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One of the most unusual Foci I've documented can be found in space recursions (and some others) where crew members or soldiers die frequently in fiction to prove the dangerousness of the situation. This Focus can even be found in recursions bled from horror movies.
In essence, the Stranger translates into a body and finds themselves rather helpless and easy to kill. Should they die (often proving a useful piece of information or defending another crew member), the quickened translates into another body nearby, ready to die again and somehow recognizable as themselves to their fellow strangers. This effectively makes them "immortal," though such an existence could hardly be enjoyable. I'll find my immortality elsewhere.
Your death is quick and painless.
Your death gives someone else the motivation they need to keep going, replenishing one of their Pools of all points.
Whenever you die, on the next round you translate back into the recursion with no wounds but the same pools as before you died. You generally become someone with the job of going into dangerous locations on behalf of the group. When you translate in this way you instantly acclimate to the recursion.
You die, letting everyone know about any dangerous traps or physical properties to the area.
You die, taking an attack that would have hit someone else within Immediate range of you.
Whenever you die using a Focus power, your party members who see the death regain 1 point to a Pool of their choice.
You remove someone within Short distance from a precarious or dangerous situation, getting them to safety but dying in the process.
You take the brunt of an attack made against your ship, getting shocked through a console or other grizzly energy surge. You die, but your ship is unharmed.
You stop a ticking time bomb or other dangerous technology by throwing yourself into the machine. You die, but the device will no longer kill everyone.
GM Intrusion: It takes 1d6 rounds for you to translate into a new body.