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= Bleeding Moon's Flesh =

:Flesh-Crafted Protective Suit
:Artifact ••••
:Commitment: 10 motes

Many who have heard of this artifact believe its name to have some poetic significance; a metaphor of some sort that its wearer inscribed within it in a surge of scholarly insight. They're horribly wrong. In truth, the name of the artifact is in honor to the battle that originated it. The name is, in fact, quite literal.

Shrouded in macabre crimson, the history of this magical, protective suit is dearly tied to both the wearer and its forger. When Red Dirja, a rogue Sidereal, marched from Yu-Shan, she offered her services to one of the least likely beings a Fate-worker would choose: the Deathlord First and Forsaken Lion.

The Deathlord, seeing the potential of having a very experienced and immensely bloodthirsty Sidereal under his control, decided to take the woman very seriously. Instead of granting her access into his armies and territory, the Deathlord put her to use immediately, as well as tested her to see just how useful she would be.

For years a Lunar Exalt had been plaguing the territory of one of the First and Forsaken Lion's deathknights, a young masked man named The Warden of the Faceless Peons. Though ruthless and cunning, the deathknight had not been able to defeat the Lunar, or even find the animalistic demi-god's lair. Red Dirja, The Fell Star, was sent to dispatch of this moon-borne Exalt and aid the Abyssal in re-conquering the vale where he was stationed. If possible, she was to create a shadowland. She approached with a plan already hatched, and the first thing she ordered the deathknight to do, after demonstrating the edicts from his Deathlord, was to ravish every single mortal in and around the vale. This they did, and more. Torture and bloodshed were daily as large forces of zombies stretched far and wide, anihilating each man, woman and child.

When the Lunar, who's name was Bleeding Moon, returned, he was infuriated. Sorrow permeated his skin as he launched an assault against the undead forces. He threaded ferociously through the zombies and hungry ghosts that attacked him, toppling them by the dozen even as he made his way closer to the Abyssal who stood guard before a single tent. Though he did not perish, the Abyssal was easily dispatched, and the guarded tent mowed down by the Lunar in his ferocious rage. Then, he confronted The Fell Star...

The fight was shorter than she had expected. Within a few minutes of terrible Essence discharged by the two had filled the sky, and Bleeding Moon felt the savage starmetal blade pierce his furred chest, a great howl drifting into the storm of colorful Essence above.

Red Dirja returned to her Deathlord with the body of the Lunar in tow, tossing the death-ridden body to the ground. In reward, not only did the First and Forsaken Lion grant her a position of high rank (though also of high vigilance) in his armies, but used her trophy to craft her a prize.

He sent a troop of one thousand of his Legion Sanguinary to retrieve the Hun of the felled Lunar, knowing that somewhere near the vale, it would be suffering. When the Legion returned, he drove a soulsteel blade into the ghost's chest, mimicking the blow Red Dirja had killed him with. The Lunar's dead flesh was soaked in its own blood and mixed with its ground bones before being stretched into a suit. The dead Exalt's soul was forged into soulsteel, and then used to sow the flesh of the Lunar into a suit that fit the Sidereal's skin tightly.

The suit was called Bleeding Moon's Flesh by the Sidereal (at the acceptance of the Deathlord) and she was gifted with it, and all it's respective powers, many of which were directly related to those powers the Lunar possessed in life.

== System ==

The effects and powers of Bleeding Moon's Flesh are manifold, but all circulate around the same principle: duplicating and extending the protection that the Lunar's powers and charms had for him, and making them available for Red Dirja.

For starters, the suit provides a bonus to the wearer's Lethal and Bashing soak of +9 each. This soak is representative of the difunt Lunar's incredible hardiness. However, this is taken even further, providing an Aggravated soak value equal to the wearer's Lethal soak with the armor [Stamina (halved) + 9].

Additionally, the suit's protection does not incite any Fatigue or Mobility Penalties; nor does the wearer suffer the normal penalties for Charm usage while wearing armor (i.e. she can use charms that are not compatible with armor freely).

The suit costs 10 motes to attune, and can house a Hearthstone in a socket just beneath the neck area of a level no greater than 3.

== Comments ==

I note that it is also an acronym for "Bad Mother F**ker"... - [[MelWong]]

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+http://www.geocities.com/seiraryu/tab.gif Some people believe that the name of this artifact is supposed to be poetic...it isn't. The truth is dark and macabre. Years ago, when the Sidereal Chosen of Battles Red Dirja, also known as The Fell Star betrayed the Sidereals to ally herself with the Deathlord First and Forsaken Lion, she was asked by her new master to go forth and perform an act that would prove her undying loyalty to him. She bid her farewell and went to to do as she was ordered, her powerful, lean frame ready to appropriate whatever it is she could find suitable to the Deathlord's request.<BR>
+http://www.geocities.com/seiraryu/tab.gif Soon after, she found a small village in the east protected by a Lunar Exalt that was treated as their god. He and his beastmen ruled the tribe of barbarians with mercy and benevolence...but did not expect the terrible end that they would all face at the hands of the deranged Sidereal.<BR>
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+http://www.geocities.com/seiraryu/tab.gif She marched upon the village with blood in her eyes, her anima coming to full view as she exploded in a manifestation of Essence, twirling strands of spidersilk-thin strands of power and thrashing the weak barbarians within minutes. The Lunar's children were next as they, too, faced her and fell before her might, her blade slicing through what would normally be considered powerful bodies. Their flesh and bones broke under her blade and she stood, triumphant, over their carcasses. There she maditated for a week and day, awaiting the Lunar Bleeding Moon's return to his precious village.<BR>
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+http://www.geocities.com/seiraryu/tab.gif When he did return, he exploded in fury, rampaging towards her with savage eyes and burning claws of moonsilver. He provided much more of a challenge than the barbarians and his children, his resistance to her attacks much more powerful than the others'. But in the end, there was nothing he could do, as the fate-forged daiklave she wielded dipped into his chest and trasversed him, impaling him into the ground in his wolfman form. She threw him over her shoulder and began the long trek back to the nearest Shadowland to return to the Thousand, to her new Deathlord master.<BR>
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+http://www.geocities.com/seiraryu/tab.gif When she arrived, the Deathlord was impressed--muchly so, and thus decided that not only would he accept her service, but would also forge her a gift from the flesh and blood and soul of Bleeding Moon. He bade a thousand ghosts from the Legion Sanguinary to hunt down the Higher Soul of the defeated Lunar and bring it back to him as he retreated into his citadel to begin the forging. They returned within a month, offering the panicked ghost to the Deathlord. He gripped Bleeding Moon's soul with one hand and drove a soulsteel blade into it, mimicking the deathblow that The Fell Star had killed the Lunar with. Then he forged the soul of the Lunar into soulsteel and threaded it with the flesh and blood, creating this suit of protection for his new servant.<BR>
+http://www.geocities.com/seiraryu/tab.gif The suit is called Bleeding Moon's Flesh, although the name is slightly deceiving, for not only is it his flesh, but his blood and soul as well. Not enough soulsteel is within it to actually be considered a soulsteel-forged artifact, but once the flesh was sewn (with soulsteel threads) together to fit Red Dirja's body (including boots and gauntlets) it was drenched and left to soak in a pool of the Lunar's blood for three months. Once it was ripe, the Deathlord pulled it from it's bath and held it to the Sidereal traitor, offering it to her as a gift. She accepted it gladly.
 == System ==
-The effects and powers of Bleeding Moon's Flesh are manifold, but all circulate around the same principle:  duplicating and extending the protection that the Lunar's powers and charms had for him, and making them available for Red Dirja.
+The effects of Bleeding Moon's Flesh are many, all dedicated to protecting Red Dirja from harm in all ways.
-For starters, the suit provides a bonus to the wearer's Lethal and Bashing soak of +9 each.  This soak is representative of the difunt Lunar's incredible hardiness.  However, this is taken even further, providing an Aggravated soak value equal to the wearer's Lethal soak with the armor [Stamina (halved) + 9].
+* It provides a bonus of +9 Bashing and Lethal soak.
+* The wearer's Aggravated soak is now equal to her Lethal soak (re: Halved Stamina + 9).
-Additionally, the suit's protection does not incite any Fatigue or Mobility Penalties; nor does the wearer suffer the normal penalties for Charm usage while wearing armor (i.e. she can use charms that are not compatible with armor freely).
+* Bleeding Moon's Flesh carries no Fatigue value and no Mobility Penalty.
+* Charms that are normally unavailable while wearing armor (such as most Martial Arts) are not hampered by this suit.
-The suit costs 10 motes to attune, and can house a Hearthstone in a socket just beneath the neck area of a level no greater than 3.
+* It has a Hearthstone setting right under the neck area.
 == Comments ==
-I note that it is also an acronym for "Bad Mother F**ker"... - [[MelWong]]
+You really need to work on giving your stuff links to other sites or else its impossible to find just looking around the Wiki. And frustrating to get back to other places from your stuff since it's located on subpages of your UserPage instead of subpages of the topics. Just a general note - [[Telgar]]