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Vermillion's Protection It is only with Integrity that one may truly thrive.
The Vermillion Chef Robe is able to strengthen the energy transfer between the user and the ingredients. It can also strengthen the user's reaction speed, increase the user's mental force, in exchange taking some vitality from the user as payment. With the pride of the vermillion bird, this robe refuses to only accept half-wins. There's no half assing here. It's either it devours the effect, or it would die than kneel.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
You get +8 dice to any Mind resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
- Acute Self-Care: You may heal any Traumas and Mind Damage received in the last 24 hours by converting an existing Trauma into a permanent Condition. If you have no existing Traumas, you may take a new permanent Condition instead.
- The Difficulty of any Mind defense roll cannot exceed the Difficulty of the activation.
- All Brain No Brawn: You suffer a -2 dice penalty on Body resistance rolls.
- Clash Of Wills: If you fail to fully resist an Effect, your Outcome is considered to be 0.
- Acute Self-Care does not work with augmentations or Traumas without downsides.
- These bonuses apply only to Mind rolls made to resist Effects and other supernatural phenomena. They do not apply to Trauma rolls or self-control rolls.
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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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Archmage's Mental Defense
I'm always keeping it in mind
A mage mind is a enigma, more-so an archmage. The complex calculations, the pure strong will and determination to push through the study of magic and its complex formulas. Though the mental load of such a thing is extremely complex, through the use of a accessory focus, Luminous has set and laid a extremely complex formula onto his earrings.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using Earring to gain the benefits of this Effect.
You get +0 dice to any Mind resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
- Instant Karma: If you successfully resist an Effect with your Mind, you may reflect it back to another target as though you had cast it.
- Naturally Resistant: Any time you make a Mind resistance roll, the individual who you are resisting must Exert their Mind, or your resistance succeeds automatically.
- When reflecting an Effect, its Activation Outcome is equal to your resistance Outcome. If you reflect it back at the target who cast it originally, they do not receive a resistance roll.
- These bonuses apply only to Mind rolls made to resist Effects and other supernatural phenomena. They do not apply to Trauma rolls or self-control rolls.
Religious Fervor
Doesn't matter
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You get +4 dice to any Mind resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
- Naturally Resistant: Any time you make a Mind resistance roll, the individual who you are resisting must Exert their Mind, or your resistance succeeds automatically.
- Resilient mind: Stress doesn’t apply to any mind rolls you make.
- Reveal Yourself To Me: If you succeed on a Mind resistance roll, you understand who was targeting you and what the intended effect was.
- These bonuses apply only to Mind rolls made to resist Effects and other supernatural phenomena. They do not apply to Trauma rolls or self-control rolls.
Tin Foil Hats
"You're not Crazy if they really are out to get ya!"
No one fashions a Tin Foil Hat like Old Man Murdock! Has bits of Oregonite in there too, don't-ya-know??? Typically a straw cowboy hat, but other models are possible.
Conspiracy Theorist: Every time you are told a Conspiracy Theory, you must make a Trauma roll to not believe it implicitly. Effect persists up to a month after removing the hat.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
You get +2 dice to any Mind resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
- Been There, Done That: If you succeed a Mind resistance roll, subsequent attempts to use that same Gift or supernatural ability on you for the next day will fail.
- Compartmentalizing: You can take a maximum of 1 Mind Damage per Round.
- Naturally Resistant: Any time you make a Mind resistance roll, the individual who you are resisting must Exert their Mind, or your resistance succeeds automatically.
- Reveal Yourself To Me: If you succeed on a Mind resistance roll, you understand who was targeting you and what the intended effect was.
Anyone who touches this Artifact will notice it warping their mind and may drop it. If they choose to hold or use it, they immediately receive the following Trauma: Conspiracy Theorist. If they lose possession of this Artifact, the Trauma heals over the course of the next day.
- If you have an Effect that allows you to Exert your Mind more than once per Round, each Exertion still causes one Mind Damage.
- These bonuses apply only to Mind rolls made to resist Effects and other supernatural phenomena. They do not apply to Trauma rolls or self-control rolls.
Force mind shield
Things start to shake a bit around you
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You get +2 dice to any Mind resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
- Force of Will: You may Exert your Mind to increase the Outcome of a Mind resistance roll by 2.
- Naturally Resistant: Any time you make a Mind resistance roll, the individual who you are resisting must Exert their Mind, or your resistance succeeds automatically.
- Resilient mind: Stress doesn’t apply to any mind rolls you make.
- Reveal Yourself To Me: If you succeed on a Mind resistance roll, you understand who was targeting you and what the intended effect was.
- These bonuses apply only to Mind rolls made to resist Effects and other supernatural phenomena. They do not apply to Trauma rolls or self-control rolls.
Just Jazz
While listening to jazz music, Rob is a lot harder to mentally disturb.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using a music player to gain the benefits of this Effect.
You get +2 dice to any Mind resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
- Been There, Done That: If you succeed a Mind resistance roll, subsequent attempts to use that same Gift or supernatural ability on you for the next day will fail.
- These bonuses apply only to Mind rolls made to resist Effects and other supernatural phenomena. They do not apply to Trauma rolls or self-control rolls.
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Helmet of the Mind
What's an "x-man?"
The mad scientist can craft steel helmets that protect their wearers from mental influence and attack.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
You get +0 dice to any Mind resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
- Naturally Resistant: Any time you make a Mind resistance roll, the individual who you are resisting must Exert their Mind, or your resistance succeeds automatically.
- Clash Of Wills: If you fail to fully resist an Effect, your Outcome is considered to be 0.
- These bonuses apply only to Mind rolls made to resist Effects and other supernatural phenomena. They do not apply to Trauma rolls or self-control rolls.