Ank'Caine (Caine)

Pitch a conveniently-placed terrain feature, then use it to safely perform a boosted acrobatic movement.

Essence Cost: Low
Cooldown: Low
Paired Action: Purposefully approach the chosen piece of scenery and incorporate it into a fitting stunt.

• Acrobatics are boosted scaling on how well they make use of the chosen feature.
  ≫ Egs. Swing around a flag pole sticking out of the side of a building to sling yourself up an entire floor; land back-first on a shop awning to bounce safely off of it like a trampoline; kick off the hood of an oncoming car to launch yourself over it unscathed.

Essence Cost

Low

Cooldown

Low

Paired Action: Notice the terrain feature and incorporate it into a fitting stunt.

• Boosted acrobatics are notably safer for the user than they would normally be. (e.g. While falling, catching and swinging from a protruding flagpole would be less likely to dislocate your arms).

An enormously empowered jump, tens of times greater than a normal human’s, that draws the eyes of onlookers and protects the user from enemy attacks.

Essence Cost: Mid
Cooldown: Low
Paired Action: Take a large running start to your jump while broadcasting your intentions as conspicuously as possible.

• Protection takes the form of an invisible force pushing incoming attacks off-course. Lasts solely for the duration of the jump.
  ≫ The more death-defying and impressive the user’s jump is to onlookers, the more effective its protection and eye-catching capacities (Mid at max).

Essence Cost

Mid

Cooldown

Low

Paired Action: Briefly pause, then take a conspicuous running start into the jump.

• Attacks made against the user during this jump are notably less accurate, scaling Low–Mid on how death-defying and impressive the jump is (the eye-catching effect scaling in the same manner).
• The user is fully spared the falling impact of this jump’s height (but not any additional drop beyond that).

Encourage allies or goad enemies into following you, helping or hindering them, respectively in the process.

Essence Cost: Mid
Max Duration: Mid
Cooldown: Mid
Paired Action: Touch any number of targets then immediately run away from them; ability ends if any catch up.

• Affected allies gain up to decently enhanced speed and agility scaling on how effectively you cheer them on; affected enemies are up to substantially compelled to keep following you, no matter how difficult, scaling on how effectively you taunt them.
• Ability ends instantly once all targets stop actively pursuing the user,whether because they choose to or physically cannot.

Essence Cost

Mid

Max Duration

Mid

Cooldown

Mid

Paired Action: Touch any number of targets then run away from them; if any target catches up or all targets stop pursuing you, this Ability will end prematurely.

• Affected allies gain Boosted speed and agility, scaling Low–Mid on how effectively you cheer them on
• Affected non-allies are compelled to keep following you, no matter how difficult, scaling Low–Mid on how effectively you taunt them.

Branded athletic apparel offering ok environmental protection. Greatly reduces Green & Yellow Stamina Exhaustion (pg23), though Red remains normal. Enhances user’s prestige in the eyes of athletes and sports fans (no matter their sport of choice).

• Provides a Low Ward against weather such as sun, wind, or rain.
• Athletes and sporting fans will tend to trust the owner.
• All but negates Yellow Stamina Exhaustion (though Green & Red remain normal).

One-handed device that can produce up to 10 high-quality photos per mission, dispensed immediately from the camera. Photos may be “played back” to show up to 10 seconds before and/or after it was taken as though it were a video.

Quantity

Mid

Wear Resistance

Mid

• Putting a sticker on someone else’s property will render the owner of that property mildly annoyed with the sticker and make them want to remove it (which is easy to do) once they discover it.
• Touch one of these stickers that has been in place for at least a Mid Duration to teleport to another of these stickers that has also been in place for at least a Mid Duration, removing both in the process.
  • This can only be used if the owner and both targeted stickers are all completely concealed from everyone.

Pair of short baton weapons with perpendicular handles, exceptionally good at parrying. Uppercut-style strikes carry substantial VERTICAL knockback; user may dash after the target at incredible speed after knocking them airborne this way (Low cooldown).

Parrying Boost

High

• Uppercut-style strikes knocked targets into the air; the owner may dash at incredible speed after a target knocked airborne in this way (Low Cooldown).

Laced sporting shoes providing excellent grip. Substantially improves user’s jump height, running acceleration and deceleration, and general foot dexterity. Absorbs far more impact force than normal when landing falls with good form.

Traction Boost

Mid

• Boosts the owner’s jump height, running acceleration and deceleration, and general foot dexterity.
• Reduces falling impact when landing feet-first with good form.