Rilla

Post Your Pikcha

<Snipped quote by Rilla>

...who are you, again?

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@Ruby

the guy who wants your bandana

Post Your Pikcha

we do not compliment Ruby. She refuses to give up that epic bandana, and that hurts my soul.

Arena FAQ/Advice

That bug/shed skin one could be a normal key itself.

Land of the Bestial Keys

Potential Keys.

There are some keys already mentioned, that he may not already have.

Uthur, a giant orca, that has the ability to control deep waters. He is also a legendary key animal. His key is the High Level version of Swimming Bass, granting him High Level water manipulation. He is a mortal enemy of Pongo, and Koke-Kain.

Koke-Kain, a polar bear, that has the High Level Frost abilities.

Unnamed Bug Key, which bestows the power to shrug off/shed skin, so to speak, any poison or illness afflicted to the key wielder, once activated. Must have equal amount of charges to the inflicting attack to get rid of it completely.

Allectus the Owl, which bestows the wisdom key; allowing Kei'taro an easier time determining weaknesses and openings in his opponent.

Land of the Bestial Keys

Kei'taro
"The Beast Master"

Vitals:

Age: 35

Sex: Male

Lineage:

Spirit Beast King: The Spirit Beast King is the man who handles all the transacations of spirit animals, in terms of giving them to their humans. He is usually behind the scenes, and with his abilities, can traverse the world using the spirit animals as transports. He is absurdly powerful, and can hop realities or dimensions, revive someone, or influence one's spirit animal. He keeps tabs on all spirit animals, though some, like Ouroboros, are outside of his field of control. He also knows what Falden's Spirit animal is, though doesn't tell him.

Ranking: Z. He is in the upper echleon of beings.

Class/Major: Beast King

Kei'taro's major class is to collect the Bestial Keys.

Class/Minor: Scholar.

He is very interested in learning about all animals, poisonous or not.

Occupation: Beast King.

Alignment: Lawful Good

Martial Status: Single.

Birthplace: The Planes of the Spirt Beast King.

Blood Type: O negative

Eye Color: Brown.

Height: Six foot three

Weight: Two Fifty Five

Hair Color/Style: Medium length brown hair.

Handed:

--- Both:Yes. See Skills.

Skin Tone/Condition: Some scars from battle with animals and other people. Also, tattoos.

Markings: See Magic.

Voice:

Kei'taro's voice is very peculiar. Those who hear it, say it takes on a twinge of different animals. Sometimess it's gruff like a apes, or high like a monkies, just a matter of how he feels. Those aren't all its limited to.

Reach: Two feet, two inches.

Birthmark:

He has a black mark on the back of his leg, the mark of the Spirit Beast King's family.

Personality:

Kei'Taro is a gentle soul, unless he is in a combative setting like a tournament, then he becomes a world class snarker. He is a friend to all animals, and is cordial with humans who aren't trying to kill them. He understands that people eat animals and doesn't hold grudges against them for that, but he does have a special hatred for poachers and the like. He loves a good fight, and spending time with animals, learning from them and emulating them. He believes it can make him a better Beast Master.

One of the biggest sore spots is talking about his Father, the Spirit Beast King, who he hates and hates him.

Spirit Animal:

RyuKyu, is a RyuKyuan pup he befriended in the Volcanic Lands. A RyuKyuan is a Lion/Dog mix, popualrized by the Pokemon Growlithe and Arcanine. RyuKyu is more of a more mature Growlithe. It is very loyal to Kei'Taro, and can appear and disappear at a whim. It likes to eat, especially raw meat. For its size, it has considerable bite force.

In the past five years, while nothing much has changed about Kei'taro, a lot has changed about RyuKyu. He now resembles Arcanine more than he did before.

Equipment:

-Upper Body: He carries camping gear on his back. It holds no special significance, he just thinks it's comfortable to sleep on.

-Lower Body: See Picture.

Weapons:

Kusanagi - Kusanagi is Kei'taro Straight sword. See 'Shoot to kill, Kusanagi' for it's abilities. He is quite capable of using the sword in sword fighting moments without the ability, combining his strength and speed.

Skills:

Strength: Due to living with Gorillas, he was able to emulate their strength. He is able to lift up to four hundred pounds before beginning to struggle. He is able to injure a man with a punch, and able to break bones if he applied full power. He was able to pull a tree out from the ground, but it took a bit of struggling to do.

Speed: Kei'Taro is able to reach speeds of up to sixty miles an hour, at a sprint, and 50 miles for an extended run. This comes from trying to keep up with various types of animals who were often on the move.

Intelligence: Kei'taro is not exactly a stupid man, he is just not technologically savvy. Being in the wild for most of his life, his knowledge comes from that and not the fancy leaps and bounds the world has made. He was surprised when he was tasked to hold on to an MP3 player from a guy he once fought. He still seeks to return it.

Transportation: In addition to running, Kei'taro is adept at swinging from vines, and swimming.

Martial Arts: Through studying animals, Kei'Taor has become very skilled at multiple types of animal based combat. He is most adept at the Wu Xing, but is also capable of using fighting styles based off different animals. It makes for an incredibly difficult fisticuffs bout with him.

Reflexes: Kei'taro is a very agile and reflex intensive man, able to catch a striking snake neck by the throat mid-strike and not get bit.

Hands and Feet: Kei'taro is adept at using either hand to wield his sword, or for any other activity. This extends to his feet as well. they aren't as useful as a monkey's, but he can make it work. His toes and fingers have exceptional gripping power.

Abilities:

Animal Tongue: Kei'taro is quite skilled at talking to and understanding any animal he comes into contact with.

Senses: Kei'taro possesses enhanced senses of smell, sight, touch, and hearing. He can see things in greater detail, and feel more textures when he touches something. He has twice as many scent glands as normal humans, but being around animals for most of his life has numbed him to the nastier scents of the world. He can hear things from a greater distance than humans, and at a lower volume. He can pick out specific individuals based off their voices at well.

Well Traveled: Kei'taro can survive in just about any environment that isn't outright death causing, due to his many travels in search of animals. He is not, however, very capable of handling the extremes of temperatures though, and even has his own limit. He was able to survive in the Volanic Lands and the Winter Wonderland without any debiliating effects. Because of this, he can pick out edible foods, and poisonous ones at a glance. He is great at directions.

Hunter-Tracker: Despite his love for animals, the man has to eat, and so he became very adept at hunting things based off prints and excrement. He doesn't kill baby animals nor the females of the group. He takes care to only hunt the weaker males as well.

Magic:

Kei'Taro has a particular brand of magic which is evoked via tattoos called Bestial Keys. These Keys are gained from animals that have them, after a test relating to the animal or ability. There are an unknown number of these, and Kei'Taro is constantly searching, though seems to have an innate ability to sort of happen upon them, such is the case for his Spirit Animal, and first Bestial Key, RyuKyu. They glow so long as they hold a charge, and continue to glow while in use.

The tattoo's etch themselves on Kei'Taro, except for Kusanagi and RyuKyu, which take the form of his sword, and spirit animal, respectively. They each have their own personality, as it relates to Kei'Taro, some are extremely loyal - like RyuKyu, and some are willing to jump ship if able, like Eight Legged Spider.

For every charge they have before activating, Kei'Taro can control the tattoo's for that many turns, until he gets to three charges. Once he gets the third charge, then he is granted an extra turn of manipulation.

He can have multiple tattoo's charged, but cannot charge more than one per turn. While this gives him access to a wider array of moves on the fly, it also means they'll be lower in strength than if he focused on one.

[Locked]He is also capable of combining them for different effects. He can only do this if they have the same amount of charges prior to combining them. At base, they only last one turn. If they have two charges, they last one turn, and if they have three charges, they last two; so on and so forth. He can also combine up to three of them at once, but they at base, only last two turns, and three turns for each of them having four charges.

Bestial Keys

Roar, RyuKyu: Roar, RyuKyu works in conjunction with Kei'taro's Spirit Animal, the RyuKyuan(Lion/Dog), RyuKyu. It transforms Kei'Taro into a huge liger-like beast, as well as transforms his sword into a larger sword. In his liger form, Kei'Taro possesses impressive strength, able to lift upwards of two tons. He is capable of running around on all fours at speeds of one hundred miles per hour. He can stand on two feet. To gain this ability, he wandered around the Volcanic Plains and ended up fighting a mother RyuKyuan after befriending the pup. After winning, the pup became his spirit animal.

Shoot to Kill, Kusanagi: Is another that doesn't have a tattoo assigned to it - similar to Roar, RyuKyu. This one is based on his sword, in his non-liger form. When activated, it can extend out at a speed of two-thousand feet per second; with an additional five hundred feet added per charge. He gained this skill when he struck faster than the Death Adder, giving testament to his reflexes. Instead of becoming a tattoo, the key coiled around the sword and imbued it with its abilities. It is able to make curving turns. Cannot be used in conjunction with Roar, RyuKyu.

Vivid Dragon: This tattoo is on his left shoulder. It allows him access to low-to-medium strength flames, through either his hands, feet, or mouth. He gained this from standing atop a mountain and doing the Dance of the Dragons for two days straight. It was unbareably hot, and gave him a nice tan afterwards.

Shocking Thunderbird: This tattoo is on his right shoulder, and depicts a thunder bird. At the top of a mountain said to be often struck with lightning bolts, Kei'Taro encountered the extremely rare Thunderbird. The bird struck him with a large bolt of lightning, but through sheer willpower, was able to survive. He earned the Bestial Key through these methods and now can control low-to-mid power lightning.

Soaring Eagle: This Tattoo is on his upper arm, and is of an eagle. He earned it by out hunting a eagle when it came to hunting down a single, tiny mouse in a large plains area. He would have lost, had it not been for Kusanagi's extending ability. This grants him eagle like vision, when activated, as well as control over low-to-medium powered wind abilities.

Tortiose Shell: This one is on his back. After fighting with the King of Crows to get the Crow tattoo, he used the ability to fly. His energy ran out and he landed on a large island in the middle of the ocean. He learned that this was the World Tortoise, part of the mythical WT race. The WT promised him its ability, if he could survive underwater. As he dove down, the WT pushed him further, almost crushing him with water pressure. He survived and was granted this tattoo. It allows him to form a shield in the shape of a tortoise shell.

Chameleon Skin: This tattoo is around his belly button. He was tasked with finding the Chameleon with the Bestial Key within a three day time span. He was able to find it in a span of two and a half days. It was on his shirt sleeve the entire time. It grants him the ability to blend in with his surroundings.

Eight legged Spider: This was gained from an Arachnid King, when Kei'Taro inadvertantly landed on its webbing. Kei'Taro was forced to do battle with the creature, but was restricted to one spot. Using Kusanagi's ability, Kei'taro was able to defeat the creature before it could deal a death blow. This key, which is on his back, lower right side, allows him to grow six extra arms - which can be used for combat or for running. The tips of his fingers also excrete a potent neurotoxin.

Charging Rhino: The Rhino key, which is tattooed on his forearm, came from when he faced down the Rhino Bestial Key Holder, a large rhino. The rhino charged and Kei'Taro made use of his Roar, RyuKyu, to become his Liger form. He grabbed the Rhino and slid back, before managing to tip it over. The key allows him to bulk his body up for a charging attack. The momentum he gains is transferred through whatever he hits, and can break through a six inch steel wall at full charge.

Heavy Elephant: Perhaps one of the most peaceful Keys he has gotten. He earned this by traveling for a week with a herd of elephants that were being stalked by poachers. After standing up for them, a baby elephant, born the same day he arrived was revealed to have the Elephant Bestial Key. This key allows him to increase his weight to up to six thousand pounds.

Mama Bear: Kei'taro got this key, which is tattoo'd on his left tricep, when he accidentally ran into a cub. The mother happened along and thought Kei'taro was threatening her spawn. The bear began manipulating the earth, sendinh large walls towards Kei'taro. After besting the bear, he gained the Key. It allows him low-to-mid power earth manipulation.

Swimming Bass: Kei'taro earned this key, which is on the top of his left foot, after having to best a large bass in a upstream swimming race. After doing so, he was granted low-to-mid power water manipulation.

King of Crows: Kei'taro found this key, which is on the right side of his neck, when he entered a ghost town. Word was that it was innhabited by a gigantic crow with the ability to disperse into twenty or more smaller crows. When he arrived in town, he encountered the fabled creature and was challenged to shoot it down. Using a mixture of Soaring Eagle and Kusanagi, he was able to strike through ten of the crows after the beast separated. Once done, he gained th Key, which allows him to split into a flock of crows and reform when ready.

Pride of the Lion: After staring down a Pride of Lions, one of which was an incredibly large one, Kei'Taro gained this key. It is tattoo'd on his tongue. This Key allows him to extend the duration of his abilities by one turn for a total of ten turns. Which means, each ability he activates during a ten turn period gets +1 duration.

Crazy Monkies: Kei'Taro spent some time with some monkies deep in a forest, on his hunt for the Bestial Key 'Crazy Monkies'. This Key, which is tattoo'd on his right palm, allows his limbs to elongate slightly - like a monkies and he gains the agility of a monkey in doing so.

Spitting Cobra: This tattoo is beneath his tongue, and grants him the ability to spew a potent venom similar to that of the Philippine cobra. He earned this key after tracking the Cobra. This was one of the only keys, out of three, where he was granted its abilities for the test. He shot the venom six hundred, sxity feet.

Underground Echidna: This tattoo is on the back of his left hand. He earned it by successfully navigating the Key Holder's burrows. It was not an easy task. It grants Kei'Taro the ability to very effectively dig holes and burrow into the ground.

Sleeping Butterfly: This butterfly tattoo allows Kei'taro to potentially put his opponent to sleep, if they inhale the powder that he produces. It also allows him to touch his opponent and directly send them to sleep, if possible. Touch is more powerful than the powder. He earned the key by using his willpower to stay awake longer than the other animals in the vicinity. The butterfly was asleep, and was awoken by the commotion of the animals coming to Kei'taro. Apparently, it was the Queen Butterfly of the land. It is in the palm of his left hand.

Coil, Kusanagi: Changes Kusanagi into a whip sword. The sword can extend to a range of twenty feet. Can begin battle as whip sword. Requires one charge and maintains form throughout battle unless Strike is activated.

Strike, Kusanagi: In the instance that Kusanagi begins as a whip sword then this command changes it to its usual straight sword form. Requires one charge and maintains form throughout battle unless Coil is activated.

Ivory Bones: Allows Kei`Taro to grow one, two foot long, two inch thick ivory tusk from each forearm. The tattoo is symmetrical on both forearms.

Mountain Goat: This key was gotten after Kei'taro raced a mountain goat, named Havardr, up a mountain. He survived an avalanche. It provides hearty frost defense, some earth defense, and steadies him on uncertain terrian. It is located between his second and third rib.

Penguin's Beak: This key was gotten recently, during a bout with King Pongo, an Emperor Penguin. The initial challenge was a one mile swimming race, but it was ultimately revealed to Kei'taro that it wasn't so much the race, that he would have certainly lost, but whether or not he would be humble enough to listen to Pongo. He did, and lived.

KeiTaro Liger

Combinations

Mama Bear + Shoot to Kill: This combination allows Kei'taro to form a labyrinth of earth, to trap opponents, and shoot out copies of Kusanagi from the walls.

King of Monkies: This is a combination of King of Crows and Crazy Monkies. Instead of turning Kei'Taro into crows, it allows him to transform into a pack of ten monkies.

Eight Legged Snake: This is a combination of STK and Eight Legged Spider. It grants Kei'taro the ability to sform the arms of ELS, and seven more Kusanagi's. However, they don't shoot out, but are each coated with the toxin of multiple brown recluse spiders.

Thunder Bass: This combines Swimming Bass with Thunderbird. It causes a huge thunderstorm to appear. It weakens his Vivid Dragon, but Thunderbird has a power increase, as does Swimming Bass. The effect lasts five turns. Can only be used once a match.

Sleeping Cobra: This combines Spitting Cobra and Sleeping Butterfly. Instead of shooting out a poison, Kei'Taro is able to spit out a sleeping variant that can cause an opponent to fall asleep.

(Electric/Fire) Snake: This is a combination between Thunderbird or Vivid Dragon and Kusanagi. Depending on which, Kusanagi gains electrical or fire attributes.

Land of the Bestial Keys

Welcome to Rilla's Bestial Key thread.

As you've no doubt seen, I've been engaged in two, Arena Player Assisted Key battles. And this is your chance to join in the fun!

I am on a constant search for keys, and good story, and this is a way to provide myself with both.

Now, the keys, are the important bit. They give Kei'taro his power, and thus far, he hasn't lost a challenge for a single key. The basic keys give him abilities beyond human capabilities. These include element manipulation, and animal abilities like sight and speed. In some cases, they change his appearance, or that of his weapon.

They are all held by animals, real or mythical, such of the RyuKyuan, or the Emperor Penguin. The animals have the abilities of the keys, as well as the ability to communicate with the challenger, in this case, Kei'taro.

The Keys are gained via challenge, which can be combat, race, or any other type of challenge. In one instance, Kei'taro had to basically dance atop a mountain, and in another, race up a mountain. The challenges can have stipulations as well, so long as they are considered fair by both parties. So none of that 'You can't use your magic, and you have to fight a high powered greek adonis with the ability to summon meteors.'

The Keys all have their own personality, and some aren't so loyal to Kei'taro, while some are. They also have the ability to 'evolve', or the ability to be upgraded.

Upgraded Keys, give new abilities that affect other keys. For instance, Shoot to Kill, has upgraded twice - to introduce new forms. Coil and Strike. One gives it a whip sword form, and the other reverts it back to the iconic straight sword. Another version of an upgrade would be Kei'taro earning High Level manipulation of an existing Key.

There are potentials for evolving keys to be added. Coil and Strike can be considered evolutions, perhaps.

If you have an idea for a Key, feel free to message me, or post in here with your idea. In most cases, I'll accept anything, if I don't already have it.

Arena FAQ/Advice

So, I wanted to ask; I want to give Kei'taro Evolved and Upgraded Keys. Both, as I write them, sound really similar.

This is what I have for upgraded:

Upgraded Keys, give new abilities that affect other keys. For instance, Shoot to Kill, has upgraded twice - to introduce new forms. Coil and Strike. One gives it a whip sword form, and the other reverts it back to the iconic straight sword. Another version of an upgrade would be Kei'taro earning High Level manipulation of an existing Key, for instance Uther and Swimming Bass. SB is the low to mid level manipulation of water, while Uther affords Kei'taro the High Level manipulation.

So, what would you guys suggest for 'evolved' keys? I can see Coil and Strike being considered evolutions, as they affect Kusanagi directly - as Kusanagi isn't an actual Key, but his sword. Coil and Strike change it's form between Whip and Straight. Whereas Uther is considered another key altogether, but gives stronger abilities as compared to an existing key, in this instance, Swimming Bass.

The Hunt for the Bestial Keys: Penguin

Kei'taro watched, from a far distance, the descent of his adversary, into the depths of the water they were tasked with exploring and gatehring from. The Penguin, clever as the Mountain Goat, had chosen a match that greatly benefited him when it counted. Come to think of it, all the animals had.

Here he was, making his way to the bottom with a Leopard Seal hot on his tail, when something astounding caught his eye. Pongo was fighting off several of the creatures of the deep, masterfully swimming and dodging, gracefully attacking the creatures. Kei'taro himself wasn't too far off now, and turned just before the Seal had grabbed him. He expertly swam around the creature as it turned, but it too was reaching the depths of it's underwater capabilities.

Kei'taro spied this, and something further on. More creatures were gathering, and preparing to strike, and they too noticed the suffering seal - a fitting meal. Kei'taro, forsaking the match as it were, darted beneath the Seal just as it were about to dive too deep to return. As he pushed the Seal upward, the Orcas shot past him with a vigor he had not seen since the falling snow of an avalanche.

The seal was nearly captured, but Kei'taro pushed upward and forced the lead Orca upward, taking the attention of them all.

This was probably a mistake, as the orca pushed back and began nosing Kei'taro into the depths. The rest joined the hunt, and in their famous rolling wave formation, they began helping the lead orca take their new prey down into the clear depths.

Something amazing then did happen, even underwater the sound of a angry seal pierced the crystal waters and Orca were sent scattering. The seal, once hunting Kei'taro and perhaps still inclined to do so, burst into the circle, risking life and fin to help his savior. One Orca was bludgeoned to death by the immense weight, and another lost a flipper. Kei'taro could only watch as the Seal bravely fought off the orcas.

A tear in his eye, he sent positive vibes to the Seal, and turned. He was at the bottom now, and a squid happened to swim past him. He lashed out with incredible reflexes and grabbed the creature. Twisting about, he saw the warming stones and quickly approached them, taking one in his mouth and depositing the other.

Now settled on the bottom, he pushed off with both legs, angling himself towards the half mile out giant floe that was the finish line. Just as he settled into his pace, something impossibly large, black and white shot past him - headed for Pongo, the Emperor Penguin and King of the Southern Floes.

It took Kei'taro all he had to grasp the large dorsal fin and catch the ride. His breathing was being challenged, and the tell-tale signs of the bends were coming. His joints ached from more than just exertion. A lesser man might have felt the full brunt, but Kei'taro had been submerged before. His breathing slowed, the excruciating exhale.

Uthur, the aforementioned gigantic Orca, barely noticed the human upon his fin, but his immortal nemesis and the holder of the Frost Key, the only key in the Southern Floes aside from the legendary High Powered Ice Key, held by Koke-Kain, the Polar Bear, to avoid the Key of the underwater depths. Today, he would have his revenge.

Arena FAQ/Advice

Basically, yeah. It's why they are almost, always, the heroes.

Arena FAQ/Advice

That would be so, as Skallagrim said, in their given universe. However, that's not ALWAYS the case in the human world. Larger people aren't inherently faster, for instance(See Big Show, Andre the Giant, and Great Khali).

However, even in other literature, Humans do have a substantial advantage in that they are more versatile than many of the other races. Orcs are generally considered to be slower/dumber than humans, while Elves aren't as enduring as humans. That's why humans are popular, because they don't conform to any specific traits.