And Everyone Was Kung Fu Fighting - Kung Fu Cult Dynasty Quest
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Happerry
Bat out of Hell
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- Kanto
Unbreakable Monolith Style, third rank = Hard defenses, but basically no mobility is a good capsule description of this style. Third rank basically continues in that vein. It's not really a style with a lot of tricks, but the one it does have (Choose a spot and nothing is going to make you move from it) just gets better and better as it ranks up. Like most situational styles, its true power is usually determined by how often you can set up the situation it is designed for.
Jade Sentinel Style, second rank = This is another counter style like Pearl Dreamer. Less tricks in and of itself, and more ability to ignore enemy tricks. It's a decent counter to Sublime Force, actually, because it teaches people how to deal with Oni levels of strength and power. And really, that's what it does. When a giant monster shows up it lets you fight the giant monster like a normal foe instead of something getting mundo bonuses for being a giant fire breathing lizard or something.
Oncoming Monsoon Style, also second rank = This is the level what is generally called 'far strike' becomes something you can use as a standard in a fight, and you've started poking at wider area expressions of force, too. You won't be huffing and puffing and blowing the house down any time soon, but you can knock over whole groups of people with a single strike or make attacks or the large scale without too much difficulty.
Glacial Messiah Style, second rank = At this rank you've got most of the utility tricks, and unlike the first rank you can actually use them regularly without having to make skill tests all the time. The greatest effects are still out of your reach, but you're starting to approach them and maybe in desperate situations you could try to do one.
Assuming you mean style wise like the others.
[4] Kaleidoscope of Eternity Style = I've gone over this before. Being able to speed up how fast you think helps with finding enemy weaknesses with Cobra style, too, and some of the trickier stuff it pulls help with exploiting weaknesses you couldn't otherwise do, too.
[4] Vengeful Cobra Style = Basically a counter style. What tricks it pulls out are more about exploiting enemy weaknesses then any innate thing in the style itself. Force a Monolith user to move, a Monsoon user to keep expending energy, and so on. It's main issue is with things that just hit the user so hard he has no time to start finding and exploiting weaknesses. The longer the fight goes, the better it'll be, speaking in general. Also as dodgy as hell once it gets a good grasp on how the other guy fights. Exploits any and all openings they leave, well, open.
[4] Ever Thirsting Void Style = Again, done this before, in the same post as the last Kaleidoscope fourth rank. Go look at that. Its energy drain type effects work well for dragging a fight out, though, so works with Cobra style well enough.
Having a teacher makes learning stuff a lot easier. Hidden Lore lets people learn things without a teacher and without having to spend years experimenting. Your allies will have their own sheets, and some will know Kung Fu of their own. They can teach, assuming they know whatever style it is. And you can convince them too.
Honestly the biggest advantage of Hidden Lore is that it means you don't need to do one on one teachings to learn the style. This not only helps characters learn whatever style, but is probably the easiest way to start earning some Style Utilization dots for your cult. It also means if someone dies before they pass down their knowledge said knowledge doesn't need to be invented again from ground up, and so on.
In short? Things are, as the first post said, falling apart. The emperor is weak. The Eunuchs and Royal Advisers are strong, and are more focused on filling their own pockets then doing a good job of ruling. The peasantry are getting a growing feeling that the Mandate of Heaven has been lost, Nobles are starting to eye each other for expansions of their demesnes, the foreigners are adding their own pressure in their search for profit and good trade deals, and so on.
This an era of chaos, of chance and opportunity.
And who knows how far someone smart, someone cunning, someone powerful enough, someone able to Kung Fu Kick enemies so hard they never come down, might go?
Just, you know, don't get run over by an army while you're plotting your own rise to power.
Happerry
Bat out of Hell
- Location
- Kanto
Upping Cauldron of Creation from two points to three points is less about unlocking new tricks and more about increasing the power of the tricks it already had and being able to do them under more stress. Harder Faster Stronger Better in other words. Dropping the point in Void means you loose those tricks. Glacial Messiah is still at the second rank, so no changes there. And Guns two means you know how to use guns, you know enough to maintain your own, you can generally hit what you are aiming at, or at least something in the general area, and you have basic knowledge of how to use it to beat someone to crap in a melee.
Honestly the main advantage to taking Gun Specialty is less about personal combat power and more about knowing gunlore, and therefor being able to put gunlore, and black powder, to use without needing foreign sages or risking killing yourself.
And there's always something to be said about just shooting someone anyway.
EVERYTHING BURNS. Or at least users can give a good go at that impression.
bdun140
I have ideas. Sometimes they're even good.
All I want is for our person to be named Yang Xiao Long and for her to have Raging Furnace 4. Everything else is negotiable.
ReaperofInterest
Herald of Disaster
Only found this just now. I'm planning to keep an eye on it. Here's my plan, if anyone's interested.
[X] Plan Reaper
Yang Shen, Male
Young Prodigy
This gives a nice balance of Style and Cult points.
4-Raging Tiger Style
3-Glacial Messiah Style
2-Fairy Sleeve Style
4-Ever Thirsting Void Style
Tiger to handle short fights, Glacial to utilize cold, Fairy for more subtle things, and Void to draw in enemies to where we can decimate them.
Loyal Rival
Childhood Friend
Lone Survivor
Rouge Assassin
Exiled Advisor
Itinerant Miko
Dispossessed Noble
The rival, survivor, assassin, advisor, and noble all seem to be very useful, since they help keep us able to handle a large range of options. The friend will help keep us grounded. The miko can help us with spiritual matters.
2-Hidden Lair
2-Hideouts
2-Farmland
3-Secret Garden
2-Tame Nobles
2-Veteran Mooks
The hidden lair makes it harder for people to find us, the hideouts give us places where our enemies won't look at first, the farmland means we don't have to spend money on food, the secret garden provides us with a stream of exotic herbs that we can sell for money, the tame nobles will help us deflect official attention, and the veteran mooks means that our cannon fodder are better at their jobs.
Life Debt
By the Gunsmoke
These should make things interesting, and these choices net us 4 more Style and Cult points in addition to two Allies.
[X] Plan Reaper
Yang Shen, Male
Young Prodigy
This gives a nice balance of Style and Cult points.
4-Raging Tiger Style
3-Glacial Messiah Style
2-Fairy Sleeve Style
4-Ever Thirsting Void Style
Tiger to handle short fights, Glacial to utilize cold, Fairy for more subtle things, and Void to draw in enemies to where we can decimate them.
Loyal Rival
Childhood Friend
Lone Survivor
Rouge Assassin
Exiled Advisor
Itinerant Miko
Dispossessed Noble
The rival, survivor, assassin, advisor, and noble all seem to be very useful, since they help keep us able to handle a large range of options. The friend will help keep us grounded. The miko can help us with spiritual matters.
2-Hidden Lair
2-Hideouts
2-Farmland
3-Secret Garden
2-Tame Nobles
2-Veteran Mooks
The hidden lair makes it harder for people to find us, the hideouts give us places where our enemies won't look at first, the farmland means we don't have to spend money on food, the secret garden provides us with a stream of exotic herbs that we can sell for money, the tame nobles will help us deflect official attention, and the veteran mooks means that our cannon fodder are better at their jobs.
Life Debt
By the Gunsmoke
These should make things interesting, and these choices net us 4 more Style and Cult points in addition to two Allies.
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Anything I can change to make my plan more appealing to you?
A Nation's Virtue
南國山河南帝居
I'll switch to yours if you work in Imperial Dragon Style at 3 or 2. It's pretty solid as it's powerful physically, has a strong defense, and even has ranged attacks. It's main weakness is also offset by Tyrant Sword Style.
ReaperofInterest
Herald of Disaster
Master should have a good sense of when they're going off the path yeah.
How does Cauldron of Creation 4 and Oncoming Monsoon 4 combine?
Also good to know that Hidden Lore was as good as I hoped.
Shadows
Sacred Priestess of the Benevolent Dice Gods
- Location
- USS Civilian, DDG-214
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Done at 2.
A Nation's Virtue
南國山河南帝居
[X] Shadows
We can get mastery for IDS later. And now, it's dragon time.
We can get mastery for IDS later. And now, it's dragon time.
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
[X] Shadows
Would like to have strange foreigners with gunpowder as an opponent simply because it'd be awesome, but otherwise I like it.
Would like to have strange foreigners with gunpowder as an opponent simply because it'd be awesome, but otherwise I like it.
Shadows
Sacred Priestess of the Benevolent Dice Gods
- Location
- USS Civilian, DDG-214
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I can totally do that... I actually considered it. Anyone else want it? (I'll poke more points into our skills and such)