Order Powers (FiD)
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Order is the power of the status quo, of stasis, predictability, loyalty, indoctrination, and dogma.
Order is the system of the world; the universe of space, matter, and natural law we are all familiar with. From a social perspective, Order is stable relations, social ritual, hierarchy, loyalty and unbending law. Order powers restore normality, negate randomness, and make mechanisms and people behave as expected. Order is opposed by Flux, the principle of chaos and randomness.
Order attacks come in two kinds. One is regular weapons. Your mundane weapons won’t fail unexpectedly as long as you use them properly and may become Fine and Potent using appropriate effects. The other is exorcism. Exorcism is a fine and potent attack that only works against creatures that possess others and creatures that can be dismissed because they are not native to the plane. This attack is quite situational, but sometimes uniquely useful, like when you want to strike at a possessing devil without harming the victim it is possessing.
Known as virtues, creatures of order represent different tasks, functions, skills, and moral values. Virtues stand for morals, order, and predictability, not good and evil. There can be a virtue of torture or execution. Get the right one and it will perform to perfection. Get the wrong one, and you have a very insistent pedant. If you want ethical creatures, look at Light and Darkness.
Muses are virtues of art and inspiration, including the classic muses as well as others relevant to different cultures.
Allegories are virtues of tasks, representing a craft like leatherworking, an activity like exploration or a technology such as steam power.
Precepts are virtues that exemplify a moral standpoint, such as innocence, fidelity, loyalty, justice, obedience, or despotism.
Order Power Effects
| Action | Basic | Advanced | Master | Apex |
| Dice | — | Minimum 2d | Minimum 4d | Minimum 6d |
| Stress | Avoid fumble (2+). | Succeed (4+). | Full success (6). | Critical (2 sixes). |
| Attune | Virtuous Vision Detect summoned creatures and active powers. |
Power Purge Dismiss creatures. End the operation of any power. |
Herald of Harmony Call a virtue, creatures of order from a plane of law. |
Disciplined Domain Create a portal to a plane of law. |
| Command | Loyal Linguistics Command creatures with loyalty to your faction. |
Factional Fellowship Send messages to distant creatures of your faction. |
Add Alegience Create loyalty in any creature. |
Oath of Obedience Permanently remove and create loyalty. |
| Consort | Unifying Uniform Change your clothes and accessories to match local customs. |
Maestro of Mimicry Assume the form of a local creature. |
Form of the Flock Shapechange allies or victims into local creatures. |
Assimilation Form Flock several willing or non-sentient creatures. |
| Finesse | Tool Tamer Weapons, machines, and vehicles you use work perfectly. |
Weapon Warden Fine and potent close-range attack, or give crew Tool Tamer. |
Machinist Magician Activate machines at a distance. |
Rational Route Find the best route. |
| Hunt | Perfect Pursuit Creatures and devices you rely on to track are reliable. |
Precise Projectile Make a weapon attack fine and potent, or make an potent exorcism at range. |
Pristine Path Clear a path, negating obstructions.. |
Hunter's Havoc Perfect a grenade, making it fine and potent, or make a potent exorcism in an area. |
| Prowl | Recon Routine Understand security routines, preventing scale. |
Refine Route Secure a route, preventing random setbacks. |
Guide's Glide Bring allies along when you Recon Routine or Refine Route. |
Punctual Pathway Teleport crew from one transport nexus to another. |
| Skirmish | Combat Cowl Protect yourself from chaotic damage. |
Combat Control Fine and potent skirmish Attack or exorcism. |
Combat Command Deny the enemy the ability to coordinate negates scale. |
Combat Conquest Optimize to attack multiple enemies without disadvantage. |
| Study | Studious Scan Identify a power, creature, or item. |
Exact Examination Learn the powers and abilities a power, creature, and item. |
Lexicon of Lore Read past events of a power, creature, and item. |
Omniscient Order Studious Scan all you see then three times Lexicon of Lore. |
| Survey | Vigilant Vision Sense powers that break the status quo. |
Sensor's Secret Sense from a guard or surveillance device. |
Enhanced Espionage Choose a location or creature. Gain nearest Sensor's Secret. |
Web of Watchers Sensor's Secret at all places at once over a wide area. |
| Sway | Diplomatic Discourse Communicate with and sway creatures who are not enemies. |
Negotiation Nexus You and allies can communicate with creatures who are not enemies. |
Compelling Command Post suggestions in the mind of a creature who is not an enemy. |
Inculcate Influence Permanently change the personality and motivations of creatures. |
| Tinker | Tool Tweak Repair objects as if you had the appropriate tools. |
Device Design Create known objects from existing components. |
Create Components Create fine and potent known items. |
Machine Miracle Mass Device Design. |
| Wreck | Find Fault Noisily wreck anything damaged. Make a potent but clumsy exorcism. |
Implode Imperfection Smashing damaged objects as if they were wood. |
Defects to Dust Silen and traceless Implode Imperfection. |
Deficiency Disaster Implode Imperfection over a large area. |
Expanded Order Powers
Attune
Harness the power of Attune to perceive and manipulate supernatural energies, allowing you to detect and interact with beings and phenomena from the planes of law, and to restore the natural state of things by negating the Powers of others.
Consequences usually depend on what happens around you. Sometimes a creature wants to be dismissed, giving good Position but not complete safety; consequences might include the creature losing control during the process or outside intervention.
Ascriptive Authority
Detect summoned creatures and active powers.
Order is powerful in that you can perceive any Spirit and detect creatures and active Powers of any Form. This is usually done to spot a spirit or a disguised creature. It can also help identify a creature's connection to powers, providing valuable insights into their nature. If you know several different powers, you can scan for all of them at the same time. Limited outcome suffices against a nearby creature you can clearly see. You need greater outcome against against a creature that is hidden or far away (standard outcome) or behind a wall (great outcome). The position usually starts controlled, with the usual consequence that you missed the opportunity and cannot try again until the situation changes.
Assertive Authority
Dismiss creatures. End the operation of any power.
An essential strength of Order is to restore the natural order. This allows the dispelling of all Forms, forcing the materialization of any Spirit and dismissing any summoned creature.
Dispelling can be used as a defense against others' use of powers, or it can be used to break continuing effects. Dispelling is often used as a setup action to help another character in a situation when the opposition is using powers. This usually improves the position of the supported action and can work in addition to other setup actions. When used directly, the effect is usually limited unless the opponent is relying on powers for their safety. Against an opponent that uses Animal wings to fly or turned into a fish to breathe underwater you have a better base effect. When dramatically appropriate that a power is hard to dispel, often because it is the crux of the situation, this will not negate the power but instead give you a clue to what you need to do to resolve the situation.
Forcing a spirit to materialize is easy, but limited in range; if the creature can get away from you it can de-materialize again, only to materialize again if it gets close enough. Limited effect only works on spirits within reach. Standard effect covers an area based on your tier (p 220). Great effect reaches out to a range covered by tier (p 220).
Dismissing a creature is hard and usually requires great effect. A creature that has been wounded or otherwise weakened only needs standard effect. A creature that wants to be dismissed requires only limited effect.
Allegiant Authority
Call creatures from a plane of law.
Summoned creatures of Order come in three types, Virtues, automatons, and creatures with powers.
Virtues are Spirit of Order, immaterial, ephemeral, manifesting different concepts and ideas, such as steam power, electricity, science or virtues such as bravery or intelligence. They can use sophisticated power effects and seek to manifest their core idea.
Automatons are somewhat equivalent to the elementals of other powers. These are artificial bodies possessed by a virtue. Some automatons are mechanical or clockwork creatures, others are animated statues. Either is about as hard to make, a culture generally sticks to one of these methods. It is possible to dismiss a virtue possessing an automaton, leaving the body with no mind or animation.
Creatures with powers are less common as agents of Order. They resemble perfect specimens of mundane creatures, having a biological body, metabolism, and functioning as ordinary living creatures but also have some Powers related to Order. Agents of law may turn domesticated animals and even humans into creatures of order, granting powers of Order by fusing the creature with a virtue. This grants a longer lifespan at the price of sterility.
Not all creatures with powers are summonable or dismissible, many are native to this world and have no special vulnerability to Attune power effects. This applies particularly to Order creatures, that are often mundane creatures engineered to be this way. It is not possible to dismiss a virtue that has been merged with a living creature.
Summons are Chohorts: Creatures you summon function as temporary cohorts (p. 96) — either an Expert or a Gang — with added Powers from their Form. An Expert is a skilled individual who can offer advice, Assist, or act independently. A Gang is a group (numbers based on your Tier, p. 221) that primarily provides Scale in combat and labor.
You can always summon a Gang of creatures one Tier below yours. Summoning a specific Gang or Expert requires knowing its unique identity — called a true name in mystical traditions. For a technomancer, this might be a type ID, blueprint, or genetic code. Learning a creature’s true name may require a flashback, or in complex cases, the research downtime activity or a reward from a score.
- Summoning a Creature
The summoning itself is quick but dangerous. When you have time and resources, it is wise to use wards and Barriers, but in action this is usually impossible and you must face the risks. Having allies present for safety is advisable. Offering a creature gifts or services appropriate to its nature and power can be a literal Devil’s Bargain — accepting an additional consequence to gain an advantage.
Depending on your degree of outcome, a creature is willing to do different things:
- Limited Outcome allows you to ask questions of an Expert or demand a short period of physical labor from a Gang. They will not fight for you.
- Standard Outcome allows any service appropriate to the creature’s type, having it act in its typical role. Most creatures don’t mind fighting, but may have preferences about how they do it and what they do outside a fight.
- Great Outcome allows service outside the creature’s comfort zone, though not against its nature. Lengthy service — even within its comfort zone — also requires a Great Outcome, such as guarding treasure until it is stolen.
The position usually starts at Risky — the creature is compelled and may resist. Typical consequences, in ascending order of severity:
- Half-hearted efforts
- Demanding not to be summoned again
- Breaking things or demanding concessions
- A short fight to assert dominance
- Deliberate sabotage
- A constant struggle to maintain control
Ascendant Authority
Create a portal to a plane of law.
Opens a portal to one of the planes of Order. Places of crystalline clarity, geometric perfection, or eusocial harmony, planes of Order are perfect to the point of being bland.
There are things that are possible to do here that are not allowed in the regular world. Appropriate effects are reduced one step in difficulty, from advanced to basic, master to advanced, and apex to master. This opens the possibility of new super-apex powers that have to be negotiated with the game master. Such effects rarely reach outside the plane of origin, but if they affect creatures there the effect may remain when you return to the mundane world.
This can also be used to contact creatures too powerful to summon. This allows you to ignore tier when creating the gate, but gives you no power over the target. The creature may then use the gate to come to you, call you into its presence, send minions, or communicate with you at a distance.
Command
Assume control and shape the actions of others to the will of the status quo. Consequences include Heat, misunderstood orders, or a faceoff.
Hierarchy of Honor
Command creatures with loyalty to your faction.
You appeal to authority to push your commands on people, giving you leverage similar to wearing a uniform of someone in office. The effect is much stronger on people who share a cause or loyalty with you. This is useful for commanding foreign or alien subordinates across language barriers and provides the leverage needed to use Command to intimidate without the actual threat of violence.
Hierarchy of the Hierophant
Send messages to distant creatures of your faction.
You can communicate with any creature you know of that is aligned with your cause over any distance. You can call on the ally of greatest seniority in a certain area, such as a city, base, or vehicle. Communication is precise and curt, as befits Command.
Hierarchy of Hegemony
Create loyalty in any creature.
Issue a command with the authority of Order to any creature that shares your cause. This does not remove an existing chain of command, which can lead to conflicts. Understanding the social order of your targets helps avoid conflicting with their established loyalties. Ordering city troops to disarm needs more Outcome than telling them to take up fighting positions, which they have been conditioned to do.
Limited Effect might result in a creature not doing something it might not have done anyway, such as forgetting to report you or give you a ticket. Standard Effect makes the creature do what it should, but in a way you decide, such as a police officer escorting you to safety or doing you a quick favor. Great Effect means targets will ignore their normal routine and go out of their way to please you, such as foregoing their orders to do what you tell them to do.
The Position depends on the creature’s actual relationship to you. Ordering a creature that is your superior is a Desperate Position. A Controlled Position comes from ordering clear inferiors. A Risky Position is typical when ordering a creature that considers itself your equal.
Hierarchy of Hate
Permanently remove and create loyalty.
This won’t work unless you are already in a position of power. It is not limited by cause or creature type; you can use this on anyone who is in your power. The Effect is similar to Hierarchy of Hegemony but permanent. Strong emotions can break your control, but otherwise it lasts until dispelled.
Consort
The Consort powers of Order allow you to merge into a social group.
Uniform Use
Assume local styles.
You do not physically change; instead, you change your accessories, outfit, and behavior to match the local group. As an Advanced ability, you can apply this effect to others.
Uniform Ubiquity
Assume local shape.
You assume the physical form of a creature that is part of a social group you are observing. This is a true physical transmutation and includes patterns of speech and movement.
Uniform Ubiquity can be used as a set-up action for a number of other actions, but may penalize other actions as appropriate to your new form. When you assume the form of a supernatural creature, your new form can use appropriate Basic and Advanced Powers related to that form inherently, without risking stress. This allows you to use Powers you do not know by mimicking local creatures.
With Limited Outcome, you transform into a version of yourself as you might have been had you grown up as the creature whose form you assume; those familiar with you can still recognize you. Standard Outcome allows you to become a generic member of the group, very difficult to recognize as yourself. Great Outcome allows you to assume the exact shape and some of the mannerisms of a specific creature you have studied.
Uniform Upbringing
Crew assumes local form.
This is Uniform Ubiquity applied to another creature, which must be willing or at least unable to resist. The duration depends on the Outcome. Limited Outcome is very temporary. Standard Outcome lasts for the duration of a score. Great Outcome lasts a long time, depending on the story.
If you also want to make the target unrecognizable, this requires additional Effect; see Uniform Ubiquity.
This ability is sometimes used as a form of poetic justice, transforming the target as punishment. Such transformations can be permanent and are often very difficult to undo.
Uniform Urbanity
Create a crowd of locals.
This is where Consort becomes similar to an Attune Summon power effect. You transform a number of existing creatures and give them a task that they will perform with gusto, turning them into single-minded minions. Targets must be willing, Non-Sentient like animals, or just very minor figures in the plot, many tiers below you.
This creates a gang cohort (p 96) that they can be given bit parts as servants or laborers or fight and chase for you. Such goons are more useful for chasing and cornering targets than in actual combat.
Finesse
Pristine Precision
Preempt malfunction.
Devices you use resist damage and dysfunction. This improves your Position when machine malfunction would be a Consequence, such as when redlining a vehicle. As an Advanced ability, you can apply this effect to your entire crew.
Pinpoint Precision
Fine and Potent fencing.
General rules for Order attacks are described in the introduction. Order is strong in formal duels and often gains improved Position in such situations. Aside from variety, this ability only substitutes for equipment; a Fine and Potent finesse weapon created this way is just as effective as a physical one. In a fight, using this ability does not take additional time; activating the attack is equivalent to drawing a weapon.
Purposeful Precision
Activate machines at a distance.
You can operate machinery at range. This allows you to take control of vehicles, mechanical devices, automated gun turrets, and similar systems. You cannot cause machines to fail, jam, or break using this ability.
- Limited Effect suffices when the device is allied and currently unmanned.
- Standard Effect allows control of an unmanned device with minimal security.
- Great Effect allows limited control of a hostile, manned, or high-security device; you can alter its operation, but doing so requires your constant attention.
Punctual Precision
Find the best route.
You gain information about the best route to travel to a destination. You need not know where you are or where the destination is, but you must be able to uniquely identify the destination, such as by a unique name (Paris, France), map coordinates, or a detailed mental image. This provides guidance at each decision point along the route. This ability does not provide transportation and does not account for events or obstacles encountered along the way.
Hunt
As described in the introduction to Order, attacks are either improved mundane attacks or exorcism.
Perfect Pursuit
Reliable tracing devices. When tracking or pursuing someone, any device or beast used will work as it should, and people you question will be reliable as long as they are neutral or friendly. This usually enjoys a good Position.
Perfect Projectile
Ordered sniping. General rules for Order attacks are in the introduction. You make a long-range weapon Potent and ensure it won’t jam, or you perform an exorcism at long range. Bows and arrows are integral to exorcism in many traditions, and guns may be fired at ceremonies to keep evil at bay.
Perfect Path
Clear a path. You and your crew ignore temporary obstructions on a path, such as fallen branches or trees, potholes, wrecks, and the like. As long as any part of the path is clear, you completely ignore such hindrances, usually improving either Position or initial Effect.
Perfect Purity
Ordered area attack. Perfect Projectile as an area attack—usually a grenade or possibly a hail of arrows. There is a risk of collateral damage, but when used as an exorcism this is rarely a problem.
Prowl
Order reduces the risk of random mishaps, which often improves Position rather than granting extra Effect or new opportunities.
Routine Reconnoiter
Understand security routines.
Improve your read of patrols, alarms, and their patterns. You can identify time windows and routes where security is weakest. It doesn’t matter whether the enemy has one lookout or a dozen. Prevents Prowl problems based on Scale (p 221), whether from your group’s Scale or the enemy’s.
Routine Route
Secure a route.
Once you have moved along a given route, you master that path and can safely reuse it with this ability.
- Home ground: you’ve tested all routes; improves both Effect and Position.
- Neutral territory: you’ve used some routes; improves Position.
- Hostile ground: if you’ve never been here, this offers little benefit — however, if you exit via the same path, that route is now neutral territory.
Routine Relay
Crew Routine Reconnoiter or Route.
Grant your crew the benefits of Routine Reconnoiter or Routine Route. While the group stays together this offers little extra benefit, since your guidance already applies. Most useful when the crew splits up along different paths; their use of Refine Route applies only to routes they have personally traveled. Allies roll their own Prowl.
Routine Roam
Teleport between transport nexuses.
You and your allies can teleport from one common travel destination to another such as bus stop to bus stop, between elevator levels, or between road junctions. This is regional travel — you stay within the same city or region — but it’s generally enough to escape almost any situation.
This takes you to places you are familiar with. Both Effect and Position are worse unless you know exactly where you are going, which makes it strong for escapes but weaker for intruding into unfamiliar enemy territory.
Skirmish
As described in the introduction to Order, attacks are either improved mundane attacks or exorcism. Order Skirmish aids cooperation with others, especially when they too use Skirmish.
Combat Cowl
Protect yourself from chaotic damage.
This protects against fluke accidents, traps, and attacks using the Flux power. You increase the effect of Skirmish rolls for endurance in such environments. Roll Skirmish to resist such Harm. 1-3: No reduction. 4-6: Reduce Harm by 1 level. Critical: Reduce Harm by 2 levels. As a Master power, you can protect an ally for a score; as an Apex Power, you can protect your crew. Allies roll their own Skirmish dice.
Combat Control
Fine and Potent attack or exorcism.
Skirmish attacks use pistols or melee weapons, or you can perform an exorcism in a melee. The ordered nature of this ability reduces Consequences for those who Assist you. Aside from damage-type variety, this only substitutes for equipment; Fine and Potent mundane weapons are equally effective. Certain targets may be more or less vulnerable to certain attacks, but that’s the exception.
Combat Command
Negate Scale in melee.
You anticipate the enemy’s attempts to coordinate, which prevents them from using Scale (p. 221) against you. Your side can still benefit from Scale. You can still attack single opponents as with Combat Control.
Combat Conquest
Fight as if you had Scale.
As Combat Control, and your fighting is perfectly optimized—making you a one-person army. Not only do you negate the advantage your enemy may get from Scale (p. 221), you also have full Effect on enemy Cohorts.
Study
Study and analyze objects and creatures to gain insight and knowledge. The Order form is associated with understanding, allowing you to analyze any kind of object. The outcome required depends on range, limited effect for touch, standard effect for line-of-sight, and great effect to reach a target you know of or have some link to, but which is out of line-of-sight.
Position depends on the situation. Safely in your base the position is controlled. In the middle of a fight or when pinned down the position is desperate. Sometimes thing you are researching it dangerous in itself, worsening position, consequences may give you knowledge that lacks crucial details.
Studious Scan
Identify a power, creature, or item.
This gives name and basic information in narrative terms, but no details or actual rules.
Exact Examination
Learn the powers and abilities a power, creature, and item.
You learn of any powers or special abilities the target has. This includes actual rules and game effects.
Lexicon of Lore
Read past events of a power, creature, and item.
This includes previous owners and how the target has moved around as well as significant scenes from its history. The power zooms in on events of interest to you.
Omniscient Order
Studious Scan all you see then three times Lexicon of Lore.
Provides Studious Scan as far as you can see, pinpointing locations of interest like bases and power nodes. You can then use Lexicon of Lore to learn the history of up to three such things.
Survey
Perceive and locate manifestations of Order and Flux and perceive which one you are detecting. The outcome you need depends on the target's concealment.
- Limited outcome finds those hiding behind cover and in far places you can only barely see.
- Standard outcome can look behind walls and into hard cover.
- Great outcome can look into far-away places and spots you had no idea existed.
Vigilant Vision
Sense powers that break the status quo.
This is a basic spotting power, selectively sensing Order and Flux and able to tell them apart. You can restrict your search to items, creatures, powers or specific types of such things.
Sensor's Secret
Sense from a guard or surveillance device.
You move your perception to an object or place you imagine as long as you maintain concentration. Will zoom in on the thing closes to the location you imagine. You still sense things at your actual location, but only very dimly.
Enhanced Espionage
Choose a location or creature. Gain nearest Sensor's Secret.
Similar to Sensor's Secret, but allows you to focus on a specific creature. Automatically directs your senses to towards the best vantage point for Sensor's Secret, typically close enough to observe the target. Fails if no suitable viewpoint is available.
Web of Watchers
Sensor's Secret at all places at once over a wide area.
Enhances your senses impossibly, akin to being multiple individuals spread across the scene. Creates a comprehensive mental image of the area, revealing numerous details simultaneously. It's challenging for targets to hide unless they are aware of how to conceal themselves.
Sway
Communicate, mesmerize, and manipulate creatures that are open to honest diplomacy. Position and effect are determined normally, depending on the situation and your relation to listeners.
Limited effect works if it follows the target's existing impulses, just overcoming fragile self-restraint. Standard effect can convince a target with no particular stake in the matter. Great effect will convince a reluctant target, but not a passionate one.
Diplomatic Discourse
Communicate with and sway creatures who are not enemies.
You can gauge the mood and motivations of these creatures and understand what they are saying. This does not allow you to be understood.
Negotiation Nexus
You and allies can communicate with creatures who are not enemies.
This allows you and your crew to use the Sway action with full effect, overcoming cultural and linguistic barriers. You are persuading, not speaking with authority.
Compelling Command
Post suggestions in the mind of a creature who is not an enemy.
This is essentially an enhanced Sway attempt, allowing you to implant suggestions that will trigger under conditions you set. The power remains subtle until the suggestion is activated. The target will not remember being swayed.
Inculcate Influence
Permanently change the personality and motivations of creatures.
This is permanent but blatant. It changes the target's mind on a deep level, altering their priorities and loyalties. Target remember their past but considers it unimportant compared to their new motivations. There are limits to this power, especially for creatures linked to a power—you cannot make a fire creature love the sea or an angel perform deeds of darkness. Flux and Order creatures are immune. Exceptional creatures and circumstances can break this power.
Tinker
Manipulate, shape, and create objects. Order can repair anything you are familiar with and create anything you fully understand or have blueprints for.
- Limited Outcome solves an immediate problem, then ends. Any effect achieved will last, such as a repair made with temporary tools.
- Standard Outcome construction, repair, or item lasts for the duration of a score.
- Great Outcome is semi-permanent. This does not make permanent kit, but it can make permanent effects to the setting, such as repairing a large construction like a bridge or wall.
- Something larger than a human, very complex, or of higher Quality Level than your Tier or Lifestyle increases the needed Outcome.
Position depends on the tranquility of your workspace and if you are working on something that is dangerous in itself.
For long-term projects, Tinker powers can substitute for missing tools, but that is all they do until you use the Apex ability.
Tool Tweak
Repair objects as if you had the appropriate tools.
This ability substitutes for tools and protection devices typical of a small workshop.
Device Design
Create known objects from existing components.
This surpasses normal crafting, letting you manipulate elements that are not stable, shaping materials like water, sand, or smoke and making them stay in the new shape. This can substitute for pipes and containers and facilitate the construction of traps or devices, avoiding the need for custom parts. You can form parts of a larger object as if it were clay, creating openings in walls, doors, and other massive objects.
Create Components
Create fine and potent known items.
You don't need tools to build complex fine and potent items appropriate to your powers. You can quickly do a quick rebuild of items into other items made of roughly the same material, as long as you have access to blueprints. Such a rebuild only lasts for the score.
Machine Miracle
Mass Device Design.
You can mass produce objects or create large structures like ships or buildings that normally require a work force and facilities. In long-term projects involving construction or crafting, Machine Miracle makes hundreds of items with the same effort as one item, but with a stress cost.
Wreck
Order cannot destroy that which is faultless, but it can amplify any significant fault that exists. This lets you destroy, dismantle, and obliterate anything that is already damaged, badly worn, makeshift, or unrefined.
The effect required depends on the size and structural strength of your target. Standard effect is a car-sized hole in a brick or mortar wall. Construction significantly weaker than this only demands limited effect. A smaller hole stil need the same effect. Something larger and/or stronger requires great effect.
The position depends on the situation. A quiet workspace is controlled, the general hustle of adventure risky, dealing with direct attacks, massive crowds, or dangerous construction is desperate.
Find Fault
Noisily wreck anything that starts out damaged. Make a potent but clumsy exorcism.
Just as crude as it sounds. You destroy things related to your power and strike with the force of a sledgehammer in combat. As usual, Wreck may be at an advantage or disadvantage compared to Hunt, Finesse and Skirmish, depending on the situation.
Implode Imperfection
Smash damaged objects as if they were wood.
This bypasses the strength of materials, allowing you to break even the strongest barrier, as long as it starts out damaged.
You can also use this as a potent but clumsy attack or to make an exorcism. General rules for Order attacks are in the introduction.
Defects to Dust
Silent and traceless Implode Imperfection.
The real difference here is that wrecking things is now silent and leaves less traces, as what you wreck disappears. Get rid of evidence, as long as that evidence matches your power.
Deficiency Disaster
Implode Imperfection over a large area.
Rather straightforward, this just scales things up.