Life Control

Effect: Array (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 Nauseate effect (with a Fortitude save to resist; see the Nauseate effect description for details).

COUNTERING

Life Control can counter itself and 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

• Boost: You can enhance the physical ability scores of a subject, a Perception Range Boost effect at your Life Control rank.

• Drain: Your can weaken the physical ability scores of a subject, a Perception Range Drain effect at your Life Control rank.

• Emotion Control: You can influence a target’s emotions through control over glandular secretions and neuro-chemistry, giving you an Emotion Control effect with the Fortitude save modifier.

• Fatigue: You can drain a target’s biochemical energy, a 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 Perception Range Transform effect (living things into other living things) at two thirds your Life Control power rank.

• Healing: You can restore health and balance to biological systems, a Perception Range Healing effect at your power rank.

• Stun: You can inflict pain or shock against biological creatures, a Perception Range Stun effect at your power rank.

• Suffocate: You can cut off a creature’s ability to breathe, a Perception Range Suffocate effect at your Life Control rank.

ASSOCIATED EFFECTS

• 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.

• Immunity: Your control over your own physiology may grant you Immunity to certain effects like aging, disease, and poison. See also the Immutable power in this chapter for Immunity suitable for a life-controlling character. If this Immunity requires some concentration on your part, make the effect sustained (also allowing you to perform power stunts with your Immunity).

• 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.