Legacy Power: Paralyzing Needles

"If your not poor curing this is no problem"

A 1 Gift Disease Power created by jwesley123.

Description

Timothy strikes with his needles aiming for vital acupuncture pressure points that cause Miller Fisher Syndrome he doesnt know how he knows these spots will cause this effect but he just knows on anything he meets he could cause this disease.
Miller Fisher syndrome is a rare, acquired nerve disease that is considered to be a variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome. It is characterized by abnormal muscle coordination, paralysis of the eye muscles, and absence of the tendon reflexes. Like Guillain-Barré syndrome, symptoms may be preceded by a viral illness.
weak eye muscles, with double or blurred vision, and often drooping eyelids with facial weakness;
poor balance and coordination with sloppy or clumsy walking; and
on physical examination, loss of deep tendon reflexes, such as the knee and ankle jerk.
Tendon Reflexs include Gag reflex, and Cough reflex

System

Exert your Mind and roll Dexterity + Melee Difficulty 6 as a Committed Action against a Living target within 20 feet, who can contest it with Body, Difficulty 6 as a Free Action. If you succeed, the target is successfully infected with any mundane disease that is not generally fatal and is curable by modern medicine. The symptoms manifest immediately. They are not contagious. If the target cannot contract the disease for some reason, you cannot inflict it.


Enhancements

  • Cantrip (Activating this Effect has no Exertion cost, but its Gift Cost can never be increased above 2.)

Drawbacks

  • Focus (Using this Effect requires a specific kind of item.)
    • Object - Throwing Needles
  • Single Strain (This power can only cause the effect of one specific disease (or drug, if paired with the Pharmacist enhancement).)
    • Disease/Drug - Miller Fisher Syndrome

Parameters

Range: 1 ( 20 feet )

Edit History

- Oct. 31, 2021, 2:57 a.m. - New Cost: 1. Initial power creation

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