Hydra (keystone)

“Who stopped the Beast from telling its own story? And why?”

*Hail Hydra: When you take any Step in Path of the Hydra, you gain the Opportunist milestone; if you already have it, it instead hits for Pd2 damage and benefits from die size increases to abilitechs/subpowers. Either way, your block radius is increased by another 5 feet.

• Alcaean Invocation: When landing a damaging attack, you may take -50% damage to inflict the Enervated condition on the target for 1 minute. An Enervated creature has DoT (P) per Cripple (10), up to DoT (3P) at Crippled (30) or Stuck, and extends the duration of any Cripples on it by 1 round.
• Dire Setback: Whenever you inflict a negative condition on a target, the target has Setback (1, stackable) for each type of condition for their durations, up to Setback (3, stackable).
• Herakles’ Bane: Once per round, when you deal damage with Opportunist, you can take -100% damage to Expose, Impair, or Stick the target for 1 round.
• Lernean Scales: When you Defend as a major action, you grant yourself and all allies within block radius Aegis (P, 1 round), and your next Opportunist reaction before the start of your next turn has +1 die size to damage.
  • Coils of the Hydra: When you Defend as a major action, you gain an extra reaction which can only be used to take an action that imposes Block dice (assuming you have one to begin with), and the +1 die size applies to all Opportunist reactions for 1 round. [Requires Lernean Scales]