25 Lotus Petals

Prereqs: Anangeon
This enhances the use of Anangeon. The
adept gains a new way to use that Charm.
He can activate it while dosing himself
with a poison; using the Charm in this
way costs 3 motes rather than 5. He may
consume as many doses as his Essence with
one activation of the Charm. As he takes
the poison, he suffers whatever convulsive
or hallucinatory effects it has, but these
subside in half the time. He does not suffer
damage. Afterward, the toxin is stored in
his body. as long as he keeps the motes
to activate the Charm committed. When
using Anangeon to enhance an attack, the
adept may deliver one dose of the poison
stored in his body rather than a dose of
the Antiphrasis toxin. If he decommits the
motes before delivering all doses of the
poison he has stored, he suffers the full
effects of those poisons.
It is possible to use this Secret multiple
times, in order to store larger amounts of
toxin.
PARADIASTOLE: HE IS PATIENT
Cost:
2 motes
Duration: Instant
Type:
Simple
Prereqs: Anangeon
This enhances the use of Anangeon. The
adept learns to produce a paralytic toxin,
which weakens and slows victims rather
than killing them. When he uses Anangeon,
he may choose to deliver this venom; the
victim must roll his Essence + Resistance
in a reflexive test against a difficulty of the
adept’s Essence; upon failure he loses a dot
of Dexterity. Dexterity lost in this manner
returns in a number of turns equal to the
adept’s Essence. It is an effort to produce
this venom; delivering it increases the cost
of Anangeon by 2 motes.
OEONISMUS: O, THAT I HAD
KNOWN IT BEFORE
Cost:
None
Duration: Permanent
Type:
Reflexive
Prereqs: Prodiorthosis,
Hendiadys
This enhances the use of Antiphrasis. The
Secrets that grant new options to Anangeon
can now be used with Antiphrasis as well.
TMESIS: QUICK-CLAW-WITTED
Cost:
3 motes
Duration: Instant
Type:
Reflexive
Min. MA: 4
Min. Essence: 3
Prereqs: Scorpion Form
Caught between the adept’s two ready
claws, the opponent is vulnerable. The adept
may use this Charm when a target attempts
to dodge one of his attacks. He makes an
additional attack, at his full offensive pool,
against that same target; this unarmed
Martial Arts attack is resolved prior to the
triggering dodge, and any ill effects caused
by this attack’s success, such as wound
penalties, are explicitly applied against that
dodge. This Charm is a counterattack, and
cannot be used in response to a dodge that
is made to defend against a counterattack.
HYPERBATON: BETWEEN WITH
BARB THE MAN AND SWORD
Cost:
None
Duration: Permanent
Type:
Reflexive
Prereqs: Tmesis
This improves the adept’s usage of Tmesis,
allowing him to activate the Charm in
response to a hand-to-hand attack. He cannot
activate it in response to a counterattack.
When using Tmesis in this way, the adept
may choose to interfere with the attack;
after his counterattack has been rolled,
he may declare that some quantity of the
successes rolled serve as parry successes
against the triggering attack, rather than
counterattack successes. Using Tmesis in
this way qualifies as a parry attempt.
EPITROPE: WRITE YOUR OWN EPIC
Cost:
None
Duration: Permanent
Type:
Reflexive
Prereqs: Tmesis
This enhances the use of Tmesis. When
the adept has successfully delivered a
counterattack via that Charm, he may
optionally spend 1 Willpower to drain the
power from a symbol that the victim has
empowered, causing the effect that symbol
controls to cease. Effects that depend on
empowered symbols include, but are not
limited to, the Scriptures and Sutras of
various Sidereal magics, certain Linguistics
Charms, and any effect that enhances
a physical object, such as the Ritual of
Elemental Empowerment or Geomantic
Conveyance Glyph. The symbol in question
must have the victim’s Essence committed
to it or be in physical contact with him for
the adept to drain it.
SKOTISON: A FAILURE OF ARTISTRY
Cost:
None
Duration: Permanent
Type:
Reflexive
Prereqs: Sermocinatio, Epitrope
This enhances the use of Epitrope
and Sermocinatio. When either Secret
deactivates an effect, the adept can pay
the activation cost of that effect to transfer
it to himself so that he enjoys its benefits
instead.
THAUMASMUS: O, HOW HE DOTH
FIGHT!
Cost:
7 motes, 1 Willpower
Duration: Instant
Type:
Extra Actions
Min. MA: 5
Min. Essence: 3
Prereqs: 3 Style Secrets requiring
Essence 3
The adept imitates the scorpion’s fighting
strategy, immobilising his adversary with
claws and then striking with his poisonous
tail. The adept makes as many unarmed
Martial Arts attacks as his Essence, all
directed toward the same target. For each
attack, he may choose to immobilise or
poison.
An immobilising attack is a clinch attempt.
The adept may make as many of these as
he likes, but may only maintain one fewer
clinches than weapons he is wielding
(arms constitute weapons for this exercise,
but legs do not) if he wishes to continue
delivering attacks.
A poisoning attack is enhanced as if by use
of the Antiphrasis Charm.
EPITHETON: ILL-TEMPERED
SWORD
Cost:
2x motes, (Willpower)
Duration: Instant
Type:
Reflexive
Min. MA: 5
Min. Essence: 4
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