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The Taken. Sun May 14, 2017 2:55 pm
Chīrō
D-rank
26
Taken: 多見, 'Varied Perspective'
Location: Scattered.
Specializations: Ninjutsu.
Clan History: Where'd it start....was it one point?
That was the nature of many things - a complex network of points that often could not be traced back to a single origin. It was one's job in life, maybe, to navigate that interwoven matrix of things. Data was perhaps the most appropriate word. Cold, hard facts are the core of this world for some people. However, if those people grew up in the family of a ninja, or even a circumstance where they had little option to become one, they would find that the way things worked was not always as such. The world of ninja may be defined by conflict, but what of the people that never wanted to fight? Surely there was a way they could be of assistance to those close to them without having to regularly engage in armed combat. That was the solution they sought.
The Taken aren't a family, a loose gathering of people with a similar bloodline, or even an organization - it is rather a very obscure denotation that is almost completely unused outside the most academic of writings, which are, ironically, by those with this exact ability. Needless to say, it would take one to know one, as it's written in a way that only someone skilled in their Encrypting methods could hope to uncover it. Because they are so varied and generally unassociated, it's really unheard of to relate two of this type together.
Not so ironic, maybe, that those engrossed in knowledge are so exempt from being included.
Kekkei Genkai Name: Tenji Jiten「典事事典, Ordinary Encyclopedia」
Kekkei Genkai Description: The Taken, though not a single clan or family, are a group of people whose skills have become second nature - a Hiden that is just as difficult to replicate as a Kekkei Genkai. Their abilities focus in a less combative area, for the most part. The following four abilities are modular and, as such, any combination (or none) of them can be taken. This may be done only at character creation.
- Versatile:
- Versatile: A Taken may choose to possess their third specialization upon creation, which is D-rank. They can learn their fourth at B-rank if they choose this feature, and they can train their fourth spec and element to A-rank using 6000 words, and to S-rank using 9000.
In addition, they can make passive jutsu relating to their other abilities - this is normally not possible due to either their generality or specificity, but a Versatile Taken can tie in their specializations and even other Tenji-Jiten abilities in less direct ways.
- Savant:
- Code:
[b]Name:[/b] Eidetic Memory
[b]Type:[/b] Unique
[b]Description:[/b] This individual has the ability to perfectly recall their memory as it relates to their own experiences. The means by which they access their autobiographical data may be different. However, their sensory and factual recall is infallible, for better or worse - they never forget a single detail, no matter how minute or inconsequential it may seem to others.
- Analyze:
- A Taken with this ability gains a free E-rank passive sensory technique upon creation, which requires Ninjutsu, Medical Ninjutsu, or Genjutsu - it doesn't require a chakra pool reduction, and doesn't register as chakra use to others. It has the minimum range for its rank, but can't detect any person/animal under a stealth technique of any rank. It, thus, isn't inherently for detection, but for inquiry and investigation into things one might otherwise not get to delve into closely – it allows monitoring outside of normal bounds (like line of sight or contact), and is thus potent in its pervasive accuracy and attention to detail. This sensory technique can, upon creation, utilize two out of either the five major human senses or chakra sensory.
‣ If the Taken is using a chakra-consuming sensory jutsu other than their Analyze ability, this passive automatically gains the ability to sense through any rank of stealth jutsu that the other sensory ability could, as well as taking on its range if it was larger. (In a sense, it broadens the spectrum of what that jutsu is able to detect.)
~ Once while D-rank, and once after each promotion, the Taken can use 1500 words and 250 Ryo; each time they do so, they reapply for their sensory technique to rank it up, changing the range appropriately.
- Alternate Faculties:
- The Taken are sometimes non-combat-oriented for more than one reason - some may be entirely unable to function as ninja in the normal sense.
In respect to Endurance, Strength, and Speed, they would be entirely normal humans. Instead, they use passive jutsu to power their stats, of which they gain three D-ranks for free upon creation; they don't require a chakra pool reduction.
The jutsu abide normally by the Stats Rules' speeds, basic attack power, and damage reductions. Thus, this is pure flavor - they don't substitute a jutsu's attributes for those of stats, and it doesn't result in any tier increases. It is only an alternate reasoning and method - stats must be trained as normal, as per the rules.
Beneficially, these jutsu don't register as chakra to sensors, and the Taken doesn't appear to be using chakra due to them; they can't be forcibly shut off, even if chakra itself is suppressed.
They don't have any of the following by default, but instead learn them. The first requires 2000 words, the second 2500, the third 3000, the fourth 4000. They are trained in the Jutsu Registration section, but don't cost Ryo. They can learn two at D-rank, and an additional one at each rank up.
- Espionage Arts:
- Cloaking: As natural information-gatherers, Taken with Medical Ninjutsu have the ability to use the Transformation Technique to a smaller degree without using chakra. They can change their physical appearance into that of another human, but they must create specific 'facades' to do so. (They have to apply for multiple face claims, and make multiple Appearances, in order to use them - they can't copy other people with this ability.) They can have 1 facade at D-rank, and get a second at B-rank.
⁍ If one has Ninjutsu in addition to Medical Ninjutsu, they can (at will, no cooldown, no cost) change their physical form slightly into auxiliary items, such as making one's fingers into lockpicks. This has no direct combat function, but yields an infiltrative and explorative utility that is limited only by one's imagination and ingenuity.
‣ Requires "True Otaku". - Drone: The Taken have the learned skill to send out special chakra forms even as D-rank jutsu. These are much like Academy clones in the sense, that they are incorporeal, having no effect on the surroundings. They constantly relay back information, on top of having the same range and duration as a Shadow Clone. (Unlike clones, they are to have a set speed.) Notably, a Taken's chakra does not appear active due to using their Drone techniques. They can't be physically attacked with Taijutsu or weapons but can be neutralized by being hit with a jutsu of equal rank.
⁍ These chakra-forms can only use beneficial Supplementary sensory and stealth techniques, the Analyze feature, as well as Cloaking - due to not having a physical form, it can transform at will into anything the Transformation Technique would allow while still retaining their speed. If a Taken has Encrypt, Reality Hacking, and Cloaking, the Drones have their chakra suppressed, and are passively undetectable by chakra sensory jutsu and abilities of the same rank as Encrypt's variable requirement. (This only applies when they're not expending their allotted chakra.) If they have Genjutsu, they take on Encrypt's RT and Perception requirements in order to see them.
‣ Requires "Unaccustomed". - Encrypt: Taken can make jutsu which, unlike normal techniques, possess a decryption factor - the difficulty to comprehend them scales, requiring both Perception and Reaction Time, or an info-gathering (including but not specifically sensory) technique, of 1 rank higher than the Taken's own ninja rank or the technique's rank, whichever is higher. (This is only in respects to learning or otherwise getting information that the technique protects, not the jutsu’s damage, speed, or range.)
⁍ If a Taken has Fūinjutsu, their seals can't be undone normally, by simply analyzing the formulae. (Thus, simply having a certain rank of Fūinjutsu proficiency cannot undo their seals.) They require an unsealing-type technique of one rank higher rank than itself, or the Taken's rank upon its creation (whichever is higher) in order to undo or dispel it, simply due to the complexity with which it is actually made. This rises to 2 ranks higher when an information-protecting Sealing Technique is used. Physically breaking a seal that contains something else triggers a fail-safe which must be specified within the Sealing Technique.
‣ Requires "Cluster Code". - Reality Hacking: A Taken's jutsu are extremely versatile - they can make auxiliary techniques that create less specific or multiple end effects so that they can be tailored to the situation, defenses with flexible areas of protection, or Precision Jutsu; they can even use multiple elements in the same jutsu. They typically take half the time to cast, which may require hand seals or another medium they choose, even using only one hand. A Taken can reduce their jutsu’s speed and/or power by any number of ranks to increase its range by the same number of ranks divided by 2, to the maximum for that rank. (Their jutsu with no damage or speed receive +1 to their Range, including their passive abilities.)
⁍ Requires "Master of the Meticulous".
- Cloaking: As natural information-gatherers, Taken with Medical Ninjutsu have the ability to use the Transformation Technique to a smaller degree without using chakra. They can change their physical appearance into that of another human, but they must create specific 'facades' to do so. (They have to apply for multiple face claims, and make multiple Appearances, in order to use them - they can't copy other people with this ability.) They can have 1 facade at D-rank, and get a second at B-rank.
Drawbacks: As field operatives that evade combat, those of this ilk have several disadvantages in direct struggles.
- Each Taken with the Analyze ability simply devotes too much of their faculties to information-gathering, neglecting evasion and blocking training - they receive 1 rank higher in damage from all attacks, except those that were reduced in power, such as by jutsu or armor.
- A Taken with an Eidetic Memory must take one SC among One-Track Mind, Slow-Witted, or Born Ill, and cannot balance it with a positive.
- Those Versatile users of Tenji-Jiten are very technical people, and do not have much intuitive aptitude for things like nature transformation. They do not possess a secondary element upon creation, and must train it after reaching C-rank for a base 1500 words. (Ryo is not required.) They can spread themselves widely, but at a cost - learning new specializations and elements requires an additional 1000 words.
- Obviously, a Taken with Alternate Faculties loses all ability to make normal physical use of their stats. They are still impeded, even if not in the intended fashion, by stat-debuffing techniques.
As they progress with their training, a user of Tenji-Jiten loses bits of their proficiency with combat, among other areas of functioning that being a ninja normally requires. This may be represented in higher requirements to 'keep up' with others. They gain certain drawbacks depending on which and how many Espionage Arts they learn.
- Price for Perspicacity:
- True Otaku: The number of social threads required to rank up is increased by 2. One stat is reduced by 1 tier while you can detect signs of other people within 10 meters of yourself. (You choose this when you gain the Cloaking feature, and it should be recorded in the Jutsu Registration.) Cannot be taken at a ninja rank above D. If a Taken hasn't learned Encrypt by the time they reach C-rank, they lose the ability to.
- Unaccustomed: A Taken that remotely reconnoiters lags behind in some of their training, simply due to lack of experience on a battlefield firsthand. They are considered to be -2 tiers in a single stat. (You choose this when you gain the Drone feature, and it should be recorded in the Jutsu Registration.)
- Dutiful: Taken who focus on ciphering tend to hole themselves up to create keys and complex techniques; they tend to get behind on their work, and need two more missions to rank up. One of these must be of the highest rank they can do. (Cannot be taken at a ninja rank above C. If a Taken hasn't learned Encrypt by the time they reach B-rank, they lose the ability to.) It takes 1 post of preparation, or 5 extra chakra, to Encrypt a Sealing Jutsu with its specific effects.
- Master of the Meticulous: Jutsu that benefit from "Reality Hacking" require 10% more words to train.
- True Otaku: The number of social threads required to rank up is increased by 2. One stat is reduced by 1 tier while you can detect signs of other people within 10 meters of yourself. (You choose this when you gain the Cloaking feature, and it should be recorded in the Jutsu Registration.) Cannot be taken at a ninja rank above D. If a Taken hasn't learned Encrypt by the time they reach C-rank, they lose the ability to.
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