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Legacy Power: Corpse Investigation
"i AM the sherlock after all"

A 1 Gift Investigate Object Power used by Charles Landwick (Sherlock), created by GreenAppll.

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Description

Sherlock, now starting to live up to his name, pulls out a magnifying glass and focuses his power through it. The magnifying glass starts showing him how the target died, where it last walked, etc etc. He can follow its footprint, learn if the death was of a suicide, a gunshot, a suicide, etc etc.

System

Exert your Mind, target an Object within Arm's Reach and spend 1 Minute examining it. At the end of the cast time, roll Perception + Investigation ( dice) Difficulty 6. The quality of the information you receive depends on your outcome, and the nature of the information depends on the Enhancements you have chosen.

The number of information-revealing Enhancements attached to this power is limited to 2 for Novice Contractors, 4 for Seasoned Contractors, and 7 for Veteran Contractors. You may still take any number of other, non-informational Enhancements.

Enhancements

Other (You can learn some other piece of information about the target)
- Type of Information - Target's last 24 hour of footprints
Other (You can learn some other piece of information about the target)
- Type of Information - Target's moment of death
Cantrip (Activating this Effect has no Exertion cost, but it can have no more than 3 Drawbacks and its Gift Cost can never be increased above 2.)

Drawbacks

Focus (Using this Effect requires a specific kind of item.)
- Object - Magnifying Glass
Specialized (Only affects a certain type of Object.)
- Item Category - Corpses