Paper animals are a standard practice among even initiate origami artists, but few can make them as lively as Bryan can. After imbuement, the art prodigy has learned that he can even turn them into animated familiars with enough focus. Information the familiars survey is supernaturally printed on their paper, which Bryan can then view and erase once they're in eyesight.
Exert your Mind and spend one minute. You must use up folding paper in order to activate this Effect.
Summon a single origami animal at your location. They will last until they are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. You may have at most 2 minions active at a time.
Pulling out the ferocious of the wendigo from within he pulls out a style reminiscent of how they rip, tear and attack attack a being, channeling it with the boons with manage to pull the strength out but keep in the spirit that wishes to break free and tear into any nearby man.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in unarmed combat. You must actively and obviously be using Algonquian Charms to gain the benefits of this Effect.
Your unarmed attacks deal +0 Bonus Damage (instead of -2). The target's Armor is fully effective against this damage.
You also gain the following effects:
Xanusham sprouts evenly spaced eyestalks perpendicular to its central eye in a semicircle over the top half of its spherical body. The stalks are attached to Xanusham, and will die if separated. Since they are a part of Xanusham's own body, they are also very difficult to replace.
Although they cannot reposition, the stalks themselves are flexible, and about nine inches long, giving them the ability to bend and react to things Xanusham is not facing directly.
Take a Severity-1 Injury and spend one minute.
Summon a single eyestalk at your location. They will last until they are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. You may have at most 2 minions active at a time.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Disfigured.
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.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
Nikki plays a song that seems to be exactly what you need to hear. It fills you with courage, or sense of self, or nostalgia. It makes you whole again.
Exert your Mind to activate. Select a Living target within arm's reach. Roll a single D10 as a critical failure check. If you roll a 1, the Effect fails, and you trauma becomes permanent. Over the course of one Downtime, your patient must communicate with you and reveal at least one of their Traumas to you, including the details of those Traumas and the circumstances of how they were acquired. After the full treatment time has elapsed, roll Charisma + Influence at Difficulty 6.
Your target may Resist. If your treatment is successful, you may remove one of the patient's revealed Traumas without incurring any Experience cost.
Once per day per target, you may choose to use this Effect to stabilize the Mind of a target within arm's reach. Treatment takes 30 seconds but will not remove any Traumas. If you are successful, restore 2 Mind damage.
The hands and forehead of the user glows with an arcane symbol, lost to time, meaning 'tranquility in blood'. Their movements become effortless and controlled, their senses almost extending to their gun, seeming to not even need their eyes.
You gain the following benefits as long as engaged in combat with Customized Self-Crafted Weapons.
+2 dice to all Customized Self-Crafted Weapons rolls.
You also gain the following effects:
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Select a non-Alien Device within arm's reach. Cannot be used to improve Armor.
Lasts the next two hours. Your target receives 2 extra dice to all actions taken for its intended use. Attacking with an upgraded weapon grants +2 Weapon Damage instead of additional dice.
Upgraded weapons count as any material your opponent might be particularly vulnerable to. Upgraded Armor cannot be circumvented by called shots. Upgraded Devices do not run out of fuel or energy.
The Thief casts a container's worth of fine powder into the air. The particulates are drawn to any sort of object that is designed to detect people, including tripwires, security cameras, detection lasers, heat sensors, etc. The powder will not trigger these devices or interfere with their operation, but it does reveal their presence to the Thief.
The cloud drifts and swirls, subtly following the Thief for a minute.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must use up a container of fine powder in order to activate this Effect.
You automatically detect all object that are designed to detect people, including tripwires, security cameras, detection lasers, heat sensors, etc within 50 feet of you for the next hour. You have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected items. When you detect objects, instead of learning nothing about them, you may observe each object with all of your senses.
Even in human form, the werewolf retains their incredible sense of smell. This helps them track their prey and learn where people and things have been.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
The detective has trained their eyes to notice the smallest of details.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
The creature's claws rip through the poor, defenseless doctor's coat, opening deep gashes in their gut. It bares its fangs to lunge for the killing blow, but the doctor looks up at the attacker. Their eyes filed not with utter terror at their imminent demise, only a look of disappointment and pity. Touched, the monster hesitates. . .
This Effect activates whenever you receive a Severity 2 or higher Injury from an attack. It does not require an Action or Exertion. Select a Living target within 45 feet. Your target should be intuitively based on the triggering event. Roll Charisma + Influence at Difficulty 6. Affected targets can resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, for the next minute, your target will do things they otherwise wouldn’t have done, inspired by remorse for hurting such a pure soul. They will not necessarily display their emotions in an obvious way.
Actions they take will be in keeping with their character and the way they tend to deal with strong emotions. They will be unlikely to change their mind about any actions taken or decisions made until after the Effect ends.
Any successful musician knows the value of a good roadie. The musician calls for a roadie, and one will promptly arrive. The roadie doesn't talk much, and they aren't too bright, but they can sure haul gear.
After a couple hours of work, the roadie will retire to smoke and get some sleep.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Summon a single Sapient roadie at your location. They last for two hours or until they are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. You may have at most one minion active at a time.
You may only use this Effect once per day.