Maido and her crew had felt the rumble just as everyone else. Asleep in isolation on top of the mountain, The Muramasa and team witnessed. Gazing upon the great beast as it drew near, Maido spoke after some time, maroon chakra flaring around her host body, Hisayo's eyes, and her own shared eyes.
"Great Spirit, What is troubling you? These people are under my protection." Maido's voice boomed throughout the lands. Both empowering and soft, benevolent and yet malevolent. A whisper of snow with the roar of an avalanche. Her cloak extended outwards, her black dress shrouded. A red mist began to ooze from the body. Hand seals cast at such a frightening speed, many of which the likes oh most humans had never even seen before. Ancient and forbidden arts, completely obscured from view by the whim of her cloak. The flowing black dress too, obscuring vision of the hands. It was executed perfectly. The red mist, encroaching. To inhale it would mean Maido owned you. She would know everything about you. Good thing she's reformed. Her hands flew still, shooting off a few dopplegangers of her own, five bodies of light blue mist, shaping into her image and shooting outwards from her person.
More hand seals, more dark and ancient arts. Maido's host body reached out to grab a hold of a clone, snatching them from the air. A frog catching flies. With one hand, they held the clone. In the other, lightning fast hand seals, a remnant of old days. Thick scarlet vapor spilled forth and entered the clone. A carrier package for her chakra. The clone joined the others, and the four of them held hands, brewing the plague infusion before beginning to spread out in four corners from the initial host body. Awaiting commands, they sat sentinel, floating a mere few inches above the snow, but primed and ready.
Maido Jutsu Used:
Shizumeru: Vision of Spirits
C-Ranked Sensory Tenkujutsu (Nin)
Pre-Requisite: Sensory Concentration
After forming a set of hand seals, the user focuses chakra to their eyes, causing the Maroon chakra to flare up around their eyes. This works similar to a doujutsu, but with no physical change to the eye itself, allowing the user to see the chakra of spirits and spirit related objects/people as an aura of Maroon. While useful for a quick glance, it can be used up to [Stamina]/5 posts, before needing to be refreshed.
Kakujutsu: Core Pulse
C-Ranked Kakujutsu (Nin)
Prerequisite: Sensory Concentration
After channeling chakra throughout their body, the user will send out a pulse of chakra in a radius around themselves in 25 meters. To the user, any being within that range that has a core tied to their essence will become engulfed in a light purple aura, visible only to the user, in their mind's eye. This aura coloration will last for 10 posts.
God of Blood Sanguis Mist
S-Ranked Chiton Mist Kinesis Ninjutsu
Requires: 50 Ninjutsu, Sanguiskinesis, Mist Style
After performing the necessary hand seals, Maido will produce a blood-red mist encompassing a 400 meter x 400 meter x 400 meter area. Those that breathe in the red mist will become infused by Maido's chakra and able to be manipulated through various techniques, for the remainder of the thread. The mist will remain for a number of posts equal to 1/3 of Maido's stamina.
*Mist Clone
C-rank Ninjutsu
After performing the correct seals, the user materializes and creates a clone of themselves. When destroyed, they explode in a poof of *Hidden Mist Technique. The hidden mist will release and burst outward from the clone. This acts as a good container and transportation for the mist jutsu. These clones can only use taijutsu. These clones have a taijutsu of 3, stamina of 3, strength of 1, and 5 in Speed. The clone exists for a maximum of 4 posts before detonating early.
Plague Infusion
A-Ranked Ninjutsu
Requires: Sanguiskinesis, Mist
By placing one hand on a target and forming hand seals with the other hand, Maido can cause a vapor of blood-mist to be emitted from her hands and make its way towards a targets airways (at a speed of 25) to infuse them as soon as they draw breath. For 8 posts, the target will constantly breathe outwards a thin vapor of blood mist, causing those within 20 meters of them to become infused as they too draw in a breath. Newly infused targets will also begin to breath out blood mists that will infuse those that breath it in. When infused in this way, targets are susceptible for the remainder of the thread but will only continue to produce blood mists themselves for 8 posts after they are first infused. If an already infused target breathes in mist they themself did not breathe out, they will refresh the duration of their infusion as well as refreshing the duration of how much mist they create by breathing outwards.
Minds-Eye Hybrid: Infusion Sensing of the S Variety
S-Ranked Sensory Ninjutsu
By forming a set of hand seals, the user will be able to sense specific targets via two different methods. If entering a body of blood mist, they will be able to sense chakra sources within that mist up to 200 meters away from them, but only be able to pinpoint specific sources up to 100 meters away from their person. However, if a target has had their blood infused(and is currently still infused) by any of the user's techniques, the user will be able to pinpoint their exact location up to 200 meters away, regardless of whether or not they are inside of a body of blood mist. At this level of technique, the jutsu will be very exact in its information that is relayed to the user. Size, shape, speed, precise movements, utilization of chakra, it will all be fed into the user's mind's eye. Maintaining this technique incurs a -5 to the users instinct stat but they may move freely and act unhindered by the feedback of information so long as they still have at least 30 instinct following the debuff. The jutsu will persist for a number of posts up to half the users control and once ended the users instinct stat will return to normal.
Hisayo Jutsu used:
[Skitter Step • Senses Open Variance]
C-Ranked Taijutsu Stance
The main jutsu of the Skitter Step, Senses Open does exactly what the name states. The user takes a moment to focus their bodies, then releases it. While in this stance, the users sensory input is increased, allowing them to receive more information quickly. This stance will remain in effect until deactivated by [Stop]. Practitioners of this technique will find themselves fidgetting and constantly moving, which can make it difficult for them to use this style while on stealth missions.
*[Skitter Step • Accept]
D-Ranked Taijutsu Discipline
Prerequisite: A form of Senses Open used.
The counter discipline to Reject. When faced with an extended limb, may it be an arm or leg, a master of this discipline will always reach to capture the extended limb with one hand, typically aiming for the most distal portion of the limb. This gives them an opportunity of controlling their opponent.
*[Skitter Step • Pounce]
C-Ranked Taijutsu Discipline
Prerequisite: A form of Senses Open used.
Because of the Skitterer's paranoid nature, they can slightly sense things around them. At a slight hint of an attack, the user will jump out of the way in the opposite direction of the attack, letting them dodge projectiles or jutsu.
*[Skitter Step • Inside Dodge]
D-Ranked Taijutsu Discipline
Prerequisite: A form of Senses Open used.
The counter Discipline to Outside Dodge. Having mastered this Discipline, when the user is actively using Skitter Step, should they be in close quarters combat, their body instinctively dodges to the inside of an attack which keeps them centered on their opponent's torso. These dodges are only successful if their average [Tai+Instinct+Speed/3] is greater than the speed of the attack.
Kayoko Jutsu used:
Doton: Claymore
C-Ranked Ninjutsu
After channeling, Kayako will change her body into that of a claymore sword (taking approximately 1/2 a post to complete), roughly 6 meters long with a 20 centimeter guard, her core being the handle, covered in a thin layer of stone. This will last until she changes shape through another jutsu.
Katon: Torched
C-Ranked Ninjutsu
After channeling, Kayoko will set herself on fire, causing flames to ebb off of her for the next 6 posts, the flame forming around her at a speed of 1 but striking at anything it touches with a strength of 19.