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Carlos Ralfer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 18 (1-20)
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 Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 12:05 pm
[[14+20=34>15 pass]] The different items weren't as many as he thought here were. There were several different types but not half as many as he originally thought there were. He looked overthe differences in the items and looked to see how he could distinquis them. Of course, the actual rocks would have their own look and feel to them and he'd have to learn that and get absoultly use to them on the fly. He needed to get a good feel for all of this but he would od that later. He had found the chapter he desired of how different rocks had different compositions. He looked at this and payed especial attention to this part as it would depecit the differences in his chakra flow. Quote: Crystals: Crystals are what minerals form when they are free to grow in nature; like the quartz crystal in the first drawing. In rocks, crystals grow up against each other. They cannot grow as the quartz crystal did in open space. Crystals in rocks have straight edges and they very often show flat shiny faces that reflect light like tiny mirrors. They look more like the second drawing. Grains: Grains that are not crystals in rock do not have flat shiny faces. They are rounded, like grain of sand, or jagged, like a piece of broken rock. Grain Size: Grain size in rocks can mean the size of crystal grains or of fragments: Coarse Grained: most of the rock is made of grains as largeas rice, or larger. Medium Grained: the individual grains can be seen without a magnifier, but most of the rock is made of grains smaller than rice. Fine Grained: the individual grains can not be seen without a magnifier (or microscope). Layers: Layers in rocks show in different ways. In some rocks different colored minerals are lined up in ribbons.. Usually there are two colors, often black and white, or green and white, of black and tan or pink. Ribbon like layers are found in the rock, gneiss. In schists, the layers are most often thin layers of mica or chlorite around lens shaped masses of feldspar or quartz. The top and bottom is almost always mica or chlorite. In sandstones, different sized sand grains sometimes show as different colors. When the grains are sorted by running water or wind, they show different shades of the same color. The layers in slate are very thin and straight. The top and bottom layers are usually flat and quite smooth. Ribbon like Layers Mica like Layers Particle Layers Thin Cleavage Layers in Gneiss in Schist in Sandstone in Slate Gas Bubbles: Gas bubbles in rock are sort of round or elongated holes. In pumice, the bubbles may be very tiny to the size of a match head. They are a glass froth that may look something like a sponge or gray, glassy soap bubbles. In scoria or vesicular basalt, the bubbles are larger, often as large as peas. They look like small pockets in the rock. [altered DC:20 due to extra attention being paid.]
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Carlos Ralfer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 16 (1-20)
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 12:28 pm
[18+20=pass] Crystals...Grains...size of grain....types of grain...ribbon formations...gas bubbles...these different things...all of this was present within the very core of the rocks. He never knew theere was so much to learn just from this one subject. The core of the rocks was going to be the basses on how he continued to do his reasearch on the rocks. Using different methods of chakra application, there would be different needs for application of chakra. There had to be different means for chakra application. He looked about for a moment and nodded to hismelf a bit and then began to flip tyhrough the book. He was looking this time for information upon which to find and identify different stones. The book wasn't indiginous to Iwa, it was far more broad so he'd have to apply what he learned here to what he coudl find in Iwa. This was actually a better method of training as he would be more able to find different rocks in different areas. He wouldn't be surprised no matter where he went. He found a chapter based on the very look and compositions of different common stones. He began to shift through it, jotting down notes. Quote: GNEISS (nice) What type of rock is it? : Metamorphic What does it look like? : Gneiss is usually light in color, but it can be quite dark. It looks like it has ribbons or stripes of minerals running through the rock. The grain size is usually fairly coarse. Gneiss usually breaks into blocky pieces, not along the layers. Unlike granite, in which the crystals are randomly arranged, the crystals in gneiss are lined up and in layers. Gneiss is a tough and hard rock. What minerals make up the rock? : Almost always: feldspars, quartz, and mica. Sometimes: kyanite, garnet, hornblende, tourmaline, magnetite, and many others. How was it formed? : Gneiss is formed from another metamorphic rock, called schist. The schist formed from fine grained sedimentary rock (often a shale). Gneiss can be formed also from some igneous rocks, especially granite. It is usually formed under great pressure from moving plates of the earth's crust. Compare To: schist granite SCHIST (sh-ist) What type of rock is it? Metamorphic What does it look like? Top and bottom layers are usually a silvery, to green, to brown, to black mica, or a green to very dark green chlorite. The micas are often in small flaky crystals. Layers are usually thin, often with lens like layers of quartz between the mica layers. Layers may be somewhat wavy. Grain size varies from medium to coarse. Schist usually splits easily along the layers of mica, unlike gneiss. What minerals make up the rock? quartz, feldspar, mica (muscovite, biotite). Sometimes: chlorite, garnet, hornblende, actinolite, kyanite, magnetite, pyrite, staurolite, tourmaline, and many others. How was it formed? Schists are usually formed from shales that were formed from clay or sandy clay, sometimes with a little lime, sometimes from rocks and sediments from volcanoes. Schists are most often formed when plates of the ocean floor push under, into, or up onto a continent. It is the sea floor rocks that get crunched to form schists. Compare To: gneiss, shale, slate, serpentinite MARBLE (mar'-bul) What type of rock is it? Metamorphic What does it look like? Often pure white. It may be streaked or patchy gray, green, tan, or red. Marble is fine grained to very coarse grained and crystals are usually easy to see. The rock is soft; it will not scratch glass (quartzite may look like a fine grained marble, but easily scratches glass). The powdered marble will often fizz with white vinegar. If it does not fizz, it may be dolomitic marble. What minerals make up the rock? calcite, or dolomite (dolomitic marble); Sometimes: graphite, pyrite, mica, tremolite, and a few others How was it formed? Marble forms from the metamorphism of limestones. Compare To: quartzite , limestone QUARTZITE (kwart'-zite) What type of rock is it? Metamorphic What minerals make up the rock? quartz; Sometimes, a little: mica, feldspar, magnetite, pyrite, ilmenite, garnet, and any of a few others. What does it look like? If the quartzite is pure quartz it is white. It may have a yellowish to reddish color if it contains iron minerals. Rarely, it is black if it contains a lot of magnetite. Sometimes, using a magnifier, the grains of sand from which it formed can be seen. The rock breaks through the grains, not around them (sandstone breaks around the grains). Quartzite often shows lighter colored flakes on a broken surface, where air is behind a very thin chip. Unlike marble, quartzite is very hard and easily scratches glass. How was it formed? Most quartzite is metamorphosed sandstone. Compare To: marble, sandstone SLATE (sl-ate) What type of rock is it? Metamorphic What minerals make up the rock? micas, feldspars, quartz (but they can not be recognized because the grains are so small you would need a microscope to see them); Sometimes contain: pyrite What does it look like? Slate can be black, gray, brownish red, bluish gray, or greenish gray. It is very fine grained and has thin, quite smooth, flat layers. Unlike shale, slate easily splits into thin flat pieces. It often will scratch glass, with a little difficulty. How was it formed? Slate is usually formed from clay sediments or shale that has been heated and put under pressure by plate collisions. The pressures and temperatures that form slate are lower than those that form schist. Compare To: shale, schist, serpentinite SERPENTINITE (Sir'-pen-tin-ite) What type of rock is it? Metamorphic What does it look like? Serpentinite feels very slippery. It is more a broken rock than it is a layered rock. The "layers" are sort of flat plates of green rock. They may be thin or more than cm thick. Serpentinite is usually green to grayish-green. The flat plates may have long scratch like grooves in them. It may be dull or nearly glassy looking. When serpentine is dull it may be fine to coarse grained. When it is glassy it looks very smooth and has no visible grains. What minerals make up the rock? Mostly antigorite, amesite, and lizardite. Sometimes: chrysotile (a type of asbestos), brucite, magnesite, chromite, magnetite and garnets. Talc is often found because serpentine alters to talc. How was it formed? When an ocean floor plate collides with a continental plate, giant slices of the oceanic crust are pushed up into the rocks of the continent. A rock, called peridotite, at the bottom of the oceanic plate is changed to serpentinite because there is less weight on it, the temperature is lower, and water circulates through it. Serpentinite is usually found in mountains that were once at the edge of a continent. Another way serpentinite can form is from peridotites that crystallize deep in the earth's crust from magma. The peridotites are gradually uncovered by erosion, and as they get close to the surface, they alter to serpentinite. Compare To: diabase, gabbro, slate, schist [4]
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Carlos Ralfer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 20 (1-20)
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 1:11 pm
[pass]
Roy set the book down silently and began to look over his notes. He studyed them a good deal for a long time and then sat back on the cold ground and looke dup to the sky for a moment. He began to think on things differently about here and there and this and that and then began to look down. He was going to start his search...this search was to be of rocks. He wanted to see if he could find different rocks about the ground and see if he could identify them.
[[DC 15 1D20+spot skill]
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 1:20 pm
[[auto pass]]
Roy looked about the ground for a long moment trying to find a stone and soon came up with a Sandstone. He looked it over and figured it was such by its redish brown color. He looked to it and noticed the texture being grained and layered over and over making this an obvious sedimentary stone. He nodded to himself as he then began to roll it around in his hand and thought he might as well give it a try. he held it tightly in his hand and began to push his chakra into it. Knowing the composition made it easier to know the amount and force of chakra to apply to this item. He glanced down to it again and began.
[[DC 10]]
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Carlos Ralfer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 11 (1-20)
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 1:23 pm
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Carlos Ralfer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 18 (1-20)
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 1:28 pm
[[11 = pass]]
The stone filled with chakra and began to flow evently thorughout the ball. He looked to it for a long moment and then disbursed his chakra. He was getting better at this all the time and that was always a good thing. He looked down to the stone and began to reapply his chakra. He wanted to see how many times he could do it without it bursting.
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 1:34 pm
[[18=pass]]
The stone was a hard customer to burst that was sure...course he wasn't trying to burst it in the first palce. he looked up to the stone for a moment and disbursed the chakra from inside the stone and sighed a bit smiling to himnself. He looked back a bit and dropped the stone. He needed a break...[[>.< My damn hand hurts...so sue me..]]
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Carlos Ralfer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 10 (1-20)
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 11:07 am
[[continuation from yesterday]] Roy had gotten an understanding for the more rudimentury types of rocks in the metamorphic catagory. These were Gneiss, a lighter colored kind of stone formed from stones of the other two types under loads of pressure. It was structured very well and made manipulation of it seem pretty simple. Schist was another rock in that catagory and it held a variaty of colors and was mostly a grainy type formed from clay and lime. Marble, a well known stone, was made of limestone after a metamorphism due to pressure and such. He hadn't known that before all this. Quartzite and slate rounded out this catagory with one more type of stone he had never heard of but he now knew fairly decently. He figured this stone was the type he was grabbing and loosing hold of the other day in the Caves. With all this knowledge on Metamorphic stones, Roy continued his studies in this book and began to look inot the next catagory of Igneous stones. Quote: Igneous Rocks RHYOLITE (rye'-o-lite) What type of rock is it? Igneous What minerals make up the rock? quartz, feldspars; Sometimes contain: biotite, diopside, hornblende, zircon What does it look like? Usually light colored; light gray, tan, reddish, greenish, brown. Fine grained, but often contains scattered larger crystals. May contain small pockets that were gas bubbles. Sometimes shows flow lines or bands. How was it formed? Rhyolite is a volcanic rock. It forms from the rapid cooling of a magma or lava that contains a lot of silica (quartz). The molten material often contains gas bubbles which freeze into the rock. Pumice is a kind of rhyolite that has really a lot of tiny gas bubbles in it. Compare To: pumice, basalt GRANITE (gran'-it) What type of rock is it? Igneous What minerals make up the rock? quartz, feldspars (microcline, orthoclase, albite), biotite, muscovite; Sometimes contain: hornblende, augite, magnetite, zircon What does it look like? The feldspars give granite most of its color, which may be white to light gray, yellowish, or pink. The quartz is usually smoky gray or white. Black specks of biotite, or sometimes hornblende, are common. So is silvery to brownish muscovite. Granite is coarse grained to very coarse grained. The crystals are randomly arranged (unlike gneiss where they are in lines or layers). How was it formed? Granite forms deep in the earth's crust from cooling magma. The magma contains a lot of silica (quartz). Slow cooling produces the large crystals in granite. Compare To: gneiss diorite DIORITE (die'-or-ite) What type of rock is it? Igneous What minerals make up the rock? Dark colored plagioclase, hornblende, pyroxene, and sometimes a little quartz. May contain: light colored plagioclase feldspars, but only a little. What does it look like? Mostly it looks like a dark colored granite. The dark colored plagioclase feldspars and pyroxenes give it a darker color. It is usually medium to dark gray. Unlike granite, diorite has no mica, or very little, and those are dark colored. It is coarse grained (larger than rice). How was it formed? Diorite forms deep in the earth's crust from cooling magma - just like granite. But, the magma does not contain a lot of quartz or the light colored minerals that make up the granite. Instead it contains only dark colored minerals. Compare To: granite, diabase BASALT (buh-salt') What type of rock is it? Igneous What does it look like? Basalt is dark gray to black. When exposed to the weather, it may turn yellow or brown on its surface. Basalt is fine grained rock You may or may not be able to see crystals with a hand magnifier. The crystals are often microscopic. Basalt is a hard, tough rock. It is difficult to break. Sometimes, basalt contains gas bubbles. It is then called vesicular basalt. What minerals make up the rock? plagioclase feldspars, augite, hypersthene, olivene How was it formed? Basalt is a volcanic rock. It is formed from a magma that is rich in iron and magnesium, and poor in silica (quartz). The magma erupts from a volcano or a fissure (a crack in the earth's surface) as lava. Because the lava cools rather quickly, basalt is fine grained. there is not time enough for the grains to become larger. Compare To: rhyolite, diabase, gabbro DIABASE (die'-uh-base) What type of rock is it? Igneous What does it look like? Diabase is dark green to black, sometimes with some white crystals scattered through it. When exposed to the weather its surface often turns brown. It has a medium grain size (you can see them without a magnifier, but they are smaller than rice). It is a tough, hard rock. What minerals make up the rock? plagioclase feldspars, augite; Sometimes contains: hornblende, magnetite, olivene, glass How was it formed? Diabase forms from a magma that is rich in iron and magnesium, and poor in silica (quartz). The magma is forced into cracks or between layers of rock near the earth's surface. Diabase is from the same kind of magma as basalt, but because it cools more slowly, it develops slightly larger crystals. Compare To: basalt, gabbro, diorite, serpentinite GABBRO (gab'-row) What type of rock is it? Igneous What does it look like? Gabbro is dark green to black. When exposed to the weather its surface often turns brown. It has a large grain size (most of the rock is grains larger than rice). What minerals make up the rock? plagioclase feldspars, augite, hypersthene, olivene; Sometimes contains: magnetite, chromite, titanite, ilmenite. How was it formed? Gabbro forms from a magma that is rich in iron and magnesium, and poor in silica (quartz). The magma cools and crystallizes deep below the earth's surface. Gabbro is from the same kind of magma as basalt and diabase, but because it cools more slowly, it develops larger crystals. Compare To: basalt, diabase, serpentinite PUMICE (pum'-iss) What type of rock is it? Igneous What does it look like? Pumice is very light gray to a medium gray in color. It contains a large number of gas bubbles, each surrounded by a thin layer of volcanic glass. Pumice looks something like a sponge. It is very light in weight. Most pieces of pumice will float on water. Flow lines or bands may show. What minerals make up the rock? glass, any mineral grains are unusual. How was it formed? Pumice is explosively blown out of volcanoes. It comes from a highly silicic magma that is thick and sticky. The gases that are trapped in the bubbles are the same that cause the explosive eruption. It is the same kind of magma which would form rhyolite or granite. Compare To: scoria, rhyolite SCORIA (score'-ee-uh) What type of rock is it? Igneous What does it look like? The color is usually black, dark gray, brown, or dark green. Scoria is glassy, smooth to rough, and contains gas bubbles. Unlike pumice, it has many fewer, usually larger bubbles, and is moderately heavy. What minerals make up the rock? mainly a glass How was it formed? Scoria usually is from the top of a lava flow, so it is volcanic. It forms from a somewhat sticky lava. Because it is on the top of the flow, it cools rather quickly, before many crystals start to form. Compare To: pumice, basalt OBSIDIAN (obb-sid'-ee-an) What type of rock is it? Igneous What does it look like? Obsidian is a glass and is usually black, although sometimes it may be slightly grayish or greenish. It may include some white crystals that look like snowflakes (snowflake obsidian). It may include swirls of a red color. Obsidian breaks and chips like glass. The location where the chip came out is scoop shaped, like the inside of a clam shell. The chip often has ridges that that are semicircular. This kind of break is called a conchoidal fracture. What minerals make up the rock? black glass How was it formed? Obsidian is volcanic. It forms from rapid cooling lava that has a lot of silica. The lava cools so fast that crystals do not have time to form. [8]
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Carlos Ralfer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 1 (1-20)
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 11:17 am
[10=pass] The igneous catagory was filled with several types of rocks Roy had never heard of and figured, Iwa not bein a volcanic region, he probably wouldn't see to many of either but all the same, he gained a basic understanding of the types of stones in the catagory. He had obviously heard of stones such as Granite and he had even heard of the stone Basalt in passing but never knew its look or textures. The stone Obsidean was completly beyond him, he always thought it was a weapon name or a gemstone or something. After reading the description of it being glass moreso than stone, he realized why his image of it was as such. The other stones of Scoria, Gabbro, Diorite, Rhyolite, Diabase, and Pumice were all far beyond him. He didn't really think he'd need to notice the stones off hand but he couldn't ever rule out the possibility and so he skimed over their look and feel. Knowing that these rocks mostly were formed in extream heat, he knew that most of them had bubble or air pockets within them that would make molding pretty difficult and with the form being constructed in extream heat and pressure, applying chakra to the inner coeof the rock would be a fun little challenge in itself but he'd have to worry about that later and not so much. After all, the half filled wter ballons he had used once before were perfect substitutes, in his mind, for altering sequiences of chakra application. But he still had one more type of rock to look into, one that was more likly than igneous and that was: Quote: Sedimentary Rocks SANDSTONE (sand'-stone) What type of rock is it? Sedimentary What does it look like? Sandstone is often red to brown, light gray to nearly white. Sometimes it is yellow or green. It usually is composed of rounded grains that are all of the same size; and it is usually medium grained. Some sandstones show slight color variations in layering. What minerals make up the rock? quartz; Sometimes contains: feldspars, mica, glauconite (in green colored sandstone), magnetite, garnet, rutile, ilmenite How was it formed? quartz sand that is produced by the weathering of other rocks (such as granite, gneiss, and other sandstones) is deposited by rivers, waves, or wind. The sediment may have been a sand bar, an ocean beach, or desert sand dunes. The sand is buried under other sediments, compacted by the weight of those sediments, and cemented by material dissolved in water that seeps through it. Related Rocks: Arkose: Usually red or pink, may be gray. Grains are angular. Arkose contains more than % feldspar with quartz. Medium to coarse grained. Greywacke: Black or dark green. Usually contains coarse angular grains included with fine grains. SHALE (sh-ale) What type of rock is it? Sedimentary What does it look like? Shale may be black, gray, red, brown, dark green, or blue. It is fine grained, so particles usually can not be seen. When moistened, shale usually smells like wet mud. What minerals make up the rock? clay minerals; Sometimes with some quartz sand, pyrite, gypsum How was it formed? Clay sediments settle in quiet lakes, lagoons, bays, or off-shore areas. When buried and compacted the clays become shale. Iron oxides often help to cement the particles together. Compare To: slate schist LIMESTONE (lime'-stone) What type of rock is it? Sedimentary What does it look like? Limestone is usually white, gray, tan, or yellow. It may contain impurities to make it red or black. Fossils are often found in limestone. It may be very smooth or even sugary, fine grained, or medium grained. The powdered rock will usually fizz in white vinegar. Unlike marble, limestone is not composed of visible crystals. What minerals make up the rock? mostly calcite How was it formed? Most limestone is formed by a chemical reaction in sea water. The reaction makes a lime mud which sinks to the bottom to for the limestone. Some limestones are formed from buried coral reefs. Related Rocks: Dolostone (doe'-low-stone) looks like limestone, but is composed of the mineral, dolomite. Powdered dolostone does not fizz with white vinegar. Dolostone forms on the ocean floor. Compare To: marble CONGLOMERATE (cun-glom'-er-at) What type of rock is it? Sedimentary What does it look like? Conglomerate looks like a mixture of sand and different sizes of rounded pebbles. The pebbles are the important observation. What minerals make up the rock? mostly quartz How was it formed? Sand and pebbles collect along sea shores, lake shores, or river banks. They are compacted by the weight of sediments that collect above them and cemented by material dissolved in the water that seeps through them. Related Rocks: Breccia (brech'-ee-uh) looks like conglomerate, but the "pebbles" in it are jagged and blocky, not rounded. BRECCIA (brech'-ee-uh) What type of rock is it? Sedimentary What does it look like? Like conglomerate, but the "pebbles" in it are jagged and blocky, not rounded. What minerals make up the rock? The "cement" holding the rock together is mostly quartz, but the pebbles can be almost any kind of rock - often quartzite, granite, or another tough rock that does not easily erode into sand or silt. How was it formed? Where the environment is dry - like in deserts. When mountains erode broken pieces of rock don't get carried away be streams. They just pile up. When they get deep enough, the weight above compresses them and they get cemented together. Compare To: Conglomerate [9]
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Carlos Ralfer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 4 (1-20)
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 11:21 am
[[1=fail]]
HIs mind...was still a bit too wraped up with the igneous rocks. Even though he kenw his chances of needing that kind of knowledge were slim to none, he still had a hard time letting it slip from his thoughts. He couldn't really stand learning so much and just passing one piece of data by just because it MAY be unimportant later. The tactician in him owuldn't allow it and because of that, he had a hard time focusing on the sedimentary rocks, even though they were far more lickly to be found. He sat back for a moment and rubbed his eyes. He needed a few seconds to clear his head.
After taking said seconds, he looked back down to the book and began to retake notes after ripping out the messed page he had done before.
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 11:23 am
[[completed]]
He was doing better the second time around. Sometimes thats all one needs to get things right in their own mind. Roy closed the book after checking his notes, everything seemed in order for the time being. He would go home and study these notes thourally that night to make sure he understood the entirety of the entry. This was a good deal of information to process but he had to do it or else he would fail at the jutsu creation and he knew it. It had to be perfect in his mind. Either that or he had to pick at least one stone found everywhere to abuse and use. Either way was good but he prefered to be proficient with several instead of just one. With that, he exited the area.
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Carlos Ralfer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 11 (1-20)
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 11:28 am
[[Day 8 training]]
[[DC: 15+int -5 per day after this]]
Roy had ben having quite the time with this. He was getting closer to the creation of his own jutsu, he knew it. He only needed a little bit more practice with a few things. Up till now, he had been doing research on different amounts of chakra needed within different objects. that research had weilded some intresting results as to the nature of different items and hte importance of chakra control in constant streams. He was getting the hang of using chakra in different mediums and keeping it flowing perfectly without much trouble. His biggest concern now was actual practical use of this jutsu and that's where the reserach yesterday came from. Yesterday, he made a point to check on the constitution of the most readily available objects for his jutsu, stones. Being that he resided within the stone country, stones were some of hte best items he could possibly think of using at any given time. And that is what brought him to this area today. The details from yesterday told him that many different rocks existed and that they each had at least slight differences in their constitution and this was a key piece of information. The different types of makeups, ribbons, gas bubbles, grains, ect. all altered the amount, flow and feel of chakra he needed to use for this jutsu. And with that alteration came the need to be able to distinguish the different stones at a moments notice and that is what yesterdays' training was about. He knew now how to distinguish some of the more common stones within Iwa and with that informatin, he would proceed today to make even more usage of it in an actual practical sense. He needed to figure out something to do with the stones themselves once they were filled with chakra. He knew he wanted to change their molecular structure but how and to what end? This was something he was having a bit of difficulty with.
He sat back against one of the stones and looked up to the sky. He was wondering how things were going to progress from now on but all he could think about were his failures in the past. All the times he had gotten water splattered all over him or dust scattered everywhere...dust...splinters...chips...the whole nine yards. But maybe...maybe that was it. Failure isn't always the end of things, sometimes it can be the beginning and Roy believed this might be a rather large beginning for him. Maybe, all those explosions was the key? What if he could somehow turn those explosions to his advantage, like explosive tags do. Then...then he could cause some havoc. But how...how was he to do it? There had to be something he wasn't thinking of. Slowly he tapped his foot against the ground trying to ponder on this...
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Carlos Ralfer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 19 (1-20)
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 11:33 am
[[11+10=pass]]
Roy sprung up. The information was right in front of him. By applying dirrect amounts of chakra to different areas of the rock, he could intentionally force and explosion. It would be like a shrapnel granade. That could then, in turn, be used to cause sever amounts of damage to any foe he came cross or at least shake them up a bit from fear. He remembered how he had spent many times applying the chakra to some structures and the outter look didn't change at all. This was something he could work with and how!
Traps...traps and attacks. That was to be the implimentation of this jutsu. He'd come up with a name for it later. As for now, he wanted to practice it. He had had plenty of practice with applying chakra to the item. Now he wanted some practice applying it and forcing the explosion in the manor he wanted. He knew this wasn't exactly going to be easy but he could still do it if he had the patience. Looking about, he found some sandstone rocks laying about on the ground. He scoped one up in his hand, about the size of a baseball more or less, and began to concentrate, applying his chakra to the rock itself.
[2]
[DC: 15]]
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Carlos Ralfer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
14
Total: 14 (1-20)
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 11:39 am
[[19=pas]]
What...a...power. What a great power he now had. This wasn't anything to be messed with lightly if he applied it properly. Looking to his hand with the stone, he felt the chakra flowing into the sandstone easily. It molded and flowed with absolute ease. He knew he could hold it as along as he wanted, that wasn't the problem now. The real problem now was actually implementing the ball's attack. The power within the ball grew more and more as he applied his chakra studdily to the ball. It continued to grow over and over and soon Roy picked a target. He tossed the rock away from him and off nto the distance. As it sored, it soon let out a sound of something poping and from it sprang a rain fo shards. Roy dashed behind a rock as the thing exploded all over the place. It was just as he had thought, a spreading effect applied over a large area directly preportianate to the amount of power he pushed into it. It landed just short of the stone he hide behind but still it was great. When Roy took his head out from behind the rock, he looked about to see the ground covered in pieces, not dust, but pieces of the rock. It was a completley success. He had done it! He was almost there...a few more tries and he would have it. He picked up another rock, a piece of granit this time, and began to apply the power to the rock.
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Carlos Ralfer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
14
Total: 14 (1-20)
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 11:45 am
[[14=fail]]
Applying the chakra to a different stone made it a bit mre difficult to figure out how much chakra to apply. This would be...problematic a bit later...hell, it was a problem now. Roy moved his chakra through the depths of the stone and thought he was applying enough to it. He got to a point he thought would be appropriate and tossed the stone into the air, a bit lower this time so as not to cause as much spread effect but still a good distance. Again, like a little anime character, he dashed behind protective boulder. Waiting...waiting...he waited for the sound of a pop or boom but nothing...there was nothing to be heard this time around. He didn't hear anything. Slowly...he lifted his hand with his jacket covering it into the air. He didn't want any pieces piercing his hand without his knowledge. But there was nothing...
His head peacked out over the top of the boulder to try and find th stone. It layed a ways off in the distance away from him...completly whole. He blinked a few times and slowly came out from behind the rock...he was holding his jacket as a type of sheild. Granted, it wouldn't protect him completly but it was better than absolutly nothing at this point. He tossed the jacket over the rock and jumped back quickly thinking that maybe it needed a jolt...but there was nothing. That rock had been a dude. He hadn't applied enough chakra at the right intervals. But he couldn't let that get to him. He had seen it work once and he knew it could work again so picking up another stone from behind him and picking up his jacket, he walked off to his protection boulder. He applied his chakra again to this stone and began to focus it deeply. It was another piece of granite about the same size as the last one. He wanted mroe training and he'd get it.
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