Mythical Maid class +Lunar Dial School

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Mythical Maid

"A being all of us have heard about, but have never seen"-Zun, over deity.


A Mythical Maid is a dedicated servant to a noble mistress, ready to support in all kind of menial tasks. Like cleaning, cooking, stabbing stuff dead, and going on quests for their beloved mistress.


MAKING A Mythical Maid
Abilities:Mythical Maid abilities may favor Dexterity, and Intelligence is important for Lunar Dial maneuvers, but otherwise they're not really focused on any particular ability score.
Races: Humans, android and fairies are the most well known maids, although members of every race have tried this path at one point or another.
Alignment: Mythical Maids can be of any alignment

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Starting Gold: 4d4x10 (100gp)
Starting Age: Young


HD:d8

Level	BAB	Fort	Ref	Will	Feature	Maneuvers Known	Maneuvers Readied	Stances Known
1	+1	+0	+2	+0	Maid Code, Maneveurs, Under Servant	4	2	1
2	+2	+0	+2	+0	Elegant Maid	5	2	1
3	+3	+1	+3	+1	Servant Specialization	6	3	1
4	+4	+1	+4	+1	Servant Specialization	7	4	1
5	+5	+1	+4	+1	Servant Specialization	8	5	2
6	+6	+2	+5	+2	Senior Servant	9	5	2
7	+7	+2	+5	+2	Perfect and Elegant Maid	10	6	2
8	+8	+2	+6	+2	Perfect and Elegant Servant	11	7	2
9	+9	+3	+6	+3	Perfect and Elegant Servant	12	8	2
10	+10	+3	+7	+3	Perfect and Elegant Servant	13	8	2
11	+11	+3	+7	+3	Upper Servant	14	9	3
12	+12	+4	+8	+4	Maid of the Evening Storm	15	10	3
13	+13	+4	+8	+4	Maid of the Devil	16	11	3
14	+14	+4	+9	+4	Maid of the Devil	17	11	3
15	+15	+5	+9	+5	Maid of the Devil	18	12	4
16	+16	+5	+10	+5	Maid of the Lightning Speed	19	13	4
17	+17	+5	+10	+5	Maid of the Scarlet Devil	20	14	5
18	+18	+6	+11	+6	Maid of the Scarlet Devil	21	14	5
19	+19	+6	+11	+6	Maid of the Scarlet Devil	22	15	5
20	+20	+6	+12	+6	Chief Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion	23	16	5

6 Skill points+int per level, quadruple at 1st level. Class skills: Appraise, Balance, Bluff, Climb, Concentration, Craft, Diplomacy, Disable Device, Disguise, Intimidate, Gather Information, Heal, Hide, Jump, Knowledge (any), Listen, Move Silently, Profession(any), Search, Sense Motive, Sleight of Hand, Spellcraft, Spot, Survival, Swim, Use Rope

Proficiencies:Simple weapons, Light Armor

Features:

Maid Code: A Mythical Maid must look like a Maid, walk like a Maid, talk like a Maid, or she loses all her class features for 24 hours. Male beings can be Mythical Maids, as long as they don't mind wearing skirts. The only exception is when the Mythical Maid needs to conceal her true identity, but even then she must wear maid clothes under her disguise.

A Mythical Maid must also pick another creature to be her Mistress/Master, and always adress her in terms of respect. However besides that she's free to do whatever she wants, and it's not uncommon for Mythical maids to disobey orders if they believe it's best for a naive mistress interests, if not outright confrocting them, or just lazing around.

Maneuvers: A Mythical Maid gains  learns maneuver from the Lunar Dial school and one other martial school of her choice. If the second school demands any special prerequisite (like Ancient Temple needing a feat) the Mythical Maid must fulfill it as well. Her Initiator level is equal to her Mythical Maid level plus half other levels, and she can only learn maneuvers of a level no bigger than half (IL+1).

The Mythical Maid can recharge half her expended maneuvers by performing the Aid Another action as a standard action (even if she had an ability that would speed it up), but the Aid Another bonus granted is increased by an amount equal to the number of maneuvers recovered. If the one she aids is her Mistress/Master, then the Mythical Maid recovers all her expended manuvers instead. If the Mythical Maid has no allies left to aid, she can Aid Another herself, and the bonus will apply on her next round.

At 4th level, and every even-numbered level afterwards, the Mythical Maid can replace one of her older maneuvers with a new one she qualifies for from one of her two schools (the new one doesn't need to be of the same level of the older one).

Under Servant: At 1st level pick one of the following options.

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In large households, only the cooking proper is the duty of the cook.  All ingredients are prepared for her use by the kitchen maids.   A first-class cook attends to the family breakfast after having her own.  She makes out the menu for luncheon and dinner, which is sometimes reviewed and altered by the mistress.  In town, she orders from the tradespeople who serve the house.  She prepares the soup for the following day, prepares the pastry, jellies, creams and entrees for the day, all in the morning.  The afternoon is usually her free time, unless there is a dinner party or guests.  She then prepares dinner, and once dinner is served, her duties are over for the day. It is also her duty to lock the doors and windows of the basement, to let the kitchen fire burn low, and to turn off the gas in the kitchen and passages before retiring. In smaller households, the cook assumes the duties of the head kitchen-maid and even scullery maid.

You can prepare Healthy Meals. They work as potions, except as following:
-They must be Harmless spells that would target creatures.
-For purposes of preparing Healthy Meals you have CL equal to your Maid level and know a number of spells from the cleric list equal to your ranks in Profession (Cook). Those spells cannot be of a level higher than ½ your Maid level, starting at 0th level spells at 1st level (but unlike normal potions, they can go up to 9th level). Each time you level up, you can swap one of your known Healthy Meals for another up to your max available level.
-They only cost 1/10 the normal crafting cost in terms of gold and you don't need to pay exp.
-With one hour you can prepare 4 Healthy Meals.
-Consuming a Healthy Meal demands one minute of continuous eating. Being interrupted means the healthy meal's effects are wasted.
-The Healthy Meal must be consumed within 8 hours of preparation or goes bad.
-Each creature cannot benefit from more than one Healthy Meal per 8 hours.
-If a Healthy Meal's effects would last more than 8 hour, they last 8 hours instead.
-Healthy Meals count as Ex effects.

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In large households, the head kitchen maid is an under-cook and assumes many of the plain-cooking responsibilities.  In small households, the kitchen maid prepares vegetables, game and poultry, does the dairy-work, and bakes the bread.  If there is no stillroom maid, she makes the cakes for luncheon, tea and dessert and the rolls for breakfast.  She keeps the kitchen clean and keeps things in order. 

You can use Profession (Kitchen Maid) instead of Heal and Survival for all purposes. You can also get food and water from urban areas for you and up to one other creature per rank in Profession (Kitchen Maid), by taking in minor side jobs while moving at half speed instead of hunting and foraging, with the same DCs. If you get the killing blow in a monster made of meat or a plant, you can provide Healthy Meal components for a Cook Maid equal to 1/10 the average treasure level expected for a monster of that level. The components stay fresh for up to 2 hours per Mythical Maid level.  This also allows Healthy Meals to satisfy “special” dietary requirements. So for example if you killed a human, you could harvest their blood for a Cook Maid to turn it into a Healthy Meal that would satisfy a vampire as if they had took a bite from the still living human. You deal an extra 1d6 against Humanoids, Animals and Plants.

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In large households, the upper housemaid undertook lighter jobs such as making beds and tidying bedrooms.  She made sure rooms were supplied with the necessary linens, and that they were kept in repair.  She dusted the china ornaments, and tended to the flower arrangements.  She kept an eye on the lower housemaids, who would light the fires, clean the living rooms, polish the brass, carry water upstairs for washing, and empty the chamberpots.  Some maids were assigned to specific rooms, such as the still-room, laundry, dairy or nursery.   

You can prepare Cleaning Oils. They work as magic oils, except as following:
-They can only target objects and constructs.
-For purposes of preparing Cleaning Oils you have CL equal to your Maid level and know a number of spells from the wizard list equal to your ranks in Profession (Housemaid). Those spells cannot be of a level higher than ½ your Maid level, starting at 0th level spells at 1st level (but unlike normal potions, they can go up to 9th level). Each time you level up, you can swap one of your known Cleaning Oils for another up to your max available level.
-They only cost 1/10 the normal crafting cost in terms of gold and you don't need to pay exp.
-With one hour you can prepare 4 Cleaning Oils.
-Applying a Cleaning Oil demands one minute of continuous work. Being interrupted means the Cleaning Oil's effects are wasted.
-The Cleaning Oil must be used within 8 hours of preparation or goes bad.
-Each object cannot be affected from more than one Cleaning Oil per 8 hours.
-If a Cleaning Oil's effects would last more than 8 hour, they last 8 hours instead.
-Cleaning Oils count as Ex effects.

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Her chief duty is to clean and scour the pots and pans, as well as the cooking utensils.  She cleans the scullery, servant's hall, larders, and kitchen passages. She usually dines in the kitchen with the kitchen maid.

You gain trapfinding as a Rogue and can use Profession (Scullery) instead of Search and Disable Device. As a move action, you can roll a Profession (Scullery) check. For each 5 points of the result you move up to 5 feet through Difficult Terraina and turn it into normal terrain, even if it was due to magic effects. This includes Grease effects and similar. You deal an extra 1d6 damage against Oozes, Aberrations and Constructs.

Elegant Maid: At 2nd level you gain your choice of Weapon Finesse, Dodge, Lighting Reflexes, Improved Initiative, Weapon Focus (simple and exotic weapons) or Two-Weapon Fighting. You can change your choice as a swift action. If you already had the feat you've currently picked, you gain the following benefit instead.

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Weapon Finesse-You can use your Dex mod instead of Str mod for damage rolls with finessable simple or exotic weapons.

Dodge-The Dodge bonus to AC increases to 3 and applies against all enemies.

Lighting Reflexes-You gain Evasion as a rogue and the bonus to Reflex saves increases to +3

Improved Initiative-You can add your highest mental stat mod to your Initiative.

Weapon Focus-You can add your Maid level plus 3 to damage rolls with the weapon you already had Weapon Focus on.



Two-Weapon Fighting-You can attack with both weapons as a standard action as long as they're both simple or exotic. If you use a Strike that allows you to make a single attack, you can attack with both your weapons as long as they're simple or exotic, but once one of your attack hits, the next one doesn't gain any benefits from your maneuver, unless you target two different opponents, in which case both attacks receive the benefits.

Servant Specialization: At levels 3,4 and 5 pick one of the following options. None may be taken more than once unless otherwise specified.

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Model Maid-You can pick another option from Under Servant. You can pick this option multiple times, its effects stack.

Maniac Maid-You can Rage as a Barbarian of your Maid level. You can swap this for Barbarian Rage ACFs and also pick barbarian rage feats. You can pick this multiple times, each extra pick allows you to Rage an extra three times per day.



Metal Maid-Pick two between Pure Crafting, proficiency with medium and heavy armor plus the ability to ignore Armor Check penalty to Dex-based skills, or proficiency with two exotic light weapons of your choice. You can pick this option multipe times.



Modern Maid-You can pick level I weapons from the Arsenal list. You count as having Arsenal Space 10 and a reserve of 30 Energy, recovering 5 energy per round. You can change your arsenal/recharge with one hour of checking out an urban center for spare parts. You can pick this two times, the second one allows you to use Arsenal weapons for your martial disciplines as if they were favored weapons, including special limitations like  Luna Dial normally only being useable with knifes. The exception are schools that demand a feat to be used like Ancient Temple and Chinese Star.



Mook Maids-You gain two Maids of a level equal to your own Maid level -2, of a basic LA 0 race of your choice with 10 on all stats (before racial modifiers) that don't know any maneuvers besides Stances and can only learn Fighter Feats. You can pick this option multiple times, each time gaining another two Mook Maids. Each lost Mook Maid can be replaced with 12 hours of recruitment work in any urban area, no need of gold as long as you can keep them fed.

Magic Maid-Pick one spell from the cleric/druid/wizard list of a level no higher than half your Maid level as long as it has a range of touch/personal. You can cast it once per minute with a CL equal to your Magic Maid level. If it had a duration higher than 1 minute, it lasts only 1 minute instead. Any save DCs are based on your highest metal stat mod. You can pick this option multiple times, each one learning another spell. Every time you gain a level, you can change those spells for others of the same level.

Senior Servant: At 6th level pick one of the following options.

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A governess taught the children of middle and upper class households until they were old enough to go away to school, college, or to a private tutor.  She was generally a well-educated middle-class girl who needed to earn her own living.  But although she was expected to have the bearing and education of a 'lady' she was treated as a servant.  This often left her in limbo--neither an insider or an outsider, as the other servants resented her as too educated and too good for their ranks.   

You can take 10 on Knowledge, Diplomacy, Bluff, Hide and Move Silently checks even if rushed or threatened. As a move action you can turn yourself immune to indirect divination effects as well as effects based on alignment and/or race, but while doing so you can't count as an ally for anyone else. Another move action reverts this effect.

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The nurse is in charge of caring for the household's children from the time they are born, until they are turned over to the care of the governess.  She washes and dresses the children, feeds them, takes them on outings, and puts them to bed.  She makes the children's ordinary under-clothing, and repairs their general clothing. Most nurses have dinner brought to them in the nursery, but some dined with the other servants.

You can take 10 on Heal, Profession, Intimidate, Spot and Listen checks even if rushed or threatened. You can repair a piece of sundered equipment with one hour of work as long as it's not worth more than 20% your WBL. With 10 minutes of work you can craft non-magic non-consumable items worth less than 2% your WBL out of inexpensive local materials, but each demands 10 minutes of maintenance of you every day or break up.

Perfect and Elegant Maid: At 7th level the Mythical Maid gains another feat choice from Elegant Maid. Changing each one is a separate swift action. She can pick the same option twice, in case she gains a special extra bonus.

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Weapon Finesse-You can use your Dex mod for Grapple, Disarm, Trip and Bullrush attempts.

Dodge-You gain Concealment that is not negated by True Seeing neither special senses like tremorsense/blindsight/mindsight/whateversightsense.

Lighting Reflexes-You gain a +3 bonus on attack rolls for attacks of opportunity and ignore enemy concealment/cover for the purpose of attacks of opportunity.

Improved Initiative-Anyone attacking you in melee or while inside your melee range provokes an attack of opportunity from you.

Weapon Focus-You can re-roll natural 1s and miss chances on attack rolls with the weapon you have Weapon Focus on.

Two-Weapon Fighting-When full attacking with simple or exotic weapons, the number of attacks you make with your off-hand is the same and with the same bonus as your main hand.

Perfect and Elegant Servant: At 8th, 9th  and 10th levels the Mythical Maid can upgrade one of her Specialized Servant options. In alternative pick another option from Specialized Servant.

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Model Maid-You can pick another option from Senior Servant. You can take this multiple times, each extra one you gain an extra retroactive 2 skill points per HD.

Maniac Maid-You can take any kind of actions while raging and also gain Uncanny Dodge while doing so.



Metal Maid-You can gain Pure Alloy as a bonus feat even if you don't meet the prerequisites. You can craft Pure Metal simple and exotic light weapons at half cost, but they're only good in your hands.



Modern Maid-You can pick level II weapons from the Arsenal list. You count as having Arsenal Space 20 and a reserve of 50 Energy, recovering 5 energy per round. You can change your arsenal/recharge with one hour of checking out an urban center for spare parts.



Mook Maids-You gain Leadership as a bonus feat, except you can use your highest mental stat mod instead of Cha and all your followers and cohort must be either a Mythical Maid. The cohorts don't know any maneuvers besides Stances and can only learn Fighter Feats.  You don't take any penalties for losing/mistreating them as long as they get food. One hour of searching in an urban area will replace up to 1d12 such lost followers. A lost cohort will take 1d12 days. You can't pick this option if you already have Leadership.

Magic Maid-As a fullround action you can fullattack and cast one of your Magic Maid spells with a casting time of a standard action or less, or initiate a strike and  cast a spell as long as neither have an initiation/casting time higher than a standard action. Your time limit for Magic Maid spells is increased to 10 minutes. You can pick this option multiple times, each one learning two new spells as per Magic Maid, but the second one must be a 0th level spell. Every time you gain a level, you can change those spells for others of the same level.

Upper Servant: At 11th level pick one of the following options.

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In households where domestics employed number over twenty-five, the housekeeper's sole duty is to engage, manage and dismiss the female servants, with the exception of lady's maid, nurse and cook, whom the mistress engages.  In smaller households, the housekeeper manages the stores, both ordering and dispersing them.  She tends to the house linen, both repairing it and replacing it as necessary.  She supervises the china-closet, the stillroom department, and superintends the arrangement of bedrooms for visitors and their servants.  Her daily routine includes: overlooks the stillroom, sees what china and linen is given out for breakfast, presides over the housekeeper's room breakfast, gives out the stores for the day, assist in washing china, makes rounds of the bedrooms and replaces supplies such as candles, writing paper and soap, makes sure the rooms are clean and in order, presides over the servant's hall dinner, arranges dessert for dinner, makes tea in the afternoon, and makes the coffee for dinner.  She also makes preserves and bottles fruit. She keeps the household accounts, and does most of the needlework.  In smaller households, the cook often assumes the duties of the housekeeper. 

You can simultaneously perform any combination of up to eight different professions and/or crafts. You can keep performing them even if traveling and/or fighting as long as you're in the same general area. You also gain Evasion and Uncanny Dodge. If you already had Evasion, you gain Improved Evasion. If you already had Uncanny Dodge, you gain Superior Uncanny Dodge.

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A lady's maid attends to her mistress's appearance.  She arranges her hair and assists in dressing her.  She packs and unpacks the mistress when traveling.  She may also make her mistress's dresses.  Depending on the size of the household, she may assume some of the housekeeper's duties.  In a typical day, she: brings up hot water as necessary, brings up tea before breakfast, prepares clothes for dressing, assists the mistress in dressing, puts the room in order, puts out necessities for walking, riding or driving, assists in taking off her outdoor attire, puts evening dress in order, assists in dressing her for dinner, sits up for her, assists in undressing her, puts away her jewels, keeps her wardrobe in repair and washes the lace and fine linens.  She also attends to any pets the mistress may have.

You always know where your Mistress is and her current status, and if she calls for you, you're automatically aware. As a move action you can instantly move yourself adjacent to your Mistress regardless of distance and/or obstacles or you being in different planes as long as you're not carrying more than a Light Load. When your Mistress makes a skill check, she may use your bonus if better than her own. When you Aid Another the Mistress, the bonus increases by an amount equal to your Mythical maid level. You can also Aid Another your mistress for a roll she failed in the previous round, and if you succeed this time, the effects change accordingly. Any companions/cohorts/familiars and other unique minions from the Mistress count as the Mistress herself for purpose of this ability.

Maid of the Evening Storm: At 12th level level the Mythical Maid gains another feat choice from Elegant Maid. Changing each one is a separate swift action. She can pick the same option thrice, in case she gains a special extra bonus.

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Weapon Finesse-You can use your Dex mod for any Str effects, Str skills and other effects that would be based on Str, including carrying capacity.

Dodge-You gain Displacement that is not negated by True Seeing neither special senses like tremorsense/blindsight/mindsight/whateversightsense. This doesn't stack with Concealment.

Lighting Reflexes-Whenever you would make an Aoo, you make two instead as long as you're using a simple or exotic light weapon. You have no limit to the number of Aoos you can make per round.

Improved Initiative-You gain an extra move action per round.

Weapon Focus-Your melee reach with the weapon you have weapon focus on increases by 5 feet, and its throwing range (if any) is doubled.

Two-Weapon Fighting-While wielding two light simple or exotic weapons, you gain a Deflection bonus to AC equal to 1/3 your Maid level.

Maid of the Devil: At 13th, 14th  and 15th  levels the Mythical Maid can upgrade one of her Perfect and Elegant Servant options. In alternative pick another option from Elegant Servant.

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Model Maid-You can pick another option from Upper Servant. You can take this multiple times, each extra one you gain an extra retroactive 4 skill points per HD.

Maniac Maid-You never suffer ill effects if you succeed on a Save while raging.



Metal Maid-You can gain Greater Alloy as a bonus feat even if you don't meet the prerequisites. You can craft Pure Metal simple and exotic light weapons in half the time, but they're only good in your hands.


Modern Maid-You can pick level III weapons from the Arsenal list. You count as having Arsenal Space 30 and a reserve of 70 Energy, recovering 5 energy per round. You can change your arsenal/recharge with one hour of checking out an urban center for spare parts.



Mook Maids-While within 30 feet from you, your mook maids can add your highest mental stat mod as an Insight bonus to their attack rolls, damage rolls, saves, AC and skill checks.

Magic Maid-Once per round before you attack with a simple or exotic light weapon you can charge it with a spell as a free action. This can't be combined with effects that hit without an attack roll. Your time limit for Magic Maid spells is increased to 1 hour. You can pick this option multiple times, each one learning three new spells as per Magic Maid, but the second must be a 1st level spell and the third must be a 0th level spell. Every time you gain a level, you can change those spells for others of the same level.

Maid of the Lightning Speed: At 16th level the Mythical Maid gains another feat choice from Elegant Maid. Changing each one is a separate swift action. She can pick the same option four times, in case she gains a special extra bonus.

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Weapon Finesse-When you hit an enemy with a light simple or exotic weapon, you can perform a Trip, Sunder or Disarm attempt on them as a free action without provoking attacks of opportunity.

Dodge-Your Displacement applies against area attacks that allow a Reflex save.

Lighting Reflexes-Whenever an enemy misses an attack against you, you may attack them with a simple or exotic light weapon with no need of action, either melee or thrown.

Improved Initiative-You gain an extra standard action per round, not cumulative with the extra move action from picking this thrice.

Weapon Focus-The weapon you have weapon Focus on ignores half the target's Armor, Natural Armor and Shield bonus, plus ignores all other AC bonus besides Dex and Dodge.

Two-Weapon Fighting-Enemies hit by both your main and off-hand attacks in the same turn take a -6 penalty to AC, saves and skill checks for 1d12 rounds.

Maid of the Scarlet Devil: At 17th, 18th and 19th levels the Mythical Maid can upgrade one of her Maid of the Devil options. In alternative pick another option from Maid of the Devil options.

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Model Maid-You gain an extra retoactive 6 skill points per HD You can take this multiple times, each extra one you gain an extra retroactive 6 skill points per HD.

Maniac Maid-You only take half damage while raging and gain a Deathward effect while doing so.

Metal Maid-You can gain Noble Alloy as a bonus feat even if you don't meet the prerequisites.



Modern Maid-You can pick level IV weapons from the Arsenal list. You count as having Arsenal Space 50 and a reserve of 100 Energy, recovering 10 energy per round. You can change your arsenal/recharge with one hour of checking out an urban center for spare parts.



Mook Maids-While within 3 miles  from you, your mook maids can add your highest mental stat mod as an Insight bonus to their attack rolls, damage rolls, saves, AC and skill checks. Mook maids within 30 feet of you gain double that bonus.

Magic Maid-When you cast a spell, you can make an attack with a simple or exotic light weapon as part of the same action, resolved either at the start or end of the spell, your choice. Your time limit for Magic Maid spells is increased to 24 hours. You can pick this option multiple times, each one learning four new spells, but the second must be a 2nd  level spell, the third must be a 1st level spell and the fourth must be a 0th level spell. Every time you gain a level, you can change those spells for others of the same level.

Chief Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion: At 20th level the Mythical maid can organize a special private dinner that grants her Mistress (and any of her cohorts/companions/followers) and herself one of the following set of benefits. The Dinner takes 1d12 hours to prepare and be properly enjoyed and the benefits last until the next day's dinner time.

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Magic Mushrooms for Dinner- All participants gain +1d4 CL whenever they use a spell/SLA and gain a Mindblank effect.

Divine Delicacies for Dinner- All participants gain DR 20/epic, a Deathward effect (undeads become immune to turning and other effects that specifically only work on undead) and no longer fail saves on natural 1s.

Grey Gunpowder for Dinner-All participants can pick weapons from Arsenal VII, gaining 10 Arsenal space(stacking with any Arsenal space they already have).



Taboo Tea for Dinner-All participants gain Regeneration 10 that's bypassed by Silver as well as SR 30 that may be raised or dropped at any time as a free action (if they already had SR, increase by 5). Undeads gain Fast Healing instead of the Regeneration, stacking with any fast healing they may already have. All HP, ability damage/drain and negative levels are restored. Undead that gain benefits from inflicting ability Drain count as having drained 1d12 for the duration.

Demonic Drinks for Dinner- All participants gain Fire and Acid immunity and add +1d12 Fire and +1d12 Acid damage to their first successul damaging attack each round and can become ethereal or incorporeal as a free action and back, but no more than 1/round.

Flying Fish for Dinner- All participants gain Electricity, Cold immunity and add +1d12 Electricity and +1d12 Cold damage to their first successul damaging attack each round, plus can fly and swim at twice their base speed with perfect maneuverability, ignoring any ill winds/storms, including ones created by magic and no longer need to breathe.

Forbidden Fruit for Dinner-All participant's attacks count as epic and magic whenever it would be benefical, no longer auto-fail attack rolls on a natural 1 and gain a Freedom of Movement and True Seeing effects.

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Personal Maid
Prerequisite: At least level 3, some backstory reason for why you would have a personal maid appear out of nowhere to serve you free of charge.
Benefit:You gain a Mythical Maid cohort of your level -2 with Elite Array of stats.

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Chobit Maid: A Chobit maid can use Cha instead of Int for all Mythical Maid abilities as well as for the Luna Dial school.

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Lunar Dial



”Your time is mine.
Well, it'd be nice if you had something else besides time, but...”-Sakuya, Lunar Dial mistress

Lunar Dial is a school based on “faster-than-the-eye-can-see” tricks. It almost looks like their users can manipulate time. Because they actually learn how to manipulate time.

Discipline Skill: Sleight of Hand
Discipline Weapons: dagger, short sword, quarterstaff, throwing knife (new weapon, see below)

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Throwing Knife-A finely balanced small and sharp blade optimized for throwing, a tool for a professional and not a commoner. Light one handed exotic melee weapon, 1d6 slashing or piercing damage for a medium creature, can be thrown with a range increment of 20 feet, 19-20 critical, +4 bonus on Sleight of Hand checks to conceal it, 1 lb, market price 15 gold.

I feel like I'm just wasting my time here...

It's customary to clean up after oneself.
I have to retrieve my knives quickly...

Stopwatch: Lunar Dial maneuvers with this keyword can be ended at any time as a free action (even if it isn't yout turn) for a specific extra effect. The maneuver's original effects don't apply anymore. You can only use a Stopwatch effect once per round, regardless of how many you had active. If you Stopwatch a Stance, you still benefit from that Stance until the end of the turn, but if you enter a new Stance, you lose the benefits of the previous.

When you move by a Lunar Dial maneuver, you don't provoke attacks of opportunity. For other observers, it seems like you teleported, although actually you just moved instantly (or more acurately, stopped the clock and walked at your leisure while everything else was frozen in time).

When a Lunar Dial maneuver references knives, you may use either Daggers, Short Swords or Throwing Knifes, provided you're proficient with them. Short Swords can only be used for melee attacks.

Lunar Dial maneuvers that demand you to throw knifes demand 5 such equal weapons per maneuver level to use, and they must be all of the same quality, but they mysteriously return to your possession after the maneuver is completed (only after stopwatch expires or is used). If the knifes have any special offensive property, like being made of silver, that bonus also applies to the maneuver's damage, if any.

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Cut the Gordian Knot

Prerequisite: Knowledge of at least one Lunar Dial Stance.
Benefit: While on a Lunar Dial stance, you can draw or put away inside your clothes the Discipline's favored weapons as a free action, and with 8 hours of work you can convert a two-handed weapon made of metal appropriate for your size in a set of 45 daggers (or throwing knives if you're proficient in them) for your size, thereafter refered as knives. Those knives are only good for cooking and fancy dinners in the hands of anybody else and thus have no market value, but while wielded by you they not only can be used  as weapons, but they maintain the properties of the weapon used to manufacture them! So for example a +5 vorpal adamantine greatsword could be converted in 45 vorpal adamantine daggers. Abilities with limited uses however become unusable after this transformation, so for example a Luck Blade wouldn't be able to grant wishes anymore. The weight of each such knife is equal to 1/45 the weight of the original weapon. With another 8 hours of work you can revert the proccess.
Special: Cut the Gordian Knot count as Quickdraw for meeting the prerequisites of other feats and Prcs.


Flowering Night


Prerequisites: Cut the Gordian Knot, IL 3, knowledge of at least one Lunar Dial stance.
Benefit: While on a Lunar Dial Stance you can choose how fast you age, including not growing older at all, although you can't become younger. In addition as a standard action melee touch attack (or by performing a thrown attack with a Knife) and by expending a Lunar Dial maneuver you can manipulate the time in a creature or object you touch, or alternatively an area with a radius of up to 30 feet. Choose one of the following effects.

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-Target suffers a Slow effect.  Targets slowed this way fall at half speed and take/inflict half falling damage. A slowed thrown/ranged weapon has their range reduced by half.
-Target receives an Haste effect. Hasted targets fall 30 feet faster per round. An hasted thrown/ranged weapon has their range increased by an extra 30 feet.
-Target's movement speeds (including falling speed) are reduced/increased 5% per IL, up to 100% movement speed reduction/increase. Ranged/Thrown weapons receive an equal change to their range.
-Target ages 1d20+2*IL years.
-Target ages at a rate of 1/IL of normal aging. So if you have IL 5, the target would age at 1/5 normal speed for example.

The above effects can be resisted with a Will save with DC 10+expended maneuver level+Int mod. If the area effect was chosen, reduce the DC by 5 and a natural 1 isn't an auto-fail. They're permanent but you can only maintain one such effect simultaneously per 6 ranks you have in Sleight of Hand, and end them as a free action (if you use the aging option, instead you can maintain one less effect for the next 1d12 hours). A limited wish, miracle or wish can revert the aging.


The Maid and the Pocket Watch of Blood

Don't slack off.
Unlike me, you have limited time.
Prerequisite: Flowering Night, 8+ranks in Sleight of Hand, knowledge of 5+ Lunar Dial maneuvers.
Benefit: While you're in a Lunar Dial stance you can use the following tactical options.

Time Sign "Imaginary Vertical Time"-As a move action choose two different points in space you can see and roll a Sleight of Hand check. The distance between those two points is increased or reduced by an amount equal to your  Sleight of Hand check multiplied by 5 in feet. The space still look the same to anybody else outside, but to anyone standing in one of those points, for all pratical purposes they're now at the same distance from the other point, including suddenly looking closer or further away depending if you increased or reduced the distance. This distortion lasts until you use this tactical option again.


Time Sign "Sakuya's Special Stopwatch"- When you initiate a Lunar Dial strike involving knifes and have at least one stopwatch effect waiting to be activated, you may sacrifice it plus the stopwatch effect from the strike you're initating. If you do so, you delay the Strike's effects until the start of your next turn, with the knives dramatically hanging in mid-air around you and your target(s)/area, but the target(s)/area that would be affected by the strike are right now affected by time manipulation as if you had used Flowering Night of them by expending the delayed Strike. When the Strike resolves at the start of your next turn, increase any DCs and attack rolls by 1+1/6 IL. Targets who moved outside the area/range in between are still affected as if they were inside the area/range. It's not clear if the knives teleported or if they had already been hit and the effects only manifest now or if it's a paradox or space-time singularity.



Light Speed "C. Ricochet"- To use this option you must've used Time Sign "Sakuya's Special Stopwatch" the previous turn. Initiate a Lunar Dial strike where the ranges and areas are doubled, targeting only victims who either failed their saves against the time manipulation and/or previous strike DC or you succeeded on hitting them with the Strike. Those victims count as flat-footed against the Strike.  Even if they would be immune to flat-footed there's a 50% chance they're still caught by surprise. If there were attack rolls, you automatically threaten a critical hit with each of them. If the Strike had saves, there's a 50% chance of ignoring abilities that ignore damage if you pass the save like Evasion and Mettle.



Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

Placeholder for Lunar Dial+Septette for the Dead+Chinese Star combo feat.

Maneuver List

1st level
Time Sign "Silver Acute 360": Strike- Target is surrounded by knives.
Checkmaid : Strike– Loop of thrown knives.
Misdirection: Counter-Throw knive to distract target.
Sense of Thrown Edge : Boost- Longer range throwing with greater focus.
Smart Robber: Stance-Take everything that isn't nailed down.

2nd level
Cross-Up Magic : Counter-Shields of floating knives.
Time Sign "Private Vision": Strike–To fool other people's eyes you need to have a pretty good eye yourself.
Bounce/No-Bounce : Strike–Knives reflext out of nowhere to entangle and immobilize your enemies.
Illusion Image "Luna Clock": Boost-Distract your enemies.

3rd level
Sight of Distant Blade: Strike–Thrown knife replicates basic combat maneuver or mundane task at range.
Power Direction: Boost- Focus knives on an opponent.
Time Sign "Dual Vanish" : Counter- Erase ranged attacked, preventing it from being used again.
Silver Sign "Perfect Maid": Stance- Work better while attracting less attention.

4th level
Bewitched Weapon "Another Dimension of Silver" : Counter–
Square Ricochet : Strike–
Conjuring "Misdirection" : Strike–
Time Sign “Time Stopper”:Boost-

5th level
Propelling Silver: Strike-
Void "Inflation Square" : Counter-
Time Sign “Changeling Magic”: Boost-
Maid Secret Skill "Marionette" : Strike-

6th level
Speed Sign "Luminous Ricochet" : Counter-
Perfect Square: Stance–
Time Paradox : Boost–
Watch "Luna Dial": Strike-

7th level
Conjuring "Illusional Misdirection":Boost-
Magic Star Sword : Counter-
Time Sign "Tunnel Effect": Strike-

8th level
Vanishing Everything: Counter-
Time Sign "Private Square" : Stance-
Parallel Brane: Boost-
Silver Sign "Silver Bound" : Strike-


9th level
Conjuring “Eternal Meek”: Stance-
"Deflation World" : Strike–


Well, I feel fine, though?

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Unless otherwise noticed, Lunar Dial maneuvers are Ex abilities.

Lunar Dial maneuvers that allow a Fort save to resist Slow can still affect undeads and constructs, but they gain a +5 bonus on their saves.

Lunar Dial maneuvers that call you to make an attack with knives but do not specify a range have the same range as the knives, including range increments (and their penalties).

1st level

Time Sign "Silver Acute 360"
Lunar Dial (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 1
Initiation Action: Fullround Action
Range: See text
Duration: Stance
Save DC:11+Int mod.

Knives that surround you.

When you use this maneuver you place floating knives in any empty 5ftx5ft squares adjacent to one target within 20 feet plus 10 feet per IL. For 1 round any creatures passing through the knives takes piercing and slashing damage equal to 1d4+ your ranks in Sleight of Hand unless they succeed on a Reflex save, but they can't be damaged more than once per round by this effect. If the original target doesn't move during that round, they take the damage with no save allowed as the knives converge in them before disappearing.

Stopwatch-You move to a position within 10 feet to the maneuver's original target and may perform a melee or thrown attack with a knife against them. If the target was moving, you move within 10 feet to their ending position.

Checkmaid
Lunar Dial (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 1
Initiation Action: Standard Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text
Save DC: 11+Int mod.

Line of knives.

As part of this maneuver throw a series of knives against every target in a line with 15 feet plus 5 feet per IL. The knives strangely disappear at the end of the trajectory and appear again from the start in a loop that lasts 1 round. You make one thrown knife attack against every target inside the line or who enters it for the duration, with a bonus on the attack roll equal to your ranks in Sleight of Hand and a bonus on the damage roll equal to your Int mod.

Stopwatch-An enemy inside the line must make a Fort save or be Slowed for 1 round, taking a -2 penalty on this save if you hit them with the knife attack.

Misdirection
Lunar Dial (Counter)
Level: Mythical Maid 1
Initiation Action: Immediate Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text

You may use this counter whenever another creature within 20 feet plus 5 feet per IL makes a roll. Make a ranged touch attack against them with a knive with a bonus equal to your Int mod. If you hit, you don't deal damage, but force the target to re-roll the dice with a -1 penalty per 4 ranks you have in Sleight of Hand. This penalty lasts 1 round on rolls of the same kind.

Stopwatch-Make a melee or thrown knife attack against the target, assuming they're inside range.

Sense of Thrown Edge
Lunar Dial (Boost)
Level: Mythical Maid 1
Initiation Action: Swift Action
Range: See text
Duration: See Text

For 1 round increase your knife's range increment by 5 feet times your Int bonus. Ranged maneuvers using knifes also have their range increased accordingly, and any DCs they have are increased by 1 for each 4 ranks you have in Sleight of Hand.

Stopwatch-Make a thrown knife attack, plus another at IL 3 and another per two extra IL you have (3 at IL 5, 4 at IL 7 and so on).

Smart Robber
Lunar Dial (Stance)
Level: Mythical Maid 1
Initiation Action: Swift Action
Range: See text
Duration: Stance

Steals score items from enemies en masse. The closer you are to the enemies, the more you'll steal.

Whenever you perform a melee or thrown knife attack (including Lunar Dial maneuvers that deal damage with no attack roll), you can make one Sleight of Hand check as a free action in the target(s) or an unattended valid object adjacent to them. You suffer a -2 penalty on this check for each 10 feet of distance between you and your target. In case the enemy didn't have anything that you could (or wanted to) take with Sleight of Hand, you can attempt to steal their time! Roll a Sleight of Hand check. If you hit a DC of 15 your victim's movement speeds are reduced by 10 feet and yours increases by 10 feet. For each 5 points you beat the DC your victim's movement speed is reduced another 10 feet and yours increases another 10 feet. Victims can't be slowed down below 0 feet. You can “slow” down multiple victims with this, but multiple speed increases don't stack for yourself, count just the higher one. Those effects last 1 round.

Stopwatch-You gain an Haste effect for 1 round, during which you can add your Int mod to Sleight of Hand checks.

Don't call me a thief.
Though I suppose with this maid uniform, it's quite unusual to get into trouble.

2nd level

Cross-Up Magic
Lunar Dial (Counter)
Level: Mythical Maid 2
Initiation Action: Immediate Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text

Jumps as knives spin around her. The enemy will be cut if they touch them. You can graze while you're jumping, so it's good against danmaku attacks from above.

You may use this counter when you're attacked or must make a Reflex save. You throw knifes around you that grant you a bonus to AC and Reflex saves equal to 2+1/3 your ranks in Sleight of Hand for 1 round.

Stopwatch-Make a melee or thrown knife attack against an enemy within range with a bonus to confirm critical hits equal to your Int mod. If your opponent has a chance to ignore critical hits, reduce it by an amount equal to five times your Int mod as well.

Being stabbed just a hair deep wouldn't hurt... though,
being stabbed in the eye at just a hair deep probably would hurt quite a bit.

Time Sign "Private Vision"
Lunar Dial (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 2
Initiation Action: Standard Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text

Ahhhhh, killing the small fry is so pointless!
I wish the one pulling the strings would show up already.

You gain a See Invisibility effect and Blindsight  with range 5 feet  per rank in Sleight of Hand you have for 1 round, plus make a Spot check. Then make one knife attack, melee or ranged against any creatures you can detect. Those attacks ignore all miss chances, including mirror image and similar and deal extra damage equal to 1,5 times your Int mod.  If you have 13 or more ranks in Sleight of Hand, you also gain a True Seeing effect for the duration.


Stopwatch-make one knife thrown or melee attack per 3 IL you have. Those attacks re-roll miss chances and add half your Int mod to damage.

That was pitiful.
I'm gonna find the next mastermind, then.

Bounce/No-Bounce
Lunar Dial (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 2
Initiation Action: Fullround Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text
Save DC:12+Int mod.

Releases knives that bounce against seemingly invisible barriers. Not particularly powerful, but good for walling off opponents.

Make one knife attack, plus another for each 3 ranks you have in Sleight of Hand. Hit opponents are Entangled and immobilized for 1 round. A Reflex save negates the immobilization. If an opponent is struck by more than one knife, they don't need to save multiple times, instead increase the DC by 2 for each extra knive that struck them. If you have 8+IL, hit opponents are also subject to a Dimensional Anchor effect and this maneuver ignores Freedom of Movement effects.

Stopwatch-An enemy that had been hit and saved must roll again with the DC increased by 1/3 your IL or be immobilized and Entangled for 1 round.

Illusion Image "Luna Clock"
Lunar Dial (Boost)
Level: Mythical Maid 2
Initiation Action: Swift Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text
Save DC:12+Int mod.

The clock freezes with the curtain of random daggers.
Daggers appear out of nowhere. Can she do card tricks too?

For 1 round whenever you perform a melee or thrown knife attack (including Lunar Dial maneuvers that deal damage with no attack roll), a lot more knives seem to appear in strange patterns following, forcing your victim(s) to make a Will save or be flat-footed against your offensive. Also choose one specific opponent you can detect. That opponent  suffers a penalty on the save equal to 1/3 your ranks in Sleight of Hand for 1 round.

Stopwatch-You move up to 5 feet per IL in any direction.


Knife Density: ★★★
Frequently seen, Sleight of hand with no props
Stops time and arranges knives in ridiculous ways.
Actually, I don't know if time actually stops or not. It's just that knives suddenly appear and Sakuya teleports.


3rd level

Sight of Distant Blade
Lunar Dial (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 3
Initiation Action: See text
Range: 100 feet plus 10 feet per IL.
Duration: See text
Save DC: 13+Int mod

Throws knives and then manipulates time to stop them in midair.

You can use this maneuver as a standard action, in which case you throw a knife at one target within range, dealing damage as normal plus extra damage equal to a Sleight of Hand check, and if you hit you can start a Trip, Disarm, Bullrush or Grapple at range without needing a new attack roll nor provoking attacks of opportunity, adding your Int bonus to all the opposed rolls (in the case of a grapple, the knifes pin your opponent's clothes/body parts as appropriate and thus you don't count as grappled). You can choose to not deal damage, in which case you only need to hit the target's touch AC.

In alternative choose a basic skill use that would demand you to physically interact with something else, like Heal or Disable Device. You use this maneuver to apply the skill to any valid target within range of the maneuver, but the initiation time becomes equal to the time needed to use the skill, which is accomplished at distance by throwing knifes. You can attempt a Hide and Move Silently checks to conceal this action, adding your ranks in Sleight of Hand to the rolls.

Either way for 1 round you can see things as if you were in the knife's position by looking at the reflections on their blades.

Stopwatch-The target and all enemies in a radius of 5 feet per 2 IL must make a Will save or be slowed for 1 round.


Power Direction
Lunar Dial (Boost)
Level: Mythical Maid 3
Initiation Action: See text
Range: See text
Duration: See text

Choose a target you can detect. For 1 round you gain a bonus equal to your Int mod in attack rolls against the chosen target and your ranks in Sleight of Hand to the damage Each extra time you hit the target with a knife, the  extra damage increases by 1d12 multiplied by the amount of  times you hit them with a knife since the start of your turn ( not counting the attack that triggered this itself, so the 2nd attack deals +1d12, the third attack deals +2d12 and so on). If you attack anything else, you may throw a knife as a free action at the chosen target, assuming they're within range (if you use a multi-target or area attack, you only get one free attack).

Stopwatch-You move to any empty adjacent space to the last target you attacked with a knife.



Time Sign "Dual Vanish"
Lunar Dial (Counter)
Level: Mythical Maid 3
Initiation Action: Immediate action
Range: See text
Target: See text
Duration: See text
Save DC:13+Int mod.

Manipulates time and erases enemy ranged attacks from the present and then the future.

You may initiate this counter whenever you're targeted by a ranged attack, including area attacks. Make a Sleight of Hand check against the enemy's attack roll/save DC, whichever's higher. If you succeed, the attack if fully nullified, as if it never existed. If the attack had neither an attack roll nor save DC you automatically succeed. Whetever this check succeeds or fails, he attacker cannot use the same kind of ranged attack for a number of rounds equal to your Int mod.

Stopwatch-Another ranged attack from the enemy automatically misses you, even if it needed no attack roll. You must choose to use this before knowing if you would be hit/fail a save or not.

Silver Sign "Perfect Maid"
Lunar Dial (Stance)
Level: Mythical Maid 3
Initiation Action: Swift Action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: See text

The Case of the Perfect Maid

While on this stance you can add your Int mod to Wis and Dex based skill checks, plus you gain a miss chance equal to 20+twice your ranks in Sleight of Hand, that also allows you to hide even if you have nothing to hide behind.

Stopwatch-You and your allies within 5 feet per IL gain na Haste effect for 1 round, except the bonus to attack rolls, AC and saves is equal to your Int mod.


The last trick was teleportation.
I thought I had her in my sights, but...
she would always move out of the way.

4th level

Bewitched Weapon "Another Dimension of Silver"
Lunar Dial (Counter)
Level: Mythical Maid 4
Initiation Action: Immediate action
Range: See text
Target: See text.
Duration: See text
Save DC:14+Int mod.

Cool. Looks like these knives actually work.
Maybe because they're silver?

You may initiate this counter whenever you would need to make a Fort or Will save as long as you're holding a knife. For 1 round you gain a bonus to your Fort and Will saves equal to your Int mod plus the knife's enhancement to attack rolls, if any. If you succeed on any Fort and/or Will saves while this boost lasts, you don't suffer any secondary effects from the attack.

This is a supernatural maneuver.

Stopwatch-The last enemy attempting to harm you takes damage equal to the base damage of your knife plus your ranks in Sleight of hand and is Sickened for 1 round. A Fort save halves this damage and a Will save negated the sickened condition. If you have IL 12+, even enemies normally immune to the Sickened condition can be affected, if they fail the Will save by 5 or more.


Square Ricochet
Lunar Dial (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 4
Initiation Action: Standard action
Range: See text
Target: See text.
Duration: See text
Save DC:14+Int mod.

A high-quality projectile knife. Speed, bounce count, and hit count increase with level. Particularly useful as a linker.

Make a single knife attack, plus another for each 5 ranks you have in Sleight of Hand. Those attacks are made with a single knife even if you choose to throw, skillfully ricocheting between terrain and targets. You gain a bonus on the attack rolls and damage rolls equal to half your IL.  For 1 round any enemy who gets between you and your target(s), or moves adjacent to your target(s), you can make a Knife attack against them as a free action thanks to the ricochets.

Stopwatch-Instead of another free knife attack, you may initiate a 3rd level or lower Strike that takes a standard action or less to initiate against the enemy moving between you and your target(s) or adjacent to them. The DC becomes the same as this maneuver.

Conjuring "Misdirection"
Lunar Dial (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 4
Initiation Action: Fullround action
Range: See text
Target: See text.
Duration: See text
Save DC:14+Int mod.

Aimed bursts of daggers and blades.

This maneuver deals slashing and piercing damage equal to a Sleight Hand of check from you in a cone with up to 20 feet plus 5 feet per IL, and victims are also left Flatfooted for 1 round. A Reflex save halves this damage and negates the flatfooted condition. The cone lasts 1 round and anybody else entering the cone for the duration also takes the damage and risks being flatfooted.

Stopwatch-The previous cone of knives ends and a new one starts anywhere where they share at least a 5 feet square. Victims who had failed against the first can't be affected again, but creatures who had succeeded on the first save can be affected again.


An illusionist's skill is that of misdirection.


Time Sign “Time Stopper”
Lunar Dial (Boost)
Level: Mythical Maid 4
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range: See text
Target: See text.
Duration: See text

I Don't Know What Happened

Until the end of your turn, other creatures can't take immediate/free actions, readied actions don't trigger, you never provoke Aoos, nobody registers what you do. You don't benefit from any allied auras  nor suffer enemy auras. However you can't attack enemies right away, your attacks only resolving after time returns to normal, thus enemies still get their Dex bonus to AC and miss chances and neither count as helpless, but they count as flanked since you can slip behind their backs.

Stopwatch-You move up to 10 feet times your Int mod. Until the end of your turn, enemies you hit with knife attacks take a penalty to all 1d20 rolls equal to 3+1/5 your ranks in Sleight of Hand.


I can't afford to waste time in a place like this.


5th level

Propelling Silver
Lunar Dial (Counter)
Level: Mythical Maid 5
Initiation Action: Immediate action
Range: See text
Target: See text.
Duration: See text
Save: DC 15+Int mod.

Irregularly throws knives in orbit around her.

You may initiate this counter when you're attacked or someone tries to use a spell/power or other ability that would demand concentration while adjacent to you.

You throw knives that spin around you for 1 round, dealing damage equal to the Knife's base damage plus your ranks in Sleight of hand, Reflex save for half. The spinning knives follow you around for the duration and damage anyone whose area they overlap, although no single creature may be damaged more than once per maneuver use.

Stopwatch-You gain an Insight bonus to your AC or Reflex saves equal to ½ your IL against one attack, after knowing if it would hit you or not.

Can naturally be used as a shield. If the enemy hits the upper edge of the orbit, it's also a high-powered attack.

Void "Inflation Square"
Lunar Dial (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 5
Initiation Action: Fullround action
Range: Burst of up to 20 feet plus 5 feet per IL centered on you.
Target: See text.
Duration: See text
Save: DC 15+Int mod.

This time, the trick was
"Incredible Multiplying Knives"
Isn't this too much?

For 1 round enemies already inside or entering the area take damage equal to twice knife base damage plus double your ranks in Sleight of hand, and in addition are Entangled for 1 round and cannot move from their position.
A Reflex save halves this damage and the victims are just entangled, not locked into place. No creature may be affected more than once per round by this maneuver.
All dimensional travel in the area is blocked for the duration.
This is a supernatural maneuver.

Stopwatch-Choose one creature inside the area. Make a grapple check against them as if you were adjacent, adding half your IL and your Knife's enhancement bonus to opposed rolls, if any. If you succeed, the enemy remains locked into place by the knifes and they're also left under a Dimensional lock effect. This ignores Freedom of Movement effects, the daggers keep grappling the  victim with the same bonus, and this lasts until the victim beats the grapple check or you recover/unprepare this maneuver, whatever happens first.


Knife Density : ★★★★★★★
A spell card that stops time and randomly scatters knives.
From my perspective, I'm suddenly surrounded by a ridiculous number of knives.
It's funny to imagine her setting up knives while time is stopped.
It's high-density at a level where it's really hard to dodge. She's completely in Capture Mode.
But... I'd like to see what she looks like when she's setting up knives just once.



Time Sign “Changeling Magic”
Lunar Dial (Boost)
Level: Mythical Maid 5
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range: See text
Target: See text.
Duration: See text
Save: DC 15+Int mod.

Don't You Think This Is Dishonest?

Choose a target within 5 feet per rank you have in Sleight of Hand. For 1 round whenever you would take damage or need to make a save to resist an ill effect from anyone else but the target, instead your victim takes the damage and/or needs to make the save against the ill effect and suffer it. After each time the target suffers this for the duration, they're allowed a Will save to end this effect earlier.
This is a supernatural maneuver.

Stopwatch-You swap positions with the target.


Maid Secret Skill "Marionette"
Lunar Dial (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 5
Initiation Action: Standard action
Range: See text
Target: See text.
Duration: See text
Save: DC 15+Int mod.

The clock freezes with the burst of randomly aimed daggers.

For 1 round enemies within 30 feet plus  5 feet per IL take a penalty to AC equal to 1/3 your IL. Then make a fullattack with knifes, gaining a number of bonus attacks at full attack bonus equal to 1/3 your ranks in Sleight of Hand. You must target as many different enemies as possible.


Stopwatch-An enemy suffering from the AC penalty and using an ability with a target must make a Will save or you choose the target (except they can't hit themselves). They take a -2 penalty on this save for each knife you hit them with when using this maneuver.


Knives that did not change during one time freeze might change in another.

6th level
Speed Sign "Luminous Ricochet"
Lunar Dial (Boost)
Level: Mythical Maid 6
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range: See text
Target: See text.
Duration: See text
Save: DC 16+Int mod.

Knife that reflects back and forth across repeatedly. It reflects at full power, so it can pin down enemies for a long time.

For 1 round your knife attacks ignore miss chances, including mirror images and similar, and enemies hit by your knifes, including effects that need no attack roll, must make a Reflex save or be Slowed for 1 round. If another effect would make them Slowed, increase the penalties by another -2.

Stopwatch-An enemy that you just damaged with a knife is automatically Slowed, being allowed a new Fort save at the start of their turn to break free.


Perfect Square
Lunar Dial (Stance)
Level: Mythical Maid 6
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range: See text
Target: See text.
Duration: Stance
Save: DC 16+Int mod.

Time Sign, Tricky Type

While on this stance you can fly with average maneuverability at a speed of 5 feet per rank in Sleight of Hand and are under an Haste effect, except the bonus gained to attack rolls, reflex save and AC are each equal to your Int mod

Stopwatch-You gain extra movement speed equal to five times your IL and can make a fullattack with knives as a standard action. For this duration you can pick up adjacent unattended items as a free action during movement and/or perform Sleight of Hand checks and  at any point during movement as well.


Oh, it's so much warmer in the sky.
It's so wonderful that I could cry...

Time Paradox
Lunar Dial (Counter)
Level: Mythical Maid 6
Initiation Action: Immediate action
Range: See text
Target: See text.
Duration: See text

Another maid will appear right in front of the actual maid.

You may initiate this counter when you would be harmed or hindered by a non-area attack. Another you appears and suffers the consequences while you're unnafected. If the other you is still around, they'll remain near you and absorb any other attacks targeted at you for 1 round and then disappears. Although it has copies of your gear, any attempts to steal such copies, and/or the soul/flesh/anything from the other you, they'll mysteriously disappear as soon as it is attempted.

Stopwatch-The other you performs a full attack with knives and then disappears.

The reason behind this? Parallel universes, etc, etc.

Watch "Luna Dial"
Lunar Dial (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 6
Initiation Action: Standard action
Range: See text
Target: See text.
Duration: See text
Save: DC 16+Int mod.

Hold on a bit.
That's a little bit too long.

As part of this maneuver you pull a seemingly normal watch or other time-recording device out of nowhere and throw it as a ranged touch attack with range 30 feet plus 5 feet per IL. If you hit, you deal damage as if it was a knife, and the target must make a Will save or time stops for them, leaving them unable to take actions for 1 round. Even if they save they take a -3 penalty on all attack rolls and DCs for 1 round.

This is a supernatural maneuver that can full affect ethereal and incorporeal targets.
 
Stopwatch-The victim takes a penalty to AC and Reflex saves equal to 4+1/7 your ranks in Sleight of Hand for 1 round. If they had made the Will save, half this penalty.



7th level
Conjuring "Illusional Misdirection"
Lunar Dial (Boost)
Level: Mythical Maid 7
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range: See text
Target: See text.
Duration: See text

Aimed bursts of reflective daggers and blades.

For 1 round whenever you throw a knife, you throw another one for each 4 ranks you have in Sleight of Hand, but the extra ones must be aimed at different targets. They all deal extra damage equal to your IL+Int mod.

Stopwatch-You ignore all miss chances from one enemy and they count as flatfooted against your attacks for 1 round. You still benefit from the bonus damage.


However, Sakuya is not an illusionist. This is her true power.

Magic Star Sword
Lunar Dial (Counter)
Level: Mythical Maid 7
Initiation Action: Immediate action
Range: See text
Target: See text.
Duration: See text
Save: DC 17+Int mod.

A knife under the influence of time acceleration. Since it flies straight forward at high speed, it's good at dealing with head-on attacks.

You may initiate this Counter whenever you're attacked. The attacker automatically takes base Knife damage plus your IL and ranks in Sleight of Hand and they must make a Will save or be Dazed for 1 round (if they fail the save, their attack is wasted).

Stopwatch-For 1 round your knifes gain an enanchment bonus equal to 2/3 your Ranks in Sleight of Hand. Each cannot have an actual enanchment bonus to attack and damage rolls bigger than +5, but you can spend the enanchment bonus to get special abilities like Keen and Holy. You cannot however spend it in Bane or any similar enchantments that are specialized against a specific kind of creature, neither on abilities with limited uses per day (a reference chart can be found after the maneuvers explanations).

Time Sign “Tunnel Effect”
Lunar Dial (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 7
Initiation Action: Fullround action
Range: See text
Target: See text.
Duration: See text
Save: DC 17+Int mod.

It looks like last time wasn't a trick.
What I saw this time was "Multiplying Knives."
I'm more interested in her instant movement than her knives.

You disappear, then one of you per 4 ranks you have in Sleight of Hand appears whitin a radius of 5 feet per IL (none of which can activate limited use items/abilities or have their items stolen/taken/given, any of you who would be harmed instead disappear), after which one of you makes a fullattack before disappearing along their original gear. At the start of each of your next turns another of you makes a new full attack with knifes while another takes actions normally and any remaining ones just fool around looking cool in the position they were created.  Those attacks ignore all bonus to AC except Dex and size mod and ignore any effects that would prevent/reduce/convert the damage besides basic Hardness and DR.  The last you remaining becomes the new real you. If you recover or unprepare this maneuver before then, then all but one of you disappear right away.
This is a supernatural maneuver.

Stopwatch-Probability collapses earlier and all yous but one disappear, that then makes a full knife attack. Those attacks will ignore all bonus to AC except Dex and size mod and ignore any effects that would prevent/reduce/convert the damage besides basic Hardness and DR.

Notes: Rare, knives burst out of time.
Showoff Level: ★★
A maneuver that manifests the past and future of thrown knives. Similar to Deflation World, but time runs in reverse in this one.

8th level
Vanishing Everything
Lunar Dial (Counter)
Level: Mythical Maid 8
Initiation Action: Immediate action
Range: See text
Target: See text.
Duration: See text

Stops time and teleports. Since it's usually hard to tell when she's teleporting, it's useful as a warp technique. She usually leaves a card behind, which is probably to make it look like her own kind of magic.
You may initiate this counter when you would be harmed. You may drop one object in your possession and then teleport up to 5 feet per rank you have in Sleight of Hand. If you end up out of range of the attack you're not affected. For 1 round you gain an Insight bonus to AC and saves equal to your Int mod.

Stopwatch- You teleport up to 10 feet per IL.


We don't see people like you around here often.
There's nothing here, okay?

Time Sign "Private Square"
Lunar Dial (Stance)
Level: Mythical Maid 8
Initiation Action: Immediate action
Range: See text
Target: See text
Duration: Stance

At Focused Speed

While on this stance you gain a flight speed with perfect maneuverability equal to 5 feet per 3 ranks you have in Sleight of Hand and are under an Haste effect, except the bonus gained to attack rolls, Reflex save and AC are each equal to your Int mod
This is a supernatural Stance.

Stopwatch- You replicate an uncapped Greater Dispel Magic with CL=IL+Int mod that works on enemy maneuvers (boosts, stances and non-instantaneous strikes) plus deals base Knife damage to any affected, then you benefit from a 1-turn Timestop effect during which you cannot enter Stances.

Parallel Brane
Lunar Dial(Boost)
Level: Mythical Maid 8
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range: See text
Target: See text.
Duration: See text
Save: DC 18+Int mod.

Throws phantom knives that manifest themselves physically in succession as they move towards the opponent.

For 1 round your Knife attacks inflict Slow on the victims for 1 round unless they succeed on a Fort save (if the base attack already inflicted Slow, increase the DC by 2), plus whenever you throw a knife, you leave a line of ghostly copies behind. Anyone crossing those lines take damage and are slowed as if hit by those knifes.

Stopwatch-Make one knife attack per 3 IL you have.

They disappear if you perform another attack, but have quite a large range of suppression.

Silver Sign "Silver Bound"
Lunar Dial (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 8
Initiation Action: Standard action
Range: Burst of up to 10 feet plus 5 feet per rank in Sleight of hand
Target: See text.
Duration: See text
Save: DC 18+Int mod.

Simultaneously launches bouncing knives an all directions. Individually their power is weak, but it makes up for it in quantity and range.

For 1 round enemies inside or entering the area take Knife damage, are Dazed for 1 round and all benefical effects they're under effect with a duration other than instaneous, permanent or Stance automatically end.  If they succeed on the Reflex save they can choose to negate the Daze or not losing their benefical effects, but not both unless they saved by 5 or more. Allies inside or entering the area have negative effects with a duration other than instantaneous or permanent automatically ended. No creature may be affected more than 1/round by this maneuver.


Stopwatch-You repeat this maneuver's effect again.

9th level
Conjuring “Eternal Meek”
Lunar Dial (Stance)
Level: Mythical Maid 9
Initiation Action: Swift action
Range: See text
Target: See text.
Duration: Stance
Save: DC 19+Int mod.

A high-speed barrage of random bullets.

While on this Stance you can only perform basic movement, basic uses of non-Cha skills and basic attacks. Your knife attacks however deal extra damage equal to half the combined level of your expended maneuvers.
You also gain a bonus on knife attack rolls equal to twice your Int mod, your thrown knife attacks have their range increased by 100 feet times your Int mod, and whenever you perform a knife attack, you throw an extra one per 2 ranks you have in Sleight of Hand, but each such attack has 50% chance of just hitting something useless.

After 3 rounds you automatically must use this Stance's Stopwatch option if you haven't already.
After exiting this stance, you cannot enter it again until you spend 10 minutes doing menial chores for somebody else.

Stopwatch-Make one last normal knife attack without any bonus or penalties. If you hit, the enemy must make a Fort and Will saves with a penalty of -1 per 6 knifes you hit them with since entering this stance. If they fail one, they take extra damage equal to four Sleight of Hand checks. If they fail both they're permanently crippled into a level 1 commoner until a Miracle or Wish is used to restore them.


Sakuya has run out of time and tricks. This is pure desperation.

"Deflation World"
 Lunar Dial (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 9
Initiation Action: Fullround action
Range: See text
Target: See text.
Duration: See text
Save: DC 19+Int mod.
One of her secret arts that compresses the flow of time. Compressed time allows the past and future to exist in the present at the same time. You have to deal with all of them, so it's quite a tough move.
Make one full attacks with knives at every enemy inside your range, then you gain a 1 turn Time Stop effect, then repeat those two steps another time. You cannot recover maneuvers until after the 2nd Time Stop ends.

Stopwatch-You make one knife attack that affects all in a line with infinite range. Every enemy creature inside this line that is hit must make a Reflex save or be erased from both past and future, only a Wish or Miracle can bring them back. Despite being erased from the past, all the consequences of their previous actions are conveniently in place. So any kids they had are still there, just nobody knows who their parents were, and any damage the victims inflicted would've been done by bizzarre coincidences.

Notes: Rare, knives don't change in the past or the future.
Showoff Level : ★★★★★
A mysterious maneuver that manifests the past and the future of thrown knives at the same time.
The knives can only fly straight ahead, so the past and the future form a straight line.
In the ends, this is the same as a laser, isn't it?

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Melee Bonus||Price
Acidicburst||+1bonus
Berserker||+1bonus
Blessed||+1bonus
Bloodfeeding||+1bonus
Bloodstone||+1bonus
Brash||+1bonus
Chargebreaker||+1bonus
Charging||+1bonus
Corrosive||+1bonus
Deadlyprecision||+1bonus
Defending||+1bonus
Dessicating||+1bonus
Dessicatingburst|+1bonus
Divinewrath||+1bonus
Eager||+1bonus
Flaming||+1bonus
Frost||+1bonus
Ghoststrike||+1bonus
Ghosttouch||+1bonus
Harmonizing||+1bonus
Heavenlyburst||+1bonus
Holysurge||+1bonus
Hunting||+1bonus
Impact||+1bonus
IncorporealbindingS||+1bonus
Keen||+1bonus
Kifocus||+1bonus
Magebane||+1bonus
Maiming||+1bonus
Merciful||+1bonus
Mightycleaving||+1bonus
Mightysmiting||+1bonus
Mindfeeder||+1bonus
Morphing||+1bonus
Powerstoring||+1bonus
Profane||+1bonus
Profaneburst||+1bonus
Psychokinetic||+1bonus
Psychokineticburst||+1bonus
Resounding||+1bonus
Revealing||+1bonus
Sacred||+1bonus
SacredburstS||+1bonus
Screaming||+1bonus
Screamingburst||+1bonus
Shattermantle||+1bonus
Shielding||+1bonus
Shock||+1bonus
Soulbound||+1bonus
Soulbreaker||+1bonus
Souldrinking||+1bonus
SpellstoringS||+1bonus
Spellstrike||+1bonus
Stunning||+1bonus
Stunningsurge||+1bonus
Sundering||+1bonus
Sweeping||+1bonus
Throwing||+1bonus
Thundering||+1bonus
Unholysurge||+1bonus
Vicious||+1bonus
Warning||+1bonus
Weakening||+1bonus
Anarchic||+2bonus
Aquan||+2bonus
Auran||+2bonus
Axiomatic||+2bonus
Collision||+2bonus
Consumptive||+2bonus
Disarming||+2bonus
Disruption||+2bonus
Domineering||+2bonus
Doomburst||+2bonus
Energyaura||+2bonus
Enervating||+2bonus
Flamingburst||+2bonus
Fleshgrinding||+2bonus
Holy||+2bonus
Icyburst||+2bonus
Ignan||+2bonus
Impedance||+2bonus
Metalline||+2bonus
Mindcrusher||+2bonus
Paralyticburst||+2bonus
Parrying||+2bonus
Psibane||+2bonus
Psychic||+2bonus
Shockingburst||+2bonus
Soulbound,greater||+2bonus
Terran||+2bonus
Transmuting||+2bonus
Unholy||+2bonus
Vampiric||+2bonus
Wounding||+2bonus
Prismatic Burst||+30,000gp
Body Feeder||+3bonus
Curse Spewing||+3bonus
Ethereal Reaver||+3bonus
Implacable||+3bonus
Necrotic Focus||+3bonus
Speed||+3bonus
Brilliant Energy||+4bonus
Dancing||+4bonus
Vorpal||+5bonus

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Dangerous Illusion

“A knife has no humane blood in its body, you know. I'm such a one.”-Sakuya, Dangerous Illusion betrayer

Normally Sleight of Hand is used to perform tricks that look more dangerous than they actually are, but Dangerous Illusion switches things around so that seemingly small moves and blades produce horrific wounds. It’s a school that demands not only a steady hand but a cold heart to cut others like one cuts food without any hint of hesitation. Peculiar even among Forbidden Schools, Dangerous Illusion was developed by the same maid who developed Luna Dial, and some records point towards also being developed before Luna Dial. Although considering the maid’s ability to manipulate time, maybe it’s pointless to talk about past and future when considering her works.


This is a Forbidden School.


It really ought to be spring by now...
Or maybe I'm just going crazy.

Parent School:-Lunar Dial. Dangerous Illusion corrupts elegance to splatter blood and guts all over the place.
Forbidden Sign: Your eyes become red for 1 round when you use a Dangerous Illusion maneuver or are under the effects of a Dangerous Illusion boost/stance. If your eyes were already red then they glow brightly under the same circumstances. If you had no eyes then red ones open up in your body under the same circumstances although they won’t allow you to see.
Forbidden Cost: You lose ranks in physical skills equal to your Forbidden Price as your body becomes more and more of a tool for cutting.


...how strange.
Do all of you want to be
exterminated, perhaps?

Maneuver List

1st level

Another Murder: Boost-
Jack the Ludo Bile: Strike-
Illusion Sign “Killer Doll”:Stance-


2nd level
Dancing Star Sword :Strike-
Illusion "My Knife's Recursions" : Counter-


3rd level
Jack the Ripper: Boost-
Serial Killer Doll:Strike-


4th level
Wound Sign "Inscribe Red Soul": Strike-
Illusion Phantom :Counter-


5th level
Illusion “Indiscriminate”:Boost-
Ambitious Jack:Strike-

6th level
Maid Secret Skill "Killer Doll":Strike-
Bewitched Sword 'Silver Blade'  :Boost-


7th level
Buriallusion "Phantomic Killer in Night Mist": Counter-
Time Sign "Mysterious Jack": Strike-


8th level
Jugglery "Close-Up Murdering Demon" : Boost-
Illusion Existence "Clock Corpse": Strike-


9th level
Illusion World "The World" :Stance-
Scarred Soul "Soul Sculpture" :Strike-

You are to serve us as food.
I'm not sure I'm qualified.
No dish has ever escaped my performance alive.
Hopefully I can make it through okay.
Dog meat, dog meat~
Human meat!

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1st level

Another Murder
Dangerous Illusion (Boost)
Level: Mythical Maid 1
Initiation Action: Swift Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text


Well, yes.

For 1 round add your ranks in Sleight of Hand to your Climb, Jump, Hide, Move silently, Tumble and Swim checks plus your thrown knife attacks ignore obstacles between you and your victims such as walls (including magic ones) and multiply their range increment by your Int mod.

Stopwatch-The next thrown knife attack you make ignores all miss chances.

I felt like cutting something,
such as a neck...

Jack the Ludo Bile
Dangerous Illusion (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 1
Initiation Action: Fullround Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text
Save DC:11+Int mod.


The clock freezes with the curtain of aimed daggers.
The curtain might seem unpassable at first, but that is an illusion.

Make a thrown knife attack that affects all in a cone with up to 5 feet per rank you hae in Sleight of Hand. Instead of rolling against AC, enemies must make a Will save or count as hit by the knifes then be pushed back to the limit of this maneuver as away from you as possible without provoking attacks of opportunity. Even if they make the save they’re still pushed halfway through. If they would hit a solid obstacle they stop and become Shaken for 1 round. The knifes keep flying in the area for 1 round, so anybody entering or ending their turn inside is subject to the same effect.

Stopwatch-If you have a dose of poison, you may apply it against one enemy that just failed their save against this maneuver. The poison is not consumed and you don’t risk poisoning yourself.

If you're killing time alone, why don't you come sell medicine at my place?
We don't have a pharmacy that specializes in poison around here anyways.


Illusion Sign “Killer Doll”
Dangerous Illusion (Stance)
Level: Mythical Maid 1
Initiation Action: Swift Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text

I can't seem to restrain
this knife today...

While on this stance after you throw a knife it stays floating in midair in the same square its target is regardless of hitting or missing, up to a number of floating knives equal to your ranks in Sleight of Hand. If anybody exits one of those squares you can have that knife make a melee attack against them as if you were wielding it then it returns to your possession. At the end of your turn you may increase your Forbidden Price by 1 to teleport up to 5 feet times your Int mod.

Stopwatch-You can teleport to the position of any of your floating knives then make any knifes still floating make a new thrown attack as if you were in their position wielding them then they return to your possession.


Notes: Frequently seen, Sleight of hand with no props
Knife Density : ★★★★★
A stance card where thrown knives suddenly change direction.
Sakuya teleports, too.

2nd level
Dancing Star Sword
Dangerous Illusion (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 2
Initiation Action: Fullround Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text

I don't know what's happening...
but I'm pissed off.

Make a basic attack with a knife, it gains the Dancing property plus an enanchment bonus equal to 1/2 your Ranks in Sleight of Hand. It cannot have an actual enanchment bonus to attack and damage rolls bigger than +5, but you can spend the enhancment bonus to get special abilities like Keen and Holy from the following list.

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Melee Bonus||Price
AcidicburstS||+1bonus
Berserker||+1bonus
Blessed||+1bonus
Bloodfeeding||+1bonus
Bloodstone||+1bonus
Brash||+1bonus
Chargebreaker||+1bonus
Charging||+1bonus
Corrosive||+1bonus
Deadlyprecision||+1bonus
Defending||+1bonus
Dessicating||+1bonus
Dessicating Burst|+1bonus
Divine Wrath||+1bonus
Eager||+1bonus
Flaming||+1bonus
Frost||+1bonus
Ghost Strike||+1bonus
Ghost Touch||+1bonus
Harmonizing||+1bonus
Heavenly Burst||+1bonus
Holysurge||+1bonus
Hunting||+1bonus
Impact||+1bonus
Incorporeal binding||+1bonus
Keen||+1bonus
Kifocus||+1bonus
Magebane||+1bonus
Maiming||+1bonus
Merciful||+1bonus
Mighty cleaving||+1bonus
Mighty smiting||+1bonus
Mindfeeder||+1bonus
Morphing||+1bonus
Powerstoring ||+1bonus
Profane||+1bonus
Profane Burst||+1bonus
Psychokinetic||+1bonus
Psychokinetic Burst||+1bonus
Resounding||+1bonus
Revealing||+1bonus
Sacred||+1bonus
Sacred Burst||+1bonus
Screaming||+1bonus
Screaming Burst||+1bonus
Shattermantle||+1bonus
Shielding||+1bonus
Shock||+1bonus
Soulbound||+1bonus
Soulbreaker||+1bonus
Soul drinking||+1bonus
Spell storing||+1bonus
Spellstrike||+1bonus
Stunning||+1bonus
Stunningsurge||+1bonus
Sundering||+1bonus
Sweeping||+1bonus
Throwing||+1bonus
Thundering||+1bonus
Unholy Surge||+1bonus
Vicious||+1bonus
Warning||+1bonus
Weakening||+1bonus
Anarchic||+2bonus
Aquan||+2bonus
Auran||+2bonus
Axiomatic||+2bonus
Collision||+2bonus
Consumptive||+2bonus
Disarming||+2bonus
Disruption||+2bonus
Domineering||+2bonus
Doom Burst||+2bonus
Energyaura||+2bonus
Enervating||+2bonus
Flaming Burst||+2bonus
Fleshgrinding||+2bonus
Holy||+2bonus
Icyburst||+2bonus
Ignan||+2bonus
Impedance||+2bonus
Metalline||+2bonus
Mindcrusher||+2bonus
Paralyticburst||+2bonus
Parrying||+2bonus
Psibane||+2bonus
Psychic||+2bonus
Shocking Burst||+2bonus
Soulbound, greater||+2bonus
Terran||+2bonus
Transmuting||+2bonus
Unholy||+2bonus
Vampiric||+2bonus
Wounding||+2bonus
Body Feeder||+3bonus
Curse Spewing||+3bonus
Ethereal Reaver||+3bonus
Implacable||+3bonus
Necrotic Focus||+3bonus
Speed||+3bonus
Brilliant Energy||+4bonus
Dancing||+4bonus
Vorpal||+5bonus

This effect lasts until you end it as a free action or unprepare this maneuver, but each turn increases your Forbidden Price by 1. You can keep multiple such floating knifes by using this maneuver multiple times and the extra Forbidden Price increase will remain 1 per turn regardless of how many knifes you make dance.

Stopwatch-Your next maneuver in which you use knives has all the knives involved benefit from the above benefits, which end when the maneuver is completed.

Knives float around and attack in sync, turning into bullets. The type, speed and angle of attacks can change, so this move is a great support during attacks.


Illusion "My Knife's Recursions"
Dangerous Illusion (Counter)
Level: Mythical Maid 2
Initiation Action: Immediate Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text
Save DC: 12+Int mod

Stops time and fires knives. The knives fired can turn their direction whenever time has stopped.

You may initiate this Counter when you’re attacked, make a basic knife attack plus another per 6 ranks you have in Sleight of Hand against the attacker before theirs is resolved. They also receive a special Curse where they count as Flanked all the time plus every time you initiate a maneuver you can repeat this Counter’s effects against them as a free action. They’re allowed a Will save at the end of their turn to end this effect.

Stopwatch-The target must re-roll one die of your choice and take the worst result.

Well, either way...
Your blood will coat my knife.


3rd level
Jack the Ripper
Dangerous Illusion (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 3
Initiation Action: Fullround Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text

Wonderful,
an enemy!

Make a basic Knife attack plus another per 2 ranks you have in Sleight of Hand against one enemy. If you hit at least once, after this maneuver’s attacks are resolved you gain a morale bonus on all 1d20 rolls, AC and Knife damage rolls equal to  your Int mod against them. This effect lasts until you end it as a free action, use this maneuver again or un-prepare it.

Stopwatch-Your next basic Knife attack or maneuver using only Knifes heals your HP by an amount equal to half the damage dealt. For each 5 HP you would heal this way you may heal 1 ability damage or cure yourself of Shaken/Sickened/Fatigued. For each 10 HP you would heal this way you may heal 1 ability drain or cure yourself of Exhaustion/Poison/Disease.

My knife was starting
to get rather thirsty.

 
Serial Killer Doll
Dangerous Illusion (Boost)
Level: Mythical Maid 3
Initiation Action: Swift Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text

Oh yes, I'm worried about myself now.
Because I'm carrying only three changes of clothes.
For myself.

When you initiate this boost you may instantly change your clothing and other personal equipment for anything eles you’re carrying plus for 1 round you gain Sneak Attack 1d6 per 3 ranks you have in Sleight of hand and can Sneak Attack creatures that would be immune to Sneak Attack if their Int is lower than yours (you’re aware is this is the case while this boost lasts).

Stopwatch-Your type changes to construct, but do not recalculate anything. You keep your Con score and do not gain extra construct HP. You can pull a seemingly unlimited supply of basic Knifes of any kind from inside your body which turn to worthless toys 1 round after leaving your person. You can maintain this effect until you use another Stopwatch, but must pay the Forbidden Price for every minute you maintain it.

That, and a spare set of knives too.

4th level
Wound Sign "Inscribe Red Soul"
Dangerous Illusion (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 4
Initiation Action: Fullround Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text
Save DC: 14+Int mod

Hacks the enemy to pieces with a knife in each hand. Starts quickly and only extends for a short range, but covers a wide area. It may look like a melee attack, but do note that it actually counts as a projectile.

Make two knife attacks against each opponent in a cone with up to 5 feet per rank you have in Sleight of Hand in which you can count it as either melee as if you were adjacent to them or ranged as if you were in the first range increment. Enemies damaged by both knife attacks must make a Fort save or take 1d12+1 drain to one physical and one mental ability score of your choice (half drain if Con is picked). Even if they save they still take 2 drain to the chosen ability scores. Enemies immune to ability drain may still be affected but they gain a +5 bonus on their saves. Either way creatures suffering ability drain from this may be inflicted with a personalized permanent scar of your choice that everybody will see as a mark of your ‘work’ and the victim will be too traumatized to properly cover/disguise and can only be removed with a Wish, Limited Wish or Miracle.

Stopwatch-Force an enemy that made their save against this maneuver to re-roll with a penalty equal to half your IL.



Illusion Phantom
Dangerous Illusion (Counter)
Level: Mythical Maid 3
Initiation Action: Immediate Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text
Save DC: 14+Int mod

The clock freezes with the curtain of aimed daggers.
The curtain might seem unpassable at first, but that is an illusion.

You may initiate this Counter when an enemy whitin 5 feet per IL takes an action. You create a wall of knifes filling up to one 5 feet square per rank you have in sleight of hand and extending up to 500 feet upwards. One such square must be positioned directly between you in an empty space, and the others may be positioned in any way you like as long as they’re connected to each other and in empty spaces as well. They block line of sight to everybody but you and anyone trying to pass through one such square must make a Will save or be stopped and automatically take eight times knife damage. Even if they make the save once they must save again every time they try to enter a new such square. This wall lasts until the start of your next turn but you can keep it going for another round as a move or swift action at the start of your turn and this maneuver’s Stopwatch remains available while you do so.

Stopwatch-The wall explodes in a rain of knives, dealing eight times Knife damage to all whitin 20 feet, Will save for half.



5th level

Illusion “Indiscriminate”
Dangerous Illusion (Boost)
Level: Mythical Maid 3
Initiation Action: Swift Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text
Save DC: 15+Int mod

I said I don't care.

For 1 round you gain a bonus to attack rolls with knifes while flanking equal to your ranks in Slight of Hand (half if the enemy would be immune to flanking), can count enemies as allies for moving and flanking, count as an ally for any and all area effects that care about it regardless of source plus you ignore any effects that would harm/hinder you because of your alignment and/or race. In addition for the duration of this boost if  an enemy uses an area effect that normally only affects enemies, instead that effect affects everybody in the area besides the one who created it and yourself. At the start of your turn you can extend the duration of this boost for another round with a swift or move action.

Stopwatch-One creature you threaten in melee with a knife must make a Will save or treat you (and only you) as an ally for all effects that specifically care about it for the next 24 hours.



Ambitious Jack
Dangerous Illusion (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 5
Initiation Action: Standard Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text

Hmm... How interesting.
Maybe I shall take a look around.
I wish to test how keen
 the edge of this knife is.

Make a full attack using only one knife. You make a number of extra attacks at your highest attack bonus equal to half your ranks in Sleight of Hand and increase your knife’s threat mod by an amount equal to your Int mod. Against enemies that would be immune to critical hits, you still threaten a critical at half your improved crit range.

Stopwatch-You make a basic knife attack against an enemy inside range that automatically hits regardless of AC, miss chances or any other defenses and it automatically threatens a critical hit, make an attack roll to confirm it.


6th level
Bewitched Sword 'Silver Blade'
Dangerous Illusion (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 6
Initiation Action: Standard Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text
Save DC: 16+Int mod

No matter how much it cuts,
this blade does not grow dull.

Make a knife attack. If you hit, you deal damage as normal plus the target must make a Fort save (even if they’re an undead/construct/object) or be Slowed plus all damage they inflict is halved, take a penalty on all physical skill checks equal to your ranks in Sleight of Hand and any of their DCs are reduced by 5 until they rest for 8 hours (if alive) or spend 8 hours being repaired (everything else). Even if they make the Fort save they’re affected by this for 1 round.

Stopwatch-All enemies whitin 20 feet of the target are affected by this maneuver too, including the damage.


Maid Secret Skill "Killer Doll"
Dangerous Illusion (Boost)
Level: Mythical Maid 6
Initiation Action: Swift Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text
Save DC: 16+Int mod

The clock freezes with the explosion of random daggers.

When you initiate this boost you make one knife attack against each target inside range and gain construct traits except bonus HP (you can still keep your Con score and previous HP) and may swap any or all of your feats for Fighter feats as well as rearrange your skill points as long as your new skills are all physical skills, plus you gain Sneak Attack 1d6 per 3 ranks you have in Sleight of Hand but only with Knife attacks Those lasts as long as this boost does, which is 1 round that can be extended by another round at the start of each turn with a swift or move action.

Stopwatch-An enemy you just hit with a Knife must make a Will save or be Dominated until you use this Boost again or unprepare it. They can also gain any of this Boost’s other effects while Dominated by you at your choice (your domination overrides the construct traits you grant). Even those that would normally be immune may be affected but they gain a +5 bonus on their save.


A maid's true power. The desire to protect her mistress is strong.


7th level
Buriallusion "Phantomic Killer in Night Mist"
Dangerous Illusion (Counter)
Level: Mythical Maid 7
Initiation Action: Immediate Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text
Save DC: 17+Int mod

You can initiate this Counter when you or an ally whitin 5 feet per rank you have in Sleight of Hand would be harmed. The attack is negated and you create a Darkness and Fog Cloud effect that fill the same area plus if the attacker was inside the area, you can teleport adjacent to them and make one knife attack against them. If you hit it deals damage as normal and they must make a Fort save or die. You can perfectly see through this darkness and fog.  A [Light] effect of the same level or higher can supress the darkness and strong winds can temporaly dissipate the fog, but they’ll return at the start of your next turn and only end for good when either you die or use this Counter again or unprepare it.

Stopwatch-You become ethereal for 1 round and any knives you wield gain the Ghost Touch property while you do so, and can maintain those effects by spending a swift or move action at the start of each turn.


Time Sign "Mysterious Jack"
Dangerous Illusion (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 7
Initiation Action: Fullround Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text

You create a copy of yourself anywhere whitin 5 feet per rank you have in Sleight of hand that can only make knife attacks, Aid Another and Dex/Wis/Int skill checks and then you both make a full attack with knifes. The copy is immune to all divinations and Knowledge checks and targets are always flatfooted against her attacks. The copy can never provide benefits to others besides helping flanking and Aid another, including draining attacks such as a vampire trying to suck blood or a mind flayer trying to eat her brains would find it provided no sustenance any gear leaving its body mysteriously disappears, others can’t use her gear, if she dies they’ll mysteriously disappear along their gear whitout trace. The copy lasts until killed/destroyed or you use this maneuver again or unprepare it. You can give a set of orders for your copy to follow and send her away but otherwise don’t share senses beyond being aware when she’s killed/destroyed.  If you would be killed/destroyed while the copy is out, turns out the copy was you all along, with your “original” body/gear mysteriously disappearing and the copy becomes you.

Stopwatch-If your copy is still out, you may teleport to her position and absorb her, adding your current Hps (up to max HP) and removing any ill conditions with a duration other than permanent or instantaneous that you didn’t share (so for example if you were Shaken and your copy wasn’t, now no longer are you).



8th level

Jugglery "Close-Up Murdering Demon"
Dangerous Illusion (Boost)
Level: Mythical Maid 8
Initiation Action: Swift Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text
Save DC: 18+Int mod

Too bad. I don't believe in god.

For 1 round you gain telepathy 100 feet, immunity to poison and electricity, resistance 10 to cold, fire and acid, DR/Cold Iron and Good equal to your ranks in Sleight of Hand, can speak Abyssal, Celestial and Draconic, can ignore all Salient Divine abilities, count as Chaotic and Evil when advantageous, your Knife attacks automatically dispel any Divine spells on your target before you roll to hit/miss and can pick one of the following options. Any DCs are the same as this maneuver.

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Babau-You gain Sneak Attack Xd6 where X is your Int mod, but only with Knifes.

Balor-You can have your knifes temporally turn into bolts of lighting in which case they gain Vorpal when used in melee or turn into flames in which case they gain the Flaming property and Entangle the target for 1 round on hit.

Bebilith-Your Knifes become drenched in corrosive poison that deals 4d6+18 points of damage to the armor of any hit target (destroyed if it reaches 0 HP, can be repaired with Craft(armorsmithing)) plus inflict a Poison (DC as the maneuver) with initial damage 1d6 Con and secondary damage 2d6 Con.

Dretch-your Knife attacks produced a Stinking cloud with CL 2 centered on your target to which you are immune and can see through.

Glabrezu-Gain a True Seeing effect and your knifes ignore all miss chances.

Hezrou-Enemies hit by your Knifes must make a Fort save or be Nauseated for 1d4 rounds, or sickened for the same duration even if they save.

Marilith-You gain an extra pair of arms that can only be used to wield but otherwise attack at your full attack  and Str bonus in a full attack.

Nalfeshnee-Your Knifes release rainbow-colored beams that on a hit force the victim to make a Will save or be Dazed for 1d10 rounds.

Quasit-You can turn in a bat, small or medium monstrous centipede, toad, wolf or dog as the Alternate Form ability, except either can still wield knifes with their mouths. Your knife attacks inflict a poison that inflicts 1d6 Dex damage initially then 2d6 Dex damage.

Retriever-You can make one Knife attack per round as a free action that turns into a beam, counting as a touch attack that besides normal Knife damage either deals 12d6 fire, cold or electricity damage (Reflex half) or turns the target to stone unless they make a Fort save.

Succubus-You can Change Shape to any Small or Medium humanoid plus your Knife attacks force the target to make a Fort save or suffer a Negative level and a Will save or become flat-footed against your Knife attacks while this boost lasts.

Vrock-Your knifes release spores upon releasing a target that penetrate their skin and grow, dealing 1d12 damage then another 1d12 damage each round for 10 rounds. At the end of this time, the victim is covered with a tangle of viny growths which are otherwise harmless and wither away in 1d4 days. Unlike a normal Vrock’s spores, there’s no delaying or stopping those spores once they start their work.

You can extend the duration of this boost by 1 round at the start of your turn with a swift or move action.

Stopwatch-You produce a Greater Teleport effect except you can only take up to 50 pounds with you.

Hah! Why don't you ascend to heaven or somewhere?

Illusion Existence "Clock Corpse"
Dangerous Illusion (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 8
Initiation Action: Standard Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text
Save DC: 18+Int mod

The clock freezes with the curtain of aimed daggers.
They can't move when time stops, but neither can the knifes. Plan ahead.

Make a Knife attack that ignores all miss chances plus make a Sleight of Hand check. The target makes an opposed check with a skill of their choice and if they fail then they count as flat-footed against this attack. The target must make a Fortitude, Reflex or Will save (your choice) or be affected as per Temporal Stasis except they’re still aware of what happens if they succeeded on their opposed check. You can make more knife attacks against them while this stasis last but they won’t resolve until the stasis ends and you must leave the knife behind, hovering in mid-air just near them. This stasis ends automaticaly when you either use this maneuver again, unready it or die.

You can initiate this maneuver as a fullround action, in which case you can make a fullattack with Knives all benefiting from the same effects as above, but each victim can’t be affected more than once.

Stopwatch-You gain either Construct or Undead traits for 1 round, everybody that knows about you must make a Will save or believe you’re either dead or were just a fancy fabrication.


9th level
Illusion World "The World"
Dangerous Illusion (Stance)
Level: Mythical Maid 9
Initiation Action: Fullround Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text
Save DC: 19+Int mod

The clock freezes with the curtain of random daggers.
Moving closer forces the knives to appear further away.

When you enter this Stance you replicate both a Screen effect with CL=ranks in Sleight of Hand and Time Stop effect as the respective spells.  While under this Time Stop you can make basic thrown knife attacks, but they’re only resolved when the Time Stop ends, and you need to leave the knifes behind for each such attack as they stay floating in midair. Victims must make a Reflex save when the Time Stop ends or count as Flat-footed against the knife attacks you set up during the Time Stop. If you switch stances while the Time Stop lasts, it automatically ends. If the Time Stop ends you automatically exit this stance. Either way you can’t enter this stance again until you’ve waited as many rounds of “real time” as you spent inside the Time Stop. The Screen effect lasts until you enter this Stance again.

Stopwatch-The time stop ends, resolve your knife attacks, then choose a creature hit by at least one of those knifes. You jump above them and then come crashing down holding any one object of your choice up to your maximum carrying capacity that you slam over your target dealing them falling damage from the object as if you had fallen from maximum height then hit the object so hard it explodes leaving no remains and dealing the target slashing/piercing damage equal to three Sleight of Hand checks from you.

ZA WARUDO!

Scarred Soul "Soul Sculpture"
Dangerous Illusion (Strike)
Level: Mythical Maid 9
Initiation Action: Standard Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text
Save DC: 19+Int mod

I'll let you really rest in peace this time.

Make four knife attacks against each opponent in a burst with up to 5 feet per 4 ranks you have in Sleight of Hand in which you can count it as either melee as if you were adjacent to them or ranged as if you were in the first range increment. Enemies damaged by at least two knife attacks must make a Fort save or take 2d12 drain to one physical and one mental ability score of your choice (half drain if Con is picked). Even if they save they still take 4 drain to the chosen ability scores. Enemies immune to ability drain may still be affected but they gain a +5 bonus on their saves. Either way creatures suffering ability drain from this may be inflicted with a personalized permanent scar of your choice that everybody will see as a mark of your ‘work’ and the victim will be too traumatized to properly cover/disguise, plus you can change their feats and skill points in another valid configuration of your choice, and they cannot change their skill points/feats by any other means. Those effects can only be removed with a Wish, Limited Wish or Miracle.

Stopwatch-Force any enemies that made their save against this maneuver to re-roll with a penalty equal to 1/3 your IL.

Ahh, looks like I'm in heaven.

[oslecamo]

And another reserved just in case. Still needs a lot of work for both class and school (and then forbidden school based on Sakuya's murderbloodfreshmeatJillthereaper side), but the basics are in place, in particular the Sotpwatch mechanic to represent time manipulation.

[CrazyYanmega]

Why did this have to be released right after my maid had been statted out for me as a throwing knife based fighter? 

Can't wait to see how this turns out!

[Rekmond]

Squee SAKUYA ARRIVES!!

...
*cough cough* Sorry about that, just been waiting for this since I stumbled into the Touhou section.

I cannot wait for this to be finished.

[Raineh Daze]

Comparing the Under Servant options, Cook and (possibly, I'm not really familiar with magic oils) Housemaid seem far more useful than the other two. Sure, you can satisfy a vampire with the kitchen stuff, but...

Elegant Maid seems like it's mostly going to be between Weapon Finesse and Improved Initiative.

Modern Maid's link is broken, but looking at it... it makes me a bit cautious, as those things are automatically better than normal weapons. By quite a margin, in some cases. Meanwhile, Maid Mooks... what happens if they die? What's the cost for replacing them?

Senior Servant-onwards has formatting errors that hide the new feat. Also damn you, I now want to play a character with a maid.

Luna Dial:

I'm surprised Elegant Maid doesn't offer an EWP option, since throwing knives are Exotic and otherwise they're restricted to simple weapons without spending feats.

Does Time Sign's 'place knives' require actual knives?

Sense of Thrown Edge looks like it's meant to be a boost. At level 1, it also seems more like 'roll to hit twice, add bonus damage'.

Smart Robber's only saving grace seems to be that it doesn't cost anything extra to do; its actual effects don't seem hugely useful. Taking advantage of the stopwatch effect requires a DC20 check and a successful opposed spot roll, and it happening all in one round. For ~-2/+2.

From Cross-Up Maid and Misdirection, I'm getting the feel the counters are going to be all about stabbing people. Misdirection's activation seems overly broad, though: if the opponent does literally anything involving a d20 roll, attack them?

Boosts in general seem like they're going to provide two effects regardless; especially in the second example, the stopwatch effect is a no-brainer to use.


Very much death-of-a-thousand cuts in here. Particularly because in thrown maneuvers, only 1/5 of the attacks even roll to hit (also, is it 5 daggers per maneuver or five per thrown attack?).

Seems like something will need to be provided to give some manner of coping with DR.

[oslecamo]

Comparing the Under Servant options, Cook and (possibly, I'm not really familiar with magic oils) Housemaid seem far more useful than the other two. Sure, you can satisfy a vampire with the kitchen stuff, but...

Kitchen maid now gets combat bonus against Animals, Humanoids and Plants (food!), Sculery gets bonus against Aberrations, Constructs and Oozes (clean out the dirty!).

Elegant Maid seems like it's mostly going to be between Weapon Finesse and Improved Initiative.

Buffed the other options. Mostly bigger numbers, but Two-weapon fighting basically allows you to turn a single-stab maneuver into a dual target one.

Modern Maid's link is broken, but looking at it... it makes me a bit cautious, as those things are automatically better than normal weapons. By quite a margin, in some cases. Meanwhile, Maid Mooks... what happens if they die? What's the cost for replacing them?

Well, the idea is precisely for them to be better than normal weapons. Fixed link, halved arsenal space.
Added rules to replace lost mook maids.

Also gotta remember to make a feat to allow Arsenal guns to work with Luna Dial maneuvers.

Senior Servant-onwards has formatting errors that hide the new feat.

Cleaned up a bit.

Also damn you, I now want to play a character with a maid.

Excellent.

Luna Dial:

I'm surprised Elegant Maid doesn't offer an EWP option, since throwing knives are Exotic and otherwise they're restricted to simple weapons without spending feats.

Metal Maid can get you the EWP.

Does Time Sign's 'place knives' require actual knives?

Yes.

Sense of Thrown Edge looks like it's meant to be a boost. At level 1, it also seems more like 'roll to hit twice, add bonus damage'.

Fixed. Also you could have rapid shot at 1st level if you were an human.

Smart Robber's only saving grace seems to be that it doesn't cost anything extra to do; its actual effects don't seem hugely useful. Taking advantage of the stopwatch effect requires a DC20 check and a successful opposed spot roll, and it happening all in one round. For ~-2/+2.

Reduced check DC, increased the bonus to full Int mod.

From Cross-Up Maid and Misdirection, I'm getting the feel the counters are going to be all about stabbing people.

Part of the challenge of making this school is indeed figuring out new and different ways of stabbing people.

Misdirection's activation seems overly broad, though: if the opponent does literally anything involving a d20 roll, attack them?

Yes.

Boosts in general seem like they're going to provide two effects regardless; especially in the second example, the stopwatch effect is a no-brainer to use.


Very much death-of-a-thousand cuts in here. Particularly because in thrown maneuvers, only 1/5 of the attacks even roll to hit (also, is it 5 daggers per maneuver or five per thrown attack?).

Five per maneuver level.

Seems like something will need to be provided to give some manner of coping with DR.

You'll either need to dip into another school or carry around different sets of knives for each type of DR. It's kinda intentional to make this school vulnerable to DR since Sakuya did struggle greatly against Tenshi's stoneskin (note to self: include a Meiling vs Tenshi battle in my ff. Ground youkai vs ground youkai go!)

[ketaro]

Or if playing 3.P pick up the Clustered Shots feat

[Raineh Daze]

There's vulnerable to DR and there's the setup for 'utterly crippled by it'. The current cost to use a second level maneuver against DR/magic:  10,150 GP (or is it 13,150? I can't remember if you add the MW cost too). Silver? Still 1,000.

And most of the maneuvers aren't going to be much use against a skeleton, unless you happen to be using the quarterstaff, melee, and have enough strength to make that work.

It's something to look out for as things go on, since the cost of using any of the maneuvers isn't going to be insignificant, and the base damage is 1d6. Even DR 5 is capable of near-nullifying the entire school. And it's one of those things that doesn't lend itself to having a different fighting style entirely because you need a fuckton of knives.

[ketaro]

But Rainy, that is literally the drawback for any build that specializes in ranged or thrown weapons of any kind, and there are already plenty of ways to fix that in the system that isn't "buy a massive amount of ammo of every material type/magic level".

In the very first few levels, you never have to worry about running into problems with DR beyond very specific cases and by the mid to later levels were, IF, it becomes more prevalent, you could/should/would have some way of dealing with it already through options available in the system/without redunant homebrew patches.

[Raineh Daze]

But Rainy, that is literally the drawback for any build that specializes in ranged or thrown weapons of any kind, and there are already plenty of ways to fix that in the system that isn't "buy a massive amount of ammo of every material type/magic level".

In the very first few levels, you never have to worry about running into problems with DR beyond very specific cases and by the mid to later levels were, IF, it becomes more prevalent, you could/should/would have some way of dealing with it already through options available in the system/without redunant homebrew patches.

There are ways to deal with needing 25 weapons that have to be identical and bought one by one as they don't count as ammo at level 9?

[ketaro]

Yes, it's called having 50 gold at level 1. For throwing knives.

And that's hardly a complaint for a martial school that is letting you throw tons of knives per maneuver before you even get a second attack from BAB. Mind you, still a complaint, but again, 50 gold.

You're asking for a fix to thrown weapons here rather than a fix to Lunar Dial
If people want to play a thrown weapon build, they usually find a way to deal with all this quite well once they're invested.

[Raineh Daze]

Yes, it's called having 50 gold at level 1. For throwing knives.

And that's hardly a complaint for a martial school that is letting you throw tons of knives per maneuver before you even get a second attack from BAB. Mind you, still a complaint, but again, 50 gold.

You're asking for a fix to thrown weapons here rather than a fix to Lunar Dial
If people want to play a thrown weapon build, they usually find a way to deal with all this quite well once they're invested.

The part I'm pointing out is just that you need Maneuver Level x5 knives for a maneuver, and the options the maneuvers have aren't ammunition. ie., full price for every weapon (weird that that applies to darts, too). Which is at least something to remember, because even making 20 attacks isn't going to help if they all deal no damage and the solution is some non-obvious path of splat diving.

The obvious choice is to be a Shrine Maiden for the fancy sleeves, though.

[ketaro]

Non-obvious paths of splat-diving is literally the only way to win at this game 

[Raineh Daze]

Non-obvious paths of splat-diving is literally the only way to win at this game 

And isn't the whole good point about ToB that if you just grab it and go, however lazy, you're likely to contribute?

[ketaro]

That's really only in regards to maneuvers themselves. You're still pulling from sources all over the place, overall, in general.

[CrazyYanmega]

Hey Os, you still working on this?

[oslecamo]

Yes, just that the last month and half been awfull busy in RL and then campaigns and suddenly had to reply to huge reviews of Love-Colored Magic and Drunken Demon and needed to update my other projects.

But I do intend to finish this. Let's see if this weekend I can get some time to get a full first version of class and school.

For now added 4th level maneuvers. Also had the idea that the basic school feat would allow you to convert one two-handed metal weapon into a set of X daggers with the same properties, but those daggers are only useful when wielded by you while on a Luna Dial stance. Plus something else minor I guess.

[oslecamo]

Base maneuvers from level 1 to 9 done bit by bit over last week. Next class, then feats.