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Just listen "You don't look too good, everything okay?"
Nova has a habit of noticing when things are off with people, making it rather easy for them to figure out when things are wrong and help.
Exert your Mind to activate. Select a Living target within arm's reach. You cannot target yourself. Over the course of one day, your patient must communicate with you and reveal at least one of their Traumas to you, including the details of those Traumas and the circumstances of how they were acquired. After the full treatment time has elapsed, roll Charisma + Alertness at Difficulty 6.
Your target may Resist. If your treatment is successful, you may remove one of the patient's revealed Traumas without incurring any Experience cost.
- The treatment time may be broken up into multiple sessions if necessary.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
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The Sons of Salem
We swear to secure our people against the wickedness and evil of the invisible world.
We swear to aid the afflicted.
We swear to stay ever vigilant and seek out the abominable witchcrafts committed in this country.
We humbly pray to be blessed by God to hold all those who consort with the Devil accountable. Amen
—Opening and closing prayer for Sons of Salem meetings.
The Sons of Salem is a loosely-organized conservative populist movement in the United States that preaches violent opposition to anything they perceive as witchcraft, demonic, or monstrous.
Blowhard podcaster Ted Gundy and former general of the mercenary group “Hognose,” Roland Rush, founded the movement in 2010 after a series of violent werewolf attacks and unexplained, supernatural murders in Tennessee. Memberships grew quickly, stoked by Ted’s fiery doomsday rhetoric on his podcast "Truth Seekers" and the aspiration of the masculine power embodied by Roland.
Although they speak of duty, honor, and maintaining the “natural order” of things, the Sons of Salem are driven by fear. They collect guns and appear at protests en-masse as a way of easing the all-consuming terror of their powerlessness. At the same time, they have conditioned themselves to respond to fear with “strength” (read: violence).
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Gracebound Touch
"By faith, wounds shall mend, and hearts will be whole."
the Bible in his hands begins to glow with an ethereal golden light, its edges shimmering like the dawn breaking through stained glass. As he opens its pages, the light intensifies, casting warm, dancing rays across the room. He places his hand gently on the person’s forehead, and the golden light flows from the Bible into his palm, then travels like liquid sunlight into the person's mind.
Exert your Mind to activate. Select a Living target within arm's reach. You cannot target yourself. Over the course of one day, your patient must communicate with you and reveal at least one of their Traumas to you, including the details of those Traumas and the circumstances of how they were acquired. After the full treatment time has elapsed, roll Charisma + Influence at Difficulty 6.
Your target may Resist. If your treatment is successful, you may remove one of the patient's revealed Traumas without incurring any Experience cost.
Your patient is required to Follow the 10 Commandments for the next month. If they violate this rule, your treatment is immediately reversed.
Once per day per target, you may choose to use this Effect to stabilize the Mind of a target within arm's reach. Treatment takes 30 seconds but will not remove any Traumas. If you are successful, restore 2 Mind damage.
- The patient is aware of the after-care requirement.
- The treatment time may be broken up into multiple sessions if necessary.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
Trauma Vampire
Angela sucks in a deep breath, and gets to work. Many of the skills she’s learned to help others come into play of course, but there also is a building pit in her chest, and whenever she feeds, she feels it swell like gorging a second stomach. It subsides after a time, and if she eats too much it can damage her own mental reserves. And even though it’s based on skills she’s used long distance, for obvious reasons it seems to work best in person.
Exert your Mind to activate. Select a Living target within arm's reach. You cannot target yourself. Over the course of one Downtime, your patient must communicate with you and reveal at least one of their Traumas to you, including the details of those Traumas and the circumstances of how they were acquired. After the full treatment time has elapsed, roll Charisma + Alertness at Difficulty 6.
Your target may Resist. If your treatment is successful, you may remove one of the patient's revealed Traumas without incurring any Experience cost.
Once per day per target, you may choose to use this Effect to stabilize the Mind of a target within arm's reach. Treatment takes 30 seconds but will not remove any Traumas. If you are successful, restore 2 Mind damage.
You may choose to use this Effect to temporarily relieve any number of the patient's Traumas (including mental Conditions). In this case, Treatment takes an Action and the effect lasts two hours. If the Patient is currently experiencing an episode, Difficulty is increased by 2.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Crippling Self Doubt: Whenever you roll a check in which you have five dice or more, you must first roll self control. If you fail or botch, the roll is now at difficulty 9..
- The treatment time may be broken up into multiple sessions if necessary.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
Calming ring
After I touch any part of the patients body with the hand with the ring on and with the intent to use my gift a string grows from the ring and enters the patients body. Over 30 seconds the string makes its way to the patients brain and calms the mind of the patient. Can be interrupted by anyone breaking the string or separating my connection to the patient.
Expend a point of Battery to activate. Select a Living target within arm's reach. Over the course of one Downtime, your patient must communicate with you and reveal at least one of their Traumas to you, including the details of those Traumas and the circumstances of how they were acquired. After the full treatment time has elapsed, roll Charisma + Performance at Difficulty 6.
Your target may Resist. If your treatment is successful, you may remove one of the patient's revealed Traumas without incurring any Experience cost.
Once per day per target, you may choose to use this Effect to stabilize the Mind of a target within arm's reach. Treatment takes 30 seconds but will not remove any Traumas. If you are successful, restore 2 Mind damage.
- The treatment time may be broken up into multiple sessions if necessary.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
Take It Easy
"Let's talk, man."
Beans wraps a caring arm around your shoulder and asks you to bare your soul, promising to take your pain away with some sweet green healing.
Exert your Mind to activate. Select a Living target within arm's reach. You cannot target yourself. Over the course of one Downtime, your patient must communicate with you and reveal at least one of their Traumas to you, including the details of those Traumas and the circumstances of how they were acquired. After the full treatment time has elapsed, roll Charisma + Influence at Difficulty 6.
remove one of the patient's revealed Traumas without incurring any Experience cost.
Your patient is required to smoke marijuana for the next month. If they violate this rule, your treatment is immediately reversed.
You may attempt to treat an unwilling patient. They may choose to resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 7. The nature of their Trauma will still be revealed to you if you treat them successfully, though they may not tell you directly.
Once per day per target, you may choose to use this Effect to stabilize the Mind of a target within arm's reach. Treatment takes 30 seconds but will not remove any Traumas. If you are successful, restore 2 Mind damage.
You may choose to use this Effect to temporarily relieve any number of the patient's Traumas (including mental Conditions). In this case, Treatment takes an Action and the effect lasts two hours. If the Patient is currently experiencing an episode, Difficulty is increased by 2.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Hero Complex - You believe that you can fix anyone (must make a Self-Control roll to not help someone in distress.).
- The patient is aware of this requirement.
- The treatment time may be broken up into multiple sessions if necessary.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
An Offer of Memories
Get rid of the traumatic moment, and it's effects fall away
Over the course of the day, Liv directs all of the targeted to share the memories of the trauma they want to heal. In this time, she sets up an elaborate summoning circle.
If at the end of the day, Liv has setup correctly (critical fail check) then they can summon forth and command (Charisma + Occult) a powerful demon of fear and nightmares to consume the trauma which the targets have.
This creature itself is horrifying, feeling deeply wrong. Looking directly at it causes any who do to be momentarily in a nightmare, watching the memories of others who this monster has eaten the trauma of before. They get the correct understanding that feeding it these traumatic moments is giving it more power.
This is the First of Liv's planned grand rituals. It involves summoning and using the effects of a very powerful demon in a ritual to create a beneficial effect.
Those who wish to benefit must make a trauma roll due to the nature of the powerful demon being summoned draining away the emotions from their traumatic experience.
Exert your Mind to activate. Select a Living target within arm's reach. Over the course of one day, your patient must communicate with you and reveal at least one of their Traumas to you, including the details of those Traumas and the circumstances of how they were acquired. After the full treatment time has elapsed, roll Charisma + Occult at Difficulty 6.
Your target may Resist. If your treatment is successful, you may remove one of the patient's revealed Traumas without incurring any Experience cost.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see This creature itself is horrifying, giving an impression of pure malice and cruelty to any that glimpse it. Looking directly at it causes any who do to be momentarily in a nightmare, watching the memories of others who this monster has eaten the trauma of before. They get the correct understanding that feeding it these traumatic moments is giving it more power, and that you know this.
- When narrating disturbing content, be cognizant of your group's tone and accommodating to those who would like to "fast forward" through the description.
- The treatment time may be broken up into multiple sessions if necessary.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
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Soothing Song
"You've been listening to the soft and mellow sounds of Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, here on your number one source for jazz, KJAZ. Next up we've got a swinging tune from one of the greatest to ever blow..."
The musician pours their heart and soul into their music, giving others some much needed perspective and solace and all around good vibes. This can be a temporary easing of the mind, but with prolonged music therapy it can even permanently cure psychic damage.
Exert your Mind to activate. Select a Living target within arm's reach. You cannot target yourself. This Effect cannot be used unless you continuously play music for your target during the activation. Over the course of one Downtime, your patient must communicate with you and reveal at least one of their Traumas to you, including the details of those Traumas and the circumstances of how they were acquired. After the full treatment time has elapsed, roll Charisma + Performance at Difficulty 6.
Your target may Resist. If your treatment is successful, you may remove one of the patient's revealed Traumas without incurring any Experience cost.
Once per day per target, you may choose to use this Effect to stabilize the Mind of a target within arm's reach. Treatment takes 30 seconds but will not remove any Traumas. If you are successful, restore 2 Mind damage.
You may choose to use this Effect to temporarily relieve any number of the patient's Traumas (including mental Conditions). In this case, Treatment takes an Action and the effect lasts two hours. If the Patient is currently experiencing an episode, Difficulty is increased by 2.
- The treatment time may be broken up into multiple sessions if necessary.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.