Maze's challenge manifests itself in a simple game of navigating an area, embodying an explorer who wants players to get past the conditions in the region and make it out safely. The true challenge is the entire forest is against them, and they must get out before the rabbits, the plant life, or any other factors make that goal impossible.
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Maze summons a region of flowers, creatures, and undergrowth around the area and brings his world wherever he is, which looks like a cell-shaded forest. In this zone, a number of things occur:
+ A dense undergrowth of vines and shrubs seems to blanket the forest floor, while those in the sky are accosted by small dragons that would actively slow down anyone they see. Doing so at the behest of their father; Maze, who hatched them.
+ A number of bunnies with red scarves lurk around and hassle anyone who is foreign to the location with harmless traps in an effort to exhaust them. Selectively trained by Maze, they were taken in at the behest of his friend Shimizu Tsukihi.
+ Drifting on the wind is a toxic pollen that induces an almost drunken intoxication, similar to drinking a heavy amount of alcohol. Causing dizziness, mental sedation, and limited inhibitions. Coming from a flower he's grown himself.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within 200 feet of you. Choose a 3-D shape that will define the borders of your Effect. You may choose not to pay this Effect’s activation cost. When you activate this Effect, if it is active from a previous activation where you didn’t pay, that Effect ends. This Effect cannot be used unless Atlas is active. You must actively and obviously use Rangers Cloak to activate this Effect.
You create a zone of forest undergrowth, shrubs, and plant spores in the chosen shape, originating at the chosen Location, with a radius of 200 feet. and lasting for 5 minutes. You are fully immune to the effects of your zone. The area inside your zone is affected in any number of the following ways:
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
Physical injuries, be it a scratch, laceration, or a bruise, shine weakly with eerie pale glow for a few seconds, before fading away.
Some wounds never quite heal. Even when they are gone, they leave scars behind. Chronic pains, stiff limbs. All those things which remind us of what happened to us, of what we managed to push through.
Ryan was surprised when the wound, which would surely take a while to heal naturally, healed over the course of following two weeks. Unnaturally fast. Quick test with a knife confirmed it - the shallow cut on a finger was shining weakly, with eerie pale glow, before fading away, as if it was just his imagination.
The cut was gone by the end of the day.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Any Injury you receive heals quickly, reducing its Severity by one level every day, starting once it becomes stabilized. You may also Exert your Mind and spend an Action to reduce the Severity of a single stabilized Injury by 1. Does not affect Injuries suffered as an activation cost for Effects.
Battle Scars caused by your Injuries will remain.
You've never seen so many beetles in one place, the hum of wings sounding nearly electrical. Upon closer inspection each and every bug is identical, and like no beetle you've ever seen.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You transform into a swarm of scarab beetles for the next minute. You may end the effect early and return to your normal form at will. Your structure must remain relatively contiguous. Observers will view you as an unusual entity moving with a singular purpose.
While in this form, you can squeeze through any gap that is not water-tight. You may fly at your standard movement speed.
Damage from standard attacks is halved, but Damage from AOE effects is increased by 1. You may spend an Action to reduce one of your Injuries’ Severity by 2, as long as you obtained the Injury while transformed and the separated pieces could reasonably be rejoined. If you would die from Injuries sustained while transformed, you instead live, but the only action you can take is Reforming.
You cannot communicate, use equipment, or use Gifts while transformed. Your equipment does not transform with you beyond basic body coverings. You cannot carry any items while transformed.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see Her body eats away at itself from the inside, slowly revealing a swarm of beetles.
While this Effect is active, you are at -2 dice to all Actions and cannot Concentrate.
Angus has the ability to better control the ice based throwables he throws. He requires a mouthful of water in his mouth to utilize this; however the mouthful of water is not consumed in this process so it can be used again.
You gain the following benefits as long as You have a mouthful of water in your mouth and you are engaged in combat with Weapons made of Ice.
+2 dice to all rolls utilizing Weapons made of Ice.
You also gain the following effects:
Sleeper's body technically belongs to the company who manufactured it. Their skin is made of soft gray synthetics, softer than human skin but more durable. their eyes are a deep yellow and their body is androgynous. Their mind is in a constant state of flux between the waking world and the planar interface they go to when they dream. Their whole existence is manufactured to be as tolerably agonizing as possible. While they technically aren't required to eat, drink, sleep, or breathe they still have too. With out those human elements they go insane. they feel like they are constantly drowning if they don't breathe, or starving if they don't eat. They go manic with sleep deprivation if they stay up for too long. Their "brain" in monitored for increasing levels of stress or chemicals induced by these signs of struggle and the sleepers body shuts itself off and wipes their consciousness, effectively killing themselves to save them from perpetual anguish. They can repurpose organics they "eat" into energy and use they air they breathe to help their artificial muscles move with pneumatics. Finally there is the company's 'Planned obsolescence'. Since the sleeper escaped the termination protocol has begun. Every day the Sleeper doesn't take a stabilizer made by the company their body begins to fail. The uploaded mind subconsciously orders the mechanical side of the body to attack the printed, biological part of the body. the Stabilizers reprogram the biological part to have a new genetic code, giving the mind another day before it begins attacking itself.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Uploaded Interface Frame. You are considered to be a Sapient, Non-Living Computer when targeted. Your Brawn is increased by 1 and your Intellect is increased by 1.
Your body is adapted to Hacking. You receive +3 dice on non-attack rolls related to Hacking.
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.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Fear of exposed electricity.
The Severity of any Injury caused by Electricity is increased by 2.
Walnuts strikes with there claws are swift and devastating, cutting through flesh and bone. Yet still stealthy forcefully imparting their ability to remain silent to the target.
this gift uses walnuts claws that are a tooth and claw weapon that uses the Knive stat block
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in combat with Knives.
+2 dice to all rolls with Knives. You may Defend against firearm attacks from any range using Knives.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Hunter's instinct: After killing a target you must roll self control to not eat the body.
You also gain the following effects:
The spy can twist the urban environment to their whims, erecting fences, walls, and barriers as needed. They whistle and gesture to where the wall should be, and the surrounding materials fly into place.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within 50 feet. You must be in an area abundant with man-made structures and materials.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of standard building materials originating at the target:
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts one minute but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 6 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
As a free creature, The Fairy cannot withstand being caged or imprisioned in any way. Luckily, they possess a glamour that allows them to unlock any lock binding them with a wink of their eye. The lock falls open with a sparkle of light and a sound like a ringing bell.
Spend an Action. Select a Non-Alien door, container, knot, or lock within arm's reach. This Effect cannot be used unless the targeted lock or door is being used to restrain or imprison you.
You may lock, unlock, and/or open your target.
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.
The beastmaster shouts, and their human voice cracks into a deep, bestial roar. Their body swells with muscle, clothes melting into a thick pelt of fur. Seconds later the beastmaster is gone. Standing in their place is a massive grizzly bear.
However, even in human form the beast within remains close to the surface, and the beastmaster finds highly civilized social situations unbearable.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You transform into a brown bear 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 cannot use your Active, Targeted, or Trap Powers. However, you can use your Passive 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 Trauma at all times: Intolerance for society. When you are in a situation with strict social protocols (like a trial or a formal dinner) roll Self-Control not to enter a flight or fight response.
The Vampire has grown wicked fangs in place of their canines, allowing them to thoroughly drain a person of blood should they get ahold of one.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are biting and you are engaged in unarmed combat.
+2 dice to rolls for Attacking, Defending, and Clashing without a weapon. Unarmed attacks do +2 Weapon Damage (instead of -1).
You may Defend against melee, projectile, or firearm Attacks from any range and Clash with those in range of your Attacks. Attacking materials like steel or spikes will not Damage you unless it has an Effect that does so.
You also gain the following effects: