Post by Kyomei Kuchiki on Sept 28, 2021 22:04:34 GMT -5
{Class 6 Techniques}
Technique Name: [Intención]
Class: [6]
Technique Type: [Escritura]
Usable By: [Exequias]
Technique Element: [None]
Technique Description and Effects: [Killing intent, said to be a mixture of body language, reiatsu fluctuations, and sheer instinct, is a phenomena well known to the denizens of Heuco Mundo. Reading your opponent's intent to help anticipate an attack is a basic principle of soul combat, and this technique exists to exploit that.
Intención is a surge of reiatsu and intent that gives the impression of launching several attacks simultaneously, an optical illusion similar to the afterimages left by extreme speed techniques. A feint so convincing that an opponent or onlooker cannot tell the "attack" takes place in their own imagination until it glides harmlessly through their defenses.
As an example, the user may feint a single image of slashing horizontally with their zanpakuto, while actually performing a thrust. From their opponent's perspective, two overlapping versions of the user would act out these attacks at the same time. Unable to determine the real attack from the fake, they must either react to both at once to ensure safety, or accept the extra risk of trying to guess the genuine threat.
Skilled users are able to layer multiple uses of Intención on top of each other, projecting up to three feints at once. Mastery increases this limit to four feints at a time. With or without a genuine attack hidden under those layers.]
How to use technique: [The user must clearly envision the physical attacks they intend to feint, flare their reiatu and project their killing intent outward.]
Technique Drawbacks: [Cost of 25 reiatsu per image the user projects, up to a maximum of 75 units of reiatsu at three images. (Or a maximum of four images for 100 reiatsu with Mastery.) The images created are harmless feints made to distract and confuse, and pass harmlessly though an opponent even if they appear to hit or are "blocked". These projections fade away as soon as their single attack finishes.
As a purely psychological trick, Intención can be resisted by characters with the Calm Mind skill. At one point, this is merely a sense that a projected "attack" is somehow suspicious. With two points, projected attacks develop noticeable flaws, distorting or wavering when focused on. A third point renders the images produced by Intención obviously imaginary, falling apart when faced with even basic observation. At four points, the image simply fails to form, instead seeing the user slightly shift in posistion as their reiatsu momentarily fluctuates to no effect.
Intención is limited to feinting physical strikes, and cannot create images of reiatsu based attacks such as bala or cero. It can however, fake the physical motions of activating them, such as getting into a firing stance.]
Made By: [The Exequias]
Reserved?: [Exequias Only]
Technique Name: [Intención]
Class: [6]
Technique Type: [Escritura]
Usable By: [Exequias]
Technique Element: [None]
Technique Description and Effects: [Killing intent, said to be a mixture of body language, reiatsu fluctuations, and sheer instinct, is a phenomena well known to the denizens of Heuco Mundo. Reading your opponent's intent to help anticipate an attack is a basic principle of soul combat, and this technique exists to exploit that.
Intención is a surge of reiatsu and intent that gives the impression of launching several attacks simultaneously, an optical illusion similar to the afterimages left by extreme speed techniques. A feint so convincing that an opponent or onlooker cannot tell the "attack" takes place in their own imagination until it glides harmlessly through their defenses.
As an example, the user may feint a single image of slashing horizontally with their zanpakuto, while actually performing a thrust. From their opponent's perspective, two overlapping versions of the user would act out these attacks at the same time. Unable to determine the real attack from the fake, they must either react to both at once to ensure safety, or accept the extra risk of trying to guess the genuine threat.
Skilled users are able to layer multiple uses of Intención on top of each other, projecting up to three feints at once. Mastery increases this limit to four feints at a time. With or without a genuine attack hidden under those layers.]
How to use technique: [The user must clearly envision the physical attacks they intend to feint, flare their reiatu and project their killing intent outward.]
Technique Drawbacks: [Cost of 25 reiatsu per image the user projects, up to a maximum of 75 units of reiatsu at three images. (Or a maximum of four images for 100 reiatsu with Mastery.) The images created are harmless feints made to distract and confuse, and pass harmlessly though an opponent even if they appear to hit or are "blocked". These projections fade away as soon as their single attack finishes.
As a purely psychological trick, Intención can be resisted by characters with the Calm Mind skill. At one point, this is merely a sense that a projected "attack" is somehow suspicious. With two points, projected attacks develop noticeable flaws, distorting or wavering when focused on. A third point renders the images produced by Intención obviously imaginary, falling apart when faced with even basic observation. At four points, the image simply fails to form, instead seeing the user slightly shift in posistion as their reiatsu momentarily fluctuates to no effect.
Intención is limited to feinting physical strikes, and cannot create images of reiatsu based attacks such as bala or cero. It can however, fake the physical motions of activating them, such as getting into a firing stance.]
Made By: [The Exequias]
Reserved?: [Exequias Only]
{Class 5 Techniques}
Technique Name: [Vidrio Bala]
Class: [5]
Technique Type: [Escritura / Bala]
Usable By: [Exequias]
Technique Element: [Reiatsu]
Technique Description and Effects: [Vidrio Bala is considered one of the lesser Escritura, if not the least. Often dismissed as a basic assassin's contrivance, yet remaining a staple among Heuco Mundo's assassins regardless.
Despite being twice as spiritually taxing when invoked, Vidrio Bala is no stronger or faster than a common bala, in truth the differences are entirely cosmetic. Specifically, this Escritura produces a colorless bala that's entirely transparent, visible only as a slight distortion of the surrounding air. It similarly is only half as loud as a standard bala, gliding near-silently.]
How to use technique: [the user must focus on concealing their reiatsu while hardening and firing it.]
Technique Drawbacks: [Costs 100 units of reiatsu. To learn Vidrio Bala, the user must first Master Bala, and have at least one point in a Stealth skill. ]
Made By: [The Exequias]
Reserved?: [Exequias Only]
Technique Name: [Cremación]
Class: [5]
Technique Type: [Escritura]
Usable By: [Exequias]
Technique Element: [Physical / Fire]
Technique Description and Effects: [When swords clash, they inevitably give off sparks. While these sparks are usually considered an annoyance at most, to the Exequias, each is a fledgling funeral pyre that may yet grow to consume their opponent.
Invoked by grinding one's blade along a hard enough surface, such as their opponent's sword, Cremación multiplies what would normally be a few flying sparks into a crackling white flame that consumes ambient reishi for fuel. Wounds inflicted by a weapon bearing this flame are left smoldering with dull embers, and continue to slowly burn away surrounding flesh with a force based on the higher of the user's Strength or Reiatsu Strength for two posts after the initial blow was struck.]
How to use technique: [The user must first grind their blade against a surface to create sparks, they then move their weapon at high speeds to both fan those sparks into greater life and wrap the resulting flame around it.]
Technique Drawbacks: [This Escritura requires a bladed weapon, and a metal or stone surface to generate the needed friction and sparks. Many Exequias wear or carry a small metallic amulet solely for this purpose.
Cremación costs 100 units of reiatsu when ignited, and can only keep a weapon burning for a single post.]
Made By: [The Exequias]
Reserved?: [Exequias Only]
Technique Name: [Vidrio Bala]
Class: [5]
Technique Type: [Escritura / Bala]
Usable By: [Exequias]
Technique Element: [Reiatsu]
Technique Description and Effects: [Vidrio Bala is considered one of the lesser Escritura, if not the least. Often dismissed as a basic assassin's contrivance, yet remaining a staple among Heuco Mundo's assassins regardless.
Despite being twice as spiritually taxing when invoked, Vidrio Bala is no stronger or faster than a common bala, in truth the differences are entirely cosmetic. Specifically, this Escritura produces a colorless bala that's entirely transparent, visible only as a slight distortion of the surrounding air. It similarly is only half as loud as a standard bala, gliding near-silently.]
How to use technique: [the user must focus on concealing their reiatsu while hardening and firing it.]
Technique Drawbacks: [Costs 100 units of reiatsu. To learn Vidrio Bala, the user must first Master Bala, and have at least one point in a Stealth skill. ]
Made By: [The Exequias]
Reserved?: [Exequias Only]
Technique Name: [Cremación]
Class: [5]
Technique Type: [Escritura]
Usable By: [Exequias]
Technique Element: [Physical / Fire]
Technique Description and Effects: [When swords clash, they inevitably give off sparks. While these sparks are usually considered an annoyance at most, to the Exequias, each is a fledgling funeral pyre that may yet grow to consume their opponent.
Invoked by grinding one's blade along a hard enough surface, such as their opponent's sword, Cremación multiplies what would normally be a few flying sparks into a crackling white flame that consumes ambient reishi for fuel. Wounds inflicted by a weapon bearing this flame are left smoldering with dull embers, and continue to slowly burn away surrounding flesh with a force based on the higher of the user's Strength or Reiatsu Strength for two posts after the initial blow was struck.]
How to use technique: [The user must first grind their blade against a surface to create sparks, they then move their weapon at high speeds to both fan those sparks into greater life and wrap the resulting flame around it.]
Technique Drawbacks: [This Escritura requires a bladed weapon, and a metal or stone surface to generate the needed friction and sparks. Many Exequias wear or carry a small metallic amulet solely for this purpose.
Cremación costs 100 units of reiatsu when ignited, and can only keep a weapon burning for a single post.]
Made By: [The Exequias]
Reserved?: [Exequias Only]
{Class 2 Techniques}
Technique Name: [Cero Guillotina]
Class: [2]
Technique Type: [Escritura / Cero]
Usable By: [Exequias]
Technique Element: [Reiatsu]
Technique Description and Effects: [Designed to tear an assassination target to shreds in a single shot, this Exequias-exclusive cero can be fired without any charging to foreshadow it. Merely invoking this Escritura instantly produces a white cero, speckled in red, black, and gold. It travels with a muffled growl, and bursts on impact with a wet crack reminiscent of snapping bone.
While Cero Guillotina strikes with even greater force than a common cero, and moves at the speed of a bala, it merely exchanges charging time for a cooldown. Leaving the user exposed to retaliation while their reiatsu vents cool down. Because of that, this Escritura is traditionally reserved for sure-kill situations.]
How to use technique: [Take a firing stance, instantly paying the reiatsu cost and firing an altered cero. The user must then remain still, carefully allowing their reiatsu vents to recover from the sudden opening.]
Technique Drawbacks: [Costs 500 units of reiatsu. After firing, the user must "cool down", losing almost all their mobility for time equivalent to charging a normal cero.]
Made By: [The Exequias]
Reserved?: [Exequias Only]
Technique Name: [Cero Guillotina]
Class: [2]
Technique Type: [Escritura / Cero]
Usable By: [Exequias]
Technique Element: [Reiatsu]
Technique Description and Effects: [Designed to tear an assassination target to shreds in a single shot, this Exequias-exclusive cero can be fired without any charging to foreshadow it. Merely invoking this Escritura instantly produces a white cero, speckled in red, black, and gold. It travels with a muffled growl, and bursts on impact with a wet crack reminiscent of snapping bone.
While Cero Guillotina strikes with even greater force than a common cero, and moves at the speed of a bala, it merely exchanges charging time for a cooldown. Leaving the user exposed to retaliation while their reiatsu vents cool down. Because of that, this Escritura is traditionally reserved for sure-kill situations.]
How to use technique: [Take a firing stance, instantly paying the reiatsu cost and firing an altered cero. The user must then remain still, carefully allowing their reiatsu vents to recover from the sudden opening.]
Technique Drawbacks: [Costs 500 units of reiatsu. After firing, the user must "cool down", losing almost all their mobility for time equivalent to charging a normal cero.]
Made By: [The Exequias]
Reserved?: [Exequias Only]