[OOC] NARUTO: Road to Ninja [ARC 3] Buy it now and get a second punt free!

[Partisan]

#Fiddles Fingers*

Well then... I call dibs on the next open spot! Call me if you need me xD (until then :P)

@WanderingSpirit

I am not Masaki, and I am not head GM, but the 12 people we had so far haven't finished CS'es yet and quite frankly I am unsure if those who were interested in the interest check are still interested.

@Masaki Haruna I think we should let people just make a character sheet, and if they suffice then we can switch them with someone who hasn't popped in here even though they said they were interested. That seems fair to me because it lets in people who are interested in favor of those who've lost interest.

@Renny I am unsure what you mean.. editing my writing? Can you elaborate?

[Masaki Haruna]

It's still open: And I am settling things on PM to those who still wants in.

[Crimmy]

I find it amusing how Uchiha Sentou has a fear of cats, especially with regards to the clan's strong connection with cats.

[Partisan]

Characters that are counter to what they are supposed to be are always amusing. It makes for... a fun character. :^)

@Masaki Haruna I knew you were. You're a good GM, that's why I knew. Ignore me. :D

[Masaki Haruna]

@Crimmy We'll get an arc about that and it's gonna be fun :D
@Part, my love is that strong. I'm playing hard to get

Edit:
We'll start once the others finished their sheets otherwise the show must go on method~

[Masaki Haruna]

@KaiserAuto

@Empath

@Reflection
@ethanjory

You guys still in?

@Demon Shinobi You saw what I did here.

[Partisan]

Empath is still in. I saw a mockup of his character yesterday, we're still working out some linkages to my own character but after that he should be good to go (granted he puts in the rest of the stuff that was missing. Mainly combat shit.)

[Savato]

@Renny All seems alright except for one detail: You have three elements. We're willing to accept two on a Chuunin. Make your pick~ You're accepted otherwise.

[Empath]

Empath is still in. I saw a mockup of his character yesterday, we're still working out some linkages to my own character but after that he should be good to go (granted he puts in the rest of the stuff that was missing. Mainly combat shit.)

@Partisan

Yea it is that damn combat shit that has me delayed. Gotta hate it.
#Peaceforall

[Renny]

@Savato I'll make the corrections. Thanks for accepting me :)

@Partisan Making it error free lol. Without spelling or grammar errors.

@Masaki Haruna And thanks, I'll be sure to do him justice.

I'll put him in the char tab after I change his elements.

[Partisan]

@Renny I don't have a method - my English is better than my native language sadly. :p I just write like this, so I guess that's a big compliment to hear :^) Thanks!

[Renny]

@Partisan No problem :) I was hoping you had a method to checking your spelling or something. Oh well, I'll just try harder.

[Partisan]

To be honest, your stuff seemed pretty okay as well. Nothing that I could notice without actually looking for it.

[Partisan]

Locations in Konohagakure

If you want your location (house, bussiness or w/e) added, send me a message with the info in it. This took me a buttload of time but it was fun. Cheers.

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An overview

As the years changed so did Konohagakure: with the Shinobi becoming less and less important with the arrival of new technologies, and the need for housing ever growing it was evident that the city had to expand in ways not thought of before. With new technologies like cranes and such skyscrapers made a new appearance. These small appartments were available for small sums to accomodate the lowered wages for those hit by the technological outbreak. It wasn't all positive, but nowadays the negative side effects of technology are largely overcome.

The city is still bustling with greenlife, as is Konoha's tradition. They are after all still a village hidden in the leaves. As such there are plenty of parks and recreational areas, lakes with beach shacks to enjoy a calm day in. There are also plenty of new shopping streets, loaded with different styles of shops - new shopping centres or even shopping skyscrapers have appeared, with every shop you can imagine located conveniently in 1 spot. Not to say that there is no traditionalistic small housing areas, because those are still plentiful.

Smalltown

Smalltown is the traditional part of town; an area reserved mostly for middle class incomes with an occasional lower class or higher class citizen living there as well. Defining features are a traditional and calm feel, as the area is largely populated by small families with two working parents, schoolgoing children and some older couples. Besides houses the area is also rich in small shops attached to some houses - for instance, ramen shops, gift shops or small supermarkets.

Although Smalltown is intended for usage mainly by families, the areas closer to the center of the village frequently see lots of students and people going out, and as such there's not as many supermarkets or regular shops, and more ramen shops and bar's present in the area. As such it's a good hangout for many of the local youth, whether they come from smalltown itself or from an area in the high density housing areas.

Some of the more notable and useable features of this area include...

• Obushide park

  

  
  Obushide is the largest park of Konohagakure, and sits comfortably between the main housing area of Smalltown and the base school of Konoha. Because of this there are often a lot of children between the ages of 2 (with parents) and 12 in the park, as well as older couples. From time to time there's even shinobi taking a breather after a long day of doing shinobi things. Youth hanging around the park is usually not a big problem although it does occur - usually they don't cause any trouble because the youth knows that their Shinobi same age youthlings would say something if they were being assholes. And truthfully, nobody wants to try their luck against a ninja. The few times it happened.. well, yeah. There's a large fountain with a fountain at the center of it shaped like a Koifish, a feature that most people love about this park. For that reason it's sometimes called the Koi's Pond, rather than Obushide park, although everyone in Konoha will know of both these names.
• Ayame's house

  
  “A picture of Ayame's house, with a young Sentou coming for a visit on it, taken ages ago.”

  
  
  Ayame Choko lives in Smalltown due to the friendly and calm neighbourhood - something she prefers over the bustling life in the financial district. Her house is rather traditional per custom of the neighbourhood, as she lives in the area of Smalltown where all houses were remnants of what was built there before. Nearby her is the Shinobi base school, something that she quite enjoys because she likes kids a lot (she even has dreams of getting a little monster herself one day, if she'd ever manage to trap a guy into marriage) and likes watching them go to school. It helps that the younger kids look up to her being a jonin, and more over the hokage's assistant. Because of that she's well known at the school and in the neighbourhood since she's one of the few shinobi who still live in Smalltown.
  
  Her house is quite small for shinobi standards - she has a kitchen area, a drawer with clothes and a walk in closet with more clothes, as well as a small chest on her drawer with senbon in it. To the side, next to the door, she has a workbench for making poison, with a shelf above it where she stores some poison ingredients - placed high up because Sentou used to visit and Ayame wasn't sure she'd like her to touch the glass pots with these valuable stuffs in them. To the left is her simple bed, which is covered in black blankets and pillows. If you walk in through the door, past the bed and then take a left you'll enter her bathroom which, in all honesty, is just a shower, sink and toilet. Despite her house looking clean, her bathroom counter is always dirty and filled with make-up.
• Minamoru's Restaurant aka “the Mighty Naruto”

  
  “the Mighty Naruto interior facing the entrance from the center of the restaurant”

  
  
  The Mighty Naruto is one of the largest restaurants in the area of Smalltown, any competitors being in the Financial district. As such it is quite profitable and mr. Minamoru's ties to the Yakuza make sure that it stays that way. The restaurant is managed by Mika Minamoru, Yamato's mother. Knowing that young labour is cheaper she has conscripted hired several of Yamato's friends classmates, such as Aoi who now caters to the entertainment in the restaurant, and Naomi Hyuuga who was practically forced by her father to start working in the restaurant as a server.
  
  The Mighty Naruto is a meeting point for many bussiness officials and politicians, and from time to time a group of jonin or a group of friends. As such the restaurant offers a wide variety of food and drinks - alcohol for those who want it. Smoking is allowed, ofcourse. Behind the standpoint of the man that took the picture above is a large restaurant area with tables and chairs, facing the small stage at the end of the building where there is room for entertainers like Aoi to take the stage and please the crowd.

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Financial District

With the growing populations there was a call for an economical district, an area rich with skyscrapers, offices and large shopping malls to contrast the small traditional shops in Smalltown. And as a result Moneylanes appeared, funded and constructed by the Minamoru Building Corp. which was founded and led by Reijo Minamoru, Yamato Minamoru's father, who is a well known politician and economist, and also has questionable connections to the local mafia.

The small and bustling streets offer many shops, many of which are owned by the Minamoru family. Some of the stores are catered to Shinobi, such as Minamoru's Shinobi Superstore - Buy your senbon launcher today, and get a 50% discount! Ahem. Yes, there's plenty of commercials and hanging boards everywhere - a hazard for shinobi who are looking to get around the financial district quickly by jumping above the streets. Besides the obvious financially aimed buildings located in skyscrapers and covered shopping malls, there's some noteworthy buildings here such as the Don Maquia Opera and Theater, located in the Southeast of the district.

Noteworthy locations inside the Financial district.

• Minamoru enterprises

  Minamoru Enterprises is the collection name for a very large amount of companies and stores owned and managed by the Minamoru family and clan. Their main bussiness consists of construction work, which has come to be due to the illustrous connections Reijo Minamoru has with the underworld of Konohagakure and other villages. With these ties he can secure contracts that would otherwise go to other building companies that offer much, much lower prices, but who are now scared to offer their services when Minamoru people are involved - because where there's a Minamoru construction worker, there's a Yakuza ronin not much further away.
  
  

  A small list of other work they do in the financial district would include..
  
  • Minamoru's Shinobi Superstore - located in the Minamoru Shopping mall, this is a store stocked and loaded with shinobi supplies, from basic explosive tags and kunai to some awesome senbon launchers, kunai deflectors and special edition Banzai!-flak vests. Sadly these are not condoned by the Shinobi board of Konoha and usage of these is not allowed while on duty.
  • Shi-shi sculpting store - located on 842 Hokage lane, this is a store that sells sculptures such as the Shi (guardian lions) and other such things. Given the low frequency of people coming to buy here, it's a surprise they haven't gone out of bussiness yet.
  • Uncle Naruto's Toy Shop! - located on 2124 Naruto street, this is a shop that is themed after Naruto the Hokage. He is prominently featured on most posters, causing a large surge in people buying stuff from this store. Most of the articles are action figures focussed around Naruto, Sasuke and their comrades although they don't resemble these people what so ever as they are built after a history based recollection of these people. It doesn't matter, everyone loves Naruto! Articles sell very well here, even the articles focussed after Sasuke.
• Don Maquia Opera and Theatre

  This theatre is located in the Southeast area of the Financial district, in front of a nice looking fountain. History of the theatre and operahouse revolve around the Don Maquia troupe, a travelling band of 'circus people.' Over the years this theatre changed from a grounds for the circus into a wealthy looking theatre. Despite appearances, tickets are quite affordable given don Maquia's somewhat generous stance to those interested in his shows. Shows are diverse and change often, although mostly they revolve around traditional plays and music. Some of these include...
  
  

  • Don Maquia's magic show - aimed at kids and, sometimes, adults interested in seeing magical abilities, this show revolves around magic tricks such as pulling kunai from tophats, extinguishing flames with fire jutsu and finally, making a shinobi randomly picked from the room dissapear and re-appear under the guise of space-time jutsu, although it really isn't. Sshhhh.. don't tell the kids that.
  • Misses Maquia's opera show - a lighthearted comedic opera show in which Misses Maquia goes on a search for her appetite, which was taken by accident by mr. Maquia when leaving for another tour with his circus. Desperate to eat something, she needs to find a way to regain her appetite. She does so by looking at male banana's. Will mr. Maquia find out? Warning: mature content. 18+ only.

  
  
  Many children and adults love going to these show and it can be said that they make a profitable earning - although mr. Maquia himself has chosen not to remain at the theatre, preferring the life on the road with his 'circus group.' As such, it's mostly retired circus members that work here to show off the arts they learned off of Don Maquia, a sort of remembrance to the times they spent with him.
• The Archives

  Although the archives are not so much an archive of secret information anymore and mostly a library, there are still hidden compartments in the library that are only accessible by shinobi above a certain rank. Secret scrolls, shinobi information and, most importantly, a hidden area with information on most if not all the shinobi, both those currently alive and dead. To maintain some degree of safety and security there's a shinobi permanently on guard here in the form of Shizen the Libraryman. He usually walks around and organises books, but is in reality a shinobi with extremely powerful jutsu, dedicated to defending and keeping the secret areas as they are - hidden from anyone that isn't a shinobi, and doens't have the proper clearance from the Hokage.
• Hideyoshi's house

  Hideyoshi Sawada is a jonin in service of the Konohagakure Shinobi Forces. As a result of his pay which is in accordance with the rate at which- and the amount of missions he completes, he's managed to afford a nice looking place. Despite owning his own apartment, Hideyoshi is still a 17 year old jonin who doesn't have much time to clean his room up. Being a jonin is an ongoing duty. This is reflected in his apartment, which is filled with goodies and looks like any 17 year olds room. Actually, it's probably more clean than most 17 year olds' rooms or apartments. Good job, Hideyoshi.
  
  

  
• The Metrostations

  Not wholly unimportant are the metrostations that were built using earth jutsu's to tunnel, after the population boom took place. After a cry for better transportation methods to and from the financial station, the Hokage ordered underground tunnels to be built. These metro's are powered by the driver, who uses lightning jutsu to power the machine. As such it's possible to quickly go to and from the financial district to any other district. Not that a shinobi would need it - you can run across rooftops with remarkable speed! Maybe if you're lazy.. I guess you can use the metro.

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Downtown

When Downtown gets mentioned in an official report, it's usually a filing of murder, because downtown is where all the ugly stuff happens - the lower class lives here, mostly people who lost their jobs when technology took over. Seeing as Konohagakure enjoys a status of being the most central village, this area is rich in immigrants from Sunagakure and Kumogakure. Some of these immigrants are shinobi who have gone great lengths to hide that fact from the officials, lest they be slated into service of the Konohagakure armed forces. As such there are sometimes particularily violent crimes here as ex-shinobi commit murders, thefts and arson. Most of the jonins spend a lot of time here keeping the peace, an effort that has proven relatively fruitless. It's become so bad, the local Yakuza has also decided enough is enough and started cracking down violently on these immigrants causing trouble - this has done nothing but increase violence, fear and increased the workload for the jonins heavily. The area is quite bad, but there are sparkles of hope - some of the children in this area that went to the Shinobi base school turned out to be excellent mediators in these areas as they know how the people here live - as a result there's been a 50% decrease in violence when a local shinobi interferes, rather than a shinobi from another area.

“Some kids from Odarame street, Downtown, hanging around.”

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Village outskirts

Although Konoha is still walled in, their borders expand far beyond those walls. As such there are numerous (often wealthy) families living in their own little estates or houses outside of the village to maintain a maximum of peace, quiet and ofcourse, to demand respect since there are little people who can afford to live here. As such it's mostly lonesome shinobi who've been granted their own space, and wealthy families that reside here.

The outskirts consist of a large forested area if we go by the definition of Konoha's borders, so for simplicty we'll only consider the area within 5km around the village, which is where most people live anyway. Aside from forests there are also plenty of lakes, some small and some large - beach houses are commonplace here nowadays.

Some of the noteable areas in the area include...

• Aoi Don Maquia's Caravan-house

  

  
  
  Aoi, being the little circus kid that she is, obviously chose to live in the spirit of her old troupe. As such she lives in a standard circus caravan for 2, even though she's living on her own momentarily. Not that it matters to her - she has more space to practice her crazy circus tricks now. Not many people know what these tricks are, but some have made estimated guesses that she..
  
  

  • .. does saltoes on the extra bed all day long.
  • .. eats kunai for breakfast as some sort of trick.
  • .. secretly trains a summoned circus bear to dance to the beat of Narusasu's latest pop hit 'Friendship will always win.'

  
  
  .. although nobody is really sure what she does in here. Not that she spends much time in there anyway, it's much too lonesome in there for her liking. Although she does have an extra bed. We should send a shinobi to see if she has a boyfriend sleeping there...
• Yamato's house

  

  
  
  Yamato and his family consisting of his sister Rei, mother Mika and his father Reijo, live in this house which is located near lake Yomadaru, a popular fishing and relaxation spot. Given that Reijo Minamoru is often away on (illegal) bussiness trips, or visiting one of his many lady bussiness contracts or mistresses, the house is often quiet given that Mika Minamoru is also away for long periods of time, working in her restaurant. This leaves Rei and Yamato to share the house in most cases, a thing that Yamato has no direct feelings to given that his sister is not extremely annoying to him although he wishes she'd work harder and practice more. Inside the house is 2 1-person bedrooms, and a master bedroom. Each room has it's own toilet and shower, as well as a walk in closet. Alongside that there's a dining room with a single wooden table and 6 chairs, with a single linen tablecloth running from one side to the other, more for decoration than purpose. In the living room is a large TV that is barely ever on, as well as a couch and 4 large sitting pillows in front of that couch. There's a small coffee table on both sides of the table with a light on it and there's a bookcase at one of the walls.
  
  

  Rei's room

  

  
  
  Built in the same style as Rei's bedroom, Yamato's bedroom has a similar size although he has a larger, 2 person bed with burgundy blankets and black pillow cases, as well as a desk with a laptop on it, although it's barely ever used. Asides that he has a large circular rug in the center of his room to practice on, and against the wall he has a large chest. Inside that chest is most of his equipment: kunai, shuriken, explosive tags and some books he's read a couple of times already. Hanging all over his room are sheets of paper with kanji written on them, with texts such as 'Strength' and 'Tradition' to remind himself to stay practicing and never to lose strength, or else he'd be worse than all those other chunin in his year. His room is very dark due to his burgundy wallpaper, and the blinds that are almost always closed halfway - there are only tiny stripes of light entering the room. Besides that, he's also got some katana and naginata's hanging on the wall although those are purely decorative.
  
  Besides a main house, you can walk down a short, narrow path to the lake they life closeby to to find an extra smaller house, referred to as the Lakehouse (original huh) that belongs to the Minamoru family as well. Although owned by them, most of Yamato's classmates know this location as more of a chilling spot or a hangout because Yamato doesn't seem to care much about this location or them hanging out around here - Rei hangs out around this spot with her friends as well after school and it's known to be a place where people go to make out and... do other stuff, given that there's essentially a small house inside the Lakehouse - complete with bed and a shower, as well as a small kitchen.
  
  

  
  “The Lakehouse”
• Lake Yomadaru

  Lake Yomadaru is a famous lake because, for some reason, the weather here is always fair. Some argue that it's because the nearby mountains block the rain clouds from reaching the area although, meteorologically this remains to be seen. As far as anyone is concerned, the lake is a nice place to hang out at and unwind after a day of defeating bad shinobi and killing Yakuza criminal thugs. Besides the relaxative features, the lake is full of fish, some as large as an entire Smalltown-house (yes the lake is that deep) which means the lake is often used for both sustainability fishing as well as competitive fishing. Shinobi that chime in with water will find themselves considerably more at ease here than at any other lake or ocean, the reason for that being the large amount of chakra that remains in the lake after the Sage of the Six Paths himself urinated into the water - that's the legend, anyway, and it's never been proven. There's a boathouse - teahouse hybrid where you can have some traditionally made tea, and then hire a boat to tour your girlfriend/boyfriend around the lake, a nice touch to any lake.

[j8cob]

Very nice. A location overview is a great idea.

[AlteredTundra]

As said on skype, really nice job.

[Partisan]

Thank you.

[Reflection]

@KaiserAuto

@Empath

@Reflection
@ethanjory

You guys still in?

@Demon Shinobi You saw what I did here.

@Masaki Haruna

Yes, I am currently developing a character. I have a few questions I'll be sending you while I develop my character. They're simple questions, mostly about what is and what isn't allowed.

[Empath]

I love the settings, they are amazing.

Edit: thanks to Partisan I am redoing the appearance, so I will have the CS-sheet up tomorrow. Sorry about the delay.

[Suku]

@Partisan it looks good