Weapons and Armour: This style focuses on inflicting pain and form weapons are based on the same intention. Generally the style is practised unarmed but a character may use whips (as per Exalted but with Damage +0L) or wear elegant leather strips fitted with metal blades. Weapons have a damage of no greater than +1. The Princess keeps her fingernails sharpened like razors to inflict lethal damage. This style emphasises performance rather than blatant combat and elegant cruelty over brutality. Wearing armour blocks the use of this style.
Unnatural Agony Infliction
Cost: 2m; Mins: Martial Arts 2, Essence 2; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Dark Essence courses through the Princess' weapon or through her very hands. She can however camouflage the Obvious effect of this Charm through appropriately coloured accoutrements, she often paints her fingernails black to hide the use of this Charm. On a successful attack the wound inflicts a -1 penalty for every level of damage inflicted as well as the normal penalties for losing health levels.
Lascivious Excoriating Caress
Cost: 4m; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Touch
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: Unnatural Agony Infliction
With this Charm the Princess can turn the most pleasurable acts into indescribable agony. A gentle sweep of her hand can strip the skin from a paramour's face or she can flay flesh from bone with her fingertips.
Any direct physical contact causes lethal injury. All attacks made with this Charm cause lethal damage as her victim's flesh is pulled apart. Even striking her becomes an exercise in self-inflicted pain. On each attack a character touches her they suffer one die of lethal damage.
Cost: 2m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 2; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Unnatural Agony Infliction
Such is the disturbing beauty of the Black Sun Princess her allure leaves a foe utterly helpless before her onslaught. This Charm merges performing a social attack with a physical one. Subtract her Relative Appearance from her opponent's DV.
Mistress' Bitter Pain Revenge
Cost: Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 2; Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK, Touch
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Unnatural Agony Infliction
The Black Sun Princess is a master of pain. Everytime an opponent inflicts a blow that would cause a wound penalty she can use the sympathetic backlash caused by their physical contact to inflict the same wound penalty on her opponent.
Black Sun Princess Form
Cost: 5m; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2; Type: Simple
Keywords: Form-Type
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: Lascivious Excoriating Caress, Mistress' Bitter Pain Revenge
Unending Orgy of Suffering
The Princess was brought into this world to cause pain, pain that brings her unholy joy. What force can stop her when her unleashed appetite is in full flood?
Every time she inflicts a blow that increases her opponent's wound penalty she regains a number of motes equal to the penalty's new rating.
I don't know where the line gaps are coming from. The coding must be crap.
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Black Sun Princess Style (Abyssal Martial Arts)
Changing into the Form of this martial art the Black Princess drives herself into an orgiastic frenzy of violence. Allowing her deepest impulses free rein she becomes an unstoppable ravaging fiend.
When she activates this form she is affected by the full Virtue Flaws for Hedonistic Indulgence and Bezerk Fury. She cannot attempt to control these conditions as the Form requires complete lack of self control. However she gains a number of Virtue Points equal to her Temperance and Valour. While in this form she may spend Willpower points to channel Virtues without reducing her remaining channels. Note that using channels requires them to be used for a task that is appropriate in a similar way to regaining Virtue channels using Phoenix Renewal Tactic. The Form ends when the scene ends or when she uses all her temporary Willpower, whichever comes first. If she does spend all her Willpower she becomes comatose for a number of hours equal to her highest Virtue.
This Charm should really be a later Charm, probably the last one of the Style. It's too powerful to be a Form Charm. I came up with a better one later.
Black Princess Form
Type: Simple (one action)
Key Words: Form-type, Emotion, Social
Duration: One Scene
The Princess becomes the very embodiment of the Hate she felt the night she was Exalted and revels in her murderous triumph. Those unfortunate enough to witness her atrocious acts of cruelty fall to their knees gagging and vomiting, stand dumbstruck in shocked disbelief or flee trying to escape the shocking acts they've witnessed.
To activate this Charm the character must perform a physical of social attack that embodies heartless cruelty to the point it induces thoughts of suicidal despair. She suffers from the Virtue Flaw partially controlled Deliberate Cruelty as she is given in to malice.
The first time another character witnesses her making an attack while in this state finds her unbridled viciousness is so unbearable they must spend a number of Willpower points equal to their Compassion to withstand the sight of the horrifyingly inhuman abuse she subjects people to. If a player choses they may instead spend a Willpower point to make a Conviction roll. Those who pass flee If they pass they have the choice of fleeing and not returning for the rest of the scene to avoid seeing more debasement or standing inactive until an attack directed against them shakes them out of their stupor. If the player fails or they have no Willpower left they are rendered inactive for the rest of the scene while their mind and body revolts at the atrocity they have just watched.
Those who spend the full amount of Willpower are unable to use their Compassion again for as long as the Charm lasts and they remain in her presence. As a backhand advantage they cannot gain Limit from Compassion while in this state.
The Emotion effect of this Charm affects her not the onlookers. She exerts unnatural mental influence on herself to relive the most hate-filled and joyous moment of her unlife. The effect it has on bystanders is a natural effect of her sadistic cruelty. Despite the effect it has on others this Charm does not stop her from using Compassion in the twisted way she feels it. Far from it. She positively revels in the shocked sickness and impotent outrage others feel in her presence when she uses this Charm.
Notes
One problem is the limit of 2 Willpower points per scene people have to spend to resist natural mental influence. I wanted to avoid the use of direct Unnatural mental influence as it seemed too artless, anyone can force people to feel emotions, a real artist inspires them. People for who Compassion is not a dominant Virtue would be unaffected. Those who are Essence users may spend all of their Compassion in Willpower, if it above 2, to create a Compulsion effect that allows them to remain in control of themselves, accruing Limit for doing so. She also incurs a point of Resonance for activating this Charm for drawing on the darkness that allows her to resurrect such hate.
I'm not sure if it's more fitting for a character to gain Resonance from drawing on the power of the Abyssal Exaltation or trying to defy it. The Abyssals says both.
About Willpower use, the rules say that after they spend two Willpower points the attacker must use a stunt to come at the character from an unexpected direction. Use of Charms are often interchangeable with stunts and attacks performed with this Charm should be similar to stunts in any case, especially the initial one that activates the Charm, that's a condition of activation.
Whether or not this Charm qualifies as unnatural mental influence is not clear. I do not want the Charm or even the style to involve unnatural mental influence. The direct effect of it is since she is becoming a sinister Essence empowered embodiment of Abyssal cruelty. On the other hand it doesn't directly cause an emotion, which is at the root UMI, investing Essence into words and actions to give them an unnaturally potent social effect. It doesn't literally invade other people's minds or invest her words and actions with any supernatural power. Rather supernatural power is the cause of her words and actions and she's using them to achieve levels of hatred people are not usually capable of. That's what so disgusts people. It's sort of a half-way state of unnaturally caused mental influence rather than an unnatural effect. The only direct effect is on her.
Also the name is obviously different but I think it might work.
When she activates this form she is affected by the full Virtue Flaws for Hedonistic Indulgence and Bezerk Fury. She cannot attempt to control these conditions as the Form requires complete lack of self control. However she gains a number of Virtue Points equal to her Temperance and Valour. While in this form she may spend Willpower points to channel Virtues without reducing her remaining channels. Note that using channels requires them to be used for a task that is appropriate in a similar way to regaining Virtue channels using Phoenix Renewal Tactic. The Form ends when the scene ends or when she uses all her temporary Willpower, whichever comes first. If she does spend all her Willpower she becomes comatose for a number of hours equal to her highest Virtue.
This Charm should really be a later Charm, probably the last one of the Style. It's too powerful to be a Form Charm. I came up with a better one later.
Black Princess Form
Type: Simple (one action)
Key Words: Form-type, Emotion, Social
Duration: One Scene
The Princess becomes the very embodiment of the Hate she felt the night she was Exalted and revels in her murderous triumph. Those unfortunate enough to witness her atrocious acts of cruelty fall to their knees gagging and vomiting, stand dumbstruck in shocked disbelief or flee trying to escape the shocking acts they've witnessed.
To activate this Charm the character must perform a physical of social attack that embodies heartless cruelty to the point it induces thoughts of suicidal despair. She suffers from the Virtue Flaw partially controlled Deliberate Cruelty as she is given in to malice.
The first time another character witnesses her making an attack while in this state finds her unbridled viciousness is so unbearable they must spend a number of Willpower points equal to their Compassion to withstand the sight of the horrifyingly inhuman abuse she subjects people to. If a player choses they may instead spend a Willpower point to make a Conviction roll. Those who pass flee If they pass they have the choice of fleeing and not returning for the rest of the scene to avoid seeing more debasement or standing inactive until an attack directed against them shakes them out of their stupor. If the player fails or they have no Willpower left they are rendered inactive for the rest of the scene while their mind and body revolts at the atrocity they have just watched.
Those who spend the full amount of Willpower are unable to use their Compassion again for as long as the Charm lasts and they remain in her presence. As a backhand advantage they cannot gain Limit from Compassion while in this state.
The Emotion effect of this Charm affects her not the onlookers. She exerts unnatural mental influence on herself to relive the most hate-filled and joyous moment of her unlife. The effect it has on bystanders is a natural effect of her sadistic cruelty. Despite the effect it has on others this Charm does not stop her from using Compassion in the twisted way she feels it. Far from it. She positively revels in the shocked sickness and impotent outrage others feel in her presence when she uses this Charm.
Notes
One problem is the limit of 2 Willpower points per scene people have to spend to resist natural mental influence. I wanted to avoid the use of direct Unnatural mental influence as it seemed too artless, anyone can force people to feel emotions, a real artist inspires them. People for who Compassion is not a dominant Virtue would be unaffected. Those who are Essence users may spend all of their Compassion in Willpower, if it above 2, to create a Compulsion effect that allows them to remain in control of themselves, accruing Limit for doing so. She also incurs a point of Resonance for activating this Charm for drawing on the darkness that allows her to resurrect such hate.
I'm not sure if it's more fitting for a character to gain Resonance from drawing on the power of the Abyssal Exaltation or trying to defy it. The Abyssals says both.
About Willpower use, the rules say that after they spend two Willpower points the attacker must use a stunt to come at the character from an unexpected direction. Use of Charms are often interchangeable with stunts and attacks performed with this Charm should be similar to stunts in any case, especially the initial one that activates the Charm, that's a condition of activation.
Whether or not this Charm qualifies as unnatural mental influence is not clear. I do not want the Charm or even the style to involve unnatural mental influence. The direct effect of it is since she is becoming a sinister Essence empowered embodiment of Abyssal cruelty. On the other hand it doesn't directly cause an emotion, which is at the root UMI, investing Essence into words and actions to give them an unnaturally potent social effect. It doesn't literally invade other people's minds or invest her words and actions with any supernatural power. Rather supernatural power is the cause of her words and actions and she's using them to achieve levels of hatred people are not usually capable of. That's what so disgusts people. It's sort of a half-way state of unnaturally caused mental influence rather than an unnatural effect. The only direct effect is on her.
Also the name is obviously different but I think it might work.
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