Shadows of Shen Zhou:Supple Warrior Style

Custom Kung Fu Style: Chao Gang’s Master, Guang Ling, was secretly a defector from the Demon Scholars. Before he left, he had begun creating this kung fu style. The Demon Scholars are curious about the style that Guang Ling was creating, and more importantly need to ensure he didn’t teach anything more dangerous to anyone. So, they are sending agents out to hunt for any pupils he may have had. This Kung Fu is known as the Supple Warrior Style, and as of right now Chao Gang is the only known living practitioner.

• Uncommon Crimson Kung Fu
• Theme: Graceful Minimalism
• Artful: Swords Only (2 restriction points)
• Destiny Cost: 10

Description: The Supple Warrior Style teaches a warrior to move with appropriate speed at all times. There are no flashy techniques, only overwhelming quickness and the ability to make sure that your sword is right in your enemy’s path, while their blades wander blindly in your wake.

Critical Success: Disorient or Disarm

1. Serpent Speed Technique (3 + colour match)

The martial artist learns to move with unparalleled quickness and precision. Striking using this technique assures that the enemy will be cut to ribbons before he knows it.

• I Speed + Crimson Chi bonus
• I Finesse + Crimson Chi bonus
• II Injuring, +3 Damage Dice (colour match)

2. Whirlwind Slayer (4 + colour match)

One’s sword is like the wind – it is everywhere and yet cannot be restrained. The user of this technique seems to do little work while wreaking destruction in his path. Four unworthy foes die with each perfected cut, and foes find insulting characters carved into their armor when they could have sworn the blade merely passed by them.

• III Quadruple result dice v. Minions
• II Embarrass on a standard success (colour match)

3. Blurred Rush (5 + colour match)

The swordsman is so fast that he’s gone across the field before an attack can even land.

• I Elusive
• I Shuffle
• IV Area deflection (colour match)

4. Inevitable Swordsmanship (6 + colour match + 2 restriction points, free channel)

The Swordsman becomes one with the sword, whipping it around his body in blinding maneuvers that combine attack and defense into an indivisible whole. Attempting to predict where the swordsman's blade will be next becomes nearly impossible, it simply happens to be where it is most necessary.

• III Add Crimson Chi Bonus to Strike of weapon (Under our house rules, attack and parry)
• II Std persistence
• I Battering, +2 damage dice (colour match)
• 0 Channel Jade
• III Investment

5. Perfect Strike (7 + colour match)

To defeat one’s enemy with a single cut is the height of swordsmanship.

• VI Horrific Attack (colour match)
• III Strike + Crimson Chi Bonus

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