恶神体 数十年来,食蝎者都研习着以其独特食物供能的神体。它们被称为恶神体,包含五种独特秘艺,每种都类似其他鬼人练习的元素神体之一。但食蝎者除魔、恶神体外,并不能学习这些普通能力。相反,其他鬼人除非放弃原心法,经历食蝎礼,变成蝎子,否则也不能学习恶神体。
因此,现存神体点数无法换成相应恶神体,它们会丢失,学生须重新学起。恶气与身体的互动,和纯净气有根本不同,所以使用技巧不共通。但说书人可自行规定。
毒神体 对应血神体,代表水元素,操控自己或目标体内各种重要液体和体液。能像血神体般调整阴、阳或平衡。
调律属性:敏捷
● 刺痛触摸 首级所学能把体内各种毒素、酸液和代谢物吸到表面——尤其爪牙的,对敌人造成极其疼痛的蜇刺攻击。激活时,变化的身体部位呈病态黄绿色。
系统:花费的每点气让1个身体部位(拳、爪、脚、头或牙)涂上胆汁、胃酸等。若用此部位成功打到对手,毒物多造成2个骰子的恶性伤害。
●● 失衡排泄 操控目标体液。胃酸灼烧,胆汁充溢,肠道痉挛。对凡人,至少都是不愉快;但对鬼人,鲜少致命,却极度不适。
系统:触碰目标,花费1点气,成功投掷1次耐力+医疗,难度7。若成功,目标须投耐力(难度7)来减轻影响。每个鬼人比目标多的骰子,都让后者呕吐,所有动作难度+2,持续(攻击者最终成功数)个回合。
若目标失败,陷入无法行动,身体清除异常液体;若大失败,需进医院,遭受(攻击者成功数)个健康等级的冲击伤害(无法吸收)。
●●● 污水流动 腐蚀性液体充满全身,融化如骨的硬组织,将肉和器官变得柔软。能更容易地抵抗冲击和致命伤害,并流动通过狭小空间。此形态下也散发如开放消化道的恶臭。
系统:花费1点阳气,将身体变成柔软,但保持基本形态的东西,最多3回合。多得5个吸收冲击或致命伤害的骰子。
她也能如面团穿过裂缝般,(缓慢)通过开口,但空间至少有1英尺宽。此形态的移动速度上限同步行。
●●●● 秽物喷射 喷出恶心粘液、血、痰和胆汁的混合。轻微腐蚀金属和石,以可怕速度渗进血肉。
系统:花费1点气和1个动作,在嘴中产生大量物质。喷射范围是(吸血鬼耐力×2)个码,对如护甲的无机物造成耐力的恶性伤害,但对血肉是耐力+3(同恶性)。要攻击本体,需先腐蚀护甲。若耐力伤害无法穿透后者保护,攻击停止。
一旦命中,逐渐减弱地继续燃烧3回合。首回合后,每回都减少伤害——第1回合为耐力+2,最后是+1。
●●●●● 剧毒尖刺 让目标(无论死活)体液变成剧毒。对活物的影响瞬间又突然,当目标血液、粘液、水和其它体液攻击内脏时,死亡常即刻发生。器官破裂,动脉膜开裂,腐蚀液体到处都是。目标成为行走毒药。而神幸运得多,虽影响类似,但结果远非致命。
系统:触碰目标,花费1点阴气和意志点,投掷1次后者(难度6)。目标遭受(成功数+花费阴气)个等级的致命伤害。他仍能吸收,但每等级伤害,都腐化1点自身气(需1次耐力骰)。
原文:
剧透 - :
Bile Shintai
Over the decades, the Scorpion Eaters have studied the shintai powers fueled by their unique diet. Called the Bile Shintais, they encompass five unique Arts, each one roughly analogous to one of the five elemental shintais practiced by other Kuei-jin. Scorpion Eaters cannot learn these normal shintais, aside from Demon Shintai and Bile Shintai. Conversely, other Kuei-jin cannot learn Bile Shintai unless they abandon their Dharma, undergo the Eating the Scorpion rite and become Scorpions.
In such cases, points in existing Shintai Arts do not transfer to the equivalent Bile Shintais; they are lost and the student must begin learning a new. Tainted Chi interacts with the body in a fundamentally different way from pure Chi, and the techniques for one are not applicable to the other. Storytellers, however, may rule otherwise.
Poison Shintai
Equivalent to Blood Shintai and thus the element of Water, this Art gives the Scorpion Eater control over various vital fluids and humors within his body or that of the target. As with Blood Shintai, the vampire can attune these powers to Yin, Yang or Balance.
Chi Attunement: Dexterity
● Stinging Touch
The first power learned draws the body's various poisons, acids and waste products to the surface, particularly to the fangs and claws. This enables the Scorpion Eater to deliver extremely painful, stinging attacks against opponents. When activated, the body parts concerned take on a sickly, yellow-green hue.
System: For each Chi point expended, the Kuei-jin may coat one body part (fists, claws, feet, head or fangs) in bile, stomach acid and the like. If the Scorpion successfully hits the target with the coated area, the poison delivers an additional two dice of aggravated damage.
●● Inharmonious Excretion
This power allows the user to manipulate a target's bodily humors. Stomach acids burn, bile floods the system and the bowels spasm violently. The results on mortals are unpleasant to say the least, while for Kuei-jin, the effects are rarely fatal but are extremely inconvenient.
System: The Kuei-jin must touch her target, spend a Chi point and make a successful Stamina + Medicine roll (difficulty 7). If successful, the victim must roll Stamina (difficulty 7) to ameliorate the effects. For each success the attacker rolls over the defender, the target heaves and retches, suffering a penalty of two to the difficulties of all actions. This effect lasts for a number of turns equal to the attacker's final success tally. If the victim fails her roll, she is incapacitated while her system purges itself of the offending fluids. If the target botches the roll, she is hospitalized and suffers one health level of bashing damage (no soak allowed) for each of the attacker's successes.
●●● Flow Like Sewage
The Kuei-jin suffuses her body with corrosive fluids, melting her own hard tissues like bone and turning her flesh, muscle and organs into a soft and pulpy mass. This allows her to resist bashing and lethal damage more easily, and flow through tight spaces. Whilst in this form, the Kuei-jin also stinks like an open digestive tract.
System: After spending a point of Yang Chi, the Kuei-jin turns her body into a soft mass that retains its basic shape for up to three turns. In this state, the Kuei-jin gains an additional five dice to soak bashing or lethal damage. She may also push (slowly) through gaps like dough through a crack, but the space must be at least an inch wide. The Kuei-jin can move no faster than walking pace while in this form.
●●●● Bilious Expectoration
The Kuei-jin can eject a sickening bolus of mucus, blood, phlegm and bile. Mildly corrosive to metals and stone, it bores into flesh with horrifying intensity.
System: The Kuei-jin spends a point of Chi and one action generating a sufficient mass within his mouth. The Expectoration has a range of double the vampire's Stamina in yards, and inflicts his Strength in aggravated damage against inorganic materials like armor. Flesh, however, takes Str + 3 damage (all aggravated), though any dice of protection from armor are eliminated from the attack's Strength dice first. If the Strength dice fail to penetrate the protection, the attack is stopped for that turn.
Once the attack hits, it continues burning for three turns with lessening effect. Each turn after the first reduces the damage - first to Str + 2 damage, then finally, Str +1 damage.
●●●●● Phlegmatic Sting
This enables the Kuei-jin to transform any fluid inside the target (living or dead) into a virulent, toxic slush. The effects on living creatures are immediate and dramatic; death is often instantaneous when the target's own blood, phlegm, water, and other fluids attack his internal mechanisms. Organs rupture and arterial membranes crack open, leaking caustic fluids everywhere. The target becomes a living toxic spill. Fortunately for shen, while similarly affected, the results are generally more debilitating than fatal.
System: The Scorpion Eater must first touch the target, spending a point of Yin Chi and Willpower before making a Willpower roll (difficulty 6). The target suffers a level of lethal damage per success the Scorpion rolled on Willpower, plus one additional level per Yin Chi spent. The target can still soak the damage, but for every health level inflicted, one point of the target's Chi becomes tainted (requiring a Stamina roll).