Increased Toughness

Increased Toughness
Community Rating: 10
Difficulty: 12
Range: touch
Duration: one scene
Effect: increases the ability to withstand wounds
Attainment Rating: 17
Increased toughness is one of the more perverse rituals. It allows the target to feel all
the pain inflicted upon him, but it has no physical effect until the miracle
ends. A warrior, for example, ignores shock and KO damage in combat and does
not fall.
Instead, he keeps fighting, relishing the intense
pain. All damage is real. The warrior simply ignores it until the battle ends.
The miracle lasts throughout a scene, so the only way to stop a blessed warrior
is to cause so much damage that the warrior cannot continue to function (after
seven wounds are taken).
After the scene, the shock KO and other damage take
effect. If four or more wounds are taken, the warrior must make a successful
healing roll of toughness +10 to
lower the damage to a mortal wound. Failure brings on instant death.