Safety Skin

Safety Skin (minor) by Senator Cybus

The character can grow himself a Safety Skin, an ablative veneer that provides protection against almost any form of physical attack - but only once.
The Skin has the bizarre ability to redistribute force directed against one part of it throughout its entire structure, rather than puncturing or tearing: this rips it apart on a molecular level, but no damage is transferred to the super being underneath. This means that the Skin can block any single direct attack (one punch, one fireball, one sniper’s bullet, etc.) without the hero suffering any harm at all! The actual amount of damage inflicted by the attack is irrelevant: the Skin will absorb it all before dissolving. The Safety Skin is an ideal defence against surprise attacks, essentially giving the character a do-over against assassins and ambushers.

Note: The Safety Skin looks and feels exactly like the super being’s normal flesh and does not affect his flexibility or sense of touch.

Range: Self.

Duration: Unless destroyed, the Skin will last for 24 hours before being automatically shed.

Attacks Per Melee: Growing a Safety Skin requires one minute of uninterrupted concentration; if the hero is injured during this time, he takes full damage and the Skin loses coherence and melts away.

Limitations: The character can only grow a Safety Skin a number of times per day equal to his experience level (once at level one, twice at level two and so on).

Unfortunately, due to its unique property of force redistribution, any amount of damage will destroy the Skin! If targeted by an attack that causes even 1 point of damage, it will dissolve, leaving the hero exposed and vulnerable.

The Safety Skin provides no protection against disease, poison, background radiation, temperature extremes, non-physical psionic attack or sensory assault. The character’s eyes and the inside of his mouth are not protected by the Skin.

Any impact powerful enough to knock down the hero or send him flying will still do that, he just won't take any damage from it (though he may be injured by the landing).

Truly massive amounts of force may be enough to overwhelm the Safety Skin. Players and G.M.s should exercise common sense: realistically, this power will not allow a character to survive being at ground zero of a nuclear explosion or crashing a space ship into the surface of a planet at three times the speed of light.