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Unless its an NPC being guided by crew, please do not bring in sources from others shows as part of POTS interaction. If its allowed, the entire lore of POTS will get far, far too overcomplicated.

@ Martin
You're right! David isn't one of the hosts, I just lucked out and happened to have only watched that episode. xD

@ Funk
You're going to have to give me a number. xD I don't know their first names yet, I only know them by number.

@ Greg
Like Cobra said, I was just entertaining myself, and maybe giving other people some giggles. I think it worked, or at least it served the purpose of sparking interaction in the chatrooms, which I think most of us would agree, were dead zones for quite some time receiving minimal posting aside from OOC in regards to the actual RP, rather than idle chit chat.

I would not however, bring in a character that occurs more than once without the proper permission of the Crew. I do know that that is not allowed for members at the very least.

I thought that problem might occur. I'll do a writeup for the waterskin later, but for now, I'll edit the post.

Thats up to you to determine.

Ah, I was fairly sure I was going to be laid up until at least after Saturday, but I just wanted to be sure. xD

Just want to point out a few things.

A. Yasashii's instructions were not to immediately dismantle the tags, but to remove the links. Actually dismantling the tag was a last resort for if he couldn't identify the link. Had you done it the way he said, the thief would never have noticed anything was wrong.

B. The instruction Yasashii stressed most was to be cautious. Jumping out right in front of the guy and grabbing the tag, didn't count. Raphael should have waited for Enro to start another distraction, or waited until the man was close enough to deal with up close. If you'd waited for him to get within range of the blast, he wouldn't have set it off.

C. The mission WAS in fact a village mission. The circumstances by which you came about it don't matter. All genin were ordered to rescue civilians from any sort of danger and get them to safety during the fight.

D. Intentionally removing all of your skin and refusing to have it healed will result in expulsion from the shinobi forces, as that is a severe weakness in actual combat, you will never be able to perform public missions, and any sort of infiltration mission is out the window, because you stick out like a sore thumb. Fact of the matter is, you'd be useless.

E. Yasashii would in fact refuse to teach you anything if he felt you were likely to end up killing yourself with that knowledge. Refusing healing to try and "Punish" yourself due to some misplaced sense of pride, counts as that.

All that said, you don't actually need to edit the post. We can all just assume Raphael is still pretty screwed up in the head from what's happened and attribute most everything he's said to that. Especially that parts that don't make sense, such as not realizing an explosive tag could kill somebody. (All ninja, logically, are taught about the dangers and power of explosive tags in the academy, as they are basic shinobi equipment.)

3. You're trying to tell me that you don't want any recognition for the mission done? I gave out mission orders when the attack began, or soon after, for genin to work on rescuing civilians. That's what the mission Cobra started you guys on was. It doesn't matter if Enro, Raphael, or Kye come out and tell anyone anything. Enro and Raphael of course, are obligated to give a report on the incident. But even if they weren't, and didn't, there were civilians there who saw most of what happened. The hostages would have reported everything, and once the ANBU picked up and interrogated the surviving thief, they would get information from him too. The entire event was within the mission parameters given at the start, making it a village mission, whether the specifics were given by another unrelated character or not.

4. You're completely mistaking the point. Between this and your edit, that's obvious. I've already said that how you develop the character is up to you. I'm not going to interfere in that. However, expecting the village medics to willingly bend to your character's whims and not heal damage that would end your shinobi career, is ridiculous. I'm not saying that I'm going to destroy your character's career if you go ahead with that. I'm saying that the village wouldn't allow it to happen in the first place. There are many reasons against a shinobi with no skin working as a ninja, a few of which I've already mentioned. To do so would make you useless as a ninja, something the village, and thus the medics, won't allow. You'll have some pretty bad scarring left, certainly, but the entire skin loss is just jumping the shark a bit too high.

5. If you knew a man who was suicidal, and attempted to kill himself many times, would you hand him a loaded gun? It's as simple as that really. Raphael already ignored what Yasashii tried to teach him. He's not going to jump right in and teach him other things that could do him even more damage in the end until he's sure it's safe, and intentionally punishing yourself over mistakes in ways that harm you worse than the initial mistake did, won't help with that trust.

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A tag is a tag. They all have the same power and effect.

Oh, I can understand the removing bits of remaining skin so it doesn't regrow wrong. But, well, ninja magic. Considering Tsunade can apparently survive being chopped in half with it, fixing your skin should be easy enough for an average medic.

You realize that, by the method of healing you're considering, a weak is beyond delusional right? It'd take months, possibly even as long as a year, to fully recover from that.

And the fact he doesn't see the problem, IS the problem that Yasashii would have his own problem with.

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Not for basic tags, no. I'm thinking of including a customizable one with the update, but that's going to be at least B, possibly A ranked.