Post by Edsauce on Mar 15, 2023 17:08:33 GMT 10
Onikuma
Basics
■ Clan Type: Active | Hiden
■ Clan Leader: open
While so many other shinobi clans gained their power from their heritage or from ancient arts developed to slay others, members of the Onikuma Clan developed their infamous hiden out of simple necessity. The ancient Onikuma shinobi were long haunted by evil monsters and spectral bears, legends say, and that killing the beasts would only keep them away for a time: eventually, they developed possession-type summoning hiden that allowed them to become one with the monster, for a time, subduing it by becoming one with it.
While, historically, this story has been taken at face value, more recent scholars have pointed to the possibility of metaphor, or even that the tale covers a more nefarious origin. This transformation varies between members, either as a reflection of its users or the ‘monsters’ possessing them, but it tends to be bestial, dark, and long-limbed, and the mental pull can be just as varied.
Clan Features
[BOON] POSSESSED TRANSFORMATION: Onikuma shinobi have developed, through horrendous trial and error over centuries, a mostly safe method of gaining power by allowing themselves to be possessed. This possession often marks its user with long, umbral limbs, glowing eyes, and beastly teeth for its duration. As a long action, you may enter your possessed form.
While posessed:
- Your Ninjutsu score decreases by 4, to a minimum to 1. Your Taijutsu score increases by however much your Ninjutsu score decreases. Your taijutsu cap increases by the same amount.
- At the start of every post, your health increases by your combined Ninjutsu and Taijutsu scores.
- The possessed form will end if, at the end of a post, no attacks have been sent at you, you do not take any damage, and you send no attacks.
- At C-Rank, you can spend 10 XP to train this further. You may either gain the ability to deactivate the transformation as a short action, or to spend 3 chakra when the transformation would end to keep it going, but not both.
- At A-Rank, for another 10 XP, you can gain the trained ability you didn’t select.
[BASE] DOUBLE-EDGED EXORCISM: Onikuma have developed a tradition of genjutsu and fuinjutsu to counter their transformations when they go awry, but these jutsu always come from a place of vulnerability.
- Once per thread, you can use an A-Rank genjutsu or fuinjutsu without spending chakra.
- However, when you do, before the end of your next post, genjutsu and fuinjutsu double in power against you.
[BANE] TROUBLING RAGE: The spirits that you have learnt to benefit from are not to be taken advantage of without a cost.
While using your ‘Possessed Transformation’:
- Each time you take damage from an attack, all attacks you make in your next post must be directed towards someone you haven’t damaged that thread yet.
- If you’ve damaged everyone in the thread, they must instead be directed at whoever has the highest remaining health.