Ran Wo [Plot NPC]

Name: The Dubious Maw

Tier: A Tier

Type: Organic Weapon [Man-Eating Plant]

Appearance: Ran Wo has cultivated symbiotic flora into an organic weapon attached onto her head. She has grown plant-matter into a black and white man-eating flower about one and a half metres in length, thorns lining the insides like an overgrown maw.

Weapon Tricks:

• Ravenous Thorns [C Tier] - Ran Wo may feed all trait-related substances from Poisonous Fruit and Blood Roots into the Dubious Maw.
  Sharpened Thorns [C Tier] - If a target is hurt by the Dubious Maw, they will also be dealt C Tier damage the next post in bleeding.
  

Name: Branch of the Bloodied Arch

Tier: A Tier

Type: Grafted Weapon [Wooden Machine]

Magic: Life Magic

Appearance: Ran Wo requested that Amnet and Kihya convert the bough from an old Kounese redwood into a magic item for her Leshy body. It has been carved into an intricate machine, inserted and assimilated into her throat, and engraved with a magic circle. It allows her to attack by projecting wood chippings from her mouth, giving her access to a ten metre projectile weapon that deals laceration damage.

Function: The user pours magoi into the machine, causing thorn-lined trees to burst outwards in spherical dimensions from themselves up to ten metres in length. These thorns deal B Tier damage and cause lacerations that deal D Tier damage in bleeding over four more posts.

Trait Name: Deadly Flower
Trait Tier: A Tier
Trait Requirement: Assassin, Body Manipulator and Leshy physiology.
Trait Description: After she gained her Leshy body, Ran Wo learnt body manipulation techniques in order to control her new plant-based physiology. Due to her profession as an assassin, however, she decided that she should master changing her appearance to better fit into human society, growing symbiotic flora in ways that would allow her to create human-like features.
Trait Effect: Ran Wo may grow specialised fungi and plant-matter into skin-like textures in order to disguise herself in human society, but these disguises only last until she enters combat. She may alter her features freely outside of combat and control her size between two metres and ten metres, but she can only change her size once per post in combat. This also allows her to register abilities related to fungi and plant-matter.

Trait Name: Poisonous Fruit
Trait Tier: A Tier
Trait Requirement: Assassin, Rime Syndicate knowledge and Leshy physiology.
Trait Description: A former Rime Syndicate assassin involved in narcotics and other illicit substances, Ran Wo has a deep understanding of poison synthesis. With her new Leshy physiology, she has learnt to produce all kinds of plant-based poisons through her own body.
Trait Effect: Ran Wo can register four instances of mundane poisons based on those approved for Zubaidah, which she may use freely during a thread. When a new thread is started, Ran Wo restores her poisons to the max four instances. This allows her to lace weapons with poison as a basic action or seed them into any ability used, wherein they activate upon contact with a target.

Trait Name: Bloody Roots
Trait Tier: C Tier
Trait Requirement: Body Manipulator, Leshy physiology, Deadly Flower and Poisonous Fruit trait.
Trait Description: With her understanding of symbiotic flora, Ran Wo has altered her internal biology in such a way that she secretes sap with unusual properties.
Trait Effect: Ran Wo produces an anticoagulant substance within her Leshy sap, automatically coating any user-created plants with this substance. She may also coat other weapons with her sap as a basic action. This causes all bleeding to last three posts longer and requires an extra instance of C Tier healing on top of the base damage for the bleeding to halt.

Transformation Type: Partial

Cost: 4 posts max (once per thread)

Description: Using her control over plant-matter, Ran Wo has assimilated the Bough of the Bloodied Arch into her Leshy physiology and transformed into something more similar to her initial Leshy form. She barely resembles a human woman any longer, white birch and brambles bursting forth from her body, looking like wizened hands reaching towards the earth.

Traits Replaced:

New Traits:

Crimson Thorns: Ran Wo burrows her roots into the ground, before dividing them into eight thorny plants. She may have these plants remain beneath the earth for up to four posts, restricting her movement to a twenty metre radius from her initial position during this time. She may then grow these plants to burst from the ground up to thirty metres in height, dealing D Tier damage per plant as lacerations.

Scarlet Brambles: Ran Wo expands her root in a twenty metre radius, creating a field of thorny brambles upon the ground below for three posts. If someone touches the brambles, they will deal C Tier damage as lacerations, causing an extra D Tier damage each post for two posts.

Haunted Forest: Ran Wo spreads her roots across a fifty metre in diameter area around herself, stimulating the growth of a bramble forest in the same area, growing them up to fifty metres in height. The trees grow through hard surfaces such as stone, forming a massive maze of trees. The trees can be felled with A Tier strength or basic attacks, and remain for four posts unless destroyed. This allows her to use any tree from this ability as a starting-point for any base ability.