A DOLOROUS DAY

Cost: Imbue 1 Legend
Duration: Indefinite (until one very bad day)
Subject: One character
Action: Simple
You foretell a truly awful day in your target’s future, when all their hopes will crumble. This can be an actual date or a general description, such as “the day your first child is born” or “sometime this summer,” so long as it can be roughly anticipated and is at least a week away. Your target is filled with deep, existential dread that robs them of any real sleep, inflicting a +2Complication on any action requiring concentration to avoid nodding off, jittery outbursts, or entering a paranoid fugue. If they suspect the day is near (such as their partner entering their final trimester, or the approach of the summer solstice), this increases to +3.
On the foretold day, everything that can go wrong will. Fate arranges calamities great and small, from flooded basements to jammed elevators. The day culminates in an immediate danger to the target or someone they care about, as if they were Imperiled (Scion: Hero, p. 198). This Boon is free when used against trivial characters.