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geance. They are like Malfeas, who cries out against his own
imprisonment with boundless fury, ever seeking conflict. For
them violence is not a response, or a tool, but an end unto
itself. This Charm supplements a Join Battle action, adding the
hellfire dancer’s (Martial Arts) dice to the roll, so long as it was
she who initiated the conflict.
Green Su n Sc o u r g e
Cost: 3m; Mins: Martial Arts 2, Essence 2; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Ravenous Fiend Preparedness
With the wrathful fury of Malfeas himself, the hellfire dancer
squeezes the trigger of her weapon and lets fly with a deluge of
baleful green flame. As the algarel ammunition detonates in a
gout of green fire, this blasphemous conflagration is augmented
by the reservoirs of the dancer’s own hatred and wrath. Stoked
into veritable verdant bonfire, the flame that erupts from the
barrel is far more potent and bright than it ought to be. This
Charm supplements an attack with one of the style’s form
weapons, doubling its raw damage, and allowing the dancer to
count tens twice on the damage roll.
Insidious Em e r a l d Co n s u m p t i o n
Cost: 4m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 2; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Green Sun Scourge
No barrier can slow vitriol. It seethes through the toughest
barrier and dissolves to feed it’s never-ending hunger. An unarmed
Martial Arts attack supplemented by this Charm gains
the piercing tag. Furthermore, if this attack is made against a
target that is a subject of one of the hellfire dancer’s negative
Intimacies, it ignores armor altogether.
Hellfire Ballet Fo r m
Cost: 5m; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2; Type: Simple
Keywords: Form-type, Obvious
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Green Sun Scourge, Insidious Emerald
Consumption
The beauty of the hellfire ballet is marred only by the mortal
peril it presents to even distant spectators. Green tongues of
vitriolic fire dance and flicker from the barrels of the hellfire
dancer’s guns while this Form is active. A miasma of Malfean
fumes, green and noxious, ooze out of the weapon and hang
heavy in the air about the dancer, her eyes glinting with the reflected
menace of Ligier. The dancer moves in jerking, abrupt,
angular gestures, pivoting sharply, aiming almost without a
thought, and firing at odd angles. her accuracy does not suffer
from this wild, yet tightly restrained, fury. She is a terrible
whirlwind, a fiend from the depths of hell, the fury of the Titans
given flesh and form.
While this form Charm is active, the hellfire dancer may
use her hellwands to make hand-to-hand attacks (wielding the
butt of the gun as a club or cudgel); mechanically, the gun-butt
uses the traits of a tonfa. The dancer may allocate a number
of bonus dots equal to her (Martial Arts) among the weapon’s
Rate, Accuracy, Damage or Defense. Additionally, Speed can
be reduced, but doing so costs two dots and cannot lower the
Speed bellow 3. No trait can be raised or lowered by more than
two points. These boosts to the weapon’s melee stats do not
benefit the weapon’s use as a ranged weapon. As a final benefit
of this Charm, the hellfire dancer may add half her (Martial
Arts), round up, to her DDV pool against ranged attacks.
Vengeful Ti t a n’s Pr o w e s s
Cost: —(1m); Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Hellfire Ballet Form
The hellfire dancer may spend 1m ready her hellwands (or
other form weapons of this style) instantly, provided they are
on her person, without necessitating the normal miscellaneous
action. Furthermore, if she has the Hellfire Ballet Form active,
she may reload such a weapon reflexively, at a cost of 1m. She
must have the appropriate ammunition for the weapon, however.
Ch a m p i o n o f t h e Baleful Su n
Cost: 8m, 1wp; Mins: Martial Arts 5, Essence 3; Type: Simple
(Speed 5)
Keywords: Obvious
Duration: (Martial Arts) actions
Prerequisite Charms: Vengeful Titan’s Prowess
The movements of the hellfire dancer are unnaturally swift
and precise. Her body blurs as he takes on the speed of the rays
of the Demon City’s green sun. She trails faint green essence
behind her as she becomes so quick she is almost impossible to
see. This Charm enables the hellfire dancer to, once per action,
make a free miscellaneous action without needing a flurry. She
cannot use this action to activate a Charm. However, she could
reflexively attack once with his weapon while leaping across
the yawning chasm between two Chiaroscuran skyscrapers.
While this Charm is active the hellfire dancer also increases
her movement speed by her (Essence) yards.
La u g h t e r a n d To r m e n t Co u n t e r
Cost: 5m (+1wp); Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2; Type:
Reflexive (Step 9)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Counterattack
Duration: Instant or one action
Prerequisite Charms: Vengeful Titan’s Prowess
The virtuosos of the Hellfire Ballet are fearsome combatants.
Just as none can assail the green sun of the Demon City and escape
unscathed, so too do these dancers punish those hubristic
enough to provoke their ire.
The hellfire dancer may reflexively activate this Charm to
make a counterattack against any opponent who attacks her
unsuccessfully. This attack must be a ranged attack made with
a form weapon of this style. If the Form is active, the Martial
artist may instead make a melee attack using the butt of his
firearm. The attack is made at the dancer’s full dicepool. This
attack is a savage blow which automatically forces the subject
to check against knockdown.
By paying an additional Willpower, the hellfire dancer can
extend this effect’s duration until her next action, allowing her
to freely make counterattacks against anyone who tries and
fails to strike her, once per failed attack.
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