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Pain Suppression Unit YOU CAN'T KILL ME I'M TOO HALFDAN
When I hold a weapon in my hand, I forget about any pain that might be affecting me. It all just goes away and I can focus on what's important.
A network of nodes along synapse paths pain travels along halt the sensation of pain. In effect, Halfdan's pain is caught in the act and strangled out of existence.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using a melee weapon to gain the benefits of this Effect.
Your Body and Mind Penalties are reduced to 0.
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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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Grit Gifts
Zemlya's Unyielding Tenacity
The Ancient Earth's Grim Blessing
Maggie's pact with Zemlya, Grandfather Rock, grants her a power as old and unforgiving as the mountains themselves. This eldritch spirit, old as the night sky and a witness to the cosmic endlessness, embodies the resilience of nature against the tides of time. When activated, Maggie must offer a sacrifice of her own blood - a small, self-inflicted wound that serves as a conduit for Zemlya's ancient power, jolting her awake to resist against the tides of exhaustion and incapacitation.
Increase your sacrificial Injury's Severity by 1 and spend an Action.
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.
If you are Stunned, asleep, drugged, or otherwise made unconscious for any reason other than being Incapacitated, you may Exert your Mind to wake up. Any penalty which was caused by this condition is removed.
If you do not have a sacrificial Injury when you activate this Effect, take a new Severity-1 Injury.
- The sacrificial Injury received from activating this Effect cannot be prevented by any means or healed before 1 day has passed. It is shared with all Effects that use sacrifice. This Injury does not requires Stabilization or cause Battle Scars when it becomes Severe.
Focus of a killer
With a gun in my hand, nothing else matters
Len holds her weapon, and while she has it, doing the work of her god, no concerns of her body worry her.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using Firearm to gain the benefits of this Effect.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
Undead resilience
Due to the state of undeath, injuries do not impede Edward. The injuries still happen but, unless they caused him to become unconscious or killed him, he can still do everything the same as if he wasn’t injured in the first place.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries is reduced to 0. Does not reduce Stress from Mind Damage.
Penitent's Oath
Shrug It Off. You Have Work To Do.
Death is but a heartbeat away. It would love to claim you.
You can't escape that easily, Jacob.
Christ himself was nailed to the cross. He was left hanging there for days. He was speared. He died.
And yet, he fulfilled his duty.
Nothing short of death will relieve you of yours.
You will finish what you started.
And you will only die when we let you, Jacob.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
You may move at your normal speed and still maintain Concentration. Taking an Injury less than Severity 6 no longer interrupts Concentration.
If you are Stunned, asleep, drugged, or otherwise made unconscious for any reason other than being Incapacitated, you may Exert your Mind to wake up. Any penalty which was caused by this condition is removed.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Fettered: Roll self-control whenever someone suggests failing or losing the Contract to not blame yourself and start taking obvious courses of actions to complete the job on your own, even at risk of your safety.
Hardened Resolve
Ramsey’s experience as a child has hardened his resolve, damage to his body and mind do not bother him. Physically, he has been branded with a large Eye on the back of his head, which opens to reveal an actual eye when Ramsey uses his powers.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Soft Spot: Back of head.
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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.