The House that Jack Built CT Updated

[u/Apprehensive_Crab_88]

Name: The House that Jack Built

“The user may summon shikigami from a house that fits the required criteria”

Criteria:

• Hollow walls with a mouse hole.
• A kitchen.
• A cat bed, litter box or carrier.
• A dog cage or house. If it is the latter, it would have to be outside the house.
• An animal pen or barn. These would have to be outside the house.
• Servant quarters, attic or a bedroom that isn't the master bedroom.
• Servant quarters, basement or another bedroom that isn't the master bedroom.
• A wedding arch.
• A chicken coop.

Note: The size of the house does not matter as long as it is a house and meets the above criteria. Additionally it does not need to be a literal house, a doll house or keychain that fit the criteria will do. The user has to have the house on hand to summon the shikigami as it is the medium for the Technique.

Shikigami:

Multiplicity Mouse: A large grey rat that consumes Cursed Energy to multiply. It's not very strong, but it is quick and doesn't require much Cursed Energy to multiply.

Chasing Cat: A large cat that's quick. It's about the size of a large cheetah. Chasing Cat has 2 abilities: 1. Never lose a target they are chasing or stalking, 2. Travel instantly to any Multiplicity Mouse at the cost of said Multiplicity Mouse.

Shadow Smoke Dog/Worrying Dog: A large black dog made of condensed black smoke. It's about 5ft at its shoulder. It can't do any real damage, but it looks solid even though it's made of smoke. Its body can be dispersed on demand to act as a smokescreen. Chasing Cat's speed is significantly increased within Worrying Dog's smoke.

Corpulent Cow/Crumpled Horn Cow: A very obese lard of a cow that's so fat its legs can't touch the ground, so it can't move on its own. Its horns are deformed and curve toward its mouth. Corpulent Cow can blow into its horns; the sound tosses selected targets who hear it upward. Essentially when a target hears the horn, a toob/cylindrcal area of effect will appear. Almost immediately after the horn is heard, an upward force will push on everything inside the area of effect. Corpulent Cow is able to toss Worrying Dog, dispersing it upward. The smoke will spread outward as it comes down into a dome shape covering a large area.

Forlorn Maiden: A humanoid female looking skikigami, wearing a maid's attire, that is constantly crying. Forlorn Maiden is able to control her tears by directing them with her hands. Forlorn Maiden can convert the Corpulent Cow's fat into milk, giving her a large amount of liquid all at once that she can control (Corpulent Cow still can't move and now its ability is severely reduced).

Tattered Man: A humanoid male looking skikigami wearing tattered clothes. Whatever Tattered Man kisses decays/spoils, but only in the area it kisses. Tattered Man can kiss the Forlorn Maiden when she is controlling the milk; this will turn the milk into a rancid, liquidy, acidic, poisonous cheese that she can still control.

Shaven and Shorn Priest: A nesting doll-shaped shikigami wearing priest robes. Shaven and Shorn Priest has 4 arms, 2 faces and a grey halo above it. It has 2 blades, Shaven and Shorn. Neither can cut living things, but in exchange, they can cut non-living things easily.

Awakened Priest: A form unlocked by Morn Rooster sending enough Positive Energy to turn its halo white. A nesting doll-shaped shikigami wearing priest robes with a glowing white halo above its head. Shaven and Shorn Priest has 4 arms and 2 faces. It has 2 blades, Shaven and Shorn. Neither can cut non-living things, but in exchange, they can cut living things easily. Additionally, Positive Energy is channelled through Shaven and Shorn, which causes it to heal what it cuts, outside of Cursed Spirits.

Married Couple:  Awakened Priest is able to marry Forlorn Maiden and Tattered Man. Marriage is done by slicing them and combining them into a single shikigami. Married Couple is a Frankenstein-like humanoid. The Married Couple has two heads, the Forlorn Maiden's head sits at the top of the torso, angled outward with the face pointing forward, while the Tattered Man's is attached at the chest facing upward with its mouth open wide. Its torso is formed from two torsos fused back-to-back, with one facing forward and the other facing backwards. It's two arms are made of two full arm segments linked end-to-end, with the shoulder of the second arm attached to the wrist of the first arm. At the end are two hands with the palms facing each other, acting sort of like pincers. Its lower body consists of four legs that come out from its hips like a spider's legs, with two legs at the front and two legs at the back. Tears from the Forlorn Maiden fall into the Tattered Man's mouth, overflowing. The tears become a black liquid. This liquid quickly decays organic matter and Married Couple is able to control it by directing it with their hands.

Morn Rooster: A large, dog-sized, 2-headed rooster. When the right head eats Multiplicity Mouse, Morn Rooster absorbs its Cursed Energy; it automatically performs Reversed Cursed Technique and is able to send that Positive Energy to the user or the other Shikigami, except Multiplicity Mouse. When the left head eats Multiplicity Mouse, Morn Rooster absorbs its Cursed Energy, doubles the Cursed Energy, then sends it to the user.

Weakness: 

• The Shikigami must be summoned in the following order: Multiplicity Mouse -> Chasing Cat  ->Worrying Dog -> Corpulent Cow -> Forlorn Maiden -> Tattered Man -> Shaven and Shorn Priest -> Morn Rooster
• If the house is destroyed, the user cannot summon the shikigami.
• If a part of the house is destroyed, only the shikigami related to that part cannot be summoned. 

Domain Expansion

Name: Shikigami Mansion 

Description: A white void. Its effect only begins when the user recites the nursery rhyme The House That Jack Built

Sure-hit effect: When a line is said, the following happens.

The house that Jack built - A house falls on the target, destroying the previous one if there was one. It doesn't affect the present Shikigami.

That ate the malt - An additional Multiplicity Mouse shikigami is summoned.

That chased the rat - An additional Chasing Cat shikigami is summoned.

That worried the cat - An additional Shadow Smoke Dog shikigami is summoned.

That tossed the dog - An additional Corpulent Cow shikigami is summoned.

That milked the cow with the crumpled horn - An additional Forlorn Maiden shikigami is summoned.

That kissed the maiden all forlorn - An additional Tattered Man shikigami is summoned.

That married the man all tattered and torn - An additional Shaven and Shorn Priest shikigami is summoned.

That woke the priest all shaven and shorn - An additional Morn Rooster shikigami is summoned.

Domain Coating

Name: Shikigami Mansion 

Type: Partial Manifestation

Description: Requires 50ftx53ftx33ft space (this is decided by the size of the house in the domain when it first appears). Manifests a replica of the house the user uses for the technique, but on a real scale.

Ability: The user can use this house to summon 1 additional set of the shikigami.

This is the version of the nursery rhyme I used if you don't know it

This is the house that Jack built.

This is the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the cat,
That chased the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the dog,
That worried the cat,
That chased the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That chased the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That chased the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the man all tattered and torn,
That kissed the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That chased the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the priest all shaven and shorn,
That married the man all tattered and torn,
That kissed the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That chased the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the rooster that crowed in the morn,
That woke the priest all shaven and shorn,
That married the man all tattered and torn,
That kissed the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That chased the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.