Style of the Gods: A Xianxia Style's Celestial Bureaucrat

(Unofficial) Grey Rat Style Sheet - Current to 1415.
Consuming Cultivation Focus - The style has incredible potential and could make its users godlike… if they survived the cultivation of it. So far, no-one has.
Grey Rat Persists On Corruption - Embrace Heaven-defying and taboo-breaking practices in the pursuit of power at any cost. Your practitioners will be reviled, but your style will be stronger. Build Path: Style of Legends.
10,000 Grey Rats Gather In Moonlight - Develop the "soft," Yin potential of the style, emphasizing its cultivation. Build Path: Yin Specialist
Nimble Grey Rat Dances In Moonlight - Develop the style's speed and diversity, making it difficult to counter or see coming. Build Path: Assassin
Grey Rat Wields The Shadows - Develop an intuition of how to sense with your shadow and use darkness in combat. Build Path: Yin Specialist
Grey Rat Scurries In Darkness - Develop the style's stealth and night-sensing capabilities. Ideal for messengers, spies and assassins. Build Path: Assassin
Grey Rat Is Kin To Thousands - Develop the style towards listening to nature and the natural world. Ideal for hunting Demon Beasts. Build Path: Beast-Killer
Grey Rat Eats Behemoths' Corpses - Develop the style towards the hunting and harrying of Demon Beasts, exhausting them with hit-and-run tactics. Build Path: Beast-Killer
Grey Rat Climbs Over Corpses - Train the style for increased ability to survive major calamities, whatever they may be. Build Path: Survivalist
Grey Rats Swarm The Carcass - Develop collaborative techniques for hunting Demon Beasts, working together to bring them down. Build Path: Beast-Killer
Grey Rat Flees The Hawk - Develop rapid movement skills to increase the ability of practitioners to escape things they can't fight. Build Path: Survivalist
Grey Rat Endures The Storm - Develop a strong stance for the rest of the style to build off of. Build Path: Fundamentals
Grey Rat's Black Claws - Develop the ability to manifest black claws of Death Atma that kill what they touch. A hellishly dangerous technique. Build Path: Style of Legends.
Grey Rat Bites The Cat - Develop techniques specifically specialized to fighting stronger opponents, making the style a desperation weapon. Build Path: Hero-Killer
Nimble Paws of the Grey Rat - Develop a strong understanding of footwork and kicking techniques, allowing practitioners to scurry around the battlefield with ease. Build Path: Fundamentals
Grey Rat's Steel Claws - Develop the style to incorporate the sword, the iron knuckle, and the iron-shod staff. Build Path: Fundamentals
Grey Rat's Sheathed Claws - Develop the use of hidden weapons such as blowguns and capped spears. Build Path: Assassin
Style: Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens
Rigorous 3
Style of Legend 3
Hero-Killing 1
Zodiac 1
Yin Style 7
Chi Style 3
Beast-Killing 4
Killing Intent 4
Assassination 4
Artisanal 5
Alchemic 1
Varied Techniques 1
Strong Fundamentals 4
Survivalist 5
Rapid 4
Pacifist 3
Teamwork 2
Disreputable 6
Evasive 3
Dangerous 3
Taboo-Breaking 2
Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens 6
Good Seed: +20 to Cultivation rolls.
Protagonist: +20 to Cultivation rolls.
Dead Hand: +10 to Atma rolls.
Bone Whistle: +10 to Cultivation rolls.
Bone Flute: Cultivation +10, Atma +10
Bone Hair-Comb: Cultivation +10, Atma +10
Goldfur Robe: +20 to Atma rolls, -1 Voracious
Whitefang: +1 Beast-Killing, Combat +20, Cultivation +20
Net: Cultivation + 70 (+90 with Whitefang), Atma +40, Combat +20
 
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1414 - Year of the Tiger
After the mess you made of it the last time you decided to attend to your Lunar responsibilities, this time you decide to attend to your post and be a good, obedient servant - something that doesn't come naturally to you, but needs must.

You fetch and carry obediently. You blend into the background. You show up every day, and you begin to shift. You become accustomed to the thither and yon of the Kami offices; sensitive to the daily requests for tea and papers. Gradually, you start to fit in. And while you doubt Luna is likely to come down and promote you, you feel you've qualified - maybe even overqualified - for the position of courtier beneath her.



The clatter of bokken echoes as you stalk the ranks of students, watching them practice with spear, fist and sword. After much work put into the fundamentals of the style, your ragtag students are finally starting to shape up and show proper form.

The rhythmic clacks of weapons drills echo among the novices, while your dozen or so intermediate students spar against each other with their full Breath. Not only will your intermediates learn combat this way, they'll also learn to extend their Breath and eventually cultivate new Cores. At least, if they have the potential.

Jiro is watching the spars, a new pair of bone knuckles clenched in his fists. Occasionally, he darts in to forestall dangerous blows, each time giving a chiding look to the striker.

Meanwhile, Oji and Rei are participating, learning to improve their style in the first four breaths and stay sharp against weaker opponents.

You stay silent and remote from it all. You've done enough.



Adare Kaname, Bureaucrat of Grey Rat Style
Fisher King:
You take on the properties of the Style you're responsible for reflexively. Your personality feeds the style, and vice versa.
Cultivator 3
Legendary 3
Revolutionary 1
Lunar 7
Wyld 3
Hunter 4
Warrior 4
Assassin 3
Artisan 4
Alchemist 1
Rich 1
Worldly 4
Prepared 5
Alert 4
Tranquil 3
Cooperative 2
Disreputable 5
Cowardly 3
Vicious 3
Ghoulish 2

Style: Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens
Rigorous 3
Style of Legend 3
Hero-Killing 1
Yin Style 7
Chi Style 3
Beast-Killing 4
Killing Intent 4
Assassination 3
Artisanal 3
Alchemic 1
Varied Techniques 1
Strong Fundamentals 4
Survivalist 5
Rapid 4
Pacifist 3
Teamwork 2
Disreputable 5
Evasive 3
Dangerous 3
Taboo-Breaking 2

Techniques:
Consuming Cultivation Focus
Grey Rat Persists On Corruption
10,000 Grey Rats Gather In Moonlight
Nimble Grey Rat Dances In Moonlight
Grey Rat Wields The Shadows
Grey Rat Scurries In Darkness
Grey Rat Is Kin To Thousands
Grey Rat Eats Behemoths' Corpses
Grey Rat Climbs Over Corpses
Grey Rats Swarm The Carcass
Grey Rat Flees The Hawk
Grey Rat Endures The Storm
Grey Rat Huddles In Darkness
Grey Rat's Black Claws
Grey Rat's Steel Claws
Grey Rat Bites The Cat
Nimble Paws of the Grey Rat

Hero: Asuka Veran
Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens 6
Good Seed: +20 to Cultivation rolls.
Protagonist: +20 to Cultivation rolls.
Dead Hand: +10 to Atma rolls.
Bone Whistle: +10 to Cultivation rolls.
Bone Hair-Comb: Cultivation +10, Atma +10
Goldfur Robe: +20 to Atma rolls, -1 Voracious
Whitefang: +1 Beast-Killing, Combat +20, Cultivation +20

[ ][Asuka] Continue to train in Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens and develop another Core. Cultivation Check against DC 100, failure = death.
[ ][Asuka] Work on developing Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens. Cultivation check at DC 100 gains an additional technique for the Style. Failure = injury or death.
[ ][Asuka] Try to make a twin for Whitefang from the remaining rib. Atma check at DC80. Failure = injury.
[ ][Asuka] Focus on making more Charms from the dead criminal's bones. Atma check at DC50.
[ ][Asuka] Focus on being a good Master to the students who follow you.
[ ][Asuka] Bring Whitefang to Oji and Rei and see if they can push to 6th Dan using it.
[ ][Asuka] Try to kick-start the washouts among your students using Whitefang.

[ ][Domain] Push Taro's limits and encourage him to continue striving for additional Cores.
[ ][Domain] Push Rei and Oji to continue striving for more.
[ ][Domain] Encourage Master Reshi to begin teaching all his students Grey Rat Style.
[ ][Domain] Encourage Master Reshi to begin pushing for treatment of the Grey Rat students as a sub-sect of Green Dragon.
[ ][Domain] Encourage the new Grey Rat Sect to split from the Green Dragon Sect.
[ ][Domain] Encourage rumors about the new style to spread outside the Sect and attract new students.
[ ][Domain] Popularize the production of bone Charms among the students.
[ ][Domain] Encourage further hunting expeditions among the students.
[ ][Domain] Encourage the students to spar among one another.

[ ][Style] Grey Rat Scavenges To Live
Develop the ability to eat and drink raw ambient Life Atma, feeding on the spirit of anything in range of the technique. Build Path: Survivalist
[ ][Style] Soulcatch of the Grey Rat
Develop the ability to permanently siphon Atma from those you kill, essentially stealing part of their soul from the Great Wheel for your own benefit. A deeply taboo technique. Build Path: Style of Legends.
[ ][Style] Grey Rat's Leaping Claws
Develop the use of the bow and arrow in the style, both to hunt beasts and humans. Build Path: Beast-Killer
[ ][Style] Grey Rat's Sheathed Claws
Develop the use of hidden weapons such as blowguns and capped spears. Build Path: Assassin


[ ][Personal] Go to see your friends in your Wyldfae village.
[ ][Personal] Attend to your responsibilities as a minor courtier of Luna.
[ ][Personal] Continue negotiations with King Death and his court.
[ ][Personal] Continue attempting to contact the court of the Zodiac Rat.
[ ][Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Write in a fault.)
[ ][Personal] Hunt Demon Beasts to craft a Treasure for Asuka.
[ ][Personal] Use your influence over Grey Rat style to encourage its discovery by a larger group of practitioners.
[ ][Personal] Continue cultivating and attempt to form a third Core. Cultivation DC60.
 
[X] Plan Unnoticed, Grey Rat Rides The Dragon
-[x][Asuka] Focus on making more Charms from the dead criminal's bones. Atma check at DC50.
-[x][Domain] Encourage Master Reshi to begin pushing for treatment of the Grey Rat students as a sub-sect of Green Dragon.
-[x][Style] Grey Rat's Sheathed Claws
Develop the use of hidden weapons such as blowguns and capped spears. Build Path: Assassin
-[x][Personal] Continue attempting to contact the court of the Zodiac Rat.
 
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[X] Plan: Improvements
-[X][Asuka] Focus on making more Charms from the dead criminal's bones. Atma check at DC50.
-[X][Domain] Encourage Master Reshi to begin teaching all his students Grey Rat Style.
-[X][Style] Grey Rat Scavenges To Live
-[X][Personal] Continue cultivating and attempt to form a third Core. Cultivation DC60.

[X] Plan: Hard work has began
-[X][Asuka] Work on developing Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens. Cultivation check at DC 100 gains an additional technique for the Style. Failure = injury or death.
-[X][Domain] Encourage Master Reshi to begin pushing for treatment of the Grey Rat students as a sub-sect of Green Dragon.
-[X][Style] Soulcatch of the Grey Rat
-[X][Personal] Continue negotiations with King Death and his court.

Evenstar If you do not mind the question what do we look like?
 
[X] Plan: Hard work has began
-[X][Asuka] Work on developing Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens. Cultivation check at DC 100 gains an additional technique for the Style. Failure = injury or death.
-[X][Domain] Encourage Master Reshi to begin pushing for treatment of the Grey Rat students as a sub-sect of Green Dragon.
-[X][Style] Soulcatch of the Grey Rat
-[X][Personal] Continue negotiations with King Death and his court.
 
I don't think we should take Soulcatch until we clean up our style's reputation. Scavenging? Sure. Sheathed Claws? Definitely. The taboo technique that torpedoes the rest of our rep? No.

We need to spread the technique to more people, not keep it from being spread. We already got busted for not spreading it far enough, and for giving it a bad name; let's not repeat the experience.

[X] Plan Unnoticed, Grey Rat Rides The Dragon
[X] Plan: Improvements
 
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I think we need to keep pushing Asuka's cultivation, tbh. Which means more cultivation bonuses, which means giving her more treasures.

Hunting demon-beasts for materials of good value probably requires more personal strength... Which means we prolly should start cultivating again.

I must say tho - man, that is a lot of Lunar.
 
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[X] Plan: Hard work has began
-[X][Asuka] Work on developing Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens. Cultivation check at DC 100 gains an additional technique for the Style. Failure = injury or death.
-[X][Domain] Encourage Master Reshi to begin pushing for treatment of the Grey Rat students as a sub-sect of Green Dragon.
-[X][Style] Soulcatch of the Grey Rat
-[X][Personal] Continue negotiations with King Death and his court.
 
Adare Kaname, Bureaucrat of Grey Rat Style
Fisher King:
You take on the properties of the Style you're responsible for reflexively. Your personality feeds the style, and vice versa.
Cultivator 3
Legendary 3
Revolutionary 1
Lunar 7!!!
Wyld 3
Hunter 4
Warrior 4!!
Assassin 3
Artisan 4
Alchemist 1
Rich 1
Worldly 4!!
Prepared 5
Alert 4
Tranquil 3
Cooperative 2
Disreputable 5
Cowardly 3
Vicious 3
Ghoulish 2
Eight shifts, including three Lunar, two Worldly, two Warrior. Wow.

Guesses re: the Styles:

[ ][Style] Grey Rat Scavenges To Live
Develop the ability to eat and drink raw ambient Life Atma, feeding on the spirit of anything in range of the technique. Build Path: Survivalist
Ghoulish, Gluttonous, Prepared.

[ ][Style] Soulcatch of the Grey Rat
Develop the ability to permanently siphon Atma from those you kill, essentially stealing part of their soul from the Great Wheel for your own benefit. A deeply taboo technique. Build Path: Style of Legends.
Legendary, Disreputable, Ghoulish?

[ ][Style] Grey Rat's Leaping Claws
Develop the use of the bow and arrow in the style, both to hunt beasts and humans. Build Path: Beast-Killer
Hunter, Warrior, Worldly?

[ ][Style] Grey Rat's Sheathed Claws
Develop the use of hidden weapons such as blowguns and capped spears. Build Path: Assassin
Assassin, Tranquil, Disreputable?
 
[X] Plan Unnoticed, Grey Rat Rides The Dragon
-[x][Asuka] Focus on making more Charms from the dead criminal's bones. Atma check at DC50.
-[x][Domain] Encourage Master Reshi to begin pushing for treatment of the Grey Rat students as a sub-sect of Green Dragon.
-[x][Style] Grey Rat's Sheathed Claws
Develop the use of hidden weapons such as blowguns and capped spears. Build Path: Assassin
-[x][Personal] Continue attempting to contact the court of the Zodiac Rat.

[x] Plan Huntress Diana
-[x][Asuka] Focus on making more Charms from the dead criminal's bones. Atma check at DC50.
-[x][Domain] Popularize the production of bone Charms among the students.
-[x][Style] Grey Rat's Leaping Claws
-[x][Personal] Hunt Demon Beasts to craft a Treasure for Asuka.
 
[X] Plan: Improvements
-[x][Asuka] Focus on making more Charms from the dead criminal's bones. Atma check at DC50.
-[X][Domain] Encourage Master Reshi to begin teaching all his students Grey Rat Style.
-[X][Style] Grey Rat Scavenges To Live
-[X][Personal] Continue cultivating and attempt to form a third Core. Cultivation DC60.
 
Is the dc rising for our cultivation and art creation? Why?
The DC for cultivation and technique creation has risen every time it succeeded, yeah.

Presumably 'cause we do the easiest stuff first.

Since I'm in the thread, I'd like to call attention to a thing that's happened again - [] Unnoticed, Grey Rat Rides The Dragon wasn't titled as a plan, and so its votes are getting split between people voting for the entire thing and people just voting for the title. It'd be helpful if people remembered to start their plan names with the word Plan to avoid that.
 
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You know, if we can get a better reputation, we might have an easier time contacting people like the Court of the Zodiac Rat.

More goodwill means more people will want to be seen with us, and offer us job and improvement opportunities.
 
Since I'm in the thread, I'd like to call attention to a thing that's happened again - [] Unnoticed, Grey Rat Rides The Dragon wasn't titled as a plan, and so its votes are getting split between people voting for the entire thing and people just voting for the title. It'd be helpful if people remembered to start their plan names with the word Plan to avoid that.
oh gosh that's my fuck up, im sorry
 
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