Human Puppetry
The art of turning a human, be they living or dead, into a puppet. This restricted is unique in that it is split into two levels: The Restricted Technique level that allows a user to turn corpses into Human Puppets, and the Enhanced State Level for those who can turn living humans into puppets, or are living human puppets themselves. These two halves are treated as the same restricted, so if you learn both it will only take up the Enhanced State Slot.
Name: Human Puppetry
Rank: S
Activation Cost: 30
Upkeep Cost: -
Range: Touch
Element: N/A
Skill: Kugutsu | Ijutsu
Classification: Restricted Technique / Enhanced State
Requirements: A Rank Intelligence; Ability to make S-Rank Puppets
Parent Technique: N/A
Handseals: N/A
Description: The Human Puppet Technique refers to the elaborate process of transforming a body, usually a human's, into a potent weapon. The user can combine their knowledge of medicine and engineering to meld living tissue with the animatronic enhancements of a puppet. This allows them to take a corpse and turn it into a puppet while preserving its abilities to utilize techniques that it knew while it was alive, including kekkei genkai, or to modify the user's own flesh into a living weapon.
This restricted is unique in that is is split into two parts, the Restricted Technique Level & Enhanced State Level. Knowing both parts of this technique only takes up an Enhanced State Slot.
The Restricted Technique level allows the user to turn a corpse into a puppet
The Enhanced State
, follows the same rules as crafting a regular puppet, with the additional costs of 500,000 Ryo per rank of the puppet, and 100 XP per Class of the target. Normally the user can only convert a PC, Unique NPC, or Summon, but with an additional 100 XP per class, they can convert a generic, clanless NPC into a puppet. Corpses transformed into human puppets will retain their ability to use chakra, keeping the Stamina stat (but not CP) of the individual and the ability to use chakra in order to perform any jutsu that the corpse knew in life, including any techniques or abilities related to kekkei genkai. A human puppet created this way may only have up to 15 jutsu, selected upon creation from techniques that the corpse knew in life. No Restricted of any kind may be kept by a human puppet created in this way.
The second use of this technique, partially converting a target into a living puppet, follows a similar ruleset. By using the technique on a target and paying 500 XP (can be paid by either the user or the target), they gain a special attunement slot. This slot is used only for the item that replaces the converted body part in question, and cannot take up more then 25% of the target's body. This can be done at every other class milestone the user reaches (1 at D, 2 at B, 3 at S), but if the total amount of the body that's converted exceeds 25%, then the user is subject to a harsh drawback, no longer able to increase their stats through Experience.
The final use of this technique is completely converting someone into a living puppet. Transforming someone into a puppet removes the special attunement slots gained from the 2nd use of this technique and cost 2,000 XP in addition to the normal puppet costs, however this cost is reduced by 500 XP for every special attunement slot they had previously gained from this technique. While nearly the entire body can be turned into a puppet, the target must always keep a core of still living material, usually composed of compressed tenketsu. This core becomes the user’s only weakness, and thus a massive weak point. The user becomes able to fight for extended periods of time without hindrances that would normally affect a human body, such as fatigue, muscle failure, loss of blood, wounds, or pain (The user is however still subject to the CP fatigue penalty in the Stamina rules). This allows the user to theoretically live forever unless killed, never perishing from old age. This conversion additionally allows the user to forgo the need for food, water, and air. This core can be transferred to other puppets at speeds equivalent to the user’s Coordination as well, allowing the user to abandon bodies that are damaged beyond repair or incapacitated. This core retains the user’s Strength and Constitution stats, while the puppet they inhabit uses either its base Strength or Constitution stat, chosen at creation. Appropriate boosters and debuffs that affect the user will always affect both the core and the puppet when the core and puppet are together. Otherwise the user’s base stats are used for their puppet body. For the purpose of enchantments, the core and human puppet count as different objects despite being created together. Swapping to a new puppet body after creating the first costs no additional EXP, and the EXP to turn oneself into a human puppet is a one-time fee.
Drawbacks: Human puppets can be destroyed and rendered inoperable thereby nullifying their various techniques and abilities until they are repaired. A body transformed into a human puppet has its potential for growth completely capped. The human puppet's base stats will be permanently stuck at whatever tier they were at the point of transformation (They may however be retrained if permanently debuffed, such as sources like S-rank Poisons or Tsukuyomi). These stats may be boosted via techniques and abilities but they cannot be trained for a permanent increase. This drawback applies if more than 25% of the target's body is turned into a human puppet. Due to the process of turning the user’s body into a puppet as well, the user will no longer be able to benefit from most traditional forms of healing techniques.
Name: Red Secret Technique: Performance of a Hundred Puppets
Rank: S
Activation Cost: 0.3 per puppet (3 CP minimum)
Upkeep Cost: 0.2 per puppet (1 CP minimum)
Range: 0m-70m
Skill: Kugutsu
Element: N/A
Classification: Sunagakure Exclusive
Hand Seals: N/A
Requirements: Human Puppetry Modification or Red's Chakra Spool
Parent Technique: Puppet Technique
Description: This technique allows the user to control up to 100 Puppets at one time by creating a spool of Chakra Strings from which to manipulate them. As even the most elite of puppeteers cannot control more than ten puppets at a time (one per finger), this technique requires at least some degree of human modification via Human Puppetry. It is said by augmenting tenketsu in a very specific way, the user is capable of producing up to 100 Chakra Strings from which to control their puppets.
Rather than turning the user into a Human Puppet, this technique can be used if the user constructs & attunes to an item specifically designed to allow them to use this technique, named Red's Chakra Spool, which requires S-Rank Engineering, Human Puppetry, and costs 1,000,000 ryo to craft.
Weaknesses: While this technique allows a puppeteer to overwhelm his or her opponents with sheer numbers, the difficulty in tracking that many puppets is overwhelming. The user is able to control 10 times the amount of puppets they normally could with the Puppet technique with no drawbacks, however for every rank above what they could control, their puppets will experience a -1 tier debuff to Coordination & Speed. (For example, a person with B coordination could control up to 60 puppets without their puppets taking a debuff, 61-80 puppets with a -1 tier debuff, and 81-100 puppets with a -2 tier debuff.)
Name: Red's Chakra Spool
Item Rank: S
Material Rank: A
Units Used: 1,000,000 Ryo
Description: A unique spool that allows the user to preform the Red Secret Technique: Performance of a Hundred Puppets without needing to convert themselves into a Living Huma Puppet.
Requirement: Kugutsu, Engineering, Human Puppetry
Attunement?: Yes
Crafting Time: 14 days
Yield: 1
