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== Snow Hunter Form Martial Arts ==

Signature Weapon: Paired weapons. Usually paired daggers, though also
including hook swords, kali sticks, and fists.

Celestial Level Martial Arts. Considered in-aspect for air-aspect dragon-bloods, as for essence costs.

Snow Hunter Spirit
Cost: 3 motes 
Duration: One day 
Type: Simple 
MA Req: 2 
Ess Req: 1 
Charm Prereqs: None 

With this charm, the character becomes able to survive in the
harshest cold conditions without preparation. Terrible cold and
blizzards are no trouble to the martial artist, nor is hypothermia, snow
blindness, etc. - the character is perfectly at home. (As per hardship
surviving mendicant spirit, though applying only to the cold.)

Does not protect against the cold found at the Elemental Pole
itself.

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Arctic Dancer Technique
Cost: 3 motes 
Duration: One day 
Type: Simple 
MA Req: 2 
Ess Req: 1 
Charm Prereqs: Snow Hunter Spirit 

The martial artist no longer has to be mired in the several-stories
deep snow of the northern reaches. The character walks over snow and ice
without pressure; he does not sink in, nor risk breaking thin ice (he
does leave thin footprints, which can be tracked as normal - though the
constantly shifting wastes here tend to eliminate footprints within
hours. Only the prodigious trackers of the Lunars can track someone
here). He moves at normal speed, as if good road were underfoot. he also
suffers no environmental penalties usually associated with such snow,
such as penalties for fighting in deep water/mud, and may gain the
benefits for height modifiers, as his opponent sinks into the snow.

It is not uncommon to see younger Shinzui monks dancing nude atop
the shifting snow banks, like fanciful winter sprites.

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Azure Claw Strike
Cost: 2 motes 
Duration: Instant 
Type: Supplemental 
Required MA: 3 
Required Ess: 2 
Required Charms: Arctic Dancer Technique 

The warrior channels the blind fury and biting energy of arctic
essence into her hands. Her hands now do 4L damage. If using weapons
with this martial art, they now add 4 damage to their damage rating. Her
fists - or weapons - now trail snow flurries through the air. Targets
struck usually have small patches of ice on their flesh, though without
mechanical effect.

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Snow Hunter Form
Cost: 5 motes 
Duration: One scene 
Type: Simple 
Required MA: 4 
Required Ess: 2 
Required charms: Azure Claw Strike 

The character takes on the pose of the ferocious and potent horned
snow hunter; usually placing emphasis on the haunches with arms near
body midline, hands shifting from claw form to fist (weapon-users tend
to move hands in synchronous motion, like the Snow Hunter's horns or
canines.)

Add Martial Arts rating to bashing and lethal soak. Reduce the
dexterity rating of opponents meeting the martial artist in hand-to-hand
combat by the Martial Artist's Permanent Essence (though this cannot
reduce the target's dex below the target's Permanent Essence.) All
martial arts attacks now do lethal damage.

If the martial artist is killed while using this form, his body
swiftly ices over, starting from the point of impact which killed him
(such as a sword-wound), and quickly his entire body becomes
translucent, blue-tinged ice; a perfect sculpture of the monk's death.
If the user is a ghost, then this is blue jade instead of ice.

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Shiver Armor
Cost: 6 motes 
Duration: One Scene 
Type: Simple 
Required MA: 5 
Required Ess: 2 
Required Charms: Snow Hunter Form 

The character's body is covered in a thin layer of supernaturally
potent frost. The character's soak is increased by his permanent
Essence, and he may now use his full stamina to soak lethal damage.

Bare-handed attackers must roll Stamina vs. a difficulty of the
martial artist's Essence. Failure temporarily numbs the attacking limb
(-3 dice using that limb for the remainder of the scene), unless using a
charm that protects from extreme weather (hardship surviving mendicant
spirit, snow hunter spirit, etc.)

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Freezing Discharge Technique
Cost: 4 motes 
Duration: Special 
Type: Supplemental 
Required MA: 5 
Required Ess: 3 
Required Charms: Snow Hunter Form 

The martial artist's fist or weapon is sheathed in a coruscating
aura of snow-white essence. The weapon or hand takes on the appearance
of being made of ice (and, on a metaphysical level, almost is) and
constantly gives off the white smoke of extremely cold ice. This
sheathing persists (and the essence of the charm committed) until the
martial artist next strikes an opponent. The opponent thus struck takes
an additional damage equal to the martial artist's permanent Essence,
which ignores armor (soaked only by stamina), and is soaked seperately
from the main attack. If the target takes more damage from Freezing
Discharge Technique than his stamina rating, his dexterity is lowered by
one for the remainder of the scene. This charm cannot reduce dexterity
by more than one point, even if the target takes several multiples of
his stamina in damage from this charm. If this reduces his dexterity to
0 or less, he is paralyzed until the freezing wears off (~ten to fifteen
minutes, or when the scene ends.)

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Swift Sliding Blow
Cost: 3 motes 
Duration: Instant 
Type: Supplemental 
Required MA: 5 
Required Ess: 3 
Required Charms: Snow Hunter Form 

The martial artist performs a sweep attack as normal. A path of thin
ice extends straight from the attacker to the target within Essence
yards; along which the exalt slides and performs the sweep. This cannot
be parried, only dodged. Increase opponent's difficulty to resist
falling by two, if the attack is successful.

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Seventh Chilling Grasp
Cost: 5 motes 
Duration: Instant 
Type: Reflexive 
Required MA: 5 
Required Ess: 3 
Required charms: Swift Sliding Blow 

When the target is successfully attacked, each health level of
damage may be converted to a freezing spasm and veins of ice within the
target's body, converting each health level into a -1 penalty to dice
pools. If the penalty exceeds the target's dexterity (adjusted by other
charm's that reduce or increase dex, as applicable), the target is fully
paralyzed from the cold.

The -1's are lost at a rate of one per round; if they come to be
less than the target's dexterity, the target regains movement.

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Icy Predator's Fury Focus
Cost: 5 motes, 1 willpower 
Duration: One Scene 
Type: Extra Action 
Required MA: 5 
Required Ess: 4 
Required charms: 7th Chilling Grasp, Shiver Armor 

The martial artist takes on the frenzying nature of a snow hunter;
he now gains an additional attack each round; one with each fist, one
fist one weapon, or paired weapons. Ignore off-hand penalties. Both
actions must be attacks; neither may be parries, and pools may not be
split. No other Extra Actions charms can be used.

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Mindless Beast Rage
Cost: 8 motes, 1 will 
Duration: One Scene 
Type: Extra Action 
Requred MA: 5 
Required Ess: 4 
Required Charms: Icy Predator's Fury Focus 

As per IPFF, save that the character may now make immediate
counterattacks at any incoming hand-to-hand attacks, with the usual
rules and restrictions that apply to counterattacks.

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Notes: It's obvious that save for the soak boost, this cascade makes no allowances for defense. There's a reason for that; because. The Lunar that developed this martial art fought with blind fury and, lucky for him, was able to shrug off pings that would fell most exalts. Most exalts can't do that, and this Form cannot be combined with armor - as such, this is very much a raging mindless killer tree, and should not be treated as otherwise.

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