Cost: 2m; Mins: Martial Arts 2, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive (Step 10)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Illusion
Duration: Reflexive (DV -3)
Prerequisite Charms: None
Withdrawing her Essence into her body, the character drops to the ground and temporarily appears to be dead. A carefull examination and a successful (Perception + Medicine) roll, difficulty 3, is necessary to determine that the character is still alive. The Martial Artist using this Charm can hold her breath 10 times as long as normal, and she does not need to eat or drink - handy if she's hiding from enemies at the bottom of a river or wants them to think they killed her. Altough the character's senses of hearing, touch and smell function normally, she cannot see or move. She can act normally the action after she chooses to end this Charm
The first change to this Charm was to alter it from a simple charm to a Reflexive charm. With this alteration, the Character can use the charm in combat to fake her death. otherwise succesfull use in combat would almost be impossible
The second change was to add the Combo-OK tag, which means you can use charms to defend yourself against an attack and then fake your own death