The Hokage's "office" was a lot more lavish than he thought it would be. That was the first thought to come to mind once it finally came into view. The mountain path made for a decent hike, so it certainly wouldn't be a terrible place to relax in for a minute. It had all the makings of a good day so far. The birds were chirping, there was a gentle breeze making its way by, and the office was sinking.
. . .
The office was sinking. Tensuke was standing far enough away that there wasn't any immediate danger for him, but a person was standing pretty close to the "danger zone." His initial thoughts of I should help this person changed swiftly to I should avoid this person in no time at all. All the wrong vibes were going off, and a helpless victim probably wouldn't have been standing so close intending to watch the place get destroyed. Moves were happening before he could begin his approach, so he made the wise decision of staying back and minding his own business. Once the Hokage herself made a special guest appearance to the sudden showing, Tensuke was able to confirm that yes, he was in over his head. There was no place for him to help or get involved.
Walking away was probably the smartest thing he could have done, but something about turning his back on the Hokage's office sinking into the ground struck him as wrong. He was knowledgeable about his weakness, yeah, but he was no coward. At the same time, approaching them wasn't an option. It would be like an ant walking into a boot. There was tension in the air, and he wanted nothing to do with it. No, Kensuke was content with waiting from a distance for the time being.
Things unraveled much more peacefully from that point. The Hokage and the girl in front of the office got into a heated exchange of words, but it wasn't particularly mean-spirited. Normally he'd expect such an attack on the office to warrant immediate detainment and capture, but the kage was okay with passing it off as a juvenile prank it would seem. Looking at the larger picture, it wasn't so bad in the end. The place repaired itself, and the kage could handle her problems without anyone's concern. Kensuke was popping a chocolate candy into his mouth from his bag when the thought struck him that it was probably safe for him to enter the office. With the kage close enough to hear any of his broken bones or other horrible potential wounds, how could he be safer?
One step. Two steps. Left, right, left, right. One foot in front of the other. He summoned the power of his old street urchin days to try and make himself as invisible as possible. Looking straight ahead with the head slightly tilted up. A pensive expression with a small smile, giving the impression of a man stuck in his own little world. Like he hadn't noticed or cared about anything that just happened, even though there was no ******** way that was the case.
Keeeeep walking Kensuke, it's not your business.
If he somehow made it past the women outside and into the office, he'd give the world's largest exhale in the lobby without a care for who saw him unwind.
あたしには必要なものです。
Rocket Punches
Evanescently Magnificent
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 2:27 pm
Sumika arched her eyebrow at the Hokage's response initially, but that apparent skepticism faded as the woman continued. "UUUGH! Glad I'm not the only one who doesn't fawn over those weirdos." She said before stopping to ponder for a moment, complete with chin rubbing. Whether or not she was actually considering anything, no one could truly know. "You know what. I was gonna go mess up some more stuff, but even without the kicker I'll take that deal." She said, obviously more than intrigued by whatever Lahlil was up to than any potential attempt to get the losers in the village to have a serious fight. Besides, she'd gotten worse responses from the shadows before. Maybe the bat lady was worth some further consideration.
Deconstructed Essence: When custom metal armors, weapons, and items are successfully reduced to iron sand by the deconstruction ability, the jiton user is able to retain [1] of the custom abilities of the original item in their iron sand for the duration of the battle. Up to [3] custom abilities from [3] separate weapons can be obtained in a single battle.
Kakumei no Hono Ryu: techs treated as spiritual in strength for collisions
Flame Breathing Pattern: Defend against an activation without using an activation once every 3 posts. Status: Active
Fluid Movement: Techniques used for a blocking, countering or evasive action have their cost reduced by 5 stamina per rank of the technique.
Whirlpool Walking: In the Deflecting Stance, the user can deflect a technique of their body rank or lower once every three posts for no activation, still requiring the stamina/chakra cost paid.
Move As Water: Techniques that target multiple opponents may now have additional reserves paid in order to strengthen the effectiveness of the individual attack to the next highest rank.These can be paid individually, not requiring chakra or stamina to be paid for every split technique.
Riptide: In the Weak Stance, the user may perform 4 activations in a given post. In the Strong Stance, the user may perform an additional offensive activation each post. Each additional technique costs an extra 20 Chakra to perform and must be either basic combat or come from this Style.
Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi: All Simple techniques in this Style are treated as Complex when interacting with other techniques.
Unwavering Balance: Any techniques below the user's body rank cannot knock them over.
Dual Elemental Charge: Able to charge Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi with an extra element for [ 10 ] chakra.
Magnet Release: Jiton users can freely convert the earth and their Doton techniques into any magnetic material that they can control for [5] chakra and no action cost.
If no one else was gonna take the mantel and stay in it, then it was time Sumika took the helm of Konoha. All these other losers had their chance, the office was hers now as far as she was concerned. Or at least this was the logic behind her waltz into the seemingly empty office, plopping herself down in the big chair behind the desk, and kicking her feet up to wait for, well, she didn't quite know what. Cobalt the panda wormed his way in through the door, carrying along a small rat on his head courtesy of the Sage Lands, and plopped down next to her. For now the woman used this free time to ponder what her first act as Hokage would be.
Deconstructed Essence: When custom metal armors, weapons, and items are successfully reduced to iron sand by the deconstruction ability, the jiton user is able to retain [1] of the custom abilities of the original item in their iron sand for the duration of the battle. Up to [3] custom abilities from [3] separate weapons can be obtained in a single battle.
Kakumei no Hono Ryu: techs treated as spiritual in strength for collisions
Flame Breathing Pattern: Defend against an activation without using an activation once every 3 posts. Status: Active
Fluid Movement: Techniques used for a blocking, countering or evasive action have their cost reduced by 5 stamina per rank of the technique.
Whirlpool Walking: In the Deflecting Stance, the user can deflect a technique of their body rank or lower once every three posts for no activation, still requiring the stamina/chakra cost paid.
Move As Water: Techniques that target multiple opponents may now have additional reserves paid in order to strengthen the effectiveness of the individual attack to the next highest rank.These can be paid individually, not requiring chakra or stamina to be paid for every split technique.
Riptide: In the Weak Stance, the user may perform 4 activations in a given post. In the Strong Stance, the user may perform an additional offensive activation each post. Each additional technique costs an extra 20 Chakra to perform and must be either basic combat or come from this Style.
Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi: All Simple techniques in this Style are treated as Complex when interacting with other techniques.
Unwavering Balance: Any techniques below the user's body rank cannot knock them over.
Dual Elemental Charge: Able to charge Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi with an extra element for [ 10 ] chakra.
Magnet Release: Jiton users can freely convert the earth and their Doton techniques into any magnetic material that they can control for [5] chakra and no action cost.
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Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2020 5:04 pm
Sumika lazily scribbled something onto a sheet of paper before a clone of herself popped its way back into the window and handed her the receiver for the loud speaker it had been setting up on the roof above. "Alrighty. Testing, testing. Cool. So.
My name is Sumika and I'm in charge of this village now. Lahlil decided it was vacation time and I'm sick of the Hokage position being a revolving door of losers. In fact, I'm sick of Hokage all together, but since we're not moving back to the Land of Whirlpools where we should all be right now anyways, I've come up with a compromise. I am the first Sumikage. Now, as the first Sumikage, I find myself lacking in both an assistant, and spicy chips, so the first person to bring me a new bag of chips will have that position and the commensurate payment, as long as they want."
And with that Sumika chucked the receiver aside, kicked her feet up once more, and patiently awaited the arrival of her chips.
[ Basically just taking a guess at whose still around. ]
Deconstructed Essence: When custom metal armors, weapons, and items are successfully reduced to iron sand by the deconstruction ability, the jiton user is able to retain [1] of the custom abilities of the original item in their iron sand for the duration of the battle. Up to [3] custom abilities from [3] separate weapons can be obtained in a single battle.
Kakumei no Hono Ryu: techs treated as spiritual in strength for collisions
Flame Breathing Pattern: Defend against an activation without using an activation once every 3 posts. Status: Active
Fluid Movement: Techniques used for a blocking, countering or evasive action have their cost reduced by 5 stamina per rank of the technique.
Whirlpool Walking: In the Deflecting Stance, the user can deflect a technique of their body rank or lower once every three posts for no activation, still requiring the stamina/chakra cost paid.
Move As Water: Techniques that target multiple opponents may now have additional reserves paid in order to strengthen the effectiveness of the individual attack to the next highest rank.These can be paid individually, not requiring chakra or stamina to be paid for every split technique.
Riptide: In the Weak Stance, the user may perform 4 activations in a given post. In the Strong Stance, the user may perform an additional offensive activation each post. Each additional technique costs an extra 20 Chakra to perform and must be either basic combat or come from this Style.
Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi: All Simple techniques in this Style are treated as Complex when interacting with other techniques.
Unwavering Balance: Any techniques below the user's body rank cannot knock them over.
Dual Elemental Charge: Able to charge Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi with an extra element for [ 10 ] chakra.
Magnet Release: Jiton users can freely convert the earth and their Doton techniques into any magnetic material that they can control for [5] chakra and no action cost.
No potato chips but the village wide address caught the attention of a group Sumika might have no been readyfor. Five masked operatives. Four operatives veiled in dark cloaks and the last standing in a dull beige. They were quiet. All five scrutinizing the room and the young lady occupying Lahlil's former operating space. Boar, rat, horse, and a leader sporting a theatrical red and blue markings over their mask.
The presumed leader wore a mask that held a resemblance to a theater mask. Just the colors red and blue. Red accentuating around the eyes and blue encompassing the mouth. Granted, a lack of facial features left the viewer imagination to fill in the gaps. The leader spoke with a grating voice after his mask seemed to have been locked on Sumika's form. "We'd come to ask Lady Lahlil what her plans were. But it appears she isn't here. You've brought some attention to yourself. I'm afraid we cannot acknowledge you as much of anything without Lahlil's consent. Of course, she does have subordinates who look after the village in her stead. "The leading operative didn't recognize Sumika as one and frankly wasn't fond of this action treading dangerously to insubordination to the village customs. A voice under the boar mask scoffed, "If you had any sense, you see, you might've calculated us into the equation with your uprising. We're not here to waste time. We are giving you the chance leave this building. The order our village has in-place does not permit for someone to uproot and claim as freely as you."
JUEI.
Rocket Punches
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2020 1:27 pm
The woman let out a snort of derision at the appearance of the masky ones. "Freely? Ignorant bootlicker." Her tone was not one of playfulness. She clearly resented the assertion that she did not have a place of any authority in a village she'd seen through more s**t than all but perhaps the fox freak. This was exactly the reason she'd put the office in a hole to begin with, and exactly the reason Lahlil hadn't done much of anything in response. "It was my village before any of you losers got it turned into a crater twice. It was my sister's village before that Satonaka lady decided to drag everyone back over here and build Knockoff Konoha. Whoever thinks they're in charge can come deal with the problem they created like big boys and girls. In person. Until then y'all can go piss up a rope or you'll be building a new office." Lahlil and Sumika had come to a mutual understanding of the reason one of the longer tenured members of the village was so thoroughly unhappy. Her subordinates clearly had not gotten any sort of update on that though. Or perhaps they had, and this was more evidence that Sumika's broader assessment of aimlessness and lack of care for the people in the village was perfectly accurate. Those were the only two options, as the rat sage highly doubted these goons were here to let her stretch her legs like the now former Hokage had promised.
"Hey, runt. Puck was it? Do me a favor and fetch Marrow Gnawer in case these idiots try something. Cobalt, go find some bamboo or something bud." She said casually, snapping her fingers towards the tiny creature before producing a kuani to fiddle with. The little rat squeaked and scampered from its furry perch before being replaced by a rather vicious looking man sized beast in a tiny puff of smoke. Cobalt, meanwhile, hefted his weight past the ANBU without a so much as a glance, and went off to find his own snack. "If you think what I want out of this is paperwork or every genin in this village bugging me about headbands and the chance to hoof it across the Land of Fire with a caravan instead of picking up trash, you masked dorks are even worse at your jobs than I thought you were. I'm not some clout chasing sycophant, I'm a squeaky wheel." This was perhaps the most galling bit of this. That the village cared so little for her they could neither be bothered to know anything about her nor devise a solution to this particular situation that did not involve attacking her. A younger Sumika would have reduced the entirety of the office and surrounding lands into a roiling sea of Jiton and Mokuton, given the same amount of power and a similarly insulting response. Whatever happened was out of her hands now; down to a test of the jackboots' judgement. Get in a pointless fight with a capably destructive shinobi who had shown little of her own abilities in the village, or don't and sit around like good little doggies.
For her part, Sumika did not assume a terribly threatening posture. Or a new one at all for that matter. Though it would seem Marrow Gnawer was incapable of anything but. The woman's feet remained kicked up on the corner of the desk, reclining her diagonally across the fated throne, but all fiddling had stopped as she grew obviously more annoyed. She now held the kunai like one might a card, intently examining the dark metal.
◁ Non-Activation Techs Used ▷ Summon: Marrow Gnawer | Rank A
◁ Persistent Modifiers ▷
Deconstructed Essence: When custom metal armors, weapons, and items are successfully reduced to iron sand by the deconstruction ability, the jiton user is able to retain [1] of the custom abilities of the original item in their iron sand for the duration of the battle. Up to [3] custom abilities from [3] separate weapons can be obtained in a single battle.
Kakumei no Hono Ryu: techs treated as spiritual in strength for collisions
Flame Breathing Pattern: Defend against an activation without using an activation once every 3 posts. Status: Active
Fluid Movement: Techniques used for a blocking, countering or evasive action have their cost reduced by 5 stamina per rank of the technique.
Whirlpool Walking: In the Deflecting Stance, the user can deflect a technique of their body rank or lower once every three posts for no activation, still requiring the stamina/chakra cost paid.
Move As Water: Techniques that target multiple opponents may now have additional reserves paid in order to strengthen the effectiveness of the individual attack to the next highest rank.These can be paid individually, not requiring chakra or stamina to be paid for every split technique.
Riptide: In the Weak Stance, the user may perform 4 activations in a given post. In the Strong Stance, the user may perform an additional offensive activation each post. Each additional technique costs an extra 20 Chakra to perform and must be either basic combat or come from this Style.
Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi: All Simple techniques in this Style are treated as Complex when interacting with other techniques.
Unwavering Balance: Any techniques below the user's body rank cannot knock them over.
Dual Elemental Charge: Able to charge Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi with an extra element for [ 10 ] chakra.
Magnet Release: Jiton users can freely convert the earth and their Doton techniques into any magnetic material that they can control for [5] chakra and no action cost.
"Your villages are history. This is a power that's started over from scratch without a single thread tied to leadership from the old villages." sounded the Rooster firmly. "we know who you are." The rooster tilted their neck, mind the animal resources Sumika was weaving past the group. He sounded sore like he lost something too. "Your sister is vastly irrelevant to this conversation. She absolutely did nothing to ensure the people wouldn't choke on ash spewing from the Caldera. Sanae wasn't there to assure the safety and well-being of the people who were forced to flee from the Whirlpool into this Neo Leaf. The people who saw the Kogarashi invasion and the calamity brought with it through and gave this new village life are still here." The squad leader briefly eyed his own operative who seemed to quell the Rooster's riling crow. "What are you looking for then?" The Rooster said after he drew in a soothing, sobering breath. "Do you seek to simulate respect and power by playing piggy-back on her name to claim something you had no part in?" "Sumika. Your old ties to ghosts are weighing your reasoning down with pride." The operative bearing the Rat spoke, sounding more sympathetic than his cohorts despite the jabs Sumika was throwing at this platoon. The events referenced where experienced first hand by each operative. Sanae had left the Whirlpool and inevitably turned her back on it to her own endeavors. Her village was a legacy of other villages combined and she allowed it to endure destruction as her only successor died at the hands of the Koragrashi invaders. "If you are upset with how the course of time may have looked unfavorably upon your situation then you're one of many. The ruins of your villages remain as such. Miles and miles from this spot and we will not stop you from venturing out to make peace with them. " The leader waved the operative sporting to Horse mask to move. "Inform the advisors." And just so, the Horse masked operative sunk into the floor. "A squeaky wheel should be oiled. Don't you think? Reconditioned to work and fit better against the grind instead of squeaking and squeaking its defiance. This position is not yours and neither are the facile, tedious tasks that you must prove you're above. Your cooperation will favor your standing which is plainly you standing down now from anymore making claims. JUEI must receive confirmation from Lahlil herself or from one of her immediate subordinates. If the Director and the Hokage are not on the same page then this will not be a picturesque scene." Oh, the money someone would have to direct into rebuilding the twelfth floor office room would be a bother JUEI didn't intend to
Rocket Punches
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2020 4:49 pm
"Watch your tongues or I'll claim your face along with that mask." Marrow Gnawer snapped as the rat masked member spoke up. "Come on MG, telling the rooster guy we're gonna have fried chicken tonight if he doesn't shut up is a way better come back. Plus he's more annoying. Stop fixating on the rat stuff." Sumika said, clearly unimpressed with the forays on the part of the JUEI into logic and reasoning. They said they knew who she was, but that wasn't true. They'd read her file. There was an ocean of experience between reading a file with Trouble written on it and knowing a person. Lahlil knew Sumika, just a little bit, but she was gone now. The pool of people in the village that knew Sumika had thoroughly dried up at this point. At least beyond the non-shinobi she'd taken to kicking it with around the village. "Last I checked you didn't oil squeaky wheels with hammers. And the funny thing about squeaky parts is, sometimes oiling them isn't enough. Sometimes they squeak because the spot they've been put in just doesn't quite fit them." This was growing rather tedious and Sumika was wavering on letting the kunai fly just for the hell of it.
"This isn't about whether or not my sister did a good job. They all failed. The people y'all put in charge suck a** at being in charge and I keep getting the short end of the stick. Teacher, Sister, Home, the one person in this damn village that actually understood why this place makes me mad? Gone. Giving a s**t is like pissing into the wind with you people." Marrow Gnawer's teeth only gritted more as she spoke but the woman waived him back off the edge. None of that really worth arguing as a point. Lahlil's reputation as a rather seedy character was well earned, and the jab at San likely did not land as heavily as expected. Sumika loved Sanae more than anything in the world, but pretending that Uzushio had gone well would be as laughable as that village was beautiful. Even if it annoyed her that people gave up on the re-imagining of what this world could be that she and her sister had helped author along with Arashi, just to crawl desperately back into the sickly sweet trappings of nostalgia. Chie had been offed in front of Sumika and a bunch of Academy brats by people she let get past the village's defenses. Taka was a footnote, but Sumika's fond memories didn't erase those of pulling herself out of the rubble caused by UHV's bullshit.
"And so we're back around the flat a** circle again." The kunai tracing a similar path through the air as she spoke with a combination of flippancy and venom. "Fall in line. Earn favor. Hell, this time it's starting before we even know who the damn kage is. A decade hasn't been enough time for anyone here to treat me like I've been here for more than a week. I'll give ya credit though. Skipping straight to 'we don't give a s**t about the times you fought and bled at our side before this village, you're still a nobody to us' is at least a more honest response than I got when I was a kid, c**k for brains." Sumika was back to being agitated again. The kunai whipped around in her hand now as her finger slipped into the eyelet. Spinning precariously inches away from her face for a moment before she snatched it to a stop and began flipping it back and forth.
"Like it or not, boyos, your kage are the reason there's an angry lady capable of reducing the building you're standing in to a splinter filled crater with the kunai in her hand sitting in this chair. And your kage is going to have to be the one to deal with it."
Deconstructed Essence: When custom metal armors, weapons, and items are successfully reduced to iron sand by the deconstruction ability, the jiton user is able to retain [1] of the custom abilities of the original item in their iron sand for the duration of the battle. Up to [3] custom abilities from [3] separate weapons can be obtained in a single battle.
Kakumei no Hono Ryu: techs treated as spiritual in strength for collisions
Flame Breathing Pattern: Defend against an activation without using an activation once every 3 posts. Status: Active
Fluid Movement: Techniques used for a blocking, countering or evasive action have their cost reduced by 5 stamina per rank of the technique.
Whirlpool Walking: In the Deflecting Stance, the user can deflect a technique of their body rank or lower once every three posts for no activation, still requiring the stamina/chakra cost paid.
Move As Water: Techniques that target multiple opponents may now have additional reserves paid in order to strengthen the effectiveness of the individual attack to the next highest rank.These can be paid individually, not requiring chakra or stamina to be paid for every split technique.
Riptide: In the Weak Stance, the user may perform 4 activations in a given post. In the Strong Stance, the user may perform an additional offensive activation each post. Each additional technique costs an extra 20 Chakra to perform and must be either basic combat or come from this Style.
Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi: All Simple techniques in this Style are treated as Complex when interacting with other techniques.
Unwavering Balance: Any techniques below the user's body rank cannot knock them over.
Dual Elemental Charge: Able to charge Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi with an extra element for [ 10 ] chakra.
Magnet Release: Jiton users can freely convert the earth and their Doton techniques into any magnetic material that they can control for [5] chakra and no action cost.
"Fine. We'll accommodate." The Leader was quick to dismiss the Rooster operative to a secret affair. "Sulk in how the whole village has wronged you. However, since you are choosing to pursue this course against our demands then we'll just keep you company. We can await the kage together." With care, the assumed leader of the group revealed a scroll and brush from the veil of their cloak. "Don't get your blood boiling over nothing." He advised sharply and knelt to place the blank scroll on what was left of the intact floor. "It's a message. It will set things in motion." The leader wrote plainly for all to see. A thunder echoes over the canopy in Takijinsei. The operative withdrew the brush beneath his cloak and formed a handseal to prompt his words to writhe and vanish on the paper. His mask and attention raising back to Sumika and her rat. "Give it time. The message will reach the Hokage through the proper channel and we can put an end to this sketch." The leader's tone was waning for patience as he worried this standstill would drag on.
The remaining operatives were steadfast for the unpredictable and tightening their lips against the harsh indifference for the overseers of the village. The hole in the floor was speaking louder than any oral defense and a wisened warrior is expected to know when to draw the line. But standing there silent against someone who would freely slander their superiors? Superiors who had important roles to lead and organize protection for the village. Taking the disrespect was like being silent and static upon a bed of nails. With the horse and rooster agents dismissed the assumed leader, the boar, and the rat remained.
What was usually a long, arduous walk was a sprint along stairwells, springing about for short cuts to the top and all without the benefit of hearing. The JUEI operative leads her up to the very floor they were sent from until coming to a stop behind the door and resumed wearing the horse mask. The operative motions Sadayo to a halt prior to reaching for the Director's hand again as she came close. In Sadayo's palm, the horse operative tapped another message sequence.
This message didn't amuse the Director either. She flexed her wrist for the Suetsune and Nirami puppets to closely accompany her knowing now who her opponent was. But why was her opponent a metal bending grump? Why hadn't anyone else resolved the issue? Judging by how insistent the operative was to bring Sadayo here was alike a blatant reddish-orange flag warning her something was amiss. It occurred to her to question if she the only advisor on the issue (and she must be judging by how quiet it was on the other side). What about Lahlil? Sadayo knew she could stand there, stare at the exterior of a wooden door, and imagine many the possible outcomes to her heart's content. But daydreaming was wasting time. She turned, momentarily, to pull and replace the fallen sleeve over the human puppet's exposed shoulder. Suetsune's myriad of tattoos and blatant artificial details were now mostly obscured. He was a new puppet making his debut outside of JUEI and going-ons of forgien lands. Inhale. Exhale. Opening the door was plainly gripping, turning, and shoving it open without stepping in right away. On the other side of the door, the familiar mess Lahlil often kept the office in was seemingly multiplied by a hundred with a gaping hole in the floor now in the equation. The hole, the rat, and the girl who was flipping a knife.
If her subordinates held their ground then Sadayo could only assume something was holding them back. She couldn't hear what or why nobody had attempted to apprehend the grumpy genin but carried on with a loud, firm announcement: "Yes or no question. I want plain gestures. Not comments." The JUEI agents stepped aside, wherever they could considering the floor damage, and allowed her to take center. All she needed was a spotlight. Nirami's form was visible from the doorway behind her and she brought the hulking samurai forward to cover her back. Clicking and clacking in its heaving step forward. Yes, Sadayo was perfectly content wasting herself on making the puppets walk as lifelike as she could so long as her cape obscured her handwork. Nirami was a blatant giveaway but the elegant Suetsune was might have required a second glance. Sadayo, finally, was squaring herself against the figure she'd been warned about. Another blasphemous brat known (one-sidedly) for making a mockery of the hardwork of her trade. Addressing Sumika, Sadayo couldn't hide the extra volume. She was exceptionally new at being deaf and was still hoping her hearing would come back. " Have you been asked to leave already?" The Horse operative who has yet to speak still remained silent about her present condition. How the situation was going to unfold under the vague impression of how her hearing was fairing was a tricky thing to withhold. The Horse, however, was feeling confident to assist her candidly as need be. "Has Lahlil replied to anything yet?" She pries, eyeing the leader under the assumption the team was actually doing something beyond standing there. The leading operative shook his head and lifted the scroll previously scrawled on. The parchment was blank and much to Sadayo's surprise and concern, honestly. Her brows furrow under the thought how any absence without notice was strikingly unusual. Acting as if something terrible has happened was hasty and, ideally, unlikely. All the while, the parchment was blank and a scroll somewhere about Sadayo's person carried a copy of the transcribed message. "Find her." Even as she stood facing the leading agent, Sadayo never excluded Sumika from her peripheral vision. After addressing the agents and watching the Rat leave under her command, she turned again to Sumika and her familiar. You," she says whilst leveling her mind and expression to its stiff and stoic poise. " Leave. Now."
[ooc: Out of Combat - Deafness: 3/6]
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Evanescently Magnificent
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⟡ Chakra Used: ┇0┇Stamina Used ┇#┇ ⟡ Remaining┆Chakra:┇0┇Stamina┇#┇ Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡ ΞΞ Passives, Attributes, and Trainings ΞΞ ◈ Passives tab • Personal Attribute: • Totally NOT Poisoned: Can hide hazards stripping them of common indicators i.e color, scent, and taste {Status Poison PA (B-rank)} • Conductive by Nature: Metallic components on puppets (and metal puppets) in Sadayo's collection are capable of conducting her lightning ninjutsu which source from her location. Nearby puppets may conduct energy when at close range to the puppeteer, with chance to spread into the next grounded entity, up to an extra [10] feet. No additional strikes are created from this PA - all restrictions are limited to description of the technique conducted. • ⚬ Holiday 2k18 PA#2: Her chakra threads are effortlessly masked to those without the proper skill set - This PA hides Sadayo's chakra strings from anyone not of the sensor class. ◈ Profile tab Ξ⟡ Combat Activity⟡ Ξ 4 Kawarami no Jutsu and 3 Shunshin Available 0 Kawarami no Jutsu and 0 Shunshin Used tab ⟡ Acitvations This Post!
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⟡ Puppet Activity Spread • [0/1 Activation :: Lh :: Senzankou]* • [0/1 Activation :: Lh :: Gishin]* • [0/1 Activation :: Lh :: Mushizu]* • [0/1 Activation :: Lh :: Suetsune : Rank S+ Waridake Active • [0/1 Activation :: Rh :: Nirami]* • [0/1 Activation :: Rh :: Hohoemi]* • [0/1 Activation :: Rh :: Tsuchinoko]* *note to self, this is where an AOE shield mechanism would be nice. tab ⟡ Lingering Jutsu
〓Activation ⟡ Sadayo :: Sup: ▰ Puppetry String Technique | Rank E - Use of this technique generates a set of strings on each hand with one string per finger to the user's deployed puppets. The user's strings are visible unless masked by an additional technique or a stealth node device. Moreover, strings will remain active until canceled or broken by the user or another capable force. Once connected, puppets can travel anywhere within a single thread. This technique is considered basic. Does not require chakra to maintain.
"Ah yes welcome to the Sumikage's office. My office. What can I do for you today?" Sumika said with smirk as she waved her free hand. The JUEI operatives would hear the scrabbling sound above them before the black mass dropped past the window outside. A moment later a huge pair of eyes peeked their way up over the base of the frame, lenses shifting to focus as they flicked between occupants. A pitch black owl more than big enough to carry the majority of the people in the room clicked its beak a couple times, flame slowly spreading along its brow. For now the woman relaxed casually in the chair. It seemed they were all incapable of avoiding making her point for her. Though she didn't show it this was all quite disheartening. Lahlil had understood Sumika's restlessness and dissatisfaction with a single exchange. This spiritless woman was no one to the genin, and she felt even less desire to move now.
No, her conviction was only strengthened by this transplant demanding a Konoha native vacate the office as if she had no place at the table simply because she hadn't licked boots incessantly. Sadayo would not find this problem dismissed with a demand, and the spook would have a difficult time applying force without things getting out of hand. The JUEI knew this. The woman in the chair knew this. It was why the situation had remained tense, but relatively uneventful. It was time to see if Sadayo was the right choice, or if Sumika'd be making chaos in Leaf for the foreseeable future simply to spite a bad leader.
Deconstructed Essence: When custom metal armors, weapons, and items are successfully reduced to iron sand by the deconstruction ability, the jiton user is able to retain [1] of the custom abilities of the original item in their iron sand for the duration of the battle. Up to [3] custom abilities from [3] separate weapons can be obtained in a single battle.
Kakumei no Hono Ryu: techs treated as spiritual in strength for collisions
Flame Breathing Pattern: Defend against an activation without using an activation once every 3 posts. Status: Active
Fluid Movement: Techniques used for a blocking, countering or evasive action have their cost reduced by 5 stamina per rank of the technique.
Whirlpool Walking: In the Deflecting Stance, the user can deflect a technique of their body rank or lower once every three posts for no activation, still requiring the stamina/chakra cost paid.
Move As Water: Techniques that target multiple opponents may now have additional reserves paid in order to strengthen the effectiveness of the individual attack to the next highest rank.These can be paid individually, not requiring chakra or stamina to be paid for every split technique.
Riptide: In the Weak Stance, the user may perform 4 activations in a given post. In the Strong Stance, the user may perform an additional offensive activation each post. Each additional technique costs an extra 20 Chakra to perform and must be either basic combat or come from this Style.
Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi: All Simple techniques in this Style are treated as Complex when interacting with other techniques.
Unwavering Balance: Any techniques below the user's body rank cannot knock them over.
Dual Elemental Charge: Able to charge Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi with an extra element for [ 10 ] chakra.
Magnet Release: Jiton users can freely convert the earth and their Doton techniques into any magnetic material that they can control for [5] chakra and no action cost.
One word stood out in her thoughts, metal. Two could play a game at throwing metal figures around, however, only one innately has the upper hand. Sadayo's prior concern regarding Tetsuhiko's bygone instruments wasn't all for nothing and she nods with a mental note to be prepared for the right moment. The form of the puppet outside meant anything, honestly. Her trade means being open to surprises is a must. Sadayo's short-range samurai was presently around for a different purpose than long-range and might have not been a fit for matching the owl-like contraption.
Beside the Director, the agents finally felt obligated to draw their weapons. . "Such insolence," the theatric leader grumbled. Sadayo still couldn't hear her agents and their criticism to Sumika however she still waves off the agents to lower their weapons with a wave of her cape. "Sta-nd back," she said, unknowingly stressing emphasis on a vowel. She could only assume the agents complied. She couldn't hear their collective steps backward.
At her sides, Suestune on her left and Nirami was close to her right. Were the two enough? The thought of adding more puppets to her aid pressed as she eyed Sumika and the rat. The movement of Sadayo's left shoulder implied activity beneath her cape as she collected two small, colored scrolls from her bag. Tools, really, which she found useful for summoning puppets were both revealed in one hand. She opened a green scroll without fuss and it snapped into a puff of smoke and produced one puppet. The second scroll was purple and instead was quick to unravel with paper between her fingertips and plummet into the hole. The scroll fell out of her hands before Sadayo was seemingly able to summon it (but pretending to lose a scroll was all a part of her plan) and disappeared beneath the floorboard into the room below. [Puppet Summoning, Rank E] She was certain to show how unamused she was by the apparent escape of the scroll but beyond that slight facial queue, Sadayo said nothing. No clever quips. No taunts. Nothing. Just a handseal breaking past the front lining of her cape. She jabbed at the opportunity to show she had something in the works [Custom Genjutsu: Ring Around the Rattles: Rank B]. Sadayo lowered her hand and followed through her handseal with a familiar gesture of pulling on her fading strings. The orange threads once clearly displayed her connection faded as benign strick of hers.
The green scroll summoned a new puppet: a small humanoid puppet with white eyes, short green hair, tiny horns atop her head and wearing a green dress, Mushizu. Like the samurai, Mushizu also had a distinct expression carved into her face (but she a look of nausea and sickness than anger) and the two expressionate puppets began to shake with an intimidating rattle. All the while, Sadayo had the samurai draw its kanabo-tetsubo as duplicates of the samurai began to appear around it as per the illusion. But the nature of new things appearing in smoke was questionably alike common shadow clones. How Sumika would perceive the illusion, if at all, was a matter of time. Clones weren't unheard of as a reasonable tactic and duplicating a strong puppet wasn't really unheard of either. This wasn't a publicly recorded technique either. Each Nirami puppet clone spawning into the office would make the growing rattling noise louder and louder.
Whether or not the illusion captured Sumika's attention, Sadayo wasn't finished with laying out her preparations to engage Sumika. The additions to her plan were made with less obvious gestures. For just standing in place, the first precautions she was beginning to put into play good chunk of energy from her [Custom:: ▰ Last Resort, Major Elemental Buffer| Rank S+] . She wouldn't show the first plunge into her reserves and flexed a perk about Suetsune. The human puppet at her side seems to shiver with using a technique and his unusual proficiencies with sensing the unseen reverberates through his strings. He would give only a glimpse of what Sadayo had against her but only something to satisfy a hunch [Suestune: ▰ Origins [ Kigen ] |. [ooc: Out of Combat - Deafness: 4/6]
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⟡ Chakra Used: ┇360┇Stamina Used ┇#┇ ⟡ Remaining┆Chakra:┇0┇Stamina┇#┇ Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡ ΞΞ Passives, Attributes, and Trainings ΞΞ ◈ Passives tab • Personal Attribute: • Totally NOT Poisoned: Can hide hazards stripping them of common indicators i.e color, scent, and taste {Status Poison PA (B-rank)} • Conductive by Nature: Metallic components on puppets (and metal puppets) in Sadayo's collection are capable of conducting her lightning ninjutsu which source from her location. Nearby puppets may conduct energy when at close range to the puppeteer, with chance to spread into the next grounded entity, up to an extra [10] feet. No additional strikes are created from this PA - all restrictions are limited to description of the technique conducted. • ⚬ Holiday 2k18 PA#2: Her chakra threads are effortlessly masked to those without the proper skill set - This PA hides Sadayo's chakra strings from anyone not of the sensor class. ◈ Profile tab Ξ⟡ Combat Activity⟡ Ξ 4 Kawarami no Jutsu and 3 Shunshin Available 0 Kawarami no Jutsu and 0 Shunshin Used tab ⟡ Acitvations This Post!
〓Activation ⟡ Sadayo :: Sup: ▰ Puppet Summoning | Rank E ▰ Summons as many puppets as the user has sealed. This technique is considered basic. Learning this technique additionally satisfies E-rank Sealing and Unsealing training. Does not require chakra or stamina to use, nor does it cost an activation. *Returning Mushizu and Tsuchinoko to the field
〓Activation ⟡ Sadayo :: Def: ▰ Ring Around the Rattles Rank B [40 Chakra] - ▰Category: Enchantment ▰Rank: B ▰Primary Sense: Sight ▰Additional Senses: Sound ▰Base Duration: 2 Posts ▰Upkeep: 10 Chakra ▰Trigger: Handseal ▰Source: Audio Phantasm ▰Status Effect: Mental Stress ▰Description: When the target hears the a higher pitch rattle of a puppet, the target begins to perceive all active puppets as the copies of a singular, selected puppet. As if a transformation technique is applied there would be plumes of smoke bursting over each active puppet on the field that is visible to the target. The target would begin to notice that each active, transformed puppet, is beginning to close in on them with new puppet duplicates appearing left and right. From there on the actions of the puppets caters to Sadayo's will and a metallic rattle will grow louder and scale into various pitches. While under its effects, any attempts to strike the puppets results in a swift, taunting dodge. The target could begin to feel anywhere from overwhelmed to downright angry through the course of this illusion.
〓Activation ⟡ Sadayo :: Sup: ▰ Last Resort, Major Elemental Buffer| Rank B-S+ | Kugutsu [ Maruton ]| Cost [ Spiritual] Used at S+ Rank, [ 320 ] chakra Upkeep [-2 ranks below initial activation amount of chakra] to be paid upon every [3] Posts. ▰ A layer of ranked elemental chakra, intertwined with her strings, covers active puppets to temporarily protect their composition from abilities designed to break down, melt, or passively damage through offensive elemental in order to deteriorate their form and mechanisms. If connections from strings are lost on protected puppets then this effect lasts [2] posts before expiring and becoming exposed to the harsh elements. Functions through puppets only. May stack with the custom Elemental Extension.
**Suetsune: Sensory ( Fuuinjutsu and sensory skills do not require handseals and are one rank less in chakra cost and this stacks with the cost reduction benefits of scholar specialization.)
▰ Origins [ Kigen ] | Rank D - used at E-rank] This technique is utilized when a summon is on the battlefield. This technique grants the user information about the summon's name, resource pools, abilities, original home, and the same for the other summonable creatures of the contract. It also grants the user the name of the contract holder, but not their location. Waridake Active*
〓Activation ⟡ Sadayo :: Sup: ▰ Puppetry String Technique | Rank E - Use of this technique generates a set of strings on each hand with one string per finger to the user's deployed puppets. The user's strings are visible unless masked by an additional technique or a stealth node device. Moreover, strings will remain active until canceled or broken by the user or another capable force. Once connected, puppets can travel anywhere within a single thread. This technique is considered basic. Does not require chakra to maintain.
It would seem that Sumika's trap was now to be even more effective. Replacing the bumbling idiots of the JUEI squad and their overbearing bravado with one who underestimated Trouble. She said nothing as Marrow Gnawer's eyes began seeping blackness, only calmly pressed her hands together. The sage's features shifted ever so slightly, and she ran a finger along the edge of a newly created pair of rat-like ears as the big rat's mouth open and the rate of smoke filling the room increased rapidly. It was time to see how the spook fared in the dark when her hearing was already gone. Sumika smirked as the room went pitch black in an instant. Sadayo would find herself without the necessary tools to respond to Sumika's rat now, deaf and blind. Perhaps her rectifying of the dumb element of this conflict in regards to Marrow Gnawer might help her slightly, but without sight or sound, and with the rat's chain appearing out of the fog directly at her throat, she'd find it extremely difficult to escape.
Even if she moved early, Marrow Gnawer's chain would find her without sound from the edge of his smoke. There was nowhere to go in the room, the genjutsu would do little without the information to use it, and facing a sage's sensory abilities. Sadayo had missed her chance to strike. Sumika was better versed beyond her puppets than many of her fellows, and this one might count herself lucky that the ornery genin was a bit of a slacker in terms of expanding her abilities, or this encounter might have been immediately lethal and not just constricting.
◁ Summon Techs Used ▷ Marrow Gnawer Chakra: 840 | Stamina: 250 Activation 1: Black Fog | Rank A Activation 1: Black Chain Dance | Rank A
◁ Persistent Modifiers ▷
Deconstructed Essence: When custom metal armors, weapons, and items are successfully reduced to iron sand by the deconstruction ability, the jiton user is able to retain [1] of the custom abilities of the original item in their iron sand for the duration of the battle. Up to [3] custom abilities from [3] separate weapons can be obtained in a single battle.
Kakumei no Hono Ryu: techs treated as spiritual in strength for collisions
Flame Breathing Pattern: Defend against an activation without using an activation once every 3 posts. Status: Active
Fluid Movement: Techniques used for a blocking, countering or evasive action have their cost reduced by 5 stamina per rank of the technique.
Whirlpool Walking: In the Deflecting Stance, the user can deflect a technique of their body rank or lower once every three posts for no activation, still requiring the stamina/chakra cost paid.
Move As Water: Techniques that target multiple opponents may now have additional reserves paid in order to strengthen the effectiveness of the individual attack to the next highest rank.These can be paid individually, not requiring chakra or stamina to be paid for every split technique.
Riptide: In the Weak Stance, the user may perform 4 activations in a given post. In the Strong Stance, the user may perform an additional offensive activation each post. Each additional technique costs an extra 20 Chakra to perform and must be either basic combat or come from this Style.
Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi: All Simple techniques in this Style are treated as Complex when interacting with other techniques.
Unwavering Balance: Any techniques below the user's body rank cannot knock them over.
Dual Elemental Charge: Able to charge Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi with an extra element for [ 10 ] chakra.
Magnet Release: Jiton users can freely convert the earth and their Doton techniques into any magnetic material that they can control for [5] chakra and no action cost.
The information Suetsune shared was enlightening and flooded into consciousness like light into the room as Sadayo watched her opponents: summon, rat, burrows, sumika, darkness. What darkness? The darkness hinted through the reveal of Marrow Gnawer's identity and abilities was just coming to light. A darkness began to flood the rodent's eyes. A smile curling on the contract holder's face, Sumika. The darkness quickly, rapidly, wildly consuming the rat and room suddenly all made sense. The beating of her heart fluttered with adrenaline and she flexed her fingers to envoke her response making Nirami's useful sooner than expected. Sadayo defaulted to retreat into the body of the puppet at her side [Shunshin Rank D.] Suestune's insight was reasonably her only warning of danger but she couldn't discern prior anything beyond. She had been enveloped in hazards somewhat like this before and the experience spoke unfavorably. In the time she fled, Suetsune quivered again as her left hand did the work [ Total Sense [ Tōtarusensu | Rank X] as his own energies were exerted. The long brush was from his back. Readying it.
But in the darkness, Suetsune did not move and only gave Sadayo restoration of her sight. Now, just what crevice about Nirami's body she sought to make us of and mind the room wasn't easy to say but she knew the ins and outs of each creation. The ringing in her ears was feeling less and less as this encounter continued. After the few fleeting moments between her and obscurity, Sadayo could dare herself to feel safe but the threat wasn't removed. Her own illusion should still be on-going and causing a one-sided surge of obnoxious noise but she began to doubt its relevance.
The last image Sadayo had imprinted on her sights from the change in light was the smirk on Sumika's face as she was relaxed casually in Lahlil's chair. Wasn't a bad chair, really, it gave its occupant a cozy vantage point but minding the details about someone's choice in furniture was beyond her thoughts. Sadayo retaliates with a swift, covert transit to trade off (from a puppet) to latch a chakra thread onto the base of the chair and with firm twitch of the wrist the puppeteer dramatically turns Sumika's relaxing spot askew with [Basic puppetry - Rank C]. Turning chairs over wasn't where it ended. Sadayo again transferred two more strings onto the desk that would otherwise shield Sumika and yanked forward on both sides of the desk. Enough to veer the hefty desk into the hole in the floor [ Basic puppetry supplementary rank C]. Discarding the desk from Sumika's position wasn't a maneuver designed to harm but expose her as the chair was being zipped out from under her. Mushizu, finally, follows up as the desk drummed to the floor below with the puppet's own widespread blast into the darkness. Her eternal look of nausea would really begin to make sense as a massive jet spray coats the entire other half of the room, the hall, and windows [Toxin Dispersion Device - Spittlebug Style - A rank.] The liquid was without taste, scent, and actually lacked color until the product of Mushizu's mechanism began to foam up.
PA: ⚬ Totally NOT Poisoned: Purchased and crafted toxins can be stripped of common indicators: i.e color, scent, and taste.{Poison Status PA (B-rank)}.
[ooc: Out of Combat - Deafness: 5/6 - Please understand the description of toxin is flavor but does nod to how the status system works. I wouldn't force anything.]
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⟡ Chakra Used: ┇75┇Stamina Used ┇#┇ ⟡ Remaining┆Chakra:┇3050┇Stamina┇#┇ Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡Ψ◯⟡ ΞΞ Passives, Attributes, and Trainings ΞΞ ◈ Passives tab • Personal Attribute: • Totally NOT Poisoned: Can hide hazards stripping them of common indicators i.e color, scent, and taste {Status Poison PA (B-rank)} • Conductive by Nature: Metallic components on puppets (and metal puppets) in Sadayo's collection are capable of conducting her lightning ninjutsu which source from her location. Nearby puppets may conduct energy when at close range to the puppeteer, with chance to spread into the next grounded entity, up to an extra [10] feet. No additional strikes are created from this PA - all restrictions are limited to description of the technique conducted. • ⚬ Holiday 2k18 PA#2: Her chakra threads are effortlessly masked to those without the proper skill set - This PA hides Sadayo's chakra strings from anyone not of the sensor class. ◈ Profile tab Ξ⟡ Combat Activity⟡ Ξ 4 Kawarami no Jutsu and 3 Shunshin Available 0 Kawarami no Jutsu and 1 Shunshin Used tab ⟡ Acitvations This Post! 5/6 activations used. Two offensive activations only.
〓Activation ⟡ Source :: Sup:: {Sadayo} ▰ Body Flicker Technique [ Shunshin no Jutsu ] | Rank D ▰ - The user moves, using chakra to accelerate their movements rapidly. The user vanishes in the blink of an eye, often leaving behind leaves, sand or some other debris behind them that is kicked up from their action. This allows the user to travel instantly up to fifty feet within combat but cannot be used in conjunction with an attack during this action. In combat, this technique is able to be maximally used three times. Alternatively, this can be used to freely escape combat into another topic to another within the subforum. Outside of combat, the user may move the same distance as if escaping combat with this technique.
〓Activation ⟡ Sadayo :: OFFENSIVE #1 ▰Basic Puppetry String: Rank C @ 5 Chakra] | Move chair that Sumika was last known to be sitting on.
〓Activation ⟡ Source :: Sup:: {Sadayo} ▰Basic Puppetry String Rank C @ 5 chakra] - Move desk into the hole in floor. No harm intended.
⟡ Puppet Activity Spread • [1/1 Activation :: Lh :: Mushizu] ]OFFENSIVE #2 ▰Toxin Dispersion Device - Spittlebug Style [Mechanism] - A-rank @ 55 chakra tab This mechanism is the entirety of Mushizu’s head where the point of release is the external mandible and mouth working as one. This chakra-powered device disperses a wide spray of Sadayo’s liquid toxins OR pharmaceutical crafted creations with a sticky, twist. The sticky twist is a unique trait of the mechanism that causes a liquid creation to foam up and become sticky, mint green mess in a single post. This sticky, bubbly foam may be manipulated by operating mandibles and the puppet’s arms upon release of web-like sprays or sticky conglomerate heaps that cling to fibers, metals, skin, and hair. The sticky trait only lasts [2] posts before it becomes weak and crumbles by the [3rd] post if the creation hasn’t been washed or dried up. Only one application of a toxin or a pharmaceutical per activation and the duration of the toxin or pharmaceutical product lasts until cured or expired, as per the systems. D: 20 feet’s worth of sticky creation C: 30 feet’s worth of sticky creation B: 40 feet’s worth of sticky creation A: 50 feet’s worth of sticky creation In the event this mechanism is used without a crafted creation [toxin or pharmaceutical] the sticky foam takes on a paralysis effect. Up to Tier 3. ⚬Selected: Ravage, Legendary Toxin - See below.
• [1/1 Activation :: Lh :: Suetsune ]
▰Total Sense [ Tōtarusensu ] | Rank S [Reduction - A-rank cost] Sensory This technique enhances the user's senses. This lasts for three posts per rank, and makes them more susceptible to genjutsu that utilize that sense. However, it also allows them to sense the location of others through sense-blurring techniques like mist/smoke, techniques that give the opponent silent movement, etc. The rank of the technique is equal to the body rank of opponents they are able to detect
*Suetsune: Sensory ( Fuuinjutsu and sensory skills do not require handseals and are one rank less in chakra cost and this stacks with the cost reduction benefits of scholar specialization.) *Waridake Active • [0/1 Activation :: Rh :: Nirami] • [0/1 Activation :: Rh :: Tsuchinoko]
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〓Activation ⟡ Sadayo :: Sup: ▰ Puppetry String Technique | Rank E - Use of this technique generates a set of strings on each hand with one string per finger to the user's deployed puppets. The user's strings are visible unless masked by an additional technique or a stealth node device. Moreover, strings will remain active until canceled or broken by the user or another capable force. Once connected, puppets can travel anywhere within a single thread. This technique is considered basic. Does not require chakra to maintain.
〓Activation ⟡ Sadayo :: Sup: [ 2/3. Upkeep required after post 3] ▰ Last Resort, Major Elemental Buffer| Rank B-S+ | Kugutsu [ Maruton ]| Cost [ Spiritual] Used at S+ Rank, [ 320 ] chakra Upkeep [-2 ranks below initial activation amount of chakra] to be paid upon every [3] Posts. ▰ A layer of ranked elemental chakra, intertwined with her strings, covers active puppets to temporarily protect their composition from abilities designed to break down, melt, or passively damage through offensive elemental in order to deteriorate their form and mechanisms. If connections from strings are lost on protected puppets then this effect lasts [2] posts before expiring and becoming exposed to the harsh elements. Functions through puppets only. May stack with the custom Elemental Extension.
〓Activation ⟡ Sadayo :: Def: ▰ Ring Around the Rattles Rank B [2/2 *Illusion expires next post] - ▰Category: Enchantment ▰Rank: B ▰Primary Sense: Sight ▰Additional Senses: Sound ▰Base Duration: 2 Posts ▰Upkeep: 10 Chakra ▰Trigger: Handseal ▰Source: Audio Phantasm ▰Status Effect: Mental Stress ▰Description: When the target hears the a higher pitch rattle of a puppet, the target begins to perceive all active puppets as the copies of a singular, selected puppet. As if a transformation technique is applied there would be plumes of smoke bursting over each active puppet on the field that is visible to the target. The target would begin to notice that each active, transformed puppet, is beginning to close in on them with new puppet duplicates appearing left and right. From there on the actions of the puppets caters to Sadayo's will and a metallic rattle will grow louder and scale into various pitches. While under its effects, any attempts to strike the puppets results in a swift, taunting dodge. The target could begin to feel anywhere from overwhelmed to downright angry through the course of this illusion.
ΞΞ Other Information ΞΞ ▰Narcotic Name: Worker Package - Ravage ▰Narcotic Tier: Legendary Narcotic Form: Liquid Narcotic Description: This toxin is diabolical. Sourced from a small section of a poisonous mushroom and other (curable) bacteria that would cause paralysis in the body. When contact with the body is made, this liquid is absorbed forcing symptoms of this toxin to begin to appear: nausea, occasional vomiting, generally feeling unwell, a pain in the upper right quadrant of the abdomen, and extreme fatigue. Under regular circumstances, this liquid toxin would look like a slightly orange tint from the acidic qualities of the corrosive substance. What this toxin actually does to the target is as follows: ▰Legendary: The effect of a Tier 4 Status Tier 4 Disease
• Reduces strength by 8. • Bukijutsu and Taijustu are 1-rank weaker. • Increase the cost of all techniques by [40]. • Reduces activations by [1]. • Depending on the disease may involve skin loss among other things.
▰ +1 PA Legendary: The effect of two Tier 3 Statuses. Tier 3 Paralysis
• Reduces speed by 6 for the targeted area. • If the target is the arms or hands the opponent cannot form hand signs or use somatic arm casting unless paying [40] additional stamina to do so. This is halved if the target is capable of one-handed signs or one-armed somatic casting and only one limb is affected. Cannot properly wield a weapon. • If the target is the legs or feet the opponent must pay an additional [40] stamina to dodge. This is halved if only one leg is affected. The opponent cannot use somatic leg or feet casting unless paying [40] additional stamina to do so. This cost is halved if only one leg or foot can be used for casting. • Every other post unless paying [40] stamina the infected is immobile • The water walking and tree climbing techniques fail.
Tier 3 Corrosion
• Armor is treated as [2] rank lower. Ex. Heavy armor would be treated as light armor. • Corrosion effects the resource used in defensive techniques, making defensive techniques cost [40] more resource to use or maintain. • Lowers endurance by 6.
The genjutsu was revealed by the puppets' clarity even in the fog and continued advancement. Plus, the woman seemed to have retreated into one of the puppets, and the sage could sense the mechanisms within the other activating even if she did not know their purpose. "Privileged b*****d." The gravity of facing a human puppet and her own lack of access to the like was not lost on Trouble. The office was no longer her territory. The woman casually rolled over the chair, kai'ing the genjutsu and relieving herself of the incessant clattering, before kicking out the nearest window and joining her own puppet outside. Sumika still held an advantage though, even if it no longer involved being in the room itself. Her hands swept about and a stream of iron sand joined the black cloud. For those still within this would be all but invisible. Unnoticeable until the magnetic forces of two impossibly dense sphere of jiton grew enough to trigger their effect.
A spiking array of jagged metal flooded the office, darting all about. It spilled out its door and filled the hallway beyond, piercing through the walls and down through the opening in the floor. It grew as Sumika tapped into her sage reserves. The rat, for its part, stayed put, unwittingly exposing himself to the poison as he followed his sage's example, kai'ing the jutsu and again directing his chain, this time to the human puppet. Marrow Gnawer always found it interesting how often shinobi altered the field of play, but few did so quite as drastically as Trouble. It took care but he managed to get his weapon on target for the strange contraption's legs. He wondered if the girl's approach would have the desired effect.
Outside Sumika prepped for the bunraku lady's counter attack. A scroll and a swipe of blood brought forth another of the rats, boss summon Ink Eyes. The human sized rat shifted its way up the side of the building, waiting restlessly. Vogel's wings flapped once, twice, a third time bringing it airborne as its creator perched atop its head. And so the ball bounced its way back into Sadayo's court.
◁ Summon Techs Used ▷ Marrow Gnawer Chakra: 760 | Stamina: 250 Activation 1: Kai | Rank B
◁ Persistent Modifiers ▷
Deconstructed Essence: When custom metal armors, weapons, and items are successfully reduced to iron sand by the deconstruction ability, the jiton user is able to retain [1] of the custom abilities of the original item in their iron sand for the duration of the battle. Up to [3] custom abilities from [3] separate weapons can be obtained in a single battle.
Kakumei no Hono Ryu: techs treated as spiritual in strength for collisions
Flame Breathing Pattern: Defend against an activation without using an activation once every 3 posts. Status: Active
Fluid Movement: Techniques used for a blocking, countering or evasive action have their cost reduced by 5 stamina per rank of the technique.
Whirlpool Walking: In the Deflecting Stance, the user can deflect a technique of their body rank or lower once every three posts for no activation, still requiring the stamina/chakra cost paid.
Move As Water: Techniques that target multiple opponents may now have additional reserves paid in order to strengthen the effectiveness of the individual attack to the next highest rank.These can be paid individually, not requiring chakra or stamina to be paid for every split technique.
Riptide: In the Weak Stance, the user may perform 4 activations in a given post. In the Strong Stance, the user may perform an additional offensive activation each post. Each additional technique costs an extra 20 Chakra to perform and must be either basic combat or come from this Style.
Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi: All Simple techniques in this Style are treated as Complex when interacting with other techniques.
Unwavering Balance: Any techniques below the user's body rank cannot knock them over.
Dual Elemental Charge: Able to charge Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi with an extra element for [ 10 ] chakra.
Magnet Release: Jiton users can freely convert the earth and their Doton techniques into any magnetic material that they can control for [5] chakra and no action cost.
