#tdefensiveaction

Cancel a particular harmful effect by sacrificing an amount of life force equal to the potency of the technique it hailed from.

Technique Type: Specialty Performance: Defensive Action (special) Delivery: Self Effect Type: Instant As a special form of Defensive Action, used not pre-emptively to a threat but rather after it has already made successful contact, the user of this technique may, upon being afflicted by an effect other than damage, immediately cancel said effect by offering up and amount of HP equal to the Potency Roll of the Technique or other miscellaneous source it hails from.

Should the technique not originally prompt a Potency Roll from the aggressor, it does so for the purposes of this Technique. All effects hailing from a single source can be cancelled with one application of this technique.

Effects hailing from Territories cannot be cancelled this way.

This technique does not consume an energy charge.

With a powerful and rapid spin, the user is able to deflect incoming threats.

Base

Technique Type: Combat Performance: Defensive Action Effect Type: Instant

As a Defensive Action, Tornado Spin can be used to deflect threats hailing from Techniques and natural hazards alike. The Technique's effect behaves as an automatically successful Deflection, but they do not benefit from any feats or advantages that specifically enhance said Deflection skill.

In addition to its primary effect, Tornado Spin can also be used to blow away any gas surrounding the user, and may also free the user from a grapple or any binds if the user’s [Potency + 1d20] is higher than that of their respective DC.

Upgrades

1 point:

Knockdown: Those adjacent to the user must roll for Guard as a saving throw pinned against the user's Potency to prevent from being Downed by the spin's powerful force. If the user is performing a Prolonged Spin (see other upgrades), those that pass adjacent to the user also prompt this Saving Throw.

2 points:

Absorbs the effects of one Melee, Projectile, or Wave Technique, allowing the user to later release them towards a target of their choosing.

Base

Technique Type: Combat, Specialty, Support Performance: Defensive Action (to absorb), Standard Action (to release)

When a Technique is about to make contact with the user, they may activate Absorb & Release as Defensive Action. Upon doing so, rather than undergoing the Technique's effects, they store them within themselves. These stored effects can then be released by the user as at no energy cost by using a Standard Action.

Although effects do not have to be released in the same exact manner as they were first conjured up, they do nevertheless follow the same method of Delivery. Naturally, when expelled, the effects behave according to the same properties of the Technique they hail from.

By default, only 1 Technique can be absorbed at a time, an amount that can be increased through upgrades.

Upgrades

1 points:

A technique that makes the user intangible, for a brief moment.

Base

Technique Type: Combat, Specialty Performance: Defensive Action or Move Action Delivery: Self Effect Type: Instant

Famously used by shinobi, the substitute Technique makes it so that an object takes the punishment that was intended for the user.

Base

Technique Type: Combat Performance: Defensive Action Delivery: Self Effect Type: Conjuration

Substitute can be activated as a Defensive Action, appearing in front of the user and taking all punishment intended for them. Unlike the standard Defensive Actions, substitute can be made to take the effects of Selective Techniques. Punishment also does take each individual hit of a Full Attack. The punishment-absorbing object disappears after 2 rounds.

Substitute cannot be made to take the damage of self-induced effects, nor can it be made to take the punishment of effects already active on the user.

Deflected projectiles are sent back in a scattered fashion.

Base

Technique Type: Combat Performance: Deflection Delivery: Wave Range: 15ft. Effect Type: Instant

Upon a successful Deflection, the user of Scatterguard instantly shatters the incoming Projectile into smaller bits, then fires them in a chosen direction. The scattered projectiles fire off as a Wave Technique, affecting all within the threatened space who fail their Defensive Action.

Scattered projectiles deal the same damage and apply the same effects they would have before being Deflected.

Upgrades

1 point:

A Technique that sends back Projectile and Wave Techniques back to their users.

Base

Technique Type: Combat Performance: Defensive Action Delivery: Contact (targets Techniques) Effect Type: Instant

Like any other Technique Feature, the way this Technique is manifested is designed by the user upon acquisition, the only requirement being that, since it is a Contact Technique, the projectiles or waves that are being reflected are within reach of the user.

Reflected projectiles and waves have their traveled distance reset upon contact with the Technique, meaning that, unless affected by any other factors, they will always have enough distance left in them to return to their originator. The targets of any reflected Techniques may perform the usual Defensive Actions available.

Homing Techniques, upon being affected by Reflect, change their target to be their previous owner.

Modification

Requirement: [Performance: Defensive Action]

A defensive Technique which makes it so that any damage done to the user is also inflicted on the aggressor.

Base

Technique Type: Combat Performance: Defensive Action Delivery: Self Effect Type: Instant

Used as a Defensive Action, Mirror Pain accepts all incoming damage but also applies it to the aggressor. Unlike other Defensive Actions, Mirror Pain can be used on Techniques with any type of Delivery (such as Selective Techniques). Additionally, Mirror Pain can be used on Techniques with lingering damaging effects to also apply the same lingering damage on the aggressor, complete with its same duration. Likewise, a Passive or Actively Channeled Technique affected by Mirror Pain will continue to reflect damage on any consecutive turns linked to the initial application, without the user having to expend additional energy.

Mirror Pain only reflects back damage that is successfully applied to its user. Any damage ignored or avoided by the user due to natural resistances or the effects of other Techniques is not applied to the aggressor.

Damage reflected keeps its same typing, any resistances to it applying as usual.

Modification

Requirement: [Performance: Defensive Action]