stillfleet

Killed a bad dude... who turned out to be connected. You are being watched. You owe these powerful watchers, whoever they are, something worth a life.

You can cause any device to fail or function in a way that wasn’t intended. Find and touch a currently operational device and burn 2XY GRT −your level (minimum 1), where X is the type of tech and Y is the level of complexity. Name an effect when someone activates or interacts with the technology (e.g., the switch doesn’t change the tracks, turning it on makes it spark and fail). For 3XY GRT −your level, the sabotage cannot be traced back to you, or you give the device an effect that causes 2d20 damage. Devices do not gain additional capabilities (i.e., you can’t make a knife explode like a grenade when gripped).

Your knowledge of explosive components and chemicals means you can always find something that goes boom. Burn 4 GRT and roll dREA:

• ҂ If your result is 1–3, you create 1 unstable incendiary – When detonated, it inflicts d6 damage plus burn d2 on all targets in a 5-M radius; if the holder moves, they must make a MOV check; if they fail, it ignites and harms them.
• ҂ If you roll a 4–9, you create d2 stable incendiaries – Each inflicts d6 damage plus burn d2 on all targets in a 5-M radius.
• ҂ If you roll a 9 or better, you create d4 explosives – Each inflicts d20 damage on all targets in a 5-M radius OR causes all targets in the radius to suffer −6 to all rolls for 4 rounds (think flashbang).

This power can be useful to make a device to watch your back. Burn 2 GRT, sacrifice one melee or ranged weapon, and describe how the trap is sprung (tripwire, pressure, etc., subject to GM review). This trap will fire once, make a great deal of noise, and deal damage with disadvantage. You can recover the weapon by burning 4 GRT and spending 2 rounds fixing it.

You can wedge yourself into narrow alleys, vents, and all manner of holes. You can’t reconfigure your body/mass as with a nanofluidics or hell science power, but your incredible flexibility and agility let you move through holes. You move in these spaces at a rate of dMOV meters per round.

You gain a permanent bonus of +1 MOV.

You can metabolize a much greater range of chemicals than hominins, only a few of which are cognizable to them as “food”—from rotting fungusbark to human-urine energy shots. Whenever you encounter something possibly edible, make a WIL/resist world check. Take that result and roll as many d4s. For every resulting 4, you regain 1 point of pool, assigned to HEA or GRT as you like. (The GM gets final say on what things around you might be “edible,” but they should be generous!) Eating possible-food takes at least 20 seconds (two rounds).

Wetan is actually a family of so-called rasp-languages: it involves pheromonal and electrical signals that nonbugs can never fully understand. It is weakly mutually intelligible with other bug languages such as Cryptocerid (extinct), Mantish (on Terra), and Yuggothi (the language of the mi-go).

Burn 4X GRT and roll CHA; X targets roll WIL. For each target, if your result is equal to or greater than theirs, you put them into a light, trancelike sleep for maxCHA rounds, if they weren’t hostile (attacking you). To lull X hostile beings to sleep, burn 4X GRT and roll CHA; they resist with advantage (rolling WIL twice and taking the best result).