Editing Tales of Perpetual Peace/Wu Mengde (section)

===Black Lotus Society (3)===
*'''4 Status''': With his having the ear of those in power, Wu is a crucial lynchpin of Black Lotus power in Perpetual Peace. Under the veneer of educated polish, he is known to be as twisted as he is brilliant (both, of course, advantages in the Society!). The young doctor is in charge of local distribution of Black Lotus drugs and of generally advancing Lotus interests in the capital. As a foremost researcher and highly placed agent of the Society, he is given wide lassitude in the pursuit of...experimental results. The Society is not aware that Wu Mengde donates a significant portion of their citywide revenues to orphanages, hospitals, and street-side beggars. 
**'''0 Bonus''': You may choose a Inspire Specialty: Deceit or Politics Specialty: Corruption. 

*'''3 Treasure''': Black Lotus Relic - ''The Ouroboros of Unkapia'' is an obscure text said to have been penned by the long-dead Black Storm Buddha himself. Within are meditations upon life, morality, and the nature of reality. More relevantly, its philosophical wanderings are interspersed with a veritable labyrinth of unsavory and esoteric medical techniques. On the application of the Doctor's Arts to illicit ends, it is nothing less than a tour de force: the nexus at which cultivated breath, brilliant medical insight, and true malevolence converge. (Acts as a Quality Medical Manual and opens up additional loresheet secrets for medically related martial arts/extraordinary techs)
**'''0 Secret''': The Black Storm Buddha was the master of Poison Dragon River style. You may learn all of its techniques. 
**'''2 Secret''': You master the Dark Dragon's Claws! Fighting Unarmed now also counts as fighting with a Saber. 
**'''2 Secret''': You discover the Dark Dragon's Breath Technique! You can combine a Focus on Breath action with an Opening the Veins and Arteries Wave targeted on yourself. You may use the same result from Focus on Breath for the Wave; that Wave can be broken as normal, but doing so has no effect on your Focus on Breath Action. 
**'''3 Secret''': You learn the Vile Snake Husk Reincarnation Technique! You may spend an hour or more to create a husk-disguise for yourself or another. This disguise is as convincing as a full Flesh-Sculpting Treatment, but can be destroyed by an Injury condition of greater than Trivial strength. It can also be shed voluntarily. As with Flesh-Sculpting Technique, characters can see through the disguise with an appropriate Awareness or Wu Wei roll, but have a -15 penalty to that roll.

====The Five-Petal Lotus====
*'''3 Secret''': You learn important medical secrets regarding the five-petal lotus! The Difficulty for treating its conditions are lowered one step, down to Memorable (40) for Minor Conditions and Fantastic (60) for Major Conditions. 
*'''2 Treasure''': You have access to a steady supply of Five-Petal Lotus. Most of Wu's inventory is sold off, but he retains a reserve stock to stay flexible.
*'''0 Bonus''': If you are a member of the Black Lotus Society, have the Secret Art of Medicine, and have at least Status 4 within the organization, you may take the Medicine Skill Specialty: Five-Petal Lotus for free, to create them, cure and manipulate their effects. 
*'''2 Bonus''': Seeing the effects of the Fire Petal in incense form on a large group of people has given you added insight into its uses (and abuses). You have a +5 loresheet bonus to dealing with drugs derived from the Fire Petal specifically; this stacks with a general loresheet bonus related to the Five Petal Lotus.