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==== Endowment: Super Science. ==== The Marduk Society employs top gun researchers and engineers from all fields, and it has money, lots and lots of money. Combined these allow Marduk researchers to push the boundaries of science crafting new tools to take the fight to the primordial gods. Most Super Science resembles the “raygun” styles of classic science fiction. This is often considered outdated or even cheesy by its detractors, to the idealists in the Marduk Society old science fiction is the product of an era filled with hope for the future and they wear its trappings proudly. Some Endowments are renewable. At the end of each chapter the device is replaced with a fresh fully charged version. ===== Utility ===== '''Waterproofing''' (O): This endowment is applied to normal technology to gain complete protection from water. (Super Science is waterproof by default). Many agents take a waterproof bag rather than individually protect every item they carry. <br> ''Example. Jackson of the Philanthropy Committee needs proof that a cult practices animal sacrifice and they practice their rituals on a small island in a lake. Fortunately Jackson is a very good swimmer. Using his Resources merit Jackson buys a directional microphone and a high quality telescopic video camera. He then buys the Waterproofing merit twice and marks it on his sheet:<br> O Waterproofing (telescopic camera) <br> O Waterproofing (directional microphone)<br> Jackson is now all set for his swim. ''<br> '''Marduk Wetsuit''' (OO): A Marduk wetsuit provides 1/1 armour, inbuilt radio, twelve hours of oxygen, can safely dive to 6000 feet yet see clearly. A detachable backpack provides propulsion with an acceleration of 10 mph, a safe speed of 20mph and a maximum speed of 30mph. Checks are made using the lowest of athletics and drive. <br> '''Personal Forcefield''' (renewable OOO): Never leave home without one. This device is about the size of a mobile phone and provides 3/3 armour. The battery life lets it be used for ten scenes after which it must be sent back, the society of course will provide a fully charged replacement. <br> '''Thumper''' (OOOO): A portable shockwave generator about the size of a man. Thumper send a massive pulse through water several times a second at a slightly irregular rhythm. The unpredictability can be very distressing to sentient beings. Leviathans, who spend their lives on edge, are especially sensitive and unless engaged in some emotionally focusing activity (such as combat) suffer an Outburst every Resolve + Composure turns. Marduk have long used Thumpers to flush out Leviathans from underwater hiding spots. <br> '''Jetpack''' (OOOOO): Fresh out of Research and Development Marduk jetpacks are an art deco masterpiece of sleek curves and fins. This device provides both practical transportation and the ability to fight from well beyond the reach of most Leviathans. They’re not yet in mass production, but the society’s membership is just itching to get their wings. <br> A Marduk Jetpack has an acceleration of 20 mph, a safe speed of 30mph and a maximum speed of 60mph. Checks are made using the lowest of athletics and drive. ===== Weaponry ===== '''Stun Gun''' (O): Idealists in Marduk hope to rehabilitate rather that kill cultists while conspirators frequently see the value in taking someone alive. A stun-gun is a microwave weapon, it deals zero damage (bashing) with a range of 30/60/120. However no matter how much damage is done it will not wrap around to lethal. Instead every attack that would wrap around simply forces a Stamina check to remain conscious. Supernatural beings who don't loose consciousness from bashing damage won't get knocked out by a stun gun either. Each power cell is good for 15 shots. <br> '''Dart Gun''' (OO): Not as effective as a Tesla Pistol but functional underwater. This weapon fires small darts around the size of an arrow head, each dart contains a pressurized air casual that provides acceleration. A dart gun dose 3 lethal, has 10 shots to a clip and has a range of 50/100/200 underwater and 10/20/40 on the surface.<br> '''Tesla Pistol''' (OOO): This sleek finned weapon is a convenient blend of power and reliability serving as the weapon of choice among Marduk Agents. It does 4 lethal (9 again, electrical) damage and for something the size of a pistol boasts shocking range: 200/400/800. Power cells have 20 shots each.<br> '''Babel's Wall''' (OOOO): Babel's Walls are something of a mystery even to the Society. Marduk's scientists know exactly how they work, they just don't have any clue why they're effective. They don't even know who designed it or why it's called Babel's Wall. Still, never look a gift horse in the mouth as they say. Bable's Wall is one of the most effective tools Marduk ever got their hands on for it can disrupt a Leviathan's connection to the Primordial Sea. Babel's Wall is a one damage dish and backpack array with a range of 20/40/80. The agent rolls Dexterity + Firearms + Damage vs Stamina + Sheol. If the Marduk agent wins the roll every additional success prevents the Leviathan for spending Ichor for one turn. Multiple shots do not stack.<br> '''“Plan B”''' (OOOOO): “Plan B” is the Marduk codename for their orbital death rays. Purchasing this Merit dose not mean a character owns a dedicated kill-satellite. Instead it means they have authorisation to order one strike per story. A satellite strike cannot target anything smaller than size 30, but a direct hit dose 40 automatic successes of Aggravated Damage. It also requires a satellite to be in position, which may take between one to twenty four hours. Firing at a moving target is possible but requires constant monitoring until a satellite is in position. For the purposes of the exceptional Size rules Plan B can be treated as Size 30. <br> Access to Plan B is considered a huge responsibility by the Marduk Society. Each individual shot is extremely expensive and using it often guarantees that the death of any innocent prisoners. An agent is expected to use it as a last resort and can loose this merit and status if they don’t show appropriate restraint. ===== Information ===== '''Concealed Technology''' (O): This endowment allows any item of technology (including other Super Science) to be entirely disguised as another item. A Tesla Pistol may fold up into a laptop computer or a phone could be embedded into a shoe. Common sense still applies; a submarine can’t be disguised as a wristwatch. <br> '''Truth Serum''' (renewable OO): A syringe with one dose of truth serum. The serum counts as a Toxicity 5 poison, "damage" reduces the target's Subterfuge score. If the target's Suberfuge is reduced into negatives all Subterfuge rolls automatically become a chance die. Effects last one scene. <br> '''Social Analysis System''' (OOO): This computer program is designed to rapidly analyse news, publicly visible social networks and other information sources looking for signs of a Leviathan’s Wake. It cannot tell with accuracy but it can highlight suspicious events that might be related. When an agent is searching for a Leviathan with this device double the Ripple effect. <br> '''Automated DNA Test''' (OOOO). Around the size of a human hand and possessing an appearance that can only be described as “a gizmo” this devise is nevertheless the most user friendly DNA test known to man. Simply insert a drop of blood, skin or other genetic sample and after half a minuet of beeps it will display whether someone is a Leviathan, Hybrid or human. It cannot detect whether someone might gain the template later or otherwise posses dormant progenitor DNA (or rather, it can but dormant progenitor DNA is so common it's ignored). <br> '''Spy Drone''' (OOOOO): About the size of a tennis ball, wrapped in chameleon camouflage, flight capable, equipped with telesopic, x-ray and infra red cameras, rull run by a rudimentary AI roughly equivalent to a well trained police dog. Gentlemen behold the Marduk Spy Drone. Agents use these drones gather information and keep tabs on suspected individuals. Teams with enough clout to get several have been known to use them during raids scouting ahead for trouble. The small size and camouflage grants a +4 to Stealth checks for the Drone. The Drone has the following stats: Intelligence 1, Wits 2, Resolve 5, Strength 1, Dexterity 4, Stamina 2, Athletics 3, Stealth 3, Size 1, Structure 3, Speed 15. Though the Drone has no Skills, it ignores the unskilled penalty for Physical skills. The Drone has no Social abilities and cannot spend Willpower but treat it's Composure as 5 for the purposes of Perception rolls. The Drone's artificial mind is usually immune to the Wake and cannot receive psychic signals in general but some Leviathans have worked around this with special Adaptations. ===== Sidebar: Super science at your local hardware store? ===== What keeps super science from going public? Well who's to say it won't? Marduk has a lot of money, it has to come from somewhere; with such a large research budget selling technology makes sense. Take a look at the consumer electronics you're using, how much of it would have been “super science” ten years ago?
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