Ichor Savant

• Ichor Savants of the Imperial Commission undergo extensive training to be able to use Black Ichor effectively.
• As a side effect of this process, Savants are forever changed, gaining the ability to produce tinctures and potions with remarkable qualities from their body.
• These tinctures are extruded from the pores and collected in clay balls, which can be drunk from, thrown, or given to others to do the same.
• This, too, is a kind of ichorwerk.

• Starting level Commissioners begin with the ability to make 2 common ichorwerks per encounter. This is represented OC by starting each encounter with two yellow foam balls.
• You do not have to determine what an ichorwerk is until you throw/drink/donate it. However, it must be of the correct type (Yellow - Common, White - Restricted, Black - Secret), and must be an ichorwerk you know how to make.
• Ichorwerks expire at the end of the encounter in which they are produced.
• Savants may learn how to produce different types of ichorwerk by taking the Hybridize skill.
• Savants may train themselves to produce more Ichorwerk by taking the Fecundity skill.
• You can view a full list of ichorwerks here.

• Whenever Savants take the 'Fecundity' skill, they must take a mutation from the following list.
• Starting level Commissioners begin with one free mutation.
• Mutations are viewed in Rastaban with great respect, and there is nothing grotesque or bad about possessing them.

• Starting level Ichor Savants gain the Affiliate skill for the Imperial Commission for free.

• Savants have unprecedented access to pure Black Ichor which they may take outside of the Commission in specially prepared obsidian containers.
• Black Ichor is used to power some Ichor Savant abilities. These will always have a cost in Black Ichor listed above them (e.g. Dark Potential costs 1 Black Ichor.)
• Abilities which do not have a cost listed do not require Black Ichor to use.
• Savants can purchase Ichor at a cost of 1 favour per container.
• Furthermore, Savants gain Black Ichor depending on their rank of Contacts skill with the Commission:
  • Affiliation: 2 Black Ichor / adventure
  • Respected: 5 Black Ichor / adventure
  • Influence: 9 Black Ichor / adventure
• Even the specially prepared obsidian flasks cannot withstand the ravages of Ichor, however, and as such, Black Ichor becomes unusable by the end of any adventure is is taken out on.
• Expended containers should be returned to the Commission for disposal. Dumping Black Ichor in any form is a High Crime.
• Misplacing or allowing Ichor to be stolen is also a High Crime.
• Selling or distributing Ichor taken from the Commission is Treason.

• Commissioners are particularly respected within Rastaban. As Forest Touched are treated as social pariahs, Commissioners are treated as social betters.
• You can generally assume you are able to obtain entry to most clubs, events or social engagements. At least in the respectable parts of society.
• If you commit crimes the judgement is more likely to swing in your favour. Standard practise in cases where a commissioner is found guilty is to pass the judgement onto the Commission for them to dole out an appropriate punishment - unless the faction is irate enough to risk the Commission's wrath by taking things into their own hands.
• These facts combined mean that commissioners tend to get off quite lightly for most infractions unless they commit crimes against the Commission or against the Commission's interests.

• You can identify black ichor by smell, and pinpoint any large sources nearby.
• You can recognise concealed Commissioners and ichorwerks.

• Your body can produce 3 types of common ichorwerk.
• Choose 3 from the ichorwerk list.

• Your body can produce 1 additional common ichorwerk per encounter.
• OC, this is represented by a yellow foam ball.
• You must take a mutation from the following list.

• Once per encounter, you may call RESIST to a call delivered by ichorwerk.

• Extensive damage to your body causes a pool of deadly sludge to seep out into the surrounding area.
• When you are bleeding out or dead:
• You must call STAGGER 5 to anyone who takes a STAGGER within 5m of your corpse.
• This ability cannot trigger itself, or stack with another use of Rupture.

• You may crunch any 2 ichorwerks of one class into a different ichorwerk of the same class, even if you do not know how to make it yet.

1 Black Ichor

• When you purchase this skill, pick one inorganic substance you have studied. This is subject to LARPO approval.
• At the cost of one black Ichor you may transform an inanimate object up to the size of a person into any substance you have studied.
• This changes the substance the object is made of, but not its form.
• You may replace a substance you have studied with a different one by taking a downtime action.

• Your body can produce 3 types of restricted ichorwerk.
• Choose 3 from the ichorwerk list.

• Your body can produce 1 additional restricted ichorwerk per encounter.
• OC, this is represented by a white foam ball.
• You must take a mutation from the following list.

• Your body can produce 3 types of common ichorwerk.
• Choose 3 from the ichorwerk list.

• Your body can produce 1 additional common ichorwerk per encounter.
• OC, this is represented by a yellow foam ball
• You must take a mutation from the following list.

• Once per adventure, you may apply a temporary mutation to yourself or another willing or unresisting individual.
• This can either be from the mutations list, or freeform.
• If freeform, consult a GM but the list should serve as a guide to the scope of effects that are possible.
• You may attempt to compensate for a severe affliction of the body in this way.
• This mutation only lasts for the rest of the adventure.

1 Black Ichor

• Once per adventure you may feed yourself or another willing individual pure black Ichor and attempt to make permanent changes to their body.
• This can either be from the mutations list, or freeform.
• If freeform, consult a GM but the list should serve as a guide to the scope of effects that are possible.
• You alleviate a strong affliction of the body in this way.

• Once per encounter, when you miss a target with any ichorwerk,
• So long as the ichorwerk landed within sword reach of a valid target, you may make the appropriate call against them.

• Your body can produce 3 types of restricted ichorwerk.
• Choose 3 from the ichorwerk list.

• Your body can produce 1 additional restricted ichorwerk per encounter.
• OC, this is represented by a white foam ball.
• You must take a mutation from the following list.

• Once per encounter, you may call RESIST to a call delivered by ichorwerk.

1 Black Ichor

• You may with 10s concentration apply special serums to a willing or unconscious individual (but not yourself).
• This temporarily boosts their physical capabilities far beyond their natural limits.
• Every time they enter their death count this encounter, they may stay up and fighting for 10s.
• They are driven into a blind rage, however, and must always attack the nearest enemy (if available) or otherwise, their nearest target.
• These effects last until the end of the encounter.

• You may attempt to decontaminate a mutated area by sucking up the black ichor that has suffused it into yourself.
• This may trigger a psychic combat.
• It may be possible to gain additional Black Ichor in this way.

2 Black Ichor

• You may attempt to alleviate a Severe or lower affliction of the body by inducing a compensatory mutation.
• This mutation is permanent.

• Nominate an ichorwerk that delivers a CURSE by flask.
• That potion is used up.
• Until the end of the encounter, you may deliver this CURSE by offering someone a handshake.
• If they accept, they will take the effect of the CURSE.
• (NB: The target may accept the handshake IC without making OC contact.)

Pre-req: Dark Potential
2 Black Ichor

• When you purchase this skill, pick one inorganic substance you have studied. This is subject to LARPO approval.
• At the cost of two black Ichor you may transform an inanimate object, up to the size of a room, into a different material you have studied.
• This changes the substance of the object, but not its form.
• You may replace a substance you have studied with a different one by taking a downtime action.

• Your body can produce 3 types of secret ichorwerk.
• Choose 3 from the ichorwerk list.

• Your body can produce 1 additional secret ichorwerk per encounter.
• OC, this is represented by a black foam ball.
• You must take a mutation from the following list.

3 Black Ichor

• You have moved beyond simply following the recipes of others.
• You may attempt to brew a unique ichorwerk to your own specifications.
• You could, for instance, try and make a large bomb or an airborne hallucinogen.
• The GM will then decide what the new concoction does.

Pre-req: Rupture

• The cocktail of ichor inside you transforms the ground where you bleed into a nightmare cesspool.
• 10s after you begin to bleed out, call MASS SINGLE.
• You may call MASS SINGLE every 5s thereafter so long as you remain on 0 hits.

• Thrice per adventure, you may increase the potency of an ichorwerk you know how to make which produces an affliction.

• Once per encounter, when you miss a target with any ichorwerk,
• So long as the ichorwerk landed within sword reach of a valid target, you may make the appropriate call against them.

3 Black Ichor

• You may apply a temporary mutation to yourself or a willing or unresisting individual.
• The power and scope of this mutation is beyond that of a standard mutation.
• This mutation lasts until the end of the adventure it was applied.
• For a standard combat use of this ability, use the following:
• The next time the target drops to 0 hits:
  • Targets maximum hits are now 16.
  • Target regains all hits.
  • Target regains all weapon calls.
  • Target gains 3 RESISTs.
  • Target gains 3 MASS FEAR.
  • Target gains 3 ARC STAGGER.
• Otherwise, consult a GM.

• Your body can produce 3 types of secret ichorwerk.
• Choose 3 from the ichorwerk list.

• Your body can produce 1 additional secret ichorwerk per encounter.
• OC, this is represented by a black foam ball.
• You must take a mutation from the following list.

Pre-Req: Greater Rupture

• If someone drops to 0 hits while within 5m of you when you are bleeding out, you must call CURSE and take a HEAL 6.
• The effects of this CURSE call will be briefed by the GM at the end of the encounter.

Pre-Req: Dark Rupture

• Once per adventure, you may bid your body become as ichor.
• Your body dissolves into black goop.
• You drop to 0 hits and start to bleed out.
• All ichorwerk-based effects upon you cease, and you must call IMMUNE to all ichorwerk until Ichorwalk ends.
• You can, however, use ichorwerk on others as normal, and make the calls from the any Rupture abilities while in this form.
• You may also stand up and walk at a rate of one short step every 1s.
• You may talk while in this form.
• You must call VOID to any calls or damage from other people, including EXECUTE.
• You may use this ability if you have already entered your death count.
• Taking a HEAL or FIGHT ON! call ends this effect.

Pre-Req: Flesh to Clay
4 Black Ichor

• You may attempt to cure a chronic affliction of the body by inducing a compensatory mutation.
• This mutation is permanent.

Pre-Req: Savant's Blessing
3 Black Ichor

• When you purchase this skill, pick one inorganic or organic substance you have studied. This is subject to LARPO approval.
• Pick a single attribute that you want an area to have. This attribute must derive from a substance you have studied.
• The local area will change to have this attribute, and one other attribute chosen by the GM.
• You may use this ability in combat, call a TIME FREEZE and consult a GM.
• Use of this ability in Rastaban whilst not in the Wastes is High Treason.