Red's ears aren't just cosmetic.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
Marina taps into her evolving sea creature abilities, gaining a heightened sense of location. A simple click of the tongue sends subtle soundwaves, mapping her surroundings by interpreting the echoes that return. This allows her to perceive the physical shapes and textures of the environment, even in complete darkness or murky waters.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
Any senses which have been heightened cannot be overloaded. Battle Scars you receive cannot affect these senses.
Frankie channels the spirit of the fae trapped within his gloves, a tiny wisp of light floats from the glove which he crushes into dust that he sprinkles into his eyes.
Expend a point of Battery and spend an Action.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way. Lasts for three hours.
Any senses which have been heightened cannot be overloaded. Battle Scars you receive cannot affect these senses.
This golden eye gleams, perfectly fitting into the socket. When zooming in, the aperture shrinks with a rose gold sheen, to analyze the smallest evidence or even the most micro of surgeries.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
Any senses which have been heightened cannot be overloaded. Battle Scars you receive cannot affect these senses.
The tips of the wearers fingers gain static charge during day to day actions. Their sense of touch is fine tuned to the point of instant recognition based of the electrical flow leaving their fingers. They also receive stimuli from the passive electrical fields in their surroundings through their hands. The tingling in their fingers tends to keep people up at night unless they can mentally tune it out.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
Anyone who touches this Artifact will notice it warping their body and may drop it. If they choose to hold or use it, they immediately receive the following Battle Scar: Insomnia: Make a self control roll at the start of the contract and whenever you have a full nights rest. if you fail you don’t sleep and take one mind damage.. If they lose possession of this Artifact, the Battle Scar heals over the course of the next day.
Mickey sometimes struggles to keep the beast inside asleep.
When it awakens, it's a horrific sight. Skin bulges and stretches, then tears, rapidly reforming thicker and paler. Hair and matted fur sprout from bleeding follicles as bones move and grow at a different pace to the muscles, and nerves knot up around the new joints before being pulled into place. The whole body steams and trembles as rapid metabolisation of every calorie in the body in less than a minute chars the veins and leaves it starving.
Humanoid, in a way. Canine, ursine, cervine...something just on the edge of familiar.
And it's coming for you.
The strain put on Mickey's body from the transformation leaves her with a Severity - 1 Injury after transforming back, which stacks with any injuries gained as a result of rapid transformation.
If this transformation was done out of Hunger reaching the 3rd level and it was not sated within the time frame, this is instead a Severity - 2 Injury.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. This Effect cannot be used unless your transformation is long and excruciating. A standard transformation takes 30 seconds (10 rounds), but this can be rushed at a cost. If rushed, transformation can be done as an Action, but when transforming back, you receive either a Minor Battle Scar, a physical liability or condition, a significant change in appearance, or a Severity - 1 Injury. The Scar or Condition gained from rushing like this is exchanged for another if done again, not stacked (in the case of Injuries, healing time is doubled). and you do not remember anything that occurs while transformed unless you succeed on a Mind roll or figure it out through investigation. Whenever you fail or botch a Trauma or Self-Control roll, you must activate this Effect.
You transform into a 'werewolf' for 30 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are a 'werewolf', and you can use your equipment. The Injuries and Battle Scars of your Alternate Form and your true form are tracked separately.
While transformed, your Brawn is increased by 2, your Dexterity is increased by 2, and your Perception is increased by 2. You do not suffer any Stress while transformed.
Your body is adapted to moving silently, sprinting, and finding food (meat). You receive +3 dice on non-attack rolls related to moving silently, sprinting, and finding food (meat).
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see you gruesomly shift into a terrible wolf-human hybrid.
Your alternate form renders you unable to speak any human language and incapable of fine object manipulation. You can only hold or grasp objects in a crude, clumsy way.
After this Effect ends, you cannot move quicker than a walk (15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour.
While transformed, you automatically fail any Mind roll to resist an impulse and suffer -3 dice on all other Mind rolls.
The beastmaster closes their eyes and channels nature's bloody struggle for survival. When their eyes reopen, they catch the light and glow red like a dog's. While in this heightened state, they may sense heat signatures and triangulate the tiniest sound.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way. Lasts for three hours.
Even in human form, the werewolf retains their incredible sense of smell. This helps them track their prey and learn where people and things have been.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
The detective has trained their eyes to notice the smallest of details.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.