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Weaving the Ley
Flickering through their senses, like peering into the connections of the world. Her Mother's blood and heritage blesses them with the sight of peering into the unknown. Channeling their own magic into their senses, they can connect the dots and find the flow streaming through, like a lavender river of the Arcane. If perchance detecting creatures, she doesn't get their rough shape, just how much magic/alien energy they have stored.
Beings that are Imbued, or have an Source-points that relates to the Occult would proc this sense, as well as activations and passives that relate to such abilities. Alien Technology and Ordinary Humans that do no possess any inherent abilities of the Occult, will not be seen.
RNG: Alien as in Sci-Fi
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
- Sense Arcana: You may detect magical fields, magical currents and even magical activity in a 50 foot radius from yourself, at all times. When detecting Magical Activity, you learn nothing but the strength of its presence.
Any senses which have been heightened cannot be overloaded. Battle Scars you receive cannot affect these senses.
- Examples of overloading a sense include: an explosion causing temporary deafness, a bright light causing blindness, a sedative causing numbness, etc.
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The Sons of Salem
We swear to secure our people against the wickedness and evil of the invisible world.
We swear to aid the afflicted.
We swear to stay ever vigilant and seek out the abominable witchcrafts committed in this country.
We humbly pray to be blessed by God to hold all those who consort with the Devil accountable. Amen
—Opening and closing prayer for Sons of Salem meetings.
The Sons of Salem is a loosely-organized conservative populist movement in the United States that preaches violent opposition to anything they perceive as witchcraft, demonic, or monstrous.
Blowhard podcaster Ted Gundy and former general of the mercenary group “Hognose,” Roland Rush, founded the movement in 2010 after a series of violent werewolf attacks and unexplained, supernatural murders in Tennessee. Memberships grew quickly, stoked by Ted’s fiery doomsday rhetoric on his podcast "Truth Seekers" and the aspiration of the masculine power embodied by Roland.
Although they speak of duty, honor, and maintaining the “natural order” of things, the Sons of Salem are driven by fear. They collect guns and appear at protests en-masse as a way of easing the all-consuming terror of their powerlessness. At the same time, they have conditioned themselves to respond to fear with “strength” (read: violence).
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Heightened Senses Gifts
Healing Embrace
"The best medicine!"
Tubby hugs another to heal them. The hug is warm and fills the target with a sense of love. Tubby absorbs the pain of the individual.
-CONDITION-
Gentle Touch: After-care Instructions from Tubby for healing your wounds. (You are required to not harm or kill another being for the next month. If you violate this rule, the treatment is immediately reversed.)
Exert your Mind and spend 1 minute. Select a Living target within arm's reach. You cannot target yourself. Choose a specific Injury on your target that has not yet been treated with this Effect and roll Charisma + Influence 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 not harm or kill another being for the next month. If they violate this rule, your treatment is immediately reversed.
- The patient is aware of the after-care requirement.
- Unstabilized wounds do not degenerate during treatment.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
- Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.
Knock on Wood
I will find you.
Kirk knocks on a nearby wall and sighs.
"Four soldiers, lined up to enter the room in 3... 2... 1-" The door bursts open.
Ever since he left Desert Storm, Kirk has felt different. Regardless of the skills he might've acquired, he knew for a fact that it wasn't normal to be able to fit a gun in a glove, especially not an assault rifle. It is only now that he is realizing that he is learning the way of the ghosts.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
- Hearing: You are capable of perceiving physical shapes via sound. You must produce a knocking sound to “ping” with your echolocation each Round you wish to use it.
- Hearing: You may spend an Action to ultrasound a surface within arm’s reach. Doing so reveals the internal structures of beings or objects. When used on the ground or a wall, you detect any tunnels, pipes, or hallways within 40 feet.
Hunter - heightened senses
A hunter's overall auditory, olfactory, and visual senses are enhanced exponentially, this gives them strong tracking skills.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
- Smell: Your nose is highly sensitive and can differentiate between scents the way a dog can, as well as recognize things you have smelled before.
- Sight: You can see things that are normally invisible to the naked eye, such as fingerprints and bacteria.
- Hearing: You automatically know the origin location of any sound you hear, and you can tell which Action caused the sound.
Any heightened senses require you to maintain Concentration to use, and do not apply to any passive Perception checks.
- Your microscopic vision requires a close look at a very small, specific area to use. It does not grant increased distance vision, it simply provides a higher resolution, allowing you to see finer and finer detail.
Lilītu’s Sight
An extra chapter has been sewn into this book that cannot be found in other copies of History in Blood. It’s handwritten pages detail the origins and capabilities of vampires from countless cultures around the world, from the Romanian Dracula, to the Chinese Jiangshi, to the Indian Pishacha.
By performing a short ritual detailed at the end of the extra chapter, an occultist can imbue themselves with a potent, albeit short-lived, expansion of their natural senses not unlike the capabilities of many nightwalkers. After being fed a measure of blood, the skin around the practitioner’s eyes will stain red, only to fade back to its normal coloration after a few moments.
Whenever these senses are being tapped into, the practitioner’s irises will turn blood red, and will eventually stain the space around their eyes with extended use. Their vision will be tinted with a deep blue whenever detecting electricity and heat, with creature’s circulatory and nervous systems lighting up with red and silver respectively.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must use up 1 Liter of Blood in order to activate this Effect.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way. Lasts for three hours.
- Smell: Your nose is highly sensitive and can differentiate between scents the way a dog can, as well as recognize things you have smelled before.
- Electroreception: You may detect electromagnetic fields, electric currents, and even neurological activity in a 50 foot radius from yourself at all times. When detecting neurological activity, you learn nothing but the creature's rough size.
- Thermal: You are able to "see" heat signatures within your line of sight.
- Sight: You can see things that are normally invisible to the naked eye, such as fingerprints and bacteria.
Any senses which have been heightened cannot be overloaded. Battle Scars you receive cannot affect these senses.
- Examples of overloading a sense include: an explosion causing temporary deafness, a bright light causing blindness, a sedative causing numbness, etc.
- When you are within 50 feet of range, your electroreception sense is sufficient for aiming.
- Your thermal vision allows you to judge temperatures of surfaces fairly accurately as long as they are within livable temperatures.
- Your microscopic vision requires a close look at a very small, specific area to use. It does not grant increased distance vision, it simply provides a higher resolution, allowing you to see finer and finer detail.
A shocking revelation
The tips of the wearers fingers gain static charge during day to day actions. Their sense of touch is fine tuned to the point of instant recognition based of the electrical flow leaving their fingers. They also receive stimuli from the passive electrical fields in their surroundings through their hands. The tingling in their fingers tends to keep people up at night unless they can mentally tune it out.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
- Electroreception: You may detect electromagnetic fields, electric currents, and even neurological activity in a 50 foot radius from yourself at all times. When detecting neurological activity, you learn nothing but the creature's rough size.
- Touch: You can identify any material with a touch and immediately find what you are looking for when rummaging, assuming it is actually present. You may withdraw items from your bags with a Quick Action instead of an Action.
Anyone who touches this Artifact will notice it warping their body and may drop it. If they choose to hold or use it, they immediately receive the following Battle Scar: Insomnia: Make a self control roll at the start of the contract and whenever you have a full nights rest. if you fail you don’t sleep and take one mind damage.. If they lose possession of this Artifact, the Battle Scar heals over the course of the next day.
- When you are within 50 feet of range, your electroreception sense is sufficient for aiming.
- “Rummaging" means digging through trash, finding a needle in a haystack, etc.
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Wolf's Nose
"You're sweating. I can smell it."
Even in human form, the werewolf retains their incredible sense of smell. This helps them track their prey and learn where people and things have been.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
- Smell: Your nose is highly sensitive and can differentiate between scents the way a dog can, as well as recognize things you have smelled before.
Predator/Prey
The beastmaster closes their eyes and channels nature's bloody struggle for survival. When their eyes reopen, they catch the light and glow red like a dog's. While in this heightened state, they may sense heat signatures and triangulate the tiniest sound.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way. Lasts for three hours.
- Thermal: You are able to "see" heat signatures within your line of sight.
- Hearing: You automatically know the origin location of any sound you hear, and you can tell which Action caused the sound.
- Your thermal vision allows you to judge temperatures of surfaces fairly accurately as long as they are within livable temperatures.
Attention to detail
The detective has trained their eyes to notice the smallest of details.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
- Sight: You can see things that are normally invisible to the naked eye, such as fingerprints and bacteria.
- Your microscopic vision requires a close look at a very small, specific area to use. It does not grant increased distance vision, it simply provides a higher resolution, allowing you to see finer and finer detail.