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Over Yandere rolled 2 20-sided dice:
19, 2
Total: 21 (2-40)
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 Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2012 3:26 pm
Inechi Shironaegi  Hp: 40 / 40 Cp: 44 / 60 MHp: 44 / 44 [Alternate time, Evening] Shiro rested for what felt like half an hour, though due to his impatience it probably felt a lot longer than what it actually was. Well, guess I better get back to training, mom probably wants to start making dinner soon. Shiro picked himself up and lightly brushed himself off. He then shook each of his legs, one at a time, to loosen up again. Then he eyed the tree, and planned out what he needed to do in his head. Shiro then stood still as he concentrated chakra to his feet before casually walking up to the tree. Then the boy began walking up the tree, carefully adjusting his chakra concentration as he went. This time his legs held out and he managed to walk quite far up the tree and then back down without slipping. The boy was ready now, he had learned the basics of walking on solid surfaces with chakra and could now try it anytime and anywhere he wanted to. Obviously doing it faster was going to take more practice, but he had the basics down.Additionally this training was sure to have improved his chakra control skills.Tree Climbing
Description: The age old Konoha training of tree climbing is used the world over. It's a well established training method for attaining better chakra control. Learn the technique from mom... I mean Inechi-sensei.
DC: 30
Cp: -1 Cp attempt, whether it's failure or success.
Formula: 1d20 + Chakra Control (20)
Train: 10/10
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Over Yandere rolled 20 20-sided dice:
4, 6, 5, 13, 15, 9, 2, 14, 8, 3, 7, 7, 20, 5, 12, 12, 4, 12, 10, 8
Total: 176 (20-400)
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Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 2:57 pm
[9 Passes]
With some free time now on her hands Shiro decided that it was a good time to continue the Book of Five Rings. She pulled the book out of her pack and flipped to her book mark before continuing to read.
Stance No Stance
The so called Stance No Stance calls for no stance at all to be taken with your sword. However, as I place this within the Five Stances, there is a stance here. According to the chances your opponent takes, and his position and energy, your sword will be of a mind to cut him down in fine fashion no matter where you place it. According to the moment, if you want to lower your sword a little from the Upper Stance, it will become a Middle Stance; if, according to the situation, you raise your sword a bit from the Middle Stance, it will become the Upper Stance. Likewise, the Lower Stance may be raised a little to become the Middle Stance. This means that the two Side Stances, depending on their position may be moved a little to the center to become either the Middle or Lower Stance.
Reading these passages were always interesting to her as not only did they contain the wisdom a great warrior but she got to try and envision how one would actually carry out the moves.
This is the principle in which there is, and there is not, a stance. At its heart, this first taking up the sword and then cutting down your opponents, no matter what is done or how it happens. Whether you parry, slap, strike, hold back, or touch your opponent's cutting sword, you must understand that all of these are opportunities to cut him down. It is essential to think that anything at all is an opportunity to cut him down. To think "I'll parry" or "I'll slap" or "I'll hjit hold or touch" will be insufficient for cutting him down. It is essential to think that anything at all is an opportunity to cut him down. You should investigate this thoroughly. With martial arts in the larger field, the placement of numbers of people is also a stance. All of these are opportunities to win a battle. It is wrong to be inflexible. You should make great efforts in this.
One thing that she never liked though was how often the guy wrote "you should make great efforts in this." She felt that if he was going to repeat it so often he should have just said "do everything with great effort."
Striking your opponent in One Count
The rhythm of striking your opponent in One Count means taking a position within which bot you and your opponent may strike each other and, before he has settled on a tactic and without moving your body or putting your mind anywhere, striking him quickly and directly. Striking with this rhythm before your opponent has even considered pulling back his sword, avoiding a blow or striking with his sword is the "one count." You should learn this well, practicing to strike quickly in the rhythm of the interval.
The Double-Action Rhythm
In the Double-Action Rhythm, when you advance to strike your opponent and he quickly moves back and then strikes, feign your next move by first striking at the point where he has completed his action, then strike once again at the point of his withdrawal. This is the Double-Action Rhythm.
It will be rather difficult to master this stroke by merely following what is written here. But once having received this lesson, you will quickly come to understand it.
Sometimes it was difficult to picture the different moves but that was after reading each major chapter of the book Shiro liked to practice the moves. One day she would revive this sword style.
The No Thought-No Concept Strike
When you think that both you and your opponent are ready to strike, your body becomes a striking body, your mind becomes a striking mind, and hand instantaneously strikes with the strength emerging from nothingness and leaving no wake. This is often the most important strike, that of the No Thought-No Concept. This is often an effective strike, and you should practice and master it thoroughly.
This made a lot of sense to Shiro. If you can strike without thinking, you will strike the fastest.
The Strike of Running Water
Should you and your opponent be equally matched, and should he attempt to quickly move away, avoid your strike, and brush your sword away, you must inflate both body and mind, let your sword follow your body, and quite slowly, strike with all the power of momentarily restrained water bursting forth from a running stream. This I call the Strike of Running Water. When you master this, you will have, with certainty, a good strike. It is essential to discern your opponent's position.
The Connection Hit
When you are about to strike your opponent and he tries to either parry or brush the stroke aside, hit his head, hand, and foot in one stroke. The Connection Strike describes a strike describes a strike made any place at all with one path of your sword. Learn this strike well; it will be effective at any time. Use this in fights often, and you will understand this.
This last strike seemed like a pretty fundamental one so the girl made a mental note to make sure to give it some extra practice later. Hopefully this training would pay off and she'd get a leg up in the war.
The Flint-And-Spark Hit
The Flint-And-Spark hit is executed by striking with great certainty and strength without raising your sword at all, when your sword is joined with your opponent's. You should put strength into your feet, body, and hands, and strike quickly with these three.
The Autumn Leaf Strike
The heart of the Autumn Leaf Strike is striking down your opponent's sword and picking it up yourself. When your opponent takes a stance in front of you and is intent on striking, hitting, or parrying with his sword strike his sword strongly with either the No Thought-No Concept Strike, or the Flint-And-Spark Strike in mind. Int he same moment, without letting up for a second, if you hit him again with the lowered part of your weapon, he will invariably drop his sword.
"Cool... a disarming technique! That will be really useful" she said out loud to herself.
The Body Taking the Place of the Sword
This could also be called the Sword Taking the Place of the Body. As a rule, when you strike your opponent, you do not strike with both body and sword at the same time. Depending on the circumstances of your opponent's attack, you use your body first in the strike, causing the sword to strike regardless of your body. Though it may be that, without moving your body, you strike with your sword, for the most part, the body strikes first and is followed by the strike of the sword. You should investigate this thoroughly and put it into practice.
The Strike and the Hit
The strike the hit are two different things. The heart of what is called a strike-no matter what kind of strike-is to do so consciously and with certainty. A hit is when you have advanced forward and collided with your opponent, even when, by virtue of your strength, he dies immediately. This is a hit. A strike is executed consciously. You should examine this. Weather you are going for your opponent's hand or foot, the hit comes first. This is so that after the hit you can strike with strength. Hitting may be understood as touching. When you learn this well it is a special thing. You should make efforts in this.
She did really get the difference between a strike and a hit but figured it would come with time so she continued to read.
The Body of Shuko
The essence of this technique is that the shuko does not extend his arms. When you advance towards your opponent, do not have the least thought of extend your arms, but rather rush in quickly before he strikes. If you think of extending your arms, your body with retract. Thus, be intent on entering quickly, and striking with your entire body. It is easy to approach with your body in the same time it would take for your hand to reach out. You should investigate this thoroughly.
The Body of Lacquer and Glue
The essence of Lacquer and Glue is that when you have come close to the body of your opponent, stick to it without separating. When you have closed in on your opponent's body, stick to it with strength-head, body, and feet. Often people will close in with their head or feet but will leave out the rest of their body. Keep your body pressed to your opponent's, without letting even a small space in between. You should investigate this thoroughly.
Comparing Stature
Comparing stature refers to the avoidance of contracting your body in any way whenever you have closed in on an opponent. Close in with strength-extending your legs, waist, and neck-and align your face with that of your opponent. In measuring yourself up to him. be intent on exceeding him. You will then gain in height and rush in with strength. You should make great efforts in this.
Things were kind of tough so sometimes she had to go back reread different sections or take it slow but she was slowly getting there. Eventually she'd have a list of new techniques to try after she figured out all the moves.
Applying Glue
When you and your opponent strike together and he has checked your blow, continuing to apply your sword as if you were applying glue, and close in. The essence of this stickiness is to make it difficult for your swords to separate, but you must be mindful not to use too much strength. When you make contact with your opponent's sword, apply the glue and close in; do so with great tranquility and you will feel no distress. The difference between being sticky and being entangled is that stickiness is strong and entanglement is weak. You should make a distinction between the two.
The Body Blow
The body blow is executed by closing in on your opponent and hitting him with your body the split second before he takes action.Turn your face a little to the side, extend your left shoulder, and hit your opponent's chest. The action of hitting him should be done with great bodily force, with breathing and rhythm and while being mindful to close in with momentum. When you grasp this way of closing, you will be strong enough to throw a person back a great distance. you will be able to hit him with such strength that he dies. You should practice this well.
Three Parries
When closing in on your opponent and and parrying the sword with which he strikes, make as if to stab him in the eye with your sword. Then draw his sword toward your right shoulder. This is the first parry. The next, the "stabbing parry," involves parrying the sword your opponent strikes with by making as if to stab his right eye, then stabbing him with the intention of jamming your sword into his neck. Again, when your opponent strikes, close in on him with a short sword and without much regard for the sword you parry, close in as if to strike your opponent's face with your left hand.
These are the three parries. Keep in mind the tightening of your left hand nad making as if to strike your opponent's face with with your fist. This is something that you should practice thoroughly.
The end of this section was drawing near but she still had about another quarter to go before she would finish out the section. Understanding all these things was difficult but not impossible.
To Stab at the Face
To stab at the face means, when you are in confrontation with the enemy, that your spirit is intent of stabbing at his face, following the line of the blades with the point of your long sword. If you are intent on stabbing at his face, his face and body will become rideable. When the enemy becomes as if rideable, there are various opportunities for winning. You must concentrate on this. When fighting and the enemy's body becomes as if rideable, you can win quickly, so you ought not to forget to stab at the face. You must pursue the value of this technique through training.
To Stab at the Heart
To stab at the heart means, when fighting and there are obstructions above, or to the sides, and whenever it is difficult to cut, to thrust at the enemy. You must stab the enemy's breast without letting the point of your long sword waver, showing the enemy the ridge of the blade square-on, and with the spirit of deflecting his long sword. The spirit of this principle is often useful when we become tired or for some reason our long sword will not cut. You must understand the application of this method.
To Scold "Tut-TUT!"
"Scold" means that, when the enemy tries to counter-cut as you attack, you counter-cut again from below as if thrusting at him, trying to hold him down. With very quick timing you cut, scolding the enemy. Thrust up, "Tut!", and cut "TUT!" This timing is encountered time and time again in exchange of blows. The way to scold Tut-TUT is to time the cut simultaneously with raising your long sword as if to thrust the enemy. You must learn this through repetitive practice.
The Smacking Parry
By "smacking parry" is meant that when you clash swords with the enemy, you meet his attacking cut on your long sword with a tee-dum, tee-dum rhythm, smacking his sword and cutting him. The spirit of the smacking parry is not parrying, or smacking strongly, but smacking the enemy's long sword in accordance with his attacking cut, primarily intent on quickly cutting him. If you understand the timing of smacking, however hard your long swords clash together, your swordpoint will not be knocked back even a little. You must research sufficiently to realize this.
She was almost there, and so far she'd done a pretty good job with working through the different sections of the chapter.
Name: 二天 "Niten" (Two Heavens)
Description: A sword style developed and proven by the ancient warrior Musashi Miyamoto in...
Rank: D
Cp Cost: N/A
Attack Turns: 1 per attack
Damage: [4 - 12 + 1.5x Wisdom] x2 + 1.5x Wisdom
Requirements: Posses the Book of Five Rings, Wisdom (12), Katana (5)
Training: 5 stages.
Stage I: Wisdom DC 11, The student of Niten must read and meditate on the information contained in the Water chapter up to the five basic stances.
Stage II: Katana DC 15 , In this stage the user must learn and practice the five basic stances.
Stage III: Wisdom DC 12, The student of Niten must read and meditate upon the 24 attack moves for the five basic stances.
Stage IV: Katana DC 16, Practice the 24 attack moves.
Stage V: Wisdom DC 13, At this point the student must meditate on the training thus far and bring together all of the lessons in order to complete the fundamentals of Niten.
Special: Using this style counter acts the duel wield penalty. Replace strength with wisdom for your attack melee. Each critical hit causes a bleeding wound due to the katana's special as well as +8 to blocking checks.
Owner: Tairu Khime (Contact me if you wish to learn this style because the Book of Five Rings is a in rp family heirloom)
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Over Yandere rolled 5 20-sided dice:
20, 5, 2, 17, 20
Total: 64 (5-100)
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Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 8:06 pm
With only a little bit more to work through, Shiro decided to just power through it.
There are Many Enemies
"There are many enemies" applies when you are fighting one against many. Draw both sword and companion sword and assume a wide-stretched left and right attitude. The spirit is to chase the enemies around from side to side, even though they come from all four directions. Observe their attacking order, and go to meet first those who attack first. Sweep your eyes around broadly, carefully examining the attacking order, and cut left and right alternately with your swords. Waiting is bad. Always quickly re-assume your attitudes to both sides, cut the enemies down as they advance, crushing them in the direction from which they attack. Whatever you do, you must drive the enemy together, as if tying a line of fishes, and when they are seen to be piled up, cut them down strongly without giving them room to move.
The Advantage when Coming to Blows
You can know how to win through strategy with the long sword, but it cannot be clearly explained in writing. You must practice diligently in order to understand how to win.
Oral tradition: "The true Way of Strategy is revealed in the long sword."
One Cut
You can win with certainty with the spirit of "one cut". It is difficult to attain this if you do not learn strategy well. If you train well in this Way, strategy will come from your heart and you will be able to win at will. You must train diligently.
Direct Communication
The spirit of "Direct Communication" is how the true Way of the Ni To Ichi school is received and handed down.
Oral tradition: "Teach your body strategy."
Recorded in the above book is an outline of Ichi school sword-fighting.
To learn how to win with the long sword in strategy, first learn the five approaches and the five attitudes, and absorb the Way of the long sword naturally in your body. You must understand spirit and timing, handle the long sword naturally, and move body and legs in harmony with your spirit. Whether beating one man or two, you will then know values in strategy.
Study the contents of this book, taking one item at a time, and through fighting with enemies you will gradually come to know the principle of the Way.
Deliberately, with a patient spirit, absorb the virtue of all this, from time to time raising your hand in combat. Maintain this spirit whenever you cross swords with and enemy.
Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.
Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men. Next, in order to beat more skillful men, train according to this book, not allowing your heart to be swayed along a side-track. Even if you kill an enemy, if it is not based on what you have learned it is not the true Way.
If you attain this Way of victory, then you will be able to beat several tens of men. What remains is sword-fighting ability, which you can attain in battles and duels.
Releived to have reached the end of the chapter, the girl marked her place and set the book down with a smile on her face.
Name: 二天 "Niten" (Two Heavens)
Description: A sword style developed and proven by the ancient warrior Musashi Miyamoto in...
Rank: D
Cp Cost: N/A
Attack Turns: 1 per attack
Damage: [4 - 12 + 1.5x Wisdom] x2 + 1.5x Wisdom
Requirements: Posses the Book of Five Rings, Wisdom (12), Katana (5)
Training: 5 stages.
Stage I: Wisdom DC 11, The student of Niten must read and meditate on the information contained in the Water chapter up to the five basic stances.
Stage II: Katana DC 15 , In this stage the user must learn and practice the five basic stances.
Stage III: Wisdom DC 12, The student of Niten must read and meditate upon the 24 attack moves for the five basic stances.
Stage IV: Katana DC 16, Practice the 24 attack moves.
Stage V: Wisdom DC 13, At this point the student must meditate on the training thus far and bring together all of the lessons in order to complete the fundamentals of Niten.
Special: Using this style counter acts the duel wield penalty. Replace strength with wisdom for your attack melee. Each critical hit causes a bleeding wound due to the katana's special as well as +8 to blocking checks.
Owner: Tairu Khime (Contact me if you wish to learn this style because the Book of Five Rings is a in rp family heirloom)
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