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Origami The transformation of paper into magnificent wonders.
As Bryan folds the paper in his hands, so too does any paper surface around him-- sculpting, bending, and morphing in the same way his paper is folded. The creation of a shape requires him to carefully fold the paper into the desired design, which cause strands of the paper to supernaturally extend and weave themselves together to create the surface.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within 50 feet. You may choose not to pay this Effect’s activation cost. When you activate this Effect, if it is active from a previous activation where you didn’t pay, that Effect ends. You must actively and obviously use folding paper to activate this Effect.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of paper originating at the target:
- Dome: Create a dome or other simple, enclosed structure made of paper up to 60 feet in radius, 36 feet high, and 36 inches thick.
- Sculpt: Sculpt a surface made of paper up to 120 feet by 120 feet. You may make aesthetic changes or minor functional improvements like a ladder or stairs. You may sculpt windows, doors, and similar alterations into structures you created with this Effect.
- Wall: Create a wall made of paper up to 120 feet long, 30 feet high, and 36 inches thick. This wall may twist, turn, and be shaped as desired. It can hang in the air in a fixed position.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts indefinitely but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 18 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
You may sculpt your walls, domes, or tunnels as you create them, without any additional activation time or cost.
After activating this Effect, you may maintain Concentration for 3 Rounds to reinforce your alteration. If you do, it becomes as sturdy as concrete and just as difficult to break.
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-shredding attacks.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- This Effect produces the substance you are controlling unless it is drawn from the environment via “Required Environment” Drawbacks.
- 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.
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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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Terrain Control Gifts
Burrow
Daisy digs through the earth, hands and feet kicking earth away and opening a yawning tunnel in seconds flat.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within arm's reach. You must be in an area abundant with natural earth and/or raw minerals.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of earth originating at the target:
- Tunnel: create a tunnel through earth that is up to 6 feet in diameter and 20 feet long. It may curve as desired.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts three hours but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 6 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
- Creating a tunnel through / under the supporting parts of a structure may collapse it.
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-shredding attacks.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- This Effect produces the substance you are controlling unless it is drawn from the environment via “Required Environment” Drawbacks.
- 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.
Nanite Central Processing Unit
The Engine Of Creation
Execute will lay a extremity on the chosen surface, and inlay it with a combination of a red energy weave and a black coating of Nanites, before the mass of nanite metal shapes itself into the form he desires, morphing and warping to his will.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within arm's reach. You may choose not to pay this Effect’s activation cost. When you activate this Effect, if it is active from a previous activation where you didn’t pay, that Effect ends.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of Nanite metal originating at the target:
- Sculpt: Sculpt a surface made of Nanite metal up to 40 feet by 40 feet. You may make aesthetic changes or minor functional improvements like a ladder or stairs. You may sculpt windows, doors, and similar alterations into structures you created with this Effect.
- Wall: Create a wall made of Nanite metal up to 40 feet long, 10 feet high, and 12 inches thick. This wall may twist, turn, and be shaped as desired. It can hang in the air in a fixed position.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts indefinitely but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 6 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
You may sculpt your walls, domes, or tunnels as you create them, without any additional activation time or cost.
You may opt to have your alteration form immediately. If you do, it falls apart in exactly one Round.
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Violent immune system - when targeted with a healing/restorative effect by some source (item/player) other than yourself, it must be rolled at -2 dice.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Nightmares: Your sleep is plagued with horrible nightmares. At the start of each Contract and each time you fall asleep, make a Self-Control roll. If you fail, you take one Mind damage..
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-shredding attacks.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- This Effect produces the substance you are controlling unless it is drawn from the environment via “Required Environment” Drawbacks.
- 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.
Unexpected Wall
We chased ‘em round the corner and found ’em on the other side of a brick wall, speeding away
The spy can twist the urban environment to their whims, erecting fences, walls, and barriers as needed. They whistle and gesture to where the wall should be, and the surrounding materials fly into place.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within 50 feet. 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.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of standard building materials originating at the target:
- Wall: Create a straight wall made of standard building materials up to 40 feet long, 10 feet high, and 12 inches thick. This wall can also be used to create a bridge, ramp, or similar. It must be free-standing.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts one minute but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 6 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-shredding attacks.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- This Effect produces the substance you are controlling unless it is drawn from the environment via “Required Environment” Drawbacks.
- 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.
Command Water
Otto's influence over the sea is beginning to return, allowing some basic sculpting of water into walls.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action. Select a Location within 50 feet. You must be in an area abundant with water.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of water originating at the target:
- Wall: Create a straight wall made of water up to 40 feet long, 10 feet high, and 12 inches thick. This wall can also be used to create a bridge, ramp, or similar. It must be free-standing.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts one minute but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 6 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-shredding attacks.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- This Effect produces the substance you are controlling unless it is drawn from the environment via “Required Environment” Drawbacks.
- 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.
Creating the Fourth Wall
As the user creates and forms metal, their body parts morph and look as if other non-matching parts are pasted on. Ex. A grinning set of teeth larger than normal are stuck on tilted and off-center on the face, eyes are mismatched and uneven on different skin tones, etc.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within arm's reach.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of metal originating at the target:
- Sculpt: Sculpt a surface made of metal up to 20 feet by 20 feet. You may make aesthetic changes or minor functional improvements like a ladder or stairs. You may sculpt windows, doors, and similar alterations into structures you created with this Effect.
- Wall: Create a straight wall made of metal up to 20 feet long, 5 feet high, and 6 inches thick. This wall can also be used to create a bridge, ramp, or similar. It must be free-standing.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts three hours but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 3 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see Body parts morph as if other parts are pasted on (ex. boss Flowey or DDLC).
- When narrating disturbing content, be cognizant of your group's tone and accommodating to those who would like to "fast forward" through the description.
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-shredding attacks.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- 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.
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Unexpected Wall
We chased ‘em round the corner and found ’em on the other side of a brick wall, speeding away
The spy can twist the urban environment to their whims, erecting fences, walls, and barriers as needed. They whistle and gesture to where the wall should be, and the surrounding materials fly into place.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Location within 50 feet. You must be in an area abundant with man-made structures and materials.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of standard building materials originating at the target:
- Wall: Create a straight wall made of standard building materials up to 40 feet long, 10 feet high, and 12 inches thick. This wall can also be used to create a bridge, ramp, or similar. It must be free-standing.
The alteration begins to form when you activate this Effect and finishes forming on your initiative in the next Round. Until it finishes forming, it is not guaranteed to function.
This alteration lasts one minute but may be prematurely destroyed or altered. Your alterations may be broken through with appropriate tools. Anyone attempting to break through must roll Brawn + a relevant Ability. A cumulative Outcome of 6 across all attempts breaks a hole large enough to move through. See the extended system text for GM guidance on various tools.
- Attempting to break any alterations with inappropriate tools may damage or destroy the tools at the GM's discretion.
- Any structures you create leave precise gaps for obstacles in their path or push them out of the way. You cannot directly destroy objects or structures or damage beings by creating walls or domes.
- Tool guidance for GMs:
- Difficulty 9: Brawn 5, no tools.
- Difficulty 7-8: One-handed tools or makeshift tools (like a sword). Mythic Brawn without tools.
- Difficulty 6: Appropriate manual tools. Crowbar, sledgehammer, armor-shredding attacks.
- Difficulty 4-5: Power tools, vehicles, explosives.
- This Effect produces the substance you are controlling unless it is drawn from the environment via “Required Environment” Drawbacks.
- 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.