Cauthon Manor {P}

[Mat]

Cauthon is an immense manor house built the covers what would otherwise be roughly two blocks, not including the servants quarters in a house out back. The roofing of the building is crimson in coloring with the walls painted a golden yellow. Though the outside seems normal at first glance, looking into some windows will have a person staring directly into into walls or rooms without doors and other such anomalies.

[Mat]

Basement

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Floor 1

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Floor 2

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[Mat]

Adrenaline Jolt
Rank: "B"
Type: Augmentation
Effect: User can flood their bloodstream with extreme amounts of adrenaline to temporarily boost their Strength or Movements.
Special: To perform: 3 hours; Duration: Permanent
Drawback: ---
Description: Takes up 3 Augmentation Points. Once per day, without taking a movement, the user can temporarily increase their TaiJutsu power by +10 Armour Points or their Movements by 1d4+1 points. The increase lasts for a number of rounds equal to 3 +1 per Class Level.
Limit: Must be a Ritualist for Augmentation Rituals.
Cost: Market Price: 23,000 Ryo Performing Price: 17,000 Ryo

The dark of midnight shrouded the city of Mizugakure and I gazed out from the third floor window of my Manor. The Courtyard below held certain memories for me, it was where I was turned into the creature I became today and as clouds parted to bathe the area in the light of the full moon, it seemed as if I was staring through a window in time. A boy only seven years of age knelt at the center of a design burned into the ground, one of a Great Serpent that was once eating it's own tail slain and a broken weaving wheel. A man was there with the bare chested boy, standing over him and sticking long needles into strategic points in his body.

The boy could barely hear the prayer his father spoke, but knew it to be one beseeching their Great Lord to bestow their blessings upon their child. With only one needle remaining, the longest of them all, the father knelt before the boy and spoke so all could hear, "Accept the blessings of The Shadow!" And with those words, the final needle was stabbed between his ribs and into the boy's heart. Pain shot through his body followed immediately by a hyper awareness of himself and his surroundings as adrenaline shot through his body. After several seconds the moment passed and the needles were removed from the child and the points of entry healed.

{Subtract 17,000 Ryo for the Performance Price of the ritual, please.}

[Draven]

-Done
-17,000

[Lilith the Pure]

The Stance
Rank: "E"
Skill: TaiJutsu/Supplementary
Effect: Stance is a crucial part of using any weapon. This is the basic stance technique.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Begin with the feet in a 90° comfortably separated at about half a shoulder's width apart. Center the weight on the rear leg. When throwing the user shifts their weight to the front. This causes the hips and shoulders to twist into the throw forcing the body's power into the throwing arm. After the throw is complete recover by returning to the original stance to ready the next throw.
Limit: Must be a Throwing Specialist.

[Mat]

Luminous Eyes
Rank: "C"
Type: Augmentation
Effect: Target's eyes glow faintly, generating an eerie colored light at the Target's discretion.
Special: To perform: 2 hours; Duration: Permanent
Drawback: ---
Description: Takes up 0 Augmentation Points. The Target's eyes glow, but do not provide any illumination. At will, the Target may deactivate this Augmentation so as not to interfere with their hiding abilities in dark areas.
Limit: Must be a Ritualist for Augmentation Rituals.
Cost: Market Price: 12,000 Ryo Performing Price: 4,000 Ryo

Quite some time had passed since I was staring out that window and onto a scene of my past, but I had needed to rest and thus went into the basement to enter a meditative rest. Though I may no longer require sleep as normal beings do, I still must put my body into a state of rest. While I rested my body, I remembered more of my past, another memory of when I was bound to the Lord of the Grave.

I was laying in this very room, both eyes held open wide by strange devices I could not resist. What I was to undergo would be merely a cosmetic change, yet by the Great Lord's power I knew there would be pain, he seemed to enjoy that. The candles in the room lit it only dimly and it was quite hard to see, but I could still make out the mark on the floor, the same that had been there for all the others. The broken weaving wheel and the slain serpent eating it's tail with me at the center. One corner of the room was slightly more well lit than the rest, yet the flames that were heating the cauldron were blocked to contain as much light as possible.

So I sat and waited as they prepared the ingredients for the ritual to take effect. I could not hear them speak, but I knew it was another prayer for the Great Lord's blessing, yet I noticed their cringes this time. I had heard of those signs, I knew they meant that they used his name and thus drew his attention to them, an overwhelming experience from what I had heard. After what seemed like hours of laying there, a servant making sure my eyes did not dry out, a goblet was filled with the liquid and one of our sect gifted in the healing arts walked over with the goblet bearer. They knelt and took my head in their hands and my father once again stood over me, this time with a goblet of boiling liquid.

"Accept the Great Lord's Blessing." And with that said he began to pour the liquid into my eyes, carefully one at a time. I could remember agony as I had never felt it before even as the injuries were being healed as they came to me. An eternal process that took a mere sixty seconds with my shrieks of anguish reverberating throughout the room and it was done. I wish to do nothing more than sleep, to slip into unconsciousness and forget the pain, but I could no longer do such things. With the healer keeping my pain at bay, I lay there as the devices keeping my eyes open were removed and I finally could blink again.

Sitting up I held out my hand and a mirror was brought to me as well as a proper light. Looking into the glass I saw the shine of my eyes and with a blink and a minute amount of effort the luminescent glow was gone.

Back in the present I opened my eyes and looked around the room, hours had passed and it was more than likely that the sun was now up. I would not be able to leave the Manor, but perhaps my weapon could be retrieved from the shop.

{Please Subtract 4,000 Ryo for performance price.}

[Father 'Suke]

Lilith: +5 TP
Mat: Ritual is performed, 4000 Ryo deducted

[Lilith the Pure]

Seiðr Halo
Rank: E
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user creates a Halo made out of chakra near their body.
Special: ---
Drawback: These halo have no effect on the world unless jutsu are used with them. The bright glow makes stealth hard if not impossible.
Description: The user creates a bright glowing Halo made out of chakra with a diameter of 100 centimeter near their body. The colour of the glow can be altered by the user. Per time learned, one is capable of creating another Halo. When first created, a Halo will appear within a meter from the user, and from then on tend to swirl about behind their back unless they are used. The user can move these Halo through the air as they please as long as they are within eyesight.
Limit: Clan jutsu.

[Father 'Suke]

+5 TP

Though I severely dislike first person reading endeavors, thank you for making it enjoyable. Your first person writing style has impressed me, so again thank you and keep up the good work.

[Lilith the Pure]

Reading Lips
Rank: "D"
Skill: Skill
Effect: The character can tell what other characters are saying, even if they cannot hear them.
Special: ---
Drawback: Must be Fluent in the language of the observed speaker.
Description: On a successful skill check, the character discerns part of the conversation (because some sounds are much like others, lip readers never understand a full 100%). The speaker must be mostly facing the lip reader (at least a three-quarter view). If the skill check fails, nothing is learned.
o Unskilled: A word or two.
o Novice: About 10% of the conversation.
o Average: About 20% of the conversation.
o Advanced: About 50% of the conversation.
o Expert: About 70% of the conversation.
o Master: About 90% of the conversation.

Each time learned user gets 5 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

[Nira]

+10, Learned.

0-40sp

More pretty diction, oh it's such a wonderful week to read ^_^

And oh dear, I love the personalities on display here. Stately, but intense. Not a person I'd want to work for, but very much a person I'd want on my side.

[Mat]

As I wandered through the candle lit halls of Cauthon Manor a pair of servants came to seek me out. As I paused to allow their approach the pair of them began to speak quickly in unison, not a problem had they been saying the same thing. Each of the paltry maids, however, did not which caused their words to trip over each other into an endless stream of nonsense. With a quick flash of luminescence to my eyes to silence the pair I spoke, "Now, you, explain why you are disturbing my peace." Gazing upon one of the maids I watched her trembling form as she began to explain carefully about their dismissal by Lilith.

I knew not what had caused this dismissal, but the woman I had chosen as my latest thrall would not do so for no reason. "Rest easy, when I took you on you were guaranteed work here for life." His hand came to rest on the shoulders of the nearest maid who smiled in relief, yet what they could not see was my chakra flaring up and creating a wind that snuffed the candles out and cast the area with no natural light into darkness. Swooping down I sunk my fangs into the neck of the maid who let out a gasp of shock and pain as her crimson life wet my throat. I would see to it that she was drained to the last drop before allowing the lifeless body to drop to the floor.

"Employment for life, thus I shall relieve you of your duties." As the woman tried to flee I could already predict her patterns and reached over and snatched her swinging arm from the air and twisted it behind the woman's back. Leaning in my fangs sunk into the soft flesh of the woman as I drained her of the sweet fluid that allowed her survival until she was no more than a husk. Walking from the scene an aged butler was called over, "I have relieved two maids of their duty, call for Lilith then dispose of them, make sure they wont be found until we wish for it to happen. I will be in the study." And so I made my way to the study to wait.

[Lilith the Pure]

[Mat]

I had a book in hand and read, looking up only as the butler announced Lilith's presence and only long enough to dismiss him to his previously assigned task. As she approached I would mark my place with a thin strip of leather and set it upon the desk, allowing warmth to show in my eyes at the sight of her. Yes, the perfect thrall devoted to me in both body and soul of her own free will. Perfection. Hand and head rested upon my knee and I would run my fingers through that silky, soft hair of her's. "Yes, I must thank you for my earlier meal. I will have something special for you later."

The terror as their life fled from them, the pain I inflicted and the feel of their life draining into my body, how could I feel anything but aroused after such a feat, yet there was business to attend to first. "First, however, I have need of something from the world of light, something I can only ask of you. The repairs to my Ashandarei should be completed and I will require it again soon, I will also need books. The Studies textbooks of Herbalism and Botany for the Forest region. Can you do this for me, my one and only?" Softly the words had flowed from my lips while lifting her chin to gaze fondly into her eyes as I spoke so.

[Lilith the Pure]

[Mat]

As Lilith rose from her position at my knee, I opened one of the far drawers on the Study desk and withdrew a small checkbook which held eighteen thousand ryo to cover the necessary costs. "Thank you, Lilith." The checkbook would be passed onto her to be used for the things I required, "I am counting on you. If you see anything else interesting at the bookstore, make note of it and we can purchase it at another time, take care." I sometimes lamented not ensnaring my thralls' minds to skip the pleasantries, yet they were so much more entertaining without tampering with their minds.

[Lilith the Pure]

[Exit]

[Mat]

Night had fallen and it was time for me to leave the manor and take to the night. Pulling on my coat I left the premises to stalk the night and find some decent prey.

{Ext}