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How metal would it be if I said that I was ironically saying Irony is extremely metal this whole time? I think it would be an unparalleled level of metal, myself.
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How metal would it be if I said that I was ironically saying Irony is extremely metal this whole time? I think it would be an unparalleled level of metal, myself.
7 yrs ago
Irony continues to be extremely metal and in space everyone can hear you scream: This and more tonight at 25:74PM on your local CRT Television.
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7 yrs ago
Day 126.5: No one has suspected that irony might not be extremely metal, will make contact again when the situation changes.
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Breaking News: Irony hasn't stopped being extremely metal.
"Well then we'll see if we can prepare a situation for you to be able to capture what or whomever comes out." Boshu briefly said before Miyu began fiddling with the computer interface to figure out how to work it. Miyu may not have been a translator but her at least giving it a go was appreciated by Boshu whilst she and the rest of the team prepared for an encounter, the sight of the trains coming to life was a welcome surprise, a mental note would be made of the marking on each of them in case it meant something.
Whilst Miyu fiddled with the computer Boshu got the encounter she was expecting, yet it was certainly far more unexpected in terms of scale than it could have originally been, what with the giant something and the claw destroying most if not all of the control room. In fact had Boshu been a second late with gluing herself to the floor in the first place she would've probably been thrown off her feet by the strength of the quake that hit them.
The fact that she couldn't make out what it was despite it's size was only because of all this damned dust and smoke that followed it's arrival, part of her was angry that she didn't see it before it got to them but another part of her was more concerned about remaining alive so as soon as she had a chance to move she leapt off of the walkway and soon landed with a roll into a room she'd not seen previously. To think that there was some kind of hidden armoury underneath this station.
At this point she noticed that Homuru was down here as well, likely due to either following her lead or just pure coincidence. "You okay Homuru?"
The concept of why it was here was dwarfed by the fact that it was here and still had equipment they could probably take back to have some researchers look into, or even make use of right now. In the vein of thought that they could use some of it now, Boshu was quick to stow her three prepared arrows away and wrench the case of arrows out of whatever it was secured in so to give herself something that might help against this behemoth of a thing. "Don't know what these are gonna do, but let's take them anyway and give them a field test, so to speak. Then we've got to get back up to help Tachibana and Uragiri, any ideas on how to tackle that thing up there?"
Her words to Homuru were pretty open-ended, as she wasn't exactly expecting much of a response if any whilst there were other things to worry about, besides Homuru knew what he was doing so she could trust him to come up with something that he could do on his own end to help the situation. Once she'd taken the case she'd start making her way back up to the railway terminal.
A brief glance around the lobby would reveal nothing new as the group got their bearings, though Erika's insight into the dome's inhabitants would certainly be something to worry about. Eita's decision-making in splitting the team into two and having both areas searched at once would prove to cut down on how long it would take to search the entire facility, a smart call for the sake of time-saving for sure as time was an uncertain resource.
Each pair would venture off on their own to discover whatever each section had for them to discover, for better or for worse.
Compared to the staleness of the air in the lobby, where everything felt cold and bland, the residential area immediately seemed much warmer and fresher than what could be expected based on the appearance of the lobby.
The first thing that graced Eita and Tapo's eyes with a surprise would be the decor of what appeared to be a bar none too dissimilar to one they'd find at home, they'd just walked into the residential section and whilst there was a thin layer of dust across all the surfaces the room still felt like it had a lot of life to it. There were even old bottles of alcohol, some still half-full, lining the back wall of the bar itself. The language on the bottles was similar to their own language, but just foreign enough that trying to read it as though it was their language would lead to confusing strings of letters that didn't make much sense.
There was a door behind the bar with a porthole style window, gazing through it would reveal a kitchen that had likely seen a lot of use until this place was abandoned.
At the other end of the room stood another door, this one as simple as every other door they'd come across which would lead into a collection of 30 identical dormitory rooms. All furnished with a wooden desk, soft carpet flooring and a wood-frame bed, it may not have been true luxury but it was certainly comfortable.
If the two investigated enough they would eventually discover the remains of a book entitled "Yamamoto Norisuke", some of the pages were completely illegible due to the shoddy handwriting whilst a couple would actually make sense after enough study due to the similarities in their own language and that of this new continent's. The dates were barely legible, but presuming it followed the same system as theirs, the first seemed to date back roughly three years ago yet they couldn't make heads or tails of what it said.
Instead they would have to settle for the first one that was actually legible, which was about a year ago.
We've all been tasked to keep summarised logs of our daily activities in the lab and with the fauna we're working to preserve that is submitted to the City on a weekly basis, apparently in order for the Council to know how things are progressing and to determine when we'll be able to make access to the reserve available for the public to visit.
Their request for these logs has inspired me to start writing things down in this journal, such as any concerns or thoughts I have that I don't believe I can share with my colleagues.
Personally I think it's because they don't trust us to reliably do our jobs no matter how hard they make it for us to keep the population numbers of each animal out here even with such a wide variety of prey and predator species inter-mingled. Some of them have begun to adapt based on their circumstances but others seem to be adamant to remain as they are and cause us trouble.
The next readable page started with a name that would be on everyone's radar, no doubt.
Nori Kinsei, a man I never thought I'd have the privilege to meet, visited today and said he will be staying with us for a few weeks to help us with our daily duties as a man of science as a form of reward for all the hard work we've put into keeping the reservation functioning.
And despite this good news I can't help but feel concerned, the dome has been struggling lately to keep the land inside it's confines properly protected against the degrading effect that has been plaguing the world outside of it for so long. We've recently noticed this at the furthest reaches of the dome in relation to the position of this research building and currently the only explanation is that the dome is starting to fail.
We've looked into every possible aspect we can in order to slow the degradation and have been successful so far in slowing it down, but we've not been able to stop or reverse it's effects. Currently the status of all the species we have here appears to suggest that they're healthy and safe for now.
I'm more worried for the animals we're looking after, but Kinsei has assured the rest of the staff that he has an idea on how to ensure the animals will be able to survive even if the entire dome were to fail.
A lot of the pages from here on out were impossible to read, but there were certain words, such as "accident", "mutation" and "quarantine" that became more and more prevalent as the days went by.
Up until what could be a few months ago where his writings were once again understandable.
The Quarantined subjects have shown little change since the early days, some of them don't even look like their original species anymore so we have to keep them in the quarantine wing indefinitely.
I'd prefer if we put the poor things out of their misery. The only ones that seem to have mutated without looking abhorrent were the bird species we have housed in quarantine and something that was once a snake but has long since grown to the point where we're not sure if it's actually safe to contain anymore.
Speaking of that thing... one of my colleagues, Zhu Kadokawa, wanted to name it after his daughter Daisuke and he said he had a good feeling about going into it's quarantine enclosure himself to start hand-feeding it. Earlier today it ate Zhu, he's the first fatality we've incurred since these mutations began, not the first casualty though.
We're not calling that thing Daisuke, that I'm sure of.
The next legible entry was of the following day.
They called it Daisuke, I don't understand why but everyone agreed that it suited the thing. They all say that now seeing it makes them think of Zhu, so it was a worthy homage.
I can't understand these maniacs any more, it's as if I'm the only one who has a grudge against that creature for eating our colleague.
The last entry was written in such a way that it looked like Yamamoto was having a hard time controlling his writing hand, so only a few words could really be made out amongst the mess of ink, there was no date here, he either didn't have the time or he didn't care enough to write it down.
Been bitten
medicine seems to
quarantine useless, released into reserve
leaving
Erika and Shizuka would be heading into the laboratory, the doors swinging open effortlessly and smoothly swinging shut once more after they passed through, there was a sense of cleanliness to the entire room despite the dust that had begun gathering on the worktops.
There was a distinct lack of documentation around aside from a few stray charts that detailed goodness knows what information as the language was difficult to understand regardless of any similarities it had with their own. With enough time they would probably have a loose grasp of what it all said, but as before time wasn't an endless resource right now.
What would truly catch their eye though would be a set of doors down at the far end of the room with the standard black and yellow hazard stripes lining it's edges, they could most certainly open it if they wished, with no power in the building any more these doors would open with little resistance, sliding across into the space designated for them in the surrounding walls.
And inside were several reinforced chambers, with clear doors on one side and apparently access to the reserve on the other. Whilst the hazard door would be easy to open these reinforced access doors wouldn't budge for anything, and taking into mind what was on the other side of these chambers... The pair wouldn't want to open those doors either.
Careful inspection through the glass of the chambers would let them see bizarre seals of some origin on the floor of each chamber, all probably identical but what would they know? If there were any decent idea of what these things looked like, it could be comparable to a bunch of monkeys fighting underwater, a completely unreasonable example, but accurate at the least.
Surprisingly there was plenty to find in here, a green box on the wall with a thin glass panel that looked easy to break open in case of an emergency. Smashing the glass would net the pair a bottle of 20 pills and some carefully written instructions that they couldn't understand at the moment until they had time to try and figure it out, along with three sheets of paper with the same seals they'd seen in the chambers etched onto these sheets of paper.
And on the walls next to each chamber they would see what was essentially a brief summary of what was contained in each of these chambers.
Chambers 1 through 3 each contained the same type of animal, anyone who knew their animal genus and species would be able to more or less identify the picture on each of these biological summaries as that of the Canis Anthus, or more commonly known as the Golden Wolf. While they couldn't be sure, from what they could tell there were no details of what had happened to them to cause them to be in containment, the summary probably only detailed what was normal for their species.
Chamber 4 and 5 each housed a singular Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus, also known as Hyacinth Macaws, likewise with the wolves, it probably only detailed the original information they had on the species of bird itself.
Chambers 6 through to 10 proved to be the most interesting as the walls between each of them had been knocked down to turn these five individual chambers into one huge chamber, the walls of it covered in deep claw marks and the once clear doors marred with scratches, cracks and dents. A summary on chamber six that detailed it as a Crotalus Atrox, the western diamondback rattlesnake. It looked as though the caving in of the walls hadn't been done by the people who worked here, and that it was in fact the rattlesnake that had made such changes to it's accommodation.
There had been summaries on chambers 7 through to 10, but those were torn off at some point likely due to the snake's decision to move into the other chambers.
Boshu's expression stiffened as she heard Miyu's advice on the lack of natural energy down here. In a place that felt so artificial it would definitely make sense for there to be less, but not a complete void of it, for sure. As concerning as the news was they weren't about to turn tail and leave just because it felt so cold down here... Wait when did it get cold? Even with her relatively wear gear on there was a chill she couldn't quite shake. An invasive sense of dread was creeping it's way up her spine, of course this kind of sensation also served to rile the huntress up in response, but even that was steadily being diminished by the atmosphere just in this tunnel.
There were no qualms with Homuru testing the area to see how receptive to their chakra it was, taking visual note of the fact that it was essentially weakened.
Though whilst he was doing it, she was sure she heard something moving outside the tunnel, like an interested party was observing them as they ventured deeper.
"You hear-" She began to say, interrupted by the first of many cracking sounds just before the ground beneath them gave way. For a moment Boshu was surprised, barely letting out a small noise of shock before she more or less safely landed inside the expansive room that was a huge point of interest.
"You okay?" Without a thought she first looked to Homuru as she brought out her flashlight and pointed it up, looking at the hole that had just been made and shining her light through it in order to show the other two where they'd gone, calling up at the same time. "What's the situation up there? Come to the edge of the hole I'm lighting up and let yourselves down, we'll make a plan for extraction as we go, but I'll need you down here in case any of us encounter some hostiles. If you think it might be too dangerous then see what you can do from up there." Typically she had a good grasp for ensuring a group's safety, she'd shown enough officials how hunting was done after all, so she'd try to make sure this was as safe as possible for the tag-alongs.
All the while their surroundings provided some interesting sights, blue hues illuminating the area and showing what could be considered things of importance, as well as a big fucking hole where a large door used to be. Refreshingly, fighting things bigger than her was Boshu's primary field of work.
A cursory glance at the PDA at least brought a small amount of relief, until considering the next part of her initial concerns. If their target was here for an extended time, he could have set traps up within such a simple location to delay, kill or even capture any pursuers. "Our target is here, maybe he managed to drop the bug here and continue on, or he somehow slept through all the noise we just made." It felt appropriate to add that tid-bit, if either of them had any intention of leaving now would be the time to dangle the carrot of a completed mission in front of them. During any time spent waiting for Miyu and Kinzo to come down she'd look over the room once more, lots of tracks going the same way, huge hole in the wall, a board with bits of seemingly torn paper on it. A fairly large machine that looked similar to some of the work she'd seen being made on mass civilian transport, though she couldn't recall what they'd named it.
There was little time for wonder though, she had to focus on finding that tracker and properly following the guide of her PDA told her where to look, it looked reminiscent of the spectator seats of an arena in the way it overlooked the whole expanse of the room. The faint blinking light up there definitely gave away that something important had to be there, moreso with the tracker bug's signal coming from the same place.
"Everyone, when you're ready follow me. I'm going to take a look up there, where our mark seems to be, be wary of any signs of movement." With that said she'd be rather quick to ascend the metal steps and get into the control room, prepared at any point to introduce her bow to something's face if it tried to jump out at her.
Fortunately nothing did and she found herself looking at the computer screen, the dead bug and the foreign symbology all over the technological interface. Some of it seemed similar and one word was as easy to read as a picture book, but the rest of it didn't make any sense to her. She wasn't going to touch anything until someone was sure of what the "return" function would actually do, as she wasn't much of a translator.
Once the others had joined her she'd glance back at them, Homuru wasn't an intelligence officer so she doubted he would be able to figure the language out either so she looked to Kinzo and Miyu. "Are either of you any good with languages? If so can I leave this with you? I'll keep a watch out for anything coming from that hole in the wall. Be ready for a fight just in case."
As if to emphasise her warning about a fight, the next tremor occurred and Boshu remained unshaken by it, if something was coming their way that could cause tremors with it's movement she'd need something big to take it down.
With her bow already out, Boshu drew a scroll from the ones strapped to her leg and opened it enough to draw out three explosive charges, then stowing the scroll back where it came from before collecting three arrows from her quiver and clipping a charge to the shaft of each one. Two of her arrows would be firmly held in her hand whilst she nocked the first arrow, ready to draw and fire it if something came after them, the other two arrows were for if it kept moving after that.
"If we can I want to trap anything that comes for us, how quickly do you think your mirror will fully deploy, based on your test earlier?" She quietly asked her fellow tiger, taking a glance his way as she spoke.
An attendant for the briefing approached the VTOL and Squad 2 as they were boarding in order to depart and briefly eyed each of them up, they gave a low sigh, as if out of mild frustration before speaking. "Unfortunately, Arata Kaguya has fallen ill and wont be joining you on your mission, he wishes you the best of luck and apologizes for any trouble caused." The attendant bowed to the group before making haste to get out of the endless rain, clearly even an umbrella wasn't enough for him to be happy with being outside.
Of course with the news that Arata wasn't on the team anymore the VTOL pilot informed the group that they would be departing immediately now that everyone who was actually going was present.
Within the VTOL with the team was a small assortment of food and medical supplies, as well as some flashlights and a large portable light, just in case the mission lasted long enough for night to come. Any inquisitive souls who kept watch to see where exactly they were headed would spot two of the crafts splitting off in opposing directions, at this point there was nothing of note on the ground to use as a landmark, a couple of dead trees perhaps, maybe a hill or two but nothing significant. A slight tilt in the passenger cabin told all present that they were starting to veer from the path the rest of the squads were taking, steadily a large hill was coming into view in the distance, the closer the VTOL got the more anyone watching would see that it was no hill.
It was a monumentally-sized dome, segmented glass panels once crystal clear that were now clouded and dark, from here they could see that it was at least a couple of kilometres wide at the base. Fortunately from above it appeared to be intact, once they landed the dome seemed to be impossibly huge for anything to be considered structurally sound yet here it stood, containing goodness knows what.
The VTOL had landed in front of a building, one small door on the front and windows dotted around here and there as one would expect any old building to be constructed, had it not been for the dome that it was connected to one could mistake it for a person's home. There was something off about the scene, once the VTOL's engines had turned off and come to a full stop there wasn't a sound to be heard from within the building.
Both Tapo and Eita, with their relatively enhanced perceptions when it came to sight, could just about make out something moving through the clouded glass of the dome. There was no way to tell what exactly, but there was something in there that had noticed their arrival.
For now though they were safe enough. "We've been instructed to wait here for you guys to return, we'll keep our lights on and watch the horizon for anything coming your way from out here. So, uhh... Good luck, right?"
What stood between them and the truth of what was inside now was a simple door, it would have no trouble being opened by hand as it wasn't locked and beyond that threshold a wave of stale air would billow out. Inside was an empty lobby, furnished with uniformly boring decor and the occasional water fountain or vending machine, signs at the back of the room pointed off one way that said Laboratory and another labelled Residential
Between the two signs there was a set of reinforced double doors, a sign above it stated Wildlife Reserve.
Really it was quite bland in here, though if anyone were to look at their PDAs they would see that the tracker bug was on the move within the confines of the "Reserve". Anything following this moment was entirely up to whomever decided to take charge, really.
If Erika were to use her sensing technique to find out if anything else was nearby, she'd pick up on a large number of signatures within the dome's limits and the chakra within them was undesirable to say the least, a more suitable phrase would be that they were absolutely disgusting to even feel the presences of such a foreign chakra. It was impossible at the moment to tell what the signatures belonged to, but some of the signatures were smaller and some were larger than the average human's chakra signature.
There was a moment before the briefing began where it looked as though Miyu wanted to say something after Kinzo had given a more accurate description of his capabilities, before giving a piece of his mind to Homuru over the reluctance to detail what he could do. It made sense that they'd be agitated by a lack of information, she'd had her share of frustration due to not knowing what an ally was capable of.
Well, they'd get over it later. Probably.
Silence reigned over the squad during the briefing, Boshu herself paying close attention to the details of who they were after and why. As images of those who were hit by the White Gas were shown she found herself angry, the fact that a man like this would show up so many years after vanishing just to re-enact the attacks that occurred in his time made no sense... Yet concern lingered in the back of her mind as she tried to think of what the reasoning might be, perhaps he was turned to the side of whatever was in the New Continent in order to execute their attack on a grander scale. If that was the case he certainly succeeded, but now the eyes of the shinobi world were on that land to find and destroy someone who dared jeopardize the peace that had only recently been attained.
Having a PDA to track one of the bugs that had been put on him was both a blessing and a curse, especially if he knew the bugs were there the whole time, it would allow him plenty of time to set up any form of trap he could ever imagine.
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It was a small relief being on the VTOL and soon leaving the choking cloud of smog that lurked over Amegakure, not enough to truly ease her concerns over the tracker bug these teams were meant to follow but it was something right?
Whilst Miyu fussed over the specifics of what they had in terms of supplies and Homuru attempted to make some kind of amends with the girl, Boshu was sat there, staring at the blank PDA as if just looking at it was going to give her some much-needed answers about what to expect upon landing. So focused on her thoughts, she was only snapped out of it as the PDA lit up and displayed the co-ordinates of the tracker bug and their own location, a few seconds later she stowed her PDA away and moved to look out one of the side windows of the VTOL, eyes scanning the terrain around them to take note of the fences that surrounded what she could guess was the whole continent maybe.
The longer she spent taking in the sights of their surroundings the more she genuinely thought that there was actually nothing to the continent, but she couldn't let herself slip into such a naive state of mind, this was an important mission that they had been tasked with and she wasn't about ready to fail just because everything was quiet on the surface. Eyes traced the cracks and crevices that littered the ground below their craft, she couldn't spot anything in the darkness from this height but it was worth being wary of them just in case.
Patiently the huntress listened to their pilot and gave him a quiet nod of confirmation, he couldn't see it but it felt right. She'd use her flare technique to let him know they needed extraction at the ropes. "Get your stage faces on, Squad 3, we've got a traitor to hunt down." Boshu took hold of one of the lines they were descending from and was the first out of the craft, descending at a fairly brisk pace so she could reach the bottom of this crevice and establish that nothing was immediately endangering them, taking note of everything she could see on her way down.
Chiselled stone as if someone had been here, pipes and metal plates, bars... all kinds of signs of whatever civilisation used to be in the area. The concern that Boshu had worried over earlier was starting to bubble up from the back of her mind once more.
Instead of fiddling around with any of their tools Boshu quickly formed one of her flares and launched it further below her into the abyss that was their entry-point, easily illuminating their way down for the next few minutes at the least. In this time she'd get boots on the ground and release her bow from the confines of the seal on her wrist, allowing it to unfold with a solid click that reverberated down the all-consuming tunnel that seemed to be their only way in. One look at it sent a chill of dread up Boshu's spine, an enclosed space was no good for an archer, let alone a long ranged fighter like Kinzo. Thankfully, when it boiled down to it she wasn't just a bowman so she figured Homuru and herself would be okay, though she couldn't say much for Kinzo or Miyu.
The light of her flare failed to breach the deep, inky blackness of the tunnel that was present before her and the rest of the squad, so she made use of the flashlight she had as part of the equipment given to her and used it to try and light the tunnel, to little avail. "It must stretch on for quite a way if our lights can't reach the end of it." She idly commented as she took slow, careful steps into the dark, taking the lead for all intents and purposes.
It was about this time that the earthquake hit, forcing Boshu to stop part-way into the tunnel and wait for it to die down, she took a look to the rest of the squad. Initially she was looking to see if Kinzo and Miyu had been discouraged at all by it, just to be sure of whether or not they were planning to stick around.
In the event that they decided to keep going she'd give a small smile of confidence and continue on, beginning to give quiet orders to her companions. "Homuru up front with me in case we need to block the entrance and get out of here sharpish. Tachibana, Uragiri, keep an eye on the entrance as we head in." She kept her flashlight pointed ahead of the group and further into the tunnel, the end of this thing couldn't have been too far, right?
Boshu's expression remained as Homuru responded to her initial greeting, intending to follow what he'd just said, but before they could have a laugh of their own about anything the third and fourth members of the squad arrived. Unlike Homuru, Boshu was more than ready to engage chatty and open folk in conversation, but of course she let her masked companion finish talking first so not to cut him off.
As she waited she briefly heard an utterance that sounded a bit like her last name, causing her to glance the direction it came but ultimately she couldn't tell if it was actually someone saying her name or if it was someone called Sen being referenced, it didn't really matter at the moment as it was anyway, so she could worry about it later.
A brief glance over the two of them brought on a briefly concerned expression, of all the potential each village had at their disposal, was it really a good idea to send who looked so young and inexperienced? Yeah, there had been a war not long ago that they likely participated in, but they wouldn't have done much with their apparent ages, even Boshu didn't get into much of the meat of the war when she was younger. The few major skirmishes she was in gave her enough experience to at least know when someone was pretending to surrender or trying to flee the battlefield. Homuru was considered a veteran like her, so she could trust that he'd keep at the task at hand regardless of what happened for sure, fresh-faced folk like these two? Who knew whether or not they would run at the first sign of danger?
But Boshu hid her reservations about the two by shifting her expression from it's concerned gaze to one matching the confident smile she wore before. "Well, Kinzo and Miyu, I can see some good potential in both of you and I bet this mission will bring it out. I'm Boshu Sen'Yo, hunter of beasts and generally a friendly kinda person. And he may not be allowed to say what he can do, but Homuru's talents will shine through exactly when they're needed, you have my assurance on that matter. Now get cosy you two, we've got a briefing to listen to once everyone's here."
Of course Boshu would listen in case either of them had any further questions, but it looked like a majority of the squads numbers had arrived already, no doubt the briefing would begin very soon.
While Amegakure left much to be desired due to it's industrial nature, it wasn't terrible. The smog only left a burn in Boshu's lungs for what was likely to be the rest of the day, it certainly wasn't like home to say the least but she could get used to it for a couple of days, maybe after a drink or two as well if she could convince any of the others to go with her.
For the time being Boshu was going to spend her time cleaning her equipment and making minor fixes, the room was perfect for it due to the relative lack of luxurious features it had. Her equipment was spread out all over the room as she made sure everything was accounted for and in good working order, it was going to cost someone's life later if she wasn't sure of her gear being fully functional right now.
Either way she had a whole day to use so every precaution would be taken and every worry would be addressed and although it seemed no one else wanted to drink before the big day of the briefing, Boshu was bubbling with excitement over being able to go to this supposedly unexplored land to see just what was there.The only following concern was how this related to the plague that had spread among some members of the population, and whether or not it's point of origin was in that new world, she couldn't go bringing it back herself that was for sure.
Amegakure's Great Hall - 08:50 am
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Boshu didn't arrive too early, but she made sure to arrive at a reasonable time, much like the other shinobi attending the briefing. She'd be lead to her seat by one of the attendants present and found one of her squad-mates to be the ever familiar mask belonging to Homuru, he was an odd one for sure what with keeping his face covered up with that mask no matter the circumstance though it was probably just part of his work for the empire that meant he had to wear it.
Boshu wore her characteristically confident persona with a fresh smile and a bright tone of voice. "Punctual like always, eh Homuru? I'm glad to have a familiar face in the squad." She'd chime in greeting to her Tiger division cohort as she seated herself, glancing to the other two seats. "Know anything about the other two on our squad?" Homuru wasn't much for socialising, but it was worth attempting to poke and see what he knew, if anything, about Miyu Tachibana and Kinzo Uragiri.
The rest of the shinobi in attendance seemed to either be abuzz with excitement or completely sombre about the current situation, an unexplored world was in their sights and anything could come from it after all. Boshu just wanted to find out what kind of things lived over there so she could detail them and bring the information back to the rest of the guild, this kind of information was nigh on vital for someone such as her.
【Sexuality】 Straight up hetero. ____________________________________________
【Village】 Iwagakure
【Birthplace】 Iwa
【Alignment/Affiliation/Organization The Empire of Stone Sen'Yo Hunting Guild The Empire's Tiger Division
【Clan/Bloodline】 Sen'yo clan
Known and reputed as a clan that advertise themselves and operate as a guild of hunters under the remit of the Tiger Division of the Empire. They specialise in researching and subsequently slaying or warding off beasts within the Empire's territory and are sufficiently spread throughout the land in order to ensure quick response times with beasts of any kind for population control.
For their work in controlling the populations of wild beasts they are compensated financially in order to maintain their equipment and afford to supply their clansfolk across the Empire and train new members of the clan.
Hunter training isn't exclusive to the Sen'Yo clan itself and is open to all willing applicants, but due to the wartime period most able-bodied folk who could join were already enlisted in the military and didn't have the time in which to train how to hunt.
Every once in a few generations you will find some members who have a knack for wildlife and are able to tame such beasts for their own ends.
【Rank】 Official Hunter (Low-Jonin) Man-Hunter for the Tiger.
【Chakra Nature】 Wind (Primary) Fire (Secondary)
【Appearance/Wardrobe】 Boshu's uniform and attire are essentially one in the same, as a good hunter is always prepared to begin another hunt.
But during times where Boshu is not found to be wearing her full hunting garb she will be in a rather dressed down version featuring a distinct lack of the layered armour plates that adorn her shoulders, waist, arms and legs, a form-fitting shirt displaying her mid-riff with shorts thigh-high socks and boots to match.
No matter the attire she wears, the head-dress she wears that bares the symbol of her clan and of the Stone Empire is always a must, like the headbands of the shinobi of previous years it is the most important signifier of who she is and where she's from.
Standing at a height of 167 cm, Boshu's physical appearance is fairly normal and expected of someone from the Sen'Yo clan, strawberry blonde hair, gentle eyes and a pleasant olive skin-tone, the most common physical traits found amongst the wide-spread family of hunters. Additionally she also boasts one of, if not the most, muscular form amongst the women of the Stone Empire and it is put to great use in her grappling style of unarmed fighting.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【Personality】 There's joviality, there's guts, there's... A something a bit weird about how primed and ready Boshu is to get stuck knee-deep in a bad situation if someone needs a hand. But it's not a bad trait when you have the skill and might to make things go your way. Boshu often throws herself into a scrap if she can see a way of either helping someone in trouble or in splitting up a pair of hotheads who can't back down.
Socially Boshu will revel with whomever is having a good time, accidentally knock the wrong person, start a bar fight and then get kicked out with the lot of them. Then go waltzing to the next tavern or bar with the people she just got into a fight with for another round of drinks, honestly any reason to take people out for drinks is a good enough reason for her. Outside of drinking she'll be supportive, positive, merry and can come across as naive at times with most people she meets, a persona she carries to endear herself to others.
During hunts and missions for the empire, she's still relatively chipper, but a lot of her focus in on her surroundings and the safety of anyone she's working with, taking into account possible changes in the situation and trying to make an appropriate call if such a change occurs. Whilst she doesn't always enjoy hunting beasts and whatever else she is sent after, she knows that at the end of the day it's her job to do this because not everyone else is up to these kinds of tasks.
Like most members of the Stone Empire she is exceedingly proud of her homeland and the things it has achieved, but she has less of a disdainful treatment of people from the other nations in order to make a good impression and show them the benevolence that the Empire has to offer as well.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【History】 From a young age Boshu was trained in her clan's art of hunting, learning to utilise various weapons to fell beasts that roamed into the Empire's lands with ill intent. Out of all the weapons she used she showed the most promise with the bow, larger than conventional bows used by shinobi in order to provide greater penetration power against the hide of the beasts they would normally kill.
Her training didn't stop there, whilst she was also training as a shinobi for the Empire she continued to learn the skills of her clan. At this point she was still too young to be enlisted into the military for the war like many of her fellow clansfolk were, the bare minimum of the clan being left behind in order to safely ensure that Wildlife populations were remaining within an acceptable level.
Some of the teachings overlapped, such as tracking a target or quietly manoeuvring through terrain to gain a vantage point on the area. She put all her time into learning everything the empire and her family had to teach her and came out better for it, so much so that she became incredibly relaxed afterwards, believing that she wouldn't even need to try now that she'd learnt what she thought was everything.
Most of her time after completing her training, having taken on a solo hunting task to prove her worth, Boshu was taking part in scouting operations to keep an eye on the numbers of Kumogakure's steadily crumbling army. Her lax demeanour was worked out of her work attitude by the lengthy duration of her scouting missions, moreso near the tail-end of the war when they didn't actually need to worry about the enemy forces due to all the political talks going on at the time. Regardless she found that there was much more to discover and learn from whilst out in the field.
After the war with the Lightning finally ended, Boshu's primary duties as a hunter rekindled, able to take on the mantle of a Sen'Yo Hunter officially without any wars getting in the way.
In recent years with a mostly controlled beast population and no enemies on the Empire's borders to worry about, she's managed to balance her relaxed, jovial nature with her missions and duties, making slight modifications here and there to her bow and the arrows she carries in order to widen her range of abilities. For the most part she's used her shinobi training to supplement her hunting capabilities and in turn puts her hunting knowledge into her missions as a "Tiger" Division agent of the Empire in co-ordination with the "Dog" Divison to track down and either capture or kill rogues who dared to abandon the Empire.
During some of her hunts she has proven to be able to guide wild beasts and animals out of Iwa territory.
【Special Traits】 Excellent vision, hearing and sense of smell Affinity with animals Average Chakra pool Adept Chakra control Highly skilled archer Fairly skilled with melee and unarmed fighting Remarkable strength and endurance
【Afflictions/Nerfs】
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【Equipment/Weapons/Items】 Name of Weapon or Item: Hunting Bow Description: A self-crafted weapon, heavily used and well maintained, somewhat of a mark of pride for those of the Sen'Yo clan as it shows that they are capable of creating their own tools and also able to keep them in a good condition for a long time. It's been modified somewhat by Boshu to improve it's utility purposes. Normally it is stored in a specialised seal on Boshu's wrist. The bow is able be used as a melee weapon, not a good one but good enough to defend with or bludgeon someone. Appearance:That big fuck-off bow in her appearance -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name of Weapon or Item: Explosive charges x 10 Description: Ten explosive charges that can be mounted around the head of an arrow in order to explode upon impact or a set amount of time after impact - Destroys the arrow after detonation. Appearance: A thin metallic cylinder that clips around the shaft of the arrow. Typically stored within a scroll strapped to her leg. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name of Weapon or Item: Smoke shells x 6 of each type Description: Mountable shells that fit around the head of the arrows, much like the explosive charges. White shells emit a trail of smoke either upon impact or immediately after firing. Orange shells release a thick mist of orange-hued smoke upon impact that irritates the eyes and respiratory system of anyone caught in it, normally causing large amounts of pain. Purple shells release a lavender-scented mist that induces tiredness and sleep in most who are caught in it. Appearance: A shell that fits around the head of an arrow, colour denotes the smoke's purpose. For storage purposes they are stored inside a scroll that's strapped to Boshu's leg. There is a scroll for each type of shell. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name of Weapon or Item: Arrow quiver - stores up to 40 normal arrows. Description: A quiver for arrows, not much else to it. Most arrows used in the field can be reclaimed and used for later, but having a reasonable supply on hand isn't a bad thing. An additional supply of 40 normal arrows is stashed within a scroll inside the quiver, for quick refilling purposes. Appearance: Visible in character appearance. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【Kekkei Genkai 】 Name of Kekkei Genkai: None Clan: Rank Description:
Name of Technique: Flare Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu Rank: D Range: N/A Nature Type: Fire/Wind Description: The user generates fire natured chakra into a small ball within their hand and encases it in a shell of wind natured chakra, then it is launched into the air, where the wind chakra carries it skywards before the shell shatters and the fire chakra combusts to emit a bright light. The light burns for a few minutes in order to give a signal flare for others or just to illuminate an area. Can also be used to blind others for the sake of making an escape.
Name of Technique: Beast-caller/talker Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu Rank: C Range: Close to far Nature Type: Wind Description: The user whistles and with the correct modifications based on wind chakra usage it can be used to mimic any kind of animal call that the user has heard and amplify it's volume. So long as the beast in question is within earshot of this whistle it is likely to either come running towards the user to help or make a call of it's own to warn others in the area depending on if it's a call for help or a warning for the beasts to stay away.
When in close proximity to a beast it is used and maintained by the user to be able to accurately tell the beast what the user wants to tell it, for things such as calming the animal or convincing it to follow the user. It doesn't help the user understand animals, but it certainly make it easier for animals to understand them.
Name of Technique: Illusory Flurry of Arrows Type of Jutsu: Kyu/Genjutsu Rank: D Range: Long Nature Type: N/A Description: A simple technique that obscures the perception of onlookers, causing them to see several arrows being fired at the same time instead of just one, making it harder for whomever is being targetted to avoid being shot with ease. If used in conjunction with a smoke arrow it will make it appear as though multiple streams of smoke are being created, but the duplicates fade far quicker than the original.
If someone is watching the user as they fire they can normally keep track of which arrow is the true one, this technique is best used for surprise attacks.
Name of Technique: Sonic Boom Shot Type of Jutsu: Kyujutsu Rank: B Range: Long Nature Type: N/A Description: Through the use of chakra the user's body, the bow and the arrow in current use undergo heavy reinforcement to amplify the draw weight of the bow and the strength of the user in order to unleash an arrow capable of extreme penetration and destructive power upon the arrow impacting it's target.
Typically it is used as a long-range sniping technique due to it's charge time and sheer power.
Name of Technique: Sonar technique Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu Rank: D Range: Approx 50 metres Nature Type: N/A Description: A technique designed to briefly improve the user's sense of sound in order to have an accurate idea of their surroundings and what dwells within the nearby area, be it a beast or a person. Non-offensive technique.
Name of Technique: Physical Reinforcement Style Type of Jutsu: Taijutsu Rank: C Range: Self Nature Type: N/A Description: A style of fighting taught within the Sen'Yo clan's hunting guild that allows users to take and deal additional punishment past their physical norms, the boost is minor compared to most physical enhancement techniques, but it's main intent is to allow the hunters to be able to safely withstand attacks from the beasts they hunt as well as grapple and handle them physically depending on their size.
The reinforcement comes mainly from the user's stance, but there is a small amount of chakra usage that adds to their current physical capabilities. This style of fighting proves to be rather useful against humanoid opponents as well as unruly beasts.
【Sexuality】 Straight up hetero. ____________________________________________
【Village】 Iwagakure
【Birthplace】 Iwa
【Alignment/Affiliation/Organization The Empire of Stone Sen'Yo Hunting Guild The Empire's Tiger Division
【Clan/Bloodline】 Sen'yo clan
Known and reputed as a clan that advertise themselves and operate as a guild of hunters under the remit of the Tiger Division of the Empire. They specialise in researching and subsequently slaying or warding off beasts within the Empire's territory and are sufficiently spread throughout the land in order to ensure quick response times with beasts of any kind for population control.
For their work in controlling the populations of wild beasts they are compensated financially in order to maintain their equipment and afford to supply their clansfolk across the Empire and train new members of the clan.
Hunter training isn't exclusive to the Sen'Yo clan itself and is open to all willing applicants, but due to the wartime period most able-bodied folk who could join were already enlisted in the military and didn't have the time in which to train how to hunt.
Every once in a few generations you will find some members who have a knack for wildlife and are able to tame such beasts for their own ends.
【Rank】 Official Hunter (Low-Jonin) Man-Hunter for the Tiger.
【Chakra Nature】 Wind (Primary) Fire (Secondary)
【Appearance/Wardrobe】 Boshu's uniform and attire are essentially one in the same, as a good hunter is always prepared to begin another hunt.
But during times where Boshu is not found to be wearing her full hunting garb she will be in a rather dressed down version featuring a distinct lack of the layered armour plates that adorn her shoulders, waist, arms and legs, a form-fitting shirt displaying her mid-riff with shorts thigh-high socks and boots to match.
No matter the attire she wears, the head-dress she wears that bares the symbol of her clan and of the Stone Empire is always a must, like the headbands of the shinobi of previous years it is the most important signifier of who she is and where she's from.
Standing at a height of 167 cm, Boshu's physical appearance is fairly normal and expected of someone from the Sen'Yo clan, strawberry blonde hair, gentle eyes and a pleasant olive skin-tone, the most common physical traits found amongst the wide-spread family of hunters. Additionally she also boasts one of, if not the most, muscular form amongst the women of the Stone Empire and it is put to great use in her grappling style of unarmed fighting.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【Personality】 There's joviality, there's guts, there's... A something a bit weird about how primed and ready Boshu is to get stuck knee-deep in a bad situation if someone needs a hand. But it's not a bad trait when you have the skill and might to make things go your way. Boshu often throws herself into a scrap if she can see a way of either helping someone in trouble or in splitting up a pair of hotheads who can't back down.
Socially Boshu will revel with whomever is having a good time, accidentally knock the wrong person, start a bar fight and then get kicked out with the lot of them. Then go waltzing to the next tavern or bar with the people she just got into a fight with for another round of drinks, honestly any reason to take people out for drinks is a good enough reason for her. Outside of drinking she'll be supportive, positive, merry and can come across as naive at times with most people she meets, a persona she carries to endear herself to others.
During hunts and missions for the empire, she's still relatively chipper, but a lot of her focus in on her surroundings and the safety of anyone she's working with, taking into account possible changes in the situation and trying to make an appropriate call if such a change occurs. Whilst she doesn't always enjoy hunting beasts and whatever else she is sent after, she knows that at the end of the day it's her job to do this because not everyone else is up to these kinds of tasks.
Like most members of the Stone Empire she is exceedingly proud of her homeland and the things it has achieved, but she has less of a disdainful treatment of people from the other nations in order to make a good impression and show them the benevolence that the Empire has to offer as well.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【History】 From a young age Boshu was trained in her clan's art of hunting, learning to utilise various weapons to fell beasts that roamed into the Empire's lands with ill intent. Out of all the weapons she used she showed the most promise with the bow, larger than conventional bows used by shinobi in order to provide greater penetration power against the hide of the beasts they would normally kill.
Her training didn't stop there, whilst she was also training as a shinobi for the Empire she continued to learn the skills of her clan. At this point she was still too young to be enlisted into the military for the war like many of her fellow clansfolk were, the bare minimum of the clan being left behind in order to safely ensure that Wildlife populations were remaining within an acceptable level.
Some of the teachings overlapped, such as tracking a target or quietly manoeuvring through terrain to gain a vantage point on the area. She put all her time into learning everything the empire and her family had to teach her and came out better for it, so much so that she became incredibly relaxed afterwards, believing that she wouldn't even need to try now that she'd learnt what she thought was everything.
Most of her time after completing her training, having taken on a solo hunting task to prove her worth, Boshu was taking part in scouting operations to keep an eye on the numbers of Kumogakure's steadily crumbling army. Her lax demeanour was worked out of her work attitude by the lengthy duration of her scouting missions, moreso near the tail-end of the war when they didn't actually need to worry about the enemy forces due to all the political talks going on at the time. Regardless she found that there was much more to discover and learn from whilst out in the field.
After the war with the Lightning finally ended, Boshu's primary duties as a hunter rekindled, able to take on the mantle of a Sen'Yo Hunter officially without any wars getting in the way.
In recent years with a mostly controlled beast population and no enemies on the Empire's borders to worry about, she's managed to balance her relaxed, jovial nature with her missions and duties, making slight modifications here and there to her bow and the arrows she carries in order to widen her range of abilities. For the most part she's used her shinobi training to supplement her hunting capabilities and in turn puts her hunting knowledge into her missions as a "Tiger" Division agent of the Empire in co-ordination with the "Dog" Divison to track down and either capture or kill rogues who dared to abandon the Empire.
During some of her hunts she has proven to be able to guide wild beasts and animals out of Iwa territory.
【Special Traits】 Excellent vision, hearing and sense of smell Affinity with animals Average Chakra pool Adept Chakra control Highly skilled archer Fairly skilled with melee and unarmed fighting Remarkable strength and endurance
【Afflictions/Nerfs】
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【Equipment/Weapons/Items】 Name of Weapon or Item: Hunting Bow Description: A self-crafted weapon, heavily used and well maintained, somewhat of a mark of pride for those of the Sen'Yo clan as it shows that they are capable of creating their own tools and also able to keep them in a good condition for a long time. It's been modified somewhat by Boshu to improve it's utility purposes. Normally it is stored in a specialised seal on Boshu's wrist. The bow is able be used as a melee weapon, not a good one but good enough to defend with or bludgeon someone. Appearance:That big fuck-off bow in her appearance -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name of Weapon or Item: Explosive charges x 10 Description: Ten explosive charges that can be mounted around the head of an arrow in order to explode upon impact or a set amount of time after impact - Destroys the arrow after detonation. Appearance: A thin metallic cylinder that clips around the shaft of the arrow. Typically stored within a scroll strapped to her leg. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name of Weapon or Item: Smoke shells x 6 of each type Description: Mountable shells that fit around the head of the arrows, much like the explosive charges. White shells emit a trail of smoke either upon impact or immediately after firing. Orange shells release a thick mist of orange-hued smoke upon impact that irritates the eyes and respiratory system of anyone caught in it, normally causing large amounts of pain. Purple shells release a lavender-scented mist that induces tiredness and sleep in most who are caught in it. Appearance: A shell that fits around the head of an arrow, colour denotes the smoke's purpose. For storage purposes they are stored inside a scroll that's strapped to Boshu's leg. There is a scroll for each type of shell. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name of Weapon or Item: Arrow quiver - stores up to 40 normal arrows. Description: A quiver for arrows, not much else to it. Most arrows used in the field can be reclaimed and used for later, but having a reasonable supply on hand isn't a bad thing. An additional supply of 40 normal arrows is stashed within a scroll inside the quiver, for quick refilling purposes. Appearance: Visible in character appearance. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【Kekkei Genkai 】 Name of Kekkei Genkai: None Clan: Rank Description:
Name of Technique: Flare Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu Rank: D Range: N/A Nature Type: Fire/Wind Description: The user generates fire natured chakra into a small ball within their hand and encases it in a shell of wind natured chakra, then it is launched into the air, where the wind chakra carries it skywards before the shell shatters and the fire chakra combusts to emit a bright light. The light burns for a few minutes in order to give a signal flare for others or just to illuminate an area. Can also be used to blind others for the sake of making an escape.
Name of Technique: Beast-caller/talker Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu Rank: C Range: Close to far Nature Type: Wind Description: The user whistles and with the correct modifications based on wind chakra usage it can be used to mimic any kind of animal call that the user has heard and amplify it's volume. So long as the beast in question is within earshot of this whistle it is likely to either come running towards the user to help or make a call of it's own to warn others in the area depending on if it's a call for help or a warning for the beasts to stay away.
When in close proximity to a beast it is used and maintained by the user to be able to accurately tell the beast what the user wants to tell it, for things such as calming the animal or convincing it to follow the user. It doesn't help the user understand animals, but it certainly make it easier for animals to understand them.
Name of Technique: Illusory Flurry of Arrows Type of Jutsu: Kyu/Genjutsu Rank: D Range: Long Nature Type: N/A Description: A simple technique that obscures the perception of onlookers, causing them to see several arrows being fired at the same time instead of just one, making it harder for whomever is being targetted to avoid being shot with ease. If used in conjunction with a smoke arrow it will make it appear as though multiple streams of smoke are being created, but the duplicates fade far quicker than the original.
If someone is watching the user as they fire they can normally keep track of which arrow is the true one, this technique is best used for surprise attacks.
Name of Technique: Sonic Boom Shot Type of Jutsu: Kyujutsu Rank: B Range: Long Nature Type: N/A Description: Through the use of chakra the user's body, the bow and the arrow in current use undergo heavy reinforcement to amplify the draw weight of the bow and the strength of the user in order to unleash an arrow capable of breaching the sound barrier for extreme penetration and destructive power upon the arrow impacting it's target.
Typically it is used as a long-range sniping technique due to it's charge time and sheer power.
Name of Technique: Sonar technique Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu Rank: D Range: Approx 50 metres Nature Type: N/A Description: A technique designed to briefly improve the user's sense of sound in order to have an accurate idea of their surroundings and what dwells within the nearby area, be it a beast or a person. Non-offensive technique.
Name of Technique: Physical Reinforcement Style Type of Jutsu: Taijutsu Rank: C Range: Self Nature Type: N/A Description: A style of fighting taught within the Sen'Yo clan's hunting guild that allows users to take and deal additional punishment past their physical norms, the boost is minor compared to most physical enhancement techniques, but it's main intent is to allow the hunters to be able to safely withstand attacks from the beasts they hunt as well as grapple and handle them physically depending on their size.
The reinforcement comes mainly from the user's stance, but there is a small amount of chakra usage that adds to their current physical capabilities. This style of fighting proves to be rather useful against humanoid opponents as well as unruly beasts.
