Ying Yang Kata

Expert practitioners call this the "Give Over to the Tao Kata," because it feels like you're loaning your body to some other, greater, supernatural being. What makes it even stranger is the way it looks. While all the Chi Katas look like dances, the Yin-Yang Kata appears even more dramatic, with fast, modern-dance-like movements and the kind of leaps and kicks you'd expect to see at a ballet. Yet, while the body is engaged in this frenetic activity, the character's mind feels calm and subdued, submerged into the oneness of the Yin-Yang, seemingly like a distant observer.

All actions, including strikes, parries, dodges, and rolls are done as normal, with neither penalties nor bonuses. The really weird thing about the Yin-Yang Kata is that attacks on supernatural beings, demons, creatures of Pure Negative Chi, and other things that would normally be immune to physical attacks, take normal damage, as if the attacks were based magical in nature.

This kata requires a Intelligence check to initiate and the martial artist cannot communicate while engageing in this kata.

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