Special Abilities

• Foresight — Twice per mission you can assist a teammate without paying stress. Tell us how you prepared for it.
• Connected — During downtime you get +1 result level when you acquire an asset or reduce heat.
• Time Manager — Due to careful planning during downtime, you may give yourself or a teammate +1 downtime action.
• Mastermind — You may use your special armor to protect a teammate, or push yourself when you gather info or work on a long-term project.
• Weaving the Web — you gain +1d to Consort when you gather info on the target of a mission. You get +1d on the engagement for the mission.
• Head of the Snake — When you lead a group action, you only mark stress for PCs that rolled a 1 or 2 as their result. You may adjust the entanglement roll by 1 (up or down).
• Like Looking into a Mirror — You can always tell when someone is lying to you.

• Arcane Mind — Twice per mission you can assist a teammate without paying stress. Tell us how you prepared for it.
• Warded — During downtime you get +1 result level when you acquire an asset or reduce heat.
• Iron Will — You are immune to the terror that some supernatural entities inflict on sight. When you make a resistance roll with Resolve, take +1d.
• Mesmerism — When you Sway someone, you may cause them to forget that it’s happened until they next interact with you.
• Spellcaster — You get +1 result level when you work on a long term project to learn a spell. You begin with two spells already known.
• Enchanter — When you invent or craft a creation with arcane features, you get +1 effect level. You begin with one arcane design already known.
• Tempest — You can push yourself to do one of the following: unleash a stroke of lightning as a weapon — summon a storm in your immediate vicinity

• Electrician — When you invent or craft a creation with electrical features, take +1 effect level to your roll (a 1-3 beciomes a 4-5, etc). You begin with one design already known.
• Devil’s Footsteps — You can push yourself to do one of the following: perform a feat of athletics that verges on the superhuman—maneuver to confuse your enemies so they mistakenly attack each other.
• Jury Rigger — You don’t incur flashback costs for two gadgets per mission. You get +1d when you roll to resist consequences of improvised gadgets.
• Saboteur — When you Wreck, your work is much quieter than it should be and the damage is very well-hidden from casual inspection.
• Physician — You can Tinker bones, blood, and bodily fluids to treat wounds, perform surgery, or stabilize the dying. You may Study an ailment or corpse. Everyone in your crew (including you) gets +1d to their healing treatment rolls.
• Fortitude — You may expend your special armor to resist a consequence of fatigue, weakness, or chemical effects, or to push yourself when working with technical skill or handling chemicals.
• Subterfuge — You may expend your special armor to resist a consequence from suspicion or persuasion, or to push yourself for subterfuge.

• Infiltrator — You are not affected by quality or Tier when you bypass security measures.
• Shadow — You may expend your special armor to resist a consequence from detection or security measures, or to push yourself for a feat of athletics or stealth.
• Reflexes — When there’s a question about who acts first, the answer is you.
• Daredevil — When you roll a desperate action, you get +1d to your roll if you also take -1d to any resistance rolls against consequences from your action.
• Rook’s Gambit — Take 2 stress to roll your best action rating while performing a different action. Say how you adapt your skill to this use.
• Trust in Me — You get +1d vs. a target with whom you have an intimate relationship.
• Master of Disguise — When you use a disguise or other form of covert misdirection you get +1 effect level. When you throw off your disguise, the resulting surprise gives you the initiative in the situation.

• Sharpshooter — You can push yourself to do one of the following: make a ranged attack at extreme distance beyond what’s normal for the weapon—unleash a barrage of rapid fire to suppress the enemy.
• Scout — When you gather info to locate a target, you get +1 effect. When you hide in a prepared position or use camouflage, you get +1d to rolls to avoid detection.
• Focused — You may expend your special armor to resist a consequence of surprise or mental harm (fear, confusion, losing track of someone) or to push yourself for ranged combat or tracking.
• Ambush — When you attack from hiding or spring a trap, you get +1d to your roll.
• Tough as nails — Penalties from harm are one level less severe (though level 4 harm is still fatal).
• Vengeful — You gain an additional xp trigger: You got payback against someone who harmed you or someone you care about. If your crew helped you get payback, also mark crew xp.
• Cover Fire — When you wield multiple ranged weapons, the scale of your attacks increases. When you unleash a barrage of rapid fire at an enemy, you get +1d to suppress them.

• Quick Study — When you Study to identify or exploit weakness during a mission, you get +1 effect level. When you train the same thing a second time during downtime, you earn 1 XP.
• Whiz — You can push yourself to do one of the following: completely ignore distractions (real or virtual) — disrupt wireless communications in an area.
• Analyst — During downtime, you get two ticks to distribute among any long term project clocks that involve investigation or learning a new program or design plan.
• Digital ward — When you Wreck a computer or network, ruining it for any other use, it becomes either anathema or enticing to computer viruses and other hackers.
• White noise generator — You may interfere with surveillance tech, becoming shadowy and insubstantial on all recordings for a few moments. Take 2 stress when you activate this ability, plus one stress for each extra feature. It lasts for a few minutes rather than moments — you are invisible rather than shadowy — it affects human senses as well
• Multitasker — You can push yourself to do one of the following: control a small group of rigged machines as easily as one — perform non-VR actions while in VR without disconnecting.
• Search Protocol — You have access to the best tech expertise. Take +1d to gather information about technology by any means.

• Battleborn — You may expend your special armor to reduce harm from an attack in combat or to push yourself during a fight.
• Bodyguard — When you protect a teammate, take +1d to your resistance roll. When you gather info to anticipate possible threats in the current situation, you get +1 effect.
• Leader — When you Command a cohort in combat, they continue to fight when they would otherwise break (they’re not taken out when they suffer level 3 harm). They gain +1 effect and 1 armor.
• Mule — Your load limits are higher. Light: 5. Normal: 7. Heavy: 8.
• Not to be trifled with — You can push yourself to do one of the following: perform a feat of physical force that verges on the superhuman—engage a small gang on equal footing in close combat.
• Savage — When you unleash physical violence, it’s especially frightening. When you Command a frightened target, take +1d.
• Vigourous — You recover from harm faster. Permanently fill in one of your healing clock segments. Take +1d to healing treatment rolls.