Living Forge
Psychometabolism
Manifesting Time: 1 minute
Range: Touch
Maintenance: Concentration, up to 1hour
Detections: Visual (glow, overt)
You can reshape nonmagical metal as if crating without tools. As long as this power remains in effect, you can continue to work with any number of metal objects. Alterations and object you create are permanent, but can be damaged or destroyed as a normally crafted object.
You can repair breaks and tears in a metal object you touch, such as a broken chain link or two halves of a broken key. As long as the break or tear is no larger than 1 foot in any dimension, you mend it, leaving no trace of the former damage.
1. Using your hands, you can craft a simple metal object, provided you have the resources. You act at as anvil and forge, using your hands to shape the object, and altering its temperature psionically. It takes only half the time crafting the item normally would take. As long as this power is in effect, an item you are crafting can’t burn you.
You can empower this augmentation to allow you craft complex metal objects by spending 2 additional power points (3).
2. The maintenance time increases by 1 hour. You can take this augmentation multiple times.
5. When you work with a metal object, you can infuse your essence into it. You must work with the item for at least 1 minute per pound it weighs. For 24 hours, the object becomes magical, but your maximum hit point count and your current hit points are reduced by 5. Once the 24-hour period ends, you hit point maximum returns to normal and regain the lost hit points.
A weapon infused by you gains a +1 bonus on attack and damage rolls with it, and an armor or shield gains a +1 bonus.
You can empower this augmentations by spending 6 additional power points (11) to increase the bonus a weapon, armor, or shield gains to +2, or by spending 12 additional power points (17) to increase it to +3.
7. A nonmagical metal object you hold and carry in your hands can be melted down and reworked into ingots which weight no more than5 lbs. each or reduced to a pile of slag. It takes 1 minute per pound you melt down and reshape.
You can empower this augmentation to affect unattended metal objects you touch, such as a hinge or portcullis bar, by spending 2 additional power points (9).