A voice slithers through the air—too quiet, too close, too wrong. It speaks no language, yet it is understood. It does not command, yet it compels. Those who hear it are not merely shaken; they are hollowed out, stripped of certainty, left staring into the abyss of their own self-doubt and despair. The utterance turns the weight of the mind against itself: targets are stricken, their body betraying them as unseen forces tear through flesh and bone, bypassing armor as though it were never there. The pain lingers—more than just a wound, it’s a poisoning of resolve, a slow bleed of will to live and persevere.
Spend an Action. Select a Living target within 50 feet. 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. The target's Armor is completely ignored.
The target suffers a -3 dice penalty for the next hour or until the Injury is healed. This dice penalty does not stack multiple times on the same target.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see whispers in no language in particular reach everyone in range, raising thoughts of doubt, inadequacy and self harm (triggers "Failure";).
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 1.
The gift spawns a grim totem that is the physical embodiment of that trauma. This gremlin or goblin or what-have-you will try to do what the trauma itself does, and destroy it's host. Battling this creature clears the mind, and brings with it a degree of peace.
Exert your Mind to activate. Select a Living target within arm's reach. Over the course of one day, your patient must communicate with you and reveal at least one of their Traumas to you, including the details of those Traumas and the circumstances of how they were acquired. After the full treatment time has elapsed, roll Charisma + Melee at Difficulty 6.
Your target may Resist. If your treatment is successful, you may remove one of the patient's revealed Traumas without incurring any Experience cost.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see you're literally fighting a monster..
Danya focuses on the organs in the abdominal region of the target. Her arms are held up in that direction with her left hand open, and her right hand clenches into a fist. Her eyes flood with a red colour as if they were bleeding. The internal organs of her target are clenched together and damaged. This could potentially rupture the organ(s) or crush them completely.
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action. Select a Living target within 50 feet. Roll Intellect + Medicine Difficulty 6. The target may contest by rolling Body, Difficulty 6.
If the Contested Outcome is positive, the target takes that much Damage plus 2. The target's Armor is completely ignored.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see the victim experiences great pain and coughs up blood with chunks of their innards. Danya’s eyes are flooded red in a demonic way during the casting.
Through clever sleight of hand, or through a simple financial transaction, Bill places a coin on his target's person - could be a quarter, could be a penny, whatever he has on hand - and will be able to detect the how far away the coin is, as well as in which direction. It feels slightly warm to the touch, as if it had been sitting in a hot car earlier that day, and if anyone looks closely at it, the eyes of Mr. Lincoln (or Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and occasionally Kennedy) seem to follow them, like a painting in an episode of Scooby Doo.
Spend an Action to activate. Select a target within arm's reach.
Your target is marked with a small coin until it is removed or until you choose to end the Effect. The mark can be easily removed if it is discovered.
You are aware of the marked target's direction and distance from you. You can have up to 1 mark active.
This Gift's level is capped at 2 Gifts and cannot be increased further.
Spend an hour healing one battle scar.
Scar healing is a powerful, paradoxical ability born from a past steeped in violence. Once used to take lives with lethal precision, these hands are now capable of healing the deepest scars and nerve damage, restoring what was thought lost forever. This power emerged after a profound transformation, offering a chance at redemption. This ability is now a mission to mend the wounds of others, turning a history of destruction into a path of restoration and hope.
Exert your Mind and spend an hour. Select a Living target within arm's reach. Select a Battle Scar on your target to treat.
The treated Battle Scar heals as you finish activating this Effect.
Ellis can withdraw a bonded bomb and cause it to detonate in a specific way, assaulting the minds of anyone in the radius and driving them to repent for their sins.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate. Choose a location within 300 feet. All Sapient targets within 300 feet within 20 feet of it are affected. You must use up an explosive which has undergone the Ritual of Bomb Bonding in order to activate this Effect. Affected targets may resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 8. If they are incapacitated or unconscious, they fail automatically.
If they fail, affected targets will take 1 point of Mind damage and gain a Compulsion to punish themselves for sinful behavior as a Trauma. This trauma cannot be removed by spending Experience and undergoing mundane therapy. Affected targets are aware that they are being attacked and can generally tell who did it.
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 hacker is capable of crafting bottles of nanites. When poured on a broken object, the nanites go to work restoring it to a functioning state. The goop shimmers and crawls, sparking with blue electricity as it reforms broken parts.
Spend 10 Rounds and use up this a bottle of metallic fluid. Select a Object within arm's reach that is no larger than an SUV. Cannot be used on Alien technology. More than half the target object must be present in order to begin repairs. Roll 7 dice Difficulty 6, dice penalties do not apply.
If you succeed, your target is repaired back to a functional state. If you fail, you spend the full time working before realizing you cannot repair the target.
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 survivalist is adept at following an animal through any terrain. Once they find a recent track, they may focus their will to illuminate the trail of their target. Any part of the target's trail within eyeshot glows a bright, misty green. Even the trails made by vehicles the target was riding in are illuminated.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Select a Sapient target within 20 feet. You may select a target at any range if you use up fresh tracks of the target. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Survival at Difficulty 6.
You learn all the following information about your target:
The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.
Any information you gather is revealed by illuminating the trail in a glowing light and made publicly available.
You cannot investigate the same target more than once per day.
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:
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.