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[start of God Legacy Mission]

How many months had it been since this boy had arrived in this tower. What was the last date of his entry and exit from these hollowed busy halls. Even with its spiraling structure of stone and iron, it still always gave the feel of a reversed ant hill or maybe a bee hive. All the shinobi of the village rushing around like little insects, hurrying too and froe to obtain their missions, their livelihoods and then to head out and execute them. Of course, in a real hive of that nature, the only reward given would be preservation of the hive and, in a way, thats what this is about as well. But it also feeds the need for preservation of the individual as well. In the end, for humans, this one tower was an epitomy of human existance. There was a place for personal survial assurance in the form of the mission area and the small shopping areas for shinobi to purchase rather common ninja tools according to their rank. Both aided in the survival of a shinobi in that the missions would give one something to do, something to help define themselves. Every mission completed was another defining mark, no matter how small, in that persons life. A chance for them to go back and rethink everything they are. Life and Death situations'll do that to you. The completion of these missions further advanced a humans survival on a more social level by providing them with currency or whatever other item garnered as payment or reward for proper completion of this. Money makes the HUMAN world go round after all. Even if not in the form of actual Yen or Ryo, there is always compensation required for survices and deeds. The item shop within the tower served to complete this self survival loop by providing one with the tools to aid in their survival on the missions for which they do to re-evaluate themselves and to gain the compensation needed for going on in life. Such is the Human world.

The next few levels of the tower were dedicated to the human need for knowledge. Even the most...shall we say, lacking in the deprtment of knowledge have times where they wish to learn something new. No matter if it can be found in a tome or on the battle feild, the acquisition of knowledge is always something that has been driven into the human phychy. This can be said to be an innaite feature of being simply curious creatures. Humanity, as a whole has always been known for their curiosity and the gaining of knowledge, the extent of it. To further this, man began to compose his thoughts, his knowledge into tomes to surpass his own life span and spred the knowledge he gains through times.

Various other things spread the walls of these halls and cumulate at the top within the Kage's tower. Almost anything known as a change goes through the Kage's office at one point or another. To be perfectly honest, with the current Kage, Roy could only imgine the huge piles of paper that had gotten stacked up. Especially with Roy not being able to fill out many of the pages. He never learned how to forge Kinami's signiture and he had never even SEEN this knew Kage's signiture. A deep depression rushed over him slightly with that thought. But there was only one way to fix that, to learn something!

With his steps hastened by the mear thought of what he might learn, Roy began to dash up the steps, past the various shinobi who were doing the same. Roy would move past the normal library. No, those books there were not of his ilk today. Today he felt the need for something a bit more...restricted. The Kage's personal library. Whether Kinami knew it or not, there was a huge library in the back of her office just full of books and tomes describing all manor of details about enemy and ally nations, the comings and goings of commerce and even the details of each individual shinobi. Roy felt a need to grow as an individual and these would help him.

The tomes streatched to the very top of the room, filling the air with the scent of decaying paper, a familar smell, a comforting smell to someone like Roy. He could just feel the knowledge pushing through the air and calling out to him. His vey soul began to cry out, yerning for something, some bit of knowledge to quench its thirst. His hands began to rummage along the seems of so many books. He could feel the knowledge almost soaking into his body through his finger tips. Obviously that wasn't possible but he could only imagine it. It was so quiet...so calm within this tome covered halls. Roy could get lost within this room for hours on end and not even care. He was in heaven at this point in time of his life. He as content with this space...if he could only get a girl to like it here too as well as a few other things, he'd be in love forever. Kinami...had some working in this area.

As he passed the first of at least 30 huge shelves overflowing with books and papers, he came to a study table. It was set up with extreamly rare stained cherry wood(rare for Iwa) and anointed with a few desk lamps that Kinami picked out herself. Upon the desk were a pile of books spewed about. Someone had been going through the books and hadn't placed them back. Kinami instnatly came to mind. Her face splattered against a book from her late night studies was almost pitiful and cheery to Roy in a way. She was cute with a little bit of drool coming uot of her mouth. Although, I'm sure the original author of the book wouldn't be so pleased to see his text being smeared by drool but who cares? A deep sigh left his lips as he moved over towards the desk and began to clean away some of the books. One by one the boy would pick apart the pile of books and began to file away the tomes as a seasoned librarian. He would find their location and begin to meticulously slip between the books, checking each and every volume to place the items in the correct location.

The books began to thin out but one...one stayed persistant...well as persistant as a book laying on its back open could be. He would move to the book and begin to glance over it. It ws open to something...that he believed was a puddle of water. He thought that it was drool but then he realied, this book was under a pile of others. The puddle would have been soaked up by th other books and would be cold...there was something about this that was strange. Even still...upon closer inspeectio, he realized that the puddle was a realistic picture. A curious set of words caught his attention...

"....to take any form. The ultimate weapon..."

He began to rub the page a bit and sat down, curiosity had gotten to him.

[[Acquisition: To find the weapon, you must first RP your character actually hearing about the weapon. This can be done with either a Research or Listen or Gather Information check all with a DC of 100.
Next, you must travel to where the village is hidden. It’s randomized based on how many points over the 100 DC you are. 1 = Konoha, 2 = Kiri, 3 = Kumo, 4 = Suna, 5 = Oto, 6 = Iwa, 7 = Kusa, 8 = Taki, 9 = Ame(repeat numbers as such) To find out how many points over you went, simply subtract your final total DC from 100. You must then travel to that village (using real travel times!) and ask permission to search the area for the item from the Kage.
Third, search for the metal in any of the none town threads of the village. The Search DC is 100.
Fourth, upon finding the weapon, you will be subjected to a mental test of your worthiness by the blacksmith’s spirit that now resides within the metal. The test will be a string of Genjutsu-ish mind games placed upon the user to see what they would do. The tricks cannot be broken by any normal means except to do something based on the situation at large. 5 trials will be given to the user: a lost wallet, a crying woman, a burning building, an ambush, and finally, the possible death of 2 loved ones. Your reactions to these events must be graded by someone else to be fair. Things such as your speech, reaction, and thoughts should be taken into consideration.

Research DC= 0 /100]]

The book was far into the subject matter already. Whomever was reading up on it before Roy got here had already flipped through. The book was old and tattered, ripped on a few pages. Roy would go back to the beginning of the text. It was a book of rare natural resources found in Iwagakure. However, it seemed far older than any of the geological surveys Roy had seen and he had never seen any picture of any metal like the one before. Why was a photo of a puddle required in a book of natural reources...his own question made him feel a little stupid. Surface water was pretty rare in Iwa so it would make sense...but stillsomething bothered him. He couldn't figure what it was but he felt...strange just thinking of leaving it at that.

He would find the table of contents of the book and begin to shift through the pages. He had lost his page and thus, had to find something around it. His finger slowly combed the text to find something that looked about right. Some pages that semed to start around where he was. A few chapters popped out as being near that page but they were all minerals...why would water be near minerals and ore? His curiosity was definatly paying off. He would slip through various sections of the book, looking for that picture again. Of course, he could have just looked to the spine to see where it ws gapped the most but he wouldn't know the title of the capter. For some reason the chapters didn't have title names along the page boarders. One rare mineral after another passed but it was still a small amount. Not that many things in the earth couldn't avoid being found in Iwa. Before long, his eyes fell upon a set of words that caught his attention again...

"Liquid Metal..." what was this? What was this thing? How could metal be liquid and considered a mineral? The pages flew past before his eyes. He was determined to find out about this now. The book landed on a page that began like this...

A strange and wondrous metal that exists deep within the heart of Iwagakure. It is known as Liquid Metal because, once processed, its boiling point temperature is so low that even leaving it at room temperature begins it to melt. The molecular property is quite strange, however, as it will almost always go back to its original composition it held prior to the heating. Its retention processes are amazing and have even lead to sme researchers believing that it may even have something similar to cell in a living creature.

This is thought to be the reason of the shape retention due to the fact that human cells tend to have perfect memory of their shape, structure, inner workings, and functions. So long as the nucleous of a cell is in tact, there is a chance that it will regenerate and reform into something similar to it original composition. For this reasoning, it was thought that Liquid Metal was alive, hence its original name as LIVING Metal. This thought process was furthered due to the fact that this mineral, living or liquid, was almost impossible to find. The few previous samples of the mineral were only found in the deepest parts of the mountain caves around the country of stone. Explorers who had dug around the country of Stone for decades had never seen anything like it so its fairly safe to say that this mineral may not even be a natural occurence.

This 'cell structure' was later on proven to be more than just a theory as more research was done on the small samples available. While not completly like living cells (it lacks anything resembling a nuclei) the metal was found to have atomic structures that resembled cells. In this, it's meant that the cells each had variou shapes and size but regardless of how many times the metal was melted, it returned to its previous shape prior to being heated. And each time, the individual 'cells' would change. To add to the unique nature of this metal, it is by nature a very soft and malible material. It has a consistancy close to dough or clay when pressure is applied. If not heated, any shapes applied to the metal during a cooled down state are considered perminate and will become the new 'base' if the metal is heated and molded. It is for these two reasons that the metal was never saught after for more than simple scientific study as its desire to return to a previous shape and its soft nature even after processing and fusion with other minrals made it unworkable for weapons and tools.

The pages seemed to flip by Roy as he looked through more and more to try and find out everything this book could divulge about the variou nature and history of this tome that spoke about his home.

[[Acquisition: To find the weapon, you must first RP your character actually hearing about the weapon. This can be done with either a Research or Listen or Gather Information check all with a DC of 100.
Next, you must travel to where the village is hidden. It’s randomized based on how many points over the 100 DC you are. 1 = Konoha, 2 = Kiri, 3 = Kumo, 4 = Suna, 5 = Oto, 6 = Iwa, 7 = Kusa, 8 = Taki, 9 = Ame(repeat numbers as such) To find out how many points over you went, simply subtract your final total DC from 100. You must then travel to that village (using real travel times!) and ask permission to search the area for the item from the Kage.
Third, search for the metal in any of the none town threads of the village. The Search DC is 100.
Fourth, upon finding the weapon, you will be subjected to a mental test of your worthiness by the blacksmith’s spirit that now resides within the metal. The test will be a string of Genjutsu-ish mind games placed upon the user to see what they would do. The tricks cannot be broken by any normal means except to do something based on the situation at large. 5 trials will be given to the user: a lost wallet, a crying woman, a burning building, an ambush, and finally, the possible death of 2 loved ones. Your reactions to these events must be graded by someone else to be fair. Things such as your speech, reaction, and thoughts should be taken into consideration.

Research Skill: 17
Research DC= 17+2=19/100]]

[[research roll
Research skill: 17]]

There was still something missing...something incomplete. A ninja wouldn't just go and vanish from the village without SOMEONE tracking them even if it wasn't a long term track, they would have had a tracker ninja on their a** for at least a few weeks. It was customary to do that. Normally, a ninja who went and became classified as rouge became like that due to the fact that they were doing either illegal or harmful acts towards their country of origins. However, if the ninja shows no real worry of betraying their home country and they have no real secrets, then the resources to kill them usually aren't spent. It just wasn't economical. But of course, every one of them had to be checked out to make absolutly sure they didn't have any negative effects towards the country. Of course, just to make absolutly sure, a full background check is done on the individual and they'll have a person check up on them every now and then just to ake sure.

Now there in lies the problem, these types of things should have been logged away with the guy's shinobi profile. His profile, instead of that stupid story, should have had data from the hunter ninja that tracked him and recorded his information. They would ahve written up some sort of report, even if it was ssomething small like "he's no threat". The paperwork would have been seperate so Roy was certain that it wasn't just written on his detail sheet. He rambled around the profile making sure he found what he could find but there was nothing he could do at this point. There simply wasn't anything there. There wasn't any papers dealing with it...what the hell was going on?

He began to shift through the area a bit and looked around more and more. He had to find something about this guy...something to do with it...with that damn metal. It was driving him insane now. He had found something almost too good to be true but yet it wasn't. It was completly real...documents were recorded about the thing. He had come across one that spoke of the metal but he couldn't find anything about its location. Where could something that rare had gone? How could it simply have just up and vanished? Further thought allowed Roy to realize that there would absolutly have to be something on the guys location. The metal box was requested by the kage himself, why wouldn't he send someone out o go find the damn thing...it didn't make sense to Roy. Their would be some sort of report about the tracking of the metal but there was nothing...what was up with this?

[[Acquisition: To find the weapon, you must first RP your character actually hearing about the weapon. This can be done with either a Research or Listen or Gather Information check all with a DC of 100.
Next, you must travel to where the village is hidden. It’s randomized based on how many points over the 100 DC you are. 1 = Konoha, 2 = Kiri, 3 = Kumo, 4 = Suna, 5 = Oto, 6 = Iwa, 7 = Kusa, 8 = Taki, 9 = Ame(repeat numbers as such) To find out how many points over you went, simply subtract your final total DC from 100. You must then travel to that village (using real travel times!) and ask permission to search the area for the item from the Kage.
Third, search for the metal in any of the none town threads of the village. The Search DC is 100.
Fourth, upon finding the weapon, you will be subjected to a mental test of your worthiness by the blacksmith’s spirit that now resides within the metal. The test will be a string of Genjutsu-ish mind games placed upon the user to see what they would do. The tricks cannot be broken by any normal means except to do something based on the situation at large. 5 trials will be given to the user: a lost wallet, a crying woman, a burning building, an ambush, and finally, the possible death of 2 loved ones. Your reactions to these events must be graded by someone else to be fair. Things such as your speech, reaction, and thoughts should be taken into consideration.

Research Skill: 17
Research DC= 17+3=94/100]]

@Bromy]]

A shinobi of Iwa hopped from behind the counter and looked to the man. She was substantially smaller than the man and smiled up to him.
"Hello sir, how are you today? May I ask your purpose for visiting the Kage Tower today? Are you an ambassador?"
Being that he's a kage, he would instantly feel the malace waving off this woman even through her smile. She was a master of hiding her feelings but a master as he was would probably notice. He'd probably also notice how the higher levels of the tower were getting more and more full of shinobi.
The thing that would probably surprise him the most would be that not all of them were of the Iwagakure shinobi. Many had headbands of other villages but they had come to know the village as their own home and found new reason to defend it. They would NOT move if he didn't do anything but if he did...well...even for a kage, facing down about 100 jounin and above all at once with varying elements...yea...yea...that ain't healthy. Even if he did beat them...he wouldn't do it without a scratch.

"I'm am an ambassador from Amegakure and I have come because two children of our village were kidnapped right before my eyes and the Amekage's eyes. Right before the second child was abducted she shout out that he was the Iwakage." Xin replied to the woman. "I am requesting to see the Iwakage immediately so we can sort this all out if I am mistaken or not. I am also requesting an audience with every person born of the Hyuuga clan. You see one of the children who was abducted was a Hyuuga and if she is here they might know of her where abouts." Xin added a mouth full again. As always he attempted at diplomacy but was ready to tear through the streets looking for these children. He was close to sure though that Iwa would comply with his requests if they didn't want to damage their trade with Ame, however, things could turn out otherwise.

(( Gwahahah i will eat your face cause im zetsu of the akatsuki! Inccorect i am simply a cosplay of him and begning to speak in duality like him eh. ))