Innue

Naruto: Continuum

”Chiyoko & Hitsujiki”

Chiyoko & Hitsujiki


【Full Name】
Chiyoko | Hitsujiki
【Alias】
Kitti Ping-Sung | A Sheep
【Occupation】
Wandering Monk
【Gender】
Female
【Age】
27
【Sexuality】
Straight



【Birth Country】
Land of the Moon
【Current Village】
N/A
【Affiliation】
N/A
【Shinobi Rank】
Jounin



【Personality】
Chiyoko is a peculiar individual only accented by the fact she travels the world with/on a sheep. Chiyoko consistently can be found with a far off look to her face, despite her complete awareness of what is around her. She is, to the frustration of many, the type of person to answer a question with another question, or answer in a manner that isn't clear.

Hitsujiki is a sheep and is a steadfast companion to Chiyoko. Loyal, sturdy, and occasionally a bit petulant, he provides much of Chiyoko's grounding to reality.

【History】
Chiyoko's history is as much her people's as it is hers. Chiyoko grew up the island of the Moon Country with a small, yet stable clan of spiritualists. Noted for their strong connection to the afterlife, her people continue to be extremely religious. Her clan possesses an extremely powerful Kekkei Genkai that allows them to serve as a gateway between the Pure Land and the real world. Because of this, spirits that refuse to move to Purgatory or the Pure Land often gravitate around her, as they are capable of seeing and communicating with these spirits (hitodama). As such, children of Chiyoko's clan often end up with guidance from relatives thousands of years deceased.

Chiyoko was born as Kitti Ping-Sung. As a child she had an affinity for the manipulation of the water element and spent much of her time in the rivers around her village. It was noted by many that Chiyoko's gateway to the Pure Land was one of the strongest in the clan in recent memory, rivaled only by her cousin, who seemed to have an equally strong connection. As such, Chiyoko drew the attention of the Council of Nine as a potential for the next NEED NAME. The Council of Nine was the original nine member of Chiyoko's clan. At the time of their passing, they bound their spirits into nine blades and enshrined themselves in a temple. Communicating with the Council of Nine was difficult for most people in Chiyoko's clan, as the ability to call forth all nine at once was considered exceptionally difficult, and, given the nature of what was being done, extremely confusing.

Chiyoko's skills were fostered at an early age, receiving direct training from various individuals of the Council of Nine, along with her cousin. They learned much about their clan's extremely ancient history and the extent of what they were capable. Both children demonstrated exactly what the Council of Nine had expected.

At the age of 17, both Chiyoko and her cousin were to undergo the Trials, a first step in choosing the next NEED NAME. It also served as a right of passage into adulthood, despite the significant dangers of the ritual. As with all of the Trials before, Chiyoko and her cousin were separated from their bodies forcibly, their spirits going into the Pure Land.



【Chakra Nature(s)】

N/A

【Abilities and Special Traits】
MANY SPECIAL TRAITS AND ABILITIES.



【Weapons, Tools and Equipment】

MUCH PUPPETS.



【Kekkei Genkai】
Name of Kekkei Genkai: N
Clan:
Description:

【Canon Jutsu】

Cannon Jutsu List:

【Custom Jutsu】

Name of Technique:
Type of Jutsu:
Rank:
Range:
Nature Type:
Handsigns:
Description:
Weakness:

RPGuild Ranking Headquarters!

I will hopefully be able to wrap up round one within the next week. People took too much advantage of my generous time amounts between posts when it was meant to allow people in finals to actually participate. This will not continue for round two.

However, I have a birthday today and Tuuj and Melon will have to wait until this evening/tomorrow to continue progress on their match.

Naruto: Continuum

Land of the Rising Sun, Kyokujitsugakure - Formerly the Land of Fire

---

Despite her status, Ayameko, Shodai Sankage, was out in the wheat fields with her people, far outside the walls of 'her' city. The warm sun beat down on her, and despite her age, she moved as quickly as those over half her age. Ayameko's broad strokes with the scythe she had chosen were clinical - to be expected of someone who had spent all of her life in the medical field. The cuts were clean, uniform, and disturbingly prefect. The village's children assisted by pulling the cut wheat together and binding it before it would be moved to be turned into whatever the village needed.

It was quite ironic that the young girl from the Land of Rivers was now leading an entire nation, working in a field in a land that was not her birthplace. It had been an issue with some of the Elders at first, before they were ousted by the people when Ayameko called for elections. The people were more than eager to have their say on who spoke for them. Before they had been appointed by the person selected to lead the village, ironically selected by the council itself. The insular nation of the system had been all to easy for her to dismantle with simple words.

It was due to Ayameko that their territory had grown. The Land of Rivers, once her home, had joined the Land of Fire, Land of Tea, and Land of Iron to create an entirely new nation. She had been discussing with the other smaller nations around about joining with them to form an even stronger nation. The talks were going well, most realizing the potential prosperity many of these smaller lands could be a significant part. Ayameko stressed the ability for each of them to bring something unique to the table and a system that allowed them to maintain much of their autonomy on many matters.

The midday sun signaled it was time for her to be done for the day. There was still more wheat to harvest, but Ayameko's duties were more than just harvesting wheat. She would expect the typical admonishment from Shiō.

---

Back in the village, Ayameko quickly changed into clean clothes and headed into her office and, as expected, Shiō was waiting for her with a look that told her that she was not happy the Sankage had spent the entire morning harvesting crops.

"Ayameko," Shiō began, "We've discussed this at length. You are leading a nation and you cannot be out in the fields harvesting crops. You have other demands on your time."

Ayameko dismissed the complaint with a wave, "I would be more concerned if you were less competent. We both know that the village doesn't require my constant supervision."

Shiō sighed in response, shaking her head, "At any rate, we should begin preparations for you to head out to the Land of Waterfalls for continued negotiations. Given the progress we've made with our own internal affairs, I believe we have a much more convincing case."

Ayameko nodded in agreement. The village leader of the Land of Waterfalls had been one of her more challenging negotiations. Ayameko could tell he was impressed, but concerned about losing their identity as a people despite Ayameko's assurance that would not be the case. She also knew that part of it was the game, and another part was a show for his people to show that he could 'resist' the pressures of the larger nation. He was a reasonable man and Ayameko was confident, with time, he would join their nation.

RPGuild Ranked Tournament

I think LeeRoy's analysis of the powers is pretty much what I would have said, including the issue of language that isn't properly explained and countless unavoidable powers. (I feel bad for anyone that isn't wearing as much shit as Jok, who also luckily as Ramor has a natural above human resistance to frost, which is not a common trait at this tier by any means.)

Also, that only leaves Vordak me and Tuuj by my reckoning, so there's a pretty decent chance this is just going to go to the finals after this is concluded, I only hope the situation is more balanced to give Vordak a chance.

Anyway, putting this on hiatus until tomorrow.

@MelonHead

If possible it may be easier to do an IRC chat or something rather than posting back and forth. We can consider that tomorrow.

RPGuild Ranked Tournament

<Snipped quote by HeySeuss>

I think there is an issue here, in that this tournament is an 'official ranked tournament' and the only one running at the time, any issues significantly effects the Arena leaderboards. If we allow GM's complete autonomy with no accountability they could do irreperable damage to the leaderboards for everyone in the Arena community by creating an unbalanced situation which gives the winner a large amount of points. This isn't like any other RP where we can all just throw up our hands and wander off, we all have a vested interested in the outcome of this tournament, and want it to be fair.

Innue: I can't help but feel that a character should be evaluated outside of the context of a specific map, I'm sure that the character could possibly be less overpowered for the competitors here in a ten foot by ten foot dome where flying is not an option, and the character is less likely to be able to prepare the death ball and other abilities, but that isn't a very likely scenario. In a tournament especially every character should be roughly balanced no matter what arena comes up, which is why its quite common to randomize the arena from a big compendium of arenas, as the judge you shouldn't really have to be placing environmental advantages in just to offset one characters powers. That suggests the issue is with the character.

At least, that's my opinion.

@MelonHead

I will consider it tomorrow. As stated earlier, I am going out tonight and will not be able to address these matters before then.

RPGuild Ranked Tournament

I'm in plenty position to make commentary on the matter, as a member of the Roleplay with a genuine concern over an oversight that ruins the content of the roleplay by making it unfair to the rest of the userbase.

That's directed at both:
@Innue
and
@HeySeuss

@LeeRoy

You have been removed from participation based on consistently unacceptable behavior within my guidelines (especially after I issued multiple warnings). I have asked you politely to adhere to my criteria for participation. You have not done so, have been removed from the list of combatants and I will state clearly that I am asking you to refrain from posting on this thread.

RPGuild Ranked Tournament

The issues aren't really in regards to my match, as I've mentioned I'm trying to address an issue I feel will be bad for the competitors in following matches, it wouldn't be fair to say a character is overpowered just because my own character can't fight it very well. My match has just highlighted to me the abilities I mainly glossed over at first. (tbh, I thought the character's main form of offense was relatively short ranged knife like wind attacks, not large scale destruction) Which I've come to believe shows that the character is significantly out of place with the rest of the competition, usually a sign that it is overpowered for the tier range.

I can re-submit the abilities and reasons why I think there's an issue, but I think LeeRoy is about to do that anyway.

@MelonHead

If it is not in regards to the specific match I will likely disregard it given that the Arena will be different for Round 2 and you do have ways to deal with him outside of your standard issue weapons. The difficulty for me is that part of this, from my perspective, is caused by the fact that there was an issue with you understanding that you were able to utilize the full scope of your weapons which would have provided options for you.

I would also prefer it from your side as LeeRoy is not in a position to be providing commentary on the matter.

RPGuild Ranked Tournament

Melon -

I'll need specific issues you have outlined (again) in regards to your match alone. If possible, please create it in a list format so I can easily address them.

I do appreciate your shift in tone with your last post.

RPGuild Ranked Tournament

Potential aggression warning, not for the faint of heart

I'm sorry, I'm having difficulty drafting up any sort of response with the threat of you perceiving it as aggressive and silencing me permanently, to be dramatic about it. Can you rather than immediately removing me highlight any areas in the proceeding post which are aggressive so I may remove them rather than causing you added discomfort, we have very different ideas of what aggression is.

It's difficult to make an argument when we're being told you're going to kick us out for what you perceive as aggression. I don't even understand what you're talking about, there must be a massive social divide between us or something because to my understanding I've yet to do anything broaching aggression. I'm not threatening anyone or acting in a violent manner or even insulting anyone personally, the furthest I've gone as far as I'm aware is to be critical of some actions which have been taken and to question the responses to legitimate concerns so far. In response I've had my behaviour labelled as shitty and shameful, which is fair enough, I don't think any of those descriptions are aggressive, apparently you don't either, as you've only levelled any direct concern with my behaviour, save for LeeRoy just then when he chimed in also of the opinion that you had made a mistake.

You've also probably made the common mistake of missing what I can only assume at this point is British humour, feel free to ask anyone who's been in Arena for a while, this is just my personality.

As for evidence of a tier imbalance, I can only provide

1. Rilla's concern with the character's power level, mentioned a few days ago when I first levelled a complaint in the OOC of my fight, I don't remember it being addressed.
2. LeeRoy following up Rilla's concern on the same day, and making comments on it from then on.
3. Vordak recently saying today that his character had no concievable way to fight the character in question with his character's abilities and equipment alone, when he could think of strategies to fight every other character in the tournament.
4. My own concerns which have obviously been expressed a fair amount.
5. No one save you and Tuuj have come in to support that the character is not clearly overpowered for the perceived power level of this tournament.

Now, that's only four people questioning your decision, does this constitute enough evidence that the issue exists?

@MelonHead

This is phrased appropriately and will be addressed, however, I am going out of the evening. Tuuj is British. I'm perfectly versed in your humor. I highly value tact and politeness, the former due to Sir Winston Churchill.

Final warning of what, calling you out? Calling someone else out? Oh no, I've put you on the spot for a major discrepancy. I'm such a bad person.

Warn me all you like, bucko, I'm telling you everything wrong with this situation regardless of your input.

@LeeRoy

This is not.

RPGuild Ranked Tournament

@LeeRoy Final warning.