Tetsu...it's evolving *mashes A button*

[Tetsu]

Name: Tetsu
Age: 19 Years old
Gender: Male
Desired Position: Assistant
Experience I’ve been a member for about a year now, and I personally feel as if I am ready to take on a larger role on the forum. Being the Kazekage for 9 months, and a knowledgeable member, I’ve found myself being asked questions over PM as to mechanics as well as assisting members in the C-box from time to time as I’ve been around to do so. I’ve even been asked to look over biographies to have them graded when I’m not quite a staff member (the orange name still catch people’s attention I suppose XD). All in all my experience only comes from onsite time spent getting the fell for things over the past year and being a Kage, who has done GMing of mission, and managed a village since early March of last year.

Role-Play Experience and/or Event

Rain Event Sand and Myself are currently involved in
X2 Training Thread with Yoshi and Shenjie (also mine ^.^)
Prome's event, and my first event ever on site
Personal dwelling and preferred training thread
Squad One's first mission

These threads all encompass some of my fondest memories and best moments while on NFRP!

Additional Comments

I was reluctant at first to apply for a staff position, because I had never thought of myself as someone who had been around long enough to have the full on experience that some of the more skilled staff members such as Yoshi, Ko, and Solus bring to the table. Having been here only a Year, I felt that I was dwarfed a bit in the sense of comparative experience; however Ko mentioned that I should try applying earlier today, so I sat down and asked myself the question “would I be a good staff member?”. It’s true that I am one of the more active members, and even from time to time having been (as stated before lol) asked multiple times by new members to grade their bios; which is part of the reason that I finally decided to apply.

As one of the more active members, I have to say that I’m very confident in my personal knowledge of the site, especially in regards technique mechanics and skills. I’ve also become fairly familiar with the site rules, and even though I have made a mistake, I choose to take those experiences to further expand my knowledge and correct future mistakes. In totality, I feel that my activity, Site knowledge, overall positive attitude and friendly nature are a great base for a younger staff member who is egger to gain more experience. All that’s left to it is being given the chance to go and prove my mettle out in the field.

[Shai]

1.3

[Fui]

1.3 still stands

[Solus]

Hrmmm, I haven’t seen you help much out lately in bios or whatever, maybe I am simply overlooking it or you’re doing it on another account. Regardless, I’d like to give you a shot. Could thee answer me these questions three?

1) A member is not understanding how crafting a katana works and asks about this in support. How would you explain this to him?

2) A wild bio appears! Grade it!

Basic Information

Name: Bill
Bloodlimit: 5 liters
Height: 6’6”
Weight: 100
Age: 8
Gender: Male
Alignment: Only himself
Birth Country: Hi no Kuni
Village: ---
Special: Ninmaster

Weapons

Primary Weapon:

Secondary Items:

Non-Weapon Items

Character Depth

Personality:

Appearance:

Background:

Techniques

3) What is your favourite colour?

[Tetsu]

*Go Brain, I choose you!*

1) Alright my fellow, First things first, crafting a Katana will require you to be an artisan (or to have a blacksmith skills; which is still under the artisan domain, but can be found in the skills index See Blacksmith Skill here . to be an artisan you have to use up one of your 8 misc. slots towards blacksmithing. Next you will need to train up that hammer arm and start practicing your blacksmithing skill, and get some Skill Points (or SP). Once you’ve done these things and have it all put together that you are indeed an artisan, and have some skill points in blacksmithing, you’re ready to begin the crafting process my friend.

So Crafting works like this in a nut shell. The first thing you will need to do is find the weapon overview and more importantly the price of said overview, I think Longswords which are inclusive of Katana type weapons are 4,000 Ryo.

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Sword, Longsword (Overview)
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Slashing, Sword
Effect: A weapon with a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A One-Handed Weapon. These weapons do +8 Amour Points of Damage. A longsword (also spelled long sword, long-sword) is a type of sword characterized as having a cruciform hilt with a grip for two handed use and a straight double-edged blade of around 100–122 cm (39–48 in). The longsword is characterised not so much by a longer blade, but by a longer grip, which indicates a weapon designed for2-handed use or 1-handed use. Examples of Longswords: Katana, Jian, Tachi, Scimitr, Shinai, and Waster.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Weapon Shop.
Cost: 4,000 Ryo

Once you have the price of the item you want to craft, you go ahead and pay 1/3rd of the weapon’s total pricing to buy the physical stuff to make the weapon, such as metal and leather bits, and all the bobbles you want to deck out your sweet sword. After doing so, divide the total cost of the weapon by 2, which in our case would leave us with 2,000 Ryo if you follow me my friend. With that total cost now halved, we can begin to actually craft the item. It’s at this point where you actually begin to write the post up to begin crafting the item. So, now that we have our crafting post put up, Staff will lay down a grade for you from a 1-100 die roll. After getting our lovely Die roll, *look you got an 84 * we then take that and add it to your SP (which for the sake of example let’s say it’s 60/125 Skill Point count). So now we are left with a total of 144 crafting points.

Now remember the halved price total from earlier, well it comes into play now that you have your crafting points. Subtract your half total 2,000 Ryo from the 144 points you just gained (2,000-144= 1,856). You use the half of your weapon’s cost total as a point counter in a way, to keep track of your crafting progress, so once that bad boy reaches 0, low and behold you have your beautiful katana crafted and ready to go. I’ll go ahead and tag the artisan page in here as well so that you can have the site’s explanation of the world of crafting as well Artisan Link. Hope that helped a little bit, and have fun crafting. Oh and if you’re ever in Suna, make me a pair of trench knives please *_*.

2) Hey there! So I’ve taken a look at your bio and it seems pretty nifty; however there seems to be a few things that will need some fixing before I can help you move this any further. I’ll go ahead and leave you a list of you Bio must haves so that you can clean it right up amigo. ^_^

-So first things first, Blood limits are not actually an amount of blood, but a clan that you have to be born in (your character must be created in them) to a member of that said clan. Prime examples of this would be the Hyuuga, Shitakuma, and Uchiha clans, so please fix that my fellow.

-Hmmm, Doesn’t he seem a bit tall for an 8 year old, and not only that, lacking in mass to be 6'6"? Proportioning his size might be a good way to help make him a bit more realistic, and less like a gigantic hulk of a second grader ha-ha. There is a trait you can use, however, that will help you with making a bigger build character if you so choose; however please make his weight and height believably proportional please.

-Only himself is not an alignment my friend. Ever played dungeons and dragons? Well our alignment system works very similarly to how dungeons and dragons does it, with there being a choice of Good, neutral and evil, with a tag on of chaotic, true, or lawful. So Lawful good is an alignment for example. This affects how your character’s morality is, and where it is based. For you since your statement makes this character appear to be a loner typed character, I would suggest Chaotic Neutral.

-Please list your releases that you’re going to be going into (eight in total for a Ninjutsu master) and your two bonus clan/Tai/Gen please. You don’t have to fill them in right now, but from looking down at your techniques, I would suggest posting up Wind release, earth release, and sand release, while writing reserve in place of each other release.

(Example)
1. Fuuton (wind release)
2. Doton (Earth Release)
3. Saton (Sand Release)
4. Reserved V( wash rinse repeat the reserved all the way down the rest of your 8 releases. You may do the same with you clan/gen/tai slot if you so choose as well.)

-seeing as you seem to show interest in bows as well, I would suggest using marksman for one of you two Tai slots, just some advice

-no miscellaneous slots? Maybe you should list out your given 8, even if you don’t know what you want to put there yet. Misc. slots can be used for summons, beast master, jack of all trades, grand mastery (suggest using that for your marksman skill there ^_^), alchemist, artisan skills, and of course ritualist skills. Theology slots, for things such as Jashinism, and ANBU slots, for the black ops, use these miscellaneous slots. Make sure to either put some in place or like the above release example, reserve the ones you don’t quite have a spot for yet.

-Please list the items overviews in your post, it will make keeping track of the cost of your things and what they are much easier for both staff records, and for your own personal reference. I strongly advise doing this, if you do, you shall receive a high five.

-You’ve spent too much of your primary Ryo my friend seeing as that bow you have there is 27,000 Ryo and the Gauntlets are 2,500 each which gives you a total of 27,000+5,000=32,000 Ryo spent out of your 12,000 Ryo Primary limit. Might I suggest removing the bow?

-Another thing about the bow, if you look at the Marksman gear thread where you got that from, you will notice that the bow itself is considered a Tier 2 bow, which in itself means that you as a ninjutsu master will not be able to physically use it. Only Taijutsu specialists and up can use Tier 2 bows. Here is a Tier one bow that will probably fit your needs a bit better in both cost efficiency to meet your budget and the tier requirement of 1 so you can actually use the bow XD

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Bow, Composite - 30 lb. Draw (Overview)
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Piercing, Bow
Effect: A short bow made of more than one material.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A Tier 1 Bow. A Two-Handed Weapon. These weapons do +8 Amour Points of Weapon Damage. The Range Increment of this weapon is 25 meters. May bypass 5 hardness. May be used in Mounted Combat. A composite bow is made from horn, wood, and sinew laminated together. The horn is on the belly, facing the archer, and sinew on the back of the wooden core. When the bow is drawn, the sinew (stretched on the outside) and horn (compressed on the inside) store more energy than wood for the same length of bow. Composite bow emphasizes power, which requires more strength than standard bows. However, its range is shorter making it unfit for sniping.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Hunting Shop.
Cost: 8,000 Ryo

-your Quiver is not one of the apparel you can start out with, since it is not a 15 slotted piece of apparel. You may however use this back quiver if you so choose since it does meet the 15 slot requirement. V

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Back Quiver (Large) (Overview)
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Slot Holder, Holds 15 Slot worth of Arrows or Bolts, Quiver
Effect: A quiver worn at the back of the user.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Back quivers are secured to the archer's back via straps, with the nock ends protruding above the dominant hand's shoulder. Arrows can drawn over the shoulder rapidly by the nock. This Quiver may hold 15 slot worth of Arrows or Bolts.
Limit: These types of items may be bought inside any Hunting Shop.
Cost: 1,700 Ryo

-You’ve only used 15,000 of your 30,000 Ryo for your secondary equipment, you have 15,000 still left to use if you want to get some more stuff. I would suggest getting some arrowheads, arrow shafts, and fletching to make your arrows amazing .

-You seem to have your traits mixed in with your techniques. This could come off as very confusing for others and yourself when you start looking at your bio for reference. I have to say that it would be much easier to separate your techniques by starting a different section for your freebies so that you and I can tell where the techniques end and the freebies begin.

-on the same note, it looks like you’ve not used all of your 5 techniques. You probably want to get another one, and you’ve used a few too many freebies my friend. You will need to pay attention to the “B” rank trait you have there because it takes up TWO freebies not just one, so your sand release is just floating around right now. Please do the above statement and fix your freebie issue you have here please so that we can get you on your way. Remember you are only allowed SIX totally slots for freebies.

That’s about all I have for ya right this moment, everything else looks to be in good order from my angle. Just adjust these things I’ve listed and I’ll come take another look at it for you so that we can get you on your way to some awesome Role-play my friend.

3) My favorite color is Forest green ^.^

Hope that I did alright, I did my best to cover everything that I thought would be appropriate. Thanks for the fun test Solus my man

[Solus]

Okay, question 1 is entirely correct.

2 is a bit more difficult, but then again it is an error riddled bio. You did about a 70% on this

I am impressed though, since you saw some very small things such as the bow being tier 2 and thus not useable by a ninmaster. So let's throw out that 2/3 out first.

What I am going to note next are things you either missed or had wrong about the bio. Of course what I do not address can be assumed to have been correct.

Size and weight are indeed quite off, but notice that weight does not have a unit. It could be a 100 kilos, lbs, stones, elephants, camels or even smileys for all we know

Weapons section lacks a sword from the Chosen One trait.

Note that for the ninmaster the two extra slots are not necessarily Tai slots, they could also be clans or genjutsus.

Freebies and free techniques do fit, there are even several ways (2 ways, so that is several xD) in which they could, for example: 6 Freebies (1 Chosen One, 3 Chakra resistance, 4 Finite Life, 5 Doton, 6 Saton) 5 Free techs: (1 Fuuton, 2 sand shuriken, 3 third eye, 4 sliding sand wave, 5 Sand shield)

Also, this guy is a non-ninja, so it lacks the Kinobori no Waza - Act of Tree Climbing tech at the very least, without which it cannot even learn chakra techniques.

[Fui]

a side note, as a non ninja without water walking he couldn't have the B rank release either

[👺 Usiel]

Alright, I'll give you a shot, see what you can do.