Gyoken once again returned to the Blacksmiths. He had yet again a need to go somewhere while he had a simple sword order to complete. Gyoken would enter the Blacksmiths and wave him off and then get to work once again. First he would get a hammer and chisel to piece off enough iron ore to place in a small melting pot. Then he would use long tongs to place it inside the furnace to purify the ore. This would drag on for at least six hours as he kept feeding the fire, keeping it hot the whole time. He would then remove the pot from the furnace with the tongs and pour it out into a mold and wait for it to solidify. Afterwards he would pound it into shape while it was still hot and quench it in the water when done. He would wait for the blacksmith to get back and show him the completed piece and got his mission completion confirmation and extra reward and left to the next job.
Chakra: 575/575 | Techs used: None Active Jutsu: Sharingan Two Tomoe, Trick Style: Retreating Feet, Offensive Style: Stepless
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:01 am
Rank: Chūnin | Ryo: 1500
Gyoken's task was to stop a thief, who no one knew, from stealing once again. He looked at the history of the thefts and guessed that his actions were to strike the scrollery as that was his primary target. He would sit and wait on the location and keep watch of all the customers while posing as a very picky customer himself. He sifted through several different items and he checked there quality as he kept watch. This was part window shopping, part mission for him most of the day until it finally happened, the thief had come into the store and tried to slip a scroll into their clothes, but were caught by the wrist by Gyoken. "Gotcha." He would say as he tried to pull their hand up, but they dropped the scroll and twisted their arm just right to yank their arm out of his grasp and ran out the door. Gyoken would follow behind, by the thief went into a crowd to get lost, but Gyoken had his Sharingan eye and simply jumped up to the rooftops to check each person for their chakra color. He eventually found the theif and followed until they slipped away where he dropped down in front of them. "Boo." He would say as the person ran the other direction and he quickly caught them before they could escape again, pinning them with his weight and called for ANBU. Once they came and collected the thief, they filled out his completion form and he left to the next job he snatched.
Chakra: 575/575 | Techs used: None Active Jutsu: Sharingan Two Tomoe, Trick Style: Retreating Feet, Offensive Style: Stepless
Shiro walked into the shop that had something to do with scrolls, or so it appeared based on the name "Scrollery." He slid open the door as he walked in, stretching while doing so, he looked to the walls where he would see an assortment of unused scrolls, paper tags, packages of pen nibs and ink, all neatly assorted on an array of shelves. Long after his eyes had glazed over from the marvelous array of Shinobi tools, he eventually found his way over to one shelf that boasted a large number of different scrolls, but eventually he found his way to the cheapest of the bundle, the "Genin scroll." He studied it carefully as he picked it up, in one hand, feeling the weight, size, and maneuverability. "This should do marvelously for my Honshi Art." He then made his way across the wooden floor over to the counter where he set it gently down so that it stood vertically as he withdrew 300 Ryo from his back pocket. Setting it on the counter in front of the shop proprietor, he made his way back out the door from whence he came.
[[OOC: Out Of Cookies]] [Chakra Pool 495/495] | [Shadow Release]|[Active Skills] ╚══════════════════════════╝
Gyoken came to the blacksmiths to do another mission for him. "Hello Blacksmith-sama!" He would say with a wave. Gyoken quickly became one of Kaza's most helpful ninja, still doing his low level requests for him, even after becoming a Jounin. "What it is today that I must do Blacksmith-sama?" He asked, he had a habit of calling him that over the years and Kaza told him of his 'recent' fall back in placing weapons and equipment in their correct area."Blacksmith-sama, would it really be that hard to put them where they're supposed to go when you get them?" He asked as Kaza smiled and walked away leaving him to clean up the mess. Either way it wasn't too hard. He placed every weapon in a rack, on a hook, or in a barrel to help classify between the good weapons and the weapons that could be used for bargains or whatever the barreled weapons were for. Anyways after not too much time had passed he had gotten done with his chore. "Blacksmith-sama~! I need your signature." He said as he held it up waiting for the signature and special reward, then he would be off.
Chakra: 610/770 | Techs used: None Active Jutsu: Sharingan Three Tomoe, Trick Style: Retreating Feet, Offensive Style: Mistborn Stepping
Gyoken arrived on scene at the Marketplace during a volatile hostage situation that a thief had created. He had taken his headband off and pocketed it inside his large coat which would serve to hide his pouches as well as he entered it as if he were just a casual shopper, keeping his eyes squinted so slightly that no one could see his eyes at all. As the thief met him with a kunai to his throat Gyoken looked at him carefully. 'Someone must have caught them in the act and they couldn't detain him, but tried to blow the horn on him anyways.' He thought to himself as he noticed the situation only had a few people in it, Kaza and a couple other shoppers were locked in the back. "I'm gonna kill you all. I will not go to jail, I'll kill you all..." He said nervously and in a panic as he paced back and forth and looked out to see if anyone else was coming. "Well, if you're gonna kill someone, start with me, cause I can't stand to be in a world where a man can't just take what he needs." He said as he walked forward with his hands up, palms showing. "Yeah, yeah... you're right, this world won't let people... people like me... like us do what they want without harshing our mellow..." He said as he started to come closer, Kunai pointed right at Gyoken's chest. "That's what you think I'm gonna say, that's... what you hope I'll say, huh? You... you dead person!?" He said as he would lunge forward to stab Gyoken. "No, that's what I was hoping you'll do." He said as he grabbed his wrist opening his eyes wide, showing his Sharingan eyes and twisting his arm as he spun around him to hold him and quickly and quietly pulled out a Kunai during the movement and plunged it deep into his back into his third thoracic vertebrae, cutting his brain off from his body, hiding it as if he was only holding the back of his neck. "Well, it seems that our friend fainted from a little pinch, I'll get him out of here. You can all go on with your day now." He said as he rushed out of the marketplace to dispose of the body with the ANBU and got his mission completion signature and went back to the Mizukage's Office to drop off the three jobs he had done that day to pick up some more to do later or do something before hand, depended on his mood.
Chakra: 620/770 | Techs used: None Active Jutsu: Sharingan Three Tomoe, Trick Style: Retreating Feet, Offensive Style: Mistborn Stepping
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 6:09 pm
Rank: Jōnin | Ryo: 4500-3300=1200
Gyoken walked in to the scrollery and started to go and get the few items he needed to get. He grabbed one Jounin Scroll and a Library Expansion Encyclopedia and paid for it, leaving the store going to the tailor and picking up a Arsenal of the Sleight Hand and left going to his next location.
Chakra: 670/770 | Techs used: None Active Jutsu: Sharingan Three Tomoe, Trick Style: Retreating Feet, Offensive Style: Mistborn Stepping
Shiro appeared on his icy bird as he stepped off of it, commanding his bird to wait outside for him as he walked into the scroll shop, he grabbed three scrolls in a single hand as he brought them up to the counter, he handed the shop owner 900 Ryo and then walked out of the building, jumping onto his bird as he flew off to a battle that awaits.
[[OOC: Out Of Cookies]] [Chakra Pool 655/655] | [Hyōton•Ice Release]|[Active Skills] ╚══════════════════════════╝
Ling drops by Ancient Scrollry looking at the merchandise and sees the stacks of paper so then he pulls out his bag with the 500 ryo inside and places it on the counter and gathers up the 5000 paper needed for a spar that will happen at the spar grounds and leaves sliently.
--------------------------------------------"..You ether follow the rules.."-------------------------------------------
Shura sighed as she moved through the marketplace. She silently walked through the crowds of people that flooded the place eager to buy items. 'How the heck do i make the thief come out?.. Ughh, he needs to be caught though..' Shura thought to herself as she made her way past the scroll shop. Thats when she heard a scream "Help! That man stole my scrolls!". Shura quickly spun around and watched a cloaked figure bust out of the scroll shop carrying a raw-hide sack full of what Shura presumed were scrolls. 'Crap, there he is.' Shura thought as she quickly pushed through the crowd after the thief. [1/7]
The thief quickly jumped up onto the roof-tops of the shop to lose any trails he though he had. In the meantime Shura followed him up onto the roof-tops, but as she got up there she was aware that their were multiple kunai heading her direction. "s**t.." Shura swore as she quickly slid down on her knees while bending backwards to avoid the barrage of Kunai. Once the kunai went over head Shura sprang up and continued her chase of the thief. Although Shura decided to be smart and return what the thief threw at her by pulling out five kunai and strategically aiming them to hit his legs and exposed parts of his back. [2/7]
The thief smiled as he thought his pursuer had been killed by the Kunai, but then he felt sharp pain in his legs and back and realized he had missed. Due to the pain though the Thief tripped on the edge of the rooftop and fell down into a alleyway. Shura of course saw him fall and smiled since her accuracy was dead on. She quickly picked up her speed and jumped down into the alley after the thief. Unfortunately for her though the Thief had laid a trap of ten clones. [3/7]
"So you thought you could catch me, eh, little girl? well you thought wrong!" the clones all said in unison as two rushed forward from Shura's right and left swinging at her with Kunai. The girl sighed as she quickly pulled out two kunai and delivered a slash to one clone with her right hand kunai causing it to disperse then blocked the other with her left hand kunai. She then used the kunai in her right hand to stab the clone she had blocked in its hand causing it to disperse as well. [4/7]
"Come and get me.." Shura said as she held her kunais up at the ready. The clones all roared in rage and converged on their lone target completely surrounding her. Shura simply smiled as the clones moved in close, once she was sure her attack would work Shura spun around quickly delivering a type of spinning slash to every clone. Once she was done spinning all that was left was a large about of smoke from the clones dispersing, and one real Thief left standing. [5/7]
"Sorry kid but I'm out of here." The Thief remarked as he threw a smoke bomb down and quickly ran off into the open street. Shura coughed as she was blinded by the smoke, but her sensory information told her which way the Thief went out of the alley. "Damn if he gets away then Lord Mizukage will have my head.." Shura mumbled as she quickly ran through the smoke and into the street. She only needed to take one look down the street to see the Thief running through the crowd. "Raikou Bunshin no Jutsu (Lightning Clone Technique)!" Shura said as she formed the needed hand sign to produce a lightning clone of herself. The twin Shura's then quickly moved through the crowd after the Thief, the clone stayed on the street while the real one ran up on the roof-tops. [6/7]
The Thief though he was home free as he rounded a corner on the twisting street, but he was quite surprised to find he still had a pursuer when he looked back. The lightning clone of Shura made its way quickly through the crowd and soon enough caught up with the Thief stopping him in the middle of the market square. "It's over bub, just hand over the stolen scrolls and come with me." The clone told the Thief as he backed up against the fountain in the center of the area. People who were in the market place began to gather around to see what was going to happen. "Sorry little missy but I'm not going anywhe-" was all the Thief got out before a Kunai enhanced with wind chakra went through his throat. The real Shura had positioned herself on an adjacent roof-top and had taken careful aim so that her kunai didn't hit any civilians. The crowd of course was a little shocked to see the Thief just die in front of them, but when the real Shura jumped down and walked over to the dead body the crowd let her through and even gave her compliments on a job well done. "Thank you folks, this man wont be stealing from any of you anymore." Shura told them all as they clapped and cheered then went about their normal daily business. Shura sighed as she retrieved the bag of stolen scrolls then instructed her lightning clone to go fetch the clean-up committee and disperse itself when it had done so. She then walked calmly to the scroll shop and returned the bag of scrolls to the owner who thanked her for retrieving them. When she went back outside the body was already gone and all that was left was a bloodstain on the cobblestone. Shura smiled as she then made her way back to the Mizukages office to give her report.
[Exits to Mizukages Office]
[7/7 "Hero of the Village!" Mission Complete]
-----------------------------"..Or you die trying.." -----------------------------
Thread Walking One Simple :: C-Rank Utilizing their new balance, the user can now walk on threads and wires without much difficulty and without chakra.
Solid Footing Simple :: C-Rank When on the ground the user becomes incredibly difficult to throw off of his or her footing, in or out of stance.
Sensory Information Simple :: B-Rank A passive technique that allows the user to judge the location of an incoming object or person, but not the direction it is moving in, based on sounds and disturbances made in the environment.
Swordslinger Simple :: B-Rank The rapid changing and using of blades during a battle has become recently known as “swordslinging” within the martial world due to its resemblance to certain methods of using long-range weaponry. Within the Shunkan no Hagane style, however, this is a technique taken very seriously, and as such it is only given to those who have mastered the style up to this Stage and have experience using at least five weapons. The technique involves rapidly unsheathing, attacking, and sheathing weapons without pause, constantly changing mode and form of attack, and results in the user’s ability to use techniques without any extra physical cost.
Offensive Style: Knife Stances Practice :: Rank E The user becomes more accustomed to upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions. Increasing the speed in which they can perform by a moderate margin. ( speed sharply increased )
Offensive Style: Simple Play Practice :: Rank E With this practice, the user is able to more comfortably switch between upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions in a pinch.
Trick Style: Knife Toss Practice :: Rank D The practitioner has developed a greater sense of precision- able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the hilt with ease. ( Only by the hilt, not the tip of the blade. )
Offensive Style: Artless Draw Practice :: Rank D The practitioner has better developed their ability to pull their blade straight from its resting place to an offensive slash.
Offensive Style: Two-fer-One Practice :: Rank C The practitioner is now accustomed to performing techniques they have mastered with either one or two knives.
Trick Style: Retreating Feet Practice :: Rank B The practitioner, already frequented by many techniques in the style, has finally realized that with a little bit of personal training, they are able to increase the precision and speed at which they lift and press their feet. This not only assists their ability to sneak up on people faster and quieter, but also helps when running from trackers. (Speed Sharply Increased)
Trick Style: Blade's Edge Practice :: Rank B The practitioner has developed an even greater sense of precision- able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the tip with ease. Additionally, some projectiles, such as shuriken or kunai, can be caught by their tip.
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 7:06 am
Imogen St.Pierre
Bloodline: Draconian Clan
Chakra Pool: [200] (Tactician class) [+25] (Appolo subclass) Chakra Element: Fuuton, raiton (wind and lightning)
Imogen entered the Marketplace, having decided to do something more useful and shop a bit for dinner. She would not have had to have done such a thing, the Family had enough servants to do this for her, however Imogen liked to go shopping and looking through the stalls at the Marketplace. IT was almost certain the her brother would not appear here and she could spend some time to herself.
Not that she did not love her brother, it was just that after a certain incident, she found herself on edge and rather unsettled if she was around him. Not that she would ever say anything to this fact to him or to anyone....
With a basket slung around her left arm, Imogen stepped gracefully from one stall to the other, picking out tidbits for dinner and chatting peaceably with the stall owners as she did.
She finished and began walking away, knowing that she should drop everything off at home, then go onto do some training. She knew she had to get some missions under her belt, but she had lost her 'pumped-up' zest for life some time ago.... around the time of her younger brother's death.Things had somehow slowed down after the event and she found herself almost unable to pull herself up and out of it. She had become more prone to thinking, more deliberate, more cautious....
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless -- like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle.You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle
As Luo arrived in the marketplace, he couldn't help but look around at the hustle and bustle of the area in the morning. It was one of the few places in the village civilians and shinobi alike weren't uncommon to find together. As he walked through the area, Luo had a good idea of where he was going. The woman who owned the shop looked younger than she actually was, or at least that's what his mother had always told him. It seemed she was out of town, and having no option left the place with her absent-minded brother who had no idea which weapons were what. For Luo however, that task was a cinch. After all, it was the shinobi field he went into for a reason.
Walking up to the shop, Luo entered in order to have a look around. Pursing his lips, he stared at the weapons racks which surrounded the room. Everything was mismatched, everything. In fact, it looked like Luo had allowed Zane to arrange his father's weapon room. As he looked around the shop, he began to wonder just where the temporary shopkeep was. Thee door was left open, and yet he was no where in sight. Then he heard it, the ceiling above him creaked as the man above walked around. Then, he heard a loud crash, as if something ceramic broke. After an expletive was heard, it was clear that the man had probably spilled his breakfast. "Well, seems like he's busy. I bet I could knock this out before he comes downstairs." It was a personal challenge for Luo, something he did to himself quite often. However, he knew the task would be easy.
1/6
You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot; Now water can flow or it can crash Be water, my friend...
Title: Classify some weapons Rank: C Information: The black-smith is out of town and the person he left in charge has no idea what to do with some of the more unique looking weapons. You are to go into the black-smiths while the person is on lunch break and reorganize all the weapons making sure they are in their proper location. Solo or Squad: Solo Minimum Posts: 6 Note: Completing the mission result an additional Medium Projectile Pack. The items inside of it are up to the user.
Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 11:28 am
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless -- like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle.You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle
Keeping tabs on the man thanks to passive abilities granted to him through extensive training in the Shunkan no Hagane swordstyle, Luo was able to track the man's location above him based on sound alone. He couldn't necessarily tell which direction he was moving in, but the floorboards creaking more than made up for that. "Alright, first and foremost, let's fix the katana section," Luo said to himself aloud, instantly moving in that direction. He began moving at top speed, at least for him. His first task was simply finding all of the katana in the store. They were scattered all over the place, in entirely wrong sections of the store. He wondered how someone even confused a katana with nunchaku, but he digressed and continued to separate.
After about six minutes of gathering all the katana, the next task was removing the other weapons from the katana rack and placing them on the desk. This was not nearly as difficult, since he didn't bother to separate them out this time. He decided there was no point in separating anything if he was just going to stumble upon more and more of the weapons in different areas. Instead, he took this time to carefully and neatly place katana on their racks. Above all, this took precedent to the genin, since katana tended to get very very pricey. He didn't know which ones were the higher costing ones, and he would rather get them out of the way first than risk messing one up in any way. He marveled at the craftsmanship of some of them, pulling them out to look at the hilt as well as blade. He would have to shop around for one that suited him best.
With that completed, he moved onto the other weapons.
2/6
You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot; Now water can flow or it can crash Be water, my friend...
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless -- like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle.You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle
At this point, Luo decided it was time to separate out all the other weapons. However first, he needed to get them all off the racks. This proved a bit difficult, since at first he tried to pull multiple ones at one time. However, it was soon realized that different weapons had different hazards. It simply wasn't safe to carry more than one in each hand at a time. He placed the shorter ones on the desk, and the longer ones on the ground. This was probably the easiest part of the task at hand, since it didn't take much more than looking at the size of a weapon and placing it in a pre-designated area. He had to admit, there were some weapons even he found to be a bit foreign, but he figured by a process of elimination he could figure out where they went soon enough. Stepping back after about twenty minutes and staring at the two piles, he sighed a bit. It was time to separate further.
3/6
You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot; Now water can flow or it can crash Be water, my friend...
Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 11:41 am
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless -- like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle.You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle
Eyes darting upwards, Luo could sense the man above stirring about. His guess was he was finishing up with the breakfast he had to remake and was probably going to start cleaning soon. "If I want to get this done, I better do it quick. For all I know, he might think I'm a burglar or something. What to do next..." Luo tapped his chin a few times as he looked at the two piles, trying to figure out the next logical step in this progression of fixing the shop up. It was then that the obvious choice popped into his head as he muttered, "Of course, bladed and blunt weapons." With a grin after figuring out his next task, Luo began to go back and forth between each pile, separating the bladed and blunt weapons from each other, taking this time to just as well place all projectiles in their own separate pile.
The task would've been more annoying if he hadn't separated everything by size first, however since that was done it made it even easier to separate bladed and blunt weapons by size as well. Staring at five piles now, Luo decided it was time for the final step as far as sorting was concerned.
4/6
You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot; Now water can flow or it can crash Be water, my friend...
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless -- like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle.You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle
Above the young shinobi, Luo could hear a faucet being ran, meaning he was just about to start cleaning his dishes. By the way the guy arranged the shop, Luo chuckled to himself as he thought how unsurprising it would be for him to be unable to differentiate a plate from a spoon. Looking at the piles, it became strikingly easier to further separate each weapon type into its own pile. Even the ones Luo didn't necessarily have any knowledge of tended to have the same classic features and design styles. It was just like how many katana had varying sizes and styles, but nonetheless just by looking at it you could tell it was a katana. So this part of the process went by rather quickly, Luo first separating out the weapons he did know from those that were foreign to him. Once that was done, he moved onto the ones he had little to no knowledge of.
Just by looking, he could tell what went where, a task he honestly had no idea how the man above him couldn't accomplish. Taking a lot less time than the task before, Luo stepped back and looked over the piles, grazing each one visually to see if there was anything that needed to be switched. As usual with anything Luo did, the piles seemed perfect. "Well, I guess there's nothing left to do but hang these up," he said to himself, rubbing both palms together. This was the easiest task of them all.
5/6
You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot; Now water can flow or it can crash Be water, my friend...
Rank: Chūnin | Ryo: 510 
