madame xanadu's immortality

[Millennium]

My search-fu hasn't found this so I thought I'd ask; what are the effects of the subtle and insidious modifiers on the Immortality power? I notice in H&V2 that madam xanadu has this but I don't get how it works? (currently without copy of rule books)

Cheers,
M

[badpenny]

Subtle 2 makes the power undetectable. No one will be able to know that it's her Immortality power that's bringing her back to life.

Insidious makes the RESULT harder to discern, rather than the effect. So when she does come back, anyone seeing her "get killed" would assume that she wasn't actually killed--it only looked that way, or even if she was hooked up to an EEG/EKG, they'd probably just assume it was a machine glitch. It also helps that she comes back to life after three seconds.

Insidious is a tricky little Advantage for attack powers, too. An Insidious Weaken Strength attack would drain someone's Strength and they wouldn't even know it until they went to actually use it! If the power was also Subtle 2, they wouldn't even know they'd been attacked (or if Subtle 1, they'd have had to make a DC 20 Perception check). Mind you, most GM's wouldn't allow this for a PC; it's better suited to actions by the bad guys (IMO).

[Monolith]

Immortality is permanent, and so gets subtle 1 by default. At best the power should only need 1 additional point to get subtle 2.

[Scrollreader]

Subtle Insidious Immortality is, in terms of Mage, coincidental.

"Wasn't it lucky the bullet hit this bible in my pocket?"
"Man, an inch to the right, and that would have hit my heart"
"Wow, what are the odds you'd be lit on fire right under a sprinkler system?"
Etc