Cup Combat
Charms
Heart-Cutting Style
Cost: 1 mote
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Cup: 1
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: None
The character practices such arts and
aesthetics as to rend the witnesses’ spirits and make them helpless with emotion.
The raksha invokes this Charm after making a successful Cup-shaping or
Staff-shaping attack. This Charm lets the raksha count extra successes twice
for the purposes of determining damage.
Untouchable Performer
Technique
Cost: 1 mote
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Cup: 3
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Heart-Cutting Style
In the fashion of the Entertainer
raksha, the character makes herself sacrosanct. She
can parry any one attack with Cup shaping. Her player rolls Conviction +
Performance + shaping weapon defense and adds her Cup in extra dice. This Charm
cannot generate a defense from nothing — there must be an initial dice pool for
it to add to.
Dissonance Of Principles
Cost: 1 mote per die
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Cup: 3
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Heart-Cutting Style
The raksha’s art stuns and disorients
his target, scattering patterns of cascading conceptual dissonance through the
victim’s mind. The raksha spends up to twice his Valor in motes and makes a
Cup-shaping or Staff-shaping attack. If he hits, this Charm replaces his
shaping damage with stunning damage. He does one level of stunning damage for
every mote spent on this Charm. Extra successes add to his damage as usual.
Stunning damage is soaked only with Temperance. Each success on the damage roll
imposes a -1 penalty to the target’s shaping dice pools for the next three
scenes. Stunning damage is not cumulative. Only the highest result counts, even
if this would shorten the duration of the stunning.
Thousand Tiny Hooks
Technique
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: One scene
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Cup: 4
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Dissonance of
Principles
Through her shaping arts, the raksha
plants a thousand tiny hooks in the target’s soul. The character makes a
Cup-shaping or Staff-shaping entanglement attack, receiving the benefits of any
readied clinch enhancers. This Charm adds her Essence in dice to the shaping
dice pools to inflict, maintain, control and use the entanglement. This Charm
also adds her Essence to the damage of her entanglement-based shaping attacks.
Although a simple Charm, this Charm can
be invoked while entangled. It cannot be placed in a combo with extra-action
Charms.
Beguilement
Cost: 5 motes, 3 gossamer
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Staff: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Thousand Tiny Hooks
Technique
The raksha becomes utterly charming, to
the point where it is impossible to resist his suggestions. His player rolls
Manipulation + Socialize as a Staff-shaping attack. This Charm adds the raksha’s
Charisma in dice to a successful attack’s pre-soak damage.
Used against creatures with no Staff
Grace, this Charm functions as a work of glamour. The raksha must interact with
the target, who must be in a reasonably calm and receptive
state — it cannot be used in physical combat or to quiet a mob. If the shaping
attack succeeds, the target accepts any reasonably phrased suggestion or
request as natural. The target will not directly kill herself,
but she can easily be manipulated into lethal situations. She will happily give
the raksha all her warm clothing in the midst of a snowstorm, consent to
ravishment or attack the raksha’s enemies. This Charm does not work on targets whose
Wits + Essence or Willpower are greater than the raksha’s
Charisma.
This is a Staff-shaping Charm.
Swift Wings Of Song
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Cup: 3
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Untouchable
Performer Technique
Preempting initiative, the raksha sets
the stage for her performance with a whisper of song, a splash of color or the hint
of an idea. This Charm lets the raksha win shaping initiative automatically
over a single opponent.
Fair Folk cannot split their dice pool
in the same turn they use Swift Wings of Song. Two characters using Swift Wings
of Song in competition roll for initiative normally.
Furious Maelstrom
Craft
Cost: 5 motes, 1 Willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Extra Action
Minimum Cup: 5
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Swift Wings of Song
The raksha crafts a terrible wave of
madness and desire that washes out across the local weave of fate. The raksha
makes a Cup-shaping or Staff-shaping attack, applying the results against a
number of enemies equal to twice her Essence.
Subversion And Transformation
Artifice
Cost: 3 motes, 1 gossamer
Duration: One story
Type: Simple
Minimum Cup: 1
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: None
The raksha plans and constructs a
shaping weapon for her art. This Charm crafts a chimera, a heart thorn, a harness
of razored dreams or a harness of twisting words from
Essence and gossamer. In addition to the weapon’s base qualities, the raksha
can divide a number of points equal to her Cup between its speed, accuracy, damage,
defense and rate. The creation is a permanent glamour that lasts for one story.
Overriding Construct
Of Fate
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Cup: 2
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Subversion and
Transformation Artifice
The raksha learns to craft patterns of
fate seamless enough to seal an opponent out of the ongoing story. The raksha
makes a Cup-shaping or Staff-shaping attack. This Charm makes the attack
unblockable. In addition, if the raksha hits, this Charm knocks the opponent
into an adjacent waypoint.