Following her first experience with Maikendo, Luna realized something as soon as she saw the little mouse leave the game looking down at her.
That the difference between being a physical entity and a digital one was a lot more narrow than she thought.
Reality seems to know that isn't right, and works to reject it. Over a minute, digital little 1's and 0's start to eat away at the edges of it before it breaks apart entirely.
Exert your Mind (unless you are Sculpting) and spend an Action. Select a Location within arm's reach.
Select one of the following alterations to create out of man-made construction materials originating at the target:
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 sculpt your walls, domes, or tunnels as you create them, without any additional activation time or cost.
Laid the yarn down in front of them, Daisy clasps their hands together and closes their eyes before reaching for one end of the spool. Her hands will hover the end as the spool moves according to the information required.
Training under a witch's guidance, Daisy has awakened their ability to predict chance and fate, and open their eyes to her bloodline's deep connection to the ways of a Seer. While her abilities are of certain limitations right now, she will soon again more abilities.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend a minute. Select a Sapient target within arm's reach. You may select a target at any range if you use up an item of clothing (accessories included) of the target. You must actively and obviously use a spool of thread to activate this Effect. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Alertness at Difficulty 6.
You learn a single specific piece of information, chosen from the following list, about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.
You there! You’ve misbehaved for the last time. This is only to be used in the most extreme situations, where Simone deems reasoning no longer possible. She takes out her ruler and dishes out a firm scolding, manifesting as a psychic force blast, fuelled by her rage. The ruler acts as her focus, being the point where the blast originates. Send her enemies to the time out zone!
Spend an Action. Select a target within arm's reach. You must actively and obviously use a ruler to activate this Effect. Roll Charisma + Influence Difficulty 6. The target may contest by rolling to Dodge or Defend as a Reaction, Difficulty 6.
If the Contested Outcome is positive, the target takes that much Damage plus 2.
You may use this Effect to Defend against any melee, projectile, or firearm Attacks within range or Clash against any Attack targeted at you. Using it to Defend deals no Damage but does not cost Exertion.
If the target suffers an Injury from this Effect, they will receive at least a Minor Battle Scar regardless of its Severity. When this Effect causes a Battle Scar, you may select which one of the appropriate level.
This Gift's Cost is capped at 2 and cannot be increased further.
As gehrman focuses on his prey, he will death knell will help him in his hunt, by outlining his target's weak spots to shoot for.
Spend an Action. Select a target within 20 feet.
Your target is marked with a faint target sign on their weak spot. The mark can only be discovered with a deep medical inspection or Effect. Removal inflicts a Severity 1 Injury on the target.
You are aware of the marked target's direction and distance from you. This lasts for the next month, or until either the mark is removed, or you choose to end the Effect. This Artifact can have up to 3 marks active.
You receive +2 dice to any rolls made against a marked target.
This Gift's Cost is capped at 2 and cannot be increased further.
This Effect ends if you are stunned, fall asleep, go unconscious, are incapacitated, die, or if your total Stress ever exceeds 5.
Phos's alchemical symbols on her arm surge with power as the elements flow into the sigil she is focusing them into, appearing below or around the target, depending on location, mirroring the sigil exactly.
Sadly due to the nature of her learning her abilities, she mistakenly transmutated away her two left most fingers on her left hand.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Non-Sapient Object or piece of an Object or structure within arm's reach no larger than a large luggage bag (75 liters). You must actively and obviously use Transmutation Sigil to activate this Effect. You cannot target objects which are currently in someone else’s possession. Roll Intellect + Occult Difficulty 6.
If your Outcome is 4 or higher, the target will be completely destroyed and can no longer function, though it may still be repaired. If your Outcome is less than 4, the target will be partially damaged, and any attempts to use it will suffer a dice penalty equal to your Outcome.
When activating this Effect, you may spend an extra minute and maintain Concentration. If you do, it has no Exertion cost, and you may destroy an object which has up to 3x larger dimensions, or up to 27x larger volume than the normal maximum size.
If you have access to the remains of an object you had previously damaged or destroyed, you may spend an Action to un-destroy it.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Transmutation Accident.
The Vampire takes hold of a helpless victim's vitality from range, visible as a red string appearing taught in her hand leading back to her victim, and uses a sharp edge to cut it free it from them.
Blood and viscera whips across the air, compressing and forming into a small red crystal sphere in her hand which it crunches between its teeth to complete the transfer. Upon doing so, its wounds and scars vanish and its victim is left to bear them, most likely dying in the process.
Melody Waters was a beautiful young woman with brilliant white hair and warm hazel eyes. She was murdered in an alleyway, helpless to so much as scream, and from her death was made Lorelei.
Melody's fate was cut off unfairly by the vampire Vasquez's fangs in her neck. Her hopes and dreams meaning naught and her flesh only sustenance.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Sapient target within 80 feet. This Effect cannot be used unless the target has blood in their body. You must actively and obviously use a bladed weapon to activate this Effect. When you Activate this Effect, roll a single d10. If the result is 5 or lower, your target receives a Minor Battle Scar. Your target may Resist to cancel the transfer.
You may choose one each of as many things as you like from the following to transfer from your target to yourself, or from yourself to them:
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see you tear blood and viscera from the victim's form to be consumed.
Whenever you transfer an Injury, it's Severity increases by 1. Whenever you transfer Mind damage or Traumas, the recipient takes an additional Mind damage.
The beastmaster puts their nose to the ground and sniffs about the area. Their feral nostrils tell them what sorts of creatures live in the area, and who lays claim to each region.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Investigate an area with a radius of up to 100 feet Can only be activated while you are in the wilderness. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Survival at Difficulty 6.
You learn the following information about the area:
You cannot investigate the same area more than once per day.
The Psychic can speak directly into someone's mind, engaging in an entirely telepathic conversation. While they do, they take on a blank, vacant stare in the direction of their target, and appear to be muttering gibberish to themselves under their breath.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a target any distance away from you. You must have a specific target in mind, but you require only an intuitive understanding of them, such as their name, face, or Location. This Effect cannot be used unless you can see your target.
You open up a line of communication to your target, and may converse with them as long as one of you maintains Concentration
The conversation will only be perceived by the intended recipient. You must share a common language for your target to understand the message.
The priest's miracles expand into the treatment and curing of poisons and diseases. To do so, they require a ceremonial dedication (or often re-dedication) to the service of their god, during which the priest and the patient pray together and perform ritualistic bloodletting. These wounds burn with holy, golden fire, attacking the sinful malady and expelling it from the body.
Exert your Mind and spend 1 minute. Select a Living target within arm's reach. You cannot target yourself. Your target takes a Severity 1 Injury. You must actively and obviously use a ceremonial dagger blessed with holy water to activate this Effect.
You may cure any Non-Alien diseases, toxins, or poisons afflicting your target even if you have not diagnosed or fully understood it. You may cure diseases or poisons even if they are not treatable through modern medicine. During treatment, the malady you are treating does not progress or cause additional Damage or other effects.
You may use this effect to sanitize a 15-foot radius, destroying all poisons, toxins, diseases such that they are inert and cannot affect any new targets
The hacker can overload any electronic device by fiddling with their smart watch for a moment. The targeted device shudders and gets white-hot before bursting into deadly shrapnel.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a object that uses electricity within 20 feet no larger than a duffel bag (35 liters). You must actively and obviously use a smart watch to activate this Effect. Roll Intellect + Technology Difficulty 6.
If your Outcome is 4 or higher, the target will be completely destroyed and can no longer function, though it may still be repaired. If your Outcome is less than 4, the target will be partially damaged, and any attempts to use it will suffer a dice penalty equal to your Outcome.
When a target is destroyed, it sends shards flying. Anyone within 5 feet of the object rolls 4d10 at Difficulty 6 and takes damage equal to the Outcome. Can be reacted to.
The detective can learn a lot by watching someone for a minute. Each subtle detail, every unexplained stain, reveals something about where the target has been. Ocassionally, they'll drop a business card, or explain how to contact them. The detective is listening.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend a minute. Select a Sapient target within 20 feet. This Effect cannot be used unless the target does not know you're watching them. At the end of your investigation, roll Charisma + Investigation at Difficulty 6.
You learn a single specific piece of information, chosen from the following list, about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.