#Unarmed Combat School Expansion (體術流派 擴張) — Section Index
Contents
#Identity
In addition to the core's 1 Unarmed Combat school (Takenouchi), a large number of martial arts and fighting styles from around the world are added. Unarmed Combat, together with Swordsmanship, is the skill that most emphasizes diversity in this expansion — encompassing East Asian martial arts, European fighting styles, ancient combat, and even fictional media martial arts.
Like "Shaolin" and "Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms," martial arts of popular-media origin are also recorded directly without alteration (see IP Safety Guide 99-07).
#Design Goals
- Minimum 12, maximum 15 kinds of new Unarmed Combat schools.
- A mix of school types:
- Famous schools 4~5 kinds (Shaolin, Wudang, Taiji, representative Jujutsu)
- Secret Transmission 2~3 kinds (Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms, secret internal-energy heart method, assassination Unarmed Combat)
- Self-Taught Style 1~2 kinds (wildlander Self-Taught Style, solitary ascetic)
- Foreign styles 5~7 kinds (Taekkyon, Taiji, Bajiquan, Mantis, Pankration, Savate, Muay Boran, Wrestling)
- Maximizing play-type diversification:
- hard-attack type (Shaolin, Bajiquan)
- soft-guiding type (Taiji, Jujutsu)
- explosive type (Mantis, Dragon-Subduing)
- endurance type (Wrestling, Sumo)
- surprise type (Taekkyon, Savate, kick-centered)
- The special trait unique to unarmed combat: effective in a disarmed state, strong in group melee, can specialize in close-quarters fighting against yoma.
#§ This Section's File List
ex2-13-01-new-schools.md— 15 new Unarmed Combat schools
#Reference Documents
Core required:
- Schools (流派)
- School Data (流派資料) — No. 9 (Takenouchi-ryu)
- Skill List (技能目錄) — Unarmed Combat skill
- Wildlander (野人, Wildman) — wildman class (barehanded slaughter)
1st expansion (format reference):
Within this expansion:
- Class Alternate Techniques (代替特技) — Section Index — linkage with the wildlander's alternate techniques
- Cross-Cultural School Index (汎文化 流派 索引) — Section Index
- Appendix (附錄) — Section Index — IP Safety Guide 99-07
#§ Scent — One Breath With Neither Start Nor End
An empty courtyard in Nagasaki. Noon. Two people stood facing each other.
One was a fist-fighter who came from Shaolin. A neat two-handed stance. Both feet at shoulder width, knees slightly bent. His breath was quiet — neither inhale nor exhale could be heard.
The other was one who came from the frontier of Hellas. He called himself a holder of Pankration (παγκράτιον). Shoulders set at an angle, both hands hanging loose, weight on the back leg. His breath was deep and slow.
Neither took the first step. Both knew it — that the first breath would be the decision. And both were gauging who would use that one breath first.
A span of time passed. The shadow in the courtyard moved a hand's breadth.
The fist-fighter slowly lowered both hands. The Hellene opened his shoulders. The two released their stances at the same time. And bowed at the same time. Deeply.
The fight never even began. Yet the end was already there. Turning away, the fist-fighter said a word to the Hellene — in Cantonese. The Hellene replied — in Greek. The two could not understand each other's words. Yet they understood.
When the hundred paths of Unarmed Combat gather in one courtyard, no path is superior. They merely use each their own breath.
"The fist is the very first and the very last weapon. That is why it earns the most names."