Adaptation
"I teach your lungs to breathe poison. Your skin to ignore fire. Your blood to filter acid."
- Cost
- 2 Strain
- TN
- 11
- Tempo
- T5
- Steps
- Yes
- Resist
- —
Effect
Touch a creature. Grant them resistance to one environmental hazard for 1 hour. Choose:
- Heat / Cold: Ignore Strain from extreme temperature exposure
- Toxin: +4 Roll Bonus to resist poison and disease; immune to Ash Belt exposure
- Pressure: Can function underwater or in thin air without penalty
- Darkness: Gain limited darkvision (can see shapes and movement in complete darkness, but not fine detail)
Steps
+1 additional resistance per Step (granted to the same target).
Special
The adaptation is visible — skin thickens, pupils dilate enormously, veins darken. This marks the target as psionically altered, which may cause social problems.