Bridge (Aligned Form)
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Bridge
Bridges have, of course, tremendous symbolic significance: they link what is otherwise disparate, allow passage over difficulty, and so on. Many aspects of this significance are utilized in actualizing this form, which opens various martial potentialities within oneself. The bridge serves as a passageway over the troubled waters of combat, or as a pass through an enemy's defenses. And, as one improves one's facility with this form, one can acquire procedural knowledge of specific combat maneuvers that serve as transitional bridges in martial locomotion. One can become quite fluid and versatile in combat in this way. This form affords the primary mode of self-defense for the majority of Aligned, and many Aligned become quite proficient martial artists solely to gain more fluency with this form. The discipline of martial arts gives the title of "art" some warrant, further motivating its study among the Aligned. (Other Aligned eschew this sort of combat altogether, relying on the clever use of other forms when self-defense is needed.) Maintaining this knowlege within oneself is a drain on one's reserves of order energy. One can release the form by the same process that one actualizes it.
Knowledge Requirement
have at least 40 points among
- 50% of physics skill and martial arts skill
Actualization Requirement
have at least 75 points among
- 20% of leximancy skill, 30% of telesma skill, 50% of physics skill and martial arts skill
Facility Formula
10% of dexterity plus 10% of charisma plus 85% of martial arts skill plus 10% of physics skill plus 10% of telesma skill plus 10% of leximancy skill plus 5% of siege engineering skill, with diminishing returns on a scaling factor of five
Facility Rating
68 to 350
Energy Costs
55 spiritual and 5 order
Process to Actualize
visualize a bridge