Ricky and Flicky's Egg Emporium and Other Assorted Chicken Memorabilia
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RafEEaOACM (Said Rah-Fee-Cow-um) for short is a ramshackle building at best. It appears to be made of reclaimed materials found around the area and sways gently in the wind due to the foundations being rather weak. This effect is more noticeable the higher in the building one travels. On the ground floor there is a slight swaying from left to right whereas the top shifts back and forth.
The house which is the main building of Rafeekaom is rather large and easily houses a number of workers who do all appear to live in the shop and farmhouse.
Outside the farmhouse and close by is a pen which holds quite a number of chickens and seperately is another pen for cockerels. During the day the chickens are allowed to roam around but are kept seperate from the cocks.
Currently other than the homestead and pens the land is quite empty though a number of signs can be found on the dirty trail leading up to the homestead speaking of all sorts of tasks which are done here.
Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 7:45 am
Fine, Holin, Inaba and Liverlilly had now arrived at the empty plot of land. Empty that is to say except for the rubble, the burning cart wheel and a pack of wild dogs.
"Lads." Inaba turned to face his motley crew of misfits. "Laddettes." It did seem slightly rude to not include Holin in this task "I'll move the rubble. I need you lot to kill those dogs." Fine just smiled. Inaba considered again. He was definitely noticing something. Holin tapped him on the side and stood on her tiptoes while he leaned down to listen and nodded. So he could hear then? At once he began to trudge over to the dogs with Holin beside him. A strange set of events but as long as they did what they were told that was fine. [ Post 1 ]
Liverlilly on the other hand. He'd fallen asleep. Inaba was minded to kick him but he needed to put Liverlilly to work later. One kick too hard and he might never wake up. Inaba decided therefore to begin with the moving of the rubble while Holin and Fine seemed to be engaged in quite the battle. Was she drowning a dog on ground Inaba wondered? What did that girl have against dogs anyway? [ Post 2 ]
It wasn't long before Liverlilly awoke from his drunken sleep. Still out of his mind. That couldn't be a normal drink. Some extra strength stuff? Not meant for mortal hands. Inaba's concerns were not lessened when he saw that some of that alcohol had burnt the ground which it spilt on. Liverlilly stumbled over seemingly allowing himself to be drawn to the correct position and a perfect stop by his motion. "Booy. Booyuuuk" Liverlilly said and then proceeded to make a gagging motion as though he was about to throw up the contents of his stomach before mercifully stopping just short and sucking spit back into his mouth. "Ah can'uht be doahn thissh meni-meni-schuuite. Ah promise. Ah'll..." The drunkard collapsed asleep again and Inaba reflexively took a step back. "Great. Useless." [Post 3]
Well at least the dog problem seemed to be getting better Inaba thought as he picked up a stone and then lobbed it away into the road. That's the road's problem now. He thought defensively to himself. Things seemed to be moving smoothly though there were an awful lot of dog carcasses now. What do do with those? [ post 4]
"Chickens are carnivores right? They eat worms." Inaba said to the pair as he chopped the dogs apart with his spear into smaller and smaller chunks. "I wanted that." Holin trailed something off that Inaba didn't quite catch. I wanted that? That couldn't be right. Who would want to eat stray dogs he thought as he cleaned the meat up. "Remember it's for the chickens." Inaba said before turning away to work on other important aspects of the building. [ Post 5]
Using the rubble of old buildings Inaba had constructed the skeleton of a homestead for the new chicken farmers. Now he just needed to layer the floorboards and build up the rest of the building. Per the deed to the property Inaba held he knew that he technically owned this plot of land up to the heavens and all the minerals rights below it. He intended therefore to get the maximum usage out of this land. They would build upwards and downwards. Upwards for more space and downwards to create a fake basement so that the building could be used for its true purpose. [ Post 6 ]
With the skeleton constructed in plain view Inaba now began constructing the actual farmstead. Once again it was not long before Inaba had constructed the building using the materials he'd recycled. Clearly there had been another building (or several) here at some point so it was not too hard for him to put together the building. Fine and Holin assisted as best they could though Inaba was a remarkably fast worker [ Post 7]
Now it came to their sign. Inaba and Contentious had both agreed to use pseudonyms rather than their real names. They had been calling eachother "Ricky and Flicky" which really didn't sound like real names but who was asking frankly? Inaba climbed up to the top of the building and affixed the sign in place. [ Post 8 ]
"Great Buddha above have mercy" Inaba shouted privately into a wall as he was finishing up. He was now creating a set of pens for the chickens out of some barber wire he'd found somewhere and which he'd managed to unwind into perfectly safe wire. The chickens were placed in the cages and left outside. Hopefully the dog would keep the chickens fed for the rest of today. [ post 9 ]
Finally Inaba finished his work by building a bed for Liverlilly and the rest of his workers and one for Contentious. There would be nobody sleeping in the same bed here so Inaba made sure to ensure all the beds were narrow enough that two people were extremely uncomfortable but just big enough to fit one body. Sex meant less work was being done. Joy was outlawed in the realm of Ricky and Flicky's Egg Emporium and Other Assorted Chicken Memorabilia Incorporated Limited Liability Company.[Post 10]
Contentious Senya and Gaunt roughly followed the road back to the new plot of land for Ricky and Flicky's Egg Emporium and Other Assorted Chicken Memorabilia. She dropped the goods near the entrance and sent Gaunt to set up the kitchen area to store the gains they had gotten. Five gallons of canola oil, five gallons of milk, five pounds of chicken meat, and five pounds of beef. The scrolls would find their way to Inaba as well, with Contentious keeping her own set in what looked to be a shared room with Pollin Izi.
"Oi oi, this chicken pen ain't big nuff, we gotta make good use of our acres! Also I think we should have one or two acres as dedicated forest lands. That way the chickens can just forage on insects n' stuff. I know a gal who can probably set us up maybe if we ask nicely." Contentious said loudly enough for everyone to hear. Well first, she would go ahead and set up a fence around the perimeter of their property. Free-range chickens were supposedly the best, and at least it opened up the market towards people who sought humanely sourced eggs and what-not.
"Hey don't come near this quadrant back here I'm gonna rain bones to use as fencing material some of y'all would die if it hit ya!" Contentious Kags yelled again for everyone's benefit. Walking about an acre away, she gathered her chakra in a dense orb of bone in one hand and threw it up into the air. [ Dance of the Jabilo ] rained down hundreds of bone spikes, slightly altered to better suit her use as building material. She repeated this process two more times to get a satisfactory amount of bones and began fencing the area, spacing it tightly like planks so that not even baby chickens could slip through. The bone planks were about five feet tall. Likely still jumpable for the chickens but they would be trained to not do that.
After setting up the perimeter of bones, Kaguya could perform some training.
Senya began preparing for the Dance of the Blood Orchid: Inspirational Clone. She had been told of this technique previously. While freaky to think about, she had to visualize her skeleton taking on life of its own. Her own? [1] For a difficult technique like this, going over the theory first was important. She would use chakra to allow her skeleton to step outside of her body without causing damage. Then she needed to immediately replace it, perhaps replace it as she went. [2] Failure to replace her skeleton would probably lead to her being immediately crippled. Or killed. Senya really did not want to collapse in a pile of boneless human goop. She would practice it first on small bits. [3] She took out her own fingers first. There was a tingling sensation where the finger bone on her left index departed from her actual finger. A split second of droopiness and she regenerated the bone, creating a split bone situation. [4] This was not a fast enough regeneration and she practiced speeding up so the bone regeneration happened instantaneously, directly alongside the bone leaving her body. After repeating this enough, she felt confident enough to try out the entire technique. Forming the handsigns with one hand, Senya stepped aside and replenished her own bones to maintain form. It worked! A fully functional skeleton clone that mirrored her movements and took commands stood before her. [5. Technique Learned: -160 Chakra]
Afterwards was Dance of the Blood Orchid: Festival of the Dead. Again, she would start with the theory behind the technique before attempting it. Fortunately, this was more forgiving of failure than the previous one. [1] Festival of the Dead involved creating limbs of bones, like arms and legs, that extended from the user’s body. These limbs lasted for some amount of time and could be used to attack. Senya wasn’t 100% sold on this technique the more she reviewed it. [2] The limbs could extend and do regular physical offenses. Aside from the extension, they did not have too much going for them. She might be able to make a custom technique with that extension in mind though. [3] Well no matter, tradition was tradition. This was part of the Kaguya bloodline curriculum she had been adopted into. As she began to focus, exerting both chakra and physical stamina, bone limbs began to grow and extend from her body. [4] She tried them out and found them relatively easy to use, though at quite the cost. They absorbed her physical stamina to perform attacks as well. She tried out a few basic punches and quicks as well as general utility things, such as picking up items, before being satisfied with her mastery of the technique. [5. Technique Learned: -80 Chakra, -80 Stamina]
Finally, one of the keystones of the Kaguya clan was the ability to regenerate lost limbs. As before, she reviewed the workings of the technique. It first required a meditative state, meaning concentration was important. [1] Afterwards, it caused regeneration starting from the bone. This was a logical sort of technique. The Kaguya always had an innate ability to regenerate their flesh and bones after they removed them for usage. [2] This was a concentrated, focused version of that to recover from severe damage. It gave them staying power, so long as they left with their life they could come back from it. She wondered if her implants would be restorable with this technique. Best not to try her luck there. [3] Senya grimaced at the thought of what was to come. To confirm mastery, she’d need to regenerate a limb or an organ. Which meant one of those had to be damaged badly enough that she could be sure it was the technique providing the regeneration. [4] Quickly, she ripped out her left eye. Senya figured she had enough anyways that if she failed she’d be fine. As the sudden pain coursed through her, she entered a meditative state to calm the screaming bleeding nerves. Focusing on her missing eye, she regenerated it as best she could. [5. Technique Learned: -160 Chakra] Afterwards, Senya took some time to recover from the ordeal. Opening her new left eye, she laughed outwardly at the gamble and the success.
She'd take a decent rest to recover her Chakra after the exertion before going back to seeing Inaba's progress. Setting up a business was no easy task.
OoC:
Learned: [ Dance of the Blood Orchid: Inspirational Clone ], [ Dance of the Blood Orchid: Festival of the Dead ], and [ Dance of the Blood Orchid: Regeneration ]. Kaguya Clan Bloodline Taijutsu Style learned.
• Byakugan Implant: [ Inactive, One Covered on Forehead, one Hidden ] • Current Armor: [ Unarmored ] • Activated Techniques: [ N/A ]
Koukou [ Taking the Field First ] Rank: E :: Training Description: The user acclimates to using their weapon as a baseball bat, at least as much as they can stand to do so. Projectile techniques lose all descriptive bonuses against the user, and techniques involving a bat or club used to defend against projectile techniques are considered a rank stronger. Only effective against techniques up to the highest trained rank in this Style. Shigaisen [ Street Fighting ] Rank: C :: Training Description: The user hones their strength and endurance by beating people up and getting beaten up. After completing this training, the user gains one descriptive rank in strength and incoming physical attacks lose one descriptive rank in strength against the user per learned stage in this Style. Zanshin [ Follow-Through ] Rank: B :: Training Description: The user trains by beating people into the ground with their club or bat. Following completion of this training, should an enemy come into contact with a solid surface after suffering knockback from one of the user's techniques, they take one rank's worth of damage for every two meters of remaining knockback distance. (Ex.: They got knocked backward 6 meters, but struck a wall after only 2 meters. They take a D-Rank amount of damage, one rank for every two remaining meters.)
Meisterschaft [ Mastery ] Rank: S :: Training Description: Achieving this level of technical mastery allows the wielder of the longsword to wield his blade in one hand, and to make his strike in conjunction with an offhand item, but when wielding in a single hand, Preferred Stance bonuses are not applied. This mastery also grants a passive +50 Chakra for each physical style Mastered (This bonus chakra does not stack with any other Per Mastery Chakra increases.
Thread Walking Rank: C :: Training Description: By using Chakra to focus the mind, the user becomes able to balance enough on thin platforms to use Bukijutsu techniques without any penalties. Covers only balancing on solid structures at least one inch wide, not moving or unstable structures. Also allows the user to balance and move on wires during its activation. Advanced Thread Walking Rank: A :: Training Description: The user is now able to both run and fight while balancing on threads and wires without penalties, though doing these things at the same time is widely regarded as infeasible.
Offensive Style: Two-fer-One Rank: C :: Training Description: The practitioner is now accustomed to performing techniques they have mastered with either one or two knives. Once per post, the user may use a single D-Rank or lower technique from this Style without paying the cost. Trick Style: Blade’s Edge Rank: B :: Training Description: The practitioner has developed an even greater sense of precision and is now 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. Confers a slight increase to the user's reflexes. Trick Style: Retreating Feet Rank: B :: Training Description: The practitioner, already acquainted with 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. The practitioner's footsteps are rendered silent to all who do not have enhanced hearing, and the footsteps they leave in soft ground are shallow. This not only assists their ability to sneak up on people faster and quieter, but also helps when running from trackers. Offensive Style: Stepless Rank: A :: Training Description: The practitioner has become so used to performing quick and silent steps that they scarcely realize that they themselves are moving. The user's speed and reflexes are mildly boosted. Defensive Style: Plucking Roses Rank: S :: Training Description: The practitioner is so well developed in their art that they are now able to snatch shuriken, kunai, senbon, and other such projectiles straight from the air. This requires the user expend Stamina equivalent to one rank below the rank of the incoming projectile.
Insight Rain Rank: B :: Training Description: The user will practice extending themselves into the atmosphere, in a sense. After much dedication, the user develops the ability to sense hostile intent in the immediate area. As to where, however, they cannot be sure.
Skill: Multitasking Rank: C :: Training Description: While the first two stages of the style revolve around the very basics of how to use a bow, the third stage incorporates the use multiple arrows into a more stylish way of battling. Mastery allows the user to simultaneously fire multiple arrows with any technique that does not specifically state otherwise, and allows the Arrow Creation technique to create up to three arrows at once with no increase in cost. Skill: Manipulation Rank: B :: Training Description: Manipulating the bow itself is simple, but controlling the arrows is very difficult. Many enhancements can be made to arrows to give them different flight paths, but buying those kinds of arrows is expensive and making them is difficult, so a method was developed wherein the user can freely alter how an arrow flies without need for such trifles. During this training, the user practices firing arrows with abnormal hand positions. Reduces the Stamina cost of bow-related Bukijutsu techniques (including Formless Styles) by 10 Stamina, to a minimum of 5 Stamina. Skill: Adaptability Rank: A :: Training Description: For the most part, the style thus far has focused on techniques to be used while stationary. However, this leads to many problems when fighting alone in situations that demand frequent movement. During this training exercise, the practitioner is to practice all known techniques while running, jumping, and maneuvering across a battlefield. After mastery, the user can align shots even while running and jumping, allowing them to keep the bonuses of the last stance they entered even while moving.
True Belief Rank: S :: Training Description: The user has meditated and trained long enough in this monk art to understand how important true belief is. By understanding the power of the spirit over the mind, and the mind over the body, the user has increased their stamina by sheer will power alone, as well as increased their toughness and durability. Increases Stamina by +25 for every style mastered.
9 Post Reduction for Seishun no Hikou (3 posts per S-rank technique) Contentious Kagsenyammer looked to the rough-and-tumble fighting style of Seishun no Hikou, the Delinquency of Youth. As a former street urchin and self-affiliated wanderer, it was no surprise she felt a draw. The first step was simply preparing her blunt weapon by creating a sword and then reversing it to use the blunt end as a club. [1] This one was a method of reinforcing the bone club or bat with chakra to make defending difficult. It almost demanded the enemy dodge. The chakra in the club would deal additional, though lesser, damage to the opponent’s blocking appendage. [2] Contentious focused her chakra into the bone club. As it filled, she practiced some swings at a nearby training post (made of bone of course). The impact and damage done was far greater and she practiced swings until it ran out. [3 --- Chigatana learned: -80 Chakra, -80 Stamina]
The next technique was one of blood-rage and adrenaline. As she was just training, she needed to figure out a way to trigger it. It was a high level technique that required a lot of energy. [1] This energy must then be channeled into the body. Yet the energy wouldn’t manifest without a trigger of some sort. Hmm… if she recalled, she had previously learned the Ryuuketsuzata technique that allowed her to break out of genjutsu by bloodying oneself, which was great as one who carried the bloodline of the Kaguya. [2] Focusing on such, she performed a D-rank Ryuuketsuzata on herself [-5 Chakra, -5 Stamina] to get a basic bleed going. It cleared her mind. What was left, she focused and dumped a high amount of Chakra into for the S-rank technique and activated Chimamare no Tsuppari! [3 --- Bloodstained Delinquent learned: -160 Chakra, Style mastered].
9 Post Reduction for HnS (3 posts) --- Training with Bear, -11 post reduction total (1 post each) 8 posts to train A-rank summon
After resting up a bit, Contentious decided that the best way to conclude her training was to bring in someone who was also familiar with the style of Hagane no Shunkan. Finding an open spot, Contentious bit her thumb and performed the Kuchiyose no Jutsu. In a puff of smoke, a large panda sat on the ground. [1] This was Kuminji, the king of the pandas who dwelled in the Bear Forest Sage Lands. Wearing a traditional samurai haori and carrying a giant blade of magical bamboo, the panda large enough to fit in a city plaza chewed a spear of bamboo absentmindedly. ”Ah, greetings Sage Senya. How may I be of assistance?” Kuminji asked, pulling his bear legs into a crisscross position. [2]
”Hey hey, yo yo. Look here Kunminji-san, I’m hoping you’d be up for being a Kunminji-sensei for a little bit. I’ve been trying to understand the last few pieces of Hagane no Shunkan yeah and it’d be a great favor to me if you helped.” Contentious replied.
”Oho, a great favor is it? How could I refuse. Draw!” Defying his large size, Kunminji suddenly went from sitting and relaxed to have drawn himself upright with his bamboo sword held in both hands. If it was animated, there’d only be maybe 4 in-between frames from his initial to his final position. Contentious had to give an appreciate whistle. [3]
Contentious drew a sword of bone from within her body and readied it quickly in response. She charged her physical state with chakra and stamina, trying out the theory behind Moment of Steel. Completing it, Contentious felt herself faster and more reflexive. [4. Moment of Steel Learned. -80 Chakra, -80 Stamina]
Next, Kunminji explained the Bolting Stance to her. She lowered her center of gravity and leaned forward, keeping her bone sword in line with her rear leg. At S-rank, she felt the build up of speed inherent with the stance, ready for a serious attack. [5. Bolting Stance learned. -160 Stamina]
Following up the Bolting Stance was a technique to take advantage of its speed. From the ready position, Contentious swing her blade at a practice bone-dummy and unleashed Chakra. With the double rank increase in speed from Bolting Stance, a wave of energy out to twelve meters as it rapidly launched. Kunminji nodded, impressed. [6. Offense of Steel learned. -80 Chakra, -80 Stamina]
The King of Pandas then gave her tips on making her blade sharper, and readily able to cut through armor. With his help, she refined the flow of chakra into her bone-sword. Finally, she readied it and practiced a few swings, slicing through her armored bones as though they were one-rank weaker with her formless slashes. [7. Vorpal Blade learned. -160 Chakra]
Kunminji grinned a toothy one. He did so enjoy teaching, especially to a gifted learner. ”Let us race then, with this final technique. Watch me, then follow my lead.” He prepared a step and suddenly blurred. Contentious blinked and realized that the blur was just the after-image from the technique. ”Woah woah! Wait do it again I blinked or something!” She protested out of shock, even as her subconscious registered the technique. When Kunminji reappeared to explain it to her, she quickly got the basic concept of the Movement of Steel. Counting down from three, the two of them raced off from one end of the fenced land to the other. [8. Movement of Steel learned. Hagane no Shunkan mastered. -160 Stamina]
Having completed their bonding through training, Contentious bowed formally and thanked Kunminji for his time before he poofed back home.
Having completed her next set of training, Contentious returned back to the main building/dormitory/store front for the Egg Emporium to see the status of its construction.
OoC:
Learned: Stage Six of Hagane no Shunkan and Seishun no Hikou. Bonded with Kunminji (A-rank Bear Summon)
• Byakugan Implant: [ Inactive, One Covered on Forehead, one Hidden ] • Current Armor: [ Unarmored ] • Activated Techniques: [ N/A ]
Koukou [ Taking the Field First ] Rank: E :: Training Description: The user acclimates to using their weapon as a baseball bat, at least as much as they can stand to do so. Projectile techniques lose all descriptive bonuses against the user, and techniques involving a bat or club used to defend against projectile techniques are considered a rank stronger. Only effective against techniques up to the highest trained rank in this Style. Shigaisen [ Street Fighting ] Rank: C :: Training Description: The user hones their strength and endurance by beating people up and getting beaten up. After completing this training, the user gains one descriptive rank in strength and incoming physical attacks lose one descriptive rank in strength against the user per learned stage in this Style. Zanshin [ Follow-Through ] Rank: B :: Training Description: The user trains by beating people into the ground with their club or bat. Following completion of this training, should an enemy come into contact with a solid surface after suffering knockback from one of the user's techniques, they take one rank's worth of damage for every two meters of remaining knockback distance. (Ex.: They got knocked backward 6 meters, but struck a wall after only 2 meters. They take a D-Rank amount of damage, one rank for every two remaining meters.)
Meisterschaft [ Mastery ] Rank: S :: Training Description: Achieving this level of technical mastery allows the wielder of the longsword to wield his blade in one hand, and to make his strike in conjunction with an offhand item, but when wielding in a single hand, Preferred Stance bonuses are not applied. This mastery also grants a passive +50 Chakra for each physical style Mastered (This bonus chakra does not stack with any other Per Mastery Chakra increases.
Thread Walking Rank: C :: Training Description: By using Chakra to focus the mind, the user becomes able to balance enough on thin platforms to use Bukijutsu techniques without any penalties. Covers only balancing on solid structures at least one inch wide, not moving or unstable structures. Also allows the user to balance and move on wires during its activation. Advanced Thread Walking Rank: A :: Training Description: The user is now able to both run and fight while balancing on threads and wires without penalties, though doing these things at the same time is widely regarded as infeasible.
Offensive Style: Two-fer-One Rank: C :: Training Description: The practitioner is now accustomed to performing techniques they have mastered with either one or two knives. Once per post, the user may use a single D-Rank or lower technique from this Style without paying the cost. Trick Style: Blade’s Edge Rank: B :: Training Description: The practitioner has developed an even greater sense of precision and is now 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. Confers a slight increase to the user's reflexes. Trick Style: Retreating Feet Rank: B :: Training Description: The practitioner, already acquainted with 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. The practitioner's footsteps are rendered silent to all who do not have enhanced hearing, and the footsteps they leave in soft ground are shallow. This not only assists their ability to sneak up on people faster and quieter, but also helps when running from trackers. Offensive Style: Stepless Rank: A :: Training Description: The practitioner has become so used to performing quick and silent steps that they scarcely realize that they themselves are moving. The user's speed and reflexes are mildly boosted. Defensive Style: Plucking Roses Rank: S :: Training Description: The practitioner is so well developed in their art that they are now able to snatch shuriken, kunai, senbon, and other such projectiles straight from the air. This requires the user expend Stamina equivalent to one rank below the rank of the incoming projectile.
Insight Rain Rank: B :: Training Description: The user will practice extending themselves into the atmosphere, in a sense. After much dedication, the user develops the ability to sense hostile intent in the immediate area. As to where, however, they cannot be sure.
Skill: Multitasking Rank: C :: Training Description: While the first two stages of the style revolve around the very basics of how to use a bow, the third stage incorporates the use multiple arrows into a more stylish way of battling. Mastery allows the user to simultaneously fire multiple arrows with any technique that does not specifically state otherwise, and allows the Arrow Creation technique to create up to three arrows at once with no increase in cost. Skill: Manipulation Rank: B :: Training Description: Manipulating the bow itself is simple, but controlling the arrows is very difficult. Many enhancements can be made to arrows to give them different flight paths, but buying those kinds of arrows is expensive and making them is difficult, so a method was developed wherein the user can freely alter how an arrow flies without need for such trifles. During this training, the user practices firing arrows with abnormal hand positions. Reduces the Stamina cost of bow-related Bukijutsu techniques (including Formless Styles) by 10 Stamina, to a minimum of 5 Stamina. Skill: Adaptability Rank: A :: Training Description: For the most part, the style thus far has focused on techniques to be used while stationary. However, this leads to many problems when fighting alone in situations that demand frequent movement. During this training exercise, the practitioner is to practice all known techniques while running, jumping, and maneuvering across a battlefield. After mastery, the user can align shots even while running and jumping, allowing them to keep the bonuses of the last stance they entered even while moving.
True Belief Rank: S :: Training Description: The user has meditated and trained long enough in this monk art to understand how important true belief is. By understanding the power of the spirit over the mind, and the mind over the body, the user has increased their stamina by sheer will power alone, as well as increased their toughness and durability. Increases Stamina by +25 for every style mastered.
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Zets strolled into the store front with one think on his mind ‘FOOD!’
Only... there wasn’t the slightest aroma of meat being cooked. And to make things worse, it reeked of livestock here! Luckily there was a rather tall woman inside of the establishment, and she looked around as if she should be wearing a white construction hat. “tell me you serve grilled meat here! I was told the quality here has been making waves the last few days.”
Zets appear to be in a weakened state, like he hadn’t t eaten or drank in days. His cheeks were a bit sunken in, and his stomach was louder than his voice.
“please! I have more than enough cash!” He said placing a hand on the bag slung around his shoulder. The hunger was surely affecting him. He’d never been foolish enough to openly show his funds, but right now a meal was priceless.
Inaba noticed now the first customer they'd had in days. Clearly the workers had done a good job spreading rumours about the leftover meat and had done rather a good job of it too.
"Fine." Came the voice from another room. "Fetch that man some of our mystery meat. The best bits you can find." Inaba had heard the word "cash" and the pleading tone of the man's voice even though he had not come out to meet him yet. Inaba did intend to keep it that way.
Fine, the supposed mute, came out quickly and ushered Zetsu to a table with a piping hot bowl of mysterious chunks of meat bathed in rice. The chickens here were not for eating. They were precious sources of money. With just a little grain they could make new chickens to lay yet more eggs. Why give that up to some guy who was all too willing to flash his cash about? Inaba was doubtful that this Zetsu would know what dog meat tasted like anyway especially with all the flavouring they'd added to it.
"Honlin. Keep an eye on our customer. Don't let him out without him paying his bill." Inaba whispered to the shark woman. Not as though Contentious was going to let him get away so easily anyway.
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As food was being prepared, the aroma of grilled mead and spices filled the air, luring Zets into a mesmerized state. It had felt like hours before a speechless man showed him to a table, when in fact, the meal was prepared quite quickly.
“Thank you for the meal” Zets uttered quickly before digging into the bowl like a savage given chopsticks. The bowl was lifted to his lips and tilted toward the black hole, that was his mouth, while the the chopsticks scooped mounds of meat and rice into his gullet. The flavoring of the meat was delicious... yet the texture was foreign to him. Still this proved to be a non-issue for the hungry young traveler, as the to bowl was scraped clean within a few short minutes.
“Your hospitality is quite refreshing. And the meal quite... unique. My thanks to the chef.” Zets said looking around the shop. It was only now with a clear mind that he could tell that this place was still under construction, people hard at work even while he ate. “Im sure this will be more than sufficient payment.” Zets said placing a small stack of Ryo on the table, before rising to his feet. He wouldn’t pull the funds from the bag, and they appeared to come from nowhere. A clever sleight if hand by the traveler.
“What exactly is this place? Doesn’t look like the restaurant I heard of, from that dirty guy in town.”
Contentious had spent the days since establishing the shop to build and train for the most part. In fact she planned to take a trip to the Bear Forest at some point, leaving the day-to-day operations to Inaba and Honlin. So she was unsure about what this gaunt-looking man, Zetsu, was going on about when he showed up. Inaba on the other hand did seem to know. Contentious kept an eye on him through her mask as she placed more material to reinforce the bone fence around the perimeter. What Contentious did catch was the size of the cash sack the man was carrying.
She went inside to find one of the many paint-on-wood signs the duo had worked on. Let's see... "Expert Handyman For Hire", "SALES DAY!", "New Dojo Location! Come Learn Drunken Fist, Evenings and Weekends!" (a particularly messy sign as Liverlilly had made it and was drunk at the time and probably still is drunk right now), and ahh there it is "Ricky and Flicky's Intervillage Dosh Depository and Assorted Stock Options (name pending)" with name pending appended on the end with a sticky note. She awaited the right time for Zets to finish his meal, as interrupting someone, especially a hungry person, who was eating was a good way to set them on edge. Or at least it was a good way to set her on edge.
"That's not worth worrying about. What you should worry about instead is that!" Contentious marched out, sign slung across her shoulder. She imitated a finger gun and pointed it at the bag Zets claimed held his funds earlier with a wink and a snap. She didn't notice any village headband on the man, which meant... "For too long Wanderers and unaffiliated ninjas have had to carry their dosh, a heavy affair, on their person or hide them from prying eyes and stealing hands in inconvenient locations like the bottom of a river or in a volcano. Ricky and Flicky say no more!" She planted the bank sign into the ground a few feet away.
"Open an account today! We also have contractual stock options, for the advanced specialists." She was unclear what those were but Inaba and the secretary at the Takumi City Hall had spoken of them and why not.
Pad Chief
Might Senju Flowers
OoC:
• Byakugan Implant: [ Inactive, One Covered on Forehead, one Hidden ] • Current Armor: [ Unarmored ] • Activated Techniques: [ N/A ]
Koukou [ Taking the Field First ] Rank: E :: Training Description: The user acclimates to using their weapon as a baseball bat, at least as much as they can stand to do so. Projectile techniques lose all descriptive bonuses against the user, and techniques involving a bat or club used to defend against projectile techniques are considered a rank stronger. Only effective against techniques up to the highest trained rank in this Style. Shigaisen [ Street Fighting ] Rank: C :: Training Description: The user hones their strength and endurance by beating people up and getting beaten up. After completing this training, the user gains one descriptive rank in strength and incoming physical attacks lose one descriptive rank in strength against the user per learned stage in this Style. Zanshin [ Follow-Through ] Rank: B :: Training Description: The user trains by beating people into the ground with their club or bat. Following completion of this training, should an enemy come into contact with a solid surface after suffering knockback from one of the user's techniques, they take one rank's worth of damage for every two meters of remaining knockback distance. (Ex.: They got knocked backward 6 meters, but struck a wall after only 2 meters. They take a D-Rank amount of damage, one rank for every two remaining meters.)
Meisterschaft [ Mastery ] Rank: S :: Training Description: Achieving this level of technical mastery allows the wielder of the longsword to wield his blade in one hand, and to make his strike in conjunction with an offhand item, but when wielding in a single hand, Preferred Stance bonuses are not applied. This mastery also grants a passive +50 Chakra for each physical style Mastered (This bonus chakra does not stack with any other Per Mastery Chakra increases. Zucken [ Tugging ] Rank: A :: Training Description: A teaching of interactions between blades, traditionally used when two blades end up in a strong bind, the practitioner must learn when to draw their blade to a weaker leverage to disengage and return pressure. This teaching is fundamental in matching versus other techniques in general, mastering this teaching leads to Simple and Complex techniques defeating matching Physical or Formless techniques.
Thread Walking Rank: C :: Training Description: By using Chakra to focus the mind, the user becomes able to balance enough on thin platforms to use Bukijutsu techniques without any penalties. Covers only balancing on solid structures at least one inch wide, not moving or unstable structures. Also allows the user to balance and move on wires during its activation. Advanced Thread Walking Rank: A :: Training Description: The user is now able to both run and fight while balancing on threads and wires without penalties, though doing these things at the same time is widely regarded as infeasible.
Offensive Style: Two-fer-One Rank: C :: Training Description: The practitioner is now accustomed to performing techniques they have mastered with either one or two knives. Once per post, the user may use a single D-Rank or lower technique from this Style without paying the cost. Trick Style: Blade’s Edge Rank: B :: Training Description: The practitioner has developed an even greater sense of precision and is now 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. Confers a slight increase to the user's reflexes. Trick Style: Retreating Feet Rank: B :: Training Description: The practitioner, already acquainted with 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. The practitioner's footsteps are rendered silent to all who do not have enhanced hearing, and the footsteps they leave in soft ground are shallow. This not only assists their ability to sneak up on people faster and quieter, but also helps when running from trackers. Offensive Style: Stepless Rank: A :: Training Description: The practitioner has become so used to performing quick and silent steps that they scarcely realize that they themselves are moving. The user's speed and reflexes are mildly boosted. Defensive Style: Plucking Roses Rank: S :: Training Description: The practitioner is so well developed in their art that they are now able to snatch shuriken, kunai, senbon, and other such projectiles straight from the air. This requires the user expend Stamina equivalent to one rank below the rank of the incoming projectile.
Insight Rain Rank: B :: Training Description: The user will practice extending themselves into the atmosphere, in a sense. After much dedication, the user develops the ability to sense hostile intent in the immediate area. As to where, however, they cannot be sure.
Skill: Multitasking Rank: C :: Training Description: While the first two stages of the style revolve around the very basics of how to use a bow, the third stage incorporates the use multiple arrows into a more stylish way of battling. Mastery allows the user to simultaneously fire multiple arrows with any technique that does not specifically state otherwise, and allows the Arrow Creation technique to create up to three arrows at once with no increase in cost. Skill: Manipulation Rank: B :: Training Description: Manipulating the bow itself is simple, but controlling the arrows is very difficult. Many enhancements can be made to arrows to give them different flight paths, but buying those kinds of arrows is expensive and making them is difficult, so a method was developed wherein the user can freely alter how an arrow flies without need for such trifles. During this training, the user practices firing arrows with abnormal hand positions. Reduces the Stamina cost of bow-related Bukijutsu techniques (including Formless Styles) by 10 Stamina, to a minimum of 5 Stamina. Skill: Adaptability Rank: A :: Training Description: For the most part, the style thus far has focused on techniques to be used while stationary. However, this leads to many problems when fighting alone in situations that demand frequent movement. During this training exercise, the practitioner is to practice all known techniques while running, jumping, and maneuvering across a battlefield. After mastery, the user can align shots even while running and jumping, allowing them to keep the bonuses of the last stance they entered even while moving.
True Belief Rank: S :: Training Description: The user has meditated and trained long enough in this monk art to understand how important true belief is. By understanding the power of the spirit over the mind, and the mind over the body, the user has increased their stamina by sheer will power alone, as well as increased their toughness and durability. Increases Stamina by +25 for every style mastered.
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Zets had to say, he was quite impressed with the pitch, but was quite weary of the amount of services this place offered. “stretching yourself a bit are you not?” Zets said with a curiously amused smile creeping across his face.
The woman’s charisma was enough to warrant the thought of trusting his earnings to this establishment. After all, it was no simple task to open a business within this city, nor would it be wise to ruin good business after putting in such an effort to build from the ground up. “regardless, you seem to have quite the ambitious business venture. I’m Zets of Shishin, and you?” The young man said with an outstretched hand. A sign that he was willing to accept the partnership.
"Friends call me many things, Zets of Shishin. Since we're talking 'bout honest business here, you can call me Flicky." Contentious reached out and shook the offered hand, a smile visible in her eyes as she saw her sales pitch have some influence. That was good, she came up with a few minutes ago. "Oh no, not at all. We may wear lots of hats, but we run a tight ship. Part of an organization, Shishin, you said? I've heard a bit about you boys, let's talk shop then." She had a direct blood tie with one Taketori Kaguya, though she herself was not a natural-born member of the clan. Aside from that, she had heard of their reputation from rumors coming out of Gimangakure. With Ricky and Flicky's expansionist ambitions, perhaps it was time to find allies.
There wasn't really a chair to pull up, so Contentious jumped atop the sign she had planted earlier and squatted, balanced carefully upon it. "And what business does Shishin want with Ricky and Flicky? We have much to offer."
Pad Chief
Might Senju Flowers
OoC:
• Byakugan Implant: [ Inactive, One Covered on Forehead, one Hidden ] • Current Armor: [ Unarmored ] • Activated Techniques: [ N/A ]
Koukou [ Taking the Field First ] Rank: E :: Training Description: The user acclimates to using their weapon as a baseball bat, at least as much as they can stand to do so. Projectile techniques lose all descriptive bonuses against the user, and techniques involving a bat or club used to defend against projectile techniques are considered a rank stronger. Only effective against techniques up to the highest trained rank in this Style. Shigaisen [ Street Fighting ] Rank: C :: Training Description: The user hones their strength and endurance by beating people up and getting beaten up. After completing this training, the user gains one descriptive rank in strength and incoming physical attacks lose one descriptive rank in strength against the user per learned stage in this Style. Zanshin [ Follow-Through ] Rank: B :: Training Description: The user trains by beating people into the ground with their club or bat. Following completion of this training, should an enemy come into contact with a solid surface after suffering knockback from one of the user's techniques, they take one rank's worth of damage for every two meters of remaining knockback distance. (Ex.: They got knocked backward 6 meters, but struck a wall after only 2 meters. They take a D-Rank amount of damage, one rank for every two remaining meters.)
Meisterschaft [ Mastery ] Rank: S :: Training Description: Achieving this level of technical mastery allows the wielder of the longsword to wield his blade in one hand, and to make his strike in conjunction with an offhand item, but when wielding in a single hand, Preferred Stance bonuses are not applied. This mastery also grants a passive +50 Chakra for each physical style Mastered (This bonus chakra does not stack with any other Per Mastery Chakra increases. Zucken [ Tugging ] Rank: A :: Training Description: A teaching of interactions between blades, traditionally used when two blades end up in a strong bind, the practitioner must learn when to draw their blade to a weaker leverage to disengage and return pressure. This teaching is fundamental in matching versus other techniques in general, mastering this teaching leads to Simple and Complex techniques defeating matching Physical or Formless techniques.
Thread Walking Rank: C :: Training Description: By using Chakra to focus the mind, the user becomes able to balance enough on thin platforms to use Bukijutsu techniques without any penalties. Covers only balancing on solid structures at least one inch wide, not moving or unstable structures. Also allows the user to balance and move on wires during its activation. Advanced Thread Walking Rank: A :: Training Description: The user is now able to both run and fight while balancing on threads and wires without penalties, though doing these things at the same time is widely regarded as infeasible.
Offensive Style: Two-fer-One Rank: C :: Training Description: The practitioner is now accustomed to performing techniques they have mastered with either one or two knives. Once per post, the user may use a single D-Rank or lower technique from this Style without paying the cost. Trick Style: Blade’s Edge Rank: B :: Training Description: The practitioner has developed an even greater sense of precision and is now 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. Confers a slight increase to the user's reflexes. Trick Style: Retreating Feet Rank: B :: Training Description: The practitioner, already acquainted with 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. The practitioner's footsteps are rendered silent to all who do not have enhanced hearing, and the footsteps they leave in soft ground are shallow. This not only assists their ability to sneak up on people faster and quieter, but also helps when running from trackers. Offensive Style: Stepless Rank: A :: Training Description: The practitioner has become so used to performing quick and silent steps that they scarcely realize that they themselves are moving. The user's speed and reflexes are mildly boosted. Defensive Style: Plucking Roses Rank: S :: Training Description: The practitioner is so well developed in their art that they are now able to snatch shuriken, kunai, senbon, and other such projectiles straight from the air. This requires the user expend Stamina equivalent to one rank below the rank of the incoming projectile.
Insight Rain Rank: B :: Training Description: The user will practice extending themselves into the atmosphere, in a sense. After much dedication, the user develops the ability to sense hostile intent in the immediate area. As to where, however, they cannot be sure.
Skill: Multitasking Rank: C :: Training Description: While the first two stages of the style revolve around the very basics of how to use a bow, the third stage incorporates the use multiple arrows into a more stylish way of battling. Mastery allows the user to simultaneously fire multiple arrows with any technique that does not specifically state otherwise, and allows the Arrow Creation technique to create up to three arrows at once with no increase in cost. Skill: Manipulation Rank: B :: Training Description: Manipulating the bow itself is simple, but controlling the arrows is very difficult. Many enhancements can be made to arrows to give them different flight paths, but buying those kinds of arrows is expensive and making them is difficult, so a method was developed wherein the user can freely alter how an arrow flies without need for such trifles. During this training, the user practices firing arrows with abnormal hand positions. Reduces the Stamina cost of bow-related Bukijutsu techniques (including Formless Styles) by 10 Stamina, to a minimum of 5 Stamina. Skill: Adaptability Rank: A :: Training Description: For the most part, the style thus far has focused on techniques to be used while stationary. However, this leads to many problems when fighting alone in situations that demand frequent movement. During this training exercise, the practitioner is to practice all known techniques while running, jumping, and maneuvering across a battlefield. After mastery, the user can align shots even while running and jumping, allowing them to keep the bonuses of the last stance they entered even while moving.
True Belief Rank: S :: Training Description: The user has meditated and trained long enough in this monk art to understand how important true belief is. By understanding the power of the spirit over the mind, and the mind over the body, the user has increased their stamina by sheer will power alone, as well as increased their toughness and durability. Increases Stamina by +25 for every style mastered.
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With Flicky‘ hand firmly grasped inside his own, Zets let the bag slide from his shoulder and along his arm, until it was now on the woman’s wrist. They would feel none of the weight, as the bag of coins had now plopped onto the floor with a resounding clanging metal. Zets was not concerned with letting those in company know of the abundance of cash he had on hand, as there were only employees in the room. “Ah so you’ve heard of us then Flicky? Then that means we are doing a poor job.” Zets said with a tone of sarcasm. Of course there would be those that know the shishin name, as many of the members would address themselves as such. As Flicky leapt atop the sign, Zets’ brow would rise in amusement. It seemed as though these were just the individuals that he’d want protection his funds on a regular basis. Zets however made no motion to sit or even make himself more comfortable. The tall statues young man only placed his hands in his pockets and proceeded to answer Flicky’s question.
“i can’t speak for all of shishin, but if you are able prove that it was a wise choice to leave my funds in your care, that amount would look like pocket change.” He said glancing at the bag containing the thirty thousand Ryō. He held no attachment to the money, however he saw the usefulness in keeping it safe for future ventures and supplies. “I trust you to do what you must with the funds, so long as you don’t skip town on me. Like you said... you’ve heard a bit about us, and it wouldn’t be wise to betray such a name. So prove to me that my trust isn’t misplaced and I will surely see that our organizations grow together. ”
Zets flashed a sincere smile at Flicky, but just as he seemed to open his mouth to utter something else, a pair of individuals clad in black, strolled into the establishment. They were covered from head to toe and only their eyes could be seen scanning the interior of the building. They didn’t seem hostile, however their lack of introduction was troubling. Zets swiftly turned to face the individuals, an attempt to block their view of the bag on the floor. “Friends of yours Flicky?” Zets said without looking back at the shop owner.
"Generous! That's how it's gonna be that's how it's gotta be. We both got lots to be gained from this." Contentious replied, sealing the deal with Zets as she continued to squat on the sign. A pair of strangers, clad entirely in black, entered into the area shortly after. Covering their faces meant they were suspicious people. Contentious knew this because she covered her face and she was often described as "suspicious" by acquaintances and strangers alike. Well Zets had ended up here, hadn't he? 50/50 that these strangers were looking for food or eggs innit? Either that or Zets had some admirers. At this stage, even she knew it'd be too cliched to ask Zets if he was followed.
"Well howdy to the cute couple! We don't discriminate 'round here, come on in, y'all looking for eggs is it?" Contentious waved at the pair with both hands, her speaking style changing perceptibly. She was making a show that she was unarmed and had nothing besides an unstrung recurve bow on her person. She put her hands back down on the center of the wooden sign, or so it seemed. Her right hand, though touching the top of her left, hovered behind the spine of the sign. With a small bit of her chakra pool, a single sharpened blade of bone slid from her palm to the ground, hidden from both the visitors and from Zets given his line of sight.
"Ricky we got customers!" She yelled loudly for Inaba's sake as she awaited to see how they responded.
Pad Chief
Might Senju Flowers
OoC:
• Byakugan Implant: [ Inactive, One Covered on Forehead, one Hidden ] • Current Armor: [ Unarmored ] • Activated Techniques: ----------------------------------------- Dance of the Camilla: Sword Creation Rank: D :: Spiritual Description: The user creates a sword out of bone out of the palm of the hand of their choice. The sword can either be one handed or two based on the user’s preference. -----------------------------------------
Koukou [ Taking the Field First ] Rank: E :: Training Description: The user acclimates to using their weapon as a baseball bat, at least as much as they can stand to do so. Projectile techniques lose all descriptive bonuses against the user, and techniques involving a bat or club used to defend against projectile techniques are considered a rank stronger. Only effective against techniques up to the highest trained rank in this Style. Shigaisen [ Street Fighting ] Rank: C :: Training Description: The user hones their strength and endurance by beating people up and getting beaten up. After completing this training, the user gains one descriptive rank in strength and incoming physical attacks lose one descriptive rank in strength against the user per learned stage in this Style. Zanshin [ Follow-Through ] Rank: B :: Training Description: The user trains by beating people into the ground with their club or bat. Following completion of this training, should an enemy come into contact with a solid surface after suffering knockback from one of the user's techniques, they take one rank's worth of damage for every two meters of remaining knockback distance. (Ex.: They got knocked backward 6 meters, but struck a wall after only 2 meters. They take a D-Rank amount of damage, one rank for every two remaining meters.)
Meisterschaft [ Mastery ] Rank: S :: Training Description: Achieving this level of technical mastery allows the wielder of the longsword to wield his blade in one hand, and to make his strike in conjunction with an offhand item, but when wielding in a single hand, Preferred Stance bonuses are not applied. This mastery also grants a passive +50 Chakra for each physical style Mastered (This bonus chakra does not stack with any other Per Mastery Chakra increases. Zucken [ Tugging ] Rank: A :: Training Description: A teaching of interactions between blades, traditionally used when two blades end up in a strong bind, the practitioner must learn when to draw their blade to a weaker leverage to disengage and return pressure. This teaching is fundamental in matching versus other techniques in general, mastering this teaching leads to Simple and Complex techniques defeating matching Physical or Formless techniques.
Thread Walking Rank: C :: Training Description: By using Chakra to focus the mind, the user becomes able to balance enough on thin platforms to use Bukijutsu techniques without any penalties. Covers only balancing on solid structures at least one inch wide, not moving or unstable structures. Also allows the user to balance and move on wires during its activation. Advanced Thread Walking Rank: A :: Training Description: The user is now able to both run and fight while balancing on threads and wires without penalties, though doing these things at the same time is widely regarded as infeasible.
Offensive Style: Two-fer-One Rank: C :: Training Description: The practitioner is now accustomed to performing techniques they have mastered with either one or two knives. Once per post, the user may use a single D-Rank or lower technique from this Style without paying the cost. Trick Style: Blade’s Edge Rank: B :: Training Description: The practitioner has developed an even greater sense of precision and is now 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. Confers a slight increase to the user's reflexes. Trick Style: Retreating Feet Rank: B :: Training Description: The practitioner, already acquainted with 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. The practitioner's footsteps are rendered silent to all who do not have enhanced hearing, and the footsteps they leave in soft ground are shallow. This not only assists their ability to sneak up on people faster and quieter, but also helps when running from trackers. Offensive Style: Stepless Rank: A :: Training Description: The practitioner has become so used to performing quick and silent steps that they scarcely realize that they themselves are moving. The user's speed and reflexes are mildly boosted. Defensive Style: Plucking Roses Rank: S :: Training Description: The practitioner is so well developed in their art that they are now able to snatch shuriken, kunai, senbon, and other such projectiles straight from the air. This requires the user expend Stamina equivalent to one rank below the rank of the incoming projectile.
Insight Rain Rank: B :: Training Description: The user will practice extending themselves into the atmosphere, in a sense. After much dedication, the user develops the ability to sense hostile intent in the immediate area. As to where, however, they cannot be sure.
Skill: Multitasking Rank: C :: Training Description: While the first two stages of the style revolve around the very basics of how to use a bow, the third stage incorporates the use multiple arrows into a more stylish way of battling. Mastery allows the user to simultaneously fire multiple arrows with any technique that does not specifically state otherwise, and allows the Arrow Creation technique to create up to three arrows at once with no increase in cost. Skill: Manipulation Rank: B :: Training Description: Manipulating the bow itself is simple, but controlling the arrows is very difficult. Many enhancements can be made to arrows to give them different flight paths, but buying those kinds of arrows is expensive and making them is difficult, so a method was developed wherein the user can freely alter how an arrow flies without need for such trifles. During this training, the user practices firing arrows with abnormal hand positions. Reduces the Stamina cost of bow-related Bukijutsu techniques (including Formless Styles) by 10 Stamina, to a minimum of 5 Stamina. Skill: Adaptability Rank: A :: Training Description: For the most part, the style thus far has focused on techniques to be used while stationary. However, this leads to many problems when fighting alone in situations that demand frequent movement. During this training exercise, the practitioner is to practice all known techniques while running, jumping, and maneuvering across a battlefield. After mastery, the user can align shots even while running and jumping, allowing them to keep the bonuses of the last stance they entered even while moving.
True Belief Rank: S :: Training Description: The user has meditated and trained long enough in this monk art to understand how important true belief is. By understanding the power of the spirit over the mind, and the mind over the body, the user has increased their stamina by sheer will power alone, as well as increased their toughness and durability. Increases Stamina by +25 for every style mastered.
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With Contentious’ comment, the pair would quickly look at one another with a disgusted look, then turn their gaze back to the shopkeep. “WE ARE NOT A COUPLE!” The shorter of the two would burst out, all while shaking a fist at Contentious. They didn’t look it with all the layers of clothing on, but the one who spoke was definitely a female.
“WHY DO YOU HAVE YO SAY IT LIKE THAT MARIMARI! ” The taller male would respond. He seemed to take a lax fighting stance, fists balled and at the ready. “clearly I’m too good of a catch for the likes of your sorry a**. Now go and grab us two dozen eggs and make yourself useful.” MariMari would snap back in a demanding tone. She had crossed her arms and looked away from her partner with a turned up nose. The male would drop his fists in defeat and dragged himself over to Contentious, head held low. “two dozen eggs please” The male said lazily with two raised fingers.
“and you, you’re Magnus’ errand boy right? I was wondering if you’d help us track down some of the same assholes he has you going after...” With that last statement, Zets knew exactly who this young woman was talking about. He was so tuned in on the mention of the UHV, that he completely ignored the errand boy comment. “Say less, we should find someplace more secure to speak on that topic. You never know where the cockroaches are hiding.”
MariMari gave Zets a nod of understanding then simply turned to exit Ricky&Flickys, leaving her male partner to collect the eggs. “Flicky, don’t disappoint me friend. I look forward to our future business venture.” Zets said before following MariMari out the door. In that slight moment after mentions of business, Contentious would catch the man slipping a gaze to the bag of money, before planting his gaze back on the shopkeep. “Business going good I see” he said with a crooked smile hidden under his mask. Only his narrowed eyes would give away the fact.
What was this? Fellow adherents to the Way of the Communication via Eyes and Other Body Language Due to Rest of Face Being Covered? Contentious felt a sort of camaraderie with the couple, ahem, the pair. Seeing that they seemed to be here to talk to her new business associate Zets, Contentious left the bone sword just behind the sign as she hopped off. It was not as though the farm wasn't filled with weapons anyways, the fence she had made was an arsenal that could be used if needed. Home field advantage and all that.
Magnus was another name she was familiar with, though only in name. It seemed that Zets also associated, perhaps subserviently, to this Magnus which created this chain to her and Inaba then didn't it? Hehe, when it rains it simply pours doesn't it? "No cockroaches here, chickens eat 'em all! Ticks too! And don't you worry 'bout us." Contentious shouted out after the departure of Zets and MariMari, maintaining the reputation of the establishment and putting on a show in case there were actually people listening in. Not necessarily the evil bad guys but maybe just some passerby who was thinking about eggs but disliked cockroaches. Speaking of eggs...
Fine walked up with the two dozen fresh chicken eggs in a basket, handing it over to Contentious who then walked over to exchange it with the masked man. At the same time, she hopped up the bag of money on the inside of her foot like a hacky sack and then bicycle kicked the bag of money at Inaba's general direction from where she remembered. It would be a hard enough kick to break through the wooden walls. The eggs were fortunately undisturbed. "Business? Booming! Here ya' are, two dozen o' the freshest eggs you can find!"
"Though I'd be careful of putting all your eggs in just one or two baskets." Contentious said, her voice taking on a conspiratorial tone that suggested she wasn't literally talking about eggs anymore. "If you're looking for another basket to help deal with your... egg problem, you've come to the right place, know what I'm sayin'?"
Pad Chief
Might Senju Flowers
OoC:
• Byakugan Implant: [ Inactive, One Covered on Forehead, one Hidden ] • Current Armor: [ Unarmored ] • Activated Techniques:
Koukou [ Taking the Field First ] Rank: E :: Training Description: The user acclimates to using their weapon as a baseball bat, at least as much as they can stand to do so. Projectile techniques lose all descriptive bonuses against the user, and techniques involving a bat or club used to defend against projectile techniques are considered a rank stronger. Only effective against techniques up to the highest trained rank in this Style. Shigaisen [ Street Fighting ] Rank: C :: Training Description: The user hones their strength and endurance by beating people up and getting beaten up. After completing this training, the user gains one descriptive rank in strength and incoming physical attacks lose one descriptive rank in strength against the user per learned stage in this Style. Zanshin [ Follow-Through ] Rank: B :: Training Description: The user trains by beating people into the ground with their club or bat. Following completion of this training, should an enemy come into contact with a solid surface after suffering knockback from one of the user's techniques, they take one rank's worth of damage for every two meters of remaining knockback distance. (Ex.: They got knocked backward 6 meters, but struck a wall after only 2 meters. They take a D-Rank amount of damage, one rank for every two remaining meters.)
Meisterschaft [ Mastery ] Rank: S :: Training Description: Achieving this level of technical mastery allows the wielder of the longsword to wield his blade in one hand, and to make his strike in conjunction with an offhand item, but when wielding in a single hand, Preferred Stance bonuses are not applied. This mastery also grants a passive +50 Chakra for each physical style Mastered (This bonus chakra does not stack with any other Per Mastery Chakra increases. Zucken [ Tugging ] Rank: A :: Training Description: A teaching of interactions between blades, traditionally used when two blades end up in a strong bind, the practitioner must learn when to draw their blade to a weaker leverage to disengage and return pressure. This teaching is fundamental in matching versus other techniques in general, mastering this teaching leads to Simple and Complex techniques defeating matching Physical or Formless techniques.
Thread Walking Rank: C :: Training Description: By using Chakra to focus the mind, the user becomes able to balance enough on thin platforms to use Bukijutsu techniques without any penalties. Covers only balancing on solid structures at least one inch wide, not moving or unstable structures. Also allows the user to balance and move on wires during its activation. Advanced Thread Walking Rank: A :: Training Description: The user is now able to both run and fight while balancing on threads and wires without penalties, though doing these things at the same time is widely regarded as infeasible.
Offensive Style: Two-fer-One Rank: C :: Training Description: The practitioner is now accustomed to performing techniques they have mastered with either one or two knives. Once per post, the user may use a single D-Rank or lower technique from this Style without paying the cost. Trick Style: Blade’s Edge Rank: B :: Training Description: The practitioner has developed an even greater sense of precision and is now 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. Confers a slight increase to the user's reflexes. Trick Style: Retreating Feet Rank: B :: Training Description: The practitioner, already acquainted with 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. The practitioner's footsteps are rendered silent to all who do not have enhanced hearing, and the footsteps they leave in soft ground are shallow. This not only assists their ability to sneak up on people faster and quieter, but also helps when running from trackers. Offensive Style: Stepless Rank: A :: Training Description: The practitioner has become so used to performing quick and silent steps that they scarcely realize that they themselves are moving. The user's speed and reflexes are mildly boosted. Defensive Style: Plucking Roses Rank: S :: Training Description: The practitioner is so well developed in their art that they are now able to snatch shuriken, kunai, senbon, and other such projectiles straight from the air. This requires the user expend Stamina equivalent to one rank below the rank of the incoming projectile.
Insight Rain Rank: B :: Training Description: The user will practice extending themselves into the atmosphere, in a sense. After much dedication, the user develops the ability to sense hostile intent in the immediate area. As to where, however, they cannot be sure.
Skill: Multitasking Rank: C :: Training Description: While the first two stages of the style revolve around the very basics of how to use a bow, the third stage incorporates the use multiple arrows into a more stylish way of battling. Mastery allows the user to simultaneously fire multiple arrows with any technique that does not specifically state otherwise, and allows the Arrow Creation technique to create up to three arrows at once with no increase in cost. Skill: Manipulation Rank: B :: Training Description: Manipulating the bow itself is simple, but controlling the arrows is very difficult. Many enhancements can be made to arrows to give them different flight paths, but buying those kinds of arrows is expensive and making them is difficult, so a method was developed wherein the user can freely alter how an arrow flies without need for such trifles. During this training, the user practices firing arrows with abnormal hand positions. Reduces the Stamina cost of bow-related Bukijutsu techniques (including Formless Styles) by 10 Stamina, to a minimum of 5 Stamina. Skill: Adaptability Rank: A :: Training Description: For the most part, the style thus far has focused on techniques to be used while stationary. However, this leads to many problems when fighting alone in situations that demand frequent movement. During this training exercise, the practitioner is to practice all known techniques while running, jumping, and maneuvering across a battlefield. After mastery, the user can align shots even while running and jumping, allowing them to keep the bonuses of the last stance they entered even while moving.
True Belief Rank: S :: Training Description: The user has meditated and trained long enough in this monk art to understand how important true belief is. By understanding the power of the spirit over the mind, and the mind over the body, the user has increased their stamina by sheer will power alone, as well as increased their toughness and durability. Increases Stamina by +25 for every style mastered.
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Posted: Wed May 29, 2019 12:10 am
The sound of the bag full of money being kicked, was like music to the nameless man’s ears. His eyes followed the bag like a dog watching a bone fly through the air, before turning his gaze back to the one who displayed the impressive kick. Any ideas running through the man’s head came to a screeching halt, after realizing that these two shop keeps has some form of combat skill “ehh We’ve got plenty of baskets... it’s the eggs I’m after” He said as he stared Contentious down. Without breaking eye contact he quickly reached around his back and pulled out his coin purse, placing it on the table. “Whats the damage? Unless you’re looking to let these go for free... I’m sure you wouldn’t miss a few eggs, in exchange for a little peace of mind.” The unnamed man’s tone changed that of amusement. He seemed to be having fun with the coded talk. It would be clear to Contentious and Inaba that this man was trying to extort them out of the eggs, but at the same time he offered to pay. An interesting set of options.
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