Absolute Unit
Core Copse Cluster
Mechanical Origins: Personal Discipline • Health and Fitness
The Absolute Unit standing in all his glory. The typical Absolute Unit prioritizes their health and physique over pursuits of the mind. Instead of honing a craft or spending their time studying, they build and maintain their bodies in peak condition.
Physical Training
Daily Physical Training is part of what keeps a Character fit and healthy and pushing to higher Physical Ability.
Growth Points: 10
Requirements: Level 1
Routine Practice: 1 Hour
Gain one stack of Fit & Healthy for 10 Hours
Fit & Healthy: Increases Hit Points by 10, Raw Potency by 1, and Max Lift by 10 Load.
Notes: Physical Training does not require special equipment, domicile options, or otherwise. While Malnourished, a Character can not benefit from Fit & Healthy.
Clutch
You Grab em’
Growth Points: 10
Requirements: Level 1
Celerity: 1 Action Debt, 2 Action Slots, or 2 Reserved Slots
Reach: 1 Tile
Clash: Gain a +2 Bonus to Latch Clash.
While you are Latched, neither you nor your Victim are able to use Movement Actions, or benefit from Movement granted by Actions, unless your Victim exceeds your Load Weight.
Clutch may be Activated if an Adversary moves through a Tile you can reach with your open hand, incurring Action Debt or consuming Reserved Slots.
You may release the Latch anytime.
For the Victim to free themselves they must spend an Action Point, 3 Action Slots, 4 Reserved Slots and succeed a Clash against your original Clutch Clash. You may choose to release them when they attempt this Clash, they will move backwards 1 Tile.
Note: If your Victim’s Load Weight is more than double your Max Lift, then they may still use Movement Actions, but you will remain latched with them. Forced Movement applies to both you and your Victim. Clutch Ends the Momentum Buff if the Victim had it active.
Burdenless
Growth Points: 5
Requirements: Level 2
All Load Carried as part of Every Day Carry is ignored when calculating Max Lift.
Toughened
Growth Points: 5
Requirements: Level 3, Physical Training
Your Hit Points now equal 15 x Strength + 10 x Vitality.
Dig Deep
Growth Points: 5
Requirements: Level 4, Burdenless
Your Max Lift is now (100 Load + 10 Load x Strength)
Clutch: Drag
Growth Points: 25
Requirements: Level 5, Clutch
Your bonus to Clutch Clash is now +3. While it is your Active Phase, you may move and drag your Victim. You can not benefit from Momentum. You can not Drag a Victim who weighs more than twice your Max Lift.
Leatherskin
Growth Points: 10
Requirements: Level 6, Toughened
Increases Raw Mitigation by a Third of your Strength Attribute Score, minimum of 2.
If a Character has Leatherskin from two or more sources, Raw Mitigation is increased to 1/2 Strength.
Enhanced Natural Healing
Growth Points: 5
Requirements: Level 7, Leatherskin
When recovering from Hard Damage through Natural healing, you heal 5 Hard Damage, instead of (v:4)
Stem the Flow
Growth Points: 25
Requirements: Level 7, Leatherskin
When an Action or Effect would apply Bleeding Counters or Hemorrhaging Counters to you, you instead take the weapon’s damage type in damage and no counters are applied.
Unchecked Lift
Growth Points: 15
Requirements: Level 8, Dig Deep
Your Max Lift is now (100 Load + 20 Load x Strength)
Clutch: Slam
Growth Points: 25
Requirements: Level 9, Clutch, Clutch: Drag
Celerity: 3 Action Slots, or 4 Reserved Slots
Reach: 1 Tile
You Slam the Victim of your Clutch into an Adjacent Tile. If the Tile is Occupied, make an Accuracy Check to determine if Slam Hits the occupant. Both your Victim an any Object or Target they hit take (v:6 + Raw Potency x Focal Potency)
Advanced Physical Training
Daily Physical Training is part of what keeps a Character fit and healthy and pushing to higher Physical Ability.
Growth Points: 50
Requirements: Level 10
Routine Practice: 30 Minutes
Gain one stack of Fit & Healthy for 10 Hours, you may repeat this Routine up to 5 Times a Day.
Fit & Healthy: Each stack increases Hit Points by 10, Raw Potency by 1, and Max Lift by 10 Load.
Notes: Physical Training does not require special equipment, domicile options, or otherwise. While Malnourished, a Character can not benefit from Fit & Healthy.
