An unholy jolt goes through your body as you hone in on the voice's monologue, allowing it a modicum of control over your body. A chill settles into your vocal chords and fingers, punctuated by pinpricks of uncomfortable warmth. This is the price and privilege of communion.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You may understand and communicate to humans as if you are fluent in a relevant 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.
Zodiara is the celestial gift of speaking with animals, channeling the wisdom of the stars to bridge the gap between species. Those who wield this power can understand and be understood by creatures of all kinds, their voices carried through the cosmic currents that connect all living beings.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You may understand and communicate to Creatures as if you are fluent in a relevant language.
Terry may tap into his empathic understanding of others to communicate with any human, regardless of their language. His empathy protects him from malicious communications.
While activating this effect, Terry takes a deep breath, and teal, glowing sparks enter his mouth with the breath.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You may understand and communicate to humans as if you are fluent in a relevant language for the next hour.
Communicating with a being cannot directly damage your Mind or cause Injury. All rolls to resist Effects that rely on communicating with you are made at -1 Difficulty.
Igor pulls the balaclava over his face, and assumes a stance mimicking the creature Igor is trying to talk to.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using Frog Balaclava to gain the benefits of this Effect.
You may understand and communicate to Creatures and humans as if you are fluent in a relevant language.
Amy glimpses thousands of possible futures to find where she says the right thing. She simply repeats what she hears, whether it's merely translating a language or saying exactly what someone wants to hear.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action.
You may understand and communicate to humans and Sapient beings as if you are fluent in a relevant language for the next 30 seconds.
While active and speaking to a single individual, you may choose to use glib tongue. When you do, anything you say to them (even gibberish) will be exactly what they want to hear. You gain no understanding of what that might be.
While this Effect is active, you are at -2 dice to all Actions and cannot Concentrate.
Grace brings Sally out from her designated satchel and sets her in front of the dead body (or token for it). Grace’s eyes flashing red, then Sally’s, then the targets- like a chain- means the connection is successful.
Expend a point of Battery and spend an Action to activate. Select a Dead target of which you have a Fetter that was important to them.
The target can communicate in your language for the next hour.
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 50 feet. 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.
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.