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Communication
| Type: Sensory | Action: Free (active) |
| Range: Extended | Duration: Sustained |
| Saving Throw: None | Cost: 1 points per rank |
You can communicate over a distance using a medium other than your normal voice. Choose a sense type as the medium for your communication (see the list of examples). You may also use a special sense type (neutrinos, gravitons, magical sendings, and so forth) noticeable only to an appropriate form of the detect Super-Sense (see Super-Senses in this chapter).
The following are some types of communication associated with particular sense types. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and the Gamemaster is free to allow other sorts of Communication, as best suits the character and the setting.
- Visual: laser or fiber optic link.
- Auditory: ultrasonic or infrasonic beam, "ventriloquism."
- Olfactory: pheromones or chemical markers.
- Tactile: vibratory carrier wave.
- Radio: AM, FM, and short-wave radio bands, microwaves.
- Mental: telepathic transmission, psychic link, mystical sending.
Base range for Communication is 10 feet at rank 1. Each additional rank increases range as shown on the Extended Range Table. Communication is instantaneous with any subject within your range.
- Rank 1: You become fluid. You can flow through any sort of opening, under (or around) doors, through keyholes and pipes, and so forth. You cannot pass through watertight seals. You can automatically flow out of any restraint--such as a snare or grapple--that is not watertight. You automatically succeed on Escape Artist checks. So you cannot flow out of a bubble completely enclosing you, for example, but anything less cannot hold you. You can exert your normal Strength and can still carry objects, although your manual dexterity may be limited (at the GM|s discretion).
A fluid character may attempt to catch a falling person or object, cushioning the fall with the character|s flexible form. This requires a move action, and reduces the falling damage by the cushioning character|s Toughness bonus (representing flexibility in this case). Both characters suffer any remaining damage. Higher rank insubstantial forms--lacking physical Strength--cannot attempt this.
- Rank 2: You become a cloud of gas or fine particles. You have no effective Strength in gaseous form, but you are immune to physical damage. Energy and area attacks still affect you nor- mally. You can flow through any opening that is not airtight. You can use your various other effects normally.
- Rank 3: You become coherent energy. You have no effective Strength, but you are immune to physical damage. Energy attacks (other than the energy making up your form) damage you normally. You can pass through solid objects permeable to your type of energy, but energy resistant barriers, like heavy shielding or force fields, block your movement.
- Rank 4: You become incorporeal. You can pass through solid matter at your normal speed and you are unaffected by physi- cal and energy attacks. Sensory effects still work on you, as do effects with the Affects Insubstantial power feat. Choose one other reasonably common effect that works on you while you are incorporeal. You have no Strength and cannot affect thephysical world with other effects unless you apply the Affects Corporeal modifier. Your sensory effects work normally. Unless you have Immunity to Suffocation (see the Associated Effects section of this power), you must hold your breath while passing through a solid object, and you can suffocate normally. If you revert to solid form while inside a solid object for any rea- son, you suffer Fortitude-based lethal damage equal to the object|s Toughness. If you are not disabled by the damage, you|re immedi- ately ejected from the object into the nearest open space. If you are disabled, you|re trapped inside the object and your condition worsens to dying on the following round.
Unless you have Immunity to Suffocation (see the Associated Effects section of this power), you must hold your breath while passing through a solid object, and you can suffocate normally. If you revert to solid form while inside a solid object for any reason, you suffer Fortitude-based lethal damage equal to the object|s Toughness. If you are not disabled by the damage, you|re immediately ejected from the object into the nearest open space. If you are disabled, you|re trapped inside the object and your condition worsens to dying on the following round.
Power Feats
- Innate: Use this feat if your character|s form is naturally or innately Insubstantial, particularly if the effect is permanent in duration.
- Selective: This feat allows you to selectively make some portions of your body insubstantial while keeping others substantial (or vice versa). This allows you to do things like reach through a wall, solidify your hand to pick up an object or tap someone on the shoulder (or punch them in the face), and become incorporeal again to withdraw it on the following round.
- Subtle: This feat makes your Insubstantial nature less noticeable to observers. One rank requires a Notice check (DC 20) to detect that you are Insubstantial, while two ranks mean you look entirely normal in Insubstantial form (which may cause opponents to waste effort on you, not knowing that you|re immune to their attacks, for example).
Extras
- Action: Becoming Insubstantial is normally a free action, meaning you can|t switch to an Insubstantial form when surprised, beaten on initiative, or otherwise unable to take action. At the GM|s option, applying the Action extra to use Insubstantial as a reaction allows you to switch forms "reflexively" in response to such hazards, even if it is not your turn, so long as you are still capable of taking action.
- Affects Corporeal: This extra is required for any effect that works on corporeal targets while you are insubstantial at rank 2 or greater (see the Affects Corporeal description for details).
- Affects Others: This modifier allows you to extend your Insubstantial effect to another character by touch, taking themInsubstantial with you. If you ever withdraw the effect while someone is inside a solid object, see the effect|s description for the unpleasant results.
- Attack: Applied to Insubstantial, this extra makes it into a touch range effect able to turn targets Insubstantial. This is most effective for ranks 2 through 4, since the victim loses some or all ability to interact with the physical world. The default saving throw for an Insubstantial Attack is Reflex, although it can be Fortitude or Will, as best suits the effect|s descriptors. You need to grapple a target in order to drag them inside a solid object unless the target is already helpless.
- Duration: Extending the effect|s duration to continuous allows you to remain Insubstantial until you choose to return to your corporeal form.
- Progressive (+0): You can assume lower ranked forms of Insubstantial, but you must progress through them in order to reach higher-ranked ones. For example if you have Progressive Insubstantial 3, you can assume fluid, gaseous, or energy forms, but to assume energy form, you must first progress through fluid and gaseous, becoming less and less substantial. Since you can only activate the effect once per round, it takes you three rounds of activating your effect to achieve.
Flaws
- No Effective Strength (-1): This flaw applies only to rank 1 Insubstantial and removes your effective Strength while in that form, leaving you with limited ability to affect the physical world like the higher ranks of the effect.
- Permanent (-1): This flaw locks you in your insubstantial form; you cannot assume solid form. At the GM|s discretion, you can apply a +1 extra allowing you to revert to solid form as a free action and a sustained duration. If you|re unable to take the free action required, you automatically revert to your insubstantial form.
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