Thanks Isn't Good Enough (O)

[👺 Usiel]

Om

A shady looking guy in a trench coat, hat, and sunglasses walks over and hands you a briefcase and leaves. Opening it up it seems to be full of money! Wait a second... Only the first layer is money, the rest is just paper! And the layer of money is fake! Dammit, at least the briefcase is nice.

Briefcase
Rank: C
Type: Main
Effect: A large briefcase designed for holding paper.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A large briefcase made of study leather with metal clasps that hold it shut. The briefcase can be purchased with wheels and a handle for no extra charge.
These briefcases can hold 3000 pieces of paper.
Limit: ---
Cost: 1000

Paper (Sheets) {3000 sheets}
Rank: D
Type: Secondary (100 per slot)
Effect: –
Special: ---
Drawback: Vulnerable to fire and water damage.
Description: Sheets of paper measuring 8 ½ in x 11 in. The paper can be purchased in any color the user desires. 100 pieces of paper takes up 1 slot. These sheets are sold in stacks of 100.
Limit: ---
Cost: 300

Lee

Conventional locks not enough for you? Make use of the 80 locking tags at your feet to keep your stuff extra safe!

Tag: Locking x80
Rank: "S"
Type: Secondary, 80 per Slot, Explosive, Tag
Effect: Using a tag similar to the exploding tag and placing it on a door, the user prevents anyone else from entering or leaving the room, similar to a padlock.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Paper that is 2 inches by 6 inches in size and 0.039" (1 mil) thick. A Locking tag that can attach to any surface that has the ability to keep something locked as long as the tag is placed over two opening surfaces. This works just like a padlock. May be attached to 3 items without taking up room in a single slot.
Limit: These types of items may be capable of being bought inside any Weapon Shop.
Cost: 8,000 Ryo per Slot, or 100 Ryo Each.

Corvus

A school girl seems to be half hiding behind a tree, following some guy in a high school uniform. As she follows him around a book falls out of her bag and the two people disappear from sight, leaving behind Book of the Yandere.

Ritual Book 200 pages
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Book, Reference Book
Effect: A book intended to be consulted for information on specific matters rather than read from beginning to end.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A reference work is a book or serial publication to which one can refer for confirmed facts. The information is intended to be found quickly when needed. Reference works are usually referred to for particular pieces of information, rather than read beginning to end. The writing style used in these works is informative; the authors avoid use of the first person, and emphasize facts. Many reference works are compiled by a team of contributors whose work is coordinated by one or more editors rather than by an individual author. Indexes are commonly provided in many types of reference work.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Book Shop.
Cost: 3,000 Ryo

Unnatural Eyes
Rank: "C"
Type: Augmentation
Effect: The color of the Target's eyes change drastically.
Special: To perform: 2 hours; Duration: Permanent
Drawback: Cannot alter Bloodlimit Eyes, cannot alter Normal Eyes to have Bloodlimit Eyes.
Description: Takes up 0 Augmentation Points. An Augmentation Ritual which alters the Target's eyes to a color of the target's choice prior to the ritual performance. The color, whatever it may be, is unnatural and atypical of the Target's species. Perhaps the Target's eyes turn dead black, maybe they change color to suit the Target's mood, or perhaps they glow faintly in the dark.
Limit: Must be a Ritualist for Augmentation Rituals.
Cost: Market Price: 12,000 Ryo Performing Price: 4,000 Ryo

Claws
Rank: "C"
Type: Augmentation
Effect: Target's hands are a Transmutation and can transform into sharp claws.
Special: To perform: 2 hours; Duration: Permanent
Drawback: ---
Description: Takes up 1 Augmentation Point. Target gains the ability to transform their hands into sharp claws gaining additional slashing damage per unarmed attack depending on the Target's size. a single claw attack that deals slashing damage dependent on your size: Small 5 Armour Points, Medium-size 10 Armour Points, Large 15 Armour Points. Target's hands are treated as natural weapons. Having claws does not adversely affect the Target's manual dexterity. This Augmentation Ritual may be performed on 1 hand only at half the price, and half the amount of time to perform.
Limit: Must be a Ritualist for Augmentation Rituals.
Cost: Market Price: 12,000 Ryo Performing Price: 9,000 Ryo

Sleepless
Rank: "C"
Type: Augmentation
Effect: The Target has lost the need for sleep.
Special: To perform: 1 hour; Duration: Permanent
Drawback: ---
Description: Takes up 1 Augmentation Point. This ritual augments the Target's brain allowing the Target no need of sleep. The Target no longer requires sleep. In fact the Target cannot sleep. However, the Target still needs rest, and are still subject to all of the other causes of fatigue.
Limit: Must be a Ritualist for Augmentation Rituals.
Cost: Market Price: 12,000 Ryo Performing Price: 9,000 Ryo

Hypersensitivity
Rank: "B"
Type: Augmentation
Effect: User is particularly sensitive to their surroundings.
Special: To perform: 3 hours; Duration: Permanent
Drawback:
Description: Takes up 3 Augmentation Points. User gains a +10 Ritual bonus to Observation checks. Also invisible opponents gain no advantages related to hitting the user in melee. Darkness and poor visibility in general reduces the user's movements to 3-quarters normal instead of 1-half.
Limit: Must be a Ritualist for Augmentation Rituals.
Cost: Market Price: 23,000 Ryo Performing Price: 17,000 Ryo

Scent
Rank: "B"
Type: Augmentation
Effect: User can detect approaching opponents, sniff out hidden opponents, and track by sense of smell.
Special: To perform: 3 hours; Duration: Permanent
Drawback: ---
Description: Takes up 2 Augmentation Points. User can also identify familiar odors the way humans do familiar sights. User gain the Scent technique "D" Rank. Please look in the Scent Technique Tree for more information. User may learn all techniques within the Technique Tree.
Limit: Must be a Ritualist for Augmentation Rituals.
Cost: Market Price: 23,000 Ryo Performing Price: 17,000 Ryo

[Moon]

Something.


Happened.


A wall was broken. A perspective revealed. There was an undoing of reality in the room before them. A breaching and an impasse where two impossible conclusions could not find their way beyond each other. Ōm's mind unraveled. He suddenly saw.

What is he doing>

Nothing. I haven't written anything for him to do yet. He's just standing there. his mouth is open.

What...what is this?

What is this? Where...

The strange twins had broken the fourth wall, and in doing so, forced Ōm to see the pattern in the shards of its fracturing. He gripped his eyes, screamed in true terror, saw himself, his past, as bits of information floating in a falseness that defied comprehension. Somewhere far away, an enormous hand - no - a pair of them. Clicking.


...I don't...understand.

And then he did.

The world was not real.

The others stood before him just as they had been; the ceremony had been performed, the sacrifice bled out, the creatures flocked behind their twin owners as the Unseelie chattered, floating. The temple was the same, the hidden chamber just as hidden and sacred. But something was fundamentally different.

Ōm saw...numbers, beneath the surface of...reality itself. His thoughts reeled, but every direction he looked became a fractal of odd geometry digitizing a description of the very place he stood, bewildered.

He reached up to touch 'a description of the very place he stood, bewildered.' with a bewildered look on his face, standing still.

None...none of it is real...

[Komusō]

Things were starting to take a turn for the worst; their inability to communicate with one another was trying Lee’s patience, so she could only imagine the effect it was having on the Unseelie translating the conversations, the prospect of asking it to explained common as well could have been the final straw. So Lee elected to acknowledge the human instead, although her knowledge of the common language was somewhat lacking. “I speak the common tongue. What brings thou to the temple of a death god? Come to offer a sacrifice?” With that, she pointed towards the beast the girl had brought with her; perhaps she meant to kill the girl or perhaps the wolf-like creature? Glancing back, towards the ghoul, Lee noted that he seemed to be pawing at the world around him, almost as if touching something that was invisible. It was at that moment that a set of sealing notes fell to the ground in front of her, what on Earth was happening.

[Corvus]

"That's an old dialect," Niko observed, "I dunno, I was just following those two." She indicated Ichiko and the golden plumed chocobo-clone who continued struggling with one another for dominance. "Even if I did sacrifice the girl, I don't think it would count."

Niko's attention was suddenly caught by a tree just in her periphery. Not too far from it was a boy wearing what almost looked like a military dress uniform. And half-hiding behind the tree and looking at the boy was a girl wearing what looked like an older-style naval uniform's top, modified with short sleeves; odder still, it was paired with a pleated skirt.

The boy started to walk off, and once he was a short ways away, the girl trotted after him, clearly following him. But why? A book dropped from her pocket as she passed by Niko, dropping a book as she did. Confused, Niko bent over and picked the book up, reading title aloud; "The Book of the Yandere," she began, "A beginner's guide to stalking the apple of your eye." Quaint.

"So..." she began, glancing to her side to find the tree missing, and not even a distortion in the floor to mark where it was. "Did you see that?" As she turned her gaze back to the one who spoke common, her gaze briefly seeing the other pawing at the empty air. "Or is reality breaking on a more localized scale?"

[👺 Usiel]

Om

You're a maniac, maniac on the floor. And this Training Area Voucher will help you dance like you've never danced before.

Training Area, Combat
Rank: "S"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Craftsman Room
Effect: A room to train in the art of Combat.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This open area allows guards and soldiers to train in the art of war. It has a rack of wooden weapons and padded armor, archery targets, and practice dummies. Training in these areas grant the user a Circumstance Bonus +1 additional TP per post. Up to eight people can train in such a place at once. If you need a greater capacity, you can purchase this component multiple times.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 100,000 Ryo

Lee

Thud! That must have hurt, that thick book just fell on your head, weird considering the only thing that's been above you was a bat. Hmm, Book of the Vampire, another Bram Stoker book?

Ritual Book 400 pages
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Book, Reference Book
Effect: A book intended to be consulted for information on specific matters rather than read from beginning to end.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A reference work is a book or serial publication to which one can refer for confirmed facts. The information is intended to be found quickly when needed. Reference works are usually referred to for particular pieces of information, rather than read beginning to end. The writing style used in these works is informative; the authors avoid use of the first person, and emphasize facts. Many reference works are compiled by a team of contributors whose work is coordinated by one or more editors rather than by an individual author. Indexes are commonly provided in many types of reference work.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Book Shop.
Cost: 6,000 Ryo

Blood Hunger
Rank: "C"
Type: Augmentation
Effect: Target craves the taste of blood. Moreover, the Target needs to drink blood to survive.
Special: To perform: 3 hours; Duration: Permanent
Drawback: ---
Description: Drawback - Gives Back 1 Augmentation Point. The Target must drain a pint of blood from a living creature once every 24 hours. Doing so is a movement, and the Target can only drain blood from a willing, helpless, or dying (but not dead) creature. The bitten creature takes normal damage from a bite attack plus an extra 10 points of Armour Points of damage from the blood loss. If the Target goes 24 hours without consuming blood, the Target loses 1d4 Movements. Drinking a pint of blood cures the ability damage caused by blood deprivation in 1d6 rounds. Ability damage caused by blood deprivation cannot be restored through natural healing. Target must have a Natural Bite attack to take this Augmentation.
Limit: Must be a Ritualist for Augmentation Rituals.
Cost: Market Price: 9,000 Ryo Performing Price: 2,000 Ryo

Ultraviolet Allergy
Rank: "C"
Type: Augmentation
Effect: Ultraviolet light burns the user's flesh and causes it to ignite.
Special: To perform: 12 hours; Duration: Permanent
Drawback: ---
Description: Drawback - Gives Back 3 Augmentation Points. Ultraviolet light (including direct sunlight) burns the user for 12 Armour Points of Fire damage per round and causes any light, flammable clothing they are wearing to ignite.
Limit: Must be a Ritualist for Augmentation Rituals.
Cost: Market Price: 9,000 Ryo Performing Price: 2,000 Ryo

Achilles Heel
Rank: "C"
Type: Augmentation
Effect: User has a major weakness that can be exploited.
Special: To perform: 1 hours; Duration: Permanent
Drawback: ---
Description: Drawback - Gives Back 2 Augmentation Points. Any attack on this small spot gains an additional +20 Armour Ponts.
Limit: Must be a Ritualist for Augmentation Rituals.
Cost: Market Price: 9,000 Ryo Performing Price: 2,000 Ryo

Fangs
Rank: "C"
Type: Augmentation
Effect: Target's teeth are a Transmutation and can transform into vicious fangs.
Special: To perform: 1 hour; Duration: Permanent
Drawback: ---
Description: Takes up 1 Augmentation Point. Target gains a vicious bite attack that deals piercing damage dependent on the Target's size: Small 5 Armour Points, Medium-size 10 Armour Points, Large 15 Armour Points. The Target's bite is treated as a Natural Weapon. This Augmentation Ritual can be used in conjunction with the Acidic Saliva or Venomous Bite Augmentation Ritual.
Limit: Must be a Ritualist for Augmentation Rituals.
Cost: Market Price: 12,000 Ryo Performing Price: 9,000 Ryo

Sleepless
Rank: "C"
Type: Augmentation
Effect: The Target has lost the need for sleep.
Special: To perform: 1 hour; Duration: Permanent
Drawback: ---
Description: Takes up 1 Augmentation Point. This ritual augments the Target's brain allowing the Target no need of sleep. The Target no longer requires sleep. In fact the Target cannot sleep. However, the Target still needs rest, and are still subject to all of the other causes of fatigue.
Limit: Must be a Ritualist for Augmentation Rituals.
Cost: Market Price: 12,000 Ryo Performing Price: 9,000 Ryo

Shock Absorber
Rank: "C"
Type: Augmentation
Effect: The Target is capable of surviving amazing falls by reducing the impact of the ground on their body.
Special: To perform: 12 Hours; Duration: Permanent
Drawback: ---
Description: Takes up 1 Augmentation Point. An augmentation performed on a target's body, creating a shock absorber which allows the Target to withstand from falling damage. When falling, the Target ignores falling damage from falls less than 30 meters. For attack damage the damage caused is reduced by 25%.
Limit: Must be a Ritualist for Augmentation Rituals.
Cost: Market Price: 12,000 Ryo Performing Price: 9,000 Ryo

Confusion
Rank: "A"
Type: Augmentation
Effect: User is able to instill confusion in others and cause them to act randomly while they are under the user's thrall.
Special: To perform: 3 hour; Duration: Permanent
Drawback: ---
Description: Takes up 4 Augmentation Points. User may affect 1 target within 3-meter-radius of the user. Targets of the user's Augmentation must succeed at a Will Save, of 10 + 2 per Class Level, or become confused for 1d4 rounds. Victims receive another Save each round to break free against the same Save. The target remains confused until they make a save or the time limit is met. While confused, the target acts randomly. Roll on the list below each round the target is confused to determine what the target does.
1-3 Attack closest target with most powerful attack
4-8 Move to a random direction
9-12 Do nothing and become flat-footed
13-15 Use random Augmentation on closest Target
16-18 Try to increase in elevation using whatever means at hand.
19-20Fall unconscious

User may use this Augmentation a number of times a day equal to 2 per Class Level.
Limit: Must be a Ritualist for Augmentation Rituals.
Cost: Market Price: 35,000 Ryo Performing Price: 26,000 Ryo

Lifedrinker
Rank: "S"
Type: Augmentation
Effect: User gains the ability to drain the life forces of their opponents, sucking their energy to replenish their own health.
Special: To perform: 3 hour; Duration: Permanent
Drawback: ---
Description: Takes up 6 Augmentation Points. Whenever the user makes an unarmed attack, they may elect to forego their normal unarmed damage and instead drain the target's energy. If the user elects to do so, the target undergoes Moderate Damage. IF the user successfully damages the target in this way, they gain temporary 9 Armour Points.
Limit: Must be a Ritualist for Augmentation Rituals.
Cost: Market Price: 48,000 Ryo Performing Price: 36,000 Ryo

Corvus

Hm? What's that thing poking through the crack in that wall? A Handheld Inspection Tool? Where's it looking? The mixed bath, eh? Just a quick peek.... Oh god, they're all so old! Oh god the wrinkles and sagging, try not to puke.

Handheld Inspection Tool
Rank: "B"
Type: Secondary, 1 per Slot, Gadget, Surveillance, Optics
Effect: An optics system used to peer through cracks of doors and in windows without being compromised of their location.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Picture The Handheld Inspection Tool is a lightweight, highly portable inspection tool that puts an extremely low light black and white camera into a system that is perfect for inspecting containers and rooms or looking around barriers. The Handheld Inspection Tool allows the operator to view the picture in the attached eye-piece or transmit to 1 or more monitors. The Handheld Inspection Tool comes in two pieces, an extendable tube that is 1/2 inch wide 8 inches long that extends to 16 inches, and the main system that is 2 by 2 by 8 inches. The tube may be attached to the main system by screwing it in. User is able to look through an opening found in the main system and see through the tube as well.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Gadget Shop.
Cost: 5,000 Ryo Each

[Moon]

"I think its...localized."

Ōm said, watching the strange pair fade into and out of dimensional view after leaving behind their strange items, noting the instructions beneath the behavior being written against a background of void. He did not speak Necril, nor Common, he spoke through the background breakdown, let his intention become word. The Under-fey undulated in near orgasmic fury.


"This is...a thread. Of some great false weaving. We're...we're trapped in here until...until they let us out."

He thought to himself, but could not help but wonder did I really think this or is...it...thinking this for me? Can it control my thoughts? How would I know? Ōm felt something calm slip away, a sliver of feeling. He was...afraid.



"The...the fourth wall...what does it mean. What did you do to me?!?!?"

Ōm shouted at [Niko], whose name he did not know, but whom he somehow felt was responsible for the strangeness of his new conviction.

Not real. Not real. Not real. Not real. Not real. Not real. Not..

[Rokudaime Mamimi]

Blinking suddenly Andromeda was over in the Land of Water, foregoing her once intended destination of Gosei's mansion to see if she could acquire something she hadn't picked up yet. It was nice but...it lacked a certain finesse being here with no real direction. Eyes narrowed she picked up those in the distance and it was then she noticed...she was far underground in some sort of fissure or maybe an alternate space cut off from the rest of the world. "Excuse me!" She called out at a run, arm waving, making every indication she could to draw their attention "Where are me, whats going on here?!"

The ground felt strange beneath her feet but she didn't say anything. Not yet.

[Komusō]

As Lee stood, listening to [Niko] a book hit her square on the head; this was starting to get quite infuriating, this was the second time it had occurred today. Apparently [Niko] has seen something, while Lee had been examining her own ‘gift’, “No, I was too busy looking at this” she replied, “Quite a strange turn of events, all these gifts periodically spawning from thin air every six seconds.” The whole situation struck Lee as very strange, she was well versed in the arts of genjutsu, so an illusion probably wouldn’t have affected her, however just to be safe she pressed her hands together in the Kai seal, in an attempt to break an illusion, should there have been one. “You can see this book yes; in much the same way that I can view yours?”

[Corvus]

Niko nodded in the affirmative. At least she wasn't going crazy, reality was. "Well, reality may be coming unravelled, but at least we aren't going crazy. Then again, this happens every other year around this time," she opted not to mention why objects were appearing every six seconds regardless of the conservation of matter. One broken mind and associated existential crisis was enough for one day.

Something sticking from the wall caught Niko's attention; some sort of viewing aparatus. Taking a quick glance through the viewport, her vision was filled with the sight of older men and women bathing. Ok. Fortunately, she'd seen far worse in her days. "Did you know that there's a mixed bath on the other side of this wall?" She asked. A new voice caught her attention, drawing it away from the new object. "Apparently," Niko answered very mattter-of-factly, "Reality's coming unraveled and our friend over there,"she indicated Om, though knew not his name, "seems to be having an episode of some sort."

[👺 Usiel]

Om

Let's play some sweet jams on this awesome Acoustic Lute.

Lute, Medium (Overview)
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Instrument, String Instrument
Effect: Lute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Lutes are made almost entirely of wood. In all but the oldest or most exotic lutes the top has a single 'hole' under the strings, called the rose; rare instruments may have several roses instead. The hole is not open as on a guitar, but rather covered with a grille in the form of a twining vine or knot, carved directly out of the wood of the top. The back is assembled from thin strips of wood called ribs, shaped like the strips of a banana peel and joined edge to edge to form a deep rounded body for the instrument. There are other types of Lute such as Archlute, and Theorbo. Medium Lutes range between 4 to 5 feet in length.
Limit: These types of items may be capable of being bought inside any Musical Shop.
Cost: 5,000 Ryo

Rokudaime Mamimi

A bearded stranger in a white cloak, announcing himself as a Wizard prepared to award you with something. He will grant you a single ritual of S level for 50% of the standard price. I'd take advantage of it while I can in your position.

Lee Hyo-Ri

Dude, check out those sweet sunglasses someone lost, they look designer! No wait, they're just fakes, still sweet sunglasses and the lenses are Anti-Flash to boot.

Goggles
Rank: "C"
Type: Secondary, 2 per Slot, Gadget, Apparel/Surveillance, Spectacles
Effect: Protective eyewear that usually encloses or protects the area surrounding the eye in order to prevent particulates, water or chemicals from striking the eyes.
Special: ---
Drawback: May hold up to 4 kinds of Surveillance Vision.
Description: There are different types of Goggles. There are different types of Goggles such as Cold Weather Goggles, Swimming, Power Tool Goggles, Blowtorch Goggles, Welding Goggles, Laboratory Goggles, and Aviation Goggles. Goggles are often worn as a fashion statement in certain subcultures, most often as part of the cybergoth subculture. They are usually worn over the eyes or up on the forehead to secure 'falls'. Goggles have enough carrying capacity for 4 types of Surveillance Vision. Does not fit in Scroll size Slots. May be Glasses.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Gadget Shop.
Cost: 2,000 Ryo per Slot, or 1,000 Ryo Each

Anti-Flash Lenses
Rank: "S"
Type: Secondary, 0 per Slot, Gadget, Surveillance, Vision
Effect: A unique set of Lenses that allows the user to survive Flash Bang attacks and other Blinding Lights used to Blind a person.
Special: ---
Drawback: If the Lenses break from the inside the Liquid Crystal Film will blind the wearer indefinitely until they seek medical treatment.
Description: The Anti-Flash Lenses off 100% protection (full immunity) against the effects of the Flash Bang Grenade, Pouch, and other Blinding attacks. The Anti-Flash Lenses are made out of a specialized Liquid Crystal Film. The Crystal Film is liquefied and is sandwiched between 2 thin sheets of glass. The Liquid Crystal Film constantly allows the same amount of light into the goggles at all times, making blindness impossible through light. They protect from flares, and other intense lighting.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Gadget Shop.
Cost: 13,000 Ryo Each

Corvus

Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew. Giant Spider. Giant Spider! wait, it's just an open Irken pack, grab it before the owner comes back!

The Irken Pack
Rank: "S" Rank
Type: Main, Gadget, Mechanical, Transportation
Effect: A mechanical device that is used a backpack. When activated six spider legs protrude from the small holes on it.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Picture Picture This special backpack comes standard at about a foot and a half tall, and weighs about fifty pounds. A special built harness is attached to the inside of the back. The straps wrap around the users belt, while the other two go over the shoulders of the user to keep it attached during running, walking, and jumping. On the inside of the pack is store 6 legs that when fully extended reach out 10 feet. The legs are able to bend in ways for allowing low movement and fighting as well as pushing themselves up to dodge. This added height allows a user to travel at higher speeds. The retractable metal that makes up the legs and pack itself can withstand quite a bit of punishment before being repaired. If the backpack itself takes the hits and breaks it will send a "B" Rank electric shock from the overload. If the backpack isn't fully charged then the legs will not extend from the pack. Making it useless. When the user has the Irken Pack activated the user can no longer use any leg based attacks. Each Spider Leg Pack comes built in with a Self Destruction Core (Blast radius equal to a Grenade: Fragmentation) Note: In order to know how to use, user must first purchase a Book: Reference Book (Overview) book dedicated to Spider Leg Packs.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Gadget Shop. With a 30% chance of finding.
Cost: 65,000 Ryo. 10,000 Ryo per leg to repair

[Rokudaime Mamimi]

[Exits]

Taking:

Hidden Soul
Rank: "S"
Type: Restoration Ritual
Effect: The user places a piece of their soul into a small gemstone, which creates a shelter for the soul to hide in, should the body be destroyed.
Special: To perform: 8 hours; Duration: Special
Drawback: ---
Description: The user removes a fragment of a willing or helpless target's soul with this ritual, allowing the target to avoid many of the Raise Dead ritual's limitations. This ritual places a shard of the target's soul in a specially prepared gemstone worth at least 20,000 Ryo (Not included with Performance Price). The loss of the soul shard forces the target to lose a piece of their soul that cannot be regained until the soul shard is returned to the target. The gem containing the soul shard may be used as if it were a body part for the Raise Dead Ritual and ignores the 30 day limit normally associated with Raise Dead. If the gem is put in contact with the corpse of the target, it will restore the target to life as per the Raise Dead Ritual, though no component cost is paid. Either method of using the gem to return the target to life restores the soul shard to the target and shatters the gem. The target of this ritual cannot pass onto any sort of afterlife as long as the gem containing its soul survives, even if it dies of old age or by other means Raise Dead cannot remedy. If the gem is destroyed, the soul shard returns to the target immediately without harm to the target.
Limit: Must be a Ritualist for Restoration Rituals.
Cost: Market Price: 48,000 Ryo Performing Price: 36,000 Ryo

[Corvus]

With a shrug, Ichiko and Niko gathered up their belongings and left

[exit]

[Moon]

"What's...happening..."

The others disappeared, taking their new possessions with them. But they left in some unway that was not natural and he could do nothing but stare as all around him the world was unmade. He felt a twitching, somewhere deep in the hive mind, deep in the Kedoin thinksacs connecting them into one. Another of his kin was near. Someone was doing this. To him. An attack; but he could not move and he spoke without speaking and his voice was just so many words he could see in a field of murk.


"I know you're here."

Like spitting nails, hate-sound. He thought too: I know you're here. His reply would come only after his flesh sizzled, Om disintegrating into the nothingness that did the same everywhere else. He was stretched across continuities. Built upon. Killed. Made new.

Some time later; authorities from Kirigakure no Sato find a strange husk in a ruined temple. There is evidence of a ritual, and a killing. There is no evidence of that other mind, the other impression of thoughts that was Kedoin, that had been told its presence was no secret.


"You knew."

/scrapdeath2

[KoKoKo]

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