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Years ago, a small pack of Rat-spirits accessed the Television Zone in the Umbra. When they came back, the results weren't pretty. Local cartoon mice had taught them things Rats Were Not Meant to Know. The Itchy Gift allows a Ratkin in the Umbra to shapechange into a form that can employ many of the Cat-and-Mouse tactics used in classic cartoons.
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'Taking Itchy form' is not subtle; all of the colors in the Ratkin's fur become much brighter than reality can normally manage. The wererat even begins to move like a cartoon mouse, and any creature he decides to stalk will hear an macabre parody of cartoon music. Spend one Gnosis and roll Intelligence + Enigmas, difficulty 6.
Itchy-form Ratkin have the statistics of Rodens form, but can take ridiculous amounts of damage and live; the number of extra successes on the initial roll become temporary health levels for the duration of the scene (applied only to non-aggravated damage).
By spending one Rage, you can also form one cartoon weapon for one scene (which fades at the end), inflicting non-aggravated damage equal your permanent Rage.
Cartoon rats have unusually elastic bodies, which can distort into all the shapes you'd expect in animation. An Itchy form-rodens' eyes can literally bug out, a heart pounding in your chest may swell several inches outside of your body, and so on.
This Gift may only be used in the Umbra.
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