MartialArts/FifteenMonthsAscendingFire

Ascending Fire Style

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Background

Sorry about your arm, but I don't suggest trying to hit me again.

Training

Attacking an Asecending Fire master is like thrusting your hand into an open flame - you grasp nothing and get burned. To achieve this, students begin each day with rigorous stretching exercises. Gymnastics follow, leading directly to sparring practice. First year students are never allowed to strike their sparring partners; they are graded on how few times they get hit. Second year students are allowed to strike only when countering their partner's blows. The masters who oversee the training punish severely any second year student who strikes at an illegal moment. Only in their third year are students taught the deadly, and difficult to assail, direct offensive moves of the style.

Weapons and Armor

Any melee weapon with a blade is a form weapon for this style. No armor is allowed.

Charms

Evasive Flicker

Cost: 1m/DV
Minimums: Essence 1, MA 3
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

With limber, athletic bodies, Ascending Fire students can bend exceptionally well to avoid blows. This charm adds up to half the student's Martial Arts score (including applicable specialties) to her Dodge DV. This increase counts as automatic successes, not bonus dice from charms.

Leaping Flame Tongue

Cost: 5m
Minimums: Essence 2, MA 4
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK, Immovable
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Much like fire will leap to any place it can keep burning, students of this style can reach a safe place to keep living if it exists. This charm is used against an undodgeable attack, allowing the martial artist to use her Dodge DV normally against it.

Scorching Deflection

Cost: 1m/DV
Minimums: Essence 2, MA 5
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Evasive Flicker, Leaping Flame Tongue

With Scorching Deflection, the Ascending Fire second year student boosts his Martial Arts Parry DV in the same way as the first year student boosts her Dodge DV with Elusive Flicker. However, Scorching Deflection has an additional effect: if the attack is parried, then roll dice equal to twice the amount the attack failed by as the attack roll in a counterattack. Damage for the counterattack is as per a melee weapon the charm user is currently wielding, or punch, kick, or other natural appendage damage if otherwise unarmed. The maximum number of health levels of damage this charm can result in to the attacker is the Essence of the defender.

Ascending Fire Form

Cost: 6m
Minimums: Essence 3, MA 5
Type: Simple (Speed 5, DV -0)
Keywords: Form-Type
Duration: Scene
Prerequisite Charms: Scorching Deflection

Ascending Fire Form represents a mastery of the first and second year principles of this style. As such, all three prerequisite charms have their cost reduced by 1m while this form is active.