Crane the Keeper

Mount an unwilling target, causing them to enter a rampage in which they try to buck the user and charge perceived threats.

Essence Cost: Mid
Duration: Low
Cooldown: Mid
Paired Action: Leap onto the target’s back or similarly grapple them in a way that stilllets themmove.

• This rampage is an Altered State (pg31) but is somewhat controllable by this ability’s user, who may attempt to physically “steer” the target to direct their ire.
• Strengthens and toughens the target as well as making the user’s Rallying (pg27) substantially more potent against them both during and shortly after the ability ends.This all scales with the depth of the Altered State, capping out at High for beasts and Low for sapient beings and non-animal creatures.
• User is heavily protected from their target while Crikey! is active, making it very difficult for them to be bucked off. Their Paired Action is also empowered, the initial leap happening with greater speed, distance, and precision than would normally be possible.

Essence Cost

Mid

Max Duration

Mid

Cooldown

Mid

Paired Action: Leap onto the target’s back or similar. You must hang on for at least a Low Duration, or Crikey! will end prematurely.

• The user’s initiating leap and clinging tenacity (per the Paired Action) are both somewhat empowered.
• Lasts until the animal is calmed down or exhausts itself (even if the user dismounts after a Low Duration).
  • Gentle, caring actions and words from the user will disproportionately calm the animal.
  • If fully calmed in this way, the animal will tend to trust the owner (Mid Impact).

Pitch elements of an animal’s behavior and morphology while observing it.

Essence Cost: Mid
Cooldown: Mid
Paired Action: Continuously narrate aloud the behavior an animal you are observing, noting captivating traits or behaviors about them.

• Each trait or behavior you describe while using Documentary Voice will , if accepted, both be actively exhibited by the animal you are observing and will be taken as having been true all along. Pitches that would apply to an entire species rather than just the individual will be evaluated more strictly.
• This ability will lasts so long as you continue the Paired Action or until a Pitch you make is refused.
• The user’s is concealed from the target (including their voice) while this ability is active, though not from anything or anyone else.

Essence Cost

Mid

Cooldown

Mid

Paired Action: Continuously narrate the actions of an animal you are observing aloud, earnestly noting its captivating traits and behaviors as they are Pitched.

• Accepted traits are immediately exhibited by the observed animal and should be taken as having been true all along. May continue to make new Pitches so long as the Paired Action is sustained.
  • Pitches may apply to the entire species rather than just the observed individual.
• Pitches may, in total, exceed High Impact, scaling on how engaging and natural your narration is.
• The user is concealed from the target (including their voice) while this Ability lasts.

Conjure a wild animal, causing it to appear from a hidden spot.

Essence Cost: Low-Mid
Cooldown: Low-Mid
Paired Action: Enthusiastically introduce the animal as it appears, earnestly sharing some interesting trivia about it.

• Animal does NOT need to be in any way fitting or plausible for the current setting or point of appearance. However, Cost, Cooldown, and Paired Action length all scale with the size/danger of the animal and its exoticism to the current setting.
  ≫ The smaller and less impactful the animal, the more convenient its Pitched mood may be.
• Animals must be congruent with the user’s established background.

Essence Cost

Low–Mid

Cooldown

Low–Mid

Paired Action: Enthusiastically introduce the animal to someone nearby as it appears, sharing some interesting trivia about it.

• Animal must be grounded in the user’s Backstory; it does not need to be plausible for the locale.
• Cost and Cooldown scale on how much of a threat the animal poses to those in the vicinity besides the user. (e.g. A large shark conjured at an aquarium would have a Low Cost and Cooldown; one conjured while diving at sea would have a Mid Cost & Cooldown.)
  • Animals that would pose a High threat or greater cannot be conjured.

Spongy cap offering Low physical protection and Mid environmental protection to the head. While the user is keeping quiet, still, and low to the ground, concealing foliage will gradually sprout around them. Also applies to nearby allies doing likewise.

• Provides a Mid Ward against natural environmental hazards.
• While the user keeps quiet, slow, and low to the ground, local foliage will gradually sprout over a Low Duration to conceal them and allies in the immediate vicinity doing likewise.

Sturdy haft with an ensnaring loop at the end, which is extremely hard for a target to remove or break once caught by it. Normally stands at shoulder-height, but may be telescopically extended to almost triple its length (much more cumbersome when doing so).

Accuracy Boost

Mid

• Ensnared targets are far less able to damage or escape this item.
• Haft may be telescopically extended or contracted at will (capping out at triple normal length).
• While moving this pole very slowly, it is much less likely to be noticed.

Set of 5 small, safe-to-handle animals, stashed in indeterminant locations on your person. Pitch the critter as you reveal it while commenting on a behavior commonly associated with it; the critter will then promptly demonstrate said behavior.

Quantity

5x

• Pitch a critter as you reveal it while commenting on a behavior it is known for; it will promptly demonstrate that behavior.

Long-barreled air gun that comes with 3 darts, infused with a sedative healing concoction. Potency of both sedation and healing scale on how enraged the target is; this maxes out at High against beasts and Low against humans and other sapient species.

Ammunition

5x

Effective Range

High

• Forcibly sedates and heals the target, scaling on how panicked, enraged, or similar they are.
  • Impact caps out at High against creatures and Mid against humans and other sapient species.