SERPENTFANG RYU:
The Serpent Fang Ryu is a large organisation that has developed expertise in a wide variety skills. Its members can specialise in the use of poisons and drugs, martial arts, explosives, sniping, or penetration skills. To ensure its secrecy and security, its members use a chemical which destroys their brain on death or by thought. No psychers are allowed in this Ryu under pain of death. Ninjas of the Ryu are usually deployed in cells comprising of five different specialists which gives each cell the flexibility to complete any mission. If need be teams of particular specialists can be constituted for special missions. The Ryu has close contact with the Kobora Clan and so has much better access than other Ryu to Force Blades and energy weapons.

SERPENT FANG NINJA:
Advantages: Serpent Fang [Immunity to Poisons, +2 ST, +2 DX], Way of the Serpent [En -2 AR once /cbt].
Special powers: Nil
Skills:

• DX: Bludgeon (Club), Thrown Weapon, Unarmed Combat (Brawl), Martial Arts, Swimming, Stealth, Dodge, Climbing, Blade (any), Hand Gun (any)
• Martial Arts: Serpent Strike, Serpent Bite, Serpent Fang, Weaving Dodge, Coils of the Serpent
• IN: Sign Language

SPECIALISTS: [Apply these additions to the basic Serpent Fang template]

Assault Leader:
Additional Skills: Tactics, Special Weapon (Shredder), Security Systems
Additional Equipment: Shredder, Lock Picks

Weapons Expert / Sniper:
Additional Skills: Rifle (any), Heavy Weapon (Rocket Launcher), Special Weapon (any)
Additional Equipment: Rail Gun, Rocket Launcher, Special Weapon

Demolitions Expert / Booby Trapper:
Additional Skills: Demolitions, Trapping
Additional Equipment: Explosives, Booby Trap Kit

Martial Artist:
Additional Skills: Tau, Bugei (Serpent Dance, Poison Bite, Serpent’s Gaze), Force Blade
Additional Equipment: Force Blade

Poisoner / Infiltrator:
Additional Skills: Poison Lore, Disguise, Lip Reading
Additional Equipment: Poisons, Masker

New Advantage: Serpent Fang
Serpent Fang is a chemical stimulant administered to initiates of the Serpent Fang Ryu continuously over their life time. It makes them much stronger and faster than normal humans, granting a ST and DX of +2. It also instills an immunity to other poisons. The down side is that it is itself a powerful toxin and the user becomes totally dependent on it to stay alive. Unless they receive a dose of the chemical every 24hrs, they will die. Cost: 10

STEELCLAW RYU:
Ninja of this Ryu are robots that work as individuals and have as their Prime Directive - Kill Assigned Target. Exact specifications for each robot vary greatly depending on which auto-fac they come from.

STEELCLAW NINJA:
Advantages: Nil
Special Powers: Armour, Systemic Auto-repair
Skills:

• DX: Bludgeon (Club), Thrown Weapon, Unarmed Combat (Brawl, Claws), Blade (any), Rifle (any), Stealth, Climbing, Security Systems
• IN: Awareness, City Lore - Shogunate, Disguise

MANTIS RYU:
Ninjas of this Ryu are fanatic followers of a being called The Mantis and would willingly die for it. Nearly all have a number of Cybernetic enhancements. Normally they work in pairs or as individuals.

MANTIS NINJA:
Advantages: Psychically Inert
Special Powers: Damage Resistance
Skills:

• DX: Bludgeon (Club), Thrown Weapon, Unarmed Combat (Brawl), Martial Arts, Security Systems, Stealth, Climbing, Dodge, Blade (any), Hand Gun (any)
• IN: Disguise, Shadow/Trail, Streetwise

DEATHCLAW RYU:
This Ryu is a quasi religious sect that refutes the belief in Karma and rebirth. Believes instead that death is the final end to existence in this plane.

DEATHCLAW NINJA:
Advantages: The Way of Night [+1 Parry/Dodge in Dark], Sixth Sense, Psycher,
Psionic Powers: Path of the Deathclaw Ryu [Clairvoyance, Mindlink, Invisibility, Darkness, Teleportation]
Special Powers: Dark Sight, Bugei [Shadow Heart, Shadow Stalk, Shadow Phase, Eye of Night]
Skills:

• DX: Bludgeon (Club), Thrown Weapon, Unarmed Combat (Brawl), Martial Arts, Security Systems, Stealth, Dodge, Climbing, Blade (any), Bow (any)
• Martial Arts: Fist of Night, Storm of Night, Elusiveness, Shadow Throw
• IN: Shadow/Trail, Awareness, Resistance

GHOSTWALKER RYU:
The ninjas of this Ryu rely heavily on their anonymity for success and go to great lengths to preserve this. This is also their main protection as they are weak fighters

GHOSTWALKER NINJA:
Advantages: Invisible to Machines
Special Powers: Mind Speech, Psycher
Psionic Powers: Ghostform, Invisibility, Illusion, Precognition
Skills:

• DX: Bludgeon (Club), Thrown Weapon, Unarmed Combat (Brawl), Security Systems, Hand Gun (any)
• IN: Disguise, City Lore - Shogunate, Cryptography, Ultramancy

BLACK ROSE RYU:
This Ryu trains its members to infiltrate their targets through seduction. It favours killing its victims through an over load of pleasure via the drug Rapture, although other methods will be used if necessary. Employs both male and female ninjas.

BLACK ROSE NINJA:
Advantages: Handsome/Beautiful, Immune to Poisons
Special Powers: Nil
Skills:

• DX: Bludgeon (Club), Thrown Weapon, Unarmed Combat (Brawl), Martial Arts, Stealth, Dodge, Blade (Knife), Hand Gun (any), Love Making
• IN: Disguise, Seduction, Dancing, Courtier, Savoire Faire, Poison Lore, Resistance

Disadvantages: Hunted - Authorities, Phobia (Robots)
Equipment: Psi Shield, Poison (Rapture), Knife, Hand Gun (type).

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