Mito's Workshop! [T|O|C]

[Maui]

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Workplace, Basic
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Craftsman Room
Effect: A Crafting Room dedicated for all kinds of Crafting other than Blacksmithing/Metalworking.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Each workplace contains tools and equipment dedicated to a singular purpose, usually the application of a Specific Craft. For example, the user might build a carpenter's workshop, a distillery, or a technician area. Working in this Workplace gives a character no bonuses, nor penalties on any Craft pertaining to the Workplace. There may be up to 2 people working in this area.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 5,000 Ryo

A tiny log cabin that is only one stronghold slot large, Mito's workshop has almost no amenities for anything other than working. It sits away from the main area of the village, a few hundred meters of snowy trail away from the residential district. It is very tiny, all of the tools and working space has been organized as efficiently as possible to fit within the minuscule building. The house is almost entirely made of stacked up logs, with two windows per side and a glass-front door. As with most houses built to stand up to snowy weather, the roof has a high slant which allows the snow to fall off once it builds up too high. There is also a fireplace inside, just barely enough to warm the entire room when the fire is lit.

Mito has also managed to acquire a folding cot and some thick blankets, which can be deployed in the middle of the room if he needs to stay the night for whatever reason. Overall, this is a bare minimum establishment. It has everything one would need for woodworking, including every kind of table and hand tool one could feasibly ask for. It is here that Mito works, trains, and occasionally lives.

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-5,000 for the Component, if you please

[Maui]

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Isshi no Otoshina (String Entrapment)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A skill that allowed the user to entrap, trip, or interfere movement against the opponent.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A technique used to grasp hold, or trip opponents or objects. This technique is used to restrict movements and buy some time to escape or perform a more powerful attack. This technique is for support purposes. Depending on the user's ability to perform Chakra Ito (Chakra Strings) depends on the length of this technique.
Limit: Must be a Puppeteer. Must know Chakra Ito (Chakra Strings)

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Mito's parents had sent him a congratulatory letter the moment they heard about his graduation from the Snow Ninja Academy. Included with the letter was a decent amount of Ryo, which Mito promptly ran off to go spend. There was a workshop in town that he had been allowed to tinker around at while he was learning puppetry in the academy, and the owner had told him numerous times that he was free to buy the whole place if he wanted. It was more of a hassle to the owner than it was a source of profit, so he was eager to get rid of it. Of course, young Mito had no money whatsoever so he wasn't able to buy it. That was, until he opened the letter from his parents.

He ran like it was Christmas morning to the workshop, ryo in hand, and told the owner he would buy it right then and there. Without even a lick of hesitation, the previous owner produced the necessary paperwork, all pre-signed and filled out. With an enthusiastic flourish, Mito signed the crap out of that paper. As the door closed on the one place in the world he could officially call his own, Mito was all smiles. The very first thing he wanted to do was start building things, but it occurred to him that he was a ninja now, and it was his responsibility to start training further into his puppetry techniques to better serve the village. Besides, since he owned his own workshop now, he would have all the time in the world to practice building.

Going out into the cold, he took a moment to think about what he wanted to practice first. He felt he had a pretty solid handle on controlling Sahloknir, at least solid enough to be good for the time being. He had heard somewhere that it was possible for puppeteers to use their strings to slow their enemies down, and he figured that was a good place to start. First, he had to figure out how it was possible to attach the strings to things other than his puppet. In his experience, puppets were somehow specially designed to make it easier for the strings to attach, but it was conceivable that anything could be held onto them.

Therefore, he decided that he would start off his training by trying to shake the snow off of one of the short pine trees right outside of his workshop. Forming all ten strings on the ends of his fingers, he flung them outward and tried to attach them to various points on the wood. Since his puppet was made of a special kind of wood, he figured that a natural wood object would be a good starter. He could sense that the chakra strings didn't quite blend with the non-puppet wood at first, and almost all of them just sort of bounced right off.

It was a mostly automatic response for him to be able to attach strings to his puppet, since that was one of the first things he was taught when he started learning puppetry. This was the first time he had to really think about the strings and how they worked in a very long time. Taking a cautious approach, he formed just one string on the tip of his right index finger and walked directly up to the tree. Physically touching one of the branches, he concentrated on the single string and tried to force the chakra to seep into the pores of the wood and grip it there. After a few minutes of humming and hawing he felt it catch, and slowly started pulling his finger away, allowing more chakra into the string as he did so.

Once he got a few steps away, and had a string a meter or so long hanging on to the branch, he gave it a tug. A chunk of the bark ripped right off and plopped unceremoniously in the snow. Mito, however, kept the string attached and started tugging on it, dragging it through the snow and tossing it around like a puppy with a new toy. Feeling inspired, he let go of the bark chunk and moved back to the tree, where he put his index finger on the trunk itself and attached yet another string to it. This time, it was faster and easier than the first time, and with another swift tug pulled off more bark. Since he could do this consistently now, he decided after another brief play session to move on to something more complicated.

[Maui]

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Feeling like he had only just scratched the surface, Mito returned to the tree and pressed two fingers against the bark. He concentrated his chakra strings into the very tips of these two fingers and attempted to push the chakra into the pores of the wood. Puppet wood should have been more difficult to grasp on to, since it was so refined and worked into shape it wasn't anywhere near as porous as the raw wood of the tree. That being said, it wasn't as easy as he expected it to be. Getting the one string to attach to the bark had taken him a good bit of concentration, which was surprising given how he can attach strings to Sahloknir without really thinking about it.

However, as he pushed the chakra into the deep and wide pores of the natural wood, he tried to figure out what the difference was. With a push, the chakra expanded and pressed against the pores as much as he felt he could make it. Slowly, deliberately, he tried to maintain that chakra pressure while pulling his fingers away and letting the actual string take shape. His tongue stuck involuntarily out of the side of his mouth as his face screwed into a concentrated scowl, putting all of his effort into this very simple task. Simple is not the same as easy, his puppeteer masters had told him again and again, and he could tell now that this exact situation is what they had been talking about. After what felt like minutes, he managed to get a good ten meters worth of chakra strings coming from his index and middle fingers of his right hand connected to the tree.

With a sharp tug, he was expecting to find a bigger chunk of bark ripped from the tree. Instead, he found the chakra strings popped right out, as if they had no grip at all. Something was missing, something that was probably right in front of his face that he couldn't quite put his finger on. After some thought, he decided to do a comparison test so he could figure out how a successful connection was supposed to feel, and go from there. Retrieving Saholknir, he threw his five strings at him and the six foot tall dragon came to life. He crawled on all fours through the snow, tail swaying behind him to counterbalance the weight of the head, leaving a deep gash in the fresh powder. Mito could feel that the strings that connected to the puppet did so relatively easily. It was as natural to him as picking up a tool, and he realized that he had never really thought about it before.

Thinking about it now for what was probably the first time ever, he tried to really understand what it was about the strings that made them connect to the puppet. It wasn't just jamming chakra into the pores, that much was obvious. If it was, then his idea earlier about the natural wood would have worked. It was something else, but what? It almost felt as if the chakra was tuned to the material of the puppet, in some way. Like, the chakra just attached to the bronzewood with of an almost magnetic sort of feel. Perhaps there was a certain kind of energy he could apply to the strings that would make them "magnetize", or however it worked, to different materials. It also occurred to him that because it was such an easy thing to attach them to the puppet, maybe he was actually over thinking when it came to attaching it to other things.

Filled with ideas and ready to give them a try, Mito flung five strings at the tree while still maintaining his connection to his puppet. There, he let them fall on various different parts of the tree without paying too much attention where. Then he tried to make the feeling of ease and magnetism match with what he felt from the puppet. It was a weird feeling, like playing a piano but doing a different song with each hand. The mental multi-tasking was rough on his ability to concentrate at first, but as he stood there in the snow wrestling with the different kinds of wood it slowly started to make more sense. The chakra strings coming from his left hand and attaching to the tree began to latch on, one-by-one, Some to the branches, others to the bark, one to the empty patch that he had ripped off earlier, and even one on the pine needles.

Holding on to this sensation, he gave a gentle, experimental pull on the tree and saw it shake just a little in response to the pressure he applied to it. Emboldened now, he started increasing the strength of his pull in rhythm with the swaying of the tree, like pulling on a swing in the park. With some careful rhythmic management, he managed to get the tree swinging pretty wildly and the snow actually started to fall off. His goal now within his reach, he let go of the puppet entirely and tried to sling his other strings onto the natural wood. Hearing a sound in his head not unlike a deflating balloon of expectations, all of his strings detached at once and faded into nothingness. Not to be discouraged, he knew that he had made a breakthrough on this whole string entrapment thing and just needed some further refinement. Just like he shaped and refined the things he built, so too would he shape and refine himself until he was as much of a masterpiece as Saholoknir.

[She of the Mighty Bow-Gun]

+22

-5000 ryo

[Maui]

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The small dynamics of his chakra strings were one of the hardest aspects of learning how to control his puppets in the first place. Mito had always been very technical-minded and was more enamored with the interior workings of the puppets than anything else. The usage of them was also of great interest, of course. Watching the professional puppeteers move the massive wood or metal beasts around as if they had a life of their own was to Mito way cooler than the elemental ninjutsu his peers had loved. Chakra was a very abstract substance, and very difficult to quantify. It took him more time to master the creation of the strings than it did to wield the puppet itself.

This same struggle plagued him now, as he tried to reexamine what he knew about his chakra strings to make them attach to something other than his stupid puppet. Flinging his chakra strings at the tree in the same fashion that he did when grabbing his puppet, he tried to copy his feat from just a moment ago. By concentrating less on trying to physically grab the material and more. . . magnetize to it, or something, he thought he could snag the various parts of the tree strong enough to move it. This was met with an unclear level of success, as some of the strings appeared to snag on, but others faded from existence for no apparent reason.

Taking this moment to do some experimentation, Mito walked over to the tree while his strings were still working and tried to discern the difference between those that worked and those that didn't. As expected, the strings that had landed on the wooden bits were the ones that stuck. Presumably, anything that hit a pine needle or snow had bounced. Which meant that either he had somehow pre-coded his chakra. . . magnet. . . thing to stick to wood, or he was grabbing the wood subconsciously because he was used to it. Whatever the cause, he needed his strings to learn to grab things other than wood or they would be useless.

Deciding then that the best way to accomplish this was to remove wood from the equation, he headed back into town and found a solid stone structure, completely devoid of exposed wood. These were relatively rare in Snow Village, but some of the older buildings still had plenty of exposed stone construction. Making sure no one else was around, he took to throwing his chakra strings at the stone building and trying to make them stick. Mostly, they just slid right off except for the ones that accidentally hit one of the wooden supports. After a couple of dozen tries, Mito had slowly realized that he had the power to forget about the wood programming, or whatever, and allow his strings to be more formless.

These new, formless chakra strings stuck straight to whatever they touched once Mito figured out how to send a surge through them on contact. Once he found he could stick them consistently to the stone, he moved on to somewhere that had a wooden fence nearby. With his right hand going toward the wood and his left at the stone, he tried his new method and found that his strings stuck to both at once without his having to concentrate on two different materials. That did it! He had figured out how to mold his chakra strings in such a way that they could stick to different materials. Of course, he didn't know how well he could pull this off under the pressure of battle, but for the moment he was too excited about having succeeded at this small thing to worry about it.

[Father 'Suke]

+8; learned

[Maui]

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Carpentry/Woodworking
Rank: "E" (5 TP at all times)
Skill: Skill
Effect: The Carpentry skills enables the character to do woodworking jobs: building houses, cabinetry, joinery, wooden puppet pieces, etc.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Tools and materials must be available, of course. The character can build basic items from experience without the need for plans. Unusual and more complicated items (a catapult, or puppet for example) require plans prepared by an engineer and may require a skill check. 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: ---

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With his chakra strings now able to grasp just about anything he needed them to, Mito escaped from the cold through his workshop. As his hands warmed before the glowing fire, he found his gaze drifting toward his tools and found himself with a huge desire to build something.

Before he knew it, he had taken up a piece of wood and was examining it carefully. One of the many things he distinctly lacked in this room was any kind of chair. As much as he didn't expect to spend too much time just sitting around, he would definitely want a stool or something to rest on while working on other projects. So, it was decided. Taking some of the scrap wood that he had inherited along with the entire workshop, Mito quickly devised a quick stool design. Round seat, four legs, cross-beam between each leg. Easy, not likely to get messed up, good practice. Begin.

First, he crafted the seat. There was a sufficiently thick piece of flat wood among the scraps, which Mito first cut down with a table saw to a little over a foot wide. Feeling like the square seat would be neither overly comfortable nor sufficiently artsy, he took it to the scroll saw and very, very carefully rounded out the edges. While he was aiming for a circle, he missed a little bit and just ended up with a rounded square. Scroll saws aren't typically very easy to free-hand, and since he forewent the entire designing portion of the process he was basically winging it. For a winged seat, Mito thought it turned out looking pretty good.

Setting the seat aside, he scrounged up a scrap piece long enough to split into four. Or, rather, he found two pieces that he could split in half. They was a little bit long for the saw setup he had going on, so he had to wrestle with it to get a sufficient angle on the first cut. With his right knee holding up one side of the wood, he stood on one leg and carefully pushed the end through the saw. Once this first leg was cut, he found that the second one was short enough to be handled and he got it cut relatively easily. Once he had four sections, he lined them all up next to each other and used a band saw to make sure they were all the exact same length. With four legs and a seat, a simple stool was well on it's way to coming alive.

This was hardly the most visually impressive little stool. In fact, it wasn't really very good at all. The cuts were straight and the material was good, but Mito definitely felt like he could have taken a bit more artistic license with it. With a few more swift cuts, he created supports to go between each of the legs and got to sanding. Sanding was always the most tedious process, but it was also the process with the most artistry. Maybe he'd take his chances putting some sort of carving on the side at some point, he thought. For now, he just put in the elbow grease and eventually had himself a smooth-looking stool that came up to about his waist. Something to sit on while he worked. Easy enough.

[Father 'Suke]

+5 TP
+34 SP
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Note: next time please put in that you know able learner, any time you do your skill training.

[Maui]

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Construction, Fortifications
Rank: "E" (5 TP at all times)
Skill: Skill
Effect: A character with this skill is able to construct fortresses and defensive earthen works.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A character with this skill is able to construct fortresses and defensive earthen works, as well as walls and castles. To put together or build a Component the user must purchase plans. Purchasing plans is half the price of the item's base cost (A base item that costs 10,000 Ryo will have plans that cost 5,000 Ryo. If an Item is rare (requires a die roll before finding said item) the die roll to purchase the plans is half than normal (Purchasing an item that has a 30% chance of finding will have a 15% chance of finding the plans to purchase). Look in the Artisan Index for more information. Each time learned user gets 2 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

3 rolls Able Learner
+1 per roll Dedicated Tradesman

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Mito had been loving on his new stool. Something to sit on definitely made the place just that much cozier. It was a little bit ramshackle, and he intended to improve it at some point, but something else was bothering him now: the size of his workshop. His puppet, Sahloknir, sat curled up in the corner looking like a wooden gargoyle and taking up more than its fair share of space. More than he needed space, Mito needed a forge. Blacksmithing was a skill he would need if he was to build new puppets and weapons. In order to smith metal he would need the right facilities. In order to gain the right facilities, he would need to teach himself how to craft buildings.

He didn't know quite how to build an entire building, so he decided he would start off small. Ducking into the snow outside with an armload of extra wood, Mito thought he'd build himself a basic frame and see how it went. First, he took four of the two-by-four planks that were more or less the same length and made a square with them on the ground. At each of the corners, he put a four-by-four and balanced it on end. With a handful of nails held between his lips and a hammer in his hand, he set about nailing the eight boards together. Almost the second he started, the beam he was working on fell over and scattered the entire apparatus. Not to be discouraged, Mito chased it to where it landed and pinned it down.

Keeping the four-by-four on its side, he put the two-by-four on top of it and held it there with his knee. Taking great care not to smash his slightly chilly fingers, he put a nail right in the middle of the intersection and hammered it in. Next, four more nails in an X pattern around the first and he had successfully combined two planks. What an accomplishment. Flipping the whole thing upward, he lined up the second two-by-four with the four-by-four and hammered that one in as well. Five nails, just like the first one. Repeating this same process six times, Mito eventually wound up with a wooden square that had a column coming out of each corner. A decent start, and if nothing else this most basic of structures was holding itself up. Maybe in a few years he would learn enough to make a real room.

[Tieren]

+5 TP Learned
+29 SP
29/125 SP

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