Endless Gravestones Claymore RP

[Reinard-fox]

.:Rebecca:.

There he was! Mentally prepared, Rebecca tried to react as fast as possible. As the blade started flying, she pulled herself towards the tree her thread was stuck in by shortening the thread. She aimed to only move 1-2 meters and not more. Once she will finish the maneuvre, another of her threads, coming from her clavicle will be stuck in the ground 3 meters behind her while another flies towards Alerian from her right shoulder.

Once another attack comes, she will pullherself with thread stuck in the ground, aiming to dodge the blade by putting herself beneath it. Once she is under the blade she will let the ground-stuck thread go and will pull herself with the thread stuck in the tree. Retreating from Alerian with this maneauvre she will shoot two threads in his face, aiming to put a couple of scars to make it at least a little bit more handsome and manly.

Skills and Yoki:
Yoki: 10 into MOV.
Skills: Jungle Snake, Sheltering Lance.

[spoiler=Jungle Snake]Jungle snake - Rebecca is able to use her threads not only for attacks but to quickly move her body as well. After shooting her threads and piercing them into a stable structure she pulls herself towards the point she pierced and is able to fly towards that point with astounding speed, exciding her own speed limits. The same very technique is used for dodging opponents attacks.

[MOV replaces AGI in dodging. DUR is added to MOV for thread movement speed.][/spoiler]

[Assassin396]

Straight up Skill vs Freaky Threads

Alerian leapt forward, aiming a precise strike aiming diagonally downwards towards Rebecca.

And hit nothing but air. He hadn't really seen her move.. more of a jerk, as she was suddenly a metre distant from him. He moved in for his follow up attack, slashing back along the path of his previous attack, this time catching her in the shoulder, making a deep cut along her right shoulder.

Rebecca responded with a thread darting from the remains of her shoulder, catching him in the chest, causing a bit of damage.

the rest of the flurry was less interesting, as Alerian had managed to get in close with Rebecca and had already seen her retreating trick. Three more attacks were landed, with expert control, just short of hitting her with a final vertical slash landing the tip of his claymore at her throat.

He was very fast, too fast for her. But she had managed to dodge the first attack.. which really did speak for something.

[Yammet]

Yammet

After hearing Ines speak, Yammet thought about the deal for a bit. This seems like a beneficial deal for both of us. I am up for doing it. What should we do first?

[elise04]

Her attention was caught between the exchanges that Rebecca and Alerian had made, she was a bit intrigued as she decided to move in a bit closer. She was willing to test her skills with this male warrior, her expectations were not that high with regards to the exchanges that she would have with Alerian. Being able to experience firsthand the power of this guy would be very beneficial for her, she might be able to learn something new from it.

"I would like to try my skills next with you" she spoke a bit louder hoping that Alerian would be able to hear her words. She glanced at Yammet and Ines hoping that they would come out of an agreement.

[Xenotime]

~Inés~

Yammet accepted quickly to Inés’ delight. She hated pointless bargain in such situations. Elise’s ignoring her offended the girl. Inés was beginning to think she was one of those who ran after boys. Well, human quality was something to be appreciated among the Organization warriors, she guessed... Inés turned her attention to Yammet, who seemed to be more enthusiastic about training with her.

”Since we reached an agreement, let’s begin. The yoki masking technique I promised has four different stages of training. It took me a little over a week in total to learn, but back then I had to find out what to do on my own. In your case I’ll be guiding you so it’ll probably take less than a day.”

As Inés finished her tea the girl’s demeanour changed again. It would be hard to notice by the careless, but Yammet was sharp enough to see the subtle difference. Inés continued with the steps of the training she’d give Yammet.

”When you release yoki to enhance a part of your body, yoki flows out of the yoma flesh surgically inserted in you to the body part you desire then back to the yoma flesh in a circulation until you stop it. The thing to remember is that you ‘release’ the yoki and try to force it back to the yoma flesh, not the other way around.

Should yoki remain too long in human tissue it will start mutating it. I’m sure you’re familiar with this concept. The more yoki you use eventually yoki will stay longer in your human tissue whether you like it or not. Your body begins deforming, a sign of the mutation I mentioned. If you let the yoki go freely, yoki will spread all over your body. It usually requires a great deal of willpower after that stage, which you call going over your limit, to bring the yoki back to the yoma flesh to keep it contained. If you can’t contain the yoki in your yoma flesh your body will undergo a permanent mutation. You call this awakening.

Sorry, I was carried away... So when we say we sense yoki, what does it really mean? What we sense is the motion, the emission, the flow of yoki within a body. But that’s half the story. Let’s think yoki as flowing water, and yoki sensing as hearing the water flow. Now which one would produce more sound, a wild river or a gently flowing stream? What we want is the silently flowing stream.

I mentioned four stages for your training. In the first stage you’ll learn the optimum routes for channelling yoki in your body. The less distance yoki travels, the less sound it will make. Second will be the smoothening these routes. Your body naturally resists yoki flow, producing some sort of friction. We’ll minimize that friction. Third I’ll show you how to make the naturally turbulent yoki flow into a laminar flow. After these three stages you’ll have complete control over your inner yoki flow. This laminar flow of yoki does not cause mutation in human tissues and it can’t be sensed. Well, there are ways of sensing it as no technique is perfect but you won’t stand a chance against such opponents anyway... Just remember that even the smoothly flowing stream makes some sound no matter how low in volume.

The final stage involves using yoki in high amounts to enhance your body, while still keeping the flow laminar. This is more practice than theory so no need to explain it now. In the end this technique has many benefits. Your yoki flow is silent, hence it can’t be heard by others and since you don’t have to deal with the sound of your own yoki you can hear others’ yoki without interference. Not to mention your body doesn’t deform when using yoki, since no mutation takes place. Anyway as I said this will take a day, so how about explaining me your skills? Then we can make a schedule.”

Inés waited for Yammet’s answer calmly as she observed the spar between Becky and Alerian. She couldn’t help but wonder what Alerian could learn from Rebecca who made use of mutation skills...

This post has been edited by Xenotime on Jun 23 2011, 01:59 PM

[Kaiserkreuz]

.:Alerian:.

"Guess this is what you call check mate ending this duel and plus you need to heal those wounds. If your reaction was a fraction of second less it would have ended real bad. Anyway using strings to move yourself quickly in and out of battle isn't something you see everyday but wonder where they came from."

After finishing their duel and letting the young girl to tend to her wounds Alerian would move towards Elise and ask if she is sure about her decision.

"Let's see are you really sure of trying to duel with me because it would be quite bad if ended up badly hurt young lady."

Alerian stares at her with his mouth slightly open.

This post has been edited by Kaiserkreuz on Jun 23 2011, 08:32 PM

[elise04]

"I would like to try atleast" she smiled at him hoping that he wouldn't be aggressive with her. She looked at Ine's direction, she would definitely will try to learn from her later, she was too shy awhile ago that she just let Yammet be the one to start her training. She positioned herself in front of Alerian, she closed her eyes trying to make sure that she's focused and serious about this one.

Action 1

Once she felt the wind coming towards her direction, she would then use her speed moving towards Alerian's back going for a vertical slash feint. The true slash will be a horizontal slash directed to his right shoulder going down. If she misses she would then dodge and block any incoming attack from him and she would maintain a good distance and will analyze the results of her actions.

[Yammet]

Yammet

She listened intently to Ines as she spoke of the manner in which to gain this skill. She listened and took in what she could of the information. Ines finished and asked for an explanation of her skills.
Well, my skills seem to pale in comparison to yours, but here goes. When I learned of yoki landscaping, I was still fairly new to how yoki moved and was. I had to learn how yoki flowed over objects, similar to how you described making the most efficient path in your body so as to not waste yoki movement. However, with landscaping, you need to send out the waves and make noise. This allows the yoki to envelope the objects that are there. once the object is enveloped, you can see it as a disturbance in the flow of the yoki. The more concentration you have, the clearer the objects appear. When I learned it I had to start of slow. I used my arms to bounce the yoki between and read the objects that were there.
For you to learn this, you must not be able to see. You need to rely solely on your yoki to figure out the objects that i put in front of you. You will probably learn this faster then I did. I would say this might take half a day.
With yoki comfort, I learned it by fighting. I had to know my yoki, and it needed to know me. We needed to come to a mutual understanding on how we could fight together as oppose to two separate entities. Once we understood each other, I was able to let my yoki out and allow it to help me the best it could, by hiding me. It understood that it was not as capable of fighting many things at the same time, so it relied on me to protect the body when attacked. But the yoki was trying to make it so the body was not in danger to begin with by hiding it from those that could harm it.
For you to learn this, you need to be able to talk with your yoki. It requires more then just seeing it, moving it, and so forth. You need to be able to have dialogues with your yoki. You need to understand it, and it needs to understand you. Once you have had these dialogues, you will then need to fight, allowing your yoki to be sensed. After some time fighting, the yoki should be able to help cover up itself. This may take longer. It depends on how long it takes for you to talk with your yoki.
What do you think? Do you think it possible to have these skills taught and learned? And what might the schedule be?
Yammet waited for a reply from Ines on who would start teaching first.

[Kaiserkreuz]

.:Alerian:.

/sigh

Quite impatient aren't we

Elise just suddenly used her skills to move quickly and sneak upon him well it never hurts to try it I guess. Alerian relying and using his reflexes to quickly parry and evade every of her blows using minimal movement while observing her actions waiting for and opening and the right time to perform a counter attack.

He would just let her exert herself, playing with his opponent parrying and evading anything she pulls at him. Once she show signs of exhaustion and an opening for him to perform a counter attack Alerian would perform a quick disarming slash to send her sword flying and then pull her near him making their face close and their eyes pierce into one another as if as he is trying to take her breath away.

[Xenotime]

~Inés~

Inés had to make some revisions in her plans. The skills Yammet spoke of required releasing yoki, which was the exact opposite of Inés’ fighting style. However the girl knew that all skills could be adapted to the user’s needs. She just had to be a little creative. Yoki landscaping was basically reading yoki backscattering from objects, giving the rough shape and distance of the object. Inés never thought of using such a technique before, but was now thinking of the possibilities it presented. Using her own yoki for the scanning of her environment wasn’t feasible. Her opponents’ or allies’ yoki would have to do the landscaping for her.

As for yoki comfort... The way Yammet put it was strange. It was as if her trainer doubted her ability to understand the concept and taught her in a way that children were. And if her guess was correct the trainer would be Cornelia, who pretty much treated younger warriors like children. At least these were proven techniques considering they were used by the number four. Based on Yammet’s description Inés hypothesized the mechanics of yoki comfort. Each individual’s yoki had its own unique frequency and the difference between frequencies was what enabled a person to sense yoki. Now if a person forcefully alter her own yoki frequency to match her opponent’s then it would be harder to be sensed by the opposing side. But this was a gradual process since pinpointing opposing yoki’s frequency right away would require amazing yoki sensing resolution, which Inés assumed Cornelia possessed. Hence user of yoki comfort would alter the frequency, making it closer to the opposing each passing moment, eventually almost matching it. Inés probably wouldn’t be able to make use of the gradual matching, but she had confidence in her yoki sensing. She could manage to get a reasonably accurate reading of opponent’s frequency in one go. This would enable her to use this with inner yoki flow control making the occasional yoki leaks due to yoki release even harder to read by others. Inés grinned at this possibility.

The talk with yoki part made Inés smile though. She remembered Ulrich’s lair, where she went through an odyssey in her mind trying to mend her shattered consciousness. Not the she made a perfect job out of it, since she still had occasional changes in personality, although not as severe as before. At least the personalities were all “Inés” rather than distinct personas and there were no longer inner dialogues between the personalities. It would heal one day... hopefully. The encounter with Deimos, her inner yoma, her yoki, during her reminiscence of her last days in Verno was the last time she ever talked with him. After a deadly fight Inés, the victor, offered to merge with Deimos in order to end the duality in their consciousness. The offer was accepted and original Inés and Deimos ceased to exist, producing a whole new entity that adopted the name Inés.

”Of course they can be learned. And I won’t need to speak with my yoki, since you are speaking to her right now. I and my yoki are one and the same, how this happened is a long story to be told later in a peaceful world. We’ll do it this way; I’ll teach you the first step, while at the same time you’ll teach me yoki landscaping.

I’ll create a yoki focal in my body then I’ll produce a second one. You’ll move your yoki from the first focal to the second as fast as possible using the fastest route. However you should know that the shortest route isn’t always the fastest. Remember the “friction” I talked about earlier? Well the friction is uneven in your body so you’ll have to optimize between short and less friction for the fastest route. I’ll keep doing this and follow your progress. Once you start to keep up I’ll speed up the creation of yoki focal.

As for your training, I’ll be closing my eyes as we are doing all this. Choose several objects for your training and I’ll try to find out the object by using yoki landscaping.”

Inés will seal her sight by tying a piece of cloth around her eyes. She’ll wait until Yammet finds suitable objects or whatever she wants to use for training. Once the warrior is ready Inés will create the yoki focal points for Yammet’s training.

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OOC: We’ll consider Yammet does this hundreds, maybe thousands of times, but for convenience I’ll give you only two sets of problems. You need to find the "longest" path in each problem from node 1 to node with highest number. You can use each node only once and the longest is determined by the sum of values between nodes.

[spoiler=Problem 1](Posted Image)[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Problem 2](Posted Image)[/spoiler]

[Assassin396]

Elise surged towards Alerian, preparing a rapid feint before allowing her true attack to shine through.

Alerian saw it coming, he neatly stepped aside, leaning slightly to watch Elise's blade fly smoothly past him. He then moved in for a counterattack. Elise didn't even see him coming, one moment she was holding onto her sword. The next it had been flicked away then Alerian's eyes were in hers, his breath on her face.

Elise blinked... that was fast.

[elise04]

She was pretty sure that she can't win with this one. He has a lot of experience and power to begin with but then she had to try. She wasn't that surprise that she lost this one but then she was hoping that she could last for a minute or two. Her sword wasn't on her hand and she was closed to Alerian's face. "Fast" she blinked and she wasn't sure how to react in this situation.

She blushed but then she remembered Arcis "You beat me" she spoke trying to distract herself from this extreme closeness

[Kaiserkreuz]

.:Alerian:.

"Indeed, It was inevitable but I compliment your bravery in trying. Well since there is plenty of time for us it takes two to tango."

Alerian stabs his sword on the ground then grabbed Elise on the waist and on held her hand then starts dancing something like a tango with her. Making her follow every moves he makes so that she would sudden scream in surprise from an unusual experience not felt by claymores. Dancing isn't in the usual curriculum of warriors of the organization and this experience should make her mind focus on something else or perhaps excite her more maybe. Once they are finish dancing and their bodies are close to each other and their faces looking at one another. He would then whisper on her ear.

"Guess that isn't something you experience usually in the organization."

Alerian then strokes Elise's hair with his left hand, letting it slide gently along her left cheek and then holds her chin. It seems as if his face is getting near her. His passionate silver eyes looking deep into her own eyes as if trying to peer into her own soul. Almost feeling his breath on her lips and his red luscious lips are almost near her's on a hair's length.
[spoiler=Spoiler]Then suddenly Alerian raises her right hand and moves his head then bows to kiss it instead.

"Well hope you enjoyed the dance mi lady."

Letting go of Elise so that he could retrieve their swords. Alerian then gives her sword back to her while smiling at her.
[/spoiler]

Perks: Knight of the Carpet

This post has been edited by Kaiserkreuz on Jun 27 2011, 06:49 PM

[elise04]

"Dancing" she thought as she moves together with him in a dance that she can't recognize. Although during her younger days at the orphanage they were thought how to dance but then again it was not formal as this one. She didn't complain or anything but her reaction surprises her, she was feeling butterfly in her stomach the whole time.

All throughout the dance she kept on focusing herself to Arcis. "I love him and no one else" or this might be one of those trick for me to go with them and become renegade.

The close proximity between their lips was not an alien feeling to her, because Arcis and her kissed and it was memorable. Looking at Alerian she almost leaned in because she was seeing Arcis in front of her, an illusion she thought and then she snap out of it as Alerian brought back her sword.

She walked towards him closely and holds his face as if she was kissing him,
but then she whispers in his ears "I know how to dance and i already have a partner" she smirked at him. "You think you could get me by that moves, geez" she thought to herself.

This post has been edited by elise04 on Jun 27 2011, 07:42 PM

[Yammet]

Yammet

She listened intently to Ines. Alright, let me go gather some objects as you prepare yourself for trying to identify them.
Yammet scampered off to go and locate some objects. It took her only a few moments but she gathered quite a collection of objects. The first object for you to identify is in front of you. You can start sending yoki out. I am ready to take on your test.

Yammet focused on the points in Ines's body. She found them and then tried to find them in hers. It took her a little bit, but she found them. Now time for the hard part, make them go from point A to point B.

OOC

Problem 1- starting at 1, she will follow path A to node 2, she will follow path D to node 4, she will follow path E to node 5, take the dotted path to node 6, and finally take path F to node 8.

Problem 2- starting at 1, she will follow path A to node 2, she will follow path D to node 5, and finally she will take path I to node 10.

[Xenotime]

~Inés~

Yammet was doing fine at the beginning but as Inés increased the speed she began to lag behind. Eventually she started making mistakes while rushing the path optimization to keep up with Inés.

”You are beginning to miss better paths. Concentrate! You’ll be doing this in the heat of battle. I know, this skill requires daily practice to master but I expect better from someone as proficient as you.”

As Inés resumed sending yoki from one part of her body to the other, she also emitted yoki to her surroundings. Inés will try to catch the backscatter of yoki hitting the objects Yammet placed. She’ll first try to guess the relative position of objects according to the sound Yammet produced by placing them. Then she’ll use the backscatter of both her and Yammet’s yoki as they practiced inner yoki flow control to get the shape of the objects.

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OOC: The first solution is correct however the second solution should have been;

A--> C --> F --> K -->L

This is the last problem; if you do this correctly you finish the first stage successfully, if can’t then I’ll ask another problem and so on. Now remember you want highest sum of values and you can go from one node to the other following arrow directions. This time you start from node A to node H. Good luck! :)

[spoiler=Problem 3](Posted Image)[/spoiler]

[Kaiserkreuz]

.:Alerian:.

"Quite unfortunate but it seems your partner can't even make you yelp and scream in excitement when dancing that's why you just along with my flow without any hesitation."

Alerian then moves closer to Elise.

"But your quite a fickle young lady glancing at another man to get his attention and then starts to play coy. Well can't say I don't like such actions but you make me curious and interested. When I'm interested on something I don't let it go and will make it mine."

Then he puts his left hand at her left cheek then slides to the back of her neck. Their bodies almost close to one another then his right arm hugs her waist. Without a word Alerian gave her a deep and passionate kiss taking Elise by surprise. It was quite long kiss and after giving her a kiss he would let her get a recollection of what just suddenly happened.

"Guess your second tasted like strawberries, I don't mind if have to wait a long time to gain a place in your heart just like they say take things slow but steady. The question is how steady is your feelings for this partner of yours but once you felt that he isn't the one I'm just right here watching over you like the wind. Well see you mi lady."

[spoiler=Spoiler]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU0C1xHS8BI&feature=related[/spoiler]

Alerian bowing to Elise and then slowly walks away while the wind is blowing and leaves are falling down in the background as if they dancing in the air. Going towards Ines to have his eye examined by her.

Perk: Knight of the Carpet

This post has been edited by Kaiserkreuz on Jun 29 2011, 05:30 PM

[elise04]

"Can't even make me yelp or scream?" she thought to herself as Alerian's words sink into her mind. "Arcis is a shy type of guy, kind and gentleman, and her wouldn't dare harass a girl like this." she was thinking the last time they spent the night together during an Awakened Being hunt. It was a memorable night and she would always treasure it.

"But then am i interested in Alerian?" she thought to herself as she analyzes her actions today. The first emotion was irritation but then she was curious of him, his behavior is the total opposite of Arcis and she loved him dearly.

Her thought processing was brought into a halt as Alerians kisses her deeply, passionately. He wasn't being careful with her, she tried to resist but then he is much to strong than her. She just closed her eyes until he stops, like he was just kissing a statue.

After that incident, she became silent hoping that Alerian's public display won't hinder her true intention here which is learning a new skill. She then moved closer to the spot where ines and yammet are training. She would maintain a distance with Alerian and will avoid any kind of eye contact.

[Kaiserkreuz]

.:Alerian:.

Well guess it is the first time Elise encountered an aggressive person when coming on such things. Well she is irritated and ignoring him for now since being irritated on such an event means it is buried deep down on her heart and can't forget such thing. Being irritated at it means she does know how to react on it quite funny that there would be still such a maiden among organization warriors when those old geezers already mess up their lives and minds.

Well guess let her lament on things and don't bother her for a while is a good course of action for now. Alerian just left out a silent laugh while sitting on a stone watching over Ines giving some training to Yammet. When Ines is not quite busy on supervising the young warrior Alerian would just ask her something.

"Ines is that ability of yours works on trying to dig up deep memories left behind on things. Because I need to know what so special with this eye to warrant death upon her by the organization. Well you can improve my observation skills when at it also like killing two birds in one stone."

This post has been edited by Kaiserkreuz on Jun 30 2011, 06:49 PM

[Xenotime]

~Inés~

This was getting a bit out of control. People had no patience for waiting their own turns. Inés wondered how many things she could do simultaneously. As a part of her training Inés was blindfolded and Alerian wanted her to reveal the secrets of his sister’s eye. Sure she could remove the eye and examine it but she doubt Alerian wanted that. That eye could reveal more of its potential with the likes of Inés or Yammet. Alerian with his poor yoki sensing couldn’t use it to its fullest. And there was Elise, who was waiting silently for her turn. Inés could sense the silent request in her yoki. She had to plan something that could handle the training of everyone.

”I can only resurface your own memories not your sister’s. That eye possesses your sister’s yoki but sadly yoki doesn’t carry memories of its owner. Unless you can provide me with the brain, it’s hopeless. But I can tell you why the Organization wants it. Your sister used hypnotism mixed with yoki manipulation right? Normally yoki manipulators adjust their own yoki frequency to match opposing frequency. The abnormality with Ellisime’s eye is that its yoki shows no signs of forced alteration by owner. So that means that your sister actually changed the opposing yoki’s frequency for the manipulation. As you may guess this opens up a lot of opportunities for manipulation. Hence the Organization would want it for their End Project. Now that I answered your question let’s come to the practical case. Honestly you are using the eye to its potential in physical observation. What we can do it help you use its frequency altering ability and use this as a filter to clarify yoki signals for a better reading. That’s all I can do.

As for you Elise... In your spar earlier I noticed you are too direct in a fight. If you wish to be stealthy you need to learn its most basic concept. You can move silently or become invisible in shadows, but it doesn’t matter as long as the opponent is paying attention to you. You have to get rid of that attention. Hence the most basic thing is being natural and patient. By natural I mean you have to act natural as if you’re out of battle living your normal live. Your killing intent, tactics, aggression, and the threat you pose... All of these and many other factors cause your opponent to concentrate on you. You have to act as if your not part of the fight, as if you’re absent from the battle. As for patience, I think the word speaks for itself. You can be absent from the battle only for so long. When the time is right you have to strike, not sooner or later.

Now this is what we’ll be doing. All three of you will be sparring against me. Naturally you would overwhelm me but there is a catch. Alerian and Elise will be using these yoki suppression pills I have, so no yoki usage for you two. Alerian, I’ll be releasing yoki so you’ll try to use both your eyes and yoki sense to predict my moves. Elise you’ll catch me by surprise. Yammet finish the last yoki path finding then release your yoki to fullest and don’t lower it one bit. You’ll keep circulating the yoki in you which will end up removing the ‘friction’ in the yoki channelling paths you just found but won’t enhance your strength. Heavy exercise will make the process easier so you’ll be helping Elise and Alerian with the sparing. I’ll remain blindfolded as I am and try to see your actions through Yammet’s skill. Yammet please warn me if I do anything wrong regarding the skill as I’ll do the same with all of you.

Finally everyone please remember that this is training. We won’t gain anything by injuring or killing each other so use the flat side of your swords. Now let us begin!”

Actions: Inés will get up and hand out pills to Elise and Alerian. She’ll then draw her sword ready to defend against three attackers. Her primary focus will be on Alerian to predict his attacks. Inés will enhance her ears to keep track of her opponents, focusing on their heartbeats and using them to predict their intentions.

Using the yoki she's emitting to her surroundings and Yammet's yoki, Inés will try to sense the reflecting yoki from objects around her. She'll especially focus on yoki coming from the heartbeats to get a visual of Alerian and Elise, since she can't sense them with yoki.

Inés will try to parry attacks, blocking if necessary. If her opponents put on too much pressure she'll counter attack with the flat of her sword to disrupt their attacks.

Skills: FSE (OBS Mode, Focus Mode, Hyper Audition), Yoki Landscaping (?)
Yoki: +30 to skill, +15 to DEX.

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OOC: Sam you don’t need to GM this one. Everyone, what matters is how you are trying to learn and implement your skills, not wipe the floor with Inés. Please reflect that in your posts. Below is what each of you is aiming to learn to write your posts accordingly.

Yammet, you still need to give the answer of last problem to complete first step. The full yoki thing I explained above is the second step.

[spoiler=Yammet’s Training]Void Flow is a combination of Detailed Yoki Sensing, Inner Yoki Sensing, Advanced Yoki Flow Reading, and Yoki Comfort.

Void Flow: Yammet learned from Inés to alter the nature of yoki flow within her making it more still, adaptable and controllable to a degree that she can release massive amounts of yoki while still remaining invisible to detection.

Effects: Are as follows.

* Yammet's yoki hiding becomes PRE*5.
* Yammet can hide yoki even when releasing it.
* Yammet's yoki sensing/hiding is not effected from yoki release.
* As long as the yoki release is masked there is no physical deformation or golden eyes.

Requirements: 40 PRE or pay 25 energy. MT depends on amount of yoki released.

- When releasing no yoki skill is passive, requiring no multitasking.
- When releasing yoki up to 30% 10 multitasking is required.
- When releasing yoki from 30% up to 60% 20 multitasking is required.
- When releasing yoki from 60% up to 100% 30 multitasking is required.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Elise’s Training]Absence: Elise learned from Inés how to avoid getting attention simply by reducing her actions and speeches to a minimum, becoming invisible to the minds of people around her...

* Elise's physical hiding is multiplied by 1.5, unless opponents' specifically focus on Elise. That is, they need to spend 10 points of their multitasking to negate the effect of this skill. Elise loses initiative when she's spotted or focused on.

* If the opponent is facing Elise directly in combat face to face the skill is useless, but it can be used if the opponent is fighting someone else at the same time. Elise is never an opponent's first choice of attack unless she's alone or the opponent is focusing on her.

Activation Requirements: 30 INT or 25 energy. 10 multitasking needed.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Inés’ Training]Yoki Landscaping (Light): Inés learned from Yammet how to use her yoki to identify objects in an area. The more yoki she uses, the bigger the range of landscaping is, and the more yoki sources around Inés, the easier identification becomes. Using this skill, Inés can sense traps or hazards in the environment (such as pit falls or areas of weak structural integrity), and isn't affected by low visibility areas.

Effects: Are as follows.

* Yoki Sensing increases by 10.
* For every yoki source around yoki sensing increases by 2.
* Yoki search radius is 5 meters and increases by 1 meter for every 10% yoki release.

Requirements: 25 INT & 25 PRE, or pay 25 energy. 10 MT needed.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Alerian’s Training]Below is an upgrade of Mind’s Eye.

Eye of the Soul: After countless battles Alerian has gained enough experience to adapt his sixth sense to the opponent he’s facing. Through observation and old experiences he can fight more efficiently and with her late sister’s eye he can see the weaknesses in his opponents and gain advantage of them. Alerian’s ability to read his opponents is such that it’s like he has a third eye. Ellisime’s eye acts like a filter, changing yoki signals to a frequency that Alerian can read more easily allowing him to predict his opponents with yoki sensing as well.

Effects: Are as follows.

* Alerian gains +30 to physical observation.
* Half of opponent’s yoki release is added to Alerian’s Yoki Sensing.
* Alerian’s combat stats increase by his (total INT)%.
* Prediction bonus is added to attack and defence against a single opponent Alerian focuses on.
* Every opponent’s flanking bonus or sneak attack bonus to their attack success is halved against Alerian.

Requirements: Have 30 INT & 10 PRE or pay 25 energy. 10 MT needed. Ellisime's Eye needs to be active.[/spoiler]