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CHAPTER ONE: PIECES OF FLESH

WHAT’S THE TRUTH?

What Task Force: VALKYRIE cells don’t
know helps them sleep at night. The top brass
knows about Prometheans. What’s more,
the truth is that a government scientist
found a way to clone human beings, using
a Promethean as the catalyst. Doing so
destroyed the Promethean, and to make
matters worse the technology isn’t exclusive
to the government anymore. However, few
other organizations or individuals have the
means necessary to duplicate this process or
a ready supply of Prometheans. Task Force:
VALKYRIE, then, gets called in when the
mysterious forces behind this technology
learn of a Promethean’s whereabouts.
This is why, incidentally, the orders
concerning the Created are always “capture”
and never “destroy.” It’s also why incendiary
weapons are never allowed on such missions.

lipped. Why? The soldiers of TFV seldom know enough to ask,
and rarely bother to ask when they do. They’ve got their orders.
New Advanced Armory:
Gleipnir Restraints ( )
In Norse mythology, the Gleipnir was the bond used to restrain
Fenris. Since the great wolf was capable of breaking any chains used
to hold him, Odin commissioned the Gleipnir from the dwarves
— a thin ribbon made from six impossible things. As far as anyone
knows, the device sometimes issued to TFV operatives going up
against Prometheans, or any other superhumanly strong creature,
isn’t made from dwarven magic. Instead, it sets up a “kinetic feed-
back loop.” The harder a subject struggles against it, the more it
restricts movement. The most difficult thing about the Gleipnir is
usually getting the subject properly restrained in the first place.
Function: The Gleipnir, much like its namesake, is consid-
erably lighter and thinner than one would expect. It resembles
a thin strip of black plastic with a fingerprint panel on each end
that’s coded to a specific agent. Using the Gleipnir requires the
hunter to use a Restrain move while grappling a target (see pp.
199 of the God-Machine Chronicle).
If the target is successfully restrained, the Gleipnir uses the
creature’s force against it. Breaking free of the Gleipnir requires a
number of successes on a Strength + Athletics roll equal to twice
the creature’s Strength rating. Any effects that increase this rating
also get figured in. For example, if a Promethean uses a Dread
Power to increase its Strength from 4 to 6, the Gleipnir requires
12 successes in a single roll to break free from its grip.

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