The Menagerie “Listening to Obedience and Sally talk about forever, I think I slowed down with them after awhile.”

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You possess reduced biological needs.
Used by Grace Cyanide, Created by lumiq.
(This Effect has no explicit visibility requirement.)

Spirits do not need to breathe, eat, drink, or sleep as humans do. It’s only logical that a girl that binds herself to so many would start to take on their attributes.

The third spirit to possess Grace, Sally, tipped the scales from an equal divide to more ghost than human.


You gain the following benefits at all times.

You may go five times longer than a normal human without food, water, sleep, and air.


Community Metabolism Gifts

You gain the following benefits at all times.

You no longer require any food, water, or air in order to survive. For every 1 year that passes, you age 5 years. Supernatural attempts to age you are 5 times as effective. Any roll to resist an Effect dependent on any affected requirement automatically succeeds.

You may Exert your Mind to adapt to your current environment for three hours. While adapted, you do not suffer harm from heat, cold, pressure, or lack of oxygen in that environment, provided that challenge normally exists in that environment.

  • In lieu of sleeping, once per day you may spend one hour meditating to recover a Mind Damage.

You gain the following benefits at all times.

You may go five times longer than a normal human without air. You no longer age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail. Any roll to resist an Effect dependent on any affected requirement is made at -1 Difficulty.

You may spend one minute entering a state of hibernation, during which you are inanimate and unaffected by any requirements for life. You may still perceive the outside world and may spend 3 Rounds "waking up" to end it. While cocooned you can take a maximum of 1 Damage from any attack, and are impervious to environmental conditions.

Instead of food and water, you must consume inedible supstences and living creatures daily for sustenance. For every day you fail to consume it, you lose a point of Brawn. If your Brawn falls to 0 in this way, you die. Your Brawn is fully restored to normal as soon as you fulfill your dietary needs.

Spend an Action and use up this cocaine (unless you succeed on 1d10, Difficulty 7). Select a Animate target within arm's reach. 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.

For the next week, your target does not require any food, water, or sleep. Any attempts to age your target fail. Any roll to resist an Effect dependent on any affected requirement is made at -1 Difficulty.

  • This consumable is destroyed when used and cannot be used again.
  • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
  • Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.

Eating. Sleeping. Breathing. Functions pivotal to life. Inefficient requirements that limit the greater potential of mankind. Everything must be fueled, though -- Bev has just chosen to go about it more 'efficiently'. Straight from the tap.

You gain the following benefits at all times.

You no longer require any sleep or air in order to survive.

Instead of food and water, you must consume electricity by way of a home electrical outlet (or equivalent) for one hour daily for sustenance. For every day you fail to consume it, you lose a point of Brawn. If your Brawn falls to 0 in this way, you die. Your Brawn is fully restored to normal as soon as you fulfill your dietary needs.

You gain the following benefits at all times.

You no longer require any food, water, sleep, or air in order to survive. Any roll to resist an Effect dependent on any affected requirement automatically succeeds.

Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Nonfunctional Taste Buds: Lose sense of Taste.

  • In lieu of sleeping, once per day you may spend one hour meditating to recover a Mind Damage.

Stock Metabolism Gifts

You gain the following benefits as long as you are submerged in water.

You no longer require any food, water, or air in order to survive. You no longer age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail. Any roll to resist an Effect dependent on any affected requirement automatically succeeds.

You may spend one minute entering a state of hibernation, during which you are inanimate and unaffected by any requirements for life. You may still perceive the outside world and may spend 3 Rounds "waking up" to end it.

  • In lieu of sleeping, once per day you may spend one hour meditating to recover a Mind Damage.

Spend an Action. Select a Animate target within arm's reach. You must actively and obviously use bread or a fish to activate this Effect.

For the next 24 hours, your target does not require any food, water, or sleep. Any attempts to age your target fail. Any roll to resist an Effect dependent on any affected requirement is made at -1 Difficulty.

This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.

  • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.
  • Your target must be within line of sight, or within range of another sense if more fitting for the Gift's flavor.

You gain the following benefits at all times.

You may go five times longer than a normal human without food, water, sleep, and air. Any roll to resist an Effect dependent on any affected requirement is made at -1 Difficulty.