MartialArts/LivingWeaponStyle
Living Weapon Style
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This is my first Martial Arts style. So don't kill me. Also, the true Kung Fu is used unarmed.
Weapons and Armor
Living Weapon Style is an Unarmored and Unarmed style only. It may never be used when wielding a weapon or when wearing armor or a shield.
Charms
Bronze Body Technique</b>
<b>Cost: 4 motes Duration: One Scene Type: Reflexive Min. Martial Arts: 2 Min. Essence: 2 Prereqs: None
The character strengthens their body with essence. For the remainder of the scene, they may use double their stamina when calculating their bashing soak, may soak lethal damage with their whole stamina score, and may even soak aggravated damage with half their stamina.
Steel-Hand Strike</b>
<b>Cost: 3 motes Duration: Instant Type: Supplemental Min. Martial Arts: 3 Min. Essence: 2 Prereqs: Bronze Body Technique
The martial artist learns to make lethal use of the body as a weapon, using essence to become a weapon, if only for a moment. Add 1/2 the martial artists martial arts score to both the accuracy and damage of one attack. This attack does lethal damage. Dice added DO NOT count against the dice cap.
Iron Palm Prana</b>
<b>Cost: 2+ motes Duration: Instant Type: Supplemental Min. Martial Arts: 3 Min. Essence: 2
Prereqs: Bronze Body Technique
The martial artist focuses his essence, guiding his hands to intercept an attack. Add 2 dice to a single martial arts parry for each mote above 1 spent on this charm. This alows the martial artist to pary lethal damage without a stunt.
Living Weapon Form</b>
<b>Cost: 6 motes Duration: 1 Scene Type: Simple Min. Martial Arts: 3 Min. Essence: 3 Prereqs: Steel-Hand Strike, Iron Palm Prana
The martial artist assumes the Living Weapon form, flesh made into a weapon of his own devising. For the remainder of the scene he adds his martial arts score to his bashing, lethal, and aggravated soak. He gains a hardness equal to his permanant essence score. His attacks do lethal damage, and he may pary lethal damage without a stunt. In addition, the martial artist may always act as is he was armed or unarmed as is beneficial to his baehanded attacks, even during the same atack.
Example Crimson Sun, a Gold Faction sidereal, finds himself battling a behemoth in the depest south. Anyone who strike the behemoth barehanded takes fire damage, but Crimson Sun may act is he was armed, in this respect. Anyone who strike the bemehoth with a weapon risks the weapon catching on fire. Wisely deciding not to ignite his hands, Crimson Sun decides to act for that purpose as if he was unarmed. Now all he has to worry about is behemoth itself ....
Shield-Body Defense</b>
<b>Cost: 6 motes Duration: 1 Scene Type: Simple Min. Martial Arts: 4 Min. Essence: 3 Prereqs: Living Weapon Form
The martial artist infuses himself with essence flows, toughening his flesh to be as hard as a shield, and intercepting blows. For the remainder of the scene, add the permanant essence of the matial artist to the difficulty to attack him. If the martial artist is under the effects of the Transcendent Weapon Warrior (see below) add the appropriate magical materials bonus for a thunderbolt shield.
Invincible Armor-Self</b>
<b>Cost: 4 motes, 1 WP Duration: Instant Type: Reflexive Min. Martial Arts: 4 Min. Essence: 3 Prereqs: Shield-Body Defense
The martial artist becomes an unbreakable weapon, even if only for a moment. For one attack, he gains hardness equal to his soak.
Spear-Foot Strike</b>
<b>Cost: 4 motes Duration: Instant Type: Reflexive Min. Martial Arts: 4 Min. Essence: 3 Prereqs: Living Weapon Form
The character moves with the speed and reach of a spear, lunging forward impossibly fast. This charm may be activated at any point before the character has acted in a turn. The character acts immediately, before anyone else on the same initiative, if there are any. You may move up to double your full move, and attack. The attack is so fast and suprising, it may only be dodged or paried with a charm. If you use this charm to try to go before someone who always goes first in initative (or another weilder of this charm) roll between the two normally, though both go before any other participants. You may only use this charm once in a turn.
Flashing Hammer Fist</b>
<b>Cost: 3+ motes Duration: Instant Type: Extra Action Min. Martial Arts: 4 Min. Essence: 3 Prereqs: Spear-Foot Strike
The character strikes with the speed and impact of a hammer, repeatedly battering his foe, even in the toughest armor. Gain an extra attack for each 3 motes you spend. You may not gain more attacks in this manner than your martial arts. All attacks /must/ be at the same target. This damage is piercing.
Staff-Arm Block</b>
<b>Cost: 3 motes Duration: Instant Type: Reflexive Min. Martial Arts: 4 Min. Essence: 3 Prereqs: Living Weapon Form
The martial artist knows that a weapon may be used to defend, as well as to attack. He brings an essence laden hand up, instinctively, to block any attack with his full dex + ma pool (plus defense modifiers, if any).
Knife-Hand Riposite</b>
<b>Cost: 4 motes Duration: Instant Type: Reflexive Min. Martial Arts: 4 Min. Essence: 3 Prereqs: Staff-Arm Block
The martial artist /is/ a living weapon. While he blocks blows with one part of his body, the rest is still a weapon able to strike at his foe. Anytime the martial artist parries a blow, and gets even one sucess, he may activate this charm to counter-attack at his full dex+ma pool. Add one die to this attack for each pary sucess greater than the opponents' attack. (This counts towards the exalts dice cap). The exalt may not add any dice to his counterattack if he dodges the attack.
Trancendent Weapon Warrior</b>
<b>Cost: 8 motes, 1 WP Duration: 1 Scene Type: Simple Min. Martial Arts: 5 Min. Essence: 4 Prereqs: Invincible Armor Self, Flashing Hammer-Fist, Knife-Hand Riposite
The martial artist finally assumes the ultimate technique of the style, his body now a weapon with a direct link through his anima, a living artifact. The martial artist gains a number of points equal to double his MA, which he may assign to speed, accuracy, damage, rate, defense, or soak. A point devoted to soak grants 1 pt to all his soak values. Each time he invokes this charm, he may assign the bonuses accordingly, though a new version replaces, and does not stack with an extant version. In addition, the martial artist gains the magical material bonuses (though no other traits) as if he was striking with a weapon, and wearing a set of armor made of the material to which he most easily attunes. In addition, this supernatural afinity with one of the five magical materials means he cannot be broken. While he may still be damaged, he cannot lose limbs, eyes, organs, or any other part of his body, without an attack capable of destroying one of the five magical materials. The dice added by this charm do NOT count against the martial artists dice cap.
