Dice It Is the Tide, Act 1

[Shining Lotus Sage]

Jesus. I'm not watching this thread???

 

[Random Word]

• Appearance
• Basic Info
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• Virtues
• Kung Fu
• Lores
• Archons
• Equipment
• Backstory
• Chi Conditions

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  Name: Cathak Sun Minh
  
  
  Rank: 4
  
  
  Archetype: Courtesan
  
  
  Disadvantages:
  
  
  Noblesse Oblige [You will save the barbarians because they're helpless without civilization, and it shows.]
  
  
  The Empress has Vanished [And everyone would like to see you do the same.]
  
  
  Destiny: 20/20
  
  
  Lake: 7
  
  
  River: 2
  
  
  Chivalrous Joss: 6
  
  
  Malicious Joss: NOPE
  
  
  Max Chi Aura: 2
  
  
  Chi Replenishment: 2
  
  
  Chi Threshold: 12 Trivial, 24 Minor, 36 Major (With Armor: 22 Trivial, 44 Minor, 66 Major)
  
  
  Normal Chi: 11
  
  
  Cultivation: 0
  
  
  Solar Chi: 1
  
  
  Cultivation: 0
  
  
  Entanglement: 15/15
  
  
  
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  Awareness +10 [Deceit]
  
  
  Learning +10 [investigation]
  
  
  Confidence +10
  
  
  Inspire +10
  
  
  Politics +5 [Great Houses]
  
  
  
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  Benevolence (Kuan): 1
  
  
  Ferocity (Bao): 1
  
  
  Force (Ba): 2
  
  
  Individualism (Si): 1
  
  
  Honor (Xin): 3
  
  
  Obsession (Chan): 5
  
  
  Loyalty (Zhong): 5
  
  
  Revenge (Chou): 1
  
  
  Righteousness (Yi): 5
  
  
  Ruthlessness (Hen): 1
  
  
  
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  Crane Style (10):
  
  
  Laughs at: Linear aggression, stubbornness, rigidity.
  
  
  Fears: Fluidness, becoming hobbled or lame.
  
  
  Speed: +5 (+0 Armoured)
  
  
  Footwork: +15 (+10 Armoured, +15/+20 vs Minions)
  
  
  Strike: +5 (+10 Sword Duel)
  
  
  Damage: +0
  
  
  Block: +5
  
  
  Toughness: +5
  
  
  Crane Shelters Amongst Reeds (2)
  
  
  Educating Wings (5):
  
  
  If you successfully Dodge a strike by 10 or more points, you may Reply against your opponent, inflicting 1 Ripple upon him.
  
  
  Twin Tiger-Subduing Talons (3):
  
  
  When you make any Rippling Roll you may choose not to inflict an Injury Condition and instead inflict a Passion condition such as fear, awe, despair or contemplating the error in their methods.
  
  
  IKF: Dauntless Inquisitor Style (Or Relentless Juror Style, which always makes me think of Rural Juror Style)
  
  
  Lots of stuff
  
  
  
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  Courtier's Arts:
  
  
  Controlling Inspirations (-)
  
  
  Heart-Breaking Words Technique (5)
  
  
  The Magistracy (10)
  
  
  • Archons
    
  • Right of Summary Judgement
    
  • Right of Appropriation
    
  • Word of the Empress
    
  • If Crane Style is known, Twin Tiger-Subduing Talons may inflict Inspirations as well as Passions.
    
  
  
  Great House Cathak (5)
  
  
  • Mon
    
  • Status
    
  
  
  Sunlight Rain (3)
  
  
  • Involvement: Sunlight Rain is the outermost plantation overseen by Ragara Keterin.
    
  • Riverworn Stone: This monk has developed a theosophical basis under which the Immaculate Philosophy and the teachings of the Golden Lord can be reconciled, a subject in which Sun Minh has recently developed a considerable interest.
    
  • Status (3): Punched Conqua and told him to stfu.
    
  
  
  The Golden Lord (3)
  
  
  • Cathak Sun Minh has a destiny to become the grudging disciple of the Golden Lord, if she doesn't get fed up with this whole jungle nonsense and return to somewhere where they know how to properly brew tea and not simply grow it.
    
  • Victory (2/10): An audience with his august personage.
    
  
  
  
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  • A firewand wielding, battle-scarred ex-Coral Privateer who can unerringly sniff out dens of iniquity and can ingratiate herself with petty criminals with ease. She misses the ocean, and curses the fetid rivers of An-Teng.
    
  • A hulking yeddim of a doctor who survived the Battle of Futile Blood and knows the signs of violent trauma like the back of his hand, be it tooth, fang, fist, steel, or something stranger still. He drinks to forget.
    
  • A haggard Varangian boy who was destined to be a soldier but possessed an uncanny talent for learning the vagaries of Creation's many systems of law. He sleeps poorly, when at all, and often spends his nights studying instead.
    
  • A self-styled noble serial killer from Chiaroscuro who took the lives of dozens of minor crime lords with his favoured tempered glass knives. He can make quick work of most locks and can tail a target as unobtrusively as their own shadow.
    
  • A beautiful patrician arrested for poisoning her arranged fiance by creating a toxic confluence of wood essence along his favourite garden path. She has considerable thaumaturgic skill, and knows the signs of minor sorceries and spirits.
    
  • Snake-in-Pot, a native of Sweet Rest Hilltop who managed to make it to the river having lost only a cheek's worth of flesh and his sanity. He knows the local area and its customs. What he doesn't know is why he's returning with this mad Realm woman.
    
  
  
  
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  Sword
  
  
  • When you are facing a single opponent, you have a +5 bonus to Strike.
    
  • You may flood one die from the river while you make an attack. If you do and cause a rippling roll, any Chi Aura used to protect against this damage costs 2 Chi points per die to purchase.
    
  
  
  Medium Armor: +10 to Chi Threshold to resist Injury Ripples
  
  
  
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  Cathak Sun Minh's lips twist into a bitter twisted mockery of a smile when she considers her mother's probable reaction to her current predicament. She would be so proud; Sun Minh has finally drawn her Second Breath, only three decades late. Then her mother would run her through without a moment's hesitation.
  
  
  Her bloodline was pure, to the point that every single one of the children born of her aunts had Exalted. Sun Minh was never permitted to live down the shame she had brought upon her mother when her impure soul inhabited the life growing in her mother's womb. She fled to the Thousand Scales, and threw herself into her work like all of Malfeas pursued her. She was tasked with discovering corruption and conspiracy within her department and quietly sweeping it under the rug before the Empress could catch wind of it. She was so successful the Empress herself took note of the sudden decrease in blackmail material and leverage, summoning Cathak Sun Minh to give her an ultimatum: Join the Magistracy, or accept a position in an inconsequential Satrapy in the middle of nowhere. The Empress did not take kindly to any tempering of her absolute control over her institutions - if anyone would find corruption, it would be in her service and reported to her. Sun Minh accepted, knowing this was greater than any promotion she could have hoped for, and decades of dutiful and loyal service followed. Then the Empress vanished, and everything changed.
  
  
  She solved a case of tithe embezzlement nearly a decade old, fingering Ragara Keterin. She's learned his new posting is somewhere deep in An-Teng, managing a number of Ragara plantations, but House Ragara and the Satrap have been recalcitrant, and after making her quiet but official inquiries she survived two assassination attempts before managing to escape upriver. It's been a year since she's had any contact with the Magistracy, her operational funds are running low, her Archons are disgruntled, and the deeper she gets into the jungle the more meaningless her authority becomes. She desperately wants to apprehend Keterin and get out of An-Teng, but she doesn't even really know why anymore. He committed a crime she doesn't really care about, against an Empire that's trying to kill her for investigating it, harming an Empress who might be dead. Sheer bloody-minded stubbornness, her debt of gratitude to the Empress for her position and purpose, and the sunk costs fallacy are all that's driving her on at this point, and she's becoming reckless.
  
  
  She seizes a Ragara slave shipment originating from Keterin's fiefdom by force of arms in the name of the Empress, setting the slaves free and Exalting as a Zenith in the process. The Unconquered Sun himself tells her to restore his Justice to An-Teng, and to seek the Golden Lord to learn his laws. Now the headache that's been building to a climax for nearly a year is infinitely worse. One of her Archons dies trying to kill her and the rest are terrified, but many of them have been her friends and companions for 30 years and are too conflicted for open rebellion, especially in this cesspit in the depths of the Threshold. She's left with responsibility for a group of terrified and naive slaves who may prove more of a liability than an aid in finding Keterin, a riverboat with a mutinous crew commandeered in the name of an absentee Empress, and a quest she doesn't want from a god she doesn't worship. All while watching her back to ensure her closest friends don't kill her for being possessed by a demon, something she's not at all certain she doesn't deserve.
  
  
  
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  Judge-General's Integrity [Minor Perseverance Inspiration Paired Chi Condition, +5/-5]
  
  
  You have been chosen to uphold the law as laid out by the greatest of the Incarna, and he will accept nothing but perfection in the execution of your duties. Whenever you are in the process of resolving a dispute or redressing a crime with just impartiality, all of Creation bends over backwards to see your sentence carried out. When you allow bias and emotion to cloud your judgement, these same forces balk and rebel, denying the authority of one undeserving of the title Lawgiver.
  
  
  Should the Sun Not Rise [Minor Balance Inspiration Paired Chi Condition, +1/-1 Breath]
  
  
  The Zeniths by their very nature stand as the final bastion against the encroaching darkness. You are empowered by your righteous conviction in striking down Creatures of Darkness and unearthing their nefarious schemes, but you cannot bear to stand idly by while evil stalks Creation. Whenever you allow their vile acts to go unpunished - or worse, endorse them! - the unquenchable flame that burns in your heart gutters into embers and your strength eludes you.
  
  
  Heroes Never Die [solar Chi Deviation]
  
  
  The Lawgivers are legendary heroes without equal, and the Essence which suffuses their meridians drives them ever onwards in pursuit of the ideals of the Unconquered Sun. They must take the action they perceive as being the greatest good for the greatest number of people whenever possible, regardless of how detrimental or disruptive it may be to themselves or their plans. Ignoring pleas for help, pursuing personal goals when others are in peril, or selfishly inflicting harm upon others stops up the natural flow of their radiant Chi, resulting in malaise, an ashen pallor of the skin and sunken eyes until they act to right their mistake.
  
  
  

 

[Grey]

Will be made pretty later, and refined


Thousand Screaming Mask


Chosen of the Demon City


Concept: The Conquering King


Rank 4


Lake 7


River 2


Chi Replenishment 2


Chi Aura 2/2


Chi Pool N11 I1


Chi Threshold 11


Skill Bonus +10


Joss


- Chivalrous 1


- Malicious 6


Scholar


Learning


Understanding The World 255


Secret Art of Prediction 256


Passions & Inspirations 245


Extraordinary Courtier Techniques 252


Curses and Influences 259


Extraordinary Daoist Techniques 266


Awareness 5


Confidence 5


Crafting


Finesse 5


Hardiness 5


Inspire 5


Leaning 10


Medicine


Might


Perform


Politics 5


Ride


Stealth


Survival


Tactics


Wu Wei 10


Ba 5


Chan 5


Hen 3


Si 3


Bao 3


Xin 3


Kuan 1


Zhong 1


Yi 1


Chou 1


Flaw:


One-eyed


Chi Conditions [WIP]


Behavioural:


Sky-Twisting Challenger


Mask cannot accept the authority of another until it has been tested and their power proven.


Mutation:


Green Sun Shard


Light Armor +5 Chi Threshold


External Kung Fu


Ravenous Wings Style


Speed +5


Footwork +10


Strike +5


Damage +10


Block +0


Toughness +5


Internal Kung Fu


Removing Concepts


Unstained Lotus Mastery


Drifting Cloud Step


Golden Skin


Battle-Scholar’s Insight

 

[HeinzByTrade]

Heinz I'm unculturedor


Rank 4 Courtier


River 2


Lake 7


Joss:


3 Malicious


0 Chivalrous


10 Confidence


10 Inspire (Flim flam) (1d)


5 Hardiness


5 Politics


5 Ride


5 Survival


5 Tactics


5 Wu wei


WORDLINESS (Wood)


2 Benevolence


3 Individualism


PROPRIETY (Fire)


2 Loyalty


5 Ruthlessness


FIDELITY (Earth)


2 Force


1 Ferocity


BALANCE (Metal)


3 Righteousness


3 Revenge


PERSEVERANCE (Water)


1 Honor


3 Obsession


Whip (Flexible)


Best blocked


Flood: range 1Z


Blue Flame Dragon [EKF]


Speed +15


Footwork +5


Strike +0


Damage +0


Block +0


Toughness +15


Transcendent Desert Creature [iKF]


1: Sand-Slip Trick


+5 Footwork


2: Dust Devil Guidance (2d)


+10 Strike


3: Sand Funeral (3d)


As RotDK, minimum fistful


Pitch and Close (Adolf and Otto)


Baseline weapon: Ranged


Fate: Confront their makers in an orgy of Oedipal violence


Glory:


5: +5 Damage


20: The Pledge: Channel 3m to make an area attack.


25: +5 Strike


30: The Turn: Pitch and Close are now a Ranged/Massive special weapon.


35: +5 Damage becomes +10


50: The Prestige: Channel 3m to let Malicious Joss spent this round apply to rippling rolls.


Infernal essence spent to activate these special powers counts double.


Secret Arts of the Courtier


Quick Work Passions (3d)


Distracting Conundrum (3d)


Heart-Breaking Words (5d)


Auspicious Navigation of Courts (3d)

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

These three are complete enough to jump in, though polishing up will surely continue. Welcome to the game.


 
Well, @Random Word has introduced Chi Conditions before I was planning to explain them. You folks go ahead and look at the examples there for ideas, and I'll explain more once I have more to explain.


However, there's no -X part. The (Essence) minor Chi Conditions a secret artist is supposed to be maintain without sickening their spirits are just situational benefits. If you're not maintaining the conditional, you simply lose the boost. And while I was going to make everyone count their Essence Cultivation as one of the starting two, those are too delightful. I can't ask RW to ditch either, so now you all get extra goodies. And so do your opponents. Bon chance.


But RW, if you make them Solar-aspected, no matter how well you've done the associations, it pulls them out of the elemental interactions that secret arts use and renders them untouchable by you or anyone else. I can't bend quite that far. We'll call Judge-General's Integrity a Perseverance Inspiration. Metal is control and rigidity, and it calls the exalted to fulfill their appointed duty. Should The Sun Not Rise is definitely a Balance Inspiration, then. Water is utterly responsive, and for the exalted, this often means destroying what offends creation by existing. That Wyld Hunt leader with the spear is a perfect water-aspect.

 

[Random Word]

Ah, okay, I'll change the elements. I had assumed our great curse replacements were meant to be paired hyperactivities/weaknesses of our Exalt aspect, but I hadn't considered that would make them uninteractable. Is it possible to have a Solar aspected chi condition? Or did I make a mistake, and those were meant to be Chi Deviations? The difference is a bit difficult to grasp. Deviations don't seem to have mechanical impact, but often seem more like mutations?


 
Oh, it says it right there. They're required for respiring Solar Chi. Okay, so I do need at least one Solar Chi Deviation.

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

Yes. Either a behavioral taboo, or some physical manifestation of having the sun inside you. Maybe you're evolving into a Super Saiyan.


Paired conditions are usually of opposing elemental association, like... When you drink heavily, you are filled with a boundless joy that enhances breath (fire), but the booze irritates your large intestine and makes it hard to engage in strenuous activity (metal). So when you play the part of being a sloppy, happy drunk, you regain more chi. On the other hand, unless you act out the cramping and pain, you take a penalty to all your actions.


That last bit, I want to stress for the sake of grokment. There are two ways to look at LotW bonuses and penalties, and why they're so conditional.


1) It's not that your pain and bloating causes a penalty to everything you do. It causes a penalty to everything except being in pain and discomfort. So as long as that's a big part of what you're doing, it's not penalized!


2) Your gut is churning and twisting, and that's going to penalize your character. As a player, you have the choice of letting that penalty be expressed as a constraint on your roleplaying or on your dice. Totally up to you!


In both cases, you have the ability to completely avoid reduced success chances. But that means opting, instead, to handle that penalizing yourself, by changing the choices you and your character make. Bonuses work the same way: you can think of them as being better at doing a specific thing, or as being better when you are doing that thing. There's no difference, to the system. Cause is effect is cause. The tao is in you at all times, except when you look for it. Embody the part of the narrative your actions create.

 

[Random Word]

So I probably can't just invent paired inspirations on myself, and that was a mistake on my part? Those are both behavioural, should they be my two Solar Deviations, then? That would mean they had no effect except to allow me to respire Solar Chi while I was in accordance with them?

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

Actually, no, you're fine. Anyone who knows a secret art knows how to induce/identify conditions related to that art. There's nothing in the system to say you can't discover your own strong sense of duty, proving that you must be more effective when acting on it. That would be the equivalent of a doctor prescribing you a regimen of strong drink in order to awaken your liver, stoke your joyous fire chi, and cause a breath bonus.


The usual limiter on this, since that doctor could just as easily go be a drunk themselves, is that simple chi conditions tend to turn into paired conditions as the body and spirit struggle to return to balance. Overindulgence in drink to keep that breath bonus going will eventually degrade your gut. That bolstering sense of duty (metal) will, in time, lead to overzealous rage (a wood condition).


But since the same art that created the original condition should be able to soothe it away just before the imbalance bites you in the ass, then recreate it right away, the ST is advised to simply allow secret artists (or all characters) to maintain a number of beneficial chi conditions equal to what we're calling their Essence score. Your two above are perfectly suitable.


I think part of the confusion can be cleared up with this:


Breath bonuses/penalties adjust your *normal* respiration. As you wrote your conditions, you'll respire 3m/round unaspected, when in combat with a creature of darkness.


Deviations, on the other hand, are related to your non-normal chi. Developing any induces them, and continuing to get your +1m/round requires them. Mutations are always active, but that's its own problem. Behaviors are something you could theoretically give up on, but tend to be part of your characterization anyway.


So keep those two conditions. They don't interact with being a solar except through the mediating influence of your particular solar's personality. Everyone can have two just like them.

 

[Random Word]

So in addition I need one Solar Deviation. Gotcha. I'll add that.

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

@Grey - You have your Deviation(s) called Conditions. You'll want to change that, since Conditions are totally things you can take a pair of. Think of them as ascending destinies.

 

[Grey]

Sorry, I clearly misunderstood that difference.


I shall correct it when I sober up because drunk Grey should not be allowed near mechanics or any mechanically generous game.


[although in person Grey is a vastly better GM with a bottle of Merlot in him]

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

This would be an ideal time to predict something.


 
i have had gin

 

[Blackadder]

Diax Gray is a scrapper, a thug, a lean young man of obdurate survival - the kind fostered by Nexus poverty. The Sidereals missed the warnings from the pattern spiders, and thus Diax did not spend his formative years chatting with Lytek and Ahlat, but instead bonding with criminal gangs for survival.


Ironically, when the nonplussed Sidereals finally arrived to collect him, Diax felt satisfied. As if a long-missed need was being fulfilled. The Chosen, was not of Battles, but of Endings though. He took to his job, which he believed was simple enough. Deal with the enemies of Creation, from behind the scene.


Except he really didn't care much for the office politics. Or the factions. They named him Diax Grey, for his stark disregard of the Bronze and the Gold. Both were missing the point. The Bronze Faction's plans weren't working - after all, they weren't supposed to. Neither did the Gold - they claimed to bring back the Solars, but wanted to play kings behind the throne just as much.


Eventually, Diax got tired of the stress, and decided to get out of Yu-Shan. He ended up picking An Teng, seeing a place that could be the foothold for a stronger Creation, and with Exalted he could get behind.

• Core Stats
• Skills
• Virtues
• Equipment
• Kung Fu
• Secret Arts
• Loresheets
• Persistent Conditions

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  Core Stats
  
  
  Rank: 4
  
  
  Lake: 7
  
  
  River: 2
  
  
  Essence/Chi Replenishment: 2
  
  
  Maximum Essence/Chi Aura: 2
  
  
  Maximum Skill Bonus: +10
  
  
  Essence/Chi: 12 (Cultivation 6)
  
  
  Essence/Chi Threshold: 12 (17 vs. Physical)
  
  
  Joss: Chivalrous x4, Malicious x2
  
  
  Archetype: Warrior
  
  
  Breath Skill: Hardiness
  
  
  Disadvantages
  
  
  Bureau Renegade
  
  
  Exalted Technique: Master of Destinies
  
  
  May spend 2 motes/chi after Floating Dice to the River to reroll remaining Lake dice.
  
  
  
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  Skills
  
  
  Awareness +10
  
  
  Confidence +10
  
  
  Finesse +5
  
  
  Hardiness +10
  
  
  Might +10
  
  
  Stealth +5
  
  
  Survival +5
  
  
  Tactics +10
  
  
  
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  Virtues
  
  
  Chivalrous
  
  
  Benevolence 3
  
  
  Force 3
  
  
  Honor 2
  
  
  Loyalty 1
  
  
  Righteousness 5
  
  
  Selfish
  
  
  Ferocity 1
  
  
  Individualism 5
  
  
  Obsession 2
  
  
  Revenge 2
  
  
  Ruthlessness 1
  
  
  
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  Equipment
  
  
  Light Armor
  
  
  Knife (Counts as Saber)
  
  
  • +5 Damage against those wearing Light or no Armor.
  
  
  • You may Flood one die from the River to force an immediate Rippling check if the Strike exceeds the defense by 5 or more, instead of 10. You may do this after the defender rolls. (This doesn’t apply to other attack forms, such as Secret Arts or energy attacks.)
  
  
  
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  Kung Fu
  
  
  External
  
  
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  TITAN OF THE STREETS
  
  
  Speed +0
  
  
  Footwork +0
  
  
  Strike +10
  
  
  Damage +10
  
  
  Block +5
  
  
  Toughness +10
  
  
  Laughs At
  
  
  The Titan of the Streets sneers at formality and education. Styles which rely on complex or overly formal and ornate moves have no chance against it! Likewise, the Titan is accustomed to tight spaces and bad situations, and laughs at styles which rely on traps to defeat it! Who can truly hope to trap a stray dog in its own home?
  
  
  Fears
  
  
  Its aggressive and untutored nature mean that patient and reactive styles have great power against the Titan of the Streets! It fears such styles, for they do not rely on tricks and traps, but simply handle its raw blows. On the other hand, those who are too quick are impossible to catch with the powerful but slow moves of the Titan! Thus, it also fears styles which rely on speed. While its blows may be powerful, how can the Titan strike the wind?
  
  
  TECHNIQUES
  
  
  Low Blow (4)
  
  
  The Street Titan does not care about dirty tricks - anything is fair!
  
  
  • Your attempts to Disrupt or Disorient a foe get a +5 bonus.
    
  
  
  Everything Is A Weapon (5)
  
  
  The Street Titan is not picky - anything can kill, so he uses everything!
  
  
  • You may Flood a die from the River to wield one improvised weapon as if it were a normal, single-type weapon for one scene. This improvised weapon is compatible with Titan of the Streets even if its type would not normally be so.
    
  
  
  Haymaker (3 points)
  
  
  Power is more important than grace, and the Street Titan knows just when to trade one for the other.
  
  
  • At the start of a round, you may choose to take a -5 penalty to Block or Dodge attacks.
    
  • If you do, this style's bonus to Damage becomes +15 for the round.
    
  
  
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  Internal
  
  
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  PRISMATIC ARRANGEMENT OF CREATION STYLE (Iron Body Skill - Metal)
  
  
  1: Orichalcum Force (Iron Power)
  
  
  • You have a +5 bonus to Damage.
  
  
  2: Jade Forged Defenses (Mountain Endures Storm)
  
  
  • You have a +10 bonus to Toughness.
  
  
  3: Limbs of Moonsilver (Swaying Branches Surround Willow)
  
  
  • You have a +15 bonus to Block.
  
  
  [Note: Though not yet obtained, the future techniques in this path are Starmetal Ordained Strike (Black Tigers Hunting) and Soulsteel Thirsts (Iron Buddha's Disapproval)]
  
  
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  Secret Arts
  
  
  All Arts of the Warrior (Techniques: None)
  
  
  Introduction to Predictionism (Techniques: None)
  
  
  
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  Loresheets
  
  
  UNLOCKED: An Teng, Sweet Rain, The Guild, White Veil Society
  
  
  - Status 3 [Heinz's Merchant Caravan]
  
  
  
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  Minor Entanglement Hyperactivity: Awarded when he acts on his impulse to watch over Cherisa.
  
  
  

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

Hey, Blackadder. Is it your plan to take PAoC as a Sidereal style, or as a Metal one with a more suitable name? It looks as though you did your cultivation math assuming it was a neutral style, which wasn't the intention. I get 10m+9 neutral, and either 1m+5 Sidereal or 2m+5 Metal. I'm down for either, in this case. And really, who doesn't like more breath?

 

[Blackadder]

I decided to just treat the Chi I had as neutral for simplicity sake. Besides, you decreed this variant would not be a full-all techniques style for game purposes.

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

I'm game.

 

[hellrazoromega]

WIP

• Name & Details
• Character info
• Archetype
• Skills
• Virtues
• Chi
• Weapons
• External Kung Fu
• Internal Kung Fu
• Doctor’s Art

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  Winding Endless River
  
  
  Concept: Wanderer
  
  
  
  
• Rank 4
  
  
  Lake 7
  
  
  River 2
  
  
  Chi Replenishment 2
  
  
  Chi Aura 2
  
  
  Chi Pool 11
  
  
  Chi Threshold: Trivial at >0, Minor at >11, Major at >22, and Take you Out at >33. (With armor Trivial at >0, Minor at >16, Major at >32, and Take you Out at >48.)
  
  
  Normal Chi: 10m+9
  
  
  Solar Chi: 1m+2
  
  
  
• Doctor
  
  
  Extraordinary Medical Techniques 238
  
  
  Introduction to Medical Conditions 229
  
  
  Curses and Influences 259
  
  
  Extraordinary Daoist Techniques 266
• Awareness 5
  
  
  Finesse 10
  
  
  Hardiness 5
  
  
  Leaning 5
  
  
  Medicine 10 Pressure points, injuries
  
  
  Stealth 5
  
  
  Survival 5
  
  
  Wu Wei 10
• Benevolence (Kuan):4
  
  
  Ferocity (Bao): 4
  
  
  Force (Ba): 3
  
  
  Individualism (Si): 4
  
  
  Honor (Xin): 2
  
  
  Obsession (Chan): 1
  
  
  Loyalty (Zhong):2
  
  
  Revenge (Chou): 1
  
  
  Righteousness (Yi): 3
  
  
  Ruthlessness (Hen):2
• Chi Conditions
  
  
  Light Armor +5 Chi Threshold
• Sword
  
  
  +5 to Strike
  
  
  You can Flood a die or set of dice from the River as the basis for a Secondary Attack.
• 
  
  
  Subtle Force
  
  
  Speed +5
  
  
  Footwork +10
  
  
  Strike +10
  
  
  Damage +0
  
  
  Block +5
  
  
  Toughness +5
• 
  
  
  1 Fox-Spirit Song
  
  
  1: Fox Leaves No Tracks
  
  
  2: Mirthful Fox Plays With Her Shadow
  
  
  3 Mischievous Monkey: When dodging +10 to foot work
  
  
  3 Phantom in the Mist: +10 to Toughness
• 
  
  
  1 Elemental Progression Technique
  
  
  2 River Flows Upstream

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

It is a profoundly different system, yes. Tons and tons of tactical depth, enough to cause option paralysis really fast. But eventually, that just becomes more angles you can approach problems from

 

[Random Word]

Is this a mortal in the middle of Celestials?

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

This is an Abyssal built with exactly the same constraints as all of you.


But he has been rolling so, so, so badly. Like, there's a 94% chance of rolling a set on seven dice. Failing to twice in a row is 272:1 odds.


wait


wait, who?

 

[Random Word]

Haha, you're in the wrong thread SLS. I was talking about Winding Endless River. She looks like an Essence 2 enlightened mortal at the moment. She doesn't have any Exalted features.

 

[Blackadder]

I think Hellrazor is WIP

 

[Shining Lotus Sage]

Correct.

 

[hellrazoromega]

Yeah that was my fault for not putting WIP.