[Mode] [Snake Sage Mode] Blake Belladonna

[Korra.]

*Waits for my old sensei/senpai* :bouncy:

 

[Mephistopheles]

Hello there! First of all, please link your battle test to make sure everything is fine in this thread.

Then explain to me why snake sage mode is better than toad sage mode ;P

 

[Korra.]

Here you go

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Snake Sage Mode is better since in our RP Snake Sage Mode users get a more boost in their speed, stamina, reflexes, and last 1 turn longer then Toad SM users. The user also gains yellow eyes with a black sclera just like a snake instead of toad eyes. They gain further access to snake anatomy, like their brille, which a user can use to block out some light as well as stop visual-based genjutsu from affecting them and have scales, which gives a rudimentary yet effective protection from minor attacks. They are also able to perform abilities that are characteristic of snakes, such as dislocating their jaw. Their boost in their abilities is more emphasized on speed, agility and reflexes rather than strength, endurance and raw power like the Toad SM.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Alright, sorry for the late reply, still do not have my laptop fixed nor any of my documents ~_~

Can you also tell me what natural energy is?

 

[Korra.]

Its alright ^x^

Natural Energy is a type of energy a person can gather from the atmosphere and terrain around them that they have to balance out with their spiritual and physical energy so that one can enter Sage Mode and use senchakra with their jutsus. Gathering too much Natural Energy can cause you to turn into stone or petrification or in Juugo's clan case loose control and transform into something else.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Forgive me for my terribly late reply again

Now, since you've chosen the snake sage mode, we will need to do this the hard way!

*Performs a handseal and summons a bed of incredebly sharp six feet tall spikes, with one twelve foot tall spike in the middle*

Take a stone slab from the pile, and sit on the taller spike, gain your balance and maintain absolute stillness.

It looks simpler than it is, believe me

 

[Korra.]

Forgive me for my terribly late reply again

Now, since you've chosen the snake sage mode, we will need to do this the hard way!

*Performs a handseal and summons a bed of incredebly sharp six feet tall spikes, with one twelve foot tall spike in the middle*

Take a stone slab from the pile, and sit on the taller spike, gain your balance and maintain absolute stillness.

It looks simpler than it is, believe me

Its okay ^^^

*Blake takes a stone slab and starts walking up on the side of the tall spike. When she gets to the top she places the slab on top of the spike so its balancing on the spike. Blake then sits on the slab and start focusing on balancing on the slab. She keep her focus even start shaking a little but than gets her balance on the slab. Once she gets her balance Blake starts focusing on maintaining absolute stillness. She keep her focus and and remains still so she is completely still on the slab on the top of the spike. As the breezes blows Blake remains completely still not letting anything undo her focus or stillness.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Okay, good, now that you're sitting completely still you need to start to control your breathing as it still makes you not still enough.

The trick to this is to enter a zen meditation state where you slow your breathing to the point that you basically are no longer taking air in, but still maintain enough oxygen to function.

 

[Korra.]

As Blake is sitting on the slab she starts focusing on controlling her breathing. She keeps her focus on controlling it so she can become completely still. As she starts controlling her focus Blake starts to enter a zen meditation state. As she enters this state she starts to slow her breathing. As she keeps her focus she gets to the point that she basically is no longer taking air in, but still maintain enough oxygen to function. After reaching this point Blake becomes completely still sitting on the slab of earth.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Good. Now try in this state to feel the flow of the ecosystem around you. The plants, insects and animals, all in sync with each other. The energy which all these things give off, that is what you need to find and tap into. Eventually you will be able to draw on it, but first sense it.

 

[Korra.]

As Blake is remaining in her zen state and is completely still on the stone slab, she tries to feel the nature around her all the countless plants, insects and animals, tho it might be mostly snakes around us, that surround her, somewhere in the forest. Knowing she will be able to use the nature's chakra she knowns first she has to be able to see that balance first before feeling that power. Blake keeps listening to the birds that whistle in the trees and the snakes slithering through the grass. As the snakes roam through the grass in what she suddenly realises there are lots of snakes around her, which all are part of the ecosystem and all use this stream of energy. She tries to feel the trees, but instead somehow feels the presence of a fish in a pound not far from her. After a couple of hours, of listening and trying to feel the energy and the beings around her, Blake is sure she can feel it. A certain bond between all that is living around her. Animals, insects, plants, the countless of trees, everything is sensible for her. A strong power, a force, a flow that flows through every living creature and every living thing throughout this ecosystem, throughout the forest, she can feel it.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Alright, now the complicated part.
You must now draw on this flow, pulling the energy inside your body and balancing it equally with your spiritual and physical energies in a 1:1:1 ratio.
Too little natural energy and nothing happens, too much and.... It will kill you.
Are you prepared for this risk?

 

[Korra.]

Yes its worth the risk xD

Blake sits down and closes her eyes again to be able to fully concentrate on her own being and the nature with all it's energy streaming around her. Blake focuses to make sure she doesn't start breathing heavily and concentrates so she will find her balance and complete stillness again in her zen state. After a few minutes she is back in the state she was before, completely still and in an utmost balance, nothing that can get her out of it now, unless herself. She concentrates fully on the nature around her again.
After she is completely able to feel everything around her again, every single living creature and every bit of energy that is in her living surroundings, she starts making preparations for the hardest part of training so far. The stream of energy she can feel is overwhelming. The power seems to radiate from the nature itself, with a power that normally would send a shiver down her spine.
After a while, Blake is accustomed again to the power and force of the nature and not slightly overwhelmed anymore of the immense amount of power that it actually consists. She tries to do exactly the same as she would with the ninjutsu she thought of before. Drawing in the power of your opponent and absorbing it, so you can use it as your own later. This is what she needs to do with the nature's energy as well. She begins to concentrate on her own chakra first, feeling a certain kind of flow which she can control. She matches it to the flow she can control to see the difference and how to affect it. Then she starts concentrating on the flow that is not her, the immense power of the nature. She starts to manipulate her own chakra to try to draw in the nature chakra, slowly and steadily trying to 'pull' the flow of the nature towards her. Nature has enough power to lose a bit of it to me. Slowly, bit by bit, she tries to pull the energy closer towards herself, absorbing it. As she finally starts to get the hang of it after a few hours of trying to absorb the energy, she starts to feel an immense power in her body that makes her own chakra feel far more little. It starts to become a little too heavy and she suddenly remembers she needs to balance her powers as well the nature energy, her spiritual and physical powers need to be in an 1:1:1 ratio. She divides her concentration in three, focusing her spiritual and physical powers more, spiking them slightly as she draws in less nature chakra. Now her spiritual and physical powers are too much. As she turns it around again, it is the other way around and the nature chakra takes over. She quickly reverses, remembering it might harm her if she doesn't. Concentration for a few minutes, just realizing what is happening here, then she picks it back up. Trying to divide her concentration to three equals as she starts to draw the nature energy back in, then she focuses on herown powers, spiking both physical and spiritual. Adding some more natural energy, and evening it out. After a while, she is able to even all out to a perfect balance. She needed to spike both physical and spiritual energies to a hight that met the hight of the spikes of the natural energy, balancing them all out to a peaceful harmonic mass of power.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Very good!! *_*

Now, how do you feel?

 

[Korra.]

I feel one with the earth and like I'm a snake myself *insert pic of Korra with shades on*

 

[Sharingdork]

I shall take over here, Mephistopheles.

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Rank: S
Type: Supplementary
Range: N/A
Chakra cost: 70 (-15 per turn, adds 300 chakra points)
Damage points: N/A
Description: The user, by standing perfectly still in a meditative focus (user must stay still for 1 turn), will draw into him natural energy which he will then blend with their own chakra adding a new dimension of power to it. By doing this, the user gains access to what is called senjutsu chakra. This new chakra allows the user to enter an empowered state called Sage Mode, which then drastically increases the strength of his techniques and his physical prowess (speed, strength, stamina, etc). This variation is used by the signers of the Snake Contract that undergo Senjutsu Training. The Snake sage mode gives different effects and features than its toad counter part. The user gains yellow eyes with a black sclera. They gain further access to snake anatomy, such as their brille, which can be used to block out some light as well as stop visual-based genjutsu from affecting them and their scales, which bestow a rudimentary yet effective protection from minor attacks. They are also able to perform abilities that are characteristic of snakes, such as dislocating their jaw, although this is not exclusive to this mode. Their physical strength, speed, stamina, reflexes, and durability dramatically increase, with more emphasis on speed, agility and reflexes rather than strength, endurance and raw power. When Sage mode ends the user then experiences physical exhaustion reducing their capabilities the following turn and preventing him from using techniques above A-Rank and Taijutsu above B-Rank. A user can prevent this by using a shadow clone to collect natural energy and dispelling it before sage mode ends or by ending sage mode before it times out. While sage mode is active, minor wounds heal slowly as time passes and the user gains the ability to passively sense his surroundings through the natural energy, in a similar but more precise and enhanced way as normal chakra sensing. While Sage Mode is active, the user will take little damage from techniques C-Rank and below, specially Taijutsu. Taijutsu gains +15 damage, main elemental affinity gains +20 damage, other elemental ninjutsu gain +10 damage and Genjutsu gains +10 damage.
Note: Sage Mode lasts for a total of 6 turns unless a clone is used
Note: This variation can only be used by custom bios with the Snake contract

Rank: S
Type: Supplementary
Range: N/A
Chakra cost: 70 (-15 per turn, adds 350 chakra points)
Damage points: N/A
Description: In the normal Sage Mode, the user, by standing perfectly still in a meditative focus (user must stay still for 1 turn), will draw into him natural energy which he will then blend with their own chakra adding a new dimension of power to it. By doing this, the user gains access to what is called senjutsu chakra. This new chakra allows the user to enter an empowered state called Sage Mode, which then drastically increases the strength of his techniques and his physical prowess (speed, strength, stamina, etc). However, by infusing his body with Jugo's cells Orochimaru was able to mimic his ability to passively gather natural energy at all times, becoming able to enter Sage Mode at any time he wishes without needing to wait one turn to gather the needed natural energy. The Snake sage mode gives different effects and features than its toad counter part. The user gains yellow eyes with a black sclera. They gain further access to snake anatomy, such as their brille, which can be used to block out some light as well as stop visual-based genjutsu from affecting them and their scales, which bestow a rudimentary yet effective protection from minor attacks. They are also able to perform abilities that are characteristic of snakes, such as dislocating their jaw, although this is not exclusive to this mode. Their physical strength, speed, stamina, reflexes, and durability dramatically increase, with more emphasis on speed, agility and reflexes rather than strength, endurance and raw power. When Sage mode ends the user then experiences physical exhaustion reducing their capabilities the following turn and preventing him from using techniques above A-Rank and Taijutsu above B-Rank. A user can prevent this by using a shadow clone to collect natural energy and dispelling it before or after sage mode ends or by ending sage mode before it times out. While sage mode is active, minor wounds heal slowly as time passes and the user gains the ability to passively sense his surroundings through the natural energy, in a similar but more precise and enhanced way as normal chakra sensing. While Sage Mode is active, the user will take little damage from techniques B-Rank and below and A-Rank and below Taijutsu. Taijutsu gains +15 damage, main elemental affinity gains +20 damage, other elemental ninjutsu gain +10 damage and Genjutsu gains +20 damage.
Note: Sage Mode lasts for a total of 6 turns unless a clone is used
Note: This variation can only be used by Orochimaru bios

Now, there's the Sage Modes you've accessed. I deem the methods used to achieve this as valid.

So, looking at these Sage Mode variants, I'd like for you to pick out what makes them strong, what others might try to take advantage of, and how you'd use them in battle (alone, without the SSM technique). Furthermore, I'd also like for you to describe the differences between the two modes, and any aspects one mode might have that would make it favorable over the other.

 

[Korra.]

The first thing is that Oro's SM can be enter at anytime when the custom one has to gather senchakra for one turn before entering so thats a point towards the Oro one xD Oros also give you 50 more chakra points than the other one. Oro also give you more defensive against B rank jutsus and A rank taijutsu while the other one is just C rank jutsus. Both give a bigger boost to their uses primary element. Oros get a bigger boost in genjutsu and both get the same boost in other elements and taijutsu. A way to use both of these would use the strength bonus it gives you to perform stronger taijutsu attacks. I would also take advantage of being able to block your vision which would be great against a sharingan user so you wouldnt be caught in their genjutsu. I would also use my main element more since it would get the biggest boost. At the end I would take Oros over the custom since I can get it without having to wait a turn.

 

[Sharingdork]

Alright. So looking back at your previous post, we are going to assume that you have entered the Custom User SSM.

Rank: A
Type: Offensive, Supplementary
Range: Short - Long
Chakra cost: 30
Damage points: 60
Description: This technique allows the user to control things that have no life functions by gifting them with some of their own life force, allowing the user to freely manipulate the substance according to their will. The extent of the user's control goes beyond normal manipulation through chakra, meaning that even drastic alterations to the immediate environment can occur both suddenly and unexpectedly, making attacks using this method extremely difficult to avoid. Intense heat such as that produced by the flames of Amaterasu can counter the effects of this technique, causing affected inorganic materials to revert to their previous state.
Note: Effects of the technique last two turns and can only be used while on Snake Sage Mode.

This is the only technique for the Snake Sage Mode, so we'll learn it before your time in this state runs out. This technique is very potent, allowing you to impart a portion of your "life" force (done with your fine balance into Natural Energy) into the environment around you. Fairly useless in plain fields, this technique is fueled by creativity rather than strength. By donating your life force to nearby inanimate objects, you gain full control over them (looking at the

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, your degree of control is quite ridiculous). Different from techniques that manipulate nature with chakra, this has no limitations as elements do. You don't even have to follow normal restrictions of the environment or object (as seen, Kabuto was able to curve the earth as if it were some form of fabric, as well as grow stone spikes). You can cause the environment to change in linear movements (such as Kabuto did - just simple changes like the spikes coming closer and the roof and floor changing to get Itachi into position) so fast that even the Sharingan has difficulty keeping up (Itachi had time to create a Susano'o arm to protect Sasuke, but couldn't also form more of Susano'o to protect himself). This technique overall is great, and I personally would like to use it in a forest to get an army of Ents on my side.
Now, this technique has a few certain restrictions. First of all, you can't make things "fly" - magically levitating for no obvious reason. You also can't control anything that is living, which would include animals of all kind and humans. Plants are acceptable.
As for its weaknesses, powerful flames such as Amaterasu (given the rank it's been granted in the RP, I'd also say S-rank flame) can disrupt your energy and return the objects/environment to their normal state. But aside from that, weaknesses are a case-by-case system.

So, why don't you perform it, show me an example of how you'd use it (in your performance), and then ask any questions you have about this technique, or SSM in general.

 

[Korra.]

Korra starts channeling her senchakra and slams her hands onto the ground. As she does that she channels her senchakra into the ground. Once she has enough of it she uses it to manipulates the earth and using the senchakra has the earth form into the shape of a fabric that wraps around your clone. Once wrapped, she has the fabric form spikes in the inside of it, piercing the clone from the earthly fabric.

Question for this jutsu! If you were fighting a wood user and after they stop using the jutsu could you use this to take over the wood jutsu and use it against them xD maybe like wood dragon or something?

 

[Sharingdork]

If they move on and stop using that wooden form, I would say "yes". However, it doesn't act as it did when it was a technique - it still can't fly, and it doesn't have any wood release "Bijuu suppression" qualities - it's simply a clump of wood in an interesting shape that makes it easy to manipulate.

I also realize that something I said may have been misleading. "You can cause the environment to change in linear movements so fast that even the Sharingan has difficulty keeping up". By this, I simply meant that if you have the object/environment move "linearily" - in such a way that it's just a direct motion - it moves incredibly fast, but that isn't the only way you are restricted in manipulating nature.

So, if you have no further questions on anything, I believe we're done here.