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Eight Drunken Hsien ( • • • Mind or • • Entropy, • • Life) Dragons of the East 50 |
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A popular Do rote among the Li-Hai and Vajrapani, Eight Drunken Hsien allows
a Tao-Shih to defend against multiple opponents while making it look like an
accident! Taking the posture of a staggering drunk, every stumble and wave of
the hand wards off an enemy without looking like the Brother is even trying to
fight them. Even if the "drunk" Akashic puts up her fists, it will be a lolling
head or shrugging shoulder that knocks down a foe. This makes the Eight Drunken Hsien technique hard to defend against. Akashics
who have mastered this rote often carry a bottle of Chi-laced wine to
enhance their fighting abilities and torment their liver with one swift swig. Some martial artists practice a rigorous form of Drunken Fighting, but with magical influence, the combatant can insure that his strikes and blocks are totally random, yet totally coincidentally effective. System: Mind • • • simply makes the Brother's movements look accidental, as enemies seem to trip over her. The Entropy/Life variant randomizes her movements but still directs them to the target. Each extra success on the latter version both lowers the Brother's difficulty to hit and increases the opponents difficulty to dodge, distributed as the player wishes. The rote can provide a minimum difficulty of 3 to strike and a maximum difficulty of 9 to an enemy's dodge. Either version works against one person at two successes, with another success required for each additional attacker. This rote is rarely coincidental against an army of opponents — it's hard to "accidentally" beat up 20 people in a 15 minute slugfest, regardless of what you might have seen in Drunken Master 2. |