Superior Unicorn

jennamoran:

an example Superior Skill

This is a Superior Skill you might take to represent being a unicorn, or, at least, more of a unicorn than average.

The levels look like this.

Unicorn
0: You are about as much of a unicorn as anyone else, really. Maybe a
little bit more.

Unicorn
1: People think you seem like a good sort. Your nails and optionally a nub
on your head are pearlescent and unnaturally tough. You’re faster than normal
over medium distances. You do not
have a radar for virginity[1],
but you can get a pretty good read on
someone’s character.

Unicorn
2: You radiate a sense of purity and holiness. You’re not physically a
unicorn, although you’re allowed to have the horn, but small children, wise
women, people who catch glimpses of you out of the corner of their eye, people
who see you running in the distance at night, blurry pictures from conspiracy
nuts, and such might see a unicorn instead of the usual you. Your nails and
horn, if you have one, can scratch diamond. You’re quite fast over medium
distances. Your running posture is probably bipedal but you might sort of
stumble and use your hands a lot. You’re an excellent judge of character.

Unicorn
3: You’re a unicorn! Pretty much. And that means that you’re marvelous. You’re stunning. You’re radiant.
Your horn is tough enough to parry chainsaws and stab through molten metal
safely—well, as safe as it gets
given how close it is to your head, anyway. It takes you twenty or thirty yards to really get going, but
then you’re at least twice as fast as a normal human for the next twenty miles—and, while you slow to within human
maximum speeds after that, you’re still really
fast. You can discern the state of a person’s soul, which is basically like reading their character
the normal way except that it can’t be gotten around with non-magical
deception.

Unicorn
4: You’re as breathtaking as a sunrise. Your horn can shatter walls, crack
open hills, or uproot a good chunk of forest with a toss of your head. You’re
light enough on your feet to balance on three or four leaves, can leap small
buildings in a step, and can run several hundred miles per hour. You know more
about the people you meet than they do themselves.

Unicorn
5: You are sufficiently awe-inspiring to break weak minds and inspire
spiritual devotion in the rest. Pick a more specific theme and structure, but
in general, your horn can rip away someone’s shadow, knock a star out of the
sky, pop a daydream or a singularity, or stab away the wickedness from a soul.
You run where you will; rumor, the wind, and sometimes even light have trouble
keeping up with you. You are still quite good at reading people, and if they do
not satisfy you, you can nurture the seeds of goodness (or, I suppose, something else) inside them.

[1]
That kicks in at level 2 if you’re
playing the kind of game where that kind of thing’s a thing. Otherwise, it
doesn’t. Not even at level 5!