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Semblance of The Ghost If there's no ghosts, become them.
The shovel glows with a set fo sickly green runes and Sasha turns transparent and pale looking more gaunt than usual like a ghost would.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must actively and obviously use a Shovel to activate this Effect.
You phase out of reality for 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot affect the outside world or take any Actions. You may move as normal while phased out. You may pass through walls and "climb" up and down through solid material at normal climbing speeds. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
You leave a ghostly semblance at your location.
- If you phase in while intersecting with solid material, you take a severe, potentially-lethal Injury.
- Any items and equipment on your person become intangible along with you. You cannot interact with them, as they are intangible.
- Effects that do not require a physical target may still affect you.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
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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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Phase Out Gifts
Blink
The user is disassembled and is transferred into a separate plain of existence
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You phase out of reality for up to 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot affect the outside world or take any Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you activate this Effect, you may limit its duration to a period of your choosing. If you are able, you may also end it as a Free Action on your initiative.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see you see the user disassembled layer by layer.
- When narrating disturbing content, be cognizant of your group's tone and accommodating to those who would like to "fast forward" through the description.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
Pierce the Vail
You look like you've seen a ghost
Being queen of the dead, Widow can step from the land of the living, into the land of the dead.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action or Reaction.
You phase out of reality for up to 1 hour. During this time, you cannot affect the outside world (other than non-combat Actions using your hands, at +2 Difficulty) or take any Actions. You may move as normal while phased out. You may pass through walls and "climb" up and down through solid material at normal climbing speeds. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you activate this Effect, you may limit its duration to a period of your choosing. If you are able, you may also end it as a Free Action on your initiative.
You leave ghosted image of herself at your location.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: delusions of grandeur.
- If you phase in while intersecting with solid material, you take a severe, potentially-lethal Injury.
- Any items and equipment on your person become intangible along with you. You cannot interact with them, as they are intangible.
- Effects that do not require a physical target may still affect you.
- If you use this Effect to dodge as a Reaction, it succeeds without the need for a roll. Cannot be used as a Desperate Defense.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
A Greyscale Wasteland
"You can see it too, can't you?"
The user takes a firm grasp of this artifact and lets out a solemn prayer to the Spirit of Film Noir, begging for it's aid in this time of need. Within seconds, their form is crumbling apart, leaving little of them behind but dust.
The user has been briefly transported into the World of Film Noir, the abode of Frank's benefactor. It appears as an almost endless greyscale city, its streets lined with collapsing buildings and tired denizens. Cigarette smoke forms an impenetrable smog around the city, accompanied by an ever-present smooth jazz soundtrack.
Over-exposure to this world can cause various adverse mental effects, often slowly morphing the user's mind into a flanderized mess of Film Noir tropes.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action or Reaction. You must make a Trauma roll when you use this Effect. Its Difficulty cannot be reduced by any means. If you fail or Botch, you receive one Mind Damage and a new Trauma.
You phase out of reality for 1 Round. During this time, you cannot perceive or affect the outside world or take any Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
- If you use this Effect to dodge as a Reaction, it succeeds without the need for a roll. Cannot be used as a Desperate Defense.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
Into the Sunken Place
*Clink clink*
The Hemomancer's viscous form shudders, reaching a long, surging appendage toward their ally surrounded by enemies. As soon as contact is made, the ally's skin, muscle, and bone slaws off in crimson strips, flowing back toward the central mass before dropping into a nearby puddle of blood. The puddle acts as a translucent window into a shuttering pocket dimension, thumping heart rate matching the pile of flesh that now tends to her patient's wounds.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action or Reaction. This Effect cannot be used unless Amorphous is Active. You must actively and obviously use a puddle of blood at least 1 Liter in volume to activate this Effect. You must make a Trauma roll when you use this Effect. Its Difficulty cannot be reduced by any means. If you fail or Botch, you receive one Mind Damage and a new Trauma.
You phase out of reality for up to 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot affect the outside world but may take mental and self-targeting Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you phase out, you may bring up to 1 additional target in arm's reach with you. While phased out together, you may interact as if standing in an empty void that extends infinitely in all directions.
When you activate this Effect, you may limit its duration to a period of your choosing. If you are able, you may also end it as a Free Action on your initiative.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see the target forcefully dematerialized.
You leave reflections of the Phased targets at your location.
- If you use this Effect to dodge as a Reaction, it succeeds without the need for a roll. Cannot be used as a Desperate Defense.
- When narrating disturbing content, be cognizant of your group's tone and accommodating to those who would like to "fast forward" through the description.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
Time Distortion
Guido let's out a pained honk as the attack collapses his shields. As the crackling energy fades away, he is nowhere to be found.
When startled, Guido instinctively warps time, vanishing from existence briefly is a storm of Temporal Radiation. There is still a visible distortion in local time/space where he vanished from.
This Effect activates whenever someone approaches agrressively. It does not require an Action or Exertion. “Your target should be intuitively based on the triggering event.
You phase out of reality for 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot perceive or affect the outside world or take any Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
You leave a rippling rift in space/time at your location.
- When triggered, the Effect activation resolves immediately after the triggering Action. It is not Reaction speed.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
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Phase Out Gifts
PSG Omega Shield
"Incoming!"
The Future Soldier's PSG is capable of briefly supercharging its effectiveness with a jolt of Omega Cell energy. While active, the future soldier glows with an extremely bright golden light.
While the shield is supercharged, the Future Soldier cannot move or see the outside world, but they are completely isolated from anything that occurs outside the shield.
Expend a point of Battery and spend an Action or Reaction.
You phase out of reality for up to 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot perceive or affect the outside world or take any Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you activate this Effect, you may limit its duration to a period of your choosing. If you are able, you may also end it as a Free Action on your initiative.
You leave a golden glow shaped like yourself at your location.
- If you use this Effect to dodge as a Reaction, it succeeds without the need for a roll. Cannot be used as a Desperate Defense.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
Skip Ahead
Here is hoping 12 seconds in the future is a lot less hostile.
The time-twister presses a button on one of their wristwatches, and, in a flash of orange light, disappears. They have skipped 12 seconds forward in time. To them, the travel is instantaneous, but everyone else must wait until they reappear.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must actively and obviously use a clock or watch to activate this Effect.
You phase out of reality for 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot perceive or affect the outside world or take any Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you phase out, you may bring up to 1 additional target in arm's reach with you.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.