Cat-in-a-Box Kata

Cost: 3 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Min. Martial Arts: 3
Min. Essence: 2
Prereqs: Leopard's Dance of Avoidance

This charm may only be activated when a clinch attack or effect is made against you and provides a reflexive dodge of the attack with a dice pool equal to Dexterity + Martial Arts. When dodging the clinch or hold of somone with an Essence rating equal to or less than yours, all your dice automatically succeed. If your opponent has a higher Essence than you, convert your Essence in dice to automatic successes. If you dodge successfully, you may move yourself away from your opponent a number of yards equal to your Dexterity. By spending 1 additional mote, this charm may be used to dodge clinches that are not normally dodgable but, if so used, only the dice pool to dodge is provided, none of the automatic successes.