Orbital Shield is a cutting-edge defensive technology that surrounds the user with an invisible, adaptive energy field. Unlike traditional shielding systems, the Orbital Shield operates silently and seamlessly, remaining undetectable to the naked eye. It is designed to reflect any form of attack—whether physical, energy-based, or otherwise—back to its source with precision.
This advanced system is fine-tuned to protect only the user, ensuring that its effects do not extend to the surrounding environment or unintended targets. As the shield requires no visible components, it offers unparalleled stealth and versatility, making it ideal for scenarios where both defense and discretion are paramount. The Orbital Shield provides a perfect balance of impenetrable protection and minimal environmental impact, embodying the pinnacle of personal shielding technology.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action or Reaction. This Effect cannot be used unless When falling below or taking 5 body severity damage, or 8 mind severity damage. Roll Intellect + Technology at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, you create a barrier around yourself, which absorbs the next Outcome +2 Damage. Any Damage absorbed by the barrier is reflected back to the attacker, up to a maximum of 2. Their Armor applies in full. The Damage reduction from the barrier is applied before Armor. 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.
This Effect is not obvious, and the only sign you are using an Effect is its presence is subtly betrayed by the faint heat it gives off of. The closer you get to the user the hotter it gets. If someone suspects that an Effect was used, they must roll Perception + Alertness, Difficulty 8 to pick up on your Tell.
After some time of training and working. I have gotten a better sense of finding Bill. I look forward to ripping his head off his body.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate. This Effect cannot be used unless Night. You must actively and obviously use bracelet to activate this Effect.
You automatically detect all Vampires within 50 feet of you for the next minute. This includes any who come within range during the duration. You have a sense of how many valid targets are nearby and their direction, and you have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected beings. This information is accurate enough to use for aiming at them, at +1 Difficulty.
Even while this Effect is not active, if any Vampires come within 50 feet of you, you may roll Perception + Alertness, Difficulty 7 to detect them.
You hear bones bending and cracking. The skin pulling, transforming into something else, before it is completely covered in black fur. If she wasn't large and towering before, now she sure is. Her face is contorted in an unnatural and beastly way, forming a muzzle just like a wolf, covered in black fuzz and fur; the same goes for her ears, the flesh and cartilage shifting position and becoming something more dog-like. The scars she had on her nose, eyebrow and cheek remained, as well as the rest of her body. She is now over 2 meters tall, and her muscles are larger, stronger, and covered by fur and torn clothes. She grew a set of claws adorning her now bigger hands, but the palm of her left one has a noticeable moon-shaped scar. Her yellow glimmering eyes stare into your soul and tell you she's eager to spill blood. Her muzzle contorts into a grin, exposing her large canines: she's ready to fight.
The harbinger's "little shop" was full of powerful stuff for sure, but she deemed it all useless and she felt lost. She needed more power, she needed it to kill them all. But she didn't know how.
And then the strange man came to her with something in his hands. "This might help you. To quench your thirst for blood. To take revenge. To kill all of them just like the animals they are." It was an abnormally large wolf skull, but there was something off about it. He took a canine out of it and handed it to her. She knew what to do the moment she felt it in her hand. So she pressed the large tooth onto her skin, which already started to drip blood, and she cut her left hand with it. She felt the power flowing through her blood, her body, her soul. She was cursed, but now she had the means to fullfill her vengeance.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action.
You transform into a Werewolf for 3 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are a Werewolf, 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 1 and your Dexterity is increased by 1. Your Stress is reduced by 2.
Your alternate form is its own deadly weapon. Unarmed attacks made in your alternate form deal +3 Weapon Damage (instead of the typical -1).
Your alternate form renders you unable to speak any human language and incapable of fine object manipulation. You can only hold or grasp objects in a crude, clumsy way.
After this Effect ends, you cannot move quicker than a walk (15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Whenever you are struck by the light of a full or gibbous moon, you must roll Self-Control to resist transforming. Triggers a max of once per night..
Bill is able to hide himself from the sight of others due to the addition of his latest novel "What Lies Beyond". Drawing on the novels reader's ignorance Bill is able to obscure himself. If detected he appears as a shimmering image of himself.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You and everything you are carrying is obscured in one of the following manners. Lasts 30 minutes.
While this Effect is active, any Effect that would obscure you or your equipment specifically from other, additional senses fails automatically.
If someone discovers you, this Effect will not help you hide from them for the next minute. Activating a targeted or obvious Effect, attacking, or being Injured ends the Effect. When the Effect ends, it is disabled for one minute.
a bright light emits from your finger as fire forms cat like traits with ears 2 tails and claws
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You transform into Nekomata for 30 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are Nekomata, 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 1. You do not suffer any Stress while transformed.
Your alternate form is its own deadly weapon. Unarmed attacks made in your alternate form deal +3 Weapon Damage (instead of the typical -1).
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
Your alternate form renders you unable to speak any human language and incapable of fine object manipulation. You can only hold or grasp objects in a crude, clumsy way.
After this Effect ends, you cannot move quicker than a walk (15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour.
Yvonnel uses a pencil or pen to create a line art sketch of a mundane object within her journal. Closing the journal and re-opening it to the same page as the sketch presents the exact mundane item she drew lying there atop its pages. When temporary items reach the end of their lifespan, the item in question disintegrates into powdered pencil lead or a small puddle of ink depending on the type of drawing implement used to create it.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend 1 minute to activate. You must actively and obviously use Journal to activate this Effect.
Choose an Object which could fit inside a Ziploc snack bag (up to 1 liter). It cannot be Alien and must be generic. You cannot create explosives. You may create firearms.
Roll Charisma + Crafts to fabricate your chosen Object. The Difficulty is assigned by the GM and depends on the specificity of your chosen Object. The created item lasts 2 hours.
The Future Soldier's PSG is capable of briefly supercharging its effectiveness with a jolt of Omega Cell energy. While active, the future soldier glows with an extremely bright golden light.
While the shield is supercharged, the Future Soldier cannot move or see the outside world, but they are completely isolated from anything that occurs outside the shield.
Expend a point of Battery and spend an Action or Reaction.
You phase out of reality for up to 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 activate this Effect, you may limit its duration to a period of your choosing. If you are able, you may also end it as a Free Action on your initiative.
You leave a golden glow shaped like yourself at your location.
Any successful musician knows the value of a good roadie. The musician calls for a roadie, and one will promptly arrive. The roadie doesn't talk much, and they aren't too bright, but they can sure haul gear.
After a couple hours of work, the roadie will retire to smoke and get some sleep.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Summon a single Sapient roadie 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.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
The detective squints, drawing on years of police experience to find any hidden drugs, weapons, or other illegal objects, no matter how well-hidden.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You automatically detect all illegal materials within 50 feet of you for the next hour. You have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected items. You do not learn any details about the detected items.
The Thief has a stash in which they can store a few objects. It can be accessed through any burlap sack.
Spend a Quick Action. You must actively and obviously use a burlap sack to activate this Effect.
You may withdraw an item from your stash, or add an item that is within arm’s reach to your stash. You may only stash targets which are in your possession, grappled, or otherwise controlled by you.
You may store Objects in your stash, each no larger than something which could fit inside a briefcase (15 liters), and you may store up to 3 things at a time.
You may choose to equip any equipment you withdraw at no additional cost.
The Vampire may channel their inner beast and take the form of an animal. It is said they may transform into either a wolf or a bat. If used too often, the Vampire risks losing themselves to their beast forever.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must make a Trauma roll when you use this Effect. Its Difficulty cannot be reduced by any means. If you fail or Botch, you receive one Mind Damage and a new Trauma.
You transform into a vampire bat or a wolf until you transform into something else or choose to return to your original form. See the Extended System text for stats.
While transformed, you cannot use any equipment (including Artifacts and Consumables), and you do not have access to any of your Powers. Any equipment you are wearing transforms with you.
Injuries and Wound Level are carried over between forms. However, transforming can never kill you; you merely remain Incapacitated until your Injuries are sufficiently healed.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: A disfigured face with bat-like ears.