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Serpent Sting Style
Cost: 3 motes Duration: Instant Type: Reflexive Minimum Thrown: 2 Minimum Essence: 1 Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar snaps his arm outward with startling and unmatched speed, a thrown weapon shearing through the air before combat even starts in earnest. The Lunar may activate this Charm at any point before the initiative of a selected foe, automatically winning initiative over that subject (adjust the Lunar so his initiative tick comes immediately before the target, in group combat.) The Lunar must make a Thrown attack on the subject as part of his action. If the subject uses an Initiative-boosting Charm of other effect, check initiative as normal, with the Lunar gaining an initiative bonus equal to his Thrown or Dexterity, whichever is lower. The Lunar may activate this Charm multiple times to gain initiative over multiple foes, but only gains the initiative bonus in a contest once, and he must make a Thrown attack on *all* targets.
Closed Talons
Cost: 1 mote Duration: Instant Type: Supplemental Minimum Thrown: 3 Minimum Essence: 1 Prerequisite Charms: Serpent Sting Style
A civilized Lunar knows the value of restraint, and exercises it with typical Exalt bravado. This Charm enables a Lunar to cast a thrown weapon with iron certainty that it will inflict painful but not crippling injuries - punctuating a social point or emphasizing the Lunar's skill. The Thrown attack modified by this Charm deals normal damage but cannot kill or mangle the subject - if it would reduce him to Incapacitated, it instead reduces him to the nearest health level. Attacks supplemented with this Charm ignore difficulty increases for minute aim - a knife thrown with Closed Talons can be assured to strike the foe with nonlethal precision.
Dragonfly Devours Wasp
Cost: 3 motes Duration: Instant Type: Reflexive Minimum Thrown: 4 Minimum Essence: 2 Prerequisite Charms: Serpent Sting Style
This Charm allows a Lunar Exalt to knock an enemy projectile out of the air with one of his own, striking with flawless precision and uncanny reflexes. The Lunar must have the projectile at hand or otherwise accesible. This allows the Lunar to make a reflexive parry against a single ranged attack that he is aware of, with his standard Dexterity + Thrown pool. Parrying in this fashion is somewhat difficult - increase the difficulty by 1.
Unity of Wasp and Hive
Cost: 4 motes Duration: Instant Type: Reflexive Minimum Thrown: 5 Minimum Essence: 2 Prerequisite Charms: Dragonfly Devours Wasp
The Lunar's skillful parry of a ranged attack not only turns it aside - it returns it, the projectile swooping back to its origin point. The Lunar may activate this Charm upon successfully parrying a ranged attack. Should he do so, the attack is applied to the original attacker, with the Lunars' successes on the parry check acting as the attack successes. This is a counterattack and therefore cannot be applied against other counterattacks.
Eager Predator Talon
Cost: 1 mote Duration: Instant Type: Reflexive Minimum Thrown: 2 Minimum Essence: 2 Prerequisite Charms: Serpent Sting Style
The Lunar charges a thrown weapon on his person with mutable Essence, and it flows - rapidly and in defiance of gravity - to his hand in an instant, ready to be cast. The Lunar may use this Charm to instantly ready a thrown weapon that is on his person - a knife flows quickly out of a boot and slithers up to the hand, or a sheathed axe rolls liquidly across a shoulder and into a waiting grasp.
Launched Fang Kata
Cost: 3 motes Duration: Instant Type: Simple Minimum Thrown: 3 Minimum Essence: 2 Prerequisite Charms: Eager Predator Talon
In the absence of a proper weapon, the Lunar may make his own. Reconfiguring his mouth, the Lunar may 'spit' a single dart formed of Essence, which shrieks through the air as if thrown. The 'dart' is treated as a normal Thrown attack (although probably more surprising than usual) with a base accuracy and damage of the Lunar's Essence, a Speed of twice that, a rate of the Lunar's Dexterity, and a range of (Essence x 3).
Thousandfold Quills
Cost: 6 motes Duration: Indefinite Type: Simple (Transformation) Minimum Thrown: 5 Minimum Essence: 3 Prerequisite Charms: Launched Fang Kata
The Lunar reconfigures parts of his body to take advantage of the principles of the Launched Fang Kata - he turns his entire being into a factory for the making of slender barbs that he may launch at will. While under the effects of this Charm, the Lunar may create and fire spontaneously any number of fangs, with the stats as per Launched Fang Kata. These darts are always considered 'on hand' for readiness, but each dart fired after the first has its Damage decreased by one - repeated darts lack the time to gain the substance and density of the standard dart.
This is a Transformation Charm of the Cunning Totem.
Comments
Serpent Sting Style - can this be used multiple times in a single turn? If not, it should be noted. Dragonfly Devours Wasp - I'd probably just say that the difficulty of the parry is increased by one. I might also increase the cost of Eager Predator Talon and make it scene length... - szilard
- Some changes made. My primary concern with making Eager Predator Talon have a duration is that it's practically made for use against ambush, where it might be good to have it in a Combo. There's probably a Charm directly above it that allows its use along a duration - probably a Transformation Charm for those Lunars who want to use something other than Thousandfold Quills. ~ BerserkSeraph
