Enigmatic night [Open]

[Geno]

Outside in the middle of tenebrosity, the evening has just been over; filling up with minuscule specks of light, shinning like a million fireflies. The blackness little by little fading, the moon has just arrived. The night firmament stood an inky canopy of tenebrosity freckled only by the fewest of stars, where just hours ago it had been a blue summer's day. The infrequent hoot of an obnubilated owl was the only sound to permeate the silence until a chorus of slapping footsteps and crunching gravel echoed angrily into the vacuousness of the night. As voices expeditiously followed the owl omitted a screech of protest and took flight.

An enigma creature walks through the night, his silhouette is sleet and fluid like his smile during the dawn. For now, he moves as if only a flowing outline of ebony until it reached a camping ground. The shadow creature establishes some fire wood and then like a snap of his fingers come fire. In the flickering flame, you can catch his grin.

ooc: Talon

[Talon]

Tsu found it hard to believe how readily available work was in this town. Back on his families farm he noted that most of the passers-by were either itinerant workers or merchants. Without much else to go on Tsu imagined that most of the daily labor that people engaged in was limited to toil in farms, merchant-ry, or for the privileged few, heroics. Today he found himself employed in just that, or so he believed. A private land owner had offered him work as a night watchmen, which permitted him access just on the outskirts of village - something Tsu was very excited for given that this would be the first time since his arrival that he was permitted to leave the watchful eye of his fellow shinobi.

Whether or not he was prepared for even the simple task was another question however. He began finding it difficult to keep his head up as the night crept in on him. Not necessarily from lack of sleep, but rather from inexorable boredom. He Yawned.

He wandered with lantern in hand, not for the sake of his own sight, as that would be redundant for a blind boy, but rather to make others aware of his own position as he circled the farm. His job after all was not to provoke would-be cattle-thieves, but instead to deter them or any wolves from attacking the livestock.

In the midst of his duties he did encounter one irregularity, the crackling of a fire.Have I, perhaps, strayed from my objective... he whispered under his breath. Genuinely curious as to whether he had been careless in his patrol. ... or, perhaps, one has just been lit? He murmured once more.

He cinched up his jacket, and began making his approach towards the noise, whistling as he did using his special jutsu to figure his way through physical space.

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Jigoku no Mimi (Hells ears)
Rank: "D"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: With this technique the Bard is capable of pinpointing the location of a noise within a small area.
Special: ---
Drawback: Cannot be used to hear techniques that silent the user's movement. Must be trained multiple times.
Description: Bards are around sounds constantly and all their training in the musical arts hones their hearing. They are capable of further training their ability to hear to allow them to listen and precisely pinpoint the location a sound is coming from as long as it is within ten meters of themselves. They can continue to train their ability to pinpoint the location of a sound to increase the distance it can be pinpointed from by ten meters each time, capping off at fifty meters.
Limit: Art of the Bard

[Geno]

The abstruse creature throws in another log to aliment the flames for his camp. He verbally expresses nothing or does anything else outside of sitting on top of a falling tree as if it a chair. On the ground adjacent to him is a backpack, enabling him to make camp for the night. The sound of the crackling fire pit appears to draw some remotely visitor. The demonic monster glances up to optically discern the approaching figure.

Garland visually examines the man and expeditiously realizes he is blind. His grin grows wider on the corner of his lips. He waves his hand around for the John Cena “you can’t visually perceive me.” He flips the stranger off, engenders comical and vilifying faces at him, including ridiculing the fact he can’t visually perceive by pretending he couldn’t either all while not verbally expressing a word. He sits there for a moment; letting silence fills the air and determinately verbalizes, “Who's there? Say something! You think you can sneak up on me because I’m blind?!”

ooc: Talon

[Talon]

To the untrained ear, the sound vibrations created by Tsu's low-pitch whistling would seem erratic as they bounced off the landscape. For Tsu however, it drew the ninja an almost perfect image of the scene at-hand. While approaching the camp, the awkward ninja was in this capacity able to draw an outline of a figure perched on an overturned log. The figure appeared to be waving their hands in an unpredictable manner. At this distance he was unable to determine the exact 'finger positions,' but began wondering if the figure had already detected his presence from a far.

before fully articulating this line of thought the figure blurted out suddenly.

“Who's there? Say something! You think you can sneak up on me because I’m blind?!”

I guess he didn't see me coming... Tsu pondered to himself, now confused by the behavior of the man.

He waved the lantern in front of his face Strange man... he said in attempt to get the attention of the stranger, Can you not see the light of my lantern, or the crook in my gait?

He paused smiling to himself, originally unsure if the man was telling the truth. He was now overwhelmed by the prospect that he had met another blind traveler with-which he could relate.

Pardon me if I startled you, we may have more in common than you think! Tsu bellowed.

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Jigoku no Mimi (Hells ears)
Rank: "D"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: With this technique the Bard is capable of pinpointing the location of a noise within a small area.
Special: ---
Drawback: Cannot be used to hear techniques that silent the user's movement. Must be trained multiple times.
Description: Bards are around sounds constantly and all their training in the musical arts hones their hearing. They are capable of further training their ability to hear to allow them to listen and precisely pinpoint the location a sound is coming from as long as it is within ten meters of themselves. They can continue to train their ability to pinpoint the location of a sound to increase the distance it can be pinpointed from by ten meters each time, capping off at fifty meters.
Limit: Art of the Bard

[Geno]

ooc: Talon

The abstruse man turns his head away from the lantern, to the antithesis direction of the blind man and commences shaking his fist at the thin air. “Lantern, a crook? Of course, I can visually see your lantern or whatever that other fancy word is. Me being visually impaired just means everything I see is color black,” verbalizes Garland in a mordant tone Garland then he hoists his hand and swings in the air as if he’s endeavoring to punch an invisible man while the blind man now facing his back. His punch was inelegant and it would not hurt a toddler even if it had landed. “Ha! I hope you enjoyed that punch, there more where that came from if you think you can fool me! I’m blind but not imbecilic!” Garland grinds his teeth and his fist proximate to his face like some drunken pugilist.

[Talon]

Upon hearing the swing of his fist, and the muttering of several provocative obscenities, Tsu became deeply troubled for the strange man.

Well I'm not sure if he's blind... senile maybe... he thought to himself. Unless he became blind yesterday, there's no way he wouldn't be able to tell which direction my voice was coming from

Tsu's face scrunched together in confusion, he rubbed the metallic tinge of his sound village forehead protector, and chuckled quietly to himself. It seemed like the man was hardly even paying attention to any words the boy spoke.

Tsu determined the man was likely not a threat. "Are you lost out here old man?" He began approaching ever closer to the mean, being gentle in each step he made, so as not to rouse any sudden outbursts. "You're getting awfully close to trespassing on the ranch just down the way."

[Geno]

His auditory perceivers twitch briefly at the sound of the metal tinge. This only emboldens Garland to throw more into the air in an endeavor to assail the blind ninja, but with his back turned against him, but the only thing he’s hitting is the air. “Oh, you got weapons, huh?! Only cowards uses a weapon, these fists of mine are educated and more than enough for the likes of you!”

Garland makes the ts sound like a professional pugilist, but even to an untrained ocular perceiver or the blind can tell that they are piteous. “I’m not lost or trespassing! In fact, I wish I were trespassing! I give that man one of these or this!” Once more, he throws more fists, as if he is imagining the ranch owner. “That prick kidnapped my wife and eaten her! You do not understand the horror or my grief when I found out my wife was missing and he murdered her!”

As if he's in staring in a drama movie, he falls to knees as if he’s in grief with his hands into the air in a ball of fist. He slams them down onto the ground an abundance of times. “Why! Why! Why my poor wife?! She was only a year old; she was a good wife and a fish!”

ooc: Talon So hard to switch from styles from my normal style, to this style and to shenanigans style in dialogue, Ha

[Talon]

All Tsu could do was look on at the puzzling figure as he attempted to raise fists in preparation of a fight.

Did the rancher really kill this guys wife? Watching the stranger fall to his knees, pondered who he had potentially been hired on with for a moment. This thought was quickly interrupted by the shrewd sentiments of a man who had married a fish.

Now dumbfounded, Tsu's face befuddled grin almost threw him into a full on cackle. After regaining his composure, the boy crept up to the man, and knelt beside him. Carefully he put one the strangers back comfortingly.

Well, I definitely can't rule out senility, he thought to himself. "Where do you come from, maybe it's best if I help you back there?"

[Geno]

Garland is still onto his knees as he prehends a handful of grass and pulls them out of their root perpetually. He lets out a ficticiously unauthentic sniffle and then once he felt the blind ninja hand, his entire body flinches. “Ahhh!” He endeavors to get to his feet but stumbles on himself. His arms flail into the air and his hits face first into an oak tree.

He adjusts himself and shakes his sideways and then turn around to face the man. “How did you get behind me?! Are you playing a prank on a blind man?!” Garland flails around in panic and presses his back against the tree. His chest rapidly elevates and falls with his breathing. “Heelp, poliiiiiiiice this guy trying to mug me!”

ooc:Talon

[Talon]

As the strange man flailed his arms around upon being grazed by the young shinobi's palm, Tsu was also thrown backwards landing on his hindquarters. This is really getting out of hand quickly. The boy rubbed his forehead while pushing his attention forwards towards the odd man.

“Heelp, poliiiiiiiice this guy trying to mug me!” Tsu shook his head in amazement, Is there anything I can even do at this point?

In a frightened state he called out to the stranger Excuse me sir, there really isn't any need for that I-I'm sort of with the local authorities here... Tsu paused for a moment. He wasn't exactly sure if that was the truth given meager rank, but he wanted to do whatever he could to help the poor fellow out and return to his post.

In his most authentic sounding voice he spoke up once more. "I'm a shinobi from the local village, I just wanna know what you're doing in these parts of the woods?" He paused once more to collect his thoughts, realizing that he was here to preserve the mans safety, and that of those who hired him on. "It can be awfully dangerous out here, I don't want you to get hurt."

[Geno]

Garland tilts his head at the blind man verbalizing he’s a local ascendancy and he’s from the local village. He blinks for a moment and then he leaps into the air, performing a double flip that should defy physics and he lands onto his feet. One hand is onto his head and the other he points at the blind man. “That doesn’t make any lick of sense!”

Garland's cheeks become puffy as he glares at the blind man. “That wouldn’t make you a police officer or a local ascendancy. The ninja village or rather the system for it is is a giant organization of amassing clans. Depending on your rank and how your local village work, you would be an ascendancy in your own village but we’re outside of the village, denoting your ascendancy wouldn’t here but rather you be overstepping the authentic local ascendancy. Just for that, maybe I should report you to the local samurais or something. Understand the system and lore man!” Garland releases an inelegant cough and goes right back into the position he was in antecedently. “Heeelp, poooollllice this man is trying to mug me!” Garland screams, as if what he explained didn’t happen.

ooc: Talon if you can, tag me with @. I didn't know you posted. lol

[Talon]

Tsu was truly beginning to piece together that whoever this individual is, they are certainly senile, and almost certainly not blind. He looked on in awe as the man proceeded to flip and then offer a lengthy spiel on the extent to which he believed Tsu had authority. In most respects, Tsu really didn't have much knowledge on local politics, and his proceeding response was partially guess-work. 

"You may be right about that, but I have been contracted by a land owner through that village."[/color] His initial sternness quickly build up, but eventually Tsu began working his way into unfamiliar territory with his further statements. "That means my authority has been extended wherever it needs to be, in order to keep those on the premises safe."[/color]

Tsu attempted to calm himself now, in an instant he slowed his breathing, and pointed his face directly in the position of the man pretending to be blind. "Understand, I'm just trying to those folks safe." [/color]

Kneeling again now, Tsu held his hands up. to signal that he was not intending to hurt the man. 

[OOC: Geno]