[quote=@Muttonhawk]
It's all good. You didn't drag out the moment too long.

Though, the thing I am slightly worried about is the precedent that has been set with this ki business. The fight that we just had kind of put the ki channellers on a distinctly higher tier than non-ki channellers.[/quote]

Yeah--I seem to remember several folks expressing interest, and then nothing coming of it once things got started. Usual fare around this place, but the fact that out of the few characters we got there was an even split between "powered" and "non-powered" folk might cause some issue. I know that there are two other "classes" we haven't even seen so far, I think--Liu is a Naturalist, but as of yet hasn't contracted/absorbed any animal/spirit that he could use to display those powers--and the "Lightseeker," while probably being the closest thing to what's been seen so far, was probably not intended to be seen as "upper tier" compared to the other two.

But I don't think Kyang and Torako could be considered "weak" or anything. Even with things like enhancing the body's durability or muscular strength with ki, though, I personally think that Dai Xin still wouldn't be able to stop a blade from cutting him. Body hardening techniques are a real thing in some martial arts, but that's how you become able to do things like break tiles/bricks and hit someone in the jaw without gloves and not break your hand in the process. Even with supernatural aid I think forged steel specifically designed to cut something with less power and more efficiently is going to beat flesh and bone. So weapon users aren't out of luck, especially if they make use of the Soulbound stuff. A martial artist might have speed and strength, but if a swordsman gets one good cut in and uses the length of his weapon to keep out of range, even superhumans can bleed to death.