When attacked, your Ouroborus Amulet shines and plasma encases your body before the blow is dealt, fanning out from the amulet. The attacked area will absorb the shock and then flare in the direction of the attacker.
This gift alters your biology on a cellular level to be attack resistant. Congratulations, you are now a genuine genetically modified organism! And, you've become just a tad more closely related to plants than the average bear
Thorns in the expansion pack: Third Law of Motion, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Thus, plasma thorns
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using Ouroboros amulet to gain the benefits of this Effect.
You have 6 Armor, which reduces incoming Damage. Armor from multiple sources does not stack. This Armor cannot be circumvented with Called Shots.
Your Armor’s rating is increased by 2. If you do something that Damages, restricts, or otherwise directly, negatively affects another being, your Armor’s rating is decreased by 3 for one minute. This penalty does not stack with itself.
Becoming imbued has awakened something inside you. It feels like a lens or filter has been removed from the world that you didn't even know was there. Now you notice things that you never did before, all of your senses are sharpened. The metaphysical gloves are off. This is going to be fun.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Perception rating is increased by 1. You may Exert your Mind to automatically gain an Outcome of 5 on any roll that uses Perception (Cannot be used on combat rolls or Power activations).
You also gain the following effects:
David calls out in his mind to the spirits of the realms of the dead to keep an eye on their family members for him. From within that other world, the dead find their family members in this one, and mark them with their memory.
In our world, David closes his eyes to focus for a moment, and a new sandlike tattoo appears, ingrained into the skin of his target—a tattoo that looks exactly like the ancestral spirit guarding over them.
This tattoo is very small, and often pops up in an inconspicuous place, like under the target’s pinky toe.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a target within arm's reach.
Your target is marked with small visage of their latest diseased family ancestor as a sandlike tattoo. The mark can only be discovered with a deep medical inspection or Effect. Removal inflicts a Severity 1 Injury on the target.
You are aware of the marked target's direction and distance from you. This lasts for the next month, or until either the mark is removed, or you choose to end the Effect. You can have up to 3 marks active.
In low light environtments, electric flashes are briefly visible inside Lila's body every other minute, like streaks of lightning in a storm cloud.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Esper. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living being when targeted. Your Brawn is increased by 1 and your Intellect is increased by 1.
The Severity of any Injury caused by Electric is increased by 2.
Princess is hardly the most normal-looking girl already, but the most peculiar thing would be the soft, fluffy cat ears and tail that seem to stay on her at all times. She tells anyone who asks it's just a costume, but if you look long and hard enough you might notice they might just sway a little too organically.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Catgirl. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living Creature when targeted. Your Perception is increased by 1.
Your body is adapted to Climbing. You receive +3 dice on non-attack rolls related to Climbing.
You may make a +2 Weapon Damage Cat Claws attack without additional equipment.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Am I a Lolcow? (Nightmares).
You cannot ignore or decrease the effects of Stress for any Self-Control rolls you make.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a target within 50 feet. Roll Intellect + Technology Difficulty 6. The target may contest by rolling to Dodge or Defend as a Reaction, Difficulty 6.
If the Contested Outcome is positive, the target takes that much Damage plus 4.
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. The hacked system will display a flickering image of a ghost until it is dismissed.
While hacking, The Technician's fingers move with supernatural speed, blurring like a ghost.
Exert your Mind and spend 1 minute. Select a Computer within arm's reach. Does not work on Alien technology. 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 reversed through mundane means for a number of hours equal to your Outcome.
Every hack you make leaves behind a flickering image of a ghost in the system as a personal "calling card" that informs anyone who uses the system that the hack occurred.
The doctor heals severe injuries in minutes using only standard medical supplies. Lacerations seal under the needle and thread, and reset bones can be used shortly after.
However, for the treatment to last, the patient must adhere to any aftercare regimen the doctor requires. Those who violate the doctor's orders suffer their injuries anew.
Exert your Mind and spend 15 minutes. Select a Living target within arm's reach. You must actively and obviously use basic medical supplies to activate this Effect. Choose a specific Injury on your target that has not yet been treated with this Effect and roll Intellect + Medicine at Difficulty 8.
If you succeed, the Injury is reduced in Severity by your Outcome. If you reduce its Severity to 0, the Injury is fully healed. Otherwise, it is partially healed and will heal the rest of the way at its natural rate.
This counts as a successful Makeshift Stabilization if the Injury was not already Stabilized; any Battle Scars caused by the Injury will remain. You may specify a specific condition that the patient must adhere to. If they break this condition, the treatment is immediately reversed. Record this regimen as a Condition. Lasts until the end of their next Contract or 1 month for non-Contractors.
Through years of practice, the mobster is able to shatter someone's kneecap without much effort.
Spend an Action. Select a Living or Animate target within arm's reach. You must actively and obviously use a melee weapon to activate this Effect. Roll Brawn + Melee at Difficulty 6. The target may roll Body, -2 dice at Difficulty 7, as a Free Action to resist.
If you succeed, the target receives a new Battle Scar of your choosing, limited by the contested Outcome:
All alterations you make must damage the target's knees.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
The Ninja's incredible dedication to their discipline grants them supernatural dexterity and agility.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Dexterity rating is increased by 1. You may Exert your Mind to automatically gain an Outcome of 5 on any roll that uses Dexterity (Cannot be used on combat rolls or Power activations).
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.