In a harbor warehouse, screams and gunshots thunder throughout the morning chill. Inside a man crashes in a tower of wooden crates, bones shattered like glass under the weight of them. Another man is sprawled on the ground, his back bent inwards while his mangled arms rope around his neck. Around lay a dozen man all mangled, bleeding on the ground like rabid dogs. A lone survivor was all that remain, picked up by the throat as the gun in his hand was crushed by a fist larger than his , not even a scream can make it out of his strained trachea. Then a hand gripped his mandibles and the other that grasped his throat now hinged itself onto his upper maw. Slowly the hands pulled away , the mandible and the maw slowly being ripped apart as the splitting scream and sound of ripping tissue play in harmony.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Brawn rating is increased by 1. You may Exert your Mind to automatically gain an Outcome of 5 on any roll that uses Brawn (cannot be used on combat rolls or Effect activations).
You also gain the following effects:
You have a particularly keen 'sixth sense' for detecting movement nearby. Technically, it's a semi-vestigial proto-organ running parallel to your cheekbones, from your nose to your ears, which picks up minute changes in air pressure and faint electrical signals, but why would *you* know that?
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Eerily Aware - *How do you know where they aaarreee?* Except for when you're trying to creep people out, you make all in-person Social rolls at +1 difficulty. The Beautiful asset is repressed while you have this scar.
The people around Fred feel a sense of intense cold and feel as though they just stepped into a freezer, He then reaches out opening what appears to be the door to a freeze, it is covered in blood that seems to slowly ooze out of every side of the door and seemingly makes an arcane circle on the ground out of crystalized blood and drags out a corpse from the door. While he is dragging a corpse out of the freezer room those in the area can hear the sound of bones cracking under the forces that have been applied to it, though this does no real damage to the bodies that he drags out
Spend a Quick Action.
You may withdraw an item from your stash, or add an item that is within arm’s reach to your stash. You may only stash targets which are in your possession, grappled, or otherwise controlled by you.
You may store Corpse in your stash, each no larger than something which could fit inside a rolling luggage bag (60 liters), and you may store up to 35 of them at a time.
You may choose to equip any equipment you withdraw at no additional cost.
Animate targets may Resist being stashed. You must Exert your Mind to stash Sapient targets.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see the crushing rending and freezing of flesh.
His hand distorts in a static mess, and with the touch of his hand against his victim he distorts their flesh to his will.
Exert your Mind and Spend an Action. Select a Living target within arm's reach. Roll Intellect + Occult 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:
Shadows build around Sly, slowly wrapping around and shifting his form down to a smaller form. A small black cat.
Exert your Mind and spend one minute.
You transform into Black Cat until you transform into something else or choose to return to your original form. See the Extended System text for stats.
While transformed, you cannot use any equipment (including Artifacts and Consumables), and you do not have access to any of your Powers. Any equipment you are wearing transforms with you.
Injuries and Wound Level are carried over between forms. However, transforming can never kill you; you merely remain Incapacitated until your Injuries are sufficiently healed.
Bakeneko are known to have natural iron stomachs, chowing down on flammable materials and poisons like they're nothing. Goro's immune system has adapted as a direct result of this, strengthening his body's resistance to oncoming phenomena.
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:
The Witch summons a crow, whispers a message to it, and sends it off to deliver her words. Half an hour later, the crow arrives at the recipient and repeats her message aloud in its croaking, animal voice.
Spend an Action. Select a target any distance away from you. You must have a specific target in mind, but you require only an intuitive understanding of them, such as their name, face, or Location.
You may send a single message to your target. It can be as complex or as large as you like. It takes at least 30 minutes before it is received.
The message may be intercepted while in transit, and may be overheard, read, or otherwise understood by anyone near either you or the recipient. You must share a common language for your target to understand the message.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
The pyro points a laser pointer towards a target, and a cat-sized-and-shaped fire springs into life, very clearly attracted to the laser. This flame cat can also be shaped from existing fires. While the pointer is active it remains in the shape of a cat, pouncing towards the little red dot. When the laser pointer is not active, the flames return to normal.
Thank you to the original creator of this Gift, Frakcherd https://www.thecontractrpg.com/profile/view/603/
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a target within 20 feet which has both fuel and oxygen available (if you are starting a new fire). You must actively and obviously use a laser pointer to activate this Effect.
You may start or extinguish a fire as large as a fire in a residential fireplace at your target. Extinguishing a fire does not cost Exertion. You may create or extinguish fires the size of a lighter or candle flame without Exerting your Mind. Your fires require fuel and oxygen in order to continue burning.
Lighting a target on fire deals 3 Damage each Round on your turn, starting in the Round after the one in which they caught fire. This Damage is reduced by Armor, but the target’s Armor rating will be shredded by any Damage dealt, destroying material Armor once it reaches 0.
You may extinguish flames as a Reaction. This does not extend to explosives.
You may spend a Free Action on your initiative move a fire as large as a fire in a residential fireplace that is within 20 feet to another location within 20 feet. You may Exert your Mind to draw a line which a fire up to twice as large as a fire in a residential fireplace cannot cross.
The Thief examines an object closely for a minute to appraise its value. As their eyes dance across the subject, their pupils split vertically, and their irises fade to gold. If it is a particularly valuable item, the Thief may greedily lick their lips, revealing a forked tongue.
Within a minute, they have determined how materially valuable the object is and why.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Select a target Object within arm's reach. At the end of your investigation, roll Charisma + Culture at Difficulty 6.
You learn all the following information about your target:
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.
The time-twister spins a dial on one of her watches, slowing time for everyone but her and one other person.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must actively and obviously use a watch or clock to activate this Effect.
Lasts 1 minute. Whenever you use your Movement, after all other calculations, the distance you may travel is doubled.
Outside of Combat, any non-Gift, non-movement Actions you attempt take drastically less time to complete, as long as your personal speed is a factor in the Action. Total time reduction is determined by the GM and capped at 90% (executing the Action takes no less than 1/10th the normal time).
While using this Effect, you may carry one other being without affecting your Encumbrance, so long as you maintain contact with them for the duration and they consent or are grappled.
By focusing, the Thief may shroud their hands in shadowy tendrils that seek nearby objects like static-charged hairs. They cast themselves across any surface the Thief touches, acting as anchors that allow the Thief to scale even the sheerest walls.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You may move easily and without a roll in any of the following situations. Lasts 2 hours.