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By Wordman
Submitted on 27 Nov 2006 at 01:21:23 PM EST
Last updated on 28 Nov 2006 at 12:27:31 AM EST
Sable Disposition of Being Style
Cost: 8m
Mins: Martial Arts 5, Essence 4
Type: Reflexive (Step 1 or 2)
Duration: Instant
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Prerequisites: None
Follow-ups: Sable Disposition of Being Form
Mins: Martial Arts 5, Essence 4
Type: Reflexive (Step 1 or 2)
Duration: Instant
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Prerequisites: None
Follow-ups: Sable Disposition of Being Form
…she froze her rival’s violence…
This charm may only be invoked while attacking or being attacked. When used while dodging an attack, the artist paints a crude depiction of the attack on an available surface (or in the air, if using this style’s form) capturing it within the lines of his art and completely dodging it.
The the number of successes made on the attack, as well as its base damage, are stored within the painting. This charm may not normally be used to dodge a undodgeable or perfect attacks; however, it may be used if comboed with a charm or charms that allow normal dodging of such attacks.
When used to augment any Martial Arts attack, this charm makes use of the painting of a previously captured attack, releasing it’s energy and destroying the painting in the process, as the art comes alive to back the attack. The successes stored in the painting are added to the attack and the attack’s base damage is replaced by the base damage within the painting. This is not considered an imaged effect, and such an attack can be made against any target, regardless of who made the attack that was stored.
The artist may maintain up to Essence paintings at once, but the magic fades from the paintings when the scene in which they were made ends, leaving only the art behind. Paintings may be attacked like any other inanimate object, and a single point of damage is enough to cancel a painting’s magic, making it unusable for an attack. The artist may also reflexively release the magic from a painting made with this charm at any time with no effect. This charm may be used to capture and augment social attacks. A single invocation of this charm may not, of course, be used to attack and defend at the same time. Repeated invocations of this charm in a single action may be made as normal, with each activation either dodging or augmenting an attack as appropriate.
