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ON THAT FATEFUL DAY

Before your rebirth from the Daze, you were an ordinary person. Consider the following: what was your daily routine like? What goal were you working towards? What circumstances led to your death? And most importantly, what was something you desperately wanted, even as you breathed your last? The answer to the last question is your wish, which determines the Snake you were given.

CHOOSING A SNAKE

You left something unfulfilled when you were swallowed into the Daze. The Medusa’s heart wept for you, so she assigned you a Snake that would help you live the life you wanted.

Snake of Concealing Eyes

You wanted to disappear. There was something about you that you wanted to hide, to forget. Or maybe you wanted it to vanish completely.

The Gang’s Blindfold: You can make yourself and anyone within a six-foot radius of you imperceptible, so long as no one physically touches you. You can also make any object smaller than a car invisible as long as you are in physical contact with it.

Just Forget It: Once a scene, you can erase up to an hour’s worth of someone’s memories by making a Heart test against their Wits. You can also erase specific details, such as whether or not they know you, at the discretion of the talespinner.

Snake of Stealing Eyes

You wanted understanding. Maybe you were lonely, and you wanted to connect with people. You yearned for friendship, even the kind that was expressed without words.

Understand Without Words: By listening intently, you can hear anyone’s thoughts within ten feet of yourself. Once per scene, you can also read someone’s memories using a specific search criteria or question, the way one uses a web browser.

A Little Birdie Told Me: You can communicate with animals; they understand and carry out basic commands that do not cause them harm. Enraged animals automatically become harmless when around you. To command any animal larger than a pig, you must pass a Heart test.

Snake of Deceiving Eyes

You wanted change. You wanted to look different - maybe even be different. You weren’t satisfied with how you were.

Appearances Lie: You can take on the appearance of someone whom you’ve met before, able to even copy their voice and mannerisms. Your illusion holds for a maximum of (Poise) hours. You can also appear as any object roughly the same size as you are.

Night Talker: You can make any object appear as something else around the same size, such as making a watercolor set look like a chocolate bar. You can also change the appearance of text where it is physically written, like a sign or a book, for up to an hour. To affect anything larger than a chalkboard, you must pass a Wits test.

Snake of Locking Eyes

You wanted stability. Maybe your life had been one disaster after another and you wanted to know peace, or maybe you wanted to bring everything back to the good old days.

Just Stop: Make a Poise test against someone’s Agility. If passed, you can render them completely immobile for the rest of the scene. You can also freeze projectiles and moving objects mid-air, provided you look at them before they hit you.

This Rocks: You can stare at any object up to the size of a person and imbue it with the weight and durability of rock.

Snake of Drawing Eyes

You wanted attention. You were overlooked, maybe even ignored, and that ate at you. You wanted to be seen. To be noticed and heard for who you were.

Recital of the Moon: You can draw people’s attention using performance, such as song or dance. Anyone purposely trying to ignore you must pass a Heart test. You can also draw people’s attention towards a specific object for a scene, even a virtual one such as a web page.

Enamored Adoration: Make a Heart test against someone’s Wits - if you pass, you can compel them to do anything that does not cause them harm. This hypnosis lasts for ten minutes.

Snake of Opening Eyes

You wanted freedom. Maybe your body held you back, or even your circumstances in general. You wanted to liberate yourself, to jump and not look back.

Cyber Entity: You can possess devices connected to the Internet or any wireless signal, hopping between them and extracting any information from them. During this time, your physical body loses consciousness.

Astral Direction: You can project part of your soul into inanimate objects such as furniture or toys, allowing you to puppet them around for a scene. You can also make a Poise test against someone’s Might to hijack their body for ten minutes.

Snake of Focusing Eyes

You wanted certainty. There was a question that couldn’t seem to leave your mind. You wanted answers, even if it meant searching until the ends of the earth.

Eyes in the Sky: You can locate any object as long as you’ve seen or touched it before. You automatically know where it is, and if it’s moving, where it’s going.  You can also project your sight upwards and survey your surroundings from an aerial view. 

To See and Know: Make a Poise test. If passed, you can gain quantitative information by looking at a picture of a person or object. For example, you can look at a picture of a building and learn its internal layout.

Snake of Awakening Eyes

You wanted strength. You were so tired of being unable to do what you wanted. Maybe you were pushed around, or yearned to do things for yourself.

An Ideal Form: You can break any object as if it were tissue paper, leap up to thirty feet in the air, and run as fast as a speeding car. You can also contort and stretch your body, such as reaching up to a treetop or flattening yourself to pass through a crack.

Get Back Up: You can recover from injuries at a superhuman rate. Minor cuts and bruises take minutes, while injuries such as broken bones take several hours. Once a session, you can share this regeneration with another person, restoring them to full health.

Snake of Favoring Eyes

You wanted expression. The words were stuck in your throat, and in the end you couldn’t say what you wanted to say. To tell that person how you felt.

The Power of Caring: You can project memories and emotions into another person’s mind by looking at them. You can also send telepathic messages to them, although they cannot answer back.

Named After Thistle: By thinking nurturing thoughts, you can manipulate the growth of plants, such as making flowers instantly bloom or tree branches slowly twist.

Snake of Retaining Eyes

You wanted remembrance. There was a glimmering memory you wanted to preserve, to etch in stone forever. So that other people would see.

Total Recall: You can perfectly recall any visual information you’ve seen at least once in the past. To access memories from other senses such as sounds or smells, you must pass a Wits test.

Crazy Prepared: Your knowledge from past timelines has allowed you to prepare. When faced with a scenario, you may take a Wits test to have something on-hand or at home to deal with it. Once a session, you can also manifest a skill you didn’t already have, such as baking a cake or painting a portrait.

Snake of Clearing Eyes

You wanted knowledge. Maybe you’ve always been curious, or maybe you were tired of always being in the dark. You wanted to find out for yourself.

Encyclopedic: You intuitively know a great amount of things, having extensive knowledge on a variety of topics. You may make a Wits test to remember something applicable to the current situation.

Knowledge Sharing: Once a scene, you may clasp hands with someone and boost or modify the effects of one of their abilities. How this plays out is at the discretion of the talespinner.

WORKING TOGETHER

The Snakes’ powers are more conceptual rather than clearly defined. You may combine your abilities with another player’s in order to achieve something wholly new. Get creative! You may do this as often as you like, although what you do exactly must be approved by the talespinner.

The following ideas listed here are merely suggestions. You may develop new powers based on how you interpret the themes and abilities of each Snake.

Deceiving + Favoring: Once a scene, you can plant up to an hour’s worth of fake memories in another person’s mind.

Opening + Awakening: Once a session, you can reconstitute your body at any place you project your soul, allowing you to teleport up to a mile away.

Locking + Retaining: You can temporarily slow down time, allowing you to react to things that happen in an instant.

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