[G] Genjutsu :: Illusion Techniques

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___G e n j u t s u

___ ___{Wiki Description} → Genjutsu is one of the main jutsu categories. Like ninjutsu, genjutsu requires chakra and hand seals to be performed. Unlike ninjutsu, the effects of genjutsu are not real, being only illusions experienced by those who fall victim to it. According to the Second Mizukage, genjutsu falls under the broad category of Yin Release.
→A genjutsu is created when a ninja controls the chakra flow of a target's cerebral nervous system, thereby affecting their five senses. This is frequently used to create false images and/or trick the body into believing its has experienced physical pain. Genjutsu can also be used to manipulate others - similar to brainwashing - by feeding the victim illusive suggestions. Most genjutsu is performed visually, requiring the target make eye contact with the caster. Other methods include integration with nature transformation, and, in the anime, ingesting special pills that activate when the target sleeps. Audible genjutsu is deemed the most dangerous because the user can trap victims from long distances.
→Despite its usefulness, genjutsu is rarely employed, most shinobi preferring the real, tangible effects of ninjutsu and taijutsu over the imagined effects of genjutsu. The difficulty of performing genjutsu in the first place presents an additional barrier to its use: genjutsu require precise chakra control in order to manipulate the target's senses and advanced intelligence to make the illusion convincing, prerequisites that even someone as skilled as Jiraiya lacks. Some, however, are able to specialise in genjutsu, with Kurenai Yūhi being regarded as one of Konoha's experts in the field and members of the Uchiha clan being particularly feared because of their Sharingan's generic genjutsu.
→Those under the influence of genjutsu will either appear to be unconscious or continue to move around under the pretence of the genjutsu. The latter is very effective in battle as a genjutsu user can make themselves appear to be somewhere else and attack the victim from behind or change the environment to make the victim see a flat plain where there is a steep cliff.
→There are three options to combat the effects of Genjutsu. The first option is for the ninja to stop the flow of chakra in their body, and then apply an even stronger power to disrupt the flow of the casters chakra. This technique is called a Kai Release. The second option is to have a ninja unaffected by the Genjutsu make body contact and use their chakra to disrupt the casters flow. The third, and normally final option, is for the nin caught in the Genjutsu to inflict some sort of real life bodily harm to themselves, such as stabbing their leg with a kunai. Jinchūriki (fully mastered), Uchiha, & Aburame have an easier time dealing with Genjutsus, due to their unique circumstances. Chilli Pepper Bombs, though expensive, are unique in that they are the only item in which inhalation can immediately cease an active Genjutsu.
___ ___Guild Description} → As the Wiki description, though there is simply not enough room to post it all. Unlike the Genjutsu of the source material, Genjutsu by this description relies on six senses (minimum) instead of the normal five. These basic senses are: Sight, Sound, Scent, Taste, Touch, and Chakra, but can take into account many more. (Senses) The rules regarding how Genjutsu work are likewise different. The first point to know is that Genjutsu can, and will, affect someone physically given very specific circumstances. These are listed into the Genjutsu techniques themselves. The second is that Genjutsu is not always tied to a specific person's brain, but instead draws on the forces of one's own chakra as a trigger to continually maintain an illusion, similar in fact to Holograms or 'Hard Light'. These are described below.

___D e f i n i t i o n s___

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___→ Triggers
___ ___{Wiki Description} → N // A
___ ___Guild Description} → Triggers are described as the senses, or actions, required for a Genjutsu to be initialized or function. An example is that a Genjutsu creates a mist, and the effect of the Genjutsu only takes place when someone inhales that mist. Another example is if a Genjutsu requires the trigger of someone raising their right hand and pointing their middle finger at the sky, "giving the bird", and someone has to physically see it.

___→ Senses
___ ___{Wiki Description} → N // A
___ ___Guild Description} → The Senses, often utilized with a capital, refer to the basic six senses all living creatures have access to, and the myriad of other species-specific senses. The most basic six are Sight, Sound, Scent, Taste, Touch, and Chakra, while the extended list may include such senses as equilibrioception, thermoception, hunger, nociception, and so on. As these are the foundations with which all living creatures experience the world, it is these that Genjutsu interact with to alter the perceptions, and beliefs, of the individual. What each Sense is, and how they are affected, are written in their own entries below. As universal senses, the basic six are considered to be the easiest to produce techniques for, and thus also the easiest with which to fool the opponent.

___→ Universal Sense :: Sight
___ ___{Wiki Description} → N // A
___ ___Guild Description} → The Universal Sense of Sight is, for Genjutsu, one of the most utilized of Senses. In short, this Sense encompasses what your eyes alone perceive. For someone who is Blind the eyes still count as a source of attack, as one's Chakra can be forced into allowing visual illusions, such as "seeing" the world. Given that such things might never have been seen before it can be distracting. This sense, in simply terms, represents what one sees.

___→ Universal Sense :: Sound
___ ___{Wiki Description} → N // A
___ ___Guild Description} → Audio is one of the largest used senses of the Shinobi world as a trigger, often at subvocal levels so as to illicit a response from the subconscious, or id (instinct). As such, the Sense of Sound is utilized often between these two forms: Audible, and Subaudible. With the former, the Genjutsu creates sounds and sound effects to disorient or convince the listener of a particular event. With Subaudible, the target is not truly the victim's ears, but their brain. In these cases the user is often not aware of the change, and as such these techniques tend to be used for Enchantment type Genjutsu almost exclusively.

___→ Universal Sense :: Scent
___ ___{Wiki Description} → N // A
___ ___Guild Description} → The Sense of Scent is regarded as one of the most useful against those with animal senses or animals themselves. The Sense of Scent is quite literally just as it sounds: what the victim smells. Genjutsu can utilize this scent to illicit physical responses of disgust or desire, and can even be utilized to effect behavior through use similar to the manner of pheromones. As such, it is one of the more versatile Senses, with those of enhanced senses being particularly weak against it.

___→ Universal Sense :: Taste
___ ___{Wiki Description} → N // A
___ ___Guild Description} → The Sense of Taste is not often utilized, at least by itself. This Sense is often tied into the Sense of Scent, as the two coincide quite naturally. Often the Sense of Taste is utilized to accentuate a Scent, often replacing it, yet it, too, can be used as a method of overruling another taste one might have. An example would be to make a sword taste like cake. Making the cake, in fact, a lie.

___→ Universal Sense :: Touch
___ ___{Wiki Description} → N // A
___ ___Guild Description} → The key component to Fixed typed Genjutsu, the Sense of Touch is the feeling a target receives when physically coming in contact with a Genjutsu. This can range in strength from being able to stand upon the genjutsu in midair, to obtaining physical damage from the Genjutsu itself. Whilst how temporary or permanent these injuries or effects are depends entirely on the Type of the Genjutsu, the short of this description is that this Sense deals exclusively with what the body physically experiences upon contact with the Genjutsu.

___→ Universal Sense :: Chakra
___ ___{Wiki Description} → N // A
___ ___Guild Description} → A relatively unknown, or rather, unnamed Sense that many have written off as a mythical "Sixth Sense", the Sense of Chakra is the detection of another living entity through abstract experience. Feeling eyes on the back of one's head, feeling that one is being watched, are just two among many descriptions for the Sense of Chakra. Any genjutsu that directly afflicts specific emotional states of mind is considered attacking the Chakra Sense of another. This Sense is what Sensor type shinobi, and Sennin, utilize when reaching outwards to detect, or Sense, Chakra. While the control, or manipulation, of this Sense is often the purpose of Genjutsu targeting it, it should be noted that not utilizing it can be just as effective if done properly.
___→ Source
___ ___{Wiki Description} → N // A
___ ___Guild Description} → The Source of a technique details, specifically, what requirements must be met for the technique to work, how the technique effects the individual, and so on. An example would be Phantasm, which means it is an fake sense being generated. Audio Phantasm is generating a fake sound with Genjutsu. "Original" Source means the technique's use is the same as Canon, requiring the user to invade the target with their chakra and altering the flow of chakra to their brain to cause the Genjutsu to occur. If ever in doubt, please contact the Approval or Battle Moderation Committees.

___R u l e s // R e g u l a t i o n s ___

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___♠ Foundation of Senses
______→ This is a foundation guide for senses. At no time may more than six [6] senses be under the effect of a Genjutsu. The foundation allows up to three [3] senses to be targeted at any one time, with Discipline and/or Personal Attribute choices allowing up to the maximum of five [5] senses. A good way of looking at it would be to say that the average Ninjutsu user who has not invested time, or selections, into increasing their Genjutsu would be allowed to affect three [3] senses at max. Whereas if someone has specialized in Genjutsu, the max they could affect would be five [5] senses. At any time that two techniques are utilized upon an opponent that affect the same sense, that sense will be affected by the higher ranked technique's rank. i.e. if utilizing an A-ranked technique that affects sight and sound, and a C-ranked Genjutsu that affects scent and sound, the sense of sound would be affected with an A-ranked amount of strength. As such, both techniques would work, but one would need to pay the A-ranked cost to break through both technique at once, as the chakra, again, does not stack.
___♠ Sensory Primaries and Secondaries
______→ Every Genjutsu has a Primary and Secondary set of Senses it affects. A Primary Sense for a technique is the Sense the technique most focuses on effecting. This Primary sense sets the Strength and Kai requirement, while the Secondaries refer to which other Senses the jutsu targets. If a Shinobi has an increase to a Secondary Sense, it does not effect the overall Kai rank, only that particular Sense's "realness".
___♠ Source
______→ Genjutsu, once upon a time, was about injecting chakra into your opponent and manipulating their chakra to create this illusion within their mind. This is no longer the case (for the most part). Each Type of Genjutsu utilizes a different "Source" for their effects, whether it is collective belief, a targeted siphon, or the aforementioned method of entry. See "Source" listed under each jutsu, and in the absence of such a listing assume the original method of Source. See, too, the definitions above for more explanation.
___♠ Base Duration // Upkeep
______→ Every technique has a base duration and upkeep listed, whether or not the answer would be zero [0] or a written answer. Every technique lasts at least one post, with the Base being how long the effect lasts until its effect fades. However, if an Upkeep cost is listed, the technique can be extended past its original Base by paying the cost per post of continued usage. This Upkeep can be utilized before the Base, meaning the technique will last it's Base duration after the shinobi has ceased paying the upkeep cost, or after, in which case the effect ends as soon as the upkeep cost is paid, but granting no upkeep during the beginning of its useage. It should be noted that an Upkeep takes up a Defensive Activation every post it is maintained, allowing at most, without any outside factors being considered, three [3] techniques at any one time.
___♠ Reality
______→ Genjutsu is the art of bending the senses to believe a fiction is real. Due to this, a technique is considered 'real' until one Kai's out of it, or somehow frees themselves from the influence of the technique. Besides Kai, other methods of breaking exist, and will frequently be referenced within the description of the technique itself. Depending on the Type of Genjutsu, the injury may, or may not, leave physical effects upon the ending of the technique.
___♠ Auto-knowing
______→ This rule recognizes the relative flaw in all things Role Play where stats, and dice rolls, are not utilized as a savings throw method. The use of Genjutsu in combat or in the roleplay in general comes with an unspoken contract to not auto-know that one is being effected by one, as to do so would be an impossibility without specific rules being utilized from in character additions, such as technique, Personal Attributes, or disciplines. Even previous knowledge, or personal knowledge of the technique being utilized does not guarantee an automatic knowledge of one's condition. To help stop this rule from being abused on both sides of the fence, the ability of a Genjutsu to be detected can be inferred from the description written by the Genjutsu user, meaning the more description and realness created with one's words during use the more difficult a victim may find it to recognize their situation, while the inverse also remains true.
___♠ Increasing of Strength
______→ Senses are, in a way, the Genjutsu parallel to Physical Stats within the Bukijutsu and Taijutsu method of combat. Instead of Strength, Speed, Reactions and Endurance, etc, Genjutsu utilize their six Senses. Meaning, buffs to those Senses would mean that a shinobi's strength lie within those Senses. One Shinobi might invest themselves into making their Sight based Genjutsu ungodly difficult to recognize as fake, while another might invest time and energy into making the Scent and Taste based Genjutsu that much harder to learn than others. This is an important distinction for Passive and Discipline benefits. This does not mean that a Genjutsu user may not draw benefit from physical increases, merely that their Genjutsu Senses may be likewise increased.
___♠ When in Doubt
______→ If ever in doubt of how a Genjutsu works, or what its description means, do not hesitate to contact a Moderator. We exist to ensure that the guild maintains a fun and welcoming atmosphere, and this cannot be done if one remains silent. Do not hesitate to use this resource.
___♠ Trust Clause
______→ The limitations of Genjutsu are difficult to completely define without the use of dice and other chance systems. As such, there is a level of trust to be given with these techniques and system, and the primary concern of any user of Genjutsu is to the fun, and balanced play of this guild. As such, if a shinobi's opponent, or themselves, believe foul play is underfoot or an abuse of the systems true lack of definition for personal gain or the intent to 'prove a point', the infraction will be brought before a collective council of Moderators to decide a proper punishment, with the infraction falling under "God-moding" as far as punishments and severity go. If the situation is, in fact, not-intentional, the severity of the infraction will be lowered to an appropriate level, and the moderators will be required to work with both sides to ensure fair and balanced play. To clarify, just because one can abuse a system does not mean one should.
___♠ Fictitious Summoning
______→ A very common and well known tactic for Illusionists no matter the source material, summoning an enormous monster, or millions of forces, is an effective, but powerful, tool to any user. However, in the interest of role play fairness a limit has been created for this very purpose. No matter the size of the creation, or the number within that one illusion, the technique can only ever deal out damage and strength on par with that of technique's rank. i.e. if a Genjutsu user were to create ten thousand samurai with a technique, the strength of the technique [We'll say A - ranked for sake of argument], the ten thousand samurai can only deal, collectively, A - rank in damage. This means that individually, the illusions do little, if any, damage at all.
___♠ Fictitious Summoning
______→ To further assuage the fear of possible abuse, it will be noted that permanent, physical harm cannot come from Genjutsu of the Chained, Instance, Illusory, or Enchantment techniques. In the case of the current listing, only one such technique has this ability to leave any lasting harm, that of E - rank, and this will be the only exception among these four types. This technique cannot have its lasting damage rank increased by any means. All other effects will end either at the time of the techniques ending, or at most a few posts after its end. See technique descriptions for details.

___C a t e g o r i e s // T y p e s O f G e n j u t s u___

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___→ Enchantment
___ ___{Guild Description} → The genjutsu are ones used to alter the consciousness or emotions of another. While the more common uses are the Voice techniques, more complicated techniques trick the mind into allowing the body to feel differently, this way surpassing normal, natural, and safe limiters. In a sense, these techniques could be seen as manipulative, or "buffing" and "debuffing", forcing the mind and body to react in specific ways. An example of such is a genjutsu that turns the target into a berserker, someone that ignores all pain and damage and keeps coming past the point where most would die, let alone give up.
___→ Illusory
___ ___{Guild Description} → These genjutsu are the type more often employed by street performers or grand illusionists, creating imagery that is separate from the mind of an individual and are similar in many ways to holograms. Unlike Fixed Genjutsu, these illusions are not real, meaning that any harm obtained in the duration of the technique would fade once the illusion itself is Kai'd. What many would consider "standard" genjutsu would fall into this category.
___→ Instance
___ ___{Guild Description} → Basically cantrips, they last one post for low cost. These cantrips are more often employed to lead up to bigger illusions, helping them seem more real, thus making it more difficult for people to have a reason to view them as false. An example of this is having the scent of rotten flesh. Low cast, you can cast two per one activation, and they last scant seconds. You catch a whiff, it vanished. A few minutes later another whiff, different direction. It slowly builds up, until suddenly the mist parts and undead are coming for you. Because you smelled all of that over time, you're more inclined to believe the illusion is real.
___→ Chain
___ ___{Guild Description} → Chain type Genjutsu are, oddly, not the type a shinobi uses to target and ally, or an enemy, by themselves but rather combine with Genjutsu for various effects. Chain techniques are Genjutsu that augment, in some way, techniques that are being utilized by a shinobi, such as the Double Layering technique that allows two Genjutsu to be stacked on top of one another. These techniques can add strengthening or weakening effects to Genjutsu that may either act outside of the original purpose of the technique, such as an Enchantment technique causing the enchanted to leak Chakra at an increased rate, or come in line with it, such as causing a visual eruption of light to suddenly cause a form of ringing within the ears. These can serve as supplementary effects to increase or decrease durations or strengths of particular Senses being assaulted.

___B a s e D u r a t i o n

• The normal length, in posts, of a Genjutsu, applicable usually to only high ranking jutsus.
  
• This number dictates how long a Genjutsu is active unless it is released prior to the end length, or broken in some manner.
  
• Those without an explicit duration are able to be maintained unless it is released or broken in some manner.
  
• For convenience, durations of 1 post or less are considered as 'instance' jutsus & do not need to have handsigns maintained after the initial casting.

___T r a i n i n g
___Rank (E) ○ 2 Posts
___Rank (D) ○ 4 Posts
___Rank (C) ○ 5 Posts
___Rank (B) ○ 7 Posts
___Rank (A) ○ 10 Posts
___Rank (S) ○ 14 Posts
___Genjutsu effects normally need to have a suitable image to go with them.
___If you would like to have a different image to go with a certain genjutsu,
___ you may re-learn it with that image, for the same training costs.

___H e l p f u l H i n t s

• Sensory techniques don't always have to look around you to see what chakra is doing.
  
• What limb can be easily overcome if used to escape?
  
• Can you deal with having an annoying Genjutsu active, to save yourself the chakra cost, pain, or having another take its place?
  
• Pay attention to the descriptions of the illusions. See if there is a glaringly obvious mistake, something missing or misused that might give a hint that not all is right.

For the new subsections of Rules, Regulations, and Categories, along with formatting of techniques, Lanfaer, Copyright 2017. Number of senses updated by AandOE, 9/17/17. Developed from existing Shinobi Nations copyright material, specifically the techniques, descriptions, ranks, hints, training, durations, effects, pictures, remaining formatting, and initial creation, Copyright 2010.