Sol Deceased

Greatly enhance your speed at the cost of additional Stamina expenditure, optionally teleporting right next to a nearby enemy.

Essence Cost: Low
Duration Low
Cooldown: Low
Paired Action: Comment on how someone has underestimated you, disrespected you, or similar.

• Teleport must put the user within melee striking distance of an enemy within a Low Range that the user is physically capable of reaching.
  ≫ This may only be used once per Ability activation and incurs an additional Mid Stamina Cost.

Essence Cost

Low

Duration

Low

Cooldown

Low

Paired Action: Comment on how your enemies have underestimated you, disrespected you, or similar.

• Teleport has a Low Range, may only target an enemy the user is physically capable of reaching, and incurs an additional Mid Stamina Cost.

Swear a meaningful vow in order to heal minor injuries, stabilize severe ones, and bypass one of your current Cooldowns.

Essence Cost: Mid-High
Cooldown: Mid
Paired Action: Portray a Turning Point showing your character swearing the vow, emphasizing its personal importance to them.

• Cost scales on the length of theCooldown you are trying to bypass (Mid at maximum).
• The user must wholeheartedly attempt to fulfill their vow until they succeed or for the remainder of the mission.
  ≫ This is a significant Altered State, meaning that the Conduit may enforce it if not sufficiently portrayed.
  ≫ An incomplete vow may be reaffirmed with future uses of Never Say Die, though this must raise the personal stakes and deepen the Altered State.

Essence Cost

Mid–High

Cooldown

Mid

Paired Action: Portray a Turning Point swearing the vow to yourself or another, emphasizing its personal importance.

• Cost scales on the current length of the Cooldown you are trying to bypass (Low–Mid).
• If the user breaks, neglects, or otherwise goes back on their sworn vow, this Ability may not be used again for the remainder of the mission.

A single, devastating magical attack that grows stronger the longer you have been fighting its target.

Essence Cost: Mid-High
Cooldown: Low
Paired Action: Put all your focus into elaborately “charging up” the attack, then dramatically announce its name while unleashing it.

• Should be functionally treated as a disproportionately powerful, purely offensive Manifestation (pg25).
• Prolonging the Paired Action will increase this Ability’s area of effect, letting it affect more than just its primary target, though this will also increase its Cost.
• Ultimate Strike may only be used ONCE per target per mission.

Essence Cost

Mid

Cooldown

Low

Paired Action: After fighting your target for at least a Low Duration, elaborately “charge up” the attack for several seconds, then dramatically announce a fitting name for it.

• Functionally enhances a purely offensive Manifestation, with the Boost Impact scaling Mid–High on how long the user has been fighting their target for (up to a Mid Duration).
• Prolonging the Paired Action for up to a Low Duration will increase this Ability’s area of effect by up to Mid, though doing so will also increase its Cost to High.

A single small berry. Instantly stabilize all injuries when consumed, no matter how severe, restores one full Stamina Threshold, and causes the consumer to enter an Altered State of extreme over confidence for a Mid Duration.

Uses

1x

• Any being may eat this fruit to be instantly healed (Mid Impact) and restore a full Stamina Threshold.
  • The consumer enters an Altered State of extreme overconfidence (Mid Duration).

Cloth headband providing some mental protection. User may portray a Turning Point of suicidal bravery and great personal sacrifice to grant up to a Mid boost to the impact of their next immediate attack. Mid Cooldown.

• Provides a Low Ward against enemy-sourced mental effects.
• Portray a Turning Point of bravery or personal sacrifice to grant a Mid Boost to the effectiveness of the owner’s next attack.

Timeworn legendary weapon, old and damaged. Activate with a short prayer to revert the blade to its former glory, making it dramatically more deadly and durable and gaining a Pitched (pg24) magical effect for a Low Duration. Mid Cooldown.

Durability Boost

Mid

• Speak a one-sentence prayer into this blade to grant it a Pitched Mid Boost to any property thematically linked to that prayer (Low Cost, Low Duration).

Small cloud, only large enough for its user, that may be stood atop and flown at great speeds. Summoned under the feet of the user at will but may only fly a Low distance before vanishing. Mid Cooldown.

Speed

High

Nimbleness

Mid

• Not brought onto the mission normally, instead summoned under the owner’s feet at will, vanishing after they fly a Mid total distance with it (Mid Cooldown).
  • If flown into combat, Cooldown is reduced to Low.

Martial arts uniform. Activate with a resolute shout to generate an energy aura around the user, heightening their expressiveness and granting Mid magic protection and bonus magical damage to unarmed strikes. Lasts until user stops fighting. Mid Cooldown.

• The owner may give a resolute shout during combat to glow with mystical energy, granting a Ward against hostile magics and infusing their unarmed strikes with magical power until they stop fighting (Mid Cooldown).
  • Impact scales Low–Mid on the owner’s emotional expressiveness.

Weighted bands that significantly encumber the arms and legs, increasing Stamina Costs. Remove to gain bonus speed and strength for a Mid Duration, scaling on how relevant the weights’ encumbrance has been since mission start or last removal.

• Significantly encumber the user’s movements and increase their Stamina Costs.
• Remove the weights to gain Boosted speed and strength and reduce Stamina Costs for a Low Duration, with Impact scaling Low–High on how compellingly you have portrayed the weights’ encumbrance since the mission started or they were last removed.