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Aznka rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 2 (1-20)
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 Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 3:28 pm
By then, her thoughts had caught up with her and Orika slapped her hand across her mouth. Akiko probably didn't appreciate getting bombarded with so many inquiries at once, although there was so much she wanted to know. Orika held her breath, trying really hard to resist the dual urges to hop up and down and start yelling. She kept telling herself that the sooner she got done with her hair to the nurses' satisfaction, the sooner she could go home and play. There was probably some weeding to do too... Orika finished combing and tossed the brush carelessly into the bag. She smoothed her hairband out, enjoying the smooth silken fabric on her fingertips. To decorate the accessory, she'd need to sew something on the cloth, which would mean that it would no longer have the glossiness she liked so much. But, fashion had a price and how often was she gonna rub the hairband anyway? Orika stretched her stubby legs out on the floor, automatically bringing her thumbnail to her mouth. She bit on that nail so much that a tiny layer of dried blood showed from underneath the yellowish cover.
Doing Your Hair
DC: 13
1d20 + Focus 2
Train: 1/5
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Aznka rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 1 (1-20)
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Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:14 pm
A gentle evening breeze was all it took for her bangs to assemble a veil for her oval face. The girl puffed out her cheeks and blew a hard gust at the hairs, cherry eyes lighting up as the tickling sensation temporarily stopped. She continued this exercise, giggling whenever the bangs touched the rest of her head, until the dying rays of a mango setting sun shone into the classroom. Right, she had work to do. Orika softly sighed and pouted at the grapey cloth she clutched tightly in one hand, as if willing the wrinkled fabric to ferment into something good. For some reason, she was kinda sleepy too. Leaning her head back onto a chair seat, Orika yawned, muttering some low gibberish before allowing her eyes to close. She needed inspiration of any sort right now and usually that spark of creativity would come after a good run, but the people here would only look down on her more if she left the academy. This was sooo boo-ooo-riiiing! Orika really wanted to come up with something for her hairband, but she also liked keeping the thing plain. It wasn't like she was gonna put sparkles on it or anything!
Doing Your Hair
DC: 13
1d20 + Focus 2
Train: 1/5
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-Sun Candy- rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 8 (1-20)
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Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:44 pm
Serena took one last look at the bun and then pulled out all of the pins and bands around her hair. Then she combed in out until it was completely straight and looked in the mirror. There should be a few more hairstyles she could try. Maybe one with her hair down this time? She looked in the mirror and tried to imagine some kind of style with her hair down. She never actually did stuff like that alot..just a half up..well, maybe that would do! It should look a lot better with a few ornaments and such. The Raiken picked up a rubber band and began pulling strands of hair up as one would normally do when doing a half up.
Serena: Doing Your Hair
You have a lot of hair that can be put up in many diffuclt styles. Try some of them out.
DC: 19
1d20 + Focus [7]
Train: 1/5
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Aznka rolled 1 20-sided dice:
3
Total: 3 (1-20)
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Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:32 pm
Even a bad idea seemed like a world changing innovation when she had nothing else. Orika pulled out a bag of plastic jewels and poured a small amount onto the floor. The gems clinked as they bounced across the bamboo, some landing upside down with their opaque adhesive backings showing. There was everything from teeny rubies and sapphires to more unique gems that she'd never seen before, a set that included a gorgeous purple stone with webs of bright orange radiating from an unseen center. The piece was large too, about half the length of her thumb, and would make a fine centerpiece. Orika peeled off the waxy paper and stuck the jewel in the center of her headband, positioning the longer axis at an angle so it didn't look straight and boring. However, Orika jutted out her bottom lip and frowned. The purple was nearly a match with her lavender band, but not enough to blend in and create a cool orange insignia. Instead, the slightly darker gem made the dizzying to look at. She found she was always looking for the thin line that separated the two colors, knowing that the shadowy blotch surrounding the fiery wire wasn't supposed to be there. An abstract artist might have appreciated the awful blend, but Orika was too practical to let the gem sit. She promptly peeled off the plastic and tossed the used accessory in the trash.
Doing Your Hair
DC: 13
1d20 + Focus 2
Train: 1/5
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Aznka rolled 1 20-sided dice:
10
Total: 10 (1-20)
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Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:50 pm
Attaching anything too heavy would make the headband really uncomfortable to wear, Orika mused, falling back spread eagle onto the ground. A cold had settled on the wood, uninterrupted by the furious physical activities of half a dozen sitting girls. As soon as her bare arms touched the icy surface, the girl yelped and shot to her feet. She peered over her backside, just double checking if the perpetrator really was just the biting cold. When she was convinced that no bug had taken a bite out of her, Orika stretched out the purple cloth and slingshotted it across the room. Her mind straggled back to work as she ran to retrieve the item. Putting any ornament on the headband risked it falling off from everyday wear and tear, and the cloth was already worn enough as it was. Maybe she could sew in a simple design instead. Orika returned to her spot and searched in Kumiko's duffel, not surprised when she yanked out a spool of multicolored thread with attached needle. She wasn't the world's finest sewing person or even anything close, but the girl could tell she wasn't going to leave the room with a 'boring' hairband. Soooo, what was something really simple that she could stitch in without it looking like crap? A line! Orika smirked and got busy putting in a red and light brown line across the hairband. She'll just have to improvise from there on. Unfortunately, her line looked more like a zigzag by the time she was done. Giving a small moan, Orika let her mouth hang open, not looking forward to unraveling all those stitches!
Doing Your Hair
DC: 13
1d20 + Focus 2
Train: 1/5
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Aznka rolled 1 20-sided dice:
3
Total: 3 (1-20)
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:02 am
With the tip of her tongue hanging out of her mouth like a dog in sweltering summertime, Orika put all her focus into unraveling the mess she had made. She inserted the needle into the loosest stitch and, her chubby fingers shaking, carefully jerked the thread. It wouldn't budge so she pulled the string harder and harder until a riiip tore through the room. Kami-sama! She hated sewing so much! Orika ground her teeth and gaped at the terrific two centimeter long rip on her precious headband. She hadn't even gotten the thread out either! The girl gently set the ruined cloth down for a moment and wisely decided to mess with her hair. Surely there was some cool style she could put her hair in. Orika took a hand mirror and gazed at her reflection, taking in the details. She was amazed to see how... flat her head was, since she usually only combed through the messy locks with her fingers. She grabbed the brush and ran it through her light brown hair again, despite having only groomed an hour ago. So what hairstyle could she do that was both practical and pretty? Those two words contradicted themselves like no other. While she was contemplating between pigtails and pushing her nose-tickling bangs to one side, the ivory handled brush snagged a knot Orika had missed before. The young teenager whimpered, her vision blurring. "Ow, ow...," she moaned, realizing that any movement whatsoever of the comb, even pulling the brush upwards, resulted in more pain.
Doing Your Hair
DC: 13
1d20 + Focus 2
Train: 1/5
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Aznka rolled 1 20-sided dice:
6
Total: 6 (1-20)
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:10 pm
Orika gripped the roots of her hair with her free hand and tugged with minuscule movements with the comb. "Egads! she gasped as the brush finally jerked free. Her hand reached up to rub the afflicted scalp. Just like everyone else, she didn't like pain very much! The girl dug around in Kumiko's bag, searching for a less painful way to make her hair look better, as per the teachers' expectations. If she had her way, nobody'd have to fix their hair into weird positions or rub icky smelling powders and creams into their face. As Orika toyed with a hollow, plastic tube, she thought about what the boys were doing in class. Were they running and jumping around like real ninjas or learning about hairstyles too? That kid, Shisei probably wouldn't like anybody touching his hair or face; He might bite the poor kid he was partnered with! Orika giggled as she imagined the ugly scene, which included a cartoony Yume flailing his arms around with a chibi Shisei attached. Now that'd be a sight to see!
Doing Your Hair
DC: 13
1d20 + Focus 2
Train: 1/5
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:11 pm
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A wavy, black, and prong-like tool found itself in between her fingers. "Eh? What's this thingamajig? Looks like a weird fork or something," Orika wondered aloud. Of course it was too small to be a fork and too weak to hold up her cloth. She was about to throw the thing away when a brilliant idea came to mind! Orika bounced on her butt as the exciting thought made itself tangible inside her head. She may not know what the genius idea was, but the rush that pumped her blood always led to a great conception. Well, except when it didn't, but those times didn't count. Anyway, since she didn't know a lick about hair and Kumiko was busy doing her nails, why not just read a book to learn a lot more? Orika licked her lips and searched around for a fashion book, delighted when she discovered a stack of magazines. Shimapolitan depicting beautifully pale women in low cut kimonos. The roughneck girl flipped through the periodical until she found a nightwear model with the black clip in her hair. Oh, it was used to push a person's bangs out of the way. Orika thought that was a really neat idea so she lifted her own bangs to the right and clipped it in place. The longer hairs she neatly tucked behind her ear. When she looked in the mirror once more, Orika saw a thick lock of hair hanging across her brow like a graceful arc a curtain makes when loosely suspended between two points. She looked really nice. Or even better yet, she could take a few hairs from that bang and hang them over her eyes like before. Those hairs could be pushed back across her head with the hairband for the rooster look she liked so much!
Doing Your Hair
DC: 13
1d20 + Focus 2
Train: 2/5
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Aznka rolled 2 20-sided dice:
12, 8
Total: 20 (2-40)
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:12 pm
However, when she looked into a mirror, a tremor raced through Orika. That... couldn't be her! Clearly she had overdone the hair to one side look so that a big ugly clump of coppery strands curtained an entire half of her face. In fact, she looked just like Opera Man, Limenoid Man's music obsessed arch-antihero! If she wore this look around people would think she was hiding a horrendous scar or something. When Orika moved towards her desk in the front corner, the shadows momentarily made her hair appear black, which coupled with the funny do to make her look like a depressed teenager. Orika knew she smiled all the time (even now, the silly thought brought a grin to her dimpled face) so that emo couldn't possibly be her. However, she also liked parting her hair a little so the girl only flipped half the hanging bang underneath her hairband. There, much better! Now if she only knew what to do about that darned hairband. It wasn't like she could do much more with her hair without it looking completely ridiculous.
Doing Your Hair
DC: 13
1d20 + Focus 2
Train: 2/5
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Aznka rolled 1 20-sided dice:
18
Total: 18 (1-20)
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:11 pm
Even though she had been at this hair exercise for hours now, Orika refused to give up. Naoki had been able to do it so why can't she? Staring glumly at the torn headband, however, made Orika with she weren't so stubborn. Surely there was a better use of her time. Like, even if she sucked so badly at sewing, the girl knew she could at least make something really, really simple which could then be used for some mundane task... or even as a decorating piece. Hair was just temporary and she was going to remove all added fixtures to her headband tonight anyway. Orika picked up a needle and thread and made imaginary cross stitches in the air. Up and down and down and up and round and round and back to the beginning. Nah, that was just as boring as this was. Besides, her teachers made it clear what they wanted her to do and Orika intended to follow their instructions. Still, she glared with distaste at the ugly, not straight line on the lavender cloth. Then, something amazing happened. The half hour break had transformed the crooked line into a pretty nifty zigzag. And it wouldn't be a problem, even for her, to extend the zigzag to cover up her rip! And maybe she could add some more zigzags here and there and in different thread colors too! She decided to use orange and yellow and red just because those colors looked really good on purple. Orika got right to work attaching her newest invention. She had a lot of fun watching the thread unfold into zany crooks and crannies until her headband looked... fun. There was a horizontal, yellow zigzag in the middle and two slanted zigzags on the sides. She would wear the thing with pride!
Doing Your Hair
DC: 13
1d20 + Focus 2
Train: 3/5
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Aznka rolled 1 20-sided dice:
19
Total: 19 (1-20)
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:59 pm
"Isn't that design really cool?" Orika chirped as she proudly held out her headband to the nearest female who happened to be listening. Even if in these times there was a possibility that it wasn't anybody. Call her crazy for wanting to interact with her peers! While she waited for anyone's response, the healthily tanned girl reexamined the purple cloth to see if she could make the thing any better. What if she added an infinity circle too? Um, that would have to go in the middle, on top of the spiky zigzags to balance the whole piece out. Wait, what if those pointy parts were like mountains and the infinity circle that represented Shimagakure went on top to symbolize their high points, or how freaking cool the village was? Yea! Luckily, Orika found a good sized premade infinity circle in Kumiko's bag and carefully sewed it right on top of the mountains. Someone who scaled those dizzying heights must be strong so her little design would mean that the village as a whole was composed of great strength. This was so cool. Orika finished her latest edition and plopped back on the floor satisfied. Man, she was hungry, even after a day of no physical activity. Maybe all this brain work only took the food out of your stomach. Seriously, what else would explain why the brains of a cow tasted so good, like the intestines and the heart and the belly parts. Actually, that didn't make any sense at all and Orika knew that no amount of thinking would make it seem right. She really wanted to know why she needed food to think, but it didn't look like anyone here knew the answer. Oh, wait, those two women were nurses. Durgh. But, by the time that thought finally reached her head, Orika got bored and had moved onto to thinking of how the empty spaces on her headband were really starting to get annoying.
Doing Your Hair
DC: 13
1d20 + Focus 2
Train: 4/5
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Aznka rolled 1 20-sided dice:
7
Total: 7 (1-20)
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 3:27 pm
When she had sewed in the mountainous designs, Orika forgot all about spacing. Now, she was left with an unattractive strip of purple above and below the mountains, which just had to be filled in with something. She couldn't bear to go around town wearing the unbalanced hairband otherwise; It might make her head wobble. So what she needed was a long design to hang by the fringes. Would it be better to use a different pattern for the top and bottom parts or go all equalizing on the cloth? What would go well with frigid highlands and the subtropical Shimagakure? And finally, what color would go well with a turnip background, cucumber infinity symbol, and apple, banana, and carrot zigzags? For some peculiar reason, Orika suddenly wanted a blueberry pie. Normally she preferred cake, but putting the tangy berries on sponge batter would just be weird. But, putting blueberries in a line on her headband wouldn't stand strange at all! Orika liked being colorful and unique, like Shimagakure was. She reminisced back to Toronto, which was also a juicy sight for the eyes, where the girl had heard stories of these magical cities where everything was decked in shades of grey. The houses scraped the sky, blocking out most of the sunlight from hitting the town's citizens. Even the air was grey 'cause there were too many people and they built too many cooking fires. There wasn't a blade of grass to be seen for miles and the people even greyed out their roads! Orika shivered in the cooling classroom, not from the night's clenching frost, but from an even more joint numbing image.
Doing Your Hair
DC: 13
1d20 + Focus 2
Train: 4/5
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Aznka rolled 1 20-sided dice:
15
Total: 15 (1-20)
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:24 am
The only speck of color that the city might see would be the blue river running right down the center. Orika chewed her bottom lip in concentration. She knew she was on the verge of some brilliant idea, but her mind refused to form the thought into words. So she started to talk to herself since the right words could come out that way, "Pie... ocean.... thirteen ships running up the river! No, that's not it. Come on, focus. Fresh and cold like taking a bath. A bath? Whaat? Uh, you take a bath in water. You drink water. You play in water. Um, um, wash clothes and- I can't put a line of laundry on my forehead! Wait, things float in water! Whoopie do, genius. But, things really do float, like logsk. But you don't wash logs, you wash veggies and fruits and-" Orika cut herself off with a gasp, "And blueberries! Oh my Kami-sama, that would be so awesome, to have blueberries on the headband! Gah, but that don't fit in with mountains and an island. But water's everywhere, ain't it? So... I'll put in blueberries floating down a river! Yay!" The girl clapped her hands together and tore apart Kumiko's bag until she found two shades of blue thread, a sky blue for the river and a navy shade for tiny blueberries. She would patch in a winding river and intersperse the aqua snake with occasional blue circles. Then, she'd add a few stitches of black near the poles of the blueberry so everyone could tell what those weird oval things were. Orika got to work, managing to poke holes in her fingers a few times, but after a while she was finished! She tied up any loose ends, then parted a few hairs to the right and combed the rest of her bangs back. For the final touch, she retied the hairband on top of her head and gazed into a hand mirror. Perfect! Now she had the rest of the day to do whatever she wanted. Well, what was left of the day. Orika grinned from ear to ear, waved goodbye to everyone, and skadoodled out of there, but not without a final wary glance at Tanu. Oh, well. In her face! She managed to do her hair before almost all the other girls and it looked really good and she didn't do anything she didn't want to. That was the best victory of them all.
Doing Your Hair
DC: 13
1d20 + Focus 2
Train: 5/5 Finished
[Exit to Weapons Shop]
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Yoshmi rolled 1 20-sided dice:
12
Total: 12 (1-20)
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:14 am
(Sorry I was having internet problems)
Once Akiko was finished running the decorative comb though her hair, she began to make a part on right side of her head. The part will hide her widow’s peek and contribute something more to the simplicity of the style she was going for. “So do you like the color white…” Akiko looked at the source of the line of question; she figured it was directed toward her since she was the only one wearing white, then the rest of the questions confirmed it. “Yes, I have a fondness for it, and yes it’s natural...everyone in my family has white hair,” The girl smiled as she put down her comb once her side part was finished. “Yes I came from a northern cold region, its cold all year round there. And don’t worry I didn’t mind the questions.” Once she was sure the questions stopped for good Akiko began to think of the next stop, next would be when the white furry scrunchy would come in handy.
Doing Your Hair
DC: 11
1d20 + Focus[0]=12
Train: 2/5
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Yoshmi rolled 1 20-sided dice:
7
Total: 7 (1-20)
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:48 am
Taking the beautiful comb back in hand Akiko began to comb the back part of her hair upward; she was planning on wearing a high pony tail and she would use the comb and scrunchy to decorate it. Once she had the back part combed up and seized in hand she began doing the same to the rest of the white locks; except for her side piece. After everything that need to be up was in place, the small girl took the fuzzy scrunchy and used it to keep her hair in place.
Looking in the mirror the Ibazi could tell it wasn’t a great pony tail, it wasn’t even remotely good. She had stray threads of hair loose and in some spots it bulged up. Pulling the white fuzzy hair container out of her hair she decided that she would use a brush next time.
Doing Your Hair
DC: 11
1d20 + Focus[0]=7
Train: 2/5
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