The Ghost:TMAs/Path of the Stave Church Style - Revision history

The Ghost: /* Fanning Rota Defense */

2014-11-18T16:34:42Z

‎Fanning Rota Defense

The Ghost: /* It's Just My Walking Stick */

2014-11-18T16:27:25Z

‎It's Just My Walking Stick

The Ghost: /* Path of the Stave Church Form */

2014-11-18T16:16:27Z

‎Path of the Stave Church Form

The Ghost: /* Aged Hickory Infusion */

2014-11-18T04:32:14Z

‎Aged Hickory Infusion

The Ghost: /* Stave of Legends Mastery */

2014-11-18T04:25:39Z

‎Stave of Legends Mastery

The Ghost: /* Path of the Stave Church Form */

2014-11-18T04:05:58Z

‎Path of the Stave Church Form

The Ghost: /* It's Just My Walking Stick */

2014-11-18T04:05:22Z

‎It's Just My Walking Stick

The Ghost: /* Forbidden Wisdom: The Center */

2014-10-08T00:23:46Z

‎Forbidden Wisdom: The Center

The Ghost: /* Eternal Student Mastery */

2014-10-07T23:21:13Z

‎Eternal Student Mastery

The Ghost: /* Spinning Axle Style: Autochthonia */

2014-07-15T15:26:22Z

‎Spinning Axle Style: Autochthonia

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 : This charm cannot be used to block attacks which cannot be parried.
-: If the attack would deal more raw dice of damage than the weapon used to block has damage rating it is broken in blocking the blow and rendered useless unless repaired. This restriction only applies to non-magical weapons.
+: If the attack would deal more raw dice of damage than the weapon used to block has damage rating it is broken in blocking the blow and rendered useless unless repaired. The attack then carries through with any remaining dice to strike the PotSC Style practitioner: next encountering their soak and hardness and at least inflicting minimum damage. This restriction only applies to non-magical weapons.
 : When learning this charm the student chooses one category of weapon against which it is infective from the following list: Archery Weapons: Thrown Weapons: Melee Weapons: manufactured Martial Arts Weapons: or Natural Weapons such as teeth, claws, stingers, or bare hands/feet. (If using the Shards of the Exalted Dream Rules for Firearms, add that as an option for this flaw.)
 In all other respects this charm is considered a perfect parry.
 === Cane Achieves Pole Vault Practice ===

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 Description: By feigning weakness and infirmity leaning on their walking stick the Path of the Stave Church Style exerts a seemingly sourceless natural mental influence to allow the individual to retain their 'crutch' and cease to see it as a weapon.
-Persons with a dodge MDV less than the practitioner's (Essence + Compassion) must roll their own compassion and fail in order to deny them their walking stick or staff, no matter what fate may befall them for failing to take it away. However, if the consequences merely for allowing the invalid their 'crutch' would be serious such as dismissal or torture they are expressly permitted to roll conviction to suppress their compassion. Person's with a MDV higher than the practitioner's (Essence + Compassion) are subject to a Subtle (Manipulation + Performance) attack to convince them to allow the 'walking stick' anyway. If the attack beats their MDV they are convinced that the invalid is harmless and allow her to take the 'crutch' through the checkpoint or other zone. This charm is ineffective once join battle is rolled or if the practitioner does not adopt a posture of infirmity and helplessness. Those effected by this charm may spend willpower to resist the social attack as normal.
+Persons with a dodge MDV less than the practitioner's (Essence + Compassion) must roll their own compassion and fail in order to deny them their walking stick or staff, no matter what fate may befall them for failing to take it away. However, if the consequences merely for allowing the invalid their 'crutch' would be serious such as dismissal or torture they are expressly permitted to roll conviction to suppress their compassion. Person's with a MDV higher than the practitioner's (Essence + Compassion) are subject to a  (Manipulation + Performance) attack to convince them to allow the 'walking stick' anyway. If the attack beats their MDV they are convinced that the invalid is harmless and allow her to take the 'crutch' through the checkpoint or other zone. This charm is ineffective once join battle is rolled or if the practitioner does not adopt a posture of infirmity and helplessness. Those effected by this charm may spend willpower to resist the social attack as normal.
 === Path of the Stave Church Form ===

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 Description: Adopting the stance of a road weary traveler and centering their essence along their base, palm, and spirit Chakras the Path of the Stave Church practitioner becomes clearly in tune with her weapons and the world around her, gaining the following benefits.
-: As long as the Path of the Stave Church Form is active all other charms of the style have their mote costs reduced by 1. This can reduce costs to zero and stacks with other effects which reduce mote costs.
+: As long as the Path of the Stave Church Form is active all other charms of the style have their mote costs reduced by 1. This can reduce costs to zero but does not stack with other effects which reduce mote costs, use only the more favorable of all such effects.
-: Any condition which would reduce the user's DVs is lessened by 1 so long as they keep hold of their walking stick or other form weapon.
+: Any condition which would reduce the user's DVs is lessened by 1 so long as they keep hold of their walking stick or other form weapon. This effect reduces only the total penalty by one, not each individual penalty, but can reduce the total penalty to zero if there is only one point of penalty. (As per normal however it cannot reduce it 'bellow' zero: it negates a penalty, it does not grant a bonus.)
-: The User gain's bonus dice on any performance based rolls equal to their compassion. In the case of prayer rolls these dice instead become automatic successes.
+: While Path of the Stave Church Form is active the practitioner gains bonus dice to Performance, Presence, and Socialize rolls equal to their Compassion so long as they are acting in a way which resonates with that virtue.
 === One Chopstick Discipline ===

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 Minimums: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2
-Type: Enhancement
+Type: Simple (Speed 4)
 Duration: One Scene

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 Duration: One Scene
-Type: Enhancement
+Type: Simple (Speed 3)
 Keywords: Combo-OK, War
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 Prerequisites: Fanning Rota Defense, Cane Achieves Pole Vault Practice
 Description: The touch of some among the Sifu's of Path of the Stave Church Style can make their weapons legends among legends. When this charm is activated the weapon with which the chosen practices the Path of the Stave Church Style has it's MM bonuses doubled. If the practitioner is a mortal using an artifact weapon they instead gain the magical material bonus of that weapon as if they could fully attune to it. This mastery has no effect on weapons which are not artifacts, and the artifact must have basic attunement already active to be effected by this charm.
 === Empty Hands Mastery ===

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 Duration: One Scene
-Keywords: Combo-OK.
+Keywords: Combo-Basic.
 Prerequisites: Twirling Baton Distraction, Up and Over Attack, It's Just My Walking Stick
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 : Any condition which would reduce the user's DVs is lessened by 1 so long as they keep hold of their walking stick or other form weapon.
 : The User gain's bonus dice on any performance based rolls equal to their compassion. In the case of prayer rolls these dice instead become automatic successes.
 === One Chopstick Discipline ===

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 Cost: 6m
-Minimums: Martial Arts 2, Essence 1.
+Minimums: Martial Arts 2, Essence 2.
 Type: Reflexive

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	=== Forbidden Wisdom: The Center ===		=== Forbidden Wisdom: The Center ===

		+	The Path of the Stave Church is not taught on the Blessed Isle, due to an event in the history of the Scarlet Empress Realm, the [[The Ghost: History/Unbroken Rushes Rebellion\|Unbroken Rushes Rebellion]]. The backbone of the rebels in that insurrection were practitioners of Path of the Stave Church Style, who's skill in combat and ability to block the attacks of even the most experienced dragon blooded were key factors in the rebellion not being crushed effortlessly.
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		+	When the Rebellion was at last put down the Empress decreed that the style was forbidden within the Realm, as it allowed mortals to forget their proper place in the established order and think themselves above their betters. Since then the All Seeing Eye has done it's duty and arrested or deported anyone who was found to be studding it's powers who was not one of the dragonblooded. Even the dragonblooded are profoundly discouraged from learning the style, and outright forbidden to teach it.
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		+	As one might expect, this has not stopped the practice of the style altogether. Across the blessed isle are hidden dojos where the traditions of the Unbroken Rushes Rebellion are passed down from Sifu to Student, in theory building towards the day when the commoners will rise again and reclaim the Isle from the dragonblooded. It has even been known for young wood aspects to be drawn into this secret world and learn the style when they pledge to stand with the rebels on the day of reckoning. All too often however these students turn in their masters and destroy the dojo, AFTER learning their sifu's secrets.
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		+	The All Seeing Eye is well aware of the long standing but hidden movement to spark the Rebellion once more, and is vigilant for moves to arm the mortals of the isle without the Scarlet Dynasty's approval, but for each dojo they find and destroy a student of the old master has founded two more.
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		+	Just recently a dangerous new trend has swept through this network of hidden revolutionaries, a new faith, espousing the return of divinely mandated god kings who bear a disturbing resemblance to the Anathema. These 'shining ones' have been found to be revered by about 1/4th of all the Path of the Stave Church practitioners that the Eye has arrested in the past 2 years, and that percentage grows with each fresh dojo found and shut down. The inner chambers of the eye, those that know the secret of the Bureau of Destiny and their Sidereal agents, are trying to get this news onto [[Characters/ChejopKajak\|Kajak's]] desk, but the report seems to go missing somewhere in heaven each time. They are looking at ways to hunt for the mole or moles who are helping this dissident heresy spread.
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		+	Meanwhile, somewhere in the scavenger lands: the Prophet Shen-Aru reads his reports and smiles in his bemused and befuddled way at the actions of someone called 'Red Secret', an agent of the cult he founded making headway with converting the dissidents of the Isle to his suddenly world spanning faith. This person, who's very gender is redacted from his reports for both their safety and his, has a flare for the dramatic and sound tactical acumen, both in politics and on the battlefield: and whoever they are, Shen wishes them well.

	=== Spinning Axle Style: Autochthonia ===		=== Spinning Axle Style: Autochthonia ===

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 A few rare Sifu's of Righteous Wooden Beam Style can teach the charm themselves, which allows full training limits. These sifu's are all one's who had their instruction from another such sifu or a fully intact scroll. When such a student learns Grace Beyond Nature Mastery in this way they must make a simple (Performance + Compassion) roll, only if they succeed can they teach the charm to their students. They may retry this roll at no penalty once per year that they spend studding the scroll's koans and mantras or memorizing the same from their sifu for an hour a day. This ability to teach Grace Beyond Nature Mastery is the sole-but-key difference between Righteous Wooden Beam Style and the modern Path of the Stave Church Style.
-=== Eternal Student Mastery ===
+=== Eternal Student Ascendency ===
 Cost: -

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	=== Spinning Axle Style: Autochthonia ===		=== Spinning Axle Style: Autochthonia ===
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		+	When Autochthon entered his self imposed exile a handful of people went into exile with him who were practitioners of Righteous Wooden Beam Style. Not all of them survived the chaotic first years of his isolation but at least one did, because this style continues to exist today in autochthonia. Though it's name has changed to 'Spinning Axle Style' it remains functionally identical to RWBS, including the ability to teach the capstone charm of Grace Beyond Nature Mastery and the presence of Scrolls which can instruct students in this and other charms of the style. The style is common in [[Yugash]], [[Jarish]], [[Kamak]], and [[Xexas]], but is known in all of the nations. It is very rare in [[Estasia]] however as it promotes compassion, which is a virtue that Estasia does not wholly embrace. The other four capstone charms of the Path of the Stave Church Style are unknown in Autochthonia, but now that the Seal of the Eight Divinties has been breached there are lone students who have begun to learn them, which will come as a great surprise to their sifu.

	= Weapons and Armor =		= Weapons and Armor =