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*'''3 Technique''': ''The Music of the Saints''. If you know the Deadly Music Formless technique, any attacks made with it count as selective Area attacks, and those affected always Fear those attacks. | *'''3 Technique''': ''The Music of the Saints''. If you know the Deadly Music Formless technique, any attacks made with it count as selective Area attacks, and those affected always Fear those attacks. | ||
*'''2 Technique''': You learn the ''Effortless Grace'' stance. You have been trained to use your weapon as if it is a natural extension of your very body. Your sword attacks count as being unarmed. This allows you to claim the weapon bonuses of both and to combine different types of styles. If you know multiple Secrets that improve your unarmed fighting, you can only use one at a time; choose at the start of each round which one you’ll use. | *'''2 Technique''': You learn the ''Effortless Grace'' stance. You have been trained to use your weapon as if it is a natural extension of your very body. Your sword attacks count as being unarmed. This allows you to claim the weapon bonuses of both and to combine different types of styles. If you know multiple Secrets that improve your unarmed fighting, you can only use one at a time; choose at the start of each round which one you’ll use. | ||
− | + | *'''3 Technique''': You learn the level 3 formless technique ''Brush drawing clouds'', that gives +15 block. | |
====Meng Zhang, The Eastern Saint Beast==== | ====Meng Zhang, The Eastern Saint Beast==== | ||
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—'''Zhou Junde''', Master of the White Jade Academy, Falling Leaves Society member, and Martial Sage. | —'''Zhou Junde''', Master of the White Jade Academy, Falling Leaves Society member, and Martial Sage. | ||
− | + | And who could argue with Master Zhou? Bird's Progress is barely governable, and the Magistrates sent from Jiankiang are ill-disposed to try. | |
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High upon the cliffs, far above the noise and bustle of the merchants and laborers below, there is a veritable paradise. Here are the wealthiest residents of Bird's Progress – the heads of the largest trading concerns, a few aristocratic families, and officials grown fat on bribes and kickbacks – living lives blissfully free of the lower city's muck and mire. The roads from the lower city to the upper are few and tightly guarded; the City Above's streets are impeccably clean and well-patrolled. | High upon the cliffs, far above the noise and bustle of the merchants and laborers below, there is a veritable paradise. Here are the wealthiest residents of Bird's Progress – the heads of the largest trading concerns, a few aristocratic families, and officials grown fat on bribes and kickbacks – living lives blissfully free of the lower city's muck and mire. The roads from the lower city to the upper are few and tightly guarded; the City Above's streets are impeccably clean and well-patrolled. | ||
− | *''' | + | *'''2 Fortune''': You can pass between the two cities without trouble; perhaps you possess a pass (obtained licitly or otherwise) that permits you to use one of the official gates, or perhaps you know of a secret route. |
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:'''''Cloud Happiness District'''''<br> | :'''''Cloud Happiness District'''''<br> | ||
:Perched high atop the cliffs that ring the lower city are the mansions of the city's wealthiest residents: the very best families, the most successful merchants, and of course the officials who enrich themselves on the trade flowing through the city. | :Perched high atop the cliffs that ring the lower city are the mansions of the city's wealthiest residents: the very best families, the most successful merchants, and of course the officials who enrich themselves on the trade flowing through the city. | ||
+ | :*'''2+ Status''': You have made a name for yourself in the high society of the Cloud Happiness District; this doesn't mean you're thought of as 'one of them', necessarily, but you're known. | ||
+ | :**'''0 Bonus''': You get the '''Politics''' specialty '''High Society''' for free. | ||
:*'''2+ Involvement''': The families that make Cloud Happiness their home are in constant, vicious competition to outdo their neighbors: to build more impossible homes, to throw more fabulous parties, to sponsor the more praiseworthy temple, or artist, or whatever fashion might demand. These are generally low-stakes affairs, but occasionally they spiral into something ... bigger. You've found yourself embroiled in just such a circumstance! | :*'''2+ Involvement''': The families that make Cloud Happiness their home are in constant, vicious competition to outdo their neighbors: to build more impossible homes, to throw more fabulous parties, to sponsor the more praiseworthy temple, or artist, or whatever fashion might demand. These are generally low-stakes affairs, but occasionally they spiral into something ... bigger. You've found yourself embroiled in just such a circumstance! | ||
:*'''3+ Fortune/Treasure''': The small group of architects (known as '''The Blue-Sky Goose Guild''') employed to build the gravity-defying homes in which the wealthy dwell are at the very forefront of their art in Shen Zhou; Daoist principles are married to the bleeding edge of Mohist mathematical studies in order to produce these marvels. You have either come to know one of these architects, or have come into possession of their valuable plans. | :*'''3+ Fortune/Treasure''': The small group of architects (known as '''The Blue-Sky Goose Guild''') employed to build the gravity-defying homes in which the wealthy dwell are at the very forefront of their art in Shen Zhou; Daoist principles are married to the bleeding edge of Mohist mathematical studies in order to produce these marvels. You have either come to know one of these architects, or have come into possession of their valuable plans. | ||
− | :''''' | + | :'''''Golden Bay Overlook'''''<br> |
− | :While it does not quite rise to the standard of the Willow Districts in Magnificent Ink or Notably Picturesque, for sheer spectacle, | + | :While it does not quite rise to the standard of the Willow Districts in Magnificent Ink or Notably Picturesque, for sheer spectacle, Golden Bay Overlook, the upper city's Willow District, is hard to match. Like the grand homes of Cloud Happiness, the inns and theaters of the Overlook hang over the vertiginous cliffs, but instead of looking down on the city below, they sit on a promontory over the Bohai Bay itself. |
:'''''Yang's Last Bastion'''''<br> | :'''''Yang's Last Bastion'''''<br> | ||
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===The City Beneath=== | ===The City Beneath=== | ||
'''(2 Destiny)''' | '''(2 Destiny)''' | ||
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:'''''Bixi Gardens'''''<br> | :'''''Bixi Gardens'''''<br> | ||
:Long before Bird's Progress was a city; before Stone-Conquers-Sea fortress was built upon the cliffs; before there was even a minor fishing village to take advantage of the bay's bounty, there stood a garden of steles standing atop dragon-headed, tortoise-bodied [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bixi_(mythology) Bixi statues]. None know who built these steles, what they commemorate or who they propitiate or what they ward off; they are marked, but with a strange and ancient script that frustrate the attempts at translation of even the best scholars in all of Shen Zhou. Common folk treat these stele with something approaching reverence, but even the educated tread lightly around them. The district that has grown around this garden is home to many temples and shrines; it's thought that the mystical energies that collect around these monuments. | :Long before Bird's Progress was a city; before Stone-Conquers-Sea fortress was built upon the cliffs; before there was even a minor fishing village to take advantage of the bay's bounty, there stood a garden of steles standing atop dragon-headed, tortoise-bodied [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bixi_(mythology) Bixi statues]. None know who built these steles, what they commemorate or who they propitiate or what they ward off; they are marked, but with a strange and ancient script that frustrate the attempts at translation of even the best scholars in all of Shen Zhou. Common folk treat these stele with something approaching reverence, but even the educated tread lightly around them. The district that has grown around this garden is home to many temples and shrines; it's thought that the mystical energies that collect around these monuments. | ||
− | :'''''Endless Prosperity | + | :'''''Endless Prosperity Gate'''''<br> |
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:'''''Great Open Yamen'''''<br> | :'''''Great Open Yamen'''''<br> | ||
:Like almost all cities in Shen Zhou, at the very center of Bird's Progress is its walled Yamen, the administrative compound from which the Imperial magistrates exert the influence of the Jin Empire. But whereas every other city's Yamen is fortress of Imperial authority, held fast by power military and civil, the Bird's Progress Yamen is a glorified open air bazaar. Instead of enforcing Imperial law, its magistrates are glorified night watchmen, making sure the merchants' concerns remain secure. It is a perversion of Confucian ideals, and it is the very soul of Bird's Progress. | :Like almost all cities in Shen Zhou, at the very center of Bird's Progress is its walled Yamen, the administrative compound from which the Imperial magistrates exert the influence of the Jin Empire. But whereas every other city's Yamen is fortress of Imperial authority, held fast by power military and civil, the Bird's Progress Yamen is a glorified open air bazaar. Instead of enforcing Imperial law, its magistrates are glorified night watchmen, making sure the merchants' concerns remain secure. It is a perversion of Confucian ideals, and it is the very soul of Bird's Progress. | ||
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:'''''Plain-Girl's Nest'''''<br> | :'''''Plain-Girl's Nest'''''<br> | ||
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:'''''Spear Maiden's Purchase'''''<br> | :'''''Spear Maiden's Purchase'''''<br> | ||
:When the Xiongnu destroyed Stone-Conquers-Sea fortress, the better part of it collapsed onto the marshy ground beneath. When the small fishing village at the base of the cliffs began to grow into a city, it wasn't long before residents took advantage of the now-stable ground to expand. It wasn't long after ''that'' that entrances into the ruined-but-not-destroyed fortress were discovered; while the above-ground district provides a place to live and set up shop (mostly to those who can't abide living in Plain-Girl's Nest but can't afford to live in Virtuous Poesy or Bixi Gardens), the submerged halls beneath have become a kind of distorted mirror image of the great bazaar of Great Open Yamen, where goods and services that cannot be traded in the light of day are up for sale. | :When the Xiongnu destroyed Stone-Conquers-Sea fortress, the better part of it collapsed onto the marshy ground beneath. When the small fishing village at the base of the cliffs began to grow into a city, it wasn't long before residents took advantage of the now-stable ground to expand. It wasn't long after ''that'' that entrances into the ruined-but-not-destroyed fortress were discovered; while the above-ground district provides a place to live and set up shop (mostly to those who can't abide living in Plain-Girl's Nest but can't afford to live in Virtuous Poesy or Bixi Gardens), the submerged halls beneath have become a kind of distorted mirror image of the great bazaar of Great Open Yamen, where goods and services that cannot be traded in the light of day are up for sale. | ||
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:*'''2+ Treasure/Fortune''': You have come into possession of one of the strange treasures (or contracts for service) that are traded in the Looking-Glass Bazaar. Work with your Sage to determine the details. | :*'''2+ Treasure/Fortune''': You have come into possession of one of the strange treasures (or contracts for service) that are traded in the Looking-Glass Bazaar. Work with your Sage to determine the details. | ||
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===The Grand Docks=== | ===The Grand Docks=== | ||
'''(2 Destiny)''' | '''(2 Destiny)''' | ||
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