Jorge’s sin is beginning to manifest. Like the Kuliltu he consumed…the sea is changing him. He is beginning to become more fishlike. Patches of scales have broken out across his back and ribs, and gills have slitted out across his neck. His teeth have grown sharper and more angular, the bite of some underwater creature. When he move he moves more like a sinuous predator of the deep. Like a bull shark, he functions well in both salt and freshwater.
The Kuliltu, that scion of a greater thing below. Eating it had consequences. Consequences Jorge is only now beginning to realize. For now it is merely physical, but how long does he have before the depths call to his mind?
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Fish Person (patches of scales, gills, sharp teeth are the first emerging signs…). You are considered to be a Sapient, Living being when targeted. Your Brawn is increased by 1.
While in Lakes and Rivers/Freshwater or Oceans/Saltwater, heat, cold, pressure, radiation, and other native hazards do not affect you. Dangerous local flora and fauna will not bother you unless you give them a reason.
Maria breathes a gout of black smoke and glowing cinders toward a creature. The noxious mix swirls directly into their eyes (or other mucus membranes) as if sucked from the air. The smoke will not damage the creature or otherwise impair their senses. Instead, they grow drowsy and soon fall into a deep and troubled sleep filled with revealing visions of Maria. When they awaken, their eyes are gritty with soot.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Living target within 30 feet. Roll Charisma + Occult at Difficulty 6. Affected targets may resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, your target becomes drowsy for the next 30 seconds, during which time they suffer an additional -2 dice Penalty to all Actions. At the end of their drowsiness, they fall asleep for Outcome x 3 minutes.
Sleeping targets will not prematurely wake up on their own, but may still be woken up by sudden loud noises, being jarred or splashed with water, taking Damage, or similar rousing events. They will also awaken before dying of hunger, thirst, or suffocation. Drowsy targets always fall asleep, regardless of what happens while they are drowsy.
You may determine the content of an affected target's dreams while they are asleep, but they must involve you in some way, and will reveal you as the source of their sleep as well as reveal secret information about yourself to them. By maintaining Concentration, you may enter their dreams and converse with them directly.
From your insatiable appetite for all that is strange and unknown, you have trained your body to take all the strange side-effects that threaten to consume you from the inside out.
On the experience of flavors:
So you take this as an excuse to have a little taste of everything this world has to offer. Disgusting as you know it to be, you just can't ignore the possibility that you'll find the perfect recipe for your next project. Your mind is breaking down. What's wrong with immersing it in flavors that you'll never forget?
On the experience of love:
Humans, animals, and aliens alike are bound to hurt you. You've been jilted, shot, and judged far too many times. The only true love that doesn't betray you is the unique marvel in proving you've made a scientific breakthrough... and eating it up. Consume the world if this is what it takes. You don't have to be so afraid of poison anymore. You don't have to taste the hatred.
On being a carrier of disease:
Hey, why the hell not? You're sharing your knowledge! What do you mean, not everyone can withstand the common cold?
List of cured but carried diseases:
Lewis Black's Eldritch Madness - https://www.thecontractrpg.com/gift/revision/70878 (Those coming in contact with this disease must beat an outcome of 6.)
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using a scientist's lab coat to gain the benefits of this Effect.
You get +0 dice to any Body resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
Her experience as... every low-income worker ever has awakened something inside her, her latent genes as a... fucking bird person. However, she looks nothing like one, yet her bones are like those of avians, hollow and light; she has a faster reaction speed than the average due to her naturally twitchy nature as well as her ability to react quickly.
You gain the following benefits as long as you have your Strange Greek symbols along her waistline.
Your Dexterity rating is increased by 0. You may Exert your Mind to automatically gain an Outcome of 5 on any roll that uses Dexterity (Cannot be used on combat rolls or Power activations).
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Absolute Coward You fold under the slightest pressure when the going gets tough. When engaged in combat with a large group of people or a losing fight, Roll Self control to not immediately run away and hide, cowering in a corner somewhere. and Anti-Social.
If you are witnessed actively using this Effect, whoever sees it can make a Perception + Alertness roll at Difficulty 6. A complete success reveals the source of your power.
You also gain the following effects:
Izzy can scale any wall, any surface, as if it was a casual afternoon stroll. Before they begin to climb, there is a brief illusion of twin tails moving in unison behind them.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You may move easily and without a roll in any of the following situations.
When there is an issue with one part of Spark's trisected mind, the other two pieces help Spark keep regulated and on-task.
If allowed access to another similar mind via a direct interface (psychic connection, generally - though a connection to another's implant similar to the Flame should work), Spark is able to tease that mind back towards where it is supposed to be.
Exert your Mind to activate. Select a Living target within arm's reach. This Effect cannot be used unless the target's mind is able to directly interface with yours. 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 + Technology 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.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Chain of Command: You feel an irrational anger at those who disobey orders. Roll self-control when someone disobeys an order you give to avoid trying to force them. If you fail, you may exert your mind.
The influencer is 100% tuned-in to any sort of chatter about themselves. Any time someone nearby so much as whispers about them, they know who they were and what they said.
This Effect activates whenever someone talks about you. It does not require an Action or Exertion. Select a target Location within 75 feet. Your target should be intuitively based on the triggering event.
You may perceive things through hearing as if you were standing at that Location for the next 30 minutes. You must maintain Concentration to keep up the effect. You cannot perceive anything at your physical location while the effect is active.
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.
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.
Nature is the beastmaster's domain. While in the wilds, they can climb trees and cliffs with ease and dash through dense underbrush that anyone else would need a machete to navigate.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You may move easily and without a roll in any of the following situations.
You only gain the benefits of this effect if you are in an area without a human building within 300 feet.
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.