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Awakening is a chance occurrence - you can't control whether or not it happens. Once you've Awakened, though, becoming a Guardian is a choice. Nobody will force you to put your life on the line to fight monsters. Those who do choose to fight, however, are recruited by a group called the Guardian Association, which manages all Guardians in Nistona, scheduling their activities and monitoring their condition.

Guardians have two main duties: Patrols and emergency missions. Patrols are weekly forays into the Minus World to find and eliminate monsters before they can become a threat to Nistona. Monsters will often pass through the barrier in the Minus World, then lurk there, gathering their forces before making an attack - the Guardian patrols are to prevent this, rooting out nests before they become a serious threat. In order to patrol safely, Guardians almost always operate in teams, ranging from two to six members.

Patrol schedules and routes change regularly - if they remain static for too long, the monsters learn the patterns and start to evade them. The broad objective of a patrol is to follow your route, investigating any signs of monster activity, and find and eliminate the monsters. If the monsters become too dangerous to overcome, retreat - they aren't yet invading Nistona, so you can run away, note the nest location, and the Guardian Association can send a larger force to root it out.

Emergency missions happen when monsters try to invade Nistona directly. The first sign of this is strange glitches in reality, at which point the clock is already ticking. When a team discovers a monster intrusion in process, they must immediately gather, alerting the Guardian Association if possible, then transform - while transformed, Guardians can sense the energy given off by an Ingress being expanded by monsters. From there, the Guardian team should cross over into the Minus World and wipe out the monsters before they manage to cross over into our world.

For whatever reason, Ingress locations are correlated strongly with human population density. Most Ingresses appear in Kastad, with a few appearing in other towns, but Ingresses in the countryside are vanishingly rare (every town has at least one Guardian team assigned to it for this reason). On an emergency mission, retreating is often more dangerous than staying to fight - if you fall back without stopping the monsters, then they'll reach Nistona, where Guardian powers are much weaker. At that point, some monsters will go wild and attack anything they can find, but some others will charge straight for the Pearl. Thankfully, their are no recorded instances of one reaching the Pearl - one can only imagine what disaster might unfold if they did.

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The most respected institute of learning in Nistona, Pearl Academy is a sprawling campus on the edge of Kastad, near the Temple of the Pearl. Students from middle school through college can learn there, and the quality of the campus and the provided education are both excellent. Some students commute from Kastad, others opt for the comfortable and affordable on-campus housing instead.

Pearl Academy's not-so-secret secret is that among its students are nearly all active, registered Guardians. Some live openly as Guardians, others prefer to fight under assumed aliases to keep their personal lives separate from their battles. For both groups, teachers and facilities are available on campus for Guardian training, typically held after normal classes have ended for the day. Pearl Academy is a place for Guardians to live, learn, train, and prepare for the battles that await them in the Minus World.

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Monsters come in four commonly-used classifications: Minions, Commanders, Corruptions, and Aberrations. Minions are the weakest and most common type of monster, but even they can be extremely dangerous - the only reason that Guardians can take on monsters with any amount of safety is because their powers are much stronger in the Minus World, where the laws of physics don't dictate what magic can or can't do as strongly. Fighting in the real world, even minions can be threats too great for a single Guardian. In the Minus World, though, a single Guardian can usually defeat one or even several Minions without backup. Their greatest weapon is their numbers.

Whenever there is an unusually high concentration of Minions, it's likely that there's a Commander present. These monsters are much more powerful than Minions, generally taking a team of Guardians working together to take down - stories of solo Guardians taking on Commanders are rare, and attempts are one of the leading causes of fatalities. In addition to being powerful on their own, Commanders can silently direct the actions of swarms of Minions, leading them to attack less like wild animals and more like invading armies. Furthermore, some of them have the ability to create more Minions to supplement their forces. One of the most common patterns of attack is for a single Commander class monster to break through the barrier, then spend days lurking and building a new army before attacking.

Corruptions are extremely rare, and extremely dangerous. When a Guardian dies in the Minus World, and their body isn't brought back to Nistona, they sometimes come back to life. However, they aren't restored as Guardians - they're restored as monsters. Corruptions are insane, cruel distortions of their former selves, backed with the strength of a monster and the magic of a Guardian. The only thing keeping them from being a greater threat than Commander class monsters is that they're less focused - they seem to attack or wander off at random, sometimes vanishing for years before reappearing again. The advice given to Guardians regarding Corruptions is to retreat and call for backup immediately, never engaging one unless you have ten or more Guardians together to fight it.

And finally, there are Aberrations. This isn't exactly a categorization, it's more of a catch-all title for monsters that don't fit into the other classes. Aberrations are one-of-a-kind occurrences, new kinds of monsters that nobody has ever seen before, and are accordingly dangerous to the extreme. When fighting an Aberration, you need to be prepared for absolutely anything. Nothing is guaranteed, not even survival.

Even within each class, monsters vary widely in nature. Each wave looks completely different from the last, with different capabilities and tactics. Sometimes, they seem to adapt to how the last invasion was repelled with new tactics and weapons designed to render the same strategy ineffective. Wherever the monsters are coming from, whatever's sending them, they seem custom-made to exterminate humanity as effectively as possible.

Historical records show a cycle of monster activity that tends to last about ten to twenty years on average. Over the cycle, monster attacks gradually become more frequent and more dangerous, until they suddenly cut out, giving way to up to a year of total silence. However, it seems that over time, the cycles are gradually getting shorter...

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Of the many unsolved mysteries of Nistona, the greatest is its enemies. There are monsters in the wider world, and they seem to be focused entirely on the erradication of mankind. Nobody knows where they came from. Nobody knows why they're here. Nobody even really knows what they are. All that's certain is that peaceful coexistence with them is impossible.

The barrier keeps monsters from directly invading and destroying Nistona, but there's a way around it. Adjacent to our reality is another, less stable reality, called the Minus World. It greatly resembles our world - if a building is erected in Kastad, it will eventually come to exist in the Minus World at the same spot. However, nobody would ever mistake one world for the other. The Minus World's sky is pitch black, and none of the living things of our world exist there. More seriously, though, the Minus World doesn't work right.

Physics in the Minus World is, at best, tenuously enforced. Object geometry is slippery, sometimes letting things pass through each other. Sometimes objects merge into each other in strange ways. Sometimes walls only exist from one direction. Sometimes gravity stops working for a while. There are no laws that can be trusted in the Minus World as absolutes - every time you visit, odds are you'll find some new bizarre glitch that wasn't there before.

This is, of course, exactly what monsters use this world for. Because the laws of the world are sometimes breakable there, it's possible for monsters to occasionally pass through the barrier. From there, they just need to find an Ingress - a point of weakness in the boundary between our world and theirs. Then, the monster will emerge into the real world, inside Nistona, where it can wreak havoc.

Naturally-occurring Ingresses are rare, and appear and disappear at random - in our world, they appear like cracks in reality, big enough for a person to slip through but seldom much bigger. Using these, humans can sometimes wander into and out of the Minus World, but being there without the powers of a Guardian is extremely ill-advised. Prolonged exposure to the Minus World wears on the mind, especially the unprotected mind. These natural Ingresses are no threat, because it requires much more energy to move monsters across the boundary than it does for humans. When monsters wish to enter the human world, they'll search for a natural Ingress, and then begin channeling energy into it to 'widen' it until they can use it as a bridge to our world. This process results in disturbances in our world, causing parts of it near the Ingress to behave more like the Minus World. Strange glitches in reality are usually an indication of a monster attack in progress.

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Sometimes called Magical Girls, Guardians are those who have been awakened by the Pearl to their true powers. In day to day life, they're just like normal humans, but they also have the ability to transform into a magically-enhanced temporary form. The body gradually generates small amounts of magical energy over time, which is stored up and released while transformed, allowing for about an hour of combat time before it starts to wane. Transforming is a flashy affair, and generally results in dramatic alterations to the Guardian's hair and clothing.

A few powers are universal to all Guardians. They're much sturdier than humans, being able to take levels of punishment that would kill a normal person twice over and still continue fighting. They can sense open intrusion points between the real world and the Minus World (more on that later). They can cross the boundaries between worlds - this even means they're capable of crossing the barrier, but those few who have ever returned from such a trek have reported nothing but desolation and hostile monsters as far as they could see. Beyond that, things vary - some Guardians get enhanced physical strength to fight hand-to-hand against monsters, others gain control over various kinds of destructive energy, others get even more esoteric abilities. Each Guardian's abilities are unique.

A Guardian's powers are magical in nature, and her heart is the source of her strength. Their strength is amplified by all kinds of strong emotions, and also become more powerful with repeated use over many battles. However, after about five years as a Guardian, power begins to wane. After ten years, few Guardians have any powers to speak of, and are barely even capable of transforming. Thus, it falls to Nistona's youth to protect it.

A last power granted to the Guardians is the ability to call out to the Pearl for a blessing. When all other hope has faded, this trump card can allow a Guardian to gain an incredible surge of power, becoming many times more powerful than they were before - but just for one battle. Once they revert to human form, though, a price will be paid. Some part of their body or mind will be taken as payment for the Pearl's blessing, and will cease to function. Each time a blessing is called for, the price is steeper. No Guardian has ever survived a third blessing.

There are currently 80 registered Guardians.

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When the old world was destroyed, Nistona alone was saved by the protection of the Pearl. Where it came from, how it works, and why it's here, nobody knows. All that's certain is that, without it, humanity would have been wiped out centuries ago.

The Pearl is a sphere, about three feet across, glimmering with a rainbow of shifting colors. It's fixed at the exact center of the barrier, on the outskirts of Kastad, floating about ten feet above ground level. As far as has ever been observed, no human technology or power can damage the Pearl, or even move it. It has no apparent external energy source, but radiates light softly at all times. The energy coming off of it reads identically to the energy faintly radiating off of the barrier surrounding Nistona.

In addition to its mysterious connection to the barrier, the most obvious function of the Pearl is in awakening Guardians. The first time a person physically touches the Pearl, there's a chance that they will awaken, suddenly and flashily being bestowed with incredible powers that operate outside the laws of physics. The exact rules for what makes a person eligible or not eligible aren't known, but odds of awakening successfully seem to peak around age 13-14 and fall to near zero after 18, and the successes are overwhelmingly female.

A temple has been built up around the Pearl, both for its protection and to make it easier to reach it, in a context where the government can keep an eye on who awakens and who doesn't. Girls who want to try to awaken most often pay the temple a visit around 15-16, to balance having to start too young with the dwindling odds of success as you age. Those who do awaken are contacted shortly thereafter to become Guardians.

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Usually referred to as simply The City, Kastad is the only proper city within Nistona's radius. About 80% of the world's population call it home. The level of technology available in Kastad is much like modern Earth's, but not exactly like it - lack of access to the resources from the old world forced a lot of dramatic advances in energy sources. Cars are a rare sight, since travel within Kastad is mostly by public transit and few people have much need to head out into the country. Ethnically, Kastad is quite diverse, despite its small size and isolation. Names originating from a dozen old world languages are all common.

There are a handful of smaller towns outside of Kastad - Meklos to the north, Makasar to the east, Bellville near the center of the barrier, and Kryfon in the northeast. Beyond that is just scattered farms.

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Nistona is a perfectly circular world, about 100 kilometers across. Its edge is defined by the Barrier, beyond which nothing of value has ever been found. Light, air and water can pass through it normally, but it blocks anything alive from coming in or out. On the outside, a dead world overrun by monsters. On the inside, Nistona.

Despite the desolation surrounding it on all sides, Nistona is quite a pleasant place. The days are warm and sunny, the nights are cool and crisp. Even during winter, it's vanishingly rare for temperatures to drop below freezing. The majority of the half a million people living within the bubble are concentrated in the sprawling coastal city of Kastad, with the northeastern half of the world being dotted with farmland and smaller towns.

Humans are far from the only things living within the barrier. Contained within its isolated ecosystem are buffalo, gazelle, ostritches, and a whole lot of snakes. In the east, there's even the occasional leopard. Farmers raise various poultry, pigs, cows, sheep and goats for meat, and grow potatoes, tomatoes, a variety of grains, and citrus and tropical fruits. Despite having a good chunk of ocean within the barrier, fish - particularly edible ones - are scarce. Fishing is no longer a common practice.

The Nistonan calendar marks 599 years since the destruction of the old world. The cause of this calamity, like the origin of the Pearl that protects Nistona, is unknown.

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The World of Nistona
Kastad
The Pearl
Guardians
A Guardian's Duties
The Minus World
Monsters
Pearl Academy
Important People

More info pending as I think of it.

For a longer - but more coherent and complete - writeup, consult the Fatal and Friends writeup.

MAKING CHECKS
If you try to do something, you'll often make a Check against a given Stat or Skill. Whatever the value for that Stat or Skill is, roll that many d10s. The highest number that comes up is your result (and then circumstances may add a bonus to the final result).

If any of your dice come up as a ten, you get a critical - reroll the check using only the dice that you rolled a ten on, but add ten to the result. If you roll more tens, repeat and add ten again.

Example: I'm asked to make a Body Check, and my Body is 8. I roll 8d10, and get 1 3 4 4 7 8 10 10. I rolled some tens, so that's a critical (+10) - I take the two dice that rolled 10 and reroll them, and get 4 10. I rolled a ten again, so that's a second critical (+20) - I reroll the die that rolled a 10, and get a 4. My final result is 20 + 4 = 24.

Some powers or circumstances can reduce your Critical value - this means that you can score a critical on a value lower than 10. So, if you get -1 Critical Value, then you crit on all dice that roll a 9 or 10. Whatever your Critical Value is, you still gain +10 to the roll from it.

IMPULSE
Every Overed has a single volatile emotion that will threaten to overcome them when the Renegade Virus is active. If an Overed is taken over by the virus and becomes a Gjaum, then that emotion will take over and rule their persona, erasing their old personality.

Any time that a character receives a mental shock, the GM may ask them to make an Impulse Check. This uses the Will skill, and the difficulty is usually 9. If you fail, you gain the status Berserk, and become unable to use Reactions or Covers.

Select one Impulse from this list for your character (or roll 1d10 and choose like that):

Bloodsucking. Only human blood can sate your thirst.
Hunger. No matter how much you eat, nothing can end this feeling.
Slaughter. Watch people struggle to cling to life, then take it away from them.
Destruction. Burn down the world.
Torture. Hurt those weaker than you, listen to their cries.
Distaste. A specific sight sets you off, and you'll do anything to avoid it.
Battle Lust. To not fight is to insult your very nature.
Delusions. Nothing is as it seems. Everyone is working against you.
Self-Destruction. You are an entity that shouldn't exist.
Fear. Every instinct tells you to get away from here.
Release. Surpass your petty human emotions and advance to a greater existence.
Hatred. Your blood boils with endless rage.

ENCROACHMENT AND LOISES
I'm not going to worry about Personal Data rules for now, so every character will have a Base Encroachment of 33% - this marks how close you are to being overcome by the Renegade Virus and becoming a Gjaum. At the start of the adventure, this is what your Encroachment is set to. When you start participating in any scene, either being there from the start or arriving later, your Encroachment increases by 1d10%. Each time you make an Impulse Check, fail or succeed, your Encroachment increases by 2d10%. Each time you use a Power, your Encroachment will increase by a certain amount.

As your Encroachment rises, you become more powerful. At 60%, all your checks get +1 dice. At 80%, +2 dice. At 100%, +3 dice and all your Powers rank as one level higher. Bonuses continue to increase with Encroachment, but hopefully you won't have to worry about that, because going over 100% is very dangerous.

Loises are other people you have connections with. Each is associated with a Positive Emotion and a Negative Emotion - one of these is consciously felt and the other is unconsciously suppressed. At the end of each scenario, you roll 1d10 for each Lois you still have - the sum of the dice rolled is subtracted from your Encroachment. You can choose to double the size of the dice pool BEFORE rolling, but doing so will reduce the experience you get from your Encroachment rate to 3 (the higher your final Encroachment, the more EXP you get). After rolling, you can do a second roll (not doubled) to reduce your Encroachment even further, but doing so reduces the experience from Encroachment to 0. If, after this process is completed, your Encroachment Rate is 100% or higher, you become a Gjaum, controlled entirely by your Impulse.

You can establish new Loises during play, with NPCs or PCs that you interact with. You can also lose Loises during play, if your relationship with them is severed - the Lois is killed, you're betrayed by them, or sudden emotional chaos disrupts the bond. If this happens, the Lois becomes a Titus. A Titus doesn't function as a Lois, but you can discard it at some point for a surge of strength, removing it permanently from your character sheet. When you do this, pick one:

+10 dice rolled on a single Check
+1d10 final result on a single Check
-1 Critical Value on a single Check
Remove all dice penalties and bad statuses other than Incapacitation or Death
Recover from Incapacitation and recover (Body+10) HP

COMBAT
Battle scenes are split into rounds. Characters each act in order from highest Initiative to lowest. On your turn, you get one Minor Action and one Major Action. Minor Actions can move a number of meters equal to their Move stat, change equipment, use items, recover from certain statuses, or use any power with the "Minor" timing. Major Actions can be used to move at double speed, attack, break away from an Engagement, kill an incapacitated character, or use any power with the "Major" timing.

Engagements are clusters of people who are all within melee range of each other. You can do melee attacks against anyone in your Engagement. You can enter an Engagement just by moving into range (Minor Action), but to leave it you need to Break Away (Major Action). If you're surrounded or your escape routes are blocked off, you need to do an opposed Body Check against each person in your path to escape the engagement.

When you attack, roll a Skill - Melee or Ranged for weapons, whatever is specified if you're using a Power. The target can choose to Dodge or Guard - if they choose the former, they roll the Dodge skill as an opposed check, avoiding the attack if they succeed. If they choose Guard, the attack automatically hits. Roll (1+(Accuracy Check result / 10))d10 for damage, rounding down - so, if the accuracy check was a 24, you'd do 3d10 damage. Final damage is increased by attack power, then reduced by armor and - if the defender Guarded - the Guard stat. Damage is dealt to HP, and if your HP drops to 0, you're incapacitated.

POWERS
Your character sheet comes with a list of powers. Each has the following details:
Timing: When this power is used, or what kind of action is required.

Minor/Major/Reaction: Used as the indicated action type.
Setup: Used at the beginning of a round.
Cleanup: Used at the end of a round.
Initiative: Used between turns.
Auto: Used whenever you want.
Constant: Always active.

Skill: What Skill is rolled when using this power.
Difficulty: What kind of roll is needed to use this power. If it says 'auto', the power automatically succeeds.
Target: Who the power affects.

Self: Targets whoever uses it.
Single: Targets one person.
(N): Targets N people.
Area: Targets everyone in a single Engagement.
Area (Select): Targets any number of people in a single Engagement - you can pick and choose.
Scene: Targets everyone in the scene.
Scene (Select): Targets whoever you want and nobody else.

Range: How far it reaches.

Close: Within your current Engagement.
View: Anyone you can see. No, this probably doesn't mean you can use it at the moon.
Weapon: Same as your equipped weapon.

Encroach: How much your Encroachment rises when you use the power.
Restrict: How higher your Encroachment must be to use the power.

COMBINING POWERS
You can use multiple powers at the same time, as long as all the combined powers have the same Skill and Timing. The Target and Range are the smallest of all the powers used, Difficulty is the highest of any of the powers. Encroachment rates are added together, then you get the bonuses from all the powers together.

This isn't a full how-to post - it's just a quick overview to help create an impression of what the game plays like.

HIGH LEVEL
FS2 is a system inspired by Hong Kong action cinema - the movies of John Woo, Jet Li, and Tsui Hark. Rules are fairly light, characters are created quickly and simply but get fleshed out through play. Realism is given a passing nod from time to time, but after that you're free to run up a stream of bullets and punch the shooter in the face.

CORE MECHANICS
Most rolls in Feng Shui are the same - they run on a pair of six-sided dice in different colors. One die is the Positive die, the other the Negative die. When you try to do something, you check some kind of base value, then roll both dice, adding the Positive Die and subtracting the Negative Die - so if you have an Action Value of 7, and you roll a positive 5 and a negative 3, your final result is a 9. Both dice explode on a six - if either die rolls a six, roll it again and add the two results together. So, if you roll a six, then roll again and get a five, your final roll on that die is an eleven. The distance between that result and your action value - the sum of all dice rolled, added and subtracted from each other - is called the Swerve.

When you're trying to do something, it has a difficulty - the difference between the Difficulty and your result is the Outcome. Outcome 0 means a narrow, skin-of-the-teeth success, positive Outcome is a more dramatic success, negative Outcome is a failure. If you roll boxcars (double sixes), something amazing is guaranteed to happen, win or lose.

Characters all have a pool of Fortune points - some call it Chi, Magic, or Genome, but those are just subsets of Fortune. In addition to other uses from your Archetype and Schticks, you can always spend a point of Fortune to roll an extra Positive Die on a check.

COMBAT
Fights are split into Sequences and Shots. At the start of each Sequence, everyone makes an Initiative Check, rolling a single non-exploding positive die and adding Speed. The highest initiative rolled is the shot number on which the sequence begins.

When the current Shot number is the same as your Initiative, it's your turn to act. When you act, your initiative drops, depending on the length of the action but usually by 3 points. So, If you roll an 11 for Initiative, you'll most likely be taking actions on Shot 11, Shot 8, Shot 5, and Shot 2. After each shot resolves, the Sequence counts down to the next lower Shot number, until Shot 1 is over - then a new Sequence begins, and you roll initiative again.

Some effects are based on Keyframes - if something lasts until the next Keyframe, it lasts until the same Shot on the next Sequence. For example, if you reload your gun on Shot 5 of the first sequence, you're free from having to make reload checks until the next Keyframe, meaning that you don't have to reload until Shot 5 of the second sequence.

Attacks are made using your Attack AV, rolled against your enemy's Defense AV. If you hit, take the Outcome, add your weapon damage, and subtract the target's Toughness, and the result is your inflicted damage. Add the damage to the enemy's Wound Points - If the result is now 25-29, they get 1 Impairment, growing at 30+ to 2 Impairment, which is subtracted from all Attack and Skill checks, and also reduces their Defense value. Once Wound Points exceed 35, you start having to make rolls to stay standing (called Up Checks), and also may start accumulating Marks of Death, which might kill you at the end of the scene.

CHARGEN
Creating a character is quick. Pick an Archetype, come up with some fluff and flavor, write down a name, concept, and melodramatic hooks. Stats all come from your Archetype, further customization comes later. House Rule: You can optionally swap out two of your starting Schticks for others allowed by your Archetype. You can't swap out negative Schticks.

Stat Block

Attack AV: What you add to attack rolls. May be Guns, Martial Arts, Sorcery, Creature, Scroungetech or Mutant. You usually have two - one primary, one secondary.
Defense AV: How hard you are to hit.
Toughness: How hard you are to hurt.
Fortune: Or Chi, Or Magic, or Genome. Used for boosting rolls and using special powers.
Speed: How soon and often you strike during fight scenes.

ARCHETYPES
Not comprehensive info here - each class has 3-6 Schticks, I've listed one.

Archer
You're a master of the bow and arrow. Precise, silent, beautiful. Fight with Guns (although the skill here applies to bows only), be awesome with Chi.

Wuxia Archery: Damge dealt by your arrows is 1 less than the highest damage value among all guns being used in the fight.

Bandit
You survive in a harsh world through guile and determination. Rough, aggressive, risky. Fight with Martial Arts or Guns, be awesome with Chi.

Rise of the Downtrodden: Spend 1 Chi and 1 shot when struck by an attack. The damage value of the weapon hitting you becomes the damage value of your hand-to-hand weapon.

Big Bruiser
You're huge, you don't hit often, but you only need to hit once. Big, tough, unstoppable. Fight with Martial Arts or Guns, be awesome with Fortune.

Mounting Fury: If you miss a Martial Arts attack, +1 to your next one. Stacks cumulatively, then resets when you hit or the fight ends.

Bodyguard
You specialize in getting your client from Point A to Point C without getting them killed at Point B. Professional, efficient, deadly. Fight using Guns or Martial Arts, be awesome with Fortune.

The Client: At the start of a fight, designate one ally as the client. Spend 1 Fortune when your client takes damage to reduce it to 0 and take 7 Wound Points in their place.

Bounty Hunter
You find people who need to be killed, and turn them in dead or alive. Violent, resourceful, relentless. Fight with Guns or Martial Arts, be awesome wtih Fortune.

Due Diligence: Your quarry's first attack against you in a fight always fails.

Cyborg
You died, you were rebuilt, now you're part man, part machine. Powerful, terrifying, inhuman. Fight with Scroungetech or Guns, be awesome with Fortune.

On-board Flamethrower: Make ranged Scroungetech attacks with a Damage Value of 14. Each time you attack with it, take 3 Wound Points.

Drifter
You wander in and out of adventures, always showing up where you're needed. Enigmatic, detached, noble. Fight using Martial Arts or Guns, be awesome using Fortune.

Like the Cavalry: When you're not in a scene when it starts, you can always show up any time after sequence 1, shot 4, without explaining how you got there.

Driver
You're the one with the car, and you can make it do anything. Cool, peaceful, competent. Fight using Martial Arts, be awesome using Fortune.

I Just Painted That: +2 Martial Arts against anyone who damaged your vehicle, even a tiny bit.

Everyday Hero
You're nobody special, but you've got a knack for dealing with trouble, and a lucky streak a mile long. Simple, earnest, determined. Fight using Martial Arts or Guns, be awesome with Fortune.

Improvised Weapon Mastery: +1 Martial Arts when fighting with something you found at the scene. You lose it after 3 attacks, unless you narrate picking up another improvised weapon (shot cost 1).

Ex-Special Forces
You used to be a brutal killing machine, but you escaped from that life - now its ghosts still follow you to this day. Deadly, haunted, experienced. Fight using Guns or Martial Arts, be awesome with Chi.

Tiger Stance: When attacked with Martial Arts, spend 2 Chi to immediately make a Martial Arts attack against your attacker.

Exorcist Monk
You are trained in ancient traditions that let you banish supernatural evil. Wise, compassionate, merciless. Fight with Martial Arts, be awesome with Chi.

Shred the False Veil: If you damage an opponent disguised by magic or sorcery, it reverts to its true form.

Full Metal Nutball
Not allowed in this setting.

Gambler
You have a flair for getting into and out of trouble, and a natural lucky streak, using both to live a life of great risk and reward. Cool, sexy, reckless. Fight with Guns or Martial Arts, be awesome with Fortune.

Stack the Odds: Spend 1 Fortune to swap the results of your Positive and Negative dice on a roll.

Gene Freak
Your DNA has been modified by the radioactive backdrop of the wasteland, giving you strange and uncanny powers. Tough, weird, badass. Fight with Mutant, be awesome with Genome.

Push: 3-shot ranged attack, Damage 11, using Mutant. On a hit, the target flies 1 meter back for each Wound Point inflicted.

Ghost
You died, but your soul is still anchored to this realm, due to some task you haven't yet completed. Tragic, otherworldly, dreadful. Fight using Sorcery, be awesome with Magic.

Insubstantial: Pass through solid matter with a Creature Power check of difficulty 1 per inch of material. Specify two types of material you can't pass through, the GM picks a third.

Highway Ronin
You wander the highways of a shattered world, fighting to survive or protect the weak. Selfless, hard, driven. Fight using Guns or Martial Arts, be awesome with Fortune.

Dazed and Contused: If you ram a vehicle, people just emerging from it get +3 shot cost for their actions and 1 Impairment for the first sequence.

Karate Cop
You enforce what remains of the law with kung fu, a trusty revolver, and unyielding determination. Principled, persevering, punchy. Fight with Martial Arts or Guns, be awesome with Fortune.

Underdog Desperation: +2 Toughness VS opponents with fewer Wound Points than you.

Killer
You've worked as a hired assassin, and are just beginning to develop a conscience about it. Professional, lethal, compassionate. Fight using Guns and Martial Arts, be awesome with Fortune.

Carnival of Carnage: +2 Guns vs mooks. -1 shot cost on any attack on a mook.

Magic Cop
You bring supernatural threats to justice when nobody else can, and are a general weirdness magnet. Eccentric, aloof, righteous. Fight using Guns or Sorcery, be awesome with Magic.

Banishment: Spend 3 Magic and 3 shot, attack a creature with Sorcery. On a hit, the enemy flees. On a miss, you regain the spent Magic.

Martial Artist
You're a trained warrior in one or more schools of combat, seeking mastery, humility, and enlightenment. Skilled, disciplined, dedicated. Fight with Martial Arts, be awesome with Chi.

Dim Mak: Any time after sequence 2, shot 6, spend 3 Chi and make a Martial Arts attack against a named enemy. Regain 2 Chi on a miss, and on a hit, set their Wound Points to 34 (49 for a boss).

Masked Avenger
You fight corruption from the shadows, striking fear into evildoers and dispensing justice where the law can't reach. Principled, terrifying, unstable. Fight using Guns or Martial Arts, be awesome with Fortune.

Tremble, Evildoers!: When you attack and drop a mook, four mooks flee. If your positive die exploded, six flee.

Maverick Cop
You're always on the verge of being kicked off the force, but dammit, you get results. Gruff, merciless, badass. Fight using Guns or Martial Arts, be awesome using Fortune.

Blam Blam Epigram: Add 1 shot cost to deliver a sick one-liner before or after attacking. +2 Damage against non-Impaired targets, or +8 against Impaired targets.

Ninja
You get in, kill the target, and get out using shadows, arcane power, and perfectly-honed skills, all without ever being seen. Silent, secretive, powerful. Fight using Martial Arts or Guns, be awesome using Chi.

Panther Pounce: If you are the only PC in a scene and encounter a single enemy, spend 2 Chi (if it's a named character, 0 for mooks) to render them helpless. Lasts until you try to harm them or after five minutes.

Old Master
You've been around for a long, long time, and mastered the most difficult of martial arts principles. Your physical strength has waned, but your skills are as sharp as they ever were. Fading, wise, resilient. Fight using Martial Arts, be awesome with Chi.

Flying Windmill Kick: Spend 4 shots to make a Martial Arts attack. On a hit, you can attack again at no shot cost, up to three hits.

King on the Water: When fighting in Torrential Rain, spend 1 Chi to get +2 Immunity bonus until end of fight.

Private Investigator
From your time solving other people's problems, you've seen the best and worst humanity has to offer. Jaded, clever, practical. Fight using Guns or Martial Arts, be awesome using Fortune.

Needling Remark: When exchanging barbs with a character in a non-combat scene, spend 1 Fortune. Until the end of the adventure, they get +1 to attack you, and you get +2 to attack them.

Redeemed Pirate
Former pirate of the South China Sea (probably), you lived a life of looting and killing. You did what you needed to to survive, and now you've thrown in your lot with this band of misfits. Rough, self-serving, proud. Fight using Martial Arts or Guns, be awesome using Chi.

Swashbuckling: After performing any stunt involving rope-swinging or other classic pirate action, gain +2 to attacks until the end of the sequence.

Scrappy Kid
The grownups probably think you should go stay where you're safe, but you're not gonna let them tell you what to do. Plucky, obstinate, clever. Fight using Martial Arts, be awesome using Chi.

Distraction: Describe a distracting non-lethal assault on a target. Make a Martial Arts attack, but instead of doing damage on a hit, the target suffers 3 Impairment for a number of shots equal to your attack outcome.

Sifu
You use our martial arts training and knowledge of the human body to heal, rather than just harm. Peaceful, wise, compassionate. Fight using Martial Arts, be awesome using Chi.

Healing Chi: Spend 3 shots and 1 Chi to reduce a character's Wound Point total by the result of a Martial Arts check.

Sorcerer
Master of the occult arts, channeling chi energy as a supernatural force. Powerful, unstable, feared. Fight using Sorcery, be awesome using Magic.

Chi Blast: As a 3-shot action, make a ranged attack with a blast of magical energy using Sorcery, Damage 9.

Spy
You used to work stealing secrets from powerful people, then left under a cloud of suspicion, and now a trail of assassins hunt you wherever you go. Suave, skilled, mysterious. Fight using Guns or Martial Arts, be awesome using Fortune.

Scoped Out: +1 to Guns, Martial Arts, and Defense against characters you exchange dialogue with in a previous scene.

Supernatural Creature
You're a creature from another realm, formerly living only to terrorize humanity, but now you serve a greater purpose. Uncanny, terrifying, vicious. Fight using Creature Powers, be awesome using Magic.

Natural Weapon: Your Creature Powers attack at close range, using spines, claws, or other monstrous body parts, at Damage 13.

Sword Master
Long ago, you mastered the art of the sword, but you were discarded by those who didn't believe in your warrior ethos. Now, you wander the world seeking a worthy opponent. Skilled, aimless, noble. Fight using Martial Arts, be awesome using Chi.

Blooded Blade: Add +1 Damage with swords for each mook you drop. Each time you hit a named foe, the bonus is reduced by half.

Thief
You take things that don't belong to you, better than anyone else. You always have a plan, but something always goes wrong anyway. Prepared, competent, thrill-seeking. Fight using Martial Arts or Guns, be awesome using Fortune.

Faster Learner: +1 Defense against any opponent who has already hit you during the current sequence.

Transformed Crab
You are, or one of one of your ancestors was, a magic crab taken human form, and now you live among humans. Sturdy, implacable, honorable. Fight using Martial Arts or Guns, be awesome using Chi.

Scuttle: +2 to Martial Arts against named foes, if your previous attack was against a different named foe.

Transformed Dragon
You're actually a dragon, or part dragon, and your power makes you awesome at basically everything (in theory). Fight using Martial Arts or Guns, be awesome using Chi.

Innate Superiority: Your unarmed Martial Arts damage is one higher than the damage of the foe you're attacking.

Two-Fisted Archaeologist
You make a living by seeking ancient artifacts that nefarious forces would use to fuel evil machinations. Determined, educated, cynical. Fight using Martial Arts or Guns, be awesome using Fortune.

Whip Master: If you're fighting with a whip at the start of a sequence, gain +1 Martial Arts or +1 Defense until the end of the sequence.

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( Let's Play Umineko Chiru, Episode 8: Epilogue )

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( Let's Play Umineko Chiru, Episode 8 Scene 29: The Battle for the Golden Land )

( Let's Play Umineko Chiru, Episode 8 Scene 28: The Witch's Duel )

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Minus World Codex: A Guardian's Duties
Minus World Codex: Pearl Academy
Minus World Codex: Monsters
Minus World Codex: The Minus World
Minus World Codex: Guardians
Minus World Codex: The Pearl
Minus World Codex: Kastad
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Double Cross: The Basics
FENG SHUI 2
Let's Play Umineko Chiru, Episode 8: ????
Let's Play Umineko Chiru, Episode 8: Tea Party
Let's Play Umineko Chiru, Episode 8: Epilogue
Let's Play Umineko Chiru, Episode 8 Final Scene: The Future
Let's Play Umineko Chiru, Episode 8 Scene 30: The Creator
Let's Play Umineko Chiru, Episode 8 Scene 29: The Battle for the Golden Land
Let's Play Umineko Chiru, Episode 8 Scene 28: The Witch's Duel
Let's Play Umineko Chiru, Episode 8 Scene 27: The Stalling Tactics
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