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  1. Ability: Crystalline Body
    from Emerged From The Obelisk
    You are composed of animate, translucent crystal the color of amber.
    Work with your GM to decide your exact form, though it is likely about the shape and size of a humanoid.
    Your crystal body grants you +2 to Armor and +4 to your Might Pool.

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  2. Focus: Walks The Wasteland
    Most people want to hide from the devastation or just curl up and die rather than face a hostile world.
    Tier 3 gain Hard To Hit: You are trained in Speed defense tasks.
    Tier 6 gain Using What's Available: If you have the time and the freedom to scrounge for everyday materials in your environment, you can fashion a temporary asset that will aid you once to accomplish a specific task.

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  3. Descriptor: Fast
    You're fleet of foot.
    Fast: You can move a short distance and still take another action in the same round, or you can move a long distance as your action without needing to make any kind of roll.
    Skill: You are trained in running.

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  4. Ability: Maximize Cypher
    from Uses Wild Magic
    Choose one subtle cypher you bear.
    Its level becomes the maximum level possible for that cypher.
    For example, a meditation aid has a level range of 1d6 + 2, so maximizing that cypher changes its level to 8.

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  5. Descriptor: Morlock
    You have lived your life deep underground in artificial bunkers, hidden from the world's destruction and the brutal scavengers that live above.
    Partially Metallic: +1 to Armor.
    Enhanced Intelligence: +2 to your Intellect Pool.

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  6. Descriptor: Grizzled
    Life's thrown trials aplenty your way.
    Additional Equipment: You have collected your share of valuables, but have at least one favorite. You can choose an extra piece of starting equipment (with a value of expensive or less).
    Experienced: +2 to your Intellect Pool.

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  7. Ability: Ship Footing
    from Pilots Starcraft and Technology Flavor
    For ten minutes, all tasks you attempt while on a spaceship are eased.

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  8. Focus: Touches The Sky
    You can summon storms or break them apart.
    Tier 3 gain Bolts Of Power: You blast a fan of lightning out to short range in an arc that is approximately 50 feet (15 m) wide at the end.
    Tier 5 gain Cold Burst: You emit a burst of cold in all directions, up to short range.

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  9. Descriptor: Sharp Eyed
    You're perceptive and well aware of your surroundings.
    Skill: You're trained in perception actions.
    Find The Flaw: If an opponent has a straightforward weakness (takes extra damage from fire, can't see out of their left eye, and so on), the GM will tell you what it is.

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  10. Focus: Weaponizes Chrome
    Some of your organic parts have been replaced with artificial components.
    Tier 2 gain Weapon Defense: While your chosen weapon is in your hand(s), you are trained in Speed defense rolls.
    Tier 4 gain Reliable Weaponry: Choose one of your weapons.

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  11. Ability: Candles Cantrip
    from Modern Magic Flavor
    You create up to four candle-like lights that move to your mental commands (but no farther away than how far you can reach), lasting about ten minutes.
    Each light can be a different color.

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  12. Descriptor: Unmagical
    You're not good at using magic.
    Inability: All actions using magic (including casting spells and using magic objects) are hindered.
    Make Do With The Mundane: +1 to each of your Pools.

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  13. Descriptor: Unmagical
    You're not good at using magic.
    Inability: All actions using magic (including casting spells and using magic objects) are hindered.
    Make Do With The Mundane: +1 to each of your Pools.

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  14. Ability: Hurl Flame
    from Bears A Halo Of Fire
    While your Shroud of Flame is active, you can reach into your halo and hurl a handful of fire at a target.
    This is a ranged attack with short range that deals 4 points of fire damage.

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  15. Ability: Very Long Sprinting
    from Shreds The Walls Of The World
    When you use Phase Sprint, you can travel up to a very long distance as your action instead of a long distance.

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  16. Descriptor: Elf
    You haunt the woodlands and deep, natural realms, as your people have for millennia.
    Skill: You are practiced in using one bow variety of your choice.
    Skill: You are trained in stealth tasks. In areas of natural woodland, you are specialized in stealth tasks.

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  17. I've #Finished: #HittingThingsWithHammers for #Today...

    #Tangentially; you might #Find the #Following as much #Help as #BubbleWrap... As much as #WeLoveBubbleWrap...

    #HaveABiscuit, maybe...?

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  18. Focus: Thunders
    You emit destructive sound and manipulate soundscapes.
    Tier 1 gain Thunder Beam: You direct a beam of focused sound at a target within long range, inflicting 2 points of damage and inducing a resonant destructive wave in their body.

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  19. Ability: Deer In The Headlights
    from Is A Car Wizard
    When you cast an attack spell while driving, you can modify the spell as if you had applied two levels of Intellect Effort to it.

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  20. Focus: Lived Among The Fey
    You spent a lot of time in another world, one that others don't believe actually exists.
    Tier 2 gain Bestiary Knowledge: You are trained in the lore of flesh-eating, nonhumanoid creatures-recognizing them, knowing their weaknesses, and knowing their habits and behaviors.
    Tier 5 gain Nightmare: You pull a horrifying creature from your worst nightmare into the waking world and sic it on your foes.

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