Chi

Overcome: Chi allows you to overcome any obstacle relating to imbalance of internal forces. It is also used to help a character find focus or introspection amidst chaos, making it useful to work through various distractions. Chi can even overcome the negative effects of poison, disease, or injury, though usually this respite is only temporary and proper treatment must still be received. It can also be used to detect strong or weak Chi in others, overcoming attempts to conceal one’s inner strength.

Create an Advantage: Chi allows you to focus your energies to various advantageous effects for yourself and others. Aspects like Meditative Focus or My Energies are Aligned can be created to aid in various mental and physical activities. Advantages can also be used to complement Kung Fu defenses or attacks, especially when dealing with powerful martial artists whose strength is often as much about powerful Chi as physical might.

Attack: Chi is not generally used for attack, but various Kung Fu Techniques and other special abilities change this.

Defend: Chi can defend against mystical attacks and those relying on Chi as part of the attack, like some Kung Fu Techniques.

Special: Characters with high Chi skills can deal with stress much better than others. At the beginning of a scene any character with a Chi skill of Average or better gets a free attempt to make a special Create an Advantage action to create a Chi Armor advantage. Each invocation can be used to gain a +2 Armor Rating against a successful attack against them. Characters can also use Fate points to invoke Chi Armor once these invocations are gone or use an action during their turn to create an advantage to add new invocations. You cannot do this in addition to making an attack or other action; you need to take an action to center your character’s energies and revitalize their Chi Armor.