#starmetal

Attunement: 5m Type: Medium (ACC -1/+5/+3/+1/-1, +12 DMG, OVW 4) Tag: Archery (Long), Lethal Hearthstone Slots: 1 Era: The Shogunate(?)

Evocations of Lu Kai’s Quiver

Lu Kai’s Quiver is simply a handle found inside of a brilliantly shining rainbow colored satchel. The quiver need not be filled for reaching in produces an arrow made of anima and a string and bow form of the same light. At the end of the combat, all present forget this display of light unless they pay 1wp (or 1wp per point of Essence of a resonant wielder), remembering only a normal bow.

Terror-Slaying Shot

Cost: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 1

Type: Simple

Keywords: Decisive-only, Resonant

Duration: One roll

Prerequisite: None

The Exalt aims her shot not at her foe, but at her ally. She kills not their body, but their fear. This creates a Soul-Piercing gambit which has a difficulty of (target’s Guile). If the gambit is successful, then her ally’s Resolve is boosted by (her temporary Willpower / 2) or his roll gains (Temporary Willpower / 2) automatic successes to resist the next fear inducing effect. A battlegroup gains (Temporary Willpower / 2) automatic successes on their next rout check.

Resonant: Whenever an ally makes check against fear or has her Resolve attacked by a fear effect, she may activate this evocation reflexively. If she wishes to strike multiple allies in a single hit, she must forfeit her next action and pay 1m per additional ally, but rolls her full initiative for each gambit, at which point she resets to base initiative.

Nerve-Killing Streamer

Cost: 6m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 2

Type: Simple

Keywords: Decisive-only, Dissonant

Duration: One scene

Prerequisite: Terror-Slaying Shot

Soldiers need survive the battle and no longer. This evocation creates a Soul-Piercing gambit like its prerequisite that instead kills her ally’s ability to feel pain. When shot, her ally gains (her temporary Willpower / 2) as -0 health levels that fill with damage before any others. Healing, even magical, cannot heal these fake health levels. At the end of the current scene or combat, these health levels fade, filling the normal health levels of her ally instantly, even if this would kill him.

Dissonant: Wielders dissonant with starmetal create -1 health levels instead.

Falter, Beast Accursed

Cost: 7m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 2

Type: Simple

Keywords: Decisive-Only, Resonant

Duration: Instant

Prerequisite: Terror-Slaying Shot

The will to fight cannot just be bolstered, it can be shot out of a target and killed like a still beating heart. With a soul piercing arrow, the Exalt strikes her targets very will. This creates a Soul Piercing gambit against an enemy like its prerequisite. Instead of removing fear, her arrow induces it. If she succeeds, she rolls an automatic Intimidate action of (Manipulation + Presence) to get the enemy to surrender or flee. If her enemy pays a Willpower in a decision point to resist, the Exalt regains 1wp. This evocation can only affect a single target once per day.

Resonant: The target must spend Willpower equal to the Exalt’s (Essence) to resist. The Exalt still only regains a single point of Willpower.

Cry Havoc Like Feral Hounds

Cost: 15m, 2wp; Mins: Essence 3

Type: Simple

Keywords: Resonant

Duration: Indefinite

Prerequisite: Nerve-Killing Streamer, Falter, Beast Accursed

To turn men into savage beasts in desperation became the only answer to Lu Kai’s eyes when the Wyld swept across creation. With this evocation, the Exalt targets a single range band within the range of the weapon and rolls Manipulation + Archery. Anyone in the range band whose current temporary Willpower is overcome, including the Exalt herself, becomes affected by a supernatural Inspire action that drives them into a furious rage of kill or be killed. They gain a Defining intimacy towards bloodshed and can only exit this state if a character not affected takes a successful Persuade action that draws on a defining intimacy. Even if this occurs, the target must spend 1 point of willpower per point of the Exalt’s essence.

Affected characters gain +1 success on all combat actions, ignore wound penalties, and become immune to fear. They must fight until every enemy is dead and then fight until every ally is dead. If no-one is around out to Long range of the last man standing by the time the rampage ends, he may exit this fugue state naturally. Even then, this evocation is extremely taxing and imposes a Derangement of a level appropriate to the amount of time spent in the state afterwards.

Battlegroups affected by this evocation gain +1 might, become immune to fear, and add the Exalt’s (Essence) to their Magnitude levels. When they eventually reduce to Size 1, they break apart and gain the normal benefits (and drawbacks) of this evocation.