Summoning System

In order to obtain an animal summing you must post traveling to the summoning lands, usually from your village gate and then through any of the land threads. Once on site, if there are no other contract holders then you simply make a minimum of a five paragraph post roleplaying with the animals of the contract. The animals will then deem you worthy of the contract and you will be granted the title of sage. If there is already a sage or contract holder, the hopeful summoner should then seek out the either of these RPCs instead and convince them to allow them to sign the contract, thus acting as an easier (or harder) way to bypass the five paragraph minimum. How you gain the contract holder's trust is up to them. Once a person has been made into a contract holder, they themselves are able to sign contracts for others if they wish, meaning it is important for Sages and the like to choose their disciples wisely.

## Survival and Dismissal Rules

Each summons is granted access to something called Legendary Armor. Almost as if they came right from a storybook, this hidden strength of spirit that allows them to survive much more than what a normal human would. How exactly this is done depends on the animal itself, snakes could have armored scales, rats a scrap plating, perhaps even it could be something as simple as a general toughness. Regardless, this armor allows an animal to fully ignore damage/trauma from any attack that it absorbs, with stats like endurance applying their damage reduction first. Attacks that total up to/meet the rank of the armor, break it on contact.

Once broken the armor does not regenerate, and the animal begins to suffer the effects of trauma the same as a RPC would. Unless healed, the summon will be instantly dismissed after running out of stamina and be unable to be called upon again in that fight. If the attack is powerful enough to reduce summons stamina in one shot it is dismissed. During this time, it will be unable to return to that fight, but may still be summoned by other summoners from around that world that are not affiliated with the battle. (Jake from Konoha gets his fish boss summon beaten up during a fight but Jim from Arashi can still summon the fish boss since he doesn’t have anything to do with the other fight across the globe). If a summon runs out of either of its resources, it is also considered dismissed and is rendered unsummonable until the end of the fight.

## Kuchiyose no Jutsu and Summoners Clashing

When making your contract with a summon, the newly created summoner is considered to have auto-learned the following jutsu:

**`▰ Summoning Technique [ Kuchiyose no Jutsu ] | Universal`**

`The Summoning Technique is a space-time ninjutsu that allows the summoner to transport animals or people across long distances instantly via blood. Before an animal summoning can be performed, a prospective summoner must first sign a contract with a given species. The contract comes in the form of a large scroll and is considered a legendary scroll for the contract holder, on which the contractor uses their own blood to sign their name and place their fingerprints and once signed it is valid even after the contractor’s death as long as the contract itself remains intact. After this they need only offer an additional donation of blood on the hand they signed the contract with, mold their chakra with hand seals, and then plant the hand they signed the contract with at the location they wish to summon the creature. The amount of chakra used during the summoning determines how powerful the summoned creature can be. It should be noted that anyone can summon a contracted animal as long as they have the blood from someone who has made a contract, the seal of the summoned creature, along with a source of sufficient chakra that the summon will accept. A creature is capable of determining who is attempting to summon it from the chakra used. In the anime, it was shown that if a user attempts to summon an animal without first signing a contract, the user will be teleported to the home of the animal they have a natural affinity for.`

Each use of this ability requires an amount of chakra equitable to the body rank of the animal being summoned. Using it this way can allow for the summoner to bring forth up to two active summons from the list, as long as either has not been defeated. While active each of these creatures will remain until it is dismissed by the user or it is defeated in battle. In the case of multiple users summoning the same summon a clash will occur. If this clash is between two sages of the same animal, the animal in question will respond to the one of higher rank listed on the summons page, if this clash is between a sage and a normal contract holder the sage is always the victor, and if this clash is between two contract holders then the higher body rank will be the victor, if both are the same body rank then the animal will refuse the summon.

## Summons and Basic Combat Techniques

Every summon is considered to be proficient in the use of Basic Combat that is related to its body. (i.e. a bird that has no hands can’t punch but it CAN wing strike somebody). Summons may take advantage of these basic combat abilities up to their own stated rank (i.e. a B-rank summon may use up to B-rank basic combat, etc). At E-ranked the personal summon has no stat boost.

## Basic Summoning

Upon signing a contract with any animal, the user is afforded the ability to summon ‘basic’ animals similar to how the basic combat system functions as an unnamed alternative to taijutsu or bukiutsu styles. These unnamed animals are always of the same contract as the user has signed to, and may be summoned using the Kuchiyose no Jutsu technique by paying a ranked amount of chakra equivalent to the rank strength of the animal you wish to create. An example would be spending an A-ranked amount of chakra to create an A-ranked Tiger. This chakra may also be split to create multiple of different lower-ranking animals whose total strength equals the chakra paid. Using the first example the summoner may forgo summoning a single A ranked tiger and instead summon two B, four C, or even eight D ranked tigers. Once created these animals lack special abilities or jutsu but may preform basic combat techniques (only having 100 Stamina per body rank of the user, Max: 600 but with no stats) relating to their species and following the same summon activation rules under Misc Rules. This ability may not be used at the S+ level and this ability does not benefit from the Peerless Summoner trait.

## Personal Summons

E-rank Personal Summons and Their Limitations: Every summoner who signs onto a contract is offered the opportunity to partner with a young member of the clans from which their summoning contract draws. These summons are little more than animals with special potential, lacking any jutsu or unique ability, but represent an opportunity to customize the summoning list to its user. Those who embark on a summoning-based narrative mission may have their personal summon take on the role of a similar summon from the listing, inheriting that summoning rank's ability and techniques, and taking its place in the hierarchy for the purposes of that specific summoner. Your body rank must match the rank of the summoning your personal summon is replacing and you may complete this summoning narrative mission more than once. If the user is a sage then this personal summon also take on the role for mythical summon as well. Note that this process does not change the listed summons or the summons of other contract signers.

## Bloodline Pacts

There are a select few summoning contracts whose species have a special kinship with members of a particular bloodline. Primary members who were born into the following bloodlines are automatically signed from birth and able to summon the species the bloodline is in a pact with. The majority of species do not have these pacts. Implants and other forms of secondary bloodlines do not count for contract pacts. If a clan member wants to become a sage or contract holder of the species they are in a pact with they are required to go through the advanced sage training and/or the process of earning the contract. It is also possible for clan members to betray their pact and go through the process to sign with a different species. Summons with bloodline pacts are also available for non-members of the pact for those who seek to sign their contract.

* Squids | Hojo
* Aquatics | Hoshigaki
* Insects | Aburame
* Dogs | Hatake
* Bats | Ketsueki
* Crows | Uchiha
* Snakes | Dokueki

## Misc. Rules

* Boss Summons not only have their own unique techniques, but have access to the techniques of the lower ranked summons. Note: that this excludes the passive abilities (in most cases) of the lower ranked animals.
* A summoners ability to control summons is only guaranteed for summons that are equal in body rank that they themselves are, while sealer based scholars are able to summon one rank higher. When attempting to summon any summon that is outside their capabilities, they must generate a number between 1 and 10. Even numbers result in the summon fighting normally, while odds require the user to roll again on subsequent posts to attempt to get the summon to comply.
* Each summon may be summoned and dismissed freely as long as they are not defeated.
* Each summon receives two activations in battle, one offensive and one defensive/supplementary.
* A person may only hold one contract with an animal at any given time, as accepting a contract with another animal voids this previous one. This is a hard ruling applying to summoners, contract holders, and sages.
* If a summon does not have a sage attributed to it but does have a summoner, than that summoner is assigned to be the contract holder (aka the person you go to to in order to make a summoning contract) Then once that summon gains it's first sage, the sage takes over as the primary contract holder. This is subject to change under certain situations (someone unjustly denying another) in such a case a mod may be called in to resolve the situation and even revoke contract holder status where needed. Inherit bloodline contractors are the exception to this.
* Those who sign with an animal (contract or otherwise) are able to speak their animal’s language. This helps in communication with their summon who, as unless they desire to, will only speak in that animal’s language at all times.
* A sage’s mythic summons is immune to summing clashes and will only obey the sole individual it is contracted to unless the summon creator has given permission for another to sign a contract with it. Doing so will cause that animal to take up the mythic summon slot of the other RPC, and will create it's own priority summon clashing order with the original creator being 'top dog'.