Skien

Skien [minor] by Iczer

'you guys are lucky I have a thick skin'

The character can grow a skin over his body, that resembles an inorganic, flexible material roughly 1/4 to 1/2 inches thick. This skin takes one minute to form per PE point of the character.
The skin is opaque (except around the eyes) and breathes like Egyptian cotton, but is water tight. The skin is power permeable (allows powers to function through it without damaging itself, but can block if necessary) and variably insulative (has +4 to save vs the effects of cold or hot temperatures).
The skin can be peeled off, and stored for later in which case it lasts for1d4 days plus one day per level of the character (at which point it begins to rot, losing 10% of it's SDC per day).
The skin is also like light armor. Natural AR of 8, and deadens and softens most impact damage (reduce the damage from kinetic impacts by 1 point per level, or half, whichever is less) The skin has an SDC equal to the character's PE, +5 per level. The character may defray half of any inflicted damage he receives to the skin rather than to himself.