Furnace - The ultimate Energy

[Amalvi]

A living reactor, a wonder of technology that has turned a mortal into the ultimate energy generator. The Synerth studied the mythological Yatagarasu, avatar demon of Pelor, and after hundreds of thousands of attempts they achieved in creating the Nucleus artifacts, with their methods and the items to be found aeons later and adapted by the most insane of minds. 

By default, the nature of any nucleus is forbidden technology. Each nucleus is unique, with no two able to be installed the same way, each requiring uncountable attempts on mortals until one method finally succeeds, binding it forever to the newborn Furnace. Thus, becoming a Furnace has a great deal of chance, as only one in hundreds of thousands of people can survive the process, but the one who does becomes a godlike being who controls the ultimate energy: Nuclear fusion power!


Tell: As the Furnace spends Watts they start to accumulate Irradiation. Irradiation is the Furnace's Tell


Static Powers:

Recycling:
Radiation and pollution are your fuel:

• When you are exposed to radiation recover 1 point of Watts every fifteen minutes. If it's dangerous enough to cause harm recover 1 Watt for every point of HP you would loose.
• When hit by Toxic property, or similar poisonous damage, recover 1 Watt per HP you would lose
• You may consume toxic or radioctive material (battery acid, hard plastic, part of a rotten carcass...) to recover 1 Watt once per scene

If you are stupid brave enough to eat a piece of warpstone you recover your entire pool of Watts, but you also gain an amount of insanity points equal to the amount of Watts recovered this way


Fuel Dependency:
Every 24 hours the Furnace automatically uses 1 Watt to heal 1hp. If they have no Watts left when this happens the Furnace stops and lapses into a coma, becoming a mundane mortal save for any Irradiation they may still emit. They recover from this coma once they receive a single point of Watt from any source


Furnace nucleus:
You have a second "heart" that gives you the power of nuclear fusion. Hits on the [6] location of your body strike this nucleus, treated as another set of Gizzards. As long as this nucleus remains intact the Furnace won't be allowed to die, as the Fuel Dependency will keep regenerating their critical wounds at very slow pace. But boy can they experience eternal suffering and fates worse than death...


Irradiation:
Every second point of Watts used generates 1 point of Irradiation. As long as they have Irradiation the Furnace is Diseased and is unable to heal hit points except by spending Watts or with Magic spells

With Irradiation the Furnace emits radiation. Unpleasant heat and glow emanates, imposing a -1k0 penalty to any stealth test and giving a +1k0 bonus to scrutiny tests against them per point of Irradiation. 

Should they accumulate more Irradiation than half their Joules (rounded up) the radiation aura deals 2k1 E damage per minute to everything within a number of meters equal to Joules. One more irradiation and this damage comes at the beginning of every round instead. Falling unconscious or exploding makes the damage cease until they once again gain an amount of Irradiation equal to half their Joules (rounded up)

The Furnace can convert 1 point of Irradiation into 1 Watt by doing a dangerous explosion: As a full action the Furnace explodes, receiving a hit to the Nucleus [6] with the following profile: (Xk2(x), penX, BlastX) where X is equal to your accumulated iradiation. The Furnace does not benefit from any immunity or resistance

The only safe way to remove Irradiation is by connecting and powering up large structures or machines: a building, the engine of a big vehicle or ship, a power plant, etc. They remove all their Irradiation if they concentrate on this boring and tiresome task for 12 hours. In a desperate scenario the Furnace may do the same by swimming in a lake or river, although the local wildlife and Luna followers will really hate such envioremental terrorism

If the Furnace somehow ever accumulates a total of 50 irradiation they undergo a nuclear meltdown and die in an impressive nuclear explosion (treated like a surface bombardment torpedo). 

Power Stat: Joules

As the Furnace becomes more efficient and more powerful the measure of their potential in Joules rises

Resource Stat: Watts
Furnaces have Watts equal to their Joules x 4
Aside from Recycling, a Furnace can recover one Watt per 1 hour spent sunbathing (without applying sunscream), or "starbathing" when aboard spaceships with transparent windows.

Joules	Power Gained
★	Atomic Infusion- You may spend Watts to add +1k0 to any damage roll per Watt spent and change its damage type to X. They also gain a static bonus equal to the accumulated Irradiation
★★	Nuclear Potential- As a free action or as part of a reaction you may spend Watts to increase your Intelligence, Strenght or Charisma by the same amount. This bonus lasts only for your next test or until the end of your turn, whichever is longer.
★★★	Unstable- Hitting a nuclear reactor is a shockingly stupid idea. When you are hit by an attack you may spend Watts to give that attack the Blast(X) property, X being equal to the amount of Watts spent.
★★★★	Emotional Engine, FULL DRIVE- Your nucleus beats perpetual and everlasting! You may cast Mass Charm using Joules+Charisma instead of the normal focus power test, this spell-like ability cannot be fettered or pushed and does not cause psychic phenomena. Aditionally, as a reaction when you or an ally rolls on the shock table you may spend Watts to reduce the result by twice the Watts spent.
★★★★★	Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom - Atomic Infusion gains the Volatile and Proven (2) properties. Nuclear Potential now lasts for an entire scene. The Unstable Blast doesn't affect your allies.

Furnace Assets: special nucleus

Spark creation:
A wild gamble creation from a Spark. You gain a background point (Mentor) and you underwent body modifications that gave you the Luminen Blast and Lumimen Charge feats. You may spend 1 Watt to use these feats without gaining fatigue.

Depending on the circunstances, the relationship with this mentor could be rocky, as they may have killed thousands of people in their experiments before being succesful with you, or they may desire to treat you as their property or slave

Warpstone mechanism
I'm sorry to hear that you were an experiment slave of the skaven, but lets look at the bright side! Although you begin with a minor disorder, your nucleus gives the benefits a bionic heart made of refined warpstone and you are not removed from play at 100 Insanity, although you will still gain Disorders as usual. Your real heart can still be upgraded and make you benefit from a different bionic

Synerth creation of perfect grade
One of the original artifacts of the synerth, or at least the result of someone who reproduced the method perfectly. You gain a static bonus to Common Lore, Academic Lore and Forbidden Lore test equal to your Irradiation and as a real perpetual engine you can perform a magical explosion by rolling psychic phenomena as a free action to turn the Irradiation into Watt instead of the normal explosion

Should you suffer damage from this psy-phenomena it is applied to the Gizzards [6] instead of the body. If you roll a 100 on Perils of the warp table in this manner ignore the default effect of Destroyed, the Furnace instead suffers 5 critical Explosive damage to the gizzards.

Yatagarasu
You swallowed one of the Greater Daemons of Pelor and miraculously it now lives within you as your second heart. You gain a rank in the Evocation or Healing school and may advance it as part of your class. You gain a static bonus equal to your Irradiation to Focus Power tests (up to twice your level)  

The radiation you emit is pleasant and warm to those around you, making them comfortable in cold enviorements and weather

Fruit of Nurgle
The lord of decay corrupted some of the nucleus artifacts, wanting to undermine the clean energy. Your radiation aura and Atomic Infusion gains Toxic and you receive bonus AP on All locations (that stack with other sources of armor) equal to Irradiation (up to your level). In addition, Nuclear Potential can be used to increase Willpower, Constitution or Composure.

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Furnace hindrances

Exposed Heart: Your reactor heart was installed on the outside of your body and its an obvious weakpoint to anyone. Attacks received on your secondary heart halve your resilience (rounded up)

[ScrapyardDragon]

Incendiary being a test is a houserule that not every table will respect, if you want them to test to not go on fire just have the dex test be explicitly stated.

[Amalvi]

Apr 5, 2024 14:47:29 GMT -6 ScrapyardDragon said:

Incendiary being a test is a houserule that not every table will respect, if you want them to test to not go on fire just have the dex test be explicitly stated.

I think its fine if they go with the core rule and it means Furnace catches fires automatically when they explode. Even if its a bigger problem there would still be some ways to work with it (like doing it when underwater)

That said, i don't mind changing it to Fire

[Amalvi]

I'll be editing this post as I keep making updates and changes to the exaltation. I don't think it'll be necessary to make a new post for each change made, so consider this a "development diary" to put my ideas in order


1- Made a lot of changes to encourage the character to accumulate radiation and value the risk vs reward of juggling the dangerous resource. 

2- Made tons of nerfs so that irradiation accumulates faster and causes problems sooner (but also the benefits start appearing sooner). Reduced the amount of resource points and the recovery of the explosion, it was ridiculous even if it was supposed to be countered by "expending the resource can be bad". Also nerfed some assets that just had too much going for them

3- Removed Fire from the irradiation explosion. It felt too strong because the furnace can prepare beforehand with a extinguisher and fuck up enemies with the fire when it is supposed to hurt the furnace and its allies more than anything. I also just dont like fire being so accesible and spammable without the drawbacks of Flame or magic

Current quick rundown: you have a fuckton of resource points and many cool ways to use em, but every second resource you use makes you a glowie. Being a glowie has benefits, but its risky, as you'll have to explode eventually

Recovering resource is either with some unreliable conditionals (toxic stuff being available), the usual "resting" and a bit of "return on investment" with the explosion. While it is up to the GM, the players really shouldn't be hauling toxic waste themselves, and remember that this exaltation does not give any inmunities (careful of tummy aches)


The following table is just to give an idea of the before-->after the changes, mostly for me to put things in order, as it made me realize how insane it was to reach a point with the exaltation having virtually infinite resource points at pow stat 5 if they kept using the explosion instead of letting irradiation accumulate

Power stat	Resource amount	Resources expenditure needed to start damage aura (pow stat/2)	Resources needed to cause damage every turn (pow stat/2 +1)	Total resources with explosions	"max" irradiation
1	5 - 4	3 -2	6  -4	7 - 6	1 - 2
2	10 - 8	3 -2	6  -4	16 - 12	3 - 4
3	15 - 12	6 -4	9  -6	22 - 18	5 - 6
4	20 - 16	6 -4	9  -6	31 - 24	6 - 8
5	25 - 20	9 -6	12 -8	39 - 30	8 - 10

Someone asked me what happens if a furnace eats warpstone when their watts are full

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I refuse to make any rules about it