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Kidoushuu (Kidou Brigade)
Status: [OPEN]
Primary Requirements:
Secondary Requirements:
General Overview:
Class Skills:
Penalties:
Status: [OPEN]
Primary Requirements:
- 2000 base Kidou
- Shikai (1000 Connection)
- Recommendation from Division Captain or Gotei Commander
- Approval from active Kidoushuu members.
- All stat fields outside of SP and Connection should not exceed level of Kidou. A third of which, excluding SP, must be attributed to Kidou to remain part of the Kidoushuu.
- Must be a graduating Shinigami from the Central Spirit Academy.
- Must have one of the three highest Kidou stats in their Gotei Division. Those in the 3rd or 5th Divisions are exempt from this requirement.
Secondary Requirements:
- Must know and master at least 10 different Kidou (to gain access to Mastery feats).
General Overview:
Before the Shinigami had perfected Hakuda and later on, Zanjutsu techniques, the Gotei 13 had initially been a spellcasting force that used Kidou in order to do battle against those that would seek to disturb the spiritual order. As time went on and Zanpakutou abilities began to gain prominence in Shinigami combat tactics, the most powerful of the Kidou casters went on to found a new suborganization whose sole purpose was to preserve the study and development of Kidou within the ranks of Seireitei's forces. The Kidoushuu, as that fledgling organization from the past is now known, specialized in Kidou-only combat and produced mages so fierce that even the Captains of the Gotei 13 would fear them in number. However, by the time the Great Hollow War had rolled around, the Kidoushuu was lacking in recruits due to an all-around shortage in talent and played only a minor role as support forces for most of the conflict.
Now, as the Great Hollow War threatens to erupt in the midst of massive civil unrest in Rukongai, the Central 46 has given authority to the Gotei 13 to begin scouting out the new generation of Shinigami for prospective Kidoushuu members. In combination with the swords and pure brawn of the 13 Divisions, the spell and guile of new Kidoushuu ranks could prove devastating to Hollows that have developed anti-Zanpakutou powers and strategies.
By joining the Kidoushuu, a player can expect to:
- Transfer from being solely Gotei 13 and operate concurrently with a new suborganization.
- Be pulled from your everyday Divisional duties and report for special duty.
- Work extensively with prototypical technologies.
- Be at the forefront in dealing with hostile Recombinant Souls.
Class Skills:
[Absolute Bypass] - Inductees into the Kidoushuu have their skills at spellwork immediately augmented through the revelation of a relatively simple, yet highly secretive technique that only the most Kidou-capable of Shinigami have discovered and mastered. As part of the Kidoushuu, Shinigami are able first immediately able to cast Kidou without the use/direction of its somatic component. Merely glancing at or knowing where your target is will guide the spell to activation. As their skills grow and the Shinigami are capable of using a Kidou Mastery skillset, the Absolute Bypass technique reaches maturity and the Shinigami is now capable of casting the spell muted and blind if need be. Both somatic and verbal components of spells can now be ignored.
[Kidou Mastery] - Upon reaching various levels of advance competence with Kidou, Shinigami that are part of the Kidoushuu have arcane mysteries from past generations of Kidoushuu revealed to them. Each Master Kidoushuu member now chooses to specialize in one of three areas: Counterspelling, Elemental, Shapes. Once a field has been chosen, the Kidou Master must stay in that discipline and can not change to another.
[Multicast] - For developing their Kidou prowess above all other Shinigami skills, Kidoushuu members are able to chain together various Kidou at a previously unheard of speed:
If two spells cost exactly the same, order their costs in whatever manner to satisfy the new costs arrangements. Kidou cast must either be all different or all the same. If they are all the same, cost reductions can be ignored to see the damage increase by 10 percent each time the Kidou is chained/repeated.
- Doublecast (Earned by raising Kidou to 2 times greater than any other stat, excluding SP and Connection) - Kidoushuu can now cast two Kidou together simultaneously by paying the full cost of the more expensive spell and half of the cheaper.
- Triplecast (Earned by raising Kidou to be 2.5 times greater than any other stat, excluding SP and Connection) - Kidoushuu can now cast three Kidou together simultaneously by paying the full cost of the most expensive spell, half of the next cheapest, and a third of the cheapest.
- Tetracast (Earned by raising Kidou to be 3 times greater than any other stat, excluding SP and Connection) - Kidoushuu can now cast four Kidou together simultaenously by paying the full cost of the most expensive spell, half of the next expensive, a third of the third most expensive, and a quarter of the cheapest.
If two spells cost exactly the same, order their costs in whatever manner to satisfy the new costs arrangements. Kidou cast must either be all different or all the same. If they are all the same, cost reductions can be ignored to see the damage increase by 10 percent each time the Kidou is chained/repeated.
[Ranged Touch] - Kidoushuu can now cast Kidou that require touching a subject/target as part of its somatic component at a distance of five feet per every thousand points of Kidou score.
[Synergical Aura] - For every Kidou that a member Shinigami knows, a .01 bonus is applied to their base Kidou score. For example, a Shinigami with 10 Kidou mastered will gain a 1.10 bonus.
Penalties:
Due to the nature of a PrC and the skills gained from said advancement, any and all participants who join this class must receive a -5% to their grade at the weekly evaluations. This is not a stat reduction, merely a reduction of the points one would have gained before adding the score to connection and then distrubuting them to stats.
