Greetings [isley; O|T]

[[.Eva]]

Eva was dressed in her normal of soft light green colored fabric, the dress is an wrapped type of dress and it flows about her like an angel's outfit would. it is held together at her neck with the gold buckle that is tied around her neck. there is very little backing to the dress as well to the front of the dress. In her buttbag though it contained the following items of interest was 45 hira-shuriken, 32 makibishi, 4 kunai, 2 stun grenades, 3 smoke grenades, 10 glass cutters, a single 8 inch length flashlight and 20 pieces of flint stones. and covering her body until her ankles was her cloak which contained the following items, 160 lightning tags and 160 ice tags and a single Compass Lensatic. A small book with writing in that is slightly unlady like for a lady to be reading.

It was late afternoon, her eyes moving slowly over the forest of sound. She wonder where she was in the country, it would be helpful if she did know where she was. It had been a long time since she had gone back to the village. She wondered if they would want her back, or what happened to her team leader, piper. Her eyes fell, if the woman knew what was good for her, she would be with that girl that kissed she, Eva, had kissed. She moved forward trying to figure out what to do with herself.

The area is the woods close to the sea side, the pines were tall pale green needles that were soft and prickly to touch. the floor is covered in needles and patches of hard rain caked dirt. the area has a lot of animals and there scattered though the area is the odd buildings of varies buildings. the buildings are different ones of different venues. the sounds of birds, and other soft noise of the forest can be heard. 

[💀]

Where was this? The weather beaten terrain of Oto was like oh so many the woman Hecate had passed before. Teeming with life despite the lack there of. Emerging from a bush, Hecate came out wearing her black robes, a gas mask with built in anti-flash lenses were hanging around her neck, a large double bladed scythe handing across her shoulder blades. A long ornate rapier was tucked beneath the robe. Six scrolls, a type A gas mask filter, two multi-tool and a flash light were arranged neatly inside.

Within this forest movement was obvious but it was the golden glint from something in the distance that drew the eye of the sadist. "Who would be out this far?" She could only wonder, the need to satisfy something, some urge, to keep the memories repressed. Or did she want to remember them? It was all so confusing though, foggy as she did her best to focus on the path the mysterious flash was coming from. It wasn't hard to do so, the sun was high overhead and it was a cloudless afternoon.

"The opportunity couldn't be any better." She said with a smile that was equal part devious as it was deadly. Her footsteps hurried, carrying her to intercept the path way of the wayward traveler whom was unfortunate enough to share this forest with her. The pines crunched beneath her feet, destroying any chance of sneaking up. Just how she wanted it. Removing the scythe from her back she closed an eye, squinting with her tongue trapped in the corner of her lips, eyeing the distance, 6 meters, and flung her weapon.

It flew true, the whirling sound of the double blades cut short by the loud thud of the sickle burying itself to the hilt inside one of the trees a meter or so off. "Oi!" She called out, a childish laugh escaping her pale lips as she ran over, leaping over the fallen rotting trunks of trees past. "Sorry, it slipped!" she yelled over casually, grunting as she wrenched the scythe free.

[[.Eva]]

Eva paused in her walking to listen for the sounds of steps, the crunching of her own steps pausing as she would look about for the where the noise was coming from her eyes would move, as her hand would move to her chest and her other clutched at her skirt. Her eye brow would rise as she heard the sound of whoosh then a thud. Her eyes glanced at the weapon in the tree, she would close to to the tree and lean on it before she would speak dryly as she stared at the woman openly,

"Slipped, my ass. What's your name, woman?"

Her arms folded slightly as she moved fingering the opening and eyed at how far it sunk into the tree, then she would glance at the woman, noting her eyes, face, anything of general interest as she waited.

[💀]

No fun. "Uhm....I guess you can call me Hecate." The interior of the tree had left smudges along the blade, much to her disapproval, and idle hand rubbing the sleeve of her cloak against the metal, dancing precariously close to the blade. Normally people jumped or, her favorite, screamed but not this woman. How odd. When the silence settled in Hecate simply met eyes with Eva, lips pursed in ignorant expectation as she looked over the simple attire she wore.

"So this is uhm, awkward. Ya know the whole..." She pantomimed the motion of throwing her scythe, making noises as if it were flying through the air before hitting the tree. "Usually that gets me some good reactions but it seems that...well..that you are...whats the word." Squinting slightly she leaned forward,using her weapon for support. "Oblivious, and not in a particularly bad way, just one that ruins the fun." Offering a cheeky smile, she righted her posture and sighed.

"So what do I call you, oh great ruiner of fun?"

[[.Eva]]

Hecate, hmm, that is a nice name, I wonder...

She would shake herself mentally as she would eye the girl some more. The cleaning of the blades seemed to be rather important to Hecate. It wasn't til she spoke again, that Eva looked a little taken back when the girl was like, this is awkward for Hacate it seemed. She blinked slightly then she tilted her head as the girl explained to her how awkward it was for her. Her lips moved into a grin as a twinkle in her eyes would show she had some sense of humor in her. She would nod slightly as she was told she was oblivious. She would shrug slightly and moving to straighten up she would speak,

"I am called many names, but, you can call me Eva."

She gave Hecate her real name a sign she was interested in the woman, but for reasons unknown as of yet. She moved to the front of the tree now, before she would take a step forward and tilt her head slightly then she would hold out her hand to the woman to shake it,

"It is a pleasure to meet you, Hecate by the way. What are you doing out here anyway? Getting the sun to tan or throw your weapon at all the people that you come across?"

[💀]

"Ehh you know, little of this, little of that." She flicked the side of the blade on her scythe, pleased with the clean up, though now her clothes had the strong smell of pine on them. Ugh. "I don't always through my scythe, but when I do, it's to get a rise out of someone." She flashed a Cheshire Cat like grin, twirling the end of her weapon against the soil. "Enough about me though."

Turning suddenly, she spread her arms out to encompass the vast wilderness of Oto no Kuni. "What brings a woman like yourself out into the big bad world?" She looked back over her shoulder, giving Eva a quick once over to suggest scrutiny. "You don't strike me as the adventurous type." Her lips screwed together, doubt or at least plausibility warring over her features.

[[.Eva]]

Eva would give a small smile as the girl went on about herself for a short time. She seemed to be a bright thing with a spirit of a young girl who was bent on proving herself to be something to be scared of to the world. Eva would move a step closer to the girl as she stared at her when Hexate turned spreading her arms out to the world and twisting back around slightly, and flashing a wide grin at Eva, she would then asked Eva why she was out in the wilds of sound country. Eva's eyes danced slightly as she would reply with a small chuckle,

"You would never believe me if I told you the truth of what I was doing out here. So I'm going to lie to you, and see if you take it as a truth, mmk? I am out here as a Sound Ninja, doing guard duty on the boards of the lands. I got separated from the guards and I haven’t been able to find my way back to sound in a long time. Am I telling the truth? Or is this a lie?"

Her eyes would drop slightly as she glanced at the girl almost shyly from her full height of five foot nine inches,but then she would drew herself up right to smile simply at the girl. One may say many things about the girl behind Hecate, least about her actions.

[💀]

"Hmmm, if that is so..." She squinted, noticing the woman was a full inch or so taller than herself. "then I suppose it is a convenience to me that you cannot take me in to your village as a prisoner or anything. Ya know, on account of being lost and all." Hecate mused, leaning heavily on her scythe. "In this case though I will say you are telling a lie, even when you are telling the truth, because anyone with a headband usually has an ulterior motive of some kind."

In fact it was rather odd she had held this conversation for this long, his eyes staring blankly at Eva as she noticed the blush. That was awful feminine. With a small cough Hecate wheeled around on her heel and stretched, a loud yawn escaping her. "Well this has been fun and all but ya know... i'm going to go look for something out of the ordinary, like a candy house or something. Anything will do honestly."

[[.Eva]]

Eva would quietly try to hid a grin that threaten to spill into a laugh at Hecate. She was not believed in her half truths, this was good. Because she was lost, not a compass on her, it hasn’t come to her to use her lightning with a metal object yet. She had been out on a mission, and she was a sound ninja. Everything was a lie, that made the other truths unbelievable. It was at the end that that the other girl wanted to find something out of ordinary that Eva spoke up,

"I wouldn’t think of bring you in to the village, my kage would have my head if I brought you to her. Plus, I want to find that sugar house before you! I'll find it before you, Hecate."

With that Eva was off, moving forward past the woman to find something out of ordinary, namely a candy house in the middle of sound country. The smell of smoke from the west was promising to the pair of they happened to head in that diction.

[💀]

"That sounds like fun, taking heads and the like....oh yeah that house...hmmm" the woman was already ahead of her, her shapely figure entirely out of place in a hostile environment like Oto country, but then again so was Hecate. Pulling her scythe from the soil she headed behind Eva, yawning slightly as the sun wavered overhead, making it slow but steady trip into the distance.

"I mean, with everything that is possible in the world, it's within reason to think a candy house would just...ya know....exist." Shoulders raised slightly in reassignment, they walked onward, the devious girl falling silent as she took practiced swings with her scythe, twirling it in hand and smiling to herself as she played out the blood spattering in her head, thinking maybe, just maybe, she should get into it once or twice.

[[.Eva]]

Eva moved forward as she smiled, she almost missed the words on killing and heads, she wasn’t puzzled over it, it wasn’t her problems, and it didn’t matter to her what Hecate did. Her hands move to pull a medium size stick off the forest. She would lean on it as she walked, her robe gracing the ground floor a couple times, as she would be moving over the fallen trees and such as they came up on them. She would glance at the girl behind her as she moved speaking,

"What flavor would this house have? Just plain sugar is nasty tasting. And would you chop it down with your shiny?"

She had made up her mind to call the weapon, “shiny” because of how well taken care it was. She would glance back, just as she would trip over her own two feet, on her walking stick no less, in front of a tiny ledge. Her half scream would pierce the air, you couldn’t tell if the scream was enjoyment or fear, as she fell about two feet down a short cliff to the soft dirt below followed shortly by a giggle. One could never know with this girl what she was doing. She would glance up at the tiny cliff and stick her tongue out at it,

"Silly, cliff, you need to try harder."

[💀]

"It would have to be something spectacular, like a lime and orange kinda deal. You know, think outside the box." She was kicking her feet as she spoke, twirling her scythe and taking practice swings at the air. It seemed Eva was on something else though, wandering ahead and straying away from the mentally damaged wannabe Jashinist. During that time she looked around for a Berilik plant. It looked like...corn...with a flow on top.

She kicked around at the bushes, swinging her scythe, checking stems for the telltale signs of these elusive plants. Several swings revealed nothing. A few more swings put her about ten or more feet from Eva to which she kept her eyes out for peels for said gingerbread house...but for now this plant would secure her funds that would be more than needed to continue grabbing all the items they would need. Wait...they?

Eva's scream drew her attention, slowly albeit, and she walked over casually. There she was...several feet down...this woman. "So uhm....comfortable?" She said down to her sarcastically. "You...you're going to deal abruptly one day..and I am going to be jealous it wasnt by me." She pouted, reversing her grip on the scythe and sticking her handle down. "Come on."

Searching for

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Berilik
Rank: Uncommon, Diminutive
Type: Herb, Forest, Summer, Sedation
Effect: An anesthetic for light wounds.
Special: Preparation: 1 week ; Duration: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Picture A short flowering plant 6 to 12 inches high. Found primarily in deep shade in forest. Crush leaves to produce a thick paste. Boil flowers and strain to produce an oily, clear liquid. Mix with the paste and seal; allow to rest for 1 week. Yields spread of paste for every dosage of plant. Dosage: lightly over open sores, etc. Acts as a disinfectant and anesthetic. Anesthetic effects will vary according to pain threshold of patient and severity of affliction. For normal patients with light wounds effects last approximately 8 hours. Does not aid healing directly. Slight residual numbness lasting 6 to 10 hours and Lethargy are after effects. Herb consists 1 dose.
Limit: Must know Herbal Knowledge for Forest Regions. 40% chance of finding.
Cost: 13,750 Ryo per herb. 6,875 Ryo per Dosage.

[[.Eva]]

Eva stared up at the woman as she looked over the cliff edge. Her miss matched eyes would stare at her as she giggled like a kid at her response to her scream. Her hands would move to help get herself off the ground before she would stare at the woman. She was different from most people she had meet, and Hecate was fascinating really to her. But she would dismiss the thought as she would move to a low spot and climb up to the higher ground.

Moving to look about for that house she would stare at the world around her, low valley, trees with simmering leaves, and a small river that looked smooth and muddy. She pouted slightly at the lack of findings for this sugar house.

"No sugar house yet... come on, lets find it."

Moving off she would start to climb the hill to the top to look about for that house, she wondered what it could taste like, plain sugar, her face fixed its self into a look of gross at that thought before she would change it to a normal face and she would move to sit on a rock as she stared back at Hecate and grin at her.

[Nira]

For Maiyoo:

narutoforumrp.proboards.com/post/929100/thread

x1 Berilik found

[💀]

[1 Berilik acquired]

Up the hill Eva climbed as Hecate pulled her scythe back up, sliding it into place on her back while she wandered over to to the air headed individual. "So potential death gives you a thrill huh?" She chirped, walking past Eva and over to another thicket. She was looking for a small plant, roughly 2-3 feet in height that had dark green leaves. Possibly there would be red flowers and a bunch of round seed pods that hung from the buds of each of those flowers. With her hands she would push aside branches and part the bushes, scanning the area from this bush that she was seeking so adamantly.

"So then Eva..." She tailed off, her eyes scanning the areas behind a few trees, the blades of her scythes catching on two trees. "What is it about this house, that keeps you so enthralled?"


[searching for

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Arva
Rank: Rare, Small
Type: Herb, Forest/Wasteland, Summer, Bodily Function
Effect: An herb that increases the recipient's strength.
Special: Preparation: 16 days ; Duration: ---
Drawback: Loss of 10 to 20% of body mass, exhaustion, 20% chance of coma leading in 5% of cases to death. Effects vary with dosage.
Description: Picture A climbing plant that reaches 2 to 3 feet. In late summer several bright red flowers appear on the lower plant, later giving way to round seed pods. Found in woodland and heath. Crush entire plant, mix with 4 parts water and ferment for 16 days. Strain and distill. Yields lavender liquid from each dose of plant. Dosage: taken orally. After 1/2 an hour, increase in metabolic rates, doubling of strength etc. for 1 hour. Herb consists 4 doses.
Limit: Must know Herbal Knowledge for Forest or Wasteland Regions. 11% chance of finding.
Cost: 34,000 Ryo per herb. 6,800 Ryo per Dosage.

11% chance of finding]

[[.Eva]]

Eva would make it up to stand with Hecate, half nodding as she was asked about near death, seemly the other girl seemed to be looking for something now, maybe it was that house. That thought excited Eva a good bit, as she would go to look around the trees looking past them for that house, and then she was asked what made her want to look for that house, she would look back at the woman with a cheeky smile, she would say,

"Sugar! Cookies, gingerbread, and sugar drops! who doesn’t want sugar?"

She would try to climb a tree to get a better view now, climbing up a bent part of the tree to look over the sloping hill to look for that house.

[Nira]

For Maiyoo:

0 Found

[💀]

Disappointed in the lack of finding, Hecate threw herself away from the two trees and checked one of the many thickets that lay around the area. The specifics of course would be the red petals of the budding flower and large round seeds that hung from the bulbs. Other things she could look for were dark green leaves, though those were plentiful here in Oto, and of course the height of the plant, roughly three feet or so in height. He drove her hand into a pricker bush and the thorns scratched her skin, drawing no reaction from the woman.

"I dont care for sweets, save for blood. That is nice.." She said this in a dreamy state of mind, lulled from her search for a moment before turning to look at Eva. "I have no idea why I agreed to this..."

[Continued search

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Arva
Rank: Rare, Small
Type: Herb, Forest/Wasteland, Summer, Bodily Function
Effect: An herb that increases the recipient's strength.
Special: Preparation: 16 days ; Duration: ---
Drawback: Loss of 10 to 20% of body mass, exhaustion, 20% chance of coma leading in 5% of cases to death. Effects vary with dosage.
Description: Picture A climbing plant that reaches 2 to 3 feet. In late summer several bright red flowers appear on the lower plant, later giving way to round seed pods. Found in woodland and heath. Crush entire plant, mix with 4 parts water and ferment for 16 days. Strain and distill. Yields lavender liquid from each dose of plant. Dosage: taken orally. After 1/2 an hour, increase in metabolic rates, doubling of strength etc. for 1 hour. Herb consists 4 doses.
Limit: Must know Herbal Knowledge for Forest or Wasteland Regions. 11% chance of finding.
Cost: 34,000 Ryo per herb. 6,800 Ryo per Dosage.

11% chance]

[Draven]

Arva not found

[The Creator]

Know Ability
Rank: "E" (5 TP at all times)
Skill: Skill
Effect: Some characters are schooled in the art of careful observation and are able to discern Skills and other Abilities of a target.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Some characters are schooled in the art of careful observation. Thus, even without the aid of Chakra, they can observe an individual and attempt to glean a valuable piece of information about them. This ability requires a skill check and approximately one hour of observation for each ability studied. For example, if a user watched a man cutting wood for an hour, they could make a "Know Ability" skill check. If successful, they would learn that the man has 10 movements per round. The user can apply this skill to nearly all statuses and abilities, as well as Skill Level Associated with a character. If you are Schooled in Observation you gain a +10% synergy bonus with Know Ability checks. By Observing for 1 hour this is considered as a Trivial Difficulty. Shorter the observation increases the difficulty.

Trivial User observes for 1 hour.
Easy User observes for half an hour.
Average User observes for 1 minute.
Difficult User observes for 1 round.
Very Difficult User Observes at a Glance.


Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

0/5

The pine forest was thick but the smell was what was really intoxicating. The thick, sweet scent filled my nostrils and lungs, a completely different scent then the city, and it was beautiful to bathe in. The pines did not shed their leaves in the autumn like other trees yet their green needles covered the ground, creating a carpet of fallen pine needles that soaked the ground in their fallen nutrients and cushioned all footsteps, including mine. I carried with me no items, other than the headband of my city around my neck. I was draped in black robes which hung about me like shadows stretched under a sunset sky. Gloves and boots, black and rubber, covered my hands and feet. I skulked among the pines like a hunting dog; but I did not hunt, only watched.

Under my bird-like mask, my red eyes glowed. Some ~170 meters away, quite a distance for any normal sight-seer, I carefully observed two females as they seemed to be on the hunt. One was tall, or at least above average for a woman, and was dark skinned. Some presence could be seen in her blood which placed her in a clan, but I did not recognize which one for I had not met one of her clan before. I would observe her carefully as she walked and tried to gather more information. I was adept, to say the least, at noticing small things about people but I did not have the aptitude for noticing what exactly shinobi, or, at least, those dedicated to certain martial disciplines, were disciplined in. She carried a plethora of typical ninja weapons, which, I considered, did not help me because even those unskilled in physical combat carried those, and a book which...piqued my interest about her interests. It was just my luck that she carried no weapons because that probably gave me a hint of perhaps, in fact, she was not a taijutsu user at all. I was unsure of my conclusion but figured that that was all that I could understand from this particular person at the time.

I moved on to the second lady, who also did not have a sound headband. In fact, she did not appear to identify as a ninja at all. She held a presence in her blood, but it was weak, and likely unused or unnoticed. I learned a lot from these two simple facts but decided to look on. She wore a scythe, a double-bladed one at that, and seemed to handle it keenly. Several meters away from their position I noticed a thick scar upon the bark of a tree which I would identify as being hers. The weapons looked heavy and I had to assume from it that she was skilled in Taijutsu. How skilled, I could not tell, but she was proficient enough to wield that scythe easily. She wore an ornate rapier under he robe which gave me another clue which further made me believe that, she was indeed, a taijutsu user. I had come to the complete conclusion that weapons were a good indicator of skill in taijutsu but I would have to ruminate on the subject further to learn more of knowing one's ability from just their looks. I continued to follow them, nevertheless.

I would continue to stalk them from my safe distance of some ~175m away, being able to see them with ease with Tasukeru. I did not know their intentions but was eager to identify them, as I was with all humans I encountered, because they could be working on a way to undermine me. I would have to further investigate the situation.

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Tasukeru - S Rank (200 Meters)
Requesting a Observation Check (Very Hard) against my Mastery (125 SP) for both participants of the thread
To notice me would be an extremely difficult Observation check but you might be able to see a shifting figure a large distance away through the trees enough to see my presence. If not, I am to remain hidden.

Relevant Traits & Skills:
Con Artist - +5 to Obv roll
Suspicious - +5 to Obv roll
Able Learner - Know Ability gets 2 Die instead of 1
Observation - Master (125 SP)