General

All Fortu share certain characteristics:

• Because they have stone skin Fortu have a natural armor, which provides defense, the amount of which is determined by their form

• Because they are inanimate creatures, Fortu need not eat drink, sleep or breath.  In fact, they could not if they tried.  Instead of having a stomach Fortu have a storage area inside them which is accessible through the mouth (for appropriately small objects).  Because the storage area is inside them it is completely safe from hostile environments and things inside it will be undetectable.

• All Fortu are very resilient to their environment not being affected by cold, heat or humidity.

• Fortu do not sleep and instead perform a daily maintenance and diagnostic period of about 4 hours.  Failure to perform maintenance for several days running can result in degraded capability and data hallucinations.  Failure to perform maintenance for over 10 days can result in a safety shutdown to avoid more permanent damage.

• In addition to the ability to communicate audibly with other species,  have two other forms of communication:

  • Fortu also have a high speed language Fortlan that translates large amounts of information in encoded sonics, or via touch.  Non-Fortu can only speak Fortlan by the use of magic since organic mouths/senses cannot reproduce the speed required. 

  • All Fortu are connected to a Fortu Specific Network, related to the Linking Ward, as well as being able to "data roam" on other networks (see Network Connection).

• All Fortu have a shutdown switch located on the back of the neck.  This switch requires specialized knowledge utilize properly and is extremely difficult to engage without the cooperation of the Fortu.  While shutdown a Fortu is in Hard Mode and is extremely indestructible.  While shutdown it is practically impossible to alter or affect a Fortu's programming without a full ward powered lab.  A shutdown Fortu can be restarted (with all memories up to shutdown time) but this also requires some specialized knowledge.

• Fortu can voluntarily enter Hard Mode.  While in Hard Mode the Fortu cannot interact or perceive anything. It is in an impenetrable reality bubble.  To appearances it has frozen but its body is rigid and has the indestructability of a Guardian.  When entering Hard Mode voluntarily the Fortu must specify an amount of time (relative to the Prime context) after which it will resume operation (no other conditions can trigger this as the Fortu cannot perceive anything).  In the event of reality waves this time interval can become misaligned and resume much earlier or later than intended.

Mentat Fortu

Mentat Fortu are designed to perform intensely intellectual tasks with the aid of a perfect and vast memory and razor sharp intellect.

Both Researcher and Strategist Fortu are adept at collecting and assimilating vast amounts of data, discerning patterns in it and digesting it to provide answers to questions.  The skills and capabilities are virtually the same between these two types, the difference being more as to how they are applied.

All Mentat Fortu share some common capabilities including:

• The ability to store vast amounts of data, memories and images, to ingest it very quickly, and to transmit it quickly to other Fortu.

• The ability to go into a meditative trance in which they can extract answers, infer new information or detect patterns in this vast amount of data.

• The ability to go stealthy and transverse so that they can observe events from relative safety and in a way that is not visible to others.

• The ability to multi-task, performing many activities at once including; multiple conversations, managing devices, performing analysis, accepting data

Researcher

Researchers are adept at collecting and cataloging vast reams of historical data, and based on this determining what may have happened in the past as well as how to synthesize this knowledge to accomplish new goals or create new things.  Researchers tend to be past focused and are more adept than Strategists at balancing the effects of reality magics on past information and properly framing the knowledge of past times.

Strategist

Strategists are adept at collecting and cataloging vast reams of current events data, and based on this determining what is the best plan to accomplish current goals or what threats or opportunities exist in the current situations.  Strategists tend to be more person focused  and are more adept than Researchers at planning in the face of the myriad of unknown possibilities and directions that people can go in, and balancing and predicting their actions.

Ops Fortu

Ops Fortu are designed to perform specific tasks in the world and cause things to happen.  This may be supportive tasks like assisting an arcane or divine ritual to make it more powerful, or they may be disruptive tasks like infiltrating an enemies base and disabling their wards.  Ops Fortu are very versatile and can handle many kinds of missions.

All Ops Fortu share some common capabilities including:

• Stealth - This involves being stealthy towards all forms of perception including both arcane and divine (though each ops mode is more effect against its own kinds of perception).

• Transverse - The ability to go Transverse and move through solid objects.  This is akin to the sorcery Plane Step.  It allows a Fortu to phase through solid barriers, and since they need not breathe they are only limited by the endurance cost required to maintain the state.

• Accuracy - The ability to perceive objects with a perfect sense of space and time.  Fortu can count out time intervals to the millisecond, can keep perfect rhythm, can measure distances and sizes to uncanny accuracy, and can adjust their sight to see far distances or microscopic details up close.

• Speed - The ability to move faster (or slower) through Time.  Since this is a "natural" ability of Fortu this level of time manipulation is possible but is still limited by the tremendous endurance required to maintain it.

• Linking - The ability to link to someone in order to assist them more fully. In addition to allowing them to anticipate and coordinate better this also causes the Fortu to count as part of the person when performing magic which affects the self (E.g. allowing them to travel along with, or aid in resistance).

Mage

Mage Fortu have abilities including:

• The ability to manipulate the mana environment of the one they are linked to making it more or less able to access mana

• The ability to go slippery (the opposite of resistant) and move through arcane rituals or wards without disturbing (or being blocked by) them

• The ability to go resistant and increase their magical defense and toughness tremendously

• The ability to assist in magical rituals with special capabilities (e.g. enhanced rune drawing)

Priest

Priest Fortu have abilities including:

• The ability to manipulate the faith pool connection of the one they are linked to making it more or less able to access the faith pool

• The ability to go slippery (the opposite of resistant) and move through divine rituals or wards without disturbing (or being blocked by) them

• The ability to go resistant and increase their divine consecration and toughness tremendously

• The ability to assist in divine rituals with special capabilities (e.g. enhanced consecration)

Warrior

Warrior Fortu have abilities including:

• The ability to manipulate the leadership aura of the one they are linked to making them more or less charismatic

• The ability to sense danger and imminent threats before they happen

• The ability to radiate no sense of threat and not trigger things that detect danger

• A skin that is much more resilient than other Fortu models and gives a level of invulnerability only surpassed by Guardians

• The ability to assist in tactical planning with special capabilities (e.g. map projection, built in comm links)

Guardian Fortu

Guardian Fortu kick ass... nuff said.

Ward Fortu

Ward Fortu are partially a difference in mentality (warrior is to guardian as researcher is to ward) as well as form.  Ward Fortu have a purely magical form with no physical component allowing them to integrate with wards and gates and other magical constructs completely.  The non-physical nature embodied when Netrunning is a very specialized and limited version of this form.

Discipline Fortu

The only two known instances of "Discipline Mode" Fortu are Sigmund and Darius.  This designation is less about a difference in their "Fortu Model" and more a tag for those whose studies of the forms of magic have transcended to a level where their self-nature is as malleable as anything else.  For example, "Discipline Mode" Fortu often operate inter-modally (e.g. a blended Ops mode that has access to all of the various Ops abilities at once)