Love Rendezvous is a technique based on the Southern Cross. It marks creatures or objects with cursed energy and makes the lowest star have to pass through the other ones before they can move.
Cursed Energy
Starting at 1st level, you can harness your negative feelings into a usable source of energy, called cursed energy. These feelings can be harnessed into attacks or abilities. The number of cursed energy you possess is based on your class, some classes use a modifier that being charisma or wisdom (Player’s choice)
Your cursed energy DC is 8 + user cursed energy ability modifier + proficiency bonus.
Love Rendezvous
Starting at 1st level, you have a very complex technique, and you have learned the basics of how to use it. As a free action when you touch a creature or object(this can be done with yourself) with cursed energy or as part of hitting an unarmed strike, you can spend 1 cursed energy to mark the target’s cursed energy with a star of your choice. Only one star can be placed in one creature’s cursed energy at a time, however the same star can be applied to different people’s cursed energy at a time. You can mark a number of creatures with the same star up to your Cursed Energy modifier. If you mark a creature, everything that has their cursed energy will be marked as well, like Shikigami, cursed tools etc.
The following stars are available to mark:
★Imai, ★Acrux, ★Mimosa, ★Ginan and ★Gacrux.
When you mark a creature, a sparking light will appear above their head. They can also find the star’s name marked on their body with a Wisdom (Perception) check.
Anyone appointed with a star must follow a sequential order if they want to attempt approaching another star. When they make their movement, they must move directly towards the next star in order and touch them, which allows them to move on to the next star in order. Failing to do this will make them restrained until the beginning of their next turn and every single creature or object marked with the same star will be attracted to the point with the highest cursed energy, being all rapidly thrown at that point. The highest cursed energy point will take 1 dice of bludgeoning damage per 5ft the other stars have travelled and their size, while the objects and creatures that crashed into it will take half as much damage. See the following chart for measure of damage:
| Size | Damage Dice |
|---|---|
| Tiny | 1d4 |
| Small | d6 |
| Medium | d8 |
| Large | d10 |
| Huge | d12 |
| Gargantuan | 2d12 |
The order of the stars is as follows: ★Imai → ★Acrux → ★Mimosa → ★Ginan → ★Gacrux
If there is no possible path for a target to follow the order, the target isn’t affected by the technique until such a possible path is created. The target is immediately affected again once such a path exists. For example, if Gacrux is placed in front of Ginan for a creature marked with Acrux, then the technique no longer functions for that creature, as there is no way to touch Ginan without approaching Gacrux. Once the creature passes Gacrux, thus opening a path for them to get to Ginan, the technique functions for them once more, and they must touch Ginan before approaching Gacrux.
The stars last for 10 minutes or until you remove one or more of them.
Creatures won’t know they’re being affected by the technique until they suffer the consequences from not following the order. After that, they can make a Perception check to find the star. After they discover the star, they can make a Wisdom (Insight) check at disadvantage against your cursed energy DC to try to understand your technique. Unless they have the Cursed Energy Perception feat or are familiar with the southern star constellation, which allows them to ignore disadvantage to the roll.
Effective Marking
At 3rd level, you learned how to mark creatures in a quicker and more effective manner. You can now mark creatures with stars as a reaction. Also, you gain a number of additional reactions equal to your Cursed Energy modifier that can only be used to mark other creatures.
Gravity
At 6th level, your technique’s attraction has grown stronger. The damage of creatures colliding now ignores resistance to bludgeoning damage. This becomes force damage at 11th level and ignores resistance to force damage at 18th level.
Shining Stars
At 11th level, you became better with your technique, now being able to have more stars. The amount of stars you can put of the same type is increased to twice your Cursed Energy modifier.
Domain Expansion: Star Crossed Lovers
At 18th level, you have learned to expand your domain. At initiative 20, you can mark any creatures within your domain with any of your available stars. As an action, you can cause a creature marked with one of your stars to move up to 30 ft towards another marked target, taking collision damage if they impact and counting as part of your guaranteed hit. Any marks created by your domain disappear when your domain ends.
Reversal
反転 How to gain this: Cursed Technique Reversal →
Hate Separation
Because of your mastery over Reverse Cursed Technique, you have unlocked your cursed technique reversal, now making your technique repel instead of attract. When you use Love Rendezvous, you can spend 2 cursed energy to instead turn it into Hate Separation, causing the order of the stars to be inverted.
Anyone appointed with a star must follow a reversed sequential order if they want to attempt approaching another star. When they make their movement, they must move directly toward the previous star in order and touch them, which allows them to move on to the next star in reverse order. Failing to do this will result in them being unable to close the distance toward their target, though they still expend any movement until the technique is disabled. The objects, creatures, and cursed energy marked with the same star will be repelled toward the creature with the lowest cursed energy, being all rapidly launched toward that point.
The creature with the lowest cursed energy will take 2 dice of bludgeoning damage per 10ft the other stars have traveled and their size, while the objects and creatures that are repelled and crash into the target will take half as much damage. If the marked creature goes in the correct reversed order, nothing happens, and the stars they’ve touched disappear. Upon touching all stars in the reversed order, the stars on them disappear. See the following chart for the measure of damage:
| Size | Damage Dice |
|---|---|
| Tiny | 1d4 |
| Small | d6 |
| Medium | d8 |
| Large | d10 |
| Huge | d12 |
| Gargantuan | 2d12 |
The reversed order of the stars is as follows:
- ★Gacrux → ★Ginan → ★Mimosa → ★Acrux → ★Imai.**
If a creature has shikigami summoned, the shikigami are marked with the same stars as the summoner’s. If a creature marked with a star attempts to target you in the incorrect reversed order with a cursed energy attack roll or forces you to make a saving throw against a feature, the attack or feature is repelled toward the creature with the lowest cursed energy. For attack rolls, the attacker instead targets the creature with the lowest cursed energy, rolling against their AC. For saving throws, the repelled effect forces the attacker to roll against the DC of the creature with the lowest cursed energy.
As long as the cursed energy of the feature belongs to the mark, the feature cannot close the distance between the attacker and their intended target, allowing the intended target to take no damage from the attack as long as the reversed sequence is violated.
If an ★Gacrux attempts to target ★Acrux with a cursed energy ray without first moving through ★Ginan and ★Mimosa, the cursed energy ray will instead be repelled toward the creature with the lowest cursed energy in the area. This repulsion continues until the attacker follows the reversed sequence correctly.