Help & getting started

A Konatsu's Cadence bar starts every fight empty and takes a few rounds of landed hits to climb. Opening Cadence starts each fight with part of the bar already built, so your bonus swings are running from the first round. THE THREE RANKS: 8 points Open at 25 Cadence, +2 swings 16 points Open at 50 Cadence, +4 swings 24 points Open at 75 Cadence, +6 swings and the quicker downbeat 48 points for all three. The bar never opens full, so no fight begins on a full strength technique. WORTH KNOWING: Konatsu only. The same 25, 50 or 75 in every stance, Flowing Water included. Rank one is enough for Iai Slash, Immovable Guard or Moonfall Strike. Cascade needs 40, so it needs rank two. It charges once per fight. Turning to a new foe while the fight goes on does not charge it again, a fresh fight does. It never lowers a bar that is already higher. The round the fight starts in never bleeds the charge, even when you are pulled in before you can swing. From then on the usual rules apply: a round with no landed hits bleeds 20, two in a row silence the bar. A fight that opens with a technique carried in by Lingering Refrain gets no charge, see help prefrain.