A 10-Victory Seasoned Contractor played by Riley in Project *******
She is 27 years old, and often appears as a tall baggy eyed woman with a long coat and wet looking hair that reaches her shoulders.
Athena Rush lives in Project *******, a setting where reality flows, bends, and breaks, and the whole world stands at a delicate balance. Her journal has 8 entries.
3 Alertness
0 Animals
4 Athletics
0 Brawl
0 Crafts
1 Culture
2 Drive
0 Firearms
0 Influence
3 Investigation
5 Medicine
0 Melee
2 Occult
0 Performance
3 Science
3 Stealth
1 Survival
2 Technology
0 Thievery
Athena establishes a single wounded target and points. With a curl of the knuckle, she can force any physical injury to the body to suddenly worsen. A mere cut with a steak knife can become a giant gash. A bullet wound from a 9mm can become as big as an autocannon round. To GM discretion, it can even target battle scars and reopen them.
Spend an Action to activate. Select a target within 300 feet. This Effect cannot be used unless This power only works against targets that are already wounded or have bad enough battle scars. GM Discretion.. Roll Intellect + Medicine Difficulty 6. The target may contest by rolling Body, Difficulty 6.
If the contested Outcome is positive, the target takes that much damage plus 1. Armor is fully effective against this damage.
The target suffers a -3 dice penalty for the next hour or until the Injury is healed. This dice penalty does not stack multiple times on the same target.
This Gift's level is capped at 2 Gifts and cannot be increased further.
Instead of dealing damage all at once, the Injury caused by this Power starts at Severity 1 and worsens at the rate of one level per round until it reaches the Severity it would have otherwise been.
Athena interacts with Ruohtta's portion of the Void, dealing in sickness, disease, and curses. Upon her target's bodies, she does not explicitly infect them. Instead, she transforms the existing cells into what is colloquially known as cancerous growths, rashes, atrophy, etc.
Exert your Mind and Spend an Action to activate. Select a Living target within 20 feet. This Effect cannot be used unless Athena must have two useless augment other forms.. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect. Roll Intellect + Medicine at Difficulty 6. The target may roll Body, -2 dice at Difficulty 7, as a Free Action to resist.
If you succeed, the target receives a new Battle Scar of your choosing, limited by the contested Outcome:
This Effect is not obvious, and the only sign you are using an Effect is a flick of her wrist. If someone suspects that an Effect was used, they must roll Perception + Alertness, Difficulty 8 to pick up on your Tell.
All alterations you make must Cancerous Growths (Can only bestow dice penalties).
Part of the void's makeup consists of collective unconscious memories of those both living and dead. It is a dangerous place to travel and Void Travellers such as Athena require permission to safely sift through it. In Athenas case, she has taken to offering up the token of birds which seems to appease the void goddess Khaos and many of her constituents.
However, occasionally, her offering is either inefficient or she oversteps her reach- to which the void demon's and deities will tend to punish severely.
Exert your Mind to activate. Select a Sapient target or a Creature at any range. Activation requires possession of the target's Blood, which is used up during the process. You cannot investigate the same target more than once per hour. You must use up A token of a Bird (A physical portion, a convincing fake sculpture, or even a good amount of photos- the rarer the bird, the better. in order to activate this Effect. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect. At the end of your investigation, roll Intellect + Science at Difficulty 6.
You learn a single specific piece of information, chosen from the following list, about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
Athena's power works like any other heal wound, accept for the fact that it uses the void as the source of its power, a chaotic mess of unconscious, unbeing, and inexistence.
Athena is required to tap into that pain in order to alleviate it and instead of a soothing numbness, her patient will experience great pain.
Exert your Mind and spend 1 minute to activate. Select a Living target within arm's reach. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect. Your target must make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect. Choose a specific Injury on your target that has not yet been treated with this Effect and roll Intellect + Medicine at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, the Injury is reduced in Severity by your Outcome. If you reduce its Severity to 0, the Injury is fully healed. Otherwise, it is partially healed and will heal the rest of the way at its natural rate.
This counts as a successful Makeshift Stabilization if the Injury was not already Stabilized; any Battle Scars caused by the Injury will remain. Your patient is required to You can not be supernaturally healed by anyone other than Athena or else the metaphysical residue of the void will become unbalanced and attempt to correct thr void's influence upon the target- undoing Athenas heal. for the next month. If they violate this rule, your treatment is immediately reversed.
This Effect is not obvious, and the only sign you are using an Effect is Athena concentrates- her stare is unblinking and unceasing as she works.. If someone suspects that an Effect was used, they must roll Perception + Alertness, Difficulty 8 to pick up on your Tell.
Athena acquires a dead target. Using the collective nothingness as a medium, Athena forcefully reanimates the corpse and forces it to do her bidding. Any missing parts are replaced with extra material from the Realm of Nothingness.
The dead person's eyes seem to crack like broken mirrors and glow at the point of resurrection. If she fails the trauma roll, she will incur one of the traumas from whoever she's trying to revive.
Exert your Mind and spend one minute to activate. Select a Dead target within arm's reach with at least half its skeletal structure remaining. This Effect cannot be used unless Athena must have two of her own warp form augments to use this power. They must be functionally useless.. Roll a single D10 as a critical failure check. If you roll a 1, the Effect fails, and you The body gets up and attacks the user.. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect.
Your target rises as a Living being. They remember their past life and retain their same personality. They cannot communicate. They may roll Mind, Difficulty 8, to resist any commands you give them.
The creature lasts for the next day or until it dies again. It is revived at full health. Any Injuries it had in life are not accounted for when determining its penalties or progression towards re-death, though they may affect its ability to perform certain actions at GM's discretion.
Raised creatures have their Abilities set to the same that they were in life. Their Attributes are all the same as they were in life. Raised creatures have access to any Effects they had in life.
After you finish activating this Effect, you cannot move quicker than a walk (max 15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour.
The void is far more forgiving anf maleable when it comes to bending space and experiences Void Traveler will know how to use this to their advantage. Athena, being one such Void Traveler, is abke to use this to her advantage. In order for it to be easy and painless, traversing between the two planes, it pays for Athena to have a gift of the void somewhere on her body to make the transition easier.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action or Reaction to activate. Select a Location which is at most 50 feet away horizontally or 10 feet away vertically. This Effect cannot be used unless She has to have at least two Warp Form Augments on her in order to use Warp. They must give no functional benefit.. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect.
You jump to the chosen location. If the landing is precarious, the GM may call for a roll to land safely. You will never take fall damage from successfully landing a jump made with this Effect.
You may activate this effect while in free-fall, as long as your target Location is a surface on which you can land.
Instead of physically passing through the air, you are teleported directly to your destination. Does not allow you to go through walls.
Athena reaches into the void and is able to extract any concept from the land where all things do and do not exist. She then spends her time imprinting a a physical manifestation of the improvement upon the bodies of whoever she is treating.
Exert your Mind and spend an hour to activate. Select a Living target within arm's reach. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect. The target can easily Resist.
You may add one augmentation to your target. Each augmentation counts as a Battle Scar and can have exactly one of the following Effects:
You may cure any Battle Scars you have created with this Effect with a Free Action on your initiative. They are healed over the course of the next hour.
Self Explanatory - She's smart af.
You gain the following benefits as long as you have your Heterochronatic Eyes.
Your Intellect rating is increased by 1. You may Exert your Mind to automatically gain an Outcome of 5 on any roll that uses Intellect (Cannot be used on combat rolls or Power activations).
If you are witnessed actively using this Effect, whoever sees it can make a Perception + Alertness roll at Difficulty 6. A complete success reveals the source of your power.
You also gain the following effects:
Athena taps into the Goddess of Khaos' portion of the void and uses a small portion of it as a temporary holding space. In order to not attract Khaos' wrath, she often replaces items in this pocket portion with tokens of birds in order to appease the fair goddess.
Spend an Action to activate. This Effect cannot be used unless Usless Augments. You must actively and obviously use A token of a Bird (Either a real bird, a convincing fake one, or even well taken pictures) to activate this Effect.
You may withdraw an item from your stash, or add an item that is within 30 feet of you to your stash. You may only stash targets which are not possessed by someone else, and are freestanding and unattached.
You may store any targets in your stash, each no larger than something which could fit inside an SUV (4,000 liters), and you may store up to 3 things at a time.
Time is effectively frozen inside your stash. Anything Sapient inside can still move and may still experience their own localized, subjective passage of time.
Whenever you withdraw an Object from your Stash, you must immediately Stash another object to replace it. You may only stash objects you are attuned to. Attuning an object requires one minute of physical contact.
Track your current equipment here. You may start with anything your Contractor would reasonably have access to.
Trophies are special objects and equipment.
Examples of Trophies include healing potions, scrolls, sci-fi technology, or any supernatural item that was not created with The Contract's Gift system.
Because Trophies may have GM-created systems, they also record the Playgroup they were acquired in.
This is one of the few safe ways that Athena was able to stabalize the volatile nature of the Void. In the form of this miniature dispensor that produces nutrient paste, put together as a result of the incredible energies working in harmony. It can only dispense enough paste for three people per day. When consumed, the void reverts part of the target to a previous state. Athena uses this to remove the damage of relatively recent battlescars and place it upon a shadowy construct, reverting the target to their state before they received that battlescar.
Unfortunately, this does tend to give the target visions of the void which can traumatize them.
Expend a point of Battery and spend ten minutes to activate. Select a Living target within arm's reach. Your target must make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect. Select a Battle Scar on your target to treat.
The treated Battle Scar will heal over the course of the next week. Your patient is required to The target can not be supernaturally healed other than Athena's Alleviate power for the next month. If they violate this rule, your treatment is immediately reversed.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see a tentacle black mass regurgitated from the target's mouth. It looks exactly like the target with the same battlescar and will attempt to immediately flee into the nearest body of water and dissappear.
Athena was born within a well off family to a loving mother and a comparably distant father, buried headfirst in research of ancient primordial beings. Perhaps in some desperate search of purpose- kept sane by a worrywart of a wife. Athena was the second oldest of eight siblings, so her home life seldom had a moment of downtime. And oftentimes, it was just too much for her to deal with, especially once her father felt loke he was hitting strides and breakthroughs and resolved himself to download his findings and faith upon his children.
Athena wound up hanging out with friends and killing time eye deep in books and movies to escape the crass, albeit interesting, drabble. Neither helped cure her awkwardness, but she was at peace with it and herself right up until the day her mother died in a car crash.
Everyone was distraught, but nobody was more affected than Athena's father and luck would have it that Athena graduated and moved out when she got the chance, because a couple years later, she stopped receiving letters and texts from some of her family members.
Athena's suspicions grew as to their whereabouts, eapecially after remembering some of her fathers words. Something about the void and how his bloodline traced back to a long line of those who worshipped and received gifts from the ancient primordial Goddess Khaos. And then she saw it- or them, rather.
Her own brothets and sisters, trapped in a collidascope of colors never before seen, shapes never before taken form, and concepts long since destroyed at the hands of enigmatic deities. Their eyws glassed over and their bodies frozen in time. Athena realized it almost immediately. Her family was trapped within the deepest parts of the void and in a forbidden zone watched over by [Redacted] that not even the Greek Goddess Khaos or her constituents could even touch. But the icing was the sorry sight on the side. Athena saw the worn and exhausted visage that was her father- marred and maimed by his madness. Shouting a prayer of forgiveness, sorrow, and woe in the hopes of raising the dead. An obsession to resurrect her wife at the expense of his own children.
...
That was the end of Athenas dream. A nightmare, so it seemed- of which thr outcome remains uncertain to this day. The practicing physician was prepared to write it off as nothing more than a nightmare until she received her first visit from a Harbinger. The actors of the powers that be. Their most trusted chosen. And they had come to herald Athena's ascension- her acceptance into the games.
Why not. If there was even a small chance to save her brothers and sisters, it would be a disservice to not even try...
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