Sora begins to speak as Drago glows a deep red. Their words are no longer English, instead they are some kind of other language, matching no known tongue and yet, all of them at the same time. His target, despite never hearing this language gains an intuitive knowledge of what he is saying.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using Chimera Drago to gain the benefits of this Effect.
You may understand and communicate to Creatures, humans, and Sapient beings as if you are fluent in a relevant language.
Abbas closes his eyes as he hones into his bloodline, moving into it to feel where they move, his experience as a hunter melding with it to give him intuition about monsters location.
Exert your Mind and spend two Actions performing the following ritual: Pressing on abbas temple then gripping his chest where is heart is holding his necklace to it. You must actively and obviously use animal teeth necklace to activate this Effect. You must maintain Concentration while activating this Effect, and it fails if you are interrupted.
You automatically detect all Alien Predators and Man-Eaters within 300 feet of you for the next hour. This includes any who come within range during the duration. You have a sense of how many valid targets are nearby, as well as their distance and direction.
If no Alien Predators or Man-Eaters targets are within 300 feet of you, and then one enters range, you automatically detect it, even if this Effect is not active.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
Persephone begins looking around at things nobody else sees, as she tracks the locations of the innumerable creepy-crawlies in her range.
Future Upgrades:
Range - 300 feet; Got Eyes On ‘Em (Seasoned); Suspect List (Seasoned)
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action.
You automatically detect all invertebrates within 50 feet of you for the next hour. This includes any who come within range during the duration. You have a sense of how many valid targets are nearby, as well as their distance and direction.
All invertebrates who you can sense are equally able to sense you.
Mark's pain receptors trigger vast quantity of growth hormone and adrenaline- His wounds clot, and stem cells rush to the area. Though bulbous and misshapen at first, throbbing and radiating heat from blood flow, even limbs or organs can gradually reform in less than a day.
Though he heals just the same, there is something different about being beaten at his own game. Like a non-newtonian fluid resisting an impact, the harder the blow, the easier it is to resist, almost. A crowbar or greatsword? No problem. Impacts like steel on steel, might as well as well have hit a tank.
But a fist, From someone actually strong enough to make a dent in him, shatters bone and ego.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Any Injury you receive from a source other than Punches/kicks heals quickly, reducing its Severity by one level every 10 minutes. Any Injuries you receive while this Effect is active automatically count as a successful Proper Stabilization and do not deteriorate further. Any Battle Scars caused by such an Injury will heal with the Injury.
You may choose to heal any Battle Scar on yourself that is not caused by an Injury. Recovery takes one day, and the Battle Scar affects you fully until that time.
Injuries you receive from Punches/kicks are increased in Severity by 1.
Conner has been tattooing his whole life. The contracts have imbued his tattoos above mortal realms. He can alter the lifeforce of those he tattoos when he focuses on imbuing the art with lifeforce mingling it with those he tattoos. By using special material to create the ink the tattoos Conner creates can delve into abilities far beyond what could be achieved with regular materials.
Exert your Mind (unless The Target has become a canvas (Procure Canvas power)) and spend an Action. Select a Living or Animate target within arm's reach. The target can easily Resist.
You may add one augmentation to your target. Each augmentation counts as a half of a Battle Scar and can have exactly one of the following Effects:
By transplanting a body part from an Alien being, you can grant an intrinsic Effect from that part to the subject. Its power level should be limited to one Gift Point or less.
The augmentations you provide are not outwardly visible nor obvious.
Your Augments count as half a Battle Scar when calculating the reduced Body penalty from having too many Battle Scars.
Polamedes starts glowing internally with an alien blue and black light. Tiny nanomachines are jettisoned from his body and create a semisphere around him that fires back tiny distance tracking lasers to his body. After one round the nanomachines in Polamedes explode outward violently as thousands of tiny pores on his body erupt. The tiny nanomachines are launched from Pol's body trailing skin and flesh in tiny strands like wire. The bloody bots hover in the area and form a connective grid between each other and start filling the area with powerful magnetic waves. The EM waves start pulling at any trace amounts of ferrous material they find, including that found in blood and flesh.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. 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. The area within 25 feet of you immediately and obviously becomes imminently dangerous. Anyone in the area has 1 Round to attempt to escape. During the next Round, on your Initiative, roll Intellect + Technology at Difficulty 6. Targets remaining inside the radius may attempt an appropriate Reaction at GM’s discretion. Finding a physical barrier to use as cover will cut total damage taken in half (applies after Reaction roll but before Armor).
If the Outcome is positive, your blast hits everything within 25 feet of you with Damage equal to your Outcome + 6. If you botched the activation roll, you will also take full Damage from the blast, otherwise it will not hurt you.
For the next 3 Rounds following the initial blast, this Effect will deal a new blast of damage to any targets remaining within range of you. The damage decays by 2 each Round.
Anyone who takes damage from the blast is knocked back away from you by a distance equal to the radius. They must succeed a Body roll, Difficulty 9, or be stunned for 1 round.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see Bloody flesh magnet sphere..
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.
All it takes is a flick of your hair and a bat of your eyelashes, and you’ve got their attention.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. A number of Sapient, Living targets within 50 feet who can perceive you through no greater than your Charisma rating are affected. Audiences or mobs with a singular focus count as one target. Roll Charisma + Performance at Difficulty 6. All affected targets may resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 7.
If you succeed, the targets will keep their full attention focused on you for Contested Outcome in Rounds. They will automatically fail any rolls related to noticing anything other than you.
If you pass from their perception and they are unable to pursue you, the Effect ends. If they can follow you, they must do so for 2 Rounds or the Effect will end. The Effect ends early if the target is Injured or violence occurs nearby.
This does not affect the target’s opinion of you or their mood, and they may take any Actions while affected (including attacking), as long as that action centers on you. Fascinated targets cannot Concentrate.
The mutant has gained some control over their genetic instability, allowing them to trigger a mutation at will. When the need arises, their flesh warps and twists, and a new mutation manifests that is suited to whatever obstacle the mutant happens to be facing at the time.
Spend 30 minutes. You may only target yourself. The target can easily Resist.
You may add one augmentation to your target. Each augmentation counts as a Battle Scar and can have exactly one of the following Effects:
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
Your alteration "heals" over the course of the next month, after which it is fully cured.
The toon shouts a catchphrase, strikes a pose, and then zips away at a high speed, leaving a cloud of dust behind. While moving, they look like a blur.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Lasts 1 minute. Whenever you use your Movement, after all other calculations, the distance you may travel is doubled.
The survivalist is an expert at wildlife survival in any natural environment. Even in the harshest climates, they have the capacity to find food, water, and shelter.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend 15 minutes. This Effect cannot be used unless you are in a wilderness environment.
Choose a specific type of food, water, or survival supply which could fit inside a regular backpack (up to 27 liters). It must be Non-Alien and generic. You cannot create explosives. You cannot create firearms.
Roll Perception + Survival to fabricate up to 5 copies of your chosen Object. The Difficulty is assigned by the GM and depends on the specificity of your chosen Object. Your created items no longer expire, and will last until they are destroyed.
The time-twister spins a dial on one of her watches, slowing time for everyone but her and one other person.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must actively and obviously use a watch or clock to activate this Effect.
Lasts 1 minute. Whenever you use your Movement, after all other calculations, the distance you may travel is doubled.
Outside of Combat, any non-Gift, non-movement Actions you attempt take drastically less time to complete, as long as your personal speed is a factor in the Action. Total time reduction is determined by the GM and capped at 90% (executing the Action takes no less than 1/10th the normal time).
While using this Effect, you may carry one other being without affecting your Encumbrance, so long as you maintain contact with them for the duration and they consent or are grappled.