A Serpent changes his Skin, not his Fangs (Training)(P)
Jan 18, 2018 19:21:17 GMT -7
Post by Hamura on Jan 18, 2018 19:21:17 GMT -7
The Land of Fang
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Swim Good
Rank: "E"
Skill: Sophisticated Skill
Effect: This skill provides the character with knowledge of how to swim deeper and holding their breath longer.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Relevant Abilities: Prowess Skill. Die Rolls: 1 Die Roll. Check Requirement: Never. Swim Good is a skill to increase holding the breath and increase depth tolerance. No Die Roll is needed for Swim Good. There is no Difficulty check with Swim Good. Normally targets may only swim at a depth tolerance of 15 meters, and hold their breath for a number of rounds equal to 2 x (10 + 2 per Indomitable Fortitude). Swim Good depends on the user's Skill +15 meter base Depth Tolerance. There are 2 benefits to this skill. First is Depth Tolerance Increase. Every 5 skill points increases Base Depth Tolerance by +2 meters. Second is Holding Your Breath. For every 5 skill points increase Holding Your Breath by +1 round.
Limit: Must learn from Skills.
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One of the first things Hamura did after coming to the land of Fang, after training in the Porthos ring, was getting an idea of the lay of the land. Him being the person that he was truly enjoyed being out in the natural world, not caring overly much for the world created by humanity. After all, all they really did was take more and more from nature while giving absolutely nothing back. Some of them felt like they were, though deep down they all knew that what they were doing was fueling their own ego by pretending to make a difference.
In many ways, Hamura was exactly like that, though there was a slight difference. Hamura had never truly taken from nature, nor had he truly given anything back to it. Having always lived in the house his grandfather built overlooking the cliffs, he had never taken any space from nature at all, though he did live in a place that had taken from it. The way he saw it, he was standing within the grey area between the two as someone he neither gave nor took. That said though, he had more or less done a good thing or two, but did not like viewing it as a chore.
The way he saw it, he had been feeding a small family of thrushes, had fed and saved the life of his falcon Hiroto at least twice now and had refrained from killing a pack of wolves when they attacked him, knowing that doing such a thing would have ended with him burning down most of the forest in the process. At the time, using his fire style was truly all that he had, though that was all in the past now. If a similar thing were to ever happen to him again, he would certainly defend himself if he had to instead of hiding.