Editing Once more with feeling/Custom Martial Arts (section)

===Master of the Flowing Defense===
*'''Cost:''' 10 motes, 1 willpower, 1 lethal health level or 1 aggravated health level; '''Mins:''' Martial Arts 5, Essence 4; '''Type:''' Simple (Speed 6, DV -2)
*'''Keywords:''' Combo-OK, Fate, Obvious, Prayer Strip
*'''Duration:''' One scene
*'''Prerequisite Charms:''' The Lovers Tangle and Part, The Pillar is a Pedestal, The Peacock Preens and Pecks
*The Seer has learned that the destructiveness of enemies is often just their misunderstood way of helping fate. With this Charm a character can redirect their enemy to the helpfulness they were surely striving for. Against any attack for the rest of the scene this charm can have one of two effects. A successful parry means the martial artist deflects the attack toward someone in the direction from which the attack came. Successfully dodging against an attack allows him to redirect the assault toward someone in the direction the attack was going. The new target must be within (Essence) yards.
*Using a prayer strip is not necessary with this Charm, since it represents the culmination of a Celestial martial art, but a Sidereal who knows this Charm can augment it with a prayer strip (hence the use of the keyword). The character uses a strip on which is written the Scripture of the Peacefully Strumming Maiden, infusing the strip with Essence when he activates the Charm and affixes the prayer strip to herself so that it lays vertically across his waistline. When the character does this he exchanges the level of Lethal damage for a level of Aggravated damage while activating Master of the Flowing Defense. This charm acts as an augmentation to the Sidereal Dodge Charm Neighborhood Relocation Scheme. While the Prayer Strip for Master of the Flowing Defense is active the cost of Neighborhood Relocation Scheme is reduced to 11 motes plus 1 temporary willpower for it to modify this charm in several ways. The dodge charm allows the very landscape and destiny of location to be rearranged by the Seer. This cuts the number of successes an attacker has in half (round up) before being compared to this character's DV, although should the character's defense fail, the attack hits him as if the successes had not been halved. Additionally, parries and dodges that redirect attacks may do so in any direction and after any successful defense the character can choose to swap positions with his attacker.
*Note: The prayer strip aspect of this Charm can only be used by Sidereals, or by Eclipse or Moonshadow Castes who learn Master of the Flowing Defense as a Sidereal Charm rather than as a supernatural martial arts Charm. This is part of the Sidereal Exaltation, not the training in Martial Arts and Essence control that underlies the other Charms of the style.