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No pain No gain
No pain
No pain
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Body Penalty is reduced to 0. Does not reduce Mind Penalty.
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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
Existing in Perpetuity
When new stress is applied, Ophelia's blue and gold eyes begin to glow brightly as strands of Gold, Red, and Black float around her body in a state of stasis, before gradually fading away, out of other's views.
Being one who interacts with the tapestry of fate grants Ophelia complete confidence she will be at the right place, at the right time. She severs the threads connected to possible futures in which she fails from interconnected events. With the weight of those possibilities removed, the stress on her mind and body dissipate.
Only she can impact her destiny. Only she can weave her own fate.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
Contractor's experience
"Not this shit again"
having experienced enough physical trauma for several people, Mako's body and nerves have stopped giving a shit to pain responses, and instead, focus on the situation at hand to ensure that they are kept alive
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Body Penalty is reduced to 0. Does not reduce Mind Penalty.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action. This Effect cannot be used unless severity 5+.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0. Lasts three hours.
The Show Must Go On!
It ain't ovah 'till the fat lady sings.
When fighting game music starts, Keys gets in the Zone! Increasing his focus by 10000%, making it so it's virtually impossible to hit him!! Or at least to see the damage.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
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.
Strength of the Jungle
I must keep moving, for Chetming.
When this affect is activated, a beaming insignia of a banana appears on my left cheek.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
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.
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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.