Ganryu

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Uemura Monzaemon Night- Monzaemon Clan Hall

As Uemura finished his address to his clan, he quickly dismissed them, glaring around. Something would tell most sane members of the clan not to talk to him.... which unfortunately probably left 3/4 of the clan left. He sighed as he got up, mulling over what was going to happen to the clan. They would send as many statements as needed, but it nagged him why. The Monzaemon were not well liked, but they were respected, why would anyone dare do anything to them to attract their whole attention? As he walked away from many people coming up to him, acting oblivious to them, a knock sounded, just barely loud enough for him to hear amid the not so hushed talk of the clan that had erupted since he'd ended. He didn't bother telling someone else to open it, walking up to it, and throwing the door open, the chill of the desert night breezing through the hall. "What do you want?" He saw a woman beyond the gates, and his eyes narrowed, wondering if she was part of the earlier murder

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Thank you! I'm swamped too, my stuff with be up Tuesday. Hopefully help out the Nara, and get the whip on the Monzaemon

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Well if by the time Gan reacts to Mirai, Asura still hasn't made their character, I will move the Senju clan into direct interaction with another clan. The Uchiha seem to be investigating two things, first their respective clan member murder and secondly the in clan fighting that's been going on. I don't want to over step my role as an RPer but I would say that everyone should try not to fear doing something that'll clash with the views of someone else. Start a fight, try to figure stuff out on your own, do what you want!

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Character Help

Well, one thing I know we all hate doing is changing our original idea, but sometimes that works quite well. The fact he has such a violent way to recharge tells most GMs "This guys going to start fights when it's least convenient." I'd change it to that LATER becoming an option, something alot people in your character's race/ family do, and he/her hasn't quite grasped it yet. Your character has other basic ways to recharge initially, they just aren't as effective, or that the character discovers a secret of doing it..... Or is in the cafeteria one day during Liver and onion, and your character accidentally blows up a table upon finding it out. Just delay that part. Just my suggestion. If GM is completely against it, I'd just ask them for suggestions. IF they can't think of anything, they'll probably be easier in letting it pass. If they are absolutely against it, you might have to scrap it all together. Personally, I would have found the shock collar funny enough to keep it.

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Okay, we need some post here, some of y'all are doing quite well. Alright, I want a little description of what everyone is doing or planning on entering, you can PM me it. I know we're all doing introductions, but I think we also need to hit the road running a bit. If you don't know what to do, a GM (Me, Yosh, Lost) will definitely help.. The basic premise is a lot of suspense is building around the happenings, the important clans have had a member murdered, and minor clans are going to hear about it. The clans are not going to stay isolated for long. Immediate plans: Monzaemon- We're pretty much all going to the town of Gobi. It's a raid pretty much, stealing poison, interrogating people there. Yes, surprises planned, alot of clan around don't like us coming to town (One in particular we will see). Uemura won't be going, but I'll be playing the events there. Uchiha- ??? Nara-???? What's on most people's mind to do? @Write- I'll react to you as soon as Gravedigger or one of the Monzaemon goes, or tommorrow, whichever comes first.

Yosh/Gan Character Testing Grounds

Kojiro

Kojiro felt something profoundly wrong as he felt his technique go off without so much as a hitch, other than he himself being dragged into it. If something had blocked it, as he had expected, the blank space would have given it away on the earth, and Zume wouldn't have just gone unresisting. That man was too strong for that. Above him his tessen fell, right towards him. Finally, some relief, I couldn't hold this technique as strong as it is for much longer as I am Kojiro glanced upward, though he couldn't see Zume at his current height he saw the wind disrupting the dust slightly above him, though the technique was too well held together in it's X to be merely blown away, though a hole that quickly reformed itself was left in it's wake. Was Zume that far above him? That seemed impressive. Kojiro couldn't even see him, but the details of where the gust was gave him a good idea of the direction of the man at least, still above him. Oh good, I don't have to maintain control of the technique, it's headed upward anyways. I don't have to changed direction or anything Kojiro snapped the tessen out the air with his dominant hand, and swung it at his feet, freeing himself from the suction of his own technique, starting to fall out the air. Kojiro continued falling along it as the Spear came at him. Again he filled his tessen with chakra, and slammed it forward with such precise timing that it reflected how long he had spent with the weapon. As soon as the spear touched the chakra, he snapped it open, causing it to violent be flung to the side, seperating the force that drove it in two, and sending it flying to left, straight into the dust X technique, if Kojiro was lucky, sandblasting it to oblivion. He quickly shut his fan again, ready for more projectiles as he fell. Kojiro's eyes dimmed, turning back to brown, with no red underlining, and his sword changed from a red ito to a black one. Around him, silver dust started to gather, leaving guiding the technique and slowly regathering into his blade once more. The technique itself was still held together by the massive volume of chakra in it, and it's direction, continuing it's upward course. It was probably going to reach a few miles in the air before it stopped. It did however stop growing. The ground stopped feeding it, leaving a massive crater from where the technique had shot out of the ground. It slowly spread dust in the air around the area, still coated in his chakra. The X took up 1/2 a mile across, and 3/4 a mile long. It was no longer under Kojiro's control however. Kojiro shook his head at the thought. He wished he could reenter Sage mode in an instant. "And so the hunter becomes the hunted."

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Don't forget Mirai is at the gates~~~

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I gotta ask. Mirai killed men infront of the gate, it'd be easy to assume they'd be clan members, and that might not go down so well at the moment. Were they just random bandits, or members of Monzaemon?

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I'll probably make a Nara next.

Yosh/Gan Character Testing Grounds

Kojiro

Kojiro sighed as soon as Zume said to land the blow. This was it. Either he would end this fight now, or he would be ended. The edge of fate was ready to fall. As soon as it was said, Kojiro jerked his sword up another inch. "Mountain Cutter." The red color under his eyes moved slightly as if he had trouble keeping sage mode going under all the stress he was going through. He hadn't spent much chakra in sage mode really, but now his technique was guzzling it faster than he was certain he could handle, but against an opponent like this he had no choice. He had it in his capacity, but using so much of his body's chakra at once, in sage mode no less, was no small feat. The four points created a diamond, with Zume in the dead center. Again, the simple name belied it's strength. Zume had guessed right from his tools he'd placed, they hadn't been accidentally thrown away full of sage chakra. From the four different point, a piece of the earth shot up, the moved towards the center, forming an X, closing in on Zume. The feel of the technique was similiar to Hill Cutter, but on a completely different scale. The Earth shot up in fine particles that shot violently with a vibrating edge. Each 'edge' was 5 feet across, but would still cut most things in between to ribbons. The initial earth becoming shot into the earth launched all the tools into the sky, though they were thrown outside of the technique. The Tessen, being the smallest, was launched the farthest, flying over the technique itself to the other side, with the Kodachi and and Sheathe spun wildly in the air as well, off to the sides. They earth continued to shoot upwards in a geyser like an X-shape making a constant cutting stream into the sky. Kojiro seemed confused himself at the scale of the attack as it continued to grow, pulling the ground HE was on into the sky. It took a great deal of focus for him to control the thousands sections of the attack around him alone trying to drag him into the center. The geyser pulled everything to the center of it, slicing it to ribbons.. He used an additional portion of chakra to shift his blade a small bit to shift the earth he was on a tad so that he wasn't sucked into the center, which was hard. The edged sucked everything to the center before cutting it to ribbons as it dragged it higher and higher into the sky. The geyser was soon half a mile across. On the ground the technique started enlarging, pulling in more and more ground from the sides around it to maintain the X, turning the ground from an X to a ♦ as it pulled in more and more earth. The technique pulled more and more things into itself. The sheer scope of the attack was almost inhuman. Zume was in the worst section of it as well, the center, where earth would rise up from all directions, threatening to sandpaper him out of existance.

Yosh/Gan Character Testing Grounds

Kojiro

Kojiro saw the wind pickup around the man, expanding slightly. Kojiro was still weary of being touched by the man after seeing what he had done to his Earth Release: Earth Flow Wave. He hopped slightly, landing on top of the circles that had been stopped by his earth technique, then bounded off them hard to the right, giving himself a bit more distance from them as he bounded the right. Then something peculiar happened. He felt a profound emptiness around the area. Their battle had scared away, or killed, any wildlife that had been around, and now Zume's serenity and killing intent left, leaving him alone it felt like. For a minute he thought he'd killed the man with his killing intent, with a heart attack or the like, but then he realized the man was still there, especially as he spoke, seemingly right next to him though he felt nothing. Zume was there, and yet.... he was not. Kojiro had the oddest sensation that he was looking over a precipice by looking at this man... He no longer felt emotion, even with his sage mode ramping up his latent ability to feel them. For a minute, he felt concern that he could not feel the man anymore, then that turned to excitement. Once again, it would be nothing but his skill that could possibly lead him through the day. "I accept your analogy, afterall even an insect may be venomous enough to kill, and if I have bitten where I am able, and scamper off before you can step on me, what would happen I imagine?" Kojiro landed 90 from where he had been, and swung upwardly with his Nodachi, cutting through the ground below him, and yet no ground was touched, the blade of his Nodachi instead disappated as it touched the ground, spreading to the wind, continuing the long blade until it had entirely vanished, with Kojiro holding with his hands nothing but a handle into the air. He watched as Zume's new shell cut a tree almost effortlessly. "My friend, if you wish to live, surrender now, and do not walk a single step more. I have come to quite like you during this little skirmish, and now I have to say, give up. I feel like I'm staring at a precipice staring at you, but I do not fear for I have bridged many before."