To the front, back to the station, for weeks, sometimes months, getting in to combat escaping just by a glimpse, which changed not only his mind but also his body
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Any Injury you receive heals quickly, reducing its Severity by one level every 10 minutes. Any Injuries you receive while this Effect is active do not deteriorate over time. However, any Battle Scars caused by such an Injury will remain unless it is Properly Stabilized as normal.
You may Exert your Mind and spend an Action to reduce the Severity of one of your Injuries by 2. Does not affect Injuries suffered as an activation cost for Effects.
All Injuries you receive are considered Properly Stabilized. You may also choose to heal any Battle Scar on yourself that may not have been caused by an Injury. Doing so takes one day, and the Battle Scar affects you fully until that time.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Crowded Spaces and The Broken Oath.
Mel furrows his brow, and focuses on the name of the target. A ghostly apparition forms, and can speak to Mel.
Mel’s mind opens more the the world of the supernatural. With some focus he can call up the dead, and talk to them.
Exert your Mind and spend one minute. Select a Dead target within 50 feet. For dead targets, you must possess their True Name.
The target can communicate in your language for the next hour.
This Effect is not obvious, and the only sign you are using an Effect is Mel furrows his brow and looks at the target. If someone suspects that an Effect was used, they must roll Perception + Alertness, Difficulty 8 to pick up on your Tell.
You may only use this Effect once per target per day.
Pen in hand, Ethan writes into the air, words appearing as if they were written on paper as he describes the form of the being that he is conjuring. With the words aglow, pages flow from them like a wellspring, folding, coiling, and layering as they construct the form of the muse that he aspires to be.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must actively and obviously use A Pen to activate this Effect.
Summon a single Sapient A featureless Greek Muse formed from spectral pages 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.
Gungnir flits across Eddie's body, it's impossible edge tearing her skin in a thin line. The wound billows, blood like smoke, and in an instant consumes her: with a flash of Hell seen at the back of the eyes, Eddie is replaced with the form of the demon prince Baphomet, a creature of opposites combined: Human and beast, male and female, civility and monstrosity.
She usually wears this skin for the monstrosity bit more than the civility one.
Increase your sacrificial Injury's Severity by 1 and spend a Quick Action. You must actively and obviously use Gungnir to activate this Effect.
You transform into the demonic aspect of balance, Baphomet for 30 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are the demonic aspect of balance, Baphomet, 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 body is adapted to climbing. You receive +3 dice on non-attack rolls related to climbing.
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see take on the aspect of a demon with burning eyes and a pentagram which bleeds burning blood on its forehead.
If you do not have a sacrificial Injury when you activate this Effect, take a new Severity-1 Injury.
The room grows warm and your eyes glow a soft golden hue as you raise an open palm towards the target. For an instant, you hold the heat and light of a star in your hand before it begins to hum gently through the air with ethereal grace, inviting free floating particles plucked from the air to join it in the dance. The orb then quiets as it settles into its final destination and illuminates the area marked for doom. It collapses in on itself there and then burns white hot. Within seconds, it explodes.
Congratulations, your extensive experience with explosives paired with a healthy dose of pyromania has manifested itself as the Gift "Sacred Flame"! Welcome to the wonderful world of a minute's worth of pyro-specific telekinesis and mindbogglingly speedy scientific calculations! If amazingly glorious explosions are what you're looking for, we promise customer satisfaction is guaranteed. Now, let's put the rumors to rest- are the reports of madness as a side-effect true? Wellll... let's just say we prefer the term "one man cult." After all, who knows better than you that Chaos is nature, and the Light must reign? Nothing is sacred but the flame (`∀´)Ψ
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within 40 feet. The area within 25 feet of the chosen Location immediately and obviously becomes imminently dangerous. Anyone in the area has 1 Round to attempt to escape. During the next Round, on your Initiative, roll Brains + Science at Difficulty 6.
If the Outcome is positive, your blast hits everything within 25 feet of the chosen Location with Damage equal to your Outcome + 4.
Any flammable Objects within the radius during the blast will catch fire, and any being who takes at least 4 Damage will catch fire. Starting the Round after they caught fire, flaming targets take 2 Damage per Round until the fire is extinguished.
If you successfully hit your target, the value of any Armor they are wearing is reduced by 2. For material armor, this penalty lasts until it is repaired. For intrinsic armor, it lasts until the end of Combat and any relevant wound is healed.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Pyro's Green Thumb: You must roll Self-Control to avoid helping fires grow and Moth You must roll Self-Control to avoid staring into flames, losing you a free action during initiative.
Jeremy Soap takes a deep breath, blows, and creates a giant bubble imbued with his will to shield him and his friends from attacks. When used on someone else, it rockets towards them and engulfs them before hardening.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action or Reaction to activate. Select a Animate target within 20 feet. You must actively and obviously use Bubble Wand to activate this Effect. Roll Charisma + Influence at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, you create a Barrier around your target, which absorbs the next Outcome Damage. The Damage reduction from the Barrier is applied before Armor, and is treated like Armor by any effects such as Armor Penetration. You may only have 1 active barrier at a time.
You must maintain Concentration while using this Effect. The Barrier will fall if you are interrupted, 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.
The mutant has grown a long, fuzzy tail resembling one found on a monkey or lemur. Odd as it may be, it certainly comes in handy, and it's got one hell of a grip. If removed, the tail regrows within a week.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You gain an additional limb that functions as a standard human arm and hand.
Each additional limb you posses can take one Quick Action per Round without incurring a -2 dice penalty to your main Action. Each additional appendage you have gives you +1 dice to make and resist Grapples (up to a maximum bonus of +4 dice).
Any Battle Scars that affect or remove your additional limb will heal in a single week.
You may dedicate your extra Quick Action to contest any attempt to escape your Grapples. If you do so, you roll your full dice pool to contest and retain your Action to do anything that does not target the subject of your Grapple.
Your Extra Appendage is incapable of fine object manipulation.
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:
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.
The psychic can glean various important details about a person simply by engaging in a short conversation with them.
Spend one minute. Select a Sapient target within 20 feet. You must actively converse with the individual in question for one minute in order to gather any information. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Influence at Difficulty 6.
You learn all the following information about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
Any information you gather is spoken aloud in conversation and made publicly available.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.
The detective has trained their eyes to notice the smallest of details.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.