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c h a r a c t e r . t r a c k e r

The Byakugan
I. Hyuuga Yuu -LG, Magical Kungfu
The Swordsman
II. "Jellyfish" Ren - LE, Spellsword
The Ronin
III. "Iron Maiden" - CG, Sword
The Demon Bound
IV. "Hikoboshi no Natsu" - TN, slipping to CE, Magic Sword
The Yokai
V. Higashi Kohi [Pending Rewrite] LE, Projectile/Illusion
The Black
VI. Hatsuyuki Shiro [Potentially dead.] CG, Magic
The Arm
VII. Kosai Ryuusei [Pending Rewrite.] LN, Magic/Clockwork
The Corporate Shinobi
VIII. Sajime "Sasa" Sahori LG, Magic

H y u u g a . Y u u

[The Byakugan]

[C A P S T O N E]
Stage 4 jyuuken (+4 Speed, +2 Stamina, +7 Strength, +3 Control)
Stage 3 g.nin.hiddenexplosion (+1 Power, +1 Intelligence)

G u s h i k e n . R e n

[The Electric Swordsman]

[C a p s t o n e]
contentment

K i k u ' i c h i m o n j i . J u n ' k o

[The Iron Tower]

[C a p s t o n e]
stage.6.samurai.sword (+3 Strength, +2 Control)
stage.6.thicc.style (+4 speed, +2 Strength, +2 Tactics)

H i k o b o s h i . n o . N a t s u

[The Demon Bound]

[C A P S T O N E]
Stage 4 miko.pierce (+4 Control, +3 Power, +2 Reserves, +1 Willpower)
Stage 3 miko.deny (+1 Control, +1 Reserves [stage 4 pierce])
stage 3 stam.tai (???, ???, ???)

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Special thanks to Calibur and everyone else who’s been suffering along with me during this crazy ride.

Iwagakure Berserker Style

The Three Paths of the Berserker

Description

Iwagakure Berserker Style is a violent method of combat that incorporates unarmed strikes, body building, and the use of oversized weapons to dominate and destroy the foes of the Village Hidden in Stone.

While there’s a history of mysticism and otherworldly to the Iwagakure Berserkers, the system ultimately is defined by the lessons given by the earth itself – those who survive the harsh climates and the dangerous animals and monsters of the mountains and plains of Earth country hone their body to bestial levels. Iwagakure Berserkers master their bodies through discipline and incredible feats of training, and learn to control their emotional state for better or worse to aid them in the path of conquest and domination.

The whole body is used in Iwagakure Berserker Style, in open palm and striking fists and kicks, as well as using their unique control over their core muscle structure to leverage oversized weapons to pummel their foes. This intense training offers an uncommon resilience to the Berserkers, capable of weathering intense blows themselves, as well as walking through the flurry of attacks from swifter, weaker opponents.

Berserkers, in their path to control their emotions in battle, walk several paths individually, on a quest to reach a true enlightenment known as “zen”. It’s said that this zen can only be found on the otherside of a lifetime of training, meditation, and battle – and none know battle quite like an Iwagakure Berserker.

History

The Howler, the Titan, and the Bloodletter are the three paths that modern Iwagakure Berserkers follow. These ancient warriors, each separated by decades, independently discovered their own zen after a lifetime of battle, inspiring the founding of the Byakkotai (White Tiger Force). The Byakkotai was an ancient proto-shinobi combat force that protected the weaker clans of the Nekozu Rensan mountain range, coming down from the peaks during times of need, to fend off foreign invaders. As modern history approached, eventually the Byakkotai laid forgotten – but their dojos, temples, and shrines remained places where all Iwagakure shinobi could learn their ancient battle methodology. The ancient methodology is separated into three distinct parts that ultimately make up the whole of the modern Berserker method, each school following after one of these ancient and legendary warriors.

The Path of the Howler follows the legend of a tribal warrior who, overcome with primal bloodlust, fought with uncommon tenacity and movement – like a beast let free from its cage. Her heroic symbol is the Mountain Sundered By Sword, from a tale that she once cut a mountain peak in two in her fury. Her tale inspired the Titan.

The Path of the Titan follows the legend of a holy warrior who, overcome with divine wrath, murdered his family and friends. Afterwards, he spent his lifetime atoning for these sins by embracing the path of zen, learning to put aside his mad anger for peace. His heroic symbol is the Rising Sun, from the tale that he spent an entire winter meditating on a mountain top in the worst winter of Earth Country history, until the sun rose on his enlightened form. His story inspired the Bloodletter.

The Path of the Bloodletter follows the legend of a samurai warrior who, overcome with emotionless discipline, became an instrument of war for his daimyo. Eventually, he could stand this combat no longer and cast away his sword to seek a pilgrimage for enlightenment, but a combination of his honed reflexes and bloody history caused him to take up the sword again and again until he turned himself into a sword of the people rather than an instrument of war. His heroic symbol is the Sakura flower, from the tale of his gentle sacrifice of his own needs for the people of Earth Country. His story inspired the Iwagakure Shinobi.

Berserking: While using a special technique that grants you berserking, you cannot use an other special technique that grants you berserking. All berserking special techniques share a limit of one plus your stages in this style, regardless of you spend them all one one form or mix it up between them. To change from one style of berserking to the other, you must first end the first one, dealing with the penalties.

Stage 1
Stat Requirements: 4 Stamina, 4 Strength
Stage Bonuses: +5 Stamina, +4 Strength

Shoshin is the beginner’s mind, and it’s drilled into new students of the Berserker schools universally. With shoshin, you treat every exercise and training day and combat experience like you would the first time – maybe not with the same fear, but with the same intensity and fervor. This leads to new insights more often than those who practice purely by rote practice (which is common in the common martial arts styles of non-shinobi and casual practitioners), and offers the ability to learn and react to new environments and situations better. The primary focus to body training is to unlearn poor habits from previous experiences and to focus wholly on the basic needs of the body – training to exhaustion, properly resting, an an appropriate diet.

Combat here reminds one of karate, straight lines and the use of force to topple your opponents. Simple throws and leads are appropriate, but at the fledgling stage, your likely more dependent on your superior force than any results of training.

Those who take advantage of an oversized weapon for this style are learning to properly wield what should be unwieldy, taking advantage of their understanding of core balance to swing their weapon with relative precision and force.

Regular Techniques

Howler Path: Overhead Slam – An attack from above, either using your oversized weapon or both fists clenched together. This is a brutal attack that lacks finesse, but it’s normally enough to end a fight with a less eager opponent. The top of the head tends to be an easier target, even if armored, and the disorientation from the strike can leave an opponent reeling.

Titan Path: Pain Tolerance – By training through exposure to the elements, you’ve grown more resilient to pain. Attacks by opponents who’s Strength is less than your Stamina (with bonuses) are noticeably dampened. Eventually, of course, you’ll succumb to their tiny fists if they’re motivated enough, and weaponry and ninjutsu are just as effective on you as anyone else.

Bloodletter Path: Call of the Wild – Even now, you’re likely to be compared to a wild animal when you fight. Your senses are honed like a beast’s, helping you focus totally on your opponent and react to their movements. Assuming nothing distracts your senses, it’s incredibly difficult for you to lose track of your opponent and be caught off guard by distracting movements. If you’ve been close enough to smell your target, you can track them by scent.

Special Techniques

Killer Instinct - By a certain pose, glare, or otherwise intimidating method (shouting, a phrase uttered, powering up your chakra, etc) you can overwhelm your target with a bloody killing intent. This is enough to stop targets below your character rank in their tracks, giving you time to plot your next action. Against targets of your own rank or above, it broadcasts your willingness to fight or kill, which might dissuade them from taking further action. This can be subtle, used to steer a debate in your way, or a shocking display of force, used to control a crowd of malcontents. For those sensitive to killing intent (or sakki) this can be particularly nerve-wracking.

Stage 2
Stat Requirements: 7 Stamina, 7 Strength, 6 Tactics
Stage Bonuses: +5 Stamina, +4 Strength

The energy at this stage can be considered explosive. Practitioners of this stage tend to enjoy their gains from their body training and newfound energy from their dieting, and the combat method becomes more effective. Moving with grace, berserkers have an intimidating style of attack, either with forceful, slow blows of their oversized weapons or moving with all the predatory power of a tiger on the hunt. Taking advantage of their increased stamina, a berserker isn’t afraid to take a few hits if it means getting in to respond in kind with one of their massive blows.

Unarmed combat is made up of more force than before, twisting and whipping the body while moving forward, using leverage and strength to control the momentum of the fight. While using their oversized weapon, a berserker is capable of using the momentum of their weapon to swing their bodies around in battle.

Regular Techniques

Howler Path: Twister – Wielding your oversized weapon has become natural enough to you for you to effortlessly spin it around your body, twisting your wrists and passing it from one hand to the other. This can be used as a flurry of blows or to protect yourself from mundane projectiles.

Titan Path: Dust Dancing - The user stomps their foot or otherwise strikes (such as with their weapon) the ground, striking up dirt, earth, debris, or dust in a fine cloud before them. This dust can be used as cover or in an attempt to blind the opponent, functioning similarly to a smoke bomb. This dust is accompanied by a surprising tremor in a 10' radius around the point of impact, enough to catch nearly anyone off guard. Same rank or lower targets (friend or foe) can be thrown off their balance.

Bloodletter Path: Lash – You wait, showing patience. When the opponent strikes, you suddenly lash out, like a snake striking, either with an unarmed strike or by swinging your weapon suddenly. Up until the point of reaction, your body is so relaxed that it appears you wouldn’t be able to move at all – effective at countering those who overestimate their senses in combat.

Special Techniques

Heart Chakra – By reflexively calling on the reserves in your heart chakra, you can render yourself immune to one attack equal to your less than your stage in this style.
Base – You can activate Heart Chakra once per thread.
Stage 4 – You can activate Heart Chakra twice per thread.

Stage 3
Stat Requirements: 10 Stamina, 10 Strength, 8 Tactics
Stage Bonuses: +5 Stamina, +4 Strength

Capable at this stage of swinging their oversized weapons around with one hand, albeit at a diminished control compared to two-handing the things, a berserker dramatically increases their effective range and crowd control. Feinting with the weapon becomes possible, suddenly shifting the weapon around or even tossing it from one hand to the other while in combat. While a two-handed strike will obviously carry more power than a single handed strike, it’s a handy trick to catch your opponents off guard.

Likewise, even while unarmed, berserkers have become more talented at handling crowds of targets – either uneven odds or dealing with a shinobi’s clone techinque.

Regular Techniques

Howler Path: Beast Movement Pattern - You move like an animal, flow like a thought. Your movements become difficult to read by lesser martial artists (either with less stages in a taijutsu style or a lower rank than you), and are otherworldly or even demonic to those who match or exceed your understanding of martial arts. You can use the force of your oversized weapon to suddenly shift your positioning, even propelling yourself while you’re midair. Beastmasters, and other archetypes that study the beasts and the wild, are surprisingly effective at countering this movement method.

Titan Path: Huge Cleavage - You’ve learned to use your titanic leverage in such a way that it threatens the space all around you. You can strike for pinpoint places of weakness on targets around you – weak points of armor, the wooden shaft of a polearm, between the careful stances of a martial artist, and so on – to strike to disarm or disrobe your opponents. Your finesse here is legendary, capable of striking a weapon from someone’s hand without harming them, or rendering a bo staff in two. This helps removes obstacles between you and your target’s softer bits.

Bloodletter Path: Falling Petals – Taking advantage of your uncanny body control, you’re capable of dealing with multiple opponents as easily as you’d take on one. Swifting shifting your body’s stances, using all your limbs in concert, swinging your weapon around your body, and so on, make it difficult for a group to use their numbers as an inherent advantage. Occasionally, you’ll move back in a short tactical retreat to help create a favorable positioning, or suddenly abandon your weapon to take advantage of the flexibility of your body, but you fight all who would challenge you as you’d face one – with your style of domination.

Special Techniques

Berserker Soul – Your body control has offered you insights to managing your internal chakra movements. By entering a trance, you transform your body into a weapon of war. The transformation is relatively minor, but individual. Most feature darkened skintones, the appearance of small horns or glowing cracks in the body – but it’s because of this technique that some consider berserkers to be possessed by spirits, demons, bijuu, or primal beasts.
Base: -2 Speed Scaling, but you can make two of the same type of action (offensive, defensive) in a post, rather than one of each. You can maintain Berserker Soul for 1 post for every stage you have in this style.
Stage 5 As above, but regular speed scaling.

Stage 4
Stat Requirements: 15 Stamina, 14 Strength, 14 Speed, 14 Tactics
Stage Bonuses: +5 Stamina, +4 Strength

Shoshin. No longer do students of the Berserker schools look like they’re casually practicing karate in local dojos, having transformed into ferocious warriors well-deserved of the symbol of Byakko, the White Tiger of the West. Still, importance is placed on the idea of constantly striving as one did on their first day studying the paths of the berserker, to reach ever greater heights. From this point on, the path becomes even more difficult.

Berserkers at this stage are capable of impressive feats of stamina, holding their breath for twenty minutes at a time or going days without food or water. This monk-like endurance is reflected in battle, capable of fighting long after others have succumb to exhaustion. A cornered berserker invokes the same respect as the cornered tiger – only death could await those foolish to show hesitance while taming one of these beasts.

Regular Techniques

Howler Path: Erupting – Fighting against someone on the battlefield is different than fighting against someone in a dojo. People fall into practiced patterns and rely on muscle memory in dojos, but on the battlefield – anything goes. By feinting and suddenly dropping to the floor and erupting upwards with a strike from their weapon, foot, or fist, the berserker is capable of launching their target fifteen feet into the air or more – either as a form of respite from the rigors of battle, or to follow up with more carnage.

Titan Path: Burning – The heart rings true in the berserker, and their battle fervor resonates on their body like licking flames. Pain is no longer is a factor for decision making. Even the most terrifying painful poisons, attacks, or genjutsu won't stop the Berserker. Damage that causes this pain is still in full effect--while the berserker might not care their bowels are splattering over the floor, they still won't have the core muscles to swing their arms anymore. Likewise, pain does nothing to reduce genjutsu duration for a berserker.

Bloodletter Path: Finger – The difference between a severing blow and a near miss is often the length of a finger. By taking advantage of their careful battle trance, a berserker can shift an attack by pushing it aside as it comes into range of them. This swatting of an attack can bewilder or even intimidate your opponents. This takes an incredible amount of concentration, using both an offensive and defensive action to perform. This technique can only be performed if the berserker’s speed scaling is equal to or greater than their opponent’s.

Special Techniques

Berserker Soul: Lava Heart – Lava Heart can only be activated during Berserker Soul. The berserker slams both feet firmly into the ground, summoning up a transformation in their body, cycling energy through the earth and back into their bodies. A bubbling, lava-like aura slides across their skin, making the berserker painfully hot to the touch. While using Lava Heart, a berserker’s strikes can cleave through defensive techniques as if they were a Stage 5 ninjutsu.

Stage 5
Stat Requirements: 20 Stamina, 18 Strength, 18 Speed, 16 Tactics
Stage Bonuses: +5 Stamina, +4 Strength

”Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.”

Combatants at this stage are very capable of encountering attacks that can destroy them in a single blow – cleaver swords, fuuma shuriken, Rasengan, Chidori – the works of ninja that could be called “anti-personnel” class attacks. Relying purely on the body’s sturdiness would be the quickest path to death. Instead, focus shifts to using their stamina to essentially run circles around their opponent. When against such powerful weapons and attacks, berserkers are wise to allow their opponents to tire themselves out and then strike, creating a dance where predator and prey swap often.

Likewise, attacking has become absolutely brutal – a berserker’s oversized weapon strikes are capable of killing a defenseless target in a single blow, easily. Parries crumble under their intense weight, and their fists and feet are an cascade of blows. Fighting at this stage is no longer about technique or study: survival is the ultimate teacher for the berserker.

Regular Techniques

Howler Path: Bone Striking, Organ Grabbing – A berserker’s blows with their weapon can kill a defenseless target in a single blow. Against more sturdy targets, they can strike for the same weak points they train their body against, finding soft spots to penetrate with such eruptive force they crumble to their knees. Against even stronger targets (taijutsu trained shinobi and samurai, for instance), they lose the pretense of an honest fight and strike to destroy bones or rupture their organs. Fighting against a Berserker is like fighting against an avalanche.

Titan Path: Feral Recoil - When struck in melee, a berserker can immediately counter attack, ignoring the instinct to flinch or flee. Even against skilled, speedy targets, a practitioner matches the ferocity with their own. They often win trades of endurance, given their massive stamina, and even if the blows come faster or stronger, one can only punch a waterfall for so long before they grow tired.

Bloodletting Path: Trance – Bloodletting Berserkers can enter a trance, a reflexive meditation that wholly focuses their mind on the target at hand. This trace renders them immune to any thought or concept that would separate them from their path, and would willingly cut through an ally or forsake vows to focus on their singular purpose. The trance helps resist genjutsu that would render one to stop attacking by showing an illusion of an ally, for instance.

Special Techniques:

Kuchiyose: Doton: Dragonslayer Sword
Requirements: Loyal to Iwagakure Shinobi (If you don't fit this requirement, this is a swap slot.)
Description: A sword that resides in the lavaheart of a great mountain protected by ancient Iwagakure curses. It's only able to keep it's magical properties for a few scant posts outside of the lavaheart, but this is a battle-changing weapon.

"That thing was too big to be called a sword. Too big, too thick, too heavy and too rough. It was more like a large hunk of Iron."

This mammoth sword tends to exceed even the shinobi that summons it for length, however, combined with your Titanic Leverage, even it can be held in one hand. It’s sweeping strikes seem to catch the very air alight, burning away obstacles and chakra easily. Clones, genjutsu that create illusion visuals, and any defensive ninjutsu at or below your Berserker Level minus 2 are burned away instantly.

The destructive force of this sword is unparalleled. It strikes chakra as well as it smashes physical objects, making it an ideal weapon for combating bijuu and other mythological creatures. Any benefit of your target that allows them to slip through attacks or objects has no effect on the Dragonslayer Sword. The best method is to simply not stand underneath it’s crushing weight—since swinging a sword this large and heavy takes time.

Historically, it’s primary use was to put the finishing blow on powerful opponents.

You may keep the Dragonslayer summoned for one half of your levels in this list, always rounding down.

You may only summon the Dragonslayer in defense of Iwagakure or Iwagakure shinobi. There is no way to use this weapon for a purpose that doesn’t support. It simply will not summon—or if your intentions change, it will crumble into useless chunks of warm dirt that not even doton will manipulate.

Only the worthy sing with the Dragonslayer.

Stage Six:
Stat Requirements: 27 Stamina, 24 Strength, 24 Speed, 18 Tactics, 18 Willpower
Stage Bonuses: +5 Stamina, +4 Strength

Byakkotai. It’s rumored that berserkers of this stage are blessed by the divine tiger itself, their tremendous strength and resilient bodies matching the stuff of legends, entering the hallowed halls of the true path of the berserker.

Regular Techniques

Howling Striking! - You know the body, you know the mind, you know where to strike. After battling or observing a combatant, you know exactly where to time and strike your points for maximum damage. What’s more, your forceful strikes can target the seven chakras, rendering imbalance in your targets. While most shinobi and samurai are intimately familiar with their own chakras, this imbalance can place them off balanace—effectively stunning their ability to mold chakra or chi (or commune with kami, etc etc). Once per thread, per target, a successful attack will render that target unable to make ninjutsu or genjutsu (or miko powers, etc) actions for their next post. Once recovered, their balance is more secure – perhaps you, too, lead them towards zen.

Titanic Fortitude! – Physical strikes with Strength equal to 5 stages below your Stamina are rendered ineffectual against your skin.

Bloodletting Instinct! – Sight, smell, hearing – so long as you have any two of these senses, you fight as if you had all three.

Special Techniques

The Three Paths of the Berserker – Heart Chakra Enlightenment – Some causes are worth dying for, but not all of them: Once every five threads, you can recover perfectly from lethal wounds. This doesn’t regenerate body parts or the like, but so long as you keep your head and torso, you survive.

Stage Seven:
Stat Requirements: 33 Stamina, 33 Strength, 33 Speed, 22 Tactics, 22 Willpower
Stage Bonuses: +5 Stamina, +4 Strength

A hallowed place few enter.

Special Techniques

Iwagakure Berserker – You always gain the benefits of Berserker Soul.

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Ninpo: Tantojutsu (Ninja Art: Knife Fighting)

Stage 1 – Training (Gakusei)
Stage 2 – Low Ninja (Genin)
Stage 3 – Seikai Butai (Regular Forces)
Stage 4 – Middle Ninja (Chuunin)
Stage 5 – Special High Ninja (Special Jounin)
Stage 6 – High Ninja (Jounin)
Stage 7 – Shadow (Kage)

While the use of the shinobi kit and the ninja tools included therein are a right of all who call themselves ninja, those who focus their training on assuming they’ll have only the basics might be considered old-fashioned or evenly overly-pragmatic. Practitioners of this fighting art run the gamut from the most experienced and classically trained survivalists (Real “Big Boss” types), all the way down to the bare-minimum type that make up the bulk of shinobi forces. Style is ideal for characters who wish to embody the universal shinobi archetype, characters who imagine themselves as survivalist experts, and characters trained to fight in close quarters without much room to make use of larger weapons.

Style Basis: Hybrid Taijutsu, one-handed blade. This one-handed blade is typically a kunai, but any one-handed weapon can work (including tonfa, for instance). Particularly strong characters might even make use of larger weapons.

Ninpo: Tantojutsu is almost exclusively trained inside ninja academies. All ninja who make use of a shinobi kit have some training in this style (Stage 0, if you will), and the average practitioner is someone who took their taijutsu training seriously, but never fell into training under a dojo. This is a very militarized taijutsu, relatively universal across the shinobi world. Unless you were trained by a ninja personally, or inside a shinobi academy, non-shinobi aren’t likely to have this style.

The fundamental portions of the style can be broken up into body fighting (fighting unarmed), knife fighting (fighting with your blade), Ningu (Fighting with ninja tools), and Chakra (fighting using supernatural techniques).

Stage 1 – Training (Gakusei)

Body: If you’re coming from a different school of training, you’re not learning anything new here. Focus is on maintaining a steady balance and using the body’s full strength for striking. Hand-to-hand combat is a careful balance between parries and blows.

Knife: The three basic stances of knife-fighting are learned. A defensive stance, blade pointed past the thumb and chin lowered to protect the neck, spare arm resting over gut. Thrusting with the blade during openings, using the knife and arms to parry blows. Neutral stance with arm up at ready, knife still held past the thumb. Intent to push blows away and attack with blade. Aggressive “ninja” stance, body hunched forward, blade past the pinky, intent to slash and cut, open palm on other hand to push open stances or deflect attacks.

Ningu: You’re an expert at making use of all the tools in your shinobi kit – you sure as hell didn’t need to take this style to do that, if you graduted a shinobi academy.

Special Techniques:

Tatami Gaeshi

In the middle of a melee, a you strike the ground with a chakra-enhanced attack. Typically the intent is to flip up a tatami mat, while fighting indoors, but the force is enough to kick up dirt and soil or wooden planks or what-have-you. This is used to break open an opponent’s stance to lash in with a follow up attack, but in a pinch, can be used for sudden cover.

Stage 2 – Low Ninja (Genin)

Body: Combat here is a bit more what you’d expect from a ninja – simple rote combos using kicks and punches, sometimes a sudden powerful jab. Jumping is an effective tool, especially in hallways where your opponent doesn’t have much space to move, and using anime physics, attacking your opponent from the diagonal can keep you airborne for repeated hits.

Knife: You’ve mastered the stances of the blade fighter, and can effortlessly shift between the appropriate stances – or maybe you’ve made your own! Learning when to use which stance can be a clumsy experience, but eventually, you’ll always feel prepared to deal with the most standard approaches of combatants. You can use a knife in either hand you wish, in case you suddenly have to fight behind you in a space too tight to rotate easily.

Ningu: Whenever a bit of space opens up between you and a target is a solid time to use your open hand to toss shuriken, senbon, or other kunai. Like most other trained ninja, this is basically a passive action for you – no reason to die with a pocket full of metal you didn’t toss.

Special Techniques:

Ninpo: Bunshin

You create a shadow clone – literally. The clone only exists a foot or so away from your center, sometimes overlapping with your body. As you move towards your target, you and the clone strike from two angles at once – each bladed instrument cutting in a cross fashion. If you’re allied with a friend who knows this style, you can perform this same sudden cross-formation without using a jutsu usage (neat!). I guess a real ninja clone that qualifies for this technique could also work for that mundane usage, too…

Stage 3 – Regular Forces (Seikai Butai)

This is “average ninja” skill. RPCs, of course, go above and beyond.

Body: Striking from core to limb, basically peeling open your opponent’s guard, is effective here. Using one arm as a tool to push or open your opponent, the other can work the body with a series of jabs, grabs, or stabs. Making use of jumping off walls for sudden shifts in leverage, scooping down low for uppercuts, or jumping and coming from above are all standard ninja tricks that you’ve mastered. While you probably wouldn’t beat an equally trained Iron Fist student in a dojo setting, you’d probably rough them up in an alleyway.

Knife: By clenching the blade in your knife hand and shoving holding your other hand over the pommel, you can dramatically increase your hammering, stabbing power. Effective for breaking through the pesky chest plate to win heart-stabbing hits. Likewise, your play with the knife has expanded to using one in each hand as needed. Wielding a knife in both hands makes it notably difficult – if not impossible – to form complex handseals, but it doubles the amount of edge you have! Very effective as an intimidation tactic or carving up targets you would otherwise have to cut several times in a row to break down. Using two knives for parrying makes it less frightening to find yourself against someone with a sword or spear, too.

Ningu: Casually dropping ninja tools as you swap your stances or have a moment even clashing with your opponent can prove effective when you’re using caltrops or smoke/flash bombs. You probably don’t want to drop caltrops anywhere you’re grappling with an opponent, or use a smoke or flash bomb that close to your own face, but you’re capable of doing it – maybe you plan to immediately break the melee and make some space again, or you have other considerations. Either way, it’s a seamless motion that’s easy to miss while someone’s focused on not being stabbed to death.

Special Techniques:

One-Inch Punch

While a bit of a misnomer, by charging the body with chakra, you can suddenly explode with power without a proper wind-up (using your full Strength with a short jab, for instance). In close, tight combat, this sudden blow can be enough to shift momentum entirely over into your favor. In situations outside of hallway and indoors fighting, you could use it to show off your mad chakra power and pretend to be way stronger than you are, or, you know, elbow the crap out of someone grappling you from behind.

Stage 4

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Konan of the Southern Gates
Theme of Stats of Themes of Theme - Galvanize

Name: Kojima “Ko-Ko” Konan
alias “...of the Southern Gates”, “the Afflicted” (raided Nax like eight times for that one)
Age: Sixteen
Sex: Female
Height: 5'2''

Country/Village: Kusagakure no Sato
Rank: Chuunin
Division: KISEO

Physical Description:

Perfectly cared for teeth can't hide her pale lips, so she paints them over with deep colors. Sweet lips, plain and thin, give way to a nose that's small and upturned. Her almond eyes are so deeply pigmented brown that they look almost black, but they don't distract from the tired bags beneath both of them, so she powders them over with a foundation that matches her sickly pale skin tone. Her hair is black, but slick with sweat and grease, like a crow in an oil spill, so she cuts it short around her ears and hides a wide forehead beneath bangs. Her pointed chin rests above a long neck attached to an awkwardly skinny and small body, made up of almost no body fat. Her chest, hips, and butt are all but non existent. Her elbows and knees are knobby, her feet are pigeon-toed and clumsy. With enough cosmetics, she can look presentable, but she can't hide her illness from the world. She looks tired, she smells like a clinic, and she sounds like she might break any minute, with a soft voice and a chronic cough.

Any beauty was long since squandered. She's a walking corpse.

The punk styling of the youth of Grass take well to her, with her choppy hair and painted face, almost so that she might fit in with certain crowds if she'd try hard enough. Since she spends so much time in front of a mirror, applying enough makeup to look like a living person, she sometimes applies a bit of body paint to her face—two orange-brown streaks on her right cheek.

Clothing:

She hides her weak and boney body with layers of clothing, regardless of the situation or the water. At the lowest level, she binds her body and fresh wounds with medical gauze seeped in local medicinal herbs, leading to her flowery, yet clinical, smell. Above that, simple undergarments (as if anyone's ever seen them followed by a black sleeveless shinobi suit, from shoulder down to ankles. This is along the lines of, say, a martial arts uniform. (Ibuki or Hayabusa—generic ninja stuff) Above that depends on the function—for inner city department work, for assisting at her 'uncle's' medical lab, or for diplomacy, she dresses regally in traditional Japanese robes, a simple white robe layered with a black one. Above this, a thick white sash around her shoulders that ties into the brown or orange sash around her waist. Raised traditionally, she wears shinobi tabi socks and raised sandals. If she's dressed casually, leaving the village, or generally doing 'dirty' work, she wears a civilian hooded sweatshirt layered with a thick jacket that wraps around her hips. She should sweat in assemblages like this, especially in the rainforests of Grass, but she always seems to be cold.

To cover her face, she sometimes opts for a traditional facemask, but a scarf is sometimes more appropriate depending on the weather. Despite being an upstart youth, she eschews most modern technology in favor of tried-and-true weapons and techniques. That means she's rarely seen with goggles or other devices.

Her headband typically sits on her forehead in her formal gear, and wrapped around her shoulder in her informal gear. If the mission calls for it, she has no qualms leaving it behind.

Personality:

Rude. Short. Elitist. Lazy.

She's been called all these things, and has earned them in one way or the other. Outside of her family, she's never seen much reason to depend on others, and since she's an only child with the love of an extended family, she normally feels that she's worth a lot more than she should. Her self-esteem is incredible, and her self-worth horribly outbalances what a village puts on a weakened, ill girl. So, frustrated with this, she tends to take it out on those around her. She is fiercely competitive and incredibly prone to tossing casual insults or raising her temper over small slights. As a result, her circle of friends is small, and even those may not be entirely sure why they put up with the girl's attitude.

She has no particular ill will towards most people, but has a habit of considering them to be in her way. Introverted might be the phrase, but instead of being a shrinking violet or shy, she's more isolationist, like a proud island nation. A respect for authority was something she was raised by, but a kindness towards it was not---her record is littered with 'insubordination' and 'difficult to work with'. As teammates tend to come and go, she holds no special loyalties towards anyone, regardless of their headband, division, or rank. In a way, this makes her an effective shinobi. In another way, it makes her a bit of a cold-hearted bastard.

Alongside her close family, one might be surprised by her eagerness to impress, her willingness to follow orders, and her absolute sweetness. This melts away quickly with any sort of audience.

She isn't easy to work with, and it's not likely she has your back.

Nindo; "Way of the Ninja": “There is always a way.”

Vigilante
Archetypes: Daredevil – Maverick
Combo Special: If the Vigilante is working solo in a thread, he can increase a single Physical stat by an amount equal to his Reserves stat for three posts. This can be done once per thread.
Description: These are the outlaws, the men and women who prefer to do things their own way. The independent, bright mind of the Maverick coupled with the reckless attitude of the Daredevil makes for a daring combination. While not necessarily rebellious against the figureheads of authority, these Shinobi at least consider whether or not the commands issued them are worth the sacrifice; if not, they'll do it their own way.

Primary Archetype:

Daredevil
Special: When taken as Primary Archetype, the character can defy the laws of damage once during each thread.
Primary: Physical
Secondary: Mental
Tertiary: Chakra
Stat Merit: +2 to Stamina, +1 to Willpower
Stat Flaw: -2 to Tactics, -1 to Intelligence
Description: A physically determined character, these fighter's have quite a good amount of stamina, and can take quite the beating from someone else. They are pretty much always frontliners and have more energy than most fighter's. Not quite as large in the defensive area as a human tank would be, but very useful otherwise.

Secondary Archetype:

Maverick
Special: When taken as Primary Archetype, the character can reduce the base duration of an enemy's genjutsu by one. This may only be used once a thread.
Primary: Mental
Secondary: Physical
Tertiary: Chakra
Stat Merit: +1 Intelligence, +1 Tactics, +1 Willpower
Stat Flaw: -1 Power, -1 Control, -1 Reserves
Description: A rebel, a thinker, and a fighter, Mavericks are people who always seem to go against the norm. They do things at their own pace, at their own style, and at their own method, preferring not to stick to strict regimens. Highly intelligent, they are fully capable of thinking independently, which can be vital for certain types of missions. They specialize in independent fighting as well, using a mix of genjutsu and taijutsu to support themselves and only themselves.

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Statistics

Physical

Strength: 1
Speed: 1
Stamina: 1

Mental

Intelligence: 1
Tactics: 1
Willpower: 1

Chakra

Power: 1
Control: 1
Reserves: 1

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Biography:

Kojima Konan came into the protection of Kusagakure no Sato not even a year after she was born to, presumably, refugees from the Rice Country. She was found by a forest exploratory team deep in the southern reaches of the Grass country, nestled between two giant and luminescent mushrooms, choking to death by their poisonous spores. The head medical chief of the exploratory team, an expert in Grass's native toxins, swiftly purged the child of her ailments. Moved by the chief's selfless act, expending so much of his chakra that was desperately needed to perform the research they had traveled so far south for, his team agreed that they would find a proper home for this child, and help raise her through her adolescence until she could become a shinobi of her own means. The exploratory team named her Konan, being mostly directly minded types. Little South.

The Ise Exploratory Team was made up of four members, named for their Jounin sensei, and Konan's savior, Ise Naoki. His three Chuunin assistants were Mutsu Tatsuya (a medical specialist), Yamashiro Sawao (the team's muscle and humor), and Kojima Haruna, a cartographer and survivalist. While all four would have a hand in raising the little girl into a proud warrior, it was Kojima Haruna's family that would adopt her into their home and give her the experience of a loving family. Her adopted parents were Kojima Shinichiro and Marika.

Upon return to the village of Kusagakure, Ise Naoki became Konan's primary care. Since his responsibilities primarily revolved around research and inner-country field work, he was able to devote as much time as the Kojima's saw fit to her health care. It was during her very first examination that Ise-sensei discovered the curse mark. During her rescue from the field, he had assumed it was simple bruising or a reaction to the spore poisoning, but under close scrutiny, it became obvious that this infant had been cruelly cursed by weird and foreign shinobi science. Ise-sensei would devote much of his time researching and attempting to remove the cursed seal, but eventually merely found a way to slow it's poisonous and infectious effects on the body. Unfortunately for the Kojima family, Konan's days were already numbered, and they had just met their adopted daughter.

Kojima Shinichiro and Marika had always wanted to raise a child of their own, and couldn't bare to turn Konan away due to her affliction, so raised her with all the love and care they could muster. Shinichiro was a retired Chuunin, having lost most of his vigor in battle, losing an eye and nursing a deformed arm and poor bad. His muscles never fully recovered, even with Ise-sensei's attempts, but this allowed him to spend as much time with Konan...he figured both of their lives might have expiration dates. As for Marika, she was the daughter of a simple farmer from out of the village who had met Shinichiro after hiring a ninja to assist with the harvest. These simple parents would teach Konan perseverance, hope, and more importantly: familial love.

Kojima Haruna then became Konan's adoptive cousin, being the niece of Shinichiro, born to his brother Hayato, Haruna, an active chuunin of Kusagakure, was delighted to see Konan start to grow, despite her cursed ailment, and spent much time helping the child learn to read and write, to understand the importance of maps and charts, and the survival skills required of any huntsman. She was a gentle and caring teacher, and despite a relative young age, tended to Konan's wants and needs to the best of her budget and stamina could allow. For the injured Shinichiro and the overwhelmed Marika, she was a godsend. From Haruna, Konan learned the importance of dependability and resourcefulness.

Mutsu Tatsuya, a part of Ise-sensei's medical team, occasionally made appearances to Konan's examinations. It was thanks to his alchemical efforts that he and Ise were able to sooth Konan's developing pains as her cursed seal became more and more voracious. While Ise-sensei handled the high medicine and science with the skill of a cold machine, Mutsu Tatsuya was a kind and gentle man that believed the same forests and plants that surrounded and protected Kusagakure could be tapped into for natural and gentle cures. He created balms and ointments, prepared pills and juices that would extend Konan's life expectancy by several fold, granting her enough strength and endurance to gain entry to the Academy. Mutsu Tatsuya taught Konan the importance of looking at the whole picture in things, to never be narrow-minded, and to have the tenacity to look for answers when there seemed to be none.

As sickly and weak as she was, Kojima Konan's family was a powerful impact on her health, allowing her to be a competitive and eager student. Her penalties and handicaps were several fold—--her body was too weak to excel at taijutsu, and her chakra coils were constantly exhausted from the curse seal, but determination and a thoughtful mind allowed what should have been a disastrous first year into average grades. Of course, Konan stated to grow resentful of the body she was born into, well aware that she would have easily aced her Academy if only she had an equal form to stand in. Yamashiro Sawao, a beast of a man who never knew illness or weakness in his own body, finally found a common ground to stand next to Konan with—-he had always wanted to make people laugh, but his huge form and intimidating looks prevented him from making the friends he had desired. While the exploratory team enjoyed his humor and presence, the rest of the village ducked away from his shadow and cowered at his stance. He helped the young child exercise her body and learn to see the bright side of things, and tempered her resentment and doubt into hope and resolve. With his guidance, her next few years at the Academy earned higher and higher marks, until she graduated as a Genin near the top of her class—despite her handicaps. Her taijutsu was average, her ninjutsu was average, her genjutsu was average, but the power of her family was supernatural.

Like most children, upon becoming a Genin, Konan started to withdraw from her family on a path of independence. While she still had that powerful support network, she was finally confident enough in herself to pursue friendships outside of her family, and dove herself headfirst into her studies in her traditonal genin team. Ise-sensei had tried to take her under his wing, but the administration thought it best if the little orphan could prove she was stable on her own, capable of being responsible for mission completion and assisting her teammates.

While her wealth of knowledge and practical skills was honed well beyond her teammates, her frail body and weakened chakra network meant that she advanced into genin jutsu and combat much slower than her two teammates. While initially supportive, her two teammates eventually grew tired of holding dead weight, and successfully petitioned to have their four man genin team reformatted to a jounin, two genin cell. They would go on to successful careers as chuunin, and eventually Konan would forget their faces, but the betrayal and loss would hang over her heart. This didn't bode well for her body or health, and after a few failed attempts to replace her on a different team, Kusagakure no Sato officially declared that she should take a leave of absence, and possibly retire as an active shinobi.

The Kojima family, Shinichiro, Marika and their cousin Haruna would not stand for this, and took the leave of absence as an opportunity to help train her directly. Tatsuya and Sawao redoubled their own efforts to assist in her health both physical and mental. With this incredible supper network, Konan was able to find her niche in the village in a more passive role—like her 'uncle' Ise-sensei, she devoted her vast stores of knowledge and theory to the use of investigation and tactics. After plannning, plotting, and overseeing a handful of missions, she earned her promotion to Chuunin.

As a Chuunin, she was rolled into the KISEO division as the shinobi forces were regrouped into proper divisions, working with police and detective forces in a consulting fashion, since she's not always capable for field work. When she does get sent out (or chooses to go out) onto a proper mission, team set up is normall skewed with a powerful Jounin or very experienced Chuunin to offset her liability.

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HISAN no SEKKAIKENFU

SCATTERING STONE FIST STYLE

A: Reserves
B: Control
C: Power
D: Strength
E: Stamina

Basis: Chakra / Doton: Fist

Style description

HISAN no SEKKAIKENFU is a shinobi martial art system that incorporates teachings of various native EARTH COUNTRY schools. To the average person, the temples hidden in the mountain ranges and deep in the forests represent a lifetime of pilgrimage and study - - but all these styles eventually came to the heart of martial innovation in the country, the great IWAGAKURE. The shinobi in this hotbed of combat and study eventually gave birth to a new system of combat, the mystic and magical flurry of their stone gauntlets a mere distraction for their mastery of their chakra arts.

Characterized most accurately as a hybrid style, it’s relative youth means a lack of rigid structure in the training methods of the physical martial arts in the style. Most practitioners of HISAN no SEKKAIKENFU tend to be innovators themselves, and it’s an exciting time for growth and glory in the school’s development. Some opt for stances and aggression inherent in the bone-breaking taijutsu arts from those originating schools that emulated the great bears of the forests and the terrifying mountain tiger, where some find themselves more comfortable with the internal FLOW agreeable with styles that looked towards mythological dragons or heavenly military generals for guidance. The signature stance for the style, however, shares a consistent thread amongst all actors in the Scattering Stone Fist – crossing one fist over the heart or face, and the other over the groin or outer thigh, the artist protects their most sensitive external and internal parts, while also opening up their chakra system to allow for maximum FLOW. This combination of the physical and spiritual martial arts is what transcends the school from a Gakuryoku Library special to a terrifying weapon on the battlefield.

(Combo OK) – any number of these techniques can be chained together in a devastating blow, assuming you have your opponent’s permission

(On Hit Confirm) – if this follows up a (Combo OK) technique, it requires a stroke of luck or genius to evade.

(Combo Finisher) – ends a combo, typically with flurry or flourish

Stage One
Stage Requirements: Reserves 4, Control 4
Stage Bonuses: +3 Strength

The foundation of Scattering Stone Fist lies in the combination of shinobi-style ninjutsu and taijutsu training alongside the study of the traditional style martial arts of the Earth Country. To get to this first step up the mountain trail, the artist has likely already learned and mastered a half dozen or more traditional styles available to civilians and monks of the area - - these courses and rapid study programs make up the heart of the shinobi academy’s taijutsu training, although some had the opportunity to travel and study under various masters.

Stance and posture tend to be one of personal discovery, but it tends to follow the simple rule of protecting high and low, one hand over the face or heart, the other over the groin or external thigh. While the traditional stance involves crossing the arms over the body, some opt for more aggressive stances.

Regular Techniques

Pickaxe Strike (Combo OK)
Description: A leverage attack that uses the artist’s own body weight and strength to deliver a blow. A sharp elbow or the broadside of a hand or the heel of an extended leg is brought down or out and away from the artist in a swinging form. This “long” strike helps establish optimal range for the fighter to follow up with other attacks.

Rising Force (Combo OK)
Description: Using the core of the body, the fighter brings up a powerful uppercut or rising knee to either launch their target a few feet airborne or to splinter their defenses and open them up for additional abuse.

Cave-in Palm (Combo OK)
Description: An open palm strike that targets the solar plexus. A direct hit can knock the air out of the opponent. (A deep breath or resetting your stance is all an experience taijutsu artist needs to reset this condition.)

Special Techniques

Earth Flow Disruption: Shockwave
Description: Assuming their basic stance, the fighter opens up their chakra flow and violently expels it from their feet. Anyone on the same surface and within a number of feet equal to the fighter’s stages in this style suffer a sudden disruption in their footing, like a train car shifting. Has no effect on airborne targets or targets that have two or more stages of taijutsu training than you.

Stage Two
Stage Requirements: Reserves 8, Control 6, Strength 6
Stage Bonuses: +3 Strength

HISAN no SEKKAIKENFU

SCATTERING STONE FIST STYLE

"Behind every Fist; another Fist."

A: Reserves
B: Control
C: Power
D: Strength
E: Stamina

Basis: Chakra / Doton: Fist

Description:

It only takes one solid punch to break someone's jaw. Hisan no Sekkaikenfu practitioners embody this concept with a deadly precision, by striking their fists and feet out in a no-nonsense, brutal fashion towards their target. This style is a meditation on what it means to strike an opponent, and that meditation has given rise to the iconic stone armor of this style. Bursting forth from the heart of the martial artist and being made manifest in a flurry of "earth" and "spirit", this armor floats alongside the fighter and mimics the motions of their body, granting length to their strikes and enlarging their point of impact. Chakra taijutsu styles that embody weapons such as these are sometimes referred to [Stand] jutsu--because their weapons [Stand] next to their fighters. This style is as effective as it is unorthodox, taking advantage of chakra training alongside physical training to mold oneself into a spiritual warrior. Traditional practitioners of this style tend to be on the smaller side, with their doton-infused armor making up the bulk of their silhouette on the battlefield. Those great taijutsu-focused specialists that come to train in this style, however, make a horrible visage--hulking bodies protected by floating pillars of stone.

History:

The taijutsu masters of Stone's history likely practiced the golden pure taijutsu arts, such as Gouken-fu (Iron Fist). As with many collections of ninja, eventually the study of this style splintered off and evolved to different schools and forms. For a time, a style known as "Stone Body" was trained and taught to Stone shinobi, mixing the teachings of Gouken-fu with the village's Doton-style ninjutsu. In the past few years, however, practitioners have begun to truly mix their mastery of stone ninjutsu with their fighting forms, creating the new style known as [SCATTERING STONE FIST].

While just a few decades ago the forerunners of this style were mocked for their ineffective use of chakra combined with forceful body motions, Scattering Stone Fist has quickly formed itself into a capable school of elegance and control. As the style has become more and more refined and developed, a unity has been found between body and chakra manipulation--making the efficiency something of local legend. This new form of Stone Fist has become a testament to the ingenuity of Stone shinobi.

The style that will become an archetype all of its own: [NEW STONE BODY].

Training Methods:

Scattering Stone Fist Style warriors train all three major forms of spiritual martial arts--mind, body, and soul. Body training is the same as any taijutsu style that splintered off of the ancient tekken (Iron Fist), strength and core training and repeated and rote memorization of attacks and defenses, as well as carefully training in pairs and groups to train muscle memory. Mind training is found in the deep study of doton, chakra manipulation, and meditation. Soul training--or chakra training--comes simply from purification of the body and use.

Weight training is common for those who chose who plan on having some downtime from field missions, leaving weights on their body during daily activities even during times of presumed rest so they aren't slowed down by their armor when the time comes. Doton mastery is also incredibly common: this style is born from the mastery of earth manipulation.

Due to the theories inherent in the style, these artists tend to be relatively well-read and studied on various forms of taijutsu. Choosing to walk down the path of the [Stand] fighter doesn't exclude oneself from other forms of combat.

Stage One
Stage Requirements: Reserves 4, Control 4
Stage Bonuses: +3 Strength

The gloves are on. The first stage of this style is one of discovery, in a number of ways. Discovery of the body's capability for taijutsu, either for the first time as a neophyte martial artist or a rediscovery coming from a different school, the practitioner spends most of their time in study of the forms, katas, and chakra molding techniques that will become more useful down the line. In this basic stage of combat, strikes are done in a way very similar to Gouken-fu (or to karate in the non-shinobi world), swift direct strikes.

The ability to form the [New Stone Body] is limited to gauntlets, worn around the user's hands and forearms. These gauntlets offer all the same protective qualities of standard gauntlets, as well as enhancing strikes with their jagged form.

The discovery of self--of the eventual [Stand]--is found here. The gauntlets are formed both from the aesthetic tastes of the warrior as well as something deeper rooted in their heart or soul--formed from dust, rock, metal, precious stones, or just about anything else that fits firmly in the concept of "EARTH", these gauntlets all have a design unique to their user.

Regular Techniques
Yamaken Keisei (Mountain Fist Creation)
This is the first iconic technique of the style. Typically by striking a practiced pose that helps open the chakra pathways from the core to the limbs, the user forms a pair of unique gauntlets to cover their arms. These have all the typical properties of a pair of gauntlets, as well as additional jagged edges from their natural stoneworks to include in their strikes.

In Inventory System terms, they are Limb Armor (Arms) [1].

Special Techniques
Threatening Posing
The kinesthetics of this style lead to an intimate understanding of all the portions of one's body, which leads to an air of confidence that can be physically felt. By striking particular pose unique to the user, they are able to emanate an aura of that confidence, as if revealing their great combat strength to their opponent.

Striking this pose for an action increases your taijutsu capabilities for your next action. If you pose as an offensive action, your defensive action has +1 speed scaling. If you pose as a defensive action, your offensive action has +1 strength scaling.

(Two Open Swap Slots)

Stage Two
Stage Requirements: Reserves 8, Control 6, Strength 6
Stage Bonuses: +3 Strength

The gloves are off. Focus shifts away from the direct punches and kicks typical in more standard styles at this point, as combat maneuvering becomes more important. The user is trained to look for openings or exits as often as possible, to take non-standard routes towards their enemy (running along a wall, for instance), or to be prepared to duck and weave as much as possible. This comes in tandem with the more important part of this stage--

The user has begun to generate their unique [STAND]/[NEW STONE BODY] at this point.

Regular Techniques
[STAND BY ME] (Stance)
All armor created by this style can be commanded to, as a unit, float alongside the user within one arm's length of themselves. This armor mimics the actions of the user as if it was still being worn, extending their effective striking range. An attack from the [Stand] carries all the strength it would have if connected physically to the user. People who can see such things see a chakra aura around the user that the [Stand] "swims" in.

Special Techniques
Hisan no Sekkaiken (Shattering Stone Fist)
Requirements: In a [Stand] Stance
The user strikes a pose they find aggressive--crossing their arms, sticking their hands in their pockets, leaning forward like a street punk, and their [Stand] strikes forward in a devastating flurry of blows. These blows can be too numerous to count, but they have to be within one regular arm's length of the user, and the user cannot move. Since the user's chakra is in a swimming field around their body and their muscles are relatively relaxed, this is particularly effective against people with extrasensory crutches. At this stage, this attack gains no benefits from taijutsu bonuses.
Stage 3: This attack can start one arm length away from the user, making the effective range two arm's lengths.
Stage 4: You gain your taijutsu bonuses for this attack.

(Two Open Swap Slots)

Stage Three
Stage Requirements: Reserves 12, Control 8, Strength 8
Stage Bonuses: +3 Strength

At this point, there's no turning back--the user has become a [Stand] warrior. Using their [Stand] in tandem with their taijutsu training, they become an effective force in any combat situation. Their mastery over their [Stand] allows them to turn the area within their arm's length into a deadly flurry of floating blows.

This is the stage in which they gain the ability to form an almost full set of armor, which combined with the [Stand] stance, generates an avatar of their fighting spirit.

It's not uncommon for Shattering Stone Fist users to name this armor a unique epithet or moniker. (Feel free to add a description of your [Stand] to your character sheet.)

Regular Techniques
[STAND PROUD] (Stance)
In this stance, the floating [Stand] gains no taijutsu bonuses whatsoever.

In exchange, as long as it stands within one arm's length of the user, they can act independently of each other. Keep in mind the [Stand] is an animated suit of armor by the user, and has no senses or intelligence of its own. Effectively, the [New Stone Body] becomes an extra set of floating limbs. The [Stand] could protect the user while he weaves complicated hand seals, or attack while the user tends to an injured friend, for instance.

For those who can understand or see such things, the Stand is filled with the user's swimming field of chakra, making it even more difficult to precognate its actions.

Regular Techniques
Funkatachi Keisei (Erupting Body Creation)
This it--that glorious avatar of your fighting spirit, a unique creation from deep within your heart. The ERUPTING BODY is a set of armor you can wear by performing the “Yamaken Keisei” pose from back in Stage 1. Notably, the design of this armor on the user's body versus the armor when in a [Stand] stance can have different designs--truly, the [Stand] is becoming a unit all of his own.

Limb Armor (Arms) [1] Limb Armor (Legs) [1] Helmet [1] Body Armor [2] = 5 WP

Special Techniques
Attack, My Stand! Passive
While the ninja has to form the handseals themselves, the Stand can be the point of origin of any of their Stone Village or Global Ninjutsu jutsu or swaps, as long as they're two stages lower than their highest stage in [SHATTERING STONE FIST] style. This only applies to ninjutsu and taijutsu--the Stand cannot release Yin/genjutsu chakra.

(Two Open Swap Slots)

Stage Four
Stage Requirements: Reserves 15, Control 14, Power 14, Strength 14
Stage Bonuses: +3 Strength

You gain one additional WP for the purposes of customizing your Funkatachi Keisei technique.

Stage Five
Stage Requirements: Reserves 20, Control 18, Power 18, Strength 16
Stage Bonuses: +3 Strength

You gain one additional WP (total 2) for the purposes of customizing your Funkatachi Keisei technique.

Stage Six
Stage Requirements: Reserves 27, Control 20, Power 20, Strength 18, Stamina 18
Stage Bonuses: +3 Strength

You gain one additional WP (total 3) for the purposes of customizing your Funkatachi Keisei technique.

Stage Seven
Stage Requirements: Reserves 35, Control 28, Power 28, Strength 22, Stamina 22
Stage Bonuses: +3 Strength\

You gain one additional WP (total 4) for the purposes of customizing your Funkatachi Keisei technique.

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The Six-Stroke Shooting Star!


Kosai "Roku" Ryuusei
22 / M / 5'9'' / Jounin Shinobi, Sunagakure - SUNA

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Amagiri Gedo
[The Macabre Magus]

[The Long-Haired One]
11 years
onee-san
4'7"

shinobi academy student in otogakure
path of flesh

physical description
"It's like looking into the mirror..."

Gedo grew her hair out, taking to carefully trimming her bangs and brushing out her hair every day to train it out into a long and silky cowl, only to be disappointed that people still couldn't tell her apart from her short-haired, spunkier sister. Try as she might, she couldn't ever get the small sprigs (sometimes, "ahoge") of stray hair to stay tucked away on her head. Despite insistence that her eyes were a steely grey -- or at least a shade lighter, they were virtually identical to her sister's rich sky blue. Sharp and small describe their nose and eyebrows, quick punctuation on youthful faces. Without a doubt, Gedo and Naido where near-perfectly identical twins.

Older by four minutes and forty four seconds, Gedo carries a stigma as the left-handed twin. Her internal organs, the parting of her hair, her primary handedness are all a mirror image of her sister's, as if they laid next to a perfect mirror. The most obvious identifying trait between the two girls is a small mole they both have below their breast--Gedo's left, Naido's right. Until Gedo was old enough to start growing out her hair to make the distinction easier, the Naga researchers would occasionally toss items at the girls, checking who caught with which hand. The clever girls have become ambidextrous in an effort to confuse their caretakers.

Slinky like a snake, Gedo stands at her full height with a slight impatient twist to her hips almost always. Her body language carries a bristling energy to her, like she'd always rather be somewhere else or doing something else. That sort of energy can be infectious, helping her lead others to action. Despite using her height and strong stance to look down on others, occasionally with a sneer, she's actually rather helpful and sweet, eager to assist in any way she can. This is represented in the softness of her face and her relatively open stance, puffing out her chest in pride and keeping her hands relaxed. Compared to her sister, she has more pale skin, and a thinner frame--she doesn't carry the muscle of a more advanced shinobi.

Her face is incredibly expressive, so it could be said she wears her heart on her sleeve--but she has an unfortunate flaw in that she comes off as a bit severe. A smile can seem like a sneer, concern can look sarcastic, and frustration can be exaggerated. Those who get to know Gedo learn quickly to read her facial expressions for what they are, but it makes it more difficult to bring people in close. The very air around her is prim, proper, and a bit snooty--pride manifested.

On the back of her left, dominant hand is a small faded scar, the beginnings of a curse seal slowly being worked over the recent months by her Naga benefactors. Her right arm tends to be hidden beneath clean and twisted bandages and a soft silk glove, to hide her arm cannon surgery. Despite the implant being a relative success, Gedo hasn't mastered the art, so it's an embarrassing reminder of how far she has to go.

As a child of the Naga, she never received an eighth note tattoo.

clothing/dress
"Even if it's a bit much, she looks comfy!"

She's fond of the color red, if only because it contrasts her eyes and make them look lighter than they really are. The color of passion and forward thinking, the wild flare of her rebellion, and a comforting warmth amid the dark caverns of the Necropolis. Even if she doesn't make it a major part of her outfit, she tends to splash it in somehow--if only just in the ribbons in her hair.

Her long hair is held in place with two ribbons, giving her a set of twin tails, but even more hair spills down the back of her head. Occasionally she'll opt for braids and a single more elaborate bow, but that's more for special occasions. Very rarely will she let her hair down entirely, either a result of her prim attitude or out of a modesty. While recently she's become a bit more adventurous in her clothing, she's very fond of keeping most of her skin covered up. High socks, boots, layered clothing with jackets or dresses, half arm gloves, and the like. She can come off looking a bit like a foreign princess, or maybe someone who's a bit much into gothic lolita fashion, but everything comes together nicely on her frame.

Her tastes can be a bit on the elaborate side, more idol than researcher, but more likely than anything it's an attempt to hide away the nastier parts of her life in beauty--a poisonous flower. Her ninja garb is a skintight black leotard, typically paired with leggings of the same material, with her bandages wrapped around her off hand and her good arm bare.

Occasionally, she's not as brave as she had planned, and pulls over a jacket or sweater to give herself a bit more modesty. She half-hardedly calls this her gothic shinobi aesthetic...but only to herself.

personality
"She has a smile just for me...but I hope one day she can wear it always."

Rebellion.

She doesn't look like it, with her prim posing and elegant dress, but Gedo is a hot-blooded rebel. Headstrong, stubborn, and more than eager to prove herself, Gedo doesn't take well to authority and constantly tries to push the limits around her. While she understands the reasoning for law and rules, she doesn't understand the concept of following just to keep the status quo. Like an elegant ghost, she slips through the systems of Otogakure with a practiced poise, always willing to find any loophole or oversight to manage her gains. While not a criminal or lawbreaker, she's hardly morally clean.

Perhaps a side-effect from her overactive coil system, but once Gedo manages to wake up out of bed, she's a tightly wound filament of energy. She's capable of staying active at full tilt, studying or training or exploring, keeping her mood elevated. This is marred by occasional periods of depression and lethargy, but even a prodigal Naga needs time to rest and recover.

Her dedication and drive would be considered unparalleled for her peers, if she was anywhere but Otogakure. She has the researcher's knack of an high academia student and the eager trendsetting of a upstart entrepreneur. Her energy can be infectious.

While more solitary than social, she has a sweet disposition and an understanding personalty that makes her a bit popular with her peers. She's a practiced "older sister", even to someone of the same age. This same disposition lends her to be a bit apart from the others.

Despite her tragedy, she smiles. Despite loss, she gives. Despite her sorrow, she finds joy.

nindo, "way of the ninja" "Something out there will bring me to balance."

archetype
beast master (+2 to Speed, +1 to Willpower; -1 to Intelligence, -1 to Tactics, -1 to Control)
healer (+2 to Intelligence, +1 to Reserves; -1 to Strength, -1 to Speed, -1 to Willpower)

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statistics

physical
strength 1 (-1 archetype) 0
speed 1 (+1 archetype) 2
stamina 1

mental
intelligence 1 (+1 archetype) 2
tactics 1 (-1 archetype) 0
willpower 1 (+/- 0 archetype balance) 1

chakra
power 1
control 1 (-1 archetype) 0
reserves 1 (+1 archetype) 2

jutsu and techniques

1. beast master
2. medical ninjutsu

• s1. kinjutsu: shibito tankyuu (Intelligence 4, Willpower 4)
• s2. kinjutsu: henge shibito (Control 7, Power 7, Intelligence 6)

3. sound ninjutsu

• s1. myaku (Control 3, Tactics 2)
• s2. kaze senbon (myaku, Control 5, Reserves 4, Power 4)

4. naga curse mark slot
5. n/a

naido
novice trainer - genin
key trait: supernatural beast (naga experimentation)
beast trait: ...
beast trait: ...

caster

statistics

physical
strength 1
speed 1
stamina 1

mental
intelligence 1 (+1 pool) 2
tactics 1
willpower 1 (+1 pool) 2

chakra
power 1 (+2 pool) 3
control 1 (+1 pool) 2
reserves 1

jutsu and techniques
miko: pierce
stage 1
Hikari no Hahen - Shards of Light
requirements: 2 control, 2 intelligence
Tamashii Kagayaki - Soul Glow
requirements: 3 power, 2 willpower

theAMAGIRIfamily
"The Amagiri clan has mutated chakra coils--often with 50% more capacity than a regular man. To the Amagiri themselves, these extra coils are like the appendix--useless, wasting the body's precious resources. But to the Naga..."


In Old Otogakure, the Amagiri ninja family was more than capable, often producing strong and stable shinobi for generations. There was a legend that the family had been granted a portion of divinity by a wise and terrible dragon, so they wore the symbol of a coiled winged serpent fashioned as an ouroboros as a family crest.

Inside the serpent's clutches rested six triangles, three stacked into a pyramid like the ancient Hojo clan, and three spanning outwards on the junctions. These were said to represent the two paths towards divinity--the path within, enlightenment, and the path out, wisdom. The empty core in the center was said to represent a dark void, a shadow that was at the heart of all ninja. For truth, the Amagiri always considered their blessing of health and luck to be one end of a terrible curse: No Amagiri ever lived into old age.

During the Soundfall, there wasn't many Amagiri healthy enough to run or fight, and those that did became scattered. It came to pass 11 years ago that a pair of twins was born to the last known remaining couple of Amagiri. The mother died in childbirth, an unfortunate trend of Amagiri births, and the father, a proud Nomad warrior, died in combat not soon after. His teammates claimed he was mad with grief and rage, made poor decisions--and that left his two little girls without anyone to care for them. A group of traders appeared, offering to take the orphan girls in exchange for medicine and treatments for the tribesmen. This was worth more than gold--and definitely worth more than two helpless, orphaned infants. These two girls would leave with the traders and would be brought back to the Catacombs of the Naga --- never knowing the group that was responsible for their parents' deaths would become their adoptive family, their doctors and researchers, the coiled snakes around their hearts.

This is the story of the oldest of the two remaining survivors of the cursed Amagiri clan...

[Virtual Dream]

"You don't have to put on the red light,
those days are over,
you don't have to sell your body to the night."

HIGASHI KOHI

Name: Higashi Kohi
Age: 22
Sex: Female
Height: 5'7''
Type: Shinobi
Village: Hidden Rain
Rank: Jounin
Division: Amekage's Enforcer - Former Yokai

Physical Description:
"You don't have to wear that dress tonight..."
Personality:
"...you don't care if it's wrong or if it's right."

Nindo; "Way of the Ninja": "I am the death."
"I loved you since I knew you. I wouldn't talk down to you. I have to tell you just how I feel..."

Biography:
"I know my mind is made up..."

"Put on the red light."

Because Bass said it would be fun. 11 years ago...

Name: Shimabukuru Chinatsu
Age: 23
Sex: Female
Height: 5'2''

Character Type: Shinobi

Country/Village: Fire Country / Hidden Leaf
Rank: Jounin
Division: --

Statistics

Physical

Strength: 1
Speed: 1
Stamina: 1

Mental

Intelligence: 1
Tactics: 1
Willpower: 1

Chakra

Power: 1
Control: 1
Reserves: 1

[Virtual Dream]

Name: Yaken
Age: 16
Sex: Male
Height: 5'8''

Country/Village: Ta no Kuni / Otogakure no Sato [Information]
Rank: Kitaeru (Genin equivalent)
Division: Naga Experiment: Homunculus - Path of Flesh

Y a k e n
e l e c t r i c ·¤· w o r r y

"One goal keeps me going: take back what I lost to the bosses of greed and fear."

Physical Description:

"What are you writing down? Hey! I killed that guy, right? Don't you have to tell me what's going on now? If you don't talk for fifteen minutes, doesn't that mean I get to leave?"

He wears a weariness on his face unfitting his years, the furrow of his brow and sneer of his face a near constant, sullen visage. Perhaps more unfitting for his years are his broad shoulders, impressive height, and muscular structure: garnered gains from a what appears to be a lifetime of physical training. His straw-colored hair is a deeper tangerine color in it’s thick bodied curls, a military-style shaven undercut keeping his hair away from his ear line. The thick curls spill over his brow, covering his forehead, a haphazard haircut done more for ease rather than style. His wide eyes, typically tightened in a sharp glare, are black in color with the sharp intensity expected from a trained warrior. His body is a patchwork of scarring from the rigors of combat, contrasting his rich olive skin with twisted white patches of flesh. His torso and back, in particular, hold the worst of the scarring: these from the repeated surgeries he’s been subjected to as a Naga experimentation. His habit of smoking cigarettes leaves him smelling like burnt tobacco and smoke, combined with sweat and a typical lack of hygiene from his station. He carries himself with a certain rigidity, a tense fidgeting as if he stays on edge and impatient all the time. Just to the left of center on his throat is an eighth mark tattoo, branding him as an Otogakure shinobi for life.

Clothing:

"I don't know, I literally just get stuff off of dead guys. It's not like New Otogakure has set up a lot of great thread shops."

A varsity jacket with extra pockets, whatever t-shirt he could find, long pants and sneakers. His entire wardrobe is made up of stuff he robbed from the corpses of whoever he had to cut down, combined with straps and belts to fit his shinobi kit. If he was given an official uniform with the rise of New Otogakure, no one would know – he’s grown fond of his collection of spare clothing. Hoodies, jackets, or bandages wrapped up his arm: He’s grown tired of people asking about his gnarly scars. The extra padding on the back of his head either from a hood or a thick collar gives him some weird sense of peace, as if there aren’t eyes glaring at him from behind. Perhaps a great sin, but he doesn’t wear socks with his sneakers – do shinobi even know what socks are?

Either way, he covers himself up as much as possible even when it’s hot out. Maybe he’s just cold hearted.

Personality:

"What do you mean doesn't play well with others? I'm a GREAT teammate! Just stay out of my way!"

A lifetime of being the butt of some cosmic joke has turned Yaken into a bristly guy, but being a punk teenager has turned him sarcastic and cruel, too. These winning personality traits make it difficult for people to trust or admire him, or even offer sympathy for his treatment in the past. Scrappy and tenacious, he has a habit of pulling himself out of dangerous situations and rising to the top: but being the lone survivor on more than one occasion has given him the reputation of being a “Team-Killer”, despite it being well known among the people that he’s worked with (and that have survived), that he’s a fierce protector of his allies and even desperate to uphold his twisted views of justice. He’s obnoxious, loud, and incredibly defensive, but goes out of his way for others when he can.

While he doesn’t want admit it, but his upbringing has given him the survival skills to make it as a shinobi, so his views on the adults that forged him are a complicated mess of respect and distaste. His sweet, protective side is normally swallowed up by his angry boasting and fierce obsession with personal growth. Those who have earned honor are worthy of respect.

Nindo; "Way of the Ninja": "The true path of the shinobi is through introspection, a deep understanding of the heart and nature. You see, chakra is a delicate expression of the spirit, and through combat, we become our true selves...in a way, we love those we subjugate, right? I'm just kidding. Kill or be killed, that's my ninja way."

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Stray Dog
Once per thread, the Spitfire Stray Dog can use one Ninjutsu technique Stage Four and below two times simultaneously in one post, counting as only a single use. Specific jutsu rules still apply (eg. a jutsu saying it can only be used once a thread).
Combo Archetype: Spitfire
Primary Archetype: Taijutsu Specialist
Primary: Physical Secondary: Mental Tertiary: Chakra
Stat Merit: +1 to Strength, +1 to Speed, +1 to Stamina
Stat Flaw: -2 to Reserves, -1 to Power
Secondary Archetype: Cavalier
Stat Merit: +2 Speed, +1 Power
Stat Flaw: -2 Intelligence, -1 Reserves

Bang, bang, bang, bang
Vamanos, vamanos

Bang, bang, bang
Vamanos, vamanos

Statistics

Physical
Strength: 1 + 1 AT + 5 Pool = 7
Speed: 1 + 3 AT = 4
Stamina: 1 + 1 AT + 5 Pool = 7

Mental
Intelligence: 1 - 2 AT + 3 Pool = 2
Tactics: 1 + 1 Pool = 2
Willpower: 1 + 4 Pool = 5

Chakra
Power: 1
Control: 1 + 2 Pool = 3
Reserves: 1 - 3 AT + 4 Pool = 2

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Jutsu and Techniques:

Chigatana no Kenbu (Bloody Sword Dance)
Stage One [Strength 5, Stamina 3]
Stage Bonuses: +4 Strength, +3 Speed, +2 Stamina

Daidoumyaku (Great Pulse Fist)
Stage One [Speed 4, Strength 4]
Stage Bonuses: +3 Speed, +3 Strength, +3 Stamina
Special Techniques:
Stage One - Mimi Senshi (Ear Stab) [Intelligence 2, Tactics 2]

Sound Ninjutsu (Melody Release)
Stage One
Myaku (Pulse) [Control 3, Tactics 2]

Hyouton (Ice Release)
Stage One
Hyouton: Dokuji Seppen (Special Snowflake) [2 Reserves, 2 Intelligence]

Inventory:
- Iron 1 [Large Blade 3] + [Sound Elemental Weapon 1] 4
Iron 1 sings with threatening vibrations, it's invisible cutting edge a boon in combat.
- Iron 2 [Medium Blade 2] 2
Iron 2 is a smaller double edged sword with a row of teeth for parrying.
- Shadow Windmill [Large Projectile 1] 1
A large, collapsible fuuma shuriken.
- Razor Wire [1]
Now in five fun flavors!

Item Points Remaining: 0

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Biography:

"It does one - - no honor - - to belittle those lower than he or she."

Bang.

"Those who - - have earned honor - - are worthy of respect...it does one no honor - - to belittle those lower than he or she."

Bang.

"Does beating me make you feel good or something?"

Bang.

Tangerine Harbor

Tachibana Minato was born to Tachibana Hayato and Tachibana Minoru. He was their oldest child, with two younger sisters: Tachibana Fumiko, born two years later, and Tachibana Mei born two years after that. The family was well-known for their sturdy stock of shinobi, and Minato was no exception: he took well to ninjutsu training and subjected himself to intense study and physical training to prepare himself for the Shinobi Academy of Yukigakure. This paid off handsomely, as he quickly rose to the top of his class and demanded the respect of all who observed him. This child, it was said, would be something special. In his second year of academy, he stole off into the cold of Snow country to find a rare blooming vine to celebrate Fumiko’s acceptance into the shinobi program.

He was presumed deceased, but no body was recovered.

In Rice Country, there exists a mammoth structure of a snake, dipping and curling through the country side, that eventually bites down on its own tail. It’s incredible size and length means that entire temples, towns, and trade routes can be plotted on its ridges – and on the 88th coil where an ancient and grand dojo is built, filled with monks and miko and the occasional shinobi. It was here that Minato was awoken, body mostly destroyed by frostbite and blunt trauma, to the desperate attempts of Amagiri Gedo, Naga researcher. His memories of his life before were distant nightmares, but being stitched back together by this woman made him feel a sense of comfort and attachment. He wouldn’t see her again, properly, for many years.

He was left with the Sound nomads, given an eighth mark tattoo on his neck, permanently branded as a tool, and labeled as a kitaeru. While bits and pieces of his previous training leaked through, he was years behind the others due to his restored body and hobbled mind. Every time the Naga – then disguised as typical nomads – would make their passes to check his progress and to perform their studies of his growth, they treated him as little more than an object or tool. That treatment eventually imprinted on others within the nomads, until he was subject to daily abuse from those with authority. It was a game of stress relief, to lay into the boy, until he was isolated from his peers and considered an outsider, despite his tattoo. Despite this, his performance was well-regarded. Excelling particularly in combat missions, an uncommon luck (or perhaps a blessing of the Naga) kept him alive in the worst of situations. On more than one occasion, he was the only one to return from a mission.

This created the cruel rumor that he was a team-killer, either catching revenge for his abuse on the field or simply cutting anyone that got in his way for his objective. His obsession with growth and his crass attitude didn’t help quell these rumors. Still, the other kitaeru knew the truth: “Yaken”, as he had been named, was uncommonly gentle to those below him in skill and stature. While he didn’t mind talking shit to the adults that used him, lashing out like a dog on a chain, he treated the rest of the nomads as his siblings and protected them as best he could from the worst of the nomad lifestyle. He would always come back to the camps from missions with new treats and prizes from the outside world, a habit he didn’t remember ever making.

After the resurrection of Otogakure and the reunification with the Naga, he saw her true face for the first time in a long time – Amagiri Gedo. While she had seen him quite often, in disguise or under a mask, he was finally made aware that she had been a guiding hand in his development. Gedo’s influence had kept him from the catacombs, allowed him some semblance of a normal life, but she was also the one that had sacrificed him to the Nomads and given him this life in the first place.

Yaken’s love for his “siblings”, the other nomadic kitaeru, and his self-reliance built from his harsh time as a nomad, has given him purpose to become as strong as possible. With his connection to the Naga made public knowledge both to him and the others around him, fear of the secretive organization has protected him from the most overt abuses, but it has done nothing to mend his reputation. “Team-Killer Yaken” is considered a powerful kitaeru asset, but a dangerous and hostile individual deserving of his castigation.

His first goal is to take advantage of that reputation to become a feared operative for New Otogakure.

Other Info:
- Has a collection of headbands, prizes from genin teams he tangled with during his time as a nomad.
- Has a weird sister complex. He likes to protect imouto types and has a weird thing for his "older sister" Amagiri Gedo. He wasn't figured what to do with that, yet.
- Learned his birthright Hyouton, unknowingly through the guidance of the Naga. He thought he was just a special snowflake.

Thread Ratings:
Chikushou (A man reborn as a beast, "God dammit") Modo - GMAP Spent: blahblah
Dollar for Dollar - Personal AP Spent: blahbalh
Thread Title - TP: blahblah
Snarky comment.
Thread Title 2 - TP: blahblah
Snarky comment.

Doctor or lawyer
I'll never be
Life of a drifter
The only life for me
You can have your riches
All the gold you saved
There ain't room for one thing
In everybody's grave

[Virtual Dream]

Name: Amagiri Gedo
Age: ?? (Late teens, early twenties)
Sex: Female
Height: 5’5’’

Country/Village: Ta no Kuni / Otogakure no Sato Information
Rank: Senshi (Jounin equivalent)
Division: Naga Researcher – Path of Flesh // Senior Officer, SAM-C

Physical Description:

Beauty soured by a lifetime in the shadows, glory turned to vanity.

Standing around 165cm, but weighing in at barely 45kg (100lb), a strong breeze could easily threaten to uproot her. This malnourishment renders her skin an easily bruised ruddish color, typically slick with sweat and oil. Her hair, originally a rich black, has lost its luster and hangs from her head in a haphazard cut with the edge of a kunai. It’s typically some shade of blue or purple, for the few days out of the month she suddenly cares what she looks like. She has pale and thin lips hiding sharp teeth, a prominent nose, and thin eyebrows that betray her natural haircolor. Her eyes are a snake-like yellow, and typically shaded by deep bags of sleep deprivation. Underneath her left eye is the nai lof a snake tattoo that curls around the back of her head, coils around her neck, and crosses down her back and across her breast and up her left arm where the simple striking snake head lashes at her middle finger. This simple yet massive tattoo serves in the place of an eighth note – as a Naga experiment turned researcher, she only recently considered herself a part of the Sound collective.

Clothing:

Like most of the Naga, she’s a secretive person, typically clad in heavy robes and hoods that blank out her tiny frame. She makes use of earth tones to camouflage herself against the underground, but a flair of her youth appears in the rich red lining. Her garments underneath—if she has need to wear anything at all—tends to be typical shinobi garb made up of a black shirt and pants.

Recently, she’s been acting as a shinobi for New Otogakure. Here, she’s like a drastically different person: wearing a typical shinobi outfit including a green flak jacket, she almost passes for a normal functioning human being...so far as you can, being a magical ninja warrior. The difference can be night and day compared to her typically drab appearance.

As a child, she was very fond of dresses and ribbons, an almost forgotten part of her past.

Personality:

Gedo has dedicated her life to her craft – researching a long forgotten technique – and her life in the underground, graduating from an experiment to a researcher has left her a twisted example of humanity. Once an eager overachiever, she’s become an impatient and viciously efficient machine of a woman. Results can take years to turn over in her line of work, so to keep herself from going mad, she fills her days with as many projects and tasks that she can to keep her hyperactive mind busy. This isn’t successful: she’s quite mad.

Having suffered the brunt of unrestricted experimentation in her youth, she’s cold and uncaring of the cries for help and pleas for a quick death from her own experimentations...but something inside of her, a slithering and frightening monster, feels remorse. One day, she tells herself, when she’s mastered the Edo Tensei, she can make up for this lifetime of blood.

Her fool’s errand has made her incredibly jaded and cynical, and the life of a Naga researcher is one of jealousy and sabotage.

In nearly all ways, she represents the snake.

Primary Archetype: Beast Master
Stat Merit: +2 to Speed, +1 to Willpower
Stat Flaw: -1 to Intelligence, -1 to Tactics, -1 to Control
Secondary Archetype: Healer
Stat Merit: +2 to Intelligence, +1 to Reserves
Stat Flaw: -1 to Strength, -1 to Speed, -1 to Willpower

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Statistics

Physical

Strength: 1 [-1 AT] [+7 Pool] 7
Speed: 1 [+1 AT] [+18 Pool] 20
Stamina: 1 [+15 Pool] 16

Mental

Intelligence: 1 [+1 AT] [+17 Pool] 19
Tactics: 1 [-1 AT] [+17 Pool] 17
Willpower: 1 [+16 Pool] 17

Chakra

Power: 1 [+22 Pool] 22
Control: 1 [-1 AT] [+20 Pool] 20
Reserves: 1 [+1 AT] [+18 Pool] 20

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Jutsu and Techniques:

Beast Master List
Great Trainer (3 Key, 6 Basic)
Key Trait 1: Naga Experimentation – Homunculus [Naido]
Key Trait 2: Naga Experimentation – Homunculus [Chiji]
Key Trait 3: Naga Experimentation – Homunculus [Rinno]
Basic Trait 1: Advancing Trainer: True Speech [Naido]
Basic Trait 2: Advancing Trainer: Additional Beast I [Chiji]
Basic Trait 3: Great Trainer: Additional Beast II [Rinno]

Medical Ninjutsu
Stage 1
Igaku Kunren (Medical Training)
-- Control 2, Willpower 2
Kanrinin (Caretaker)
-- Control 3, Tactics 2
Kinjutsu: Shibito Tankyuu (Forbidden Technique: Corpse Search)
-- (Intelligence 4, Willpower 4)
Stage 2
Fuuin Toushisha (Seal Person Frozen to Death)
-- (Intelligence 6, Willpower 5, Power 5)
Stage 3
Chiyute no Jutsu (Healing Hands Technique)
-- (Control 8, Power 8, Reserves 6)
Kinjutsu: Kichou Hitomigokuu (Forbidden Technique: Precious Human Sacrifice)
-- (Control 10, Power 10, Tactics 8)
Stage 4
Kinjutsu: Boukon Kioku no Jutsu (Forbidden Technique: Departed Soul Memory Recollection)
-- (Control 15, Power 15, Reserves 13, Intelligence 14)

Global Ninjutsu
Stage 1
Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Switch Technique)
-- (Power 2, Tactics 2)
Stage 2
Kinobori no Jutsu (Tree Walking Technique)
-- (Power 5, Control 4, Reserves 4)
Stage 3
Fukuwajutsu (Ventriloquism)
-- (Intelligence 9, Tactics 9, Control 7)
Stage 4
Tenkuu Hokou no Gyou (The Art of Walking on Air)
-- (Power 15, Control 15, Reserves 13, Intelligence 14)
Stage 5
Chidori (Thousand Birds)
-- (Intelligence 18, Tactics 17, Willpower 17, Control 14)

Inventory:

Item Points Remaining:

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Biography:

Twinned girls, stolen by the Naga. A terrifying experiment. When one dies, the other lives in her place. Whispers of Edo Tensei, a powerful technique that can bring back the dead. An obsession for power. Snakes, radical 80s scifi, mutants and masterminds.

Other Info:

Thread Ratings:

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Name: Amagiri Naido
Species: Naga Experimentation - Homunculus
Age: Undead
Sex: Female
Height: 5'2'' (disregarding horns)

Physical Description:

Made from the corpse of the original Amagiri Naido, she shares a shocking resemblance to her creator -- at least, frozen in time ten years ago. The mutation of the process has left her with long protruding horns, feral claws on her fingers and feet, but she typically keeps all that unsightly mess carefully hidden underneath human clothing and wrapped bandages around her hands. As the "oldest" of the Homunculus children, she has the longest horns.

Personality:

Capable of human speech, and even passing as a human, Naido has the most defined personality of the three homunculi bonded to Gedo. While incapable of aging like a real human, she's been next to Gedo for long enough to have grown a bit wise and experienced. Untouched by the fear of mortality and unable to feel the passing of time, she doesn't share her creator's desperation or obsession, but provides a calming, patient demeanor. She features a measure of control over the other two, capable of quelling their rages.

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Statistics

Physical

Strength: 1
Speed: 1
Stamina: 1

Mental

Intelligence: 1
Tactics: 1
Willpower: 1

Chakra

Power: 1
Control: 1
Reserves: 1

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Applied Traits
Naga Experimentation - Homunculus
True Speech

Jutsu
Physical Focus - Great Pulse Fist.

Inventory

Other Info:
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Name: Amagiri Chiji
Species: Naga Experimentation - Homunculus
Age: Undead
Sex: Female
Height: 5'5'' (disregarding horns)

Physical Description:

Created from the corpse of of a traveling ateji miko, she still wears the fine garments of a traveling priestess. Her long, blonde hair is decorated with ribbons, and her yellow kimono with red flower accents suggests some summer festival. The thick balls that serve as a belt were stolen from one shrine or an other, the original meaning having something to do with purity and balance, now perverted as an accent on a risen zombie. She wears a rope tied as a bow on her backside, harkening to the earliest days of Otogakure. She has no need to hide her massive horns or feral hands and feet, so she doesn't. The edges of those blood red mutations spiral out to her skin in beautiful designs, a testament to the once overeager creator.

Personality:

A holdover from her corpse's life, she features heavy curiosity and wanderlust, typically acting as a front line in combat situations. Her inability to speak beyond the incredibly basic limits her ability to act as a scout, but she's grown effective at communicating with her Master as well as any other beast pet.

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Statistics

Physical

Strength: 1
Speed: 1
Stamina: 1

Mental

Intelligence: 1
Tactics: 1
Willpower: 1

Chakra

Power: 1
Control: 1
Reserves: 1

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Applied Traits
Additional Beast I
Naga Experimentation - Homunculus

Jutsu
Genjutsu Focus - Fool's Bane

Inventory

Other Info:
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Name: Amagiri Rinno
Species: Naga Experimentation - Homunculus
Age: Undead
Sex: Female
Height: 4'8''

Physical Description:

Created from the corpse of a failed Naga experiment, her rich brown skin is a side effect from the homunculus process. Her small horns are still growing in, but her sharp eyes and careful grace warn that she's still a direct threat. She features lavender hair and eyes, and her foreign fashion sense definitely sets her apart from the rest. Maybe her original corpse was a gaijin? She wears a turtleneck sweater underneath a white robe with flowing sleeves, a small cape and thigh high boots, and a tight leotard to hide her mutated body. Like her horns, her fingers and toes only feature the smallest of mutations at this young stage.

Personality:

The origins of the corpse are unknown even to Gedo, but the personality is a bit severe. She's very serious and responds to orders well, perhaps a reflection of the evolving personality of the master. She's very direct in combat and even more direct with her simple one-word communication.

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Statistics

Physical

Strength: 1
Speed: 1
Stamina: 1

Mental

Intelligence: 1
Tactics: 1
Willpower: 1

Chakra

Power: 1
Control: 1
Reserves: 1

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Applied Traits
Additional Beast II
Naga Experimentation - Homunculus

Jutsu
Chakra Focus - Precision Fist

Inventory

Other Info:
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