Custom Discipline

The Khmer people were founded by a Brahmin, who brought Buddhism from India and fell in love with a Naga Princess, Soma, who became his wife.  Since that time, the Naga, and the waters of the Mekong River, have been celebrated in Khmer art and festival.  This Chi Art combines the studied movements of Martial Arts Kata with use of Yang Chi. Coils of the Naga Princess uses Performance: Dance as a retest, unless otherwise specified.

Basic

Soma’s Dance

With few graceful body movements, the Kuei-jin becomes more like the Naga they seek to emulate.  By spending 1 Yang Chi, they receive two additional, temporary levels of the Martial Arts ability until the end of the current scene.  These levels may be split between Hard, Soft, and Weapon styles as the Kuei-jin prefers, may exceed normal maximums, and may be bid or used just like any other levels of the Martial Arts ability.

The Mekong in Flood

The Mekong delta is the home of the Naga; during the rainy season, the great river swells up and over the riverbanks, and after each rush of water, more sand and stone erodes.  By the time the storms are finished, entire banks may have disappeared.  Like the rising waters of the great river, the Kuei-jin’s attacks overwhelm their opponent.  After making a successful attack using the Martial Arts ability, the Kuei-jin may bid two Physical Traits to make an immediate, reflexive follow up Martial Arts attack against the same target Character.  The Mekong in Flood may be used no more than once each round.

Intermediate

Diverting the Flow of Chi

Beings who wield the various forms of Chi are self contained edies in Creation, small vortices of power; with the precise, snake-like strikes of this technique, those small whorls in Creation’s flow may be interrupted, diverting the Chi to the Kuei-jin’s righteous use.  When making an attack using the Martial Arts ability, the Kuei jin may spend 1 Willpower to also steal 3 points of Chi, of the appropriate type, from the target and add it to their own pool (Yang/Gnosis from Hengeyokai, Yin/Pathos or Blood from Wraiths or Kin-jin, etc).

Spirit Whirlpool

Just as a sinking ship creates a vortex that sucks down fleeing survivors, the Kuei-jin’s graceful, serpentine dance can create a similar effect in the medium of Creation’s Chi flows: a temporary whirlpool of Chi that hinders incorporeal beings.  The Kuei-jin spends 1 Chi (Yin to affect Wraiths, Yang to affect Umbral Spirits, or Demon Chi to affect Demons or Yama Kings) and 1 Willpower to engage all incorporeal characters within ten steps in a mass Social Challenge (retest Performance: Dance).  Any such beings bested in the challenge halve their movement, unless they move toward the Kuei-jin.  In addition, any incorporeal characters with Willpower less than the Kuei-jin’s permanent Willpower score are unable to act entirely while the effect remains in place.  The Kuei-jin must bid an additional two traits on any other actions they take while Spirit Whirlpool is in effect, and may dismiss the power at any time.  This power explicitly crosses the Wall when used, to affect both the Yin and Yang Worlds.

Advanced

Chi Dousing Wave

Smothering an opponent with the dousing power of pure water, the Kuei-jin attempts to metaphysically drown and put out his opponent’s magic using a wave of Chi.  After making a successful Martial Arts attack, the Kuei-jin spends 1 Willpower and 1 Chi of either type.  For the remainder of the current round, all the target’s active powers (not passive, like Fortitude) of lower level than the Kuei-jin’s Dharma are immediately quenched and cease to operate.  Such powers may be reactivated in the meantime, and return at full strength at the end of the round.