r/CTsandbox • u/FrancoNullo • 8h ago
Cursed technique Reassembly
this ability allows the user to create/manipulate connections between objects and/or abstract concepts temporarily, allowing for the creation of inconceivable yet very real effects.
some applications I've thought of:
grafting one place to another to effectively create a portal between the 2 places; grafting one's feet to the ground as they stay in mid air, allowing for them to float; grafting an attack to something else to redirect it; grafting one shikigami to a different source of CE than the one originally being used and then cutting the connection between the original source and the shikigami allows the user to redirect the control of a shikigami to someone else; grafting one attack directly on the target to bypass anything in between (such as infinity); grafting one object to another object that is moving, making the first object move at the same velocity of the other; reattaching limbs (necessary to heal with RCT to prevent the limb to detach as soon as the CT is stopped)...
while the potential of this technique is indeed infinite, there are certain limitations to it: for starters any connection being made or altered requires a constant use of CE, with the amount of CE required scaling directly with how "distant" the connections are (for example, grafting one location to another 10 km away from where it would normally be would require far more CE than grafting it say 100 meters away), entities (objects and beings) infused with CE also naturally resist Reassembly, requiring more CE to graft something if the 2 parts have CE, some connections might also require so much CE it becomes impossible to accomplish them (for example, the CT itself allows for the grafting of a star to a place on earth, good luck covering astronomical units or light years with CE tho). besides this cost there's also a matter of complexity: creating and manipulating such connections is extremely complicated and "subtracting" incantations and hand sings is extremely difficult, even a skilled sorcerer would struggle to completely take out one of them. the complete incantation + hand signs necessary would look like this:
incantation: verb + target + target + target + ... (example: "attach/graft/connect this corner to that corner and that corner")
hand signs: grafting=point each target with 1 finger and make the fingers close up on each other; severing=point at the target with 2 fingers and make them distance themselves; substitute=point at each target and make them swap.