Non-Player Characters

This gives the following abilities:

• Teleportation via darkness/shadows from one darkened area to another.
• Generation of jagged daggers of black light (autofire black lightning bolts) from his hands, which can kill beings of up to Earth 6 with a single hit.
• Generation of a whip of darkness (like a tentacle of black light) which can impale others and drain their life into him, healing his wounds and re-vitalising him. This kills beings with an Earth score of 3 or less within seconds; higher Earth beings dies more slowly. Victims can be pulled free of the whip of darkness, which stops the draining process.
• Generation of swirling miasmic darkness from his hands, about himself, making him harder to see and harder to hit.
• His powers are considerably weaker in the daylight than at night.

• Flight at about 150MPH.
• Generation of Sonic effects including:
  • Directed sonic blast with can kill or shatter beings or things of up to Earth 5 with a single direct hit; higher Earth beings or things take longer.
  • Shatter glass and the like in a radius about herself.
  • An area effect ear-splitting sonic NND-type attack centred on herself. This can stun being of up to Earth 5 in seconds; beings of higher Earth scores last longer.
  • A field of deafening noise.
  • A field of 'anti-sound', creating effective silence within it.
  • The nullification of other sonic attacks of lesser or equal power.
  • Limited sonar.

• Immunity to All Toxins
• The ability to generate a large number of different toxins from her body. Unfortunately, her body is always generating toxins, so she has to live in sealed environment (like an NBC suit in reverse) to avoid contaminating her surroundings. She can consciously control what toxins are generated (airborne or touch only; skin agents, poisons which must be drunk or inhaled, etc. etc.) but she generates them all when asleep or unconscious. She can also generate clouds of toxins, or just secrete toxins from her hands, etc.
• Her toxins fully affect beings with an Earth score of 3 or less within seconds; higher Earth scores take longer to be affected. This works better in confined spaces where toxins can build up.

• He can see and communicate with ghosts and other spirits.
• He can control them to do minor things instantly (with a word); major things require more lengthy binding, and perhaps summoning, rituals; it is easier to bind a spirit to do a single specific thing than as a multi-use servant. He can only send spirits a kilometre or so away from him; beyond that he loses control of them.
• By killing a person in the right way (slowly and tortuously, of course) he can permanently bind their spirit to him, more fully and easily than with some random spirit he comes across. Because of this he always has a few bound spirits (mostly Russians) around him, giving a weird/nasty sensation to people with Water scores of five or more.
• Note that Spirits are not very intelligent, and lose most of their memories upon death, except the things which drive ghosts etc. - this is a plot device so PC's can rescue victims and find out what they know rather than the bad guys simply killing their victims and interrogating their spirits.
• The number of spirits he can keep in thrall at any one time depends on his Air score; currently he has ten spirits in thrall (Air - 2; so someone of below average Air cannot use this form of magic; the progression goes 1, 2, 3, 6, 10).

• Search/spy as if they have Water 4; they can be sensed by beings with water 5+ as a feeling of being watched.
• Induce emotions of pain/fear in low Earth types (Earth 3 or less).
• Carry message flashes to Water 5+ types.
• Manifest as ghosts (like those in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark').
• Kill those of Earth 4 or less by squeezing their Hearts or other vital organs, or just cause pain and injury (to higher Earth types too).
• Affect small objects (Strength = Fire 1; Accuracy = Fire 4), for poltergeist activity, attacks, more controlled movements (e.g. driving cars off cliffs), deflecting bullets from Sirdar as if Fire 4, and so on.
• They can be bound into weapons to form :
  • Anti-Spirit Knives and Projectiles (which kill spirits, ghosts etc.).
  • Anti-Life Knives and Projectiles (which attack the living spirit so even flesh wounds become fatal for low Earth types).
  One weapon/projectile is one living spirit, and takes days to make. Both effects are resisted by the Earth score of the target. He has a knife with both anti-spirit and anti-life effects bound in.