Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet (Training)

[Hamura]

History, Local (Land of Rain)

Rank: "E"

Skill: Academia Skill

Effect: The character with this skill is a storehouse of facts about the history of a country.

Special: ---

Drawback: ---

Description: Relevant Abilities: Intelligence Skill. Die Rolls: 5 Die Rolls. Check Requirement: Described. Characters with this skill can train 1 Country (declared when the skill is chosen) to gain knowledge of the Country History. A character may acquire additional Countries by choosing this skill again. The character with this skill is a storehouse of facts about the history of a country. User has knowledge of legends, personalities, inhabitants, laws, customs, traditions, and even humanoids of a Country. For example, the character will know when the ruined tower on the hill was built and who built it (and what happened to him). User knows what great heroes and villains fought and fell at the old battlefield and what great treasure is supposed to be kept in a local temple. User even knows how the mayor of the next town miraculously grew hair on his balding pate. The Game Master will provide information about local sites and events as the character requests it. Furthermore the character can try to retell these events as entertaining stories. Once the subject is chosen, the user can attempt a skill check and, if successful, add that tale to their repertoire. This skill also provides the character with knowledge of the codes of law be they formal statutes or informal rules. Synergy: A user with Local History gives a +5 per Mastery Level Synergy Bonus to Investigate when Coaxing. Some practical applications of Local History follow:

Limit: Must learn from Skills.



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As the torrential rains kept beating down upon his umbrella, Hamura tried to ignore the fact that his boots were starting to get soaked while his socks got drenched along with them. Still, part of him was enjoying the break from all the dry heat of the daytime and the sheer cold of night when in the land of Wind. Having already established that, due to the mountains surrounding the land of Wind, mixed with the fact that there was a near instant change in temperature as soon as one got to the other side of them from the land of Rain, all clouds that came from the mainland and moved across the land of Rain would be stuck there.

[Hamura]

Having no way of moving forward due to the mountains blocking the clouds and the heat from the desert acting as a sort of barrier, it all remained within the land of Rain, which was likely where the place earned the name. Wandering from store to street food shack to another store, he made sure to browse whatever the place had to offer while listening in on any conversation that sounded even remotely interesting to him. Listening as people were talking about the recently inaugurated Amekage called Jasmine Black, he heard talk about people questioning whether she was ready for the task at hand or not.

[Hamura]

Having never heard of her by name before, the few people who were actually talking about her could not give him the kind of information that he was looking for. Ordering a Ramen from the shop as he waited and pretended not to hear a thing, it would seem that because they had never heard of her, that they did not deem her worthy of being the kind of person that had to watch over an entire country. When one of them brought up the previous Kage, another woman called Taliyah, it seemed that not a single good word could be said in regards to her either, which made him wonder if these people were just that spiteful or if they had no proper material to take the position.

[Hamura]

When he thought about the Amegakure shinobi he had met not too long before leaving the land of Wind for an undetermined amount of time, he figured that someone like Emi might actually have been a better fit in terms of skill and power. Basing this thought entirely on the fact that Shiki seemed to believe the guy to be capable enough to teach himself and Victoria how to be proper Shinobi, it either meant that he thought the guy was strong or that Victoria and Hamura were just that weak. Figuring the latter was likely not the case, this whole Kage business intrigued him even more.

[Hamura]

By the time he had finished his Ramen and started wandering around some more, he overheard talk of how various of the "more promising" Shinobi had not been seen around the country in quite some time. While some hadn't been seen for months, others had disappeared for years without ever showing their faces again. As he had not heard a single thing about it, it made him wonder whether this Emi person was one of the shinobi that had disappeared or defected to go elsewhere. Though not a lot of names were actually spoken out loud, there was one last name that came up aside from Emi, Taliyah and Jasmine, which was Hitora.

[Hamura]

While not a lot was said about him, all that really came up were rumors regarding how he had been one of the last to disappear, with Emi being the most recent. Something about that whole ordeal made him wonder whether this Taliyah had really been so horrible as a Kage or if there was something fundamentally wrong with the country, or rather the ninja village of Amegakure. If people could defect so easily, it was really no wonder that people whom the civilians of the country had never heard about became the next designated military leader. After all, someone had to do it, and not everyone stood in the spotlights.

[Hamura]

Such was the way of the Shinobi after all, to stick to the shadows and do what needed to be done without people being any the wiser. Since all he had to go off of was a bunch of rumors, some personal feelings and thoughts from the locals and an opinion he managed to piece together based entirely on those things, he wondered if this Jasmine person might be in way over her head by jumping into the robes of a Kage. The way he saw it, dealing with an entire country was hard, acting as the head of the military and being the person that had to with the daimyo was harder, and having to pick up the slack of a previous failure of a Kage made it seem like an impossible task.

[Hamura]

Still, once he finally got to meet her, he figured that he would find out about all of these things by himself, which was by far the most plausible way of dealing with the situation. After all, he was the one who was supposed to deliver a message to the Amekage regarding a meeting with the Kazekage, so the least he could do for himself and his village was dig up whatever dirt he could find on anything regarding her and her village, her country and her people. And so far, things were not altogether promising, but rather disturbing. Hopefully, whatever he could help set up would aid in stabilizing the country as a whole.

[End of Training]

[Dr. Neuro, RN]

+40
Learned
Max SP

[Hamura]

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.

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Having taken every bit of information he could pick up from off of the streets, Hamura had created a rather decent image of the Amekage in his mind, though it was one that could change at any given time. Considering how he had to be open to new information and had to always check whatever he thought he knew against it for possible new insights, he spotted a small store entirely by chance. Having no idea what kind of a place it even was, he ventured inside, not sure what he might encounter when he went into the building, though he would see soon enough.

Upon entering, he saw a bunch of strange mechanisms and parts that seemed like they were not exactly intended for Shinobi use, but rather for those who delved deeper into making things such as puppets and mechanical constructs for everyday use. Not spotting a store clerk anywhere, he started doing some browsing of his own, picking up a bunch of stuff he encountered along the way to see what he might be able to do with it. When he encountered a certain rotary mechanism, he figured that such a thing might be able to work very well with specific weapons.

Ranging from different kinds of projectiles and even between certain types of bladed weaponry, he envisioned how such a thing might be applied to a quiver or a scabbard instead of being used to rotate between ties. When the clerk entered the store and saw what he was doing, he asked him whether or not he intended to buy it, and if he actually owned any ties to hang from it. Telling the clerk about his thoughts on the matter, the man narrowed his eyes for a moment and walked over to the boy. Taking the mechanism out of his hands and placing it back, he told Hamura to follow him to the back.

[End of Training]

[Dr. Neuro, RN]

+10
Learned