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[Rose]

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Tasked with a duty far past what was written on the paper in her bag, Rose was out to exact vengeance and justice alike. Determined to avenge her mentor as well as assist the folk at the grass country to the best of her abilities, nothing could really lie in Rose's path. After all, the past six years of her life had all been leading up to this moment - the moment she would have to put all on the table and either avenge Kao or die trying. Death wasn't an option - she wasn't to join the herds that changed her life as is - she was going to succeed. She had to succeed and nothing could get in her way of doing so.

Except...

Rose wandered around the local forest, too cautious to leave her familiar surrounding areas before she knew exactly where she was to head. She knew that the land of grass was to the north-west of the land of fire, but which actual direction that was was beyond her. Luck would however eventually smile upon her as she would meet an old friend of hers - a local farmer folk, passing by followed by his trusty cow.

"Greetings to you, folk of the locale; mind you expose to me which way north-west is?" Rose asked in a manner so, oh so formal. The farmer uttered no words but leaned closer to his cow and whispered, after this continued on his path as if he hadn't even seen Rose to begin with. "Excuse me, but the matter is urgent!" Before Rose would attempt to chase after the man who she knew was knowledgeable and wise, Rose would be stopped by his cow which had apparently decided to stay a few steps behind. The cow circled around Rose, as if to grab her attention and stopped, lifting its tail, as if to point at a location.

"Mo," the cow proclaimed with an unnaturally short "moo", as if simply stating:that way. Before Rose had any time to react to the happening, the cow began sprinting towards the farmer until it caught up with him.

"T-thanks?" Cows were nurturers of life and statistically, nobody had been lied by a cow before, so Rose had little to nothing to worry about following this cows advice, did she? With her mission in mind, Rose decided to take the path suggested to her by the cow.

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Name: Assistance Request - The Tavern of Grass
Rank: "D"
IIC Length: ---
Difficulty: Easy
Objective: Travel to the land of grass and report to the local hidden tavern; stay to take and complete any and all further objectives; willingly cooperate with the local teams for the sake of the mission's completion.
Description: An outbreak of undeath had been occurring through the widths of the land of grass; one eerily similar to the one six years ago in the land of fire, albeit, in a much larger apparent scale. The tavern of grass has required the assistance of any and all free and capable combatants to at least attempt to investigate or at best, stop the spread.
Reward: 7,500 Ryo

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It seems a cow can't quite compare to a compass!

The first hint the young traveler would see to indicate that they had made a wrong turn was a sign. Its text read "Drizzly City – Rain Country Immigration Office, 2.5 miles." For all the cow's trying, it seemed that she was in the land of Rain, when she wished to be in the one of Grass. Fortunately, those two countries are not so far apart, in the grand scheme of things.

[Rose]

As Rose traveled, the landscape around her did indeed change but the terrain surrounding her didn't seem to turn any grassier; in fact, it was becoming rather muddier, likely because, it was in-fact, raining. As she walked further ahead, she also read a sign: "Drizzly City – Rain Country Immigration Office, 2.5 miles." It was then when Rose knew that she was indeed lied to by a cow. Rose stared at the sky as the rain ruined her mascara, making her reminiscent to what one would expect to see in a film of horror; dark shaded, nearly, raccoon-like eyes melted tears of darkness. Rose stared back down and into the ground as she remembered the cow.

"I swear upon my own mother's udder that yours shan't leak a pint of milk further past my return home, you vile, felonious bitch." Rose did indeed swear vengeance upon a cow; the second thing she ever swore vengeance upon past what foul conspiracy took her mentor away. The cow wasn't a priority though, as she did indeed have to unveil the miseries behind the undeath spread in the land of grass, as well as to see if it had relations to the one in the land of fire years prior. To accomplish that, however, she needed to get to grass and for so, she needed either a wiser farm animal or a compass. With none of the former in sight, Rose knew that a compass was essential and that if she couldn't materialize one out of thin air, she would need to improvise instead.

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Rank: “D”
Skill: NinJutsu.
Effect: The user channels a little chakra in a kunai to make it point towards north.
Special: "Handseals" (Bird - Dragon)
Drawback: Have to know how to use a real compass, or else, the jutsu will be useless.
Description: By using the magnetic forces in the earth, a shinobi can use it to their advantage if they are lost. They lay a kunai on the ground, and channel a little chakra in it. The blade will then point towards the north, while the handle will point to south. This jutsu can be extremely useful when lost or if you don’t have a compass to use.
Limit: Lightning Release[/ul]

Albeit she didn't have an actual kunai knife at hand, Rose did have her short sword which she was willing to improvise with. For the sake of doing so, however, she needed to take it apart first and with no tools to do so in her disposal, the best thing she could aim for was to hold its blade while smashing the handle in the rain immigration center sign until it would break at least somewhat loose enough for her to open. Of course she could have always taken it apart using her chakra scalpel, but imagining the post was a certain individual mammal made the smashing process so much more worth it. Eventually, the bolts gave loose and Rose snapped the blade away from the handle. What she further needed to do was mimic the shape shape of a kunai, or namely, to give it a downwards edge which would keep the tip at least a bit above the ground so it could at least somewhat rotate. Of course, being the inventive genius she was, taking advice from a cow and all, Rose decided to trust that task on a pebble which she would place under the sword's blade and on the ground.

What would follow would be the performing of the needed handseals for the compass technique, which were few and simple ones, the sake of which was to channel electric chakra through the metal object, essentially turning it into a magnet. To do so, Rose would need to give the tip of the sword a positive electrical charge while giving the handle a negative such. Fortunately, she had a brief understanding of how magnets worked as she had experimented, on a small scale, ruining their charges by simply channeling lightning energy through them to see what would happen. As a medic, she knew better that anyone that one could fix something just as easily as they could ruin it and this was exactly what she had in mind.

Regardless, her first attempt to channel chakra through the blade was in vain as it simply went to waste. Her method of putting her hand on-top of the center of the blade and sending positive charges through the tip of her middle finger while sending negative such through the sole of her palm proved ineffective and Rose eventually realized what that may be. The positive and negative charges were flowing through the entirety of the blade and were interacting with one another far more than they should have been, essentially, neutralizing each other. Rose knew that she would need to find a  way to make balance between the two and the way she decided to approach it was to leave a neutral charge at the center of her palm so the two (positive and negative) wouldn't interact rapidly enough with one another and would rather interact with the negative such, permitting the rotating motion. 

Rose performed the handseals yet again and placed her hand atop the scuffed compass-like object in-front of her. To her surprise, this time, it didn't remain motionless, albeit it did move a few seconds past she moved her hand from it. The blade pointed in a location that was in a ninety degree angle from the road that she had been taking and she knew for fact that the land of rain was west from the land of fire, so the compass must have been pointing at either south or hopefully, north.

Just in case it was necessary, Rose took the broken blade with herself. She never could know whether she would need to swear and exact vengeance upon it as well, after all. She took the pebble as well. After that she traveled towards the location the scuffed compass pointed. Had she even given the blade the properties of a compass or was it the wind that moved it - she didn't know but it didn't matter. She'd exact justice onto wind itself if she had to.

SPOILER: Click to show

Name: Assistance Request - The Tavern of Grass
Rank: "D"
IIC Length: ---
Difficulty: Easy
Objective: Travel to the land of grass and report to the local hidden tavern; stay to take and complete any and all further objectives; willingly cooperate with the local teams for the sake of the mission's completion.
Description: An outbreak of undeath had been occurring through the widths of the land of grass; one eerily similar to the one six years ago in the land of fire, albeit, in a much larger apparent scale. The tavern of grass has required the assistance of any and all free and capable combatants to at least attempt to investigate or at best, stop the spread.
Reward: 7,500 Ryo

(Possibly?) exit to kusa no kuni

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The blade would hesitate as it swiveled gently on that small pebble. It was a shaky setup to say the least - and a tenuous one. Having no prior practice with the technique, Rose would have no sense for precisely when it had begun to work. However, it was certainly better than a shot in the dark. She would cling to her hope that the blade had pointed true, and that the cow hadn't taken her too far from the right path.

In a few hours, she would see a sign, just as the light was starting to fade. "Bamboo Shoot District Court, 6 Miles E."

In other words, she had made it.


[Moved]