MartialArts/WhisperingMeadowStyle

Whisper Meadow Style

This style considers all actions made with slashing swords to be unarmed. It is compatible with all non-superheavy armor.

Student Charms

Waking Bloom Stance ((Camellia))
Cost: 2 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Martial Arts: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: None
A flower does not bloom in darkness. Patient, it waits for the first light of dawn before it unveils it's colors.

Sword drawn, the adept assumes a ready stance of perfect poise and stillness. A state of absolute ready. When attacked during the turn in which he activates this Charm, the adept may make an immedate counter-attack with a number of dice equal to the number places in order of initative which he has delayed his action. His counter-attack pre-empts that of his foe and is rolled first.

Crimson Bloom Rebuke ((Carnation))
Cost: 4 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Martial Arts: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Waking Bloom Stance
Flowers in the ravine grow together in the best of faiths - but those that are underhanded or parasitic find themselves cut by their thorns and drained out of their sunlight and water by the disappointment of their sisters!

This Charm can be used whenever a character within range of the adept's normal movement speed takes an action that violates one of the adept's Tabboos - the Adept receives an reflexive Martial Arts attack against the offending character - with movement granted by this Charm to cross the space between them!

The character receives a single Taboo when she purchases this Charm and may buy additional ones at the cost of 1 Experience Point. Possible Tabboos include:

• The adept will always walk with his banner and take no secretive action. None in his presence are permitted to make unexpected attacks!
• The adept will aid fallen opponents to their feet. None in his presence are permitted to attack fallen opponents!
• The adept will wait until their opponents have cleared their heads and aid them in it. None in his presence are permitted to attack intoxicated opponents!

As long as the adept respects this tabboo (which she must state at the beggining of each Story) she will receive its compulsions and benefits. To break out of a tabboo is an action that requires the adept to spend 2 willpower and will cause much grief!

Blossom and Stem Stance ((Daffodil))
Cost: 4 motes
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Martial Arts: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: None
Without stem, the blossom cannot stand. Without blossom, the stem will wilt.

As the sword is the soul of the samurai, he in turn is it's body. One is not an extention of the other, but they are together a singular whole. The adept meditates upon his sword with hilt in hand until he feels himself become one with the spirit locked into it's steel. For the duration of the scene, he may add a number of points to the statistics of his weapon equal to Conviction + Temperance. He may not raise a single statistic by more than his Martial Arts.