User:Taurus II/Wedded Moon Style

Wedded Moon Style

• (with thanks to Tornado Wolf of TFS)
• This Celestial martial arts style finds its origins among the Lunars of the First Age who worked with the circles of their Solar mates, focusing on teamwork and cooperation and drawing on the strength of their bond. After the Usurpation, some wondered if the style would fade from use, but practitioners discovered that while their Solar mates were gone, they could still benefit from the techniques they had learned. Wedded Moon is native to Lunars, who can learn it without a teacher and may substitute their Dexterity rating for their Martial Arts rating when learning and using Charms from this style.
• Weapons and Armor: Wedded Moon Style is incompatible with armor, and tiger claws are the only compatible weapons.
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• Bond: Charms with this keyword have enhanced effects when the user possesses the Solar Bond background.

Leaping Interposition Method

• Cost: 2m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 2; Type: Reflexive (Step 2 or 6)
• Keywords: Combo-OK
• Duration: Instant
• Prerequisite Charms: None
• The Wedded Moon stylists are devoted guardians and leap to defend that which they have chosen to protect. This Charm can be activated in response to an attack on any ally that the Wedded Moon can physically reach. When invoked in Step 6 of attack resolution, the Wedded Moon merely adds half of his Martial Arts to the target's DV. This does not count against the defended character's DV hard cap. When invoked in Step 2 of attack resolution, the martial artist interposes himself completely, making the attack target himself. If the attack defeats either of his DVs, it strikes him. Leaping Interposition Method cannot be used to defend someone against a counter-attack.

Pack Mentality Practice

• Cost: -–; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 2; Type: Permanent
• Keywords: Bond
• Duration: Permanent
• Prerequisite Charms: None
• This Charm permanently enhances the Wedded Moon stylist. From now on, she may take part in a coordinated attack even when the character choosing whom to coordinate did not include her. This Charm may also be used even when the Wedded Moon herself is the one who coordinated the attack. If the stylist is included in coordinated attack roll, that roll automatically gains one success, which stacks for each character chosen for coordination who knows this Charm.
• When the Wedded Moon stylist is included in a coordinate attack roll with the character for whom she possesses the Solar Bond background, that roll automatically gains bonus successes equal to the Wedded Moon's Solar Bond rating.

Wedded Moon Form

• Cost: 6m; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2; Type: Simple (Speed 5)
• Keywords: Bond, Form-type
• Duration: One scene
• Prerequisite Charms: Leaping Interposition Method, Pack Mentality Practice
• The Wedded Moon stylist moves quickly to his allies' aid and works flawlessly in pursuit of their common goals. While this Charm is activated, the Wedded Moon's jumping distance and movement rates double as long as he is moving toward an ally, and allies reduce the DV penalties for coordinate attack actions and attacks made as part of coordinated attacks including the Wedded Moon by 1. This second effect explicitly may benefit the Wedded Moon himself.
• When the Wedded Moon stylist or the character for whom he possesses the Solar Bond background takes a coordinate attack action that includes the other while this Form is active, no participant in that coordinated attack suffers DV penalties for attacks made as part of that coordinated attack.

Herding the Sheep Method

• Cost: 3m; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 3; Type: Reflexive
• Keywords: Bond, Combo-OK, Obvious, War
• Duration:One action
• Prerequisite Charms: Wedded Moon Form
• By moving in such a way as to manipulate the movements and arrangement of her target and her allies, the Wedded Moon stylist counts as two characters for the purpose of determining whether a foe is surrounded by the maximum number of characters.
• If the target is in such a position that only two attackers can harry him from the same general direction (as opposed to two different sides), this Charm can be used without an ally, but the Wedded Moon will not receive a natural unexpected attack for it.
• If the target is already surrounded by the total number of possible attackers, then the target must grant two unexpected attacks, one to the Wedded Moon and the other to another character.
• Two characters are explicitly permitted to use this Charm against the same enemy, stacking the effects; thus they would need only one other ally to effectively surround an enemy on an open field with three people.
• In mass combat, a character is explicitly permitted to use this Charm as a solo unit against a complementary unit.
• When the Wedded Moon stylist is working to surround a target with the character for whom she possesses the Solar Bond background, then that character also counts as two characters when determining whether the target is surrounded by the maximum number of characters.

Opportunistic Flanking Practice

• Cost: 8m; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 3; Type: Supplemental
• Keywords: Combo-OK
• Duration: Instant
• Prerequisite Charms: Wedded Moon Form
• This Charm may enhance any unarmed Martial Arts attack against a character who has been attacked since his last action.
• The Wedded Moon's attack imposes a coordinated attack penalty equal to the Wedded Moon's Martial Arts. This penalty is explicitly allowed to stack with regular coordinated attack penalties, even if the total exceeds the normal maximum. If the supplemented attack happens to be unexpected, the Wedded Moon instead adds a number of automatic successes to his attack equal to the penalty this Charm would have otherwise inflicted.
• If the last person to attack this Charm's target was the character for whom the Wedded Moon possesses the Solar Bond background, the coordinated attack penalty imposed becomes equal to the Wedded Moon's Martial Arts + Solar Bond.

Bond-Forging Meditation

• Cost: 8m, 1wp; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 3; Type: Simple (Dramatic Action)
• Keywords: None
• Duration: One day
• Prerequisite Charms: Wedded Moon Form
• The Wedded Moon's strength is her comrades. By spending an hour meditating, the Wedded Moon creates a mystical bond between the Wedded Moon and up to (Essence) allies, giving her a positive Intimacy toward each, if she does not already have such an Intimacy. Though temporary, this bond is enough like the bond of a Lunar to her Solar that it allows her to use the enhanced effects of Charms with the Bond keyword, as if she had dots in the Solar Bond background equal to her Conviction rating. The bonds and the Intimacies fade at the end of the day.

Glorious Sublimation of the Wedded Moon

• Cost: 6m, 1wp; Mins: Martial Arts 5, Essence 3; Type: Reflexive
• Keywords: Bond, Combo-OK, Obvious, Social
• Duration: (Essence) actions
• Prerequisite Charms: Herding the Sheep Method, Opportunistic Flanking Practice, Bond-Forging Meditation
• Whenever the Wedded Moon takes an action to locate, move towards, examine, care for or otherwise act protectively towards an ally to whom she has a positive Intimacy, she gains a number of bonus dice equal to her Compassion. Add any dice gained from this Charm as automatic successes to movement rate.
• Finally, for the duration of this Charm, the Wedded Moon can channel Compassion for the purpose of attacking an enemy that an ally is also attacking, and for the purpose of making an Attack Coordination roll.
• If reactivated immediately after the duration ends, this Charm costs no Willpower.
• A Wedded Moon stylist receives bonus successes rather than bonus dice from acting protectively toward the character for whom she possesses the Solar Bond background.