Prehensile Tongue

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Prehensile Tongue (minor) by Stone Gargoyle

This is based on the Eugenics optional ability listed on page 28 of PU2.

The hero's tongue can stretch from its normal size to half the hero's PE attribute number of feet. The end has a large ball of muscle that can grip surfaces and objects to pull them towards him. The tongue shoots out with amazing speed.
The tongue does not impede the hero's speech and looks surprisingly normal.
The tongue is strong enough to support the character's full weight and can be used to snatch objects from opponents' hands, steal items, climb and swing, turn knobs, press buttons, and similar snatch and grab or quick strike actions.

Bonuses: +2 initiative, +5 to strike, +4 to disarm, +20% to climb, +10% to palming, concealment, pick pockets and acrobatics when the tongue is used (do not stack with bonuses from other powers, as they apply only to the tongue).

Limitations: Can grab a gun but cannot fire one nor use handheld weapons like knives or swords, nor throw an object.