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Water Dragon Style, revised
Water Dragon Style is based on harnessing all the spiritual strengths of the water, and focuses on both the unstoppable force and the way it gives and flows in responce to pressure. Practitioners of the Water Dragon Style ignore the Speed and Accuracy penalities when using Tiger Claws.
Water Dragon Style
- Flowing Water Defense is the dice-penality defense charm; this charms type is changed to Special and its Duration to permanent. The character can take a -1 penality to all of his attacks in a turn as a reflexive action, in exchange for all of his opponents taking a -3 penality to their attacks. This bonus does not stack with itself.
- Rippling Water Strike is the ripple damage charm; the ripple damage cannot be blocked or dodged without the use of charms, and is equal to half of the raw damage of the successful attack. The character must hit his opponent and inflict damage to get any ripple damage.
- Drowning-In-Blood Technique is the lungs-filling-with-blood charm; the character looses the stamina for a number of turns equal to the characters Martial Arts score. Multiple successful uses of this charm are cumulative, extending the duration and draining another point of Stamina.
- Shrugging Water Dragon Escape is the bondage-escaping charm; it is unchanged.
- Water Dragon Form has been revised; see below.
- Theft-of-Essence Method is the essence-stealing charm; the character adds the successes on his attack to his Martial Arts + Essence roll, and drains 2 motes of essence per success.
- Ghost-Restraining Whirlpool Stance is the spirit-restraining charm, and is unchanged.
- Flow-Reversal Strike is the freaky blood-flows-backwards charm, and is unchanged.
- Crashing Wave Style is the awesome wave-action charm, and is unchanged.
- Bottomless Depths Defense is the ultimate soak charm; its cost is changed to 6 motes, 1 willpower. It reduces the damage of all attacks to one die for the rest of the turn. The effect occurs after soak is applied but before damage is rolled.
- Essence-Dousing Wave Attack is the magic-drowning charm, and is unchanged.
- Tsunami Force Shout is the essence-ripping-force shout charm, and is unchanged.
Revised Charms
Water Dragon Form
Cost: 5 motes
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Martial Arts: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Drowning-in-Blood Technique, Shrugging Water Dragon Escape
A body of water absorbs force directed against it, and one standing too close to the shore is going to get hit by the waves. With the execution of a few fluid body movements, the Immaculate invoking the Water Dragon Form becomes more like that body of water. The character must make a successful Dexterity + Martial Arts roll to invoke the form successfully. If this roll fails, the charm does not activate and the motes are not spent but the character wastes his action.
Upon successfully invoking the Water Dragon Form, the character adds his Martial Arts to his Bashing and Lethal soaks and subtracts it from all defense rolls made against his attacks. In addition, he can increase his soak further as a free reflexive action that does not count as a charm use for the turn. Every 2L/2B increase in soak costs 1 mote, which must be spent after normal soak has been applied but before the attackers player rolls damage.
Only one Form-type charm can be invoked at any one time. Invoking a Form-type Charm automatically ends the effects of any currently active Form-type Charm.
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