Nightmare Absorbtion

Nightmare absorbtion: [Major] by Iczer

'Oh yeah.....I know what you fear, you fear me! or at least, you are about to'

The character has the ability to alter his shape to resemble the dark objects that exist in the backs of a person's mind, their inner fears.

This is a kind of feedback induced shapeshifting. The character must designate a target, who must then make a save vs this pseudo psionic power (this save is at -1 at levls 3,6,9,12 and 15). If the save fails, then the character may choose to adopt the shape of his target's inner nightmares, gaining the following abilities.

1) HF: the distorted shape has a HF of 10, but a HF of 14 to the target.

2) Gains an AR of 12, plus SDC equal to the target's ME per level ( a third level hero mimicking the fears of a target with ME of 12 gains 36SDC)

3) gains a boost to PS equal to the target's ME, plus a +4 to PE, +6 to spd and +2 to PP

4) Natural attacks inflict +1d4 damage, and has +1 attack per melee (and +2 to strike, parry and dodge the target of this power)

Furthermore, the character gains a knowledge of the target's fears and insecurities. also, when used on a target with a genuine and applicable phobia, he gains double the normal SDC, 50% more PS and the HF rises by 2.

The Character can choose not to transform. if so he may simply heal half as much SDC as he would have gained. he still is aware of the target's inner fears.

Lastly, the character is keenly empathic (as per the empathy psionic power) but it only detects cruder emotions (lust, fear, anger etc).

Duration: can be maintained for up to 10 minutes per level for an individual, or until the target is more than 100 feet away.

Drawbacks: once a target has fallen victim to this power, or succeeds in the save, he is immune to it for 24 hours.

Targets immune or resistant to fear do not rrigger this power. if the target becomes immune to fear during the course of this power then the fear related aspects vanish, though the character's assumed form remains. This power may only be used once per round. the use of the power counts as one action, while the transformation is a second action.