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Resplendent Water Style

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Background

Students, let your anima flow as the tide. Meditate on the ocean. Allow it to move you. Tomorrow, you will move it. After that, you will bring it with you in spirit, wherever you go.

Training

Resplendent Water Style resembles T'ai Chi Ch'uan as a form of moving meditation. Usually, it is practiced in hip-deep or shoulder-deep water at first, but eventually the training moves to dry land once the student has learned to conjure water from her anima.

Weapons and Armor

Weapons may not be used with charms of this style, but any form of armor is allowed.

Complementary Abilities

Students of this style develop a minimum Athletics and Lore of •• as they attune themselves to flowing water.

Charms

Gripping Wave

Cost: 1m/target
Minimums: Essence 2, MA 3
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: One action
Prerequisite Charms: None

With this charm, the Exalt conjures water from her anima, and uses it to grapple an opponent. Each action this charm is used, a Clinch may be initiated or maintained on one opponent per mote paid up to MA in motes. The range of this charm is Essence yards.

Overflowing Wave

Cost: 1m/soak, 2m/hardness
Minimums: Essence 2, MA 3
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Water flows over the Exalt's body, softening or absorbing a blow entirely. For 1m, soak against an attack increases by 1. For 2m, hardness increases against that attack by 1. Soak may increase no more than MA points due to this charm, and hardness may increase no more than soak is increased against any given attack.

Resplendent Water Form

Cost: 6m
Minimums: Essence 2, MA 4
Type: Simple
Keywords: Form-Type, Obvious
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: Gripping Wave, Overflowing Wave

While practicing this form, water flows around the martial artist's limbs, allowing a variety of benefits to different attacks. Each action, the Exalt may divide half her Essence in automatic successes between her MA PDV, her MA attacks, and her MA damage.

Water Dragon Assault

Cost: 5m
Minimums: Essence 3, MA 4
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Resplendent Water Form

Creating a claw of high-pressure water, this charm allows a strike at an opponent (Essence) more yards away than the martial artist could normally strike. Add Essence to the damage of this attack, which may be Lethal or Bashing. If Resplendent Water Form is active, this attack has an Accuracy rating of (Essence), which is not considered a dice bonus.

Y

Cost: 6m
Minimums: Essence 3, MA 4
Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: X

Reaching Talons of Ice Concentration

Cost: -
Minimums: Essence 3, MA 5
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Obvious
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Resplendent Water Form

By spending +2m when activating Resplendent Water Form, a Martial Artist who knows this charm may extend and freeze the waters flowing around her body to strike enemies up to Essence yards away. This does not allow clinching opponents at range without the use of other charms, but it does allow the choice of Lethal or Bashing damage. It also allows parrying Lethal and Ranged attacks unarmed. Attacks made in this manner may use successes from the form in a different way than they were allocated for the action for 1m each.

A

Cost: 6m
Minimums: Essence 4, MA 5
Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: Y, Z

B

Cost: 6m
Minimums: Essence 4, MA 5
Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: A