I would like to RAGE
Caligo: Berskuggar (••-•••••)
Action: Reflexive Dice: unrolled Cost: 1 Willpower Duration: 1 scene
The character uses Willpower to fly into a berserker rage. He gains the following advantages:
An All-Out Attack will only halve (round up) his Defense instead of depleting it entirely.
He ignores Pain and Wound penalties
He cannot fall unconscious
Any Bashing damage he causes is upgraded to Lethal
He adds his Shadows to any roll to resist mental compulsions to stop committing violence
Every single turn must be spent on one of the following actions: attacking a living or at least animate person, something that fights back or badly does not want to be hurt, moving at top speed towards an acceptable target or a vantage point to fire upon a target with intent or taking lethal damage. If the character fails to meet these criteria, the effect ends and will need to be reactivated at cost.
Attacking but failing to strike a target that round will not deactivate this power but striking someone who doesn’t defend themselves or fight back for that round will. To count as defending themselves, they must use some kind of active defense that the character is aware of or can perceive. If the target just stands there and takes it, doesn’t crumble under the attack, and the character is unaware of any ability being activated in the moment or resource being spent right then, or the round after, to negate the attack or damage, then that doesn’t count as defending themselves. A target having a passive regenerative ability, one with no end as far as the character can tell, that doesn’t count. If the target gives the character veritable good reasons that he is hitting a nearly literal brick wall that doesn’t hit back, that doesn’t count. That doesn’t count and may cause the power to deactivate. Moving into position to attack what you believe is an acceptable target and not attacking that target, that is failure to live up to intent and doesn’t count. Moving to where you believe you will be able to attack an acceptable target and finding none there, that is failure to move to attack and doesn’t count. Moving to where you believe you will be able to attack and the target disappears or moves out of range right after you move but before you can attack, that is just the target retreating and that does count. For everything else, it may cause the power to deactivate.
When the effect ends, the character will become exhausted, as if he had gone 24 hours without sleep. He cannot reactivate this caligo while in such a state.
At 4-dots, the character may choose one of the following additional benefits:
While the caligo is active, he may add his Shadows to all combat rolls.
He may ignore the drawback of suffering exhaustion when this caligo deactivates.
At 5-dots, he receives both benefits.
Umbra: As an umbra, this power has no activation cost. Instead, it activates non-voluntarily whenever the character is the least bit threatened or insulted in a way he doesn't recognize as playful banter. Once activated, the character must attack the source of the threat or insult. Once they are bleeding out on the ground, he must proceed to attack anyone in the vicinity that the character has reason to believe is his initial target's friends or loved ones. He cannot stop until the effect deactivates and he cannot try to deactivate it on purpose.
Further, even when this power is inactive, the character will subtract his Shadows from any roll to resist a mental compulsion to attack another person. If so compelled, this power activates as if the targeted person threatened or insulted the character, with all the caveats that implies.
Supposedly, there exists a form of this umbra where the rage becomes a permanent state and the accursed individual is compelled to attack everything and everyone endlessly until they succumb to death, usually in a manner of hours or up to a day. So the story goes, this form of the umbra is associated with the mythical Dark Avatars mentioned in the legendary Fall of the Kingdoms.
Original concept by Varrtes on the PtH Discord.
