ReignWulin:BeggarSect

History

• The four beggars were singing the ‘Lotus Falling’ begging tune, each one holding a bowl in their right hand and a stick in their left. There were four coarse pockets on their shoulders. Lu Wushuang once heard her apprentice sister say that the Beggar Clan members use the coarse pockets to differentiate between rank within the clan, fourth band members will have four pockets, these beggars were fourth band members. She remembered how she fought beggars Han and Chen yesterday at Wolf Valley, they had five pockets; it seems they were a level higher than these people in front of her.
• The Beggar Clan is a righteous and chivalrous clan; they have always helped the weak against the strong and aided those who were in danger. They had only decided to go after Lu Wushuang because she hurt a member of their clan. When they saw Yang Guo falling onto the ground and didn’t seem to know ANY martial arts they all felt apologetic, one of the beggars stretched out a hand to pull him up and said, “Sorry.”
• He took out some change and handed it out. The three beggars thanked him according to the clan’s rules.
• The Beggar Clan has a rule, one must not hit out at someone who doesn’t know martial arts. The beggar didn’t know that this groom was so useless, just a light push and he fell onto the ground. If he was seriously hurt he would be punished within the clan and the other two would not be able to escape punishment as well.
• The two beggars had a high status in the world of Wulin, when they heard Hong Lingbo question them like this they became angry but the Beggar Clan had strict rules, the members mustn’t get into feuds with others as they pleased so the two just replied, “No!”
• Quanzhen sect and the Beggar Clan have always been good friends.
• Yelu Qi knew that the Beggar Clan was a powerful force up here in the north.
• If there wasn’t an urgent matter, members of the clan would not travel by horseback.
• The members of the Beggar Clan are all people from poor environments, they have always helped those in need and distress; they would never look down on other poor people.
• One of the rules of the Beggar Clan is when a Beggar Clan member arrives to celebrate a ceremony, they’ll first need to get chicken, fish, beef and lamb and leave it until it starts to rot, and gets like a soup of spoiled meat. The meaning was that they shouldn’t forget their origins; but when treating guests, proper wine and dishes are bought out.

Disciplines

Dog Beating Stick

These techniques are all used with Coordination + Staff. None of them may be combined with each other.

• Dog's Back Slant Beating (1 point): You can squish the Width of one of your sets in order to increase its Height. You cannot increase the Height above 8 using this technique.
• Poke Back Dog Butt (2 points): This technique augments the Trip maneuver. If successful, the result of the trip attempt is as if the Width of the success had been one higher.
• Stirring Rash Dog (3 points): This technique augments the Feint maneuver. When used against named opponents, it allows you to apply the effects of the Feint to a number of opponents equal to the Width of your success. When used against Unworthy Opponents, it causes the group to lose a number of dice off their sets equal to the Width of the success.
• No Mercy Stick Poke (4 points): This strike deals an additional 2 points of Shock damage and causes the target to lose one die off of every set rolled for that round.
• No Dogs Under Heaven (5 points): This strike simultaneously applies to every target within reach of your staff. If used against a group of Unworthy Opponents, on a successful hit it removes a number of them equal to the Height of the attack success.
• Stick Beats Two Dogs

Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms

• Hidden Dragon Has No Use: "The palm skill that Guo Jing used had been practiced and refined, and has now reached its peak; the force he generated was extremely strong, and he had more powerful moves hidden. Each one of them used all their strength to block this fierce attack but they didn’t expect a strong force pulling them forward. The seven could not stand still, and all of them fell onto the ground; though they got up straight away, each one of them had dirt on their face, and was slightly embarrassed."
• Overcoming the Dragon With Regret: "When he first unleashed it, it looked light and fragile but when it meets an obstruction, it will be able to unleash its force in thirteen levels, each level stronger than the last one. It will move the unyielding, there is no force it can’t overcome."
• "Guo Jing ignored them, two “fu” sounds were heard, as two palms came out. The two were not near Guo Jing’s body, but they were hit by the palm’s power and couldn’t stand still. Two sounds were heard as the men crashed against the wall, blood came out of their mouths."

Fists of the Free

These techniques are all used with Coordination + Unarmed Strike. They do not combine with each other.

• No Cares Fist (1 point): Your highest Width set is timed to coincide simultaneously with the first action of the round (if you were not already first). However, if successful the strike only does a single point of Shock in damage.
• Exuberant Fists (2 points): You may make as many unarmed strikes as you wish without suffering a multiple action penalty, but each successful strike only does a single point of Shock damage, regardless of Width.
• Swiftness of the Free (3 points): As No Cares Fist, except the strike does damage as normal.

People

Hong Qigong

• When Yang Guo examined him, he was a white haired and bearded old man; the clothes on him were old and torn. It appeared that he was a beggar. Although it was dark, the white snow reflected off him, there was a red glow to his face, yet he looked graceful.
• This person was the “Nine-Fingered Wondrous Beggar”, Hong Qigong. After he passed on the position of the Chief of the Beggar Clan to Huang Rong, he traveled alone, savoring the world’s finest foods.
• Whenever he saw injustice, he would secretly help; he killed evil doers and punished traitors with his abilities. No one knew where he was or where he went. Sometimes he would listen in on some Beggar Clan members talking; he knew that under the orders of Huang Rong and Lu Youjiao, the Beggar Clan was calm. The internal fight between the ‘dirty’ clothed and ‘clean’ clothed factions was subsiding; so had the outside force of the Jin and the Iron Palm Sect.
• Hong Qigong melted another two lumps of snow and cleaned the flesh of the centipede so there would be no traces of poison, and then he took out seven or eight small and large boxes from his back pack. In the boxes were ingredients such as oil, salt, jams, vinegar and the like. He placed some oil in the pan and fried the centipedes, immediately an appetizing scent flowed into the nose. Yang Guo saw that he was drooling, revealing his glutton side, he couldn’t stop himself from being startled and laughed at the same time.
• Guo Jing and Huang Rong had recited a small portion of the manual to Hong Qigong; it made an impression on his kung fu and great progress in his martial arts.
• Hong Qigong’s “Dog Beating Stick Technique” has nothing like it in the world, but he doesn’t use it casually; apart from this technique, he has many refined and ingenious rod stances and right now he was using them.

Huang Rong

• Yang Guo knew that it was the pair of eagles that belonged to the Guo couple. When he was younger, he had played with the eagles on Peach Blossom Island; since the eagles were here, the Guo couple would be nearby.
• Huang Rong was wearing a light purple silk gown, but because she was the Chief of the Beggar Clan, she could only tie the gown with pins in the places where it doesn’t catch the eye and that was it.
• Huang Rong’s eyebrows wrinkled, she was resentful. She and the Quanzhen sect weren’t the greatest of friends; years ago they used the “Big Dipper Formation” against her father.
• NO ONE in the Wulin is craftier or more clever than her.