Kata-Hack.

Martial Arts' Kata at the Court.

Credits: Unknown.


During one of their telepathic discussions, Drake 'enlightened' Caty about the hidden power of her Court.

Under Akashic Brotherhood's supervisions, Kata - carefully choreographed Martial Art forms - are practically Rituals, with potentially great holy power.

These Rites have great power over living beings, can enhance martial art prowess of a student, can affect mind & bodies of others.

This way, a Helicopter pilot - for example - can suffer from a heart attack during a missle run against her Court.

This can protect her Court from fairly advanced modern armies, even without missles & other modern weapons use by her soldiers, even without Runner's Matrix - as long as these war machines are piloted non-remotely.

Potentially an another layer of defense for her Court.

Thankfully, her Court still has many martial artists, communications with Akashite Zeppelin are intact as well.

For this power, Caty agreed for Enlightenment Stupa building permission within her Hell-Court perimeter - on the condition that Stupas won't dominate her Court too much.

Against remotely controlled or pre-programmed Drones, Runner has his Virtual Adept's magick that can affect computers controlling these machines.

Alien Beasts in a Service of Heaven.

-=- Inkubus Sukkubus - Wytches' Chant. -=-


Celestial Chorus group finally started to work for rubies & privileges from Runner's Chantry.

They chanted the Wythes' Chant 13 times together - praising & calling the Wiccan godessess, the women of power - and they spoke even more of Wisdom & Compassion mantras as well.

They earned 2600 rubies in total for these chants, and gained better karma as well for mantras.

The deal was to buy a small amount of hell's defensible territory for their outpost, to bring some alien beasts for defense, to use Runner's 'Telepathic Marix', 'Mind-Machine Interface' & other Virtual Adept Magickal Powers as a way to control these beasts with Magick-Enhanced Software. They brought their own laptop computers with them, they also paid for speed-deal with Rubies. Caty agreed & arranged the deal & it's speed within her hierarchy.

In this magickal hell a lot can be done with proper connections & payments.

Beasts included a twelve of small but ferocious beasts with claws & fangs, a two of flying beasts that shoot acid at a large distance, as well as a hovering monstrosity that controlled them telepathically & received commands from their software.

Apparently they took inspiration from Starcraft 2 computer game, Runner thought.

With Runner's Virtual Adept's Magick they were able to use that game to control beasts, with their custom map that was similar to hell's part they were in.

After the deal they have still 500 rubies to use later.

The range at which they can control the beasts is 4 days of travel from their outpost, considering the speed of their fastest unit.

'If laptop or your control-monstrosity leaves your base, it all will cease to work' - Runner warned them telepathically.