Eight-Faced Lucky Coin Style

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Current revision as of 04:38, 30 October 2007

Form Weapons: Eight-Faced Lucky Coin style uses wind-fire wheels and fate rings.

Armour: Armour is not compatible with this style.

Ten Thousand Things, One Thing Awareness
Cost: 1m
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Minimum Martial Arts: 2
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisites: None

The student of the eight-sided lucky coin first learns that fate can decree an attack from any side. This charm adds the martial artist's Martial Arts score to their Join Battle roll, or to any Awareness-based roll to detect a surprise attack or ambush. This does count against the martial artist's die adder cap for charms, as normal.

Gentle Stream Defense
Cost: 3m
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Until Next Action
Minimum Martial Arts: 3
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisites: Ten Thousand Things, One Thing Awareness

Following the gentle stream of fate, the martial artist is aware, even when it would seem otherwise. While this charm is active, the martial artist may apply his DVs normally to surprise attacks. This does not mitigate penalties to DV other than surprise.

Swift Breeze Meditation
Cost: 1m + 2m/DV penalty
Type: Supplemental
Keyword: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Minimum Martial Arts: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisites: none

The martial artist attacks and defends with the speed of a mighty wind. This charm supplements a martial arts attack or a flurry which includes at least one martial arts attack. It increases the rate of the martial artist's martial arts attacks by 1, and reduces the DV penalty of the attack or flurry by 1 for every 2 motes spent.

Example: Trout is facing down a trio of demon-worshippers, and wants to attack all three of them but doesn't want to suffer the consequences of spreading his defense too thin if their friends down the hall hear him. So he makes a normal flurry of three martial arts attacks and activates Swift Breeze Meditation, spending six motes to reduce the DV penalty of his attacks to 0.

Eight-Faced Lucky Coin Form
Cost: 6m
Type: Simple (Speed 3)
Keywords: Form-Type
Duration: One Scene
Minimum Martial Arts: 4
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisites: Swift Breeze Meditation, Gentle Stream Defense

A true master balances all energies, and even the most deadly attacks are grounded by the perfect harmony of fate and essence within her. All attacks made against the martial artist for the rest of the scene have a minimum damage of 1 and subtract the martial artist's Essence from their post-soak damage dice.

Mountain Root Stance
Cost: 2m
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Until Next Action
Minimum Martial Arts: 4
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisites: Eight-Faced Lucky Coin Style

The martial artist learns that it is, in the end, the attack which moves, rather than the attacked. Until her next action, the martial artist can apply her DVs against any attack normally, regardless of circumstances that would otherwise prevent it - she can apply her DVs while clinched, while bound and gagged, or even while encased neck-deep in a solid block of ice.

Drifting Cloud Kata
Cost: 4m
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Minimum Martial Arts: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisites: Mountain Root Stance

The martial artist drifts on fate's wind like a cloud and, like a cloud, she accepts attacks, lets them pass through her, and remains unchanged. This charm allows the martial artist to apply her DV that would normally consider the DV inapplicable.

Coin Dance Kata
Cost: 6m, 1wp
Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-Basic
Duration: One Scene
Minimum Martial Arts: 5
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisites: Drifting Cloud Kata

The martial artist lets fate take the reins, guiding her past her enemies unharmed. For the rest of the scene, the martial artist ignores penalties to her DV from onslaught-type attacks and coordinated attacks.

No Coin Has Only One Side
Cost: 5m
Type: Reflexive (Step 9)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Counterattack
Duration: Instant
Minimum Martial Arts: 5
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisites: Mountain Root Stance

One of the fundamentals of Creation is the tension of opposites. All things are connected, yes, but nothing is closer than opposing forces. This charm may be activated in response to an attack that successfully hits the martial artist. Roll damage for the attack as normal, but apply it equally to the martial artist and the attacker.

Sun, Moon and Stars Balance
Cost: 10m, 1wp
Type: Simple
Keyword: Combo-Basic
Duration: One Scene
Minimum Martial Arts: 5
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisites: Coin Dance Kata, No Coin Has Only One Side

Bolstered by Essence and guided by fate, the martial artist's movements become fluid and controlled, and her defenses begin to redirect the energies of her opponents' attacks into a more agreeable pattern. She adds her Essence to her PDV, and her Martial Arts to her DDV for the rest of the scene. By spending 1 mote reflexively, the martial artist may increase the speed and DV penalty of an attack made against her by 1.