MartialArts/WhirlingSunandMoonStyle

Whirling Sun and Moon Style

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This is a martial arts style based on battle yo-yos, called Whirling Disks hereafter. Stats for both mundane and Artifact Whirling Disks are soon to come.

There are not yet Essence or Martial Arts Minimums because the only character that has it is an Essence 5, Martial Arts 5 Solar, So I didn't feel the need to write them up (I'm lazy). If you have reccomendations, feel free to make them.

Background

Whirling Sun and Moon Style is often disregarded by martial artists and obsessed over by teenagers. The style is, above all else, flashy. This is NOT to say that it isn't powerful. It can easily hold its own against any other style, it simply gets marginalized by more "serious" martial artists due to the excessive attention to peppering the style with impressive tricks that martial artists of this style tend to exert. Most, if not all practitioners of this style have signature tricks they use when they have a moment free. Doing a trick impressively is just as important to a practitioner as getting a hit in.

Training

Training in this style is often highly sought after by young or self-important Exalts, usually Solars. The actual training begins with the crafting or commissioning of a custom whirling disk. Acquiring this through other means, such as theft or a quest is also valid, but it should involve some story that the Exalt can tell later on.

After the Exalt has his disk, He begins with a series of tricks until he can graduate to the first charm by pulling them all together. After this, he sets into actually understanding the style's relationship with the sun.

Weapons and Armor

Whirling disks are clearly the focus of this art, and are treated as unarmed for practitioners of this style. Both mundane and artifact versions of these exist, ranging from actual children’s toys to bladed and weighted disks to huge Moonsilver and Orichalcum Disks with Hearthstone settings.

No armor may by worn with this style, as it requires very quick motions.

Child's Whirling Disk Toy (Resources -)

Speed: +6
Accuracy: -3
Damage: -2B
Defense: -2
Rate: 1
Min. Strength: 1
Min. Dexterity: 2

A favorite among the more trendy youth of the South. Some with increased resources costs light up with tiny, useless essence lights. On a botched roll, the string tangles and a total of 5 cumulative successes must be made on Dexterity + Sailing rolls or an appropriate Dexterity + Craft.

Weighted Disk (Resources •)

Speed: +8
Accuracy: +0
Damage: +6B
Defense: -1
Rate: 1
Min. Strength: 1
Min. Martial Arts: 3

On a botched roll, the string tangles and a total of 5 cumulative successes must be made on Dexterity + Sailing rolls or an appropriate Dexterity + Craft.

A successful attack can also be used to ensnare an opponent and do no damage. The intention to do this must me announced beforehand. Record successes in excess of the dodge or parry attempt. A Strength + Athletics check against that number wriggles free.

Whirling Spike (Resources •)

Speed: +8
Accuracy: +0
Damage: +6L
Defense: -1
Rate: 1
Min. Strength: 1
Min. Martial Arts: 3

On a botched roll, the string tangles and a total of 5 cumulative successes must be made on Dexterity + Sailing rolls or an appropriate Dexterity + Craft.

A successful attack can also be used to ensnare an opponent and do no damage. The intention to do this must me announced beforehand. Record successes in excess of the dodge or parry attempt. A Strength + Athletics check against that number wriggles free.

Planetary Disk (Artifact •)

Speed: +12
Accuracy: +1
Damage: +8B
Defense: +0
Rate: 1
Min. Strength: 3
Min. Dexterity: 3
Min. Martial Arts: 3 
Essence Committed: 3
Hearthstone Settings: 1

This disk, often made of Starmetal, has a setting for a single hearthstone on one end. It is especially well balanced, as well. All artifact versions of the weighed disk are immune to the tangling effects of the botch.

The Whirling Sun (Artifact ••)

Speed: +12
Accuracy: +1
Damage: +10B
Defense: +0
Rate: 1
Min. Strength: 3
Min. Dexterity: 3
Min. Martial Arts: 4
Essence Committed: 4
Hearthstone Settings: 2

This Artifact version of the Whirling Disk, which is about the circumference of a small dinner plate, functions as a Weighted Disk except that it has two settings for hearthstones. It is almost exclusively made of Orichalcum, and gets the usual bonuses as such.

The Shifting Moon (Artifact ••)

Speed: +12
Accuracy: +2
Damage: +7L
Defense: +0
Rate: 1
Min. Strength: 2
Min. Dexterity: 3
Min. Martial Arts: 4
Essence Committed: 4

The counterpart to the Whirling Sun. Although it does less damage and has no hearthstone settings, that damage is lethal. Also, any attack to entangle with this whirling disk gets two extra dice.

Charms

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Dazzling Sun Defense</b>

<b>Cost: 3 motes
Duration: One turn
Type: Reflexive
Min. Martial Arts: -
Min. Essence: -
Prereqs: None

Much like the sun dazzles those who look into it, the rapid, confusing motions of whirling disks spinning around the martial artist with this charm disorient enemies. For the turn, an Exalt may add his martial arts to the difficulty to hit him.

Sun Stops at Apex</b>

<b>Cost: 4 motes
Duration: One scene
Type: Simple
Min. Martial Arts: -
Min. Essence: -
Prereqs: Dazzling Sun Defense

After mastering the sun in motion, the Exalt learns to simulate the sun at any given point. By spending the motes of essence to activate this charm, the whirling disk becomes lodged in place. Only a direct attack to the disk can move it. The exalt can swing from, hang on, or otherwise pull or hang on the string as much as he wishes as long as nobody touches the actual disk.

Moon Eclipses the Sun</b>

<b>Cost: 3 motes + 1 mote / die
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Min. Martial Arts: -
Min. Essence: -
Prereqs: Sun Stops at Apex

Although generally, whirling disks cannot be used to parry, with this charm, an attack can be parried and extra dice may be bought at 1 mote each, up to the user’s Dexterity + Martial Arts.

Luna’s Cutting Crescent</b>

<b>Cost: 5 motes + 3 motes / die
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Min. Martial Arts: -
Min. Essence: -
Prereqs: Dazzling Sun Defense

When infused with essence, a mere child’s toy becomes a deadly weapon. By activating this charm, all whirling disks wielded as weapons for the rest of the scene do lethal damage on a successful martial arts attack. Extra lethal damage dice may be bought at 3 motes each up to the user’s Strength + Martial Arts.

Searing Solar Fire</b>

<b>Cost: 5 motes
Duration: One turn
Type: Reflexive
Min. Martial Arts: -
Min. Essence: -
Prereqs: Luna’s Cutting Crescent

The moon merely reflects the burning passion of the sun. This charm upgrades whirling disk damage to aggrivated. It can only be used on weapons that already do lethal damage, either naturally or because of Luna’s Cutting Crescent.

Whirling Sun and Moon Form</b>

<b>Cost: 4 motes
Duration: One scene
Type: Reflexive
Min. Martial Arts: -
Min. Essence: -
Prereqs: Searing Solar Fire, Moon Eclipses the Sun

Nobody keeps the sun and the moon and the planets on their paths but themselves, and so essence-infused disks may operate. With this charm, an Exalt may wield a number of whirling disks effortlessly equal to his permanent essence. Normal die-splitting rules apply for multiple actions, but an exalt can, for instance, swing on one disk with Sun Stops at Apex and still attack with others. In addition, split-action dice may be split up among the number of disks wielded, regardless of rate.

Under One Sky</b>

<b>Cost: 2 motes/target
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Min. Martial Arts: -
Min. Essence: -
Prereqs: Whirling Sun and Moon Form

The sun on its route affects everything it touches, and thus can a martial artists replicate this effect with this charm. For every two motes spent, up to the user’s Martial Arts, an extra target may be attacked with the same disk. This is not an extra action, simply one fell swoop that requires no split action. Each attack must be dodged or blocked separately.

One of Many Stars</b>

<b>Cost: 6 Motes, 1 Willpower
Duration: Extra Action
Type: Simple
Min. Martial Arts: -
Min. Essence: -
Prereqs: Under One Sky

Although the sun may be the most powerful, it is still only one of countless stars. With this charm, a martial artist can gain an additional action for each weapon he wields. That action may be used to attack or held as a parry.

Night Follows Day</b>

<b>Cost: 7 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Min. Martial Arts: -
Min. Essence: -
Prereqs: Whirling Sun and Moon Form

By understanding the duality and peaceful coexistence of the sun and the moon, the Exalt with this charm may make a full action and then block for the remainder of their turn, as though they had not acted!

Moonless Night</b>

<b>Cost: 10 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Min. Martial Arts: -
Min. Essence: -
Prereqs: Night Follows Day

With this charm, an exalt may shroud her weapons in darkness. One attack, supplemented by this charm, becomes unblockable. Soak continues to function normally.

Sun Burns no Fuel</b>

<b>Cost: 20 motes, 1 Willpower
Duration: One scene
Type: Reflexive
Min. Martial Arts: -
Min. Essence: -
Prereqs: Moonless Night

The sun burns eternally with no need for kindling or assistance. Thusly may a master of this art’s attacks become self-powered. With this charm, 5 motes of essence are produced per turn that may only be spent on Martial Arts charms. Any excess motes are lost each turn.