A Hollow Must Clean Her Plate (Rampage)

[Teresa]

Standing at the top of one of the highest points in all of Karakura Town, Teresa looks down at all of the vehicles passing across the bridge. The larger of the two bridges in Karakura that grant passage across the river, a section of the town that in all her time here she hadn’t seen. Today though she’d found it and quite enjoyed the sight, a vast improvement in her opinion over the stench of the sewer system and the endless desert of Hueco Mundo. Just being a better sight though wasn’t the only thing this was a perfect location to feed for her, so many humans were below and if she went ahead it would be easy to trap them like fish in a barrel. A perfect location for a feast, something she was dying to begin as her stomach felt so ravenous that the rest of her body may at any moment be pulled within to satiate her hunger.

Holding her left hand out to the end of the bridge she was facing, Teresa channels her reiatsu for a moment then releases with the typical low hum a golden cero from her index finger. The large beam of reiatsu rushed towards the end of the bridge impacting it with a burst of heat. To all the cattle below it would appear as if an explosion had just randomly occured at the end of the bridge rising up several dozen feet. Panic immediately settled in as humans scattered across the bridge in the opposite direction leaving their vehicles behind as they did everything they could to get as far away from the danger as they could. Teresa hearing the sounds of the screams below inhales a large breath of air with a wide smile across her face. Almost as if she were listening to her favorite song Teresa begins to spit out several small pieces of black reiatsu.

It’d take only a couple seconds for all five pieces of black to expand growing in size to that of their true forms. Each of them standing now on the air in front of Teresa, Shinigami in full uniform with their zanpakuto at the hip yet a white bone mask with two thick horns protruding forward. . . .Teresa’s mask on all of them. “You two don’t let them get off the bridge, you three bring them to me dead or alive it doesn’t matter.” A brief command from Teresa and the Shinigami were off, each of them moving at full speed. Just as she’d ordered two of them, both male of average height moved to the opposite end of the bridge where they would cut down any human they tried to get off the bridge. The other three immediately drop down to the bridge unsheathing their zanpakuto and begin to cut down human after human after human before taking the time to bring the corpses up to Teresa.

“It shouldn’t be long before one of them shows up now.”

[Teresa]

Confining the humans that had been in the bridge for the most part on this bridge was something that worked out rather well. It didn’t take long before the Shinigami servants began cutting down the humans. Not just at the end of the bridge where most of them were flocking in a panicked state, but elsewhere on the bridge as well. Those that were brought down while running on the bridge were picked up to be brought up to Teresa. In only a couple of minutes the hunger that the Antlered One had been suffering from started to lessen as her appetite began to be appeased.

One human body after another was brought up with the three Shinigami working their way through the body of the bridge. At the same time though Teresa relished in what she was hearing, the screams of the humans below was like music now. “I wonder when such a thing changed.” Speaking to herself a question sent into the void. Did she feel this way now because she was a Hollow or did something else change about her from when she had been a human? No answer would be given nor would it be sought out due to the simple fact Teresa accepted what she was now and would enjoy it as much as possible.

Looking down on the bridge while her Uber drivers were all deployed Teresa gazed down at the end of the bridge. A loud malicious laugh at the sight, a literal heap of bodies lay upon the end of the bridge as her two guards continued to cut down more. So many of the humans had run right up to them unable to perceive the sight of those that then cut them down. What many would view as a horrific sight, Teresa was excited to see her feast had only just begun. Although she still had to finish the appetizers which just now continued to be delivered.

Consumed: 10x Class 8

[Zatoshi Kizukara]

As her minions slew her feast below on the bridge, Teresa would probably become aware of a spiritual presence drawing nearer to the local area, one with a feel she was most familiar with. A shinigami. One that was already passed their first stage of release as well, zero subtlety to their actions. 

Zatoshi had responded to the soul page put out simply because the world of the living expeditionary team was already occupied, and someone had to take care of business. He flash stepped through Karakura until he found the battlefield, feet alighting on the asphault of the intersection just before the bridge, standing behin0d the puppeted shinigami.

His gaze hardened at the sight of what was happening, and the blood of the fallen innocents lifted in streams. It cascaded towards him in many flows and slowly began to orbit him. He'd yet to draw his sword, a severe expression on his features. Notably, it seemed that weapon was tied into its sheathe by a crimson length of silk, unable to be drawn. "This is your doing, I take it?"Zatoshi asked, lifting his chin to glare upwards at Teresa. "I'd advise you to focus your efforts elsewhere, or be struck down."

As he spoke he raised an arm to his side. A stream of blood washed in through the air, steadily solidifying until it had formed a gleaming crystaline spear that was six feet in length, the last two feet a wicked, double-edged blade that came to a dagger-like point.

Blood-for-Power Stage: 0
Total Blood-Volume in scene: 6,000
800 BV used - Blood-for-Creation
400 rei used - Blood-for-Creation

Fluid BV in scene: 5,200
Remaining Rei: 5,600/6,000

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{Blood-for-Creation}
Blood-for-Creation(創造のための血): Satsujin utilizes its hemokinesis for defense or utility, hardening a mass of blood into a solid crystal formation. As described in Blood-for-Power, the crystal formations made by Blood-for-Creation have an ability to weather damage determined by the stage Blood-for-Power is currently in. Blood-for-Creation's ability to create objects is rated by the maximum length of dimension a specific blood volume is capable of creating.

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{Stats and Skills}
PHYSICAL
Strength - 200 Points
Speed - 300 Points


SPIRITUAL
Spiritual Pressure - 400 Points [Typed +50%: 600]
Reiatsu Strength - 50 Points


AURA
Light Aura - 75 Points
Dark Aura - 25 Points



SENSORY
Instinct - 200 Points
Senses - 100 Points
Energy sensory - 50 Points



UNUSED
Healing Expertise

TOTAL SP: 1300 Points

SKILLS

MENTAL

Lack of Fear: II
Strength of Will: - II


BATTLE
Martial Arts: Bōgyote [Japanese Jujutsu] - II
Swordsmanship: Zanjutsu - II
Battle Focus: - II
Battle Analysis: - II
Pain Tolerance: - II

BODY
Acrobatics: - I

UTILITY

Total SkP: 15/15

[Teresa]

The movement of her servants below her was almost rhythmic to watch, they moved as if at any moment they would cease otherwise, as if they had to complete the order given to them lest they be destroyed. Teresa wasn’t sure why she thought this while looking at them instead of just being happy they followed her, but she couldn’t help it all the same. These were the Shinigami that she’d devoured and they were going against what they had stood for while they’d been alive. Now they were a part of her and would aid in her growth and if it happened to make her smile with glee at the twisted appearance of it all then so be it.

Two more humans were brought up to the top of the bridge where Teresa continues to stand watch, the taste of their flesh appetizing although not filling enough. Accompanying her growth in power came an increase in her hunger. Something that she’d expected although something all the same that was frustrating to live with. When she first arrived in this town only a couple of humans had been enough to hold her over for maybe a week now though such numbers were enough to hold her over for maybe a day at most, she had to keep eating more otherwise she would invite true danger in the next couple of days.

The last two that’d just been brought up marked the first dozen humans that had been devoured a nice little number although the taste was starting to feel bland. “Even something tasty will lose its allure if eaten enough.” Teresa talks to herself realizing now that although humans such as these tasted infinitely better than other Hollows or even animals they would soon lose all flavor to her. Whether it would be permanent or just in this one sitting she couldn’t be certain. She could only hope for the former if she were to continue living on the battlefield in this town.

Finally though Teresa saw the figure of someone arriving on the scene to meet her, to stop her. Over on the body littered end of the bridge where two of her summons stood like doormen at the end, was a Shinigami. A Shinigami that was giving her a gaze instead of attacking her summons. Instead of helping the many humans that contained to run to the end of the bridge. Already more than a dozen humans were on the bridge bleeding. Cut in ways that overwhelmed them with pain but dying wouldn’t happen fast. Teresa had to consume them first.

Holding her left hand out down below to the Shinigami while something crimson forms Teresa meets his attack no doubt with one of her own, a small orb of golden reiatsu from her palm that’d appear for a moment then the next gone. A bala fired off at a speed of 1,600 directed down at the Shinigami. Not aimed specifically for him though but the bridge right in front. Enough power in the bala to blast the ground upwards sending dust and stone and whatever else the bridge happened to be made from right at the front of the Shinigami and hopefully blinding or hampering his aim.

Bala OS: 375

Remaining Reiatsu: 4950/5000
Bala: (-50)

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Strength: 50
Speed: 50
Spiritual Pressure: 400 (500)
Reiatsu Strength: 400 (500)
Light Aura: 15
Dark Aura: 85
Instincts: 150 (112)
Senses: 150 (112)
Energy Sensory: 0
Healing Expertise: 0

Anti-Stealth: 2
Battle Focus: 2
Illusion Resist:2
Pain Tolerance: 2
Battle Analysis: 2
Strength of Will: 2

[Zatoshi Kizukara]

Zatoshi's eyes narrowed as the hollow lifted her hand. It seemed it would not be taking his advice. Not that he should be surprised. He focused his reiatsu outwards, on her in that moment. He felt it envelope her like water aroud a stone, and in that moment felt her reiatsu flare for an attack. He focused inwards, drawing Setsujin's skill for his own, and He darted before he even saw the bala. A blinding flash step sent him at a speed of 3,000 to the foot of the bridge, passing through where her Bala would impact a moment later. He whirled that deadly spear in his hands, the reach it gave him far outstripping the reach of the puppeted shinigami's own swords. His first attack came deceptively from on high, and yet routed down before becoming horizontal at the knee of one of the summons. That bladed spear would have zero issue cleaving the puppet's leg apart if it didn't react. 

The immense volume of blood followed him as he moved, and once it had neared him it swirled at a speed of 600, more streams coalescing into a large, wide crimson shield that floated in the air, dividing the space between his back and the other summons, four feet in diameter. Even so, yet another pair of streams lanced towards a summon behind him, becoming two flurries of knives that shot through the air at 800 speed in two different vectors of attack, one at the front and at the side of the lost shinigami. Neither could truly be blocked with the sword the shinigami possessed, as instead of a single mass of crystals the blood formed a stream of shards much like shrapnel.

Zatoshi's offensive had truly just begun.

Critical Insight Activated - Target Teresa
Shared Prowess - Spear {2}
Bala Insight 1/3


400 BV used - Blood-for-Creation

300 Rei used - Blood-for-Creation
50 BV used - Blood-for-Blood x2
100 Rei used - Blood-for-Blood x2
50 Rei used - Shared Prowess {2}
50 Rei used - Critial Insight
50 rei used - Shunpo

Blood-for-Power Stage: 0
Total Blood-Volume in scene: 6,000
Fluid Blood-Volume in scene: 4,800
Total Reiatsu remaining: 4,950/6000

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{Critical Insight}
Technique Name: Critical Insight



Class: 6



Technique Type: Analytical



Usable By (Technique is available to which races?): Any



Technique Element: None



Technique Description and Effects (Explain appearance, powers, and effect): In focusing on a single target, the user sharply attunes their reiatsu into a new form of ‘touch’, though at a distance. As with water enveloping a swimming animal, each motion they make the water ripples and reacts to, so too does the user’s reiatsu closely wrap an opponent so that each tensing of muscle and flaring of their own reiatsu become a sensory input for the user at the speed of touch.

With this extra sensory perception the user develops a mechanism for analysis that goes far beyond any ordinarily possible to them, as analysis of information is only of a fidelity allowed by the mechanisms by which the information was gathered.



Each time the enemy performs a technique while being observed in this manner, the user gains insight into every machination of their opponent in the performance of that technique. Subconscious ‘tells’ that an enemy displays in the moments before a given technique becomes increasingly obvious, reducing the speed and instinct the user requires in order to react to future uses of that technique.



At learned, this progresses to a zenith of 7 uses of a technique under observation before the user of this technique can recognize the moments immediately preceding it and accurately predict the use and aim of the technique emerging. With a step technique as an example, the user would not only know that the opponent is about to perform that step technique, but also exactly where they intend on going with it, and thus making the enemy incredibly vulnerable to accurate predictive attack.



At proficient this drops to 5 uses. At mastered, 3.







How to use technique (How is it activated?): Let out an emission of reiatsu in a steady pressure until it envelops your opponent. Maintain this emission over time and observe what is felt through it.







Technique Drawbacks (Limitations, repercussions for use, etc): This technique must be constantly active to not only observe an opponent, but to also take advantage of its benefits. As the observations are made through a new sensory input, the user may only take advantage of the observations if they continue to maintain this new sense.



Only works against a single target at a time. Effects may be avoided nearly entirely by using a wide variety of techniques. As this sense is not a natural one in which the user has at all times, and deals with very subtle details that feed instinctual reaction, committing an opponent’s ‘tells’ gathered from this technique to long term memory is not possible. In a subsequent fight with the same opponent, the process is repeated rather than immediately having the benefits gained in a previous encounter.



Additionally, this technique may be countered with points in stealth. Each point in stealth the enemy has increases the post count required for this technique to reach it's maximum efficacy. However, either points in battle focus or anti-stealth can counter this at a 1 to 1 ratio. This uses the higher of battle focus or anti-stealth rather than the sum of both.







Made By: Zatoshi Kizukara







Reserved? (Yes/No) (Can others use your technique, or just your character?): Yes. Can be taught to others in a JT.

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{Shunpo}
Technique Name: Shunpo (Flash Steps)



Class: 7



Technique Type: Kidō



Technique Element: None



Technique Description and Effects:



A movement technique that allows the user to move faster than the eye can follow. The focal point that determines the basis of this technique is speed. As speed is the main point of the technique, the method is best characterized by how fast one can get from Point A to Point B in the least amount of steps. Training and skill are what determines how fast a user of Shunpo can move. Those of little skill in the technique or those who haven't used it for an extended amount of time would obviously be out of practice, causing those individuals to be considerably slower. This requires the use of more steps to move the same distance and become tired more easily in a shorter amount of time. A single step magnifies speed for that step by ten times. Shunpo uses fifty Reiatsu per step. This one is automatically learned in the academy. All Shinigami know this when created. This technique does not take up a technique slot.



How to use technique:



Focus of Reishi around the feet area and launch off into a single blurring step. It is not unlike teleportation in appearance, but it is simply extremely fast movement. It is often used to gain an edge in a single moment of combat or to dodge incoming attacks.

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{Blood-for-Blood}

Blood-for-Blood(血のための血): Satsujin weaponizes its hemokinesis. Starting at 50 BV, the wielder can cause a volume of blood they are controlling to suddenly accelerate to supersonic speeds (800 speed) and then crystalize before impact with the target. It does not so much crystalize into a single mass as it does a collection of shards similar to shrapnel. This can cause devastating tissue damage as well as being more difficult to defend against. It has a maximum range of 10 meters from the volume of blood being used for the strike, and once it begins accelerating it cannot curve its flight path much. Blood-for-Blood is the main offensive technique for Satsujin in the sense that it is the one that will be utilized most often, and can be considered an 'economic' option for offense as whether Blood-for-Blood penetrates through the target, misses, or deflects/fails to penetrate it will convert back into a liquid blood volume after the strike concludes. The damage Blood-for-Blood is able to cause varies with the amount of BV being used for the technique, not its technique multiplier. That multiplier exists to determine the hardness of the shards and their ability to punch through defenses or opposing techniques. Blood for Blood does have a few disadvantages: One that it is definitely not silent. The sound of a cloud of crystal shards accelerating, breaking the sound barrier, and then decelerating has a very unique scream that fades in and fades out again, very similar to the doppler effect. It naturally happens very quickly occurring over such a short distance, but it is loud and distinctive.



Wounds from Blood-for-Blood tend to manifest as a cluster of individual wound channels from shards that are relatively tightly spaced on entry, but can tumble and make a variety of exit wounds and tissue damage. As such BV used for the technique is best described in the surface area the entry wounds would spread across, or basically how wide the attack is across.



BV used Diameter of attack Reiatsu Cost

50 3" 100

100 6" 200

200 12" / 1' 300

...double previous ...double previous ...+100



Blood-for-Blood caps out at a 500 reiatsu cost max for special situations in which there is enough blood to do devastating large volume attacks such as encircling an enemy with blood and closing in on them from all directions. A BV that is appropriate must still be allocated for a 'capped out' attack where the diameter of attack can fully encompass the target, but the reiatsu cost does not increase. One attack also truly means one attack. The blood moves together with the same timing, towards the same point in space. It may be possible to catch multiple enemies in the same attack, but again it must be one attack. If it can't move at the same timing, towards the same target it does not qualify as one attack.

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{Blood-for-Creation}

Blood-for-Creation(創造のための血): Satsujin utilizes its hemokinesis for defense or utility, hardening a mass of blood into a solid crystal formation. As described in Blood-for-Power, the crystal formations made by Blood-for-Creation have an ability to weather damage determined by the stage Blood-for-Power is currently in. Blood-for-Creation's ability to create objects is rated by the maximum length of dimension a specific blood volume is capable of creating.

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{Stats and Skills}

PHYSICAL

Strength - 200 Points

Speed - 300 Points





SPIRITUAL

Spiritual Pressure - 400 Points [Typed +50%: 600]

Reiatsu Strength - 50 Points





AURA

Light Aura - 75 Points

Dark Aura - 25 Points







SENSORY

Instinct - 200 Points

Senses - 100 Points

Energy sensory - 50 Points







UNUSED

Healing Expertise



TOTAL SP: 1300 Points

SKILLS



MENTAL



Lack of Fear: II

Strength of Will: - II





BATTLE

Martial Arts: Bōgyote [Japanese Jujutsu] - II

Swordsmanship: Zanjutsu - II

Battle Focus: - II

Battle Analysis: - II

Pain Tolerance: - II



BODY

Acrobatics: - I



UTILITY



Total SkP: 15/15

[Teresa]

A fair bit of speed, the first thing Teresa witnessed this Shinigami do that she could determine might be an issue. The ability that this Shinigami displayed that allowed him to form blood into some sort of spear, while useful to them, wouldn't be all that valuable to Teresa. All the same though he employed the enhancement technique that allowed Shinigami to move vastly faster than typical. A standard practice they all seemed to possess which allowed them to evade certain death by her attacks.

It would feel like only a couple blinks of time passed by and then the Shinigami that had been standing guard at the end of the bridge were down. The Shinigami though would find something off about what he’d predicted. That first Shinigami that’d lost a good portion of his body didn’t offer him additional blood, instead the body seemingly turned into black smoke. Smoke rushed upwards to Teresa washing across her figure as the soul itself returned to the depths within her. Teresa stood at the top of the bridge doing her best to hide the fact such an experience was incredibly painful for her.

That’s why when the second Shinigami was brought down like the first and its body turned to smoke Teresa knew she only had another moment or two before that pain returned after just passing. Time that she used to focus her reiatsu into an orb at the end of her finger tips. A golden orb of reiatsu emanating the low hum and then bursting forward as a beam positioned right for the Shinigami. That’s how it’d appear at least. The Shinigami being the main target although he wasn’t the only one. The moment he moved the cero would hit the end of the bridge destroying most of the exit.

Would the bridge continue to support the weight with only part of the other side still connected to the land? The middle of the bridge was kept upwards, but it couldn’t possibly support the actual body on both sides . . . could it? If it somehow managed to stay up then for how long? The humans left on the bridge wouldn’t be able to get off now which meant they’d have no chance beyond this Shinigami preventing Teresa from eating them all! The horned Hollow was currently dealing with the pain of her summons being cut down with only a single word floating throughout her mind. “Club. Do I need to call on Club.”

Shinigami servants: 3

Remaining Reiatsu: 4750/5000
Cero: (-200)

[Zatoshi Kizukara]

Zatoshi did care about the human lives on that bridge. He wouldn't be here if he didn't. At the same time, he recognized that the less fighting done here, the more of them were likely to survive. He could feel the blade at his hip calling to him even now. A dark desire existed within him to feel the joy it would bring to just let it take over. Once he drew that sword everyone would be in far more danger than they were now.

He could not let it come to that. As his enemy prepared another attack he steeled himself. His shield whipped forwards from behind, skating through the air to be grasped in the middle by his left hand. He dropped to a knee to allow it to fully cover his body, couching his spear under his armpit. The cero might have been faster than the shield in a sense of raw speed but the distance the cero had to travel and the forewarning given to him by her motion and the flaring of her reiatsu gave him just enough time to intercept the beam.

The cero's deafening explosion against the shield rippled through the air. The shield of blood proved strong enough that it bore not a scratch from Teresa's attack, as through the smoke came something wildly unexpected; Zatoshi had mounted the shield like a skateboard and ejected towards the last shinigami present on the bridge. The edge of his bladed spear hissed through the air as it sought to decapitate the puppet as he passed before riding that flying platform up towards Teresa and the two shinigami making trips to retrieve bodies. His eyes narrowed. He knew his enemy would not yield. This would be decided in blood.

(At Blood-for-Power stage 0, Blood-for-Creation constructs have a hardness of Zatoshi's Spiritual Pressure: 600. Zatoshi's hemokinesis allows him to move blood, crystallized or not, at speeds of 600 so long as it remains within 10 meters of him. This allows him essentially free movement speed by 'riding' a construct. )

Shared Prowess - Spear {2}

Bala Insight 1/3

Cero Insight 1/3

50 Rei used - Shared Prowess {2}

50 Rei used - Critial Insight


Blood-for-Power Stage: 0

Total Blood-Volume in scene: 6,000

Fluid Blood-Volume in scene: 4,800

Total Reiatsu remaining: 4,850/6000

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Technique Name: Critical Insight







Class: 6







Technique Type: Analytical







Usable By (Technique is available to which races?): Any







Technique Element: None







Technique Description and Effects (Explain appearance, powers, and effect): In focusing on a single target, the user sharply attunes their reiatsu into a new form of ‘touch’, though at a distance. As with water enveloping a swimming animal, each motion they make the water ripples and reacts to, so too does the user’s reiatsu closely wrap an opponent so that each tensing of muscle and flaring of their own reiatsu become a sensory input for the user at the speed of touch.



With this extra sensory perception the user develops a mechanism for analysis that goes far beyond any ordinarily possible to them, as analysis of information is only of a fidelity allowed by the mechanisms by which the information was gathered.







Each time the enemy performs a technique while being observed in this manner, the user gains insight into every machination of their opponent in the performance of that technique. Subconscious ‘tells’ that an enemy displays in the moments before a given technique becomes increasingly obvious, reducing the speed and instinct the user requires in order to react to future uses of that technique.







At learned, this progresses to a zenith of 7 uses of a technique under observation before the user of this technique can recognize the moments immediately preceding it and accurately predict the use and aim of the technique emerging. With a step technique as an example, the user would not only know that the opponent is about to perform that step technique, but also exactly where they intend on going with it, and thus making the enemy incredibly vulnerable to accurate predictive attack.







At proficient this drops to 5 uses. At mastered, 3.















How to use technique (How is it activated?): Let out an emission of reiatsu in a steady pressure until it envelops your opponent. Maintain this emission over time and observe what is felt through it.















Technique Drawbacks (Limitations, repercussions for use, etc): This technique must be constantly active to not only observe an opponent, but to also take advantage of its benefits. As the observations are made through a new sensory input, the user may only take advantage of the observations if they continue to maintain this new sense.







Only works against a single target at a time. Effects may be avoided nearly entirely by using a wide variety of techniques. As this sense is not a natural one in which the user has at all times, and deals with very subtle details that feed instinctual reaction, committing an opponent’s ‘tells’ gathered from this technique to long term memory is not possible. In a subsequent fight with the same opponent, the process is repeated rather than immediately having the benefits gained in a previous encounter.







Additionally, this technique may be countered with points in stealth. Each point in stealth the enemy has increases the post count required for this technique to reach it's maximum efficacy. However, either points in battle focus or anti-stealth can counter this at a 1 to 1 ratio. This uses the higher of battle focus or anti-stealth rather than the sum of both.















Made By: Zatoshi Kizukara















Reserved? (Yes/No) (Can others use your technique, or just your character?): Yes. Can be taught to others in a JT.

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PHYSICAL



Strength - 200 Points



Speed - 300 Points











SPIRITUAL



Spiritual Pressure - 400 Points [Typed +50%: 600]



Reiatsu Strength - 50 Points











AURA



Light Aura - 75 Points



Dark Aura - 25 Points















SENSORY



Instinct - 200 Points



Senses - 100 Points



Energy sensory - 50 Points















UNUSED



Healing Expertise







TOTAL SP: 1300 Points

SKILLS







MENTAL







Lack of Fear: II



Strength of Will: - II











BATTLE



Martial Arts: Bōgyote [Japanese Jujutsu] - II



Swordsmanship: Zanjutsu - II



Battle Focus: - II



Battle Analysis: - II



Pain Tolerance: - II







BODY



Acrobatics: - I







UTILITY







Total SkP: 15/15

[Teresa]

The Shinigami could do more than just form his blood into weapons, that much Teresa was given as confirmation now. The golden wave of reiatsu hurling towards the Shinigami clashed against the figure of a shield. The pair to a sword yet something Teresa hadn’t seen any Shinigami up to this point employ, in fact this was the first time she’d seen anyone utilize the piece of equipment that she would have believed any warrior to utilize. Her cero clashing against the shield proved to be ineffective although some of its form splashed off onto the bridge causing quite a bit of damage around him.

He’d managed to keep the bridge from collapsing though something that so in truth he’d succeeded for the time being at his job. Although now Teresa took a moment to munch down on two throats brought right up to her side. The flavor of blood washing down her throat was something that she likely wouldn’t ever grow tired of experiencing. It was almost like filling one’s stomach with sugar. Sadly though she couldn’t relish in the taste of human, although they provided a much better flavor she still had a Shinigami to digest which meant her attention had to be on him for now.

The shield sent out moved like a projectile slamming into the last Shinigami servant Teresa had on the traveling section of the bridge bursting its body into smoke immediately. The two others though stayed by Teresa’s side now acting as direct bodyguards to the Hollow. “Quite fast while remaining sturdy. Perhaps he’ll be worth obtaining after all.” Teresa watches as the Shinigami begins to travel up to meet her at the top of the bridge. Although she would appear to be at a disadvantage at the moment she was confident this would be a grand day indeed.

Shinigami Servants: 2/5

Devoured: 2x Class 8 Humans

[Zatoshi Kizukara]

Zatoshi knew he couldn’t become too predictable. He was closing in on the hollow rapidly. Things could be decided by one mistake by either of them now. At the close range he was bringing things to, there was little time to react and less room for error. Offering a pattern of behavior to his opponent to predict was only useful to subvert those expectations.



Therefore it was time to do something unexpected. As he came within fifty meters of Teresa, Zatoshi hurled the spear in his hand aiming right of her abdomen. He knew the hollow wouldn’t just stand and take the abuse, but the attack itself was to provoke a reaction.



By aiming towards the right side of her body he made it more likely that she would dodge left to avoid the attack - that being the path of least resistance. This was made a potentially deadly trap in two ways. First as the spear passed by Teresa it would burst into a flurry of shrapnel, tearing apart the air for ten meters. If she didn’t dodge far or fast enough she would receive innumerous injuries from shards of crystalized blood flying at 800 speed through her body, scattered nearly from head to toe. Just before the spear reached that point of detonation, Zatoshi pre-empted her potential use of sonido, knowing that she may sense the danger of the thrown spear being more than what met the eye.



He flash-stepped into position fifteen meters off to her left, fully prepared for her to sonido directly into him in her attempt to create distance from his attack. If she made such a blunder he was prepared to catch her by the shoulder and upper arm and attempt an uchimata to throw them both off of the top of the bridge in an attempt to drive her into the pavement below.



(The sacrificial uchimata qualifies as an example of Sutemi-waza detailed in the Jujutsu: Nage-waza technique.)







<sup>Shared Prowess - Spear {2}

Bala Insight 1/3

Cero Insight 1/3

50 Rei used - Shared Prowess {2}

50 Rei used - Critial Insight

50 rei used - shunpo

500 rei used - Blood-for-Blood (capped attack, 4ft in diameter)







Blood-for-Power Stage: 0

Total Blood-Volume in scene: 6,000

Fluid Blood-Volume in scene: 5,400



Total Reiatsu remaining: 4,200/6000</sup>

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Technique Name: Critical Insight







Class: 6







Technique Type: Analytical







Usable By (Technique is available to which races?): Any







Technique Element: None







Technique Description and Effects (Explain appearance, powers, and effect): In focusing on a single target, the user sharply attunes their reiatsu into a new form of ‘touch’, though at a distance. As with water enveloping a swimming animal, each motion they make the water ripples and reacts to, so too does the user’s reiatsu closely wrap an opponent so that each tensing of muscle and flaring of their own reiatsu become a sensory input for the user at the speed of touch.



With this extra sensory perception the user develops a mechanism for analysis that goes far beyond any ordinarily possible to them, as analysis of information is only of a fidelity allowed by the mechanisms by which the information was gathered.







Each time the enemy performs a technique while being observed in this manner, the user gains insight into every machination of their opponent in the performance of that technique. Subconscious ‘tells’ that an enemy displays in the moments before a given technique becomes increasingly obvious, reducing the speed and instinct the user requires in order to react to future uses of that technique.







At learned, this progresses to a zenith of 7 uses of a technique under observation before the user of this technique can recognize the moments immediately preceding it and accurately predict the use and aim of the technique emerging. With a step technique as an example, the user would not only know that the opponent is about to perform that step technique, but also exactly where they intend on going with it, and thus making the enemy incredibly vulnerable to accurate predictive attack.







At proficient this drops to 5 uses. At mastered, 3.















How to use technique (How is it activated?): Let out an emission of reiatsu in a steady pressure until it envelops your opponent. Maintain this emission over time and observe what is felt through it.















Technique Drawbacks (Limitations, repercussions for use, etc): This technique must be constantly active to not only observe an opponent, but to also take advantage of its benefits. As the observations are made through a new sensory input, the user may only take advantage of the observations if they continue to maintain this new sense.







Only works against a single target at a time. Effects may be avoided nearly entirely by using a wide variety of techniques. As this sense is not a natural one in which the user has at all times, and deals with very subtle details that feed instinctual reaction, committing an opponent’s ‘tells’ gathered from this technique to long term memory is not possible. In a subsequent fight with the same opponent, the process is repeated rather than immediately having the benefits gained in a previous encounter.







Additionally, this technique may be countered with points in stealth. Each point in stealth the enemy has increases the post count required for this technique to reach it's maximum efficacy. However, either points in battle focus or anti-stealth can counter this at a 1 to 1 ratio. This uses the higher of battle focus or anti-stealth rather than the sum of both.















Made By: Zatoshi Kizukara















Reserved? (Yes/No) (Can others use your technique, or just your character?): Yes. Can be taught to others in a JT.

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Technique Name: Shunpo (Flash Steps)







Class: 7







Technique Type: Kidō







Technique Element: None







Technique Description and Effects:







A movement technique that allows the user to move faster than the eye can follow. The focal point that determines the basis of this technique is speed. As speed is the main point of the technique, the method is best characterized by how fast one can get from Point A to Point B in the least amount of steps. Training and skill are what determines how fast a user of Shunpo can move. Those of little skill in the technique or those who haven't used it for an extended amount of time would obviously be out of practice, causing those individuals to be considerably slower. This requires the use of more steps to move the same distance and become tired more easily in a shorter amount of time. A single step magnifies speed for that step by ten times. Shunpo uses fifty Reiatsu per step. This one is automatically learned in the academy. All Shinigami know this when created. This technique does not take up a technique slot.







How to use technique:







Focus of Reishi around the feet area and launch off into a single blurring step. It is not unlike teleportation in appearance, but it is simply extremely fast movement. It is often used to gain an edge in a single moment of combat or to dodge incoming attacks.

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Blood-for-Blood(血のための血): Satsujin weaponizes its hemokinesis. Starting at 50 BV, the wielder can cause a volume of blood they are controlling to suddenly accelerate to supersonic speeds (800 speed) and then crystalize before impact with the target. It does not so much crystalize into a single mass as it does a collection of shards similar to shrapnel. This can cause devastating tissue damage as well as being more difficult to defend against. It has a maximum range of 10 meters from the volume of blood being used for the strike, and once it begins accelerating it cannot curve its flight path much. Blood-for-Blood is the main offensive technique for Satsujin in the sense that it is the one that will be utilized most often, and can be considered an 'economic' option for offense as whether Blood-for-Blood penetrates through the target, misses, or deflects/fails to penetrate it will convert back into a liquid blood volume after the strike concludes. The damage Blood-for-Blood is able to cause varies with the amount of BV being used for the technique, not its technique multiplier. That multiplier exists to determine the hardness of the shards and their ability to punch through defenses or opposing techniques. Blood for Blood does have a few disadvantages: One that it is definitely not silent. The sound of a cloud of crystal shards accelerating, breaking the sound barrier, and then decelerating has a very unique scream that fades in and fades out again, very similar to the doppler effect. It naturally happens very quickly occurring over such a short distance, but it is loud and distinctive.







Wounds from Blood-for-Blood tend to manifest as a cluster of individual wound channels from shards that are relatively tightly spaced on entry, but can tumble and make a variety of exit wounds and tissue damage. As such BV used for the technique is best described in the surface area the entry wounds would spread across, or basically how wide the attack is across.







BV used Diameter of attack Reiatsu Cost



50 3" 100



100 6" 200



200 12" / 1' 300



...double previous ...double previous ...+100







Blood-for-Blood caps out at a 500 reiatsu cost max for special situations in which there is enough blood to do devastating large volume attacks such as encircling an enemy with blood and closing in on them from all directions. A BV that is appropriate must still be allocated for a 'capped out' attack where the diameter of attack can fully encompass the target, but the reiatsu cost does not increase. One attack also truly means one attack. The blood moves together with the same timing, towards the same point in space. It may be possible to catch multiple enemies in the same attack, but again it must be one attack. If it can't move at the same timing, towards the same target it does not qualify as one attack.

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Technique Name: Jiujutsu: Nage-waza



Class: 7



Technique Type: Physical



Usable By (Technique is available to which races?): Any



Technique Element: None



Technique Description and Effects (Explain appearance, powers, and effect): This technique is designed to represent throwing techniques within the Jiujutsu family of martial arts in entirety, codifying them into categories.



Te-waza: Hand throws. Techniques that originate as the result of an enemy attack that utilizes the opponent’s momentum against them.



(Ippon Seionage, a Judo Te-waza technique)





Ashi-waza: Foot throws. Foot-sweeps or blocks that take advantage of vulnerability in balance.



(O-Guruma, a Judo Ashi-waza technique)





Koshi-waza: Hip throws. Turn throws or ‘power’ throws, efficient use of body mechanics to force a throw.



(O-Goshi, a Judo Koshi-waza technique)





Sutemi-waza: Sacrificial throws. Throws that utilize the full extent of both the user and the opponent’s momentum and strength, throwing both to the ground.



(Yoko-wakare, a Judo Sutemi-waza technique)





Te-waza throws can occur when an enemy throws a striking attack. Upon the attack being thrown, the practitioner attempts to intercept the strike before redirecting its momentum to whip the opponent into the ground. For this purpose the practitioner may add 15% of the opponent’s strength to the throw at ‘Learned’ with a Jiujutsu martial art also at [1]. When proficient with [2] in a JJ martial art they may add 25%. When mastered with a [3], they may add 50% percent of the opponent’s strength to the throw. With a [4] and mastery, they can add 70% of the opponent’s strength to their own for the purpose of the throw.



Ashi-waza throws occur when an opponent is grappled by the practitioner and is in the process of attempting to conduct movement. This movement can be induced by the practitioner pulling or pushing an opponent to force them to move, or the opponent voluntarily moving to either attempt to pull or break out of the grapple or to attempt to push and overpower the practitioner. When an Ashi-waza throw is attempted, it follows the same schema for utilizing the opponent’s strength as Te-waza does.



Koshi-waza is a different type of throw than Ashi-waza or Te-waza. Rather than operating off of the opponent’s momentum, Koshi-waza utilizes efficient body mechanics to attempt to force a throw of the opponent. They begin by the practitioner having grappled the opponent with both hands. Then the user typically drops their center of mass below their opponents before violently lifting them over the hip using an explosive jolt upwards while levering the opponent’s body with the hands. Koshi-waza allows the practitioner to add their own speed to their strength for the purposes of executing the throw using the following schema: Learned/[1] = 30% speed added to strength. Proficient/[2] = 40%, Mastered/[3] = 50%. Mastered/[4] 60%.



Finally, Sutemi-waza are sacrificial throws that end with both the practitioner and enemy prone. They utilize both the enemy’s momentum and power against him, but leave the practitioner prone and thus in a vulnerable state. They begin with the enemy either charging at the practitioner, or as in Ashi-waza, when the enemy is grappled and attempting to ‘bull-rush’ and knock down the practitioner. Sutemi-waza allows the practitioner to add both the opponent’s strength as well as the speed they are currently moving at to the throw against him using the following schema: Learned/[1] = 20% of both the enemy’s strength and current speed added to throw. Proficient/[2] = 40%. Mastered/[3] = 60%. Mastered/[4] = 80%.



Sutemi-waza throws are notoriously dangerous, especially if elected to be used against an opponent utilizing step techniques that massively multiply their speed. If sum of the user's unadjusted strength and speed after type is less than sum of the boost to strength being added to the technique, then the user will take damage from the technique with 50% of the throw's final strength. When mastered and with a [4] in a JJ martial art, this drops to 25%.









Technique Drawbacks (Limitations, repercussions for use, etc): For the purposes of this family of techniques, a Jiujutsu martial art is considered any of the following: Japanese Jiujutsu, Brazilian Jiujutsu, and Jiujutsu derivatives such as Sambo, Judo, or Aikido.



Mastery of Nage-waza does not change the 'entry' criteria for performing a certain type of throw. Te-waza will always be in reaction to enemy attack, for example. Mastery influences the proficiency in which someone executes Nage-waza throws, as well as ultimately affecting the bonuses the practitioner&nbsp;gets when attempting a throw, but they are distinct, different tools for different situations.



For any Nage-waza throw to be successful the final total of the throw's strength must exceed the opponent's strength.



An opponent that also has knowledge of Nage-waza is better equipped to not only defend against Nage-waza, but to counter attempted throws with their own. Grappling martial arts that are not a part of the Jiujutsu martial arts family, such as Greco-Roman Wrestling also have enough stand-up grappling fundamentals to offer defense and counter-play to Nage-waza. Such affairs generally come down to raw skill and athleticism.



When attempting to throw an opponent who is also versed in this technique, subtract their tier in Nage-waza from your own. When facing an opposing martial artist who has no knowledge of Nage-waza, but has knowledge of another stand-up grappling martial art, subtract one from your effective tier if they have a lower skill value in their martial art than you do. If they know their martial art just as well as you, or better, subtract two from your effective tier in Nage-waza.&nbsp; At minimum you will always have the base Learned/1 bonus.







Made By: Ancient samurai



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

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PHYSICAL



Strength - 200 Points



Speed - 300 Points











SPIRITUAL



Spiritual Pressure - 400 Points [Typed +50%: 600]



Reiatsu Strength - 50 Points











AURA



Light Aura - 75 Points



Dark Aura - 25 Points















SENSORY



Instinct - 200 Points



Senses - 100 Points



Energy sensory - 50 Points















UNUSED



Healing Expertise







TOTAL SP:&amp;nbsp;1300 Points

SKILLS







MENTAL







Lack of Fear:&amp;nbsp;II



Strength of Will: - II











BATTLE



Martial Arts:&amp;amp;nbsp;Bōgyote [Japanese Jujutsu] - II



Swordsmanship: Zanjutsu - II



Battle Focus: - II



Battle Analysis: - II



Pain Tolerance: - II







BODY



Acrobatics: - I







UTILITY







Total SkP: 15/15

[Teresa]

The corpses of the two humans that Teresa had just bit into, consuming the souls of both, now fell from the top of the bridge down to the road that it composed. Once they would make impact there was no chance there would be much left to even tell the humans apart. For the moment though there was a more interesting subject. She already had consumed the souls so the flesh and bone could only serve to quench her thirst not her hunger. This Shinigami was proving to be a potentially appetizing meal.

The spear formed from the blood of the Shinigami was hurled towards her now that the distance between them had diminished but to a substantial degree Teresa knew she couldn’t just step to the side. She was about to suffer pain regardless of what action she took now that the smoke of her servant was rushing up towards her. Instead of firing off a bala or cero to clash with the spear Teresa would lean backwards off the edge of the bridge and then vanish. Slipping into a Ulcera, Teresa would disappear, evading the large burst of blood.

Reappearing though Teresa would slip back out into the human world where the Shinigami had only just been standing. Dropping down onto her knees Teresa holds in the pain of her servant being destroyed. This sensation was something she could only describe as intense harm. “Protect me.” Teresa whispers to the bridge below her left hand as she pushes up onto her feet and then moves with every bit of her speed to the humans on the bridge clinging to life.

Her Shinigami servants had cut them, stabbed them, but did the best not to kill them. So now most of the humans lay on the bridge holding their wounds as the blood from each poured into the bridge making a pool that Teresa now leans down in. Munching down on one after another the Shinigami would have to figure out her new location and rush back down to meet her again in order to have a chance at saving any of the humans still alive. As for Teresa she was confident in her command over the bridge that she had a few moments to keep munching on her food supply.

Devoured: 4x Class 8 Humans

Remaining Reiatsu: 4625/5000
Ulcera: -75
Influir en el Mundo: -50

[Teresa]

On the ground at the edge of the bridge as she was Teresa couldn’t even feel the bottom of the ground anymore, everything was covered in blood from the prey that’d been cut down and eaten. Teresa hadn’t gorged herself on this many in quite some time and yet despite how wonderful they all tasted it wasn’t quite as good. No, the flesh of a Shinigami like that one hopelessly attempting to stop her always tasted better. She’d enjoyed the taste of humans throughout her time as a Hollow, but now it just seemed like the exceptional had become average and her gullet craved the unimaginable. All the same though Teresa was smart especially for a Hollow and knew it was time to end the current situation.

One Shinigami had already arrived and while she was handling him easily it would become far less easy once again one or two showed up. The Shinigami were never far away from one another. At any moment one of them could reach her with their zanpakuto shoved through her torso. It was this caution bred by experience and scorn that caused Teresa to stand her white bone body painted crimson in the blood of her prey once again. She’d consumed enough to survive for a bit longer without her cravings driving her insane like so many others. Inhaling the shinigami servants still present evaporated into black smoke which rushed back into her soul through her jagged mouth.

A smile sent upwards at the shinigami as Teresa leans backwards once again falling with Ulcera in order to slip away from the scene of death. One moment there and the next gone to the shinigami. For Teresa she returned to a source of dread and stench yet usefulness, the sewer system of Karakura had at one point been where she was trapped, where she stayed and where she fed. Trapped as a Gillian within the walls yet now it would provide her with security. No one could see her down here, she would suppress her reiatsu so only those exceptions could feel her reiatsu and the natural odor would cloak the scent of blood on her body.

The Empress of Bone had escaped once again.

[Kitai Yoru]

Teresa: 27 paragraphs, plus 16 humans, 1,230 TP, plus 100 victory awarded
Zatoshi: 13 paragraphs, 130 TP awarded