#tactivechanneling

A Technique used to quickly rust metals, primarily used for rendering traditional armaments futile, as well as for opening alternate paths.

Base

Technique Type: Specialty Performance: Standard Action Delivery: Contact Size: 5ft. per turn (area corroded) Effect Type: Active Channeling Damage: Special* Saving Throw: User's Potency VS Target's Resistance*

Rust corrodes approximately 5ft. of metal per turn channeled. Any corroded metal can be easily shattered with sufficient force, and may often even break down on its own.

A field around the user damages all targets within its range, friend and foe alike, for as long as it's kept active.

Base

Technique Type: Combat Performance: Standard Action Delivery: Field (Centered at the User) Size: 15ft. radius Effect type: Active Channeling Duration Tier (DT): S Duration: (3 rounds) Damage: 1d4 + Potency

A field centered at the user deals damage on every round to all of those that find themselves in it at the end of the user's turn. It's exact manifestation is up for customization as long as it is delivered through its globe-like range.

Damaging Field is a strong Technique because its damage cannot be avoided with standard Defensive Actions, although it's damage cannot be upgraded outside of increasing the user's own Potency stat.

Modification

Requirement: [Delivery: Field] [Effect Type: Instant or Active Channeling (DT: S Only)] [Special: Enemy-Affecting Feature]

As a modification, the feature makes use of the Technique's already-existing method of delivery to cause damage. When applied to either an Instant or an Active Channeling Technique, damage is only dealt if at the very least one of the Technique's other effects are confirmed to affect its target (i.e., failed saving throw, etc).

Upgrades

1 point:

A Technique whose effects vary according to whether the target speaks the truth or not.

Base

Technique Type: Specialty / Support Performance: Standard Action Delivery: Selective Range: 20ft. (Selective) Effect Type: Active Channeling Duration Tier (DT): Mn Duration: 1 Minute

When acquiring this Technique, the first thing the player designs is how the effects bestow themselves. As an unmodified Technique, these effects can be any harmless auditory, visual or any other similar manifestations— for example, a red light at the tip of the user's finger for a lie, and a green one for the truth. These effects cannot extend too far from the user or subject, cannot serve another purpose other than distinguishing between truths and falsehoods, and as already mentioned, must be harmless in nature. That being said, this Technique can be improved to bestow such types of effects for either a truth or a lie through the use of Modifications.

When adding Modifications to Lie Detection, some of the usual requirements of Modifications are ignored, utilizing the following rules instead:

The Modifications are explicitly added as the manifestations of either a truth or a lie.

Only Technique Features with a Delivery of Selective can be added as a Modification to this Technique.

The effects hailing from the Modification affect only the target subject.

The effects from the Modification must be exclusively detrimental (left up to the GM's discretion).

The Modifications do not adopt Lie Detection's Effect Type or Duration; they maintain their own, commencing the moment the triggering lie or truth is stated.

Passive or Active Channeling Techniques Features cannot be added as Modifications to this Technique.

These specific set of rules prevent the abuse of this Technique as a method of generating limitless advantages by purposefully triggering its effects. I.e., so that the Technique is not customized to provide beneficial effects when used on allies.

Upgrades

2 points:

Damage channeled onto the Target by the Technique's user.

Base

Technique Type: Combat Performance: Standard Action Delivery: Selective Range: 20ft. Effect Type: Active Channeling Duration Tier: S Duration: 3 rounds Damage: 1d6 + Potency Saving Throw: User's [Potency] vs target's [Resistance]

This Feature's effect causes damage during the user's turn for as long as it is kept channeled. Having a Selective Delivery, its damage cannot be protected from using Defensive Actions. Instead, it prompts a Resistance check pinned against the user's Potency on every turn of attempted application of damage. Successful Resistance does not interrupt the Technique, it simply prevents damage from being applied during that turn. The user of this Technique may choose to dedicate a Full Round Action instead of a Standard Action to add +5 to its Potency roll vs the target's Resistance.

Modification

Requirement: [Effect Type: Active Channeling]

As a modification, the feature makes use of the Technique's method of delivery to inflict damage at a rate of 1d10 + Potency per turn.

Upgrades

1 point:

Range Upgrade: +10ft.

2 points:

Asphyxiate is a Technique that deprives its target of air, regardless of what kind of respiration their body performs.

Base

Technique Type: Combat Performance: Standard Action Delivery: Selective Range: 20ft. Effect Type: Active Channeling Duration Tier (DT): S Duration: 3 turns Saving Throw: User's [Potency] vs Target's [Resistance]

The user of this technique selects a target within range to be the victim of asphyxiation. For each turn it is active, it prompts a Resistance check on the target, pinned against the user's Potency check. After each successful turn on the Technique's user part, the target becomes Dizzy for 2 turns. On 2 consecutive successful turns, the target becomes Paralyzed/Helpless. On 3 consecutive successful turns, the target is knocked unconscious for 1d6 turns. On a 4th and final consecutive choke, the target succumbs to death by asphyxiation.

Modification

Requirement: [Delivery: Selective], [Effect Type: Active Channeling], [Duration Tier: S]

As a modification, the feature adds its effects on top of those of the existing Actively Channeled features.

Upgrades

1 point:

Allows the user to view the area around a subject or location they have already encountered in person.

Base

Technique Type: Support Performance: Full Round Action Delivery: Self Range: 20km. Size: 25ft. radius Effect Type: Active Channeling Duration Tier (DT): S Duration: Aprox. 20 seconds (3 rounds)

For as long as it's kept channeled, the user may look around the area as if they were present in it, being able to move their point of perception freely within a 25ft. radius area. If the target is an individual rather than a location, the central point of said area is the individual, and as so, it moves along with the target.

Upgrades

1 point:

Range Upgrade: +20km.

2 points:

The user of this Technique recovers HP by stealing it from their target.

Base

Technique Type: Combat Performance: Standard Action Delivery: Selective Range: 20ft. Effect Type: Active Channeling Duration Tier (DT): S Duration: 3 turns Damage: User’s Potency Saving Throw: User's Potency VS Target's Resistance

The effects of this Technique are pretty straightforward. If the target fails their Resistance check, which is pinned against the user's Potency, HP is siphoned from them and transferred onto the user, healing them by the amount of damage dealt.

Modification

Prerequisite: [Effect Type: Instant or Active Channeling], [Duration Tier: S]

As a modification to an Actively Channeled Technique, the feature employs its effects alongside the Technique's existing ones.

As a modification to a Contact Technique, Drain HP disregard’s the Base Variant’s Damage formula and potential Upgrades, instead draining an amount of HP equal to the damage done by the Technique.

Upgrades

1 point:

Range Upgrade: +10ft.

2 points:

Hands On Syphoning: When the user is making direct physical contact with their target, the user’s Potency is doubled for the purposes of both opposing the Saving Throw and the damage dealt if successful.