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Iron Gut "Stomach the pain. Swallow the fear."
Rocky don’t crack. Trash route or hit job, he takes it all with a smoke on his lip and blood on his boots. Pain’s just part of the route
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
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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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Grit Gifts
Vermeil Offering
Exsanguinate exchange.
While actively being collected in preparation for the usage of this gift, the blood in physical contact with the user darkens as it coalesces into black, ever-shifting glyphs which get drawn to and absorbed by the user's skin, be it their hands or mouth. All blood within the same pool gets drawn to the point of contact as the gift is being used, with the draw being stronger the closer it is to the user.
When the gift is used, a dark blur with ever-shifting glyphs visible within quickly spreads across the user's body before dissipating. It lingers around injured areas for a moment longer, exhibiting a crimson sheen.
The wound of the source from where the blood being used had originated from darkens, with the edges getting surrounded by equally-black, unknown, intertwined glyphs. While the imprint normally fades away completely within hours, it may instead remain for longer, up to a week, in proportion to how fiercely the source opposed the gift's usage on them. (lack of sapience or awareness at the time of gift usage results in the normal hour-or-so fadeaway time)
The parts of the gift user's flesh which interacted with the source's blood in order to activate the gift are graced with a black imprint which fades away over time, aforementioned glyphs at the edges included. The fadeaway is linked to the fadeaway of the imprint on the source.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must use up at least a handful of fresh, foreign blood absorbed either through the hands or mouth in order to activate this Effect.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0. Lasts three hours.
You may move at your normal speed and still maintain Concentration. Taking an Injury less than Severity 6 no longer interrupts Concentration.
Been There, Smelt That
My brother in Christ Louie G cant smell
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Body and Mind Penalties are reduced to 0.
Runes Of Endurance
The runes glow a deep orange as they seem to force the user to live, to continue to fight with gritted teeth. Pain is a drag, after all, you don't need it.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
While Incapacitated, you may Exert your Mind to take a single action.
Brave the Storm
Panic is an expensive luxury
Oleg has stood where lesser men falter — amidst blood, screams, and chaos. A surgeon by trade, a survivor by necessity, he’s trained his mind to cut through terror as deftly as his scalpel through flesh. In the eye of disaster, where adrenaline crushes reason and fear clouds judgment, Oleg endures. Fatigue, pain, and looming violence are reduced to background noise; his focus remains razor-sharp, his hands steady. Every heartbeat counts, every decision is a lifeline. Whether under gunfire or in a collapsing trauma ward, Oleg faces calamity with unflinching resolve. The storm rages — but he does not waver. Lives depend on it.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0. Lasts three hours.
Hunters Mind
Take a deep breath... and focus
With a deep breath, steady thy hands, calm your heart, and take aim...
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using Dolphin teeth necklace to gain the benefits of this Effect.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
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Grit Gifts
Stop Whining
The mobster's been through tougher scrapes than this. A few cuts and bruises won't stop them.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries is reduced to 0. Does not reduce Stress from Mind Damage.