Isle of Horrors: Black

[Chuunin Examiner]

Isle of Horrors

The creatures here are otherworldly and can not be conquered. There is no power, however mighty, that can defeat them. They will always be exactly twice as strong as the strongest entity interacting with them. However, in exchange for the indomitable might, these horrors are notably lacking in mind. They grow more intelligent and willful as orbs are destroyed, by they start off with minds that rival a young child in oblivious stupidity. The orbs on this island are buried in the ground. They give off a soft white or violet glow showing where they are, and the mighty horrors guard those glowing spots. Sneak or fool the horrors long enough, and one will have the opportunity to dig up orbs.

The land here is black and broken, like it was once a beautiful island met with a storm of burning blades. Raw power pulsates from this island. It is a mixture of incorporeal forces, like souls and chakra, and it spells disaster for anyone who can detect such powers. The nightmarish beings that wander this land continue to decay the island merely by existing. At times, total darkness covers portions of this island, and the land bears a new scar by the time light returns.

Even the sand on the coast is black and glassy. Horrors is an inkblot in the ocean—monochrome black as far as the eye can see. The portal onto the island sits on top a cliff that overlooks the southwestern coast. Two withered, black trees stand to its side like grand antlers.

Mighty forces roam the desolate landscape. They are creatures of the dark that embody a single trait—invincibility. The buried orbs glow light violet and are scattered far and wide, but each among a different cluster of nightmares.

[Chuunin Examiner]

Yoko

Unveiled for all the world to see, Yoko arrived on the Isle of Horrors. For now, there were no horrors right next to the portal. Only the roar of the ocean against the cliff filled the air.

From the cliff's height, Yoko would be able to spot two violet glows off in the distance. One sat at the base of a massive boulder that was twice her height. It was about forty meters to the northeast.

Sixty-five meters north, there was another glow buried in the ground. This second glow was surrounded by three beings. One was a transparent red slug the size of a wolf. It oozed in an oval around the glow.

A gray, bat-like creature crawled along the ground a couple more meters away from the glow. The creature was much bigger than an average person. Its torso alone was the size of an elephant. It had a head made of three dozen stalked eyeballs that swayed like underwater seaweed. There didn't seem to be a mouth on its head of eyes, and its wings were tattered and full of holes.

The final creature was slow. It was like a row of scissor blades arranged along a cylinder of flesh—a bladed centipede. Its body was about as thick as a forearm, but it stretched out to what had to be twelve meters long. The centipede's body undulated as it scratched its way across the wasteland. One part of its long body was nearly directly over the glowing orb.

[Cadoc]

Having travelled through the gate Yoko’s immediate reaction was to check her equipment, fortunately, it was all still there: Rogue stone, Fairy stone, Umbrite knife, greaves, gauntlet, helmet, etc. After observing the area for a minute noticed two faint glowing lights, presumably orbs. In response, she formed a series of seals, activating the ‘lifted stride’ technique, and applying her phial of scent killer. Before making her way towards the north-east orb in a sneaky way, taking care to look out for traps, remaining within the shadows, (or as close to them) as possible.

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Lofted Stride
Rank: "D"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User gains the ability to walk on water and do it silently.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User's soul grabs hold of their body and holds it just off of the ground making their movements much more quiet. The target of this Jutsu is personal. Duration is 5 hours per Class Level. By performing this Jutsu the user gains the effects of walking on any liquid as if it were firm ground. Mud, oil, snow, quicksand, running water, and even lava can be traversed easily, since the subjects’ feet hover an inch or two above the surface. (Creatures crossing molten lava still take damage from the heat because they are near it.) The subjects can walk, run, charge, or otherwise move across the surface as if it were normal ground. Does not leave footprints. User also gains a +10 per Class Level to Stealth due to the silent running.
Limit: Must be a Soulcaster.

[Chuunin Examiner]

Yoko

There were no hints of shadows on the way to her destination, but nothing approached Yoko or held her back. Time passed. Distance reduced. Though moving stealthily required her to be slower than she could've been, Yoko found herself within fifteen meters of the northeast glow.

It is from this distance that Yoko noticed something unusual. The boulder had somehow changed its shape without her noticing. It may had happened in the span of a blink or gradually during her approach. Though the boulder had once been large and round, it was now a thick cylindrical pillar looming over the violet glow. The height was the same, but that was all.

[Cadoc]

Upon noticing the boulders change, Yoko pondered if there was more to this island's features that met the eye. To investigate this matter further the youth lowered her goggles, and briefly examined the area using the heat mode. Reading an action in the process, if this pillar was, in fact, a 'horror'.

If Yoko was satisfied that no horrors lie in wait, she'd slowly approach the orb using the dim lighting (or darkness) to her advantage, goggles up. Upon closing the distance, she'd closely examine the area.

Item used:

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Infravision Lens
Rank: "B"
Type: Secondary, 0 per Slot, Gadget, Surveillance, Vision
Effect: An electro-optical image intensifying vision relay that detects visible and near-heat signatures, intensifies the signatures, and provides a visible image of the signatures.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Infravision allows a creature to see in complete darkness up to a range increment of 20 meters. Though not in or through darkness that is chakra in origin. Infravision is the vision of heat signatures. User gains a bonus or penalty dependent on the temperature of the heat signature. If the temperature is a positive, the user gains a circumstance bonus. If the temperature is a negative, the user gains a circumstance penalty. Under the effects of Infravision the user gains a-4 penalty to blinding effects caused by bright lights.
+/-5 degrees above the environment: +/-5
+/-11-15 degrees: +/-10
+/-16-50 degrees: +/-20
+/-51-100 degrees: +/-40
+/-101+ degrees: +/-80
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Gadget Shop.
Cost: 5,000 Ryo Each

[Chuunin Examiner]

Yoko

The pillar itself was not a horror from what Yoko could detect, but something hid in the pillar's shadow. Well, it wasn't trying to hide, but it blended too smoothly to the surroundings. There wasn't any heat coming off of it. Yoko's own darkvision did more to reveal the beast. The stealth that Yoko took effort to achieve was done quite naturally by the creature in the shadows.

Shell Lizard, a stone lizard with armor along its backside like an armadillo, rested in the shadows of the pillar. Its large, front left claws rested mere centimeters from the violet glow in the ground.

Shell Lizard didn't seem to be touching the ground, either. When its claws moved, they always hovered mere inches from the ground. It was soundless here by the pillar. In all likelihood, the former shape of the pillar was due to having the stone lizard wrapped around it.

[Cadoc]

Hmm, a creature lurking in the shadows? Only a few centimetres from the orb? Perhaps she could just take it? The youth felt confident in her abilities, so quietly walked up, presences masked by the shadows, and attempted to pick the orb up.

Hide in Plain Sight (100)
Rank: "A"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User is able to hide in plain sight.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The user can hide even while being actively observed. As long as the user is within 3 meters of some sort of Shadow, the user can hide from view in the open without the aid of anything to actually hide behind. The user may not however hide in their own shadow.
Limit: Must be an Alchemist.

[Chuunin Examiner]

Yoko

Unbeknownst to Yoko, Shellizard was already hiding in plain sight inside the shadow. In the same way her darkvision and lens pierced through the shadows, the horror's darkvision let it see through the shadows without trouble. However, despite that, it didn't act against the approaching genin. Not yet.

The violet orb, like all the other ones on the island, was buried underground. Yoko reached the glow in the ground, but she couldn't swipe it without digging for it first.

[Cadoc]

Alas it seemed the pair was in quite the tricky situation, Yoko was able to see the creature through the darkness, her honed observational skills apparently exceeding its stealth ability, whether it was aware of this was an entirely different matter of course. She could only hope that the reverse didn't hold true, her training in the stealth arts allowed her to quite literally, hide in plain sight. Even if her opponent did, in fact, possess dark vision it mattered not, for the ability only allowed someone to see in dim light/darkness: the inability to see something does not remove its existence, the technique was not called Hide in Some Shadows and Darkness, or Hide in Someone Else's Perception of Shadows and Darkness. Yoko could have been stood under the baking sun, at noon, and provided a shadow had been close by remain hidden, that was what distinguished her from your average rogue: the ability to hide in plain sight. As such, she dug around the orb, doing so as carefully as possible, to not break stealth. Upon reaching the required depth, she attempted to remove the object.

[Chuunin Examiner]

Yoko

Skill Checks

Just as Yoko's hand reached towards the glow in the ground, before it could even touch the blackened dirt, Shellizard practically disappeared from sight.

Shellizard moved fast, but silently. Its lofted stride kept any of its legs from grazing the ground. While focused upon the glow and upon trying to maintain her own stealth, Yoko had willingly given herself distraction.

At twice Yoko's own movement speed, minus a tad due to its large size, Shellizard moved behind Yoko—out of sight from the lens' vision. Should Yoko turn her head, Shellizard would shift or prowl as needed to remain behind or aside the genin's sight. Like Yoko, and like it did before Yoko arrived, Shellizard used the same large shadow to hide.

Half a second after its relocation, Shellizard clawed at Yoko's back. It aimed a killer blow for the spine with its long-reaching arms. Its natural reach easily went up to a full three meters.

If Yoko couldn't get a lock of Shellizard's location, such a blow struck as a sneak attack. A blow to such a region was certainly crippling in nature.

Despite that, Shellizard didn't seem to radiate any malice. It slashed with its claws like a cat might bat at a toy. The creature's full strength wasn't used.

Armour Point Damage Breakdown
Claw (Natural Attack, Large) = 6 AP
Killer (Trait, Target—Spine) = 20 AP
Sneak Attack (Supplementary, 1760 effective TP) = 36 AP

Total = 62 AP
Isle of Horrors (AP Doubling, Range Doubling) = Effect Willfully Unused

Extra Effects
Crippling Strike = -1 to Movements

[Cadoc]

It appeared that Yoko’s initial thoughts regarding the creature were correct, it was some type of guardian to the stone. How immensely troublesome. She had thought the creature a fitting mount.

Right as she was about to touch the dirt, the creature sprang into action. A burst of speed that far exceeded her own, unfortunately for the creature its large body was quite amiss, she immediately realised the moment it left her sight, in response, she grasped at her bow and readied an action. Had her keen senses been able to follow the creature’s movements as it ‘disappeared’ she’d note its speed, some forty feet per a second. And she had lost.

If this was a question of speed, but alas, it was not, it was a case of remaining hidden, and the creature’s lack of intelligence had given it away. For a start the likelihood that it had run off to practice its hundred-metre dash was improbable, instead, it was far more likely that it has spotted the youth and was circling for an attack. The haste with which it moved was rather foolish as well, another indicator that it was nothing more than a mindless monster: stealth and running don’t mix. So, angle the creature was going to attack from? Chances are she already knew for the beast had given up its stealth tactic. Its large arc meant that she had sufficient time to fire off four arrows she had prepared earlier at the orb, whilst turning her body ninety degrees to the left. The youth then readied an additional attack; if aware of the incoming attack the youth attempted to evade it through an agile retreat, simultaneously discharging the broadhead arrow at the creature's left eye. If unaware, which seemed wildly unlikely, she at least still had the moment of attack, contorting her body on impact in an effort to reduce the attack she'd fire off the arrow again at the eye, it was after all impossible to make a melee attack while stealthed.

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Additional +20 vs observation. And if I’m not mistaken your large creature is subject to -20 stealth due to its size.

Stealth 280 = 125 Skill points + 10 Heritage + 40 Social + 5 Insight + 30 circumstance + 40 techniques +10 Luck

Observation 154 = 64 +10 Heritage + 40 Social + 5 Insight +20 Technique + 10 Ritual + 10 Luck – 5 Reduction.

Hypersensitivity
Rank: "B"
Type: Augmentation
Effect: User is particularly sensitive to their surroundings.
Special: To perform: 3 hours; Duration: Permanent
Drawback:
Description: Internal - Takes up [2] Augmentation Points. User gains a +10 Ritual bonus to Observation checks. Also invisible opponents gain no advantages related to hitting the user in melee. Darkness and poor visibility in general reduces the user's movements to 3-quarters normal instead of 1-half.
Limit: Must be a Ritualist for Augmentation Rituals.
Cost: Market Price: 23,000 Ryo Performing Price: 17,000 Ryo

Bow, Recurve (Overview)
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Piercing, Bow
Effect: A bow with mechanical aids to help with drawing the bowstring while reducing range.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A Two-Handed Weapon. These weapons do +8 Amour Points of Weapon Damage. The Range Increment of this weapon is 35 meters. May be used in Mounted Combat. A recurve bow has tips that curve away from the archer when the bow is strung. By definition, the difference between recurve and other bows is that the string touches a section of the limb when the bow is strung. A recurve bow stores more power and delivers energy more efficiently than an equivalent straight-limbed bow, giving a greater amount of energy and speed to the arrow.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Hunting Shop.
Cost: 4,000 Ryo

Improved Rapid Shot (20)
Rank: "C"
Skill: TaiJutsu/Supplementary
Effect: User is able to shoot an arrow once more within a movement for only 2 movements.
Special: ---
Drawback: Only works within 1st Range Increment.
Description: With the Improved Rapid Shot technique the user may shoot 1 extra arrow for 2 of their movements per round. This allows the user to shoot 2 arrows within 2 of their movements. If user has Quick Aim this technique works with Far Shot.
Limit: Must be a Marksman. Must know Rapid Shot.

Arrowhead: Boreworm (Overview) x13
Rank: "B"
Type: Secondary, 16 per Slot, Marksman, Ammunition, Arrowhead
Effect: An arrowhead that releases from the shaft and burrows into the opponent.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Picture This arrowhead is a strange looking drill-bit head. On impact, the head detaches and burrows its way deeper into the target. This arrowhead is able to ignore 5 points of Hardness or Damage Reduction. To take out the arrowhead from a person the user must have First Aid: Healing (Advance). The Range Increment Adjustment with this Arrowhead is -3 meters.
Limit: These types of items may be bought inside any Hunting Shop.
Cost: 4,800 Ryo per Slot, or 300 Ryo Each

[Chuunin Examiner]

OOC

Correct. The creature's size penalty was already applied during its own rolls. The creature's additional bonus due to having an extra class level for lofted stride and focused study was also taken into account. It also does not receive the umbrite bonuses since it does not have equipment of that material. Same for the luckbringer dice and the extra luck bonus that it pairs with.

However, your stealth's number was off. A heritage bonus wasn't found nor applied during the roll. Skulker and Lofted stride were applied for the technique portion, but I haven't noticed anything that would apply another twenty on top of the forty. I also missed an extra twenty from focused study.

If you'd like to break down your stealth numbers to confirm, please feel free. You're also free to skip the process—the skill roll results remains the same with either numbers in play.

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Yoko

The moment Yoko attempted her first bow shot, she made an opening that Shellizard utilized. Adjacent and inside the same shadow, Shellizard immediately swiped its left claw at Yoko's spine during her quick movements. The strike's time of impact was while the genin was in the middle of trying to loose her first ranged attack, and if she fired the attack anyway, doing so while being struck would likely mean several missed shots.

Since Yoko had fully expected to get away with her ranged attacks without retaliation, the unexpected opportunity blow still carried the full shock of a sneak attack. Additionally, right after the disrupting claw attack, Shellizard's entire left limb swiped out for a big, hard slam.

The armored lizard used its full reach for the second attack. After the swiping left claw finished its strike, Shellizard let its left limb extend to its full three-meter reach and swiped it in the other direction. Like a reverse haymaker or oversized backhand, the armored limb swung back with the same attack arch. It wouldn't be a surprise the second time around—concealment broken by the first strike, and following the same arch as the first—but the full reach let the limb attack with more than two meters of additional radius. It was a blow that was paired with and immediately followed the first.

This second time, instead of the spine, the upper torso was the target. Shellizard's slam came in with the type of force that meant to crush ribs and all the organs in the chest.

Yoko herself could still retaliate. If she went through with her planned counterattack to shoot Shellizard in the eye, the armored lizard wouldn't do anything to defend itself. It'd let the arrow pierce right into its eye. There was no pain for the nerveless horror, though it'd have impaired sight for three seconds as the arrow slowly sunk into its body and the eye regenerated.

Opportunity attack triggered.

Armour Point Damage Breakdown

Claw (Natural Attack, Large) = 6 AP
Killer (Trait, Target—Spine) = 20 AP
Sneak Attack (Supplementary, 1760 effective TP) = 36 AP
Total = 62 AP
Isle of Horrors (AP Doubling, Range Doubling) = EWU

Extra Effects
Crippling Strike = -1 to Movements

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Slam (Natural Attack, Large) = 6 AP
Killer (Trait, Target—Ribs, Organs) = 20 AP
Isle of Horrors (AP Doubling, Range Doubling) = EWU
Total = 26 AP

A ranged attack is a strike against a distant target. A ranged attack usually targets one creature within its range. Shooting a bow or performing Chakra Missile is a ranged attack.
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Provoke Opportunity Attack: If you use a ranged technique while adjacent to an enemy, that enemy gains an opportunity attack against you.
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An opportunity movement takes place before the target finishes a movement. After the opportunity attack, the creature resumes its movements.

[Cadoc]

The youth’s keen senses monitored the beast’s movements as it attempted to flank her. While doing so she readied her bow and was about to fire off a volley of four arrows at the orb, a feat well within her capabilities. However, in doing so she had apparently prompted a change of tact from the beast, it appeared to have abandoned its strategy and instead rapidly close the distance to strike at her before she could fire. A rather audacious assault, but not one unpredicted by the youth, she had already planned to fire an arrow off at the creature’s eye, the sequence of events had merely changed. Having already turned her body ninety degrees the youth had no problem tracking the creature's path of attack, she observed as it closed the distance and attempted to strike her with a swiping left. Unfortunately for the creature the primitive attack seemingly lacked any foreplanning, in fact, it appeared that it was desperate to stop her, lashing out the moment she was within range. As such the youth merely had to make a short movement to evade the blow, shifting her body backwards and thus out of the line of the creature’s sweeping assault while firing off the four arrows as per her plan. Their path was unobscured by the beast’s body on account of its approach from an angle. The youth continued her retreat putting some fifteen feet between herself and the creature, while again readying an attack, in doing so she had prepared for a subsequent charge by the monster and hopefully ‘stealthed’ herself: still within three meters of the rock’s shadow. The addition of this distance meant that the creatures follow-up attack also missed its mark rather unfortunate. If it advanced towards her to continue its attack she’d attack its eyes with an arrow each.

[Chuunin Examiner]

Yoko

Again, the genin intended to use ranged attacks. Like before, the horror's attacks arrived before she was able to loose them. Both of her new actions following her dodge—retreating and using a ranged attack—left openings and opportunities for Shellizard. Also as before, Shellizard moved with a little less than twice Yoko's own movement speed. The retreat's opening was exploited this time.

Shellizard's unused hind legs kicked into gear. The claws still made no sound as they hovered over the physical ground, but the horror still moved like it were on solid ground. It had no problem tracing any retreat to keep the genin within its reach.

Instead of using the follow-up attack right away, the new opportunity presented by Yoko's changed sequence of movements paved the way for an even closer attack than before. The first swipe was dodged, but while Yoko was in the middle of retreating from the second swipe, Shellizard pushed right up to her and swung with the second swipe before Yoko completed her retreat or unleash a single ranged strike. At the new positions, the horror unleashed its swipe while its armored torso was half a meter away from Yoko. Since the opportunity presented by Yoko was in the middle of her first retreat, it took place even before the genin thought to prepare for a charge.

An aura of thrill, if Yoko could see or feel such a thing, welled up and radiated from Shellizard. It was pleased like a cat being given the chance to chase a mouse or bird. Protect the orb and chase visitors. To a mind like Shellizard, this was an exhilarating act of play.

The secondary swipe was otherwise the same as before. It struck with the same force at the same target region. Since Yoko had yet to fight back, Shellizard remained undisturbed and continued to refrain from using its full strength. Instead, it simply stalked Yoko and kept the genin within arms reach so long as they were anywhere near the orb.

Shellizard responded happily to the openings made by the attempted ranged attacks and retreats. It kept within melee range of Yoko, ready for the genin's next openings and repetitions. A simple ranged attack, retreat, or jump seemed likely. Hunting for that next action, Shellizard's mouth opened up halfway and reached forward.

Depending on where Yoko ended up after the second strike, Shellizard launched a bite to envelop the genin's upper torso. Its many small lizard teeth were ready to clamp down upon the prey. A midair bite came if the genin jumped, but otherwise Shellizard simply kept up its own repetitive tactic of outpacing Yoko for its own attack—follow every retreat and strike before shots were taken. Its teeth aimed to completely envelop everything above the genin's belly button.

Yoko's stealth, if she resorted to it again, would fail. Shellizard remained completely aware and undistracted.
Skill rolls

Slam (Natural Attack, Large) = 6 AP
Killer (Trait, Target—Ribs, Organs) = 20 AP
Isle of Horrors (AP Doubling, Range Doubling) = EWU
Total = 26 AP
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Bite (Natural Attack, Large) = 8 AP
Killer (Trait, Target—Chest, Spine, Upper Torso) = 20 AP
Isle of Horrors (AP Doubling, Range Doubling) = EWU
Total = 28 AP

Moving Provokes: If an enemy leaves the area next to you, you can make an opportunity attack against that enemy. However, you cannot make one if the enemy shifts or teleports or is forced to move away by a pull, a push, or a slide.
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Interrupts Target’s Movements: An opportunity movement takes place before the target finishes a movement. After the opportunity attack, the creature resumes its movements.

[Cadoc]

I fully reject the idea that you can continually proc 'opportunity attacks' for the same action. As confirmed by Usiel characters get a single opportunity attack per six-second span. You cannot continually attack me for making the same motion. 

[Chuunin Examiner 3]

OOC

Now that:

Combat Reflexes
Rank: "B"
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: User can make additional opportunity of attacks.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User may make a number of additional opportunity attacks per round equal to 1 + 1/4 of their movements. With this technique, the user may also make opportunity of attacks while flat-footed.
Limit: Universal TaiJutsu Technique.


is a thing. please post.

[Cadoc]

Alas, the creature had exposed a fatal flaw, by allowing Yoko to dodge its first attack it had also allowed her to fire off her first volley of attacks: four arrows which struck her target to maximum effect. The second attack came during the middle of Yoko’s retreat: her efforts to put some fifteen feet between her opponent, thwarted by an attack. And whilst this development was hardly a surprise—the youth did not imagine for a moment that the creature would just swing at thin air—it did come before she was able to ready her bow for a charge. The creature’s speed was truly something to behold, but alas, its actions had not been instant, so the youth was able to respond in good measure due to her own shifting movement to its swiping arm even if its torso had only been half a metre away upon launching it. The blow, was aimed at the top of youth’s forehead, a strike that would have made contact by little more than centimetres, due to this fact, the youth was able to simply tilt her neck—and by extension her head—out of the way of the blow, whilst her free hand activated her rogue stone. As a result, the youth’s range of vision had not been adjusted, nor had her movements ceased, so she continued her well-placed steps in an effort to escape from her opponent. The possibility of yet another attack was not out of the range of possibilities given the creature had just shown its capacity for follow up attacks and see her despite her stealthing efforts, as such the youth turned her attention towards pure defence.

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Killer
Rank: "C"
Skill: Combat Trait
Effect: User has made their first kill at a very young age and found the task of war or murder to their liking.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User either takes particular pride in a well-placed blow, or find vile pleasure in twisting the blade to maximize their target's pain. User deals an amount of additional damage equal to their Weapon Damage when they successfully strike with a critical hit with their weapon. This trait replaces 1 Freebies.
Limit: Must start with Character; replaces 1 Freebies.

Improved Rapid Shot (20)
Rank: "C"
Skill: TaiJutsu/Supplementary
Effect: User is able to shoot an arrow once more within a movement for only 2 movements.
Special: ---
Drawback: Only works within 1st Range Increment.
Description: With the Improved Rapid Shot technique the user may shoot 1 extra arrow for 2 of their movements per round. This allows the user to shoot 2 arrows within 2 of their movements. If user has Quick Aim this technique works with Far Shot.
Limit: Must be a Marksman. Must know Rapid Shot.

Arrowhead: Boreworm (Overview) x13
Rank: "B"
Type: Secondary, 16 per Slot, Marksman, Ammunition, Arrowhead
Effect: An arrowhead that releases from the shaft and burrows into the opponent.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Picture This arrowhead is a strange looking drill-bit head. On impact, the head detaches and burrows its way deeper into the target. This arrowhead is able to ignore 5 points of Hardness or Damage Reduction. To take out the arrowhead from a person the user must have First Aid: Healing (Advance). The Range Increment Adjustment with this Arrowhead is -3 meters.
Limit: These types of items may be bought inside any Hunting Shop.
Cost: 4,800 Ryo per Slot, or 300 Ryo Each

Rogue Stone
Rank: "S"
Type: Secondary, 15 per Slot, Harnessed Gem
Effect: A harnessed Gem capable of making those with it invisible 3 times per day.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The rogue stone has found a large following among many of the rogue’s guilds across the land. First harnessed by Loran Greyfoot, an Alchemist that also plied his skills as a "liberator of wealth" from the rich, the Rogue Stone is a simple, red-colored jasper stone. It is specially cut so that the edges are amorphous in shape while, from the front, it has a wavy pattern to it with 3 incised grooves. 3 times per day, the bearer of the Rogue Stone is able to turn themselves invisible for up to 30 minutes. While invisible, the bearer of the Rogue Stone cannot take any action that would be considered a direct attack against another individual; doing so breaks the natural alchemical properties and the bearer becomes visible again.
Limit: These types of items may be bought inside any Alchemy Shop. With a 25% chance of finding.
Cost: 13,000 Ryo Each.

[Chuunin Examiner 3]

As the small nimble ninja back peddled Shillizard continued its assault just as the ninja expected. However this shadowy monster was just about to close the distance when the ninja disappeared. The arrows that the child like thing had attacked glanced off the armor of this monster without leaving even the faintest of scratches. The ninja vanished before the monster could get its own attacks in and in frustration it raised its head up high and began to scream. As it did it would deafen anyone and anything around it. 

The frenzied animal would start to sniff the air and look around for any sight of the young intruder. As it looked about it would start filling its lungs again for its next attack should the boy stick around and not show himself.


Damage to chimp - 20 ap sonic
Condition afflicted - Deafened for one round 

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Name: "Durable Carapace"
Rank: C, B, A, (S-ranked)
Skill: Taijutsu
Effect: A Jutsu that is used where shelled or armored creatures gain a stronger carapace, enabling the creature to endure stronger and stronger techniques.
Special: ---
Drawback: Depending on the Rank the animal learns this technique depends how strong the carapace of the animal becomes. Damage stack against the creature's carapace, which can eventually break, and expose a softer and weaker dermis (So if the animal take a C-ranked hit, while having B-ranked armor, their armor is now a C-ranked less is durability until the end of a fight). A animal with Durable carapace, cannot have "Hardened Skin" (for snake).
Description: Animals are often born with a dense shell, or armored hides, as a means of defense against predators. Through repeated damage and impact, the body of the creature can bolster forth a hardy armor, which has weathered through various attacks throughout it's life. The creature can add the rank of this technique, plus their current rank as a creature for the total amount of defense they can gain. So when the creature learns the "C-ranked" version of this technique, they are capable of enduring one "C" Ranks of Jutsu, plus their own rank of dense before it feels the full effect. (If the "C-ranked" version of this technique learned by a "C-ranked animal" can withstand 2 "C-ranked" attacks). This carries on till "S-ranked".
Limit: Must be a animal with a dense armored body.

Name: "Armor Grazing"
Rank: C-ranked
Skill: Taijutsu
Effect: Allows a armored creature to deflect certain solid projectiles with their armor.
Special: ---
Drawback: Can only be used as many times as the animal has trained within this technique and it capped off at a certain amount. Must have a the respective rank of "Durable carapace" for this technique to work. Attacks must be solidified, and non-elemental. The same drawbacks as "Durable carapace" still apply.
Description: Using their dense armor to their advantage, a creature may use their carapace in a skilled defense play. When a projectile is thrown at a creature, their may use the armored portion of their bodies to deflect an oncoming attack. Rather than absorb the full brunt of a projectile, the carapace of the creature can allow the projectile to graze off the surface, reducing damage by a larger degree than taking on the attack head on. The creature can take on a attack, that is one rank under their "Durable carapace" technique, and receive half the damage from the attack. So if the creature has the "C-ranked" version of Durable carapace, they may reduce the damage of thrown objects, which have a "D-ranked" value by half. When first learned, they may use this technique three time in battle. Every time relearned, they gain two more uses of this technique, maxing out at 9.
Limit: Durable carapace "C-ranked"

Deafening Screech
Rank: "D"
Skill: Taijutsu
Effect: The animal companion howls, screeches, cries at such a high pitch frequency that it cause one great pain and causes deafness for one round.
Special: ---
Drawback: Has very limited range. Can effect allies.
Description: The animal screams at such a high frequency that any human within 10 meters fell feel like they were punched in the ear and will not be able to hear for one round.
Limit: Any Type of Animal

[Cadoc]

Alas, it appeared to that Yoko’s opponent was rather displeased by her previous course of action. Perhaps it was because the creature had remained in a static position whilst throwing its blow towards her forehead. Whereas, Yoko had continued her shifting movement increasing the distance that separated the pair in a rapid fashion. As such, the distance that separated their torsos was already three-metres, by the time the dodge was actioned. The ensuing dodge and invisibility movements that the youth had used, clearly had the desired effect on her opponent, who had elected not to close the distance, presumably because it was rendered unaware of Yoko’s present location and distracted by the presence of a new foe who was firing off arrows at the creature. Consequently, the distance between the pair had extended further still, as a result of the creature’s failure to act; now free of the creature’s reach, the youth spared no time in increase her rate of pace to as fast as she could muster, without running. This afforded her more than enough time to evade her opponent’s screams of frustration, as the large creature had elongate the distance further still, by raising its head up high—and thus, away from Yoko. Never slowing the youth maintained her new rate of pace, as she retreated towards the gate she had originally travelled through, her keen senses attempting to track her opponents all the while. Fortunately, she was aided in this endeavour, by the arrival of the new competitor and the creature’s wasted movements: it sniffed at the air and looked about the area, whilst seemingly preparing for an attack against the new assailant. The creature had not changed its coordinates, Yoko on the other hand, had spent the last six seconds moving away from it at her newly established pace, expending all of her movements bar one—which she utilised for an observation check—in this endeavour. /font]

[Chuunin Examiner 3]

The young ninja was able to get away from the monsters screech without suffering any damage. But the noise was still loud and piercing. The reputation of this island was so far living up to its name. The creature looked around trying to find any sort of sign of the ninja who seemingly vanished. It took a deep breath and tried to find the persons scent. So far the ninja was safe. But if they stood around in that area for much longer they would be found out.