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The Ghost of Xmas Awesome rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 14 (1-20)
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 Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:21 pm
Raiton: Raishindou (Lightning Release: Lightning Surge)
Stage I: Chakra Control DC 35 Convert your chakra to pure lightning.
Stage II: Chakra DC 18 {d20 + chk mod} Forcing your electric chakra into the ground with as much force as possible.
Stage III: Ninjutsu DC 30 Ensuring a uniform spread around yourself inside the ground.
Stage II
DC: 18
Chakra: 16
Train: 14/30
Roll:14+16=30
Xenon Maboroshi fought there within the tempest, the other forces of the storm blending in his ears as he himself clashed against the mountain. He could feel the current within his fingers, with his chakra coils, within his very soul, as he maintained the charge, knowing full well he would have to completely control this current if he was to truly fully utilize the technique to it's fullest potential. A massive strike upon an entire area, enough to devastate not only the ground under him, but all about him, an entire mountain side in the hands of a master. And Xenon someday intended to be a master....
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The Ghost of Xmas Awesome rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 10 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:22 pm
Raiton: Raishindou (Lightning Release: Lightning Surge)
Stage I: Chakra Control DC 35 Convert your chakra to pure lightning.
Stage II: Chakra DC 18 {d20 + chk mod} Forcing your electric chakra into the ground with as much force as possible.
Stage III: Ninjutsu DC 30 Ensuring a uniform spread around yourself inside the ground.
Stage II
DC: 18
Chakra: 16
Train: 15/30
Roll:10+16=26
Otogakure itself, the village, was completely unimportant to Xenon. He'd long ago admitted this openly not only to himself, but to those in his close confidence. He was merely here to repay a debt for taking him in, and to use the villages resources to his advantage as he developed his abilities. In actually, his emotional attachment and any real loyalty to the village itself was none existent. No, the fact of the matter was, that if not for several factors, while his typical preferences prevented him from outright betraying them, he would think nothing of simply abandoning them...
Still, those several factors made all the difference in the equation, even if he wasn't entirely ready to admit the magnitude of some of them. All of the factors, were of course, people.
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The Ghost of Xmas Awesome rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 13 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:23 pm
Raiton: Raishindou (Lightning Release: Lightning Surge)
Stage I: Chakra Control DC 35 Convert your chakra to pure lightning.
Stage II: Chakra DC 18 {d20 + chk mod} Forcing your electric chakra into the ground with as much force as possible.
Stage III: Ninjutsu DC 30 Ensuring a uniform spread around yourself inside the ground.
Stage II
DC: 18
Chakra: 16
Train: 16/30
Roll:13+16=29
Mokutan and Medusa were not a problem. They're allegiance was to him and no other, they would follow him anywhere, and never question his descions, even if he took them head first into hell...Medusa might even enjoy herself in such a case. Even Crow, he suspected, would not be too bothered should he learn of such a desertion, after he'd long guessed his sensei and Clansman had had...other motives for allying himself with Oto, and should Xenon leave there, those reasons would vanish.
Even Mikito would probably be on board with such a venture, following him without much complaint, indeed, he'd hinted as much earlier during their conversation about missing nin. The problem came to the remaining four of his inner circle.
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The Ghost of Xmas Awesome rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 14 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:24 pm
Raiton: Raishindou (Lightning Release: Lightning Surge)
Stage I: Chakra Control DC 35 Convert your chakra to pure lightning.
Stage II: Chakra DC 18 {d20 + chk mod} Forcing your electric chakra into the ground with as much force as possible.
Stage III: Ninjutsu DC 30 Ensuring a uniform spread around yourself inside the ground.
Stage II
DC: 18
Chakra: 16
Train: 17/30
Roll:14+16=30
Atsuki Saijo, while rather mellow, would still never leave behind his home, as for the members of his team. Heh, he could sooner move the mountain he stood upon. Raine was stubborn, in the best sense, but still stubborn. His Honor was an immovable rock untouched by even the greatest weathering, and having him willingly leave his new home, or abide another to do so, was laughable, the same with Dash-taichou... that wasn;t even mentioning their love for their homeland.
And Kimiko... heh. Well, Kimiko was entirely another story. It wasn't merely about honor or oaths to Kimiko, nor even love for her home.
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The Ghost of Xmas Awesome rolled 1 20-sided dice:
17
Total: 17 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:25 pm
Raiton: Raishindou (Lightning Release: Lightning Surge)
Stage I: Chakra Control DC 35 Convert your chakra to pure lightning.
Stage II: Chakra DC 18 {d20 + chk mod} Forcing your electric chakra into the ground with as much force as possible.
Stage III: Ninjutsu DC 30 Ensuring a uniform spread around yourself inside the ground.
Stage II
DC: 18
Chakra: 16
Train: 18/30
Roll:17+16=33
Kimiko would hunt him down. She would chase him to the very ends of the earth and beat him into submission, before bringing him back, or die trying. Since he'd known her, Kimiko had been growing stronger and stronger every day, even in regards to her own indomitable personality. She would not leave her village because that was not what heroes did, it wasn't the "right thing" to do, hence it would be near impossible to convince her to do so.
What's more she would never allow someone she considered a close friend to do so either, which, Xenon admitted through rolled eyes, they were. While she allowed Xenon a degree of freedom before reprimanding him, and expected what she considered to be, "anti hero" behavior from him, she also drew a very evident line as well, which once crossed, would result her violently dragging him back.
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The Ghost of Xmas Awesome rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 18 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:36 pm
Raiton: Raishindou (Lightning Release: Lightning Surge)
Stage I: Chakra Control DC 35 Convert your chakra to pure lightning.
Stage II: Chakra DC 18 {d20 + chk mod} Forcing your electric chakra into the ground with as much force as possible.
Stage III: Ninjutsu DC 30 Ensuring a uniform spread around yourself inside the ground.
Stage II
DC: 18
Chakra: 16
Train: 19/30
Roll:18+16=34
Xenon gave a slight chuckle, which was drowned out by the vast orchestra of lightning, thunder and rain all around him. Yes, and Ironically, it was Kimiko's same fire, same drive and will that made her the most entertaining, the most endearing to him. Indeed Kimiko was the one person that he would not wish to abandon or leave behind, she was far to too much fun to watch at work, not to mention his constant amazement at her ability to keep up with him. She was strong, and an asset in battle, a loyal ally, and most of all his oldest friend, even if he'd not really liked that term for much of it. Add to that Fate had tied the two at heel, countless strange coincidences continuously bringing the two back into each others company, and Xenon suspected that he would not easily be rid of her even he desired it, so it was best to just go along with it anyway. Again he laughed.
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The Ghost of Xmas Awesome rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 10 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:37 pm
Raiton: Raishindou (Lightning Release: Lightning Surge)
Stage I: Chakra Control DC 35 Convert your chakra to pure lightning.
Stage II: Chakra DC 18 {d20 + chk mod} Forcing your electric chakra into the ground with as much force as possible.
Stage III: Ninjutsu DC 30 Ensuring a uniform spread around yourself inside the ground.
Stage II
DC: 18
Chakra: 16
Train: 20/30
Roll:10+16=26
He could feel it now, he could feel the entirety of the current, as though it was his own chakra. Though he could not yet control it as easily, the lightning wild and radical nature difficult to reign in, he was still starting to gain the beginnings of it, starting to feel the unmistakable signs of it bowing to his will... he continued to focus...
There was always a time like this when he was masteringa Jutsu...but now to him it seemed as if every Jutsu was his even before he began, as though his talents had surpassed them already, and he was just going through the motions of learning them. He was growing stronger and stronger...and yet time seemed to be passing so slowly by comparison. Two years since his career as real Ninja began, since Kasuke and Lavi-sensei had granted him his headband...yet he was already at the fighting level of a Jounin.
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The Ghost of Xmas Awesome rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 12 (1-20)
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 7:51 pm
Raiton: Raishindou (Lightning Release: Lightning Surge)
Stage I: Chakra Control DC 35 Convert your chakra to pure lightning.
Stage II: Chakra DC 18 {d20 + chk mod} Forcing your electric chakra into the ground with as much force as possible.
Stage III: Ninjutsu DC 30 Ensuring a uniform spread around yourself inside the ground.
Stage III
DC: 30
Ninjutsu:40
Train: 21/30 (Black Jack)
Roll:12+40=52
How much stronger was he going to become so quickly? True, he was determined to be strong, stronger than anyone, but the rate at which his goal was becoming a reality was, quite frankly, alarming. Even to him. He was child, even he was not afraid to admit it. He was a teenager, and most his age were concerned with trivial things, in fact even many ninja twice his age were not nearly as strong as he was now. People spent their whole lives gaining power...only to fall short of reaching the level of Jounin...which he himself was now risen to...to level of an elite. It was a sign, however faint...that perhaps his goal was not so unattainable...
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The Ghost of Xmas Awesome
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The Ghost of Xmas Awesome rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 14 (1-20)
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:00 pm
Raiton: Raishindou (Lightning Release: Lightning Surge)
Stage I: Chakra Control DC 35 Convert your chakra to pure lightning.
Stage II: Chakra DC 18 {d20 + chk mod} Forcing your electric chakra into the ground with as much force as possible.
Stage III: Ninjutsu DC 30 Ensuring a uniform spread around yourself inside the ground.
Stage III
DC: 30
Ninjutsu:40
Train: 22/30
Roll:14+40=54
But then what exactly did that mean? That he hadn't expected his goal to come true? Had all his conviction merely been childish posturing? No, no that didn't sound right either. As he stood here, now spreading the lightning all about him, the surface of the mountain breaking and exploding as the lightning from his palm dug a crater around him. No, he wasn't merely putting another illusion on himself, indeed he'd accepted that his goal might not come true, despite his determination to see it done, but it was that acceptance that was being shaken now. He'd allowed for failure in his expectation, so as not to delude himself...but now...
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The Ghost of Xmas Awesome rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 20 (1-20)
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:03 pm
Raiton: Raishindou (Lightning Release: Lightning Surge)
Stage I: Chakra Control DC 35 Convert your chakra to pure lightning.
Stage II: Chakra DC 18 {d20 + chk mod} Forcing your electric chakra into the ground with as much force as possible.
Stage III: Ninjutsu DC 30 Ensuring a uniform spread around yourself inside the ground.
Stage III
DC: 30
Ninjutsu:40
Train: 23/30
Roll:20 (Auto success)
Now the small, oddly wise and mature, boy who had left Tokotiki village had grown into a even wiser, and even more mature young man...one who'd sharpened that untapped mind, and tempered that iron will into steel. He was a Ninja now, true, tried, and tested. No longer did the terms of "mundane" fit him. He was different from that boy in so many ways it was beyond even his mind to grasp it fully. He merely settled that yes...indeed he was different. A deep chasm separated he and that boy...one seven years in the making. Yet at the same time...though he was a ninja...he also...wasn't. He'd not really changed his ideals, he'd not really altered his outlook, nor had his loyalties shifted. He had changed...and yet was the same, and this seperated him from almost every other ninja he knew, from almost anyone who like he, sought power.
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The Ghost of Xmas Awesome
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The Ghost of Xmas Awesome rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 9 (1-20)
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:09 pm
Raiton: Raishindou (Lightning Release: Lightning Surge)
Stage I: Chakra Control DC 35 Convert your chakra to pure lightning.
Stage II: Chakra DC 18 {d20 + chk mod} Forcing your electric chakra into the ground with as much force as possible.
Stage III: Ninjutsu DC 30 Ensuring a uniform spread around yourself inside the ground.
Stage III
DC: 30
Ninjutsu:40
Train: 24/30
Roll:9+40=49
What separated him from these others who sought power? They lost themselves to it. They fell victim to the chase. Power was not a means to them, it was the goal, became the goal. He'd spoken in depth once on the matter with the Sennin Rauban, a wise a powerful, not to mention ancient, elder of the Anzan, on the matter, indeed, it was one of more interesting conversations he could recall, and in fact, it had been in the fields surrounding this very mountain, just before he descended into the maze below it. He could still recall the Sage's words, and indeed, his own. He stood by what he had said then, and still believed as he did then. He WAS different, even Rauban had seen it, probably more completely than Xenon himself could. Xenon's very being, the way his mind worked, his thought process, was different than others who lost themselves to power.
Xenon merely considered it being logical...but...
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The Ghost of Xmas Awesome rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 15 (1-20)
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:19 pm
Raiton: Raishindou (Lightning Release: Lightning Surge)
Stage I: Chakra Control DC 35 Convert your chakra to pure lightning.
Stage II: Chakra DC 18 {d20 + chk mod} Forcing your electric chakra into the ground with as much force as possible.
Stage III: Ninjutsu DC 30 Ensuring a uniform spread around yourself inside the ground.
Stage III
DC: 30
Ninjutsu:40
Train: 25/30
Roll:15+40=55
On some level, he could see how uncommon thinking logically itself was. Human's didn't not often think logically, it simply wasn't there top priority. They got bogged down in other things, in illusions, and allowed themselves to carried away by them, whether the illusions brought them Misery, or joy. But Xenon did not think in such a way. His mind, designed by his birthright to understand and see through illusions, compelled him to be skeptical of such things, cutting through them as much as possible in a search for the truth...or the closest thing he could find of it.
It was this that led him to logically understand that losing one's self in the pursuit of power, merely a means to see one's self prevalent, was a self defeatist's move. The same thing with Betrayal, the same thing with turning aside caring for others, the same with completely disregarding the wills of others.. they were self destructive actions, and thus, not logical.
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The Ghost of Xmas Awesome rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 2 (1-20)
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:25 pm
Raiton: Raishindou (Lightning Release: Lightning Surge)
Stage I: Chakra Control DC 35 Convert your chakra to pure lightning.
Stage II: Chakra DC 18 {d20 + chk mod} Forcing your electric chakra into the ground with as much force as possible.
Stage III: Ninjutsu DC 30 Ensuring a uniform spread around yourself inside the ground.
Stage III
DC: 30
Ninjutsu:40
Train:26 /30
Roll:2+40=42
Indeed, Xenon was well aware that he might have sounded arrogant, thinking himself so wise at such a young age, but at the same time, it was merely a matter of logic, and if someone spoke to him, he readily listened to their alternatives, once more looking at things as objectively as possible to remove any bias which might lead to self delusion. While he still HAD opinions, and he would follow them, he also didn't let them sway his overall view of a situation. How was one to properly form their opinions and inact them, if one was doing so based on skewed pretenses?
Again, Xenon was merely a pragmatic realist, who despite that followed his own will above any authority. If his will cared for others, if it admired them, if it wished to spare them, then that became priority, it became "right" if one were use such mundane terms. It was just the way he was built.
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The Ghost of Xmas Awesome rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 13 (1-20)
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:31 pm
Raiton: Raishindou (Lightning Release: Lightning Surge)
Stage I: Chakra Control DC 35 Convert your chakra to pure lightning.
Stage II: Chakra DC 18 {d20 + chk mod} Forcing your electric chakra into the ground with as much force as possible.
Stage III: Ninjutsu DC 30 Ensuring a uniform spread around yourself inside the ground.
Stage III
DC: 30
Ninjutsu:40
Train: 27/30
Roll:13+40=53
He wondered absently, even as his growing control of the attack increased, along with its ferocity and perimeter, if all the Maboroshi's mind were built this way, or if his was merely a prodigal one brought forth by the good breeding and latent traits of his clan. Crow, another member of the clan, and himself, were eerily similar in several regards, and indeed Crow seemed to think in a similar manner as well to some extent. He wondered the true story of his clan's origins, what the truth of their founder's tale was. He was born with weak physical body, like all those in his line to follow, and unlike Xenon, who had admittedly strengthened his to an adequate degree despite the handicap, had turned entirely towards Genjutsu, towards his mind, to compensate. He'd become an incredible Shinobi, and in the end struck off on his own, leaving all who pursued him a pile of broken minds...
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The Ghost of Xmas Awesome rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 12 (1-20)
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:38 pm
Raiton: Raishindou (Lightning Release: Lightning Surge)
Stage I: Chakra Control DC 35 Convert your chakra to pure lightning.
Stage II: Chakra DC 18 {d20 + chk mod} Forcing your electric chakra into the ground with as much force as possible.
Stage III: Ninjutsu DC 30 Ensuring a uniform spread around yourself inside the ground.
Stage III
DC: 30
Ninjutsu:40
Train: 28/30
Roll:12+40=52
But what had he been like really? Who was the woman with which he had raised his eventually family? Indeed, she too would be Xenon's ancestor. He wondered what sort of people they both were, to stand alone in the world even as they were hunted, and to start a family, a clan, one which would flourish in secret until a few generations later, when it would be scattered into further obscurity. He assumed the two had been dead by that time, passed away together into the next life leaving behind a legacy which would continue through to the current day...to him. Everything that he did carried back to their legacy, their battle to leave behind a family... it was strange to think about, how precarious life really was...and yet how godly powerful the human will could become when carried upon the shoulders of one bent to see it through...
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