After Edward finishes the casting ritual, the spirit once connected to the body appears (unless it is already present as a ghost). Edward can then begin talking to the spirit, although it doesn't sound like any legible language to anyone who decides to listen in.
Exert your Mind and spend one minute. Select a human, Creature, or Dead target within arm's reach. For dead targets, you must possess their their name.
The target can communicate in your language for the next hour.
“You feel his mind in your mind. You don’t understand the language, but you understand the sentiment…”
Angel now has the ability to understand any human, regardless of tongue, by listening to the Universal Language. This leaves a bitter, earthy taste in his and the target’s mouth like what Angel drank in the dunes. On Angel’s side, the world seems to warp and ripple; this effect is much more slight to observers.
Gained languages: Zulu
Activated Rune: Communication
The shamans in the desert brought Angel on a hallucinogenic spiritual journey to break his curse from the rats. Since then, he’s been able to concentrate and recall the energy of the concoction he drank to unlock this second vision.
(Thanks, Bomb!)
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a human target within arm's reach.
The target can communicate in your language for the next hour.
“If you use this Effect to spend an hour speaking with a native speaker of a human language you don't know, you may Exert your Mind and roll Intellect + Culture Difficulty 7. With Outcome 4 or higher, you permanently learn that language and accent.
The necromancer's teeth and mouth will become obseidan color after speaking the deceaced name. The dead uses the wielder's mouth to speak through it.
Expend a point of Battery and spend an Action. Select a human or Dead target within 50 feet. For dead targets, you must possess their their full name.
The target can communicate in your language for the next hour.
While wearing the Imperial Raiment, Emperor Norton the II can converse with anyone in any language.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using Imperial Raiment to gain the benefits of this Effect.
You may understand and communicate to Creatures, humans, and Sapient beings as if you are fluent in a relevant language.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Loyal Subjects.
The bird master can understand and communicate with birds.
You gain the following benefits as long as it only works on birds.
You may understand and communicate to Creatures as if you are fluent in a relevant language.
Nikki's plays a sad song that evokes feelings of loss and longing as his mind slides back from the Fleshlands into his native Shadowlands. He follows the connection the dead left to it's physical remains in the world and engages the consciousness in conversation.
Exert your Mind and spend one minute. Select a Dead target of which you have a fetter.
The target can communicate in your language for the next hour.
The beastmaster can speak to and understand any animal.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You may understand and communicate to terrestrial animal as if you are fluent in a relevant language.
The Necromancer spits into the mouth of a recently deceased corpse. For the few minutes, the corpse's head comes back to life and speaks to the Necromancer.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Dead target within arm's reach. Dead targets must have died within the past week, and you must have their remains in your possession.
The target can communicate in your language for the next hour.