Rat Powers

[Kuro]

Rat racial
Rat’s like all lycanthropes have their own unique power’s which they do not share in common with other lycanthropes. These powers which are listed below are unique to them and may only be used in the case of a character being a rat and or a panwere. Keep in mind you may pick only have Two in total of these unique powers, that is unless you have chosen to take “Destiny’s Chosen” at Weak Moderate.

[Kuro]

Deaths Grace – Weak Moderate: Lycanthrope rats have the ability to sense through scent how close a person has come to dying, or even if the person actually is dying.

Beat feet! - Weak Moderate: Rats are damn fast at moving quickly out of the way of harm when the need is there, because of this a Rat lycanthrope when being chased can out run all other lycanthropes! EXCEPT! Cheetahs!. This ability does not make them faster in a fight or better at it, there just very adept at using there adrenaline to maximize there escape.

Gnaw – Moderate: Rats if given enough time can chew through any thing, this ability transfers over to there human form, unlike a hyena they just cants bite through it, there teeth though become sharp and there jaws stronger while there trying to chew through some thing, in a hour a rat can chew through roughly 3 inchs of solid steel.

Speak with Rats - Strong Moderate: Some rats not only command rats but speak to them as well, rats with this ability can speak to natural rats through a limited for of empathy and basic communications such as body language etc.

Roll with the blow - Weak Alpha: All lycanthropes are hardy things, but few are as hardy as a rat, you can kick them, stomp em, beat them, stab em, shoot them and more often then not they manage to survive some how. That’s because rats have developed a sixth sense for dodging death, when a fatal blow would be landed (other then through massive damage) a Rat may roll a dice with a 50/50 chance they Roll with the blow and manage to avoid immediate death, then if left alone they can crawl off to find help or make it on there own.

Summon the Horde! - Alpha: Rats with this ability are rare, they have the ability to summon a horde of rats, the horde takes a few minutes to gather, but once it does, this roll of flesh and teeth will eats, chew, scratch its way away from the one controlling them, natural rats are deathly afraid of lycanthrope rats and will part open rather then be touched by them.

Crawl Space - Alpha: Rats are capable of making there body fit in places as much as half there natural size and move easily through them, this isn’t the same as the fox ability, but does allow them to move through spaces normal people cannot go.

For the Horde! - Strong Alpha: A strong alpha with this ability has the ability to enter into a “Trance” where he can focus his own Surge ability and push it into and through all the rats within twenty feet of him, they cannot leave this area or it immediately ends and they become fatigued, this ability forces any lycanthrope under the For the Horde effect of less then Strong Moderate strength to immediately shift.

Death Affinity - Strong Alpha: Much like a animator or a necromancer, rats begin to develop an affinity with the dead by this time, they can sense dead bodies within fifteen feet of them and they can mark and sense vampires within that area as well, if they have knowledge of vampires they can even tell what kind they are. Through this very same mean, Ghouls, Zombies and other “unnatural” undead do not seem to notice Rats unless the necromancer is very powerful, Ghouls out right avoid the rats with this ability. In game terms, unless a powerful necromancer is forcing a Zombie or Ghoul to attack a Rat, they will ignore any rats as if they do not exist.