A Rose By Any Other Name Pt. 1 [M|P|T]

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Name: Botany 101
Rank: D
IIC Length: 1 Day
Difficulty: Easy
Description: Being able to identify herbs and their applications is a very important skill for all ninjas to have, even more so for the ninjas who come from the land of grass. Lessons have been commissioned by the Kage in order for the ninjas to brush up on their skills; being able to tell a healing herb from a toxic plant may one day save their lives!
Objective: Learn Botany for a Region, to the next skill level (Novice, Average, Advanced, Expert, Master).
Reward: 3,000 Ryo

Botany (Grasslands)
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: A skill that allows the user to identify plants.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A character with this skill has a basic knowledge of plants and how they grow. They know how to tell various species of plants apart and under what conditions each type of plant grows best. Most of the time they can tell poisonous plants from non-poisonous plants. User must choose a specific Region each time they go up this Skill. A successful Botany Skill check provides knowledge of plants, while failure indicates the character does not know or cannot recall anything about that plant. Each Skill level allows the user knowledge of each Herb category (Example: Novice can identify Common Herbs, Master can identify Nearly Impossible Herbs) within a region. Here is some Difficulty Examples.

Trivial - Plant is in bloom
Easy - Plant is whole
Average - Identify plant fruit, leaves, tubers or seeds
Difficult - Parts of plant in a mixture or food
Very Difficult - Identify plant from charred remains

Each time learned user gets 5 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

0/5 TP
5/30 SP
5 rolls + 2 rolls due to Able Learner trait, base of 5 due to Hunter trait, +7 Heritage Points to total due to Hunter trait

Rabimaru Yamanaka adjusts the gas mask on his face as he steps through the village gates, calmly and methodically checking that he has an airtight seal around his mouth and nose by closing off the vents to the filter and sucking in. He feels the suction around the edges of the rubber material on his skin, providing him with the knowledge that the seal is indeed airtight. The mission he'd taken up had simply been to learn of the botanical composition of any location, and it had made sense to the young man to become aware of the foliage of his own home country. With his goggles covering his eyes, his hood up over his head, and his cloak surrounding his body, the genin was almost completely covered; he could be anyone. The genin kept to the small trade road for the first hundred meters or so, the familiar sounds and motions of the swaying of the ocean of grass on either side of him proving to be quite soothing, almost hypnotic. It practically put him in a trance.

While one might normally learn about botany in a library, Rabimaru was not the type to be found in such a place, usually. He learned quite a bit better through experience, rather than study; after all, he'd been taught to hunt through experience. One doesn't learn all the ways of the struggle between animal and man, of prey and predator, of sustenance and hunter through a book. The written word fails to fully express the wisdom and knowledge of this concept.

The ninja knew that he would see nothing new just from the road; he at least knew what grass was. Instead of continuing down the trade road, he makes a sudden turn to the right, slipping through the blades of grass and into the thicker flora, slipping through the foliage much more easily than one could slip through water. The pollen was thick, but the genin didn't bother with turning on the filter of his protective mask; the filters were important for keeping out deadly toxins, and he could survive a bit of hay fever. It is at this point that the young man makes a discovery: looking down, he sees a much shorter grass of darker green covering the ground where the sunlight can't reach, due to the taller grasses surrounding it.

He stops where he is, a scant ten meters from the edge of the road, his feet spread somewhat in order to fully reveal the darker grass to the sunlight. Rabimaru squats down and lifts his goggles to let them rest on his forehead, giving him a much better view of the strange foliage. This far away, he can actually see the plant better; the "grass" is not at all like the grass around it. It actually has a stem, though the stem is covered in thin, sharp-looking spines. Being only a couple of inches tall, most people that wear shoes would step on the plant and not even notice, and the thick pelts of animals would certainly render the spines useless. Even so, he wishes the more closely examine the plant, and so he carefully uses his cloak as a makeshift glove, covering his hand with the fabric before gripping the short stem with his hand and giving it a firm, slow pull. The plant begins to give way to his force, but then the work becomes far more difficult when the root is actually exposed.

Releasing the stem and removing his covered hand reveals an interesting development; the foliage had its roots wrapped in the network that made up the roots of the taller grasses next to it. This was somewhat different from the grass around it, and it was something worth noting. With a basic understanding of plants, Rabimaru could surmise that this weed was feeding off the nutrients of the taller grasses, allowing it to thrive without the need for direct access to sunlight. With no way to safely remove the specimen whole, the ninja draws his machete from its scabbard at his left side, and with a flick of the wrist, he holds the short, crude sword properly. A single swing is enough to part the plant's stem from its root, providing the genin with a somewhat useful specimen; with another quick movement, the machete is safely back in its scabbard. He opens his cloak to reveal his dark green tactical vest, and gingerly picks up the plant, once again using the edge of his cloak like an improvised glove, placing it into one of the utility pouches of his vest.

With his specimen attained, the genin slips the goggles back onto his face and makes an abrupt 180 degree turn, walking directly back to the small trade road and heading back to the village. If need be, more study could be done on the weed in the privacy of his own home.

[Solus]

+5 TP! One of my best rolling streaks ever! You go to 63 SP~!