@Halvtand Number of things. Its honestly (For those not prepared for it) a good counter for both ice and fire releases. Ice in that salt can lower the freezing point of water fairly nicely. Fire in that it runs the risk of making chlorine gas, which, spoilers, is pretty bad for the human body. (Does dick all against electricity though. if anything, can make that better) Right now im just trying to come up with a more diverse tool kit than just adding salt to water that isnt just columns of the stuff.
@ghastlyInc Cool, you've obviously given it some thought. You don't have to be so worried about the science behind it though, it is anime after all. As long as it makes enough sense within the world I think you'll be able to get away with it. From that post I would say that you're right on the money. Kind of wish we get to face an ice-user just to let you do the whole "Oh, let me tell you exactly why your techniques are shit"-speech.
Name: Akio Ikeda Apperance: Gender: Male age: 22 Orientation: Bisexual Birth Village: Kirigakure. Current Village: Hikeamena Rank: Chunin Ninja Status: Missing-nin Teammates: N/A Sensei: Mother Ray. Nindo: The Misty Path: Victory through any means. To do less is defeat. History:
Betrayal is akin to death in Kirigakure. Akio never knew his birth mother, nor did he have much intrest in such matters. The dossier detailing her attempted betrayal of selling information to Sunagakure for asylum was, for him, a concise detailing of her faults. Three pages were more than adequate to explain a person. And the need of the five individuals before him to explain his situation seemed redundant. The majority of them were chuunin. Men and women he'd meet with weeks (rarely months) at a time. Their skills adequate to teaching the basics of their craft but little else. His sole nameless windows into the world beyond the small set of rooms that was his home four the last fourteen years. Today, however, there was someone new. She was Anbu, for that he was certain. Though she stood at the back of the group, her figure dominated the air around her with silent intimidation. Her gaze was locked on him through the stingray like mask she wore, body coiled against some unseen threat he somehow represented. “Well Akio-chan?” one of the chuunin asked, their voice dulled agaisnt the presence of the anbu. “Do you have any thoughts? Feelings about what you just read?” It was an unexpected question. The right answer fell from his mouth without his thinking. Disloyalty was akin to death in Kirigakure. And he held no interest in dying. ======================================= The five of them had named her Mother Ray. Akio hated it, though it was the only name he could now call the Anbu. She was the daily constant in their lives now, more so than each other. The others sometimes regarded her with some sort of familial infatuation, but he couldnt share in their enthusiasm. The looks of awe plastered across their faces anytime she taught them something new or took them into the village stired something in him. And it was becoming more difficult to push it down each day. Mother Ray had said that was a good sign. He was inclined to disagree.
There was no familial motivation in her decisions with them. She had trained them to see such things after all. She had not saved their lives like the others thought. She had saved resources by preventing traitors from giving birth to yet more traitors. And why the others couldn't not see, much less admire, that simple truth was beyond him. ===================================== He struggled to remember the name of the girl at his feet. He knew he'd asked her name at one point. Maybe when they were competing to see who could gain access to that nobles bed chamber the fastest (he'd won of course). His mind reached back, remembering the first time they had gone out as a team, not under the eye of Mother Ray, though all he could remember in detail was the gleam of her mask (he assume of pleasure) as he read her the after action report. He sighed, stowing the question for later. If he couldnt remember her name, he doubted he remebered the other two piled gracefully next to her. The document Mother Ray had entrusted them with was gone, as was his 'sister'. He weighed his options. He was no tracker, that had been her job, so following her was not in the cards. And returning without the document would make him as guilty as the one who stole it. Betrayl was death in Kirigakure. And Akio had no interest in dying.
working on history. But TL'DR: Kirigakure attempts to take the children of executed traitors and make them into loyalist soliders through isolation while being over seen by an Anbu. Works well for most, but one of the subjects goes AWOL for unknown reasons. Akio flees to Hikeamena to avoid execution via guilt by association. Shenanigans ensue.
Personality: Aiko is distant and at times aloof. Few people can force more than a dulled almost bored expression from him. And those that do he treats largely with mild annoyance. This is not due to any inability to be expressive on his part however. When attempting to charm or befriend another person, he can feign the warmth of others quiet readily. He considers his existance to be little more than leverage for bettering the prosperity of his village and his direct superiors and is, or at least was, quiet happy with this 'fact'. His time in Hikeamena, and the discomfort those around him(both with his glibness and his general disregard for 'honorable conflict'), have forced him to begin questioning this line of thinking. He only dwells on this rarely however, seeing it as a waste of otherwise productive time. Chakra Element: Water and Salt Releases Weapon(s): Kunai, Paper bombs, gas mask.
Fighting Style: mid range Jutsu specalist Strengths: Adept jutsu specalist Training emphasized on the fly adaptation of opponent jutsu and speed Loose Moral compass at best of times Weaknesses: No real answer to lightning based attacks Lacking in Taijutsu Loose Moral compass at best of times
Like(s): Shellfish, both as pets and food. Dislike(s): Yuki's chicken. Sunny weather. The phrase “dont be so salty” or any jokes related there in. Hobby(ies): Reading, fishing, swimming. Fear(s): Deserts. Stingrays.
Work in progress but here's what I've been working on. I'll expand Jutsu and history information once I've confirmed some stuff.
Here you go, hope you are still accepting people into this. I filled out the character sheet I hope this fits with the rp. Let me know if it doesn't or if I have to change anything.
General Name: Tashiro Hokori
Age: 16 Gender: male Sexual Orientation: straight Personality: Talkative, friendly, sarcastic, cocky, arrogant , just a few things to describe Tashiro but his personality is more then this. These are just some of his personality that are very obvious. Normally this is just a show but mostly it is his true personality. Tashiro tries to keep things light hearted whenever he can. During missions he does take them seriously while normally seemingly not to. Tashiro is the kind of person who doesn't believe leaving anyone behind regardless of what he is told. Often enough it is thought he would disobey orders if it meant he could save people he is sent out with missions with. Tashiro
History: Tashsiro Hokori was born and raised with in Konaha. The hidden Leaf village. His family were all just normal ninjas within the leaf. Tashiro was born with a unqiue chakra disposition more of an anomaly or mutation. He was born with two chakra natures bring forth gale, or storm chakra when the two are combined. Growing up his father was killed during a mission and he was raised by his mother while attending the ninja academy. He ended up graduating and becoming a genin at eleven years old. Some speculated it was too early for him to become a genin but he became one. He did it by cheating on the exam but it wasn't ever found out that he cheated. Took him significantly longer to move up to a chunin within the leaf village because of this. At fifteen he did get promoted but only after several different tries at the leaf's exams but he did achieve getting up to the rank of chunin. This time there weren't any doubts as he had did an impressive job at the exams. His conduct was questioned as he didn't seem to take anything seriously as it seems like a joke to him or he just wanted to show off half of the time, but in the end he proved he has a different side of him which will get his jobs done. He was eventually given a 'long term' mission to help with a foreign village to help stabilize and help build it up healthy relations with the village towards the leaf and other allies of the leaf village. The long term mission was more of Tashiro's idea or really long term as he is completely sent there more of a permanent stay of residence for Tashiro.
Looks and Appearance:
Ninja Information Birth Village: Konaha Current Village: Rank: Chunin Ninja Status: Leaf Ninja Teammates: None yet. Sensei: N/A has multiple teachers but no real sensei Nindo: Chakra Element: Water/Lighting or Gale when combined
Weapon(s): Black Steel Chakra Sword The sword is that of a katana, completely black and made of special metal that absorbs the wielders chakra rather easily and lets jutsu of the wielder flow through it. The sword's sheath/scabbard is black and red. The sword is very strong and durable, it has been pasted down between three generations before handed down to Tashiro.
Fighting Style: Tashiro is a close to mid range fighter. Mostly fighting with a sword mixed with Ninjutsu. He throws out his rare mutation of the gale/storm release jutsus into his sword skills
Strengths: Light/Water user strengths. very creative,
Weaknesses: Wind Nature Jutsus can completely overpowers Tashiro's gale style and lightning style. He is very cocky and sometimes over looks many things when it comes to fighting and doesn't always think things out.
Abilities/Techniques -
Jutsus'canons': Water Lightning Dragon Bullet Lightning Release Chakra Mode Gale Style: Laser Circus Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu Cloud-Style: Deception Slice Cloud Style: Back Slice Cloud Style: Front Slice - Jutsus 'Custom' Gale Style Laser Blade-Technique infuses the power of lighting and water into Tashiro's sword boosting its destructive power. The ablity uses a rather large amount of chakra per second. The sword gets coated in a blue water lighting mixture. The water moving across the edge of the blade at blinding speeds increasing the cutting power, and enhanced by lighting. The attack can only be used for about 3 seconds at a time. The attack is used at quick bursts of raw gale/storm power. The attack makes a loud thunderous roar as it is activated. The huge draw back is the attack can only be currently used only once every thirty minutes. Over usage can damage the jutsu user causing burns around the hands that has to hold onto the sword.
- - A Quick Survey A few questions for those involved. Your opinions matter! Communication is key.
How often are you comfortable and able to post? I can most often if needed, or as fast as the rp will actually go. If I cant post will try to let others know.
Do you think there should be a post limit ? This only depends on how fast or how slow the rp will move. If it is moving really fast we might need a post limit. Also there might be need a limit to how much you might need to post in a week or two. To keep the rp from getting too chaotic or keep it from dying from waiting for people to post.
What would you like to focus on? A little bit of everything that deals with my character I guess. Story development , my own character's development and interactions with my character. Some drama, action, seeing how things go within the rp. Any other notes? Not at the moment, nothing i can think of.[/hider]
Same for me. By what I could see from the initial introduction, it's not really my cup of tea... Still, I wish you luck in the running of the RP. I'm sure there'll be quite a few people interested in the setting.
Same as me. I will wait for the original gm a little while longer.
That's cool. I'm hanging around, too and still playing if GM returns. You're welcome to check it out again later, if the GM here never shows.
Same for me. By what I could see from the initial introduction, it's not really my cup of tea... Still, I wish you luck in the running of the RP. I'm sure there'll be quite a few people interested in the setting.
That's just fine. Playing weak-ish characters bother a lot of people. We had a decent amount of interest the last time we did it but it eventually died 'cause I suddenly had to go in for surgery.
Yeah, um... Yeah. Hope you two have better luck with that one at least, though.
Thanks. We know we won't suddenly drop so at least the GM(s) won't disappear on us.
That's just fine. Playing weak-ish characters bother a lot of people. We had a decent amount of interest the last time we did it but it eventually died 'cause I suddenly had to go in for surgery.
Well, its not really about playing weak-ish characters but about being forced to play weak-ish characters in such a fitting setting to make characters with a certain background that wouldn't let them be weak. I mean, one of the characters that I thought about playing was an ex-Oinin that ran away from Kirigakure and "exiled" himself in the village, quite the common setting in Naruto considering that at least 2 characters in the anime share it. Thing is: According to the period, we're still in the middle of recovering from a great war (in which my character most certainly would have fought) and in the middle of the bloody mist period - that, while controversial, undoubtedly made some of the strongest Shinobi generations in kirigakure's history. Having such a ridiculously high-spec background, it would be ridiculously hard to effectively make a relatively older character (around 26 in age) that is in the level of a chunnin, as he'd most certainly be dead if his strength was that low - especially since his clan (Yuki) is supposed to be suffering from persecution around this period. It's kind of illogical even if I plan to have him as a character that isn't even going to fight, being hidden as an independent medical-nin in the village and being dedicated to just heal others from now on. That being said, It's not as if I'm saying that I'm bothered by having weak characters - especially because I often make purposefully weak characters to make them experience growth IC - but that I dislike the idea of everyone being forced to have characters around the same level "just cause" when you're making such an open setting.
That's just fine. Playing weak-ish characters bother a lot of people. We had a decent amount of interest the last time we did it but it eventually died 'cause I suddenly had to go in for surgery.
As was said, it's not a "you've got to play weak characters" issue. It's more the restrictions imposed by the setting. The characters have to be detached from the great villages pretty much by default, which writes off borrowing almost all the entertaining abilities. And then you have it slapped square between two of the wars, which leads to two conclusions: 1) We're following canon, so even more abilities are restricted in their availability. 2) Nothing the characters do is going to matter because canon is charted already.
Well, its not really about playing weak-ish characters but about being forced to play weak-ish characters in such a fitting setting to make characters with a certain background that wouldn't let them be weak. I mean, one of the characters that I thought about playing was an ex-Oinin that ran away from Kirigakure and "exiled" himself in the village, quite the common setting in Naruto considering that at least 2 characters in the anime share it. Thing is: According to the period, we're still in the middle of recovering from a great war (in which my character most certainly would have fought) and in the middle of the bloody mist period - that, while controversial, undoubtedly made some of the strongest Shinobi generations in kirigakure's history. Having such a ridiculously high-spec background, it would be ridiculously hard to effectively make a relatively older character (around 26 in age) that is in the level of a chunnin, as he'd most certainly be dead if his strength was that low - especially since his clan (Yuki) is supposed to be suffering from persecution around this period. It's kind of illogical even if I plan to have him as a character that isn't even going to fight, being hidden as an independent medical-nin in the village and being dedicated to just heal others from now on. That being said, It's not as if I'm saying that I'm bothered by having weak characters - especially because I often make purposefully weak characters to make them experience growth IC - but that I dislike the idea of everyone being forced to have characters around the same level "just cause" when you're making such an open setting.
I realize that I should have put this in the OP and I will, after this, but the "being weak and underexposed" was mainly meant for those who grew up in Gobi. Obviously, those who moved to Gobi to seek refuge would have more experience and be stronger. But I see that this is my mistake for writing it like I did. The fact is that we want to have characters that can allow growth, instead of them being at their peak already. This doesn't necessarily have to be power-wise.
But again, if you don't like it, that's cool. I'm not trying to force anyone. It's a matter if taste.
As was said, it's not a "you've got to play weak characters" issue. It's more the restrictions imposed by the setting. The characters have to be detached from the great villages pretty much by default, which writes off borrowing almost all the entertaining abilities. And then you have it slapped square between two of the wars, which leads to two conclusions: 1) We're following canon, so even more abilities are restricted in their availability. 2) Nothing the characters do is going to matter because canon is charted already.
We're sort of trying to force people to be creative, yes. With their techniques and stuff, that is. Since most of the techniques we know from the series haven't been invented yet, you (as players) are strongly encouraged to come up with your own ideas instead of relying on those already explored. We're very willing to help players with this, as it's the sort of thing we do for fun with no reason other than just doing it. If you want to borrow an "entertaining ability", there are lots of options. Your character could, for one, have moved to Gobi for one reason or another. If it's a KG you want, you could be the bastard child of some clan member that visited one of the "entertainers" in the village (although, we do want to limit the amount of KG used, in general, so not every single character has one). In a manner, I do feel that the setting actually would allow more freedom for having characters with remarkable abilities, since the village is so detached and mostly just a village of whores, so no one would know if a bastard child of anyone was born there.
We're not exactly following canon. I mean, things will go down in a similar manner, but we want for our characters to be able to make an impact on the world. I am willing to change the entire history of the world as a result of what one of our characters would do. No future is ever set in stone and we would have never chosen a setting like this if we weren't willing to make changes in the world.
But like I said to Spanner; if you don't like it, that's cool.
Hey I really love the idea of this roleplay and made a character if your still accepting. if there are any issues with my sheet please pm me and let me know
Name: Mason Age: 25 Gender: Male Sexual Orientation: Bi Personality: He is cheerful, compassionate, and clever History: Masons father was a former wolverine of snow valley however this was kept a secret from Mason and his mother. Growing up in the village hidden in the mist otherwise known as Kirigakure. He became a chunin at the age of 16 and acquired the rank of jonin at 20. With his father being very distant and insisting that he learn how to control his kekkei genki and study, sometimes using pain to help fuel Mason leading to some of his scars. His mother died shortly after birth and his father slowly drifted of into insanity. Being surrounded by his fathers constant demands and intense training regimen he never gave in and when times were rough he would always try to stay cheerful. Being an accomplished jonin when the new village asked for assistance he was a shoe in
Ninja Information Birth Village: The village hidden in the mist Current Village: Kirigakure Rank: Jonin Ninja Status: Active Teammates: None Nindo: "A ninja must never give into dark emotions, a ninja must see through the mists to see the clear road ahead" Chakra Element: Wind/Water to make Ice, Yang Weapon(s): Cestus, Senbon, Explosive tags
Fighting Style: Analyzing the battle field and puts his efforts where they are most needed, typically switching between his more defensive and healing style to his yeti claw style . Strengths: Close Range Combat Weaknesses: Long Range Attacks Abilities/Techniques Mystical Palm Technique Yeti Claw Technuique Ice Clone Jutsu Ice Wall Jutsu Healing Resuscitation Regeneration Technique White Ice Snow Maidens Touch
Parent(s): Fathers name was Koinguri Mothers name was Tsioa Sibling(s): None Relative(s): None Best Friend(s): Has lots of friend none of them best Friend(s): Everyone Sensei(s): Koinguri at home, A man named Hikino watched over him as a gennin Student(s): None Crush(es)/Spouse/Bf/Gf: None Rival(s):None Enemy(ies): None Pet(s):None
Like(s): People, Talking, Making Friends, Helping others, Cheering people on Dislike(s): Doing nothing, Unnecessary fighting, Bullies, his past, people asking about his scars. Hobby(ies): Dancing, Reading, Walking Fear(s): His Father, Being Hurt, Falling in Love, Not being able to help, being disliked Strength(s): His need to help, His Charm and cheerfulness, Clever Weakness(es): His need to help (double edged sword), Naive, Struggles with his emotions from time to time. Personal Quote: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"
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