✎ foresttouched [animus]

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======Forest Touched======
  * The Forest of Loss takes those who it touches, hollows them out, and sends them back as monstrous husks to unknown ends.  
  * However, there are a select few that emerge, not //unchanged//, but still themselves. There was something within them that could not be broken, could not be snuffed out, by the full force of Loss. 
  * This change grants the Forest Touched power over life, and the flow of life, in a symbiotic relationship with the seed of the Forest inside themselves. 
  * Their powers are greatest when within the Forest or its bounds.

====Class Feature: Outcast====
  * Forest Touched are treated with suspicion and fear throughout Rastaban. Only in the Forester's Guild, and Outside the Embrace, does this fear and suspicion ease off. 
  * In those outer places, they understand the dangers the Forest poses, and appreciate how crucial the Forest Touched are in combating that peculiar menace. 
  * Forest Touched typically fare worse than their counterparts in the social politics of the City. Services are harder to obtain; trust and kinship harder to earn. 
  * In any situation where blame is equally likely to be attributed to any one of a number of people, and one of them is Forest Touched, then it is likely the Forest Touched will bear the blunt of the blame.

====Class Feature: Affiliation====

  * Gain the [[:general_skills#affiliate|Affiliate]] skill for the Forester's Guild.

=====Skills=====

====Lv1====

===Survivor===
  * You gain hits equal to your psyche hits.

===Sense of the Forest===
  * This allows you to tell information about the general area, and if the forest has taken an active interest in you. 
  * You can also tell whether creatures, plants of people fall under the forest's dominion, although the latter is often subtler and can close examination of the individual.
  * You can also sense nearby forest creatures.

===Gift of Life===
  * You may freely transfer body hits to anyone you can see.
  * Take X damage to call HEAL X at range. 

===Immaterial Threads===
  * Whenever you HEAL someone through medical roleplay you HEAL them for 1 additional point.

===Flesh Hard as Stone===
  * Gain two PHYSICAL RESISTS.

====Lv2====

===Circle of Life===
  * Whenever you HEAL someone else through medical roleplay, take the same HEAL call yourself.
  
===Increased Regeneration===
  * You recover from pain and wounds quicker than most. 
  * Take all WOUND calls at half duration.

===Empathetic link===
  * When fighting against forest creatures: gain a DODGE per instance of forest creature, which must be used against that creature. 

===Surge of Might===
  * Your limbs surge with unnatural strength as the flame of your life burns brighter.
  * You may take a TRIPLE to call REPEL by melee.

===Animal Companion===
  * You have a loyal animal companion, which is also touched by the forest.
  * You are able to communicate with this animal on an instinctual level and even to a limited degree share its senses. 
  * This animal can be anything (within reason) but pick one of the benefits below which seems appropriate. 
  * You may if you wish buy this skill multiple time to take additional benefits. 
   * The first time you drop to zero hits in an encounter take a HEAL 0.
   * Gain 3 uses of FEAR per encounter.
   * Gain 1 DODGE per encounter which may be used to dodge ranged calls.
   * Gain 1 PSYCHE. 

===Deep Roots===
  * You are able to do more whilst bleeding out than others.
  * You can, with effort, crawl on the floor, or talk. 


====Lv3====


===Thornheart===
//Pre-req: Deep Roots//
  * You may hide your life deep inside within the thorny briar which now takes the place of your heart. 
  * When you are bleeding out your body attempts to regenerate itself. After 15 seconds bleeding out without taking further damage you must call HEAL 4 on yourself as your body pulls itself back together.
  * If you are executed add 10 seconds onto this time rather than dying.

===Thorn Shard===

  * You tear a shard of Thorn from your body. 
  * Take a QUINT 
  * This should be represented by a dagger, which counts as standard quality. 
  * When you strike with the dagger you may call CURSE. 
  * If this is not dodged you may count the target as a forest creature, as the shard worms its way into their flesh. 
  * Once you have hit an opponent with the dagger, you must discard it, as the physrep is consumed.

===Forged Will===
  * Gain 2 MENTAL RESISTS.

===Dominion===
  * Whilst within the wood you may at least temporarily bend it to your purpose. 
  * You may take a TRIPLE to call WOUND BOTH LEGS on someone at range.
  * You may take a DOUBLE to call REPEL.
  * You may take a TRIPLE to call STAGGER 10 on a STAGGERED target.

===Viridian Dreams===
  * You no longer need to sleep.
  * If you decide to try anyway, talk to a GM. 

===Immaterial Threads===
  * Whenever you HEAL someone through medical roleplay you HEAL them for 1 additional point.

====Lv4====

===Twin Sorrows, One Root===

  * You may use MENTAL RESIST calls against physical effect calls.
  * You may use PHYSICAL RESIST calls against mental effect calls.  

===Transfer Thornheart===
//Pre-req: Thornheart//

  * You transfer your Thornheart to a dead body. 
  * The body has to have some flesh left on it. 
  * This process takes 60s [[:supplementary_rules#concentration|concentration]].
  * If the process succeeds, you awaken in the new body on 1 hit. 
  * If your concentration is interrupted your maximum body hits drop to 0 and you lose any hits stored in the heart.
  * You do not begin to bleed out. 

===Devour from Within===
  * You may tear apart creatures of the forest from from within, but not without cost to yourself. 
  * You may take a QUINT to call QUINT at range to a forest creature.

===Flesh Turned Against Itself===

  * You disrupt the flows within a chosen target.
  * Take a TRIPLE hit to call LIVING BOMB by melee blow.
  * The first time that target drops to 0 hits their body detonates with a spectacular explosion and they must call MASS QUINT REPEL.
  * The person starts their death count as normal after this.

===Anointment===

  * Once per adventure you may attempt to treat more potent or long term conditions by driving out the cause of the malady. 
  * This must be done on an adventure so the GM can put together an appropriate psychic combat but can attempt to cure afflictions of any potency. 
  * Note that this requires the willing participation of the individual and if it succeeds they will be forever linked to you.
  * You may take your party with you.



====Lv5====
===Quicken the Sap===
  * Medical roleplay takes you 8s, instead of 10s. 

===Vitality of Nature===
  * Afflictions of the body or soul which affect you count as one potency lower.

===Abjuration of Loss===
  * Once per adventure you may attempt to seize control of a section of the Forest of Loss. 
  * This will initiate a psychic combat.
  * There will be consequences depending on your success or failure.

===Graft the Sapling===
  * When someone dies, you may attempt to bring them back to life. 
  * Cut off one of your limbs.
  * This is a chronic affliction of the body.  You cannot phsyrep using this limb - it is as though you were under the effect of a WOUND, but permanently. 
  * Over the course of an encounter or short rest, the severed limb sprouts and grows into a facsimile of the dead person. 
  * This is likely to have ongoing effects for that person.

===Assert Control===

  * You may call PUPPETEER against a forest creature. 
  * This costs a hit and then a further hit for every 10 seconds that the effect lasts. 
  * This requires concentration. You must call PUPPETEER DOWN if you ever lose concentration. 
  * You may give mechanical orders to your puppet e.g. attack the bandit leader; jump off that cliff. 
  * If someone RESISTS the PUPPETEER call they are IMMUNE to the call for the rest of the encounter.
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