Puppet Masters

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History: An oddball group, trained in Suna. The Puppet Masters eschew the traditional ninja arts for the art of controlling inanimate objects, specifically Puppets. As they gain ranks, there mastery over controlling these constructs does as well, allowing them more and more compartments and even wilder designs and uses for there favorite toys. However, this mastery comes with a cost: They never seem to reach the technical heights other Ninja do.
Puppeteer Abilities: Puppet Masters, obviously, have mastered the Kugutsu no Jutsu and utilize puppets to assist them in battle.
Special: Puppet Masters can gain an extra puppet with each rank. They also have ½ the normal jutsu slots of a normal shinobi at each rank (rounded up to the nearest 1).

Constructing the Puppet

- Genin Puppet: 5 Slots
- Chuunin Puppet: 6 Slots
- Jounin Puppet: 7 Slots
- S-Class Puppet: 8 Slots
- Legendary Puppet: 9 Slots
- The Puppets have no stats. Instead, their skill comes directly from the user’s stat set up.
- Puppets will have equipment slots available for weapons, items, armor, and One Main Weapon Slot Each.
- Each Puppet has ½ the jutsu available to a normal ninja at the puppet’s given rank.
- Puppets can only learn puppet-based jutsu, unless they are Hitokugutsu, since they themselves cannot manipulate chakra.
- Players who become Hitokugutsu must do so by literally becoming one of the puppets available at the rank they choose. They will gain that puppet’s jutsu slots and equipment slots. They can also now learn puppet jutsu.
- It is not necessary to learn a jutsu twice. Once a puppet based technique is learned, any puppet can use it; however, it will still take a jutsu slot for each puppet. A Hitokugutsu can also automatically learn any jutsu the user knows.

Using the Puppet in Battle

- Chakra and stats all derive from the user.
- Puppets and user share all actions.
- Based upon judge decision, a puppet may be destroyed for the remainder of the battle by successive shots or powerful ones.

Kugutsu no Jutsu - Puppetry Technique
Art: Ninjutsu
Rank: D
Type: Supplementary Per Turn
Range: Close (0-5m), Mid (5-10m)
Chakra: 10 Per Turn
Description: Kugutsu no Jutsu is a Ninjutsu technique that allows a ninja to use a puppet to attack from afar. Using their body’s chakra, the ninja emits strings of chakra that run from their fingers to the puppet. The puppet itself can be loaded with many weapons and tools, allowing the puppet master to remain hidden while the puppet moves and attacks the target.
*Note: User starts with this, replacing one of the initial E-Rank.
Limit: Puppet Masters.

Doku Kiri Jigoku • Baribari Hyaku Renpatsu - Poison Mist Hell • Hundred Continuous Tears
Art: Ninjutsu
Rank: C
Type: Attack + Item
Range: Close (0-5m), Mid (5-10m)
Chakra: 30 (w/poison)
Description: The user will launch poison mist bombs at a target, enveloping them in the gas. The puppet will then launch a multitude of needles at the target.
*Note: The technique can be done without the poison (45 chakra).
Limit: Puppet Masters. Puppet Only. Poison.

Chakra no Tate - Chakra Shield
Art: Ninjutsu
Rank: B
Type: Defense
Range: Close (0-5m)
Chakra: 100
Description: Chakra no Tate is a Ninjutsu technique used by puppet masters. This shield is created when chakra is emitted in the form of a disk from panels, which fan out from the puppet arms. This chakra can block many deadly attacks but some attacks.
*Note: Can only fully block an attack of equivalent or lower rank.
Limit: Puppet Masters. Puppet Only.

Kuro Higi Kiki Ni Hatsu - Black Secret Crisis of Two Début
Art: Ninjutsu
Rank: B
Type: Attack
Range: Close (0-5m)
Chakra: 100
Description: Using one puppet, the user will distract an opponent in some way, either by another ninja or possibly using another puppet. With the opponent distracted, the user will move into position behind them, opening the chest cavity or the attacking puppet and emitting wire to ensnare the target. They will then be pulled into the chest cavity. Blades will then run through the chest cavity carving the unfortunate soul inside to pieces.
Limit: Puppet Masters. Puppet Only.

Sanbou Kyuukai - Three Buddhist Treasures Vacuum Destruction
Art: Ninjutsu
Rank: A
Type: Attack
Range: Close (0-5m), Mid (5-10m)
Chakra: 425
Description: The puppets come together to form a pyramid. After forming a hand seal, a great suction will draw in all the surrounding targets to the area between their bodies. Once the sucked in materials reach this area they are broken down into nothingness in the swirling vortex.
*Note: Must have three puppets in battle. Costs one action. Only one puppet needs to know the technique.
Limit: Puppet Masters. Puppet Only.

Chikamatsu Puppet Sealing Technique
Art: Ninjutsu
Rank: B
Type: Attack
Range: Close (0-5m)
Chakra: 33
Description: This seal prevents the one sealed from manipulating chakra. There are two methods for this seal. In the first, the puppet will expel a hazy orb from its mouth, which can be thrown. While flying through the air, the orb will lose its haze and grow in size to a huge gaping beast-like head. The large teeth can grab a hold of the person it hits and pin them to a wall. Once it impacts the wall, it will immediately release the seal onto the surface. In the second form, the main puppet will expel the seal from its mouth onto a surface it is touching.
*Note: Maximum 10-40% chakra destruction with successful hit. Does not deal physical damage.
Limit: Puppet Master. Puppet Only. Can only be used once per turn.

Akahigi • Hyakki no Souen - Red Secret Technique • Performance of the Hundred Puppets
Rank: S Rank
Type: Attack
Range: Any
Chakra: 425
Description: To start the technique, the user will remove a summoning scroll to summon all the puppets. The skill of a puppet master is said to be proportional to the number of puppets they can manipulate at one time. The amount will be based upon the user but could conceivably be in the hundreds. At once, the user will have all the puppets converge upon the opponent, resulting in a flurry of weapons attacks nearly impossible to avoid.
*Note: While your base puppets may be amongst the hundreds, all the other puppets are ONLY used for the purposes of this attack.
Limit: Puppet Masters.

Hitokugutsu - Human Puppet
Art: Ninjutsu
Rank: S-Class Rank Minimum (No Jutsu Slot)
Type: Supplementary
Chakra: RP Based
Description: This technique allows the user to make a puppet, which can contain and use chakra. The user does this by making a living human into a puppet. This puppet will maintain the same chakra its original body held when alive. If the original ninja was highly skilled, its puppet can retain these abilities as well. Even the ninja unique body traits will be passed on to its puppet form. Thus the user can still use all the original jutsu the ninja once utilized.
*Note: The user CANNOT create a clan-based puppet. The user can make his or her self a puppet, allowing them to use puppet techniques as well as regular ones. The user can also create a puppet now that can use regular ninja techniques and not just puppet based ones.
Limit: Puppet Masters.