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Iron Raptor Technique would be a really good move in general considering we are the only one with charms.

Unfortunately we have no real use for call the blade.
 
uju32 said:
Iron Raptor Technique.
E2, Melee 3, Call The Blade prereq, range of Essence*8 yards, cannot be blocked without a charm.
Should work against the kaiten, but you're unlikely to get close enough to the Sound barrier to hit through it.

Alternatively, Blazing Solar Bolt is E3, Melee 5, has a damage of (Strength+Willpower), a range of 1 mile, halves opponent DV, and ignores any cover that isn't 100%; a see through barrier is not 100 % cover.
It will almost certainly punch through the Sound barrier, and cripple if not kill the Sound Four it hits.
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I don't really agree with this. I mean for one jutsu's are pretty equivalent to being charms. So just saying needs charm to block means it ignores all chakra based defenses feels incorrect. And as much as I love blazing solar bolt, cover is more then just visibility (at least in general, I've never really looked that much into Exalted's cover rules). A four person erected magic barrier that ANBU couldn't breach almost certainly counts as 100 percent cover see through or not.

Now blazing solar bolt might still be powerful enough to pierce through, but I wouldn't count on it.

In fact reading the flavor text on Iron Raptor, I'm just baffled at this. It's literally just magically throwing a melee weapon. Magic barrier bypasser it is not. Sure there's the upgraded version that turns it into an energy beam instead of just a flying sword, but that doesn't read I ignore barriers.
 
fictionfan said:
Iron Raptor Technique would be a really good move in general considering we are the only one with charms.

Unfortunately we have no real use for call the blade.
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I would not be so sure. I mean, an ability to call your balde back into yoyr hand after throwing it is definitely useful in combat.

IRT is unlikely to help us, though, as sound four's barrier is less a forcefield shield and more of a BOLO screen. It works by disintegrating anything that passes through it. So, if anything, we'll want a perfect defence to bypass it. Do we have a chance of getting any of those that would let us walk through whar is essentially a thin wall of plasma with a magical "you instantly burn to ash" effect to it?
 
I'm trying to understand how Fuinjutsu works. Is the following accurate as a potential technique with the correct complexity level?

Endless Water Dragon Technique
Components: [Mass Sealing Technique, Elemental Seal(Water)]
Complexity: 5
Twin water sealing scrolls ascend into the air, covered in mist that takes the shape of two spiralling dragons. Endless water spews forth from the dragons mouths, covering the surroundings in water.
 
Yog said:
IRT is unlikely to help us, though, as sound four's barrier is less a forcefield shield and more of a BOLO screen. It works by disintegrating anything that passes through it. So, if anything, we'll want a perfect defence to bypass it. Do we have a chance of getting any of those that would let us walk through whar is essentially a thin wall of plasma with a magical "you instantly burn to ash" effect to it?
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Where did you get that idea? It seemed like soild barrer to me.
 
Rotekian said:
I'm trying to understand how Fuinjutsu works. Is the following accurate as a potential technique with the correct complexity level?

Endless Water Dragon Technique
Components: [Mass Sealing Technique, Elemental Seal(Water)]
Complexity: 5
Twin water sealing scrolls ascend into the air, covered in mist that takes the shape of two spiralling dragons. Endless water spews forth from the dragons mouths, covering the surroundings in water.
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Yep, that is pretty much what it's supposed to look like.
fictionfan said:
@Crilltic : Do jutsu count as charms?
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For the purpose of resolving effects yes.
 
If it isn't a solid barrier then all you need is Glorious Solar Sabre (also needs Call the Blade). Being an invincible magical sword forged in the divine light of Sol Invictus, being burned to ashes won't be a problem for it.
 
Rotekian said:
If it isn't a solid barrier then all you need is Glorious Solar Sabre (also needs Call the Blade). Being an invincible magical sword forged in the divine light of Sol Invictus, being burned to ashes won't be a problem for it.
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Even if it is a soild barrer if it is see though a sword of light should be able to go right through.
 
Yog said:
Very imperfect edo zombies, if I remember correctly that's a plotpoint later that they were far weaker than their "real" or even "4th world war" selves.
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Given that their real/4th War selves were horrifically powerful, that really isn't much of an improvement.
They sufficed to kick the shit out of Sarutobi despite Orochimaru fooling around, .
Jiraiya was busy with Orochi's summons elsewhere, Kakashi and Gai were too young, and who knows what Danzo was doing.

You'd end up with vastly greater casualties and a weaker village than otherwise if Tobirama, say, got to run rampant in Konoha for a bit.
Kosjurake said:
I don't really agree with this. I mean for one jutsu's are pretty equivalent to being charms. So just saying needs charm to block means it ignores all chakra based defenses feels incorrect. And as much as I love blazing solar bolt, cover is more then just visibility (at least in general, I've never really looked that much into Exalted's cover rules). A four person erected magic barrier that ANBU couldn't breach almost certainly counts as 100 percent cover see through or not.
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-Jutsu are not charms any more than sorcery is.

-Why?
Unblockable attacks are very much a thing in Naruto (Rasenshuriken, bijuu balls, chidori, Amaterasu).
You don't try to parry them, you get out of the way.
Unless you have a PD equivalent.

-No such thing as 100% cover in the core book.
The highest that's specified is 90%.
Unless you want to designate it as soak.
 
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ShadowAngelBeta said:
Well, Crillitic already over-ruled you on that. 15 Minutes or so ago actually.
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I meant they count as Charms for the purposes of reading Charm Effects. So if something says "This can only be blocked/dodged by a charm". Then a Jutsu that let's the user do that is still going to count even though it's not literally a charm.

@uju32 is right about the unblockable attacks though.
uju32 said:
Given that their real/4th War selves were horrifically powerful, that really isn't much of an improvement.
They sufficed to kick the shit out of Sarutobi despite Orochimaru fooling around, .
Jiraiya was busy with Orochi's summons elsewhere, Kakashi and Gai were too young, and who knows what Danzo was doing.
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I always read that as they were jobbing a bit. Since I'm pretty sure Edo Tensei, while forced to obey the directives of their summoner, can determine how they fulfill those directives. It's been awhile since I looked up exactly how that worked though. So I might be wrong.
 
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ShadowAngelBeta said:
Well, Crillitic already over-ruled you on that. 15 Minutes or so ago actually.
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So he did.
Still, there aren't very many defense-specialized Narutoverse techniques; besides Earth Grudge Fear and Kaiten, I'm not sure I can think of any.
And given that Solar Bolt halves DV anyway....
Crilltic said:
I always read that as they were jobbing a bit. Since I'm pretty sure Edo Tensei, while forced to obey the directives of their summoner, can determine how they fulfill those directives. It's been awhile since I looked up exactly how that worked though. So I might be wrong.
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They were definitely jobbing; Orochimaru even makes it explicit when he is knocking Sarutobi around instead of going for the kill.
But it is also true that they were less powerful there than they showed up later; there were presumably safeties in the charm to prevent incidents like summoning someone/something you couldn't put down.
Like when Orochimaru summoned Hashirama and realized that he couldn't control him.
 
uju32 said:
So he did.
Still, there aren't very many defense-specialized Narutoverse techniques; besides Earth Grudge Fear and Kaiten, I'm not sure I can think of any.
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Hmm, Kakashi knows a big water barrier technique I believe. Orochimaru knows a doton jutsu that raises a massive earth wall. A few seals are barriers.

Unless you're talking about personal self-enhancement. In which case, at one point Sakura took an exploding tag against Sasori (I think) and tanked it, so I assume there's some kind of passive augmentation, but that's probably some kind of Chakra Skill related trick.
 
HymnOfRagnarok said:
Unless you're talking about personal self-enhancement. In which case, at one point Sakura took an exploding tag against Sasori (I think) and tanked it, so I assume there's some kind of passive augmentation, but that's probably some kind of Chakra Skill related trick.
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And even the lower level guys regulalrly hit some super-human levels of strength, speed, and reactions. Probably a Epic Attribute like affect where they can distribute their dots in Chakra Skill into automatic successes for their physical attributes maybe?
 
Okay, so my laptop is on the fritz again. Had to move to my back-up because it's basically unusable at this point. So that's where my night went. Anyway, update is postponed until tomorrow (morning hopefully, probably try to make it a two update day, since the votes for the special events aren't particularly intensive).
 
Crilltic said:
Okay, so my laptop is on the fritz again. Had to move to my back-up because it's basically unusable at this point. So that's where my night went. Anyway, update is postponed until tomorrow (morning hopefully, probably try to make it a two update day, since the votes for the special events aren't particularly intensive).
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What's fritzing? Had my computer do that to me before. Turns out E6400s can actually turn their bulbs up so brightly that they burn them out in months.
 
Crilltic said:
Randomly shuts down every 5-10 minutes. Plus a ton of graphics artifacts that makes the screen look like a cubist painting. Pretty sure the graphics chip is borked.
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Never had my graphics card bork on me yet. My screen, my hard-drive, an out of date... uhh... what's the thing that boots up the OS? BIOS, that's it. Had one of those out of date and fucking with me for a while as well. *Shrug* Ah, well. Good luck, I'm lucky to have a pretty decent computer repair shop a couple of towns over.
 
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