technique reworking

[Valentin Acciai]

OOC: wanting to toughen up some techs i have never come to use in pvp's as they had some flaws that made them a poor choice to use. Increased the number to spikes that has to enter a target with Parasite in order to use the tech to 2 and removed reiatsu cost as it is a reiatsu drain tech, also raised the reiatsu lost if opponent wants to burn the parasite away as paying 50 more reiatsu than one would lose otherwise is a middling cost. As for Limb Duplication i wish to reduce it from a reiatsu cost of 250 to 150, Valentin can regenerate his normal arm for 100 as it is so paying two and a half arms for one with the tech is not cost effective.

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{Old}
Technique Name: [Parasite]

Class: [4]

Technique Type: [Hollow]

Usable By (Technique is available to which races?): [Hollow]

Technique Element: [Organic]

Technique Description and Effects (Explain appearance, powers, and effect): [Building on Living Spike Shots the Parasite technique transforms a spike that has entered the target into a small fleshy lump that holds itself in place by fusing with nearby material. It can only be used on unresisting targets or targets at least equal or below Valentin's Class and costs 100 Reiatsu to create, otherwise repulsed by their spiritual pressure. The parasite's function is to leech off Reiatsu from others and using the strings of Reiatsu attaching Living Spike Shots to Valentin in normal cases sends some of a target's Reiatsu to flow into Valentin. The parasite can harvest up to 150 Reiatsu a turn from a target and there can't be more than one parasite per person, if a target wishes to be rid of the parasite they can expend 200 Reiatsu to burn it out of their body. If a hostile target is of same class as Valentin he can drain them of 100 Reiatsu a turn and if 1 class below of further 150 Reiatsu. The parasite lives only as long as an ordinary spike once separated from Valentin and must be replaces every 20 minutes to continue working.]

How to use technique (How is it activated?): [Activate on a Living Spike Shot that has entered a target.]

Technique Drawbacks (Limitations, repercussions for use, etc) (Requires either willing target or class inferior target.)

Incantation and Effect:

Made By:
Valentin Acciai

Reserved? (Yes/No) (Can others use your technique, or just your character?): [Yes]


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Technique Name: [Limb Duplication]

Class: [4]

Technique Type: [Hollow]

Usable By (Technique is available to which races?): [Hollow]

Technique Element: [Organic]

Technique Description and Effects (Explain appearance, powers, and effect): [When able to regenerate pretty much any part of Himself why settle for his usual amount of limbs when he had the power to generate the necessary structure to support it? Using this ability Valentin selects a body part be it arms, tails, legs or whatever else could be defined as a limb, perhaps even a squiggly tentacle controlled entirely with muscle and lacking bone. From there on he grows the necessary bone structure, nerves and muscle composition to wield those limbs efficiently but they are of course not perfect. Duplicate limbs suffer a 25% decline in physical stats as they do not properly belong on Valentin's structure and only work to a 100% efficiency if moved to replace the primary limb and become permanent. Creating a duplicate limb costs 250 Reiatsu. Limbs generate according to the speed of Valentin's Organic Generation when it concerns the regrowth of missing limbs and duplicate limbs will cease the function and be cast away after 3 hours. Important to note Limb Duplication only works on Valentin himself as his body is made to handle the varied changes.]

How to use technique (How is it activated?): [Generates at the speed dictated by Organic Generation for limb regrowth.]

Technique Drawbacks (Limitations, repercussions for use, etc) (Insert Below)

Incantation and Effect:

Made By:
Valentin Acciai


Reserved? (Yes/No) (Can others use your technique, or just your character?): [Yes]

Technique Name: [Parasite]

Class: [4]

Technique Type: [Hollow]

Usable By (Technique is available to which races?): [Hollow]

Technique Element: [Organic]

Technique Description and Effects (Explain appearance, powers, and effect): [Building on Living Spike Shots the Parasite technique can transform the equivalent biomass of two spikes that has entered the target into a small fleshy lump that holds itself in place by fusing with nearby material. It can only be used on unresisting targets or targets at least equal or below Valentin's Class and has no inherent reiatsu cost, otherwise repulsed by their spiritual pressure. The parasite's function is to leech off Reiatsu from others and using the strings of Reiatsu attaching Living Spike Shots to Valentin in normal cases sends some of a target's Reiatsu to flow into Valentin. The parasite can harvest up to 150 Reiatsu a turn from a target and there can't be more than one parasite per person, if a target wishes to be rid of the parasite they can expend 300 Reiatsu to burn it out of their body or alternatively rip it out despite the injury of doing such. If a hostile target is of same class as Valentin he can drain them of 100 Reiatsu a turn and if 1 class below of further 150 Reiatsu. The parasite lives only as long as an ordinary spike once separated from Valentin and must be replaces every 20 minutes to continue working.]

How to use technique (How is it activated?): [Activate on a Living Spike Shot that has entered a target.]

Technique Drawbacks (Limitations, repercussions for use, etc) (Requires either willing target or class inferior target.)

Incantation and Effect:

Made By:
Valentin Acciai

Reserved? (Yes/No) (Can others use your technique, or just your character?): [Yes]


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Technique Name: [Limb Duplication]

Class: [4]

Technique Type: [Hollow]

Usable By (Technique is available to which races?): [Hollow]

Technique Element: [Organic]

Technique Description and Effects (Explain appearance, powers, and effect): [When able to regenerate pretty much any part of Himself why settle for his usual amount of limbs when he had the power to generate the necessary structure to support it? Using this ability Valentin selects a body part be it arms, tails, legs or whatever else could be defined as a limb, perhaps even a squiggly tentacle controlled entirely with muscle and lacking bone. From there on he grows the necessary bone structure, nerves and muscle composition to wield those limbs efficiently but they are of course not perfect. Duplicate limbs suffer a 25% decline in physical stats as they do not properly belong on Valentin's structure and only work to a 100% efficiency if moved to replace the primary limb and become permanent. Creating a duplicate limb costs 150 Reiatsu. Limbs generate according to the speed of Valentin's Organic Generation when it concerns the regrowth of missing limbs and duplicate limbs will cease the function and be cast away after 3 hours. Important to note Limb Duplication only works on Valentin himself as his body is made to handle the varied changes.]

How to use technique (How is it activated?): [Generates at the speed dictated by Organic Generation for limb regrowth.]

Technique Drawbacks (Limitations, repercussions for use, etc) (Insert Below)

Incantation and Effect:

Made By:
Valentin Acciai


Reserved? (Yes/No) (Can others use your technique, or just your character?): [Yes]

[Valentin Acciai]

OOC: Death Denial lowered the full body cost from 1600 to 1200 which would be the cost of a class 0 technique and still plenty costly for class 1, half body still 800. Removed the bit about higher cost when used on others, think i was so absentminded i never looked to see just how much that would actually cost, 2400 reiatsu was just uh, crazy. Adding clarification that Death Denial cannot keep several bodies active at once.

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{Old} Technique Name: [Death Denial]

Class: [1]

Technique Type: [Hollow]

Usable By (Technique is available to which races?): [Hollow]

Technique Element: [Organic]

Technique Description and Effects (Explain appearance, powers, and effect): [Rare is it for a foe to seek to sever just a limb and Valentin has become quite used to being chop up badly. When his normal regeneration is not sufficient and he needs to regenerate a large chunk of his or another's body with part of him inside them quickly or risk termination of the individual in question Valentin might rely on Death Denial and sacrifice a huge chunk of his own Reiatsu to speed up the recovery. The technique lets Valentin instantly regenerate an injury such as being(Darth Maul being separated from his fashionable pants) split in half and ignore the usual regeneration time of Organic Generation for 800 Reiatsu.

If reduced to only a brain Valentin might instead pay 1600 Reiatsu to regenerate a whole body while it's brain is still functional, but this is incredibly weakening and takes 3 turns of being in a very vulnerable state further explained in drawbacks. Using this ability on others costs 50% more Reiatsu than on himself, rather than the usual 100% additional cost for most of his techniques.]

How to use technique (How is it activated?): [Insert Below]

Technique Drawbacks (Limitations, repercussions for use, etc)

800 Reiatsu cost. 25% reduction to physical stats for 2 turns on the regenerated sections of the individual it is used on.

If regenerated from just a brain 1600 Reiatsu cost. 50% reduction to physical stats and 25% reduction to all other stats for 3 turns. First turn of recovery from this state the outer body is finished but severely weakened with many organs missing and incredible pain all over. Second turn organs regenerate properly but are still as if on fire. At the END of third turn of recovery the pain fades and the stat reduction is lifted as the brain gets used to it's new body. During this process the individual is not battle worthy as complex movements are impossible and basic movements so distractedly painful most can't even think to move let alone fight without some skill in Pain Tolerance. 1 in Pain Tolerance allows basic movement and keeps you from screaming in pain, 2 in Pain Tolerance allows activities such as running but not fighting as the mind struggles enough with movement, 3 in Pain Tolerance allows limited fighting and more complex movement, 4 in Pain Tolerance allows one to ignore the pain well enough to fight perfectly fine but of course still with physical stat reduction.

Incantation and Effect:

Made By:
Valentin Acciai

Reserved? (Yes/No) (Can others use your technique, or just your character?): [Yes]

Technique Name: [Death Denial]

Class: [1]

Technique Type: [Hollow]

Usable By (Technique is available to which races?): [Hollow]

Technique Element: [Organic]

Technique Description and Effects (Explain appearance, powers, and effect): [Rare is it for a foe to seek to sever just a limb and Valentin has become quite used to being chop up badly. When his normal regeneration is not sufficient and he needs to regenerate a large chunk of his or another's body with part of him inside them quickly or risk termination of the individual in question Valentin might rely on Death Denial and sacrifice a huge chunk of his own Reiatsu to speed up the recovery. The technique lets Valentin instantly regenerate an injury such as being(Darth Maul being separated from his fashionable pants) split in half and ignore the usual regeneration time of Organic Generation for 800 Reiatsu.

If reduced to only a brain Valentin might instead pay 1200 Reiatsu to regenerate a whole body while it's brain is still functional, but this is incredibly weakening and takes 3 turns of being in a very vulnerable state further explained in drawbacks.]

How to use technique (How is it activated?): [Insert Below]

Technique Drawbacks (Limitations, repercussions for use, etc)

800 Reiatsu cost. 25% reduction to physical stats for 2 turns on the regenerated sections of the individual it is used on.

If regenerated from just a brain 1200 Reiatsu cost. 50% reduction to physical stats and 25% reduction to all other stats for 3 turns. First turn of recovery from this state the outer body is finished but severely weakened with many organs missing and incredible pain all over. Second turn organs regenerate properly but are still as if on fire. At the END of third turn of recovery the pain fades and the stat reduction is lifted as the brain gets used to it's new body. During this process the individual is not battle worthy as complex movements are impossible and basic movements so distractedly painful most can't even think to move let alone fight without some skill in Pain Tolerance. 1 in Pain Tolerance allows basic movement and keeps you from screaming in pain, 2 in Pain Tolerance allows activities such as running but not fighting as the mind struggles enough with movement, 3 in Pain Tolerance allows limited fighting and more complex movement, 4 in Pain Tolerance allows one to ignore the pain well enough to fight perfectly fine but of course still with physical stat reduction. 

Incantation and Effect:

Made By:
Valentin Acciai

Reserved? (Yes/No) (Can others use your technique, or just your character?): [Yes]

[Himitsu Kasumi'Oji]

Parasite

Since this requires to spikes to have imbedded themselves into a target, this is fine.

Limb Duplication

Looks fine.

Headless Horseman

I can't justify reducing this cost. 200 reiatsu to counter a head-shot is already low imo.

Death Denial

Okay so I was following up until the whole clone thing. I'm going to outright reject the clone. Even if it was in the original ability, this is a healing technique, and a very good one at that. The clone thing is completely unnecessary and will cause the technique to do too much.

[Valentin Acciai]

the Headless Horseman container thing is actually more like 600 since the brain itself is 400 but regardless request removed, made Death Denial unable to make use of bodies as clone combatants.

[Himitsu Kasumi'Oji]

1/2

[Johnwaluigi]

Alright, I’ll be the second line of grading for this.

Parasite looks good to me.

Limb Duplication looks good to me.

Death Denial feels very strong, but is slow and costs a large amount, so I’m mostly ok with it. Just two bits on the drawbacks: 1) Please remove the last line about clones, given that they are no longer part of the technique and 2) Try to avoid putting Skill-based drawbacks into Reserved Techniques - most people take/have the appropriate skills, so the requirement is often meaningless as a drawback.

There are no real changes being suggested here, just a request to remove that line, so I’ll just give these my 2/2 now!

[Valentin Acciai]

edited.

[Johnwaluigi]

Looks good, 2/2!