Beauty
ALL ELSE FALLS AWAY
Cost: Imbue 1 Legend
Duration: One scene
Subject: Self
Range: Medium
Action: Simple
You are so beautiful (or so terrifying) that everything else fades into the background. Characters that perceive you must overcome a +2 Complication to undertake any action at all in your presence; if not bought off, they act as they normally would, but their memory of what transpired is confused. All they can remember is your presence, not what you did, for better or worse.
- Lover Specific - Forget Yourself Before Me: Your presence is so overwhelming, those who see you forget even themselves. Upon failure to buy off the Complication, targets of this Boon gain a Condition that causes them to forget everything but you. They suffer +3 Difficulty on any action which isn’t concerned with finding you, and they can only resolve it by being in your presence. Their memories of the original scene where you used this Boon do not return, even once the Condition is resolved.
DON’T HATE ME BECAUSE I’M BEAUTIFUL
Cost: Spend 1 Legend
Duration: One Scene (Variable)
Subject: One Person
Range: Short
Action: Simple
You immediately shift someone’s attitude towards you from Negative to Positive. They remain under this effect for an entire scene. If they leave your presence, this effect is lost. This does not make them immediately willing servants, only that they are unable to find the same animosity for you they once did.
After the scene ends or they leave your presence (whichever comes first) the effect ends and they resume their original Negative Attitude towards you
DRAW BACK THE MASK
Cost: Spend 1 Legend
Duration: Condition
Subject: One character or multiple trivial characters
Range: Short
Action: Simple
You can bestow blessings that reveal a person’s true beauty, or curses that mar them with ugliness. Your blessing or curse takes the form of a Condition imposed on one character, or on all trivial targets within range. Using this Boon on trivial targets is free. A blessed character may use their beauty once per scene to add Enhancement 2 on any roll made with a Social Attribute. This Condition resolves once its benefit has been applied a total of your (Legend + 1)
times.
A cursed character suffers a +2 Complication on all Social rolls where their distorted appearance is a disadvantage. This Condition can be resolved by making a sincere and heartfelt apology to someone the target has wronged in a significant way, or with curse-breaking magic.
EXPRESS YOUR TRUTH
Cost: Spend 1 Legend
Duration: Instant
Subject: One character
Range: Short
Action: Simple
You give your target the power to embody their true self. With their consent, the target undergoes a miraculous transformation. The transformation reflects both their conscious and unconscious desires. It can be internal, reflecting a change in perspective, growing comfort with their appearance, or acceptance of their body. It can also manifest in dramatic external transformation, altering the target’s general appearance such as hair color or eye color, height and weight, physique, sex characteristics, and other aspects of their appearance.
For the rest of the session in which this Boon is used, the target possesses an aura of confidence and joy that intuitively communicates their comfort with their transformation, and they gain +3 Enhancement on any Intrigue rolls that benefit from their newfound confidence or encouraging others to celebrate their transformation. Whatever the form their transformation takes, it is permanent unless revoked with the target’sconsent.
- Healer Specific: Peace of Mind: You offer comfort to the mind as well as the body through your blessing. This allows the target to resolve a Condition adversely affecting their mind when they benefit from this Boon.
LASTING IMPRESSION
Cost: Imbue 1 Legend
Duration: Indefinite
Subject: One character or multiple trivial characters
Range: Medium
Action: Simple
You know how to flaunt your looks to kindle an irresistible infatuation. This takes the form of a Condition that you can impose on either a single target, or on all trivial targets within range. The Condition raises the target’s Attitude towards you by two points, which does not stack with other magical Attitude bonuses. It can be resolved by enjoying a moment of physical intimacy (e.g. sex, a passionate kiss, a really good hug) with you, or when you reject the target’s advances. Reclaiming the Legend imbued in this Boon also resolves the Condition.
- Tyrant Specific: Steel Wrapped in Silk: Characters affected by this Boon can’t resolve its effects until they have done at least one inconvenient task they genuinely believe will please you. Trivial characters can’t resolve it at all while your Legend remains imbued and must attempt an act of obedience or devotion in any scene where they have the opportunity to interact with you
PAINFUL TO BEHOLD
Cost: Spend 1 Legend
Duration: Condition
Subject: Self
Action: Simple
Your presence becomes so striking that it inflicts pain on those who gaze at you for too long. All characters in your presence are exposed to the Painful to Behold Condition and suffer a +2 Complication to their actions. Failure to buy this Complication off inflicts an Injury Condition of an appropriate nature, such as damage to the eyes, pressure on the mind, or exhaustion of the soul. Trivial characters who witness you are immediately Taken Out in an appropriate fashion, though they may be unharmed at the start of the next scene at your discretion. You may exempt your allies from this effect.
This Condition resolves at the end of the scene, or whenever you suffer an Injury Condition, whichever comes first.
- Primeval Specific: A Sight Too Beautiful: Anyone Taken Out by your presence suffers a Persistent Condition such as the loss of eyesight that may only be removed through miraculous healing.
TOO PRETTY FOR THIS
Cost: Imbue 1 Legend
Duration: Scene or loss of cover
Subject: Self
Clash: Legend + Charisma vs. Legend + Composure
Action: Simple
It would be a tragedy if something were to damage your pretty face. While in combat, you can disengage and use your beauty as a shield, granting you light cover. Imbue Feat of Scale to increase from light to heavy cover. Your cover extends to a number of characters equal to your Legend within a short range.
As long as you don’t make attacks, your opponents target someone else unless there are no other targets. If opponents fail to overcome a +3 Complication, they incur a +2 difficulty to attack you when other targets are available. This effect does not apply to other characters under the protection of your cover.
- Shepherd — Too Pretty Too: Your ward benefits from the cover your beauty provides as long as they are in your line of vision. Your ward doesn’t count toward how many characters you can expand this cover to.
VISAGE GREAT AND TERRIBLE
Cost: Imbue 1 Legend
Duration: One scene
Subject: Self
Action: Reflexive
The line between beauty and monstrosity is drawn by your hand. Your very appearance instills your enemies with the absolute terror of confronting your divinity. Trivial targets automatically flee from you, while other characters face a +2 Complication on any action that does not somehow help them flee your presence.
WORK IT
Cost: Imbue 1 Legend
Duration: Indefinite
Subject: One Person
Action: Simple
You decree that someone is the new ‘It Person’ and that they are bringing ‘it’ whatever it is that you judge them to be. The world hangs on your judgement of poise and beauty and your word is indisputable.
The target gains the Serving Condition and cannot shake it until you decree.
Serving Condition
Serving Condition
You are serving. Your outfit is straight-up snatched. You’re serving style, you’re serving face, or you might even be serving cunt.
Effect
You convey one mood or impression instantly to people you encounter them. It is utterly unmistakable, and gives you a +1 enhancement when this would be beneficial. The target must be able to see you to gain this effect
Momentum
You may not wish to convey this impression. When you suffer negative effects for conveying a bad impression, you gain a momentum.
Resolution
When you become sullied, or dirty, or you are put into a casual situation that is contrary to your persona, the effect wears off.
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