Vampire: the Middle Kingdom - MrGone's Character Sheets

Shintai Disciplines
Possession of Shintai Disciplines allows a Cathayans to apply her Chi to augment her physical capabilities. Each Godbody
Discipline has a Chi Attunement Attribute, allowing the character to spend Chi to increase it – each Chi point grants one bonus dot.
The Attribute in question can be increased by up to three dots, and the duration of the boost is one scene. The type or types of Chi that
can be spent to increase the listed Attribute is listed in parentheses.
Blood Shintai
Chi Attunement: Strength (Yin or Yang)
1 Permeate: By spending a point of Chi (either type), the vampire may manipulate the blood levels of her body for one scene,
shifting it at will. She gains a natural Armor rating of 1 against all bashing attacks. She can easily escape from bonds, slip through
narrow spaces (like between bars), or perform other effects related to compressing or swelling her body; she may add her Blood Shintai
rating to any roll involving such attempts. In addition, she may make changes to her facial features by selectively swelling and
shriveling the flesh; this requires a [Stamina + Subterfuge + Blood Atemi] roll. An observer can determine the vampire's identity (or at
least tell that her features “aren't right”) with a [Wits + Composure] roll.
11 Blood Atemi: With a touch, a point of Chi and a [Intelligence + Medicine + Blood Shintai] roll, the Hungry Demon can
manipulate a victim's blood levels to detrimental effect. A mortal or living shen suffers an amount of bashing damage equal to the
vampire's net successes after an opposed [Stamina + Composure] roll; this damage is halved for undead (damage rounded up). If the
damage done exceeds the victim's Stamina, he's severely nauseated and dizzy, and at -2 to all die pools for a scene. By targeting a limb
instead of one's entire circulatory system, the vampire can incapacitate that limb if the victim fails to resist the effect. A rarely used
aspect of Blood Atemi facilitates mortal's healing, assuming said mortal gets bed rest; each success on the activation roll adds one day
to the victim's healing (a Kuei-jin rolls three successes for Blood Atemi on a patient that has rested for five days; the next day, subject
is treated as having rested for eight days).
111 Flow Like Blood: By spending a point of Chi of either type, the character may add her Blood Shintai rating to her
Defense against physical attacks (but not against fire, Chi-based attacks or other such effects). In addition, the vampire may apply half
her Defense against physical attacks that Defense normally doesn't defend against (such as firearms). These effects last for one scene.
1111 Bloodlash: The vampire must slice open her wrist and spend a point of either Yin or Yang Chi to create a long,
sinuous whip of semi-liquid yet razor-sharp blood. The length of the whip is in yards, with the Virtue in question
corresponding to the type of Chi spent. The Cathayan may either attack with the weapon, doing lethal damage, or attempt to grapple
with the whip at +2 to the roll; in either case, Weaponry is used (not Brawl), and the active Chi Virtue is used in place of the vampire's
Strength ([ + Weaponry to hit, Virtue is used to resolve grapples, etc.).
11111 Spirit Blood: Using this versatile art, the vampire can either use her blood to animate an object by waking the spirit
within it, or freeze a free spirit in stasis.
Object animation costs a variable number of Yang Chi, depending on the quality and mass of the item: one Chi per point of
Size of the item is usually sufficient to grant it life; however, items of low quality require an additional Chi point or two to animate, as
the spirits within them are harder to rouse. An animated object is flexible and can bend to move (despite the material it's composed of),
has Strength equal to its Size, and Dexterity equal to half its animator's Yang (rounded up); the item lacks Stamina or Health, and
instead uses Durability and Structure. Speed is calculated as for a character, while Defense equals its Dexterity. The damage it does is
left to the Storyteller's discretion: generally, the object's attack bonus is equal to its Durability, and damage is bashing unless it has
cutting edges or sharp points that could inflict lethal. Note that Attributes only apply to objects that could have them – an awakened
table or could move about on its legs, and thus would have Dexterity and Speed ratings, though might find it difficult to attack and
apply its Strength; meanwhile, a lamp post rooted to the ground wouldn't have Speed, but could dodge attacks by weaving about
(Defense) and slam opponents for Strength damage; an animate statue can move about and fight freely. The item remains animated for
one scene, during which time it obeys the Kuei-jin to the best of its ability (though may display a stubborn or malicious streak,
especially if the Cathayan that created it has a high P'o).
Spirit-freezing requires the Wan Kuei to first be able to see the spirit (per the rules for Chi Virtues), and then hit it with her
Yin-charged blood. This is often difficult, as she must contend with the Wall as well as the spirit's Defense when attacking.
Regardless of the nature of contact, this attack costs one or more Yin Chi. Forcing contact with blood can involve opening a vein and
splattering the spirit, or hitting it with an expectorated bolus of blood; either variation requires a [Dexterity + Firearms + Blood Shintai]
- Wall roll against the spirit's Defense and has a range of [Yin Virtue x 10 feet]; each Yin Chi beyond the first adds a bonus die to the
attack roll. A successful attack immediately freezes the spirit. Alternately, a Demon using the Yin version of Bloodlash could strike
spirits with the intent to freeze them: roll to attack as normal, but subtract the Wall from the vampire's roll; a successful attack does no
damage but freezes the victim. A frozen spirit immediately calcifies into a white, jade-like statue and falls out of whatever Mirror Land
it was in and into the material realm, completely immobile and helpless. The pissed spirit will return to normal in a scene and will
immediately go back to its spirit world, or sooner if the statue is attacked and destroyed before then.