The perimeter of your house seems fine. Tan tells you that everyone here is at peace and no one seems to be here who doesn't belong.
She sits, clearly uncomfortable.
*I wait, making sure my clone is at a place where it can look all around*
J
Tan finally has enough.
"Jef," she starts, "You've been sitting there like a cat in the cream. Wanna spill? What's going on?"
He says, "I don't know if we should get involved, but...
"It wouldn't be very smart for anyone to attack anyone here with the three of us here. If I wanted to send a message to Jhiaxus, then, who would I hurt other than someone who lives here?"
*Phase teleport to B's house then C's, leaving multiple clones at each*
J
You teleport to Bairei's house. All is quiet, and you stealthily check, first on his parents, then on him. He's used the Alert Rest, but doesn't notice you checking on him.
Chiko's house, however, is quite different. His father and mother and older sister are all awake and seem quite distressed.
*Leave shadowclones at all locations*
"What happened where is Chiko?"
J
"I heard some commotion from his room," Chiko's father tells you. "It sounded like a fight; when I got there, he was gone."
*Nods and jumps out, super jumping using my Sharingan to find them*
J
You do read an unfamiliar chakra; you don't see Chiko's.
*I will follow it and overtake it*
J
It isn't moving, actually, so you catch up with it quickly.
A leaf village ninja is standing here, holding up an unmoving Chiko by the hair, his neck open wide and no longer bleeding, his front soaked in blood and a pool of it at their feet. There is no light in his glazed eyes.
Your Sharingan clearly makes out chakra strings attached to the unmoving ninja who has done this.
*Goto the unmoving chakra strings ninja, get into my unarmed style and punch to knock out hard, and will do so, so he is alive and unconscious*
*Goto Chiko and try to learn a P14@10 Reanimation, I should get a +sit mod due to length of decay my Psi Bias is a 13@10, I have a 1@1 example from my Hackmaster books, my BRA is 3@10, so looks like a -10+40+11+World Bias, + whatever sitmod bonus you give for rate of decay*
J
bump
The roll is double zero.
I'm gonna have to think about that for a few.
I want a reroll
1. Brainburn
2. Expanding death field
3. Wrong spirit transferred into corpse
4. Body swap with corpse
5. Out of body experience
6. Body swap with leaf ninja
7. Body swap with person controlling leaf ninja
8. Expanding reanimation field
9. Summon spirit power
10. Decay corpse
Personally, I'd be hoping for a roll of 1.
It's a seven. How fun.
On what grounds are you requesting a reroll, or is that in kidding?
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You try to reanimate the corpse, and feel yourself suddenly and violently ripped from your surroundings.
You're in the forest; attached to your fingers are several chakra threads. The hands do not look like your own.
*Kidding*
"I possess my own body* P1@10
New skill, should be automatic
J
You aren't sure how far your body is from where you are; you garner a general direction from your sense of your equipment. Do you want to try anyway?
Yes
okie dokie. Gonna have to do some math.. Ordinarily, from your own body that is, an untargeted roll would be automatic, I'd agree, but I'd better do some crunching here to make sure, since your target was your own body before and it's not entirely certain how far your body is from this location.
Base number is 140, -20 for the skill use, 40 BRA for at least Intuition; recalculating an RSV, he's got a Hand/Eye of probably 2@8, not many better than him, which leaves you with a 3@ RSV, but I'm equally sure that he's got the 3@ TV. (40 + 28)/2 = 68/2 = 3@4 RSV. (40 + 40 + 25)/2 = 105/3 = 3@5 TV. To 159 now, we'll award the +10 for using it on your own body so I don't forget, +169. We'll make it a range of 15':40':100':200':+1/10'. It wouldn't be right for me to arbitrarily decide how far you are from your target body, since it does have an effect on this outcome. GE roll seems more fair. 8 6 9 is 24, as bad as anticipated. That's probably going to make the difference between success and failure here. We'll measure the distance in miles on a d8, rolled 7. I know we're looking at a very negative chance, but how negative matters for botch results; 1 mile is 5280', so -508 for the first mile, any roll is already looking like a botch, but -528 for each of the six additional ones. Ouch.
The inconsequential roll is 80.
Give me a minute.
Um no, I am like 10 feet from my body, Chakra strings is a short range attack
Chakra strings were shown in at least one episode to have an indeterminate range, unless I'm mistaken about the skill being used, in which case there were no visible chakra strings and I apologize for the confusion. He would certainly have been using the skill he generally uses for his spies, which my presumption was involved the use of chakra strings; besides the fact that it makes for a good plot element to find the bad guy doing it.
PS the chakra strings he was using were different than the ones you were accustomed to or expecting.
You presented me seeing all three of them, so more than a mile? Not what I was interpreting it. I would not have done it. Second point, I saw all three of them I know where my body is, Third point, it magically is now not within my sight, I will goto my body and possess it, Forth point, this guy is unconscious.
Alright. You presumed you did see your body, when that was never stated; you presumed you saw the individual the chakra threads were coming from, which you didn't; you saw the one the chakra strings were attached to. Technically, you could cut off the head of the one attached and he'd still be going.
Being as you didn't understand the situation, we'll go back to before you used the 1@10 skill.
I did say "you do not know how far your body is from you" to try to let you know the situation in advance, but here we are.
... The hands you see are not your own.
*I go to my @*%R@#*%*@#){%@#*%)@#%*)*@#)%* body and possess it*
J
walking?
Looking at yourself, you recognize Sasori of the Red Sands; a shadow of the human being he once was.
*Jumping, not like I have any of my body abilities, but any ninja can jump*
J
As I recall, you do have a short teleportive hop; but I understand.
You begin the arduous task of jumping through the treetops, and find yourself wishing that --
§
Are you sure you wouldn't have tried the skill to turn time back six seconds, or whatever it is?
§
-- that Sasori would take better care of himself.
We'll say you're doing an average 10 miles an hour jumping through treetops, and following your scriff sense, which is moving. Forty five, thirty minutes later, and you arrive at the clearing where
you last were. Chiko is laying on the ground, unmoving, as is the other ninja. Your scriff sense for your equipment leads back in the direction of the village.
§
Allowing you to change action if you desire, either
A: If the character would have really done something else but you didn't realize what at the time because you are thousands of years different than he
or
B: You wanted to try to do something about Chiko now instead of later.
*My 2@1 Achieve Temporal Effects is bonused +50 to turn back time 6 seconds, if that avoids this situation, since everything I have that's trained well is body based, so without it I will just botch again*
J
You would have gone for it, yes?
Yes
91
bra 40 for intuition, sal 21, +50 sitmod, that's in there even without determining the abl (15 for character, but I'd have to pull the book to really solve the world).
§
Turning back time.
§
§
You are back in your body, having not actually attempted the reanimation.
*Touching his body to get an extra +5sm, and trying to reanimate again*
J
5. Go ahead and mark down on your sheet.
§
He's alive again, but for how long is the question now; he's certainly lost enough blood to kill him twice. He struggles feebly against the
hand holding his hair.
*I guess I will need to do a P6@3 Restore Blood, Based off the Control Body Chemistry, the primary use is to perform a 5@6 Chemistry on others learning roll, since I am using something that naturally occurs in the body, should give me a +10 to the roll, what was the roll for the Reanimation so I can mark it down? It also pushed my bias up to a 14@10. So this one looks to be 150-63+40+2x Bias, +1@1 2nd Edition Psionics Handbook*
J
The roll was 5; I had listed that. It's good for a 1@1.
46, with a 14@ bias in a 15@ world that shouldn't be a problem. Looking at a 1@1 SAL for P6@3 Restore Blood.
§
The blood you restore to his body begins pouring out of his neck, and the ninja/puppet holding him proceeds to gouge Chiko in the face and eyes violently with its knife.
No, the ninja/puppet does not seem conscious or cognizant, due to the strike you gave it; yes, it does seem to be living/alive despite the control over it.
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