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Tricks Up Your Sleeve It's knives. The trick is knives.
Fighting fair is for people who aren’t cowards. You prefer to take advantage of when other people fight fair, chiming in with a well-timed strike or two that surprises the enemy while they’re distracted. You know, as they say, those with sharp wits should have even sharper knives... okay I don't know if they say that, but it sounds kinda cool.
You gain the following benefits as long as another hostile animate being (to the target) is within 5 feet of the target and you are engaged in combat with knives.
+2 dice to all rolls with knives. You may Defend against firearm attacks from any range using knives.
You also gain the following effects:
- Point Control: Called Shots that you attempt only require a Contested Outcome of 2 for small targets and 4 for tiny targets.
- Falling Crane Strike: If you move and then make a successful attack against a target closer than the full distance you could have moved, you may choose to travel the excess movement in a straight line beyond the target.
- Two Swords are better than One: If you are wielding more than one melee weapon, you may Attack with all using the highest Weapon Damage, plus 1 for each additional weapon. If you reserve a weapon, any Clash or Defend roll you make is -1 Difficulty, and mob penalties are ingored.
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Charlatans
“Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.”
― Criss Jami
Nowadays you can't go a day without some phony prophet trying to peddle their wares to you.
Driven by the increased interest in the supernatural, charlatans from palm readers to televangelists are everywhere. And while the vast majority of witches, psychics, magicians, hypnotists, cures, potions, faith healers, and clairvoyants are complete fakes, they do make a living.
As the saying goes, "it's easier for an actor to make it in alternative medicine than Hollywood."
Most people scoff at these clearly-phony supernatural services, yet those same people often buy into at least one scam.
The most dangerous charlatans are the self-styled monster hunters who carry a mall-ninja arsenal and guns with silver bullets. Most have never encountered anything supernatural and do absolutely nothing besides burn some sage and patrol the area for a night or two. Even so, those who are superstitious, fearful, or desperate enough will hire them to solve the problems they simply don't understand. In some cases with disastrous results.
For Contractors, charlatans are red herrings and obstacles. Clumsy fakes that conjure a smokescreen of misinformation and escalate the situations they're in.
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Melee Mastery Gifts
Way of The Protagonist
You Were Already Dead.
You move in a lightning-fast flash of blades, still visible to the naked eye, however what isn't visible is the injury. At least, not until the sword is sheathed. The Art of Surprise And Big Swords, it's called.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in combat with Katanas.
+2 dice to all rolls with Katanas. You may Defend against firearm attacks from any range using Katanas.
You also gain the following effects:
- Dismember: If one of your attacks causes a Battle Scar, you may choose for it to be some form of dismemberment, depending on the Severity of the Injury you caused.
- Falling Crane Strike: If you move and then make a successful attack against a target closer than the full distance you could have moved, you may choose to travel the excess movement in a straight line beyond the target.
Tegridy Light-Sabers
Real tegridy farming.
With the weed stuck flowing through his veins, he feels and sees everything slowed down. He uses this to think faster, of course, because of the weed he cannot think too smart. As well as the fact his heavy physical activities he gets high without even smoking, because of the weed already in his system.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in combat with melee weapons.
Your attacks with melee weapons deal +3 Bonus Damage. Armor is fully effective against this damage.
You also gain the following effects:
- Bullet Parry: You may React to and Defend against firearms and other projectiles with melee weapons.
- Reminder: Bonus Damage stacks with Weapon Damage, but does not stack with any other Bonus Damage. Instead, the highest Bonus Damage is used.
Revolutionary War Soldier
"Firearms are unreliable I will rely on my blade."
Jacobs life before the civil war he was fighting for the british to subjagte the unruly Americans. Firearms were unreliable so he spent this lifetime mastering his use of weapons.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in combat with melee weapons.
+2 dice to all rolls with melee weapons. You may Defend against firearm attacks from any range using melee weapons.
You also gain the following effects:
- Point Control: Called Shots that you attempt only require a Contested Outcome of 2 for small targets and 4 for tiny targets.
Expert Swordsman
Having been trained in the art of swordsmanship by his father, Woebhiro possesses expertise in handling katanas while in combat to deadly effect.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in combat with melee weapons.
+2 dice to all rolls with melee weapons. You may Defend against firearm attacks from any range using melee weapons.
You also gain the following effects:
- Falling Crane Strike: If you move and then make a successful attack against a target closer than the full distance you could have moved, you may choose to travel the excess movement in a straight line beyond the target.
- Quick Draw: You may draw and equip yourself with any melee weapon on your person or within arm’s reach as a Free Action, as long as it is not being wielded by someone else.
Hunter's Training
Caleb has been gifted with supernatural proficiency with melee weapons after his first hunt.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in combat with SOA signature weapons (daggers, swords, cutlasses, harpoons, spears, hooks).
+2 dice to all rolls with SOA signature weapons (daggers, swords, cutlasses, harpoons, spears, hooks). You may Defend against firearm attacks from any range using SOA signature weapons (daggers, swords, cutlasses, harpoons, spears, hooks).
You also gain the following effects:
- Quick Draw: You may draw and equip yourself with any melee weapon on your person or within arm’s reach as a Free Action, as long as it is not being wielded by someone else.
- Two Swords are better than One: If you are wielding more than one melee weapon, you may Attack with all using the highest Weapon Damage, plus 1 for each additional weapon. If you reserve a weapon, any Clash or Defend roll you make is -1 Difficulty, and mob penalties are ignored. Maximum +5 Damage from bonus weapons.
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Melee Mastery Gifts
Tools of the Trade
The ninja is a master of a wide variety of martial weapons. They kill quickly and quietly.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in combat with melee ninja weapons.
+2 dice to all rolls with melee ninja weapons. You may Defend against firearm attacks from any range using melee ninja weapons.
You also gain the following effects:
- Assassin: If your attack Injures your target, they cannot make a sound, even incidentally, for a single Round. Even the sound of their body and equipment dropping to the ground is silenced.
- Falling Crane Strike: If you move and then make a successful attack against a target closer than the full distance you could have moved, you may choose to travel the excess movement in a straight line beyond the target.