Kel takes out some sand from a pouch and gently blows it in the direction of her target. The sand glows golden and gently wafts into the targets mouth, nose, ears, and skin. When people look into the flowing sand they see their worst nightmares. She takes close inspiration from her dream-friend.
"Test subject number... one-dash-seven-dash-three. Sleep experiment, day 10, K____ D_______, researcher. Subject shows heightened posterior parietal cortex and prefrontal cortex activity during allocated resting times. Subject has been mentioned or sketched in several of the other *creatures* dream logs, even if subject had no previous interaction with them. Subject seems unaware of her influence on others at the present moment. Will continue to monitor, though with a request for further testing.” The tape cuts and another, less professional tape automatically plays.
“Post script to today’s log on one seven three, I believe I may have been affected by its mental influence. The details are fuzzy but I remember seeing the subject saying something to me before waking in a cold sweat just before this. This job is waring me down…”
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Living target within 30 feet. You must use up a paw full of sand in order to activate this Effect. Roll Dexterity + Athletics at Difficulty 6. Affected targets may resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, your target becomes drowsy for the next 3 Rounds, during which time they suffer an additional -2 dice Penalty to all Actions. At the end of their drowsiness, they fall asleep for Contested Outcome x 3 minutes.
Sleeping targets will not prematurely wake up on their own, and can only be awoken by taking Damage or nearing death from 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.
When activating this Effect you may attempt a knockout. If you do and your Contested Outcome exceeds 4, the target falls asleep immediately. Otherwise, they suffer the drowsy penalty for 2 Rounds.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see people see their worst nightmares writhing in the sand as it flows..
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Hypnagogic hallucinations: whenever you sleep make a self control roll, if you fail when you wake you still believe you are in the dream and lack self preservation for the next hour or until you find sufficient proof that you are awake (GM’s discretion).
I take a deep breath in and concentrate, I then close my eyes and miraculously I can understand this being word for word. What do you know I understand languages beyond my capabilities.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You may understand and communicate to Creatures and humans as if you are fluent in a relevant language for the next hour.
This also includes understanding any recorded communications from the relevant targets, including writings, scent trails, etc.
The Vermin King has developed fine hairs on his body similar to those used by insects to cling to walls, allowing him to do the same. His instincts have been modified by his gifts, allowing him to engage in several forms of movement unnatural to the average human.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You may move easily and without a roll in any of the following situations.
True to their namesake, the hacker can penetrate the security of any computer system, granting access to its informational stores, or, in a pinch, allowing them to issue commands. They scrub the system of footprints, leaving no trace behind.
Exert your Mind and spend 1 minute. Select a Computer within arm's reach. Does not work on Alien technology. Roll a single D10 as a critical failure check. If you roll a 1, the Effect fails, and you experience a S-4 injury as the device explodes. Roll Intellect + Technology, with the Difficulty set by the GM depending on the security of the system you are hacking. Sapient targets can resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, you may issue a single command to the targeted system. This command must have a specific outcome or be a request for specific login credentials. The command you issue must be within the machine's current capabilities. For example, you cannot order a standard security camera to grow legs and walk around.
If your command does not require bypassing the security of the target (for example, typing on a computer that is unlocked), you do not need to Exert your Mind to activate this Effect, and activation only takes a single Action.
Your hack cannot be discovered by system administrators or firewall software for a number of hours equal to your Outcome on the initial roll.
Sediment flows across his skin covering every inch of his body in a layer of rock and clay, hardening, Protecting him from attacks while allowing him to move freely. He keeps it hidden under his clothing, only covering the areas covered by cloth and covering his extremities only when needed
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You have 4, which reduces incoming damage from all sources of physical attack except any form of mining tool. Armor from multiple sources does not stack. This Armor cannot be circumvented with Called Shots.
I am a fairy that transforms into a furious cute feline and a fiery Komodo Dragon that will rip your head off and use it as a toothpick. That will meow and lizard you apart.
Exert your Mind and spend a Quick Action. You must use up Fairy Dust in order to activate this Effect.
You transform into Bubblebee Bat, Komodo dragon, or Sabre Tooth Cat for two hours or until you choose to end the Effect. 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. The equipment you are wearing does not transform 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.
Through their faith, the priest is able to stretch bread or fish to extreme lengths, feeding a seemingly endless number of people from meager supplies.
Spend an Action. Select a Animate target within arm's reach. You must actively and obviously use bread or a fish to activate this Effect.
For the next 24 hours, your target does not require any food, water, or sleep. Any attempts to age your target fail. Any roll to resist an Effect dependent on any affected requirement is made at -1 Difficulty.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
The Thief examines an object closely for a minute to appraise its value. As their eyes dance across the subject, their pupils split vertically, and their irises fade to gold. If it is a particularly valuable item, the Thief may greedily lick their lips, revealing a forked tongue.
Within a minute, they have determined how materially valuable the object is and why.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Select a target Object within arm's reach. At the end of your investigation, roll Charisma + Culture at Difficulty 6.
You learn all the following information about your target:
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.
Come one, come all! Stand in amazement and behold as the Fire Eater consumes a flame as if it were cotton candy! Gasp with fright as they breathe a plume of fire a great distance! And yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is quite dangerous.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend two Actions performing the following ritual: perform a fire-breathing trick. Select a target within 20 feet which has both fuel and oxygen available (if you are starting a new fire). Roll a single D10 as a critical failure check. If you roll a 1, the Effect fails, and you take a Severity-4 Injury as the fire burns your throat. You must maintain Concentration while activating this Effect, and it fails if you are interrupted.
You may start or extinguish a fire as large as a firepit's fire at your target. Extinguishing a fire does not cost Exertion. You may create or extinguish fires the size of a lighter or candle flame without Exerting your Mind. Your fires require fuel and oxygen in order to continue burning.
Lighting a target on fire deals 4 Damage each Round on your turn, starting in the Round after the one in which they caught fire. This Damage is reduced by Armor, but the target’s Armor rating will be shredded by any Damage dealt, destroying material Armor once it reaches 0.
You may extinguish flames as a Reaction. This does not extend to explosives.
The mystic channels and communes directly with another person's spirit, allowing the two of them to freely exchange both physical and mental wounds between each other.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Sapient target within arm's reach. Your target may Resist to cancel the transfer.
You may choose a single instance of one of the following to transfer from your target to yourself, or from yourself to them:
Whenever you transfer an Injury, it's Severity increases by 1. Whenever you transfer Mind damage or Traumas, the recipient takes an additional Mind damage.
After you finish activating this Effect, you cannot move quicker than a walk (max 15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour. Exhaustion’s penalty and duration stacks with multiple activations.
While transformed, the werewolf's toughened hide provides protection from all manner of attacks, except silver.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are in werewolf form.
You have 4, which reduces incoming damage from all sources of physical attack except silver. Armor from multiple sources does not stack. This Armor cannot be circumvented with Called Shots.
Any Injury received from Damage that was reduced by this Armor is considered Makeshift Stabilized and will not degrade further, and any Battle Scar caused by them is reduced by 1 level. You may attempt a single Proper Stabilization on such Injuries.