Editing Xia: Parchment Eating Phantom (section)

=Kung Fu Secrets=

* '''Manifesation'''
A ghost can choose to be invisible or manifest at the start of each round, at no cost. If manifest, it can make physical attacks (though it remains immune to them). If invisible, it cannot make physical attacks, though it can still perceive its surroundings, and can still speak audibly. Striking physically at an invisible ghost is at -4 Accuracy. This penalty can reduce Accuracy to 0.

The spell [[ Xia: Tao Elementalism|No Mind]] allows the elementalist to see the ghost as if it were visible. The spell [[ Xia: Tao Elementalism|Reveal True Form]] will force an invisible ghost to become manifest, and prevent it from becoming invisible for the rest of the conflict. To use ''Reveal True Form'' the elementalist need only know that the ghost is present - exact location is not needed. 

* '''Consumption'''
As an action, the phantom can spend 1 Yang Chi to demolish all written information in its vicinity. Each ghost will only ever target the media form of which it was originally made of. As most Phantoms are born of the destruction of the Middle Kingdom's parchment scroll libraries, this means they usually target parchment.

This effect manifests as hundreds of gnawing human mouths that tear at the scrolls, and rip them to shreds.

Note that if the phantom is invisible when he makes the attack, the gnashing teeth still appear, but the phantom does not.

* '''Good References'''
The phantom contains the essence of the library which it was! During any ''Mental Conflict'' debating knowledge within it self, the phantom can channel its Hell Trigrams at no chi cost. 

Note that Parchment Eating Phantoms are so confident in their mastery of their own wisdom that they can rarely resist an offered challenge from a scholar or sage who wishes to spar with them in tests of knowledge and meta-analysis. This only applies to their own area of expertise of course! If a Phantom is challenged to a Mental Conflict where it is not able to use ''Good References'', then it will simply refuse to engage.

* '''Re-catalogue'''
The phantom can spend an action and X Demon Chi to regain X Mental Resilience. X cannot exceed its ''Storm trigram''.

* '''Redemption's Reward'''
If the Phantom is beaten in mental conflict (as above), then it will fade away as its "soul" transcends to heaven. Heaven's reward for this act of redemption will be to return one scroll or book from the destroyed cache, which will manifest physically in front of the victorious scholar. This will often be the most valuable or rare item in the cache.
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