Tanuki

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Youkai Threat level 2
Tanuki
Basic statistics
Disposition				Occupation determinant
Armor Class				C1
Pain Sensitivity				100%
Max Blood				20
Agility				+0
Limb groups
HEAD		Head - 10 HP
BODY		Upper body - 40 HP Lower body - 30 HP
LIMB		2 arms - 20 HP 2 legs - 20 HP Tail - 20 HP
EXTREMITY		2 hands - 15 HP 2 feet - 15 HP
WEAK POINTS		2 normal eyes (Head) Crotch (Lower body)
Secondary statistics
Skeleton type
Can use Weapons/LBE?
Can use Clothing and armor?

The tanuki (Youkai-go: 狸, pronounced tah-noo-kee, lit. "Raccoon") is a creature belonging to the Youkai category. Youkai are both sapient and sedentary, making them one of the civilized species of the Mazes.

Attacks and techniques

This creature has two attacks: Punch and Kick.

Punch and kick

Identical to the basic unarmed combat punch and kick. Maximum attacks per turn is determined by the Martial arts combat skill level.

Tanuki Shapeshifting

Tanuki have access to 16 moves which count as natural attacks that require a special resource, Tanuki Balls, to spend, similar to the way Angelic powers and Demonic powers and corresponding techniques work.

An ability can be cast at any time outside of combat, or during the tanuki's turn when in combat. In the latter case, casting an ability counts as a free action (as long as the tanuki has enough TB), which means casting does not end the turn. Multiple abilities (or multiple instances of the same ability) can be chained at the same time as well, as long as there is enough TB to spend.

Ability name	TB cost	Effects	Description
Fists of Stone	1	Strength +20% for 20 turns	The tanuki's fists harden, taking on the texture and consistency of stone.
Gift of the Wood	1	Pain -20%	The tanuki briefly pulses their entire body's shape and texture, performing a healing massage on themselves.
Stiff Resolve	2	Pain Sensitivity -20% for 20 turns	The tanuki's entire body stiffens, visibly developing a tree bark-like texture that feels like stone to the touch.
Afterglow	2	Stress -8.0%	The tanuki's body briefly flashes a greenish hue and begins emitting a powerful herbal scent, reminiscent of ginseng, rosemary, and orange.
Edging	3	For 30 turns, Bleeding is disabled, regardless of the amount of Wounds.	The tanuki's body takes on the consistency of stone specifically at and around any open wounds, to stop them from bleeding temporarily.
Ironwood	3	Natural Armor Class is set to A1 for 30 turns	The tanuki's skin hardens to the consistency of iron while remaining soft to the touch, gaining the properties of super-light soft armor.
Fists of Iron	4	Strength +40% for 20 turns	The tanuki's fists harden, taking on the texture and consistency of iron.
Steelwood	5	Natural Armor Class is set to A2 for 30 turns	The tanuki's skin hardens to the consistency of steel while remaining soft to the touch, gaining the properties of light metal armor.
S-Healing	5	Select a body part; that body part receives Light limb healing. Healing skill bonuses and Nutrition/Fatigue apply at they normally would.	The tanuki's body briefly flashes a greenish hue and begins emitting a powerful scent of medicinal herbs.
Fists of Steel	6	Strength +80% for 20 turns	The tanuki's fists harden, taking on the texture and consistency of armor steel.
Like the Wind	6	Agility +4 for 10 turns	The tanuki's body considerably lightens, and feels as if full of air.
Ragingwood	7	Natural Armor Class is set to A3 for 30 turns	The tanuki's skin hardens to the consistency of steel while remaining soft to the touch, gaining the properties of heavy metal armor.
Endless Pounding	8	Pain Sensitivity -80% for 20 turns	The tanuki's entire body stiffens, visibly developing a hard, bony, dragon scale-like texture that feels hard as metal to the touch.
Super S-Healing	8	Select a body part; that body part receives Strong limb healing, and if broken, the fracture is healed. Healing skill bonuses and Nutrition/Fatigue apply at they normally would.	Same as S-Healing, but the scent is more powerful, and may feel mildly distracting to others.
Divine Coming	9	Pain -100%	Same as Gift of the Wood, but the effect is more pronounced and looks as though their entire body is pulsating, growing and shrinking in parts as though rearranging itself.
Force of 1000 Suns	10	Controlled Fury for 10 turns	The tanuki's pupils and irises disappear, their tail visibly fluffs up as if shocked by electricity, and their body appears to emit steam. Certain tanuki under the effects of this ability were also observed having considerably flushed cheeks, as if very aroused or flustered.

Tanuki Balls

The special resource required to perform these shapeshifting techniques is known as Tanuki Balls, often shortened to TB. The amount of TB currently held by a tanuki counts as a statistic.

Any newly-generated tanuki, either player characters or NPCs, should start with 3 TB. There are three methods to obtain more TB.

• The simplest and the safest method is to simply wait until Daily Reset; tanuki regenerate 1 TB on Daily Reset for free.
• The "soft" generation method works during Resting. Tanuki have an extra option; they can select the number of day periods to use for resting, and choose to assign each day period to either sleeping normally (which heals Fatigue, as normal) or to meditation (which regenerates 1 TB per day period).
• The "hard" generation method consists of instantly converting life energy (in the form of Nutrition, Hydration and Blood) in exchange for immediate TB. A tanuki can burn 500 ntri, 200 wtr and 1 Blood to generate 1 TB. This process is instantaneous, but cannot be done during combat.

Equipment

A tanuki's equipment is determined by their occupation.

Other information

Skills: A tanuki's skills are determined by their occupation.

Creature traits:

• Tanuki Shapeshifting: This creature is a tanuki, and therefore has access to certain shapeshifting powers and the resource needed to cast them, Tanuki Balls. See above for more details.

Overview

This article or section contains lore-related information. Though not strictly necessary for playing the game, you are encouraged to read this section if you wish to have a better understanding of the game's universe.

Tanuki are one of a number of youkai species. They resemble humanoids, but with the ears and tail of a Japanese raccoon dog. This tail is proportional to the size of their bodies, and when laid flat on the back, it is long enough to reach up to the back of the head. Tanuki are on the taller end of the spectrum, with an average height of 5 feet 10 inches. On average, tanuki have fuller, more heavyset bodies than other species, with an average weight of 210 pounds for males and 185 pounds for females, although this may vary greatly between individuals.

Tanuki have the peculiar reputation of being very sex-oriented, if not obsessed, and the reason for this reputation begins at the tanuki's body; for their size, tanuki males develop very large testicles (average volume ~400cc, or about the size of large oranges), and tanuki females develop very large breasts (average volume ~1000cc, most common cup size is F). What could have been dismissed as a simple quirk of their bodies has instead become an integral part of tanuki identity; their sizes are uncanny, they know it and they are not ashamed to show it off at any opportunity.

For tanuki, there is no shame in nudity, and sexual matters are a casual topic of conversation. They tend to consider clothing to be a bothersome and unfortunate requirement of society life; some would call them shameless and promiscuous, others simply free and liberated. It is therefore no surprise that tanuki are considered popular in red-light occupations, such as adult movies, strip club personnel, or in prostitution.

However, one would be unwise to dismiss this species as merely perverted and sex-obsessed. Tanuki can perform a powerful form of magic that is entirely unique to their species: partial shapeshifting. They can spend a special type of accumulated energy (which they refer to as Tanuki Balls) to temporarily reconfigure their body's shape, form, density and hardness, with many practical applications; increased strength and muscle mass, pain healing, pain sensitivity decreasing, hardening their skins and bodies to improve their Armor Class, and so on. In typical tanuki style, every of these shapeshifting abilities has a suggestive name. These abilities make them surprisingly valuable on the battlefield, as this makes them very versatile; so long as they have the energy to spare to cast these abilities.

Outside of the battlefield and the red light district, tanuki are known for being adaptable and versatile, capable of working in nearly any kind of environment, even in fields where other species would be expected, such as engineering, sciences, medicine, academia, or even as mercenaries and adventurers of all kinds.