Powerups.2da

Powerups are the spherical objects your opponents drop in combat. Picking up one of these orbs powers your character up - so to speak. There are three kinds of them:
 * 1) powerups that restore a certain amount of the PC's chi, health, focus or all three at once
 * 2) powerups that grant the character a temporary style:
 * 3) *bottles for Drunken Master
 * 4) *chair legs for the Improvised Chairlegs style
 * 5) *hams for the Improvised Hams style
 * 6) powerups that apply temporary effects. The "unblockable" powerup is the only one of this sort in vanilla Jade Empire.

Strangely enough combat styles - or at least the ones that can be bought in stores - are powerups as well. There are no game world models for any of the styles though. Maybe the developers toyed with the idea of having the PC's opponents drop styles in combat, but if they did, they dropped the idea instead.