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Summoning Animal
Vampire Squid
Contract Creator
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Current Contract Holder
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Approval of Contract
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]Signers of Contract
TBA
Current Boss Summoning
Nahla(To be submitted)
Taichi & Varya(Also to be submitted)
Real Life Description of Animal
Disclaimer
The vampire squid is a hybrid of two living animal trees that are found in the deep ocean. Sharing both squid and octopus details. The vampire squid varies in color from blood red to pitch black. Of course there could be albino specimen as well, which would carry a white color, or white with a trace of red. Depending on lightning and enviornment, the squid has a webbing that connects its tentacles, just like an octopus. The tentacles or arms, have suckers on the tips. Like many deep-sea cephalopods, the vampire squid lacks ink sacs. If disturbed, it will curl its arms up outwards and wrap them around its body, turning itself inside-out in a way, exposing spiny projections. If highly agitated, it may eject a sticky cloud of bioluminescent mucus containing innumerable orbs of blue light from the arm tips. This luminous barrage, which may last nearly 10 minutes, would presumably serve to daze would-be predators and allow the vampire squid to disappear into the blackness without the need to swim far. The display is made only if the animal is very agitated, because regenerating the mucus is metabolically costly. The vampire squid has the largest eyes compared to body-size in the animal kingdom. Instead of swimming, the vampire squid uses jet propulsion to "fly" through the water, capable of reaching it's body-length two times per second. Since these squids have a complicated setup of bioluminescence, where there is no light in the pitch-black ocean, the squids can disappear completely by turning it off. They also use this to confuse their prey or scare it away. Due to an interesting way of reproduction strategy, the vampire squid is deemed the smartest Cephalopod in the ocean. Taken from sources [
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]Roleplay Background
The Vampire squids were a dominant race that ruled the seas for millenniums as wise leaders. They didn't ever really care that much about what happened on the surface and were left unknowing of most wars and conflicts. However, the Vampire Squids at the time ninshu was created was looked for by ninjas, who wanted to use them as summoning animals in battles. Getting attached to shinobis, villages and others, the Vampire squids would lend their aid only to those who they deemed worthy. They are extremely feared in battle and almost unrivaled when it came to battles next to the sea or with a lake. The boss summon, Nahla with her two companions, Taichi and Varya has lived for thousands of years in exile, waiting for a person worthy enough to show up.
± Vampire Squids are extremely agile and intelligent creatures and can propeller themselves through water with jet-like speeds. This is how they function in real life and they can travel twice their body-length per second. For the biggest of the summons, this means.. fast... Since the sizes of the original trio hasn't yet been established(cough not submitted cough) it's still hard to say how fast they can travel through water, but the standard is set as such.
± Depending on the build of the squid, the ability of sucking and cutting through/onto material depends greatly. Some of the specimen may focus on raw cutting force and some may rely on great suction force on their tentacles. What all the animals share is their gigantic eyes relative to their bodies. This may intimidate most opponents. A 50 meter tall summon would have eyes that are 8 meters big.
± Unlike the regular squid summoning, the vampire squids stay true to their real-life reflection and cannot utilize ink whatsoever. Instead they rely on their bioluminiscent mucus that they use to confuse or cause other effects(depending on the summon itself) to be inflicted. The summons are in general very calm, focused and smart. They're also not the most aggressive creatures you could meet either.
Conditions on Signing
Any ninja who wishes to sign the vampire squid contract must be ready to inscribe the official contracts tattoo on their body. When summoned, it's by traditional means. I.e scrolls or blood smeared on the tattoo is required. Latter of which is probably more popular as it doesn't require the ninja to bring a scroll with them. The signer of the vampire squid contract may not have a second summoning contract that relies on creatures thriving in water. The tattoo will be placed either around the users eye(as a symbol of their huge eyes) or inside either of their left or right palm in their hand. The scroll owner or creator may inscribe the tattoo or hand out a scroll to their pupils who may only use this thread to be taught to summon the specimen or learn vampire squid ninjutsu techniques.
Tattoo
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Uptates
Updates are important, and will always be posted with an approval(if needed) link in a quote in this thread. New summons, signers etc will all be updated in this thread.
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