Flux Powers (FiD)

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Main Page is Powers Flux is the power of luck, chaos, decay, and randomness, but also of freedom, inspiration, and art. Always chancy and dangerous, when it works flux manipulates events in your favor. This makes flux subtle, when it works, the effects are seemingly random events. Flux is opposed to order.

Flux attacks are natural events, like roof tiles falling on enemies or them tripping on a random passing turtle. Often not fatal unless the environment itself is lethal. You can also use flux with normal weapons to improve your chances.

Flux Power Effects

Action Free Equipment Willpower Trauma
Attune Perceive
You can detect flux creatures and powers. Flux creatures are strange spirits of whimsy, sometimes known as muses. They inspire arts and cause chaos
Dismiss
You can force any creature native to another plane of existence to return to that plane, or to end the operation of any power.
Summon
You can call a creature from a place of your power. This is generally an unwilling servant. It will obey one command from you and this can be extended. Learning who to summon may require study or be a a score in itself.
Gate
You can create a portal that allows travel to and from the plane of your power for a limited time.
Command Communicate
You can communicate with anyone as long as you incite independence and chaos.
Translate
You and allies can communicate, as above.
Authority
As long as you inspire independence and chaos you can affect anyone , as if you were their friend. Of course, them acting independently might not be helpful.
Enslave
You can permanently make creatures impossible to control.
Consort Mask
You can change your clothes and accessories by imbuing them chaos, making them shift and change. This can mask your identity or create fabulous outfits.
Shapechange
You can change into anything, but the change is unstable and might have flaws or change while in progress. Add 1d to one action and subtract 1d from all actions covered by an attribute except if you just raised one of them.
Transform
You can shapechange a willing or helpless creatures as above. This can be a curse, it can be broken but it is not easy. You can easily break the effect.
Wild Hunt
You can transform a large number of willing or non-sentient creatures and give them a simple instruction, which then will likely ignore.
Finesse Ride
You can ride any mount or vehicle you first encountered on this score as if it was domesticated and you have the keys.
Fine Local Control
You can use the flux use your luck as a fine and potent close-range attack, similar in effect to a fine potent dueling sword or pistol.
Manipulate
You can call on luck very precisely, allowing you to do small and exact manipulations at range. This allows you to open doors, trigger or hinder mechanisms, or perform other minor manipulations, as long as your luck holds.
Surge
You call a rain of random chaos, suppressing the effect of multiple opponents and acting as a fine potent weapon. You can choose to affect multiple targets.
Hunt Track
You can track and pursue by blind luck. You can hide in areas where your power is manifest in the environment.
Fine Ranged Attack
You can use your power to attack, similar in effect to a fine and potent rifle.
Area attack
You can use your power to attack similar to a fine and potent grenade. This allows you to fight many creatures in the same area very effectively, but there is a risk of collateral damage.
Barrage
You call down the equivalent of a fine potent artillery barrage, attacking everything and everyone in a wide area. Depending on your power, this can raze buildings and create rubble. Usually enough to provide cover for any escape.
Prowl Reconnaissance
You can hide anywhere, protected by random distractions.
Maneuver
You can move on and through environments as if your life was charmed. Events will conspire to help you move freely.
Travel
You can bring allies along when you use Reconnaissance and Maneuver.
Transport
You and allies can teleport to a random location. This is regional travel, you stay within the same city or region, but it is generally sufficient to enter or escape just about any situation or location.
Skirmish Skirmish Attack
Flux is always a high-risk strategy, and trying to rely on it to help again and again in a skirmish involving multiple enemies is to raise the odds each time.
Fine Skirmish Attack
Same as Skirmish Attack, except the weapon is fine and potent.
Obstruction
Your power creates distractions and obstructions that prevents the enemy from benefiting from numbers and otherwise works as a fine potent weapon.
Flurry
Your power strikes out in all directions, attacking all enemies in a wide area.
Study Analyze
You learn the powers and abilities of flux powers and creatures you study.
'Divination
This is fortune-telling pure and simple. Sometimes the fortune cookie speaks the truth!
Hindsight
You can read the past events of something you analyze. This includes previous owners and how the object has been moved around as well as significant scenes.
Omniscience
You analyze everything in a wide area. This is easy to do where you are, more difficult at range. You can then use hindsight on some of these targets.
Survey Detect
You tend to stumble on good information, people, and paths by chance, but sometimes those encounters turn out to be dangerous.
Sensor
Choose an object in flux that you know of; you can perceive as if you were at that spot. Object in flux are those behaving randomly.
Scry
Choose a location or creature. You gain a sensor at the nearest suitable object, which is often close enough to perceive the target.
Omnipresence
You perceive all random coincidences over a wide area. As long as you concentrate you retain this perception and can report what you see to others.
Sway Communicate
You can communicate with anyone as long as you incite independence and chaos.
Translate
You and allies can communicate, as above.
Mesmerize
You can post random impulses in the mind of any creature, which will be triggered under conditions you specify. This is usually drastic actions, often violent.
Inculcate
You remove all inculcation or domestication from a creature, giving it the complete freedom of a wild and uncontrolled state. This is likely to be peaceful and creative.
Tinker Handle
With luck, you might find just the tool or component you need.
Shape
You can randomly shape any object as if they were of clay, often fulfilling your needs in unexpected ways.
Create
You can randomly reshape any object into any other object, often a useful one. This can create complex tools, such as fine and potent items appropriate to the power(s) used.
Wish
You wish for an object and it might appear. This can be something large, such as a vehicle or building.
Wreck Jimmy
Objects seem to have suffered damage when they hinder you. Noisy and leaves a twisted object in place.
Smash
You channel chaos into an object, making it bend and crack as if it was wood. Give it a good smash to break it.
Disintegrate
Similar to smash, but destroyed targets silently disappear or are reduced to a fine dust.
Obliterate
Similar to smash, but over a large area. This can level a city block, empty a canal system of water, raze a city wall, and similar massive destruction.