MartialArts/OverwhelmingAvalancheStyle
Overwhelming Avalanche Style
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Charms
Immanent Devastation Prana
Cost: 1m per 2 dots of permanent Essence Duration: Instant Type: Supplemental Keywords: Obvious, Combo-OK Minima: MA 3, Essence 2 Prerequisites: None
The Exalt fills their hands with Essence, and unleashes it at the moment of impact in a wave of sheer destructive energy. This Charm enhances an unarmed Martial Arts attack. It adds damage dice equal to the caster's permanent Essence, and makes it Overwhelming with a minimum damage of half the caster's permanent Essence, rounded down. Fractional motes spent on this charm are lost.
Mountain-Shredding Essence Gauntlets
Cost: 1m per level of damage Duration: Instant Type: Supplemental Keywords: Combo-OK Minima: MA 3, Essence 2 Prerequisites: None
The Exalt allows their Essence to spill forth from their hands, forming a destructive haze around their fingers that tears away at anything they touch. This Charm enhances an unarmed Martial Arts attack. For every mote spent, up to the caster's permanent Essence in motes, an additional die of damage is added.
Crushing Avalanche Barrage
Cost: 5m, 1w Duration: Instant Type: Extra Action Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious Minima: MA 5, Essence 3 Prerequisites: Any Martial Arts Excellency
The Exalt strikes at their opponent in a hail of blows that could wear away a mountain. This Charm allows the Exalt to make (the lower of Dexterity or Martial Arts) simultaneous attacks at -1 full dice pool to each, without multiple action penalties.
Piercing Essence Icicle Strike
Cost: 4m, 1w/2w Duration: Instant Type: Simple (Speed 6/3) Keywords: Obvious, Combo-Basic Minima: MA 4, Essence 3 Prerequisites: Immanent Devastation Prana, Mountain-Shredding Essence Gauntlets
The Exalt hurls a mighty blow at their opponent, tearing through armor, obstacles, and flesh. The Exalt makes an unarmed Martial Arts attack that inflicts lethal damage equal to their (Strength+Essence), a range equal to their Essence in yards, that ignores any obstacles or obstructions (yes, it can shoot through walls), and counts as piercing. For an extra point of temporary Willpower, the attack counts as Speed 3.
Bring Down The Mountain Method
Cost: (3 x Number of opponents)m, 1w Duration: Instant Type: Extra Action Keywords: Obvious, Combo-OK Minima: MA 5, Essence 3 Prerequisites: Immanent Devastation Prana, Crushing Avalanche Barrage, any two Martial Arts Excellencies
The Exalt releases their Essence in a crashing wave of blows that sweeps over their foes like an avalanche. Mechanically, this Charm allows an Exalt to make (Martial Arts-2) attacks at a -1 internal penalty against each one of up to (Martial Arts) opponents.
Overwhelming Avalanche Form
Cost: 10m, 1w Duration: One Scene Type: Reflexive Keywords: Obvious, Combo-OK, Form Minima: MA 5, Essence 4 Prerequisites: Bring Down The Mountain Method, Piercing Essence Icicle Strike
The Exalt surrounds themselves in a crushing cloud of spiritual pressure that terrifies onlookers as if they stood before an onrushing avalanche. All characters within (Martial Arts) yards who fail a Valor roll suffer a -2 internal penalty to all actions except fleeing. The caster receives extra dice of bashing damage to all hand-to-hand attacks equal to his permanent Essence score. He also gains an additional level of bashing and lethal soak for the duration, and his attacks gain the Overwhelming tag if they did not have such already, with a minimum damage of (his permanent Essence+1)
Onrush of the Avalanche
Cost: 2m Duration: Instant Type: Simple (Speed 10) Keywords: Combo-OK Minima: MA 5, Essence 4 Prerequisites: Overwhelming Avalanche Form
The Exalt focuses their terrible wrath on a single unfortunate individual, bearing down on them with the full might of their station. The Exalt must make eye contact with the target, upon which they will engage in a contested roll with a dice pool equal to their respective temporary Willpower. If the caster loses, they suffer a -1 internal penalty to all actions for the rest of that scene unless they pass a Conviction check. On a botch, they suffer a -2 penalty with no check allowed. If they are victorious, the target suffers an internal penalty equal to the difference between the number of successes rolled. If the target botches, they must take a Conviction check to do anything other than sit there like.
Art of the Village-Destroying Blow
Cost: 10m Duration: Instant Type: Supplemental Keywords: Obvious, Combo-OK Minima: MA 5, Essence 5 Prerequisites: Onrush Of The Avalanche
The Exalt shrouds themselves in glory, saturating themselves with Essence, and striking with force enough to shatter mountains. This Charm triples the pre-soak damage of an unarmed Martial Arts attack made by the caster, and makes the attack Overwhelming with a minimum damage of twice the caster's Essence.
