MartialArts/FifteenMonthsDescendingWater

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Background

Even if fate decreed it, you could not avoid the trap your own folly has laid. Now mop the dojo floor before sifu gets mad.

Training

Descending water emphasizes basic martial arts attacks and defenses for its physical training, with students spending nearly as much time practicing those as the students of Descending Earth do (though with less time correcting their stances). The essence of this style develops as a study in philosophy, and the practice of one-upsmanship through pranks. Sifu who found schools for this style always have a ringer or two in their first class of students to ensure that a tradition of rivals pranking each other develops, while simultaneously inflicting harsh punishments on those who are caught being involved in these pranks.

The philosophy favored by Descending Water masters is derived from Sidereal scriptures of the house of endings, adapted to the element of water. Essentially, students are taught that each action eliminates options, just as water which flows one way cannot go back and take a different course. Actions which "freeze" the situation, which eliminate as many options as possible, are favored highly - but also greatly guarded against, because the enemy who takes these actions will benefit from them.

Students who realize the philosophy of the style in their pranks on other students are able to adapt their basic physical training to the advanced martial knowledge of this style.

Weapons and Armor

Improvised weapons, tonfa, fighting sticks (including staves, though not seven-section), and sai are form weapons. Armor is not allowed.

Complementary Abilities

Larceny ••, and Investigation •• are prerequisites to this style. Students often develop good ratings in Lore, but it is not required.

Charms

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Prerequisite Charms: None