Artisan's hammer

[Starnaess]

Loremaster Encyclopedia: Volume IX: Craftworks: Metals
Rank: "B"
Type: Main, Book, Textbook
Effect: Encyclopedia book pertaining to crafting with metals.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Page Count: 300 pages each. These books each focus on a specific group of crafts based on the materials used. Each book grants a +30 competence bonus to Craft checks that work in the specified materials. Moreover, the books are full of timesaving hints, reducing the time required to make items by +5 (Example: Base Crafting time is 1/3rd of item cost. This book improves crafting time by +5 making it 1/8 of item cost).
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Special Book Shop. 5% chance finding.

Cost: 140,000 Ryo

The twins were happy, today they had no missions - the weather was warm , calm , a gentle breeze sweeping up their clothes , caressing their  skin and simply relaxing their whole beings. They were fused but would soon split up to allow the both of them to enjoy the beautiful day before them.

Roughly around 8 in the morning, the whole day ahead of them the twins were ready to enjoy their first break in ages. They h ad no intention of training today, atleast not physically. Their bodies were tired , roughed up and beaten by the last missions they had been doing. After all they ahd b een accepting missions non stop for the past year.

Going into places they would normaly not even dream about going into, but that was their job, their mission and purpose in life. However a break from these things is always a must, to reallign one'z expectation of their own future as well as to simply recharge the batteries to better deal with life's complications.

[Starnaess]

post 2

Their goal for this peaceful morning was rather simple, find a place where they could relax, talk to eachother for some time and just enjoy those early hours of the day where people still had to wake up and get about their business. But where could this beautiful duo go? They had quite a few options.  They could simply head to the dojo.

After all they knew that if they did that they would find only very few people training at this time of day.  They could simply watch, enjoy their training sessions - perhaps even  ahnd out a few tips about how to improve in some movements or techniques. After all they grew up rather quickly and esponentially the past year. However they decided that wasnt such a good idea.

Not because they didnt enjoy the abovementioned things, but simply because they knew that the moment they saw other people training sessions, they would start training on their own and today was all about relax and rest, a much needed one. So instead they decided to head to the local library and enjoy a nice reading session about whatever piqued their interest.

[Starnaess]

post 3

So thats where they decided to head. Opening their hose's door they would go out and close it behind them. Welcomed by the recently cleaned and p avemented roat before them, they begun walking toweard that direction - enjoying the peaceful and lonely scenery around them, after all most people were sleeping  at this time of day. it  wouldnt take long before they reached their destination.

The library was something they hadnt been going to all that much in the past year, so while they knew the building layout it still felt like a stranger's place. If they ever needed books they would simply use the dojo's personal library filled with a variety of books that would most likely satisty their hunger for a beautiful read.

But then again that would mean entering the dojo and  seeing other people train which would then lead to they themselves training and that would defeat the whole purpose of their day of rest. So as they placed their hands on the giant wooden door, they would push with all their strenght to allow it to open before them, revealing an almost cathedral like library.

[Starnaess]

post 4

The dojo's library was rather impressive but this was just on a whole different scale. Thousands upon thousands of bookshelves with just as many books in them , filling the entirety of the library almost to the point where there was no space for people to read. In fact there were just a handful of chairs and tables aviable for those brave enough to enter it and find a book.

The twins knew what they wanted to read already so that helped them in their search, since they knew where e very single type of book was, thanks to the insignas on the ceiling and the beautifully handcarves a rrows pointing into their direction, it was rather easy for them to reach the shelf they  wanted and to pick up a book they needed.

The book was all about crafting and metals, recently the twins had been training a nd practicing the art of metallurgy and weaponsmithing so they wanted  to further their knowledge in the matter by reading more books about it. And what a wonderful idea that this was, in fact they managed to find a rare book amidst the miriad of other books.

[Hamura]

Learned.

[Starnaess]

Inspire Competence
Rank: B
Skill: Ninjutsu, Instrumental
Effect: Increases dice roll chances by 5% for the bard and listener for the duration.
Special: Melody Hand Seals
Drawback: Does not work on rolls with outcomes other than "Success" or "Failure".
Description: The bard will use their instrument to play a melody both inspirational and empowering. This will boost the confidence of the bard and whoever might be listening to the song when it is played. If there is anything that they do that has a chance for success or failure then their is a slight increase (5%) in the possibility for them to succeed at what they do. This ability lasts for five post.

Limit: Art of the Bard, an Instrument

post 1

They would pick up the book and notice that it was a rather odd one, for - other than being bigger than most books they have ever seen, if one were to look at the pages when the book was closed, they would notice different colors and different layers. This was because every color and layer signified the end of a book and the beginning of another.

Yes this book was an amalgamation of many rare books , ranging from the widest subjects such as crafting and ending up all the way to fighting and ways to kil your pray. a book for everyone and everything, one that is indeed often sought after but rarely found, the twins were lucky enough to find one in their very home town.

Of course, they would immediatly pick it up and bring it back with them to one of the tables aviable. They would lay it down on top of it and sit right in front of it, one next to the other. They would look at eachother in excitement for they were about to embark in a knowledge journey that would grant them many benefits.

[Starnaess]

post 2

their initial intention was to find a book about crafting, and simply focus on that - however as they begun rreading this book they knew that crafting alone would have not satisfied the hunger of knowledge they had that day. They simply begun going through the first color, a nd it was all a bout crafting, a beautiful orange dye was infused in the pages making it rather easy to read.

It didnt take long before the twins would finish the whole segment of that color, roughly 300 pages. After all they were used to reading alot and with their enhanced memory they never had to read anything twice in their entire lives. So with that beign done the twins decided to go on and keep reading - only an hour had passed.

The day was still early and they had many hours ahead of them of free time to dedicate to whatever activity they wanted. So as they flipped through the last orange page the twins would find themselves immersed in pink. Such an odd color one would think, but for what they were about to read it fit rather  well. This chapter was all about bards.

[Starnaess]

post 3

Bards huh? thought the twins as they begu nreading - they had encountered a couple, extravagant people they were indeed - all wearing exuberant clothes and wierd looking intrument one always different from the other. They however, also knew that bards were rather strong in combat, and rather useful as well. the power of their intruments, their songs and their voice.

With those things, bards could defeat their enemies or aid allies in fight - swinging the tide of a battle toward their favor if they so whished and with just a few movement of their fingers. This whole i dea intrigued them, so they simply begun reading a nd the very first pages were introductory to their discipline and their craft.

The book told that no bard was similar to the other, for many preferred a different type of instrument - and that the most skilled one crafted their own instruments or had them crafted from skilled artisans to  better match their style of combat. Some bards were ther aggressive type, always in the front line booting the mighty warriors near them, and debuffing their enemies.

[Starnaess]

post 4

others were not so brave, and stood behind the front lines singing their songs and telling tales of the many fights they witnessed and survived. Spreading legends throughout the country making those brave warriors that fell during combat, immortal forever. The twins were mesmerized by this read, so much so that they begun learning the first jutsu tha was written there.

They had no instrument  with them b ut their voice, so all they could do was attempt at singing the notes written carefully in the book and replicate them w ith precise tempo. obviously it wasnt as easy as thry thought but in the end they did manage to learn a single jutsu. quite a peculiar one as well for it boosted their luck and they sure could need such a boost.

They were happy with this jutsu, and they were sure that eventally they would learn more bard jutsus but for now it was time to take a break from reading - they would close the book and bring i it withthem as they entered the middle part of the library, a huge inner garden.  They would lay down on a bnch a nd look at the sky as they relaxed some more.

[Skulking Shinzu]

Learned.