When the pocketwatch is flipped over and clicked, a pulse rings out from the center, scanning the area for any and all Cryptids. The needles twist and turn, pointing slowly at each target within range. The holder somehow knows the distance of each target.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You automatically detect all Cryptids 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 Cryptids targets are within 300 feet of you, and then one enters range, you automatically detect it, even if this Effect is not active.
"Ooh, this one's trauma-induced! Don't mind if I do-" Karyn exclaimed, never one to pass up the opportunity to make Luciano's life harder. A single finger pressed to the burnt temple of one side of his head, and then his mind was away -- wracked by the knowledge of a fraction of the suffering she had inflicted on her victims: entire worlds destroyed at a whim, eternal damnation inside of some twisted sitcom, pain beyond words for millions of poor souls: perhaps billions.
__Luciano staggered backwards from the sudden assault on his psyche, staring in bewildered horror as the damaged skin of his arms turned vaguely translucent, allowing him to watch as the bones of his arm violently split: first once, then twice, before liquefaction set in and what was once bone fragments piercing his flesh drew back as 4 separate tentacles, performing the actions of each individual arm with much improved precision.__
__The disruption of his body seemed to expel some chunks of bullet shrapnel that must've been left inside of his body from The Crackshot, warping and lengthening until it became an unwieldy shotgun in his hands.__
"Ewww, your skin's all fucking gross and dry! Ashy, do you know what that means?? I swear, you should've just died in that fire and made things easier."
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend a Quick Action. Whenever you fail or botch a Trauma or Self-Control roll, you must activate this Effect.
You transform into a translucent betentacled cuttlefish hybrid for 3 minutes. You have access to all of your Powers while you are a translucent betentacled cuttlefish hybrid, 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 Dexterity is increased by 2. Your Stress is reduced by 2.
While transformed, instead of your normal clothes and equipment, you are equipped with: Shotgun
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see (Complete This).
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: Disfiguring Burns.
Uses a totem of an animal to perform a ritual calling on local animal, eagle, or jaguar spirits to transform the user into the corresponding animal. The transformation starts slowly with just superficial features (feathers, talons, hooked nose/beak) then rapidly ends with a quick change in size.
Exert your Mind and spend a Quick Action. You must actively and obviously use an animal totem to activate this Effect.
You transform into capuchin monkey, golden eagle, jaguar, or any region-appropriate small, medium-sized, or large animal until you transform into something else or choose to return to your original form. See the Extended System text for stats.
While transformed, you cannot use any equipment (including Artifacts and Consumables), and you cannot use your Active, Targeted, or Trap Powers. However, you can use your Passive Powers. Any equipment you are wearing transforms with you.
Injuries and Wound Level are carried over between forms. However, transforming can never kill you; you merely remain Incapacitated until your Injuries are sufficiently healed.
While transformed, you may speak and use any Influence or Communication Powers you posses.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: technophobe.
The user rips off chunks of their flesh and throws them to the ground as easily as if it were playdoh. These chunks begin to glow as they roll up into a ball and then stretch out into humanoid forms. While the minions are growing the user regrows their flesh without feeling anything.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
Summon a single Fleshy at your location. They will last for two hours, or until they are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. You may have at most 2 minions active at a time.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see the minions are made by ripping off blobs of skin that instantly regrow back..
Their body bubbles and swells much faster and more violently than when changing form, but instead of subsiding seems to consciously move away from any form altogether. It looks as though tension in the shape is being released as it drops to the floor in a goopy mess resembling the consistency of pancake batter, with the color resembling a more flushed version of whatever skin color the previous form had. It's never clear whether The Flesh is pushing itself or pulling itself or both at once, the only thing that is clear is it ripples with energy, slightly steaming at room temperature.
Reforming reveals The Flesh for what it is, not a state of released tension, but a taut state of forced formlessness. The original form is visibly exhausted and must rest to recuperate from the intense focus.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You transform into The Flesh for the next minute. You may end the effect early and return to your normal form at will. Your structure must remain relatively contiguous. Observers will view you as an unusual entity moving with a singular purpose.
While in this form, you can squeeze through any gap that is not water-tight.
Damage from standard attacks is halved, but Damage from AOE effects is increased by 1. You may spend an Action to reduce one of your Injuries’ Severity by 2, as long as you obtained the Injury while transformed and the separated pieces could reasonably be rejoined.
You cannot communicate, use equipment, or use Gifts while transformed. Your equipment does not transform with you beyond basic body coverings. Carrying capacity is unaffected.
While transformed, you can make an unarmed attack using Body as your attack roll. The target may contest by dodging or Defending. This attack deals +2 damage.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see the flesh bloating and just... more bloating..
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.
The thrill of danger and the heat of the moment fuel Ryan's already rampant excitement as he runs around, growing faster and faster until he can barely be seen, laughing and letting out cries of enthusiasm
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action.
Lasts 3 Rounds. Whenever you use your Movement, after all other calculations, the distance you may travel is tripled.
If you go a round without using your Movement, you immediately collapse and must remain immobile and resting for the same duration of time you previously spent moving.
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.
If the Selkie's seal skin is worn close to the body, any contact with salt water will cause them to transform into a seal. While transformed, they have full access to their normal suite of Powers.
This Effect activates whenever you are submerged in salt water. It does not require an Action or Exertion. Your target should be intuitively based on the triggering event.
You transform into small for two hours or until you choose to end the Effect. See the Extended System text for stats.
While transformed, you cannot use any equipment (including Artifacts and Consumables), and you cannot use your Active, Targeted, or Trap Powers. However, you can use your Passive Powers. Any equipment you are wearing transforms with you.
Injuries and Wound Level are carried over between forms. However, transforming can never kill you; you merely remain Incapacitated until your Injuries are sufficiently healed.
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.
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.
The detective squints, drawing on years of police experience to find any hidden drugs, weapons, or other illegal objects, no matter how well-hidden.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action.
You automatically detect all illegal materials within 50 feet of you for the next hour. You have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected items. You do not learn any details about the detected items.