Ninpocho Chronicles is a fantasy-ish setting storyline, set in an alternate universe World of Ninjas, where the Naruto and Boruto series take place. This means that none of the canon characters exists, or existed here.
Each ninja starts from the bottom and start their training as an Academy Student. From there they develop abilities akin to that of demigods as they grow in age and experience.
Along the way they gain new friends (or enemies), take on jobs and complete contracts and missions for their respective villages where their training and skill will be tested to their limits.
The sky is the limit as the blank page you see before you can be filled with countless of adventures with your character in the game.
Hotsume Rika, Countess of Tea is a mysterious entity housed within Kododama Keep. Known primary for her position of power, little is known about her origins, those close to her and what makes her tick. Those are all secrets that she keeps close to her heart, the political climate in Tea even on a 'good' day can be 'heated' to say the least. Her rivals often attempt to usurp her in the same way she usurped her predecessor -- behind the scenes in silence where the wizened man would simply announce one day out of the blue that he needed to step down for 'personal' or perhaps 'health' reasons. The opinion of the people is a labile, fickle thing that often came in tides of approval and disapproval based on the latest law or propaganda. It was a balance she had learned long ago, control he media and the flow of information and you control the people. Every book, every paper, every report regarding her said the same thing -- that she was a strong, competent leader that headed a proposal that benefited the people in a certain regard. There would be a few words added here and there to make it apply, but for the most part it was formulaic at this point.
Free speech was certainly muted in Tea. Of course there is a difference behind forcibly shutting a mouth or gagging a dissident and simply failing to publish their brazen opinion piece that speaks out against her efforts and policies. Much like her legacy, her appearance was also cultivated in a similar fashion. She was a beautiful young woman, well not very young anymore but young enough as to pass as 'youthful' still. She never married and any lovers that she had taken over the years were carefully hidden. There have been several offers for her hand, the most notable being Diamyo Ishii Shiro's heir apparent Ishii Susumu on his eighteenth birthday. A brilliant young man, although he lacked the life experience to truly project his intelligence, she was not going to tether herself to another nation. She was not going to grant another man or woman for that matter the ability to potentially force her to cede a portion of her authority over to them.
Yet she was not entirely autonomous, she was swayed by the Otokage. It was his idea to have an international competition at the Hisashī Zenshōsen Arena, a concept she initially debated. It was not that she considered the presence of shinobis from Kohonagakure and Kirigakure as a potentially 'terrible' thing, in fact she saw it as a way to potentially improve Kurosawa's struggling economy. Rika, however was always looking for more. A bit of hesitation, have Kageoni Yami sweeten the deal and then cede to the shinobi leader's desires. Of course it happened, the Otokage offered to send some of his shinobi down to Kurosawa to help maintain the peace. For the most part the shinobi of Sound kept themselves and were rarely seen even in the northcoutry from where it is assumed that their village remains hidden. For free. The graciously accepted, claiming the leader drove a hard bargain and little to know he really did. The Sound shinobi were very good at suppressing crime, better than her militia. The frequency of civilian crime dropped drastically the weeks leading up to the tournament. In fact civilian crime remains near non-existent, but the same could not be said regarding chakra-capable crime. That was on the steady rise, some of the violence was associated with the Sound shinobi 'defending' the community but the community suffering egregious 'collateral damage' and some from foreign shinobi that have taken the concept that "might equals right" or that deviance was acceptable because there would be no consequences for their actions in a foreign community -- the hint of war, the threat of ire, fear...
She had scarcely left Kodoma Keep since the Sound shinobi arrived. There was no force, the threat merely implied. They were watching her. She was concerned that her correspondences were being read, many of the documents she had received were rumpled. In a way she was astonished that Susumu was able to even visit her or come to think of it -- why. She had not seen him in years, not since she had rejected his proposal almost a decade ago. So why now in the midst of the tournament did he come here and why did he try to dissuade her from contacting Sunagakure? Sound was the problem, not the solution.
She eyed her door, she could hear the creek of floorboards, there was someone outside of her office door. There was always someone out there, 'patrolling.' She bit her lower lip as she dipped her quill into a pool of ink. It was now or never, if she did not act now soon all of the foreign shinobis would be gone and she would be left with Sound and their silent threat. They did nothing to her. She suffered no abuse, but there was this welling sense of fear that she could not ignore.
Dearest Kazekage Sunahoshi Katsuo;
Hello, my name is Hotsume Rika, Countess of Tea. I hope that you are
enjoying the wonderful scenery Kurosawa offers to the
likes of such esteemed guests. I look forward to finally meeting you.
Please meet me in Kododama Keep with your Sennins for a meeting.
She hoped that the message would reach him. She folded the slip of paper, a sense of defiance in the back of her mind as she slipped the bit of parchment into her purse. Now, she only needed to find a way of sending him this correspondence. She took a deep breath as the gears in her head started to turn. There has to be something. A way.
Bribe a Sound shinobi to find him?
Sneak out and deliver it herself.
Hide this letter among other documents that could be delivered and hopefully not read due to the length.
Scrap the letter, try calling him over a headset frequency.
She did not have many options, she feared being overheard if she called him. She wondered if whoever was guarding her office could hear what she said. She could whisper. She looked out the window, she was on the top floor, there was no way of sneaking out without being seen and if she left routinely she knew that she would be followed. That said, it was her best chance. She would ready herself, a pair of earrings and a fresh coat of lipstick. She had appearances to keep. There was still this lack of a plan, where would the Kazekage be?
There would likely be a crowd, some pomp and circumstance with his moments. Any establishment that housed someone of note would likely announce such with great pride. She did not need a plan, just the statement that she was going on an outing. Her purse tightly clutched to her side she nervously opened the door. A guard was waiting on the other-side, a Hyuuga with his Byakugan staring at her, wordlessly his eyes looked down at her bag. "Madam... allow me."
Katsuo you and your Sennins are invited to come to Kodoma Keep. you would have received that letter verbatim.
Description of the setting you would find.
Kodoma Keep is primarily an office building with a multi-level structure and tight security. This is also the residence of the governing body of the city of Kurosawa, the capital of Tea Country. The sentinels were scarce, at least if they were present they were not particularly visible. At the front door there would be a large bear of a man with yellow hair and bulging muscles, pale blue eyes and a dull expression on his face. He would silently appraise you all as you passed, almost as if he was comparing something. His gaze would linger on Roku the longest (if he was there). There was a second guardian as well, a young woman with white hair and a devious smile. She looked like she wanted to say something but for whatever reason she changed her mind and announced simply: "have a nice stay boys." She would gesture to the elevators, her extended finger pointing to the top floor.
The elevator played some cliche elevator music. The worst kind really, only a few noted on a short loop repeat (careless whisper sax solo).
When they reached the top floor after a period of time that felt longer than it actually was, they would be met with wealth. The thick carpets, the mahogany trim and the large likely overpriced paintings. There was only two doors, an office and what appeared to be an apartment door. The office was left ajar. There were no other guards. No other employees. However, there was someone sitting inside, silhouetted by a faint light.
There was a woman sitting behind the desk. "Welcome sweet friends. Take a seat and allow me to greet, you are in for a treat."
The Steward followed his cohorts into Kotodama Keep. The building was admirable, but it was not his style. The Steward was a practical man. He was involved in most of the construction of the village when it came to surface living. There were little things in the building that caught his eyes. Little flaws here and there that most people would not pick up. Tea was not the most advanced state in Wind Country. They were behind in various levels of tech. In all of this the Steward realized that there was someone else in his shoes who would think the same of the Kazekage tower. Someone out there would probably claim what he did was low tech and that it was very flawed. What was the line? There's always something better to strive to.
For the time that they were in Tea, Sousuke had taken up a new initiative. He was wearing formal clothing. Today was no different. He wore a three piece suit. It looked very much like his other suits, except in today's suit the scales were not a bright colour. In days past there was an orange suit, a lime green suit, then there was one that was neon violet. Most people enjoyed the fashionable new outset. What remained the same in the suits were the epaulets which were silver. Today's suit was a dull red. He was once told by Masashi Sheena that sometimes a dull red could be quite fashionable. The Steward did not doubt the opinion of his cousin. There was a small preface to what Sheena had said, which was a bit of advice that he hadn't really considered. Wearing red means that you don't let the enemy see you bleed. He considered this grim advice. It made sense, but his last few battles really didn't seem to apply to this idea. Either way, the Steward thought that his cousin would be proud of him in this bold new initiative he had taken.
The guards were typical. The doorman was a brute of sorts. He was making comments. Most likely comparing body sizes. Sousuke was perhaps the shortest of the group. He was not over six feet. He was in the area of 5'9. He was not a muscular man. Wiry was perhaps the better word to describe him. Sousuke relied on armours of various sizes and shapes. He didn't bring any of the giant bulky suits to Tea. He had armour present, it was just a different kind. After the brute then came a woman. Alright. Presumably the woman was the stronger of the guards considering that she was inside, and inside is where the politicians were. Have a nice stay boys. The Steward wondered. If one is past the age of thirty, are they still considered the younger pronoun of the gender? If a woman of over thirty was called girl, there would probably have been words exchanged. Gender dynamics. Curious thing, that is.
The elevator was perhaps the worst part in all of this. The music selection was terrible. Sousuke for a moment considered trying to hack the PA and change the music to something better. He did not though as doing that would perhaps be considered an offense to someone's sensibilities. The pathway to the Countess was left unguarded which was ... a thing? Katuso usually had Reiko nearby in his office. The Steward's eyes shifted about as he looked about the office. It wasn't a practical office. It as a busy office filled with expensive things. Modesty was not at all a practice here. The four of them were welcomed and were told to take a seat. Curious. They were called sweet? Alright. Why would that be? It's not like Sousuke was a confectionery man. He was a man of steel and oil, literally sometimes. Treat. Okay. They were in for a treat. The Steward would look to Katuso, then to Kazuki, then to Roku. "Figuratively, metaphorically, literally, dramatically, culturally or... in the form of cuisine?"<i></i> He inquired. This could go many ways. Sousuke didn't like surprises. He liked constants.
Kazuki, his fellow Sennins and their Kazekage would receive a formal invitation for the Kotodama Keep. They were being summoned by, none other, than the actual countess of the Tea Country. The Senju Overlord considered such request to be very suspicious because it had come entirely unexpected. But giving who was calling them, he knew and understood, the best course of action would be to accept and attend as requested. Unlike Sousuke, that had decided to wear a three piece suit, dull red in color, Reaper attended with this customary attire. A black and gray robe with silvery trimmings and an open colar, along with a large, red, flowing toga drapped around his body and across his chest, black pants and black combat boots. The opening on his robe, allowed a partial view of a crimson tattoo, depicting a dripping tree stabbed by a sword.[lb2][/lb2]
Upon arriving at the keep, they would be greeted by two individuals. One mountain of a man, whose eyes lingered the most on Roku, the most physically imposing of their group and a shorter, white haired woman that spoke to them. "have a nice stay boys." She would say as she gestured toward the elevator. She had the expression of someone that was inclined to say something but forbade himself from doing so. The White Wolf’s thoughts lingered on that for the briefest of moments but, like a gentle breeze, they moved on. The Occult Sennin’s presence was, as usual, heralded before his frame could actually be seen, by the ever-present deathly cold aura that his body emitted. The Deep Court hybrid had learned to suppress this natural aura, though his efforts still did not allow him full suppression, only a partial one. Today though, it was in full force. His companions no longer felt it, at least, they never showed signs of being affected it, but the remaining denizens of the Keep would probably feel a rather significant drop in temperature. Kazuki had learned not everyone was affected by his aura. Those that possessed strong willpower were usually immune to it, but not everyone possessed such immunity. Even if they were not feeling the chill, everyone had the capability of seeing how shadows were drawn toward the Senju Overlord.[lb2][/lb2]
The Wind Riders and their Kage would enter the elevator only to be greeted by the lamest music ever. Reaper took the one of the farthest corners and remained silent and vigilant through the apparent eternal ascension toward the room where the countess waited them. Upon arrival their eyes would be overwhelmed with blatant signs of luxury and opulence. The White Wolf was a practical man, he couldn’t care less about signs of wealth, so he basically ignored the message the owner of the room as trying to pass on with such display and simply entered the office. "Welcome sweet friends. Take a seat and allow me to greet, you are in for a treat." the supposed countess would greet them in. "Figuratively, metaphorically, literally, dramatically, culturally or... in the form of cuisine?"<i></i> Sousuke would retort. The Occult Sennin simply remained silent, his time to speak had not come yet.[lb2][/lb2]
[MFT - 525]
He had no idea why he was summoned, or how he was found to be summoned. The past few months, since leaving Sousuke to work on the Gate, he had been keeping himself away from the village and out in the desert. During this time he had experienced another death and had once more been reborn, this time, however, was different. He could feel that he was close, closer than he ever had been to being what he truly was, or at least that is how he felt. Either way, his time as a nomad had been one about reflection and self-discovery. It was also a time to experiment with his new abilities. It was still unrefined, it was still a lot of question marks, but based on his current understanding of his body he seemed to feel confident that he could do some damage if needed. Hopefully, this wasn't going to be one of those instances.
Approaching the door his eyes would turn toward the guard. The man would linger on him, for what seemed like longer than necessary. The Sennin was not necessarily a calming presence, with his unkempt hair, his rugged clothing choice, his unkempt facial hair, what parts of his body that were exposed showing the scars of experience, and his clearly metallic left arm. In the old days, he would have done some mouthing off and get into the face of the man. A fight would probably ensue and he would be caught up in a long misadventure.
This wasn't necessarily the same old Roku, however. His body felt new but his spirit felt old. His heart was heavy and his head was clouded, he felt so close to something and yet far enough away that he could not feel a resolution. He was physically in the best shape he had been in for a long time. The last time he saw Sousuke his body was deteriorating from within, now he was at 100 percent. His emotional state, his mental state... his spirit, that is now what felt incomplete. Broken. Bent.
But, he was, even in this current inner turmoil state, still himself. Without hesitation, he would wink and blow a kiss at the guard before passing him by. A part of him expected this to cause some drama, but he hoped that this man was a bit more disciplined than that.
[IF the guard wants to make a situation out of that, just ignore the following and we will go from the above onward!]
There would be a female giving them some parting words, words that he would normally turn into a joke. Hell, he would probably try to woo the woman only to be crushed without mercy. However, unlike his gesture to the guard, he just did not have the energy to keep up his old shell facade. So he would continue onward until meeting up with the rest of the Sennin's, with only Sousuke interacting at the words of who he assumed was the host. She was attractive, this wouldn't be too bad of a potentially spiraling disaster.
Surely the other two would notice a difference in his appearance, but at this point it just got easier to not explain things. Just letting his situation be his seemed to be the less messy way of dealing, instead of trying to talk through all that happened. Either way, he would simply fold his arms and await their leader to appear.
The invite had come in the early morning, unannounced and delivered to Katsuo's barge out in the bay by a courier who, according to the crew of his ship, had very little to say and was extremely curt. The scroll was simple in design but Katsuo recognized the wax seal that bound it despite having had very little dealing with the woman. This was a missive from the desk of the Countess of Tea Country. He'd expected something like this to come up given that it was rare for a leader of Sunagakure to ever be in this region of the world but it had come much later than Katsuo had expected it to. They were coming up now on the final days of the festival and the tournament with one of Sunagakure's own shinobi fighting in the last round against a Kumogakure shinobi by the name of Junko. As excited as he was to see one of his shinobi fighting all the way to the final round, Katsuo had remained on edge about the event. It was impossible to overlook the rumors and stories which floated around about Tea Country and their enigmatic hidden village of Otogakure. One could visit a dozen bars all along the Old City and get a dozen different stories about what Otogakurian shinobi were like. Some people didn't even believe they were real. Some said they were demons and devils masquerading as human beings. Others felt that it was long past time that the southern territories bought into exclusive protection by them the way that many of the northern territories and cities supposedly had especially given the uptick in violence and crime which had gripped the city due to the presence of ill-mannered foreign shinobi.
Katsuo had spent a portion of his morning mulling over what to do with the scroll and the invite to visit Hotsume Rika at her estate in the city. There was no reason for him to believe that she was an enemy of Sunagakure but up until a few years ago they hadn't really understood the depth of the forces that maneuvered in the shadows around them. The Ishii Regime controlled a great deal of power in the Wind Country and commanded the loyalty of most significant merchant syndicates and even a sizable number of criminal ones as well. Then there was Otogakure itself. According to the information gained from recruiting Michi, the source of the daimyo's mysterious Sovereign Academy program was a Otogakurian shinobi named Nao who brought with him from Tea Country a wide breadth of dark arts. Did that make Otogakure their enemy as well? That was one of the big questions that had plagued Katsuo night and day in the passing few months. The tide of the war was turning ever so slowly against the daimyo which meant that his allies had to start getting more involved or face losing their investment that they'd put into backing him. If there was ever going to be a time for Otogakure to back the Ishii Regime in a more direct manner, that time was rapidly approaching. At the same time, as more time passed the less likely it seemed that Sound would be willing to get involved. If they were directly connected to the daimyo and backing his play for power in the Wind Country, why leave things to chance? Why not get involved earlier? It was times like these that he wished he still had access to the more politically minded Mikaboshi. They disagreed on many things but Mikaboshi had proven himself invaluable by providing Katsuo with insight and understanding into the esoteric machine that was politics and now was a time when Katsuo could have used that particular skill of the Deep Lord.
Re-reading the scroll for what felt like the hundredth time, Katsuo flipped it over in his hand and looked at the back again as if perhaps some hidden message or meaning might reveal itself to him. It was also entirely possible that he was just reading too deeply into it and letting a sense of paranoia get the best of him. He knew that the daimyo was in Tea Country but there was no reason for him to assume that the Countess of Tea was in league with him. Breathing a slow sigh of exasperation, Katsuo decided to do what he always did when his intuition told him that he was being set up into a trap:
Walk right into it.
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Tatsumasa bouncing proudly at his side with a strap over his shoulder, Katsuo walked confidently through the streets mostly ignoring the stares and the whispering of the people around him. They knew who he was and what he was about even if Sunagakure wasn't local to this place. For most civilian men and women that lived in a city separate from a shinobi organization Katsuo supposed that shinobi were a lot like supernatural creatures to them. A person who wore the title of shinobi could possess any number or variety of fantastical powers, some malevolent and terrifying while others were of a more sublime and tame nature but that difference likely didn't make them any more approachable for someone who's greatest power was say the ability to wiggle their ears or touch their tongue to their nose. Before coming to Sunagakure and joining their shinobi corps Katsuo had often heard the people of Sunagakure spoken of with a sense of reverence that one might expect while talking about fairy tales. Legends and rumor. Finding out how much of those legends and rumor were fact and which were fiction was one of the things that he had found most interesting about coming to Sunagakure until he'd realized that much more of it was fiction than truth. A fact that Katsuo would take to his dying day was just how much he'd sympathized with the disenfranchised Cabal in their outlook towards Sunagakure after what he'd seen out of some of their leadership at the time. They had squared much of that away in the years following the Cabal attack and made a lot of progress towards achieving that lofty perception of their organization but the effort which was being made couldn't be discounted.
Before disembarking from his barge, Katsuo had sent out his own couriers-- one to each of his sennin to pass on the invitation --and then finally made his way out, telling them to meet him at the location which they'd been invited to attend a meeting with the Countess of Tea. Arriving at the Keep, Katsuo noticed the distinct lack of soldiery. He wasn't particularly knowledgeable about foreign forces or lands so had no way of knowing if the Keep was normally this lax in it's guard but the place had a similar level of outward security as the Kazekage Tower.
And the Kazekage Tower was full of shinobi who could obliterate mountains if they wanted to.
That lack of staff made the lone valet standing outside of the Keep that much more conspicuous and as Katsuo crossed him, giving him a nod in return for the vacant stare that he received in response, a cold shiver ran down his spine as the Kazekage realized that he recognized that man. They'd never met before in person but Katsuo had seen his face on reports and dossiers before. The first memory that he had of ever laying eyes on that particular visage was in a small folder provided to him by Michi... or rather to Mikaboshi who had been at the time controlling the body of Katsuo. The picture they'd had of him was dated to be certain but there was no mistaking the description of him. Katsuo stood at a height which was considered above average for most adult men and still the valet outside towered over him.
The man standing outside of the Keep were Ishii Shiro's Sovereign agent, Number Two.
Preventing the revelation from shaking him, Katsuo continued past the man and into the interior of the Keep's lobby without missing a step. This was, after all, not the first time a group of bad guys had tried to catch him in a trap.
My king, that was... He felt Caliburn's thoughts appear in his mind with along with a burst of urgency.
Number Two, I know. I recognize him. Looks like my gut instinct that this is a trap was right on the money.
Then if I may ask... why are we still walking into it?
You'll have to trust me Caliburn.
She did trust him and Katsuo knew that but he could still feel her uneasiness. If Number Two were standing watch outside, there was no telling how many Sovereign could be on the premises. Still, at this point there was no way he could just walk out. He was too far into the jaws of the bear trap and if he tried to pull his hand back too suddenly he would just end up shut in it's teeth. They might even be counting on him to react with violence or make a rash decision. That was a play that came right out of the daimyo's favorite playbook; provoke them into doing something rash and then blame them for the fallout. Still, that didn't mean he had to play completely dumb. He'd always said in the past that the first step towards defeating a trap was springing it. Coming into the lobby area, Katsuo took note that still there were no other staff save for a woman working the lobby desk with white hair who gestured at the elevator with the smile of someone who was in on a practical joke about to occur on someone. If not for the obvious placement of Number Two, Katsuo might have just walked past her without a second thought but as he approached the desk he found that her description was familiar to him as well even though she didn't stand out against her aged photo nearly as much as Number Two did. With all likelihood, this woman was Number Four.
"You know," Katsuo would announce loudly, approaching the desk while scanning the room for anyone else that might be lurking behind furniture or other such cover. "Usually when bad guys try to get one over on me, they at least wear masks."
Finally reaching the lobby desk, Katsuo would lean on it and look straight at her with a grin of his own that was equal parts amicable and equal parts "gotcha".
"Which is to say, what's a girl like you doin' in a trap like this?"
Sousuke and Kazuki might have approached the building together with Roku and Katsuo, however in their haste they did not wait for their companions. They traversed the keep a duo rather than a quartet, rode the elevator to the top floor. The elevator itself was obnoxiously slow, the sax solo had played no less than five times by the time the top floor was highlighted in the floor indicator over their heads. When the doors opened, they would find themselves in the lap of luxury. The carpet was thick and they would feel it give way underfoot as it was burdened with their weight. The air here smelled liked wealth, an unknown yet distinctively perfumed fragrance filled the air. A woman's perfume perhaps. The redolence of a deep, woodsy bouquet. Oils or scented wax, perhaps even incense being burned. Impossible to know at this early point.
A voice would call out to them from the office, the silhouette of a woman sitting in a chair would greet them. As they approached the threshold she did not move. Sousuke would call back a reply.
"Figuratively, metaphorically, literally, dramatically, culturally or... in the form of cuisine?"
And the spider would draw them deeper into its web.
"I am quite keen to know what it might mean know that you are in this scene." But the voice was not coming from the center of the room, but rather to the right. It was dark there and natural eyes would not be able to make out the shape of whatever it was that lurked in the inky blackness. Yet for certain, someone or something was there.
There was only a single lamp lit in the entire room, the one on her desk. The shade spilled light downward, highlighting mostly her hands, long slender fingers with long painted nails. One shaking hand laid upon the other and a mixture of shadow and light would outline a harried politician. Yes, she was there, her long dark hair left down in stringy strands. Her attire was rumpled but in good order but she appeared to be abnormally pale for a woman of such status, she seemed quite anemic. A dry voice seemed to crack from her, "run... there is nothing for you here."</B><i></i>
From the darkest corner of the room, someone would emerge. A lanky man that stood taller than the former Steward and the Occult Sennin, his body wrapped in clean white bandages that were painstakingly placed over his entire body, even each of his individual digits. He had a sword in his hand, well a long, narrow pointed bit of metal that was about the length of his forearm. "Indeed, it is times like these I hold dear. The moments when women like you get to disappear."<i></i> He would try to pierce the woman's heart with the length of the weapon he held in his left hand, hindered or not it would be time to fight for their lives even if this stranger's life was forfeit. [Battle starts for you two.]
This would be why such a large complex had only two guards, neither of which seemed invested in protecting the Countess. Her guards, however effective or obviously ineffective they were, they were gone. Of course, it was a series of mistakes that led up to this moment for the Countess, she never should have reached out to Sand, it was in fact her couriers that reached out to these Sunans but there were eyes in these very walls. There was no hope for her that such a meeting would be kept a secret. It caught the attention of all of the wrong people, something Susumu would have warned her of had she evidenced an insistence that she would seek out Sunagakure over the northern shinobis of Otogakure. There was no way that Shiro would have worked against the Otokage, something that might have saved her life had she known.
Then there was that scent, could they recognize it? Considering the state of the Countess, it was unlikely that she had doused herself with perfume, yet that aroma would linger here. They would know it, the smell would itch and claw at the back of their minds. That lovely pungent scent that obfuscates even the scent of death itself.
Actions:
2 AP:[/b] Using Hashigaki's Enthralling Voice Ichi casts Requiem of Death [Mastered] on everyone using Elemental Illusion Fire.
3 AP: Using Hashigaki's Enthralling Voice Ichi casts The Reaper's Gaze [Mastered] on both Sousuke and Kazuki's as well as their shadows (taking the debuff to accuracy) using Genjutsu special move deja vu. The jutsus that have been aimed at Sousuke and Kazuki's shadows will be queued for later use.
Conditional #1: If Sousuke is not under the influence of The Reaper's Gaze [Mastered], then unleash the queued The Reaper's Gaze [Mastered].
Conditional #2: If Kazuki is not under the influence of The Reaper's Gaze [Mastered], then unleash the queued The Reaper's Gaze [Mastered].
0.5 AP: Draw weapon (piercing/unarmed).
2.75 AP: Ichi attacks the Countess with Trashin [Mastered], if successful he kills her. She has civilian stats.
Conditional #3: Ichi uses Body Switch [Mastered] against the first attack that takes more than 2 seconds to target him.
Conditional #4: If Ichi becomes aware that he is under the influence of a Genjutsu, he will use Willpower's free Cancel to negate this effect.
Conditional #5: If Ichi has not otherwise used his Cancel from Willpower by 10 seconds, use it at the 10 second point.
At 10 seconds, use Shatter Reality on The Reaper's Gaze holding both Sousuke and Kazuki, knowing that this would set off condition #1 and #2 unless they have already went off.
He will allow this jutsu to automatically roll over onto both Sousuke and Kazuki.
Katsuo
Katsuo recognized the Sovereign agent as number two. A sane man would have stopped in his tracks and went the other direction, this was an obvious trap. Where was the adventure in that? He was not the sort of man that saw danger and walked the other way, no he was the sort of man that would hold onto his butt and barge face first into danger. That was exactly what he did. Past the wall of pure muscle and intimidation he would make his way inside of the Keep. It was the sort of place that you felt that you needed to dress up to be seen inside of and even then there would be this sense of dis-ease as one silently wonders is this adequate?
Of course all things are better with a nondescript, attractive woman standing behind the counter. Beyond her long white hair, there were not many defining features to describe. Women have a way of challenging the world's perception of them through their garments and their make-up, subtly or drastically so. In that way she was a chameleon, in the way any attractive black widow could be one could suppose. She did stand out in the fact that she was like a bloody rose in full bloom in the midst of a battlefield, it worked to her advantage of course. What sort of risk was there in regarding an attractive young woman in an obvious trap?
"You know..."
Katsuo announced loudly as he approached the desk. Out of the corner of his eye he would notice something amiss. The facade had been painstakingly repaired, but the same could not have been said of this angle. The signs of distress were subtle, scuff marks on the floor from where a heavy piece of furniture was dragged or a few splotches of deep burgundy sprayed in some lonesome and forgotten corner. That said, there were no visible hidden spectators that he could identify.
"Usually when bad guys try to get one over on me, they at least wear masks."
This was where she was supposed to play dumb. "Bad guys?" She repeated with a doubtful tone. It was the sort of sound that suggested that the Kazekage was paranoid, perhaps a bit crazy. Of course, the Kazekage's mind was made up and he was not wrong.
"Which is to say, what's a girl like you doin' in a trap like this?"
She dropped the friendly, congenial expression she had donned as a 'receptionist.' With a sly grin, she planted her elbow on the counter space and rested her chin on her palm. "Looking for a handsome hero like you," she replied. Cocky, sure. She leaned closer and as she did so her eyes darted to either direction as if she was looking for something or someone as she lowered her voice to a low whisper. "I am the last one left," she allegedly confided "I am so scared."
The damsel is distress, the hero's most common fatal flaw. He could call her on it, that she is probably not an unfortunate civilian trapped in the midst of a terrorist attack or that she was in cahoots with these dangerous individuals. That being of course the better case scenario, even worse being that Tea itself is not a neutral body but rather they have taken a side and have chosen to back the Diamyo over Sunagakure.
[Not in Combat Yet]
<i></i> <B>Roku
Roku was distracted by a massive blonde man. He liked 'em big, buff and scary. Everyone had a right to their own fetishes. Roku's fetishes might be a tad dangerous. A wink and a kiss, just begging for a fist to the face or a something to the uh something else. Kazuki, Sousuke and Katsuo moved on ahead, there was nothing for them to see here. Just a guard with an unusual fixation on this Sennin. Katsuo would remain out of ear-shot unless someone shouted something loudly, much like when Katsuo made his announcement inside the building:
"You know... Usually when bad guys try to get one over on me, they at least wear masks."
Yes, it was a trap, at least according to Katsuo. Sadly, a pair of them had already ventured further into the Keep, up the elevator and to places where they would not hear Katsuo's exchange nor would they hear what might come down between Number Six and Number Two. DM's have a saying -- don't split the party. A word of caution that a party functions best when everyone is together and that things go very wrong when parties go their separate ways.
"Didn't take you for a pole smoker," the gargantuan guardian announced with a grunt. "But at least Sunagakure got you out of the closet, guess they were good for something after all Roku,"[/b] he replied as his pale eyes continued to watch the Sennin's movements. A lop-sided smirk eclipsed his face, Ni's sexuality was never really a point of discussion, and it was the author's hope that it never would be. He had a passing interest in Shichi, but she died disappeared years ago and it was not not even his fault. He was more interested in the riling up the other Roku oddly enough, the boy has more man than machine and smelled like motor oil, but he was a hoot when mad.
"But you change your skin more often than you used to change your underwear," he observed. "When are you finally going to settle? Or do you just keep on dying?" A rumble came from the depths of his throat, he turned his head to the side and spat into the dirt. "When are you going to show your true colors. Your skin might change but it does not change who you are... what you are." He let out a low laugh, who did Number Six think he was -- A Sunan because he made friends with the Kazekage? "This is your chance again to pick the winning side. We won't be able to ignore you forever." It was certainly an implied threat - step in line or be destroyed. A warning Roku would probably not serious heed, even if he feigned acceptance it was obvious where his loyalties were. Loyalties can be changed.
His meaty hand would reach out for Roku, he would attempt to plant his sausage-like fingers on Roku's shoulder. "Stay, let what is about to happen pass. You might live Roku." There was no hint of myrrh in his voice. If his hand had taken hold of Roku, "you're too... well, boring for my tastes as a lover," oh yeah, he really did not know how to take a joke. "And call me sentimental, but I have no desire to see you die yet." Yeah, it was totally a trap in there, a trap that this Sennin should avoid. A trap that Number Two was no going to let Roku walk into to.
Episode 2: "2 & 6 = 8 or 26?!" | Tea Country Mini-Arc
His gesture would indeed catch the ire of the large man, and then his eyes would fully turn to the hulk of a person. It was strange he never noticed it before, but it was probably the funk he was in. His mind was clouded, but boy did it seem to snap out of that funk.
"Oh... a family member?"
His eyes would shift to the large figure before him, actually taking in the person before him. He had read the dossier, he was very well versed in all of their facts based on the writings of Fuu, but when you are sleepwalking through life you tend to miss things, especially those right in front of you. That had quickly changed as he now was awake and his sites were set on the man before him. He seemed to keep running into them, and strangely he never felt more alive until they appeared. Maybe they shared more of a bond then he could remember, not just Ni but all of them. Minus Ms. Ten, she was just an ass.
"Number 2... there is a joke there... so you remember me? My apologies, I have amnesia. Care to give me some insight into the me you remember?"
He imagined it would get the man talking, and if nothing else he would potentially learn something new. He would normally play a much longer game, but it seemed that time was not in his favor as his crew had left him and lord only knew what shit they were getting involved in. So after Ni finished, either diving deeper into Roku's past or just insulting him or something along those lines, he would take the moment to keep the verbal pressure up as a meaty finger would stab into his shoulder.
"I like my blondes... a bit skinnier, bub. Anyways, do you mind clearing something up for me? I thought Number 9, Taro, was the physically strongest of all the Sovereign but isn't being really strong sort of your thing? Taro is stronger than you right?"
What was he angling for? Who knew. He imagined the man, someone who was actually taller than himself, would disagree with his questioning. Either way, his light blue eyes would remain locked onto Ni.
"Sorry, that was off topic, I just figured you wanted to talk since I wouldn't be worth the time or energy. You mentioned joining the winning side... would it be that easy? Would you all just welcome me back home? Just like that, just that easy?"
Oh no, was the dark side finally going to win out in his personal drama? Was Roku actually a turncoat all along? Would he betray Sousuke, his only true friend, and the village that raised him for the people that made him?!
Ichi. Sovereign Agent the first. Sousuke did not catch onto the fact that he had bypassed two Sovereign Agents on the way in. Sousuke had a very busy mind. Perhaps too busy in fact. It was very hard to miss Ichi. The fact was that the man was covered in bandages and had some monstrous characteristics. The countess of Tea would implore for them to run. Well, then. This was shaping up quite a bit. Sousuke's mind would slow down the scenario and play out the facts. The countess of Tea was in danger. This was more or less as assassination attempt on multiple levels. Three Sennin. One Kazekage. One Countess. The Steward's mind did the mental math. The numbers were not in their favour to say the least, but he had to at least try.
There were political stakes here. If an assassination did occur, it would merely be the media which was controlled by the Daimyo which would dictate the situation. It would be made to look like Sand had done this. Tea itself would be another state in Wind Country to fall underneath the dominion of the Daimyo. Tea was behind Sungakure in terms of technology, and the countess herself - more likely than not, was not a trained individual. The flip side of this was that she was in on this. Susumu was presented to her in marriage, which did not go down. There was perhaps some bitterness in someone's mind about that, be it Susumu or his father. If Sousuke had to guess, it was probably the Daimyo himself who saw this as a slight.
The Sovereign agent armed himself with a weapon, and the Steward would do the same. First though he needed to present a numbers game. Shouki was a difficult foe and took several Sungakure ninja to put him down. Ichi may in fact require more. This was not a numbers game to win. This was a numbers game to survive. "Lock him down."<i></i> Sousuke would speak to Kazuki. "Then we get out."<i></i> Sousuke would conjure elemental clothes and rely upon a trick of light he had recently discovered. He would then move in to try to save the Countess of Tea. The Steward would make a forward slash pushing a great deal of chaka force forward in an attempt to fashion a barrier.
Actions
-2AP Master Rank Elemental Clone Create 3 Clones with Lightning 625CP
-1.5 AP Master Rank Mirage Manipulation on Ichi
-0AP Draw Perdition's Arrival and Thunder Talon via quick draw
-2.75AP Master Rank Heavenly Sword using the AmbidexterityFlurry Guard to protect the Countess from Ichi's attack 2065CP
0AP Use Master Rank Cancel via Willpower as a free action
0AP Sheath weapon via Quick Draw
3AP cast Master Rank Tree Binding on Ichi with Deja-vu. Tree binding will use my High in Taijutsu as the accuracy type. I am not using the special action. 2200CP
0.25AP Using Upgrade from Quick Learner to move this AP into the next round
HP: 42600
CP: 32400
AP: 10
Bonuses: 5% Damage Reduction (Class) Defensive Stance (Not Active), Shinobi 101 Kinetic Genjutsu are Cast with Melee Accuracy, Sharp Insight 5% Ninjutsu and Taijutsu Damage?, Offensive Insight 10% Auto Hit Chance, Adaptability The user resists -3 Accuracy and Dodge from terrain effecting techniques such as Hidden Mist or Earthslide River, this amount is reduced from the cumulative debuffs and not per-jutsu. In addition, the user has +3 Dodge against all Delayed attacks, traps and binds, Tactical Mind +1 accuracy with all Mastered jutsu. Additional +.5 accuracy to all attacks every round after the second. Cannot gain more than +4 accuracy on any attack. Light Armour: The additional damage the user takes from Critical attacks is reduced by 0.35. This does not stack with any similar effects. Example; if a critical hit would deal x2.2 damage, the user will instead take x1.85 damage.
Signature Weapon:
Perdition's Arrival and Thunder Talon - the Twins that Challenged the Terror in Inferno (or the Twins that Dream of Fire and Lightning)
Weapon Type: Long Sword
Weapon Damage Type: Slashing - Bleeding
Bonuses: 5% Damage -1 Accuracy Bleeding
Augment: Dual Weapon, Steady, Trick Weapon - Unarmed, Vanguard, Vampiric
Contracts: Toad and Insect (Roku needs to modify original post but it is approved)
Ninjutsu
-Water
E - Pressurized Mist Master Rank
E - Water Gun Master Rank
D - Water Whip Master Rank
D - Aqua Fang Master Rank
D - Rinse Off Master Rank
C - Grand Waterfall Master Rank
C - Impaling Hydro Jet Master Rank
C - Water Prison Master Rank
C - Rain Dance Master Rank
B - Torrential Vortex Master Rank
B - Hydro Tidal Shockwave Master Rank
B - Water Shark Bomb Master Rank
B - Mystical Pond Master Rank
A - Grand Hydra Excavation Master Rank
A - Water Dragon Bullet Master Rank
A - Scorn of Aquarius Master Rank
A - Supreme Aqua Realm Master Rank
~Fire
E - Infernal Ember Master Rank
E- Thermal Maw Master Rank
D- Fireball Master Rank
D- Immolation Armor Master Rank
D- Combustive Seal Rank Master
D- Dragon Fire Master Rank
C- Searing Eruption Master Rank
C- Scalding Ash Cloud Master Rank
C- Heat Wave Master Rank
B- Infernal Hellfire Master Rank
B- Firestorm Master Rank
B- Spontaneous Combustion Master Rank
B- Ring of Fire Master Rank
A- Dragon Flame Bomb Master Rank
A- Sol Fire Tempest Master Rank
A- Abysmal Harbinger Master Rank
A- Flame Shield Master Rank
~Earth
E - Stone Bullet Master Rank
E - Gravel Shift Master Rank
D - Earth Flow Master Rank
D - Sinkhole Fist Master Rank
D - Mud Clone Master Rank
C - Inner Earth Reflection Lure Master Rank
C - Earth Flow Wave Master Rank
C - Rock Golem Master Rank
C - Earthern Coating Master Rank
B - Bedrock Coffin Master Rank
B - Weighted Rock Technique Master Rank
B - Earth Spiker Master Rank
B - Sinkhole Master Rank
A - Earthslide Wall Master Rank
A - Petrification Master Rank
A - Earthen Magnitude Master Rank
A First of Gaia Master Rank
~Wind
E - Wind Slash Master Rank
E - Pressure Burst Master Rank
D - Whirlwind Spin Master Rank
D - Air Bullet Master Rank
D - Shredding Touch Master Rank
C - Wind Scythe Master Rank
C - Tempest Rank Master Rank
C - Gale Force Master Rank
C - Wind Release Master Rank
B - Wind Scar Master Rank
B - Great Wind Scythe Master Rank
B - Vacuum Sphere Master Rank
B - Cycle Movement Master Rank
A - Tatsumaki Mank Master Rank
A - Hurricane Master Rank
A - Ambiance of the Forbidden Master Rank
A - Zephyr's Grace Master Rank
~Darkness
C -Black Eruption Master Rank
C -Midnight Strike Master Rank
C - Specter Shade Master Rank
C - Dark Displacement Master Rank
B - Underworld Prison Master Rank
B - Shadow Punishment Master Rank
B - Black Moon Fang Master Rank
B - Ebony Nightmare Master Rank
A - Shadow Summoning Master Rank
A - Shadow Garb Master Rank
A - Darkness Falls Master Rank
A - Absolute Void Master Rank
~Crystal Elemental
C - Topaz Tempest Master Rank
C - Fluroite Spikes Master Rank
C - Emerald Emitter Master Rank
C - Ruby Rain Master Rank
B - Goldstone Clutch Master Rank
B - Moonstone Shower Master Rank
B - Sapphire Storm Master Rank
B - Amethyst Casing Master Rank
A - Diamond Cutter Master Rank
A - Obsidian Dragon Master Rank
A - Amber Beacon Rank Master
A - Crystalline Passage Rank Master
~Non Elemental
E- Transformation Master Rank
E - Body Swap Master Rank
E - Basic Summoning Master Rank
D - Summoning Contract Master Rank
D - Combination Transformation Master Rank
D- Crystal Eye Master Rank
D- Cancel Master Rank
D- Spirit Lantern Master Rank
C- Stunt Double Master Rank
C - Jutsu Sealing Master Rank
C- One Elemental Sealing Master Rank
C- Elemental Negation Master Rank
C- Elemental Clone Master Rank
B- Leech Seal Master Rank
B- Chakra Shield Master Rank
B - Energy Transfer Master Rank
B - Cursed Seal (Mastered as there is no rank)
B - Shadow Shuriken Replication Master Rank
B - Rassengan Master Rank
B - Chakra Blast Master Rank
A - Perfected Rasengan Master Rank
A - Five Element Seal Master Rank
A - Morality Sealing Master Rank
A - Natures Guard Master Rank
A - Stardust Nova Master Rank
A - Gate of Enma Master Rank
~Paper Jutsu
C - Folded Shuriken Master rank
C - Paper Clone Master rank
C - Burst of Confetti Master rank
C - Origami Shower Master rank
B - Cocoon Sheets Master Rank
B - Paper Blade Master Rank
B - Loose Leaf Wall Master Rank
B - Streaming Cloak Master Rank
A - Shredding Torrent Master Rank
A - Shredding Tsunami Master Rank
A - Torn Downpour Master Rank
A - Maelstrom Document Master Rank
~Wood
C-Vine Tangle Master Rank
C - Armor of Thorns Mater Rank
C - Ingrain Master Rank
C - Wood Hammer Master Rank
B - Piercing Timber Master Rank
B - Pit of Crimson Tears Master Rank
B - Evergreen Thicket Master Rank
B - Glow Moss Master Rank
A - Wrath of Nature Master Rank
A - Grand Gaia Impalement Master Rank
A - Frenzy Plant Master Rank
A- Sleeping Forest Master Rank
~Kinesis
C - Force Blast Master Rank
C - Psionic Assault Master Rank
C - Kinetic Infusion Master Rank
C - Force Guard Master Rank
B - Psi-shock Master Rank
B - Force Break Master Rank
B - Mind Lock Master Rank
B - Reflection Master Rank
A - Kinetic Blast Master Rank
A - Psionic Rend Master Master Rank
A - Concussion Pulse Master Rank
A - Redirection Master Rank
~Magnetic
C - Polarity Burst Master Rank
C - Ionic Infusion Master Rank
C - Magnetic Control Master Rank
C - Magnetize Master Rank
B - Polarity Shift Master Rank
B - Static Infusion Master Rank
B - Electromagnetic Vision Master Rank
B - Magnetic Flux Master Rank
A - Gigavolt Railgun Master Rank
A - Magnetoblast Master Rank
A - Biomagnetic Alteration Master Rank
A - Polarity Storm Master Rank
~Photonic
C - Light Flare Master Rank
C - Flashbang Master Rank
C - Luminous Shine Master Rank
C - Invisible Shell Master Rank
B - Clandestine Concealment Master Rank
B - Starstrike Master Rank
B - Mirage Manipulation Master Rank
B - Radiant Shatter Master Rank
A - Illumination Master Rank
A - Rainbow Flash Master Rank
A - Corona Master Rank
A - Meteor Storm Master Rank
Gravity
C - Gravity Distortion Master Rank
C - Anti-Gravity Master Rank
C - Orbital Strike Master Rank
C - Gravitational Pull Master Rank
B - Graviton Master Rank
B - Clutch of the Giant Master Rank
B - Forced Polarity Master Rank
B - Inertial Control Master Rank
A - Shinra Tensei Master Rank
A - Chibaku Tensei Master Rank
A - Newton's Apple Master Rank
A - Centrifugal Force Master Rank
Taijutsu
~Slashing
E - Slash Master Rank
E - Arcing Slash Master Rank
E - Dynamic Slash Master Rank
E - Overhead Strike Master Rank
D - Full Circle Master Rank
D - Cross Rip Master Rank
D - Crimson Flash Master Rank
D - Gasher Master Rank
D - Heavy Tow Master Rank
C - Vanishing Slash Master Rank
C - Lunar Steps Master Rank
C - Whisperer Master Rank
C - Sword Juggle Master Rank
C - Zero Slash Counter Master Rank
C - Top Spin Master Rank
C - Blade Trail Master Rank
B - Magnum Break Master Rank
B - Focal Blade Master Rank
B - Steel Weaving Master Rank
B - Flight Aerial Strike Master Rank
B - Kill Driver Master Rank
B - Executioner Master Rank
B - Lotus Flower Master Rank
A - Zanteksuken Master Rank
A - Higuma Master Rank
A - Annihilation Master Rank
A - Heavenly Sword Master Rank
A - Fatal Draw Master Rank
~Unarmed
E - the One Two Master Rank
E - Low Sweep Master Rank
E - Janken Master Rank
E - Uncalled For Shot Master Rank
D - Four Hit Combo Rank Master Rank
D - Spinning Wind Master Rank
D - Dynamic Entry Master Rank
D - Dynamic Finish Master Rank
D - Nut Buster Master Rank
C - Dragon Assault Master Rank
C - Tiger Hook Master Rank
C - Step-in Flash Master Rank
C - Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku Master Rank
C- Roaring Combination Master Rank
C - Grapple Master Rank
B - Suplex Master Rank
B - Primary Lotus Master Rank
B - Shadow Step in Strike Master Rank
B - Seismic Toss Master Rank
B - Submission Master Rank
B- Spear Hand Master Rank
B- 16 Hit Combo Master Rank
A- Falcon Punch Master Rank
A - Eagle Drop Master Rank
A - Dance of the Waxing Moon Master Rank
A - Fist of Sin Master Rank
A - Fist of Virtue Master Rank
~Piercing
E - Stab Master Rank
E - Thrust Master Rank
E - Multiple Impale Master Rank
E - Piercing Rain Master Rank
D - Cross Pierce Master Rank
D - Impaling Counter Master Rank
D - Dynamic Pierce Master Rank
D - Defensive Thrust Master Rank
C - Outcry Master Rank
C - Iron Point Prison Master Rank
C - Clip Downpour Master Rank
C - Spiked Shield Master Rank
C - Feint Spike Master Rank
C - Pressure Pierce Master Rank
C - Outter Rim Breaker Master Rank
B - Fake Out Master Rank
B - Enraging Strike Master Rank
B - Fillet-O-Flesh Master Rank
B - Million Stab Master Rank
B - Blood Letter Master Rank
A - Giga Star Breaker Master Rank
A - Trashin Master Rank
~Buffing
E - Charge Master Rank
E - Grip Master Rank
E - Fleeted Master Rank
E - Block Master Rank
D - Shadow Play Master Rank
D - Eagle Vision Master Rank
D - Muscle Control Master Rank
D - Brandish Master Rank
D - Basic Safeguard Master Rank
C - Chakra Absorption Master Rank
C - Dynamic Art Master Rank
C - Chakra Extension Master Rank
C - Shadow Dance Master Rank
C - Gather Master Rank
C - Barrage Master Rank
C - Expel Master Rank
C - Feint Master Rank
B - Unbound Master Rank
B - Endure Master Rank
B - Counterstike Master Rank
B - Cover Master Rank
B - Anabolic Frenzy Master Rank
B - Concealed Steps Master Rank
B - Focused Steps Master Rank
A - Insatiable Hunger Master Rank
A - Devastating Aura Master Rank
A - Awakening Master Rank
A - Limit Break Master Rank
A - Unleash Master Rank
~Bludgeoning
E - Bunt Master Rank
E - Broad Slap Master Rank
E - Bound Master Rank
E - Smash Master Rank
D - Dynamic Bash Master Rank
D - Dynamic Charge Master Rank
D - 7 Hit Combo Master Rank
D - Double Slam Master Rank
D - Concrete Blast Master Rank
C - Render Blitz Master Rank
C - Blast Rush Master Rank
C - Skull Buster Master Rank
C - Set-Up Master Rank
C - Black Jack Attack Master Rank
C - Carpe Noctem Rank 1
C - Carpe Diem Rank 1
Projectile
E - Curve Shot Rank Master
E - Raw Shot Rank Master
E - Unforeseen Strike Rank Master
E - Piercing Strike Rank Master
D - Venomous Sting Rank Master
D - Disillusion Shot Rank Master
D - Power Shot Rank Master
D - Quickshot Rank Master
D - Bounce Shot Rank Master
C - Critical Shot Rank Master
C - Snipe Rank Master
C - Scatter Shot Rank Master
C - Counter Shot Rank Master
C - Tracking Beacon Rank Master
C - Catapult Discharge Rank Master
C - Detonation Tip Rank Master
B - Flurry Shot Rank Master
B - Blunt Shot Rank Master
B - Pierce Shot Rank Master
B - Pin Shot Rank Master
B - Grapple Shot Rank Master
B - Burst Shot Rank Master
B - Homing Shot Rank Master
A - Destruction Power Shot Rank Master
A - Combustive Shot Rank Master
A - Glacial Shot Rank Master
A - Voltaic Shot Rank Master
A - Terra Firma Shot Rank Master
Thrown
E - Volley Rank Master
E - Full Toss Rank Master
E - Trick Launch Rank Master
E - Mad Flight Rank Master
D - Projectile Sealing Rank Master
D - Sudden Shot Rank Master
D - Shadow Projectile Rank Master
D - Blood Grinding Rank Master
D - Instant Fail Rank Master
C - Silver Crows Master Rank
C - Buzzsaw Rank Master
C - Full Impact Rank Master
C - Spread Counter Rank Master
C - Sly Silver Rank Master
C - Sinister Steel Master Rank
C - Silver Stream Master Rank
B - Crush Bit Master Rank
B - Body Flicker ShurikenMaster Rank
B - Gravedigger's Hole Master Rank
B - Zero Point Assault Master Rank
B - Pinpoint Rank Master Rank
B - Steel Dragon Master Rank
B - Silver Cloud Master Rank
A - Heavenly Rain Drive Master Rank
A - Twin Rising Dragon Master Rank
A - Earthly Impalement Master Rank
A - Spiraling Silver Master Rank
A - Meteor Breaker Master Rank
Genjutsu
~Kinetic
E - Hot Weapon Master Rank
E - Stun Master Rank
E - 1000 Years of Pain Kai Master Rank
D - Drunken Stupor Master Rank
D - Influenza Master Rank
D - Tickling Master Rank
D - Face Palm Master Rank
C- Mist of Deceit Master Rank
C - Crippled Master Rank
C - Masochism Master Rank
C - Silly Fingers Master Rank
C - Crossed Wires Master Rank
B - Phoenix Embrace Master Rank
B - Petrification Master Rank
B - Lingering Spark Master Rank
B - Depth Crush Master Rank
B - Puppet Betrayal Master Rank
B - Pox Master Rank
A - Curse of the Leper Master Rank
A - Tree Binding
A - Delayed Agony Master Rank
A - Parasitic Infection Master Rank
A - Shared Torment Master Rank
A - Hemorrhagic Fever Master Rank
~Visual
E - Mimic Master Rank
E - False Surroundings Master Rank
E - Eye Strain Master Rank
D - Basic Clone Master Rank
D - Blur Master Rank
D - Rorsarch Eye Master Rank
D - Double Vision Master Rank
C - Distortion Master Rank
C - Occular Trama Master Rank
C - Back Flash Master Rank
C - After Image Master Rank
C - Verse of Darkness Master Rank
B - Advanced Clone Master Rank
B - Perception Filter Master Rank
B - Depth Barrier Master Rank
B - Night Mare Master Rank
B - Solar Flare Master Rank
B - Mime box Master Rank
A - Ocular assault Master Rank
A - Reaper's Gaze Master Rank
A - Body Double Master Rank
A - Night Rank Master Rank
A - Deja Vu Master Rank
A - Invisibility Master Rank
-Will
E - Lethargy Master Rank Master
E - Tourniquet Master Rank
E- Intimidation Master Rank
D - Amnesia Master Rank
D - False Success Master Rank
D - Leaking Mind Master Rank
D - Sear of the Mind Master Rank
C - Black Out Master Rank
C - Insomnia Master Rank
C - Paranoia Master Rank
C - Charismatic Breakdown Master Rank
C - Untruth Master Rank
B - Havoc of the Doomed Mind Master Rank
B - Slowed Perception Master Rank
B - Oblivious Rapture Master Rank
B - Betrayal Master Rank
B - Taunt master Rank
B - Thought Down Master Rank
A - Mind's Eye Chaos Master Rank
A - Temple of Nivrvana Master Rank
A - Torment of the Physical Plain Master Rank
A - Torment of the Earthly Plane Master Rank
A - Repetition Master Rank
A - Chaos of the Mental Plane Master Rank
~Audial
E - Deception Master Rank
E - Favoritism Master Rank
E - Wasteful Master Rank
D - Trembling Music Master Rank
D - Pained Expressions Master Rank
D - Appreciation of Music Master Rank
D - Gong Master Rank
C - Sometimes Shouting Works Master Rank
C - Deaf Master Rank
C - Run It Back Master Rank
C - Groans Master Rank
C - Piercing Cry Master Rank
B - Centralized Master Rank
B - Death Chime Master Rank
B - Prolong Master Rank
B - Leak Master Rank
B - Wither Master Rank
B - Bass Drop Master Rank
A - Devil's Whisper Master Rank
A - Death's Anthem Master Rank
A - Blank Slate Master Rank
A - Radial Shock Master Rank
A - Chakra Ravage Master Rank
A- Auto-Tune Master Rank
~Anbu
D - Mask Summon Master Rank
D - Critical Exposure Master Rank
C- Snapshot Master Rank
C - Chakra Sense Master Rank
C - Active Cameo Master Rank
C- Mental Infiltration Master Rank
B - Shadow Servant Master Rank
B - Search Light Master Rank
A - Flock of Shadows Master Rank
-Medical
D - Mystical Hand Master Rank
D - Coagulation Master Rank
C - System Shock Master Rank
C - Skeletal Fortification Master Rank
C - Anesthetic Infusion Master Rank
C - System Restoration Master Rank
Kinjutsu (Tsukuogami)
Force of Will
Overwhelm Master Rank
Myriad Strike Master Rank
Visceral Rend Master Rank
Omni-Flash Master Rank
Kindred Fusion Master Rank
The meeting had been, quite obviously a trap, and they had run into it, head on. Fools they were, but even bigger fools were those two had stormed toward the Countess’s office, allowing two of their quartet behind. If that was a trap and, undoubtedly it was, they had just halved their fighting force. And everyone knew that to take a Sovereign Agent, one needed a small army to say the least.[lb2][/lb2]
"I am quite keen to know what it might mean know that you are in this scene." a voice would come to them, but whose origin did not come from the female silhouette but rather from the right of the room. The room’s lighting condition was not the best and, because of that, Kazuki was unable to discern who had spoken, though he knew there was someone there, just not who exactly. Why were the lighting conditions so bad? There was only one lit lamp, the one at the Countess’s desk and even her was only partially lit. Still, the Senju Overlord was able to grasp that the woman was very pale, almost as pale as him. "run... there is nothing for you here."<i></i> a female voice would whisper, apparently coming from her. It seemed like a warning and it was.[lb2][/lb2]
"Indeed, it is times like these I hold dear. The moments when women like you get to disappear."<i></i> the male voice would echo again. The man would emerge from the shadows, revealing a tall man completely wrapped in white bandages. The White Wolf immediately remembered who that guy was. Ichi, the first of the Sovereign, probably the strongest, but certainly the one that survived the longest. He held a sword in his left hand, well, a sharp piece of metal, that he attempted to kill the woman with.[lb2][/lb2]
”Lock him down. Then we get out."<i></i> Sousuke would tell him. The Steward’s instructions were based on faulty knowledge. The Reaper was no longer a master of binds since his inner nature was forcibly changed by the Sacred Tree, but he still had binds at his disposal. He still had the ability to lock an opponent down, though not as masterfully as before.[lb2][/lb2]
[MFT - 364][lb2][/lb2]
[lb2][/lb2] Actions:
Activate Duelist on Ichi (Nin Acc)[lb][/lb]
Use Transformation Mastered to transform myself to be like the Countess (1AP)[lb][/lb]
Use Elemental Clone Mastered (Special Action: Earth) from my Corrupted Energy pool (2 AP)[lb][/lb]
Use Enlightened Suppression Mastered on Ichi from my Corrupted Energy pool (2AP)[lb][/lb]
Use Corpse Soil Mastered (Nin acc for basic strikes) (2,5AP) - #1 – Use Grasp of Unliving on Ichi if Enlightened Suppression fails[lb][/lb]
Use Piercing Timber Mastered on Ichi (2.5 AP)[lb2][/lb2]
Corpses[lb][/lb]
Corpses will use available AP for basic strikes on Ichi[lb2][/lb2]
Clone[lb][/lb]
Clone will cast Gravel Shift Mastered on Ichi until out of AP (1AP)[lb2][/lb2]
#2 - Have one corpse use a basic strike on me if I become bound[lb][/lb]
#3 - Have one corpse use a basic strike on Sousuke if he becomes bound[lb][/lb]
#4 - Cast Cancel - Mastered on me to dispel Requiem of Death (1.5AP)[lb][/lb]
#5 - Do not use offensive moves if Ichi is bound (including the clone and the corpses)
"You people." Replied Katsuo, scowling as the woman he thought he'd identified as Number Four tried to feed him a line about being in trouble. "Y'all really don't think much of us, do you?"
Katsuo had been in the "hero" game for a long time even though that isn't how he would have chosen to describe it. His lot was helping people and that was what mattered first and foremost. By definition he supposed that might make him a hero but that was a call for those around him to make. One couldn't just declare themselves a hero and make it so. Just the same, despite his lack of traditional book smarts Katsuo was versed in people and more to the point bad people. A much younger and more inexperienced Katsuo would have fallen for this trick hook, line and sinker-- and in fact had fallen for it in the past --but this was not that man.
Number Four had been made and there was no convincing or deceiving that she was going to do to get herself out of this situation.
Still, it felt wrong. He'd walked in, identified that he recognized her and that this was a trap but she wasn't attacking him. She wasn't calling Number Two in to attack him. Was she stalling for something? Katsuo didn't know if the others had arrived yet but he hoped that if they had they wouldn't have just walked by the very obvious Number Two standing outside in all of his blonde, muscle-bound glory.
That leaves the question of why. If they were here to keep me out, Number Two would have stopped me at the door. Why even risk letting me on the premises if they didn't want me here?
Things started jumping out at him as he glanced around the room, ignoring Number Four's attempt to get into his head. Hastily cleaned blood smears which hadn't been totally removed in time, furniture ajar at odd angles from each other. The scene of the lobby had been repaired quickly but not efficiently. It meant that whatever staff was here were probably already dead. The Sovereign were well known for their brutal and effective methods of infiltration. What it did mean is that it settled the question of whether or not the Countess was working with the Ishii Regime. If they were allies, they wouldn't need this subterfuge and they wouldn't have needed to kill any of the staff. The countess could have just sent her staff home unless they were particularly sadistic but that wasn't what their intelligence reports indicated of her.
"So the real question is whether you're here to stop me from going up or if you're here to warn whoever is waiting for me upstairs that I'm on my way." Katsuo remarked to Number Four, his words mirroring his thought process as he did, leaning away from the counter and starting to move over towards the elevator. "Well sugar, it's been nice meeting you but I'm gonna go punch your trap in the face. If you're fixin' to stop me, now's your chance."
"Funny you'd call it that after all this time," Ni mentioned, his tone cold. There would be something about it that might have reminded Roku of Taro's reaction, despite the fact that they appeared to occupy the opposite spectrum. Taro was a man of passion, enough so that he almost seemed to be a boy. He spoke before he gave any thought to the words that he might say. Ni was more guarded with his words but there appeared to be an underlying theme: a sense that there was a sentiment of abandonment. Like a brother that ran away from home, a father that went out for a pack of smokes to never return. Decades removed, the prodigal 'brother' stands before Ni has returned, indifferent to his own absence. It was rude. Thoughtless. Almost cruel.
But Ni was not particularly kind.
"Number 2... there is a joke there... so you remember me? My apologies, I have amnesia. Care to give me some insight into the me you remember? ...Number 2... there is a joke there... so you remember me? My apologies, I have amnesia. Care to give me some insight into the me you remember?"
He did not get the joke, but he was not the sort that followed humor very well. Number Six was antagonizing him, like a kid brother that you just wanted to swat. "No more a joke than your identity disabled face," Ni prodded back. "Some things never change," and ADD of the face was one of the things that did. Ironic, change was Roku's constant. he repeated. "Amnesia... Right," Ni did not believe Roku, not in the least. He would play the Sennin's game all the same even if it felt like the plot from some bad soap opera. Next he would find out that he was in love with a clone of his mother and that he had a secret love child thirty years before he was even born in a dramatic turn of events. "I remember when you came to us, don't bullshit me like that."</B><i></i>
"I like my blondes... a bit skinnier, bub. Anyways, do you mind clearing something up for me? I thought Number 9, Taro, was the physically strongest of all the Sovereign but isn't being really strong sort of your thing? Taro is stronger than you right?"
"Strongest ego," he confirmed. Roku was prodding at him, attempting to force a reaction from him. "I will gladly demonstrate," and it was working. He attempted to clap his arm on Roku's shoulder, the his muscles seem to expand, his deltoid, tricep and bicep bulged to thrice their previous size. Almost like an Akimichi, just it was more than expansion or caloric expenditure but rather this wall of man seemed about ready to burst from his suit jacket. Of course, the Sovereign were nothing more than a den of sociopaths, that is the presumption made. Thus far it held true. At least from his perspective, but they were not very different. They never were. In a war such as this there is no such thing as heroes or villains -- only winners, losers and those that write the history books.
"Sorry, that was off topic, I just figured you wanted to talk since I wouldn't be worth the time or energy. You mentioned joining the winning side... would it be that easy? Would you all just welcome me back home? Just like that, just that easy?"
"You're not," Ni confirmed with a coldness that seemed characteristic and matter of fact. "But even a shithead like you should be home with... as you called them... family." This was not a moment of violence, rather an instance of humanity as the behemoth offered Roku the option of returning home. "I don't want to kill you or even watch you fucking die," but he would if he had to. Roku was not particularly small but comparatively he looked like a lanky teen next to Sovereign behemoth. "Taro is a moron but the idiot was heartbroken when you never came back. Ditto, the girls. Well, girl now," he frowned. He did not want to say it, the fact that he suspected that Roku was the one that killed them as he met the Sennin's gaze with his piercing blue eyes.
Of course this was more questions than answers -- they all knew him yet none of them approached him. They all knew him, yet none of them took him to task for abandoning them, for fighting on the "wrong side" of this war. "Let's go, you did what was intended," there was a grim tone taken. What had Roku done? Roku had done nothing but protest the war. Imprison his fellow brethren and heed the call, the law and the need of their enemies. What cause was there for an antagonistic force, especially an effective one? He was not asking for the fate or the freedom of the missing Sovereign. In fact, he did not seem to care, it seemed quite contradictory.
Refer to Katsuo's section for additional relevant interactions
Katsuo
"You people... Y'all really don't think much of us, do you?"
He was not going to play her game. Pity that would have been fun. She lost the sad expression she feigned and let out a half-hearted laugh. "No, not really sweetness."
"So the real question is whether you're here to stop me from going up or if you're here to warn whoever is waiting for me upstairs that I'm on my way."
"Oh darling...." she almost purred as she spoke. "You're far too pretty to hurt and I'm... hardly a match for someone such as you," she smiled sweetly and her eyes glanced at the door. The former Number Six was talking the Number Two.
"Well sugar, it's been nice meeting you but I'm gonna go punch your trap in the face. If you're fixin' to stop me, now's your chance."
She made no move to stop him, she just maintained that same domestic smile as the Kazekage started to walk away. "Bai-bai~" She did not seem terrible sad to go, well maybe a little. It was hard to tell with her resting bitch face. Maybe she wanted to screw him. Maybe she wanted to kill him. Maybe she wanted him to get the fuck out of her face. Maybe she wanted all three in an unspecified order. The Sovereign women, or the Cabal women for that matter were not known for their sanity, but Katsuo was also not known for his discerning taste in women considering the life partner he had chosen. Either he had a thing for broken women or broken women had a thing for him. But the Sunahoshi had enough god-given sense to get out of there, or enough paranoia to take note of the fact that they had foolishly separated the party.
Katsuo would find himself in the elevator, a small 4x8 metal box that promised to ascend to the highest floor. It was a silent promise such a structure made, that you could enter and leave it with ease. That you would safely be pulled to the floor of your choice. That the time spent in claustrophobic quarters would be brief. The doors would silently close, the music would turn on and the elevator would come to life. There was this feeling in your head and gut that there was vertical movement upward.
Meanwhile...
Shi did what any reasonable woman would do after she was rejected. She walked to the elevator that Katsuo had taken the moment after the doors closed and with a balled up fist she struck the plate that possessed a single button to call upon the elevator's service. Her tiny hand breached the plate and ripped through a tangle of wire that her digits became ensnared within. She would curl her fingers and with a scowl across her face she would pull hard and rip from the casing the wire within. She would hear the elevator screech to a stop.
Katsuo would hear the very same sound.
The terrible elevator music would cease. The elevator would plunge into darkness, leaving a lone Kazekage trapped in a box held aloft by a pair of cables and a pissed off woman on the bottom floor.
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Katsuo is trapped in an elevator.
The buttons do not work. There is no power to the elevator. It is no longer moving. Katsuo has not reached the top floor, in fact he is between two floors. It is completely dark in this elevator, however the fight going on in the penthouse is far from silent. While Katsuo won't be able to hear any of the words, monologues, etc. being exchanged he would hear the loud noises normally associated with a high-level shinobi fight.
On the bottom floor, removed from Katsuo's independent plight, that bitch of a woman would call out to Ni. "What do you have out there Deuce?" Her tone not particularly pleasant. "Can you believe that guy ignored a woman in possible distress, pffff!" She complained about the kazekage like a shopkeep would complain about their customers once they left. "What the hell are you doing out there?" Yes, her tone got bitchier.
Accuracy:
Ninjutsu Accuracy: 27 + 2 Duelist -3 (Requiem)
Dodge: 23 -3 (Requiem)
Genjutsu Save: 23 -3 (Requiem)
Melee Accuracy: 23 -3 (Requiem)
Genjutsu DC: 23 -3 (Requiem)
Ranged Accuracy: 19 -3 (Requiem)
Awareness 15 -3 (Requiem)
Stealth 15 -3 (Requiem) Damage:
Ninjutsu: +5% Ninjutsu Damage (Class) + 10% damage (Duelist)
General: +10% damage (Duelist)
Wood Jutsu: Deal +15% additional damage (Senju) + 5% Ninjutsu Damage (Class) + 10% damage (Duelist)
Techniques and Jutsus used with Corrupted Energy are treated as Cursed and gains +10% Damage. Evasion:
+10% chance to auto-dodge the targets attacks (Duelist)
-2 dodge anyone besides Ichi (Duelist) Chakra Cost:
-5% (Journeyman) -10% Chakra, this includes Maintains (Jutsu Mastery).
All Chakra cost penalties from choosing to use 'Special Actions' are halved (Jutsu Mastery)
Jutsu effects that would increase Chakra Costs are negated (Conservative Motion) Notes:
All Effects that have a chance of causing the user's action to fail are halved and all AP increasing effects are negated.
While equipped with either the Light Armor or Heavy Armor item, the user ignores the first Bleeding, Suppression, Called Shot, or Secondary Effect inflicted upon them during each round. This applies only to the first action to inflict any of these, but will cover the entire action (if a multihit). If this action would inflict multiple of these, they would all be nulled.
Attacks with the Senju pool are considered to be CURSED. Participants suffer Cursed damage equal to 4% of the total amount of damage dealt to them by Cursed attacks over the course of the battle.
The additional damage the user takes from Critical attacks is reduced by 0.35. (Light Armor).
The user gains +10% Damage and +2 Awareness against targets whose health are below 30% (Dark Sage).
The user now has +1 towards their limit of active Creation in battle (Dark Sage).
Creation Jutsus used with Corrupted Energy are not affected by any effects that would automatically destroy or do more damage against them, but causes any effects that would restore Health to them to deal damage instead. This also grants the Creation +10% increase to their Base Health.
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<B>Takahashi Sousuke
[lb]HP: 42600 [-2100] 40500
[lb]Illusion Damage: 396
[lb]CP: 32400 [-3690] 28710
[lb]Natural Energy: NA
[lb]AP: 10 [8.75] 1.25 (rollover to next round all)
[lb]Gear: Headset, Light Armour. Kawarimi Target, Energy Drink, Weapon x3
[lb]Status:
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Accuracy:
Melee Accuracy 27 (+1 accuracy with all Mastered jutsu) -3 (Requiem)
Dodge 23 -3 (Requiem)
Genjutsu Save 23 -3 (Requiem)
User's signature weapon gains an independent sense of willpower. This grants it an independent Genjutsu Save statistic from the user's and allows it to use that Genjutsu Save to assist the user. Signature weapon's Genjutsu Save is equal to the user's Genjutsu Save -5. Any time an opponent targets the user with a Genjutsu they automatically target the user's signature weapon as well. If the signature weapon resists the opposing Genjutsu but the user fails then the user is automatically aware they are under a Genjutsu.
Once per round the user's signature weapon may attempt to dispel an opposing Genjutsu affecting the user costing the user 1 AP. This requires a Genjutsu Save against the opposing Genjutsu and if the signature weapon succeeds then the targeted Genjutsu is dispelled.
Ninjutsu Accuracy 23 (+1 accuracy with all Mastered jutsu) -3 (Requiem)
Genjutsu DC 23 -3 (Requiem)
Ranged Accuracy 19 (+1 accuracy with all Mastered jutsu) -3 (Requiem)
+1 accuracy with all Mastered jutsu. Additional +.5 accuracy to all attacks every round after the second. Cannot gain more than +4 accuracy on any attack.
Awareness 15 + 2 (Situational Awareness) -3 (Requiem)
10% auto-hit (Offensive Insight)
The user resists -1 Accuracy and Dodge from terrain effecting techniques such as Hidden Mist or Earthslide River, this amount is reduced from the cumulative debuffs and not per-jutsu. In addition, the user has +1 Dodge against all Delayed attacks, traps and binds. (Adaptability)
If the opponent uses the same technique as they have previously, the user gains +1 to resist or dodge it. Stacks twice. This buffs cancels if the user switches styles. Basic melee attacks are exempt from this. (Prediction)
When making an awareness check, the user has a 25% chance to auto-detect the target. This applies to targets in Stealth, hidden by clones, and under transformations.
Sneak Attacks to the user have a 25% chance of being detected and losing their Sneak bonus. (Sixth Sense) Damage
Ninjutsu +5% damage (Sharp Instinct)
Taijutsu +5% damage (Sharp Instinct) DR
5% Damage Reduction (Class) 5% Damage Reduction (Sentinel) +5% Damage Reduction while this weapon is equipped. While in Defensive Stance, this amount is increased to +10% Damage Reduction (Vanguard) Notes:
Defensive Technique
Bull Strength: cannot find this, we have weapon attunement but that is not BULL STRENGTH.
Hidden Actions are revealed to the user through PM (Insight)
You do not have the Tsukomogami kinjutsu, it is called KENSEI these days.
Genjutsu DC 27
Dodge 23
Genjutsu Save 23
Ninjutsu Accuracy 23
Ranged Accuracy 23
Melee Accuracy 23
Awareness 15 + 2
Genjutsu which target a player's Shadow gain a bonus of +2 Genjutsu DC and deal 10% increase Illusionary Damage
Genjutsu can be Sung to effect multiple targets at -1 DC per additional target. If used against a single target, the Genjutsu has +2 DC
May convert Wind and Non-Elemental Jutsu into Sound at no additional cost and all Sound Jutsu cost -5% Chakra.
All Sound Jutsu receive +15% Damage
When making Awareness Checks, the visibility/Terrain effect is treated as two ranks higher in the user's favor. (Tracker)
Once every other round, the user may perform a Sneak Attack without being dropped out of stealth. When making a stealth check, Terrain and Visibility modifiers are treated one level higher in the users favor. (Stalker)
Chakra Style (Fire)
Targets effected with the user's Genjutsu take +10% damage from all damage types. (Overflow)
Elemental Illusion Targets effected with the user's Genjutsu take +10% damage from all damage types.
Illusionist
Shatter
2.00 Seconds | Using Hashigaki's Enthralling Voice Ichi casts Requiem of Death [Mastered] on everyone using Elemental Illusion Fire.
Gen DC (Ichi) 18 (Success)
Gen Resist (Sousuke) 5
Gen DC (Ichi) 17 (Success)
Gen Resist (Sousuke Clone 1) 6
Gen DC (Ichi) 3 (Success)
Gen Resist (Sousuke Clone 2) 7
Gen DC (Ichi) 17 (Success)
Gen Resist (Sousuke Clone 3) 19
Gen DC (Ichi) 7 (Success, however Kazuki is aware that he is under the influence of a genjutsu)
Gen Resist (Kazuki) 11
Gen DC (Ichi) 14 (Success)
Gen Resist (Countess) 18
3.00 Seconds | Kazuki uses Elemental Clone Mastered (Special Action: Earth) from his Corrupted Energy pool.
3.50 Seconds | Sousuke draws Perdition's Arrival and Thunder Talon via quick draw.
Signature Weapon said:
Perdition's Arrival and Thunder Talon - the Twins that Challenged the Terror in Inferno (or the Twins that Dream of Fire and Lightning Weapon Type: Long Sword Weapon Damage Type: Slashing - Bleeding Bonuses: 5% Damage -1 Accuracy Bleeding Augment: Dual Weapon, Steady, Trick Weapon - Unarmed, Vanguard, Vampiric
5.00 Seconds | Kazuki uses Enlightened Suppression Mastered on Ichi from his Corrupted Energy pool.
Attack (Kazuki) 8 (50% Hit, Ichi is Chakra Bound)
Evasion (Ichi) 8
5.00 Seconds | Using Hashigaki's Enthralling Voice Ichi casts The Reaper's Gaze [Mastered] on both Sousuke and Kazuki's as well as their shadows (taking the debuff to accuracy) using Genjutsu special move deja vu. The jutsus that have been aimed at Sousuke and Kazuki's shadows will be queued for later use.
This happens at the same time as Kazuki's Chakra Bind
Target: (1) Kazuki, (2) Countess, (3) Clone. Roll: 1 Kazuki
Gen DC (Ichi) 15 (Success) (50% Hit, success but aware)
Gen Resist (Kazuki Shadow) 12
Transferred to Kazuki as per Conditional.
Gen DC (Ichi) 14 (Success)
Gen Resist (Sousuke Shadow) 6
Transferred to Sousuke as per Conditional.
5.50 Seconds | Ichi draws his weapon. 6.00 Seconds | Sousuke attempts to break free of bind.
15% chance to escape. Roll: 2 Success!
7.00 Seconds | Chance to dispel due to chakra bind.
30% chance. Roll: 90 (Failed)
7.50 Seconds | Kazuki attempts to break free of bind.
15% chance to escape. Roll: 80 (Failed)
8.00 Seconds | Ichi attempts to break the chakra bind.
15% chance to escape. Roll: 96 (Failed)
8.75 Seconds | Sousuke uses Master Rank Heavenly Sword using the Ambidexterity Flurry Guard to protect the Countess from Ichi's attack. 8.75 Seconds | Sousuke uses Master Rank Cancel via Willpower as a free action.
Attack (Clone) 5 (Hit)
Evasion (Ichi) 1
This gives them a -2 Dodge penalty to the next action that hits them or a 35% chance of their next action being treated one rank lower.
9.00 Seconds | Chance to dispel due to chakra bind.
30% chance. Roll: 74 (Failed)
10.0 Seconds | Kazuki attempts to break free of bind.
25% chance to escape. Roll: 99 (Failed)
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Unable to cast Tree Binding due to lack the AP to use this.
Also, check your kinjutsu and ability notes Sousuke.
Unable to cast Corpse Soil or Piercing Timber due to AP to use this.
Sousuke is not bound.
Kazuki is fully bound.
Ichi is chakra bound.
Kazuki and Sousuke
Yes, this was a trap but Number 1 as he was called did not seem particularly interested in harming either the Steward or the Sennin. In fact, he seemed to be more interested in finishing off the woman. She did not seem capable of putting up a fight, if she was chakra capable, she was not nearly as capable as the Sovereign before her. She would have wanted to run but the fray blocked her only means of egress unless she decided to break through the window, but she would never survive the fall. "He gets into your head," she warned, her hands cupping either side of her own head. She could still hear it, the voices. The scratching noise. That itch she could not reach.
Ichi meant to kill the woman right after the shinobi arrived. It was a set-up, the kind where the blood of a city leader would be on their hands. The sort of set-up where the economic center of the capital in this country was sent in disarray. Surely someone would step into power and even if nobody did so in an efficient manner, blame would be leveled on the shinobi village. It would seem as if Diamyo Ishii Shiro is also seeking to make alliances with foreign and possibly domestic powers.
Of course Sousuke and Kazuki sprung into action. Kazuki's deathly aura seemed to siphon away the very life force of everyone in the room, a dangerous and voracious hunger characteristic of the Deep Court Ancient. Distract. Bind. Protect. That seemed to be their plan as Kazuki transformed into Rika. The same long dark hair and youthful face, they were near indistinguishable to everyone, even Sousuke. Preparations were underway. Three images of the Steward in a neat row. Three Rikas, one of which the Sennin and the other a mere clone. However, Ichi's power did not come with his fists or his blade but rather the power of the spoken word.
"A slovenly gaze. Your clumsy ways. Broken joints at weak points. Tired and listless, you're getting careless."
It was his words, that call from his raspy tongue that seemed to weigh upon them.
"The brute becomes a mute. Feet weighed to the floor. Fists unable to move anymore. Energy lost and at what cost?"
His words seemed to weave some sort of terrible spell. One that they almost avoided, their will great but not absolute. Sousuke and Kazuki both would find themselves bound. Their bodies refused to heed their commands. Their chakra hidden away. Thankfully Shi was far away and not interested in either of these men. However, a stroke of luck or genius, Kazuki was able to release one final assault against Ichi before his will betrayed him. Ichi was also chakra bound. His power... gone. He was hollow inside. His words, they came out in a raspy hiss.
Next Round
At 0.45 seconds into the round Ichi shatters the full bind on Kazuki.
0.75 AP: basic strike against self if still chakra bound.
3 AP: Attack Sousuke, Kazuki and random additional target (clone/creation) with Tatsumaki [Mastered] converting the jutsu to Sound via Hashigaki and AE special move focus.
3 AP: Using Hashigaki's Enthralling Voice Ichi casts The Reaper's Gaze [Mastered] on both Sousuke and Kazuki's as well as their shadows (taking the debuff to accuracy) using Genjutsu special move deja vu. The jutsus that have been aimed at Sousuke and Kazuki's shadows will be queued for later use.
Shatter Reaper's Gaze 0.1 seconds before Concussion Wave is cast.
3 AP: Attack Sousuke and Kazuki with Concussion Wave [Mastered] using AE special move spread to include a second target.
Place queued Reaper's Gaze [Mastered] onto both Sousuke and Kazuki 0.1 seconds after Reaper's gaze is cast.
0.5 AP: Ichi enters Chakra Style (Fire) - Defensive: Flare Touch.
0.5 AP: Ichi enters Fighting Style - Furuuken Stance.
While the numbers were off, the primary objective was so far not compromised. Save the leader of Tea. Kazuki made a decision to turn into the Duchess and transformed into her. This was certainly for the best, and Kazuki's disguise worked so well that he was unable to detect who was in fact was the real woman. The only problem now was that Sousuke had miscalculated in his own actions. His original plan to lock down Ichi was somewhat successful, but it was not at his own hands this was done, rather Kazuki's. Ichi would fall silent, which was for the best. The way he spoke was annoying at best, and Rika would indeed reveal that Ichi's power involved him getting into your head. Maybe he was using a genjutsu. Maybe he was a psionic. It was difficult to tell at this point but Sousuke would learn quickly enough.
The Steward silently pondered his options here. He had no idea of knowing what the Countess would do. The smart idea would be to run, but then that would give her away and leave her open to attacks. Ichi equally was an already difficult foe. He had proven so by using a technique to lock down both himself and Kazuki. The Steward was able to get himself out of the technique but whether or not Kazuki was able to do so was an unknown at this time. While Kazuki was able to make a mute of Ichi, there was not enough time to figure out if Kazuki was infact under lock down himself. The Steward could not leave Kazuki, but at the same time the Countess of Tea was ever present. Sousuke would grip his weaponry. Perdition's Arrival would ignite and burn brightly. Thunder Talon would crackle with lightning. Ichi had produced a bladed weapon. It was time, for at least this moment, to test its metal. Literally. All of the Sousuke began to move at once in unison. They would all begin to attack Ichi in union and in conjunction. Should Sousuke's calculations proved correctly, Ichi would be seeing alot more of Takahashi Sousuke in a moment.
All Sousuke clones will cast Master Rank Thunderclap on Ichi
0AP Quick draw Perdition's Arrival and Thunder Talon
0.5AP Enter defensive style +1 Dodge/-1Accuracy
3AP Casting Master Rank Redirection on the first action that takes more than 2 seconds by Ichi , redirect the attack right back at Ichi
2.75AP Casting Master Rank Dance of the Waxing Moon on Ichi I do not have to use the special effect to use this as an unarmed attack due to trick weapon augment
0AP Use Master Rank Cancel via Willpower as a free action
2.75AP Casting Master Rank Eagle Drop on Ichi (trick weapon augment enables this)
2.25AP Casting Master Rank 16-Hit Combo on Ichi
If at any point bound, use the reactionary special effect of Master Rank Unbound to break out of the bind
If any AP is unused at the end of the ground, use Quick Learner's upgrade to move them into the next round
HP: 42600
CP: 32400
AP: 10
Bonuses: 5% Damage Reduction (Class) Defensive Stance (Not Active), Shinobi 101 Kinetic Genjutsu are Cast with Melee Accuracy, Sharp Insight 5% Ninjutsu and Taijutsu Damage?, Offensive Insight 10% Auto Hit Chance, Adaptability The user resists -3 Accuracy and Dodge from terrain effecting techniques such as Hidden Mist or Earthslide River, this amount is reduced from the cumulative debuffs and not per-jutsu. In addition, the user has +3 Dodge against all Delayed attacks, traps and binds, Tactical Mind +1 accuracy with all Mastered jutsu. Additional +.5 accuracy to all attacks every round after the second. Cannot gain more than +4 accuracy on any attack. Light Armour: The additional damage the user takes from Critical attacks is reduced by 0.35. This does not stack with any similar effects. Example; if a critical hit would deal x2.2 damage, the user will instead take x1.85 damage.
Signature Weapon:
Perdition's Arrival and Thunder Talon - the Twins that Challenged the Terror in Inferno (or the Twins that Dream of Fire and Lightning)
Weapon Type: Long Sword
Weapon Damage Type: Slashing - Bleeding
Bonuses: 5% Damage -1 Accuracy Bleeding
Augment: Dual Weapon, Steady, Trick Weapon - Unarmed, Vanguard, Vampiric
Contracts: Toad and Insect (Roku needs to modify original post but it is approved)
Ninjutsu
-Water
E - Pressurized Mist Master Rank
E - Water Gun Master Rank
D - Water Whip Master Rank
D - Aqua Fang Master Rank
D - Rinse Off Master Rank
C - Grand Waterfall Master Rank
C - Impaling Hydro Jet Master Rank
C - Water Prison Master Rank
C - Rain Dance Master Rank
B - Torrential Vortex Master Rank
B - Hydro Tidal Shockwave Master Rank
B - Water Shark Bomb Master Rank
B - Mystical Pond Master Rank
A - Grand Hydra Excavation Master Rank
A - Water Dragon Bullet Master Rank
A - Scorn of Aquarius Master Rank
A - Supreme Aqua Realm Master Rank
~Fire
E - Infernal Ember Master Rank
E- Thermal Maw Master Rank
D- Fireball Master Rank
D- Immolation Armor Master Rank
D- Combustive Seal Rank Master
D- Dragon Fire Master Rank
C- Searing Eruption Master Rank
C- Scalding Ash Cloud Master Rank
C- Heat Wave Master Rank
B- Infernal Hellfire Master Rank
B- Firestorm Master Rank
B- Spontaneous Combustion Master Rank
B- Ring of Fire Master Rank
A- Dragon Flame Bomb Master Rank
A- Sol Fire Tempest Master Rank
A- Abysmal Harbinger Master Rank
A- Flame Shield Master Rank
~Earth
E - Stone Bullet Master Rank
E - Gravel Shift Master Rank
D - Earth Flow Master Rank
D - Sinkhole Fist Master Rank
D - Mud Clone Master Rank
C - Inner Earth Reflection Lure Master Rank
C - Earth Flow Wave Master Rank
C - Rock Golem Master Rank
C - Earthern Coating Master Rank
B - Bedrock Coffin Master Rank
B - Weighted Rock Technique Master Rank
B - Earth Spiker Master Rank
B - Sinkhole Master Rank
A - Earthslide Wall Master Rank
A - Petrification Master Rank
A - Earthen Magnitude Master Rank
A First of Gaia Master Rank
~Wind
E - Wind Slash Master Rank
E - Pressure Burst Master Rank
D - Whirlwind Spin Master Rank
D - Air Bullet Master Rank
D - Shredding Touch Master Rank
C - Wind Scythe Master Rank
C - Tempest Rank Master Rank
C - Gale Force Master Rank
C - Wind Release Master Rank
B - Wind Scar Master Rank
B - Great Wind Scythe Master Rank
B - Vacuum Sphere Master Rank
B - Cycle Movement Master Rank
A - Tatsumaki Mank Master Rank
A - Hurricane Master Rank
A - Ambiance of the Forbidden Master Rank
A - Zephyr's Grace Master Rank
~Darkness
C -Black Eruption Master Rank
C -Midnight Strike Master Rank
C - Specter Shade Master Rank
C - Dark Displacement Master Rank
B - Underworld Prison Master Rank
B - Shadow Punishment Master Rank
B - Black Moon Fang Master Rank
B - Ebony Nightmare Master Rank
A - Shadow Summoning Master Rank
A - Shadow Garb Master Rank
A - Darkness Falls Master Rank
A - Absolute Void Master Rank
~Crystal Elemental
C - Topaz Tempest Master Rank
C - Fluroite Spikes Master Rank
C - Emerald Emitter Master Rank
C - Ruby Rain Master Rank
B - Goldstone Clutch Master Rank
B - Moonstone Shower Master Rank
B - Sapphire Storm Master Rank
B - Amethyst Casing Master Rank
A - Diamond Cutter Master Rank
A - Obsidian Dragon Master Rank
A - Amber Beacon Rank Master
A - Crystalline Passage Rank Master
~Non Elemental
E- Transformation Master Rank
E - Body Swap Master Rank
E - Basic Summoning Master Rank
D - Summoning Contract Master Rank
D - Combination Transformation Master Rank
D- Crystal Eye Master Rank
D- Cancel Master Rank
D- Spirit Lantern Master Rank
C- Stunt Double Master Rank
C - Jutsu Sealing Master Rank
C- One Elemental Sealing Master Rank
C- Elemental Negation Master Rank
C- Elemental Clone Master Rank
B- Leech Seal Master Rank
B- Chakra Shield Master Rank
B - Energy Transfer Master Rank
B - Cursed Seal (Mastered as there is no rank)
B - Shadow Shuriken Replication Master Rank
B - Rassengan Master Rank
B - Chakra Blast Master Rank
A - Perfected Rasengan Master Rank
A - Five Element Seal Master Rank
A - Morality Sealing Master Rank
A - Natures Guard Master Rank
A - Stardust Nova Master Rank
A - Gate of Enma Master Rank
~Paper Jutsu
C - Folded Shuriken Master rank
C - Paper Clone Master rank
C - Burst of Confetti Master rank
C - Origami Shower Master rank
B - Cocoon Sheets Master Rank
B - Paper Blade Master Rank
B - Loose Leaf Wall Master Rank
B - Streaming Cloak Master Rank
A - Shredding Torrent Master Rank
A - Shredding Tsunami Master Rank
A - Torn Downpour Master Rank
A - Maelstrom Document Master Rank
~Wood
C-Vine Tangle Master Rank
C - Armor of Thorns Mater Rank
C - Ingrain Master Rank
C - Wood Hammer Master Rank
B - Piercing Timber Master Rank
B - Pit of Crimson Tears Master Rank
B - Evergreen Thicket Master Rank
B - Glow Moss Master Rank
A - Wrath of Nature Master Rank
A - Grand Gaia Impalement Master Rank
A - Frenzy Plant Master Rank
A- Sleeping Forest Master Rank
~Kinesis
C - Force Blast Master Rank
C - Psionic Assault Master Rank
C - Kinetic Infusion Master Rank
C - Force Guard Master Rank
B - Psi-shock Master Rank
B - Force Break Master Rank
B - Mind Lock Master Rank
B - Reflection Master Rank
A - Kinetic Blast Master Rank
A - Psionic Rend Master Master Rank
A - Concussion Pulse Master Rank
A - Redirection Master Rank
~Magnetic
C - Polarity Burst Master Rank
C - Ionic Infusion Master Rank
C - Magnetic Control Master Rank
C - Magnetize Master Rank
B - Polarity Shift Master Rank
B - Static Infusion Master Rank
B - Electromagnetic Vision Master Rank
B - Magnetic Flux Master Rank
A - Gigavolt Railgun Master Rank
A - Magnetoblast Master Rank
A - Biomagnetic Alteration Master Rank
A - Polarity Storm Master Rank
~Photonic
C - Light Flare Master Rank
C - Flashbang Master Rank
C - Luminous Shine Master Rank
C - Invisible Shell Master Rank
B - Clandestine Concealment Master Rank
B - Starstrike Master Rank
B - Mirage Manipulation Master Rank
B - Radiant Shatter Master Rank
A - Illumination Master Rank
A - Rainbow Flash Master Rank
A - Corona Master Rank
A - Meteor Storm Master Rank
Gravity
C - Gravity Distortion Master Rank
C - Anti-Gravity Master Rank
C - Orbital Strike Master Rank
C - Gravitational Pull Master Rank
B - Graviton Master Rank
B - Clutch of the Giant Master Rank
B - Forced Polarity Master Rank
B - Inertial Control Master Rank
A - Shinra Tensei Master Rank
A - Chibaku Tensei Master Rank
A - Newton's Apple Master Rank
A - Centrifugal Force Master Rank
Taijutsu
~Slashing
E - Slash Master Rank
E - Arcing Slash Master Rank
E - Dynamic Slash Master Rank
E - Overhead Strike Master Rank
D - Full Circle Master Rank
D - Cross Rip Master Rank
D - Crimson Flash Master Rank
D - Gasher Master Rank
D - Heavy Tow Master Rank
C - Vanishing Slash Master Rank
C - Lunar Steps Master Rank
C - Whisperer Master Rank
C - Sword Juggle Master Rank
C - Zero Slash Counter Master Rank
C - Top Spin Master Rank
C - Blade Trail Master Rank
B - Magnum Break Master Rank
B - Focal Blade Master Rank
B - Steel Weaving Master Rank
B - Flight Aerial Strike Master Rank
B - Kill Driver Master Rank
B - Executioner Master Rank
B - Lotus Flower Master Rank
A - Zanteksuken Master Rank
A - Higuma Master Rank
A - Annihilation Master Rank
A - Heavenly Sword Master Rank
A - Fatal Draw Master Rank
~Unarmed
E - the One Two Master Rank
E - Low Sweep Master Rank
E - Janken Master Rank
E - Uncalled For Shot Master Rank
D - Four Hit Combo Rank Master Rank
D - Spinning Wind Master Rank
D - Dynamic Entry Master Rank
D - Dynamic Finish Master Rank
D - Nut Buster Master Rank
C - Dragon Assault Master Rank
C - Tiger Hook Master Rank
C - Step-in Flash Master Rank
C - Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku Master Rank
C- Roaring Combination Master Rank
C - Grapple Master Rank
B - Suplex Master Rank
B - Primary Lotus Master Rank
B - Shadow Step in Strike Master Rank
B - Seismic Toss Master Rank
B - Submission Master Rank
B- Spear Hand Master Rank
B- 16 Hit Combo Master Rank
A- Falcon Punch Master Rank
A - Eagle Drop Master Rank
A - Dance of the Waxing Moon Master Rank
A - Fist of Sin Master Rank
A - Fist of Virtue Master Rank
~Piercing
E - Stab Master Rank
E - Thrust Master Rank
E - Multiple Impale Master Rank
E - Piercing Rain Master Rank
D - Cross Pierce Master Rank
D - Impaling Counter Master Rank
D - Dynamic Pierce Master Rank
D - Defensive Thrust Master Rank
C - Outcry Master Rank
C - Iron Point Prison Master Rank
C - Clip Downpour Master Rank
C - Spiked Shield Master Rank
C - Feint Spike Master Rank
C - Pressure Pierce Master Rank
C - Outter Rim Breaker Master Rank
B - Fake Out Master Rank
B - Enraging Strike Master Rank
B - Fillet-O-Flesh Master Rank
B - Million Stab Master Rank
B - Blood Letter Master Rank
A - Giga Star Breaker Master Rank
A - Trashin Master Rank
~Buffing
E - Charge Master Rank
E - Grip Master Rank
E - Fleeted Master Rank
E - Block Master Rank
D - Shadow Play Master Rank
D - Eagle Vision Master Rank
D - Muscle Control Master Rank
D - Brandish Master Rank
D - Basic Safeguard Master Rank
C - Chakra Absorption Master Rank
C - Dynamic Art Master Rank
C - Chakra Extension Master Rank
C - Shadow Dance Master Rank
C - Gather Master Rank
C - Barrage Master Rank
C - Expel Master Rank
C - Feint Master Rank
B - Unbound Master Rank
B - Endure Master Rank
B - Counterstike Master Rank
B - Cover Master Rank
B - Anabolic Frenzy Master Rank
B - Concealed Steps Master Rank
B - Focused Steps Master Rank
A - Insatiable Hunger Master Rank
A - Devastating Aura Master Rank
A - Awakening Master Rank
A - Limit Break Master Rank
A - Unleash Master Rank
~Bludgeoning
E - Bunt Master Rank
E - Broad Slap Master Rank
E - Bound Master Rank
E - Smash Master Rank
D - Dynamic Bash Master Rank
D - Dynamic Charge Master Rank
D - 7 Hit Combo Master Rank
D - Double Slam Master Rank
D - Concrete Blast Master Rank
C - Render Blitz Master Rank
C - Blast Rush Master Rank
C - Skull Buster Master Rank
C - Set-Up Master Rank
C - Black Jack Attack Master Rank
C - Carpe Noctem Rank 1
C - Carpe Diem Rank 1
Projectile
E - Curve Shot Rank Master
E - Raw Shot Rank Master
E - Unforeseen Strike Rank Master
E - Piercing Strike Rank Master
D - Venomous Sting Rank Master
D - Disillusion Shot Rank Master
D - Power Shot Rank Master
D - Quickshot Rank Master
D - Bounce Shot Rank Master
C - Critical Shot Rank Master
C - Snipe Rank Master
C - Scatter Shot Rank Master
C - Counter Shot Rank Master
C - Tracking Beacon Rank Master
C - Catapult Discharge Rank Master
C - Detonation Tip Rank Master
B - Flurry Shot Rank Master
B - Blunt Shot Rank Master
B - Pierce Shot Rank Master
B - Pin Shot Rank Master
B - Grapple Shot Rank Master
B - Burst Shot Rank Master
B - Homing Shot Rank Master
A - Destruction Power Shot Rank Master
A - Combustive Shot Rank Master
A - Glacial Shot Rank Master
A - Voltaic Shot Rank Master
A - Terra Firma Shot Rank Master
Thrown
E - Volley Rank Master
E - Full Toss Rank Master
E - Trick Launch Rank Master
E - Mad Flight Rank Master
D - Projectile Sealing Rank Master
D - Sudden Shot Rank Master
D - Shadow Projectile Rank Master
D - Blood Grinding Rank Master
D - Instant Fail Rank Master
C - Silver Crows Master Rank
C - Buzzsaw Rank Master
C - Full Impact Rank Master
C - Spread Counter Rank Master
C - Sly Silver Rank Master
C - Sinister Steel Master Rank
C - Silver Stream Master Rank
B - Crush Bit Master Rank
B - Body Flicker ShurikenMaster Rank
B - Gravedigger's Hole Master Rank
B - Zero Point Assault Master Rank
B - Pinpoint Rank Master Rank
B - Steel Dragon Master Rank
B - Silver Cloud Master Rank
A - Heavenly Rain Drive Master Rank
A - Twin Rising Dragon Master Rank
A - Earthly Impalement Master Rank
A - Spiraling Silver Master Rank
A - Meteor Breaker Master Rank
Genjutsu
~Kinetic
E - Hot Weapon Master Rank
E - Stun Master Rank
E - 1000 Years of Pain Kai Master Rank
D - Drunken Stupor Master Rank
D - Influenza Master Rank
D - Tickling Master Rank
D - Face Palm Master Rank
C- Mist of Deceit Master Rank
C - Crippled Master Rank
C - Masochism Master Rank
C - Silly Fingers Master Rank
C - Crossed Wires Master Rank
B - Phoenix Embrace Master Rank
B - Petrification Master Rank
B - Lingering Spark Master Rank
B - Depth Crush Master Rank
B - Puppet Betrayal Master Rank
B - Pox Master Rank
A - Curse of the Leper Master Rank
A - Tree Binding
A - Delayed Agony Master Rank
A - Parasitic Infection Master Rank
A - Shared Torment Master Rank
A - Hemorrhagic Fever Master Rank
~Visual
E - Mimic Master Rank
E - False Surroundings Master Rank
E - Eye Strain Master Rank
D - Basic Clone Master Rank
D - Blur Master Rank
D - Rorsarch Eye Master Rank
D - Double Vision Master Rank
C - Distortion Master Rank
C - Occular Trama Master Rank
C - Back Flash Master Rank
C - After Image Master Rank
C - Verse of Darkness Master Rank
B - Advanced Clone Master Rank
B - Perception Filter Master Rank
B - Depth Barrier Master Rank
B - Night Mare Master Rank
B - Solar Flare Master Rank
B - Mime box Master Rank
A - Ocular assault Master Rank
A - Reaper's Gaze Master Rank
A - Body Double Master Rank
A - Night Rank Master Rank
A - Deja Vu Master Rank
A - Invisibility Master Rank
-Will
E - Lethargy Master Rank Master
E - Tourniquet Master Rank
E- Intimidation Master Rank
D - Amnesia Master Rank
D - False Success Master Rank
D - Leaking Mind Master Rank
D - Sear of the Mind Master Rank
C - Black Out Master Rank
C - Insomnia Master Rank
C - Paranoia Master Rank
C - Charismatic Breakdown Master Rank
C - Untruth Master Rank
B - Havoc of the Doomed Mind Master Rank
B - Slowed Perception Master Rank
B - Oblivious Rapture Master Rank
B - Betrayal Master Rank
B - Taunt master Rank
B - Thought Down Master Rank
A - Mind's Eye Chaos Master Rank
A - Temple of Nivrvana Master Rank
A - Torment of the Physical Plain Master Rank
A - Torment of the Earthly Plane Master Rank
A - Repetition Master Rank
A - Chaos of the Mental Plane Master Rank
~Audial
E - Deception Master Rank
E - Favoritism Master Rank
E - Wasteful Master Rank
D - Trembling Music Master Rank
D - Pained Expressions Master Rank
D - Appreciation of Music Master Rank
D - Gong Master Rank
C - Sometimes Shouting Works Master Rank
C - Deaf Master Rank
C - Run It Back Master Rank
C - Groans Master Rank
C - Piercing Cry Master Rank
B - Centralized Master Rank
B - Death Chime Master Rank
B - Prolong Master Rank
B - Leak Master Rank
B - Wither Master Rank
B - Bass Drop Master Rank
A - Devil's Whisper Master Rank
A - Death's Anthem Master Rank
A - Blank Slate Master Rank
A - Radial Shock Master Rank
A - Chakra Ravage Master Rank
A- Auto-Tune Master Rank
~Anbu
D - Mask Summon Master Rank
D - Critical Exposure Master Rank
C- Snapshot Master Rank
C - Chakra Sense Master Rank
C - Active Cameo Master Rank
C- Mental Infiltration Master Rank
B - Shadow Servant Master Rank
B - Search Light Master Rank
A - Flock of Shadows Master Rank
-Medical
D - Mystical Hand Master Rank
D - Coagulation Master Rank
C - System Shock Master Rank
C - Skeletal Fortification Master Rank
C - Anesthetic Infusion Master Rank
C - System Restoration Master Rank
Kinjutsu (Kensei)
Force of Will
Overwhelm Master Rank
Myriad Strike Master Rank
Visceral Rend Master Rank
Omni-Flash Master Rank
Kindred Fusion Master Rank
Katsuo stepped into the elevator and waved an over enthusiastically farewell to Shi as the doors closed and the soft music intended to relax it's occupants began to play over the speakers. He felt the familiar lurch of the machine as it began it's slow ascent and he felt a tug on his consciousness originating from Caliburn.
We must consider the possibility that she...
... is going to sabotage the elevator, yeah. Not my first rodeo.
And as if right on queue, the elevator screeched to a halt and was bathed in darkness. For his part, Katsuo was prepared to make a swift exit from the top of the elevator and into the shaft above them as the elevator began to fall but... it didn't. It simply stayed put.
"Really? You're just going to trap me in an elevator?" He said outloud incredulously.
Getting trapped in an elevator was a mortal fear for many people. It represented being stuck in a small metal box with limited space for movement, likely increasing heat and very little in the way of light with no way to escape until rescue came to pull those who were trapped in the scenario out of their sticky situation. Katsuo had expected that instead of trying to simply trap him in the elevator, they'd cut or release the lines and try and drop him to the bottom of the elevator shaft to kill him. Being trapped in the elevator would prove an effective means of containment for most folks but...
And so it was only a matter of moments before Katsuo came bursting out of the top of the metal box through the locked hatch door that was not in any way designed to withstand the force of a Taijutsu, catching his footing with practiced ease as he did. The shaft was extremely long and Katsuo had no real way of knowing just how high it went up but traversing high spaces at quick speed was a specialty of most shinobi of his caliber. It was why their contracts were so expensive to purchase and why they were so feared by organizations like the Ishii Regime. With a small series of handseals, Katsuo enacted a Ninjutsu technique based in the school of Magnetism [Polarity Shift (Rank 1)] and with a crackle of green and gold lightning he felt his own body grow significantly lighter before looking up into the air and then launching from his standing position to the wall where he kicked off towards his next contact point where he would do the same thing again and again until he reached the top of the elevator shaft.
Episode 3: "2 + 4 - 6 = Zero (Time to Mess Around)" | Tea Country Mini-Arc His eyes would snap to the direction of the hallway and the voice of Number 4. It would seem that whatever plan he had before would need to be relegated to something else. Trying to work against two of the Sovereign, especially two with differing personalities, would be challenging to say the least. He did not want to fight. Fighting just the big guy alone would have put him in a bad spot, but fighting the crazy woman that he briefly met back in The Bazaar, who, based on the colorful language used by the Cloud shinobi, should have been dead or at least in pieces. Yet, her being here meant she was going to not be an easy time either.
Ok, so he is built like a marble giant and she... is probably incredibly weird in her own right. So what is the plan here, what is the next step. Fuu, Fuu, fuu... the fuck did Fuu say about them.
His mind would race over the memory of his lingering snapshot (Snapshot 1 of 3) of the Sovereign files.
Ok, so he should be simple enough. She... Shi... is going to be the challenge. Okay, I think I have an idea that should clock in about 20% chance of working. Would be much higher if it was just big boy. Well, fuck it, only live once.
His internal voice would chuckle at the thought of him only 'living' once. His eyes would snap back to Ni. His shoulder would shrug, attempting to shake off the mit of the man, as he would start walking forward towards the elevator.
"Thanks for the catching up, Ni, however, I am unable to remain for 'family' bonding."
The next bit he would stall long enough for Shi to appear to hear it as well, but if she never made it down the hallway or he never made it to her, he would still say it so Ni could hear it. This was the hand he was going to play and he hoped his bluff would not be called.
"While I am not lying about remembering my time in the Academy, I do remember one thing. The mission Nao tasked me with. I am unable to allow the two of you, or any of you, to stop me in that effort. I will be going back to my target."
He would pause briefly, glancing back to Ni.
"You should understand, Ni. Orders are meant to be followed, flawlessly."
But the Crazy 4 was trained by Nao, so she has a personal relationship with him to some degree. He probably gave her some special admiration, otherwise, why include that specific piece of info into her bio. Maybe it was a one-off moment, maybe I am banking too hard at the singular mindedness of Ni and the potential admiration of Nao by Shi, but this was the only alternative that clicked. They don't know me, they don't know why I left or what I have been doing. This coupled with the Nao being close to the Daimyo and his power, or at least tutelage, revered maybe gave me the leeway to use this name and get this pass until they could confirm it with Number 5 at a, hopefully, different time. I'm also banking on another assumption; that I was favored or at least given considerable attention from Nao. None of them have really given me this impression, but those flashbacks I've had... I dunno, something just feels like maybe it isn't too much of a stretch to believe that I could be, if nothing else, a pawn of that man. That they could buy that. Shit, this is gonna go south real quick, right?
His gaze would shift back forwards, either to Shi or the elevator. Either way, he wasn't going to stop moving unless one or both of them attempted to stop him by force.
OOC: Attempting to make my way to the faulty elevator.
"He gets into your head," the Countess would warn them. It was a helpful warning, but if they had read Ichi’s file, they were already warned that the first Sovereign’s main weapon was his voice. "A slovenly gaze. Your clumsy ways. Broken joints at weak points. Tired and listless, you're getting careless." he would tell them. Upon hearing those words, a sense of slumber and clumsiness overcame Kazuki’s natural great will. He felt diminished, resisting was futile, hopeless. Still, he immediately understood this was Ichi’s doing. Maybe he couldn’t dispel what was affecting him but, at least, he knew those feelings were being forced on him and not a natural result of the situation he was in. "The brute becomes a mute. Feet weighed to the floor. Fists unable to move anymore. Energy lost and at what cost?" the first Sovereign would proclaim, his raspy voice echoing inside the Senju Overlord’s mind. ”Get out of my head.”<i></i> the White Wolf would mutter as he felt his body becoming stiffer. Before he lost his entire motor function, Reaper launched a counter-attack that effectively shut down Ichi’s chakra system. The Occult Sennin was unable to move but his opponent couldn’t strike him either.[lb2][/lb2] Actions:[lb][/lb]
Activate Dark Invitation[lb][/lb]
Cast Dark Displacement - Mastered (2AP)
Cast Cancel - Mastered on me to dispel Requiem of Death (1.5AP)[lb][/lb]
Use Corpse Soil Mastered (Nin acc for basic strikes) (2,5AP) from my Corrupted Energy pool - #1 – Use Grasp of Unliving on Ichi if at the time of this technique, Ichi is not bound.[lb][/lb]
Use Grand Hydra Excavation - Mastered on Ichi from my Corrupted Energy Pool (3Ap) (Nin Acc)[lb2][/lb2]
Corpses[lb][/lb]
Corpses will use available AP for basic strikes on Ichi[lb2][/lb2]
Clone[lb][/lb]
Clone will basic strike me.
Clone will cast Gravel Shift Mastered on Ichi until out of AP (1AP)[lb2][/lb2]
#2 - Have one corpse use a basic strike on me if I become bound[lb][/lb]
#3 - Have one corpse use a basic strike on Sousuke if he becomes bound[lb][/lb]
#4 - Reapply Enlightened Suppression Mastered on Ichi from my Corrupted Energy pool (2AP) if he breaks from it but only after Dark Displacement has been cast.[lb][/lb]
#5 - Do not use offensive moves if Ichi is bound (including the clone and the corpses)
Accuracy:
Ninjutsu Accuracy: 27 + 2 Duelist -3 (Requiem)
Dodge: 23 -3 (Requiem)
Genjutsu Save: 23 -3 (Requiem)
Melee Accuracy: 23 -3 (Requiem)
Genjutsu DC: 23 -3 (Requiem)
Ranged Accuracy: 19 -3 (Requiem)
Awareness 15 -3 (Requiem)
Stealth 15 -3 (Requiem) Damage:
Ninjutsu: +5% Ninjutsu Damage (Class) + 10% damage (Duelist)
General: +10% damage (Duelist)
Wood Jutsu: Deal +15% additional damage (Senju) + 5% Ninjutsu Damage (Class) + 10% damage (Duelist)
Techniques and Jutsus used with Corrupted Energy are treated as Cursed and gains +10% Damage. Evasion:
+10% chance to auto-dodge the targets attacks (Duelist)
-2 dodge anyone besides Ichi (Duelist) Chakra Cost:
-5% (Journeyman) -10% Chakra, this includes Maintains (Jutsu Mastery).
All Chakra cost penalties from choosing to use 'Special Actions' are halved (Jutsu Mastery)
Jutsu effects that would increase Chakra Costs are negated (Conservative Motion) Notes:
All Effects that have a chance of causing the user's action to fail are halved and all AP increasing effects are negated.
While equipped with either the Light Armor or Heavy Armor item, the user ignores the first Bleeding, Suppression, Called Shot, or Secondary Effect inflicted upon them during each round. This applies only to the first action to inflict any of these, but will cover the entire action (if a multihit). If this action would inflict multiple of these, they would all be nulled.
Attacks with the Senju pool are considered to be CURSED. Participants suffer Cursed damage equal to 4% of the total amount of damage dealt to them by Cursed attacks over the course of the battle.
The additional damage the user takes from Critical attacks is reduced by 0.35. (Light Armor).
The user gains +10% Damage and +2 Awareness against targets whose health are below 30% (Dark Sage).
The user now has +1 towards their limit of active Creation in battle (Dark Sage).
Creation Jutsus used with Corrupted Energy are not affected by any effects that would automatically destroy or do more damage against them, but causes any effects that would restore Health to them to deal damage instead. This also grants the Creation +10% increase to their Base Health.
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Takahashi Sousuke
[lb]HP: 40500 [-4043] 36457
[lb]Illusion Damage: 726
[lb]CP: 28710 [-6960] 21750
[lb]Natural Energy: NA
[lb]AP: 10 [8.75] 1.25 (rollover to next round all)
[lb]Gear: Headset, Light Armour. Kawarimi Target, Energy Drink, Weapon x3
[lb]Status: Completely Bound
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Accuracy:
Melee Accuracy 27 (+1 accuracy with all Mastered jutsu) - 1 (Defensive Stance)
Dodge 23 + 1 (Defensive Stance)
Genjutsu Save 23
User's signature weapon gains an independent sense of willpower. This grants it an independent Genjutsu Save statistic from the user's and allows it to use that Genjutsu Save to assist the user. Signature weapon's Genjutsu Save is equal to the user's Genjutsu Save -5. Any time an opponent targets the user with a Genjutsu they automatically target the user's signature weapon as well. If the signature weapon resists the opposing Genjutsu but the user fails then the user is automatically aware they are under a Genjutsu.
Once per round the user's signature weapon may attempt to dispel an opposing Genjutsu affecting the user costing the user 1 AP. This requires a Genjutsu Save against the opposing Genjutsu and if the signature weapon succeeds then the targeted Genjutsu is dispelled.
Ninjutsu Accuracy 23 (+1 accuracy with all Mastered jutsu) - 1 (Defensive Stance)
Genjutsu DC 23
Ranged Accuracy 19 (+1 accuracy with all Mastered jutsu) - 1 (Defensive Stance)
+1 accuracy with all Mastered jutsu. Additional +.5 accuracy to all attacks every round after the second. Cannot gain more than +4 accuracy on any attack.
Awareness 15 + 2 (Situational Awareness) -3 (Requiem)
10% auto-hit (Offensive Insight)
The user resists -1 Accuracy and Dodge from terrain effecting techniques such as Hidden Mist or Earthslide River, this amount is reduced from the cumulative debuffs and not per-jutsu. In addition, the user has +1 Dodge against all Delayed attacks, traps and binds. (Adaptability)
If the opponent uses the same technique as they have previously, the user gains +1 to resist or dodge it. Stacks twice. This buffs cancels if the user switches styles. Basic melee attacks are exempt from this. (Prediction)
When making an awareness check, the user has a 25% chance to auto-detect the target. This applies to targets in Stealth, hidden by clones, and under transformations.
Sneak Attacks to the user have a 25% chance of being detected and losing their Sneak bonus. (Sixth Sense) Damage
Ninjutsu +5% damage (Sharp Instinct)
Taijutsu +5% damage (Sharp Instinct) DR
5% Damage Reduction (Class) 5% Damage Reduction (Sentinel) +5% Damage Reduction while this weapon is equipped. While in Defensive Stance, this amount is increased to +10% Damage Reduction (Vanguard) Notes:
Defensive Technique
Bull Strength: cannot find this, we have weapon attunement but that is not BULL STRENGTH.
Hidden Actions are revealed to the user through PM (Insight)
You do not have the Tsukomogami kinjutsu, it is called KENSEI these days.
Genjutsu DC 27
Dodge 23
Genjutsu Save 23
Ninjutsu Accuracy 23
Ranged Accuracy 23
Melee Accuracy 23
Awareness 15 + 2
Genjutsu which target a player's Shadow gain a bonus of +2 Genjutsu DC and deal 10% increase Illusionary Damage
Genjutsu can be Sung to effect multiple targets at -1 DC per additional target. If used against a single target, the Genjutsu has +2 DC
May convert Wind and Non-Elemental Jutsu into Sound at no additional cost and all Sound Jutsu cost -5% Chakra.
All Sound Jutsu receive +15% Damage
When making Awareness Checks, the visibility/Terrain effect is treated as two ranks higher in the user's favor. (Tracker)
Once every other round, the user may perform a Sneak Attack without being dropped out of stealth. When making a stealth check, Terrain and Visibility modifiers are treated one level higher in the users favor. (Stalker)
Chakra Style (Fire)
Targets effected with the user's Genjutsu take +10% damage from all damage types. (Overflow)
Elemental Illusion Targets effected with the user's Genjutsu take +10% damage from all damage types.
Illusionist
Shatter
What Happened? 0.00 Seconds | Ichi is unable to maintain Requiem of Death due to the chakra bind preventing him from paying the maintenance cost; Ichi is unable to maintain The Reaper's Gaze due to the chakra bind preventing him from paying the maintenance cost. 0.00 Seconds | Kazuki maintains Duelist on Ichi (Nin Acc); unable to maintain Transformation because unable to maintain chakra cost due to complete bind; unable to maintain Elemental Clone because unable to maintain chakra costs due to complete bind; unable to maintain enlightened suppression due to being unable to pay the maintain cost due to complete bind. 0.00 Seconds | Kazuki's Dark Sage Passive: Dark Invitation goes off.
Nin Check (Kazuki) 5
Nin Check (Ichi) 16 (Failed)
Nin Check (Kazuki) 5
Nin Check (Sousuke) 10 (Failed)
Nin Check (Kazuki) 20
Nin Check (Countess) 18 (Success)
0.00 Seconds | Sousuke Quickdraws Perdition's Arrival and Thunder Talon. 0.44 Seconds | Sousuke enter defensive style +1 Dodge/-1Accuracy. 0.44 Seconds | Sousuke has 5 clones enter the battlefield due to initiating Dance of the waxing moon.
Due to the limitation of having only 1 set of clone on the battlefield and this jutsu not expressively stating that these clones do not count towards your limit of one set of clones on the battlefield, your previous clones have been dispersed from the battlefield
0.45 Seconds | Ichi shatters the full bind on Kazuki.
There was nothing to shatter because Ichi was not able to pay the maintain costs.</SIZE>
0.75 Seconds | Ichi performs a basic strike against self if still chakra bound.
Not performed because this would be considered a conditional due to the if-then statement with the variable being "chakra bound" which was dropped because Kazuki was not able to pay the maintenance cost of the bind.
2.00 Seconds| Kazuki casts Cast Dark Displacement [Mastered] --- Seconds | Sousuke casts Master Rank Redirection on the first action that takes more than 2 seconds by Ichi , redirect the attack right back at Ichi.
This is a reactionary jutsu. Therefore this would be a conditional and needs to be treated as such.
2.44 Seconds | Sousuke's clones from Dance of the Waxing Moon would disperse.
This is due to the note stating that the clones have a 2 second duration.
Auto-hit chances (Offensive Insight): 5 (Success), 98 (Fail)
Bleed Chance 91 (failed)
Sousuke regains HP equal to 10% of all damage deal with the equipped weapon.
Bonus attack from Dual Weapon.
Attack (Sousuke) 10
Evasion (Ichi) 19 (miss)
2.89 Seconds | Sousuke casts Master Rank Dance of the Waxing Moon on Ichi I do not have to use the special effect to use this as an unarmed attack due to trick weapon augment
Refer to the aforementioned notes regarding the time stack of this jutsu
2.89 Seconds | Sousuke uses Master Rank Cancel via Willpower as a free action.
There was nothing to Cancel
3.00 Seconds | Ichi attacks Sousuke, Kazuki and random additional target (clone/creation) with Tatsumaki [Mastered] converting the jutsu to Sound via Hashigaki and AE special move focus.
Attack (Ichi) 12
Evasion (Kazuki) 11
Dark Displacement goes off for Kazuki.
Sousuke casts Master Rank Redirection on the first action that takes more than 2 seconds by Ichi , redirect the attack right back at Ichi.
Attack (Sousuke) 3 (Miss)
Evasion (Ichi) 16
<SIZE size="80">There was no clone on the field to destroy
3.50 Seconds | Kazuki casts Cancel in an attempt to dispel Requiem of death.
Unable to perform this action because your character is no longer under the influence of this genjutsu.
6.00 Seconds | Kazuki uses Corpse Soil Mastered (Nin acc for basic strikes) from his Corrupted Energy pool - (Conditional #1 – Use Grasp of Unliving on Ichi if at the time of this technique, Ichi is not bound.)
6.00 Seconds | Ichi uses Hashigaki's Enthralling Voice Ichi casts The Reaper's Gaze [Mastered] on both Sousuke and Kazuki's as well as their shadows (taking the debuff to accuracy) using Genjutsu special move deja vu. The jutsus that have been aimed at Sousuke and Kazuki's shadows will be queued for later use.
Attack (Ichi) 7
Gen Resist (Sousuke) 16 (miss)
Uneffected by physical bind due to enthralling voice.
Deja Vu Attack (Ichi) 3
Gen Resist (Sousuke) 12
Attack (Ichi) 2
Gen Resist (Sousuke's Shadow) 6 (miss)
Deja Vu Attack (Ichi) 15
Gen Resist (Sousuke's Shadow) 11 (Success)
20% Chance of being auto-aware. 99 (failed)
Attack (Ichi) 8
Gen Resist (Kazuki) 7 (25% hit) Kazuki is aware
Attack (Ichi) 8
Gen Resist (Kazuki Shadow) 11 (miss)
Deja Vu Attack (Ichi) 5
Gen Resist (Kazuki Shadow) 6 (25% hit) Kazuki is aware
8.50 Seconds | Kazuki attempts to break free of The Reaper's Gaze.
15% chance to escape. 15 Success
8.90 Seconds | Ichi shatters Reaper's Gaze 0.1 seconds before Concussion Wave is cast.
There is no Reaper's Gazes to shatter.
9.00 Seconds | Sousuke casts Master Rank Eagle Drop on Ichi (trick weapon augment enables this)
Attack (Sousuke) 3
Evasion (Ichi) 17 (miss)
10% chance to auto-hit (Offensive Insight) 17 (failed)
No longer bound.
9.00 Seconds | Ichi attack Sousuke and Kazuki with Concussion Wave [Mastered] using AE special move spread to include a second target.
Attack (Ichi) 10
Evasion (Sousuke) 4 (hit)
36% chance of causing Suppression. 75 (failed)
36% chance of causing 'Unbalance' effect. 3 (success)
Attack (Ichi) 10
Evasion (Kazuki) 6 (hit)
36% chance of causing Suppression. 49 (failed)
36% chance of causing 'Unbalance' effect. 84 (failed)
9.10 Seconds | Ichi places queued Reaper's Gaze [Mastered] onto both Sousuke and Kazuki 0.1 seconds after Reaper's gaze is cast.
Both Sousuke and Kazuki are fully bound.
9.10 Seconds | Sousuke attempts to break free of complete bind.
15% chance. 71 (failed)
9.50 Seconds | Ichi enters Chakra Style (Fire) - Defensive: Flare Touch. 9.77 Seconds | Sousuke attempts to break free of complete bind.
There was a savage brutality that every single Sovereign seemed to share. Yes, they were not right. Not a single one of them, that is what likely years if not decades of abuse and trauma does to the human mind. It causes it to crack, to fragment. For the sharp bits to be compartmentalized and put away in little boxes. There was no sign of sympathy in the bandaged man's face, it seemed numb. The Countess was saved= for the moment but she was far from safe, but the same could be said of Sousuke and Kazuki. Ichi was the first, well the longest lived as a Sovereign among them and rumored by some to be the most powerful but that rumor is viciously debated among varied members in the Sovereign ranks. "Your will fades faster than your blades." He commented before he clicked his tongue, realizing that his chakra had been sapped. "Clever." His hold over them would cease and as it did so, the Sennin's grip over the Sovereign would also slacken. "You only delay this endeavor."
He would be freed and Sousuke's clones would also assail him. He did better than expected, he might have left a bruise. A smirk would eclipse the monster's bandaged face. The countess would shriek from behind them. They were really going to try to fight this thing. She had nowhere to run, their thought might have been to buy her time but the psychic swordsman stood between her and liberation. He stood between their freedom also. Behind her was a window, the same window the Sovereign tried to launch the woman through. She would not survive that fall but she looked in that direction all the same. There was a fearful urge to simply flee and hope, it was an illogical compulsion based on fear. Their plan: lock him down and then get out. It was a smart plan if they could hold him down but he was strong, like really really strong. They had no idea!
"I-It won't hold him," she warned as she considered he options. Frazzled and terrified. She had to run, waiting for them to restrain him was not an option. One of Sousuke's iclones would crash into the glass window behind her and it would shatter. She would cover her face with her hands and close her eyes tight as shew crouched as low as she could go. The hailstorm of glass would shatter outwards, raining down onto the street. The window was entirely gone, this was her best means of egress but the fall was too far.
No, it still was not an escape but she desperately wanted it to be. The wires in her head were misfiring. It did not take long for the mental manipulator to cause a disconnection. She was of course a willful woman, most women in power were, but she had spent a protracted period under the thumb of a madman. She ran to the right of the room, away from the window towards one of the bookshelves. The shelves were bolted into the wall, she wished that they were not right now. These idiots were going to get them both killed, there was a difference between being brave and fleeing a threat that was way over their level. He had not even started to manipulate their shadows.
Corpses would rip through the floorboards of her office, making her question the alignment of one of her supposed saviors as he revealed his kinjutsu. No, this was not good. What had she gotten herself in the middle of. The door was not far, he did not even seem to care about her anymore. She was just the bait. Let the monsters battle this out, her mind resolved.
The corpse would attempt to grip Ichi, leaping onto his back and wrapping its arms around his torso and legs. The tall man was at the very least physically restrained but the true sum of his brawn was in his words, not his blade. "Stop him from casting!" She shouted as she made her way along the perimeter of the room towards the door. "Feet tethered to the floor and will tathered to my own. You should have listened to the lady and left this torrid zone." The bull-headed Steward would not be bound, not yet at the very least. His shadow stretched as the man moved but the shadow would not. There was something there and in this case timing was not on Sousuke's side.
Kazuki's will overcame Ichi's and there was a moment where there were two against the one. He was being held but he did not seem concerned. No the Sovereign appeared quite confident still. And this was wh -- the Steward would come for him, breaking what tied the man in place. He would even miss, but it was close. A row of books would be knocked off the shelf. The countless would shield herself with her arm but that would not be enough as a book clocked her in the side of the head. She briefly saw stars and staggered to the side, her hand bracing herself on the now barren shelf.
A wave of noise would sent the boys reeling and then, Kazuki's shadow would betray him as would Sousuke's. The both of them would be bound once more. Between the three of them, Ichi was an expert at bondage but thankfully for the sensibilities of those present was not nearly the same sort of deviant as some of the other members of the Sovereign army. But he was still a monster. A smiling monster with a ow of yellowed teeth. "You were supposed to live, but we still have time left in this day. so let us play...." Yes, they were under orders to let them live. Seems like their word was not entirely absolute.
!
Actions:
2.5 AP With Hashigaki's Enthralling Voice Ichi casts Denied Mind- Shadow [Mastered] on both Sousuke and Kazuki's shadows with Elemental Illusion FIRE.
Condition 1: If this fails on either, cast again on the one (or both [Condition 2]) that it failed upon.
0.5 AP Use shatter on both Kazuki and Sousuke's The Reaper's Gaze 0.1 seconds before casting Tatsumaki.
1 AP: Cast Special Action - Face Yourself to prevent a random target (either Kazuki or Sousuke) from using a reflexive action.
3 AP Cast Tatsumaki [Mastered] using Hashigaki's Sound Crystallization to turn this jutsu into a sound jutsu, at both Kazuki and Sousuke using AE special move spread to also include both of their shadows that have now been manifested.
3 AP Cast Perfected Rasengan [Mastered] Rasen-Shuriken (Wind) using Hashigaki's Sound Crystallization to turn this jutsu into a sound jutsu using Ninjutsu accuracy and spread using the jutsu option to include Kazuki, Sousuke's shadow and Sousuke using AE special move focus to increase the accuracy of this attack and increasing the critical range of this attack by an additional +1 as pert of the jutsu option.
Meanwhile:
Our hero Katsuo is trapped in an elevator, slowly making his way to the rescue. He took the elevator, the mechanism that controlled the elevator was damaged and the lift was halted. The Kazekage was dangling several stories up, hanging precariously by a single cable that could easily be severed. but nobody cut the wire. Apparently she did not want him dead, Hell she did not even try to drag him into her bed. And oh my, she had been hanging out far too much with Ichi because that just rhymed and that would not do.No, she was just slowing him down. By now the others might have caught on to the fact that this was not as much of a trap as it was a simple framing. These Sovereign were not particularly clever but they were powerful enough to hold their own and they had no qualm with the murder of a few dozen innocents. In fact, Shi kinda enjoyed it.
Of course, the elevator was not designed to withstand a shinobi kicking out the roof. The elevator would shift and strain the single cable that held it aloft and with a high pitched SNAP the cord would break. Not because someone was trying to make him dead, the man was destructive enough on his own. He would find his footing in time for the ground beneath him to give way and the elevator would crash to the basement several stories below. Like a spider he would adhere to the wall and he would climb with relative ease until he reached the top floor. The doors were sealed closed and there was nothing but space below him. The only way for him to go was in.
Roku was having a little family reunion and like most family gathering it sucked. And like a lot of people, he was making up some story to cut it short. The only problem: Ni actually knew the man's mission and his mission was nowhere near this tower. He let out a sigh. The guy claimed amnesia but also claimed he remembered the mission, but the mission was in a completely different country but he was right on one thing, it was a WHO. Just the wrong "who." "They really got to you didn't they?" He called to Roku's back. He should just let the guy go, he was not one of them any longer and it seemed that he had picked his side and it was not next to them.
"No," he concluded out-loud signaling the end to a silent mental debate. "I can't let you do this," he shook his head. "It is not as if we were friends, but..." his voice trailed off. He had a heart apparently. "Shit," he muttered as he cracked his neck. "Shi! I need you you crazy old bitch!" He shouted through cupped hands to summon the dangerous vixen's attention towards them. She had just damaged the elevator controls, pleased with herself.
"What!" She snapped. "Did you look in a mirror and get confused?" She complained as she started to walk in the direction of Number 2.
"No... and... no," he preemptively answered her second question. Did not matter what it was, it was never a yes. Before she could say anything more, the massive sentinel would make an introduction. "Shi, meet the original Number Six,"<i></i> he gestured in Roku's direction. <B>"You're old enough to remember him," he commented.
"I am not!" She acted as if he had just called her 'fat.' Well, he did just call her old and she sadly was old enough to remember him. It had been years but yes, they had met a number of times. Still, pride was a powerful thing and for a woman age was no source of pride.
"Oh please, you have shoes older than some of the kids in the Academy. He graduated the year before you, if I remember correctly..." Ni remembered a lot of things apparently. "Actually," he smiled as he looked at his bare wrist as if he was wearing a watch. "He is running late for a rescue, apparently his mission has something to do with the three upstairs." He raised his brows, he knew that Roku was lying.
"His Mission?" Her eyes widened, there was a look of surprise. His mission was certainly not up there.
"Yes, his mission," he let out a half laugh, "one we should not keep him from." He planted his hands on either side of Shi's waist and lifted her off the ground as if she weighed no more than a stuffed animal and moved her out of the entryway.
"B-but!" She protested in transit.
"No-no, Nao's order's are to be followed flawlessly," he 'reminded' her using Roku's own words.
"Wait, what!" It would appear that there was a bit of confusion regarding the former Sovereign's statement.
He put his hand over her mouth and with his free one he waved Roku off. "Have fun, don't let her stop you," he smiled a strange smile that was more disconcerting than an attempt to stop him would have been.
He would wait for Roku to leave before he lifted his hand off of Shi's face and wiped it on his pant leg. "Wait, that was him?" Shi would ask after taking a long breath. She did not bother striking him, she would have just broke her hand trying. Ni would only nod. "He is kinda cute," she would cock her head to the side and watch him leave her sight.
"He also forgot his mission entirely," Ni would reveal. "Ichi can take the four of them easy. Why dirty our hands, he has been wanting to have some fun. Was going to leave them, but maybe we can take him on clean-up. Dibs?"
"Hmm... on him?" A thin smile, crooked as it was accented her thoughtful, devious expression. "Could be fun."
Sousuke was bound. While he was lucky the first time. The second time he was not. The Steward would need to fight through this. He would need to power through this with sheer force. He would attempt to do this. Sousuke's heard what the Countess of Tea said. Ichi had to be stopped of using his techniques. Easier said than done. Sousuke knew what he could and could not do. Sousuke wished he had an iron tag to put on Ichi's mouth like he did to Shouki once. That was something he did not have access to anymore. Ichi mocked them with words. "If we left this zone, then that's letting you win. We will halt your progress, despite the cost to ourselves. You are a cancer that has remained for too long, and has made this country and Sungakure itself unhealthy."<i></i> The Steward was not always a hero, but he tried to be. He looked up to Katuso. Sousuke had been a hindrance to the Daimyo. Block by block he had been dismantling the slave trade. The slave trade ran deep in Wind Country, and he was unaware of it until a few years ago. Ichi was a numbered individual. Sousuke had done battle with Shouki who was the general of the Sovereign. Sousuke had fought Taro, and that alone was a difficult battle on its own. This was going to be more difficult again.
Sousuke's mind ran through the calculations. The variables here were frustrating and perplexing for him. Sousuke showed no signs of such on his face. He would sheath his weaponry. His weapons would stop burning with fire, and crackling with electricity. His suit of clothes would tear away as he would transform. The clothing would burst and reveal a suit of armour that was expanding at a rapid rate. Spikes and jagged edges would emerge. A crystalline armour would form. Sousuke's face would be covered entirely as the armour formed around his face. A glowing pair of white eyes gazed back at Ichi. Sousuke's defenses were impressive. He had astonishing durability. He had to maintain such a defense, but Ichi was playing with them. His more potent attacks would be coming. Sousuke would have to hold it back. He raised his hands and spread his arms. He was mounting his defense to endure. The Steward endured hardship. He endured it on a physical level and an emotional level. He would create a shield to guard against Ichi's attacks. The shield had upon it a crest of Sungakure and underneath it there would be the crest of his family which was hammers and anvils.
2.5AP? to break self out of the Bind (Reaper's Gaze )
0AP Sheath Weapons via quickdraw
1AP Chug an Energy Drink (2 Uses left after this)
2.5AP Master Rank Amethyst Casing on self
3.25AP Master Rank Earth Slide Wall to shield myself and Kazuki (and the Duchess if she becomes a target) using the special action to increase number of people defended with Hand Seal Expert to make this mod faster
Any remaining AP to be moved into the next round via Upgrade
HP: 42600
CP: 32400
AP: 10
Bonuses: 5% Damage Reduction (Class) Defensive Stance (Not Active), Shinobi 101 Kinetic Genjutsu are Cast with Melee Accuracy, Sharp Insight 5% Ninjutsu and Taijutsu Damage?, Offensive Insight 10% Auto Hit Chance, Adaptability The user resists -3 Accuracy and Dodge from terrain effecting techniques such as Hidden Mist or Earthslide River, this amount is reduced from the cumulative debuffs and not per-jutsu. In addition, the user has +3 Dodge against all Delayed attacks, traps and binds, Tactical Mind +1 accuracy with all Mastered jutsu. Additional +.5 accuracy to all attacks every round after the second. Cannot gain more than +4 accuracy on any attack. Light Armour: The additional damage the user takes from Critical attacks is reduced by 0.35. This does not stack with any similar effects. Example; if a critical hit would deal x2.2 damage, the user will instead take x1.85 damage.
Signature Weapon:
Perdition's Arrival and Thunder Talon - the Twins that Challenged the Terror in Inferno (or the Twins that Dream of Fire and Lightning)
Weapon Type: Long Sword
Weapon Damage Type: Slashing - Bleeding
Bonuses: 5% Damage -1 Accuracy Bleeding
Augment: Dual Weapon, Steady, Trick Weapon - Unarmed, Vanguard, Vampiric
Contracts: Toad and Insect (Roku needs to modify original post but it is approved)
Ninjutsu
-Water
E - Pressurized Mist Master Rank
E - Water Gun Master Rank
D - Water Whip Master Rank
D - Aqua Fang Master Rank
D - Rinse Off Master Rank
C - Grand Waterfall Master Rank
C - Impaling Hydro Jet Master Rank
C - Water Prison Master Rank
C - Rain Dance Master Rank
B - Torrential Vortex Master Rank
B - Hydro Tidal Shockwave Master Rank
B - Water Shark Bomb Master Rank
B - Mystical Pond Master Rank
A - Grand Hydra Excavation Master Rank
A - Water Dragon Bullet Master Rank
A - Scorn of Aquarius Master Rank
A - Supreme Aqua Realm Master Rank
~Fire
E - Infernal Ember Master Rank
E- Thermal Maw Master Rank
D- Fireball Master Rank
D- Immolation Armor Master Rank
D- Combustive Seal Rank Master
D- Dragon Fire Master Rank
C- Searing Eruption Master Rank
C- Scalding Ash Cloud Master Rank
C- Heat Wave Master Rank
B- Infernal Hellfire Master Rank
B- Firestorm Master Rank
B- Spontaneous Combustion Master Rank
B- Ring of Fire Master Rank
A- Dragon Flame Bomb Master Rank
A- Sol Fire Tempest Master Rank
A- Abysmal Harbinger Master Rank
A- Flame Shield Master Rank
~Earth
E - Stone Bullet Master Rank
E - Gravel Shift Master Rank
D - Earth Flow Master Rank
D - Sinkhole Fist Master Rank
D - Mud Clone Master Rank
C - Inner Earth Reflection Lure Master Rank
C - Earth Flow Wave Master Rank
C - Rock Golem Master Rank
C - Earthern Coating Master Rank
B - Bedrock Coffin Master Rank
B - Weighted Rock Technique Master Rank
B - Earth Spiker Master Rank
B - Sinkhole Master Rank
A - Earthslide Wall Master Rank
A - Petrification Master Rank
A - Earthen Magnitude Master Rank
A First of Gaia Master Rank
~Wind
E - Wind Slash Master Rank
E - Pressure Burst Master Rank
D - Whirlwind Spin Master Rank
D - Air Bullet Master Rank
D - Shredding Touch Master Rank
C - Wind Scythe Master Rank
C - Tempest Rank Master Rank
C - Gale Force Master Rank
C - Wind Release Master Rank
B - Wind Scar Master Rank
B - Great Wind Scythe Master Rank
B - Vacuum Sphere Master Rank
B - Cycle Movement Master Rank
A - Tatsumaki Mank Master Rank
A - Hurricane Master Rank
A - Ambiance of the Forbidden Master Rank
A - Zephyr's Grace Master Rank
~Darkness
C -Black Eruption Master Rank
C -Midnight Strike Master Rank
C - Specter Shade Master Rank
C - Dark Displacement Master Rank
B - Underworld Prison Master Rank
B - Shadow Punishment Master Rank
B - Black Moon Fang Master Rank
B - Ebony Nightmare Master Rank
A - Shadow Summoning Master Rank
A - Shadow Garb Master Rank
A - Darkness Falls Master Rank
A - Absolute Void Master Rank
~Crystal Elemental
C - Topaz Tempest Master Rank
C - Fluroite Spikes Master Rank
C - Emerald Emitter Master Rank
C - Ruby Rain Master Rank
B - Goldstone Clutch Master Rank
B - Moonstone Shower Master Rank
B - Sapphire Storm Master Rank
B - Amethyst Casing Master Rank
A - Diamond Cutter Master Rank
A - Obsidian Dragon Master Rank
A - Amber Beacon Rank Master
A - Crystalline Passage Rank Master
~Non Elemental
E- Transformation Master Rank
E - Body Swap Master Rank
E - Basic Summoning Master Rank
D - Summoning Contract Master Rank
D - Combination Transformation Master Rank
D- Crystal Eye Master Rank
D- Cancel Master Rank
D- Spirit Lantern Master Rank
C- Stunt Double Master Rank
C - Jutsu Sealing Master Rank
C- One Elemental Sealing Master Rank
C- Elemental Negation Master Rank
C- Elemental Clone Master Rank
B- Leech Seal Master Rank
B- Chakra Shield Master Rank
B - Energy Transfer Master Rank
B - Cursed Seal (Mastered as there is no rank)
B - Shadow Shuriken Replication Master Rank
B - Rassengan Master Rank
B - Chakra Blast Master Rank
A - Perfected Rasengan Master Rank
A - Five Element Seal Master Rank
A - Morality Sealing Master Rank
A - Natures Guard Master Rank
A - Stardust Nova Master Rank
A - Gate of Enma Master Rank
~Paper Jutsu
C - Folded Shuriken Master rank
C - Paper Clone Master rank
C - Burst of Confetti Master rank
C - Origami Shower Master rank
B - Cocoon Sheets Master Rank
B - Paper Blade Master Rank
B - Loose Leaf Wall Master Rank
B - Streaming Cloak Master Rank
A - Shredding Torrent Master Rank
A - Shredding Tsunami Master Rank
A - Torn Downpour Master Rank
A - Maelstrom Document Master Rank
~Wood
C-Vine Tangle Master Rank
C - Armor of Thorns Mater Rank
C - Ingrain Master Rank
C - Wood Hammer Master Rank
B - Piercing Timber Master Rank
B - Pit of Crimson Tears Master Rank
B - Evergreen Thicket Master Rank
B - Glow Moss Master Rank
A - Wrath of Nature Master Rank
A - Grand Gaia Impalement Master Rank
A - Frenzy Plant Master Rank
A- Sleeping Forest Master Rank
~Kinesis
C - Force Blast Master Rank
C - Psionic Assault Master Rank
C - Kinetic Infusion Master Rank
C - Force Guard Master Rank
B - Psi-shock Master Rank
B - Force Break Master Rank
B - Mind Lock Master Rank
B - Reflection Master Rank
A - Kinetic Blast Master Rank
A - Psionic Rend Master Master Rank
A - Concussion Pulse Master Rank
A - Redirection Master Rank
~Magnetic
C - Polarity Burst Master Rank
C - Ionic Infusion Master Rank
C - Magnetic Control Master Rank
C - Magnetize Master Rank
B - Polarity Shift Master Rank
B - Static Infusion Master Rank
B - Electromagnetic Vision Master Rank
B - Magnetic Flux Master Rank
A - Gigavolt Railgun Master Rank
A - Magnetoblast Master Rank
A - Biomagnetic Alteration Master Rank
A - Polarity Storm Master Rank
~Photonic
C - Light Flare Master Rank
C - Flashbang Master Rank
C - Luminous Shine Master Rank
C - Invisible Shell Master Rank
B - Clandestine Concealment Master Rank
B - Starstrike Master Rank
B - Mirage Manipulation Master Rank
B - Radiant Shatter Master Rank
A - Illumination Master Rank
A - Rainbow Flash Master Rank
A - Corona Master Rank
A - Meteor Storm Master Rank
Gravity
C - Gravity Distortion Master Rank
C - Anti-Gravity Master Rank
C - Orbital Strike Master Rank
C - Gravitational Pull Master Rank
B - Graviton Master Rank
B - Clutch of the Giant Master Rank
B - Forced Polarity Master Rank
B - Inertial Control Master Rank
A - Shinra Tensei Master Rank
A - Chibaku Tensei Master Rank
A - Newton's Apple Master Rank
A - Centrifugal Force Master Rank
Taijutsu
~Slashing
E - Slash Master Rank
E - Arcing Slash Master Rank
E - Dynamic Slash Master Rank
E - Overhead Strike Master Rank
D - Full Circle Master Rank
D - Cross Rip Master Rank
D - Crimson Flash Master Rank
D - Gasher Master Rank
D - Heavy Tow Master Rank
C - Vanishing Slash Master Rank
C - Lunar Steps Master Rank
C - Whisperer Master Rank
C - Sword Juggle Master Rank
C - Zero Slash Counter Master Rank
C - Top Spin Master Rank
C - Blade Trail Master Rank
B - Magnum Break Master Rank
B - Focal Blade Master Rank
B - Steel Weaving Master Rank
B - Flight Aerial Strike Master Rank
B - Kill Driver Master Rank
B - Executioner Master Rank
B - Lotus Flower Master Rank
A - Zanteksuken Master Rank
A - Higuma Master Rank
A - Annihilation Master Rank
A - Heavenly Sword Master Rank
A - Fatal Draw Master Rank
~Unarmed
E - the One Two Master Rank
E - Low Sweep Master Rank
E - Janken Master Rank
E - Uncalled For Shot Master Rank
D - Four Hit Combo Rank Master Rank
D - Spinning Wind Master Rank
D - Dynamic Entry Master Rank
D - Dynamic Finish Master Rank
D - Nut Buster Master Rank
C - Dragon Assault Master Rank
C - Tiger Hook Master Rank
C - Step-in Flash Master Rank
C - Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku Master Rank
C- Roaring Combination Master Rank
C - Grapple Master Rank
B - Suplex Master Rank
B - Primary Lotus Master Rank
B - Shadow Step in Strike Master Rank
B - Seismic Toss Master Rank
B - Submission Master Rank
B- Spear Hand Master Rank
B- 16 Hit Combo Master Rank
A- Falcon Punch Master Rank
A - Eagle Drop Master Rank
A - Dance of the Waxing Moon Master Rank
A - Fist of Sin Master Rank
A - Fist of Virtue Master Rank
~Piercing
E - Stab Master Rank
E - Thrust Master Rank
E - Multiple Impale Master Rank
E - Piercing Rain Master Rank
D - Cross Pierce Master Rank
D - Impaling Counter Master Rank
D - Dynamic Pierce Master Rank
D - Defensive Thrust Master Rank
C - Outcry Master Rank
C - Iron Point Prison Master Rank
C - Clip Downpour Master Rank
C - Spiked Shield Master Rank
C - Feint Spike Master Rank
C - Pressure Pierce Master Rank
C - Outter Rim Breaker Master Rank
B - Fake Out Master Rank
B - Enraging Strike Master Rank
B - Fillet-O-Flesh Master Rank
B - Million Stab Master Rank
B - Blood Letter Master Rank
A - Giga Star Breaker Master Rank
A - Trashin Master Rank
~Buffing
E - Charge Master Rank
E - Grip Master Rank
E - Fleeted Master Rank
E - Block Master Rank
D - Shadow Play Master Rank
D - Eagle Vision Master Rank
D - Muscle Control Master Rank
D - Brandish Master Rank
D - Basic Safeguard Master Rank
C - Chakra Absorption Master Rank
C - Dynamic Art Master Rank
C - Chakra Extension Master Rank
C - Shadow Dance Master Rank
C - Gather Master Rank
C - Barrage Master Rank
C - Expel Master Rank
C - Feint Master Rank
B - Unbound Master Rank
B - Endure Master Rank
B - Counterstike Master Rank
B - Cover Master Rank
B - Anabolic Frenzy Master Rank
B - Concealed Steps Master Rank
B - Focused Steps Master Rank
A - Insatiable Hunger Master Rank
A - Devastating Aura Master Rank
A - Awakening Master Rank
A - Limit Break Master Rank
A - Unleash Master Rank
~Bludgeoning
E - Bunt Master Rank
E - Broad Slap Master Rank
E - Bound Master Rank
E - Smash Master Rank
D - Dynamic Bash Master Rank
D - Dynamic Charge Master Rank
D - 7 Hit Combo Master Rank
D - Double Slam Master Rank
D - Concrete Blast Master Rank
C - Render Blitz Master Rank
C - Blast Rush Master Rank
C - Skull Buster Master Rank
C - Set-Up Master Rank
C - Black Jack Attack Master Rank
C - Carpe Noctem Rank 1
C - Carpe Diem Rank 1
Projectile
E - Curve Shot Rank Master
E - Raw Shot Rank Master
E - Unforeseen Strike Rank Master
E - Piercing Strike Rank Master
D - Venomous Sting Rank Master
D - Disillusion Shot Rank Master
D - Power Shot Rank Master
D - Quickshot Rank Master
D - Bounce Shot Rank Master
C - Critical Shot Rank Master
C - Snipe Rank Master
C - Scatter Shot Rank Master
C - Counter Shot Rank Master
C - Tracking Beacon Rank Master
C - Catapult Discharge Rank Master
C - Detonation Tip Rank Master
B - Flurry Shot Rank Master
B - Blunt Shot Rank Master
B - Pierce Shot Rank Master
B - Pin Shot Rank Master
B - Grapple Shot Rank Master
B - Burst Shot Rank Master
B - Homing Shot Rank Master
A - Destruction Power Shot Rank Master
A - Combustive Shot Rank Master
A - Glacial Shot Rank Master
A - Voltaic Shot Rank Master
A - Terra Firma Shot Rank Master
Thrown
E - Volley Rank Master
E - Full Toss Rank Master
E - Trick Launch Rank Master
E - Mad Flight Rank Master
D - Projectile Sealing Rank Master
D - Sudden Shot Rank Master
D - Shadow Projectile Rank Master
D - Blood Grinding Rank Master
D - Instant Fail Rank Master
C - Silver Crows Master Rank
C - Buzzsaw Rank Master
C - Full Impact Rank Master
C - Spread Counter Rank Master
C - Sly Silver Rank Master
C - Sinister Steel Master Rank
C - Silver Stream Master Rank
B - Crush Bit Master Rank
B - Body Flicker ShurikenMaster Rank
B - Gravedigger's Hole Master Rank
B - Zero Point Assault Master Rank
B - Pinpoint Rank Master Rank
B - Steel Dragon Master Rank
B - Silver Cloud Master Rank
A - Heavenly Rain Drive Master Rank
A - Twin Rising Dragon Master Rank
A - Earthly Impalement Master Rank
A - Spiraling Silver Master Rank
A - Meteor Breaker Master Rank
Genjutsu
~Kinetic
E - Hot Weapon Master Rank
E - Stun Master Rank
E - 1000 Years of Pain Kai Master Rank
D - Drunken Stupor Master Rank
D - Influenza Master Rank
D - Tickling Master Rank
D - Face Palm Master Rank
C- Mist of Deceit Master Rank
C - Crippled Master Rank
C - Masochism Master Rank
C - Silly Fingers Master Rank
C - Crossed Wires Master Rank
B - Phoenix Embrace Master Rank
B - Petrification Master Rank
B - Lingering Spark Master Rank
B - Depth Crush Master Rank
B - Puppet Betrayal Master Rank
B - Pox Master Rank
A - Curse of the Leper Master Rank
A - Tree Binding
A - Delayed Agony Master Rank
A - Parasitic Infection Master Rank
A - Shared Torment Master Rank
A - Hemorrhagic Fever Master Rank
~Visual
E - Mimic Master Rank
E - False Surroundings Master Rank
E - Eye Strain Master Rank
D - Basic Clone Master Rank
D - Blur Master Rank
D - Rorsarch Eye Master Rank
D - Double Vision Master Rank
C - Distortion Master Rank
C - Occular Trama Master Rank
C - Back Flash Master Rank
C - After Image Master Rank
C - Verse of Darkness Master Rank
B - Advanced Clone Master Rank
B - Perception Filter Master Rank
B - Depth Barrier Master Rank
B - Night Mare Master Rank
B - Solar Flare Master Rank
B - Mime box Master Rank
A - Ocular assault Master Rank
A - Reaper's Gaze Master Rank
A - Body Double Master Rank
A - Night Rank Master Rank
A - Deja Vu Master Rank
A - Invisibility Master Rank
-Will
E - Lethargy Master Rank Master
E - Tourniquet Master Rank
E- Intimidation Master Rank
D - Amnesia Master Rank
D - False Success Master Rank
D - Leaking Mind Master Rank
D - Sear of the Mind Master Rank
C - Black Out Master Rank
C - Insomnia Master Rank
C - Paranoia Master Rank
C - Charismatic Breakdown Master Rank
C - Untruth Master Rank
B - Havoc of the Doomed Mind Master Rank
B - Slowed Perception Master Rank
B - Oblivious Rapture Master Rank
B - Betrayal Master Rank
B - Taunt master Rank
B - Thought Down Master Rank
A - Mind's Eye Chaos Master Rank
A - Temple of Nivrvana Master Rank
A - Torment of the Physical Plain Master Rank
A - Torment of the Earthly Plane Master Rank
A - Repetition Master Rank
A - Chaos of the Mental Plane Master Rank
~Audial
E - Deception Master Rank
E - Favoritism Master Rank
E - Wasteful Master Rank
D - Trembling Music Master Rank
D - Pained Expressions Master Rank
D - Appreciation of Music Master Rank
D - Gong Master Rank
C - Sometimes Shouting Works Master Rank
C - Deaf Master Rank
C - Run It Back Master Rank
C - Groans Master Rank
C - Piercing Cry Master Rank
B - Centralized Master Rank
B - Death Chime Master Rank
B - Prolong Master Rank
B - Leak Master Rank
B - Wither Master Rank
B - Bass Drop Master Rank
A - Devil's Whisper Master Rank
A - Death's Anthem Master Rank
A - Blank Slate Master Rank
A - Radial Shock Master Rank
A - Chakra Ravage Master Rank
A- Auto-Tune Master Rank
~Anbu
D - Mask Summon Master Rank
D - Critical Exposure Master Rank
C- Snapshot Master Rank
C - Chakra Sense Master Rank
C - Active Cameo Master Rank
C- Mental Infiltration Master Rank
B - Shadow Servant Master Rank
B - Search Light Master Rank
A - Flock of Shadows Master Rank
-Medical
D - Mystical Hand Master Rank
D - Coagulation Master Rank
C - System Shock Master Rank
C - Skeletal Fortification Master Rank
C - Anesthetic Infusion Master Rank
C - System Restoration Master Rank
Kinjutsu (Tsukuogami)
Force of Will
Overwhelm Master Rank
Myriad Strike Master Rank
Visceral Rend Master Rank
Omni-Flash Master Rank
Kindred Fusion Master Rank
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Hotsume Rika, Countess of Tea is a mysterious entity housed within Kododama Keep. Known primary for her position of power, little is known about her origins, those close to her and what makes her tick. Those are all secrets that she keeps close to her heart, the political climate in Tea even on a 'good' day can be 'heated' to say the least. Her rivals often attempt to usurp her in the same way she usurped her predecessor -- behind the scenes in silence where the wizened man would simply announce one day out of the blue that he needed to step down for 'personal' or perhaps 'health' reasons. The opinion of the people is a labile, fickle thing that often came in tides of approval and disapproval based on the latest law or propaganda. It was a balance she had learned long ago, control he media and the flow of information and you control the people. Every book, every paper, every report regarding her said the same thing -- that she was a strong, competent leader that headed a proposal that benefited the people in a certain regard. There would be a few words added here and there to make it apply, but for the most part it was formulaic at this point.
Yes, this was a trap but Number 1 as he was called did not seem particularly interested in harming either the Steward or the Sennin. In fact, he seemed to be more interested in finishing off the woman. She did not seem capable of putting up a fight, if she was chakra capable, she was not nearly as capable as the Sovereign before her. She would have wanted to run but the fray blocked her only means of egress unless she decided to break through the window, but she would never survive the fall. 