River may seem like the chillest dude on earth, but it comes at a cost. When tensions run high, he may lose control, transforming into a horrible mixture of man and beast. His flesh warps in unpredictable and horrific ways, growing and reabsorbing limbs and extremities in a chaotic expression of his passion.
Exert your Mind and spend a Quick Action to activate.
You transform into monstrous mixture of human and beast for 3 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are monstrous mixture of human and beast, and you can use your equipment. Your Battle Scars, Injuries, and physical Liabilities are carried over between forms. While transformed, your Brawn is increased by 1 and your Dexterity is increased by 1.
You do not suffer wound penalties while in your Alternate Form.
While transformed, you automatically fail any Mind roll to resist an impulse and suffer -3 dice on all other Mind rolls.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Roll Mind, Difficulty 8 when emotions run high not to transform (rage, fear, etc).
You cannot speak any coherent verbal language and must resort to other means of communication.
light a cig, smoke enters their brain
Exert your Mind and spend at least one Action. Select a number of Sapient targets equal to your Charisma within 100 feet. You must actively and obviously use cigarette to activate this Effect. Your target may be actively engaged in Combat. Communicate a command to your targets. Roll Charisma + Influence at Difficulty 6. The targets may resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 7.
If the contested Outcome is positive, your targets will be compelled to follow your command to their best understanding of the letter and spirit of the command until they have completed it or for your Contested Outcome in hours. You cannot issue another suggestion to the target until 10 minutes after they have completed the first command or 10 minutes after a failure.
The target is unaware that they are under supernatural influence and feel they are acting of their own free will. If you fail, they realize that you were attempting to influence them supernaturally with your command.
Your command can be an order to take an immediate Action. You cannot order a target to "do nothing," and they are free to take other Actions as they fulfill your request. Your command cannot be obviously self-destructive. Commands may force a target to violate one of their Limits, and they will need to make a Trauma roll once the suggestion wears off.
You must have some means of communicating this command to your targets, but no one other than you and them will understand or perceive it.
With superhero prowess he strikes his foes (or what he thinks his foes are) with his strong manly hands. Within seconds they vaporize into thin air "unexpectedly" and accidentally saving multiple people.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in unarmed combat. You must actively and obviously be using Super Suit to gain the benefits of this Effect.
+2 dice to rolls for Attacking, Defending, and Clashing without a weapon. Unarmed attacks do +0 Bonus Damage Weapon Damage (instead of -1). The target's Armor is fully effective against this damage.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: "Super Hands" - Cannot feel temperature, No sense of touch.
You also gain the following effects:
You possess four long tentacles around your toothy mouth, used to grab prey.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You gain 4 additional limbs that function as standard human arms and hands.
Each additional limb you posses can take one Quick Action per Round without incurring a -2 dice penalty to your main Action. Each additional appendage you have gives you +1 dice to make and resist Grapples (up to a maximum bonus of +4 dice).
Any Battle Scars that affect or remove your additional limb will heal in a single week.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Squid Face.
You cannot be mistaken for a normal human. You cannot always use standard human clothes, equipment, vehicles, and facilities, and when you can, you suffer an increased Difficulty.
Your Extra Appendage is incapable of fine object manipulation.
Old woman use frog ray to turn man into frog man. Woah.
Spend an Action. Select a Living target within 45 feet. You must actively and obviously use wand to activate this Effect. Roll Intellect + Occult at Difficulty 6. The target may roll Body, 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:
You may affect up to 3 targets within range.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
Your alteration "heals" over the course of the next month, after which it is fully cured.
Her hair being whipped around akin to a hurricane, water droplets form around Brooke and coalesce around her body, encompassing her. The water buckles and glows, then finally spreads out to release Brooke as it swirls around her, glowing eyes and whiskers forming from the water. The Lake Lord has awoken.
The Lake Lord is a spirit. It is bound to its lake, but it learned how to split off fragments and send them far away, then reabsorb them when they return. After a terrible accident renders the Puddlings unable to return to the main body to join the whole, Brooke must take up the task of finding and returning them all so that the Lake Lord may become whole again.
The Lake Lord counts as a Construct, being both Sapient and Non-Living. The Puddlings, being lesser in mind than their larger form, count as Animate Non-Living Creatures.
Increase your sacrificial Injury's Severity by 1 and spend an Action.
Summon the one and only Sapient Lake Lord at your location. They last until they are destroyed They are controlled by you. You may have at most one minion active at a time.
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
If killed, you cannot re-summon your minion until after your next Contract.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Conduit - Your minion may only be understood by you, not by anyone else unless they have a Commune power targeting Sapient beings. Additionally, whenever your minion takes a severity 3 or higher injury, roll Mind at difficulty 8. On a failure, take one mind damage.
If you do not have a sacrificial Injury when you activate this Effect, take a new Severity-1 Injury.
The Thief has a stash in which they can store a few objects. It can be accessed through any burlap sack.
Spend a Quick Action. You must actively and obviously use a burlap sack to activate this Effect.
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 Objects in your stash, each no larger than something which could fit inside a briefcase (15 liters), and you may store up to 3 things at a time.
You may choose to equip any equipment you withdraw at no additional cost.
The Blademaster is so attuned to blades that they may manipulate any bladed object at a range simply by willing it. Observers see translucent spider-silk connecting the Blademaster's fingers to the blade, allowing them to puppet it.
You gain the following benefits as long as the target object has a cutting edge.
As long as you maintain Concentration, you can take Actions and interact with things that are within 75 feet without needing to physically touch them or be near them. Any rolls made for Actions taken in this way use a Mental Strength of 2 in place of your Brawn rating, a Mental Agility of 2 in place of your Dexterity, and otherwise use your own Attributes and Abilities.
Telekinetic actions have the following restrictions and behaviors:
The detective pulls out their magnifying glass and investigates the area, learning details about any nearby structures and picking up details on what sorts of beings have passed through and when.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Investigate an area with a radius of up to 100 feet You must actively and obviously use a magnifying glass to activate this Effect. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Investigation at Difficulty 6.
You learn the following information about the area:
You cannot investigate the same area more than once per day.
Unimportant characters just can't seem to hit our hero with their attacks. Injuries that are sustained from underlings are conveniently non-severe.
You gain the following benefits as long as the attacker isn't important enough to have a name.
You have 4 Armor, which reduces incoming Damage. Armor from multiple sources does not stack. This Armor cannot be circumvented with Called Shots.
By slowing the hands of one of their watches, the time-traveler may interrupt and slow a target's movement through time. The target appears to be moving in slow motion for the duration.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Animate target within 20 feet. You must actively and obviously use a watch or clock to activate this Effect. Roll Intellect + Science at Difficulty 7.
If you succeed, the target will suffer a dice penalty equal to the Outcome for the next 2 Rounds. Dice pools may be reduced all the way down to 0 by this penalty. This breaks Concentration.
You may activate this Effect as a Reaction to contest any Action a valid target is taking, reducing their Outcome by your own. Your command has no impact beyond disrupting their Action.