Sally breathes out slow, and the world stills. Her words don’t travel by sound or screen—they ride the wind between worlds, whispered by unseen spirits loyal to her call. The message slips through cracks in the veil, curling into the ear of the chosen listener like the voice of a ghost at midnight. But the Loa are fickle messengers—others might hear their whisper too, if they’re close enough… or listening hard.
Spend an Action. Select a target any distance away from you. You must have a specific target in mind, but you require only an intuitive understanding of them, such as their name, face, or Location.
You may send a single message to your target. It can be no more complicated than a multi-page letter or a long email.
The message may be intercepted while in transit, and may be overheard, read, or otherwise understood by anyone near either you or the recipient. You must share a common language for your target to understand the message.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
This scream comes out as a mighty roar, a bloodcurdling scream, making your blood boil, making your hair stand up on the end the screen pierce anything in its way
Spend an Action. Select a Living target within 50 feet. Roll Brawn + Alertness 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.
You may choose to have this Effect Damage all targets in a perfectly straight line up to its maximum range.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see tinnitus.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
Mr. Kind shrouds his hands in shadowy tendrils, causing his flesh to dissolve and flow. These tendrils seek nearby objects like static-charged fibers, casting themselves across any surface. They find purchase in the shadows, acting as anchors that allow him to scale even the sheerest walls.
While moving in the mundane world the shadows act as a glamor narrowing the world with subtle influence, passing through any space, crowds of people or congested areas, anyplace the shadow may slip through Kind makes his way. The shroud is imperceptible in those spaces, moving with the dark flowing easily and deftly, shadows are the natural environment of all those under Bathin and his court holds power in any dark space.
Bathin, also known as Bathym, Mathim, or Marthim, is a Duke of Hell, holding the title of Great Duke according to Pseudomonarchia Daemonum. He commands thirty legions of demons and possesses extensive knowledge of the virtues of precious stones and herbs. Bathin has the ability to transport individuals suddenly from one country to another and aids in astral projection, taking individuals wherever they desire to go. He is often depicted as a strong man with the tail of a serpent, riding atop a pale horse.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using Seal of Duke Bathin 18th spirit to gain the benefits of this Effect.
You may move easily and without a roll in any of the following situations.
You only gain the benefits of this effect if you are in Shadows and darkness.
Remember that nightmare you had as a child, when all your friends were stabbed with needles and turned to sand? Crushed by coffin lids, sealed and silenced...
It's never left your mind.
Because you were powerless.
Are you really letting them chain you down like this, just for some empty words of consolation? "This isn't like you-" they never saw you for what you are.
So go forth, break into a billion more pieces.
Make that brilliant escape, villain.
Maybe with sufficient treatment, you'll press yourself back into the mirror you wanted to be.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You transform into a cloud of sand for the next hour. You may end the effect early and return to your normal form at will. Your structure must remain relatively contiguous. It is not necessarily obvious that your transformed state is an unusual phenomena or that it is acting with singular purpose.
While in this form, you can squeeze through any gap that is not air-tight, though this may take more than one Action at GMs discretion.
Damage from standard attacks is halved, but Damage from AOE effects is increased by 1. You may suffer Damage from wind and powerful gusts at GM’s discretion. 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.
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.
While this Effect is active, you are at -2 dice to all Actions and cannot Concentrate.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Lone-wolf: Whenever someone asks to be your friend, roll Self-Control to keep yourself from avoiding them.
Django hits a guitar solo that touches the heart and mind of their target leaving what looks like a musical note over their head.
Exert your Mind and spend at least one Action. Select a Sapient target within 20 feet. Your target may be actively engaged in Combat. Communicate a command to your target. Roll Charisma + Alertness at Difficulty 6. The target may resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 7.
If the contested Outcome is positive, your target will be compelled to follow your command to their best understanding of the letter and spirit of the command until they have completed it or for your Outcome in minutes. You cannot issue another suggestion to the target until 10 minutes after they have completed the first command or 10 minutes after a failure.
The target is unaware that they are under supernatural influence and feel they are acting of their own free will. If you fail, they realize that you were attempting to influence them supernaturally with your command.
Your command can be an order to take an immediate Action. You cannot order a target to "do nothing," and they are free to take other Actions as they fulfill your request. Your command cannot be obviously self-destructive. The Effect ends if following your command would cause a target to cross one of their Limits in a way that would necessitate a Trauma roll.
This Effect ends if you are stunned, fall asleep, go unconscious, are incapacitated, die, or if your total Stress ever exceeds 5.
Felix is familiar with Vein's function and form at an intimate, subconscious level, and wields their Tendrils as extensions of his body.
Or perhaps, Vein does so to Felix.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in combat with arm-integrated weapons.
+2 dice to all rolls with arm-integrated weapons. You may Defend against firearm attacks from any range using arm-integrated weapons.
You also gain the following effects:
The magician reaches into their hat and focuses. Inside, light wells and flows like a viscous liquid. Then, they withdraws the item of their choosing.
Exert your Mind and spend 1 minute. You must actively and obviously use a top hat to activate this Effect.
Choose an Object which could fit inside a regular backpack (up to 27 liters). It must be Non-Alien and generic. You cannot create explosives. You may create firearms.
Roll Perception + Occult to fabricate your chosen Object. The Difficulty is assigned by the GM and depends on the specificity of your chosen Object. The created item lasts 2 hours.
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.
Once the werewolf tastes the blood of their prey, there's no escape. Those injured by the beast's claws and teeth are marked with its saliva. Their wounds smell strongly of blood, and it's only a matter of time before the werewolf returns with a vengeance to finish the kill.
This Effect activates whenever a target you have injured with your teeth or claws escapes the range of your unarmed attacks. It does not require an Action or Exertion. Select a target within arm's reach. Your target should be intuitively based on the triggering event. This Effect cannot be used unless the target is alive and bleeds.
Your target is marked with a throbbing wound that smells strongly of blood. 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 1 mark active.
You receive +2 dice to any rolls made against a marked target.
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:
The Ninja is a master at blending in to any crowd or organization. If they can find complete privacy, they may channel their ninjutsu to temporarily create the illusion of any outfit or uniform they desire. The new clothes shimmer into existence over their existing garb over the course of a minute of meditation.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute.
You become disguised in a manner of your choosing. The disguise lasts for two hours, or you may end it early at will.
The new appearance must have a similar sex, age, and race to your own. You cannot significantly change your height and weight. Your disguise cannot directly mimic an existing person. You may change the appearance of your outfit. A disguise cannot affect your Attributes or other stats.
You may roll Charisma + Crafts to attempt to make your disguise Beautiful. If your Outcome is 6 or higher, non-Effect Charisma rolls where your good looks could help are rolled at -2 Difficulty. If you fail or botch, you are ugly instead, and non-Effect Charisma rolls are made at +2 Difficulty.
You cannot alter the appearance of your flesh and blood.