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You awake to the sight of warm deceptively peaceful sunlight breaking through a glassless window. Outside you can see a thick canopy of green tree's and shifting leaves, the sound of the wind through them the only thing that immediately reaches your ears. Your hands are tied behind you, but you don't think that they did too good a job as you can still move your wrists a little. The room you seem to be in seems to be rather plain. There are a few jars of water, a couple bags of a grain, and a stack of wood over in the corner. From the look of it your in a storage room of some kind. The walls are made of wood, save the one which leads further into the house, which seems to be traditional eastern style paper, with a sliding door.

You appear to be alone...

Makoto
((Reaction: The first thing that you notice is that you can hear faint voices from somewhere down the hall, and that your Bokken was put in this room with you sitting over by the window. You'd have to free yourself first to get a better look around, but you think that you may be able to either escape through the window, or get closer to the door and listen to what's being said...))

*Note* Your hands are still tied loosely. You may make an escape artist check*

(( wink Just made it. DC of 10 it was. Also, you should keep in mind when doing an actual mission, that you roll first, wait to see my reaction of what the result is, then edit in your post based on the result. Kay? 3nodding ))
Makoto
((Reaction: You manage to get your hands free of the ropes, just barely managing to slip your arm free and around to finish undoing the rest of the ropes. The rope might come in handy should you wish to tie your own bonds later, so you may chose to take it with you. You once more note that your Bokken is over by the window, and the voices you can faintly hear from somewhere in this building are conversing as before. They have not in the least been disturbed by your escape attempt.))

Makoto
((Reaction: You manage to make it to the window without rousing much noise, at the very least nothing that's heard beyond the room. As you reach the window, and look outside, you see what appears to be a very large wooded valley filled with thick tree's and very little roads to speak of, a river running through the middle and out through the end of the valley in the distance. Looking down you note that the nearest example of level ground you're seeing is at the base of a very steep incline, and you would have to make quite a jump from this height to reach it. The structure you're in seems to be a run down old home at the top of a cliff in this valley, and running below at the base of the cliff you think you can see a dirt road. There's most likely another way around and down the cliff into the valley from the front of the house.

It's unlikely that you could make a fall from here uninjured, unless you have no other option, this should probably be a last resort. What you notice, somewhat more alarmingly, is that you have no idea where you are or who or what has brought you...this is not good...))

((Oh cool! You'll get to hear the whole conversation!!))

Makoto
((Reaction: You are a silent as a mouse as you open the door, and come out of the room into a small likewise built hallway of paper walls and wooden support structures. the smooth polished wood floor of the hall leads down passed several other sliding doors, and out into was appears to be a stone work main room, through which you believe you can catch a glimpse of a front door. However, though you manage to remain completely undetected, not making so much noise as a mouse, you can tell that here are more than a few men in the stone work main room of the old mountain home, gathered around was appears to be an open stone fire pit, and cooking a pot a stew. The are talking in normal voices, not loud or quiet, but now that you are beyond the paper door you can hear them easily.

"-ay down the valley a ways. Says he saw a dragon."

"A dragon?! HA! Everyone knows that they don't exist."

"Right, course, but lot of the high level Ninja techniques...they look like dragons eh? Think that those Otobe Bastards might be on to us?"

"Tshh, I told you not to worry so much Tenchou, there's no way that they followed us all this way.And this valley's practically impossible to find from the outside. If Ji's grandpa here hadn't owned this old place, even we would never have known about it."

"Yeah...spose. Still...being this near that haunted village...I dont like it..."

"Oh will you grow up! Nothin but children's tales is that place! Ain't nothin going on there but weeds growin. When was the last time you checked on the kids?"

"The girl's awake, so I tightened her bonds. She looks just fresh inta the academy. Doubt she'll give us much grit. The other kid with the wooden swords still out like a light. Hikari really did pull a number on him..."

"Tsh...that woman scares the hell outta me...and those henges she can do? Are we sure she's on our side?"

"Hey, if she helps us rescue kids from being brain washed by the Otobe, do we care? And anyway, she seems to have reason to hate the Otobe. Far as I'm concerned that's her business."

"Hnnn, yeah...well I wish she had tagged along. Or did you forget that one of them kids we brought IS one them."

"Look Neta, we're saving kids from the Otobe's teachings. It ain't like anyone born from their clan's evil."

"Oh yeah? Then how come we need to knocked out eh? Why didn't we bother drugging the others."

"Aahhhh will you give it rest? Cause if that kid get's a scream off everyone in this cabin's gonna be dead or worse, you want me to say it? But just because he can do a few of their crazy tricks doesn't mean he's not an innocent kid that need's saving. I've heard enough outta you."

"Eeh...fine. But we're gonna regret this."

"By the way, when's Oda due back?"

"Sometime today. Said he was bringing in one more with him."

"Eh...when's the stew done?"

"Geez when when when, with you. It'll be done when it's done."


And the conversation fades into more mundane things from there... you examine the other doors in the hall way that you still currently hiding in. If indeed you are not alone in being kidnapped, maybe the other rooms contain your fellow abductee's...? )))

(( confused Just saying, you distributed your stats well for a level one, nicely done.))


Makoto
((Reaction: You still have yet to rouse any noise, as you slip into the room nearest your own, silently shutting the paper door behind you. This room seems to be fairly simalar in basic design to the little storage room you found yourself in when you awoke, in fact, from what you've just heard coupled with you acute sense of awareness, you are able to deduce that this house was probably once a rather comfortable old style feudal home for a hermit around this parts, and that these rooms were only used for storage since his passing, and perhaps even, given some of the items in here, since these strange kidnappers took up residence here. With your keen inspection you are able to locate 4 ryo, a bag of what appear to be smoke bombs, x5, and a small pill that you think might be medicine of some kind (treat injury check).

But this all pales in comparison to the fact that you are looking at an unconscious young man on the floor. He appears to have rather ruffled unruly hair, and a pair of thin rimmed silver glasses, his back draped in a coat that he appears to be attempting to wear as one might a cape. You haven't seen him around before, but merely from what you overheard from the men in the front, are able to figure out that this unconscious boy, is a young member of the Otobe clan, the new Lords of Oto... he doesn't seem to be awake...))

Add to Equipment Inventory
x5 smoke bombs
4 ryo
+ ????? Medicine? (Treat injury check)

Makoto
((Reaction: Though you manage to move silently about the room without trouble, the boy does not stir. Given from what you overhead from the men, he's been drugged and knocked unconscious even more deeply then you were, and will not likely awaken without some form of assistance. As an otobe, if he was indeed old enough to enter the academy, he might actually have some use of his families abilities, in which case he would indeed be of great help in planning your escape. At the moment however, you'd need to carry him to move him, and that will make it harder to move around stealthily...you may want to leave him for now and search the other room...))

((You may preform treat injury check to try and wake him anyway))

((-3 to stealth carrying him around.))

Makoto
((Reaction: You manage to stay quiet enough not to alert the men in the front of the wooden home, but as you examine the strange medicine, you are still unable to discern it's purpose, and think that it would probably not be safe to use it until you do. Who knows what sort've strange effects it might have...

You efforts at awakening the boy however, go much easier. You just barely manage to remember that the Otobe, their second sensory system being what it is, are able to use their chakra to filter out their bodies from most inhibiting substances, so long as they have the forewarning. If this Otobe was one of the students, then he may have known enough to close himself off with his "second self" as they call it before hand. Using a particular pressure point which you may or may not have hit by accident, you manage to cause the boy to stir, a quick jolt growing through his body as his second chakra system seemed to jolt back to life, the boy slowly opening his eyes... he looks at you for only a moment, his eyes almost immediately turning in the direction of the front of the house, as though he can hear something that you can't...he's not speaking...))