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The Scientist's Forbidden Appetite Just say "NO" to cancer! You cannot legally get tumors without consent.
From your insatiable appetite for all that is strange and unknown, you have trained your body to take all the strange side-effects that threaten to consume you from the inside out.
On the experience of flavors:
So you take this as an excuse to have a little taste of everything this world has to offer. Disgusting as you know it to be, you just can't ignore the possibility that you'll find the perfect recipe for your next project. Your mind is breaking down. What's wrong with immersing it in flavors that you'll never forget?
On the experience of love:
Humans, animals, and aliens alike are bound to hurt you. You've been jilted, shot, and judged far too many times. The only true love that doesn't betray you is the unique marvel in proving you've made a scientific breakthrough... and eating it up. Consume the world if this is what it takes. You don't have to be so afraid of poison anymore. You don't have to taste the hatred.
On being a carrier of disease:
Hey, why the hell not? You're sharing your knowledge! What do you mean, not everyone can withstand the common cold?
List of cured but carried diseases:
Lewis Black's Eldritch Madness - https://www.thecontractrpg.com/gift/revision/70878 (Those coming in contact with this disease must beat an outcome of 6.)
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using a scientist's lab coat to gain the benefits of this Effect.
You get +0 dice to any Body resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
- Inoculation: If you succeed a Body resistance roll against an Effect, you are immune to that Effect for the next 24 hours.
- Purge Toxins: You may take a Severity-1 Injury to cancel the effect of any non-Alien drug, poison, or toxin in your system, as long as you are aware of its existence.
- Survivor: You are immune to all non-Alien diseases.
- Typhoid Mary: You may choose to still be a carrier of any diseases you come into contact with, even if you don't contract them, and even after you are no longer suffering any symptoms.
- These bonuses apply only to Body rolls made to resist Effects and other supernatural phenomena. They do not apply to other contexts such as attacks made while under the Creature Transformation Effect.
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Charlatans
“Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.”
― Criss Jami
Nowadays you can't go a day without some phony prophet trying to peddle their wares to you.
Driven by the increased interest in the supernatural, charlatans from palm readers to televangelists are everywhere. And while the vast majority of witches, psychics, magicians, hypnotists, cures, potions, faith healers, and clairvoyants are complete fakes, they do make a living.
As the saying goes, "it's easier for an actor to make it in alternative medicine than Hollywood."
Most people scoff at these clearly-phony supernatural services, yet those same people often buy into at least one scam.
The most dangerous charlatans are the self-styled monster hunters who carry a mall-ninja arsenal and guns with silver bullets. Most have never encountered anything supernatural and do absolutely nothing besides burn some sage and patrol the area for a night or two. Even so, those who are superstitious, fearful, or desperate enough will hire them to solve the problems they simply don't understand. In some cases with disastrous results.
For Contractors, charlatans are red herrings and obstacles. Clumsy fakes that conjure a smokescreen of misinformation and escalate the situations they're in.
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Immunity Gifts
Akuloth
Some call it "His Sacred White Worm". But frankly, that just makes me uncomfortable.
Mirka seems to just shrug off most illnesses with little to no reaction.
The Akuloth is a tape-worm like creature that was fed to Mirka's mother while she was still pregnant. The creature latched onto Mirka's still developing spine, fusing with it. It is now functionally invisible, except for those who know what to look for during a surgery.
The Akuloth is able to shield Mirka from illness and any other bodily ailments by consuming them.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You get +2 dice to any Body resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
- Inoculation: If you succeed a Body resistance roll against an Effect, you are immune to that Effect for the next 24 hours.
- Survivor: You are immune to all non-Alien diseases.
- Got It Bad: If you fail to fully resist an Effect, your Outcome is considered to be 0.
- These bonuses apply only to Body rolls made to resist Effects and other supernatural phenomena. They do not apply to other contexts such as attacks made while under the Creature Transformation Effect.
Tenacious Thing
When Nikki gets into the fight, her body can take quite a bit of punishment.
You gain the following benefits as long as your Stop When I'm Dead power is active.
You get +4 dice to any Body resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
- Inoculation: If you succeed a Body resistance roll against an Effect, you are immune to that Effect for the next 24 hours.
- Purge Toxins: You may take a Severity-1 Injury to cancel the effect of any non-Alien drug, poison, or toxin in your system, as long as you are aware of its existence.
- These bonuses apply only to Body rolls made to resist Effects and other supernatural phenomena. They do not apply to other contexts such as attacks made while under the Creature Transformation Effect.
Ignorance
This is nothing.
A white glow develops in users mouth as long as the disease would last.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are immune to all non-Alien diseases, even if modern medicine has no known treatment for them.
Inhospitable
Even microbes don't really want to stick around you long. You are almost completely incapable of supporting life.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You get +2 dice to any Body resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
- Inoculation: If you succeed a Body resistance roll against an Effect, you are immune to that Effect for the next 24 hours.
- Survivor: You are immune to all non-Alien diseases.
- These bonuses apply only to Body rolls made to resist Effects and other supernatural phenomena. They do not apply to other contexts such as attacks made while under the Creature Transformation Effect.
Nanobot Blood
Intercellular Failsafe
Harold never gets sick...at least not after injecting himself with 45 thousand tiny self-replicating robotic creatures that mimic white blood cells. Programmed with the cure for every disease known to man, the robots can cure everything from cancer to the common cold.
"There's no time for us
There's no place for us
What is this thing that builds our dreams
Yet slips away from us?"
-Who Wants to Live Forever, Queen
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You get +2 dice to any Body resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
- Survivor: You are immune to all non-Alien diseases.
- These bonuses apply only to Body rolls made to resist Effects and other supernatural phenomena. They do not apply to other contexts such as attacks made while under the Creature Transformation Effect.
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Immunoboost Explant
This device is a piece of chrome the size and shape of the back of a spoon. When placed against the skin, small hypodermic needles sprout from the device and attach it to the user's bloodstream. There, it filters and releases lifesaving drugs into the bloodstream, granting complete immunity from contracting new diseases and added resiliency in all other cases.
WARNING: The immunizing drugs have been shown to reduce inhibitions in test subjects.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
You get +2 dice to any Body resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
- Survivor: You are immune to all non-Alien diseases.
- All Brawn No Brain: You suffer a -2 dice penalty on Mind resistance rolls.
- These bonuses apply only to Body rolls made to resist Effects and other supernatural phenomena. They do not apply to other contexts such as attacks made while under the Creature Transformation Effect.