Lost in Jianghu/Characters/Fang Li

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Fang Li has always been stubborn focused, so it is no surprise she did not become a "proper girl", and it is no surprise how she came to join the Little Forest Sect. Born to a village under the thumb of a greedy minister, she was quick to agree that the love of money is a cause of great wickedness - and she was quite in love with the idea of living in a small fortress, learning the ways of Kung Fu and sweeping scum from the world.

But still, a monastery is no place for a woman, much less a girl of her age, no matter her unbound virtue! And so, every day from fourteen to eighteen, she hurried through her farm-girl chores and slipped away to the monastery. There, she chopped wood, carried water, and praised the monks for their wisdom, might and glory. She was too well-meant and helpful to turn away, but too persistent in her ceaseless praise to simply endure, and so after four years, she was inducted as a new "brother". No great efforts were made to hide her gender, but no efforts were made to confirm it.

It is said that she passed the trials with all the grace of an avalanche, She fell into a pit with walls lined with spears, and drove them into her body to climb out. She was presented with eight goblets carved with trigrams, knowing that four were poison - and she drank all of them, then wrestled a tiger. These were unorthodox answers, but she endured, and the Bronze Arahats could find no flaw in her virtue.

It was a common joke that she learned so many years of Kung Fu in so few by skipping the discipline parts, and to see her fight, none would deny it. When she was not sparring with spears and swords and hammers, she was sparring with words, asking her brothers if the lack of desire was desirable, and if this, too, was harmful. They had no answer, but Fang Li was nothing if not stubborn focused, and so, with the blessings of the masters, she wished her brothers peace and departed to seek wisdom.

But not before leaving the minister's home in ruins, and sending his battered guards to the monks, that they, too, might be wise one day.

There is no better place to learn of desire than in the East, where, it is said, enough coin can buy Heaven if one knows the right alley, and so there is no better place to harden oneself against the evils of the world!

Rank: 4th

Archetype: Warrior

Concept: Technical Buddhist

Vital Stats

Chi Lake River/Aura Chi Threshold with Armor Cultivation

12 7 2 12/24/36 17/34/51 32 (11/12)

Confidence Hardiness (Breath) Might (Breaking Things) Tactics Wu Wei

+10 +10 (+15) +10 (+15) +10 +5

Honor Benevolence Righteousness Loyalty Force

1 5 5 2 5

Revenge Individualism Obsession Ruthlessness Ferocity

1 2 1 1 1

Gear [3D]

• Light Armor
• Long-Handled Melon Hammer (Massive/Staff: +5 Strike, Block, Damage; if Best Dodged, penalty to Block is -10; Flood a die or set as the basis of a Secondary Strike)

Chi Conditions

'Natural State' Conditions

• Inexorable Force Style (Wood Combat Condition): Fang Li has learned her own style of battle, and can scarcely contemplate fighting any other way. She may be calm or furious, but she is always relentless and bullheaded, only giving ground when that ground is on fire, and sometimes not even then. Every blow is intended to break something, or someone, every defense is intended to forcefully deny the enemy's progress. While she fights like this, Fang Li regenerates an extra point of chi (Minor Breath Hyperactivity).

• Unswerving Retribution (Balance Inspiration): From an early age, Fang Li has been obsessed with making the world fair. Her first proper deed as a wandering Xia was humbling a corrupt minister, and time has not sweetened his memory. While she acts to bring justice to an unjust world, lecturing her foes even as she beats them, she enjoys excellence in all things. (Minor Action Bonus)

External Styles

Blossom Harvest [10D/C]

(with Melon Hammer)

Speed Footwork Strike Damage Block Toughness

+5 0 +10 (+15) +10 (+15) +5 (+10) +15

Laughs At: Overly complicated styles or those full of flourishes; while outnumbered or on disadvantageous terrain. Fears: Reactive fighters, and those that fight with supernatural power or influence.

External Tech Nine Mountains Great Strength: Strike increases to +10 Iron Skin: Toughness increases to +15

Internal Styles

Iron Body Skill (Metal) [9D/19C]

• 1: Iron Power (+5 to Damage)
• 2: Humble Man's Stern Rebuke (+10 to Strike)
• 3: Swaying Branches Surround Willow (+15 to Block)
• 4: Eternal Temple's God-Armor (+15 to Toughness, round-long, extend for 1 Chi)

Secret Arts: The Warrior's Art [3D/C]

• Combat Conditions (0)
• Secret Art of Battle (0)
• Extraordinary Warrior Techniques
  • Controlling Outer Force (3)

Loresheets

Little Forest Sect [8E]

• Base Cost (3)
• Membership (3)
• Iron Palms (2)

Buddhism [1E]

• Base Cost (3, discounted to 1)

Black Dragon Slayer [5E]

• 2 Involvement: Your story is tied to that of the Black Dragon Slayer
• 3 Fortune: You learn that an NPC is seeking the Black Dragon Slayer (TBD).

The Ocean Unbound Monastery [3E]

• 3 Fortune: You are one of the few whom Brother Pale Phoenix, founder and sole resident of the island, will permit to visit him.

The Eagle Talons [0E]

• 2 Involvement: Fang Li has not always seen eye-to-eye with the Eagles - they are often tasked to defend useless, petty things in the name of useless, petty people - but she has found them to be honorable and loyal to a fault. That's a start, so they're easily the least of many, many evils. (free with campaign loresheet)

The Three Rings [7E]

Black Tiger Tournament

• 2 Destiny: You know that whomever's seeking the Black Dragon Slayer has entered; participating yourself (or at least sticking nearby) will allow you to find out who he is.

Threats at the Doorstep

It is not only the internal chaos of Bird's Progress that occupies the efforts of the Three Bronze Rings; there are external threats, as well. From the north, tendrils of corruption reach out from the Black Lotus Lodge and into the city's slums and Willow Districts; from the east, out in the Bohai Sea, the Southern Dragon Pirates pose a constant threat to the sea-trade that is the city's lifeline; and from the southwest, the Eastern Bureau and its Liquid Metal Delegates seem to pay especial attention to what goes on among the Wulin of in this raucous city.

• 5 Involvement: The threat of internal corruption posed by the Black Lotus Society will play a role in your story. Not only are they shameless peddlers of vice, they make a twisted mockery of Buddhist teachings, and this cannot stand!