Scourge of Impulsion

The Scourge of Impulsion is one of the most ancient of the Demonic Scourges, developed by Asmodeus himself shortly after his transformation into the first demon. It is also the most common of all Scourges, with every single demon being exposed to it after their transformation during the inevitable battles that break out between them and their fellows. Impulsion allows demons to manipulate the fundamental forces of the universe, which at its most basic level, allows them to exert unnatural force, to enable vengeful demons to lash out at the world around them. More advanced usages allow for the employment of telekinesis, the manipulation of gravity and warping of momentum.

## Mechanics

Impulsion works by demons focusing their desires for carnage to forcibly distort the fundamental forces of Creation. These distortions are by nature violent. Demons who accelerate themselves or objects leave rippling distortions in their wake. When a demon manipulates the forces of adhesion to walk along a wall, the material is warped and distorted by their passing. Matter whose state is shifted will become unstable for a while after demons have finished exerting control of it, and may be prone to breaking apart or even exploding.

By nature of this power, all demons who use it are able to sense the forces which they are manipulating, which allows them to make all manner of calculations, such as determining the force someone can exert with their strength, or how quickly a car is moving.

## Powers

### Lower Mastery (Levels 1-2)

* **Manifest Fury (Level 1):** By far the most common ability granted by the Scourge of Impulsion, demons can channel the power of their pain and hatred to exert superhuman levels of force, enabling them to strike with supernatural power and lift objects in manners that should be physically impossible. As a demon masters Impulsion to greater and greater degrees, the amount of power they can exert with this ability becomes greater.
* **Concussion (Level 2):** Demons are able to wield Impulsion to expel blasts of explosive force. Blasts which are usually fairly powerful, easily capable of sending a grown man flying with sufficient force to crack their bones. When unleashed, Concussions tend to produce a booming sound, from which its name is derived. The more a demon masters the Scourge of Impulsion, the more potent the unleashed Concussions can become. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, depending on a demon's present desire to cause collateral damage, more potent Concussions are not only louder, but also far more widespread, and often end up damaging nearby surroundings that the demon might not have been aiming for.

### Minor Mastery (Levels 3-4)

* **Quickening (Level 3):** This ability allows for demons to accelerate their own movements, giving them the ability to move with supernatural quickness, both in their reactions and their travel. Furthermore, this ability enables them to maneuver themselves in otherwise impossible manners by distorting their own momentum. As the demon masters Impulsion more and more, the amount of speed they may gift themselves with this power increases. Any demon Quickening themselves distorts the world around them, and the more speed they employ, the greater the distortions. For example, demons running at supernatural speeds often leave waves of force and heat in their wake, buffeting and searing whatever they pass by.
* **Adhesion (Level 4):** This power gives demons the ability to scale and adhere to any surface, allowing them to cling to the side of a moving vehicle, or walk up the side of a building with ease. Unfortunately for whatever they happen to touch, when demons release their grip, such surfaces tend to warp and heat up. This fact gives the power considerable offensive capabilities, and makes dismemberment of various entities and items much easier.
* **Forceflesh (Level 4):** Demons often find themselves in conflict with entities capable of unleashing considerable destructive force. Fortunately for them, the skill of Forceflesh was developed, to allow every demon who studies the Scourge of Impulsion to coat themselves in a layer of force to dampen attacks against them. The more they develop their skills in Impulsion, the more impenetrable this barrier becomes.

### Lesser Mastery (Levels 5-7)

* **Far Force/Telekinesis (Level 5):** One of the first powers give wielders of Impulsion the ability to manipulate forces not directly projected from their own forms, Far Force, or Telekinesis as it has become known of late, enables demons to exert precise, grasping force anywhere that they can perceive. This enables them to grip and move about objects, as well as attempt to squeeze or crush them, with the weight of what they can pick up or force with which they may crush increasing as they further master Impulsion. Creative demons may also grip themselves, using the ability to achieve hovering or flight, though the noise caused makes such applications unsuitable for stealth, and also has the potential to damage their hosts. Any objects gripped using this power tend to exude humming noises, as the air around them shifts about due to the distortions they cause. For particularly large items being moved, these distortions may be so severe as to damage the surrounding environment.
* **Inertial Command (Level 6):** As the name implies, this power allows demons to exert control over the inertia and momentum of the things within the world around them. This may allow projectiles directed at a demon to be slowed, or projectiles wielded by them to be gifted with extra speed and power. This ability can also be used to redirect objects as well, which takes less effort from completely stopping them, unless such redirections are extremely dramatic. Objects affected by this power tend to have tiny vibrations run through them, which become more severe the more extravagant the use of the power. Safe to say, any living creature affected by this power will be lucky if extreme motion sickness and vomiting is the only consequence they need face.
* **Gravitation (Level 7):** Control over the forces of gravity is granted to any demon with this power. Through it, they can increase or decrease the gravitational fields on objects or individuals, making them lighter or heavier, or even reverse them entirely, causing them to repulse sufficiently small objects. The direction of gravity can also be controlled, allowing a demon to fling a foe into the ceiling, and then by increasing the gravitational force directed against them, flatten them into bloody smears. Any gravity distortions caused by this power leaves turbulence in its wake, buffeting the surrounding environment.

### Major Mastery (Levels 8-10)

* **Thermicism (Level 8):** A demon wielding Impulsion is able to manipulate the amount of energy present within matter, causing it to heat or chill at their command. This can allow demons to melt or freeze objects, as well as raise or lower the temperatures anywhere within their vicinity to lethal levels, allowing them to easily freeze people to death or boil their blood in their veins.
* **Command Cohesion (Level 9):** Powerful masters of Impulsion are able to manipulate the bonds that hold matter together. This enables them to alter the state matter is in, forcing it from solid, to liquid, to gas, or in any other order they choose. They are also able to cause matter to break down into its competent particles, or greatly strengthen the forces keeping it together, enabling a demon to walk on the surface of water or even air. Anything effected by this power will be very unstable shortly after it has been altered, and might easily break or explode, and the consequences of this ability being used on a living creature are simply horrific.
* **Sphere of Annihilation (Level 10):** A phenomenally dangerous ability, creating a Sphere of Annihilation expands on the powers of Gravitation, and involves condensing a tremendous amount force and gravity into a tiny sphere. This sphere will then become a destructive ball of force, that will begin pulling everything nearby into it, where anything unfortunate enough to be placed inside will be torn to shreds. The demon who conjured the Sphere can move it about, and has some control over what it pulls into it, and any demon with equal or superior mastery of Impulsion may attempt to usurp control of it from them. It goes without saying that a Sphere of Annihilation is utterly devastating to its surroundings.

### Greater Mastery (Levels 11-13)

* **Combustion (Level 11):** Combustion enables Greater Demons to unleash tremendous amounts of destruction by condensing massive balls of force and energy, and then simply allowing them to explode. Combustions entail enormous blasts of concussive force, light, and heat, which emerge from whatever point the Greater Demon chose to create them. Their exact size can be determining by whoever creates them, but even the weakest are easily capable of evaporating most mundane materials caught within the main burst, and blasting away anything outside of it.
* **Void (Level 12):** Greater Demons are able to, if they desire, simply remove forces from a region of their choice. They may remove friction, making it so everything slips about and no grasp on anything can be had. They can remove gravity, and watch everything in their chosen zone float about, hoping to find something to grab. They can remove changes in inertia, causing everything to be trapped in their exact state of motion, down to the last molecule of air. Or they can remove it all, creating a void of absolute stillness, where everything dies.
* **Pandemonium (Level 13):** A devastatingly potent ability wielded only by Asmodeus, Pandemonium sends the fundamental laws of reality within the chosen range where it is unleashed into utter chaos. Random pockets of space hit absolute zero or superheat, whilst gravity shifts about absurdly, spawning Spheres of Annihilation everywhere, and the chaotic forces abounding condense and explode into massive Combustions. Only the wielder of this power, and anyone bestowed their protection is saved from complete obliteration. Needless to say, any place Pandemonium is unleashed is not long for the world.