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 Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 5:04 am
 The Rice Field country is marked by forests and rice fields. The country had been marked by conflict in the past, with wars with neighboring countries taking a heavy toll on it.
Time of Day: [Morning] [Noon] [Afternoon] [Evening] [Night]
Weather: [Sunny] [Cloudy] [Slight Breeze] [Windy] [Rain] [Storm] [Fog] [Snow] [Blizzard]
Season: [Winter] [Spring] [Summer] [Fall]
Day: 01
Weather Penalty/Benefit: Wind Jutsu at 90% Cost
**Gain full Hp/Cp/MHp upon the change in time of day. This does not count if you are in combat.**
Travel Time to Other Villages:
Konoha: 1-2 days
Taki: 1½-2 days
Kiri: 1-2 days by land and 1-1½ by sea
Kumo: 2-3½ days
Kusa: 2½-3½ days
Ame: 4-5 days
Iwa: 4½-5½ days
Suna: 5-6 days
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Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 5:07 am
In Oto News...
The Otobe regime had brought order to Otogakure, however it came at a price. The clan had full say in everything that was done within the village. Orion Otobe gave a pretty speech and flowered the people with his sweet words, winning them over and even accepting the fact that he would be the next Otokage. Knowing little about the man, the fully trusted him and his clan, and so the rebuilding of Otogakure began. Everything was under lock and key, the Otobe having control over everything, even the new children in the Ninja Academy. Everything seemed to be going well, the village was being repaired and things were going back to normal, but others were seeing something going on, something hidden in the man’s eyes.
A rebel group, led by Tadashi Sato, were hiding within the paddy fields (rice fields), sending in spies to get whatever information they could on the Otobe. Many were lost, assumed to be tortured and eventually killed by the Secret Police, an Otobe-run department, who were secretly ruthless in the treatment of people. Almost nothing was leaked without them wanting it to be, especially when the form of communication was via the black boxes that sent messages coded by vibrations that only an Otobe could hear and decipher. Several times they were found and had to relocate their base of operations, but they could never openly attack, and Orion knew it.
In order to openly attack, they needed incriminating evidence against the man and his clan. To do otherwise, would make them tyrants opposing a peace-loving ‘kage’ in the villagers’ eyes. They would never accept them to run the village and would more than likely be opposed, much like the Otobe. After several weeks of failed attempts, an informant had brought news that the Otokage was lost at sea while on a mission to Kirigakure, along with a small group of his strongest and closest advisors. Now was the time to act, and they needed to quickly.
The rebels infiltrated the village and began attacking the Otobe from every angle. Without someone to lead them and give orders, the Otobe quickly fell and went into a retreat. They fled for their lives, and most were able to get away. Rather than spending too many resources on chasing them, Tadashi had chosen to ensure the safety of the village, sending only two scouting parties. Turning his sights back to the village, he accepted the position of Otokage, and is preparing for the festivities.
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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:09 am
**These are only available to members of the Hidden Sound, unless taught, or given as the reward for a mission.
Weapons
Name: Hand Cuffs (Custom)
Type: Ranged
History: These Handcuffs were developed by the Otobe Clan, the current ruling body in the village hidden in the sound, and they were created to be used as the trademark weapon of it's Anbu unit equivalent, the Secret Police. They allow for the quick arrest and apprehension of traitors and seditious criminals who would oppose the Otobe's "fair and just" rule. While they are more famously a weapon of the Secret Police, they are also available for use by the villages other Shinobi.
Description: A four sided grip which allows the extension and retraction via chakra control of four long chains with cuffs at the end. Skilled users can immediately bring an untrained shinobi to the ground with relative ease, though they don't actually serve as very good offensive weapons unless put in the hands of a true master.
Damage: 2-5+dex mod
Range: 30 feet
Requirements: Chakra control 20 Dexterity 20
Acquisition: Available for free for all members of the Oto Secret Police, or for a fee from Oto weapon shops to Shinobi.
Special: This weapon allows for long distant grapple checks, as well as a +2 to grapple for every 10 points of skill with this weapon. May also be used in unison with the Jutsu "Ayame Tori" in substitute for the string. If used in this manner, the jutsu's damage is increased by weapon skill damage bonus, but the chakra cost is increased by 15 per turn, the half str mod normally added to the jutsu is not used.
Dual Wield razz ossible. -10 to all attack rolls, but +5 to all grapple rolls assuming both are used at once.
Owner: Otogakure
Jutsu
Kyomeisen (Vibrating Sound Drill)
An attack that involves the use of the sound amplifier, a device used to amplify and control the sound waves emitted from it to attack his opponent's sense of hearing. By damaging the victim's inner ear, the victim is rendered off-balance and nauseous.
Rank: D
Cp cost: 5 cp per attack.
Damage: Add chk mod to regular taijutsu damage
Reflex DC: n/a
Requirements: Otogakure, Sound amplifier, wind affinity, chakra control 15, ninjutsu 13
Training: 2 stages
Stage 1:, Chakra Control DC: 25, Feeding the sound amplifier with chakra.
Stage 2: Ninjutsu DC: 23, Directing sound waves to victim's eardrums.
Special: Activating this technique does not use an attack turn. All succesful hits reduce the victim's dodge bonus and reflex saves by 1 for this turn (adds up between attacks).
Oto Bunshin no Jutsu (Sound Doppelganger Technique)
Based off the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu created by the original leader of Oto, this jutsu also uses no direct element to create itself and has a chakra system all it’s own. The difference between this clone and the original is that once this clone is destroyed, instead of just vanishing in a puff of smoke, a loud burst of air shoots forth to push the opponent back as well as firing at a high pitch to damage the user’s eardrums. When combined with the explosive clone jutsu, this can be a very deadly clone to have.
Rank: B
Cp cost: 20 per bunshin and resulting CP divided by number of Clones created
Damage:
*Damage dealt by clones reduced by 25%.
*Popping damage = 30 - 50 + chk mod + 2 per 10 points in ninjutsu
Reflex DC: (versus user triggered pop) 14 + chk mod.
Requirements: Otogakure, Chakra 30, Chakra Control 25, Ninjutsu 30.
Training: 4 stages
Stage 1: Chakra DC: 20, Forming physical forms from chakra and air waves.
Stage 2: Chakra Control DC: 35, Building a working chakra system in each clone.
Stage 3: Ninjutsu DC: 40, Animating the clones.
Stage 4: Ninjutsu + Chakra Control DC: 65, Loading the clones with resounding air waves to cause sound explosion upon destruction of the bunshin.
Special:
*Clones can use any jutsu the user can so long as they have the CP.
*Any cutting/piercing will damage the integrity of the bunshin causing the unstable airwaves inside the clone to automatically trigger popping effect.
*Clone’s ‘popping’ is treated as a Ninjutsu attack and can be forcibly ‘popped’ but will only do half damage DC if they do hit.
*Clone HP: 50 + 2 per 10 in Chakra Control + 2 per 10 in Ninjutsu Skill + 1 per 10 CP over base CP
To See Through Clones: 15 + d20 + 1/2 the user's int mod + half the user's chk mod vs. d20 + opponent's int. mod. Opponent will target the real ninja among the clones.
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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:30 am
The Past
The beginnings of Oto were mired in dark days and dark deeds. It's founder, the First Otokage, Orochimaru the traitor Sennin of Kohnoha, was undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and powerful Shinobi of his time...but at what cost? After the defeat of their founder, and their crushing losses, the Hidden sound sank into reclusion...
After a hundred years of solitude, Oto opened up for business once more. The walled fortress of a village began doing missions for the Rice Country, causing a massive power shift from the Feudal Lord to the Merchant Alliance of the eastern coast. With the backing of the Merchant Alliance, who footed the bill of the massive uprising ninja village, the second Otokage set in motion the rise of the village hidden in the sound.
Fast forward now to the time that the Otobe clan bloomed within the walls of Otogakure. The clan was unknown to the second Otokage, and the Otobe only came back to Oto's service once the Third came into power. The skills shown in several Chuunin exams, and the odd sensing capabilities shown in many tracking missions, of that singular clan gave Oto that very much needed 'one-up' over Konoha's Uchiha clan.
After a short fifty years of peace, and a rising amount of graduating students from the academy, the Fifth found Orochimaru's hidden Kinjutsu scrolls. Upon studying those scrolls the Kage went insane and murdered twenty students at the Otogakure ninja academy- which sent reverberating messages through-out the ninja world. Then, when the Sixth Otokage was selected, the scrolls were destroyed...or so the village thought. The Kage made sure to keep the scrolls within a secret location, which was completely unknown to her fellow villagers. Evil was still afoot in Otogakure, and it could be felt by any who passed by its masterful walls and lanes.
Fast forward forty years, when the clan that had been a mere advantage to village had gained great prominence and status...the Otobe. And the Otobe clan had dsicovered that the Kage's had been concealing the hidden scrolls. The lie told to most of the clan was that they were intended to take the scrolls for the purposes of protecting them...but the leader of the clan at the time had other intentions. The Otobe rose, trying to defeat the Kage who they believed to be corrupt, and as a result, were defeated. Through a harrowing battle that took the lives of many elite Jounin annd nearly killed the Kage himself, the Otobe were cast back, and sent back into the shadows of defeat...exiled.
As a new Kage was chosen, after the exiling of the Otobe clan and few mysterious events which led to the death of the previous Kge, more clans, such as the highly skilled Hana clan, began to bloom in the promising village, which caused the village to become stronger with every passing day. More ninjas, more power, more missions, and more money began to thrush into the ninja village. Otogakure is a village that no one would cross, and even when there wasn't a Kage for roughly thirteen years the village was simply exploding into the world.
Or...so it was thought.
The rise of the Fifth Dawn the incident with the Master's let the world changed forever, and Otogakure was no exception. The Fifth Dawn claimed Otogakure as it's own for a time, offering it even further chance to prosper. Under a New Kage appointed by the Fifth dawn, the village served it's purposes toward their goals for some time, life going on as it would for the village hidden in the sound...
However... when Shou, the Kage appointed by the Fifth dawn chose to leave his appointed position and the alliance with the Fifth dawn was broken by the orginization's defeats and seclusion from the world at large, a new Otokage was appointed.
An Uchiha. Uchiha had carried on a branch in Oto for some time, almost since it's founding, and had provided many powerful shinobi to the villages ranks in the past. However, the last Uchiha to be a Kage had been the very one to exile the Otobe clan, a move which crippled the villages forces at the time, only saved by the Hana clan's rise to fill the gap.
Perhaps it was a sing of things to come...perhaps, because of the betrayal the first faced at the hands of the Uchiha, he truly had cursed the position of Kage for any and all Uchiha who would try to claim it...either way, dark times once more fell on the village. Though for a very long time Saiya Uchiha, the Kage chosen, led the people through times of peace and made her people happy...it was destined to all end in tragedy. A time of weakness and depression soon fell upon the village, the Otokage herself choosing, upon seeing the village withering away between her fingers, to mysteriously vanish... the Uchiha clan within the village vanishing along with her, if only to avoid the stigma which had been placed upon them in these hard times...
The Uchiha were, sadly, the scape goats for the people's suffering...and were no longer welcome in the village of the hidden sound...
However... happier times were on the Horizon.
In the midst of a dying village the shinobi ran low and Saiya no longer remained to be their leader. It was a time of silence and darkness in the village, where life was still and the once blossoming power had seemed to have reached it's crest and fall into decline. Otogakure needed a Kage, the villagers came together and elected one of the most powerful shinobi. A younger man, who was born off in the hills of the rice country. Okazai Kasuke, The Spirit of the Wind was instated as the 12th Otokage. His leadership brought untold prosperity and life renewed in the village.
Kasuke's philosophy was one of peace, his desire to see a world where war and Ninja were no longer nessecary, his desire to break the cycle of hate reminiscent of the ideals Kohnoha had preached so long ago. Oto was a place of peace and contentment...for a time.
With peace came a steep price. The village military weakened, the number shinobi low as it was. It seemed that the village may sink into more of a economic village than one of ninja. It was during this time that three young Ninja rose into the public eye, becoming symbol of young prodigies amidst the villages softer days. Less than a day after their acceptance as Genin the team had managed to bring to light a misunderstanding which had almost caused an invasion of an opposing Kage, exposing a cult and defeating one of their dangerous experiments while informing the two Kage's, Kasuke and the attacker, Nakamura of the waterfalls and the snow, of the truth before the two could finish the battle which they had begun fighting in earnest amidst the village streets. Together the two Kage's defeated the cultists, and after yet another incident later called "the second great misunderstanding" in which again, Team Four and certain ANBU played a small role in stopping the matter from turning violent, the two villages declared a peace treaty, the Tsuchikage himself showing up as well and actually sealing the matter with what he called "rock concert". Surrealism aside, it was another sign of peace.
Even while the Fire Daimyo rose with his infamous betrayal of the Hidden leaf just next store to them, the Rice remained peaceful for a few months, the worst crime occuring the rash of robberies conducted by the mysterious and rather well mannered "Phantom", who always provided the courtesy of warning people ahead of time before robbing them.
Though there was a brief stir when one of the Member's of Team Four claimed the Snake Contract of the First from the under the Mountain, the first to be accepted by them in centuries, it was more a sign of taking the old Oto and making it into something better...something new...
That attitude was challenged when the Fire Daimyo's war spilled over into Rice. The edges of the country faced invasion from desters and raiders, the peaceful Kasuke slow to act and put his Ninja at risk. Though one among Team Four, Kimiko Momoe, over the course of a year, earned much favor escorting and protecting refugee's and saving villages during this time, while her teammates were off either settling old scores or defeating Missing Nin organizations, it did little to bolster the Kage's reputation among the people.
Then, in a single night, everything changed.
The Otobe had returned. Leading an army of mercenaries and rogue Ninja, the Otobe took the village as bloodlessly as possible, their exceptionally skilled "Knight's of Forte" besting the village's remaining forces as the Knight's Leader, Orikami, was said to have engaged Kasuke himself in a battle unlike any seen for years. When the wind torm over Oto vanished...it's Kage seemed to have as well, the civilians captured by the strategies of the infamous, Kyojin of the Last Laugh, who had entered the Otobe's employ.
Many of the village's Ninja surrendered, but it's young Prodigies, now all the level of Jounin even though they were so young, the two eldest a mere 15, refused to give in. Team Four left the village that night, taking many lives in the process, and earning themselves there own titles in the process... The villages heroes had become Missing Nin...
And the Otobe...? With the death of the former Clan head in charge of the attack, his son, Orikami, took control. In a single night, a heart felt speech to the whole village and releasing the defeated Ninja unharmed, he declared that the Otobe would not be trying to oppress their fellow Otogakurans, nor take revenge, but take this opportunity to guide them all to a new future...
By sending the remnants of the Otobe's haired army to help the land of Rice reclaim it's borders, he has done much to fullfill that promise in their eyes...but this is only the beginning. He will restore Oto to greatest and protect every soul in it to his best ability... no matter what he must do to make it so...
The state in Oto is surprisingly calm considering the recent take over of the new Otobe regime, the Otobe's charismatic efforts to tame the populace and restore order and control the village working rather well given the words and actions of their newly instated leader, Orikami Otobe, current Clan head and newly instated Otokage.
The Shinobi of Old Oto are under surveillance, but seem to be allowed enough freedom to work much as they did before, regarding they follow the laws and order given them by the new Otokage. The exception to this is ANBU, which has been disbanded, expanded, and replaced with the mostly Otobe equivalent, the Otokagure secret police. The minimal damage from the invasion is mostly repaired, the bill for which has been covered by the Otobe themselves, and the attitude for the future at the moment seems very optimistic, though a few die hard supporters of the old regime have been quietly...apprehended and dealt with, it has not become widely known and is not a common topic for discussion.
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