Revision as of 05:35, 13 April 2006

Bishonen Archery Tree

• Graceful Bishonen Archery 1/1
  • Superior Bishonen Archery 2/2
    • Unfailing Bishonen Archery 3/3
      • Invariant Bishonen Excellence of Archery 4/4
  • Keen Arrow 2/1
    • Arrow-Sharpening Stance 3/2
    • Holy Arrow of Wrath 3/2
      • Arrow of Demon-Slaying 4/3
  • Long Shot 2/1
    • Wind-Carried Messenger 3/2
      • Distant Sniper 4/3
  • Piercing Shot 2/1
    • Crevice-Seeking Shot 3/2
      • Armor-Evading Shot 4/3
  • Swift Sniper 2/1
    • Ever-Full Quiver 3/2
    • Hail of Arrows Method 3/2
      • Death From Above Technique 4/3

Keen Arrow

• Cost: 1 mote
• Duration: Instant
• Type: Subtle/Mental
• Minimum Archery: 2
• Minimum Moe: 1
• Prerequisite Charms: Graceful Bishonen Archery

Your Moe hones your arrow's keenness; add your Moe to the base damage of the arrow.

Arrow Sharpening Stance

• Cost: 3 motes, 1 WP
• Duration: One Scene
• Type: Speech
• Minimum Archery: 3
• Minimum Moe: 2
• Prerequisite Charms: Keen Arrow

Every arrow you fire becomes sharper, adding your Moe to its base damage.

Holy Arrow of Wrath

• Cost: 1 mote / +2 Damage
• Duration: Instant
• Type: Subtle/Mental
• Minimum Archery: 3
• Minimum Moe: 2
• Prerequisite Charms: Keen Arrow

The Power of Heaven flows through your arrow, adding +2 to pre-soak damage for every mote you invest to a limit of your Moe. This extra damage is doubled against demons, ghosts, Alien Princesses/Princes, and other things from outside Creation. (Except Robot Girls, who are not unholy.)

Arrow of Demon-Slaying

• Cost: 1 mote, 1 WP
• Duration: Instant
• Type: Subtle/Mental
• Minimum Archery: 4
• Minimum Moe: 3
• Prerequisite Charms: Holy Arrow of Wrath

This arrow does hideous things to those things that come from beyond (as per Holy Arrow of Wrath). Double extra successes before adding to pre-soak damage. This damage is aggravated to such creatures. Furthermore, such creatures lose your Moe in motes for every post-soak damage die inflicted. (IE, multiply your Moe times the post-soak damage dice before they are rolled, it loses that many motes.)

Long Shot

• Cost: 1 mote / multiple
• Duration: Instant
• Type: Subtle/Mental
• Minimum Archery: 2
• Minimum Moe: 1
• Prerequisite Charms: Graceful Bishonen Archery

The Bishonen increases the base range of his bow by its base range once for every mote he invests, to a limit of his Archery.

Wind-Carried Messenger

• Cost: 3 motes
• Duration: Instant
• Type: Subtle/Mental
• Minimum Archery: 3
• Minimum Moe: 2
• Prerequisite Charms: Long Shot

The wind carries your arrow smoothly; you make make your shot with no range or environmental penalties.

Distant Sniper

• Cost: 1 mote, 1 WP
• Duration: Instant
• Type: Subtle/Mental
• Minimum Archery: 4
• Minimum Moe: 3
• Prerequisite Charms: Wind-Carried Messenger

If you can see it, you can shoot it, ignoring all range and environmental penalties.

Piercing Shot

• Cost: 3 motes
• Duration: Instant
• Type: Subtle/Mental
• Minimum Archery: 2
• Minimum Moe: 1
• Prerequisite Charms: Graceful Bishonen Archery

The arrow strikes a weakpoint in your foe's defenses; reduce his soak against the shot and his hardness by your Archery + Moe.

Crevice-Seeking Shot

• Cost: 5 motes
• Duration: Instant
• Type: Subtle/Mental
• Minimum Archery: 3
• Minimum Moe: 2
• Prerequisite Charms: Piercing Shot

Every armor has its joints and cracks. This shot seeks them out. Roll your Dex + Archery + any extra successes to hit after defense is determined. The difficulty is your foe's Moe. Every success reduces the soak of the armor by one against this shot.

Armor-Evading Shot

• Cost: 1 mote, 1 WP
• Duration: Instant
• Type: Subtle/Mental
• Minimum Archery: 4
• Minimum Moe: 3
• Prerequisite Charms: Crevice-Seeking Shot

On a successful hit, roll your Dex + Archery with a difficulty of your foe's Moe. If you succeed, halve the target's armor soak against your shot and further reduce it by your extra successes.

Swift Sniper

• Cost: 1 mote per -1 negated, +1 rate
• Duration: Instant
• Type: Subtle/Mental
• Minimum Archery: 2
• Minimum Moe: 1
• Prerequisite Charms: Graceful Bishonen Archery

This charm reduces your multi-action penalty for archery by 1 for every mote spent, to a limit of your Archery + Moe. It also increases your bow's rate by 1 for each mote spent.

Ever-Full Quiver

• Cost: 1 mote/attack
• Duration: Permanent
• Type: Permanent
• Minimum Archery: 3
• Minimum Moe: 2
• Prerequisite Charms: Swift Sniper

The Bishonen can now shape arrows out of essence as an unrolled reflexive action, allowing him to fire as many arrows as he likes until his essence runs out. Creating an arrow does not count as a charm use.

Hail of Arrows Method

• Cost: 2 motes / shot
• Duration: Instant
• Type: Extra Actions
• Minimum Archery: 3
• Minimum Moe: 2
• Prerequisite Charms: Swift Sniper

The Bishonen may fire off up to his Moe in extra attacks with a bow, at whoever he wishes to shoot, paying 2 motes per shot.

Death From Above Technique

• Cost: 8 motes, 1 WP
• Duration: Instant
• Type: Extra Actions
• Minimum Archery: 4
• Minimum Moe: 3
• Prerequisite Charms: Hail of Arrows Method

The Bishonen takes a shot at a foe. If he hits, he can take another shot at another foe. So long as the hitting continues, he can keep shooting until he has no arrows left or he's shot everyone within range.