Feng Shui White Ninja
From: TheFaceless Posted on: 5/3/2003 6:00 pm
To: ALL
Message: 201.1
Question for the "in the know" folks.

I just dug my FS books out of the closet and I was going through the Back for Seconds Daedalus supplement. It seems to me that the Kuji-Kiri Schtick makes her *the* most powerful character. Is she really supposed to be able to use this thing more than once per sequence?

p.s. It doesn't trigger the Conditional Escalation Creature Power does it?

From: CCAMFIELD Posted on: 5/4/2003 1:25 am
To: TheFaceless
Message: 201.2
in reply to: 201.1
I haven't a clue what you're talking about, and since Back For Seconds has been out of print for quite a while... I imagine many of us won't be able to help ;)

What IS the Kuji-Kiri Schtick?

From: Sensei Posted on: 5/4/2003 3:54 pm
To: CCAMFIELD
Message: 201.3
in reply to: 201.2
I asked my resident Old Master, Mr. Wang Chung, about this post, and he tells me that the term "kuji kiri" is Japanese for 'Atomic Wedgie'. Indeed, if the White Ninja has the dark knowledge of this schtick, her powers would be formidible!
From: TheFaceless Posted on: 5/4/2003 11:34 pm
To: CCAMFIELD
Message: 201.4
in reply to: 201.2
I'm surprised this supplement was never reprinted. It's a good read, but of questionable use for play. Well I guess that's why it was never reprinted.

Anyway, for the curious:
The White Ninja is a mercenary assassin and was Quan Lo's girlfriend "back in the day".
Bod 6, Chi 5 (Fu 10), Mnd 7, Ref 8 (Spd 12)
Skills: Deceit 13, Fix-it 12, Guns 11, Info/Eastern Philosophy 10, Info/Secret War 9, Intimidation 14, Intrusion 18, Martial Arts 18, Sabotage 14
Fu Schticks: Signature Weapon (Nine Hudgred Souls), Willow Step, Walk of a Thousand Steps, Friend of Darkness, Dark's Soft Whisper, Blade of Darkness, Gathering of the Darkness, Strike from Darkness, Gathering of the Clouds, Awesome Downpour, Rain of Fury, Torrent of Fury, Prodigious Leap, Abundant Leap, Flying Sword, Loyal Steel, Vertical Charge
Unique Schticks:
Kuji-Kiri: ...if her hands are not bound and she has accepted an item of value to kill someeon, she may spend 1 point of Chi and 1 shot to reduce that person's AV's by 2 until the end of the sequence
...irrelevant stuff...
Weapons: Nine Hundred Souls [13], Shuriken [7]

She could probably even kick Draco's ass since her speed almost always lets her go first and by the time anybody elses shot rolls around that person's AV's are way down.

You guys DO know who Draco is, right? ;D

Maybe the author of this section, Carl Rigney is still on the 'net somewheres..

From: CCAMFIELD Posted on: 5/5/2003 12:49 am
To: TheFaceless
Message: 201.5
in reply to: 201.4
I sure as hell wouldn't allow that to be used more than once per sequence. That's ludicrously powerful. Does it even specify whether it's talking about Martial Arts (or does it apply to Sorcery, Guns, etc as well).

Bloody unique schticks...:)