The Doppelganger City | EPIC

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SALILIR TENYICTH.

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GAME MASTER.

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Shiki Senri of the Kyoudo.

[/u], Phlokei Station, and squared enclosure where more ridebeasts are tended to by hunch-backed horrors with bodies of toothed horns and callouses. You do not see people milling about, eating at restaurants, chatting in bars or libraries.

Everywhere there are creatues too ugly, rituals full of grotesque tradition. Bleeding limbs made to re-enact their severing, diseases traded like playing cards among the elderly, a group of trees torturing a dog-demon by urinating on it while a possessed paintbrush captured the image in cheap blues only to be set aflame and laughed at by all involved. It is chaos, everywhere. The sound of it is like every sound you have ever heard, magnified, simultaneous and unfiltered and pockmarked with the demonic utterances of unnatural voice. The 'people' of Salilir Tenyich are not people at all, and it has never been clearer than from your current vantage point. There is an 'information desk' - probably - almost 120 meters to the north-west of your current location, and a sheer drop off onto other adjacent docks and cubes below, above, and around you where Phlokei Station ends. This information desk seems so only because a large number of demons seem to wander up to it hesitantly and speak, before walking away far more confidently. Those walking around you, others departing or arriving, those who live somewhere within this cube or have business here, they ignore you. They are far too busy, and odd.

But your target is not these citizens. The majority have lived here their entire lives, and in accordance with the bizarre customs of Outsider legality, they are mostly model citizens, all but incapable of 'criminal' activity. The problem you have been hired to solve involves a 'monster', or at least, something bad enough that a town full of demons considers it to be a monster. If it were simply killing randomly, its actions would merely be praised and imitated. But it is a strange monster, and what it is doing is considered beyond blasphemy. It is one of the few behaviors considered illegal, and unforgivable in their culture. The monster has begun to worry the general public, particularly the 'parent' demographic, and due to your own human laws, demons constitute a legal race, and cannot be discriminated against, or denied the right to make legal purchases for goods and services, provided their is reasonable and legal cause for, proceeding, and following the transaction, and provided there are no incidents where they have previously broken a human law. Salilr Tenyicth makes frequent donations to the Venator organization; proof of this lies with your intended 'contact' within the city. Though unsure of where or how to find this individual, you are to meet with Venator Adjunct "Kekral Of Mourning" to receive further information regarding the monster, though when its activities have been described, their is always a shared word in its panicked witnesses details.

"Lightning".
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[The White Wolf]

This place had me on guard. I was no strangers to big cities yet I always found myself trying to avoid them at all costs. There was too much going on. Always too much movement, too much metal, too many people. Loud noises often left me distracted, shady characters often had me on edge waiting to investigate further. There were too many distractions in this city. I'd want to make my time here short. I narrowed my eyes and looked around me, directions had always come naturally to me. Part of my inuzuka training gave me a perfect ability to remember places I visit. I shifted my weight and in doing so caught my own reflection from a nearby building.

I made no attempt to disguise myself. That didn't mean I made it a point to announce myself either. A black helmet covered my face behind a glass visor. While the lens themselves could transition to reveal my face underneath it sometimes it was best to let people know what you were gazing upon them and other times it was better to remain a mystery. Even through the hazy and dusty reflection from the nearby window I could see the outlines of my magnetic grey armor. It was smooth to the touch and engraved with a depictions of wolves and dragons in dark engraved lines. The armor itself was well maintained and enchanted to never lose their freshness over time. Wrapped around the armor was a silky white cloak that covered most the armor. Worn over my shoulders the white cloak seemed unnaturally bright against the grimy backdrop of the city. A White sea with a red seal set in the center of it. A sigil of my clan.

My emotions were calm and my time living at the hallow had me used to all these manner of monsters. Although just from a few glances I could tell that a lot of the denizens here were of demonic breeding. Loki and her cabal of witches would certainly not be happy to know about that aspect. My mind wandered back towards something Loki told me about demons. Apparently they didn't get along to well with witches. The rest of my gear I chose to pack were kept bundled away in there various pouches on my person. In my hands was a large leather bound book. Simply titled. "How to seal the deal a guide through the sales process." The front image depicted a sly looking mummy in a suit coat. Among the pages were several dozen ritual seals hidden among the pages. Most of them instant item summoning rituals containing my swords and gadgets. If I were to take all the items out of their containers and set them down it would look comically ridiculous. Several hundred pounds of gear were contained in spaces the size of a small coin purse thanks to spacial magic.

I looked over at the information desk and looked around me. The place seemed massive... Was I being followed? Unlikely. I'd glance around from behind the comfort of my visor and check my surroundings. A place like this meant everyone in town knew who the big shots were. It would make sense that the information desk would likely give me some semblance of where I needed to head. I would walk over to the information desk, as I did I'd let the audio recording device inside of my mask pick up any chatter happening around me. Places like this had funny languages. Having a few samples of the language spoken here might come in handy. In fact, there might even be a chance the information desk person might not speak common.

First I'd pause... Listen to the languages. (shiki doesn't know any of them aside from common)


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THE DEMON RIDER.

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GAME MASTER.

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Shiki Senri of the Kyoudo.

[/b] Is it some sort of secret code? It is coming from different demons with no clear pattern or association with one another. It is the only phrase in common you can identify.  Will you continue on to the information desk, or head in the opposite direction, towards this mysterious rider?   
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[/b] Investigate the Demon Rider and the Child.
Optional Objective: Investigate what's behind the Common phrase "I'd Like A Booth For Three".

Plot Bonus: Due to your Venator background, you will be able to recall several words related to the notorious demon hunting practitioners in other demonic languages, even though you can't decipher full phrases or many other related words. In the interest of communication, you will be able to speak, read, and understand usages of the words "Venator", "Demon", "Devil", "Monster", and "Lightning" regardless of what demonic or devilish language is used.

Sense Bonus: Due to your finely tuned combat senses, inuzuka blood, and monster hunting prowess, your ability to be aware of impending danger is rather high. You are aware that the demon rider and his companion are about to be attacked, or more specifically, that they are being targeted by one who wishes to kill them. You can virtually smell the bloodlust, and trace its direction and intent to the demon rider and the child, but cannot tell their possible attacker's location without utilizing actual techniques.

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A pause in movement. A boy. Bloodlust in the air. Danger. It all felt very powerful. White skin, blue eyes. A Kyoudo? Dazzed. Unresponsive. Compulsion? The thoughts rushed through my head quickly as my sapphire eyes would begin to glow. The anti glare and reflective lens of my visor would keep the light from escaping behind the mask. I'd gaze at the boys chakra system by looking through his soul. I'd quickly dissect what sort of affliction was placed over him.

I was working within a world of demons. It was not uncommon for them to be sealed inside of newborns and the young. The child himself could be a demon... Before I rushed in foolishly I'd need to understand exactly what I was dealing with. The noises in common behind me were not lost on me. I'd normally would have turned around and kept walking. I couldn't put my finger on it exactly. Was it the connection to my clan, the fatherly embrace of the one clutching the child or just simple chance that would push me to waste some of my soul energy to watch this closely. i'd toggle between the x-ray and thermal view as well to try and get a read on the kids body temperature and skeletal structure to check for anything abnormal.

Spirits and demons were known for afflicting temperatures when using their powers. There was a chance I could pull more information from this.

Know All That Is
Rank: "A"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User sees past all the illusions in life and see the truth in all souls.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Target is Personal. Range is Personal. Duration is 5 minutes per Class Level. User confers on the subject the ability to see all things as they actually are. The subject sees through normal and Chakra darkness, notices secret doors hidden by Chakra, sees the exact locations of creatures or objects under Blur or Displacement effects, sees invisible creatures or objects normally, sees through Illusion GenJutsus, and sees the true form of polymorphed, changed, or transmuted things. Further, the subject can focus its vision to see into the Ethereal Plane (but not into extradimensional spaces). The range of true seeing conferred is 40 meters. True seeing, however, does not penetrate solid objects. It in no way confers X-ray vision or its equivalent. It does not negate concealment, including that caused by fog and the like. True seeing does not help the viewer see through mundane disguises, spot creatures who are simply hiding, or notice secret doors hidden by mundane means. In addition, the Jutsu effects cannot be further enhanced with known Chakra.
Limit: Must be a Soulcaster.

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GAME MASTER.

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Shiki Senri of the Kyoudo.

[/span]the 'demon rider' clutching it; the demon itself is not a living creature, though the beast it rides is.  The Demon Rider is an elaborate puppet being controlled by the child, whose internal temperature is far too high for all but the slightest of movements of its fingers.   The child is male, and exhausted, but not otherwise injured.  Several metal balls are implanted in the boys body, that are roughly the size of fingernails.[/i]

Suddenly, the Information desk explodes, timed to occur but an instant before a loud dense 'pop' cracks the air, and an arrow impacts the demon rider in the chest, and explodes into a fragmented white cloud that knocks it off its strange mount.  The child spasms as he breathes in the cloud-dust, his body shuddering and slumping forward, its weight forced by fatigue onto its mount's headless neck, and any demons nearby who inhale its thin splotchy wisps are also afflicted, collapsing, choking, coughing and in pain.  The cloud will spread across a 150 meter area within (5) posts.   The information desk is a burnt torque of debris and viscera, pieces of bodies and gore and the remnants of agitated metal edges are a splatter the violence of which has shocked much of the surroundings into silence. 

When the noise starts back up, the fear reaction of the citizens, it is not the screams and cries you might expect.  They roar like beasts.  They mourn with fury.[/ul]

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[/b] Investigate the Demon Rider and the Child.
Optional Objective: Investigate what's behind the Common phrase "I'd Like A Booth For Three".
Optional Objective: Figure out what happened to the Information Booth.

Sense Bonus: Due to your Soulcaster passive abilities, you can tell that the child itself is an 'Adopted Soul',  a fellow Soulcaster.  Your natural sense of smell is similarly picking up, if not the specific chemical compound, at least a startling familiarity.  Whatever this cloud is, you've smelled it before.  Further information can only be gained through the use of techniques.  


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[The White Wolf]

As the arrow moved across the air and smashed into the rider an explosion filled the air. Instantly my helmet sealed reacting to the stimulus of battle. Thankfully my helmet already with the visor down would quickly start to warn me of the incoming substances in the area. The gas mask built into my visor should hopefully be ebough to keep me safe from whatever chemical mixture it was. Unless it was chakra of course. If it was Chakra I'd be able to tell by sensing an aura. Electronic overlays would instantly start to analyze the cloud rushing towards me. Preemptively, my hands would quickly grab my fullblade and swing it around in front of me to block the incoming shockwave and the . I'd square myself into a stance to prevent myself from being blasted backwards or to catch any of the debris that might have embedded themselves in my body.

Quickly using my bloodlimit to pull one of the slivers of metal from the arrow into my hand or as much of the arrow as I could. I didn't have much time to react. I needed to figure out what has going on here before I got ahead of myself. Quickly I'd start to discern where this arrow came from. My body would buckle for a second as it would appear that I had lost consciousness, as if I had succumbed to the dust cloud as well. But in reality my soul was tracing back the timeline of this weapon for a full 3 three seconds. Three seconds in my state would quickly provide me with 4 days of information on the weapon as if reversing time. From the moment it hit the boy, from the moment it was fired and potentially to the moment it was constructed if it was recently. The moment I touched the object as well I would also be able to determine two very important things, the name of the person who made the weapon and the name of the last person who touched this weapon, besides myself.

My knee would hit the deck as my mind would begin to race with images and information.

"Player Speech is A25428 "

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Know Where
Rank: "B"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Trace where an object came from.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Target is 1 object. Range is Touch. Duration is 1 hour or until stopped. By touching an object user can get information from the impression a soul has left behind much like a finger print. Touch one object and the user enters a helpless state but the user can watch how an object found its way to where it is as if reversing time. Each round in the helpless state gives the user a week of information as if they were the object that the user touched. User can end this Jutsu in the same amount of time as performing the Jutsu.
Limit: Must be a Soulcaster.

Know Who
Rank: "D", "C", ("B")
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Gain information on an object.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The range of this Jutsu is Touch, with a target of 1 Object. By touching an object you can get information from the impression a soul has left behind much like a finger print. When first learned the user can learn the gender of the person who made the object as well as the gender of the last person other than the user who touched the object. When they learn the "C" Rank version the user can learn the race and age of the person who made the object as well as the race and age of the last person other than the user who touched the object. When the user learns the "B" Rank version the user can learn the name of the person who made the object as well as the name of the last person other than the user who touched the object.
Limit: Must be a Soulcaster.

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GAME MASTER.

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Shiki Senri of the Kyoudo.

[/i][/b], and you see a look of frustration rewind into an unflinchingly stiff grimace, as the recoil of her weapons-fire reverses and forces its way back into the complicated shaft of the Assassin's bow.  Her face shivers from momentary elation to one of disbelief.  A voice next to her says, backwards, "Craftsman said you're special.  Said you get to try before you buy."  As she seems to burst with smiling excitement and then quickly shove the strange bow into an enormous metal anchoring that floats up into the unknown person she speaks to's hand. 

The Assassin seems to reply, backwards, "What kind of special guarantee?"  The unknown voice next to her seems to reverse answer, "I've also neglected to mention my special middle-man guarantee."  The unknown male seems to push the entire thing onto a metal frame that blooms from around him out of nowhere,  jutting out the folds of his sparse clothing as the two waltzed backwards into the fold of a slowly melting building wall.  Through a complicated corridor and mazes of stairs the two walk and the Assassin's face moves from disbelief to an emotionless mask as she seems to respond backwards "What else haven't you told me?"  

The two walk backwards in complete silence, the arrow, in its complete form, jostling within some unknown compartment carried by the Assassin's companion.  The Assassin's face begins to absorb mucous profusely out of nowhere, her eyes sucking water up from her cheeks where a second ago there had been nothing.  Down a long winding stairway and through hidden doors, she looked as if she were rebuilding sections of impact-marked walls with bits of gravel and destroyed brick and metal she caught out of thin air, punctuating each restored partition with a clenching of her fist, as if grasping something. 

She was then merely walking next to her companion once more, backwards, eventually out into the crosshatched light of a busy street, marred by doppelganger streets shifting up and around and through it, impossibly.  The Assassin's companion then said, backwards, "I'm dying."  The Assassin's face would suddenly relax, all its tension disappearing, her arms playfully holding on to her unknown companion's arm as if sucked by gravity, her face angling sharply towards his as she said, backwards, "Not sure who it is though, I've been feeling something spooky late---".  Her companion comes to a stop as a vehicle pulls up in reverse and the two split to enter either side.  As the large contraption anchored to the man is unhooked from his clothing and placed, along with the sheathed weapon, into a storage space in the vehicle's side compartment, the memories fade out.  The arrow, and the machine it inhabits, are unattended.

Suddenly a voice says, backwards, "Prepare it for transport."  And then you see someone else.  The arrow's maker.  The bow-maker.   The Craftsman.  His name is Li Kyun Ren Tucker The arrow is quite young indeed, a special order.  Crafted as if from the man's chakra itself.  The memories fade after this, and you are no longer helpless.  

Those around you are responding with varied chaotic emotions to the sudden violence of the destroyed information desk, and are beginning to point and stare, those in between it and the assaulted demon rider look back and forth, sometimes in your direction.  Their alien chatter fills each frequency of sound with malice.  A few of those closest to you back away tentatively upon seeing you draw your sword, but then must crawl away as they are assaulted by the gas.

The gasses compounds are still only vaguely familiar to you, but nothing in it is unknown or uncommon to traditional hunters or assassins.  It is a host of poisons and toxins, a stew that leaves behind agonized bodies moving slower and slower and slower....
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[/b] Investigate the Demon Rider and the Child.
Optional Objective: Investigate what's behind the Common phrase "I'd Like A Booth For Three".
Optional Objective: Figure out what happened to the Information Booth.


Epic Bonus: You have discovered the identities of 2 of 7 characters critical to the completion of your Epic,  The Craftsman, and The Assassin within the first page of your journey.  Nice Timing!  Your Reward Is;
   
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COMBAT IMMINENT.

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The memories were vivid. I came back with a gasp. 3 more seconds...  While the process would happen quickly there might be a good chance the shooter already assumed the target was dead. I'd use some slight of hand to try and conceal this process. Given that the sniper would have chosen a decent distance to make the shot and were probably already running to avoid capture I figured my chances of being noticed were slim.

Looking up at the location where the arrow was fired from I tried to see if I could catch a lens flare. Perhaps I was already in a sniper scope... I glanced over at the boy as I used my wires on my fullblade to reach out and grab the boy. The moment the wires shot out several of them would shoot out as in small spools of wire on the ground around me in little coils. The wires, able to pick up and lift 2 tons of weight would quickly pull the boy closer to me so I could get a better look at him. I gave a powerful surge of soul energy and channeled my power of my soul into the boy. The energy drain was massive, a S ranked technique. I held onto the arrow and suddenly the boy would begin to reverse its state back through time. Whatever gas that was released and inhaled would quickly begin to start rapidly compressing back inside the arrow. Including whatever gas had made its way into the polymorphed boy would quickly seep out of his mouth and nostrils back into the world outside. Tired from the exertion I'd take the arrow, now fully reformed and make sure there was nothing that stood out to me as a tracking device or tracking ritual seal.

I was in hostile territory and I had no idea if I could rely on the authorities to take my side on the state of affairs. I had already extended help to this young entity. A transgression that will probably not be forgiven by anyone should my interactions here become much more noticeable. During this time I'd quickly glance around for any buildings or alleyways that I could escape towards if things got too rough. For now. A moment of pause to see what bee's would come running out of this hive. 

Reverse Time
Rank: "S"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User removes the effect of the last round on a target.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Range is Touch. Duration is Instantaneous. With a great display of soul control a Soulcaster can force the soul of another creature to revert to the way it was the previous round. By touching a creature or making a touch attack the user removes any effect from the creature's last round. This will heal any damage done and any status effect applied. It will not give back used Chakra or Soul Power. This soul Jutsu has no effect on a dead creature. It can have an adverse effect as well returning damage that was healed last round as an example. User cannot perform this Jutsu on themselves.
Limit: Must be a Soulcaster.

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Shiki Senri of the Kyoudo.

[/a] has come upon you, swagger-leaping through the cloud without concern, staring intently at you and the boy.  It sniffs and the immensity of the inhalation visibly draws up the surrounding toxins into airborn streams.  It blows this miasma back out with an excited stomping that shakes those watching, who slither around to watch, or run, or call for others to see.   The creature leaps up into the sky several tens of meters in a flash almost too fast to see, and lands on its over-sized feet in a pattern of jumps moving at a speed something like shunshin. It is twice your height with subtle musculature and a pungent aroma, like an animal that has lived too long in filth.

The creature swivels its head towards the boy, towards your wiggling wires which seem primed for attack; it looks with shining eyes at your soul latched on to the collapsing young one and his slumping.  It sees your protective mask and combat readiness, despite the chaos otherwise unfolding around you.  It places itself on guard with a hop that occurs before it can be interrupted, adopting a fighting stance, and growls wordlessly in your direction some distance away.

And then it moves towards you.  Fast.  It began at 100 meters away, angled to a side of mirrored building front dangling from the wrong direction in a smash of its heavy feet.  It is now racing at a speed of 25 meters per second, directly for you, from a direction that allows it to swoop across the boy's location protectively.  This creature clearly sees You as the aggressor.  Welcome to Salilir Tenyicth.  The only authority here is strength. 

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[/b] Investigate the Demon Rider and the Child.
Optional Objective: Investigate what's behind the Common phrase "I'd Like A Booth For Three".
Optional Objective: Figure out what happened to the Information Booth.
Optional Objective: Find information about the logo on the arrow.
FLASH OBJECTIVE: SURVIVE!


* Plot Bonus Effect: You recognize a single word in an unknown demonic language incorporated into the logo etched onto the arrow.  The logo is essentially a pattern made of the intertwined words;  Monster Something Something Monster Something.

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"For fuck sakes." I said under my own breath as I saw the creature moving towards me. It was fast, inhumane for sure. Augmented human? Humanoid monster? I watched the pattern in it's movements towards me. And growled as I recognized the kid was still trapped in whatever strange gasses he was breathing in. I didn't have a lot of time to do this. I tossed my weapon to the side and held both my hands out in front of me palm facing towards the attacker. With another strong tug of my soul magics I'd reach out and grab the boy and teleport him in my hands in front of me. I'd hold him up by the clothing on his shoulders like a pack leader holding a cub by the nape of it's neck.

I wasn't a monster, but I was an Inuzuka. Some gestures might translate. With the polymorphed person between the two of us maybe I might be able to save his life. In one last ditch of effort I'd mutter the words "relax" in common speak under my breath. Not loud enough for anyone to hear me, but loud enough for the magic seal on my armor to activate. A wave of calming magic would emit from me causing everyone who failed to resist it's power to relax and cease hostility.

Virtus
Rank: "S"
Type: Main, Bludgeoning/Piercing/Slashing, Gauntlet
Effect: Envoke emotion. Audience. Will save 35 or calmed at the command word of "Relax"

Forceful Snatch
Rank: "A"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Target creature snaps next to the user.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Target 1 creature. Range is dependent on Soul Shunt/Sway/Step or Shift. Duration is Instantaneous. It looks to everyone who was watching that the user summoned a creature next to the user. User's soul reaches out and grabs the soul of another within the range of Soul Shunt/Sway/Step. It then snaps back to the user's body with the other Soul in a blink (no movements). Takes a Movement equal in Handseals to Perform, but instantaneous for the effect. The owner of the other soul snaps into an adjacent area next to the user. If there is no free adjacent area then the user's soul fails to hold the other soul and the ability fails. Unwilling targets gets a Will Save of 10 + (2 Per Class Level + Impeccable Will).
Limit: Must be a Soulcaster. Must know Soul Shunt/Sway/Step or Shift.

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GAME MASTER.

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Shiki Senri of the Kyoudo.

[/i]...you understand in common.

"Hill dicklings."

Huh?

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[/b] Investigate the Demon Rider and the Child.
Optional Objective: Investigate what's behind the Common phrase "I'd Like A Booth For Three".
Optional Objective: Figure out what happened to the Information Booth.
Optional Objective: Find information about the logo on the arrow.
Optional Objective: Hill Dicklings?  Investigate...



Flash Objective Completion Reward (1/20); "The Ole Ball And Chain": Within the next (5) posts, you may contact your wife, and receive limited assistance, or just to say hi, because girl's like that.


    


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Annoyance. It was like my technique wasn't even attempted. Directly cast aside as if I was some sort of fledgling caster. As she neared and I muttered the word I recognized quickly my genjutsu was probably unlikely to work in this environment. After the words were spoken, before I had a chance to see if the tech would work or not she was upon me. Without the buffer of the kid between us and no recognition if the tech would be fast enough I quickly cast another jutsu. Once the creature increased her speed and got within those close centimeters, Bolts of lighting would explode out from all directions from my body and outstretched hands sending cascading amounts of lightning through her body. My hands already extended, the jutsu cast time being performed without seals and her body centimeters away. And all those sweet sweet fluids, such a natural conductor of electricity, missing at this distance would be a disgrace. Especially with my advanced electricity control and my elements born of the three thunders poured into the jutsu, holding the rat seal I could individually control every tendril of chakra erupting from my body. Webs of lightning weaving above her, behind her, around her and towards her would pierce her body I even sent several through the ground in case she tried anything spooky. I made extra sure to spread several of the tendrils out behind her in increments of 8-10 meters to catch any last ditched shunshins. The bolts underground would be ready to spear up from the ground and catch her should she somehow get past the spider webs as well. The same Chidori Nagashi would sweep through the crowd and everyone around in the area HARMLESSLY as I had total control of the technique. Annoyed I'd grab her paralyzed and punctured body and channel all the energy I as a paragon of the element could muster and form a direct current between my chakra system and her heart. I'd reach out and press into her sternum with the touch. In the unlikely event she got away the voltage to the sternum would prevent her from being able to control her lungs for a long while, knocking the wind out of her and keeping her breathing asymetrical so she wouldn't be able to catch her breath or run away. Upon my touch her body would be paralyzed completely within 3 seconds, coupled with my earlier chidori attack the carry over time should be more than enough to keep her electrified. As my entire chakra network converted into lightning would rush through her heart to stop it dead.

Once she was nearing total death. I'd throw her almost lifeless and singed body to the floor. Pull my blade back to me and pierce her body with the wires of my blade trapping her escaping soul inside Hokaku for eternity incarnate. Whatever secrets she had I could pull it from her later. I glanced over at the boy, my five sided dice caged inside my eyes angered. Focusing my eyes on his body laying in the gasses I'd fixate on the fingernail sized metal objects in his body and pull him towards me with my blood limit. My left arm hanging limp by my side from conducting so much energy and my right hand releasing the rat seal would extend to pull my blade back towards my hand. With one swift motion I'd behead the boy and let his body drop to the floor. Again... trapping his soul within the spider web of soul stealing thaunian metal inside the blade.

In a city that spoke only in force I was finding myself rather fluent it would seem.

Giving my blade a single cleaning swipe I'd start walking back over to the booth that exploded earlier. It was time to solve a mystery.

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Chidori Nagashi, 千鳥流し (One Thousand Birds Current)
Rank: ("A")
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A variation on a regular Chidori, this jutsu allows the user to generate electrically charged chakra from his body, instead of just concentrating it in their hand. The electricity can be channeled anywhere, allowing the user to enhance their attacks or defend themself. As an offensive technique, because the electricity isn't focused, it doesn't kill on contact, only paralyzes. The Current can also be sent through the ground to attack opponents from their blind spot. The user can also channel the electricity through a sword increasing its overall strength and cutting power, as well as making the area cut numb.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This technique does not have the same drawbacks as that of Chidori, 千鳥, "One Thousand Birds" do to the fact that the user concentrates the technique within their whole entire body to where it is not simply concentrated in one area. Whenever the user stabs, or takes hold of an opponent the user pulses the electrical currents into the opponent's body making them immobile, as well as paralyzed. The user is only capable of shooting this technique within the ground within the distance of twenty meters to hit against opponents all around to try and paralyze them as well by hitting blind spots. This technique is also capable of being produced to stop techniques within the Earth Realm of "B" Rank and lower which may occur within the distance of ten meters around the user. Any earth technique created outside this range is still capable of harming the user. For cutting power this technique is capable of making all cuts numb paralysing the section it cuts as well as increasing a blade technique by contact of sword by one rank.
Limit: Must know Chidori, 千鳥, "One Thousand Birds", Must know Sealess Chidori, 千鳥, "One Thousand Birds"

Sealess Chidori, 千鳥, "One Thousand Birds"
Rank: "B"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: The user gains the capability of performing the Chidori, 千鳥, "One Thousand Birds" without the usage of Handseals.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: After training into the art of Chidori, 千鳥, "One Thousand Birds" for an extensive amount of time they are capable of performing the technique within the capabilities without handseals. The user is capable of concentrating within their inner body to where they can push out the electrical currents with great ease.
Limit: Must know Chidori, 千鳥, "One Thousand Birds"

Denki Shihai (Electricity Control)
Rank: "A" Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Allows the user to control the path of electrical streams by constantly manipulating the charges of paths around them.
Special: Must be currently performing a Raiton technique. Must have Sutatikku Nagare active.
Drawback: The technique utilizes the user's hands in order to control the stream of lightning, meaning that performing other techniques becomes impossible. Must remin within the user's Sutatikku Nagare field. Drains a "D" rank amount of chakra for every turn that this technique is active.
Description: After a Raiton-based technique, the user becomes capable of aligning the electrical current to a positive or negative charge. Then, by constantly manipulating the charges within the atmosphere, the user becomes capable of directing the flow of a Raiton-based technique so that, even if the opponent dodges it, the user is capable of continuously manipulating it until it hits a target or the user wishes for it to stop. This manipulation is not as draining as the normal "A" Rank techniques, and is only ranked at such a high rank to define the difficulty of the technique. It drains only a "D" rank amount of chakra per turn that the user is manipulating the course of the electrical current.
Limit: Must have Raiton Rosen, Houkou Keiko x5, Kyoudo Keiko x8, Senshin Keiko "A" Rank.

Ichimatsuzetsumei (A Touch of Death)
Rank: "S" Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: see Description
Special: "Handseals". Requires that the user have the Sutatikku Nagare active.
Drawback: The user suffers from the shock as well, but at a lesser amount. While the voltage sent into the opponent is strong enough to stop the heart, the user receives a voltage amount large enough to paralyze the arm that the current is channeled through for twenty posts. After that, the arm will be numb and slow to be able to be used for an additional 50 posts. This effect cannot be countered with medical Ninjutsu.
Description: After performing the required handseals, the user rushes at the opponent and attempts to grab hold of the opponent. Then, the user creates a somewhat suicidal effect, sending an intense voltage of electricity throughout their arm and into the opponent’s body. This voltage is amazingly high, which will run through the opponent’s body with enough electrical force to stop the heart within three seconds. If the opponent escapes the grasp early, they will still have suffered from an incredibly high voltage, paralyzing the area of impact for up to five turns, as well as causing an extreme amount of pain (between A and S Rank, depending on if they moved away at one second or two). If the thread is not death-enabled, then the opponent will fall unconscious until they can receive medical treatment from someone with Shosen no Jutsu of at least "A" Rank. The user will also suffer negative effects, as listed in the drawback.
Limit: Kyoudo Clan only, as it requires the Sutatikku Nagare to create an electrical current.

Born of the Three Thunders
Rank: "C" Always 30 Training Points
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has learned to marry the power of lightning and thunder in your electricity and sonic Jutsus.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: When the user performs a Jutsu with either the electricity capability or the sonic capability that deals Armour Point damage, the user can declare that Jutsu to be a Jutsu of the three thunders, with half its damage dealt as electricity damage and half dealt as sonic damage. In addition, the Jutsu concludes with a mighty thunderclap that stuns all creatures that take damage from the Jutsu for 1 round unless they succeed on a Fortitude save (10 + 2 per Class Level + Impeccable Will), then knocks stunned creatures prone.
Jutsu Handseal/Chakra Increase: 1/2 Rank.
Limit: Must learn from Universal NinJutsu. Must know Energy Substitution (Electricity).