User blog:Saslen/Contracts of the Utter North

Forged by the Northern courtier James Auren, these Contracts relate to the suffering of the caster or his target.

Note: Finish descriptions and roll results later.

Abilities
Having accepted the necessity and inevitability of loss, the caster may reduce the effects of such losses on his Clarity. Prerequisites: Mantle (North) 1 or Court Goodwill (North) 2 Cost: 1 Glamour Dice Pool: Stamina + Mantle (North) Action: Instant Catch: Anoint oneself with ashes. Roll Results Dramatic Failure: Failure: Rolls for Clarity loss continue as normal. Success: For the next successes hours, Breaking Point rolls caused by losses gain a +2 bonus. Exceptional Success: Should the Clarity roll fail, the changeling need not roll to resist acquiring a derangement.
 * · Numb to Suffering:

Description Prerequisites: Mantle (North) 2 or Court Goodwill (North) 3 Cost: 2 Glamour Dice Pool: Resolve + Mantle (North) Action: Reflexive Catch: Wearing armor only on the back. Roll Results Dramatic Failure: Failure: The caster takes damage as normal. Success: Manifest the armored shell of the Black Tortoise itself. Downgrade the next Wyrd attacks: Aggravated to Lethal or Lethal to Bashing. Exceptional Success: Bashing damage taken may also be halved for those attacks.
 * · Shell of the Black Tortoise:

Description Prerequisites: Mantle (North) 2 or Court Goodwill (North) 4 Cost: 3 Glamour Dice Pool: Manipulation + Empathy + Mantle (North) – Target Composure + Power Stat Action: Instant Catch: An audible wind is blowing. Roll Results Dramatic Failure: Failure: Success: Bring upon a victim the howling winds of the north. Induce a sense of psychological suffering on a victim, causing a penalty of -successes. Maximum of -5 penalty. Effect lasts one scene. Exceptional Success:
 * · Tramontane:

Description Prerequisites: Mantle (North) 3 or Court Goodwill (North) 4 Cost: 4 Glamour Dice Pool: Stamina + Survival + Mantle (North) Action: Reflexive Catch: Caster removes armor for the duration of the battle. Roll Results Dramatic Failure: Failure: Success: For each health box filled, gain 1 Armor rating to either ballistic or general armor for successes turns. Exceptional Success:
 * · Scars of the North:

Much as Xuanwu purged himself of his sins by washing his intestines in the river, the caster may reverse the effects of lost Clarity. Prerequisites: Mantle (North) 4 Cost: 4 Glamour + 1 Willpower Dice Pool: Wyrd + Composure Action: Instant Catch: Clause is activated while washing in a river. Roll Results Dramatic Failure: Failure: Success: Inflict Wyrd Lethal damage to oneself. For each two damage done this way, gain temporary Clarity for successes days. Exceptional Success:
 * · Wash the Intestines: