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Five Deadly Venoms


--The five deadly venom style uses gene X and ki to greatly expand on the ancient concept of making a person poisonous by repeated exposure to toxins. This style at the earliest stages focuses mostly on learning Atemi and beginning to poison oneself than on direct offensive techniques. But as it progresses a practitioner is able to poison with a touch and gains immunity to most poisons. It is suspected that honing it to the highest levels will make the person’s ki itself toxic creating an untraceable assassination style.--


Stage 1
-- To begin training a recruit must endure the poison sands training for two weeks (IRL). This involves plunging their hands and arms into sand coated with poisons produced from many different animals until they can no longer continue after which they soak their arms in an antidote solution. This causes intense pain and makes them unable to put up a fight if attacked by others during this period of daily training. Once the basic training is completed the user learns how to poison others with a touch though at this stage the effects are minor.--

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Scorpion Claws
Rank:E
Description: This is actually very similar to the Muay Thai clench however by sending ki into the hands when gripping an opponent the grip becomes vice like and painful. Each hand is considered separate for this technique meaning it is possible to grab two people but to use both hands the skill must be paid for twice.

Lizard Rush
Rank:D
Description: This technique relies on using ki to alter the user’s center of gravity allowing them to move faster than they normally would. This is normally only used to improve reflexes for two posts making dodging more likely. However it can not be used more than twice a day without resulting in overstimulation of the muscles and cramps.

Centipede Fist
Rank:D
Description: User strikes at high speed with each hand using agility to get near an opponent, The punch is accelerated by ki and results in a ghost punch occurring at the same time as the user feints with the right arm before striking with the left, then strikes with the right and feints with the left. Despite the feints not reaching the target as the user’s arms move back the target will feel four punches landing as the ki filled feints release energy to become actual hits.

Snake Bite
Rank: D
Description: Forming one hand into a snake mouth using the index finger, middle finger, and thumb, the user strikes at an opponent and attempts to send toxic ki into the opponents body disrupting their own ki for two posts and preventing them from using techniques unless they exert C rank ki to cleanse the toxin. This is useful because even if an opponent knows how to flush out the toxic ki they will waste more energy doing it than the user did striking.

Spider Climb
Rank:D
Requires:Level 2 and all other Stage 1 techniques.
Description: The spider climb technique lets the user stick to walls and ceilings with their ki and despite needing D rank energy to begin using only costs E rank to continue using unless broken.

Toad Skin
Rank:C
Description: This is a technique based on the concept of the iron shirt, however instead of directly enduring an attack the user secretes a ki over their body that directs physical attacks C rank and lower off the user's body. The ki released for this technique helps push the attacks away but must be released forcefully making it also dispel quickly. Only lasts for one post. This like all but the supreme technique of the toad path is a defensive technique used to protect the practitioner. However in learning this style this only works on the arms and head at level one, the legs are included at level two, and only those level three or higher may cover their entire body.




Stage 2
--For the second stage of the five deadly venom style the user must endure further poisoning by ingesting toxic bugs and plants in place of a normal diet. The results in a week of severe pain as the antidote is only drank after the poisons are ingested. This stage focuses on different aspects of the poisonous animals it studies than the first stage and many of the techniques relate to flexibility and mobility.--

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Lizard Lash
Rank:D
Description: The user learns how to use their ki to relax their muscles granting them the flexibility of a contortionist and making circular strikes hit harder as they move like a whip instead of a bat. This increases the damage rank of all normal kicks or arm strikes by one if they go in a circular motion but reduces the damage rank by one if they are direct punches or kicks. This technique must be paid for each post it remains in use.

Scorpion Tail
Rank:C
Description: A powerful kick coated with toxic ki that is capable of paralyzing anyone of a lower level for one post. Even as the paralysis wears off someone struck will begin to feel feverish unless they use B rank ki to flush the toxins from their body. Those that do not flush the toxins that are struck a second time by this attack will become nauseous and if struck in the stomach without flushing out the ki will vomit uncontrollably for one post. Those of equal or higher level will not be paralyzed but will begin feeling feverish immediately. For higher level opponents it is able to cancel out the poison by simply exerting C rank ki instead of D rank.

Centipede Bite
Rank:C
Description: User strikes with a series of fast knife hand strikes that are coated with ki so that they can actually puncture flesh. If they successfully puncture the flesh they inject their ki causing a burning sensation as the targets ki is eaten away by one D rank per turn unless they use a B rank of ki to flush it out. The burning of the target’s ki being consumed by toxic ki results in severe pain.

Spitting Cobra
Rank: C
Description: One of the few long range attacks of this technique the user flicks their hand at an opponent projecting toxic ki that burns like acid. This is usually used at close range and aimed at the face to blind a foe but can be used from a range of up to twenty feet. After five feet though it spreads from a burst into a mist. This technique burns like acid on any animal or metal, but does not effect plants.

Toad Touch
Rank:B
Description: User focuses toxic ki into their hands and when coming in contact with an opponent slaps their skin at some point, on the next post the opponent will begin hallucinating as their vision begins to alter and they essentially are put on an acid trip. Roll dice 1 or 2 causes a nightmare, 3 or 4 causes good hallucination, 5 results in perceiving friends as foes and vice versa, 6 results in failure of the technique. A person can clear this from their system by using an A rank of Ki.

Spider’s Web
Rank:B
Requires:Level 3 and all other Stage 2 techniques.
Description: This stage of the spider form allows the user to manipulate their ki to form threads that can be used to bind something or attach to it. Because the 5 deadly venom style has so few long range techniques being able to attach these ki threads to an opponent and prevent their escape is a signature of the school. They can also be used as a garrote or to link to weapons to recall them. They are invisible to those that are not actively trying to sense the ki from them.



Stage 3
--In this stage the user begins learning how to not just use the toxins in their body or in their ki to poison others but how to combine them and interchange them. It also becomes possible to control their poisons to the extent of touching others without poisoning them. The poison sand training is repeated with the legs at this stage and meditation is used instead of an antidote to cure it.--


Toad Leap
Rank:C
Description: A powerful ki leap that can carry a person up to thirty feet vertically or horizontally. It is very quick to execute and is used for quick escapes. However it can only be used once per five posts.

Scorpion Spray
Rank:C
Description: User converts ki in their body into an actual poison that coats their hands, feet, and the saliva in their mouth with a hemotoxin. This can then be spit, flicked, or directly placed in an opponents wounds to cause severe pain and necrosis to the area it hits. In the eyes it can cause blindness, in the nose difficulty breathing, and in wounds gradual weakening and loss of strength to the limb it is applied to. The true power of this technique is that the resulting poison is not actually ki and can not be easily flushed from the body as ki toxins can.

Basilisk run
Rank:B
Description: This technique involves a series of fast kicks aimed at pressure points in a limb or the torso. Each kick releases a burst of ki that is projected through an opponent resulting in internal damage to that area. This causes shortness of breath if the torso is hit and if targeting a limb numbs the limb for one post. The strength of this technique is that it can be projected past ki defenses C rank or lower though it does not break them.

Centipede Trample
Rank:B
Description: This combines punches and kicks with piercing ki like the centipedes legs, however like most techniques in the venom style it is more insidious than it first appears as when used the range of the poison ki extends one foot from each hand and foot creating a range that even a near miss can poison. This is an acidic poison that eats away at the targets body.

Spider Affinity
Rank:A
Requires:Level 4 and all other Stage 3 techniques.
Description: This technique is an extension of Spider's web that causes the attached threads to release acidic ki that burns what it is attached to each post. This makes the threads easily detectable but can still do damage before the threads are severed. Has no effect on waxes, lead, or titantium. Minimal effect on other metals.



Stage 4
--In Stage 4 of the style the users learn techniques to negate the advantages of an opponent and come one step closer to the pinnacle of assassination. To train for this stage it is no longer enough to simple take in poisons, now the user must craft new poisons to absorb from their very own ki.--



Centipede Dart
Rank:B
Description: User is able to create toxic needles which are then sent at opponents limbs to paralyze them. This is often used to disrupt the techniques of an opponent instead of completely disable them. If this does hit the opponent still uses the ki for the targeted technique but does not get the result. These darts take time to craft as does the poison that coats them. User must make a B rank post to create and poison 10 darts. It is theorized that if a new poison were found or created it might alter the way the darts effect a target but this has yet to be proven.

Toad Field
Rank:B
Description: This technique focuses ki to the user’s vocal chords which then produces a deep rumbling sound as the ki fills the air in a five foot radius of the user and negates anything up to an A rank ki attack. This can be enhanced to prevent anything under S rank from working by paying S rank worth of energy.

Scorpion’s Wrath
Rank:A
Description: An acidic poison technique that actually creates a coating on the user out of toxic ki that burns anyone that strikes them for five posts. This coating burns like acid for the full five posts resulting in damage for those striking or struck by the user. However the ki coating only spreads through a victim or attacker's skin and not through inorganic materials.

Spider Hide
Rank:A
Requires:Level 4 and all other Stage 4 techniques except spider bite.
Description: This technique while sustained hides the user’s ki completely making them invisible to anything other than a person’s eyes. It even creates silence around them making them potent assassins.


Spider Bite
Rank:A
Requires:Level 4 and all other Stage 4 techniques.
Description: This technique fills the user’s saliva with an enzymatic poison that literally breaks down a targets ki much like a spider’s bite breaks down cells. The result is a steady draining of B rank of power unless an S rank of power is used to flush it out. Worse though the target will not recover their ki normally until the toxin is removed meaning an opponent suffering from this that exhausts all ki will not regain ki until a third party flushes the poison out for them. Even if it is days or weeks later.

Snake Venom
Rank: S
Description: One of the strongest of the venom techniques, the user is able to move with the speed of a striking snake to cease an opponent, when they do toxic ki is injected from both hands into the opponents ki instead of the opponent themselves. This technique cancels any ki technique of equal rank or all of lower rank protecting an opponent so long as the user pays cost equal to each technique beyond the first that is canceled.

Lizard Tail Loss
Rank:S
Description: This is a technique that allows the user to actually detach a limb severing and sealing both ends with ki to gain an advantage on an opponent. However the limb must be recovered and reattached or it will be lost permanently.

Stage 5
--In the final stage of the Five Deadly Venoms the user learns some of the most advanced and normally believed impossible feats of the style. The techniques require high amounts of ki for most but give impressive benefits as well. In this stage the user must meditate deeply and achieve a true state of being one with nature and the universe. For even assassination and death are simply a part of a cycle of life.--


Scorpion Tri-strike
Rank:B
Description: A simple technique where in an instant the user ceases an opponent with both hands and kicks them. However the hands are coated with cutting ki resulting in a scissor like grip and the kick can pierce a tree.

Snake Charmer
Rank: B
Description: By moving the hands rhythmically and locking eyes with an opponent the user can mesmerize their opponent causing them to forget what they were going to do and drop their guard. This can allow the user to approach a target and is not broken for those of equal or lower level until someone acts hostilely towards them. This means that anything that is not performed in a violent manner will not break the spell.

Centipede Rush
Rank:A
Description: The user forms four arms out of ki and proceeds to launch into a fast punch assault that makes any fist technique hit 3x more than usual for the next three posts. These arms can only be used for strikes and not grabbing or blocking.

Lizard gland
Rank:S
Description: The pinnacle of the lizard’s path, the user is able to alter their overall ki reserve so that all techniques contain poison ki. This is a passive technique that allows the user to pay 50% more for a normal technique to change it into a poison technique. The effect of the poison varies based on the rank of the skill.* This has a 3 post cool down.
E - Mild dizziness
D - Nausea
C - Vomiting for 1 post for equal level and 2 posts for lower level.
B - Palsy/ weakness of either arms or legs for 1 post for equal level and 2 for lower.
A - Paralysis for 1 post for lower level and vomiting for two posts for equal level.
S - Blindness for one post for equal level and 2 posts for lower.
* This has no effect on people of higher level.

Toad’s Rage
Rank:S
Description: The sole offensive attack of the toad stage, the user is able to actually create a large amount of toxic ki which then explodes outward causing acidic burns to anyone in the area. This ki can cover an area up to twenty feet. Those within five feet of the blast take damage for two posts and those beyond that take normal damage. However as this ki eats at flesh like an acid it can cause difficult to treat damage to those caught off guard. The amount of toxic ki used for this technique must be built up gradually as a reserve and as such this may only be used once a week.

Spider the Glutton
Rank:S
Requires:Level 5 and all other Stage 5 techniques except Spider Realm.
Description: User is able to drain poisons from a foe or that they produced for other attacks to recover ki equal to 1/2 the attacks effecting the target or consumed. This can also be used to simply steal S+C rank energy from a paralyzed opponent. Limit 2 uses a fight.

Spider Realm
Rank:SS
Requires:Level 5 and all other Stage 5 techniques.
Description: The spider realm is a technique that is hoped to be the pinnacle of assassination, it allows the user to truly erase their existence for a short time. This means not just hiding their ki but negating any ki that comes in contact with theirs by making it pass through them or around them. However this technique eats up ki quickly and as such is used sparingly and rarely continuously. This technique must be stopped to attack. This technique allows even light to pass through or around the user essentially hiding them from all senses.