Kinkai Nekomi

TRUE NAME. Unknown

• NICKNAME. Kinkai
  
• ALIAS. Kinkai Nekomi
  

SPECIES. Nekomata

• AGE. Unknown, at least 200.
  
• GENDER. Unknown (assumes a feminine appearance)
• ALIGNMENT. Neutral Evil
• ORIENTATION. --
• ETHNICITY. Japanese
• KNOWN LANGUAGES. Japanese

OCCUPATION. Layabout

• THREAT LEVEL. Medium
• HUMAN FRIENDSHIP LEVEL. Medium
• LOCATION. Varies.

ABILITIES

• Traditional abilities associated with Bakeneko and Nekomata (shapeshifting, human speech, walking on hind legs, fire manipulation, necromancy).
• Ability to determine and manipulate value.
  

APPEARANCE

This cat appears to be a normal Japanese Bobtail cat, with green eyes and a calico coat pattern. It is noticeably reminiscent of a good-luck cat. The calico patterning is white fur as a base, with light orange-brown and dark brown splotches. Dark splotches can be seen on the top left half of the head and the left ear, the left shoulder, tail, back of the left knee, and right elbow. Light splotches are noted to be on the left knee, left throat, top of the head, rump in front of the tail, left elbow, and left shin. It appears to have a puffy golden collar.

NOTES

• Scheming, conniving, deceiving ball of fluff, deceptively colored like a lucky cat. Thoroughly self-serving at heart, it's surprisingly - and hilariously - lazy when it comes time to actually go through with it's plans.
  
• As a calico, it was most likely biologically female back when it was still a normal cat, but the truth of the matter is that it doesn't care whatsoever whether it's considered male or female. It is a monster cat, and will respond to any pronouns it is given. It is most commonly given feminine pronouns due to the fact that the current human form it possesses is female.
  
• As a shapeshifting creature, it's human appearance is based on the last person it ate. It's current form, that of a white-haired woman, was it's former owner.
• Kinkai is infact a Nekomata - a two-tailed cat.... despite not having a long tail like normal cats. It's little stub of a rabbit tail gives no indication of the fact that there's two tailbones there, beyond being extra fluffy. She lost her tail in an incident a few centuries ago, involving an uncontrolled city blaze that she accidentally started. Her fur was not yet then fireproof.
• Humans are tools, useful only for what they can give her. That being said, she tends to be soft towards the ones she's fond of - and can be quite protective... or rather, possessive, of these people.
• A total lapcat. Pet her.
  

VERSES

• Touhou. It runs the Chireiden treasury
  

Kinkai is bobtailed, and her two-tailed nature is not visible at a glance. Inspection of the tail tuff will reveal two separate tailbones, the source of a split.

The human shape she takes on is not a fabrication, or a figment of her own creation - it’s the appearance of one of her old owners, whose face she stole. It’s highly likely she ate this owner.

She likes shiny things, and masquerades well as a beckoning cat, given her bobbed tail and calico fur pattern.

Her special, personal ability is ‘the ability to manipulate value’. This primarily shows in her ‘fortune cat’-esque appearance, and the meaning of her name - fool’s gold. The most direct, straight-forward way she uses it is to manipulate the value of currency - gold becoming fool’s gold, and vice versa, if she touches it. It is highly likely that this can also affect non-gold currencies. As long as there is a ‘value’ which can be placed on an object, she can manipulate how desirable it is to obtain, and how much it appears to be worth. 

As a two-tailed cat, she appears to be a Nekomata, but most of the cat youkai easily overlap, and though she may know necromancy she clearly doesn’t make use of it often. It is unknown exactly what ‘monster cat’ species she is, but Nekomata is currently the best guess.

This oversized house cat has two twitching tails and a malevolent gleam in its eyes.

Nekomata CR 6

XP 2,400
NE Medium magical beast (shapechanger)
Init +8; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, scent; Perception +14

DEFENSE

AC 19, touch 14, flat-footed 15 (+4 Dex, +5 natural)
hp 68 (8d10+24); fast healing 5
Fort +9, Ref +10, Will +7
Immune ability damage, ability drain, death effects, disease, energy drain, fear, negative energy

OFFENSE

Speed 50 ft.
Melee bite +12 (1d8+4 plus disease), 2 claws +12 (1d6+4)
Special Attacks create undead
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 6th; concentration +10)
At will—command undead (DC 16), ghost sound (DC 14), mage hand, open/close
3/day—charm person (DC 15), halt undead (DC 17), telekinesis (DC 19)

STATISTICS

Str 18, Dex 19, Con 16, Int 19, Wis 16, Cha 19
Base Atk +8; CMB +12; CMD 26
Feats Combat Casting, Combat Expertise, Improved Initiative, Iron Will
Skills Acrobatics +15, Bluff +12, Disguise +12, Knowledge (religion) +12, Perception +14, Stealth +15
Languages Common
SQ change shape (cat and humanoid; polymorph), perfect copy

SPECIAL ABILITIES

• Create Undead (Su) Up to three times per day, a nekomata can turn a dead body into an undead creature by licking it as a standard action. A skeleton rises as a skeletal champion, while a body with flesh animates as a juju zombie. Undead created in this way are free-willed.
• Disease (Su) Nekomata madness: Bite—injury; save Fort DC 17; onset 1d6 hours; frequency 1/day; effect 1 Con damage and 1d4 Wis damage; cure 2 consecutive saves.
• Perfect Copy (Su) When a nekomata uses change shape, it can assume the specific appearance of the last humanoid it damaged with its bite attack.

ECOLOGY

Environment any land
Organization solitary, pair, or pride (3–8)
Treasure standard

According to legend, when a house cat lives beyond its normally allotted years, it changes. The cat’s tail splits and the beast becomes a malevolent spirit capable of casting evil spells and taking on humanoid form. It uses these abilities to prey upon mortals, starting with the family that once cared for the cat.

Nekomata are cruel, vindictive spirit-creatures that seek to destroy households from within by sowing fear and discord, breaking bonds of love and friendship, and spreading mental and physical illness. A nekomata often starts its campaign of destruction by secretly killing and eating a household servant and then taking on the servant’s appearance. In such a guise, the creature can infiltrate the home and begin working all kinds of mischief, using its innate magical abilities to terrorize the home’s residents, often while enjoying all the comforts that home provides. Ultimately, the nekomata’s goal is to ruin the health and reputation of the head of the house before killing every member of the family. Once its vile work is done, the creature moves on to find another home to destroy. In its true form, a nekomata appears as a two-tailed house cat about 7 feet long and weighing 200 pounds.

A bobtailed cat which got turned into a human girl... and then given the option to become a magical girl. She has no memory of actually being a cat, beyond some hazy dreams of something transforming her from cat to person, and is thoroughly convinced she's human. When stressed out her cat ears come out, and when dunked into cold water, she turns into her original cat self entirely. This stresses her out immensely.

Her stats are fairly well-rounded... except for when it comes to magic. She's a little bit of a magic power-house. As a magical girl she's Nekomata-themed, and her weapons are her own clawed hands. At range, she conjures supernatural fire. Special ability which can be used outside of her transformation? Raising the dead. She's not aware of this (yet).

--- WITCH & REAPER SPECIALIZATION ---

• Cruel Reaper: +1 to the damage of all your attacks.
• * Recover * (2/Episode) While out of combat, a magical girl can use this to regain 1d6+2 Resolve.

--- FREE ---

• * Boost * (Free Action, 3/Scene, 1 Overcharge) When making a magical challenge, you can take 1 Overcharge on the magical attribute you’re using for the challenge to roll an additional die and add it to your result. This die will give you another die and another point of Overcharge if it rolls a 6 as usual, and if you use it for an attack it gives +2 to the attack’s damage as usual.
• * Drain Life * (Free Action, 1 Overcharge (Attack)) Deal half damage with an attack to heal yourself for the same amount.

--- MINOR ---

• * Amplify Magic * (Minor Action, 1/Scene) Choose one enemy or one ally as a target. An enemy takes double the normal damage from Hexes you place on it. An ally gains an additional 2 points of healing from any healing effect they receive. This effect lasts until the end of the scene or the target drops to zero Resolve.
• * Curse * (Minor Action, 2/Scene) Give an enemy within a range of 0-2 the Bound, Bleeding, or Stunned status effect.
• * Heal * (Minor Action, 1 Overcharge (Support)) You or one ally within a range of 0-2 heals 1d6+1 Resolve.
• * Hex * (Minor Action) Place a Hex on a target within a range of 0-2. The target takes 1 point of damage at the start of each round until the end of the scene. Damage from Hexes is not considered an attack. You can place multiple Hexes on the same target, but you can only place one Hex in a round. On your turn, you may remove all or part of the Hexes you’ve placed on a target as a free action.
• * Purge * (Minor Action, 1/Scene) Remove any number of status effects from yourself
• * Reaping Strike * (Minor Action, 2/Scene) After making a successful attack, use this talent to inflict an additional 1d6+1 damage.
• * Second Chance Attack * (Minor Action, 1/Scene) If you make an attack that misses, use this talent to make a second attempt at the same attack.

--- MAJOR ---

• * False Fortune * (Major Action, 2 Overcharge (Support)) Flip the effect of one status effect on one chosen target, causing it to have the opposite effect. Cannot be used on self.
• * Finishing Attack * (Debilitating, 3 successful attacks) (major action, 1 overcharge (attack)) +1d6 damage, range 0-3, target takes the Bleeding and Dazed status effects.
• * Magic Detonation * (Major Action, 1 Overcharge (Attack)) Make a basic attack. Instead of the usual damage, the target takes damage equal to the amount of Overcharge (or Magic Overcharge if it’s a magical girl) they currently have.