Ancient History [Training/Travel/Open]

[The Bearer of Bad News]

Chakra Lore
Rank: "D"
Skill: Skill
Effect: A skill for basic Chakra Jutsu understanding allowing the user to identify and read all Chakra matters.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A person versed in Chakra Lore knows the basic principles behind Chakra. They are tuned in to secrets about the world around them that most others do not and know how to read Chakra Scrolls or Writings. They may not be able to perform Jutsus, but they can read Chakra Writings and generally tell what it is all about. Some practical applications of Chakra Lore follow: Identifying Jutsus, Identifying Chakra Items, and Deciphering Scrolls. Look in Jutsu Lore Skills thread found in the Skills and Traits Index for more information. Each time learned user gets 5 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

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[enter]

It took a long while, but eventually Schatzi was able to locate the lab within this country. Here she was unable to recover anything related to her biology, but she did find some of her creator's other research. He had been delving into the deeper lore of the nature of chakra, most likely as part of the experiments that had gone into her own creation. The writings were strange even decoded, feverish almost. Clearly he was already descending into the madness that birthed her.

His studies on the nature of chakra, specifically as pertaining to herself, could still prove to be something which was of use, and so she would carefully study the writings - those that she was capable of understanding with her still-incomplete cipher anyway. It was pseudo-science at best however, edging toward things more occult and arcane. Ancient history mixed with garbled legends passed down by word of mouth, and a creature which stole faces.

According to the manuscripts however, people were born with the capacity to manipulate chakra in certain ways, though over time their decisions and training could affect the way in which their bodies responded to the chakra. This was expressed primarily by the heart, which held a singular chakra nature that could be immediately identified. In rare cases, such as those whose experiences were precisely equal between several disciplines, or those focused on hybrid disciplines, a person might actually have multiple natures of the heart.

And then there were people like Schatzi. Through careful selection, her creator was able to remove the traits for elemental nature so utterly from the project that eventually resulted in her existence that she physically resisted the influence of chakra. It had proven to be a useful facet of her physiology, but never before had she understood the why behind it. But such a thing would take decades. Centuries even. Had he found some way of extending his life in the search to create an immortal monster?

In a way, the texts described, Schatzi's absolute lack of elemental affinity was in itself a form of affinity. This "universal-type" of chakra could be her sole area of focus, and so she would be able to develop it to a degree not seen in others, altering not the nature of chakra but instead the form of its shape, utilizing techniques which might be considered bizarre or gimmicky with deftness and understanding.

Schatzi immediately filed all of this under rambling nonsense. It was the ravings of a madman, and not even the ravings that she was specifically seeking. In other words useless. It did however contain hints that there might be not just one, but several facilities hidden in the Tea country. Chartering a ship to Nagi Island, she would begin there.

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-move to nagi please-

[Solus]

+10 TP, You go to 36SP!

~That move No misdirection

[The Bearer of Bad News]

more chakra lore (36)

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Having reached Nagi Island, hours would be spent deciphering clues in the text and in the land itself in order to find the most well-hidden facility of her creator so far. In it lay more texts relating not to her direct capabilities, but rather to the nature of the research into the mysteries of chakra that went into her creation. According to this mad research, "universal-type" chakra was not so rare and unique as beleived by most.

It was this very raw manipulation which went into what could be considered to be the most basic of capabilities wielded by shi no bi and ku no ichi such as the illusionary double or the ability with which to cling by the feet to surfaces opposed to the direction of gravity. Granted the cloning technique required a rudimentary understanding of genjutsu, which was slightly different from this universal-type ninjutsu, but it still was considered to be a ninjutsu technique.

However, simplicity was not all that universal-type chakra could be considered to be capable of. Many chakra-users took it for granted, believing elemental natures to be the deeper understanding of the nature of chakra, and considering those rare few born not only without what they considered natures but without the capacity to even learn natures in the future to be terribly handicapped in the ways of chakra, while those who could train into these supposed elemental natures later were merely flawed.

Such an assumption, according to her long-dead creator, was asinine. Truthfully, those who bore the capability of manipulating elemental natures as well as universal-type chakra were more well rounded, but in so doing they were unable to dedicate the singular focus to universal-type chakra that could unlock its greater complexities. Indeed, it was rare even to see one with the capability of creating physical doubles from chakra, despite the technique to do so being well documented and even popular.

But that was in a sense the beginning, rather than the end. Understanding of a technique such as that was a gateway to powers that while not at all versatile, instead each being excruciatingly specialized towards specific ends, would be considered to be amazingly efficient, as universal-type chakra manipulation did not cost any additional effort such that elemental nature conversion did. The dedicated would be able to wield power every bit as phenomenal as that of nature manipulation, but at considerably less cost. The downside was that very dedication and study which would be required when the alternative was far more quickly available.

For beings such as Schatzi however, there was no alternative. Therefore the study required would not bear so great a cost at all, as there was nothing that it might draw away from. Such considerations she would file away mentally for later. For now she had a specific goal, and this information would not be of any assistance.

Led on by clues left in the very notations she read, Schatzi would take an overland path following the coastline of Nagi Island to the south, until she could encounter and cross a land bridge. That very bridge would lead to Ouzu Island.

-move to ouzu-

[Aimi Kaguya]

+10 TP, +16 SP

Moving~

narutoforumrp.proboards.com/post/1010736/thread

[The Bearer of Bad News]

MOAR LORE [52]

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The creature Rutherford would continue apace, still immersed in the study of her own being. It had been some time now since she was able to find any information which was related specifically to her creation and timeless life, as she was now reading journals which were indeed from her "father"s early days of study now. And though his theories seemed to be the ravings of a madman, Schatzi could do no less than to offer him the benefit of the doubt. He had, after all, successfully crafted a being such as herself.

These arcane dabblings, still within the realm of universal-type chakra studies, was something which the fickle shapeshifter had difficulty poring over, simply because academic study had never been something within the bounds of which she had excelled at or even particularly cared for. However here it was required reading, as every text still bore some breadcrumb of her forgotten past which would lead her to still another location. It was simply a shame that she had not come across any further information for how to manipulate her very body. Instead it was all treatises on the nature of chakra itself.

He seemed in the past to be quite insane, but also rather high brow and cocksure, too full of his own hype to comprehend the imminent fall that would lead to him alone in a cave in the middle of Moon country creating what he assumed would be the ultimate weapon. Perhaps she had the capacity to be such, if she cared to, but really it was all too much work and not enough fun to fight. She'd gotten bored with battle long ago, preferring now to simply toy with and tempt others. The purer the victim, the more entertaining their fall.

But she was getting sidetracked by these reminiscences. The lore surrounding chakra, even as her comprehension unintentionally expanded, was such a dry subject to read about, leading her instead to her own flights of fancy. She needed to force herself to focus, so that she didn't by mistake miss some crucial detail that could lead her on the the next location. Always following the trail left behind in order to discover the nature of her origin. Truth be told even she wasn't sure why she cared so much. Her time with her Mas - with Rosalie had changed her ways of thinking about the world and herself. Perhaps she would never be what people called "good", but she could more effectively control her basic malicious selfishness with guiding rules. At least up to the point where she didn't risk drawing the wrath of "good" individuals who could threaten her existence.

The concept briefly arose of somehow combining universal type chakra with elemental nature manipulation without compromising it, citing the potentially celestial degree of power it might have, but then it was quickly dismissed as being simply too dangerous. That much energy would shred the user irreparably on a cellular level, such that not even regenerators like Schatzi could survive. A pity, because that seemed interesting enough to try. Alas.

So it was that the next hint was found - her next destination would be Taro Island, which was considered to be part of the Sea Country's territory, finally signalling her departure from the Tea Country. She would have to work her way to the southwestern coastline and find herself a place of port, as a thousand-plus-mile journey across the water was not one she relished undertaking manually. She had not the physical energy stores required to fly, nor the chakra to walk it without rest. Once there, it would be a simple enough matter to seduce some seafarer or other into granting her passage. Before that she would find some strong, healthy lad - or lady, she wasn't particularly choosy - to lay with and feed on. Then her journey would continue on Taro.

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Grade'n'Move? TO TARO ISLAND!

[Tetsu]

+10 TP
+21 SP


narutoforumrp.proboards.com/thread/103073/skill-training-rolls?page=114

[Tetsu]

oh, Dis was moved to Taro Island as well

(moved to Taro Island)

[The Bearer of Bad News]

chakra lore once more [73]

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The changeling frowned as she perused her latest discovery. More talk from her original creator about the nature of chakra. It might be useful someday, but it didn't help her to understand the capabilities within her very body. Or well, it did in a way, since according to this research and in the modern age common knowledge, chakra was inextricably linked to the body, but that was merely semantics. It didn't help her to understand her physical abilities, the transformations she was able to perform using her body.

It wasn't even an interesting read when it came down to it. This was one of his earlier works, which on the bright side meant that she was getting closer to her birthplace, but also meant that the document was...rambling. Unfocused. He hadn't yet decided on universal-type chakra as a field of specific study, and was flailing about with chakra taken as a whole without being broken down into its component parts. Various elemental natures were brushed upon briefly, but none were given the specific sorts of attention that would be actually useful.

Plus as always the very style in which he wrote these documents was bland and unappealing, as well as in a code that she had to gradually translate. Really that was the most interesting part of it all, a diversion to exercise and focus her scattered thinking. The worst part was that in order to locate the next lab, she had little choice but to read through every bit of the material in hopes of some clue from whence he had come.

It wasn't all bad however. Despite how unpolished it was, the aged sheaf of paper held useful if basic information, such as how many dedicated water-users no longer needed to keep a source of their chosen medium nearby in order to be effective, instead generating it from seeming nothingness when performing the techniques. Or how advanced lightning wielders were capable of taking that energy into themselves and redirecting it back out again, even directly at the original caster.

She herself was unable to access such powers, but it could come in handy some day down the line simply to know. She couldn't think of exactly how right now, but it was possible the ideas might come to her later. In the meantime she simply had to finish perusing the document in order to find the next location she would have to search. That was a simple statement, but the doing of that very thing would take an extended period of time.

Once she had the location, the oddly named Haha Island, she set off on foot to locate the nearest south-facing harbor town. An indeterminate period later she found herself sailing south on what would be a short trip relatively speaking, but still hours of waiting. She was tempted to fly, or even run the water's surface, but physical and chakra exhaustion would probably set in before too long. Better to do it this way.

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-To Haha Island, laff-

[💀]

Moved

New SP is: 87

[The Bearer of Bad News]

Chakra Missile
Rank: "D"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: The user shoots missiles made from force at a target or targets.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The user is able to perform this technique at a distance of 30 meters plus 15 meters per class level. User is able to target up to 5 creatures, no 2 of which can be more than 5 meters apart. The Duration of the Jutsu is Instantaneous. A missile of Chakra energy darts forth from the user's hands and strikes its target, dealing 5 Armour points of Force Damage. Specific parts of a creature cannot be singled out. Inanimate objects are not damaged by the Jutsu. For every Class Level starting at "D" Class, the user gains an additional missile—If the user shoots multiple missiles, the user can have them strike a single creature or several creatures. A single missile can strike only 1 creature.
Limit: Must be a Shape Transformation Specialist.

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Travel from Haha Island to Jiro Island was as is the norm for interisland travel undertaken by way of a decent sized ferry boat. It wasn't the longest trip she would have to sit through, but it did preclude most forms of amusement, what with how they unilaterally existed on land. It should only take the better part of the day to reach port on Jiro, and from there a couple of days to reach her final destination in the Moon Country, where the most recent manuscript indicated.

For now, she would entertain herself with harassing the wildlife. Seagulls soaring slowly overhead, the shapeshifter eyed them as would a predator. She had no intention of killing them of course, but there was something she had been meaning to try. Some of the theories on universal type chakra her creator had outlined seemed like they might be able to apply to her own capabilities. The only way to know for sure if he was right was to actually attempt putting them to practical use.

Her targets in view, Schatzi gathered up the chakra from within her body, trying to mold it in the same way as she had heard tell from element-users that was their methodology. This was not a healing art, nor was it an illusion, so that felt like it was the closest analogue to what she wanted to do. It was a flawed understanding born of ignorance and inexperience, and it showed in the lack of any sort of response attained from her exertions.

Even so, she would focus on bringing the vast stores of energy within her to the fore, shaping them into a form more suitable to combat usage. Or random shenanigans for the hell of it. Either way really. The result would be the same either way, just with a differential in power output if she did it right. At the tip of her index finger, the waves of invisible energy were beginning to condense, making the air shimmer noticeably.

Concentrating, this tiny shimmer shrank down ever more, until it was a ball of chakra densely packed enough such that it would appear to be a gleaming white orb no larger than a marble. Gradually, as more and more chakra was shaped around this solid core, it grew in size and lost some of its previous definition, bearing blurred, wavy edges though its luminosity would only increase. She took aim to the skies, and willed he ball of chakra to explode forward, propelling itself at great speed to clip the wing of one of the waterbirds.

The avian fell in a disoriented spiral, flapping wildly in an attempt to regain control. Once it managed to arrest its fall and begin ascending back to altitude it circled around in a bewildered fashion, as though attempting to figure out just what had struck it. This time, the changeling shot it in its tail feathers. With an indignant squawk, the bird set off in search of safer skies, unwilling to put up with this nonsense any longer.

-to jiro island-

[Tetsu]

+10

and moving it now

-moved to Jiro Island-

[The Bearer of Bad News]

Shield
Rank: "D"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User creates a Tower Shield made of Force capable of floating around the user.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A personal based technique. The Target of this technique is the User. The Duration of the technique is 5 minutes per Class Level. Shield creates an invisible, tower shield-sized mobile disk of force that hovers in front of the user. It negates Chakra Missile attacks directed at the user. The Tower Shield acts like a normal shield and is applied against incorporeal attacks since it is a Force effect. The Shield also contains a Hardness of +4 in terms of Guard Meter. Once the Guard Meter runs out the Jutsu ends.
Limit: Must be a Shape Transformation Specialist.

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Having found an offensive application for her universal-type chakra, Schatzi now would set about utilizing the same very concept within which was found the chakra missile type of attack in order to improve upon her presently lacking defensive attributes. It was true that as a baseline she was somewhat sturdier than a normal being, and could recover quickly from injuries as well as resist chakra-type damage even beyond that, but without some degree of augmentation to support the natural benefit within her unusual body her defense would not be able to match the capabilities even such as was comparable to individuals who were of much lesser standing and overall degree of potency to herself.

Thinking to formulate some creation of a massive like barrier type of ability, she would extend out her arms forward while their positioning was such that they carried between them an empty space of air that was roughly the very width of her slim shoulders and concentrated upon the same form of researched knowledge by her creator that had led to the very projectile attack she had learned at sea. The chakra that was laying dormant within the inner core of her spiritual body began to stir and awaken.

Gradually would be formulated a roundness of shape within the span of her outspread arms, however it was quite so still very flat and two-dimensional in nature, a razor thin hoop of dull chakra which was spread to be thinly shaped and hollow. Only with the insertion of more and more chakra was the shape able to obtain what was a semblance of vibrancy in its color which was the white that might be seen in a fresh snowfall or the milk of a cow. With this facet of being too, the shape began slowly to fill in the empty hole that echoed from its hollow center.

Eventually the form was completed and hovered before her autonomously, even as her hands were withdrawn, a flat and polished plane which if did not glow with such whiteness might be usable as a form of mirror to preen herself in view of. Relegating the thing to the back of her mind now, the massive creation would float gently around her until it literally sat with its central point behind her head. Fascinatingly it seemed she could move it by her very will. With that information in mind, she dispelled the disc and moved onward.

She had yet to reach her current destination which was a port on the other sie of the island. Once she had, it was a simple matter to charter a boat to her final destination on this journey, the Moon Country. Aboard the sailing vessel she could only wait out the day or two that the trip would take, amusing herself with gambling and sex. In return, almost as if it were she who were doing them a favor and not the other way around, she was able to feed upon fresh blood to her hearts content, becoming stronger and more vibrant than before, no longer wilting under the sun's harsh rays.

-move to moon?-

[💀]

+10 and moving

[The Bearer of Bad News]

Reflective Shield
Rank: "B"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User is able to reflect the power of Chakra Missile and similar techniques.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A user becomes immune to the Jutsu Chakra Missile and other similar techniques that require the knowledge of Chakra Missile. For the purposes of being affected by Chakra Missile, a user is constantly treated as under the effect of reflecting, thus reflecting offensive Chakra Missiles back at their performer. If that former is protected by the Shield Jutsu these reflected missiles are negated.
Limit: Must be a Shape Transformation Specialist. Must know Shield.

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Having made landfall within the Moon country and mastered the art of the formation of a sort of barrier like construction around her very person, the changeling called Rutherford would consider upon the new abilities in a new sort of way. Her researching of her late creator's manuscripts had taught her much about how to think within the regards of such universal-type of chakra creations, which left her assured that she had the critical thinking and creativity necessary to embark upon such a new manner of being.

The goal in this instance was to utilize the barrier creating technique which previously she had mastered in order to facilitate the creation of a new sort of way with which to use that vary technique that would be useful to her. Managing enhancements to her abilities with their various limited durations was becoming increasingly taxing on her mental capabilities, and so the concept upon which she was now attempting to design would be that of which she could maintain that form of barrier upon her very body for an indefinite period of the unlimited time she had on this world.

It was her hope to engulf herself in a permanent aura of the universal type chakra in which she was born to specialize so as to be capable of protecting herself passively even when not aware of any potential threats that may be seeking to inconvenience her existence. Such a creation of chakra would naturally not be so potent in its application as the more temporary forms of improvement, but due to the complete lack of upkeep it was still worthwhile to attempt to generate within and without her very self.

There was of course a degree of issue with this concept that was being expounded upon, in that she had no real idea of where or how to begin with the creation of a technique such as this, especially with how this was still fairly new territory for the changeling.

No plan is entirely without flaw though, and so she decided for herself that what was perhaps the best way of initiating the process was for her to create the very technique itself upon which she sought to generate a variance of. Create it, and study it with care.

[The Bearer of Bad News]

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As the creation of the barrier-type technique from before proceeded as normal, Schatzi Rutherford tried to manipulate the very shape of the creation, seeking to bend and distort the formation of the technique wherein she would be capable of enveloping herself within its protection rather than simply interposing a barrier between her own physical being and an incoming attacking sort of ability as was what would need doing with the shield.

It was however proving to be something which she could not seem to find possible to do, no matter how she altered the wavelength and flow of her chakra which formed the physical existence of the barrier-type technique. It refused against her every effort to reshape itself according to her will, steadfastly existing solely as a massive floating shield of white energy. One that could move around her body at a thought, but which otherwise retained its shape stubbornly.

For now the changeling could do no more than ponder at what logic or form of reasoning could be behind this failure and attempt again to surpass the issue at hand through sheer bloody-minded persistence. Such efforts had well served her in the past, and would continue to do so well into the future she believed. It wasn't exactly efficient, but when someone has literally all the time in the world, efficiency isn't too significant of a problem.

Once more she attempted manipulation of the very formation of the barrier-type shield that hovered before her, attempting to bend it, twist it, do anything that might be considered a reshaping of the creation that existed as a protection from those who would do her harm. Although visibly she met with no outward success, she felt as though something which was a concept similar to progress was in spite of all that being made. After all, each failure if nothing else taught her what not to do, and if she were able to discover every way not to achieve her goal, then the next time she would stumble upon the right way.

Perhaps that was an oversimplification of her situation as it stood currently, but that was the approach of someone for whom time had no meaning. The great barrier still hovered stolidly before her, as flat and white as it had been the whole time. Mocking her.

[The Bearer of Bad News]

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Continuing efforts to generate a permanent barrier-type ability were proceeding poorly still. Schatzi seemed incapable of gaining any form of greater understanding within the capabilities of the technique that so stymied her, and it was beginning to grow irritating, however it was her instinctive feeling that by this point she had come far enough that to give up now would very much be a greater waste of time than simply pushing through and continuing her attempts to initialize a permanent sort of defensiveness.

The mocking wall of whiteness still levitated inches from the ground, piercing the shapeshifter's sight and mind with its obnoxious and stubborn refusal to yield to her very willpower. The chakra construction was no longer that same one as was from before, as it had run out of energy by this point and faded away, but was in fact a new creation which proved to be every bit as immutable as the one that had been its predecessor.

In a way, such a powerful construction was a good thing, as it meant that she had a way to defend herself as well as those whom she saw gain in defending in an effective and reliable manner, however it was ultimately a form of active mitigation. She had no interest currently in any sort of active mitigation where she herself was concerned, which was the crux of why she was doing this in the first place. To her mind, permanent passive effects were objectively better even if they were of a lower direct potency.

Perhaps that was actually the problem. The shield seemed to her understanding to be just as strong as it always was. If she were to attempt to reduce the power of its defense, there was a possibility that she might perhaps be capable of manipulating its form more effectively. And by effectively, the real meaning would be "at all", considering her repeated failures so far within the efforts which she had committed to.

Using such a concept as a basis, she attempted to not quite dismiss the creation, but rather to disperse only a portion of the chakra that existed as the physical formation of the shielding technique, but even only this was something that was more difficult to perform as more than simply a conceptual idea than assumed, as the entire barrier vanished as though it were never there in the first place.

[The Bearer of Bad News]

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Now currently following under the proceeding concept of intentionally creating a weaker sort of barrier-type of ability in order to more easily manipulate its very shape and properties, Rutherford's outstretched arms grasped loosely at a physical presence which did not yet exist. Letting mere trickles of chakra flow forth from within her very self at a time, she was attempting to grab hold of the result before it was even formed and assert her will upon it.

Slowly, the rounded edges of the towering defensive construction would begin to take form within the very grasp of the ancient changeling, and she pulled upon it in such a manner as to attempt to warp and distort the shaping of the creation which was still currently in progress. She seemed to feel as if there was maybe just a tiny bit of give to the chakra essence, perhaps, but it was still very rigid. This rigidity with its hardness made it brittle, and the creation shattered violently within her grasping hands.

On the next sort of attempt to finalize the technical aspects within the very concept upon which she was attempting to create as a new state of being, she took a slower form of approach to the process. She attempted to maintain a light but even and regular trickling of the chakra that formulated the creation, while bending it back toward herself in a slow and measured sort of manner. This appeared to be working somewhat better than before, but the rate of progress was causing her limited span of attention to dwindle.

It was however upon following this sort of tactic in the very creation of the barrier-type ability that Schatzi was able to envelope the entirety of her being within the formation of the shield's shape and capabilities. At first, she seemed to shine as though drowned in white light, a blinding field that would surely dissuade any would-be assaulter from acting with undue haste, but soon that would dim down to a semitransparent field.

It seemed that she was successful, and she marveled as the shield gradually shrank down around her until it was a part of her, melting into her very flesh and becoming completely invisible to the naked eye. She felt as though she had a second skin mixed in with the first, blending seamlessly with her very being in a perfectly harmonious creation. With any luck, it would last forever.

[Nira]

+31

[The Bearer of Bad News]

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She was however completely off-base in all of her assumptions. Having performed the Soul Split technique to test her theory, the missiles that her other self launched impacted the barrier, which flashed brightly...and then exploded. Shards of gleaming white chakra scattered through the air before vanishing only a few inches from the changeling's body.

Irritated that her efforts so far had come to naught, she fired a stinging volley at her double, which had no effect to speak of, and resumed her attempts to generate a permanent barrier which she would not need to maintain. The shining barrier was reformed within her hands, ready to defend against any who would harm her or those she deemed appropriate to protect, but as before it was not quite at full power. This was by design, not accident.

Again as before, she would attempt to reshape the very creation which existed now within her grasp, though it was still proving to be a rather stubborn thing. Even though she had previously managed to get the barrier to surround herself, it had not been powerful enough to withstand even one missile volley, and so she was attempting to now pour a greater amount of power into the technique while also keeping it weak enough to reform.

Gradually, she managed to begin making progress, and that was when her duplicate fired off another missile volley, each squarely impacting the barrier. It flashed white repeatedly, but otherwise held even as she slowly bent it into the proper position for the next phase of what she was attempting to create. That was good, it meant that there was a chance that just maybe the shield would be strong enough to do what it was meant to do.

Eventually she was able to warp herself somewhat within the shield's protective embrace, and from there sought to compress it around herself such that it could once more merge within her very flesh. This process took some time yet, but Schatzi felt that this time there was a good potentiality for it having been a successful attempt.

[Solus]

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