W20 - Changing Breeds.pdf

• Perfect Recall (Level One) — As the Galliard Gift.• Persuasion (Level One) — As the homid Gift.• Tears of the Heavens (Level One) — Raising hisarms and reciting a spontaneous poem, the Ajaba callsdown the rain. A sky-spirit teaches this Gift.System: The player spends one Gnosis point and rollsWits + Expression (difficulty 8). Success causes rain tofall across an area (Obligation) miles in diameter aroundthe Ajaba for ten minutes per success.• Bless the Rains (Level Two) — The Ajaba composeswords of thanks to the rain falling around him,complimenting it for sharing its bounty with the dryEarth. The rains respond with generosity. An ancestorspiritteaches this Gift.System: The player spends one Gnosis point and rollsWits + Expression (difficulty 7). The rain subsequentlyrestores one level of bashing or lethal damage to allnon-Wyrm-tainted beings it touches, and renders theground it falls on unusually fertile. This Gift may onlybe used while standing in the rain, and the Ajaba canonly empower a rainstorm once — though the effectsof the Gift strike everywhere that the same rains fall.• Distractions (Level Two) — As the Galliard Gift.• Dreamspeak (Level Two) — As the Galliard Gift.• Scavenge (Level Two) — The Ajaba may safelyconsume and digest any physical object he can get intohis mouth, from carrion to pistols to toxic waste: his jawscan chew it, and his stomach can process it. A goat-spiritteaches this Gift.System: This Gift’s effects are permanent, thoughit costs a Gnosis point to eat anything that is activelypoisonous (such as toxic waste) rather than merely noxiousor inedible. The Ajaba’s digestion destroys fetishesand other empowered items, though supernaturally indestructibleitems may survive their transit. The Ajabacan even destroy an opponent’s armor in combat, onebite at a time.• Shadows of the Serengeti (Level Two) — As theAjaba sings a song of his fallen Kin, their shadows risefrom the dust of the earth to lend their strength to hiscause. A night-spirit teaches this Gift.System: The player spends one Gnosis point and rollsObligation (difficulty 8). For each success, one unearthlyshadow-hyena rises from the earth around the Ajaba, andaids him until the end of the scene. These shadows havethe traits of a normal hyena, save that they possess onlythree health levels. The shadow hyenas have physicalpresence, but they are neither truly ghosts or spirits.AJABA53