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#New Mobility Schools (機動流派) — Section Index

Contents

#Identity

The core's 6 mobility skills (Footwork, Lightness Skill, Riding, Navigation, Infiltration, Disguise) have no schools at all. This expansion introduces schools for the first time to all 6 skills. At least 3 kinds per skill, diversifying play type per skill.

#Design Goals

  • 6 skills × at least 3 kinds = 18+ new schools.
  • Detailed goals per skill:
  • Footwork: 3~5 kinds. silencing footsteps, unfathomable footwork, vigorous step, ronin footwork
  • Lightness Skill: 3~5 kinds. wall-climbing, water-walking, grass-skimming flight, swallow flight, flying dragon
  • Riding: 2~3 kinds. (distinguished from 15-Horsemanship — Riding centers on relocation/transport)
  • Navigation: 3~5 kinds. wako, Joseon navy, Portuguese shipbuilding, Ming Zheng He style, Viking
  • Infiltration: 3~5 kinds. underground, ravine, palace-interior, urban, temple
  • Disguise: 3~5 kinds. actor style, agent style, family-impersonation style, vagabond style
  • Type mixing: the foreign-style proportion is especially high (navigation schools are mostly foreign-style).

#§ This Section's File List

#Reference Documents

Core essentials:

1st expansion (format reference):

Within this expansion:

#§ Scent — Two People Atop the Cliff

A steep cliff on Wudang Mountain. An old Taoist master stood at the edge. White Taoist robes, white beard. He held a single breath and then — in the Kata of Cloud-Wandering Step (雲遊步) — placed one foot upon the empty air at the cliff's edge. One breath, two breaths. His foot was upon the void yet did not fall. That was the first Kata of Taoist Lightness Skill.

Just as the master was about to set down his next foot, someone climbed up from below the cliff.

He had not climbed — he had spun. Spinning and leaping one motion at a time between rock and rock. Both legs turned a full revolution in midair and then landed precisely on the next rock. The master could not understand for a while what he had seen.

The one who had ascended stopped before the master and smiled. Short hair, colorful clothing, a European. A face the master saw for the first time.

"Where do you come from?" the master asked in written Chinese.

To answer, the European crouched down for a moment and drew letters on the rock. Cirque (Cirque). The master did not know those letters, but he guessed at something the word meant — one who performs feats in the plaza.

"How did you learn that spin?"

"I fell every day. After a hundred falls, once it became a spin."

The master demonstrated his own Cloud-Wandering Step. One foot upon the void at the cliff's edge. The European watched a while, then nodded. "You call the same wind by a different name."

The master nodded too. Atop the same cliff, the two of them knew how to use the same flow in two different Kata. The Taoist's breath, and the cirque's trial and error.

The art of mobility is not a single path.

"Moving quickly requires a different technique than moving slowly."