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[Cadoc]

Bonewood
Rank: "S"
Type: Nearly Impossible, Colossal, Tree
Effect: May be used for various alchemical, medical and crafting purposes.
Special: Preparation: –; Duration: Special
Drawback: ---
Description: Bonewood is a thin tree, with trunk diameters of only 12 to 18 inches, and stands about 50 to 100 feet tall. The tree has a pale white bark and red leaves. Bonewood grows in areas where there are many buried corpses in the ground and can be commonly found in large graveyards, the sites of ancient battles, and mass graves. The bonewood tree is prized for the many items that can be made from the tree. The bonewood tree provides not only wood, but also a bright red sap and spongy, yellowcolored heartwood at the center of the tree often simply referred to as marrow. The many uses of bonewood often bring people into conflict as one group wants to tend the trees and harvest the sap, while another group wants to cut the trees down to get the wood and marrow. Bonewood has many unique properties, a result of its unique ecology. The wood is highly flexible, lightweight, and strong making it an ideal wood for weapons and armor. In addition, the wood has a unique ability to repair damage done to it, just as normal bone heals breaks (Heals 5 Armour Points per Round). The marrow is soft and spongy and is edible, though rather bland. Those that eat of the bonewood marrow slowly transform such that their skin becomes hardened like the bark of a tree. Finally, the red sap can be distilled into several alchemical brews. Hardness: 10; Armour Points/Inch: 30; Armour Class: -2. Bonewood produces 960,000 Ryo worth of material cost for items. Bonewood items cost normal price.
Availability: Year Round; Region: Special; Identification: Easy; Cultivation: Average
Limit: Must know Botany for Special Regions. 3% chance in finding.
Cost: 200,000 Ryo Per Tree; 960,000 Ryo per Tree (Material)

Post #1, 3% of finding

The time had come, Yoko was setting out on her new adventure in search of Bonewood. Of course, one might think of setting of outside the village in search of this rare wood, as surely everything inside the village walls had been harvested by greedy corporations? Well maybe that was the case, but from Yoko’s perspective, it was certainly easier to carry a tree a few miles than thousands or hundreds of miles. Thus, if she could find the tree within the village’s graveyards then it saved her a lot of trouble.

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Post #2, 3% of finding

She started by searching the largest graveyard in the village, mysteriously searching it in a grid-like pattern whereby she set the area up into a three by three grid: square A being the top left area, I being the bottom right. A fairly simple system that allowed her to maximise the amount of ground she covered. Thus, Yoko set off on her examination of grid sector A, inspecting all of the trees that inhabited it in case they were actually bonewoods.

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Post #3, 3% of finding

The first tree she happened upon possessed all of the qualities of a bonewood, for a start it was inside a graveyard, second it had the thin trunk that was so common amongst the species. It even had white bark. But was it really a bonewood? In order to determine this Yoko took out her advanced test kit, consisting of a kunai and some gloves. And cut away at a bit of the tree in order to see what its properties were like.

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Post #4, 3% of finding

Of course, there was probably an easier way to check the tree, but Yoko felt that this method offered a pretty reliable answer. After all, given her location in a graveyard, she did not want to rip up a tree that she had incorrectly identified only for the material to be rendered useless for the goal she had in mind. Her logic was rather simple, she knew a bonewood would regenerate—it was the whole reason she wanted it.

[Cadoc]

Post #5, 3% of finding

Thus, if this was, in fact, a bonewood tree then it would heal from the damage she had just inflicted on it? All she needed to do now was wait and see if this sample tree was indeed a bonewood or if she needed to continue her search for this area. From prior learning, the youth knew that the healing effects of bonewood were quite fast, so the minor amount of damage she had just caused should have healed in six seconds.

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Post #6, 3% of finding

Not that she needed to wait for it to fully heal to note its effects, rather she only needed to see that the tree had started to heal at an advanced rate. So, she patiently waited, eyeing a few potential trees in the area on the off chance that this test failed which she assumed it would. One off in the distance seemed to possess the right colour bark but the light of the sun reflecting off the tree made it rather difficult to confirm at such a distance.

[Hamura]

Sorry, none found. (Got awfully close though)

[Cadoc]

Post #1, 3% of finding

Alas, it turned out that this tree was not a bonewood: it was not regenerating. As a result, the tree was left with a line through its bark from Yoko’s kunai. Well, there was only one thing that the young Mizukage could do, and that moved on to another tree and check that one. Yoko moved approximately thirty metres away to the north and began searching the area making her way through the undergrowth as best she could.

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Post #2, 3% of finding

The tree that she was in search of was a colossal size, however, that did not mean that it would not be obstructed by undergrowth, rather the undergrowth hid the lower levels of the trees making it difficult to identify them. Of course, a lot of trees could be identified by their leaves, but that did not necessarily yield a hundred per cent accuracy, which Yoko was essentially seeking to establish.

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Post #3, 3% of finding

Thus, she could eliminate trees that did not have a leaf that matched the bonewood tree, however, if the leaves seemed to match then further testing was required. Fortunately, when she was searching the area, she managed to find one tree that matched the criteria. The trees were nestled in between a few others but Yoko’s keen eyes were able to pick it out. She rapidly dashed over to the tree and began her preliminary assessment of the situation.

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Post #4, 3% of finding

Was the bark of a similar nature to the bonewood tree she sought out? Yes, it seemed that the bark was rather similar, the leaves as well. Thus, Yoko felt that the same test could be repeated to see whether the tree regenerated. She used the back of her knife to hack away at the bark and make a small scratch across the wood hidden below. All she needed to do now was to wait and see whether the tree regenerated or not.

[Hamura]

narutoforumrp.proboards.com/thread/16912/herb-dice-roll?page=87

No luck, sorry.

[Cadoc]

Everburn Pine
Rank: "C"
Type: Common, Huge, Tree
Effect: Soft amber wood with very flammable resin. Very often used for torches and firewood.
Special: Preparation: Special; Duration: Special
Drawback: ---
Description: A soft wood with a nice amber quality to it. The tree produces a resin that makes it highly resistant to disease and insect infestations and is found in moderate climates with good rainfall. Because of its resistance to disease and insects, it has been transplanted to various other areas to combat insect infestations and tree diseases. However, it was soon discovered that the resin has a flammable quality that makes it prone to fire at even the slightest spark. During particularly dry and hot seasons, the tree has been known to combust, launching massive forest fires. When a tree combusts, it explodes with tremendous force. For every four weeks of a dry season, there is a 20% chance a tree combusts. This is increased by 5% per week. When an explosion finally occurs, it deals 6 Armour Poitns of damage to the number of weeks the trees have endured the drought. The explosion affects everything in a 6 meter-radius radius of the tree. Villagers who live in areas that are home to these trees often make it a point to keep the trees watered during dry seasons, for obvious reasons. However, the resin also gives the wood a long burning quality, burning up to 5 times as long and hot as any other wood of its type. Thus torches made of Everburn last ten times as long. Also adventurers value it for cooking fires, since one bundle of everburn firewood can replace five bundles of regular wood. The wood is rarely used for anything other than torches or firewood, since it would be too risky to use in building material due to its flammability. The resin can, however, be used in explosives by those who are skilled in alchemy giving extra damage of +1 per 6 Armour Points of Damage. 1 Thumb-Vial is needed per alchemical mixture. 1 half-bottle of resin is found per tree.
Availability: Year Round; Region: Any Region Except Arctic/Jungle; Identification: Average; Cultivation: Easy
Limit: Must know Botany for Any Region Except Arctic/Jungle Regions. 65% chance in finding.
Cost: 12,000 Ryo Per Tree; 100 Ryo per Thumb Vial of Resin

65% search chance. 150 Special plant lore, 125 Cultivation.

Unfortunately, Yoko had failed to find the bonewood tree and was starting to feel somewhat disheartened. As a result, she endeavoured to find a different type of tree, the Everburn Pine, while still searching this special area. It was her intent to utilise her skills in cultivation to harvest the sap from the tree to boost her explosives. She made her way over to the nearest tree and began to inspect it, was it an Everburn Pine? Before checking she formed a shadow clone to aid in the search.

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Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Technique) 50
Rank: "B"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: This technique creates clones of the user. However, these clones are actual copies, not illusions.
Special: "Clone Seal"
Drawback: The user's chakra is evenly distributed among every clone, giving each clone an equal fraction of the user's overall power.
Description: The clones are capable of performing techniques on their own and can even bleed, but will usually disperse after 1 or 2 solid blows. They can also disperse on their own. The clones will be created in roughly the same condition as the original. Shadow clones cannot be distinguished from the actual person even by the Byakugan because the clones have the exact same amount of chakra and aren't made from any other substance. A characteristic that is unique to the Shadow Clone Technique is that any experience the clones gain during their existence is transferred to the user once they are dispersed. This makes the technique ideal for spying, since the user can simply send a clone to spy on a target, then have the clone disperse itself without returning to pass the information back to the user. (Cannot gain extra training points through training with Shadow clone.) User is able to make up to 5 clones at a time. Takes the amount of time to perform a "B" Rank Jutsu. Shadow Clones may travel between different threads within the same board.
Limit: Universal NinJutsu Technique. Must be Chūnin or gain Village Scroll.

"Genius
Rank: ""C""
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User is one of the most brilliant technologists in all the world.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The user receives a +10 Insight bonus on all Artisan Skills and Academia Skill checks. If the user has at least 50 ranks in any Artisan or Academia skill, the bonus increases to +15 with that skill.
Limit: Must be an Alchemist. Must know Any Academia Skill (15 Points.). Must know at least 3 Languages.

Hunter§
Rank: ""C""
Skill: Heritage Trait
Effect: User was a great hunter and tracker.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User has +20 Skill points to divide as they wish among Botany, Herbalism, and Tracking. At each Class Level the user gain an additional +5 Heritage skill Points to place in any one of these skills. User gains +1 Heritage Points per die roll when learning the skill. User must choose in having +10 in Observation, or Tracking. User is comfortable in the wilderness. User also gains a +10 competence bonus on all Botany, and Tracking checks. This trait replaces 1 Freebies."

[Cadoc]

65% search chance. 150 Special plant lore, 125 Cultivation. Clone search

Yoko's clone continued her search for the Everburn Pine by inspecting the specimen before her, she used her keen knowledge of plant lore to attempt to identify it. Of course, she could have simply put a flame to the tree and observed whether it exploded or not, to get some form of instant feedback, but given that she wanted to harvest the resin this seemed somewhat redundant. Instead, she merely inspected the leaves, bark, etc. to see whether they matched the tree she had seen in her notes.

[Madame Loki]

Thinger Found...

[Cadoc]

Yoko and her clone had both managed to find an Everburn Pine each, thus they both set to work using their vast knowledge of cultivation to extract the resin from the trees, gathering a half-bottle from each of the trees. After harvesting the materials as required Yoko left.

# Two half-bottles of Everburn Pine resin.
# Everburn Pine scent acquired.
# Exit