parries using sword and scabbard can buy the ninja precious seconds to enact an escape plan or make the kill.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using a sword to gain the benefits of this Effect.
You have 4 Armor, which reduces incoming Damage. Armor from multiple sources does not stack. This Armor cannot be circumvented with Called Shots.
Whenever your Armor reduces incoming Damage, you are immediately made aware of the source of the Damage. You may pinpoint their location for 30 seconds.
Any time your Armor prevents Damage, your Armor rating is temporarily decreased by 2. Whenever it goes five Rounds without preventing any Damage, it is restored back to its full value.
All it takes is a flick of your hair and a bat of your eyelashes, and you’ve got their attention.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. A number of Sapient, Living targets within 50 feet who can perceive you through no greater than your Charisma rating are affected. Audiences or mobs with a singular focus count as one target. Roll Charisma + Performance at Difficulty 6. All affected targets may resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 7.
If you succeed, the targets will keep their full attention focused on you for Contested Outcome in Rounds. They will automatically fail any rolls related to noticing anything other than you.
If you pass from their perception and they are unable to pursue you, the Effect ends. If they can follow you, they must do so for 2 Rounds or the Effect will end. The Effect ends early if the target is Injured or violence occurs nearby.
This does not affect the target’s opinion of you or their mood, and they may take any Actions while affected (including attacking), as long as that action centers on you. Fascinated targets cannot Concentrate.
It's true the mad scientist is one of the greatest minds of our generation, that they can solve any puzzle or riddle. However, no one wants to spend time with them.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Intellect rating is increased by 1. You may Exert your Mind to automatically gain an Outcome of 5 on any roll that uses Intellect (Cannot be used on combat rolls or Power activations).
You also gain the following effects: