Red Water Dreams [DE Inner Hollow Fight]

[Camila Adaronde]

Thread Title: Red Water Dreams
Participants: Camila Adaronde vs. Albin Landry
World: Inner World
Death Setting: Death Enabled
Rating: R
Location: Camila's Inner World. Taking place directly after Devils Never Cry.
Special Conditions: Inner Hollow Fight. 'Nough Said.
Circumstances: Inner Hollow Fight. 'Nough Said.

[Camila Adaronde]

Her head pounded. After having just finished dealing with whatever the hell kind of fight she did, Camila found herself waking up on the familiar ballroom floor beneath her. Everything had seemed... almost repaired from the last time that she'd been here. Like all of the destruction that the two had caused had cleared up, however that seemed to be the case. Though, it wasn't something that she was going to worry about for the time; it seemed Albin wanted to pull her into her inner world.

Standing up off the ground, she noticed very quickly that she'd been in the same familiar ballroom dress that she always wore when she appeared here; nothing out of the ordinary there. That meant that Albin likely wore the same black suit he always wore here. Such just made sense. Regardless of that fact, she was going to figure out just what the situation here was. "ALBIN!" she called out, her voice echoing through the chamber of the ballroom, "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT!?"

Looking around, and trying to find the Hollow, she couldn't quite piece together just where this man happened to be. Hell, she still had no idea what his- wait, she thought to herself, that's got to be what he's here for. Remembering their last little interaction, Camila found herself shivering at the thought. It seemed that he was finally ready to act on everything that he'd said thus far. That he was going to "take control," as he put it.

If that was the case, she needed to be ready for what was to come. Especially if this was her "final challenge", as it had been put to her so long ago. "Fine, then," she spoke aloud to herself, "Sonken said he wanted a 'full Vizard'? He'll get a full Vizard." Drawing her blade, Camila called out to the aether once more, after taking a quick deep breath.

"Hey, Albin!" she shouted, looking around, "you wanna fuckin' fight for control? You wanna take the reigns? Then get your ass out here and FUCKING FIGHT ME FOR IT! MAKE THEM BLEED, BUVEUR DE SANG!" As she finished shouting, and her reiatsu boomed outward, the girl engaged her Shikai against her soon-to-be opponent. She wasn't going to go down here; she couldn't bring herself to. She'd been through too much thus far; she was going to maintain control, damn it!

Shikai Duration: 1/9
Spiritual Pressure Transfer CD: 1/3

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{Cami's Stats & Skills}
Type: Fractured

Camila's Stats:

Strength: 100 [60]
Speed: 400 [700]
Reiatsu Strength: 300 [150]
Spiritual Pressure: 400 [800]
Senses: 100 [100]
Instinct: 300 [300]
Energy Sensory: 0 [0]
Healing Expertise: 0 [0]

Light Aura: 0
Dark Aura: 100
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Weapons - Blood Weapons: 3
Martial Arts - Zanjutsu: 3
Martial Arts - Hōhō: 3
Strength of Will: 3
Martial Arts - Hakuda: 3

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{Stat Adjustments}
Reiatsu Strength: 50 [25]
Spiritual Pressure: 650 [1,300]

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{Reiatsu Pool & Resources}
Cami's Pool: 7,400/13,000
-300 for Shikai at Class 3.
-300 for Spiritual Pressure Transfer.
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Blood Counters: 10
+10 Blood Counters for releasing at full-tilt.

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{Abilities Used}

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{Shikai Overall}
Upon releasing, Camila’s reishi begins to lust for blood. With every time it is “sated”, the bloodlust then grows stronger, and empowers her. Every open wound that Camila leaves on her target strengthens her release techniques, and allows her to use certain release techniques, as described in each technique. The boost to these techniques is marked by Blood Counters. For every slash left on the target able to draw blood, she gains a Blood Counter. These counters are spent after using her techniques, if she should desire to do so. Some of her techniques require no reiatsu, but do cost blood counters to use.

Upon entering Shikai, Camila will start in this release with a certain amount of Blood Counters corresponding to how much Reiatsu she has remaining. For every 10% of her Reiatsu pool she has left unspent, Camila will gain 1 Blood Counter during the initial release. For example; if she had 1000 maximum Reiatsu while Sealed, if she spends nothing before releasing, Camila will enter Shikai with 10 Blood Counters at her disposal. If she only has 590 out of the original 1000 maximum Reiatsu, Camila will enter Shikai with only 5 Blood Counters, because, rounded down, 590 is equal to 50% of her remaining Reiatsu pool.

The Blood Counters gained through releasing her Shikai are once per thread, unless a significant rest period is taken. If she were to be forced out of Shikai, or the duration of Shikai were to end naturally, she does not gain any additional Blood Counters, and instead starts with what she had remaining when Shikai ended. At the end of every post, Camila passively gains one Blood Counter. With external sources of blood, ranging from that of unnamed NPCs, blood utilized from the abilities of other combatants, etc, Camila is capable of harvesting Blood Counters from these by coming in contact with the source, resulting in a single Blood Counter for NPCs and other insignificant living beings, or 1 Blood Counter for every 50 reiatsu spent by another to create a Blood-related effect.

[Kitai Yoru]

As Cami was dragged down into her inner world, she would find that it was different from how she might have remembered it. It was the same large and regal room that she would have seen before, but the room was colder, like the inside of a morgue. The paintings on the ceiling of the room were gone, replaced with the planets of the solar system, slowly drifting lazily around the edge of the ceiling. In the center of the ceiling, the sun and moon spun around, like two fish in a pond, ringed by what looked like a dragon made of stars. Twenty two tarot cards danced between the planets, like butterflies to flowers, with the Sun and the Moon orbiting around their namesakes. A beautifully somber song filled the air, played by instruments that sounded like they were coming from the next room over.

The floor was a deep and bloody shade of red, with stars of every size imbedded into it. Cami was standing over the Aquarius constellation, which was spinning around at a snails pace. On the other side of the room, Albin strode into the room, Shikai in hand. Even his sword was covered in tiny stars, which if you looked close enough, were also moving about, with the guard looking move like the galaxy itself. He was standing over star-like dots forming Sagittarius, a smug look plastered on his face. "Well hello, Cami Do you like what I've done with the place?" He asked, more rhetorically than not. "I figured I would change up the place, given it's going to be mine soon."

He gestures down to the stars at their feet. "The day you died, was the day I was given a taste of freedom, a chance to live for me to live and do what I want to do. That day, that was the day I was born. I figured the constellation fit nicely." He held his blade up. "I'll add a new constellation to remember this day after I break you. Aquarius! Fitting, that you're going to drown in your own blood!" He whipped his sword up, holding it high above his head, before pausing. Before his image vanished, he appeared before Camilla, blade falling down upon her head like a guillotine, moving at a speed of 800.

He wanted her to catch his sword with her own, inferior version. He wanted her to see how much better he was at this than she was. If their blades locked, Albin would use his height and strength to press down upon her, looking her dead in the eyes. "Hell isn't where you belonged. I brought you back because you belong locked up in my inner world, a cliff note to my illustrious history!" He would then shove her backwards, before kicking her in the stomach to launch her backwards. He might now have been as strong as he once was, but he was strong enough to make her hurt.

If she decided to step back, avoiding his initial slash, he would step forward, slashing at her midsection, trying to score a wound more than he was trying to kill her, attacking at 900 speed this time. If she stepped back again, he would step forward again, moving at 1,000 speed, this time aiming to stab her leg, looking to impale her right knee, before flicking the sword up to cut her left shoulder. "This isn't like our last fight, Camilla! I'm not trying to teach you Bankai! I'm trying to win! So just give up!"

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{Albin's Stats}
Strength: 200 [120]
Speed: 800 [1,400]
Reiatsu Strength: 600 [300]
Spiritual Pressure: 800 [1,600]
Senses: 200 [200]
Instinct: 600 [600]
Energy Sensory: 0 [0]
Healing Expertise: 0 [0]

Light Aura: 0
Dark Aura: 100
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Weapons - Blood Weapons: 3
Martial Arts - Zanjutsu: 3
Martial Arts - Hōhō: 3
Strength of Will: 3
Martial Arts - Hakuda: 3

[Camila Adaronde]

"Don't you dare call me that name again!" she shouted, "I've had it with your shit! You bring me back to life, only to tear my life apart like this!? Who the fuck do you think you are!?" As her voice boomed across the now-changed inner world, she noticed rather quickly that Albin had taken the opportunity to move. She needed to act; fast. Given most every opponent had been the same, there were one of two places he could've been; behind her, or...

"Right above, huh!?" Taking the opportunity to begin moving in a rhythm, and lashing out against the Inner Hollow at thrice her normal speed, Camila shot her arm through the air above her with quite an amount of force behind her faster than he'd been moving. She wasn't going to relent against this monster. She couldn't bring herself to do so. Not now, not ever!

Taking a moment to create a bit of distance between the two of them, Camila stepped back from where the Inner Hollow had been looking to fall on her at her top speed at the moment; well, a rhythmic increase of her top speed. She sought to get in the zone, and sought to do so efficiently. Though, it seemed that Albin had other plans regarding her movement! As his blade raked across her midsection, giving him the hit that he'd desired, she groaned in pain for a moment before taking a step to stabilize herself. Damn, that hurt!

"You're right about one thing, Albin," she spoke, her voice starting low, before growing louder, "I didn't belong in Hell. I didn't belong in Soul Society; hell, I don't even belong in the Human World! But you wanna know what? That's fine! Hahaha, that's perfectly FUCKING okay! Because while I might not belong, neither do you!" Booming forward at ten times her speed through the use of Shunpō, Camila took a low stance in order to strike at the Hollow with blinding speed; an upward cleave, aiming to rake her blade through his midsection. While he was looking to simply score a hit, the girl had a fire in her eyes, lit from nothing but years upon years of pent-up rage and frustration against this damned man. She was not going to hold anything back if she could help it!

Drawing back for a moment after her strike, and throwing up a guarded stance, Camila took the moment to bounce around on her feet; to limber up. Albin had already shown that he was much faster than she was in this. He was going to be a pain to keep up with. But dammit, she was determined! She was going to win this! "You wanna take my Inner World so badly? You want to take control? THEM COME AND FUCKING TRY TO!!"

Shikai: 2/9
SpPr Transfer CD: 2/3
Albin's Remaining Blood: 90%
Rhythm Beat Speed: 750

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{Reiatsu Pool & Resources}
Cami's Pool: 7,400/13,000
-50 from Shunpō.
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Blood Counters: 12
+1 per post.
+1 from last post, due to forgetting to mark it.

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{Abilities Used}

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{Shikai Overall}
Upon releasing, Camila’s reishi begins to lust for blood. With every time it is “sated”, the bloodlust then grows stronger, and empowers her. Every open wound that Camila leaves on her target strengthens her release techniques, and allows her to use certain release techniques, as described in each technique. The boost to these techniques is marked by Blood Counters. For every slash left on the target able to draw blood, she gains a Blood Counter. These counters are spent after using her techniques, if she should desire to do so. Some of her techniques require no reiatsu, but do cost blood counters to use.

Upon entering Shikai, Camila will start in this release with a certain amount of Blood Counters corresponding to how much Reiatsu she has remaining. For every 10% of her Reiatsu pool she has left unspent, Camila will gain 1 Blood Counter during the initial release. For example; if she had 1000 maximum Reiatsu while Sealed, if she spends nothing before releasing, Camila will enter Shikai with 10 Blood Counters at her disposal. If she only has 590 out of the original 1000 maximum Reiatsu, Camila will enter Shikai with only 5 Blood Counters, because, rounded down, 590 is equal to 50% of her remaining Reiatsu pool.

The Blood Counters gained through releasing her Shikai are once per thread, unless a significant rest period is taken. If she were to be forced out of Shikai, or the duration of Shikai were to end naturally, she does not gain any additional Blood Counters, and instead starts with what she had remaining when Shikai ended. At the end of every post, Camila passively gains one Blood Counter. With external sources of blood, ranging from that of unnamed NPCs, blood utilized from the abilities of other combatants, etc, Camila is capable of harvesting Blood Counters from these by coming in contact with the source, resulting in a single Blood Counter for NPCs and other insignificant living beings, or 1 Blood Counter for every 50 reiatsu spent by another to create a Blood-related effect.

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{Rhythm Beat}
Technique Name: Rhythm Beat

Class: 6

Technique Type: Hakuda

Usable By: Shinigami, Beast-Clan, Escudo

Technique Element: None

Technique Description and Effects: A stance-type technique, this one requires the user to slip into a state of automatic combat. Automatic combat is a mental state in which the user continues at the exact same pacing of their previous blows, creating a rhythmic pattern that allows them to fight without focusing on it. During this, the user becomes accustomed to their own movements, flowing into the same speed and rhythm of attacks until it's no longer required to think about it. That's when this technique truly begins to shine; upon that point, the user can speed up or slow down that rhythm suddenly, creating a pattern of attacks that suddenly alters in speed. Slowing in speed takes no effort, merely the conscious decision to hold back a blow, but speeding up is another story.

When speeding up, the user must do so gradually; as they become accustomed to their movements at a set pace beyond their normal limit, they can slowly push themselves further and further. With each post of consecutive rhythmic attacks, the user can adapt and push their muscles so that they move an additional 50 speed faster with their consistent attacks. This can be continued up until the maximum of the 3x limit on speed boosts. However, if speed is dropped at all, it caps at the speed dropped to or the user's maximum speed, whichever is higher, and can only regain 50 speed per post. Example, if the user has 300 Speed, after one post they can have 350, and after two their attacks come at 400 speed. However, if they drop down to 300 for a slowed move to surprise a foe, they cannot just go back up to 400 speed, and instead have to work up at 50 per post again. If they dropped down to 200, however, they could immediately make the next blow 300, as that is their natural cap.

How to use technique: Begin striking in a consistent, consecutive rhythm of blows, adapting to it over time and adjusting speed as able.

Technique Drawbacks: Stamina. Aside from that, the biggest drawback to this technique is its predictability; the user does have to build up a rhythm of strikes, and because they are fighting almost off-handedly, even if they have control over how they strike, there is a pattern in the motions that can be countered by an analytical foe. Note that this counts as a long-term buff if used for more than two posts (i.e. after the first post of increased speed); otherwise, it is counted as a short-term buff. Requires at least a 1 in Martial Arts: Hakuda.

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{Red Moon Road: Precipice of Fading Night}
Technique Name: Red Moon Road: Precipice of Fading Night

Technique Class: 5 - 20 TTP.

Technique Type: Hakuda/Hōhō/Zanjutsu.

Usable By: Shinigami, Rogue, Vizard.

Technique Element: Body.

Technique Cost: N/A.

Description: The third technique in the Red Moon Road series, Precipice of Fading Night acts as a branching upgrade of Quiet Evening Walk. Much like Shunpō Karin to Shunpō, Precipice of Fading Night aims to augment a singular limb instead of making a full-body movement, similarly at three times the user’s Speed. At Proficient, this technique is silent. At Mastered, this technique can be used to immediately change the momentum of one of the user’s movements, including a movement made from Precipice of Fading Night.

How to Use: Move one’s limb at extraordinary speeds.

Drawbacks: While not having a reiatsu cost, Precipice of Fading Night does have a rather noteworthy drawback in requiring a 2 in Hakuda, Hōhō, and Zanjutsu in order to perform. Can only be performed up to twice a post, and each use takes up a Step Technique slot.

Incantation: N/A.

Made By: Camila Adaronde.

Reserved?: Yes.

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{Red Moon Road: Crimson Night Sky}
Technique Name: Red Moon Road: Crimson Night Sky

Technique Class: 3 - 80 TTP.

Technique Type: Hakuda/Hōhō/Zanjutsu

Usable By: Shinigami, Rogue, Vizard

Technique Element: Body.

Technique Cost: N/A.

Description: The fifth technique in the Red Moon Road series, Crimson Night Sky is a devastating technique looking to cause quite an amount of unnecessary damage to those it strikes; very much against the elegant, nimble themes the Red Moon Road techniques normally follow. Beginning with a strike of some kind with the user’s Zanpakutō, Crimson Night Sky aims to debilitate those hit by the force of this technique, usually resulting in a rather large expulsion of the victim’s blood into the air from the strike in a very Shonen-like display; hence the name of the technique.

If struck by this technique, the victim’s blood will immediately fire from the wound itself, draining someone of 10% of their blood on hit, reduced by 2% for every Rank in Bleeding Tolerance someone has. With 75% blood remaining, those struck will feel dizzy, requiring a Rank in Strength of Will to fight without issue, or suffering a 10% Instinct cut. Every 25% lost thereafter will result in a worsening dizzied state, requiring one more Rank in Strength of Will or suffering an increasing Instinct cut, growing by 15% per threshold. With 0% blood remaining, victims will either lose consciousness in NDE/DP threads, or perish in DE.

How to Use: Simply strike with a weapon of some variety.

Drawbacks: Despite not having a reiatsu cost, this technique isn’t without its drawbacks. Firstly, this technique requires a 3 in Hakuda, Hōhō, and Zanjutsu in order to learn. Crimson Night Sky can only only be used once per post. Given the lack of subtlety with this technique, those that are struck even once are made immediately aware of the damage and effects of this technique, making it substantially more difficult to get the effects to land if the victim has so much as 1 point in Bleeding Tolerance.

Incantation: N/A.

Made By: Camila Adaronde.

Reserved?: Yes.

[Kitai Yoru]

It was hard to describe how good it felt for his blade to taste the blood of the parasite that had been leeching off his grandeur his entire existence. It was like the first sip of a perfectly blended Icee. Her blood clung to his blade, however little was there, was a sweet reminder that he would be victorious here. The last time he would need to put her down. But it wouldn't be fun without a fight, and fight she did. He hadn't expected her to Shunpo forward the few feet she had put between them, and she had actually managed to retort with her on wound across his chest. He took two steps backwards.

"You bitch!" He yelled, hatred in his eyes. His open hand held the wound, gripping it. He winced, before moving forward, a sword reminiscent to his old shikai manifesting from the blood. He swung Buveur De Sang with his right hand, an upwards slash aiming for her chest, while Kōsei Kādo swung upwards, aiming to impale the vampire wannabe like a stake to the heart. He was moving faster this time, burring to her with a speed of 1,100. He was pacing himself, forcing her to keep up with him. If she couldn't, then she truly wouldn't be worth remembering.

"You're right! I don't belong here! I belong at the top, amongst the stars!" He would flicker for a moment, a still image of him remaining in front of her. An afterimage, as he reappeared to her right, taking a Quiet Walk to move. But this was a trick, a copy, a fraud, as she turned to face this Albin, the real one appeared behind her, or to her left instead. With the same speed as before, he would attempt to plunge his blood weapon into her thigh, while slamming the pommel of his starry Buveur into the top of her shoulder. "You think you're better than me! And for what? Because you've managed to suppress me for this long?"

The constant use of his superior speed would never exhaust him. He was Tireless, and would not be denied victory. "Your defeat is written in the stars! Admit it! I have always been our better half!" He lashed out with a foot, kicking at the back of her knee in an attempt to fell her. "How many times did you need me to bail you out? Remember the captain? She beat you like the dog you are, and had to come crawling to me to save your sorry ass!" He was stalking around her like a shark, assured in his victory. "Or how about Marik? Again, I defeated him, where you floundered about! It's embarrassing!"

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{Reiatsu Pool & Resources}
Albin's Pool: 15,900/16,000
-100 from Bloodweapons.
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Blood Counters: 11
+1 per post.
+1 from last post, due to forgetting to mark it.

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{Abilities Used}

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{Shikai Overall}
Upon releasing, Camila’s reishi begins to lust for blood. With every time it is “sated”, the bloodlust then grows stronger, and empowers her. Every open wound that Camila leaves on her target strengthens her release techniques, and allows her to use certain release techniques, as described in each technique. The boost to these techniques is marked by Blood Counters. For every slash left on the target able to draw blood, she gains a Blood Counter. These counters are spent after using her techniques, if she should desire to do so. Some of her techniques require no reiatsu, but do cost blood counters to use.

Upon entering Shikai, Camila will start in this release with a certain amount of Blood Counters corresponding to how much Reiatsu she has remaining. For every 10% of her Reiatsu pool she has left unspent, Camila will gain 1 Blood Counter during the initial release. For example; if she had 1000 maximum Reiatsu while Sealed, if she spends nothing before releasing, Camila will enter Shikai with 10 Blood Counters at her disposal. If she only has 590 out of the original 1000 maximum Reiatsu, Camila will enter Shikai with only 5 Blood Counters, because, rounded down, 590 is equal to 50% of her remaining Reiatsu pool.

The Blood Counters gained through releasing her Shikai are once per thread, unless a significant rest period is taken. If she were to be forced out of Shikai, or the duration of Shikai were to end naturally, she does not gain any additional Blood Counters, and instead starts with what she had remaining when Shikai ended. At the end of every post, Camila passively gains one Blood Counter. With external sources of blood, ranging from that of unnamed NPCs, blood utilized from the abilities of other combatants, etc, Camila is capable of harvesting Blood Counters from these by coming in contact with the source, resulting in a single Blood Counter for NPCs and other insignificant living beings, or 1 Blood Counter for every 50 reiatsu spent by another to create a Blood-related effect.

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{Bloodweapons}
Technique Name: Bloodweapons

Technique Stage: Shikai/Bankai

Technique Cost(s): Varies.

Description: Camila takes the time to shape her blood into whatever kinds of items or weapons she'd like for the time, from a simple weaponized stream of blood to a sword or gun. These weapons take on a deep red appearance, much like that of the blood that makes it up, and have a durability equal to her Spiritual Pressure. These weapons use Camila's Spiritual Pressure in order to deal damage. Creating these weapons costs a minimum of 100 Reiatsu, with a 50 Reiatsu cost to change their form after having been made. While she has these weapons created, any attack Camila makes with them generate an additional Blood Counter for every 100 Reiatsu spent to create. Ranged attacks with these weapons travel at a speed equal to half her Spiritual Pressure or 800 (whichever is higher), but cost 50 reiatsu each and every time they're made; this drops to 25 in Bankai. By spending an amount of Blood Counters, Camila is capable of treating defensive options she clashes with as 5% lower in Offensive Stat per Blood Counter spent. In Bankai, this changes to 10% per Blood Counter and the durability of these weapons are increased to double her Spiritual Pressure.

Drawbacks: In Shikai, these weapons are rather brittle, even while considering Camila's noteworthy Spiritual Pressure. Creating these weapons are cheap individually, but are incredibly expensive when created in large quantities, or when focusing a large quantity of reiatsu into one weapon. The defensive reduction effect in Shikai is capped at 30%, and 75% in Bankai.

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{Red Moon Road: Quiet Evening Walk}
Technique Name: Red Moon Road: Quiet Evening Walk

Technique Class: 5 - 20 TTP.

Technique Type: Hakuda/Hōhō/Zanjutsu.

Usable By: Shinigami, Rogue, Vizard.

Technique Element: Body.

Technique Cost: N/A.

Description: The first technique in the Red Moon Road series, Quiet Evening Walk is a very simple technique. Acting as a catalyst for the other Red Moon Road techniques, Quiet Evening Walk is a Step Technique that allows its user to step at three times their speed, for no cost of reiatsu. At Mastered, this technique is silent.

How to Use: Pick a direction and step.

Drawbacks: Despite not having a reiatsu cost, this technique still holds a rather noteworthy drawback; to learn, Quiet Evening Walk requires a 2 in Hakuda, Hōhō, and Zanjutsu.

Incantation: N/A.

Made By: Camila Adaronde.

Reserved?: Yes.

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{Red Moon Road: Dance in the Darkened Street}
Technique Name: Red Moon Road: Dance in the Darkened Street

Technique Class: 4 - 40 TTP.

Technique Type: Hakuda/Hōhō/Zanjutsu.

Usable By: Shinigami, Rogue, Vizard.

Technique Element: Body.

Technique Cost: N/A.

Description: The second technique in the Red Moon Road series, Dance in the Darkened Street serves as a technique that aims to create a momentary copy of its user in order to deceive foes, and create an opening for the user, simply through the use of fast movement, aided by raw combative mastery. Through the use of a Stepping Technique in order to reposition, the user creates this copy at a different location that they would feasibly be able to reach via the same stepping technique.

Those that don’t have 300 or greater Senses will be unable to tell this copy apart from the user, and thus will likely end up flat-footed when looking to defend against the real combatant, resulting in a 30% decrease to their Instinct for the duration of that single attack. After the attack is carried out, the copy disappears, and the user is left on their own once more.

How to Use: Simply step in a direction, and utilize the speed from that step to create a copy of oneself.

Drawbacks: Given this technique has no reiatsu cost, it’s not without drawbacks from use. For starters, Dance in the Darkened Street takes up a step technique slot, meaning using this technique costs two total. The initial use, and every use after that will have the Senses requirement reduced by 25 per Rank of Battle Analysis that an individual has, meaning that even with a single Rank, this technique will eventually stop being effective. The Instinct decrease is lowered by 5% every time this technique is used, meaning that even if someone is incapable of telling the difference between user and copy, they won’t be penalized for reacting to either of them. The copy created via this technique is simply an afterimage, and is incapable of attacking, blocking, et cetera. Dance in the Darkened Street can only be used once per post, and requires a 2 in Hakuda, Hōhō, and Zanjutsu to learn.

Incantation: N/A.

Made By: Camila Adaronde.

Reserved?: Yes.

[Camila Adaronde]

Hearing those searing words leave Albin's mouth filled the girl with a sense of pride. For someone that that had always been so cordial, so curt; to bring out that deeper, more aggressive side of him gave her quite the sense of fulfillment! She'd made him angry. She'd managed to make him angry! Her eyes widened, and a wicked smirk plastered across the girl's face. She hadn't felt this good since... she couldn't tell. Something inside of her had almost... snapped. Like the surge of Hollow reiatsu had been getting to her. More so than normal. Though, she didn't quite consider it a bad thing.

No, quite the opposite. She was a vampire, after all. It didn't matter the kind of punishment that she'd have to endure in order to make her way through this hellscape; she'd keep on trucking. That was just how she was; a point that made itself ever more clear as she took a rather nasty blow across her chest from the Hollow; tracing directly up her center, and dealing a rather noteworthy amount of damage to the dress she wore, the girl took a rather hefty hit. Though, through sheer force of will alone - a will that remained nearly unmatched within the Three Worlds, she'd keep going through this.

Further engaging in this bloody waltz the two had begun dancing to, Camila took the opportunity to take a Quiet walk to find herself from being impaled, and in an attempt to maneuver behind Albin; given the rather close nature of their speeds at the time, and the girl's instinctual prowess, she wasn't going to allow herself to be caught out for such an obviously lethal strike against her. She was better than that! Instead, she'd fire yet another strike toward the Hollow. Calling forth a second weapon, she aimed toward his back this time around lashing forward at 2,400 Speed, before immediately reversing the tempo of her blow to strike once more against his body at the same intensity.

Assuming her strikes landed, another fountain of blood would fire from his wound. Blood that he was going to pay for in dividends as their fight had gone on. "Tough talk for someone that can't even hope to put a girl down!" She shouted back after his 'I belong at the top' comment, "I'll tear you limb from bloody limb for everything you've done to me, Albin!!" Though, as she finished, it seemed that he had a rather nasty trick up his sleeve for her to deal with.

As he stepped forward, vanishing from sight and creating a second version of himself, Camila immediately found herself in a state of distress. It seemed that he'd been able to not only utilize her own techniques, but to a much better capacity than she was able to!? This was going to prove awful to deal with. As she felt a blade sink into her leg, she let out a grunt of pain as the blunt force slammed into her shoulder. "Ngh!" she forced out, almost dropping a knee.

Though, hearing that Hollow's words seemed to spur her on with noteworthy bravado. In her mind? Nothing else mattered aside from beating that fucking grin off that bastard's face. "Tch," she scoffed, "is that so?" As her words finished, and as Albin's own foot collided with the back of her knee, she decided to make her move. A sharpened stream of blood fired like a jet from the back of her leg, aimed to pierce through the Hollow's foot in his moment of hubris.

From here, Camila prepared to utilize her martial prowess and mastery over the Shinigami arts while he was hopefully held to that spot. Twisting her body backward, and surging her own reiatsu through her legs in order to give her the Strength to not only straighten her leg, but strike the Hollow harder, the girl initiated what any onlooker would've considered to be similar to a Crocodile's death roll. Doing almost a complete 180° from the position she'd been force into, she aimed to slam her foot into the Hollow's body with with a Strength of 1,300. Assuming the reiatsu-charged struck connected? Not only would he be left with some broken ribs, but likely a broken ankle as well from the twist he'd be forced to endure from her.

Taking the opportunity to stand afterward, and breaking the blood spike that protruded from her leg only to hold it in her hand as a readily-available weapon, Camila pointed the blade toward her Inner Hollow. "You didn't help with shit! Every time you've 'helped' has been nothing more than you intervening when I didn't fucking ask! Don't try to act like you're better than me; even Marik was a stronger fight than you are! Up the ante a bit, whydon't'cha?" As reiatsu surged through her body, Camila felt energetic; almost revitalized. Like a heavy weight had been taken off of her chest. If Albin had relentless stamina, she was bound to do so as well.

Shikai: 3/9
SpPr Transfer CD: 3/3
Albin's Remaining Blood: 80%
Rhythm Beat Speed: 800

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{Reiatsu Pool & Resources}
Cami's Pool: 5,950/13,000
-500 for Bloodweapons w/ 400 extra Reiatsu; Spike.
-975 from Combat Cutback activation @ 1,300.
-75 from Tsukarenai maintenance.
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Blood Counters: 21
+1 per post.
+2 for sword strikes, assuming they land.
+6 from Bloodweapons spike, assuming it lands.

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{Abilities Used}

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{Shikai Overall}
Upon releasing, Camila’s reishi begins to lust for blood. With every time it is “sated”, the bloodlust then grows stronger, and empowers her. Every open wound that Camila leaves on her target strengthens her release techniques, and allows her to use certain release techniques, as described in each technique. The boost to these techniques is marked by Blood Counters. For every slash left on the target able to draw blood, she gains a Blood Counter. These counters are spent after using her techniques, if she should desire to do so. Some of her techniques require no reiatsu, but do cost blood counters to use.

Upon entering Shikai, Camila will start in this release with a certain amount of Blood Counters corresponding to how much Reiatsu she has remaining. For every 10% of her Reiatsu pool she has left unspent, Camila will gain 1 Blood Counter during the initial release. For example; if she had 1000 maximum Reiatsu while Sealed, if she spends nothing before releasing, Camila will enter Shikai with 10 Blood Counters at her disposal. If she only has 590 out of the original 1000 maximum Reiatsu, Camila will enter Shikai with only 5 Blood Counters, because, rounded down, 590 is equal to 50% of her remaining Reiatsu pool.

The Blood Counters gained through releasing her Shikai are once per thread, unless a significant rest period is taken. If she were to be forced out of Shikai, or the duration of Shikai were to end naturally, she does not gain any additional Blood Counters, and instead starts with what she had remaining when Shikai ended. At the end of every post, Camila passively gains one Blood Counter. With external sources of blood, ranging from that of unnamed NPCs, blood utilized from the abilities of other combatants, etc, Camila is capable of harvesting Blood Counters from these by coming in contact with the source, resulting in a single Blood Counter for NPCs and other insignificant living beings, or 1 Blood Counter for every 50 reiatsu spent by another to create a Blood-related effect.

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{Bloodweapons}
Technique Name: Bloodweapons

Technique Stage: Shikai/Bankai

Technique Cost(s): Varies.

Description: Camila takes the time to shape her blood into whatever kinds of items or weapons she'd like for the time, from a simple weaponized stream of blood to a sword or gun. These weapons take on a deep red appearance, much like that of the blood that makes it up, and have a durability equal to her Spiritual Pressure. These weapons use Camila's Spiritual Pressure in order to deal damage. Creating these weapons costs a minimum of 100 Reiatsu, with a 50 Reiatsu cost to change their form after having been made. While she has these weapons created, any attack Camila makes with them generate an additional Blood Counter for every 100 Reiatsu spent to create. Ranged attacks with these weapons travel at a speed equal to half her Spiritual Pressure or 800 (whichever is higher), but cost 50 reiatsu each and every time they're made; this drops to 25 in Bankai. By spending an amount of Blood Counters, Camila is capable of treating defensive options she clashes with as 5% lower in Offensive Stat per Blood Counter spent. In Bankai, this changes to 10% per Blood Counter and the durability of these weapons are increased to double her Spiritual Pressure.

Drawbacks: In Shikai, these weapons are rather brittle, even while considering Camila's noteworthy Spiritual Pressure. Creating these weapons are cheap individually, but are incredibly expensive when created in large quantities, or when focusing a large quantity of reiatsu into one weapon. The defensive reduction effect in Shikai is capped at 30%, and 75% in Bankai.

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{Tsukarenai}
Technique Name: Tsukarenai (Tirelessly)

Class: 3

Technique Type: Other

Usable By: All

Description: Tsukarenai is a technique that ties ones stamina into their Reiatsu reserves. By flowing Reiatsu over their entire body and creating a thick flexible coat of Reiatsu. Upon doing so, the user can continue to fight without putting a strain on themselves in combat. Depending solely on using their Reiatsu for any form of high speed movement. Any movement that drains stamina will instead tap into their Reiatsu reserves. Starting at 400, the user will be spending 50 Reiatsu per post, increasing by an additional 50 for every 100 in speed. Mastery makes it so the user is only spending 50% of the cost per additional 100 in speed. Step techniques that increase speed beyond 3x cost 25% more Reiatsu when used alongside this technique. Yet they don’t require the constant payment for the speed they give.

How to Use: Coat body in Reiatsu and use it to move.

Drawbacks: There aren’t many weaknesses for using Tsukarenai but moving at high speeds though not draining stamina can still cause muscle damage and using step techniques can quickly burn the user of their Reiatsu reserves. Types that have stamina drawbacks can't learn this technique at all.

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{Combat Cutback}
Technique Name: Combat Cutback

Class: 4

Technique Type: General Spiritual

Usable By: Anyone with 300+ SpPr

Technique Element: None

Technique Description: Persons with high spiritual pressure are known for their large reiatsu pools, but they also tend to be known for their weaker reiatsu strength, which means they have a ton of reiatsu, but not that much to actually use it on. This techniques entire purpose is to take that sheer volume of reiatsu and turn it into a viable, dangerous weapon.

The user builds up a pool of reiatsu internally, increasing the internal pressure, before channeling it towards a set of limbs, such as the hands or feet, discharging it as a weapon. By doing this the user can harness their reiatsu into physical striking power, allowing them to match a physically stronger opponent blow for blow, or possibly even beat them. Upon initial use the user pays 75 reiatsu per 100 strength, maxing out at their spiritual pressure, but afterwards the per post upkeep drops to 25 per 100. The amount of force generated can be changed once per post, going down merely drops the upkeep, but going up, the user must pay the initial upkeep as well as an additional 75 reiatsu for every 100 strength they add to the technique.


How to Use: Building up internal reiatsu before focusing it on a set of limbs such as hand hands or feet (or other applicable appendage like a tail). Before mastery of this technique only a single limb, such as one hand or foot, may be selected at a given moment, after master is obtained both may be used at once.

Drawbacks: Besides a fairly large initial cost and a moderate per post upkeep this technique only has one major drawback; reiatsu burns. When using this technique the user is forcing a large amount of reiatsu to be funneled through a relatively small area, so extended use can be dangerous. 1st degree burns begin to form after about 3 posts, 2nd degree after 5, 3rd after 7, and finally after 9 posts the chosen limb becomes borderline useless and the technique can no longer be used in that area. Healing, specifically of the burns, will reset the timer of this technique.

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{Different Tempo}
Technique Name: Different Tempo

Class: 5

Technique Type: Hakuda

Usable By: Shinigami, Beast-Clan, Escudo

Technique Element: None

Technique Description and Effects: With the Rhythm Beat stance, the user is put into a specific pattern and rhythm of blows that can only increase or decrease in speed, while remaining in an almost constant series of predictable motions. Different Tempo shakes up that pattern, allowing the user to tense their muscles and completely redirect the momentum of their body, provided that they were the origin of it. A punch might suddenly jerk to the side instead of being a straight blow mid-strike, or a strike might be withdrawn to avoid a slashing blade that would cut them even if it was mid-attack. This technique is stand-alone and can work without the use of the Rhythm Beat stance, but it is most effective when paired with it, allowing the user to shake up a predictable pattern while maintaining the momentum necessary for high-speed combat.

How to use technique: Tense the muscles and redirect the momentum of one's blow, even in a completely opposite direction.

Technique Drawbacks: The main drawback to this technique is the muscle fatigue that comes with it, varying based on the reversal of momentum. Complete reversal is obviously the most straining compared to a redirection, and the higher the speed, the higher the risk of muscle and bone damage. Repeated use of more than three times in a post even at lesser amounts of stress can also cause this damage. Requires at least a 2 in Martial Arts: Hakuda.

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{Red Moon Road: Precipice of Fading Night}
Technique Name: Red Moon Road: Precipice of Fading Night

Technique Class: 5 - 20 TTP.

Technique Type: Hakuda/Hōhō/Zanjutsu.

Usable By: Shinigami, Rogue, Vizard.

Technique Element: Body.

Technique Cost: N/A.

Description: The third technique in the Red Moon Road series, Precipice of Fading Night acts as a branching upgrade of Quiet Evening Walk. Much like Shunpō Karin to Shunpō, Precipice of Fading Night aims to augment a singular limb instead of making a full-body movement, similarly at three times the user’s Speed. At Proficient, this technique is silent. At Mastered, this technique can be used to immediately change the momentum of one of the user’s movements, including a movement made from Precipice of Fading Night.

How to Use: Move one’s limb at extraordinary speeds.

Drawbacks: While not having a reiatsu cost, Precipice of Fading Night does have a rather noteworthy drawback in requiring a 2 in Hakuda, Hōhō, and Zanjutsu in order to perform. Can only be performed up to twice a post, and each use takes up a Step Technique slot.

Incantation: N/A.

Made By: Camila Adaronde.

Reserved?: Yes.

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{Red Moon Road: Crimson Night Sky}
Technique Name: Red Moon Road: Crimson Night Sky

Technique Class: 3 - 80 TTP.

Technique Type: Hakuda/Hōhō/Zanjutsu

Usable By: Shinigami, Rogue, Vizard

Technique Element: Body.

Technique Cost: N/A.

Description: The fifth technique in the Red Moon Road series, Crimson Night Sky is a devastating technique looking to cause quite an amount of unnecessary damage to those it strikes; very much against the elegant, nimble themes the Red Moon Road techniques normally follow. Beginning with a strike of some kind with the user’s Zanpakutō, Crimson Night Sky aims to debilitate those hit by the force of this technique, usually resulting in a rather large expulsion of the victim’s blood into the air from the strike in a very Shonen-like display; hence the name of the technique.

If struck by this technique, the victim’s blood will immediately fire from the wound itself, draining someone of 10% of their blood on hit, reduced by 2% for every Rank in Bleeding Tolerance someone has. With 75% blood remaining, those struck will feel dizzy, requiring a Rank in Strength of Will to fight without issue, or suffering a 10% Instinct cut. Every 25% lost thereafter will result in a worsening dizzied state, requiring one more Rank in Strength of Will or suffering an increasing Instinct cut, growing by 15% per threshold. With 0% blood remaining, victims will either lose consciousness in NDE/DP threads, or perish in DE.

How to Use: Simply strike with a weapon of some variety.

Drawbacks: Despite not having a reiatsu cost, this technique isn’t without its drawbacks. Firstly, this technique requires a 3 in Hakuda, Hōhō, and Zanjutsu in order to learn. Crimson Night Sky can only only be used once per post. Given the lack of subtlety with this technique, those that are struck even once are made immediately aware of the damage and effects of this technique, making it substantially more difficult to get the effects to land if the victim has so much as 1 point in Bleeding Tolerance.

Incantation: N/A.

Made By: Camila Adaronde.

Reserved?: Yes.

[Kitai Yoru]

Albin let out a roar of anguish as the spear impaled his foot. And then his body burst apart. Nearly two dozen bats filled the air, screeching as they fluttered about, each one a cosmic brown in color, spinning about in a circle above Camilla. The great cosmic bat was comprised of twenty moving parts, and a few of them took nipping bites at the downed woman's form. At a speed of 1,400, they circled her, before in a flash of movement, Albin was formed once again, five feet above his hated half.

No longer were there two swords in his hands. No, now there were twin moose antlers, with the spiky bits facing outwards. "Sarva!" He cried out, swinging the massive club downwards, intent on impaling the soon to be failed Vizard hopeful. If the club hit... there was a high probability that she was going to be half the woman she is right now. That or interpretive art on his floor. With that wound on her leg, he was looking forward to watching her struggle to get away.

"The only reason that paranoid Arrancar holds any ground over me is because I am held down by an incompetent buffoon, whose only goal in life is to get themselves killed!" He would spin around, twirling the animal-made weapon about. "Everything about you restricts me! I was on a stairway to the heavens before I brought you back!" His appearance was changing, little by little. His weapons no longer looked to be made of blood. They were still red for the moment, but not the right shade for blood, and specks of lights peeked out from the horns.

"I thought you might have learned how to appreciate a second chance at life after being freed from the literal HELL of all places! But no! You refuse to learn ANYTHING! Stubbornly remaining absolute in your utter idiocy! " There was a snarl to his words, a venom-like rage to every syllable he spoke. He pulled Buveur de Sang free from the antlers, having formed the bloodweapon around the zanpakuto. He vanished in a burst of Shunpo, appearing at Cami's right side, swinging the club with his left arm in a backhand motion. The weapon was massive enough that if the blow connected, it would impact her entire torso, stabbing into her lower abdomen. He would then let go of the weapon, letting it either throw the girl back, or missing her entirely, slashing at her with his true weapon, which was starting to turn more blue as the fight progressed.

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{Reiatsu Pool & Resources}
Albin's Pool: 15,250/16,000
Scatter: 1 Blood counter
Bloodweapon: -50 reiatsu
Shunpo: -50
Tsukarenai: -550
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Blood Counters: 19, if I'm doing my math correctly
+5 Blood counters from Scatter, assuming it lands
+2 from Bloodweapon, assuming it lands

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{Abilities Used}
Scatter
Blood weapons
Shunpo
Tsukarenai

[Camila Adaronde]

As Albin separated into a swarm of bats, and Camila continued to follow through with her flip back up to her feet, given her notable speed advantage over the separation of the bats, her foot continued to slam into and obliterate a number of them; likely no more than two or three at most, but it was still enough to deal some good damage. At the very least, it was a good start of what was to come. Though, it seemed that Albin had begun to swarm her rather quickly.

As a number of bats continued to encircle the girl, biting at her and proving to be quite annoying in the process, she took a moment to steel herself; thankfully, being just the bites of bats, and not something like the splitting open of her organs, it was something that wouldn't take a large deal of effort to power through. She fully-prepared to retaliate with full-power from here on out! "DIE ALREADY, DAMN YOU!" Beginning her strike at the reforming monstrosity of bat and Hollow, the girl flung her arm faster than she'd normally be able to propel it, moving at a rather powerful speed of 2,550 in order to split quite a number of bats open.

Though, this was far from the end of her retaliatory actions; showing just how tricky an opponent the girl could've been, Camila reversed the tempo of her strikes not once, not twice, but thrice to shred through as many of the flying creatures as she could manage. Her goal was shredding through all of them, but that certainly wasn't going to prove to be possible; if she could get anywhere from twelve to fifteen however? She'd been in a good place, and would leave the Hollow both damaged and drained in the process. Though, with that last strike, Camila was to leave a rather nasty surprise in the Hollow's system.

With the end of her own striking patterns, Camila it seemed that Albin was quick to follow through with his own blows at the time. Unfortunately, given her focus on the offensive, she was going to be forced to take part of the blow. Shifting to the side in the last little bit, taking a Quiet Walk in order to try to put some space between her and the Hollow, she quickly found that her right arm had been effectively cleaved off. "NGHAAAAH, GODS!!" She shouted in pain, gripping at her shoulder in the process.

When push came to shove, Camila found very quickly that she was starting to suffer rather notably with this fight already. She'd need to really get her head in the game if she could help it. And, what was the best way for her to do so? "DRAIN THEM OF THEIR VITALITY AND CONSUME IT ALL, GOUGE DE SANG!" As her words finished, and her own spiritual presence exploded outward, nothing notably visual changed with the girl. Regardless, she'd kicked it up a notch; Camila had released Bankai.

And, as she did, the severed arm she'd just been forced to deal with had burst forth from the wound, very quickly repairing the injuries she'd just retained from the Hollow. Quite a time for her to have done so, but frankly? She didn't have much of a choice. Still huffing for a moment from the wounds she'd retained despite their full-healing, she squinted her eyes as the Hollow spoke. "I'm the one that keeps coming close to getting myself killed?" She chuckled, a smirk rising on her own face. A suit of armor had quickly grown to form around her as Albin continued his little speech about Camila remaining 'absolute in her idiocy'.

As the Hollow quickly disappeared from her sight, she found out rather quickly that they'd gone in for a strike against her shortly thereafter; a blow to her hip, and one that she would've absolutely never have been able to see. One that likely would've killed her right then and there, if it had connected. Though, Albin's blade had locked against her newly-formed suit of armor. The sheer existence of her armor had been enough to intercept Albin's Bloodweapon-coated blade. It was at that moment, she sought to make another move against him.

Flashing her blade once more at 2,550 speed through the Fading Night toward the Hollow's throat, Camila aimed to strike as forcefully as she could against the man. Whether she struck or not wasn't a real concern of hers; instead, she simply took a short leap away from them in order to create a bit of space between the two. "You think I'm going to be appreciative of you? After you're seeking to KILL me? The only thing I'm going to be appreciative of is taking your power for my own! You're forgetting, Albin; I've been in more fights than you. I know my own weaknesses. They've been exploited more times than I can fucking count. If you think I'm not going to use those against you, you're sorely mistaken."

Bankai: 1/9
Albin's Remaining Blood: 70%
Rhythm Beat Speed: 850
Bloodied Fortress Duration: 10
Hemoplague Duration: 36

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{Reiatsu Pool & Resources}
Cami's Pool: 5,325/13,000
-350 for Bankai at Class 1.
-200 for Hypermetabolism.
-75 for Tsukarenai.
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Blood Counters: 7
+2 per post.
+9 for releasing Bankai at 45% reiatsu.
+18 from rapid-fire-strikes, should they land.
-16 from Hypermetabolism.
-10 from Bloodied Fortress.
-24 from Hemoplague.
+7 from strike, should it land.

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{Abilities Used}

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{Bankai Overall}
Upon entering her Bankai, her ability to gain Blood Counters is notably increased. Similarly to her Shikai, upon entering Bankai, Camila gains Blood Counters corresponding to her remaining Reiatsu pool, compared to her maximum pool. Though, this effect gets stronger upon entering Bankai. Instead of being based off of every 10% of her remaining Reiatsu, it is instead based off of every 5% of her remaining Reiatsu. 1000/1000 will give her 20 additional Blood Counters, and 590/1000 will give her 10 additional Blood Counters due to rounding down. This is still percentage based, and still rounded down all the time. Though, a few changes to this mechanic are made.

For Camila to enter Bankai with 20 Blood Counters, she needs to have a full 10 Blood Counters in Shikai, as well as at least 50% of her remaining Reiatsu pool available. She can still only gain a maximum of 10 Blood Counters upon entering her Bankai. Similar to Shikai, the extra Blood Counters gained from entering Bankai are once per post, unless a significant rest period is taken. Each wound left on the target now grants 2 Blood Counters, instead of one.

Additionally, she can now gain Blood Counters through herself, granted she leaves a wound on herself, and sacrifices 150 Reiatsu. From this, she can gain 1 Blood Counter. She can only gain a maximum of 5 Blood Counters per post through this way. Open wounds left by the opponent do count as wounds she can use for Blood Counters on herself. Once a wound is used for a Blood Counter, it cannot be reused, meaning she needs to open another wound to create another Blood Counter. At the end of every post, Camila passively gains two Blood Counters. With external sources of blood, ranging from that of unnamed NPCs, blood utilized from the abilities of other combatants, etc., Camila is capable of harvesting Blood Counters from these by coming in contact with the source, resulting in two Blood Counters for NPCs and other insignificant living beings, or 1 Blood Counter for every 25 reiatsu spent by another to create a Blood-related effect.

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{Bloodweapons}
Technique Name: Bloodweapons

Technique Stage: Shikai/Bankai

Technique Cost(s): Varies.

Description: Camila takes the time to shape her blood into whatever kinds of items or weapons she'd like for the time, from a simple weaponized stream of blood to a sword or gun. These weapons take on a deep red appearance, much like that of the blood that makes it up, and have a durability equal to her Spiritual Pressure. These weapons use Camila's Spiritual Pressure in order to deal damage. Creating these weapons costs a minimum of 100 Reiatsu, with a 50 Reiatsu cost to change their form after having been made. While she has these weapons created, any attack Camila makes with them generate an additional Blood Counter for every 100 Reiatsu spent to create. Ranged attacks with these weapons travel at a speed equal to half her Spiritual Pressure or 800 (whichever is higher), but cost 50 reiatsu each and every time they're made; this drops to 25 in Bankai. By spending an amount of Blood Counters, Camila is capable of treating defensive options she clashes with as 5% lower in Offensive Stat per Blood Counter spent. In Bankai, this changes to 10% per Blood Counter and the durability of these weapons are increased to double her Spiritual Pressure.

Drawbacks: In Shikai, these weapons are rather brittle, even while considering Camila's noteworthy Spiritual Pressure. Creating these weapons are cheap individually, but are incredibly expensive when created in large quantities, or when focusing a large quantity of reiatsu into one weapon. The defensive reduction effect in Shikai is capped at 30%, and 75% in Bankai.

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{Hypermetabolism}
Technique Name: Hypermetabolism

Technique Stage: Shikai/Bankai

Technique Cost(s): 200 Reiatsu.

Description: By taking a few short moments to activate this technique, Camila can spend Reiatsu in order to sacrifice any amount of Blood Counters. An effect is activated based on the amount Sacrificed. This technique can be used on allies by adding an additional two Blood Counters as a cost, increasing by an additional two counters as the strength of the effect increases. While in Bankai, this technique has no reiatsu cost, and instead only costs Blood Counters.

1-5 Blood Counters: Camila feels refreshed, giving her a small stamina boost. This is enough of a stamina boost to bypass the stamina drain for this technique. This also closes miniscule wounds, and fixes any small bruising. Wounds that are larger than an inch in length are not fixed.

6-10 Blood Counters: Camila is granted the benefits from sacrificing 1-5 Blood Counters. On top of that, larger wounds are healed, and all bruising is fixed. Wounds that are larger than 5 inches in length are not healed.

11-15 Blood Counters: Camila is granted the benefits of sacrificing 1-10 Blood Counters. On top of that, she's able to repair a fair amount of potentially lethal wounds. All cuts and bruises are healed, and Camila can restore small parts of her limbs (She can restore a lost hand or foot, but not the entire arm or leg).

16-19 Blood Counters: Camila is granted the benefits of sacrificing 1-15 Blood Counters. On top of that, she can restore damage to entire limbs, though only one limb can be healed per use at a time. She also gains 2 points in Poison Resist, but loses them after 1 post. These points are treated as though she had them since the beginning of the encounter, in terms of resisting poison-based effects.

20+ Blood Counters: Camila is granted the benefits of sacrificing 1-19 Blood Counters. On top of that, she can restore organ damage. This is limited to organs that will not almost immediately kill her if damaged. If her heart or brain were to take severe hits, these cannot be restored. Though, intestines, lungs, etc. can be restored no problem.

Drawbacks: This technique is used to heal wounds. It is not meant to restore stamina. It only helps to prevent limbs from being useless through breaks, or to prevent blood loss. Camila will still tire normally. This technique requires at least 1 Blood Counter to activate, and cannot be activated with any less than 1 Blood Counter. Camila must remain stationary during the few moments this technique requires to activate. If she is hit out of this channeling effect, all Reiatsu and Blood Counters spent for activation will not be refunded.

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{Bloodied Fortress}
Technique Name: Bloodied Fortress

Technique Stage: Shikai/Bankai

Technique Cost(s): Varies.

Description: Becoming a crimson bastion of defensive capability, Bloodied Fortress allows Camila to manifest a suit of armor out of her blood, and the blood she's harvested from her foes. Camila sacrifices any amount of Blood Counters, and 1000 Reiatsu if that amount is less than 10 Blood Counters. For the duration, any attack against her, whether physical or reiatsu based, drains the reiatsu of either the attack or user of the attack. If she’s hit with a physical attack, she’ll drain 30 reiatsu from that person per Blood Counter spent originally. Every point in Bleeding Tolerance that someone has will reduce this amount of reiatsu per Blood Counter by 10, negating it completely at a 3 in Bleeding Tolerance, and also being negated if someone possess a Strength superior to Camila's Spiritual Pressure. If she’s hit with a reiatsu-based attack, she’ll drain 100 reiatsu from the attack per Blood Counter spent; this does not drain from the person that had made the attack, but the technique itself. This can only drain reiatsu up to the original cost of the technique that the armor contacts.

This technique works similarly to Hierro, though it uses her Spiritual Pressure instead of her Reiatsu Strength, and the “wearing down” effect that Hierro has is also accelerated significantly (Instead of 8 posts reducing the armor to 80%, it’s now 2 posts. Instead of 12 posts reducing the armor to 60%, it’s 4 posts. Instead of 16 posts destroying the armor, it’s 6 posts. The amount of attacks required to wear down the armor is now halved, reducing these numbers to a minimum of 1 attack). The duration of Bloodied Fortress lasts for 1 post per 2 Blood Counters used to activate the technique. If Bloodied Fortress is active, it can be activated again, extending the duration by 1 post per 4 Blood Counters spent towards it, and restoring the Hierro-like effect of the armor to the original duration if 5 or more Blood Counters are spent while the effect is active. This technique can be used on allies by adding an additional two Blood Counters as a cost. With this armor on, Camila is capable of liquefying parts, or all of her body at her Speed. While in Bankai, this armor's duration is 1 post per Blood Counter spent on activation, and the duration is increased by one post for every two Blood Counters spent on the technique after activating it instead.

Drawbacks: This technique has an extremely hefty cost, no matter how you go about it. As soon as the duration of Bloodied Fortress ends, the technique is put onto a 10 post cooldown. It essentially punishes the user for purposefully not maintaining the effect to spend less Blood Counters for a longer duration.

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{Hemoplague}
Technique Name: Hemoplague

Technique Stage: Shikai/Bankai

Technique Cost(s): 200 Reiatsu.

Description: Being Camila's "ultimate" technique in a sense, Hemoplague acts as a virulent toxin designed to put down those that end up infected. This technique's insidious nature lies in its subtlety, being inflicted by any contact that Camila makes against a target with any of her Release abilities. Once a target has been infected, Hemoplague simply sits dormant within their system. Infecting a target with Hemoplague requires 200 Reiatsu to be spent, alongside a minimum of 3 Blood Counters. Hemoplague lasts for a number of posts equal to the number of Blood Counters spent for its activation, and can be refreshed by making additional contact. Refreshing does not cost Reiatsu, but Blood Counter expenditure functions as normal. In Bankai, this duration is set to 1.5 posts for every Blood Counter spent.

While this plague lies within someone's system, those infected are made more susceptible to Camila's abilities, both physically and spiritually. Any reiatsu-stealing effects from Camila's release will steal 100% more (150% in Bankai). At any point, Camila can opt into spending 100 Reiatsu to cause this sanguine disease to explode within someone's system, immediately calcifying their blood and causing jets of hardened, sharpened blood to tear through their very skin. The actual severity of this effect is directly linked to the remaining duration on Hemoplague; if detonated with 1-15 posts remaining, the damage will be minimal, likely resulting in no worse than skin-level damage and small spikes. With 16-30 posts remaining, this technique will be much more noticeable in damage, with larger spikes jutting from an individual, but only really dealing muscle-level damage, and leaving limbs a bit difficult to use. With 31-49 posts remaining, damage turns both internal and external, likely resulting in ruptured organs and near-bone damage, but nothing will be immediately fatal. At 50+ posts remaining, those afflicted will die.

Drawbacks: Seeing as this technique not only requires physical contact, but extreme amounts of Blood Counter expenditure, it's prone to getting expensive very, very quickly. Every Rank of Bleeding Tolerance an individual has reduces the extra Reiatsu drain by 25%, leaving Camila with no increase in Shikai and only a 50% increase in Bankai, should someone have a 4 in Bleeding Tolerance. Additionally, every Rank of Bleeding Tolerance that an individual has will increase these damage thresholds by 10 posts in Shikai, or 5 posts in Bankai.

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{Tsukarenai}
Technique Name: Tsukarenai (Tirelessly)

Class: 3

Technique Type: Other

Usable By: All

Description: Tsukarenai is a technique that ties ones stamina into their Reiatsu reserves. By flowing Reiatsu over their entire body and creating a thick flexible coat of Reiatsu. Upon doing so, the user can continue to fight without putting a strain on themselves in combat. Depending solely on using their Reiatsu for any form of high speed movement. Any movement that drains stamina will instead tap into their Reiatsu reserves. Starting at 400, the user will be spending 50 Reiatsu per post, increasing by an additional 50 for every 100 in speed. Mastery makes it so the user is only spending 50% of the cost per additional 100 in speed. Step techniques that increase speed beyond 3x cost 25% more Reiatsu when used alongside this technique. Yet they don’t require the constant payment for the speed they give.

How to Use: Coat body in Reiatsu and use it to move.

Drawbacks: There aren’t many weaknesses for using Tsukarenai but moving at high speeds though not draining stamina can still cause muscle damage and using step techniques can quickly burn the user of their Reiatsu reserves. Types that have stamina drawbacks can't learn this technique at all.

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{Rhythm Beat}
Technique Name: Rhythm Beat

Class: 6

Technique Type: Hakuda

Usable By: Shinigami, Beast-Clan, Escudo

Technique Element: None

Technique Description and Effects: A stance-type technique, this one requires the user to slip into a state of automatic combat. Automatic combat is a mental state in which the user continues at the exact same pacing of their previous blows, creating a rhythmic pattern that allows them to fight without focusing on it. During this, the user becomes accustomed to their own movements, flowing into the same speed and rhythm of attacks until it's no longer required to think about it. That's when this technique truly begins to shine; upon that point, the user can speed up or slow down that rhythm suddenly, creating a pattern of attacks that suddenly alters in speed. Slowing in speed takes no effort, merely the conscious decision to hold back a blow, but speeding up is another story.

When speeding up, the user must do so gradually; as they become accustomed to their movements at a set pace beyond their normal limit, they can slowly push themselves further and further. With each post of consecutive rhythmic attacks, the user can adapt and push their muscles so that they move an additional 50 speed faster with their consistent attacks. This can be continued up until the maximum of the 3x limit on speed boosts. However, if speed is dropped at all, it caps at the speed dropped to or the user's maximum speed, whichever is higher, and can only regain 50 speed per post. Example, if the user has 300 Speed, after one post they can have 350, and after two their attacks come at 400 speed. However, if they drop down to 300 for a slowed move to surprise a foe, they cannot just go back up to 400 speed, and instead have to work up at 50 per post again. If they dropped down to 200, however, they could immediately make the next blow 300, as that is their natural cap.

How to use technique: Begin striking in a consistent, consecutive rhythm of blows, adapting to it over time and adjusting speed as able.

Technique Drawbacks: Stamina. Aside from that, the biggest drawback to this technique is its predictability; the user does have to build up a rhythm of strikes, and because they are fighting almost off-handedly, even if they have control over how they strike, there is a pattern in the motions that can be countered by an analytical foe. Note that this counts as a long-term buff if used for more than two posts (i.e. after the first post of increased speed); otherwise, it is counted as a short-term buff. Requires at least a 1 in Martial Arts: Hakuda.

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{Different Tempo}
Technique Name: Different Tempo

Class: 5

Technique Type: Hakuda

Usable By: Shinigami, Beast-Clan, Escudo

Technique Element: None

Technique Description and Effects: With the Rhythm Beat stance, the user is put into a specific pattern and rhythm of blows that can only increase or decrease in speed, while remaining in an almost constant series of predictable motions. Different Tempo shakes up that pattern, allowing the user to tense their muscles and completely redirect the momentum of their body, provided that they were the origin of it. A punch might suddenly jerk to the side instead of being a straight blow mid-strike, or a strike might be withdrawn to avoid a slashing blade that would cut them even if it was mid-attack. This technique is stand-alone and can work without the use of the Rhythm Beat stance, but it is most effective when paired with it, allowing the user to shake up a predictable pattern while maintaining the momentum necessary for high-speed combat.

How to use technique: Tense the muscles and redirect the momentum of one's blow, even in a completely opposite direction.

Technique Drawbacks: The main drawback to this technique is the muscle fatigue that comes with it, varying based on the reversal of momentum. Complete reversal is obviously the most straining compared to a redirection, and the higher the speed, the higher the risk of muscle and bone damage. Repeated use of more than three times in a post even at lesser amounts of stress can also cause this damage. Requires at least a 2 in Martial Arts: Hakuda.

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{Red Moon Road: Quiet Evening Walk}
Technique Name: Red Moon Road: Quiet Evening Walk

Technique Class: 5 - 20 TTP.

Technique Type: Hakuda/Hōhō/Zanjutsu.

Usable By: Shinigami, Rogue, Vizard.

Technique Element: Body.

Technique Cost: N/A.

Description: The first technique in the Red Moon Road series, Quiet Evening Walk is a very simple technique. Acting as a catalyst for the other Red Moon Road techniques, Quiet Evening Walk is a Step Technique that allows its user to step at three times their speed, for no cost of reiatsu. At Mastered, this technique is silent.

How to Use: Pick a direction and step.

Drawbacks: Despite not having a reiatsu cost, this technique still holds a rather noteworthy drawback; to learn, Quiet Evening Walk requires a 2 in Hakuda, Hōhō, and Zanjutsu.

Incantation: N/A.

Made By: Camila Adaronde.

Reserved?: Yes.

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{Red Moon Road: Precipice of Fading Night}
Technique Name: Red Moon Road: Precipice of Fading Night

Technique Class: 5 - 20 TTP.

Technique Type: Hakuda/Hōhō/Zanjutsu.

Usable By: Shinigami, Rogue, Vizard.

Technique Element: Body.

Technique Cost: N/A.

Description: The third technique in the Red Moon Road series, Precipice of Fading Night acts as a branching upgrade of Quiet Evening Walk. Much like Shunpō Karin to Shunpō, Precipice of Fading Night aims to augment a singular limb instead of making a full-body movement, similarly at three times the user’s Speed. At Proficient, this technique is silent. At Mastered, this technique can be used to immediately change the momentum of one of the user’s movements, including a movement made from Precipice of Fading Night.

How to Use: Move one’s limb at extraordinary speeds.

Drawbacks: While not having a reiatsu cost, Precipice of Fading Night does have a rather noteworthy drawback in requiring a 2 in Hakuda, Hōhō, and Zanjutsu in order to perform. Can only be performed up to twice a post, and each use takes up a Step Technique slot.

Incantation: N/A.

Made By: Camila Adaronde.

Reserved?: Yes.

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{Red Moon Road: Crimson Night Sky}
Technique Name: Red Moon Road: Crimson Night Sky

Technique Class: 3 - 80 TTP.

Technique Type: Hakuda/Hōhō/Zanjutsu

Usable By: Shinigami, Rogue, Vizard

Technique Element: Body.

Technique Cost: N/A.

Description: The fifth technique in the Red Moon Road series, Crimson Night Sky is a devastating technique looking to cause quite an amount of unnecessary damage to those it strikes; very much against the elegant, nimble themes the Red Moon Road techniques normally follow. Beginning with a strike of some kind with the user’s Zanpakutō, Crimson Night Sky aims to debilitate those hit by the force of this technique, usually resulting in a rather large expulsion of the victim’s blood into the air from the strike in a very Shonen-like display; hence the name of the technique.

If struck by this technique, the victim’s blood will immediately fire from the wound itself, draining someone of 10% of their blood on hit, reduced by 2% for every Rank in Bleeding Tolerance someone has. With 75% blood remaining, those struck will feel dizzy, requiring a Rank in Strength of Will to fight without issue, or suffering a 10% Instinct cut. Every 25% lost thereafter will result in a worsening dizzied state, requiring one more Rank in Strength of Will or suffering an increasing Instinct cut, growing by 15% per threshold. With 0% blood remaining, victims will either lose consciousness in NDE/DP threads, or perish in DE.

How to Use: Simply strike with a weapon of some variety.

Drawbacks: Despite not having a reiatsu cost, this technique isn’t without its drawbacks. Firstly, this technique requires a 3 in Hakuda, Hōhō, and Zanjutsu in order to learn. Crimson Night Sky can only only be used once per post. Given the lack of subtlety with this technique, those that are struck even once are made immediately aware of the damage and effects of this technique, making it substantially more difficult to get the effects to land if the victim has so much as 1 point in Bleeding Tolerance.

Incantation: N/A.

Made By: Camila Adaronde.

Reserved?: Yes.

[Kitai Yoru]

He had miscalculated. He had assumed that Camilla would be unable to keep track of all of the bats, but with all of her abilities that augmented her speed, she managed to crush two bats in what felt like an instant. Add to that the ten others that she swatted out of the air as he attempted to reconstitute himself left him in a rather poor shape, with a rather unhealthy amount of him missing. Were he anyone else, in any other circumstance, that might have been a fatal attack.

Sadly for Cami, he was not so fragile that he would be put down that easily. Though, he would admit, he was not in the best of shapes. Even still, he watched her arm regrow, and unable to stop her from releasing Bankai. His sword clashed uselessly against her newly formed armor, and stood in horror as her blade tore him into chunky salsa. Or, that's what it looked like at first glance. He danced in the Darkened Street once again, and the moose club slammed into the back of Cami's head the moment her own weapon passed through his neck.

Dancing Weapons were such a fantastic tool for striking when an opponent least expected it. "DRAIN THEM OF THEIR VITALITY AND CONSUME IT ALL, GOUGE DE SANG!" He mirrored her words, using them against her, as he pressed his swords against one of his many bleeding wounds. "No you halfwit! I'm not talking about me! I'm talking about how you're determined to ride that highway all the way back down to Hell!" He might not have been able to crack her armor with his club, but he could sure hold her down with it.

He had reappeared ten feet to her left, wounds healing from his own use of Hypermetabolism. "The first thing you do after that coked out bastard finds out your secret is abandon the Soul Society!" He circles her, pointing his sword down at her. "Then, somehow in this travesty of a headspace, you get the bright idea to join Hueco Mundo! Not only did you prove him right in becoming their enemy, you decided to fight Kouhai's right hand! And where did that get you!?" He was yelling at this point, borderline ranting.

"And why was I at all surprised when you decided to take up your warpath again, aiming for his Left Hand! You can learn everything about you in this Inner World equivalent of a shoe box!" He was at full health, but his blood counters were next to gone, and his reiatsu was almost halved by this point. "I was born in this jail of a world! An old Victorian room, speaking of your fixation on the past! The inability to leave this room through the doors leading every thought back to your fixation! The ceiling limits your asperations! All I had was windows to look out at the stars with nothing but envy! You are a simple minded child, who wants nothing more than to get their revenge, whether it damns them to LITERAL HELL OR NOT!"

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{Reiatsu Pool & Resources}
Albin's Pool: 5,650/16,000
10 Scatter Bats being destroyed: -9,150
Dance in the Darkened Street: 0
Bankai: 350 Class 1 Bankai
Dancing Weapon: 100
Hypermetabolism: 200 and 11ish Counters

[Camila Adaronde]

She had had it. She had brought herself damned near to her knees with this fight thus far, and had what to show from it? Nothing but scars that were going to take her into the next life. That was, if she wasn't careful about her interactions from here-on out. As she slashed toward the hollow's throat, and her blade seemed to flicker through a fake, she grunted in anger as the feeling of the moosebat pressed against the back of her head. It wasn't enough to break through her armor, but gods damn if it wasn't enough to be fucking annoying. A point even further emphasized from her own armor digging into her skin, siphoning her own vitality from herself.

As the pressure quickly alleviated itself from the back of her head, and Albin took a quick step away from Camila, and began to heal his wounds, she furrowed her brow. Just what was he on about at this point? Was he talking about that asshole of a Vice Captain she had? She practically growled in frustration with him. Though, what really set the girl off was the comment about her encounter with Guujin. Oh, she remembered that one clearly.

Albin had left her to die that day.

Bursting forward at 9,000 speed through Shunpō, and appearing simultaneously on Albin's left and right through the Darkened Streets of her inner world, Camila took another swipe; this time at 2,700 speed. She hadn't sought to make it a lethal blow or anything; even so much as a nick on the arm would've sufficed. And, given he hadn't the ability to see through the clone she'd created? She'd get her strike, and leave behind the lethal dose of her own toxins within his body. She let him finish speaking, before she decided to speak herself, cutting him off.

"...damns them to LITERAL HELL-" "-shut the fuck up."

Lowering her weapon, and allowing her visor to automatically raise itself to face the Hollow, she glared him down with an uninterested, yet satisfied look. "Throughout this entire fight, you've given me absolutely no reason to let you stick around n' exist. None whatsoever. Though, I'm going to give you an opportunity to stay useful." She snapped her fingers.

As she did, spikes of solidified and crystallized blood began to shoot forth from Albin's own veins; organs, muscles, and even bones had been pierced through in the process, in a violent, bloody fashion that would've otherwise killed anyone else. Though, she wasn't going to let him die; not now. While he was not going to be in the condition to fight any longer, she wasn't going to let him perish. Assuming he'd fall over, she'd slowly walk over, crouch down, and grab him by the hair.

"Guess that means this fight was mine, yeah? All that tough talk, n' for what?"

Bankai: 2/9
Albin's Remaining Blood: 70%
Rhythm Beat Speed: 900
Bloodied Fortress Duration: 9
Hemoplague Duration: 57 -> 0

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{Reiatsu Pool & Resources}
Cami's Pool: 4,800/13,000
-750 for Overall Ability; self injury for counters.
+450 from Bloodied Fortress leech.
-75 for Shunpō.
-75 for Tsukarenai.
-100 for Hemoplague detonation.
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Blood Counters: 0
+2 per post.
+5 for self-injury.
-14 for Hemoplague refresh.

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{Abilities Used}

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{Bloodweapons}
Technique Name: Bloodweapons

Technique Stage: Shikai/Bankai

Technique Cost(s): Varies.

Description: Camila takes the time to shape her blood into whatever kinds of items or weapons she'd like for the time, from a simple weaponized stream of blood to a sword or gun. These weapons take on a deep red appearance, much like that of the blood that makes it up, and have a durability equal to her Spiritual Pressure. These weapons use Camila's Spiritual Pressure in order to deal damage. Creating these weapons costs a minimum of 100 Reiatsu, with a 50 Reiatsu cost to change their form after having been made. While she has these weapons created, any attack Camila makes with them generate an additional Blood Counter for every 100 Reiatsu spent to create. Ranged attacks with these weapons travel at a speed equal to half her Spiritual Pressure or 800 (whichever is higher), but cost 50 reiatsu each and every time they're made; this drops to 25 in Bankai. By spending an amount of Blood Counters, Camila is capable of treating defensive options she clashes with as 5% lower in Offensive Stat per Blood Counter spent. In Bankai, this changes to 10% per Blood Counter and the durability of these weapons are increased to double her Spiritual Pressure.

Drawbacks: In Shikai, these weapons are rather brittle, even while considering Camila's noteworthy Spiritual Pressure. Creating these weapons are cheap individually, but are incredibly expensive when created in large quantities, or when focusing a large quantity of reiatsu into one weapon. The defensive reduction effect in Shikai is capped at 30%, and 75% in Bankai.

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{Bankai Overall}
Upon entering her Bankai, her ability to gain Blood Counters is notably increased. Similarly to her Shikai, upon entering Bankai, Camila gains Blood Counters corresponding to her remaining Reiatsu pool, compared to her maximum pool. Though, this effect gets stronger upon entering Bankai. Instead of being based off of every 10% of her remaining Reiatsu, it is instead based off of every 5% of her remaining Reiatsu. 1000/1000 will give her 20 additional Blood Counters, and 590/1000 will give her 10 additional Blood Counters due to rounding down. This is still percentage based, and still rounded down all the time. Though, a few changes to this mechanic are made.

For Camila to enter Bankai with 20 Blood Counters, she needs to have a full 10 Blood Counters in Shikai, as well as at least 50% of her remaining Reiatsu pool available. She can still only gain a maximum of 10 Blood Counters upon entering her Bankai. Similar to Shikai, the extra Blood Counters gained from entering Bankai are once per post, unless a significant rest period is taken. Each wound left on the target now grants 2 Blood Counters, instead of one.

Additionally, she can now gain Blood Counters through herself, granted she leaves a wound on herself, and sacrifices 150 Reiatsu. From this, she can gain 1 Blood Counter. She can only gain a maximum of 5 Blood Counters per post through this way. Open wounds left by the opponent do count as wounds she can use for Blood Counters on herself. Once a wound is used for a Blood Counter, it cannot be reused, meaning she needs to open another wound to create another Blood Counter. At the end of every post, Camila passively gains two Blood Counters. With external sources of blood, ranging from that of unnamed NPCs, blood utilized from the abilities of other combatants, etc., Camila is capable of harvesting Blood Counters from these by coming in contact with the source, resulting in two Blood Counters for NPCs and other insignificant living beings, or 1 Blood Counter for every 25 reiatsu spent by another to create a Blood-related effect.

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{Shunpō}
Technique Name: Shunpō

Technique Class: 7 - 10 TTP.

Technique Type: Hōhō.

Technique Element: N/A.

Technique Cost: 50 Reiatsu.

Description: 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 Shunpō 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. Shunpō 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: 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.

Incantation: N/A.

Drawbacks: Reiatsu Cost.

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{Red Moon Road: Dance in the Darkened Street}
Technique Name: Red Moon Road: Dance in the Darkened Street

Technique Class: 4 - 40 TTP.

Technique Type: Hakuda/Hōhō/Zanjutsu.

Usable By: Shinigami, Rogue, Vizard.

Technique Element: Body.

Technique Cost: N/A.

Description: The second technique in the Red Moon Road series, Dance in the Darkened Street serves as a technique that aims to create a momentary copy of its user in order to deceive foes, and create an opening for the user, simply through the use of fast movement, aided by raw combative mastery. Through the use of a Stepping Technique in order to reposition, the user creates this copy at a different location that they would feasibly be able to reach via the same stepping technique.

Those that don’t have 300 or greater Senses will be unable to tell this copy apart from the user, and thus will likely end up flat-footed when looking to defend against the real combatant, resulting in a 30% decrease to their Instinct for the duration of that single attack. After the attack is carried out, the copy disappears, and the user is left on their own once more.

How to Use: Simply step in a direction, and utilize the speed from that step to create a copy of oneself.

Drawbacks: Given this technique has no reiatsu cost, it’s not without drawbacks from use. For starters, Dance in the Darkened Street takes up a step technique slot, meaning using this technique costs two total. The initial use, and every use after that will have the Senses requirement reduced by 25 per Rank of Battle Analysis that an individual has, meaning that even with a single Rank, this technique will eventually stop being effective. The Instinct decrease is lowered by 5% every time this technique is used, meaning that even if someone is incapable of telling the difference between user and copy, they won’t be penalized for reacting to either of them. The copy created via this technique is simply an afterimage, and is incapable of attacking, blocking, et cetera. Dance in the Darkened Street can only be used once per post, and requires a 2 in Hakuda, Hōhō, and Zanjutsu to learn.

Incantation: N/A.

Made By: Camila Adaronde.

Reserved?: Yes.

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{Hemoplague}
Technique Name: Hemoplague

Technique Stage: Shikai/Bankai

Technique Cost(s): 200 Reiatsu.

Description: Being Camila's "ultimate" technique in a sense, Hemoplague acts as a virulent toxin designed to put down those that end up infected. This technique's insidious nature lies in its subtlety, being inflicted by any contact that Camila makes against a target with any of her Release abilities. Once a target has been infected, Hemoplague simply sits dormant within their system. Infecting a target with Hemoplague requires 200 Reiatsu to be spent, alongside a minimum of 3 Blood Counters. Hemoplague lasts for a number of posts equal to the number of Blood Counters spent for its activation, and can be refreshed by making additional contact. Refreshing does not cost Reiatsu, but Blood Counter expenditure functions as normal. In Bankai, this duration is set to 1.5 posts for every Blood Counter spent.

While this plague lies within someone's system, those infected are made more susceptible to Camila's abilities, both physically and spiritually. Any reiatsu-stealing effects from Camila's release will steal 100% more (150% in Bankai). At any point, Camila can opt into spending 100 Reiatsu to cause this sanguine disease to explode within someone's system, immediately calcifying their blood and causing jets of hardened, sharpened blood to tear through their very skin. The actual severity of this effect is directly linked to the remaining duration on Hemoplague; if detonated with 1-15 posts remaining, the damage will be minimal, likely resulting in no worse than skin-level damage and small spikes. With 16-30 posts remaining, this technique will be much more noticeable in damage, with larger spikes jutting from an individual, but only really dealing muscle-level damage, and leaving limbs a bit difficult to use. With 31-49 posts remaining, damage turns both internal and external, likely resulting in ruptured organs and near-bone damage, but nothing will be immediately fatal. At 50+ posts remaining, those afflicted will die.

Drawbacks: Seeing as this technique not only requires physical contact, but extreme amounts of Blood Counter expenditure, it's prone to getting expensive very, very quickly. Every Rank of Bleeding Tolerance an individual has reduces the extra Reiatsu drain by 25%, leaving Camila with no increase in Shikai and only a 50% increase in Bankai, should someone have a 4 in Bleeding Tolerance. Additionally, every Rank of Bleeding Tolerance that an individual has will increase these damage thresholds by 10 posts in Shikai, or 5 posts in Bankai.

[Kitai Yoru]

"And for what, she says..." He replies, feeling his insides spilling all over his outsides. He felt strung up like the world's most macabre scarecrow, unable to move, lest he spill more of his life essence against the rapidly changing ground. "It's... truly amazing... how dense that skull of yours is." He was panting, struggling to breath with his crystalized blood pressing against his lungs. "Not one word managed to pierce through your impenetrable head. Not even through one ear and out the other. That would imply it managed to tickle pass through where your brain should be."

His sword was barely hanging there in his hand, desperately clinging to it, in spite of the severed tendons and arteries. "All I wanted was to not be dragged down to Hell with you. To try and steer you off this path, but it seems you're hardwired to self-destruct." He coughed out a wad of blood. The violent motion was enough to knock him backwards, slamming into the burgundy tiles of Camilla's inner world, having usurped his attempts to change it. "If you cannot be swayed off this path, then it seems I must help you avoid your fate. I will help you, if only to avoid my own damnation through your stupidity."

Albin's body began to melt, too wounded to maintain his form, even in this world. His legs lost their color, fading into the colors of twilight during the setting sun. Blues, to pinks, orange to even yellow, his body lost its cohesion. It was full of stars, and a dragon could be seen where his heart would be. It was sullen and forlorn, a tear could be seen drooping from its eye. It hung its head, and flew off into the distance of Albin's blood, shrinking until it could be seen no more.

"If I... am forced to aid you..." He wheezed, his face only barely managing to retain his eyes and mouth. "Then you... had better not fail... Or I shall be forced... To take over..." And with a final breath, the life left his body, and the collage of colors swirled around, like a whirlpool of lights and stars, being sucked into the last thing Ablin had held onto. His sword. And then the blade began to glow, blinding the woman, searing her skin, as she was forced out of her inner world, being forced to face the consequences this battle of hers had on the world outside.

[✠Asmoskon Masurao✠]

Paste: 1075

Soul: 550