Legacy Power: Dead Languages

"What, no Ingles? Uh...uno momento..." *crunch, crunch, gibber*

A 1 Gift Commune Power used by Edgar Stokes, created by Strazhari.

Description

When consuming the flesh of the dead, Ghouls can sometimes gain fluency in languages known to those they have eaten. Unlike the scraps of memory they usually gain, maintaining such an intuitive block of information is fleeting at best, rarely lasting more than an day. A ghoul may attempt to facilitate this process by eating the tongue of the deceased, although any pound of flesh will do in a pinch.

Roll 1d10 to determine how many Hours fluency lasts after using Necrophage on the target. If the tongue is consumed, add 2 to this number.

System

Spend an Action, Exert your Mind, and select a target within 20 feet. The target may communicate in your language for 10 minutes.

You may only communicate with the sorts of targets that your "Commune" Enhancements allow. Without at least one "Commune" Enhancement, this Power is unusable.


Enhancements

  • Fluency (Instead of activating this Power, you passively possess the ability to communicate with any target covered by your "Commune" Enhancements. It is as if you, and only you, speak their language.)
  • Humans (You may communicate with humans who do not speak your languages.)

Drawbacks

  • Conditional (This Effect is only available when a certain condition is met. This condition must be severe enough that this Gift is unusable the majority of the time.)
    • Condition - Active for a random duration (see text)
  • Conditional (This Effect is only available when a certain condition is met. This condition must be severe enough that this Gift is unusable the majority of the time.)
    • Condition - Used Necrophage on someone who speaks the language

Parameters

Range: 1 ( 20 feet )

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May 20, 2023, 4:32 a.m. - Major Revision Cost: 1. Added Enhancement: Sapience

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Feb. 7, 2023, 7:01 a.m. - Major Revision Cost: 1. Added Drawback: Fuel

Feb. 1, 2023, 8:01 p.m. - Major Revision Cost: 1. Added Enhancements: Quick Learner, Linguist, Added Drawback: Disturbing, Base Parameters Changed.

Nov. 27, 2022, 6:28 p.m. - Adjustment Cost: 1. Text field change

May 7, 2022, 12:01 a.m. - Upgrade Cost: 1. Upgraded from old powers system

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- Nov. 23, 2021, 9:14 p.m. - Revision Cost: 1. Power Adjustment

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Nov. 23, 2021, 7:49 p.m. - Improvement Cost: 2. Removed Drawback: Once per Day

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Nov. 23, 2021, 6:16 a.m. - Revision Cost: 1. Added Drawback: Once per Day

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Nov. 23, 2021, 5:48 a.m. - Improvement Cost: 2. Parameter Range changed from 0 to 1.

Nov. 23, 2021, 5:47 a.m. - Improvement Cost: 1. Added Enhancements: Fluency, Commune: Humans, Added Drawback: Conditional

Nov. 9, 2021, 4:52 p.m. - New Cost: 0. Initial power creation