Xia: Kuei (Hungry Ghost)

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Description

Kuei are the spirits of deceased ancestors whose descendants failed to give them proper funerals, or who showed disrespect at their graves. The impropriety of their descendants gives a chance for demon chi to flow in from hell, and to reanimate these creatures as tortured restless spirits.

Such spirits are initially focused on punishing their family, and their hauntings can be lethal. Once they have dealt with their families, the ghost remains hungry for death, and will become more indiscriminate in its evil. Sorcerers will sometimes bind ancient hungry ghosts to their service, and send them to harrass the Xia - such creatures are particularly tenuous and nasty opponents.

Traits

• Physical 1
• Mental 3
• Social 2

Demon Trigrams

• Hell 2 (equivalent to Heaven)
• Chaos 2 (equivalent to Fire)
• Storm 2 (equivalent to Wind)
• Lightning 2 (equivalent to Thunder)
• Mud 2 (equivalent to Earth)
• Blood 2 (equivalent to Water)
• Smoke 2 (equivalent to Mist)
• Bone 2 (equivalent to Mountain)

Demon Trigrams can be channelled in the same way normal "natural" trigrams can (i.e. Hell for Accuracy, Chaos for Power, etc.)

However, they provide none of the other benefits that the natural trigrams normally do. For example, having a high Blood Trigram doesn't give protection against Fire-based Trigrams in the same way that a high Water Trigram would. Also, significantly. Demon Trigrams don't provide Yang Chi or Yin Chi.

Chi Pools

• Demon Chi 12

Demon Chi is spent to activate monster powers and to channel Demon Trigrams. It is not interchangeable with Yang Chi or Yin Chi.

Resilience Pools

• Physical Resilience 12
• Mental Resilience 16
• Social Resilience 14

A Hungry Ghost is immune to physical effects of most sorts - weapons and fists just pass straight through them! To harm a hungry ghost in physical combat requires a weapon blessed by Tao Alchemists using the

Kung Fu Secrets

• Manifesation

A Hungry 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.

Credits

Asklepios 03:58, 13 January 2009 (PST)