Rolled 7, 5 = 12 (2d10)
>>6320509>Develop [MA] [2 DI] - Exquisite Technique>Preq-Tech: Mount Ao Sectmaster, Jade Beauty Heliodos, Purification, Enlightenment>Preq-Resources: Huáng>When the Mount Ao Sectmaster ability is performed on a primal, it costs an MI instead of a UI. However, it can still only be used once per turn.It is challenging to train on a technique that requires another's participation. Just as challenging it is to truly know someone, enough to spar with their shadow as one envisions it, rather than as it would be.
Challenging, yes. But not impossible. Not for Huáng, disciple of the Glow, sectmaster of Mount Ao.
It is so, that sectmaster Huáng abandons the challenging. The challenging is easy, trivial, only a matter of time.
He instead goes for the impossible. To train the technique on all possible partners. Not by finding and applying, but by conceiving of every possible move, and producing a reaction, a counter, a prod, a pull, and a finishing strike.
He sits in meditation, and allows his mind to produce a universe of possibility, and then an archive of a solution for every possibility. Lizard, crocodile, duplicitous dog and spiky ball. Worm, bird, fish, dragon, rooster, and more still that could be conceived. And some that could not be conceived.
He had time, for-
>Consume the spark of the Unwanted [UI]-his body would take an epoch to purify and integrate the spark into his meridians. A burst of power, quick to dissipate, but nearly equal to the Glow's ability in his prime.