Transmute

Proposed for use on Indomitable.

==Transmute==
Arc 1+
Chthonic
Cost: special (an Issue point)

You have a lens through which you suffer in the world. There is some way in which you can turn the way you act in the world - suffering, or heroism, or unfinished business - into something more apt to your thematics.

Pick two Issues. One is your pet Issue. The other is the Issue that simply refuses to stick to you no matter how many times you might act like it. *Whenever the HG tries to give you a point in your Teflon issue*, you may choose to transmute it into a tick of your pet Issue.

For example, if you simply cannot do heroism because it keeps reminding you of something that hurt you, whenever the HG thinks that you earn a point of Hero, you may choose to instead increment Sickness from, say, 0 to 1, or 3 to 4. Or you can just increment Hero, if you'd rather, but usually you won't.

// note: this might not be voluntary. It might be something you are forced to do. The other one is definitely voluntary though.

**Genre Issues**

You don't get to turn Issues that you earn from "incomplete" genre actions - Isolation from refusing to connect in Pastoral or Gothic, for example - into your pet Issue. You gave them to yourself.

**Issue-granting powers**

Other miraculous powers may let you take points in Issues. You don't get to turn these into your pet Issue either, because you also gave them to yourself.

**Preexisting Issue points**

If an Issue point is already on your sheet - for example, if you already have Complex 2 - you cannot retroactively transmute it into your pet Issue.



==Transmute (Powered Up)==
Arc 2+? 3+?
Chthonic
Cost n/a

At this point, the story through which you view the world has become so strong that almost no other Issues will stick to you.

*If you have not yet resolved your pet Issue this book,* you may transmute a point of *any* Issue that the HG attempts to give you into your pet Issue. For example, if the HG tries to give you (In) Over Your Head 3, or Calling, you may decide to turn them into points of Vice instead.

Once you resolve your pet Issue, you lose access to this power for the rest of the Book, and must take any further Issues straight - except for the one Issue that refuses to stick to you that you already picked in Transmute.

The other caveats about genre issues, issue-granting powers, and preexisting Issue points continue to apply; you can't transmute Issues that you gave to yourself or that you already have.