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==Lunar Knacks==
'''School and Flock Discipline'''<br>
'''Prerequisites:''' Wits 5, Essence 6<br>
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The Lunar Exalted are masters of shape. Why, then, must they be limited to a contiguous one? This Knack allows a Lunar to start to mimic the macro-organisms that are schools of fish and flocks of birds by shapeshifting into multiple bodies. By activating this knack and spending 10m, the Lunar divides one body into two. This has several advantages and drawbacks, and is often considered...weird...the first few times a Lunar experiences it.<br>
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Like the macro-organisms that flocks and schools resemble, the Lunar remains a single entity. As such, he maintains a single pool of Essence, one pool of temporary Willpower, and one set of Virtue Channels. He has only one mind, and thus is afflicted by mental influence as a singular entity. Likewise, he is fully aware of what each body perceives.<br>
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Each body acts independently. Charms and Knacks must be enacted independently for each body, and all bodies present in a given scene are restricted by Charm-use and combo rules. (For simplicity's sake, if the only connection between two simultaneous scenes is the Lunar's presence at both, it is not required that Charms used in one be combo'd with Charms used at the same time at the other, unless such precise timing is required that they must be enacted in exactly the same action.)<br>
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When one body splits into two, the two bodies produced have their effective Essence reduced by 1. A given body may not activate any Charms, Knacks, or other abilities with an Essence minimum higher than that body's effective Essence. (Thus, for instance, a body whose effective Essence is reduced to 5 cannot use this Knack to split into two.) The Lunar's actual permanent Essence does not change, and thus his attribute caps, essence pool, and similar derived values do not change. Should the Lunar somehow manage to have a body's effective Essence reduced to 0, all such bodies die.<br>
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Recombining bodies can happen in one of two ways: If both bodies have the same effective Essence, the Lunar may pay 0m to activate this Knack while they are touching, and they merge back into one. Bashing health levels go away and lethal health levels are reduced to bashing before being summed and applied to the Lunar's re-unified health track. Aggravated damage poses a particular danger, however; these are ''summed'' and applied to the Lunar's health track. While this cannot kill him, it can fill all but his last dying health box (overwriting lethal damage to do so without killing him, if needs be).<br>
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If one body has lower effective Essence than the other, the two bodies touch, and the Lunar may spend 0m to activate this Knack and send the one with lower effective Essence Elsewhere. Releasing it from Elsewhere is a separate, 0m activation of this Knack. Bodies in Elsewhere may take no action other than to activate this Knack to merge with other bodies, and they count as touching all of the Lunar's bodies for purposes of this Knack.<br>
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In the unfortunate event of the death of one of the Lunar's bodies, the Lunar gains a point of limit, but may reflexively send the corpse Elsewhere, where it may be reabsorbed according to the rules provided previously.