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Fascinating Cooking Charisma There is nothing more charming than someone having fun with their job
Bu fang takes out his knife, as his knife glows a shade of gold, an illusion of him appearing behind is target, and anyone nearby. This illusion, about 4 meter seems to tower over them, before grabbing something from them, something intangible, like some kind of thread and cooks it, while hovering over them for the entire duration.
If possible, Charisma+Cooking
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate. Select a Location within 300 feet. You must actively and obviously use Knife to activate this Effect. Roll Charisma + Crafts at Difficulty 7.
If you succeed, all Animate targets within 20 feet of the chosen Location will suffer a dice penalty equal to the Outcome for the next 3 rounds. Dice pools may be reduced all the way down to 0 by this penalty.
- This Penalty is not removed if a character Exerts their Mind to ignore penalty.
- If a character has a dice pool reduced to 0, they cannot attempt that action.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
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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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Stun Gifts
Cosmic Tazer
Using cosmic energy to empower his non-lethal weapons
Marshall Marshall has learned that it is not merely The Great Monkey King that he gains powers from, but from the cosmos itself, including imbuing his non-lethal weapons with the otherworldly power of cosmic lightning. This ability temporarily impeeds the target's chi paths with cosmic energy, slowing or even outright stopping his opponents. His quick reflexes even allow him to shoot this energy to stun an opponent mid-action, making it ineffectual.
(Note, despite the selected skill, this is intended to be used with Non-Lethal Weapon Mastery)
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Animate target within 20 feet. You must actively and obviously use a Nonlethal Weapon to activate this Effect. Roll Perception + Alertness 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 Exert your Mind and spend a Reaction to contest an Action someone is taking. Roll Perception + Alertness at Difficulty 7. Subtract your Outcome from theirs, and they use the Contested Outcome to determine if their Action succeeds.
- This Penalty is not removed if a character Exerts their Mind to ignore penalty.
- If a character has a dice pool reduced to 0, they cannot attempt that action.
- 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.
Nebulochaoticism
“Chill out with me for a sec, man. Hold still.”
Angel hefts up a bat or anything similar and swings it from a ways away. Despite the lack of physical contact, the target is struck across the face and put into a pleasant, smiling daze like Angel’s previous default. They may look around or ask questions like “Why am I here again?”.
Activated Rune: Calm Anger
Expend a point of Battery and spend an Action. Select a Animate target within 20 feet. Roll Brawn + Influence at Difficulty 7.
If you succeed, the target will suffer a dice penalty equal to the Outcome for the next 3 Rounds. Dice pools may be reduced all the way down to 0 by this penalty. This breaks Concentration.
- This Penalty is not removed if a character Exerts their Mind to ignore penalty.
- If a character has a dice pool reduced to 0, they cannot attempt that action.
- 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.
Slow it Down!
A broken clock is right twice a day!
An ethereal clock face appears in the users left hand palm, with the hands wildly moving around with no sign of stopping. Upon pointing the clock face at an adversary, the clock hands stop and the face flashes, upon which the target is surrounded by a faint yellow glow and begins to move slower than average.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Animate target within 20 feet. Roll Dexterity + Alertness 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 Exert your Mind and spend a Reaction to contest an Action someone is taking. Roll Dexterity + Alertness at Difficulty 7. Subtract your Outcome from theirs, and they use the Contested Outcome to determine if their Action succeeds.
After you finish activating this Effect, you cannot move quicker than a walk (max 15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour. Exhaustion’s penalty and duration stacks with multiple activations.
- Exhaustion penalties and duration stack. If you activate this Effect or another Effect with Exhaustion, your penalty will worsen, and the duration is increased by one hour.
- This Penalty is not removed if a character Exerts their Mind to ignore penalty.
- If a character has a dice pool reduced to 0, they cannot attempt that action.
- 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.
Flare of Chitari
"why don't you stand there pretty while my gas does it's work"
Sara, with the help of Chitari, wills a green pulsing ball of energy into existence and throws it at the target, and a bright green light bursts from it, concussing everyone around it in a 20ft radius, though channeling the power through normal flesh is.... unreliable
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate. Select a Location within 20 feet. Roll a single d10, Difficulty 4. If you fail or botch, the Effect fails and you cannot activate it again for an hour. Roll Brawn + Alertness at Difficulty 7.
If you succeed, all Animate targets within 20 feet of the chosen Location 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.
- If this Effect fails due to the Unreliable check, you must still pay any associated activation costs.
- If a character has a dice pool reduced to 0, they cannot attempt that action.
- If a character Exerts their Mind to ignore penalty, it also ignores penalty from this Effect.
- You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
Dark Grasp
Shadowmancer
From the darkness of your shadow there is a ripple, tearing through the light as a tentacle of deep black color grows solid, heading at a great speed towards the target and wrap around it.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Animate target within 20 feet. Roll Intellect + Occult 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.
- This Penalty is not removed if a character Exerts their Mind to ignore penalty.
- If a character has a dice pool reduced to 0, they cannot attempt that action.
- 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.
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Slo-mo
Take a minute, won't you?
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.
- This Penalty is not removed if a character Exerts their Mind to ignore penalty.
- If a character has a dice pool reduced to 0, they cannot attempt that action.
- 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.