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Advantage: Busty

Excessively: 15 points, Impractically: 30 points, Unfeasibly: 40 points, Impossibly: N/A

Your (female) character is imbued with remarkable endowments, causing good luck and remarkable resiliance to damage.

Excessively Busty:

• If your character is wearing Low-cut Armor, for every point tier your character gains a +2 modifier to Marketability, +1 modifier to Confidence, and all non-immune male characters within visual range have a -1 penalty to Concentration.
• The only exception to the armor restriction is the Armor of Fullchesthood which is, of course Mid-cut Armor; if a Busty character wears the Armor of Fullchesthood, she gains an extra tier.
• Running (skipping and even plain old jumping counts too) causes all non-immune male characters in the vicinity looking at her must make a Concentration roll to avoid a one-turn paralyzation.
• A Brassiere of Holding, although quite revealing, negates Advantage:Busty while it's being worn.
• Stunning Reveal: If the assets of a Busty character are revealed to a non-immune (generally, a non-Fancy Man) male combatant, he must make a Concentration check or be paralyzed for D3 turns.
  • The revealed character cannot perform any actions unrelated to covering herself until she is again decent.

Impractically Busty:

• All traits of Excessively Busty
• Stunning Reveal effect: D3 turns

Unfeasibly Busty:

• All traits of Impractically Busty
• Characters who are Unfeasibly Busty must take an Agility test whenever she wishes to stand up. Failure results in the character falling over backwards, and she gets a -1 penalty to Agility and a +4 bonus to Marketability for D9 turns.
• Stunning Reveal effect: 2D3 turns

Impossibly Busty:

• Possible only by means of the Armor of Fullchesthood
• All traits of Unfeasibly Busty
• Aching Back: Should an Impossibly Busty character remain standing for more than (20+(Stamina X D11)) turns at a time, a strength check must be taken every turn until she rests, or else she collapses.
• Stunning Reveal effect: 4D3 turns (This can only occur if the Armor of Fullchesthood is damaged)

Addendum:

Robes of Fullchesthood, while flattering, do not actually increase bust size, but merely create an illusion of size. As such they add +1 marketability to a Busty character wearing them but do not cause the character to go up a tier.

If you are playing a male character, you may take Busty as a Disadvantage for the same negative point costs, and with a negative modifier to your Marketability in all cases. If you are playing with a prepubescent character, seriously, dude, what the hell is wrong with you? No change to Marketability, unless you're in Japan, in which case Marketability effects are doubled.

For textual comparison, Lady Ambivilia would naturally be classified as Excessively Busty, Serafina Haberdasheron as Impractically Busty, and Lopae of Hopea would be a natural Unfeasibly Busty woman, but in the Armor of Fullchesthood is the only woman in canon to achieve Impossibly Busty status.

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