Chi (FiD)

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Chi embodies the inner power of living creatures, which can be channeled through disciplined practice. It focuses on self-improvement, immediate surroundings, and the manipulation of inner energy.

Trauma Condition—Inner Peace

To utilize chi effectively, one must maintain inner peace and freedom of movement. Powers that affect only you or creatures you touch, including enemies you attack with your bare body, gain improved position. Powers used while carrying more than a light load and powers used at a distance suffer a loss of outcome.

Special Abilities

In addition to the listed powers, you have access to these special abilities.

1. Challenge: When you confidently challenge a specific opponent, there is a lull in the battle. Select one: conversation is possible—there is a pause while you duel—everyone else has time to run away.
2. Champion: You may expend your special armor to reduce harm from an attack in combat or to push your prowess.
3. Daredevil: When you roll a desperate action, you get +1d to your roll.
4. Man of Iron: Touching someone with a melee weapon count as touch for Trauma Condition—Inner Peace. You do not suffer a loss of outcome when wearing a medium or heavy load. This negates some of the penalties of Trauma Condition—Inner Peace, see above.
5. Perfect Man: You can push yourself to do one of the following: perform a physical feat that verges on the superhuman—engage a small gang on equal footing in close combat—your unarmed attacks become potent.
6. Remember Your Teachings Draw on teachings to gain assistance from a flashback. This flashback costs at least 1 stress.
7. Vigorous: You recover from harm faster. Permanently fill in two of your healing clock segments. Take +1d to healing treatment rolls.
8. Powers: Air, Animal, Barrier, Darkness, Death, Earth, Electricity, Fire, Ice, Flux, Illusion, Kinesis, Life, Light, Metal, Mind, Order, Plant, Space, Time, and Water.

Challengers

˄ ˅ Daiyu, a martial artist

˄ ˅ Jian, a healer

˄ ˅ Kazuo, the mystic shadow

˄ ˅ Lin, a chi master

˄ ˅ Yun Wei, a heir to power

Items

☐ or ☐-☐ Potent weapon.

☐ Prayer beads that improve position against fear and mental influence.

☐ Heraldry.

☐ Scroll.

◯ Qiankun Bag.

◯ Qiankun Medicine Bag.

• Heraldry ◯: Kaō, shield mark, blazoned surcoat, or badge of identity and pride that negates the cost of resisting once per score.
• Prayer Beads ☐: Improves a chi-users position against fear and mental influence effects. Playbook.
• Scroll ☐: Allows a single use of a power available to your playbook but not known to you. Playbook.
• Potent Weapon ☐ or ☐-☐: A Peach wood sword or other spiritual weapon, magically potent against the supernatural. Certain creatures take less or even no damage from mundane weapons. This can be either a hand or heavy weapon.
• Qiankun Bag ◯: These small drawstring bags might be simple cloth or fancy embroidered silk. They hold more than they should, to the tune of an additional load, but only small items. Things put into them do not age, allowing storage of both ready meals and fresh fruit, fish, and meat. Playbook.
• Qiankun Medicine Bag ◯: A Qiankun Bag holding medicinal herbs. The preservative effect of the Qiankun means the effect of fresh herbs is preserved. This gives +1d on healing treatment rolls and on Alchemy downtime crafting, a bonus you can give to another character n your crew. Playbook.

XP

• Every time you roll a desperate action, mark xp in that action's attribute.

At the end of each session, for each item below, mark 1 xp (in your playbook or an attribute) or 2 xp if that item occurred multiple times.

• You addressed a challenge with prowess or wisdom.
• You expressed your beliefs, drives, heritage, or background.
• You struggled with issues from your vice or traumas during the session.

Starting Actions

Prowl 1

Skirmish 2

4 points by choice, no higher than 2 in any one.