Cuts and bruises fade more quickly and seem to be transferred over to your visage.
Barely more than a husk at this point, your visage has taken on a withered and rotting form.
Surely you've realized this by now, Jacob.
That's you.
We'll be done soon enough.
It's time.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Any Injury you receive heals quickly, reducing its Severity by one level each hour. Any Injuries you receive while this Effect is active do not deteriorate over time. However, any Battle Scars caused by such an Injury will remain unless it is Properly Stabilized as normal.
As long as at least half your body remains intact, you cannot die and remain at Incapacitated, regardless of how many Injuries you take. It is clear to observers that you are still alive.
You may Exert your Mind and spend an Action to reduce the Severity of one of your Injuries by 2. Does not affect Injuries suffered as an activation cost for Effects.
All Injuries you receive are considered Properly Stabilized. You may also choose to heal any Battle Scar on yourself that may not have been caused by an Injury. Doing so takes one day, and the Battle Scar affects you fully until that time.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Coulrophobia.
The Artifact owner's unnatural physique and their equally-intricate movements allow for effortless mitigation of incoming damage, turning would-be precise strikes into simple glancing blows. Additionally, some of their watery limbs lash out at nearby attackers in retaliation.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are an abyssal centipede and you are wearing this Artifact.
You have 4 Armor, which reduces incoming Damage. Armor from multiple sources does not stack.
Your Armor cannot be destroyed, and it always provides a minimum of 2 Armor regardless of any Armor shredding or penetration. It cannot be circumvented with Called Shots. When shredded, it returns to full potency in one hour.
Any Injury received from Damage that was reduced by this Armor is considered Makeshift Stabilized and will not degrade further, and any Battle Scar caused by them is reduced by 1 level. You may attempt a single Proper Stabilization on such Injuries.
When you take Damage from a source which is within 5 feet, deal back as much Damage as your Armor prevented.
With a primal scream or a silent, gritted determination, they reach down and, with tremendous force and pain, tear their own arm from its socket. The sound is gut-wrenching, a mix of ripping flesh and snapping bone, and blood spurts violently from the wound, soaking their clothes and the ground around them.
The arm, still warm and perhaps twitching slightly from residual nerve impulses, is used like a brutal club. The jagged, exposed bone at the severed end becomes a crude, makeshift blade, capable of tearing through flesh.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You are permanently and visibly transformed: Walking Corpse. You are considered to be a Sapient, Living being when targeted..
No single organ in your body is critical for life. If any of your body parts are separated from your body, you may take Actions with the severed part for three hours. You may reattach severed body parts by spending an Action and Exerting your Mind.
You may make a +2 Weapon Damage Melee attack without additional equipment.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Delusions of Invincibility.
You have a particularly keen 'sixth sense' for detecting movement nearby. Technically, it's a semi-vestigial proto-organ running parallel to your cheekbones, from your nose to your ears, which picks up minute changes in air pressure and faint electrical signals, but why would *you* know that?
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Eerily Aware - *How do you know where they aaarreee?* Except for when you're trying to creep people out, you make all in-person Social rolls at +1 difficulty. The Beautiful asset is repressed while you have this scar.
You’ve been through a lot of punishment and have gained a tolerance to it. Your body may become scratched and bruised, but your will remains strong.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is divided in half.
A rose quartz carved into a lens. Inside lens there is few incisions, that ,when looked from correct sides, look like runes. Can be embedded or sawn into an object.
Rose quartz can restore balance within your system. In addition to being stone of love, it's considered a stone of life. It reduces internal tension and allows user to feel refreshed and rejuvenated.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
You may go five times longer than a normal human without food and water. You no longer age naturally, and supernatural attempts to age you fail.
You may spend one minute entering a state of hibernation, during which you are inanimate and unaffected by any requirements for life. You may still perceive the outside world and may spend 3 Rounds ‘waking up’ to end it.
The Soldier has spent a healthy ten thousand hours training with the weapons of their military. They are deadly when wielding any firearm made in their home country. Drawing their standard issue at the start of a confrontation is pure reflex, and they may plan their shots to deal collateral damage to those behind their target.
You gain the following benefits as long as engaged in combat with firearms made in your home country.
+2 dice to all firearms made in your home country rolls.
You also gain the following effects:
The detective has trained their eyes to notice the smallest of details.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
The mad scientist can craft steel helmets that protect their wearers from mental influence and attack.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
You get +0 dice to any Mind resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
Years of scouting in dangerous areas has left the survivalist hyper-vigilant. They are impossible to catch in a trap.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Perception rating is increased by 1. You may Exert your Mind to automatically gain an Outcome of 5 on any roll that uses Perception (Cannot be used on combat rolls or Power activations).
You also gain the following effects:
As long as the Ninja is dressed in an appropriate uniform, their movement is almost silent.
You gain the following benefits as long as as long as you are visibly dressed head to toe in black with hardly any skin showing.
You and everything you are carrying is obscured in one of the following manners. You may Spend an Action to change the way in which you're concealed.
While this Effect is active, any Effect that would obscure you or your equipment specifically from other, additional senses fails automatically.
If someone discovers you, this Effect will not help you hide from them for the next minute. Activating a targeted or obvious Effect, attacking, or being Injured ends the Effect. When the Effect ends, it is disabled for one minute.
You may turn this Effect on and off at will during its duration.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: compulsion to test the awareness of allies by sneaking up on them with a weapon.