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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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    The inevitability of being attacked for simply existing online is leading us down a path of nihilism and apathy."

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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. Focus: Has A Custom Drone
    You're a genius with drones—building them, controlling them, and repairing them.
    Tier 3 gain Expert Drone: The drone from your Drone Buddy ability advances to level 3.
    Tier 4 gain Drone Upgrade: You modify your primary drone with one new capability.

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