the pit, open

[Rose]

the pit - Open (Mission, Training, Role play)

Located in the south-eastern parts of the grass country, the pit is a former burial multi-level burial ground. Being surrounded by walls in its glory times, the pit is now but a twenty-meter wide hole with a depth of well over a sixty meters. located in the middle of the ruins that used to be the building to surround it. Now damaged, or at parts even broken, stairs can lead one down and inside the pit and give them access to well over two-hundred burial chambers.

While some chambers are the belongings of royalties, others are mass-burial chambers where 5 to up to 15 sections are carved into a wall; a body put inside & the chamber is re-sealed. An estimate of the total corpses of the pit would be difficult to make, but certainty lies with him who says that the amount 4,000.

Courtesy of the royalty graves, the pit had been a target for many attacks and robberies and that is evident by the ruined state of its surrounding environment as well as the not even attempted to be concealed purposeful destruction of some of the chambers. While bandits did contribute to the physical state of the pit itself, however, it is unlikely that they have much to do with the state of the corpses within it as ordinarily, they would be dead after an attack, which they presently aren't. 

total undeath: 4,881

Undeath Vanquish Tracker:

• Yakimi Rose's Death Count: 47
• Harue's Death Count: 5

[Rose]

enter, rose

SPOILER: Click to show

Name: The Undeath Pit - Chakra Siphon Tags
Rank: "C"
IIC Length: ---
Difficulty: Moderate
Objective: Travel to the undeath pit - a former grass country cemetery and collect chakra from the roaming undeath. Exterminating them upon collection of chakra is preferable to allowing them to roam.
Description: The center of the undeath outbreak had been located and recognized as a formal grass country cemetery. The folk from the tavern of grass had requested assistance to investigate and potentially, eventually, stop the outbreak. For the time being, however, the task is to simply gather chakra samples from the rising corpses to determine if, first, they have any and second, what its nature is. That is in hopes to determine the causation of the outbreak and fight its roots rather than the mindless undeath hordes.
Reward: 33,500 Ryo

Rose hurried as much as she could, in part, not to let the situation go even further out of hand and in part, due to the sheer excitement of getting some action after such a long hiatus mainly spent in training and improving upon herself. It didn't take long before Rose encountered the first of the named undeath and the visage of it brought memories that the woman truly did not want to recall. She stopped before it and watched it for a while as it drew closer to her. The corpse had the same lifeless expression as did her mentor all those years ago as she stepped towards a tearing, broken Rose - a Rose that ran away and feared. That Rose was no more, or so she told herself as she violently ran her chakra through her hand and formed a chakra scalpel, sliced forwards towards the damned being and had its head tumble onto the ground a scene after, covering Rose with one of many to come oozes of blood as she planned to eventually exterminate each and every one of these undeath, be it ordered to do so or free-willingly.

Of course, Rose didn't forget the mission she had at hand - to gather chakra samples from these beings. On her way to the pit, she had activated her mind's eye, be it briefly and had encountered a plethora of chakra signatures from the location its location, so it was fair to assume that, despite her mind's eye was down for chakra preservation's sake, these undeath were the sources of the signatures. Of course that would make sense as there wouldn't be much else reanimating the bodies of the unliving. Rose, however, greatly disagreed with the method of harvesting the chakra the tavern folk offered her. While it was indeed a method, it wasn't the most effective such. Rose's training as a soulcaster had taught her how to siphon chakra and life itself and a thing she had wanted to improvise with was using this knowledge of hers in conjuncture with other, different skills she had. A skill from that nature would be one from the earth release she had heard of.

Training
0 out of 70
post 1 out of 7

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Rank: "A" + "D"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User can create a dome to trap targets and take their chakra.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is 7 meters + 6 meters per Class Level. Area of effect is 6 meter radius circle. Duration of this technique is concentration up to 5 rounds per Class Level. This technique requires a large source of earth nearby. This technique traps every target caught in the area of effect in a mud dome that rises from the ground. The walls are 1 foot thick, have a hardness of 8 and 95 Armour Points. User may increase the Armour Points by relearning the technique as a "D" Rank. Each time learned increases armour points by 10 Armour Points. User may learn this technique maximum 10 times. If damaged, the walls will regenerate completely in 1 round. The victims stuck in the dome will suffer "D" Rank of Chakra damage per round until they are freed or dead. In addition, maintaining the dome leaves the user vulnerable; if the user takes damage while concentrating on the dome, they lose the technique. User also absorbs 1 "D" Rank of Chakra per 3 rounds while maintaining the technique.
Limit: Must know Earth Release.[/ul]

Rose furthered towards the epicenter of the outbreak and made her way to the building's ruins where the undeath were already herding towards her, likely responding to the sounds she would make or her very living heat signature. A total of seven were headed her way at the same time, albeit, Rose didn't raise as much as an eyebrow. She was going to go all out and that meant little to no reservations, even if that meant exhausting the entirety of her chakra. A burst of white energy appeared from Rose's back and materialized into an identical, tangible duplicate of herself, courtesy of her soul split technique. Rose's intentions were to have her duplicate guard her as she herself practiced the new technique she had in mind. 

With the duplicate quite literally having her back, Rose began waving the handseals for a technique she was already familiar with - the mother earth technique which she would use as a fundamental to her training the earthen vampire dome technique. Instead of performing a full mother earth technique, however, Rose would only focus on the top 50% of the sphere, leaving the bottom 50% to be the ground, essentially creating a semi-sphere around the wave of seven undeath. 

Her next move would be to walk to the dome and place one of the twenty chakra vacuum tags onto the half-sphere before she would proceed with infusing her chakra into the bolder, remembering the sensation and basics from the chakra siphon technique. While this technique was in essence, different than the chakra siphon, the chakra siphon effect was identical and all Rose needed to figure out was an alternative scale to it so she would allow it to fill the entirety of the dome and still, somehow end up with only one ending point being her the contact point of the sphere and her hands. Rose's left hand was placed solely on the half-sphere while her right was half-positioned atop the siphon tag. Rose was going to use herself as a conductor for the undeath's chakra as she sucked it out of them, through the dome, through her left hand, body and finally, to her right hand and the tag. 

Prior to siphoning any undeath chakra into the tag, Rose had decided to test it and siphon some of her own to see how it worked and noticed, that an ink seal turned more and more visible the more chakra it siphoned. That would mean that whenever Rose would conduct enough chakra from the undeath to turn the mark on a tag visible - that would be when the training of her technique would be complete. So far, albeit, the tag was as white as snow.

Undeath Slaughtered: 1
Techniques used:

• Chakra Scalpel: Sword [80][10]
  Rank: "A" + "C"
  Skill: Supplementary
  Effect: An advanced version of Chakra Scalpel: Advanced that extends the length of the blade.
  Special: ---
  Drawback: Must learn multiple times.
  Description: This allows the user to extend the length of the Chakra Scalpel: Advanced to a Short Sword. The strength of Chakra Scalpel: Sword is dependent on the user's knowledge of Chakra Scalpel: Advanced. When the user learns this technique a second time ("C" Rank) they are able to extend the blade's length to a Longsword. Learning the technique a final time ("C" Rank) allows the user to extend the blade to the length of a Greatsword.
  Limit: Must be a Medical Doctor. Must know Chakra Scalpel: Advanced.
• Soul Split [110]
  Rank: "S"
  Skill: NinJutsu
  Effect: User can make a clone of themselves that can act independent of themselves.
  Special: ---
  Drawback: ---
  Description: Target is Personal. Range is Personal. Duration is 5 hours per Class Level. With a great show of will the user rips their soul in half effectively making a copy of themselves. By performing this Jutsu the user makes a full size copy of themselves. This copy is the user as much as the user is its copy. The user takes their chakra and splits it in half. This means that the user must now work with half of their energy, and half of the capabilities when dealing with Soulcaster techniques. All the user's other abilities and skills stay the same. At any time 1 of the copies can dismiss the other no matter what the range. If one is dismissed or if they are killed it does not bring back the chakra or energy, however the user will know. If one of the copies is killed the other copy is stunned for 1 round. If dismissed or killed any extra items they are carrying drops to the ground as the copy vanishes.
  Limit: Must be a Soulcaster.

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[Rose]

Training
?? out of 70
post 2 out of 7

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Rank: "A" + "D"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User can create a dome to trap targets and take their chakra.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is 7 meters + 6 meters per Class Level. Area of effect is 6 meter radius circle. Duration of this technique is concentration up to 5 rounds per Class Level. This technique requires a large source of earth nearby. This technique traps every target caught in the area of effect in a mud dome that rises from the ground. The walls are 1 foot thick, have a hardness of 8 and 95 Armour Points. User may increase the Armour Points by relearning the technique as a "D" Rank. Each time learned increases armour points by 10 Armour Points. User may learn this technique maximum 10 times. If damaged, the walls will regenerate completely in 1 round. The victims stuck in the dome will suffer "D" Rank of Chakra damage per round until they are freed or dead. In addition, maintaining the dome leaves the user vulnerable; if the user takes damage while concentrating on the dome, they lose the technique. User also absorbs 1 "D" Rank of Chakra per 3 rounds while maintaining the technique.
Limit: Must know Earth Release.[/ul]

To the pink haired woman's dismay, her first attempt to seal any chakra from inside the dome proved to be to no avail as such would simply not make its way through the stone structure to her front. Her soul clone would continue to effortlessly slash down any of the undeath that would get in her proximity at a relatively slow rate as apparently, the commotion raised from her presence wasn't great enough to warrant the assault of the catacombs' entirety. That was good, however, since Rose could focus on training the thing she had just recently came up with. After all, training in a chaotic environment often meant greater results. 

Rose would try to visualize the earthen dome in her mind in attempts to figure out why the siphon wasn't working. She knew for a fact that she was siphoning chakra directly from the dome and that she had increased the scale of her ordinary chakra siphon technique to cover a wider area, however, no chakra foreign to her own would transfer from the stone and into her so it would be conducted to the tag. Being able to visualize her chakra siphon, Rose envisioned is as a glow around the entirety of the dome and perhaps that was a part of the issue. Rose cut her chakra flow momentarily and took a deep breath, as well as a second to look behind her where everything was going as it should have been. 

After making certain that her life was protected, courtesy of herself, Rose focused her attention back onto the earthen vampire dome and finding a solution to its present lack of vampiric properties until suddenly, her mistake became as apparent as day to her. Surrounding the dome with the chakra siphon wouldn't, of course, take chakra from inside the dome and infuse it into Rose; rather, it would weaken the chakra structure of her own dome NinJutsu as it would reduce its density. What Rose needed to do is figure out an alternative target of her chakra siphon, albeit, the list of options wasn't great.

Undeath Slaughtered: 4
Techniques used by Soul Clone:

• Chakra Scalpel: Sword [80][10] ((Continuous Use))
  Rank: "A" + "C"
  Skill: Supplementary
  Effect: An advanced version of Chakra Scalpel: Advanced that extends the length of the blade.
  Special: ---
  Drawback: Must learn multiple times.
  Description: This allows the user to extend the length of the Chakra Scalpel: Advanced to a Short Sword. The strength of Chakra Scalpel: Sword is dependent on the user's knowledge of Chakra Scalpel: Advanced. When the user learns this technique a second time ("C" Rank) they are able to extend the blade's length to a Longsword. Learning the technique a final time ("C" Rank) allows the user to extend the blade to the length of a Greatsword.
  Limit: Must be a Medical Doctor. Must know Chakra Scalpel: Advanced.

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[Rose]

Training
?? out of 70
post 3 out of 7

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Rank: "A" + "D"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User can create a dome to trap targets and take their chakra.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is 7 meters + 6 meters per Class Level. Area of effect is 6 meter radius circle. Duration of this technique is concentration up to 5 rounds per Class Level. This technique requires a large source of earth nearby. This technique traps every target caught in the area of effect in a mud dome that rises from the ground. The walls are 1 foot thick, have a hardness of 8 and 95 Armour Points. User may increase the Armour Points by relearning the technique as a "D" Rank. Each time learned increases armour points by 10 Armour Points. User may learn this technique maximum 10 times. If damaged, the walls will regenerate completely in 1 round. The victims stuck in the dome will suffer "D" Rank of Chakra damage per round until they are freed or dead. In addition, maintaining the dome leaves the user vulnerable; if the user takes damage while concentrating on the dome, they lose the technique. User also absorbs 1 "D" Rank of Chakra per 3 rounds while maintaining the technique.
Limit: Must know Earth Release.[/ul]

One option was the ground, as Rose could in theory cast the chakra siphon through her feet, have it travel through a small opening she could make under the dome and have it surround the area inside. A negative of that method was, however, that the concentration required for that was FAR greater than it would had she used her hands, given she was more adept with them and whatnot. Another negative was the chakra's travel time and the distance it would need to make through her body to make it to her right hand where she would feed it onto the siphon tag. Half, if not more of it, would be lost through the process of infusion alone. 

To make a hole in the earthen vampire dome so she could conduct the chakra through it was also an option, albeit, once again a bad one as even a tiny hole could serve as a weak spot for the dome, warranting a counterattack from the inside. Of course, not in this scenario when the foes were a mindless herd but rather, in an actual combat with actual non-undeath intelligence involved. Rose imagined the dome as a chakra whole again. Pushing her chakra through the earthen dome by increasing its velocity enough to have it pass through the stone's density. To accomplish that, Rose would need to infuse a far too great amount of chakra for the benefits of the technique to be of any use to her, albeit, it was all she had at the present so it would have to do.

Rushing a vast amount of chakra through the stone, Rose knew that most of it was to be wasted for the sake of process evolution. She visualized the inside of the dome; the probable locations of her targets and made sure to fill every centimeter of the dome's volume with a scarce mist of her chakra siphon before she would violently attempt to pull it through the density of the earth, channel it from her left hand, through her back and onto her right hand where she would have it be further siphoned by the tag of the mission. With seven undeath within the technique's grasp, at a maximal efficiency, the supposed result was a complete filling of the tag with chakra, matching one hundred percent of its capacity easily; the result in reality... 

Undeath Slaughtered: 7
Techniques used by Soul Clone:

• Chakra Scalpel: Sword [80][10] ((Continuous Use))
  Rank: "A" + "C"
  Skill: Supplementary
  Effect: An advanced version of Chakra Scalpel: Advanced that extends the length of the blade.
  Special: ---
  Drawback: Must learn multiple times.
  Description: This allows the user to extend the length of the Chakra Scalpel: Advanced to a Short Sword. The strength of Chakra Scalpel: Sword is dependent on the user's knowledge of Chakra Scalpel: Advanced. When the user learns this technique a second time ("C" Rank) they are able to extend the blade's length to a Longsword. Learning the technique a final time ("C" Rank) allows the user to extend the blade to the length of a Greatsword.
  Limit: Must be a Medical Doctor. Must know Chakra Scalpel: Advanced.

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[Rose]

Training
?? out of 70
post 4 out of 7

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Rank: "A" + "D"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User can create a dome to trap targets and take their chakra.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is 7 meters + 6 meters per Class Level. Area of effect is 6 meter radius circle. Duration of this technique is concentration up to 5 rounds per Class Level. This technique requires a large source of earth nearby. This technique traps every target caught in the area of effect in a mud dome that rises from the ground. The walls are 1 foot thick, have a hardness of 8 and 95 Armour Points. User may increase the Armour Points by relearning the technique as a "D" Rank. Each time learned increases armour points by 10 Armour Points. User may learn this technique maximum 10 times. If damaged, the walls will regenerate completely in 1 round. The victims stuck in the dome will suffer "D" Rank of Chakra damage per round until they are freed or dead. In addition, maintaining the dome leaves the user vulnerable; if the user takes damage while concentrating on the dome, they lose the technique. User also absorbs 1 "D" Rank of Chakra per 3 rounds while maintaining the technique.
Limit: Must know Earth Release.[/ul]

"Five percent," Rose sighed to herself, visibly disappointed. The training wasn't going according to her plans in the slightest and her initial concerns were turning into a reality with her soul clone's actions gathering more and more of the herds' attentions, having them both being surrounded by a decent swarm of undeath after having killed now nine of them in total. While the level of the foes shouldn't pose a problem to a literal, exact duplicate of herself (be it in half strength), being overwhelmed by numbers and forced into using more chakra heavy techniques from her arsenal was not a preferred scenario for Rose.

Instead, she had to figure out how to complete the technique's training swiftly, now quite literally under the pressure she so hoped would create a diamond. Seeing that the chakra siphon was effective at a larger density, Rose was also aware of the fact that she lost more of her own chakra to plain combat the thickness of the stone than she gathered foreign such to seal away which technically meant she was in a NET loss, albeit the opposite being the preferred scenario. 

The earthen dome also required quite the significant amount of chakra to maintain and not crumble atop the zombies. It was then when a solution struck her once more as she realized that she didn't need to intensity her chakra in order to have it make its way through the stone's density but rather, simply reduce the stone's density, preferably to something soft and easily renewable for the sake of the dome's restoration, in case it was damaged from the inside or out. It took little time for Rose to realize that said material was mud.

Rose began reducing the chakra she would put into the earthen dome to maintain it, allowing layers of it to slowly crumble down while she would infuse her feet with chakra and have it flow through the ground around the dome, lifting soft, most earth from beneath the hardened soil and have it swirl around the dome whilst periodically crumbling its former, harder shell. Within a minute or so of repeating more of the same, the hard stone had completely crumbled and the dome was now made entirely out of mud. Of course, Rose also took precautions so she wouldn't get attacked by the undeath within the dome while covering it with the new layer by not removing the final, thinnest layer of stone until it was entirely covered in mud.

Undeath Slaughtered: 9
Techniques used by Soul Clone:

• Chakra Scalpel: Sword [80][10] ((Continuous Use))
  Rank: "A" + "C"
  Skill: Supplementary
  Effect: An advanced version of Chakra Scalpel: Advanced that extends the length of the blade.
  Special: ---
  Drawback: Must learn multiple times.
  Description: This allows the user to extend the length of the Chakra Scalpel: Advanced to a Short Sword. The strength of Chakra Scalpel: Sword is dependent on the user's knowledge of Chakra Scalpel: Advanced. When the user learns this technique a second time ("C" Rank) they are able to extend the blade's length to a Longsword. Learning the technique a final time ("C" Rank) allows the user to extend the blade to the length of a Greatsword.
  Limit: Must be a Medical Doctor. Must know Chakra Scalpel: Advanced.

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[Rose]

Training
?? out of 70
post 5 out of 7

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Rank: "A" + "D"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User can create a dome to trap targets and take their chakra.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is 7 meters + 6 meters per Class Level. Area of effect is 6 meter radius circle. Duration of this technique is concentration up to 5 rounds per Class Level. This technique requires a large source of earth nearby. This technique traps every target caught in the area of effect in a mud dome that rises from the ground. The walls are 1 foot thick, have a hardness of 8 and 95 Armour Points. User may increase the Armour Points by relearning the technique as a "D" Rank. Each time learned increases armour points by 10 Armour Points. User may learn this technique maximum 10 times. If damaged, the walls will regenerate completely in 1 round. The victims stuck in the dome will suffer "D" Rank of Chakra damage per round until they are freed or dead. In addition, maintaining the dome leaves the user vulnerable; if the user takes damage while concentrating on the dome, they lose the technique. User also absorbs 1 "D" Rank of Chakra per 3 rounds while maintaining the technique.
Limit: Must know Earth Release.[/ul]

"This should do better," Rose convinced herself as it was sending chakra through the mud was  indeed greatly easier than it was sending it through stone. Now that she knew what she had to do as well, she decided not to reduce the amount of chakra but rather, go in for a grand final suck to finish the undeath off. She concentrated her chakra siphon and instead of sending it in all directions inside the dome, focused it in a single 0.5cm line which she sent straight into the opposite wall of the dome. From there, she would have it disperse at a far greater rate due to the higher amount of pressure put behind the chakra.

She would then continue filling the dome with chakra until she felt that the pressure she was applying was a returning force towards her - then she knew that the volume of the dome was engulfed in her chakra and that it was time for her to reverse the siphon into drawing chakra. In theory, the air should be filled with her own as well as the chakra from all of the undead inside, which should, again, in theory, completely fill the remaining of the siphon tag.

The reality behind the situation however was grim, as the tag didn't fill in the slightest. At first Rose wondered where the fault could be and even went as far as to check whether her chakra wasn't going through the mud's humidity instead of inside the dome, but all those worries came to a crumble when she decided to, well, crumble the wall and look at the undead inside, noticing that they were indeed dead; for good dead, not their undead dead. Despite being uncertain as to why, as the undead should have had, in theory, a lot more chakra to animate them than 5% of a tag in a collective six of them, Rose decided to worry about that later and to select new targets for her next attempt.

Undeath Slaughtered: 16
Techniques used by Soul Clone:

• Chakra Scalpel: Sword [80][10] ((Continuous Use))
  Rank: "A" + "C"
  Skill: Supplementary
  Effect: An advanced version of Chakra Scalpel: Advanced that extends the length of the blade.
  Special: ---
  Drawback: Must learn multiple times.
  Description: This allows the user to extend the length of the Chakra Scalpel: Advanced to a Short Sword. The strength of Chakra Scalpel: Sword is dependent on the user's knowledge of Chakra Scalpel: Advanced. When the user learns this technique a second time ("C" Rank) they are able to extend the blade's length to a Longsword. Learning the technique a final time ("C" Rank) allows the user to extend the blade to the length of a Greatsword.
  Limit: Must be a Medical Doctor. Must know Chakra Scalpel: Advanced.

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[neko bo beko]

SPOILER: Click to show

Name: The Undeath Pit - Chakra Siphon Tags
Rank: "C"
IIC Length: ---
Difficulty: Moderate
Objective: Travel to the undeath pit - a former grass country cemetery and collect chakra from the roaming undeath. Exterminating them upon collection of chakra is preferable to allowing them to roam.
Description: The center of the undeath outbreak had been located and recognized as a formal grass country cemetery. The folk from the tavern of grass had requested assistance to investigate and potentially, eventually, stop the outbreak. For the time being, however, the task is to simply gather chakra samples from the rising corpses to determine if, first, they have any and second, what its nature is. That is in hopes to determine the causation of the outbreak and fight its roots rather than the mindless undeath hordes.
Reward: 33,500 Ryo

Peering through the glowing red eyes of life, Harue saw the commotion long before she came directly upon it. She stood back a few meters, watching from afar as this strange girl and her identical twin of the same chakra and waves and blood both fought off a roused horde and attempt to siphon a select bunch of chakra through a large earthen prison. The first other pink-haired person she'd ever met who didn't share her family inner workings. Thank the Gods - if it had been another sibling of hers she'd have left right then and there. Looking under the solid layers of earth, Harue saw far more living chakra than she saw from the undead. As far as she was concerned, that was pretty... counterproductive. Would it not be easier to move one at a time, one tag per zombie, to avoid excessive chakra drainage? Harue made no comment on it however, stepping out of herself and dividing into two as well after she's climbed down from her pink beast. She looks to her split and hands her half of her siphon tags, places a hand on Ōmo's flank to communicate to him. Wordlessly, the pink duo assume their directive and Harue's fingers fall from Ōmo's fur as the split and he walk the perimeter, taking to any stray undead who threaten to roam beyond their containment. Harue can see into the depths of the catacombs and winces at the seemingly endless supply of rotting opponents, each making their own way to climb from the well.

Quietly through the shadows of night, Harue comes to stand with the woman, picking her way through the horde with thick chakra and bursts of compressed wind and force. Her katana, although mostly useless to her these days, hung bloodily from her left hand. She'd had to separate a few heads from their bodies on the way over as well. Harue looked as she often did on missions, her long pink locks tucked into twin buns on her head and her wardrobe particularly black. She wore her sleeveless turtleneck and her mithral leggings, explosive tags coiled around senbon tucked into the inner pouches of her boots. Under her skin lay three gems to protect her - a Death's Tear at the base of her neck replacing her first vertebrae, a Gem of Telekinesis sewn into a palm and a Skull of Healing in the other. Her third eye, vertical at the center of her forehead, moves endlessly out of sync from her birth-given ones.

"Need some assistance?" She asks plainly, as if they'd been together the whole time. Harue lays a hand upon the crust of the earthen dome, looking into it with her Tasukeru. "You don't seem to be making a lot of progress."

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;Soul Split & Ōmo no longer accompanying the True Harue but within the observable area.

• Estimated Undeath Slaughter this post; 5
• Estimated Total Undeath Slaughter; 21
• Tags Filled; 00

[Rose]

Rose couldn't help but feel insulted by the comment of the foreign woman, who she immediately presumed was sent as back up - a deduction further enforced by the fact that she was also slaying the undead. Rose was, of course, not plainly going to swallow her pride or allow such a comment left unaddressed. She broke her attention from the herd she had positioned herself in-front for a moment and turned to the newly arrived woman to, albeit briefly, make eye-contact with her before turning to her soul duplicate and uttering the single phrase. "Go."

The soul duplicate began rapidly waving handseals before slamming her hands onto the ground. "Crystal Release: Tearing Crystal Falling Dragon!" She shouted, not for the sake of necessity but for the sake of flashiness. As she did, the ground beneath her began glowing a color akin to her hair's and a massive dragon began to emerge from beneath her feet, carrying her into the air along herself and aiming itself towards a distant herd of undeath, crashing into it and then, picking another herd as a target. If that wasn't enough of a statement that Rose's pace wasn't slow by default but because she had chosen so, Rose knew not what would be.

Training
?? out of 70
post 6 out of 7

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Rank: "A" + "D"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User can create a dome to trap targets and take their chakra.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is 7 meters + 6 meters per Class Level. Area of effect is 6 meter radius circle. Duration of this technique is concentration up to 5 rounds per Class Level. This technique requires a large source of earth nearby. This technique traps every target caught in the area of effect in a mud dome that rises from the ground. The walls are 1 foot thick, have a hardness of 8 and 95 Armour Points. User may increase the Armour Points by relearning the technique as a "D" Rank. Each time learned increases armour points by 10 Armour Points. User may learn this technique maximum 10 times. If damaged, the walls will regenerate completely in 1 round. The victims stuck in the dome will suffer "D" Rank of Chakra damage per round until they are freed or dead. In addition, maintaining the dome leaves the user vulnerable; if the user takes damage while concentrating on the dome, they lose the technique. User also absorbs 1 "D" Rank of Chakra per 3 rounds while maintaining the technique.
Limit: Must know Earth Release.[/ul]
Focusing her attention back onto the herd of undeath in-front of her and allowing her soul split to deal with the new rival for the time being, Rose began folding the handseals for the vampire mud dome once more. This time, finding a larger group that the previous one. The previous siphon tag was still on her forearm at less than 6%, so there was no purpose of using a new one before filling that one. The mud dome quickly rose from the ground around the targets and ultimately, entrapped them within its diameter. Quickly, Rose began filling the air with her siphoning chakra until once again, the pressure from the inside matched the pressure of her chakra release point. 

Certain that was the right approach, Rose activated the technique's siphon properties and returned her chakra back into her body, along with all of the chakra that she could have possibly collected from the herds within. To her surprise though, as she channeled the chakra from the dome to her left hand, through her shoulders and onto the siphon tag, Rose noticed that she could only muster to siphon 6 additional percent of the chakra tag's capacity. Something was definitely not right. There was far more chakra in the surrounding area than what she was withdrawing and her approach was bound to be wrong.

For the sake of trial and error, Rose began pushing her chakra inside the dome an additional time. She went through the exact same steps as previously, filling it with exactly as much chakra and then some. Once the dome was full, she once again siphoned the chakra back into herself and observed the siphon tag as it was supposed to fill up. Well, it was supposed to, but it didn't. That surprised Rose until she decided to demolish the dome once more to see that the undeath within were once again, motionless and out of order.

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G.M.-ing Undeath Towards Harue

A group of four undeath noticed the presence of the newly arrived female and branched off their original target to pursue her, moving at a speed of approximately half a meter per second in a distance of ten meters. One of them, a sporty looking fellow, decided to try his luck by launching an aerial assault by jumping after three steps of gathering pace. Of course, the poor soul didn't know that its muscles had been deteriorating for more than ten years and that it would only take its feet of the ground for about 10 centimeters before falling down and having to crawl towards the female instead.

OOC :: For the sake of plots, direct chakra drain techniques are more effective than what Rose is doing by entrapping them. In-fact, continuously overdraining chakra from one undeath will cause a whole patch of them to fall down motionless. Basically, my idea is the following. These undeath are controlled by distant puppetry. The source of the technique is within the very depths of the pit and is untraceable for it doesn't directly connect to each individual undeath but rather, goes through various (hidden) amplifiers. Imagine a tree-structure. Each amplifier has its own reserve of chakra which once drained, cuts the chakra strings to all other undeath connected to it. This will prove to be of relevance further on. Anyhow, direct strong chakra drain techniques will be able to completely drain an amplifier such as that, filling 2-3 tags at a time for the sake of actual do-ability of the mission. 

Undeath Slaughtered this post: 31
Estimated Total Undeath Slaughtered: 52

Techniques used by Soul Clone:

• Shōton: Hashō Kōryū (Crystal Release: Tearing Crystal Falling Dragon) [60]
  Rank: "B"
  Skill: NinJutsu
  Effect: The user crystallizes a material in the area, and then turns it into a dragon. It can be used as a means to travel or to attack a target. Several dragons can also be made and manipulated at once.
  Special: "Handseals"
  Drawback: ---
  Description: Forming the handseals, the user will focus their chakra on either the air or the thing they wish to crystallize, and it will crystallize into what appears to be a living creature in the form of a crystal dragon. This dragon is controllable and one can control up to three at a time. These dragons can fly through the air, allowing the user a measure of light should they chose to ride them.
  Limit: Must know Shōton: Crystallization.

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[neko bo beko]

All three of Harue's eyes blink curiously, the one at the center of her forehead a few seconds out of sync. She looks over the woman and takes a step back to allow her the space she needed to concentrate, her hand falling away from the mud dome as the second foreign pinklet listens to the command. As she flutters away and swan dives into a horde, Harue tilts her head. That didn't really answer her question, but it was impressive nonetheless. "Point taken." Harue smirks and turns on her heel, keeping an eye on this woman through her Tasukeru as she takes towards the well, careful not to get in the way of the one on a crystal dragon. Harue monitors her two companions from afar as well, but they seem less caught up in actual slaying as opposed to simple monitoring. No zombies threatened to break the perimeter yet. Harue barely takes notice of the zombie crawling towards her etiher, bringing down her blade in one swift motion to relieve it of part of its head as she walks past it. She deals only with the zombies who get in her way, letting the large dragon do most of the work at this point. It was impressive after all, but more than that... it was useful.

Peering down into the catacombs, Harue's Tasukeru couldn't even find the deepest depths of the massive hole, and her sight went far beyond most other's by 200 meters. She makes a 'hm' noise in the back of her throat and takes a step forward to press her heel into the hand of a climbing zombie. "You will do," she murmurs to it, pulling forth a tag she'd received from the man in the tavern. The zombie's hand threatens to crumble under her boot so she works quickly, easing up just enough so that her foot didn't sink into its soggy bones still. Easily, she slaps the seal onto the zombie's forehead and places only a small portion of her own chakra into it to begin the siphon, but beyond that she dips into her soul energy. Harue takes a small page from the other pink one's book and takes to using her own methods as opposed to relying singularly on the weak seal, but of a less earthen style. Carefully, she attempts to accelerate the tag's work through the direct suction of life, which she'd feed from herself into the tag. For an Onigami, chakra was the basis of life and life for chakra, so it was easy for her to manipulate the two similarly. 

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GMing Undeath Towards Rose

Rose's shoton dragon was exceptional in devouring whole crowds of walking dead, but using such a destructive, raw power would leave inevitable openings around ground-bound Rose which the dragon could not take care of for fear of nicking the other her. A few undeath, approximately five or six, wander towards the scent of her. Their slow approach left plenty of time to react however.

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• Estimated Undeath Slaughter this post; 4
• Estimated Total Undeath Slaughter; 55
• Tags Filled; Pending 1

[Rose]

It took Rose a short while to actually realize that her sending her soul duplicate on a murderous rampage didn't really regard the other pink headed woman's concerns as to her pacing and that she was indeed accurate in her observation that Rose was barely progressing at all. For so, Rose decided to give it her all for a final attempt.

Training
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Rank: "A" + "D"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User can create a dome to trap targets and take their chakra.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is 7 meters + 6 meters per Class Level. Area of effect is 6 meter radius circle. Duration of this technique is concentration up to 5 rounds per Class Level. This technique requires a large source of earth nearby. This technique traps every target caught in the area of effect in a mud dome that rises from the ground. The walls are 1 foot thick, have a hardness of 8 and 95 Armour Points. User may increase the Armour Points by relearning the technique as a "D" Rank. Each time learned increases armour points by 10 Armour Points. User may learn this technique maximum 10 times. If damaged, the walls will regenerate completely in 1 round. The victims stuck in the dome will suffer "D" Rank of Chakra damage per round until they are freed or dead. In addition, maintaining the dome leaves the user vulnerable; if the user takes damage while concentrating on the dome, they lose the technique. User also absorbs 1 "D" Rank of Chakra per 3 rounds while maintaining the technique.
Limit: Must know Earth Release.[/ul]
Another nearing pact of undeath turned to Rose's new target as she began waving the signs for the mud dome technique. Mud rapidly rose from the ground to surround her three targets and as rapidly closed atop them as well. Rose's technique-work was, by that point, perfect, or so she believed. Her chakra was precisely calculated as it had been with the previous attempts but this time, Rose decided to take a different approach.

Instead of filling the air with siphon chakra to the point of the chakra within the dome causing resistance, Rose would instead fill the air with a small portion of siphon chakra, siphon it and then fill it with another portion, up until she stopped getting results altogether. While her former plan made more sense as it forced more chakra altogether, perhaps some of the siphoned chakra was lost due to the unnecessary pressure she caused? Not knowing, Rose decided that a different approach couldn't hurt regardless.

Rose sent the first wave of chakra in and almost instantly after making sure it filled most of the entrapment, siphoned it out. That indeed brought her results in the face of 1% of a siphon tag; her second attempt brought similar results, albeit, this time at 0.8% and the third one - 0,4. That continued until her siphons brought no chakra back whatsoever, filling the tag with as little as 2,3% in total. Not needing massive amounts of concentration at that point, Rose decided to cheat a bit by looking at how the newly arrived woman was doing things on her end and observed as she made her way through a small patch of undeath before stopping in-front of a pit and attempting to plant a tag onto the forehead of an undeath just to decapitate it.

What caught Rose's interest that the undeath was still moving, albeit being decapitated. Curious as to why that could be and as to why none of her undeath were bringing her any chakra whatsoever, Rose decided to crumble the dome once more to see the manifestation of her suspicion. The undeath were again on the floor, motionless, however, fully intact. Nearly a complete opposite of what the woman before her was experiencing with a beheaded undeath in motion. What was the difference between the two. Was it because Rose had entrapped hers beforehand?

Paying attention to the woman's actions and not her surroundings, Rose wouldn't really see anything approaching her at any point. The crystal dragon had stopped advancing as Rose's soul split found itself in a rather dangerous predicament where the mass of corpses from it's previous rampage had managed to slow it down just enough for the rest of them to now be attempting to climb atop it.

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G.M.-ing Undeath Towards Harue

Slapping the chakra siphon tag onto the undeath's forehead should have done the trick for the woman, albeit, what she missed to account for was that what stood before her was a corpse far into the process of decaying and that the fore of pinning a tag onto it proved to be enough to crumble the already near-dusty spinal bones, having the head fall down onto the ground. Luckily, the woman's chakra had already been poured into the tag and the siphoning was in process as the head fell.

What Harue was probably not expecting though, was that the now decapitated body was still moving its arms about, disregarding the lack of a nervous system or the laws of physics themselves... What on earth was going on?

Undeath Slaughtered this post: 3
Estimated Total Undeath Slaughtered: 56

Techniques used by Soul Clone:

• Shōton: Hashō Kōryū (Crystal Release: Tearing Crystal Falling Dragon) [60] ((MAINTAINING))
  Rank: "B"
  Skill: NinJutsu
  Effect: The user crystallizes a material in the area, and then turns it into a dragon. It can be used as a means to travel or to attack a target. Several dragons can also be made and manipulated at once.
  Special: "Handseals"
  Drawback: ---
  Description: Forming the handseals, the user will focus their chakra on either the air or the thing they wish to crystallize, and it will crystallize into what appears to be a living creature in the form of a crystal dragon. This dragon is controllable and one can control up to three at a time. These dragons can fly through the air, allowing the user a measure of light should they chose to ride them.
  Limit: Must know Shōton: Crystallization.

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[neko bo beko]

Harue makes a disgusted noise when the force of slapping the tag onto the dead one's forehead separated shoulders from cranium, stepping back and releasing her heel from the dangling zombie's hand so that it fell into the depths of its grave as its head rolled towards her. In the back of her allseer, she notices that a zombie she'd partially relieved its head of was crawling pointedly towards her still. On her hips Harue pivots to crane a look at it with the center of her focus, checking its vitals curiously. It was seemingly no real different from the undeath she'd dealt with nearly a year ago now, and yet it was somehow more determined. The necromancer last time had lost each of her soldiers whenever they'd crippled a brain, but these writhing and decaying things were somehow not at all alike. Turning back to the decapitated gurgling head in front of her, ruminating, Harue peers through her allseer at the woman again. Now she seemed to be making process and Harue wondered if she'd lit a fire under her ass by offending her. She hadn't meant to offend her, but it at least broke the ice between them.

If these undeath were harder to kill, Harue wanted nothing to do with them. Supposing she could burst condensed gravity upon them to blow them apart, or she could send explosive tags into a horde of them, it felt useless if they were impervious to redeath. Once the tag on the zombie head has been filled, she swipes it and gives the head a hard kick, clearing the crater. Tucking the full tag away and pivoting on her heels to greet the half-headed zombie she'd cut down and failed to kill earlier, Harue dances around it and gives it a full on concussion burst, sending small bits of it flying while the majority of its form falls gracelessly into the pit, knocking a few zombies loose from their climb on his way down.

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GMing Undeath Towards Rose

Rose had done well to siphon the sample chakra however long it took, but she certainly would begin to realize with certainty that something about entrapping them cut them off from the world around them, effectively incapacitating them. But because she was in her own little world, she was unaware of the zombies ganging up on her however slow and grueling their pace was. One that crawled heartily towards her from behind, missing a leg and its jaw, wraps a sticky hand around her ankle.

Covered like fleas, the crystal dragon would sway and try to knock undeath loose from its scales. The second Harue saw from a far and would launch herself forward, but there was still a gap between her arrival and the possible deconstruction of the dragon under prying claws. If the soul split Rose didn't move quickly, she'd be devoured too. 

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• Estimated Undeath Slaughter this post; 3
• Estimated Total Undeath Slaughter; 59
• Tags Filled; 01

[Cadoc]

7/7 learned

[Rose]

Rose did indeed come to the realization that the mud dome technique was for some purpose reducing the optimal amount of chakra she should be receiving from siphoning the undeath, albeit, that seemed to fade in terms of relevance once Rose felt something grabbing around her ankle. It took her less than a second to look down and see that it was the hand of an undeath that was using its arm to crawl itself towards her. The imagery of an undead in her feet brought her traumatic memories and she panicked, sounded a banshee-like scream of terror before tapping into her soul and as if out of instinct, repelled everything in her proximity using. Any corpses, be them dead or alive within a ten meter radius of Rose would be sent flying 51 meters away regardless of their positioning.

Doing so, however, exhausted a large amount of her chakra - an amount made even greater by all the attempts to siphon the chakra of the undeath in various attempts of a vampiric mud dome. That final technique left Rose quite frankly exhausted, forcing her to drop onto her hands and knees, panting for breath and nearly lacking in energy altogether.

The loud scream of terror as well as the powerful technique drew the attention of more of the undeath as a couple of dozen of them, from the surrounding perimeter, decided to leave any miscellaneous tasks at present and focus entirely on getting the now very vulnerable Rose. Rose saw the incoming danger but the strength in her body was far depleted at that point. She was helpless.

"Help..." she begged silently under her breath. "Somebody help!!!!" She cried out.

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Having heard her original's shout of terror, the soul split couldn't but ignore its current predicaments and turn her head to see what the matter was, just to be further startled by the soul repulsion. Paying too much attention into the distance and nearly not enough at what was in-front of her, Rose's soul split couldn't help but fall victim to a hand grabbing around its ankle and pulling her down into the herd of crowding undeath. Immediately after she landed, onto her back, one of the many surrounding undeath reached towards her and inserted his finger into her right eye, causing her to scream in pain as the vile being tried to claw into it in an attempt to pull itself forwards to her. By that time, about a dozen more undeath were on their near-path to get atop of her.

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G.M.-ing undeath for Harue

Rose's snapping drew the attention of most of the undeath in the surrounded area, increasing the wave that would have to go through Harue to get to Rose significantly.

Undeath Slaughtered this post: 3
Estimated Total Undeath Slaughtered: 62

Techniques used by Rose:

• Isolated Soul [110]
  Rank: "S"
  Skill: NinJutsu
  Effect: Repel all creatures from the user.
  Special: ---
  Drawback: ---
  Description: Target is Personal. Range is 10 meter burst. Duration is instantaneous. User draws into themselves then in a violent motion they expand their arms sending others flying away. All creatures within 10 meters of the user get pushed to 15 meters away from the user. If a creature is moved into a solid object he takes 6 Armour Points of Concussion damage per 2 meters they still had to move
  Limit: Must be a Soulcaster.

[neko bo beko]

Harue moved fast but not fast enough to prevent it all from happening. All she could do was react once the force of the blowback passed, Harue being on the cusp of affect. She brings up her arms to cross over her head, protecting her face from debris, bangs whipping around her, eyes squeezing shut but her third always watching. Through both her Tasukeru she sees both pink women in danger. Each Harue closest to their respective temporary teammate reacts accordingly.

-True Harue
Remaining vigilant in the survey of their situation through her allseer, Harue was well aware of the horde looking to go through her to get to the other pinkette. Using her innate abilities, Harue blinks out of existence and reappears in the midst of it all, bringing her blade at a slant to separate offending hand from its wrist and then spear the offender through the face to render is jaws ineffective. Because her temporary teammate is on the ground, Harue is able to angle her blade in such a way that when she sweeps it from left to right at eye level in one swift motion, it cuts through head and necks and finally a shoulder without ever threatening to graze the woman at her feet. Even though the undeath were still moving, they were less threatening with only stumps spewing dead, black blood. Craning down to scoop an arm around the woman and hoist her to her feet, Harue carries their souls forward again, furthering them from the horde and the hole Harue had been at. Only once they were at a safe distance with the only surrounding zombies being the ones left in their soul shift wake does Harue let go of the pink woman and step forward. Placing herself between her and the horde, Harue flicks her wrist and a compression burst devours everything in its path. It carves out a number of the zombies, but some of them were outside of her blast radius.

-Soul Split
The great distance between her and the dragon and its rider was an annoying one but not a hurdle she could not jump. Literally. Invisible wings sprout from her soul and a burst of wind roars around her, launching forward off of bent legs to soar at a diagonal overhead. Grimacing, Harue sees the state she is in and wonders if it would not be easier just to kill her and allow the damaged soul to return to its host. Checking the other Harue and the other temporary teammate from afar, Harue would only send an explosive tagged senbon down into the mess if she was certain the other pink stranger would survive. If it only looked grim then Harue would attempt to draw the zombies away herself, floating over them and kicking them in the heads, using her sword to hack at them. She hollers and screams but she isn't in distress.

-Omo
Literally just walking the perimeter still, far away from the undeath commotion. 

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GMing Undeath Towards Rose

The hordes taking over seemed to be Rosecentric indefinitely, making her the center of attention. One or the other, if not saved properly, might end up fatally injured. Luckily only one needs to be saved! The undeath seems hungry, fingers curling into eyes and rendering one completely useless and the other was in threat of being devoured whole. Currently she is doing nothing to save herself.

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• Estimated Undeath Slaughter this post; 13
• Estimated Total Undeath Slaughter; 75
• Tags Filled; 01

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Blink
Rank: "B"
Skill: Chakra Trait
Effect: The user can teleport a brief distance.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The user has experienced or traveled through different planes of existence at a young age, and so formed an attunement with the fabric of space. Once per day per class level, the user may teleport 3 meters per Class Level in any direction. The blink teleport may be used in the air or underwater, but it doesn't teleport the user through or into solid spaces unless the user is incorporeal. This brief teleportation takes a weaving movement to use but is an instantaneous action. This trait replaces 2 Freebies.
Limit: Must start with Character; replaces 2 Freebies.

Soul Shift 
Rank: "S"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User moves over a great distance in the blink of an eye.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Target is the User plus 2 Creatures. Range is 100 meters. Duration is Instantaneous. Much like other performers the user has an ability to transverse great areas in the blink of an eye. User's soul can move great distances and then snap the user to its location. It can drag the souls of two willing targets with it snapping them along as well. User's soul quickly races from their body and then the user snaps to where the user's soul stops. User's soul makes a 100 meter step (unaffected by gravity or objects) and the user snaps to its spot. Takes a Movement equal in Handseals to Perform, but instantaneous for the effect. User's body and the body of the targets they take become incorporeal as they snap to their souls. If the user's soul is beyond a solid object after the 100 meters and there is no way for the body to follow the user will move to the object and the soul will meet the user there. This ability cannot be used to scout, user's soul only goes where the user told it. If a creature has Chakra Sight, True Seeing, they can see the user's soul as it moves about.
Limit: Must be a Soulcaster. Must know Forceful Snatch. Must know Soul Step.

Gravity Burst
Rank: "A"
Type: Augmentation
Effect: User’s body can bend and shape balls of concentrated gravity, allowing the user to fire concussive bursts at nearby opponents as part of a natural attack.
Special: To perform: 12 hour; Duration: Permanent
Drawback: ---
Description: External - Takes up 4 Augmentation Points. To perform it takes 1 movement equal in Handseals of a “C” Rank Jutsu. User gains a natural ranged weapon in the form of gravity burst. This gravity burst is projected from the palm of their hand, and that hand must be empty in order to effectively use this Augmentation. The gravity burst deals 12 Armour Points of Sonic and Concussive damage, and has a range increment of 10 meters, and a single rate of fire. The user can use this Augmentation a number of times per day equal to their Indomitable Fortitude.
Limit: Must be a Ritualist for Augmentation Rituals.
Cost: Market Price: 35,000 Ryo Performing Price: 26,000 Ryo

Winds of Vengeance 
Rank: "S"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User can create a whirling shield around themselves to help against attacks and attack back.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is Personal. Duration of this technique is 5 minutes per Class Level. Target of this technique is the user. User surrounds themselves with a buffeting shroud of supernatural, tornado-force winds. These winds grant the user a flight with perfect maneuverability. The winds shield the user from any other wind effects, and form a shell of breathable air around the user, allowing them to fly and breathe underwater or in outer space. Ranged weapons (including giant-thrown boulders, siege weapon projectiles, and other massive ranged weapons) passing through the winds are have a 3/4 reduction in range increment. Gases and most gaseous breath weapons cannot pass though the winds. In addition, when a creature hits the user with a melee attack, the user can shape their winds so they lash out at that creature as a non movement. The creature must make a Fortitude saving or take 40 Armour Points of bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone (if on the ground). On a failed save, Huge flying creatures are checked and Large-sized or smaller flying creatures are blown away instead of knocked prone. On a successful save, the damage is halved and the creature is not knocked prone (or checked or blown away).
Limit: Must know Wind Release.

[Rose]

OOC :: Sorry for the big delay between posts; shit's been hitting the ceiling IRL so I couldn't have been doing much...

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Seeing that this newly met stranger was indeed capable and willing to aid her certainly managed to bring Rose enough piece of mind to allow her to think a tad bit clearly, allowing her to rationalize for long enough to notice that despite the miraculous rescue, there were still herds of undeath headed her way and that she would have to fare for herself as best she could.

To her dismay, her chakra levels were far from entirely replenished and both her body and mind were exhausted - too much so for her to pull a strong enough counterattack to effectively deal with the mindless zombies. In fact, the amount of chakra she could draw was a bare minimum compared to her ordinary capacity which she would have been at hadn't there been all her years of being stationary and basically living the life of a house-wife. Irregardless, Rose waved a few quick handsigns; if she couldn't be a useful, effective combatant, she would aid the other woman as best she could as they both carried through the tasks of the mission with similar efforts. Past the folding of the final handsign, Rose's entire body glowed a faint shade of pink, reflecting the light, much alike her dragon had earlier. Rose had used her crystal armor technique - a technique that barely required chakra but brought an armor of indescribably solid and sturdy crystal around the entirety of her body. Even if the undeath were to get a hold of her, it would take days, years or perhaps even millennia of clawing to get through the rough shell that was surrounding Rose. Having her own body secure, for the most part, Rose decided to do the best thing she was capable of by aiding her new ally the knowledge she had received through training.

"I suspect that these undeath aren't undeath at all but plain corpses," Rose spoke, still breathing hard, "It struck me as odd that when you siphoned chakra from a single undeath, you bore success but when I attempted to enclose and drain multiple of them, I came to fail. I suspect that this is because these corpses don't have a chakra circulatory system on their own but are rather, controlled from afar. My suspicion is that this is some sort of a puppetry technique. That would explain the little amount of chakra I managed to drain while the undeath I captured were inside the dome - the part of the puppeteer's string that was enclosed within the dome was maintained while the rest was cut off. I believe we can use that to our advantage but I will need your cooperation for I am presently weakened. I have just one more strong attack left and I think that we should utilize it wisely."

Then Rose proceeded to explain how the two could, potentially, utilize her last attack to its maximal potential while managing to siphon as much collective chakra as possible. Her idea was, basically, to have them both use sound to gather as much as them as possible in a large, preferably open, area ad then have Rose her last renaming chakra to entrap them in the open while having Harue use her strongest siphoning technique to siphon through the collective, immobilized mass of them.

* * *

Rose's duplicate was utterly helpless and couldn't do much but withstand being clawed and bitten at until life would exit her essence and she'd vanish within thin air, returning whatever possible fragments from her being to Rose.

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G.M.-ing undeath for Harue

The commotion of Harue's (Original) attacks did indeed take out a vast amount of the undeath in the perimeter, however, it also managed to draw the attention of the ones from within the pit's crypts as they were beginning to approach, climbing the steps up - some successfully, some not. About a hundred of undeath in total were raising from the crypts and climbing, slowly but surely, towards the source of the commotion.

Undeath Slaughtered this post: 0
Estimated Total Undeath Slaughtered: 75

Techniques used by Rose:

• Isolated Soul [110]
  Rank: "S"
  Skill: NinJutsu
  Effect: Repel all creatures from the user.
  Special: ---
  Drawback: ---
  Description: Target is Personal. Range is 10 meter burst. Duration is instantaneous. User draws into themselves then in a violent motion they expand their arms sending others flying away. All creatures within 10 meters of the user get pushed to 15 meters away from the user. If a creature is moved into a solid object he takes 6 Armour Points of Concussion damage per 2 meters they still had to move
  Limit: Must be a Soulcaster.

[neko bo beko]

//ooc//no worries! had my own irl shit to sift through and sorta lost track of time and space so it works out loool ❤❤//

Watching through her doujutsu, Harue was glad to see that her temporary teammate was equipped with proper attributes to contribute to at least her own well being. Harue didn't want to have dead weight on her shoulder, but the woman was at least attractive enough to not be too much of a bother. When she was with a straight spine and spoke to Harue in full sentences though, Harue saw a strong woman. The three eyed pinklet smiled briefly but it fell in the moment, her eyes unmoving but still watching everything around. She could see the drain in her temp-teammate and she knew that if she continued how she was, she'd be lacking in chakra as well. She was keeping it medial now, but any more exertion and she might overload herself as well.

"It would make sense," Harue agreed idly, flicking her wrist and sending innate concussion bursts out to tunnel through more zombies who threaten to come too close. Her red eyes shifted sideways to her teammate for a moment but even as they slid away she did not stop seeing her. "When I looked into your collection and into you, I saw a void of true source..." She began talking more to herself, working out the facts, tasting them on her tongue. "I have dealt with the undead before, and these ones are so painfully, obviously unlike those ones. But even then there had been a source, a necromancer. Without the head the body would flounder. Considering the depths of the catacombs, and the source of the undeath..." Harue's red eyes flutter to the hole and she listens and looks, yet its depth is unchanged and still outside of her full scope.

Harue agreed incredulously with the plan, opting that it would perhaps even be quicker, thankful they both had enough chakra still to pull through. Though it was unfortunate, she concluded that for the time being it would be foolish to focus on the murder of undeath as opposed to their puppeteer. "Let's set up the tags," Harue insists, and then she would bustle alongside her teammate in accordance to their plan, reeling in her sight to a 100 meter scope to conserve chakra but still survey their situation. Her soul split, after separating the other split from life and fluttering overhead away from the zombie horde devouring a missing pinkhead, went back to her place with the pink steed to reconnect with Harue by walking the perimeter back.

Once they were prepped, Harue turned to her new acquaintance with her hands on her hips, patient. "Let's make some noise, then."

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GMing Undeath Towards Rose

With the soul split destroyed, the horde there needs to divert its attention. It joins the swarm making way for nowhere and for Harue and Rose, inevitably joining the march of undead who would eventually be lured into an inescapable trap. As of current, none threaten the immediate safety of Rose's proximity.

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• Estimated Undeath Slaughter this post; 18
• Estimated Total Undeath Slaughter; 93
• Tags Filled; 1, PENDING MORE

[Rose]

Rose quickly pulled the chakra siphon tags from her pocket and applied the whole stack of them ontop of her bare, exposed skin, covering both of her arms as well as having three positioned onto her belly. "Lets do this then!" Having put the tags onto herself all the while moving about in a circle-like fashion and making as much noise as she could to gather the hordes of undeath around herself, just to make them spin about in an attempt to chase her, Once a substantial enough number had gathered, Rose would make sure to be in a position where she would be in-front of the other pinklette as she would perform the handseals for her final large-scale technique.

"Earth Release - Quicksand!" Rose proclaimed as she sent a mass significant portion of her own chakra to the ground where the herds would be gathered. Using the noise sensitivity to gather them was indeed working wonders in their favor. "Jump back, we need to be out of the radius!" Rose exclaimed as she jumped back whilst the sinkhole in theground expanded slowly but surely, dragging the undeath along its path. Once she would expand the technique to its maximal radius, Rose would halt it, not caring about its depth whatsoever for she didn't need the undeath sunk but rather, plain immobilized. Once that was also a present matter, her next course of action would be vengeance for all the lost energy.

"This is the end," she shouted as she projected her soul's energy forwards towards core of the quicksand where the most had gathered and formed a giftball around them - a technique that would drain the energy, chakra or otherwise, from any creature within its 5 meter radius.

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G.M.-ing undeath for Harue

Not much to report, presently. They are all under control at this point, headed towards the girls' plan. While Rose's turn unfolds, Harue is of course also capable of taking action in the draining process. Had the two girls successfully managed to siphon the chakra from the herd before them for a period of time extended enough to fill all 40 of their total tags, they would witness how all the undeath in the perimeter would drop down, regardless of whether they are within their siphons' radius or not.

Undeath Slaughtered this post: 0
Estimated Total Undeath Slaughtered: 93

Techniques used by Rose:

• Quicksand [60]
  Rank: "B"
  Skill: NinJutsu
  Effect: Using this technique, the user creates a patch of quicksand that lasts for as long as the user concentrates on the technique, plus one round.
  Special: ---
  Drawback: ---
  Description: Range of this technique is 7 meters + 6 meters per Class Level. Area of effect is 6-meter-radius emanation. Duration of this technique is concentration + 1 round. This technique requires a medium source of earth nearby. This technique can only be used on soft ground. Using this technique, the user creates a patch of quicksand that lasts for as long as the user concentrates on the technique, plus one round. Quicksand (standard rules): Patches of quicksand present a deceptively solid appearance (appearing as undergrowth or open land) that may trap careless characters. A typical patch of quicksand is 6 meters in diameter; the momentum of a charging or running character carries them 2 meters into the quicksand. Effects of Quicksand: Characters in quicksand must make a Swim Good check (Difficult) every round to simply tread water in place, or a Swim check (Very Difficult) to move 2 meters in whatever direction is desired. If a trapped character fails this check by 25 or more, they sink below the surface and begin to drown whenever they can no longer hold their breath. Characters below the surface of a bog may swim back to the surface with a successful Swim Good check (Extremely Difficult, +5 per consecutive round of being under the surface). Rescue: Pulling out a character trapped in quicksand can be difficult. A rescuer needs a branch, spear haft, rope, or similar tool that enables him to reach the victim with one end of it. Then they must make a Break check (15) to successfully pull the victim, and the victim must make a Break check (10) to hold onto the branch, pole, or rope. If the victim fails to hold on, they must make a Swim Good check (Very Difficult) immediately to stay above the surface. If both checks succeed, the victim is pulled 2 meters closer to safety.
  Limit: Must know Earth Release.
• Need Ball [110]
  Rank: "S"
  Skill: NinJutsu
  Effect: This is an area effect Energy Drain.
  Special: ---
  Drawback: ---
  Description: Target is anyone within a 5 meter radius spread. Range is 25 meters. Duration is Instantaneous. User takes soul energy from an area draining all creatures within. User raises their hand palm up as if asking for something. A white glow appears in the targeted area. All creatures in the designated area are drained 1d4 points. A Will save 10 + (2 Per Class Level + Impeccable Will) to negate this effect. For every point drained the user gains +5 Temporary Armour Points.
  Limit: Must be a Soulcaster.

[neko bo beko]

Alongside her new and pinkly identical teammate, Harue goes through the same steps as she. With as many tags as she can plant upon her (one at her forehead, a number over each arm, some over her breasts and hips and knees), Harue makes as much noise as she can too. Firing off a few concussion bursts straight up, into the clouds, drew enough energy and released enough raw power to draw the attention of a great many of them. She was ever close to the woman but still a good distance, red eyes still glowing so she can survey the succession of their plan. Just as the other pinkette says they need to move back, Harue is already unfurling wings from her soul and taking to the air, hovering over the offended area and staying close to the other.

Truthfully, Harue could not match the other's drain, but she was not useless. She siphoned her own portion, carving a healthy portion of chakra from the fleshy things caught in the sand with ease. Her split and steed were so far off that they'd arrive after all the action took place. To cover more ground, Harue floated over the top of the sandpit and its captives, leaving a meter or so between her and the reaching hands, and chunked the chakra out as she moved overhead. It was a task made simpler the further she rose, and eventually the tags were all full enough to halt and observe the flounder.

Fluttering back to the other woman she beams, landing before her and peeling the tag from her face to reveal a grinning face. As the red glow fades from between her lashes, the soft scarlets would have been blinded by the obscuring paper. Having noted the sudden drop in the undeath and surrounding chakra, Harue tilts her head and moves happily from foot to foot as she pulls off each tag so that they can combine their paper earnings. "Did you see?" she asks, weirdly excited. A glimmer in her red eyes was buried deep, but still noticeable. "You were right. The tether was interrupted and cut off a whole area. The necromancer..." Harue shakes her head, laughing. "The puppeteer! The sick sonuvabitch! What does he want with all these corpses?"

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GMing Undeath Towards Rose

Nothing of note beyond the events of the RP itself so far.

[Rose]

Just as Rose had suspected, a direct siphon was enough to fill the chakra tags and then some, nearly completely revitalizing her strength from the long training. What she didn't suspect, however, was that not only the targeted undeath would fall, but also such that were far beyond the reach of her or the other pinklette's techniques. This of course confused her momentarily, but her time for confusion was short-lived as the other girl landed by her and addressed the ridiculousness of the situation with a unusually bright tone of voice.

"Whatever he wants with the corpses, it cannot be good," Rose replied momentarily in thought. "Also, if it really is a puppeteer we are dealing with, staying here for too long is the furthest thing from safe that could be. The bodies that we didn't completely obliterate - the ones that fell on their own... I suppose they fell because a connection towards them was cut off and that they can still function as marionettes happens be their strings get re-attached." As Rose said that, cliched as may be, all of the intact corpses that had fallen momentarily twitched and then proceeded to, slowly, attempt to lift themselves upwards, each as it could. From all the girls' actions, not more than 30 undeath of the overall mass of collapsed ones actually remained immobile.

"We have the tags filled, so we should retreat to the tavern for and report for now."

- (Attempted) Exit
- Exit Training

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O.O.C.:

If ya wanna, we can go have some sweet tavern fan-service time with the permitted night's rest and then take on a new mission to explore the depths ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) of the pit.

Undeath Slaughtered this post: 0000
Estimated Total Undeath Slaughtered: 0033

[neko bo beko]

Grateful for their shared intellect and immediate mutual understanding of the situation, Harue's smile didn't waver and she felt in a placid good mood strangely, despite the blood caking her up to her elbows or the heave of her chest once it all catches up to her. "Agreed," she says simply. There was no need to reiterate. As they left for the Tavern, the Harue split lagging behind took to the pink steed's back to follow a few meters behind, inevitably destined to show up a few minutes late to the party in the Tavern.

[ exit ]

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OOC

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post in the tavern mumemi, sorry im a bit slooow. tryna make that fckin bread