Your visage becomes sharper, more surreal, your presence growing as they add fuel to the flame.
Harming Pain Incarnate is like trying to put out a flame with gasoline. The Incarnate still feels the full pain of each injury, but finds it something to further leverage rather than a debilitating inconvenience. Her injuries serve to aid in bringing out the Aspect within herself and will only get more effective as she gains power and experience.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries is reduced to 0. Does not reduce Stress from Mind Damage.
You may move at your normal speed and still maintain Concentration. Taking an Injury less than Severity 6 no longer interrupts Concentration.
His nerve system's don't seem to transfer pain like ours, deadening the sensation, but also producing vast quantities of adrenaline- enough to kill a man who didn't have the body and cellular endurance Mark does. As fights go on, his skin grows flush and his pupils dilate as the fight goes on.
His adrenal glands are also swollen and deformed, capable of much higher outputs than normal, and producing yet unidentified growth hormones that help prevent his neurological systems from shutting down, even from pain or blood loss.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
While Incapacitated, you may Exert your Mind to take a single action.
Stress from Injuries acts as a dice bonus instead of penalty.
If you are Stunned, asleep, drugged, or otherwise made unconscious for any reason other than being Incapacitated, you may Exert your Mind to wake up. Any penalty which was caused by this condition is removed.
Any dice penalty from Exposure or being stunned, diseased, sleepy, dizzy, sick, distracted, or similar is reduced to zero. Does not affect penalties from Effects you activated.
Maggie's pact with Zemlya, Grandfather Rock, grants her a power as old and unforgiving as the mountains themselves. This eldritch spirit, old as the night sky and a witness to the cosmic endlessness, embodies the resilience of nature against the tides of time. When activated, Maggie must offer a sacrifice of her own blood - a small, self-inflicted wound that serves as a conduit for Zemlya's ancient power, jolting her awake to resist against the tides of exhaustion and incapacitation.
Increase your sacrificial Injury's Severity by 1 and spend an Action.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0. Lasts three hours.
You may move at your normal speed and still maintain Concentration. Taking an Injury less than Severity 6 no longer interrupts Concentration.
If you are Stunned, asleep, drugged, or otherwise made unconscious for any reason other than being Incapacitated, you may Exert your Mind to wake up. Any penalty which was caused by this condition is removed.
If you do not have a sacrificial Injury when you activate this Effect, take a new Severity-1 Injury.
A shiny silver crystal necklace that glows with a light blue aura that enhances the wearer and strengthens them.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
Your Body and Mind Penalties are reduced to 0.
If you are Stunned, asleep, drugged, or otherwise made unconscious for any reason other than being Incapacitated, you may Exert your Mind to wake up. Any penalty which was caused by this condition is removed.
Ramsey’s experience as a child has hardened his resolve, damage to his body and mind do not bother him. Physically, he has been branded with a large Eye on the back of his head, which opens to reveal an actual eye when Ramsey uses his powers.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Soft Spot: Back of head.
“It doesn’t matter what he is hit with, Jason seems to just keep standing up again and again.”
Not having grit kicked my ass last time, I ain’t repeating that mistake.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
The mobster's been through tougher scrapes than this. A few cuts and bruises won't stop them.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries is reduced to 0. Does not reduce Stress from Mind Damage.