MartialArts/GhostoftheDesertStyle

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Background

Ghost of the Desert Style
Ghost of the Desert Style is a Celestial Level martial arts style designed around creating illusions and using the tricky arts deception and misdirection to vanquish your opponent. Mastery of the style gives the user terrifyingly good control over images and ethereal things, and a practioner of this style often drives a person crazy before they ever strike. Because the style is designed for quick, powerful, slashing strokes, the form type weapon is a slashing sword (and its artifact equivalent. A martial artist of this style can wear armor and still perform it properly, provided the armor has no Fatigue penalty and no more then 1 mobility penalty.

History
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Style

Blurring After Image</b>

<b>Cost: 3 motes; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 2; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prereqs: None

One of the first principles that one must learn before he can truly master this style is that misdirection of any kind allows for an advantage over the enemy. When this Charm is activated the martial artist blurs forward leaving a fleeting image of himself behind. This image serves to distract his enemies and allows him to outmaneuver them and view holes in their defenses.

Mechanically, this Charm adds the character's martial arts rating in successes to a Join Battle roll, and it grants him his Essence in dice to his first attack, as long as the person he attacks has not had his first action yet.

Inescapable Figment</b>

<b>Cost: 5 motes; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 3; Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Scene
Prereqs: Blurring After Image

People often see ghostly figures dancing upon the dunes of the southern deserts. Whether these are real or simply figments of their imaginations no one can say for sure. Practioners of this style have learned to mimic these apparitions and are capable of using them to pursue their enemies, while at the same time driving them slowly mad. When the martial artist uses this Charm he doesn't seem so to much move, but to flicker form one place to another seemingly without movement at all.

Inescapable Figment grants the martial artist a second move action every tick and it also adds his martial arts to his movement rates.

False Reality Rebuke</b>

<b>Cost: 5 motes; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 3; Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK, Counterattack
Duration: Instant
Prereqs: Inescapable Figment

Still working off the principles of misdirection, but now beginning to incorporate the power of illusion into his attacks the Exalt is capable of truly misleading his opponent. When the martial artist is attacked this Charm allows him to launch a counterattack against his enemy. This counterattack appears to be levied from the opposite side that it is actually coming from with a weapon that is there one second and gone the next.

An Exalt who uses this Charm may make a full (Dexterity + Martial Arts) counterattack against anyone who attacks him, but the counterattack is thoroughly diguised and counts as an unanticipated attack for the purposed of DV calculation.

Haze Obscures the Mind</b>

<b>Cost: 7 motes; Mins: Martial Arts 5, Essence 3; Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Scene
Prereqs: False Reality Rebuke

Deep in the southern deserts there appears to be a perpetual haze that lingers over the entire place. This haze is a detriment to outsiders, but a useful tool to those who live there and know how to use it. The haze hides their approach and distorts the visitors vision just enough that he is never sure if he is aiming his strikes correctly at his assailants. A martial artist who learns this Charm has taken the effort to study this haze and bend its power to his will.

When this Charm is activated a miasma of heat waves linger about the character distorting his movements and allowing him to blend into his surroundings with ease. For the duration of this Charm the user adds his Essence to his Dodge DV and his martial arts score to all attempts to reestablish surprise.