<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=346006.msg16413767#msg16413767">Quote from: AndyZ on 27-02-2023, 01:22:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">There are fighting styles that explicitly state gauntlets (and their artifact equivalents) as form weapons.  I would figure they have to be those.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I would agree.<br/><br/>*  *  *<br/><br/>As to the Kung Fu Hustle Scene: reference Manual of Exalted Power: the Dragon Blooded, Pg. 179.  Vibrating Strings Defense and Three String Sword Prana!  (Note the errata on Three String Sword Prana makes it available at Essence 2, Perform 2.)  That is<em>precisely</em>and<em>exactly</em>what those charms do.  100% word for word!<br/><br/>Might I suggest:<br/>3 dot artifact:  Maestro Kusanagi's Unsurpassed Sanzian (or whatever instrument.)  (5 mote attunement).  The ghost in this particular instrument is himself a dragon blooded master musician who makes the charms Three String Sword Prana and and Vibrating Strings Defense to any attuned user.<br/><br/>Higher dot versions--with much higher attunement--might actually negate the cost of the charms.  (Perhaps 10 mote attunement and a cost of 1 willpower/scene to use both charms at maximum effect.)  If used by a dragon blooded who actually activates the charms or by a solar who activates Demon Wracking Glory the effect of an elemental lens (x2 base damage) is added to the attack.<br/><br/>*  * *<br/><br/>I guess Zaer didn't want it, but I got excited to share those ideas.<br/><br/>*  *  *<br/><br/>So, I have only one artifact coming and i hope you'll all think this is<em>adorable</em>as i do.<br/><br/>Hairy i trust it's also okay to find an exceptional quarterstaff?  Maybe  one that can collapse into a seven section staff?  Completely mundane but exceptional quality?