======Life Control====== ||**Effect:** [[MMArray Array]] ([[MMNauseate Nauseate]])||**Action:** Standard (active)|| ||**Range:** Perception||**Duration:** Instant (lasting)|| ||**Saving Throw:** Fortitude||**Cost:** 4 points per rank|| You can exert control over the processes of life and, perhaps, over organic matter itself. You can disrupt the biological functions of another creature in your line of sight like a [[MMNauseate Nauseate]] effect (with a Fortitude save to resist; see the [[MMNauseate Nauseate]] effect description for details). =====Countering===== Life Control can counter itself and [[MMHealing Healing]] effects, disrupting their beneficial effect on a subject. For a broader ability to counter effects with biological descriptors, see the Alternate Powers in the following section. =====Alternate Powers===== - **[[MMBoost Boost]]: **You can enhance the physical ability scores of a subject, a [[MMBoost Perception Range Boost]] effect at your Life Control rank. - **[[MMDrain Drain]]: **Your can weaken the physical ability scores of a subject, a [[MMDrain Perception Range Drain]] effect at your Life Control rank. - **[[MMEmotionControl Emotion Control]]: **You can influence a target|s emotions through control over glandular secretions and neuro-chemistry, giving you an [[MMEmotionControl Emotion Control]] effect with the Fortitude save modifier. - **[[MMFatigue Fatigue]]: **You can drain a target|s biochemical energy, a [[MMFatigue Perception Range Fatigue]] effect at your Life Control rank. - **Flesh-Shaping: **You can mold flesh and bone as if they were clay, reshaping them as you see fit as a [[MMTransform Perception Range Transform effect (living things into other living things)]] at two-thirds your Life Control power rank. - **[[MMHealing Healing]]: **You can restore health and balance to biological systems, a [[MMHealing Perception Range Healing]] effect at your power rank. - **[[MMStun Stun]]: **You can inflict pain or shock against biological creatures, a [[MMStun Perception Range Stun]] effect at your power rank. - **[[MMSuffocate Suffocate]]: **You can cut off a creature|s ability to breathe, a [[MMSuffocate Perception Range Suffocate]] effect at your Life Control rank. =====Associated Effects===== - **[[MMEnhancedTrait Enhanced Constitution]]: **The power to control life itself may infuse and enhance your own being, giving you super-human Constitution and associated abilities to overcome disease and toxins, and recover from injury, along with the associated increase in your Fortitude. - **[[MMImmunity Immunity]]: **Your control over your own physiology may grant you [[MMImmunity Immunity]] to certain effects like aging, disease, and poison. See also the [[MMImmutable Immutable]] power in this chapter for [[MMImmunity Immunity]] suitable for a life-controlling character. If this [[MMImmunity Immunity]] requires some concentration on your part, make the effect sustained (also allowing you to perform power stunts with your [[MMImmunity Immunity]]). - **[[MMRegeneration Regeneration]]: **Mental control over your body allows you to recover quickly from injury even when your attention is focused elsewhere or you are physically incapacitated. [[MMPoderes]]