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The Penguin Feint (The 3-Step Retreat)

Created by Kuromegane2

A deceptive combat maneuver that abandons conventional defensive tactics in favor of generating overwhelming rotational momentum. The caster assumes an exaggerated, hunched posture with knees bent and feet splayed outward in a wide V-formation, then executes three deliberate backward steps. This absurd display forces enemy commanders to make a contested Insight check; those who fail become so convinced of the caster's incompetence that they abandon their disciplined formations and tactical positioning. Affected enemies suffer severe penalties to their Armor Class and Initiative rolls as overconfidence clouds their judgment and coordination crumbles. According to legend, this technique was first employed by a tengu kunoichi commander and her allied forces during the defense of a mountain pass, where the enemy cavalry's disbelief in what they witnessed proved more devastating than any conventional defense. The resulting chaos allowed swift counterattacks and enabled allies to execute follow-up maneuvers with devastating precision. This unlikely victory became immortalized in history as "The Kurogane Waddling," a testament to the power of misdirection and psychological warfare, establishing a new historical standard where victory is achieved not by matching the enemy’s expectations, but by utterly shattering their sanity with weaponized absurdity. {The Penguin Feint (The 3-Step Retreat): A deceptive movement that trades standard defensive posture for absolute kinetic torque. Forces a contested Insight/Wisdom check from enemy commanders. On a failed save, the enemy mistakes your preparation for a ridiculous blunder, suffering a massive penalty to Armor Class and Initiative as they break formation out of sheer overconfidence. It all started when a cavalry regiment from a belligerent country that attacked the Kurogane Shogunate were climbing the mountain pass that acted as a natural barrier against invaders. When they saw Yūjin Shinrinryū the summoned human hero and a squad of Kurogane ninjas (led by an utterly deadpan Shisui Karasuyama the tengu kunoichi commander) standing completely exposed in the middle of the road. You have zero shield walls. No archers are pulled up. Instead, they are all standing in a bizarre, hunched-forward posture, knees slightly bent, feet pointed completely outward in a V-shape. Because the enemy commander thought that Yūjin lost his marbles by waddling backwards 3 steps, the enemy cavalry wasn't in tight formation due to overconfidence. Then suddenly Yūjin suddenly used his Rotational Blade Art skill to make the enemy cavalry fly away from their saddles. Afterwards the enemy was blinded by a smoke screen with raven feathers and paralyzed by talismans. The squad of ninja were able to neutralize the enemy while singing an old penguin song. This victory became known as "The Kurogane Waddling".}