A Smattering of Abilities [1]

05 Aug, 2025

These abilities are part creative exercise, part progress. They follow a few guidelines (some diverge here and there):

• Avoid crunchy bits and numbers
• Avoid basis in knowledge
• Avoid basis in spells or combat
• I like them and think they are neat

There will probably be more in the future.

Abilities (in no particular order)

1. If it is within a stone's throw of you, you can get there in a single turn.
2. You can perfectly remember everything you have seen, provided you have not yet slept.
3. When the wind whispers through foliage you can understand what it says.
4. You can turn invisible if you close your eyes.
5. You can perfectly mimic the last voice you have heard.
6. You never startle animals.
7. If you are close enough to smell someone or something, you can also smell their emotions.
8. You are able to converse in any language, provided the other conversant began the conversation.
9. Your unarmed strikes land like sledgehammer blows.
10. You can always convince a person to make one wager with you.
11. You can store smoke in your lungs to be exhaled in an obscuring cloud.
12. You can throw your shadow; it still mimics your movements.
13. You are fluent in non-verbal communication.
14. You cannot be knocked over with two feet on the ground.
15. If you close your eyes for an hour, you can switch your vision to other light spectra.
16. You can change your scent to anything you have smelled since you woke up.
17. If you are not over-encumbered, you cannot lose your balance.
18. You have the bite-force of a bear.
19. You can throw your voice.
20. If you have been in sunlight since you awoke, you can glow dimly in darkness for the same length of time as you were in sunlight.
21. Alcohol sobers you up; water gets you drunk.
22. You can yell loud enough to clearly communicate with anyone in line of sight, no matter the distance.
23. As long as you stare at someone or something, they cannot sleep.
24. You can subsist on any organic matter.