The Lieutenant has used handguns long enough to be a particularly fast shot.
You gain the following benefits as long as engaged in combat with Handguns.
+2 dice to all Handguns rolls.
You also gain the following effects:
The user outwardly looks normal when not in use. While actively utilizing the power, the body expands and contracts like rubber which can be quite jarring to witness.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Rubber. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living being when targeted..
Your appendages can reach an additional 30 feet.
You may make a +2 Weapon Damage Stretch Punch/Kick attack without additional equipment.
The Severity of any Injury caused by Slashing is increased by 2.
Grif's tongue is marked with a hint of silver, a sign of his ever-increasing skill with deceit.
You gain the following benefits as long as you have your tongue.
Your Charisma rating is increased by 1. You may Exert your Mind to automatically gain an Outcome of 5 on any roll that uses Charisma (Cannot be used on combat rolls or Power activations).
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:
Did that bullet just ricochet off of her?
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You have 5 Armor, which only reduces damage taken from Bullets. Any armor piercing effects from Bullets are ignored. Armor from multiple sources does not stack.
Any time your Armor prevents damage, your total Armor rating is temporarily decreased by 1. Whenever you go two Rounds without preventing any damage, it is restored back to its full value.
Ritual caster quietly mutters a rite under his breath. Few seconds pass, and he is finished, and starts to communicate - be it via reading a text or talking to creatures.
There is countless amount of scars inflicted upon the world. Some of them are deep - major historical figures that wage wars of conquests and forge empires, events that change course of history. Some of them can hardly be called scars at all - animals, humans and products of their activity, such as languages, texts, machinery, as well as the dead.
Rite of Secret Histories is a ritual which allows the one performing the rite to "read" said scars for an hour, though scope of this specific version of a rite is limited quite limited. This rite received it's name for it's immense help in learning what otherwise would be left in the dark - ancient texts, written in long-dead languages. Research notes, written by scholars in ciphers known only be them. Folklore, shared only verbally in uncommon languages.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate.
You may understand and communicate to Creatures as if you are fluent in a relevant language for the next ten minutes.
This also includes understanding any recorded communications from the relevant targets, including writings, scent trails, etc.
"Ooh, this one's trauma-induced! Don't mind if I do-" Karyn exclaimed, never one to pass up the opportunity to make Luciano's life harder. A single finger pressed to the burnt temple of one side of his head, and then his mind was away -- wracked by the knowledge of a fraction of the suffering she had inflicted on her victims: entire worlds destroyed at a whim, eternal damnation inside of some twisted sitcom, pain beyond words for millions of poor souls: perhaps billions.
__Luciano staggered backwards from the sudden assault on his psyche, staring in bewildered horror as the damaged skin of his arms turned vaguely translucent, allowing him to watch as the bones of his arm violently split: first once, then twice, before liquefaction set in and what was once bone fragments piercing his flesh drew back as 4 separate tentacles, performing the actions of each individual arm with much improved precision.__
__The disruption of his body seemed to expel some chunks of bullet shrapnel that must've been left inside of his body from The Crackshot, warping and lengthening until it became an unwieldy shotgun in his hands.__
"Ewww, your skin's all fucking gross and dry! Ashy, do you know what that means?? I swear, you should've just died in that fire and made things easier."
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend a Quick Action. Whenever you fail or botch a Trauma or Self-Control roll, you must activate this Effect.
You transform into a translucent betentacled cuttlefish hybrid for 3 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are a translucent betentacled cuttlefish hybrid, 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 Dexterity is increased by 2. Your Stress is reduced by 2.
While transformed, instead of your normal clothes and equipment, you are equipped with: Shotgun
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see (Complete This).
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Disfiguring Burns.
The beastmaster closes their eyes and channels nature's bloody struggle for survival. When their eyes reopen, they catch the light and glow red like a dog's. While in this heightened state, they may sense heat signatures and triangulate the tiniest sound.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way. Lasts for three hours.
Most severe injuries occur far from a facility that could treat them, and in the fetid muck of the battlefield even minor wounds may be a death sentence. Luckily the soldier is well-trained in the use of their standard-issue medical kit. They may stabilize even the most severe injuries with a little gauze and some no-anesthetic stitching. Furthermore, the treated wounds of their comrades never get infected.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using a standard issue military medical kit to gain the benefits of this Effect.
All Stabilizations you attempt are considered Proper Stabilizations.
You also gain the following effects:
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.
The mystic enters a meditation while focusing on a remote location. A glowing sigil of an eye appears on their forehead, and a ghostly image of themselves meditating appears at the location they are envisioning. For a brief period, they may see the area they are projecting to as though they were standing there.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a target Location within 75 feet.
You may perceive things as if you were standing at that Location. The effect lasts indefinitely but you must maintain Concentration to keep it up. You cannot perceive anything at your physical location while the effect is active.
You create a visible manifestation at the Location where your senses are projected which looks like a ghostly image of yourself meditating.
The Thief casts a container's worth of fine powder into the air. The particulates are drawn to any sort of object that is designed to detect people, including tripwires, security cameras, detection lasers, heat sensors, etc. The powder will not trigger these devices or interfere with their operation, but it does reveal their presence to the Thief.
The cloud drifts and swirls, subtly following the Thief for a minute.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must use up a container of fine powder in order to activate this Effect.
You automatically detect all object that are designed to detect people, including tripwires, security cameras, detection lasers, heat sensors, etc within 50 feet of you for the next hour. You have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected items. When you detect objects, instead of learning nothing about them, you may observe each object with all of your senses.