Marks caught a few villians in his day, and one thing they always seem to have in common is they never shut up.
He's learned how to conversationally 'push their buttons' and make them talk.
So far, the most reliable way has been to talk about himself, to instigate their inevitable sense of competition.
Think more.. skill of conversation than anything supernatural.
Exert your Mind (unless The target thinks they have the upper hand) and spend a minute to activate. Select a Sapient target within arm's reach. You must continuously interact with the individual in question in order to gather any information. You cannot investigate the same target more than once per hour. At the end of your investigation, roll Brawn + Influence at Difficulty 6.
You learn a single specific piece of information, chosen from the following list, about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome. For any information you learn about your target, the corresponding information about you is shared with them.
Any information you gather is A spoken conversation and made publicly available. This also includes any information the target learns about you.
white and blue light spills out of the pages as angelic voices chant in Hebrew, the target's spirit is examined
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Select a Sapient target within 20 feet. At the end of your investigation, roll Intellect + Investigation at Difficulty 6.
You learn all the following information about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
Any information you gather is angelic light reveals the information to all and made publicly available.
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.
Through its physical tethers, its vessels, The Spirit of Film Noir can act freely. While Frank serves as The Spirit's main form, it's able to briefly take root in the bodies of others, embedding itself just beneath the skin. It's willing to divulge information with Frank, even throw off its temporary hosts movements, all at the cost of a smoke break.
Spend an Action. Select a Animate target within 300 feet. You must use up a cigarette in order to activate this Effect.
Your target is marked with a greyscale spot. Your mark can be discovered if the target is inspected visually. Removal inflicts a Severity 1 Injury on the target.
You are aware of the marked target's direction and distance from you. This lasts for an hour, or until either the mark is removed, or you choose to end the Effect. You can have up to 1 mark active.
You receive +2 dice to any rolls made against a marked target.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
This Pink, sparkling bullet engraved with a butterfly hits the target and immediately transports both the shooter and the hit to a pink sparkling mindscape where both are actively sharing their most guarded secrets. No matter how long this conversation seems to take, in the real world it happens in the fraction of a second.
A magical girl imbued these bullets with her powers, and what embodies compassion and empathy more than sharing your greatest secrets with someone else.
Spend an Action and use up this Butterfly Bullet. Make a Rifle Shot Attack at a Sapient target within normal Attack range. The target may roll to dodge or Defend, as normal for Rifle Shot Attacks. The attack may or may not deal Damage as per a normal Attack, at the user's choice.
You learn all the following information about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome. For any information you learn about your target, the corresponding information about you is shared with them.
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.
Nathan analyzes the complexion, bone structure, face, and palm of his target, calculating their past, present and future based off these characteristics. During this process, he may even ask for the hour, day, month, and year of birth of his target for additional guidance.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Select a Sapient target or a Creature within arm's reach. At the end of your investigation, roll Intellect + Occult at Difficulty 6.
You learn a single specific piece of information, chosen from the following list, about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.
Matthew drinks up blood and his red eye shifts and contorts as another forms on his one and only target.
Spend an Action. Select a Animate target within 20 feet. You must use up blood in order to activate this Effect.
Your target is marked with An eye tattoo. The mark can only be discovered with a deep medical inspection or Effect. Removal inflicts a Severity 1 Injury on the target.
You are aware of the marked target's direction and distance from you. This lasts for the next month, or until either the mark is removed, or you choose to end the Effect. You can have up to 1 mark active.
Marked targets leave a trail wherever they go that is visible only to you and those you teach to see it. This trail shows how long ago the target was there and is followable even when they are in a vehicle.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
This Effect ends if you are stunned, fall asleep, go unconscious, are incapacitated, die, or if your total Stress ever exceeds 5.
The Doctor examines their patient and gives a standard medical checkup, asking them questions, nodding to themselves, and muttering arcane medical jargon. The examination reveals an extraordinary amount of detail about any medical issues suffered by the patient.
Spend one minute. Select a Sapient target or a Creature within arm's reach. You must actively converse with the individual in question for one minute in order to gather any information. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Medicine at Difficulty 6. The target may Resist.
You learn all the following information about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.
The psychic can glean various important details about a person simply by engaging in a short conversation with them.
Spend one minute. Select a Sapient target within 20 feet. You must actively converse with the individual in question for one minute in order to gather any information. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Influence at Difficulty 6.
You learn all the following information about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
Any information you gather is spoken aloud in conversation and made publicly available.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.
The survivalist is adept at following an animal through any terrain. Once they find a recent track, they may focus their will to illuminate the trail of their target. Any part of the target's trail within eyeshot glows a bright, misty green. Even the trails made by vehicles the target was riding in are illuminated.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Select a Sapient target within 20 feet. You may select a target at any range if you use up fresh tracks of the target. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Survival at Difficulty 6.
You learn all the following information about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
Any information you gather is revealed by illuminating the trail in a glowing light and made publicly available.
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.
The detective can learn a lot by watching someone for a minute. Each subtle detail, every unexplained stain, reveals something about where the target has been. Ocassionally, they'll drop a business card, or explain how to contact them. The detective is listening.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend a minute. Select a Sapient target within 20 feet. This Effect cannot be used unless the target does not know you're watching them. At the end of your investigation, roll Charisma + Investigation at Difficulty 6.
You learn a single specific piece of information, chosen from the following list, about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.