Forbidden Seal System

Forbidden Seals or Juunin are a deviation of Fuuinjutsu, designed to artificially allow its bearers to access and use Nature Energy. The seals strengthen the body to the point that its wielders are considered on par with shinobi of sage mode capabilities. The seals passively draw in nature energy from the surrounding environment to fuel itself. This artificial style of bringing about these changes are reviled by the various summoning species and considered corrupted and impure.

Any bearer of a Forbidden Seal is considered to be an abomination by the summoning species and the bearer would never be allowed to sign a contract, maintain a contract, be considered as a scroll holder, or be a prospective animal sage mode trainee. The summoning species consider Forbidden Seals so abominable because the majority of its first generation recipients were power-hungry madmen who quickly abused their new found power. Thus, now the summoning species view all bearers with suspicion and contempt.

Forbidden Seals are now, a practically lost art. Cropping up in old musty nearly forgotten scrolls and hidden away in now dead villages. There is one horrifying aspect to the Forbidden Seals. If forcibly applied to another person, the creator is forcibly inserting their own chakra into the seal as well. This allows the creator to always maintain a degree of knowledge on the bearer's location and strength.

## Rules

* Forbidden Seals have three stages: Dormant, Awakened, & Unleashed.
* Read more here to read the rules about how demons, sage mode, forbidden seals, and golden dragon marks interact.
* Each Forbidden Seal is customized upon creation and its choices decided then. These cannot be changed at a later point in time.
* Forbidden Seals are containers for Nature Energy.
* Forbidden Seals do not absorb Nature Energy while the host is in either the awoken or unleashed states.
* The prospective bearer must have a C-ranked body in order to survive the process of acquiring a Forbidden Seal and later activating its Unleashed Stage.
* If you have a Forbidden Seal then you cannot sign or keep a summoning contract.
* While Forbidden Seals offer incredible power to any who obtain them they do have significant drawbacks in their use. If the awoken stage is used then there are no drawbacks but if the unleashed stage is used then all stats are set to [-4] for [5] posts after the Forbidden Seal is fully unleashed and made dormant. The forbidden seal may not be accessed again until the [5] posts are up.
* Each RPC is only capable of possessing 1 Forbidden Seal.
* The RPC can gain a Forbidden Seal in one of two ways: discovering and mastering the Forbidden Seal Technique or being a victim of the Forced Seal Technique.

## Stages

### Dormant Stage

The passive stage: All Forbidden Seals provide the host with 400 Natural chakra. This chakra can only be recovered while the host has their seal in its dormant stage. In addition, the host gains a passive chakra and stamina increase of +50 per body rank. Natural chakra when the forbidden seal is not active passively gathers natural chakra. In a non-combat situation the seal regains 50 chakra per post and 25 chakra per post in combat situation.

**Training:**

* Requires the user to write out five paragraphs on how the seal was gained.

### Awoken Stage

This is the first stage usage of the Forbidden Seal.

**Basic Effects:**

* Increase [4] stats to [10] automatically.
* Overwhelming to one of the following: Base Nin (One from the Base Elements or Maruton), Esoteric Nin (Iryojutsu, Kugutsu, Fuuin, Sensory), Tai, or Buki.
* Cost 25 Natural Chakra per post used to maintain.

### Unleashed Stage

This is the second stage usage of the Forbidden Seal.

**Basic Effects:**

* Increase [2] stats to [12] and [2] stats to [10] automatically.
* Maintains previous Overwhelming choice.
* At this stage, you choose between the following: a second overwhelming or a keystone PA. A keystone PA is stronger than a regular PA and must be approved by the balance team.
* Cost 50 Natural Chakra per post used to maintain.