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JUMP SCARE

The creature appears suddenly or lurches into
abrupt action just when you thought it was down for
the count. By spending 1 Willpower, the creature may
resolve the Shaken condition on another character,
choosing which action will automatically fail. The
character still earns a Beat as normal. Alternately,
the creature may spend 1 Willpower to turn the
automatic failure caused by a character resolving the
Shaken Condition into a dramatic failure. In this case,
the character earns two Beats (one for resolving the
Condition, one for the dramatic failure).

KNOW SOUL

The creature can see into the depths of its victim’s
soul. By spending 1 Willpower, it automatically learns
the victim’s Virtue, Vice, Aspirations, and current
Integrity. By spending an additional Willpower point,
it learns the circumstances of the character’s most
recent failed breaking point. Subsequent Willpower
points reveal older breaking points. If the creature
uses its knowledge against the victim, it earns an ex-
ceptional success on a roll of three successes or more.

MADNESS
AND TERROR

The monster’s gaze (or perhaps its voice, touch,
or toxic blood) induces madness and terror in its
victims. By expending 1 Willpower and making a roll
of an appropriate dice pool contested by the victim’s
Composure, the Horror may inflict one of the fol-
lowing Conditions on the victim: Guilty, Shaken, or
Spooked. For 3 Willpower it may instead inflict the
Broken, Fugue, or Madness Conditions.

MAZE

The creature can turn a structure into something
out of an M. C. Escher painting, creating an insane
maze. By spending 3 Willpower and touching the
building, it turns the interior chambers into a tangled
mess of corridors and rooms that lead back on them-
selves; this effect lasts for an hour. Anyone other
than the creature who attempts to move through the
building must succeed at a Wits + Composure check
minus the creature’s Resolve each time they attempt
to leave the area or progress through it to somewhere
specific; if they fail they are unable to progress and
simply get more lost.

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