Originally by Matthew Lahtinen and Anthony Botz
Use this if you fail a DeathTest and begin to die. You can avoid collapsing, but at a price. You have a short lease on life, and can continue to actu until you die or choose to collapse.
A number of things will worsen your condition.
- Each attack that causes further damage to you
- Each Sequence of combat in which you are active
- Every five minutes you move about slowly, out-of-combat
If you take enough damage while using this schtick that you reach the instantaneous death point, it's all over.
The effect ends when you die, or when a medic successfully stabilizes your wounds. You cannot elect to end it voluntarily, but it ends if you try to make a Constitution check in place of a Medicine roll for a stabilization attempt.