People always keep whining and complaining and crying over their injuries. "My leg!" "I can't feel my hands!" "My fingers, oh God!"
Get a grip! Jeez...
I've been thinking of uh just... I give em the typical assurances, and then I... tell em! Spout out some medical jargon and tell em that it'll heal in just a sec! Looking em in the eye makes them wanna believe me... almost.
And it does! Injuries seem to have never happened in the first place! One moment it was broken, the next... poof! Like magic. Was your arm even broken in the first place? I mean. It seems to work; you can feel your limbs working, you can stretch your fingers normally. It feels fine... but something feels off.
Don't let the doubt fester. Don't lie, yourself. Honesty is the best policy, and it's easier to believe in a lie when you trust what you say to be true. Otherwise, the illusion will shatter.
Uhhh we gaslight reality itself, basically.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute. Select a Living target within arm's reach. You cannot target yourself. Select a Battle Scar on your target to treat.
The treated Battle Scar heals as you finish activating this Effect. If used on a Battle Scar caused by an Unstabilized Injury, that Injury is Stabilized.
Your patient is required to not tell a direct lie (i.e. lying by omission and technical truths are fine) for the next month. If they violate this rule, your treatment is immediately reversed.
This Effect is not obvious, and the only sign you are using an Effect is a faint, yellow glimmer in your eye. If someone suspects that an Effect was used, they must roll Perception + Alertness, Difficulty 8 to pick up on your Tell.
“It doesn’t matter what he is hit with, Jason seems to just keep standing up again and again.”
Not having grit kicked my ass last time, I ain’t repeating that mistake.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Stress from Injuries and Mind Damage is reduced to 0.
Gungnir flits across Eddie's body, it's impossible edge tearing her skin in a thin line. The wound billows, blood like smoke, and in an instant consumes her: with a flash of Hell seen at the back of the eyes, Eddie is replaced with the form of the demon prince Baphomet, a creature of opposites combined: Human and beast, male and female, civility and monstrosity.
She usually wears this skin for the monstrosity bit more than the civility one.
Increase your sacrificial Injury's Severity by 1 and spend a Quick Action. You must actively and obviously use Gungnir to activate this Effect.
You transform into the demonic aspect of balance, Baphomet for 30 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are the demonic aspect of balance, Baphomet, and you can use your equipment. Your Battle Scars, Injuries, and physical Liabilities are carried over between forms. Reverting from your Alternate Form cannot cause your existing Injuries to kill you. Instead, you remain Incapacitated.
While transformed, your Brawn is increased by 2. Your Stress is reduced by 2.
Your body is adapted to climbing. You receive +3 dice on non-attack rolls related to climbing.
You may end this Effect prematurely as a Free Action.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see take on the aspect of a demon with burning eyes and a pentagram which bleeds burning blood on its forehead.
If you do not have a sacrificial Injury when you activate this Effect, take a new Severity-1 Injury.
Shelly is able to catch and falling children or other objects. She is also quite adept at throwing things.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in combat with thrown weapons.
+2 dice to all rolls utilizing thrown weapons.
You also gain the following effects:
After a prayer to the goddess of Nature, his hands begin to burn. The burning and glowing stops and the target area begins to burn.
Spend an Action. Select a target within 20 feet which has both fuel and oxygen available (if you are starting a new fire). You must actively and obviously use wood to activate this Effect.
You may start or extinguish a fire as large as a fire in a residential fireplace at your target. Extinguishing a fire does not cost Exertion. You may create or extinguish fires the size of a lighter or candle flame without Exerting your Mind. Your fires require fuel and oxygen in order to continue burning.
Lighting a target on fire deals 3 Damage each Round on your turn, starting in the Round after the one in which they caught fire. This Damage is reduced by Armor, but the target’s Armor rating will be shredded by any Damage dealt, destroying material Armor once it reaches 0.
You may extinguish flames as a Reaction. This does not extend to explosives.
This Gift cannot have more than 3 Drawbacks, and its Gift Cost is capped at 2.
Ellis is protected from the corrupting rot of sin. He is immune to disease, both mundane and supernatural, and may beseech the Lord to rid him of poisons, both mundane and supernatural. As a sign of this protection, he is consumed with a soft golden glow, which blazes bright whenever he prays for healing.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using a cross or other Christian holy symbol to gain the benefits of this Effect.
You get +0 dice to any Body resistance rolls you make. You also gain the following effects:
As long as the ninja is carrying a weapon, their self-defense is almost subconscious. Subtle twitches and lighting-fast feints and parries using sword and scabbard can buy the ninja precious seconds to enact an escape plan or make the kill.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using a sword to gain the benefits of this Effect.
You have 4 Armor, which reduces incoming Damage. Armor from multiple sources does not stack. This Armor cannot be circumvented with Called Shots.
Whenever your Armor reduces incoming Damage, you are immediately made aware of the source of the Damage. You may pinpoint their location for 30 seconds.
Any time your Armor prevents Damage, your Armor rating is temporarily decreased by 2. Whenever it goes five Rounds without preventing any Damage, it is restored back to its full value.
There's a certain strength that comes from displaying the flag of one's country. As long as the Soldier holding their country's flag or wearing something emblazoned with it, they are less likely to be injured in battle.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using clothes or a uniform that displays the flag of your country to gain the benefits of this Effect.
You have 4 Armor, which reduces incoming Damage. Armor from multiple sources does not stack. This Armor cannot be circumvented with Called Shots.
The magician dons an unusual piece of clothing and immediately shifts their appearance to be completely different! However, they must reveal their true identity before they can cast any more spells.
Exert your Mind and spend 2 Actions. You must actively and obviously use a piece of clothing you wouldn't normally wear to activate this Effect.
You become disguised in a manner of your choosing. The disguise lasts for two hours, or you may end it early at will.
The new appearance may have a different sex, age, and race to your own, and you may alter height by up to a foot and your weight by 50%. Your disguise cannot directly mimic an existing person. You may change the appearance of your outfit. A disguise cannot affect your Attributes or other stats.
You may roll Charisma + Crafts to attempt to make your disguise Beautiful. If your Outcome is 6 or higher, non-Effect Charisma rolls where your good looks could help are rolled at -2 Difficulty. If you fail or botch, you are ugly instead, and non-Effect Charisma rolls are made at +2 Difficulty.
This Effect ends if you take an Injury or are stunned or incapacitated.
While disguised, you cannot use any Activated or Targeted Powers.
By focusing, the Thief may shroud their hands in shadowy tendrils that seek nearby objects like static-charged hairs. They cast themselves across any surface the Thief touches, acting as anchors that allow the Thief to scale even the sheerest walls.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You may move easily and without a roll in any of the following situations. Lasts 2 hours.
True to their namesake, the hacker can penetrate the security of any computer system, granting access to its informational stores, or, in a pinch, allowing them to issue commands. The hacked system will display a flickering image of a ghost until it is dismissed.
While hacking, The Technician's fingers move with supernatural speed, blurring like a ghost.
Exert your Mind and spend 1 minute. Select a Computer within arm's reach. Does not work on Alien technology. Roll Intellect + Technology, with the Difficulty set by the GM depending on the security of the system you are hacking. Sapient targets can resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, you may issue a single command to the targeted system. This command must have a specific outcome or be a request for specific login credentials. The command you issue must be within the machine's current capabilities. For example, you cannot order a standard security camera to grow legs and walk around.
If your command does not require bypassing the security of the target (for example, typing on a computer that is unlocked), you do not need to Exert your Mind to activate this Effect, and activation only takes a single Action.
Your Hack cannot be reversed through mundane means for a number of hours equal to your Outcome.
Every hack you make leaves behind a flickering image of a ghost in the system as a personal "calling card" that informs anyone who uses the system that the hack occurred.