Hunter or Hunted? Who is invading who?

[Kitai Yoru]

Thread Title: Bounty Thread
Participants: Kitai Yoru, Astrid
World: Hueco Mundo
Death Setting: Permanent Injuries Enabled
Rating: PG-13
Location: You know those times where you do something and immediately regret it? This is one of those times. The fight begins in an uncomfortably moist yellow room, with several hallways leading in different directions. The layout of the building is nonsensical, and everything smells like mildew. There are a few corpses here and there, along with random monsters that sometimes make senses for the location, but more often than not, they're just goofy.

Special Conditions: Kitai is scouting out Las Noches to plan an invasion, one much more devastating than last time. Astrid, however, has taken up Kitai's bounty, and is hunting him down. Should Astrid fail, Kitai will more than likely invade. Unfortunately for both of these idiots, Kitai uses his Interdimensional Doorknob just wrong enough to screw them both over.


Circumstances: Astrid is hunting down a certain Saika, looking to turn his head into the bounty office for that juicy SSS reward, when Kitai decides that he's dealt with one too many fangirls, and decides to use his Doorknob to leave. Chaos ensues.

[Kitai Yoru]

There were times in his life that Kitai regrets doing something. They were few and far between, and could probably count those regrets with one hand and still have a few fingers to spare. Unfortunately for him, this was one of those times. "WHERE THE F&#K AM I!?" He yells out, voice not echoing off of the damp yellow walls. If he cared to inspect further, they were covered in wallpaper, the kind that was kind of fuzzy, and had interesting enough patterns on them to go 'yeah, that almost looks good', and ignore them until you died and your kids judged you for your home décor.

He took one step forward, and there was a squishing sound. Looking down, he could see that this place had a shag carpet. One that had absorbed enough water to smell like mildew and depression. He took a wide step away from the area he was just stepping in, and was rewarded with another squish. His eye twitched, his nostrils flared, and he was one stupid thing away from losing his temper. How did this situation come to be, you may ask? Well it's very simple. It all started many moons ago, in a galaxy called, the Milky Way.

Five minutes earlier

Kitai was sitting down at this restaurant in Italy. He wanted something fancy for lunch, and he was banned from France because of a certain Failure. It wasn't his fault she had used him to destroy that city, but that was for another time. He didn't speak a lick of the language, but waving around a stack of money was enough for him to just order everything on the menu, and get him good service. Sure, he was being stared at, but when you were eating twenty pounds of pasta, did it really matter? And, oh look, the waiter was bringing out another plate of noodles, and another full wheel of Parmesan cheese. Life was good.

Darkskill Level 1 Ability: 5,500
Total Reiatsu Remaining: 14,500/20,000

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{Stats and Skills}
Strength: (200-75%) 50
Speed: (200-75%) 50
Reiatsu strength: (200-75%) 50
Spiritual Pressure: (400x5) 2,000
Senses: (200-75%) 50
Instinct: (200-75%) 50
Energy Sensory: (0-75%) 0
Healing Expertise: (0-75%) 0]



Dark Aura: 100
Light Aura: 0

Strength of Will: 4
Pain Tolerance: 3
Battle Analysis :3
Crafting: 4
Martial Skill; Style of the Moron: 2

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{Most of my arsenal}Name: Interdimensional Knob
Description: This is a peculiar item, but it is arguably the most useful. It appears to be a round brass doorknob. Furthermore, it is the only product Sky Oasis sells outside of the soul trafficking market.
Class: 4
Item Type: Utility
Cost: 15,000 ryo

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Name: S.U.P.E.R.
Description: S.U.P.E.R. can take the form of any melee weapon. It will be made of spiritual steel and the specific design is customizable. The user determines its exact appearance.
Class: 4-1
Item Type: Weapon
Cost: 12,000 ryo + 2,000/Class

The Super takes of the form of a stylized iron gauntlet, claws on the tips of each finger.

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Name: Garganta Disruptor
Description: The Garganta Disruptor takes the form of a brown, rubber bouncy ball not much larger than a golf ball.
Class: 5
Item Type: Tool
Cost: 10,000 ryo

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Name: C.L.A.Y.
Description: This item comes in the form of an elastic rubber band.
Class: 4
Item Type: Tool
Cost: 10,000 ryo

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Name: X-Ray Contacts
Description:Magic Contacts based on something he once upon a time was in possession of. This fancy item is placed on the eyes like contacts, and allow the user to see selectively through any and all physical objects, up to the IP of this item in meters. It can only see through spiritual objects, so long as the OS does not exceed the IP of this item.
Class: 5-1
Item Type: Utility
Item Power (IP): 400+100 per class (800 max)
Offense Type: N/A
Durability: 2x IP
Bonuses: With 50 reiatsu, this affect can be applied to devices that would extend the user's vision.
Drawbacks: Does not let the user see any further than their senses would normally allow. Cannot see through illusions, or things produced by illusions.
Cost: 6,000+1,000 per class (10,000 max)
Crafting Skills: 3 in crafting
Donated to Urahara's: No, to the Kitai Shop

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Name: Artificial Zanpakuto
Description: While this item is manufactured by Seb, a Human World based group, it is only found in Soul Society markets due to its high demand there. The Artificial Zanpakuto can be commissioned to take on the appearance of any bladed weapon that the user requests. It is made of spiritual steel.
Class: 2
Item Type: Weapon
Cost: 20,000 + 7,000/Class

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Name: Tarot Card 0
Description: Tarot Card 0, otherwise known as The Fool, is a large brown card, four and three quarter inches in length, by two and three quarters inches in width. This card is made of a thicker material, feeling almost metallic in texture.
Class: 1
Item Type: Combat
Item Power (IP): 1,000
Offense Type: N/A
Durability: 3x IP
Bonuses: This is a unique item that allows for the transformation of the user. This transformation allows for the user to transform and revert themselves to any prior point in their lives. The user is capable of reverting themselves into any race that they were, along with their stats, release, and five non-release techniques they possessed at the time. Should the user not meet these conditions, or simply not want to, the user is able to revert themselves back to post 1 of the thread they are using this item in.

This transformation lasts half as long as the release duration of the race they have transformed into, or in the case of races without a release or for those using the secondary effect, 5 posts. After those posts are up, the user is immediately forced back into the state they were in prior to the activation of The Fool. Any reiatsu used while transformed will be deducted out of the user's reiatsu pool after the transformation ends. The user cannot go over their transformed Spiritual Pressure limit. Can be summoned to the user's hand for 100 reiatsu. This item can be used regardless of the user’s class, so long as they have been that class at some point, but is treated as the user's class for clash purposes.

Drawbacks: Can only be used once a thread, or once every 24 hours in adventures. The owner of this item cannot use or possess any other Tarot items or techniques.
Cost: 50,000
Crafting Skills: 3 in Crafting
Donated to Urahara's: No, personal item

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Name: Muffin Button

Description: This is a muffin of high quality, and is sold in chocolate, blueberry, or Banana. Oddly enough though the muffin seems to bounce some when moved around. This does not however affect the texture or flavor.

Class: 1

Item Type: Combat Tool

Item Power (IP): 1,000

Offense Type: Physical

Durability: 800

Bonuses: As one would expect from the name (and from the buyer of this item) the muffin is self-replicating. This occurs in a few different ways. The first and foremost is that the muffin will produce an additional muffin every post. This base line amount of muffin's created, increases every 3 posts to include an additional muffin. I.E. Post 1 - 1 additional muffin is created. Post 4 - 2 additional muffins are created. Post 7 - 3 additional muffins are created. The alternate method is if the muffin is attacked by something and survives. Regardless of how much IP damage may or may not have occurred (assuming it's not enough to destroy the muffin outright.) will cause the muffin to spawn an additional muffin equal to half the class of the attack, rounded down. Class 1 - 4 muffins. Class 3 - 3 muffins. Class 5 - 2 muffins. Class 7 - 1 muffin.

So, you may be wondering what the point of these muffins are if they can self-replicate. The goal is twofold. The first is to create barricades of muffins. Muffins that will (hopefully) not be destroyed by an attack. This is especially useful as the muffins do not allow attacks to pass through them unless they have higher IP than the item. So, shockwaves for example do not have the means of phasing through "Muffin armor" if it's 1000 OS or less. The second is to produce muffins that for a small reiatsu cost explode and cause all nearby muffins to explode.

The original muffin explodes at the IP of the item but can only be done 3 times in a thread. The copy muffins use 80% of the IP. The original muffin being exploded does not count against the thread count for NDE threads nor does is destroy the muffin in DP / DE. This is because unlike the copies, the original will reform in 2 posts after the explosion it sets off. This post count increases when the muffin reforms by 1 post. So, the second explosion has a 3-post cooldown. The 3rd and final explosion has a 4-post cooldown. These cooldown posts start the post following the muffins detonation. The explosive radius of these muffins is 10 feet each. And the more muffins that are within that 10-foot radius of the initial blast create subsequent blasts that increase the radius by 5 feet per additional muffin detonated.

Drawbacks:

Muffin's also have low durability effectively guaranteeing that if an attack passes through the IP necessary to damage, they could reasonably be destroyed entirely.

Copied muffins take the full IP damage of an attack so long as it passes the thresh hold to damage them.

Unironically the best way to defeat the muffins is by taking a bite out of them. If a muffin has a bite taken out of them or are just eaten whole by something, they act like normal muffins.

The muffins do not have a cap. And should the original muffin be destroyed; the remainder will become standard muffins.

The user can be injured by the muffin's exploding if they are within the explosive radius. Also, to explode a muffin of any kind is 50 reiatsu per muffin. When used to explode other muffins the additional reiatsu cost is deducted from the user for every muffin detonated.

The original muffin uses its full IP for power of the explosion. Meanwhile the copy muffins use 80% of the IP for damage. In addition the main muffin can only explode up to 3 times a thread. The cooldown starts at 2 posts and goes up to 4 posts depending on how many times the main muffin has exploded.

Cost: 50,000 Ryo

Crafting Skills: 3 in Cooking, aided by a 4 in Crafting

Donated to Urahara's: No, however this is being specially made for Kitai by Ludwig. . . For reasons.

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Name: The Boom Stick
Description: This is a high powered Firearm, able to be styled into any particular firearm the user requests at the time of purchase. It is able to shoot any ammunition that it is loaded with at a speed equal to its IP. Each clip has six shots.
Class: 8-1
Item Type: Weapon
Item Power (IP): 150+150 per Class (1,200 Max)
Offense Type: Physical
Durability: 3x IP
Bonuses: N/A
Drawbacks: N/A
Cost: 1,000+7,000 per Class (50,000 Max)
Crafting Skills: 4 in Crafting
Donated to Urahara's: Onwards, to the Kitai Shop!

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Name: Cheese Round
Description: This is a type of Ammunition that can me used in conjunction with any Firearm. This is a non-lethal round, and cannot kill anyone it hits. When this impacts against something, it will create an explosion, covering everything in a fifteen foot radius in scalding hot cheese, users choice on what kind. Those without either Pain Tolerance 2, Heat Tolerance 2, or Strength of will 2 will have their physical capabilities reduced by half for two posts. Class: 8-1
Item Type: Weapon
Item Power (IP): 400
Offense Type: Physicial
Durability: 800
Bonuses: N/A
Drawbacks: N/A
Cost: 1,250+1,250 Per Class (10,000 Max) For 10 rounds
Crafting Skills: 4 in Crafting
Donated to Urahara's: Tonight, we dine, in the Kitai Shop!

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Name: Energy Shell
Description: An item made to spite those with a Skin Defense like Heirro or Envinar Guard, this item takes the shape of a pendant, or an item roughly that size to be worn over clothing. This item covers the user with a thin layer of energy that protects the user from any attack with less Os or Ip than thr shell has. It can still protect the user from attacks that surpass the Ip of this item, but it starts to sustain damage once it does.
Class: 3
Item Type: Armor
Item Power (IP): 700
Offense Type: Spiritual
Durability: 3,000
Bonuses: Shockwaves that do no break the Shell cannot forcibly move the user.
Drawbacks: Does not stack with other Shell items. One will be used before the other, and the order cannot be changed before the other item breaks. Attacks that do not surpass the item's IP will degrade the IP by 25% of the attack for the remainder of the thread, or for the next two hours in adventures.
Cost: 20,000
Crafting Skills: 4 in Crafting
Donated to Urahara's: HA!

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Name: Release Equip
Description: This is a modification that can be equip to any weapon from the Kitai Shop. While this weapon is equipped, it allows the user to 'release' the weapon, much like a Zanpakuto. This lets the weapon act as a release weapon when interacting with cutback. 'Releasing' costs 200 reiatsu, and lasts for 5 posts.
Class: 4
Item Type: Equipment
Item Power (IP): 200
Offense Type: N/A
Durability: Equal to the item it is attached to.
Bonuses: Adds the IP of the item to the weapon it is equipped to.
Drawbacks: Only three Equip items can be attached to any one weapon at a time. Added IP does not count towards the durability of the Weapon, or the OS/IP required to damage the item.
Cost: 10,000 Ryo
Crafting Skills: 4 in Crafting
Donated to Kitai Shop: Yes, 100%, without question

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Name: Fire Equip
Description: This is a modification that can be equip to any weapon from the Kitai Shop. While this weapon is equipped, the user can coat their weapon in flames in whatever manner they deem visually appealing. These flames can launch up to three different fire attacks, with those being a large fireball that explodes, a cone of fire, or a curtain of flames that linger for a post. The IP of the fire is equal to the IP of the Weapon this item is attached to. Each fire attack costs 100 reiatsu.
Class: 4-1
Item Type: Equipment
Item Power (IP): 100
Offense Type: N/A
Durability: Equal to the weapon it is attached to.
Bonuses: Adds the IP of the item to the weapon it is equipped to.
Drawbacks: Only three Equip items can be attached to any one weapon at a time. Added IP does not count towards the durability of the Weapon, or the OS/IP required to damage the item.
Cost: 10,000+5,000 per class (25,000 max)
Crafting Skills: 4 in Crafting
Donated to Kitai Shop: Oh yes please

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Name: Re-Equip
Description: This is a modification that can be equip to any item from the Kitai Shop. While this item is equipped, the user can transform their item into a clothing accessory, like a bracelet or necklace, or maybe even a pendant if you're feeling fancy. This accessory can be transformed back and forth for 50 reiatsu, and can start as either the item, or the accessory for no cost at the beginning of the thread.
Class: 4
Item Type:
Item Power (IP): 100
Offense Type:
Durability: Equal to the item it is attached to.
Bonuses: Adds the IP of the item to the item it is equipped to.
Drawbacks: Only three Equip items can be attached to any one item at a time. Added IP does not count towards the durability of the item, or the OS/IP required to damage the item.
Cost: 10,000
Crafting Skills: 4 in Crafting
Donated to Kitai Shop: You bet your bottom dollar it is

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Name: Steel Silk

Description: When purchased, this item can be made into any set of clothing that the wearer wants. Said clothing becomes a highly durable armor that can block most attacks.

Class: 4-1

Item Type: Armor

Item Power (IP): 500+100 per class(800 max)

Offense Type: Physical

Durability: Double Ip

Bonuses: N/a

Drawbacks: Cannot wear more than one layer of Steel Silk.

Cost: 5,000+3,000 per class

Crafting Skills: 3 in crafting

Donated to Urahara's: No

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Name: Rocket Shoes

Description: If you love stupid ideas, you'll love this. An item that straps two pairs of rockets into your footwear that lets the wearer fly at high speeds. Flying speed is equal to Item power(IP).

Class: 4-1

Item Type: Combat Tool

Item Power (IP): 400+100 per class (700 Max)

Offense Type: Physical

Durability: 2xIp

Bonuses: Does not drain the user's stamina when flying at high speeds

Drawbacks: Can be used four posts before it runs out of fuel. Step techniques still use their user's original speed. Stopping on a dime is impossible, and you will need a few feet of room to stop or slow down. Can only move in a straight line.

Cost: 3000+1000 per class

Crafting Skills: 3 in Crafting

Donated to Urahara's: No

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Name: No Fly Zone
Description: This is a circular device that sits in the middle of the user's chest, and is one foot in diameter. It is gunmetal grey, with a pulsating red gemstone in the center.
Class: 1
Item Type: Armor
Item Power (IP): 800
Offense Type: Physical
Durability: 2x
Bonuses: This item affects an area around the user up to fifteen feet. Any techniques, projectiles, or anything moving through the air is shoved backwards until it has either been moved out of the area of effect, or touched a surface attached to the ground. This happens at a speed equal to the Ip of the item, but cannot injure others. Attacks with a higher Os/Ip can ignore this effect, or characters moving through the air with a higher strength to this item's Ip. Those who remain connected to the ground are unaffected by this effect, as are techniques or projectiles launched within ten feet of the item. This costs 250 reiatsu to maintain per post.
Drawbacks: Mentioned above
Cost: 25,000
Crafting Skills: 4 in Crafting
Donated to Urahara's: That idea won't fly here

[Astrid Vess]

Astrid slammed the door to Kitai's shop open, throwing it off of its hinges. A glance at the door showed that this likely wasn't the first, nor would it be the last time it happened. It certainly wasn't the last time Astrid would do it. Namely because she continued to slam open most doors on "accident". She did have a secret pleasure in destroying doors, but Kitai's was one of the only one that didn't completely break. Something she was trying to rectify. Still upon looking within the shop it slowly dawned upon her that there was something wrong here. It was. . . empty. Sort of. Usually, the shop owner was always present, whether through the cameras or the floorboards. Maybe even in some of the items they sold. Yet something was off, like he wasn't present. And then came in what could only be them. The man in question, straight jacket, grey hair, an obnoxious personality, and worse yet, more of themselves. Another pair looking completely identical appeared and it suddenly dawned upon Astrid because the store felt off.

They were fakes. The real one wasn't present. Couldn't have been. Yet it was almost surreal seeing so many copies of the man. Even as they walked by her, groaning and complaining about how yet again the door was destroyed. Something else about cheese and even going so far as to curse out the original Kitai. The one at the counter finally got tired of seeing Astrid staring in surprise and caught her attention by throwing a chain of something eerily close to Hell near her. Using it to smack against itself in order to make a sound loud enough to catch her attention. She turned her head back to the current Kitai managing the register who was grumbling something under his breath about Astrid and her not even attempting to purchase anything yet. . . including the door. He slouched onto his hand and leaned onto an elbow lazily looking her back. Astrid decided to ignore the other two grumbling morons for the one who decided to get her attention. She stood over him as he sat on a mat and looked up at her. "What'll it be . . . . well I'd call you ma'am if you actually looked like a woman. But you my dear look more like a protein whore, like the rest of those muscle bound idiots."

Astrid didn't even hesitate to destroy the register by flinging it into the wall and embedding it as damaged money slowly fell out of it. The clone didn't even seem phased as if he'd seen this happen a thousand times prior. Hell if anything his vacant eyes looked as though they were begging Astrid to fight him. "I will break your fucking spi-" The clone yawned and even gave a dry chuckle to Astrid. "Oh no, I've NEVER heard that one before. Listen toots, get some new material. You aren't the only one who threatens me. Nor are you going to be able to do anything to me. You're simply a weak bitch. Tried and true. So don't act like you're the one making the rules in THIS shop." Astrid very nearly released on the spot if only to rip out the clone's jaw but found it within herself to instead immediately begin to choke him out. For whatever reason this did seem to surprise him, enough so that he didn't even try to resist initially given.

Meanwhile Astrid was using every fiber of her being to collapse his throat and found it strangely resilient despite hearing cracks and grinding sounds. Astrid's eyes narrowed as she realized that to truly snap his neck would take far longer than she preferred and thus needed to do something else. It took a moment for her to consider what she should do instead and in the meantime the clone now up to speed with the current situation began to make a low moaning sound as his neck wouldn't collapse. "H-harder. . . A shame. . . You can't. . . HAH! Looks like those protein shake. . . GAH Didn't help you out . . . DID THEY?! HahahahaHAHA! . . . ACK" *pop* The clone's eyes widened as he hit euphoria. On accident, Astrid had just fixed the crack in his neck that had been plaguing him for the past couple weeks. And from the expression alone it looked like it was the best thing to happen to them. This only further spurned Astrid's anger as she let one hand go from his neck and used the other arm to throw the clone into a stacked up pile of cellphones.

Watching this in the background were the two other clones who'd already fixed up the door and were now just eating popcorn. It seemed that they too were pretty unphased and were just enjoying the spectacle. Going to so far as to whisper what were likely bets on who would win. Assuming their fellow clone fought back in any capacity. The other seemed less than inclined to do such as Astrid pounced on them and began wailing onto his skull. "AH MY BEAUTIFUL FACE! IF ONLY YOU DIDN'T HIT LIKE A GIRL! HAHAHAHA! KEEP GOING SHE BITCH! AT THIS RATE MAYBE YOU'LL MAKE ME EVEN MORE STUNNING!" The two clones watching shrugged and nodded at one another as the idea wasn't completely far off. If it could happen to Squidward, it could happen to a fellow clone surely. The taunts continued to drive Astrid furious with anger as she tried method after method of attempting to brutally injure the clone before her. Throwing him into the walls. Using the glass of the window and light bulbs. Electrocuting him. Bending the clone in unholy shapes such as a pretzel.

This went on for a solid 30 minutes before Astrid finally realized she was getting nowhere. The clone had a bloody nose, a few broken fingers, bruises, and one knocked out front tooth. The most "harm" she'd really inflicted was his swollen shut eye and that wasn't even because of her directly. His own chain had slammed into himself and cut into it in the process. As Astrid held him at arms length like a stick he sighed and spoke again. Surprisingly calm all things considered. "Listen as fun as this is, I'm a VEEEERY busy man. And you've damaged . . mmmm. . . I guess it's MY Shop atm. Sure, MY SHOP in the process. If you aren't buying something get The FucK OUT! If you are, then hurry up and get what you want. I don't have all day to humor moneyless pyramid schemes." Astrid rolled her eyes, by this point having become well acquianted with the "choice words" this spoke. She threw him directly through the nearest wall and felt only a modicum of joy hearing nothing but a deep sigh from the clone. Maybe even a "Fucking Finally." if she were listening, which SHE WASN'T.

A glance to the two remaining clones who were now on their own cellphones and she remembered why she was ACTUALLY here in the first place. She stomped up to them and they both glanced at her while they were watching a video. Something with a cat and spain. Astrid without really any patience left grabbed the phone, broke it and then threw the remainder at the new hole in the wall. Both clones groaned as their heads leaned backwards. "FIIIIIIINE what do you want? Now that we're READILY AVAILABLE and totally NOT watching a cat make a paella and crying in the process. How can WE help YOU~" So much fake retail worker bled off every word it highly tempted Astrid to try to break both of their necks also. But she needed to find the real Kitai and BREAK HIS FUCKING NECK IF HE DIDN'T GIVE HER WHAT SHE WANTED. She grunted and pulled out a card. It was completely white on the front and have black and silver etching on the backside. It was surprisingly well kept all things considered. What was not however were the words that flashed on the white front. "I. O. U. W. I. P. With love, Kitai P.S. Fuck you for getting this commisioned while on sale. Last time I do a sale EVER again."

One clone paled as they quickly figured why Astrid was actually here and started chuckling weakly. "L-listen my dear dear Astrid, perhaps we can ahhhh figure something out? WE aren't Kitai so it wouldn't even be worth it to say what you likely want to say to us. Buuuuut we can tell you where he's at! And specifically to!" The other clone shook its head rapidly as it caught on to what the former was thinking. And what was likely going to be said by Astrid. They immediately spoke up before Astrid even had the chance to say or grunt at them. "Yeah exactly! That jerk decided to take the Doorknob to Italy for lunch. Without us! Can you believe it? The land of all that is cheesy goodness and he left us here! The audacity!" The clones almost started bickering over that point when their argument was broken by Astrid yelling at them both.

"The FUCK's an "Italy"?!" The two didn't seem to know how to respond. Whether it was out of surprise, horror, or something else was anyone's guess. However, one did immediately pull out a map from their left straitjacket fold and opened it before Astrid. A massive crayon red circle over the city specifically in Italy. Astrid looked it over, visibly confused as to what in the nine circles she was looking at. One of the clones caught on quickly and immediately point a finger to the country of Italy. "It's the big plot of land that looks like a lady's boot. But more importantly, it's the birthplace of Pizza! And even MORE importantly, the birthplace if Parmesan. Oh, my precious, sweet, delicious Parmesan, how I miss you so. These commonplace, store bought FAKES will never compare to the delicate richness of homemade, Italian parmesan. Oh, they could never recrea-"[/color] Astrid was finally on her last goddamn straw of sanity. Which was impressive considering Astrid didn't have that quality in spades anyway. AND YET, these clones had eroded it away into near nothing.

Astrid yelled out in rage and tore up the map. She immediately casted a sigil on the ground, threw the maps remains on it and willed it with every fiber of her being to go to this "Italy". As if it had a life to fear the sigil immediately created a sphere that rended space into a human sized tear out across the street from the original Kitai TM. He looked like he was in bliss whereas Astrid was losing the collective mind of every spirit she had within herself as she heard them begin to call for his head as well as the dreaded word. She immediately walked through and shut the portal closed behind her stopping any questions that could have spawned from the gaggle of clones and immediately stomped over to Kitai, running into and through cars in the process and glaring daggers at him. But the worst part? She immediately yelled out the one thing she'd been wanting to scream for the past hour. To the only person in that collective waste of space known as the a "shop". Words Serenity herself had cautioned her to use sparingly. "KITAI!!!! I WANT A GODDAMN REFUND!!!

[Kitai Yoru]

Oh it was a slice of heaven for the Hellion. The food was to die for here. The other customers were appalled by how much he was eating, his stomach literally being bottomless, but he couldn't care less. In fact, just to screw with them a bit, he used a bit of Soul Command to fuse the ends of the spaghetti he was eating, and started slurping down the mega noodle as if he were in a cartoon. He was ten seconds into the plate, and halfway through the dish, before tragedy struck. He lost concentration, and the pile of noodles exploded. He lost concentration... Because of her.

He didn't know how she got here, but the sound of cars swerving into one another was the kind of thing that tended to got you to turn your head to look. And a sinking feeling filled his infinite stomach faster than any amount of food ever could. Because she was someone he immediately recognized. Not for her status, not for her wealth, not even for her looks. No, he recognized her for the fact that she decided to put a down payment on something he hadn't gotten around to making yet. That feeling of dread warmed over, and was quickly replaced by a bubbling anger.

A refund. A refund!? His brow twitched in annoyance, before looking like it was having a full-on seizure. "A refund!?" He yelled out, getting up from his seat so fast his chair went flying backwards. He reached into his jacket pocket, and threw a stack of Italian bills at the waiter who had been serving him. "I tried three times to make your f#%king card, and every time you said you didn't want it!" And now he was dealing with another angry woman in a city outside of Japan. His mind, as angry as it was, couldn't help for flashback to France.

"I asked for what you wanted the card to do, and you said you didn't know! I offered to have it undo your death, and you didn't want it! Do you even know how esoteric the actual meaning behind the card is!?" He was digging around in another pocket, looking for something else now. "And you even had the gall, the sheer audacity to buy a Tarot Card during a holiday discount! Who does that!? You cheapen the legitimacy of it, you emptyheaded, thoughtless streetwalker!" He threw his arms in the air, with a doorknob appearing in his very clenched right hand.

"And now you have the nerve to show up halfway through my lunchbreak, and are threatening this country with enough violence to make France blush!" He stomped on the floor, causing a slab of rock and wood to shoot up from ground. He pressed the knob against it. "F#%k you! F#& your refund! And, you know what, I'm invading your sorry a$$." He couldn't actually remember what faction Astrid was with. Was it Hell? Didn't she claim to be a hollow or something thought? Whatever, he was leaving. Hopefully no one with teleportation abilities tried to interrupt the Interdimensional Doorknob in the middle of activation.

[Astrid Vess]

Astrid could feel her temper flaring, namely because she started to hear the spirits within her flaring up and beginning to scream with her mind. If she wasn't careful, she'd lose herself to them. But frankly, at this point she was fucking BEGGING to do so. Fuck this cheap secondhand waste of a hellion who couldn't even make her a fucking playing card. She growled out as she picked up a car and threw it into another car because it had the audacity to move closer to her. She then screamed out to Kitai interrupting his own yelling fit. "YOU WERE OFFERING WHAT I ALREADY COULD DO YOU FUCK! Why in ANY realm would I spend shining rocks to do the SAME THING again!?! I paid you rocks so that it was USEFUL not a waste of space! Also, what in the fuck is a "SALE"? If you didn't want to sell it for so fucking cheap that's YOUR damn fault not mine! I can't even fucking read!"

"And don't act like you're the one whose losing their goddamn mind right now. You're fucking copies can't be asked to do their job. Just like YOU they're fucking hacks! The best thing you can do is steal from others! You may as well return to Greed considering how LITTLE you actually do besides scamming others!" Astrid watched as a doorknob made its way into his hands. She couldn't actually tell what the purpose of such a thing was. But it became readily clear once he ended up creating a "door" of sorts out of the earth itself. Astrid's eyes narrowed and she immediately threw out a sigil of her own at the opposite side of the door. Fuck you. Fuck your shop. FUCK THIS COUNTRY. AND ABSOLUTELY GO FUCK YOURSELF RIGHT BACK TO HELL KITAI! Astrid immediately willed the sigil to return to Hell. The sigil began to glow a dark red as the image enlarged to show a realm of poisonous crystals, rocks, and every expensive and notable gem, jewel, or metal known and unknown to man.

There was only one issue with all of this. . . Kitai was also using an interdimensional object. And even Astrid knew that when you mixed two different means of opening doors or pathways across the realms shit hit the fan very fast. But like most times Astrid wasn't thinking that deeply given she was beyond done with Kitai and his minions and was NOT leaving without her refund. It didn't help that she had started running over to Kitai to attempt to grapple him from the door he was trying to create which meant both Kitai and Astrid were beyond fucked the moment the doorknob tried to open a door to somewhere else. Her sigil and his doorknob's reiatsu melded. Then went dull. Then grew excessively bright. And the earthen wall cracked as the two fought one another before growing dark orange. When Astrid, and presumably Kitai looked at the door that was breaking down, before them it opened to a space between worlds. Literally a world with doors upon doors upon doors upon doors. And without much fanfare the two were immediately sucked into it by the very reiatsu they used to create their means of dimensional hopping.

Orange tendrils of reiatsu wrapped around both Astrid and Kitai and threw them around the room. Through door, after door, after door. Going through a two-dimensional world. Then a cartoon world. Then a cheese world. Then Candy Land. They even went through a world that looked eerily similar to their own but felt distinctly lacking in spiritual energy at all. And then finally they got flung through yet another door and found themselves into a space that looked like a continuously expanding series of rooms. Musty, molding somewhat, and with stains on the floor, ceiling and walls. The air was stale and was seemed like it had never left these rooms. On one side of the first room was Kitai and on another was Astrid both flat on their faces. Or in Astrid's case face flat into the wall, she'd been thrown into. She was literally one iota away from just releasing and mauling Kitai to death at this point. He was SUCH a goddamn nuisance. In every definition of the word. And the WORST PART was that she'd find him again at some point. Marik constantly spoke of him. She'd never escape him if she tried.

There was a part of her that was mildly concerned about leaving this realm but before she'd do that, she WAS going to kick Kitai's ass or get her refund. Or both frankly. She pulled her head out of the wall, stood up, and glared at Kitai waiting for him to get up. Well "waiting" is a strong word. She immediately insulted him as she started growling at him. "Way to fucking go Kitai, now look where you threw us. Some backwards fuck all place and it's all your goddamn fault. Invade wherever you want but don't fucking run away when your fuck ups come to bite you in the ass! Italy was a perfectly good place to destroy! The fucking Vatican was just down the street!" Her eyes narrowed heavily at Kitai, against all odds she wanted to see what he'd do first. How he'd lash out. She knew he was going to at this point. There was no way he wouldn't. And she was going to punch his skull into his fucking face if she could help it to make sure he got the fucking point across that HE fucked up.

[Kitai Yoru]

And there it was. The crowning achievement, the peak, the pinnacle that would never be surmounted for the rest of his days. The absolute dumbest thing that had and ever will happen to him for the rest of his days. Dis b%tch had an ability to open portals to other worlds, and she had used it on him the moment he used his Doorknob. "You've got to-" He didn't even get to finish his words, as the world around him twisted in on itself, pulling him through the intersecting portals, with Astrid being violently pulled as well, slamming into him as the two tumbled through time and space.

The Doorknob flavored the portals, framing the gateway to each separate world, showing them things beyond imagination. A world where there were only two dimension, a world of living cartoons... And then Heaven. He got to see it for the briefest of moments, a flash upon his eyes, but he could almost feel time slow down for him. The world was filled with nothing but Cheese! The grass was shaved cheddar, the trees were mozzarella sticks, park benches were pizza slices, the fountains were fondue! The cobblestone path were little cheese wheels, the sky was filled with yellow clouds! THIS WAS THE PERFECT WORLD! He thrashed about, reaching for the ground, a desperate attempt to stay here, to live here... But reality was cruel, as the moment ended, and the two slammed against the ground, and were flung into a nightmare.

It was candy land. Of all the places, IT JUST HAD TO BE CANDY LAND! He swallowed a dark rage at the sight, grasping onto his Doorknob just that much tighter. He couldn't be stuck here, HE COULDN'T! And thankfully, they didn't, bouncing along and through the second Hell he had been forced to bear witness to. The second to last felt like nothing. Like a void of anything. It looked normal, somehow too realistic, but he could feel a lack of anything, even with his cripplingly low energy sensory. Like an entire world void of reiatsu.

And then he slammed face first into some drywall.

One pull, two, then the third was what let him dislodge his head from the too yellow wall. He flopped to the floor, before getting to his feet with a desperate sense of urgency. He looked like a man possessed, pressing his Doorknob to the damaged wall. He pressed it to the wall, and what once would have responded with a subtle golden gleam, now made a fart noise. "No no no..." He said to himself, like a man possessed, nearly slamming the useless hunk of metal into the wall. "I was there, I was right there!" He said, trying anything to reopen a portal back to his heaven. "Just send me back to-" And then his ear caught the tail end of Astrid's ranting. "-Italy was a perfectly good place to destroy! The fucking Vatican was just down the street!" And then something in his mind broke.

Kitai's head snapped to face the former Hellion, the cracking of his neck auditable. His eye was twitching furiously as he glared at the woman. "You don't know what money or Italy is, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT THE F&CK THE VATICAN IS ENOUGH TO HATE IT!?" A blood vessel broke, as his other eye went red. "I'M GONNA GOUGE YOUR EYES OUT!" Doorknob flung to the side, Kitai leapt at Astrid, as the destructive aura of Wrath coated his body in a bloody red silhouette, his hand grasping out to wrap around her throat. And so help her if he managed to catch her, because rational thought was tossed out the window.

Darkskill lvl 1: 5,500
Mark of Sin: Wrath: 250
Total Reiatsu Remaining: 14,250

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{Mark of Sin: Wrath}
Mark of Sin: Wrath
Mastered
Technique Name: Mark of Sin: Wrath

Class: [2]

Technique Type: [General Sinner techniques]

Usable By: [Hell Races]

Technique Element: [Physical]

Technique Description and Effects: [Being stuck in the bad end of the afterlife tends to bring out of some of the more negative aspects of the soul. One of seven that can be concentrated and brought forth in a physical form. This manifests as a mark on the body. For Wrath, this mark is branded on the inside of the right forearm. When activated, the user gives into their rage and anger, showing their hate for the world. Their bodies burn with a power they normally wouldn't be able to muster up. Anything that comes into contact with their bodies at this time will be damaged and burnt from the raw power they're letting off. Even brief interactions with the user in this state can melt skin. Lasts two posts.

Their body burns with the power of their original highest offensive stat, destroying anything with less than three quarters of it, and blocking anything above that. Attacks with a higher offensive stat will be undamaged.]

How to use technique: [User gives into their emotion, becoming the embodiment of Wrath, losing the ability to strategize. Costs 250 reiatsu.]

Technique Drawbacks: [The user must give into their emotion in order to use this ability, severely limiting their ability to think coherently, let alone form strategies. They can still use abilities, but not in any tactical way. After the ability ends, the user is left fatigued, their body not able to maintain full power afterward. Physicals are halved. Cooldown, 5 posts.]

Made By: [Kitai Yoru]

Reserved?: [Yes]

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{Darkskill Level 1}Dark Skill Level 1 Property:] [The first stage of his release allows him to create gigai-like bodies for him to enter and use as he sees fit. In order to create a body, Kitai must spend 25% of his current reiatsu, but must spend at least 250 in order to use the technique. The strength and durability of the bodies is based off the amount of reiatsu Kitai has used during the thread. For every 100 reiatsu Kitai has used in the thread, it will increase the strength, speed, and durability by 10. Each body comes with a 300 to start in all three of these stats. If the user has physical stats higher than the base 300, their starting physical stat or stats will be changed to that higher number. The highest the physical stats the body can have 1000.

The strength of the body is a sort of false one. While the bodies themselves are strong, it is merely a tool, not truly living so to speak. While a real body would be able to handle such strength and speed, this one cannot. And like all tools, they have a breaking point. Those wearing the body will find themselves unable to use main benefits that high physical stats would normally grant. The benefits of having high strength are forever lost to the user, unless they already had them before putting on the Gigai.

Much like a tool, once the body uses too much power, it begins to quickly wear out. The max output a body can use varies on the user. The bodies are based on the user, and thus match their max potential, even if the bodies themselves should be stronger. A user with 50 strength or speed, can only ever make the bodies reach 150 strength or speed. If someone had 400 in strength or speed, they would be able to bring out the full potential of the bodies, and reach 1000 in either stat.

However, like any machine, running at full power causes a reaction in the bodies. The body, and by extension the user, have no issues with stamina of any kind after this point, never running out after it breaks its limits for the first five post, using a sort of Hysterical Strength to force itself to keep going. After the five posts will drain stamina like normal. Normally a body can last indefinitely, but for every post the user pushes their physical stats past their limits no further than double their base stats, it drains a post, while over that pushes it by two posts. The body has ten of these posts before it dies, ejecting the user of it from the maimed corpse. Hitting 1000 in either stat will cost the bodies two posts, regardless of the the user's base stats.

The creation of the body is instant, forming around Kitai if he so chooses, or in his hand. Bodies can be exited at any time the wearer pleases. The only oddities that make the body stand out from normal humans is that the first stage of a Dark Skill will still shine through, and the chains on their soul will still appear on the new body, but otherwise, the body will be have an appearance of whatever Kitai wishes it to look like. Size of the bodies follows the strength rules for sizes.

So long as the body is worn, Hell has a much harder time finding him. For every three posts that a Saika is in the body, the count on the duration of his escape will go down by one for every three posts they make. Can start a thread with a body for an additional 500 reiatsu of the base cost, without activating his dark skill. Any damage the body takes is not fully transferred to him. Damage is reduced by fifty percent, and attacks that would kill the body will eject the soul before it can be damaged too much. Fatal damage done to the body will be reduced to the point of just barely avoiding death. The body cannot heal via the normal Saika regeneration, but his soul underneath is still able to. The healing done to the soul will not transfer to the body. Once he exits a body, the stats will be reset to how it was before he entered the body. After a body is destroyed or dies, it goes onto a three post cooldown before he can create another one. This does not count as a stat boosting technique. If a body is healed, Kitai will not be healed.

[Astrid Vess]

Astrid growled loudly as the voices in her mind screamed ever louder. She could barely process what was being said to her but that didn't matter if he she struggled to make out the words. She knew what his body spoke, and she saw what he did. He was going to fight her and try to kill her. So be it, Astrid finally let the voices take over and she screamed out in turn with them. "Arise, Uayt Koroleva!" Astrid's form immediately exploded as black and white flames consumed her entirety leaving a white mold fungus to fill in the parts of her body that weren't just charred bone. Connective tissues were replaced by mycelia and her hands and feet were replaced with claws that not only had serrated edges but sharpened points for tips. Her face immediately contorted into warped animalistic fury, and she roared out a scream that sounded like humans, beasts, and other unholy creatures from Hell all mixed together.


"NOT IF I RIP OUT YOUR FUCKING SPINE! RRRAAAAGAGHHHHHH!!" Astrid's only thoughts revolved around killing him. Absolutely sending Kitai back to the very circles that he crawled his sorry ass out of and thus as Kitai leapt towards her Astrid ran forward towards him. However, where Kitai likely expected Astrid do avoid him or even try to dodge by moving one to either side of him, she leapt under him and rolled. But it wasn't normal by any fucking stretch. Her bones and fungus crunched, rolled, and made itself into a cylinder as she literally rolled herself under his body. Then as he was passing over her body, she unwound her body and threw out her fist. It was flooded with reiatsu as the mycelia was glowing dark orange and within a moment Kitai would feel before he could see what she'd done.


Using her right hand, she let out not just a punch, not a few punches, but 30 punches across every inch of his body. From foot to head, and everything in between she threw out these punches that all slammed into his body at the same time. There was no doubt his form would have suffered heavy damage from the many punches and thus produce the disgusting sounds of crunching and shattering for most if not all the bones in his body. From there he'd find himself flung into the ceiling above and maybe through several more levels up until a point. As Kitai would make his way through floor after floor, Astrid saw his chains still on the ground near her. She then willed out a pair of spirits to assist her, conjuring her tried and true helper Samson along with a saika in flaming armor, a shield, and sword. She then conjured up bone gauntlets to across her arms, thick and heavy as she knew the fucking chains would bite into her. Least they would if they had been Astrids.


Then using all their combined strength and cutting not only into Astrid's gauntlets, but the hands and armor of the saika and Samson, they all began to pull Kitai's chains and by proxy him from wherever her was above them. Astrid screamed up towards his chains as she felt his body moving back down. "COWARD! GET THE FUCK BACK HERE!" Assuming the collective group dragged kitai back down from the higher levels and slammed him into the floor she'd immediately let go of the chains and start running towards him at full speed. Samson behind her and the flaming saika in front of her. She had every intent to pummel kitai through the ground if she'd not already done so. If there was a floor beneath them and Kitai was slammed through the floor she'd jump down to follow him. The moments in between finding her form slowly shifting some as she looked to be growing bigger in every dimension, assuming Kitai could even tell. I'MGOINGTOKILLHIM!I'MGOINGTOKILLHIM!I'MGOINGTOKILLHIM!I'MGOINGTOKILLHIM!I'MGOINGTOKILLHIM!I'MGOINGTOKILLHIM!I'MGOINGTOKILLHIM!I'MGOINGTOKILLHIM!I'MGOINGTOFUCKINGKILLHIM!!!

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{Astrid New Stat Spread and Skill list}Str: 1400

Speed: 400

RS: 25

SPPR: 100

Senses: 300

Instinct: 300

ES: 0

HE: 100


Skills

Focused Eye - 3

Poison Resist - 3

Pain Tolerance - 3

Strength of Will - 3

Martial Arts: Way of the Flesh Warper - 4

Bleeding Tolerance - 1

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{Reiatsu Spent / Reiatsu Tab}
-400 for Primera Etapa

1,000 - 400 = 600 reiatsu remaining


Reiatsu Tab

-450 for Osteomorph gauntlets

Total Reiatsu Tab: 450

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{Techniques used}Technique Name: Shotgun Slam

Technique Class: 3

Technique Type: Martial

Usable By: All

Technique Element: Body

Description:

This technique is similar in nature to the shinigami Thousand Fangs technique or the general populace Fifty Thrusts technique. A barrage of hits in a short time to achieve the goal of wearing down an opponent. However, unlike the aforementioned techniques, Shotgun Slam puts more focus on the Power behind the barrage as well limiting the cumulative number of hits so that they can all be achieved in very nearly the same instance. Effectively speed is needed up to a point but with less total attacks the attacks than its companions it instead put more emphasis put into each attack made. And thus replicate a shotgun using buckshot where multiple shots will hit a target at relatively the same time.

It should be noted that this technique cannot be used with a weapon that isn't a limb or a natural weapon. I.E. Claws/tails/wings as an example. With the exception of things like Brass Knuckles or similar weapons that make one's fists deadlier without being akin to a dagger.

Mechanically speaking this technique has the user increase their speed of the attack equal the users base Strength stat while increasing the power behind the attacks produced by 2x their strength. In addition, this technique limits how many attacks the user can produce depending on their mastery level. At learned only 10 attacks can be produced. At Proficient 20 attacks can be produced. At Mastered 30 attacks can be produced. Attacks produced via this attack come out in a spread and thus start out with a range of 5 feet in total distance. This increases by 5 feet for every level above learned, capping at 15 feet.


How to Use:

Flood the muscles/limb with reiatsu, flex said limb, and then let loose.


Drawbacks:

Has a cap of how many times this can be used in a post. At Learned and Proficient this is once a post. Mastered is twice a post. Limbs that used this technique lose 25% of their speed and strength for the next post. If the technique is used while this debuff is active it increases to 50%. If used again, the limb in question is considered useless as the bones are shattered and muscles torn asunder.

Incredibly limited in what weapons can use this technique otherwise it is solely limited to an individual's body. Cannot be used in conjunction with speed increasing techniques. Strength boosting techniques (Impact) do not change the base speed or power behind this technique.

600 strength is needed to learn this technique and go to proficient. 800 strength is needed to master this technique.




Distorted Growth*
Technique Class: 3

Technique Type: Physical / Spiritual

Usable By: Astrid

Technique Element: Flesh

Description:

Distorted Growth is the first in the series of Way of the Flesh Warper. It should be noted that this is a not a martial series for everyone as the basis of this fighting style is because of one's natural or supernatural means to generate flesh/bone/blood/etc. Thus, to begin learning this style the user must gain or otherwise activate High Speed Regeneration. Once this is done Distorted Growth can finally be used. Distorted Growth is "simple" in what it does. This technique once learned, allows the user to warp their body by shifting flesh from one limb to another.


The first noticeable benefit it allows is the user to have hyper flexibility of their body. Shifting, contorting, and otherwise bending in ways that should not be physically possible. Such as bending their spine backwards and under their legs. Or pulling up their leg diagonally and wrapping it around themselves. Effectively if the user desires their body to move or contort in a direction, the body is capable of doing so with minimal if any consequences. This allows for one of the most important facets of this particular style of fighting. Otherwise seemingly erratic and "impossible" feats using just one's own body. The higher the skill points in Way of the Flesh Warper, the more eccentric the means an individual can move their body. Mastering this technique allows the user to act as though they have an additional point in Way of the Flesh Warper. This can bring a 3 to 4 so long as they know and have mastered at least 3 other Way of the Flesh Warper techniques. Until then it can only boost the user to a 3.


With regards to shifting one's flesh to another limb this is a bit more difficult and can only be done on a temporary basis until this technique is mastered. In essence the limb in question gains additional muscle mass and is able to grow in size up to an additional 5 feet in all directions for every limb's flesh used for this. Limbs with additional muscle to them are able to flex against attacks easier and gain a durability stat that actively reduces harm done to the user on that limb. The durability is equal to half the user's strength stat.

There is another benefit to reinforcing one's limbs this way. Damage imposed on an item, object, or being with a durability stat takes an additional 50% more damage upon impact. This occurs from the excessive force that can be exerted by the limb in question. This also extends to the user's shockwaves produced by this limb if the user can create them.


How to Use:

Activate one's HSR if it is not already. Then channel reiatsu throughout the body. From there essentially flex the body to shift in the manner you desire. The body will follow thereafter.

Drawbacks:

First and foremost a body cannot survive using this technique for long if HSR is not active or present. This is because naturally pushing flesh from one part to another or bending/contorting it in directions it's not inherently supposed to is painful and damaging. Thus no one without HSR in even a temporary fashion can learn this technique series.

The user also must have a pain tolerance to endure this in a fight. A 2 is required until Proficient. A 1 is required until Mastered. Additionally, the maximum speed the body can move while warped in an unnatural manner is 80% of its speed and with 80% of its power. This is reduced to 90% at Proficient and is removed at Mastered.

Limbs where flesh was taken from have 50% less durability. And thus, can be broken or harmed more easily. They also cannot flex or produce shockwaves. Hyper extended limbs so long as they are cut at the joints are 25% easier to cut specifically. But harm to them is 10% easier. I.E. attacks against them depending on the manner of attack are stronger against the user.



Benign Growth*
Technique Class: 3

Technique Type: Physical

Usable By: Astrid

Technique Element: Flesh

Description:

This technique is exactly what you think it is. This technique is where the Path of the Flesh Warper begins to live up to its name. With this technique the user gains the means to grow different body parts on their body regardless of their biology. For example, a user could generate a mouth filled with fangs on their neck. They could generate a tail from their shoulder or tentacles from their palms or feet. Essentially, they can conjure up additional body parts upon command by having their HSR create them. Obviously, this means additional organs are a no go. Including non-vitals such as the eyes, ears, nose, etc. But flesh, bone, skin, viscera? Those are all fair game.

Now the way this works is that for every post this technique is active the user gains 5 feet of flesh they can use. Upon the initial use of this technique, they gain 10 feet worth of flesh. This numerical value is a vague reference of the maximum size of a single limb that can be produced at that moment. This can of course be split between several limbs if the user desires. Here is a list of general limbs that this technique can create though this is not all inclusive, should something not be here its closest variant can be referenced and costs of flesh used:


Mouths/Jaws: 1 foot of flesh

Skulls: 3-5 feet of flesh/bone

Tails: 5 feet minimum, can be as long as the user desires.

Wings: 5 feet minimum per wing. Caps at 15 per wing.

Tendrils: 3 feet minimum, can be as long as the user desires.

Arms / Legs: 3 feet minimum

Fists / Feet / Hooves / etc: 2 feet minimum per instance

Torso / Ribcage: 5 feet minimum and can be up to 15 feet maximum.


A couple things to note. 1. As all additional limbs/body parts are created from the user they use Strength when interacting with a clash or an attack. 2. These are considered extensions of the user and can use techniques the originator could use. So long as the body part in question can use it. This requires the technique to be Proficient for techniques up to class 3. And Mastered for techniques up to class 1. 3. These limbs do not benefit from HSR; however, they can be "regenerated" so long as the user has enough flesh to recreate it again. I.E. the pay the flesh cost again.


How to Use:

Focus reiatsu on the body part in question and visualize what you want it to become. Let the body's regenerative capabilities create what you envision. From there use it as you see fit.


Drawbacks:

Each body part costs 50 reiatsu for each foot of flesh used to create it. Big limbs become very expensive very quickly.

Having more than 6 limbs or using 30 feet of flesh is considered tiring. Such as moving above 600 speed constantly. Limbs cannot flex defend against attacks. Limbs also transfer on contact effects to Astrid if the enemy has such a power.

Flesh cannot be regenerated by HSR. Must spend more flesh gained via this technique to remake. Cannot use techniques until Proficient or Mastered. Must have learned Distorted Growth. Requires a 2 in Way of the Flesh Warper



Osteomorph*
Technique Class: 2

Technique Type: Physical

Usable By: Astrid / Regenerative users

Technique Element: Bone

Description:

Osteomorph is the next step for those who follow the path of Flesh Warping. Where the previous techniques have been dedicated to manipulating the flesh of the user this technique goes deeper and focuses on the skeleton of the individual. As HSR still targets the user's bones this allows for advanced applications of body warping that aren't normally possible. With this technique the user gains the means to grow bones out of their body or through it in order to produce weapons, attack, defend, etc. Effectively becoming what the technique is named after an "Osteomorph" or monster of bone. Each level of mastery with this technique allows for different aspects of the user to manifest. For learned the effects are fairly simple. The user can grow spikes of bones from within themselves and can even fire said spikes from themselves. These spikes can manifest from the arms and legs. Hands and feet included. These spikes can grow as big as 2 feet long and have no edges, simply pointed tips. Once produced these spikes cannot be moved or manipulated beyond moving the limb they are attached to with the exception of firing them off. Firing off the spikes is however crude and even the strongest individuals can only shoot them a maximum of 30 feet at a speed of 500. Spikes created have a strength and durability equal to the user's Strength stat and are considered class 4 in terms of clashing.

At Proficient is where this technique becomes more exciting. For one thing bones can be grown in any manner the user chooses. Curved, twisted, uniform, segmented, it's all up to the user. In addition, the bones can even be made brittle to allow them to shatter upon impact with an object and fire out bone shards akin to shrapnel. Bones produced can also be removed at will and qualify as weapons that use the Way of the Flesh Warper skill to determine one's capabilities with them. Lastly so long as a bone is segmented the user can flex the weapon around, so long as it's attached to their body. Fine movement cannot be achieved but simple motions are possible. Brittle bones have half the durability of standard bones. Bones created are considered class 3 at this level. Bone shards move at a speed of 400 upon impact and spikes fired out now move at 600 speed.

Finally, at Mastered the user becomes a true monster. Normal bones gain a 25% durability increase as well as can be shifted and manipulated around the body at will once produced. I.E. A user can create a spike from their chest and then shift said spike harmlessly to their backside. This occurs at the users base speed. The forms of all bones created are up to the user's discretion. Lastly for 50% the cost the user can create incredibly dense bones that have 2x the user's durability making them excellent shielding against attacks. Sadly, dense bones like these can only defend and thus cannot be made into offensive weapons in any capacity. These bones must remain attached to the user like armor or clothing and can cover up to two limbs per payment. They also cannot be moved once created. As for bone spikes and bone shrapnel they gain increased speeds at this stage. 700 speed for spikes and 500 for shrapnel. Bones are finally considered class 2.


How to Use:

Channel reiatsu into the bone desired. Direct its growth with a second path of reiatsu. Endure the pain of being impaled from the inside. Prosper.


Drawbacks:

Pain. There is always pain when using this technique. From growing bones to having them be manipulated through the user and tearing through flesh. A minimum of 2 in Pain Tolerance is necessary to use this technique at all.

Must have HSR active to use this technique. Must have Benign Growth at Learned for Learned and Proficient. Must have Benign Growth at Proficient to Master this technique. No fine control of bones attached to the user until Mastered. No bone "weapons" until Proficient. Bones produced by this technique do not benefit from HSR. Until mastered bones created by this technique are always a lower class.

Spikes cost 300 reiatsu per spike. Bone "weapons" cost 400 reiatsu. Shifting bones to other parts of the body costs 100 reiatsu. Creating Brittle Bones is 100 reiatsu cheaper. Shrapnel from the bones can injure the user. Dense bones are 50% more expensive and cannot be used for offense.




Legionnaires Sigil+
Technique Class: Class 2

Technique Type: Spiritual

Usable By: Arrancar

Technique Element: Sigil

Description:

The Legionnaire's Sigil is a bit of a specialty sigil of Astrid's creation. Upon becoming an arrancar but more specifically a hollow, it was made very apparent that Astrid's soul was warped drastically. Enough so that the majority of the spiritual energy she once possessed had simply been used up. Likely to fuel her new form that was beyond supernaturally powerful by comparison. This . . . did not come without drawbacks. This meant Astrid was now incredibly vulnerable to cutback as her capability to utilize reiatsu is. . . at best. Minimal. And unbeknownst to her Arrancar's resilience to cutback is through the potency of their reiatsu not the quantity. This sigil seeks to correct that given even now Astrid's power is built off of one thing and one thing alone. The raw volume of souls she has consumed and will continue to consume.


Mechanically speaking this technique does one thing. It reverts Astrid back to calculating when she is inflicted with cutback by using her spiritual pressure stat as opposed to her reiatsu strength stat. This technique is a passive effect and cannot be unlearned in any capacity once it has been learned with two exceptions. Sans character death or race change. This technique however is not without its drawbacks. Namely that this technique can be made null and void in a fight if the sigil is heavily damaged. Unlike hason who can inscribe directly onto their souls via sigil magic, Arrancars can at best inscribe sigils onto their bodies for permanent effects. Thus, if the sigils in question are damaged or otherwise removed their effects become null and void. So too is Legionaire's sigil suffer from this. Thus, the user must decide where the sigil will be inscribed with great thought lest it be constantly destroyed.


How to Use:

Inscribe the sigil, chosen by the user, onto their body in an area of their choosing. Flood the sigil with reiatsu and then let the reiatsu burn the sigil into the flesh. From there the sigil will turn black and begin to take effect.


Drawbacks:

Cannot be unlearned sans race change or character death. I.E., this is permanent 90% of the time. If the sigil is damaged severely, half or more of it is gone, the effects are undone. Arrancar will revert to RS for cutback calculation as opposed to SPPR. Upon the sigil being destroyed Ryo must be spent to "heal it" as it is considered a permanent scar. The cost is 2,000 Ryo every time the sigil is "healed". The sigil cannot be healed via HSR in a fight or by another healing technique/power/ability.

Sigil must be specified where it is at on the user's body in their point bank.

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{Stat Blocks for Samson and Saika Summons}Samson:

Strength: 800
Speed: 400
RS: 0
SPPR: 0 (immune to Cutback)
Instinct: 200
Senses: 200
ES: 0
HE: 0
Durability: 2,800


Saika:

Strength: 600
Speed: 400
RS: 0
SPPR: 0 (immune to Cutback)
Instinct: 200
Senses: 150
ES: 150
HE: 0
Durability: 2,800

Note: Sword, Shield, and Armor are on fire and burn on contact.

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{Primera Etapa Info}As mentioned previously Astrid’s ability is to channel through her body a small number of souls to assist her while she combats her enemies. Similar to her previous powers however unlike her previous the spirits can only be up to a maximum distance of 5 feet from her. Typically, they will exist in the same space as Astrid given, they have an ethereal form and thus do not hinder her physical interactions with the world. However, that doesn’t mean that they cannot assist Astrid. In fact, they can interact with the physical world if they so desire or are otherwise commanded/willed by Astrid to do so. More so that they simply do not hinder her ability to interact with the world. It should also be noted that Astrid can interact with the spirits if she chooses.

The spirits also come with abilities that their forms had previously. Examples include if a hollow spirit is created, it can use cero or bala. Or if a quincy is manifested it can generate a bow and arrows. Or shinigami can have a zanpakuto sword. These are however at their most basic. At best this allows for Astrid to manifest beings that had breath weapons and the elements associated with them. I.E. a dragon that can breathe out fire. Effectively, if it’s something the basic spirit could do, those Astrid manifest can also perform the same abilities. As well as abilities that the spirits form would typically allow.

Each spirit is custom built upon being summoned. Astrid, upon releasing, can manifest two spirits for free. Each spirit so long as Primera is active can have a total of 1600 SP and this SP can bypass the 400 caps as the spirits have no types to boost their abilities. Stats are capped at 1000. They can manifest abilities/weakness of high and low stats. I.E. too high in senses makes them weak to sensory abilities. Meanwhile too low of senses means they cannot perceive the world around them. The size limits of the spirits are 20 feet Tall/Wide/Thick in Primera but do not require the minimum strength requirements. Each spirit also comes with its own durability stat. This stat is 2x Astrid’s OS. Upon this being reduced to 0 the spirit vanishes. In Primera Astrid can manifest up to 3 spirits at a time.


To manifest additional spirits costs 500 reiatsu and in addition for every spirit manifested Astrid loses an additional post in release past the first spirit manifest. I.E. Astrid alone while released uses one post from her total. Astrid with 3 spirits uses 3 posts for every post she remains released. Spirits can be dismissed but does not reduce the post counts until the following post as the post count lost is determined by the highest number of spirits Astrid has manifested during that post. It should also be noted that for the sake of clashing against attacks the spirits do not have class. They act as though they are classless. Finally, Astrid can channel spiritual techniques or use physical techniques through the spirits manifested. So long as they have the stats to utilize the techniques in question. Costs are still deducted from Astrid’s reiastu as the spirits have no reiatsu despite having a SPPR stat. Spirits cannot be affected by Cutback as they are released based.

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{Release Info}Class: 1

Duration: 2/32 posts used

Number of Summons: 2/3 - First two are free.

No durability damage to either summon.

Stats gained: Strength and Instinct

1 post until next stat gain.

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{Legionaires Sigil Reference and Location}

Location is on her neck. Under her chin and above her collar bones.

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{Samson and Saika reference picture}Samson:

Saika:

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{Astrid Primera Etapa Form Reference}

[Kitai Yoru]

This arrogant abomination. This feckless, arrogant, putrid mistake of an abomination, unworthy to even dare to even breath the same air as even the most pox ridden lepers, unworthy to take up a valuable resource from them. This wrath was different. This wrath was itching his bones, boiling the blood in his veins, and tugging on his very soul, demanding more than just blood, but death and carnage. He roared out in challenge as the harlot's punches broke against the combined defenses of his Wrath, as well as his Energy Shell. If he were in a more rational state of mind, he might be grateful for his foresight in brining that piece of armor along.

But he was too angry.

Her attack had launched him up, blasting him through at least one floor. It might have been two, but a beast had been summoned by the wretch, grabbing one of his chains. His anger was murderous as he watched the titan of flesh and muscle pull at them. What a mindless beast. Didn't it know never to touch a sinner's chains of Hell? She must have somehow thought herself clever for such a move. Stupid didn't even begin to describe Astrid. But he couldn't describe anything right now, so he would let his actions do the speaking for him. He bellowed in anger, as he started to descend, but if the beast, the Saika, or even Astrid herself tried to let go of the chains, they would find themselves unable to do so.

The Chains snaked themselves around the arms of them all, carving grooves into its flesh and steel alike. His Bladed Chains holding onto them with purpose. As Kitai slammed against the floor, his body burst apart into flame, a Living Inferno taking his place. The fire roared in outrage, as it dragged itself at Astrid, its intent to consume her, burn her alive. Whatever twisted and mangled form she took, he would follow. So long as the chain held fast to her limb, he would pull himself at her, using the speed of the chain to fly at her. The other chains would cut through Samson's arm, as would the Saika's, but Astrid had Kitai's attention. He wasn't trying to cut through her. He only wanted to hold her with it.

"I'LL BURN YOU ALIVE YOU DISGUSTING MONSTER!" His words sounding like crackling embers of a fire, igniting the room around them. His form was larger than it previously was, a ball of flame, forty feet in diameter. Should the flames envelop Astrid, they would burn her, equal to Kitai's OS. It would be a painful thing to see, but the flames themselves would hold on to her at that point, albeit with Kitai's strength. The other three chains were making a beeline towards the former sinner, doing their best to prevent the Arrancar from escaping the inferno.

Living Inferno Class 1: 400, 2,000 OS
Mark of Sin: Wrath: 2/2
Total Reiatsu Remaining: 13,850

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{Techs used}Technique Name: [Living Inferno]

Class: [5,3,1]

Technique Type: [Reiatsu]

Usable By: [Hellions]

Technique Element: [Fire]

Technique Description and Effects: [The bodies of all Sinners are created from the fire and brimstone, given shape and mass by magics not understood by the creatures themselves. But those who seek the knowledge tend to stumble across this technique. This technique allows the Sinner to revert their bodies back into the Hellfire they're spawned from. This transformation comes in three stages, each with clear differences in power and efficiency.

The class 5 version of this technique allows the users a partial transformation of their limbs, converting to a solid fire that burns with either the power of the user's highest spiritual stat. These flames convert all the way up to the elbows for the arms, and the knees downwards for the legs. While in a flaming state, the limbs can stretch and change shape to the user's will, up to ten feet in length. These limbs are still bound by the physical stats of the user, moving as fast as the user, and punching as hard as the user. These limbs cannot be regrown. Costs 100 reiatsu per post.

The class 3 version improves upon its class 5 counterpart, completely converting the lower half of the body, and goes all the way to the shoulders for the arms. These fires still burn like the do for their previous version, and can be manipulated in the same manner. With this version though, the user has learned to rekindle their bodies, allowing them to regrow lost or damaged limbs, be the damaged before the technique is activated, or while the technique is active. This 'Rekindling' is a slow process at this stage, taking two posts to regrow them, and costs an extra 50 reiatsu per post. This can be ignored if the user has a faster form of healing limbs, like HSR. This technique costs 200 reiatsu per post.

Ahh class 1, the magnum opus for this technique. As before, the technique still burns with either the user's highest spiritual stat, or 600, whichever is higher. But unlike before, the user can fully convert their body into the flames of Hell. The user can grow as large as they want, up to 40 feet in height, and can ignore the height requirements. The flames are only semi-solid at this level, and techniques can pass through the user without ending the user's life. Costs 400 reiatsu per post]

How to use technique: [Pay Reiatsu]

Technique Drawbacks: [You didn't think a power like this came without its price, did you? There's always a price, and this one is steep. On top of the reiatsu costs per post, each level of this technique requires the user to have a point in either Pain Tolerance, or Anti-Torture. Strength of Will does not count. The class 5 version would only require one point in either of the two skills, the class 3 would require two points in either of them, while the class 1 would require three.

This is far from the only drawback, as being transformed into flames wracks your health in more ways than one. While this transformation can theoretically last till the user's reiatsu pool runs dry, this technique slowly starts to cook the user. Understanding how to partially revert the body back into flames isn't a perfect process for the denizens of Hell, especially when the process isn't fully understood. While this technique is active, the flames of Hell burn away the soul, not just the body, and thus puts them on a timer, even with something as amazing as high speed regeneration. Without having points in Heat Resistance, this technique will leave the soul of the user in cinders after about six posts, with each level of Heat Resistance adding another post to stave off the inevitable fiery end. If the user is killed by the technique, they will respawn in Hell like normal, but with their stats halved for one thread.]

Made By: Kitai Yoru

[Astrid Vess]

Astrid normally would have been enjoying herself immensely. The fact she was going on a wanton mass destruction of the world around her and with an enemy who could actually take a punch would have been exciting. The only problem was that it was fucking Kitai. This fucking asshole was continuing to find different ways to piss off Astrid beyond the already erupting fury she had been experiencing. And that was only shown by the fact he'd cleanly cut off several arms from Samson and nearly bisected the saika she'd summoned. Hell, even her own gauntlets which had trailed up her arms were more or less fused with the fucking chains this waste of space had. Thankfully she was right about the fact they could cut though she had no idea chains, especially the bladed versions, could do this. A small voice in her mind spoke out about remembering this but that was assuming she could remember anything after this fight.


With a grunt and an inhuman roar of her own, she ripped her arms out from the bone gauntlets she'd created. The squelching sound of flesh was loud as blood splattered on the ground where she stood while the gauntlets found themselves being drawn towards Kitai's not literally flaming form as Astrid wasn't fighting back to hold the gauntlets in place. Kitai would see however that despite having just been torn off, that her arms were already back to the same form as before with not a trace of harm to be seen. Astrid would flood her body with reiatsu glowing a dull orange while jumping up via Sonido bringing herself just under the ceiling of the room. Once up in the air she had herself and Samson both release a shockwave that was 10 feet wide and "X" shaped and throw it at Kitai and his chains. Assuming the shockwave hit Kitai, it would become immediately apparent that it either didn't matter as it would go through him or be incinerated due to the massive difference in power.


Astrid as she began to fall grew out wings, bat like and with the bones exposed as powerful muscles and connective tissue grew in between. With this in mind she'd fly at her maximum speed away from the chains, easily outpacing them while she yelled at her Saika to figure out what to do. The saika would then glare at Kitai and try to find something to tell Astrid about only to realize with his ES that Kitai and his entire form were more or less using his monstrous amounts of spiritual abilities. With a not-so-subtle reminder of how damaged the saika and Samson had both become due to said flaming saika. With a growing frustration that was threatening to have Astrid do something beyond stupid, like trying to choke out the saika she instead decided to fly up to the ceiling, flip over, and use Sonido to step back down to the ground in between Kitai and the wall. Upon landing she flexed her leg muscles and slammed two separate shockwaves into the ground causing the room's floor to collapse taking Kitai with it unless he could grab something or otherwise fly.


This wasn't going to be enough to kill Kitai, if he punches didn't then this wouldn't either. With a growl she would continue moving around, even going so far as to fly up the couple of floors she'd originally slammed Kitai up into to get a bit more distance. A quick growl was the only threat she gave to her spirits to make sure they kept their attention on the room and the holes they came from with the skeletal saika keeping his focus on his Kitai's reiatsu for any changes. Astrid on the other hand in arguably the most warped means to do so, flexed her heart and other muscles by force to start increasing her blood pressure while sending reiatsu through her veins starting a mass chemical reaction within. This would cause her appearance to take a rapidly reddening appearance with ever more unnatural wriggling throughout her body. This wasn't going to work probably but she needed to do more than keep throwing floors between the two and it was pissing her off to no end that she couldn't punch his stupid fucking mug into paste. But she saw the shockwaves failure, she knew that she'd need something more and for that she needed space or time to prepare her body. Something she wasn't certain Kitai needed anymore as a flaming monstrosity.

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{Reiatsu}
-500 for Benign Growth
-250 for Sonido
-25 for Tsukarenai (1400 Speed)
-400 reiatsu for Bloody Menace (Pressure)

Total reiatsu spent: 1,175

Reiatsu Tab:

450 + 1,75 = 1,625 reiatsu on tab

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{Techniques Used}
Sonido

Class: [4] - 7-1.

Technique Type: [Hollow Technique] - Kidou, Quincy Technique, Bount Technique, Human Technique, Hollow Technique, Other

Technique Element: [None] - If any

Technique Description and Effects: [What does your technique do? How strong is it? What is it's range of abilities? List these things below.]

A powerful technique, Sonido is a step that increases movement speed for a single step. Essentially, it magnifies the speed of just that one step, by 13 times. Each step for Sonido costs 100 Reiatsu. Additionally, this technique does not take up a technique slot.

How to use technique: [How do you use this technique? List below.]

Just use it and drain the Reiatsu.

Drawback: [What are the disadvantages and drawbacks of your technique? Don't forget that the drawback must be equal in strength to the technique. List everything related to the drawback below.]



Tsukarenai

Class: 3

Technique Type: Other

Usable By: All

Technique Description and Effects: 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 technique: Coat body in Reiatsu and use it to move.

Technique 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.




Bloody Menance

Technique Class: 3

Technique Type: Physical

Usable By: Astrid / Regenerative users

Technique Element: Blood

Description:

The next tier of Way of the Flesh Warper techniques finally settles on something everyone knows of. Blood. The life water of an individual and usually pretty passive or otherwise forgotten about until it's too late. Flesh Warpers usually stray away from this as it can be incredibly taxiing when done improperly at best. And effectively a death sentence at worst. However, for those who dare to make use of their life water, they'll quickly see that within one's blood is a plethora of diverse abilities. One simply has to take the time to train themselves to utilize it. In this way one who learns "Bloody Menace" must train their body to be able to handle the effects of changing their bloods composition and thus changing the properties of it. The effects below must be chosen from below and depending on the user's mastery level depend on how many they can learn and use at a time. Learned and Proficient can use 1 property at a time. Mastered users can use 2. Meanwhile for the purposes of learning a Learned individual can only have one property. A proficient user can have 2 properties. A mastered user knows all properties.


Temperature:

If this property is chosen the user is able to change the temperature of their blood. Regulating it to become intensely hot or become akin to ice. Only one temperature can be chosen upon utilizing this property. Once chosen however the user need only bleed from some portion of their body to see the effects. For superheated blood it is akin to carrying boiling water within oneself. Everything that it touches is burned by the scalding liquid, it can eat melt metals and stone if they are not spiritually reinforced. As for super cooling one's blood the opposite is true. Upon contact the blood immediately vaporizes and rapidly cools what it came in contact with. So long as an object is not spiritually reinforced it will rapidly drop in temperature and subsequently freeze itself and the nearby area around it up to 3 inches from it. Blood that has left the body retains these temperature differences for two posts before cooling/warming to room temperature.


Pressure:

Upon choosing this property the user increases the pressure of that their blood remains at. This is mainly done by flexing the muscles and blood vessels within the body to ensure that a higher pressure can be achieved. To assist in the true goal of this property the blood is also changed to have an incredibly low boiling point. Upon the user creating or otherwise becoming injured in any capacity, the wound spurts out blood that immediately phase changes into a liquid-vapor mist. This mist blocks all from being able to see through it unless the individual has 300 or more senses. Smell however is blocked unless an individual has 400 or higher senses.

All those who enter the mist become coated in the blood-vapor and will retain the effects but at a reduced capacity. For sight, senses of 150 is needed to see through the blood coating an individual's eyes. Smelling anything but the blood requires 200 senses. There is one final effect of an individual being coated in blood. The blood for the next 2 posts makes the individual easier to find via smell due to how pungent the blood is. This reduces the individual's Stealth skill by 1 to a minimum of 0.


Chemical Make-up:

If this property is chosen the user gains the means to make their blood rapidly coagulate and, in the process, create blood "crystals". These crystals do a couple things. First and foremost, they are incredibly weighty causing someone who has been coated in blood to need 50 more strength for every half a limb coated in blood. Secondly while rapidly transforming into blood crystals the blood begins to dig and tear into an object/individual. This occurs over the course of a post. The blood can only crystalize a couple of inches at most, so the wounds at best are superficial and at worse moderately deep. These crystals have an OS and durability equal to half the user's Strength Stat. Crystals remain until destroyed.


Adhesion:

If this property is chosen the blood takes on a very curious change. Becoming semi-solid in a way, nearly jello like but without the solid form. In addition, it becomes incredibly sticky. Both to an individual other than the user as well as to everything they could come in contact with. Upon being released the blood will pool and adhere itself to whatever it comes in contact with. This lasts for 3 posts after leaving the body and requires a strength of 500 in order to pull the limb from an object. It should be noted that even if an individual manages to pull a connected limb away from an object or individual that the blood will still take some of the other with them. This can cause harm in another person or damage to an object.


How to Use:

Channel reiatsu into the user's blood and bone marrow. From there, the user effectively wills the change they desire to take place and waits a post before the changes take place.


Drawbacks:

All effects require a charge up post. Changing effects is possible but can only be done 3 posts after the user starts the technique or otherwise changes the property. To start up the technique requires 400 reiatsu. Then every 2 posts after the cost is 200 reiatsu.

The user must injure themselves or otherwise become injured for the effects to be useable. Must have Benign Growth at Proficient and Osteomorph at Learned before this technique can be learned.


Each property has its own drawback:


Temperature:

The user can only endure the increased or decreased blood temperature before they themselves will either cook internally or freeze. The number of posts possible is 1 + Points in Way of the Flesh Warper + Points in Heat Tolerance / Cold Tolerance. Only one temperature choice can be used at a time.

Blood takes an additional post to cool down/heat up back to normal body temperature and thus continue the users post count for "using this property. Every post after a user's threshold is hit the user suffers a first degree burn or mild frostbite that grows in severity every post. After 3 posts the user is considered cooked internally or frozen internally.


Pressure:

Users will lose more blood than they otherwise would from any wounds inflicted. Mechanically this is shown by having 1 point less in Bleeding Tolerance. For those without points in Bleeding Tolerance they will pass out more quickly. This is shown by users only having a number of wounds they can endure equal to their points in Way of the Flesh Warper. Points in SoW and the free post are ignored. Users will pass out if they open a number of wounds equal to 1 + Points in Way of the Flesh Warper within 3 posts. SoW assist this but only by a post for every 2 points in it. The user also suffers from the stealth and sensory drawbacks if they enter or are around the mist.


Chemical Make-up:

First and foremost is that inflicting this upon an individual gives them a limited form of armor. The more powerful the user, the more defensive the crystals are. This does not go away until destroyed. The user, if covered in their own blood, will also suffer the increased weight requirements. The bigger or more limbed a user is, the worse this gets. Wounds harm the user as they become crystalized as well making HSR take an additional post before it can heal wounds.


Adhesion:

The user must injure themselves once a post to help keep their blood moving. This is due to the semi-solid state of the blood. It makes it harder to pump and move around the body. If the user doesn't instigate harm to themselves or get harmed their limbs will slowly swell up and become discolored. If this occurs for two posts, the limb ruptures violently upon being injured increasing the size of the wound by 50% and while swelled up the limbs lost a point in all martial / body skills.



Unending Flesh*
Technique Class: 3

Technique Type: Flesh

Usable By: Astrid / Regeneration users

Technique Element: Flesh

Description:

Unending Flesh is a technique that aims to do one thing. Enhance the users already potent regenerative abilities. Whether temporary or permanent, if the user has a regenerative ability this technique enhances it so that you can recuperate from internal harm, specifically harm to one's organs. There are exceptions of course but that depends on Mastery level. At learned the user can regenerate the digestive system. At proficient the user can regenerate the kidneys and liver. At Mastered the user can regenerate all internal organs that are not the heart and brain.

All organs that are regenerated by this technique are not done instantaneously but instead occur over the course of a post. Assuming they are not damaged again. Additionally, this increases any form of regeneration that targets flesh, bone, and external organs. If any of these would be regenerated at a slower rate or over the course of a post the regeneration is instead completed nearly instantaneously.


How to Use:

Through understanding of one's body gain the means to extend the users regenerative capabilities to all internal organs.


Drawbacks:

Requires a 3 in Way of the Flesh Warper to learn. A 4 in Way of the Flesh Warper is required to master. Regenerating organs is akin to moving at speeds above 600 and successive organ trauma that is healed becomes progressively more tiring.

If one has temporary regenerative capabilities, these enhanced capabilities are lost until the user regains their regenerative abilities. Healing any organ requires time and is stopped upon being injured again. With regards to poisons/toxins/etc damage will not stop the regeneration but instead make it continuous until organ failure is reached.

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{Stat blocks for Samson and Saika helper}
Samson:

Strength: 800
Speed: 400
RS: 0
SPPR: 0 (immune to Cutback)
Instinct: 200
Senses: 200
ES: 0
HE: 0
Durability: 800


Saika:

Strength: 600
Speed: 400
RS: 0
SPPR: 0 (immune to Cutback)
Instinct: 200
Senses: 150
ES: 150
HE: 0
Durability: 800

Note: Sword, Shield, and Armor are on fire and burn on contact.

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{Release Info}
Class: 1

Duration: 4/32 posts used

Number of Summons: 2/3

Next post gives another pair of stat gains.

[Kitai Yoru]

Wrath always felt amazing in the moment. You didn't need to think, nor feel, nor care about anything. The entire world was yours to burn. At least, just for those scant few seconds of pure, unfiltered anger. Then the crash hit, and all of those pesky things you managed to force out of your mind comes flooding back to the forefront of your mind like a tidal wave of emotion. It was disgusting, but he knew that was the post-wrath clarity he was forced to endure, and it always came in the middle of combat. The flesh abomination discarded her gauntlet, a smart move on her part, and disintegrated against his flaming form. He had been hoping that had been her, but that can be done later.

For now, he could feel his soul burning like dry tinder. Living Inferno was powerful, but so too were the drawbacks. He stopped pursuing Astrid for the moment, letting her gain some ground, as his mass spun about. Quicker and quicker he spun, chains swirling around his quickly condensing mass. The whipping chains caught the shockwave strikes of Astrid and her enslaved Hellion. He couldn't say for sure what that lumbering brute was with certainty, but he also didn't care if he was right or wrong about what someone who was trying to kill him was. They two of them were sporting wings now, flesh having warped itself into a more avian shape.

That was fine. Now that Kitai had a clear head, he could plan out how to defeat this harlot. The winged waste of space was something that needed to be taken down, and he thanked his lucky stars that he was scrapping with her here, and now in the heavily populated city he had been dining in. He couldn't even begin to imagine the deaths this fight would cause. But now he was here, in some kind of liminal space. An entire dimension of ever repeating office hallways, up and down, left to right, nothing but infinite space to fight and destroy. He pitied whoever got trapped in this twisted purgatory, but he wasn't going to complain about the battlefield just yet.

He stood on the floor, back in his more human form. The chains twisted and whipped in the air around him, hopping to catch something to sink their links into. They craved blood, and Kitai wasn't too far off. It looked like Astrid was choking out what he assumed was a Saika, and he couldn't help the frown that crossed his face. Sure, he didn't exactly have any pride in his current form, but it irked him to see another Saika being treated as disposable like that. Now that he thought about it, would he still be annoyed if it were any other random person? Thoughts for later, as he tossed the minion aside, pressed her feet against the ceiling, and launched herself off it like a rocket. A ginger, steroid-abusing rocket.

The step-tech hadn't been expected, but he wasn't exactly in a typical situation. He might as well been in an endless building. Instead of creating a massive shockwave that cratered the ground beneath him, she created a massive shockwave that shattered the floor below him. The chains flicked forward, making a wall of metal to disperse the majority of the force behind the attack, but did nothing to maintain Kitai's footing, who started falling to the floor. The madman looked winded, but put a smile on nonetheless, waving as he started to fall to the depths below. A black mist formed around his waist, and lingered in the air as he fell.

The chains around him spun, pulling him as the did so. Faster and faster, he looked like a drill as he carved into the next two floors, before halting his momentum. In the time it took him to reach that level, an orb was in his hand. So much reiatsu... A portal to a much darker place was opened, as the Faustian Bargain was dropped inside. Kitai let out a cackling laugh as the fog that pooled around his feet bulged and expanded, before bursting open. The misted parted, revealing creatures most unsightly. Laughing clones of Samson spilled out, howling with maddening laughter, matching Kitai. "How do you like them, Astrid? I made some improvements!" He laughed, as the clones, ten in total, leapt through the floors to rip apart the only possible targets in this accursed filler reality.

Bladed Chains x7: 700
Black Fog: 350
Faustian Bargain: 10,000
Reiatsu Remaining: 2,800/20,000

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{Techs used}Technique Name: The Black Fog

Class: [1]

Technique Type: [Hell Techniques]

Usable By: [Hell Races]

Technique Element: [Shadow]

Technique Fluff: [Those who fear the darkness are wise. Evil in its most primal form thrives in the shadows, always on the edge of the light. But while it is rare when the shadows of the underworld touch the land of the living, the results are always spoken of for generations. The Black Fog is an ability generated by those who have seen the proverbial void, and gazed into it. These people are those with hearts blacker than most, and live in perpetual chaos, misery, and hate. Those who use this technique are often those who have given up on life, and have let themselves fall into despair, or have done so at least once in their existence. This ability was made to show that, no matter how much hope there is the world, and no matter how happy the world becomes, evil will never leave the hearts of mankind, and will always linger. The darkest shadows linger behind the brightest lights.

The Black Fog is generated from the soul of the user, spilling from their chests, completely enshrouding their lower bodies in a mist of darkness at all times. From there, the fog begins to spread over the ground, seemingly consuming it, with the top of it lingering three feet above it. The Black Fog is thick to the point where no light can ever pierce it, consuming it in its entirety. The mist does more than feed off the light however. The shadows absorb all forms of energy that come into contact with it, be it heat, light, or reiatsu. Especially reiatsu.

The air above the fog is quickly drained of any lingering reiatsu, preventing anyone from creating airground platforms of any kind, as well as preventing any stepping abilities. However, those who stand in the blackened air start to suffer from the effects of this immediately. The moment anyone comes into contact with it will quickly lose their power, before fading away beneath the darkness, never to be seen again.

But this isn't what makes this ability so feared, although that is a part of it. The darkness is a sponge for souls, but it doesn't let that energy go to waste. Once it has absorbed enough souls, this ability starts to create monsters. Often titanic beings of pure hate and rage emerge from the shadows, climbing out of the nothing, existing for only destruction. The monsters can take on many forms, ranging from ogers, wolves, or even the well known dragon. These creatures stand anywhere from seven feet in height, to a towering fifty.

The being are extremely durable as well, needing the strongest of champions to slay them. The Black Fog naturally doesn't harm them, and are immune to the effects of it. No matter their shape, these creatures are only as smart as an animal, beatial in thought, maybe as smart as a lion.

All the air above the mist is stripped of reiatsu, no matter the distance. Any ability that touches the fog is absorbed, so long as the offensive stat is lower than the user's, adding the reiatsu used for the ability to the reiatsu counter.]


Technique Effects:

A Black mist spills out of the user's chest, quickly covering the ground around them, hovering two feet off the lowest surface. The Mist spreads five feet per post, times how many posts it has been active. 1 post equals five feet, 2 is ten, 3 fifteen, and so on. The air above the Black Fog cannot be used for any form of airground above it. Anyone in the fog loses 250 reiatsu per post, and loses the same amount just by touching it. Non- spiritual humans, plants, and animals die instantly when they come into contact with the fog.

Any techs used while inside the fog will charge the fog by half the amount paid for the original tech. Once the fog has collected 500 reiatsu, the user can summon a creature of the writer's choice to attack or cause general chaos. The user is also able to wait, and have the fog store its reiatsu in order to summon multiple beasts at once. The creature does not obey the caster, nor is it affected by the draining effects of the fog.

The stats of the creatures are always 800 strength, 400 speed, and 150 in all sensory stats, with 800 durability. The user is able to pay 500 in order to charge the mist. The Cost to maintain is 100 reiatsu, and is used to charge the fog. Fog lasts three posts after the user stops paying for it, and is unable to summon beasts after they stop.

How to use technique: [Mentioned above]

Technique Drawbacks: [The Black Fog, cannot be thrown around like a weapon, and will only remain on the ground, and around the user's lower body. Kicking with the fog around their legs will not drain opponents of reiatsu. The user is not immune to the draining effects of the fog, and is drained every post. Monsters will not obey anything the caster of the Fog commands of them.]

Incantation and Effect:

Made By: [Kitai Yoru]

Reserved?: [No]

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Technique Name: Bladed Chains

Class: [3]

Technique Type: [General Sinner Technique]

Usable By: [Hell Races]

Technique Element: [None]

Technique Description and Effects: [Well, if you can't get rid of the nigh indestructible chains, why not put them to good use? This ability have two parts to it.

1: The chains of Hell torment the denizens endlessly, so why not share the misery? Learning this ability influences the blades, giving them the ability to cut through anything as easily as a normal spiritual blade can, regardless of the chains not changing in appearance, still as rounded as ever. The offensive stat for the chains is based off either the highest Spiritual stat, or the user's Strength stat, whichever is higher. Chains are unable to cut their owner. This is a passive ability, and is unable to be turned off.

2: Through some heavy handed use of reiatsu, the user can extend and manipulate the chains to do as they please. For strength users, the chains will extend upto thirty feet, and will move at either a speed equal to their speed stat, or at a speed of 600. For spiritual users, the size scales off of their highest spiritual stat. For every 50 they have in their higher stat, the chains can extend another foot, and can move at either 600, or the user's speed. Cost is 100 reiatsu every post.]

How to use technique: [Pay the cost for chains. Cutting power is permanently active]

Technique Drawbacks: [Cost.]

Made By: [Kitai Yoru]

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Technique Name: Faustian Bargain

Class: [1]

Technique Type: [Saika Technique]

Usable By: [Saika]

Technique Element: [Reiatsu, if any]

Technique Description and Effects: [The Faustian Bargain is a technique born out of desperation for the Saika. The user pays any amount of reiatsu they wish, concentrating it into a super dense ball of reiatsu. This ball is then sucked into a small portal to Hell to grow. For every post it is in Hell, the ball absorbs reiatsu, equal to 25% of what it was initially sent in with. At any point, the user can draw the ball out of Hell, and consume the reiatsu to add the reiatsu back to their reserves. For example, if the user were to send 1000 reiatsu into Hell, and waited four posts, it would come back with 2000, and they would gain that to their reiatsu pool.]

How to use technique: [Stated above.]

Technique Drawbacks: [This ability is directly messing with Hell, a very bad thing for any Saika. As such, for every post that the ball of Reiatsu is in Hell, the Saika loses an extra post out of Hell. This means if the ball was in Hell for four posts, they would lose four extra posts, on top of their normal out of Hell count.]

Made By: [Kitai Yoru]

Reserved?: [No]

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{Fog Beasts Stats}
Strength: 800
Speed: 400
Instinct: 150
Senses: 150
ES: 150

Durability: 800

[Astrid Vess]

Were Astrid more mentally present she'd know to thank her fucking lucky stars that she had assistance with this fight. Samson and her Saika spirit alone were keeping an eye on things for her as she finished preparing her body for the next assault. However, the same thing could be said for Kitai as Astrid heard yet more damage done to the floors beneath her. Floors near her and farther away. And at one point she heard laughing. Distorted, twisted laughing that . . . almost sounded like Samson. Her jaw would have dropped had she not heard Kitai's blood boiling comment. Funny how on point that was given she was more or less making her blood capable of boiling. That little fucking saika had against all odds found yet another way to make Astrid lose her collective shit. She'd have been pissed at him for mocking her but to mock Samson was a WHOLE other level of infuriation. And that was shown as in the midst of her anger, she felt energy seep back into her being as well as her flesh. This fucking clown was going to be mincemeat when she was done with him.


The floor beneath her caved in as the Samson clones tore through what had been previously stable revealing a total of 10. The poor bastards wouldn't even see her immediate reaction as she Sonido'd to the opposite side of the room, created a blade of obsidian that coated her entire arm, then with her feet against the wall, she let herself move at her full speed aiming for each and every neck of these shittily made carbon copies, flexing her arm to keep the blade steady. However, after four copies were killed, the blade was beginning to fracture and thus on the fifth, she willed it to explode mid neck and have the shards rend through not just that copy but the next two. Leaving her with just three more. For these remaining dummies she just let her arm swing forward and conjured up 3 individual shockwaves to make damn certain that they were going to be splattered across the walls, floors, and Kitai given the bodies could only really go down at this point.


With those things dealt with, Astrid glared at Kitai as she took a moment to see the black mist and was informed by her own saika that something from Hell be it a portal, or an item, or something else was just used. She wasn't going to wait around and see what happened. Thus, she used Sonido again quite literally disappearing from sight and appearing to Kitai's right. Though that wasn't going to be the first thing he realized as instead he'd find himself surrounded and then immediately following that blinded by red gas. The smell immediately giving away that the gas was blood that had been made into an impossible to see mist. All due to a spike of solid bone shooting out from Astrid's chest, creating a large wound. The next thing he'd have to contend with was said bone spike that was fired functionally fired point blank at his torso as Astrid was within two feet of him. The assault however wasn't going to end there as Astrid was hell bent on making Kitai pay for mocking Samson.


The first would be two clumps of flesh that would jut out from either side of Astrid's body, each ending in a mouth full of assorted jagged teeth, all of which were fangs. While the tendrils were 4 feet long each, the mouths were 2 feet long each with each effectively clamping down on Kitai with Astrid's full strength. One on his right shoulder and another on his hip's left side. Assuming everything landed and his Energy Shell was now defunct he'd find the teeth of said maws tearing into his body and drawing blood if not attempting to outright tear off the associated limb. Regardless of if it was gone yet or not, this wasn't the end however as Kitai wasn't going to be given a chance to retaliate just yet as Astrid launched into a flurry of attacks to ensure that she broke every single bone in his godforsaken body into mush. The following would be in rapid succession with Astrid immediately dragging Kitai up to her so she could throw an enlarged and enhanced fist into his face, the additional flesh having been taken from her other arm, which slammed into him faster than he could see and maybe even feel. This would follow with Astrid spinning around and bringing her leg up above Kitai and slamming her heel into his head again. But he wasn't going to hit the floor, he'd find himself grabbed by a tendril at his left leg while she coiled her enhanced arms together and created a coiled spike. She'd end the flurry by slamming said coiled spike into Kitai's backside, at the base of his neck in an attempt to immobilize him. From this he'd finally be released and sent to and likely the through the wall along with his chains and fog.


Astrid and Samson then together made four shockwaves to follow after him. With Samson using his remaining arm to create a horizontal shockwave while Astrid unwinding her arms used her tendrils to each make a diagonal shockwave along with her left leg to create a vertical shockwave. With Kitai having been blinded, mauled, and thrown into another room, she'd finally take a moment to instigate another change in her body, the ability to crystalize. Namely by super charging her bloods platelet count and reinforcing them with reiatsu. If he was still moving after all that she was going to make him stop moving one way or another so she could keep slamming attack after attack, after attack, after attack until his body, his face, everything about him was a fucking STAIN on the ground of wherever the fuck they were currently. Once she was certain she'd instigated the change, she'd race into the room and fly above him and that stupid cloud he was producing. Just to be safe in case he spawned yet more bullshit from it.

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{Reiatsu Spent/Tab}
Reiatsu spent

-300 for Bone Spike via Osteomorph
-250 for Tsukarenai (at 1400 speed)
-500 for Benign Growth (tendrils with mouths)
-250 for two Sonido's
-300 for Combat Cutback on each Arm
-400 for Form: Obsidian

Reiatsu tabbed: 1,700

2,000 + 1,675 = 3,675 total reiatsu tabbed

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{Techniques used}
Form: Obsidian*
Class: [3]

Technique Type: [None]

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

Technique Element: [None]

Technique Description and Effects (Explain appearance, powers, and effect): [Insert Below]

This technique hardens the user's reiatsu into an obsidian-like crystal, and it can be molded and shaped into anything as long as it does not exceed the volume of the user's own body. The newly hardened reishi has a durability and piercing strength that depends on the cost of the technique. For every 100 reiatsu the user puts into it, the durability and piercing strength of the technique increases by 250 (ex. a cost of 200 reiatsu gives Form: Obsidian a durability and offensive stat of 500). The user can either hold Form: Obsidian or launch it as a projectile at the same speed as a cero.

Once Form: Obsidian is used, the user has the option to activate it once more. By doing so, he can cause the obsidian to crack into as many pieces as he’d like, anywhere between two uneven pieces to a million little grains. He can cause the obsidian to shatter with a speed of up to 600, spreading out to a maximum distance of 15 meters in every direction. The user can control the speed of the shattering and the distance that the shards travel.

How to use technique (How is it activated?):

Stated above.

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

The cost of this technique increases greatly depending on the desired offensive stat. The minimum cost is 100 reiatsu and the maximum cost is 400 reiatsu (an offensive stat of 1000). In addition, the user must pay 100 reiatsu for the second activation that causes Form: Obsidian to splinter.





Combat Cutback*
Class: 4

Technique Type: Reiatsu

Usable By (Technique is available to which races?): Anyone with 300+ SpPr

Technique Element: None

Technique Description and Affects: 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 technique (How is it activated?): 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.

Technique Drawbacks (Limitations, repercussions for use, etc): 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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{Technique info to keep in mind}
Benign Flesh: 20 feet of flesh used / 20 feet created

Appendages created: Two 5ft wings, two 3-foot tendrils with 2 ft of mouths on the ends.


Bloody Menace:

Properties active: Pressure

Properties to be active: Chemical


Combat Cutback:

Each arm is reinforced to hit at 1800 OS on contact


Tsukarenai:

Currently at the max and allowing Astrid to move at 1400 without stamina concerns.


Distorted Growth:

Allowed for the first punch to Kitai to be reinforced with more muscle. Causing 100% OS damage to any item that Kitai may be using on his head/neck/Upper chest to defend himself with. After this attack the limb was returned to normal size.

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{New Stat line for Astrid}
Str: 1400

Speed: 1400

RS: 25

SPPR: 400

Senses: 300

Instinct: 300

ES: 0

HE: 100

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{Release info}
Class: 1

Duration: 6/32 posts used

Number of Summons: 2/3

Stats gained: Speed and SPPR

1 post until next stat gain.

[Shizuka Sanamizu ✮]

Kitai: 5 posts x 75 TP = 375 TP
1 extra paragraph x 10 TP = 10 TP
375+10 = 385 TP total

Astrid: 5 posts x 75 TP = 375 TP
5 extra paragraphs x 10 TP = 50 TP
12,000 TP for winning the bounty by default due to Kitai's player yielding
375+50+12,000 = 12,425 TP total