A blade no longer hits with heavy breaths, but the soothing resolve of a warrior guided by a path of controlled chaos. No longer do you fight, but respond to the threat with equal ferocity. The Battle may be quick, but the war is won through time.
The Ritual calls for the Shield to be made a Sword, pierced into a bonfire under a Crescent night's sky.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
If you would take an Injury that would kill you, you don’t die. Your body disappears and you leave Gaia's Perseverance. In order to bring you back, someone must perform a simple ritual using it during a Downtime. You return fully healed of all Injuries.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Nightmares: Guilt and Abandon.
The Profane Judge unfurls a whip before lashing it at their target, wrapping around their neck before pulling back, snapping the neck of the once living man.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in combat with melee weapons.
+2 dice to all rolls with melee weapons. You may Defend against firearm attacks from any range using melee weapons.
You also gain the following effects:
due to the experiments performed on subject O-8 he has developed the ability to speak and a humanoid form, at the cost of losing much of his underwater adaptations including his gills. His final form consists of a head that largely resembles his natural state with his arms shrinking and forming a series of vestigial growths around his beak as well as a reduction in his mantles size, approximating the size of a human head. from the base of his mantle a boneless humanoid body has grown (seemingly not reducing his overall movement), vestigial webbing across his fingers as well as maintaining his outer membrane has also been observed.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Humanoid Cephalopod. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living being when targeted..
You can squeeze through any cracks and passageways a cat would be able to.
You gain the following benefits as long as Having eaten a pound of human flesh.
Any Injury you receive heals quickly, reducing its Severity by one level every day. Any Injuries you receive while this Effect is active automatically count as a successful Proper Stabilization and do not deteriorate further. Any Battle Scars caused by such an Injury will heal with the Injury.
As long as at least half your body remains intact, you cannot die and remain at Incapacitated, regardless of how many Injuries you take. It is clear to observers that you are still alive.
You may Exert your Mind and spend a Quick Action to reduce the Severity of one of your Injuries by 2. Does not affect Injuries suffered as an activation cost for Effects.
Harold never gets sick...at least not after injecting himself with 45 thousand tiny self-replicating robotic creatures that mimic white blood cells. Programmed with the cure for every disease known to man, the robots can cure everything from cancer to the common cold.
"There's no time for us
There's no place for us
What is this thing that builds our dreams
Yet slips away from us?"
-Who Wants to Live Forever, Queen
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You get +2 dice to any Body resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
One's skin turns to twisted, knotted, barkless wood spreading from the left shoulder in reaction to damage.
When Defensive Curl is activated additional roots shoot out from your body to attempt to stop the attack.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You have 3 Armor, which reduces incoming damage from all sources of physical attack except Fire. Armor from multiple sources does not stack. This Armor cannot be circumvented with Called Shots.
You may spend an Action or Reaction and Exert your Mind to double your Armor rating for one Round.
The Android's skin is extremely pale, their eyes are yellow, and their body stays at room temperature. They do not bleed, and traditional medicine is ineffective at treating them. Furthermore, they may be hacked by any supernatural effect that could hack a computer.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: you are an android, with pale skin and yellow eyes. You are considered to be a Sapient, Non-Living Computer when targeted..
You are immune to damage from cold. If cold is a substantial component of other damage you would take (e.g. falling from a great distance into a vat of liquid nitrogen), that damage is reduced by 2 (in addition to Armor)
No single organ in your body is critical for life. Called Shots do no additional Damage to you. You may perceive the world through separated body parts, take Actions with them, and reattach them by spending an Action and Exerting your Mind.
Your Injuries no longer degrade with time. You do not age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.
You cannot ignore or decrease the effects of Stress for any social rolls you make.
The Severity of any Injury caused by electricity is increased by 2.
As long as the ninja is carrying a weapon, their self-defense is almost subconscious. Subtle twitches and lighting-fast feints and parries using sword and scabbard can buy the ninja precious seconds to enact an escape plan or make the kill.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using a sword to gain the benefits of this Effect.
You have 4 Armor, which reduces incoming Damage. Armor from multiple sources does not stack. This Armor cannot be circumvented with Called Shots.
Whenever your Armor reduces incoming Damage, you are immediately made aware of the source of the Damage. You may pinpoint their location for 30 seconds.
Any time your Armor prevents Damage, your Armor rating is temporarily decreased by 2. Whenever it goes five Rounds without preventing any Damage, it is restored back to its full value.
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 beastmaster can speak to and understand any animal.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You may understand and communicate to terrestrial animal as if you are fluent in a relevant language.
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.