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The Centipede's Dilemma [Exalted Kung Fu Quest]

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[X] The Ninety-Nine More, a vicious grappling move capable of crippling an enemy's limb forever, allowing the user to specifically deny the use of however many of the victim's techniques they feel like taking from them.
 
[X] The Ninety-Nine More, a vicious grappling move capable of crippling an enemy's limb forever, allowing the user to specifically deny the use of however many of the victim's techniques they feel like taking from them.

Not only do I love the way that this mirrors Road's wounds, but I also agree with the arguments that we should aim for a punishing technique that can be applied to a variety of crimes. If all we have is a soul-cursing technique, everyone is getting soul-cursed. Disabling someone's limb can probably be applied in degrees (hopefully). We might be able to leave them down just a thumb or something, or we can go all the way to disabling a leg or arm, even multiple if they deserve it
 
[X] The Soul-Scarring Embrace, a spiritual venom which creates a traumatic vision and sears it into its victim's psyche, forever associating thoughts of violence and the martial arts with overwhelming dread and horror in their mind.
 
[X] The Soul-Scarring Embrace, a spiritual venom which creates a traumatic vision and sears it into its victim's psyche, forever associating thoughts of violence and the martial arts with overwhelming dread and horror in their mind.
 
[X] The Ninety-Nine More, a vicious grappling move capable of crippling an enemy's limb forever, allowing the user to specifically deny the use of however many of the victim's techniques they feel like taking from them.
 
[X] The Ninety-Nine More, a vicious grappling move capable of crippling an enemy's limb forever, allowing the user to specifically deny the use of however many of the victim's techniques they feel like taking from them.
 
[X] The Soul-Scarring Embrace, a spiritual venom which creates a traumatic vision and sears it into its victim's psyche, forever associating thoughts of violence and the martial arts with overwhelming dread and horror in their mind.
 
[x] The Ninety-Nine More, a vicious grappling move capable of crippling an enemy's limb forever, allowing the user to specifically deny the use of however many of the victim's techniques they feel like taking from them.

The Soul-Scarring Embrace is honestly too horrifying
 
[x] The Ninety-Nine More, a vicious grappling move capable of crippling an enemy's limb forever, allowing the user to specifically deny the use of however many of the victim's techniques they feel like taking from them.
 
[X] The Ninety-Nine More, a vicious grappling move capable of crippling an enemy's limb forever, allowing the user to specifically deny the use of however many of the victim's techniques they feel like taking from them.

Hmm, on second thought.
 
[X] The Soul-Scarring Embrace, a spiritual venom which creates a traumatic vision and sears it into its victim's psyche, forever associating thoughts of violence and the martial arts with overwhelming dread and horror in their mind.
 
[X] The Soul-Scarring Embrace, a spiritual venom which creates a traumatic vision and sears it into its victim's psyche, forever associating thoughts of violence and the martial arts with overwhelming dread and horror in their mind.
 
[X] The Soul-Scarring Embrace, a spiritual venom which creates a traumatic vision and sears it into its victim's psyche, forever associating thoughts of violence and the martial arts with overwhelming dread and horror in their mind.

"I'll show you my special attack: CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL STRIKE!"'

Very white, pacifism effect. Fits the Golden Road.
 
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[x] The Ninety-Nine More, a vicious grappling move capable of crippling an enemy's limb forever, allowing the user to specifically deny the use of however many of the victim's techniques they feel like taking from them.
 
[X] The Ninety-Nine More, a vicious grappling move capable of crippling an enemy's limb forever, allowing the user to specifically deny the use of however many of the victim's techniques they feel like taking from them.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, and that is enough.
 
[X] The Soul-Scarring Embrace, a spiritual venom which creates a traumatic vision and sears it into its victim's psyche, forever associating thoughts of violence and the martial arts with overwhelming dread and horror in their mind.

Personally I feel like the people saying we need to be able to dial-yield our crippling forbidden technique meant to rob a Martial Artist of their art are kind of missing the point, and might actually be the ones who start seeing our secret forbidden capstone power as something to solve all problems with, since its 'not as bad'.

Here's an idea. If someone's crimes don't seem that bad, we can just not horrifically traumatize or cripple them. Most practitioners you're likely to encounter are still baseline human enough that after being beaten to unconciousness you can chain them up and they'll lose most of their threat. Only people of Shaw-level or greater could maybe be expected to still win a fight while their feet and hands are chained, and probably not against more than one or two people.

There is usually the option of just throwing people in jail, assuming the place has one.
 
[X] The Ninety-Nine More, a vicious grappling move capable of crippling an enemy's limb forever, allowing the user to specifically deny the use of however many of the victim's techniques they feel like taking from them.
 
[X] The Agony-Of-One-Hundred-Hells, a magical poison which permanently taints the nervous system of its victim, leaving them with a seemingly intact body which undergoes excruciating pain whenever they exert significant effort.
 
[X] The Agony-Of-One-Hundred-Hells, a magical poison which permanently taints the nervous system of its victim, leaving them with a seemingly intact body which undergoes excruciating pain whenever they exert significant effort.
 
[X] The Soul-Scarring Embrace, a spiritual venom which creates a traumatic vision and sears it into its victim's psyche, forever associating thoughts of violence and the martial arts with overwhelming dread and horror in their mind.

This gives them a chance to actually do something else with their lives, to see other paths then violence. Irrepairably break a persons' limbs, and they are now barely able to function in society at all. And just because someone can't use that special grappling technique doesn't mean they can't stab someone anymore. They can still harm the weak, and may do so for the sake of venting their frustration. I want something they can give them a chance at another perspective, if they have the strength to try.
 
I wasn't going to vote. All of the options are cruelty, and each move seems designed for the sake of cruelty and vengeance rather than any kind of justice or reformation.

[X] The Ninety-Nine More, a vicious grappling move capable of crippling an enemy's limb forever, allowing the user to specifically deny the use of however many of the victim's techniques they feel like taking from them.

This is less psychotically overeager to inflict permanent torture on people. It's less like inflicting a fate worse than death and more an actual alternative to outright murder. It's also similar to what Road herself has suffered, meaning Road (unlike us the audience) actually understands firsthand what she's doing to a person.

I also feel like I should point out that, as this is the prologue, Nashai has a high chance of regaining her lost martial arts and meeting Road again in the future. Keep in mind how Nashai herself might react, since she might not conveniently disappear into the background of the story never to bother us or Road ever again.
 
The real problem here is that all of these options are fodder for a dramatic shounen revenge story.

-Ninety Nine ruins their techniques, but then they'll just come back later with new, more powerful techniques after a dramatic training arc.
-Hundred Hell Agony will work just fine until you run into a proper protagonist who can fight through the pain with pure willpower
-Soul Scarring will get us shanked the second we Embrace an edgy-but-well-intentioned extremist like Thanos (I swear there are a ton of better examples, but I can't think of any at the moment)
 
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Well, yes.

"Person gets kung-fu crippled, finds way to overcome crippling" is a staple of kung-fu and shonen stories. Right up there with having the masked enemy turn out to be the love interest, and the old person who seems harmless but is secretly badass.

Bleach didn't invent the concept of people getting depowered, it just used it.

Golden Road is a kung-fu movie anti-hero, and she's apparently a traditionalist. In the next arc, she's going to uncover a secret martial-arts badass by dropping a full teacup and watching the other person catch it reflexively.
 
[X] The Soul-Scarring Embrace, a spiritual venom which creates a traumatic vision and sears it into its victim's psyche, forever associating thoughts of violence and the martial arts with overwhelming dread and horror in their mind.
 
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