WHISPER
SHADOW (Passive)
You harbor a separate being that follows you everywhere, even when you sleep. The rules for it are below.
THE SHADOW is intangible and invisible to everyone, even the psychically sensitive. It can only weakly interact with the physical world and has its own mind and senses. It can range in about short range from you. It can pass through walls and surfaces easily but retreats into your body in bright light, preventing it from doing anything. You can talk to it telepathically, but talking to it is dangerous and causes 1 stress after any interaction ends. It has no obligation to tell you the truth unless you use your powers. You may talk to it safely using your abilities, and it knows the future. The Admin will answer for it.
SHIVER (Charm, Self, Scene)
When you are looking for a human, anomaly, executioner, location, or object, you can declare ‘I feel a shiver’. You send a psychic pulse out to CAT range in a radius around you, which remains active for this scene. While your target is close enough to be in range, you feel a strong sense of cold and discomfort. You can hone in on this feeling easily. It’s never hard to track your target while this power is active. If your target is in short range of you, you also gain +1D on any rolls to track or locate them.
DISSECT (Instant, CAT Range)
Examine a human or executioner you can see in CAT range, roll MENTAL, and ask your shadow one of the following questions, plus one more per success. They answer truthfully, but can use a maximum of three words to answer each.
- Is this person lying?
- What is the main emotion this person is feeling?
- Where has this person just come from?
- Where are they planning to go next?
Gain or grant +1D when you or any ally next acts to take advantage of each answer.
BLAST (Universal)
Spend a mental burst and roll MENTAL to produce a weaponized form of concentrated psychic energy in melee or short range. The specific look and feel of this basic executioner skill varies between executioner. The strength of this blast scales with CAT.
When your executioner produces a blast, they might:
- Imbue a slash of a blade or a shot with a ranged weapon with psychic energy.
- Shoot an invisible ball of force from their fingers.
- Fire scathing lightning.
- Shoot a bead of frigid fire.
Unlike your mundane service weapons, blast is a superhuman weapon and therefore scales with CAT and doesn’t become hard by default when used against anomalies.