Outs and abouts(Open)

[~Cody]

"Come on..."

Cody flicked miserably at his lighter. If he sparked a flame, the wind blew. Cody pinched the cigarette in his lips. Saliva pooled under his tongue. Cody growled as the lighter didn't light. Finally, it lit. A blue flame danced, a fixture of ignited butane. He drew on the sweet tobacco. A euphoria came over him. Everything seemed clear. Though he's seen enough tobacco to find one in a crowd. It led him to his life as a ninja. Cody meandered into a field. Young trees sprouted in bunches spraying the rolling grass in odd shadows. But such a formation made a home for any specialty foliage. Like tobacco.

Searching for:

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Tobacco
Rank: Common, Medium
Type: Herb, Grassland, Spring/Summer/Autumn, ---
Effect: A basic herb used for smoking.
Special: Preparation: 2 weeks ; Duration: ---
Drawback: Can become addicting if used to much. Tobacco use leads most commonly to diseases affecting the heart and lungs, with smoking being a major risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema, and cancer (particularly lung cancer, cancers of the larynx and mouth, and pancreatic cancer). (In NFRP, this is up to the person)
Description: Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as an organic pesticide, and in the form of nicotine tartrate it is used in some medicines. In consumption it most commonly appears in the forms of smoking, chewing, snuffing, or dipping tobacco, or snus. Tobacco is cultivated similarly to other agricultural products. Seeds are sown in cold frames or hotbeds to prevent attacks from insects, and then transplanted into the fields. Tobacco is an annual crop, which is usually harvested in a large single-piece farm equipment. After harvest, tobacco is stored to allow for curing, which allow for the slow oxidation and degradation of carotenoids. This allows for the agricultural product to take on properties that are usually attributed to the "smoothness" of the smoke. Following this, tobacco is packed into its various forms of consumption which include smoking, chewing, sniffing, and so on. Herb consists 8 doses.
Limit: Must know Herbal Knowledge for Grassland Regions. 65% chance of finding.
Cost: 3,000 Ryo per herb. 300 Ryo per Dosage.

[Draven]

1 found

[~Cody]

"Hoo-hoo.."

Cody found a ripe toacco plant. A stout, bushy plant. Its stalk shrouded by broad leaves. He could taste it already, well, he was smoking now. He took another drag.

"I found your brother or cousin." He shrugged. "Eh, you're all tobacco." He chatted up the plant before snipping the leaves. he stowed away the leaves and continued on. He wanted the next one whole, a nip in the air, winter was around the corner. Since acquiring a home, Cody wanted to grow some for his own purposes. Smoking; of course.

Plants are a community. They grow near each other as their pollen is spread by insects. He trudged on eyeing each odd plant. His days scouring the Bear Country for food as he had helpless mouths to feed. This was a privilege he fed now; it was just as hungry.

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Tobacco
Rank: Common, Medium
Type: Herb, Grassland, Spring/Summer/Autumn, ---
Effect: A basic herb used for smoking.
Special: Preparation: 2 weeks ; Duration: ---
Drawback: Can become addicting if used to much. Tobacco use leads most commonly to diseases affecting the heart and lungs, with smoking being a major risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema, and cancer (particularly lung cancer, cancers of the larynx and mouth, and pancreatic cancer). (In NFRP, this is up to the person)
Description: Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as an organic pesticide, and in the form of nicotine tartrate it is used in some medicines. In consumption it most commonly appears in the forms of smoking, chewing, snuffing, or dipping tobacco, or snus. Tobacco is cultivated similarly to other agricultural products. Seeds are sown in cold frames or hotbeds to prevent attacks from insects, and then transplanted into the fields. Tobacco is an annual crop, which is usually harvested in a large single-piece farm equipment. After harvest, tobacco is stored to allow for curing, which allow for the slow oxidation and degradation of carotenoids. This allows for the agricultural product to take on properties that are usually attributed to the "smoothness" of the smoke. Following this, tobacco is packed into its various forms of consumption which include smoking, chewing, sniffing, and so on. Herb consists 8 doses.
Limit: Must know Herbal Knowledge for Grassland Regions. 65% chance of finding.
Cost: 3,000 Ryo per herb. 300 Ryo per Dosage.

[Draven]

1 found

[~Cody]

"Alright..."

His search turned up another tobacco plant. It would be the last of the season until Taki no Kuni thawed out.

"Time keeps on truckin..."

A chill blew through the mountains of Taki. He harvested the plant. These trips out to hunt something that won't hurt you or might hurt you helped Cody clear his mind. As trails revealed themselves flowers tantalized him he thought of his lineage. Just how was his dad and his mom? How about family cousins and brothers?

This chill made him feel alive. He trotted back home.

~exit

[~Cody]

~enter

Urges pecked at him like crows. Only few he could stave as he stalked through a bare forest. He ate a piece of jerky which staved his hunger for now. Cody chewed at his lips as he kept his eyes open for a docile creature. A cigarette craving beeped like a door ajar signal in his mind. In the decay of fall, in dry bits of leaves lay an animal trail which he hoped to reveal a humble meal...

"Roota to the toota. I want a pork dinner!"

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Pig, Wild
Location: Forest, Grassland, and Hill Regions
Preparation: The gatherer may harvest and store the snout of this creature for later use.
Special: In the forest, grassland, and hill regions there is a twenty percent chance that the user is capable of finding such a creature.
Description: Picture This pink flabby cloven-footed creatures measure roughly three feet at the shoulder. Wild pigs are usually dirty and scared. These creatures bite in attack and will fight to the death to avoid capture. These creatures have an excellent sense of smell. The snout of this creature can be boiled and used in a potion that, when swallowed will cause massive hair loss for three posts.
Drawback: ---
Cost: 9,000 Ryo Full Price in Region, 18,000 Ryo Full Price in Opposite Region, 3,000 Ryo Extract Cost for 4 uses in Region, 6,000 Ryo Extract Cost for 4 uses in Opposite Region

[Natsy]

..Enter AnBU Bear..

A brilliant white puff of smoke suddenly engulfed a good section of the forest revealing a single AnBU wearing a dark green tactical vest and black track pants. The build of the AnBU was clearly that of a young woman, her hair was tied back into a high ponytail, the red locks glistening beneath the sunlight. Her face was hidden beneath an AnBU Bear mask as porcelain as any china doll. She came wearing a large tower shield strapped to her back, two hand axes strapped to her side sitting behind a butt bag wielding weapons which would remain unknown.

“Lady Evangeline has given you a task to perform alongside three others.” The voice behind the mask spoke electronically. It was obvious that she was communicating through a device that masked not only her face, but her voice as well. A scroll was then withdrawn from the butt bag before being handed to you. "The details for your task are here." She then said, stepping back once the scroll was removed from her grasp. Without awaiting for a reply, the AnBU quickly performed a single handseal and disappeared with another white puff of smoke, thus leaving the Takigakure Shinobi alone yet again.

..Exit..

Cody Weald.

You are required to meet three other Shinobi at the Takigakure gates to set off to a mission investigating a number of disappearances in a nearby town. Your team will be lead by Hiroki Ryuusei and will receive further instructions upon meeting them. Please proceed to the gates immediately.

Regards,
Evangeline
Secretary of Takigakure no Sato.

[~Cody]

Cody had fallen into his zen, a focused calm, as he waited for a pig to show itself. 'A waiting game', he'd call it. Until, a cloud of smoke shadowed the area. As it cleared, an ANBU revealed herself to the hunter. After a curt command, she'd leave a letter reaffirming the Takikage's request for his presence and was gone as mysteriously as she came. He would be under the command of another ninja by the name of Hiroki Ryuusei. The name was as foreign to Cody as the village since he'd graduated the Academy.

Cody slung his compound crossbow over his shoulder and headed back to the village.

"Let's go meet the family..."

[exit]