Learning for Learnings Sake [T]

[akanewakahisa]

Able Learner (+1 Dice rolls per time trained)
For every time learned, Akane gains 2 dice rolls, starting at d12

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Disguise
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: A person versed in the art of disguise can alter his appearance to be unrecognizable- even to his own mother.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A user may choose to appear as the opposite sex, a larger person or possibly even a smaller person. There are, of course, common sense limits to this skill. A balding, fat, middle-aged male innkeeper is going to have one hell of a time disguising himself as a voluptuous female prostitute. In general, the following limitations apply: Height: +/- 25% of actual height; Weight: +/- 50% of actual weight; Sex: Male or Female; Hair: Any Color; Eyes: Any Color; Complexion: Any Color; Facial Features: Highly mutable
Obviously, the ability to speak the language of the person you impersonate is not granted. The character may need to purchase clothes or materials depending on his disguise. Look in Task Skills thread found in the Skills and Traits Index for more information. If user has 25 or more Ranks in Acting user gains a Synergy Bonus +10 to Disguise (to act in character). Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

0/5

Akane was…. Well lets be frank. Akane was having the time of her life. She made faces at the mirror, amused at the horribly disguised face looking back at her. She had goats fur effectively glued to her chin. That had been thoughtlessly added before she had powdered her face to a darker shade, meaning under the pelt the skin was still pale while the rest of her exposed skin was darkened to a tan instead of white. On top of that, she had applied the same fur to her eyebrows, to help match the color of course. Nothing she could do about her big doe eyes, she noted, so she tinged the underside dark, trying to go for a sunken eyed look. She did a terrible job of it and now looked like she had two black eyes from continuous corrections until there was black everywhere.

She shrugged her cloak on, pulling up the hood to hide her face in shadow. Nope. That just wasn’t doing anything. It was that bad. Akane laughed delightedly regardless. She loved trying new things, though she couldn’t usually maintain that enthusiasm for most, giving her some jack of all trades tendencies. As an afterthought, she stuck a pillow under her cloak and hunched a bit. Now she looked deformed. She had just been going for old, but deformed /could/ work. Its not like this was a job or anything, so why not?

She frowned down at her feet. She had been planning on going barefoot, but her unlined, young feet mocked her with their uncooperative nature. She stamped them experimentally. Nope. Still young. She glanced around, trying to get ideas. Her room was a hodgepodge of random things and therefor full of inspiration. Her eyes landed on some cloth for binding wounds and her eyes lit up. Of course! She then proceeded to borrow some dirt from a potted plant, rub it vigorously into the clean bandages, then wrap her feet and hands with them.

She looked at the mirror again. Actually. That’s not nearly as bad as she expected. As long as no one looked under the hood and she hobbled effectively… Ok no not even then, but she was still gonna have a good time!

[Father 'Suke]

+5 TP
+13 SP
13|125

Might I just say, well done on the costume.

[akanewakahisa]

Able Learner (+1 Dice rolls per time trained)
For every time learned, Akane gains 2 dice rolls, starting at d12

SPOILER: Click to show

Acting
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: Acting enables a character to skillfully portray various roles.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Acting is most often used as a form of entertainment, though it can also be useful in aiding a disguise or pulling a scam. A skilled actor knows how to research their role in order to provide a realistic portrayal to include mannerisms, speech patterns, dialect or jargon. The Acting skill also confers a cumulative 5% bonus (per level above Unskilled) to Disguise skill check rolls. The list below gives examples of Mastery and what the character can do.
Unskilled Give a stereotyped performance.
Novice Pretend to be a person whose background is not too dissimilar from the character’s own.
Average Play a role convincing to an audience not overly familiar with the part he’s portraying.
Advanced By observing and interacting with a member of a class or profession, he can pass himself off as said.
Expert Can independently ‘invent’ a role such as a lord, member of a cult, wealthy merchant, etc., and can dress and act the part with such skill that he can pass as that person.
Master Can successfully imitate any person well enough to fool anyone not intimately familiar with the person (barring visual familiarity).

If user has 25 or more Ranks in Acting user gains a Synergy Bonus +10 to Disguise (to act in character), Interpret/Perform Mime, Intimidate, and Sleight of Hand. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

0/5

Akane felt laughter bouncing around her chest as she moved down the stairs, practicing her hobbling gait. Her desire to skip every few steps was not helping her act old and decrepit. Her mother glanced over as she made her slow way past the kitchen and to the entry way. It said something about the girls usual habits that this didn’t seem to surprise or startle Yari in the least. Instead she sighed, shaking her head.

“You’re standing too straight.” She pointed out with some wry amusement, and Akane quickly moved back into her stoop. “Better.”

“Thanks Mom, I’ll be back late.” Akane replied, trying to make her voice gruff and ragged. It wasn’t even remotely successful and her mother just laughed as the girl finished gimping out of the door. Akane looked around slowly from the deep shadow of her hood, not sure where she should start, but knowing here was not the best place to be begging. She began to move sluggishly towards the shopping district, though as quickly as she dared without breaking the act. It was not very fast at all, and she felt her own impatience battle with the urge to practice acting. The impatience lost, though it was a close fight.

Once she got to the busy market stalls, she began to hobble even more piteously up and down the rows, trying to stay out of the way as she held out her bandaged hand, occasionally coughing as realistically as she could manage. She was more surprised when someone believed her sad excuse for acting than not. Still, it was good practice, and as time went on she refined her movements and speech mannerisms more. Soon she had a specific walk, a kind of step drag she thought looked like a lame leg. When she spoke she tried to slur her words, as if something was wrong with her mouth, or maybe her head. She wasn’t quite sure about that herself. She made some spare change this way…. Until a ninja took it away and berated her for doing something so inappropriate. The true test of her acting was pretending to be chastened. All things considered, she felt she had done a pretty good job of it too.

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gonna call this also learned. +5. ill roll in a second.

narutoforumrp.proboards.com/post/979891/thread

+11 skill

11|125 total

[akanewakahisa]

Able Learner (+2 Dice rolls per time trained)
For every time learned, Akane gains 7 dice rolls, starting at d12

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Interpret/Perform Mime
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: Characters with this skill can perform mime, and interpret it with ease.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: In the world pantomime, or mime as it is more commonly known is sometimes a valuable form of communication. Characters with this skill can perform mime, and interpret it with ease. Because it is a silent form of communication, mime can come in handy when characters are in a situation where they want to communicate with each other in a stealthy manner. Also, mimes often perform in public or for nobles and even kings, getting paid for their efforts. A skill check is only needed if the character is attempting to communicate with another person in a difficult situation, such as being under guard. If the skill check succeeds, he is able to communicate the message he desired. Of course, communication between people using mime requires that all parties involved in the conversation be skilled in mime. If user has 25 or more Ranks in Acting user gains a Synergy Bonus +10 to Interpret/Perform Mime. Each time learned user gets 5 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

Akane was gesturing wildly, with her arms. Her mother was sitting on a chair across from her in the living room, trying to puzzle out what her daughter was miming. The room was comfortably warm, but from all the overenthusiastic gesturing Akane was doing, she was beginning to sweat. She was going for a swimming motion, but was clearly putting too much force into it as her mother couldn’t guess what she was doing at all.

“Ah, are you stealing a canoe?” Yami asked hesitantly, making an admittedly similar gesture of paddling rapidly. The idea was both so wrong and surprising that Akane had to cover her mouth and shake her head rapidly as she contained the amusement at the guess. She didn’t really have to be completely silent, but it felt more right with learning to properly mime and all. “Dancing?”

Akane stopped then, realizing that repeating the same motion clearly wasn’t working. She paused for a moment, thinking, then made a motion like drinking.

“Drinking?” Her mother inquired, confused, then Akane pointed at the space between her imaginary cup and her mouth. “Liquid?”

Akane made a gesture with her hand, fingers a small distance apart. Close.
“Water?”

An enthusiastic nod, then the motion she had been making at the beginning, slower and more controlled. It looked much less like stealing a canoe that way.

“Water… moving… Swimming?” Yami guessed, then laughed at her daughters delighted look, “And here I thought you were trying to club something to death.” She laughed again at Akane’s scowl as she attempted to mime something insulting back, but the meaning was entirely lost. “Some more practice perhaps?”

Akane wanted to scowl some more, but the fact that her mother was right in every way ruined her motivation and she smiled instead, nodding. She made the exact same swimming motion and her mother’s eyes narrowed, making Akane laugh, though just the motion and none of the noise. She made a placating gesture, both her hands out in front of her like she was patting the air, then actually resumed a separate stance. Her hands out in front of her, one seeming to grasp something fairly narrow, the other brushing the air in front of her with an attempt at stately grace.

“Harp? Harping?” Yami responded quickly, rewarded with Akane’s grin and more rapid nodding. It seemed she /was/ getting better.

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narutoforumrp.proboards.com/post/979926/thread

+5tp

+53 skill

[akanewakahisa]

Able Learner (+1 Dice rolls per time trained)
For every time learned, Akane gains 2 dice rolls, starting at d12

SPOILER: Click to show

Acting
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: Acting enables a character to skillfully portray various roles.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Acting is most often used as a form of entertainment, though it can also be useful in aiding a disguise or pulling a scam. A skilled actor knows how to research their role in order to provide a realistic portrayal to include mannerisms, speech patterns, dialect or jargon. The Acting skill also confers a cumulative 5% bonus (per level above Unskilled) to Disguise skill check rolls. The list below gives examples of Mastery and what the character can do.
Unskilled Give a stereotyped performance.
Novice Pretend to be a person whose background is not too dissimilar from the character’s own.
Average Play a role convincing to an audience not overly familiar with the part he’s portraying.
Advanced By observing and interacting with a member of a class or profession, he can pass himself off as said.
Expert Can independently ‘invent’ a role such as a lord, member of a cult, wealthy merchant, etc., and can dress and act the part with such skill that he can pass as that person.
Master Can successfully imitate any person well enough to fool anyone not intimately familiar with the person (barring visual familiarity).

If user has 25 or more Ranks in Acting user gains a Synergy Bonus +10 to Disguise (to act in character), Interpret/Perform Mime, Intimidate, and Sleight of Hand. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

0/5

Akane had been studying today. She had gone out among the different classes of Konoha and listened to people speak. It was amazing that even in a single, if large, village how many different speach patterns and changes in terms there might be. She had listened to a clan have a discussion and not once had they been less than polite, the formality of it boggling to Akane who had never had anything like that in her life. Then she had listened at a bed and breakfast, where the mood was far more relaxed and jovial, people not leaving out the honorifics but not paying too much attention to class either. Then she went into the more dangerous sections, for Konoha. The people there did not speak as much, and when they did, there always seemed to be a low edge of threat.

Now she sat here, trying them aloud to herself, concentrating on each role.

“Yes, Sensai Sama,” She agreed with a low bow to the air, pretending she had been given a distasteful order and was not showing even a little of her true feelings on the matter, “It will be done as you say.”

“Hey lovely chan,” She called out next, smiling at the imaginary woman across the comfortably warm room, putting a slightly raspy slur in her voice “Can I get my drink refilled?”

“Move along, boy,” She growled, causing her younger brother to squeak in surprise and scuttle back out of the room, which he had just entered. She couldn’t hold the performance any longer after that, breaking down into helpless laughter which made the youngling return hesitantly. She tried, and failed to give him the dangerous look she had seen in that area. She would have to work keeping the performance going, no matter what the situation might be.

[💀]

+8

[akanewakahisa]

Able Learner (+1 Dice rolls per time trained)
For every time learned, Akane gains 2 dice rolls, starting at d12

SPOILER: Click to show

Acting
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: Acting enables a character to skillfully portray various roles.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Acting is most often used as a form of entertainment, though it can also be useful in aiding a disguise or pulling a scam. A skilled actor knows how to research their role in order to provide a realistic portrayal to include mannerisms, speech patterns, dialect or jargon. The Acting skill also confers a cumulative 5% bonus (per level above Unskilled) to Disguise skill check rolls. The list below gives examples of Mastery and what the character can do.
Unskilled Give a stereotyped performance.
Novice Pretend to be a person whose background is not too dissimilar from the character’s own.
Average Play a role convincing to an audience not overly familiar with the part he’s portraying.
Advanced By observing and interacting with a member of a class or profession, he can pass himself off as said.
Expert Can independently ‘invent’ a role such as a lord, member of a cult, wealthy merchant, etc., and can dress and act the part with such skill that he can pass as that person.
Master Can successfully imitate any person well enough to fool anyone not intimately familiar with the person (barring visual familiarity).

If user has 25 or more Ranks in Acting user gains a Synergy Bonus +10 to Disguise (to act in character), Interpret/Perform Mime, Intimidate, and Sleight of Hand. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

0/5

“So, little brother, you wish to be my audience?” Akane asked skeptically of the younger boy, who nodded enthusiastically. The eight year old often wanted to be a part of anything Akane was doing. She decided to start off the performance right away and affected a somewhat haughty look she had seen on a shopkeeper's face when she was disguised as a beggar . “And what do you think you could do for me in this, hmm?”

The boy, Hiroki, thought about it quite seriously, which made Akane’s expression of disapproval waver. She held it in place against her urge to laugh at how contemplative her younger sibling could be. After a long moment, he spoke.

“I can tell you how bad an actor you are,” He pointed out with a surprising grin and raised eyebrows. He had gotten that expression from her. Once more, she was tempted to break character, if just to smack the upstart with the nearby newspaper, but she merely raised one imperious eyebrow.

“And you think you can judge me, urchin?”

They kept it up, going back in forth, Hiroki trying his best to be an insulting and insolent street urchin, actually impressing Akane with his dedication. Of course, as she was a hard working street vendor that knew she was better than he, she said no such thing and replied scathingly or sometimes not at all. It was Hiroki who broke first, laughing and at that Akane broke as well. Together they took a break to go eat.

[Solus]

+5 TP, You go to 35 SP

Next time it might be convenient to add which SP level you are on, saves me from having to dig through your bio and training thread ^^

[akanewakahisa]

Able Learner (+2 Dice rolls per time trained)

For every time learned, Akane gains 7 dice rolls, starting at d12

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Blacksmithing/Metalworking
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: A character with the Blacksmithing Skill is capable of making simple tools and implements from iron and steel.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Use of this skill requires a forge with a coal-fed fire and bellows, as well as a hammer and anvil. The character cannot make Armour or most Weapons, (he needs the appropriate skill fort hat) but can craft crowbars, grappling hooks, horseshoes, nails, hinges, plows, and most other iron objects. The list above gives examples of Mastery Level and what the character can do. Look in Task Skills thread found in the Skills and Traits Index for more information. Each time learned user gets 5 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

0 sp

0/5

Akane ran to the bellows, pumping furiously as the blacksmith bellowed at her that he needed his forge properly hot. She was beguining to regret this apprenticeship, the blacksmith doing little but shout at her to do things that she wasn’t understanding. At another cacophany from the huge man, she grabbed a special metal plate and brought it to him and he lined up one of the rods he had been heating. Doing something she missed, he was soon pulling out a long line of wire that he coiled as it cooled. He wiped his brow with a large arm and scowled at her.

“Now, did you see the look of the fire for heating those rods?” He asked, nodding at the forge that was somewhat cooler than it had been when she was pumping the bellows for more air. “Thats the look you’re gonna need for heating iron. Its hot as hell, but nothing so bad as tungstan. But we dont work much with that here.”

Akane gaped at him, realizing that, in his loud, rude way he had been teaching her. And she had expected to sit at a desk and watch! He caught her expression with a shake of his head.

“Look girl, for the most part book learning ain’t gonna do you much good here. You need to be in the thick of it,” He chided her, his voice dropping as the roar of the flames faded further, “When you’ve got some basics, I’ll be putting you to work, dont you doubt it.”

Akane nodded slowly, glancing back at the tools she had gathered, remembering what the fire had looked like.

“Can… can we make another spool of wire?” She asked, sounding much more interested than she had at their start earlier that day. The blacksmith nodded at the forge.

“That look hot enough to you?”

Akane got to work.