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Step Out of Time
Khloe appears to freeze in place, turning slightly translucent with a computer glitch visual going through it.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must actively and obviously use a Watch or Time Keeping Device to activate this Effect.
You phase out of reality for 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot affect the outside world but may take mental and self-targeting Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you phase out, you may bring up to 1 additional target in arm's reach with you. While phased out together, you may interact as if standing in an empty void that extends infinitely in all directions.
You leave a glitchy ghost Khloe at your location.
After this Effect ends, you cannot move quicker than a walk (15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
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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.
Community
Phase Out Gifts
Relieved of Duty
Man Overboard!
The sound of crashing waves accompanied by a swirl of black smoke
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect.
You phase out of reality for up to 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot affect the outside world or take any Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you activate this Effect, you may limit its duration to a period of your choosing. If you are able, you may also end it as a Free Action on your initiative.
You leave The Figure of Archibald Hood at your location.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
Dissipate
smoke the cigarette then phase out
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must use up cigarette in order to activate this Effect.
You phase out of reality for 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot affect the outside world or take any Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you phase out, you may bring up to 1 additional target in arm's reach with you.
You leave cigarette butt at your location.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
Borrowed Time
Jenn takes hold of someone and disappears, leaving behind a dark purple afterimage as if someone's eyes had been overexposed to something. It fades in a couple seconds.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. This Effect cannot be used unless you take someone with you.
You phase out of reality for up to 1 hour. During this time, you cannot affect the outside world or take any Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you phase out, you may bring up to 1 additional target in arm's reach with you.
When you activate this Effect, you may limit its duration to a period of your choosing. If you are able, you may also end it as a Free Action on your initiative.
After this Effect ends, you cannot move quicker than a walk (15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
10m Dash
When the user is holding the knife, he looks like he is just standing still for a second, then suddenly, he disappears and is inches from your throat. Not wanting to be left behind he quickly and quietly slashes the opponents throat and moves onto the next.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect.
You phase out of reality for up to 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot affect the outside world (other than non-combat Actions using your hands, at +2 Difficulty) or take any Actions. You may move as normal while phased out. You may pass through walls and "climb" up and down through solid material at normal climbing speeds. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you activate this Effect, you may limit its duration to a period of your choosing. If you are able, you may also end it as a Free Action on your initiative.
You leave A mirage of his body just standing there where he phased out at your location.
- If you phase in while intersecting with solid material, you take a severe, potentially-lethal Injury.
- Any items and equipment on your person become intangible along with you. You cannot interact with them, as they are intangible.
- Effects that do not require a physical target may still affect you.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
Intangible
The phantom's physical form fades out and becomes intangible, leaving behind nothing but a ghostly silhouette.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You phase out of reality for 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot affect the outside world or take any Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
You leave ghostly silhouette at your location.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
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Phase Out Gifts
PSG Omega Shield
"Incoming!"
The Future Soldier's PSG is capable of briefly supercharging its effectiveness with a jolt of Omega Cell energy. While active, the future soldier glows with an extremely bright golden light.
While the shield is supercharged, the Future Soldier cannot move or see the outside world, but they are completely isolated from anything that occurs outside the shield.
Expend a point of Battery and spend an Action or Reaction.
You phase out of reality for up to 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot perceive or affect the outside world or take any Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you activate this Effect, you may limit its duration to a period of your choosing. If you are able, you may also end it as a Free Action on your initiative.
You leave a golden glow shaped like yourself at your location.
- If you use this Effect to dodge as a Reaction, it succeeds without the need for a roll. Cannot be used as a Desperate Defense.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.
Skip Ahead
Here is hoping 12 seconds in the future is a lot less hostile.
The time-twister presses a button on one of their wristwatches, and, in a flash of orange light, disappears. They have skipped 12 seconds forward in time. To them, the travel is instantaneous, but everyone else must wait until they reappear.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. You must actively and obviously use a clock or watch to activate this Effect.
You phase out of reality for 4 Rounds. During this time, you cannot perceive or affect the outside world or take any Actions. You cannot move. Nothing can interact with you in any way.
When you phase out, you may bring up to 1 additional target in arm's reach with you.
- You may use your Free Movement on the Round you phase back in, but you cannot take an Action.