Sandy Stone Training [Training]

[Ranzu]

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Needed TP: 0/20
Suna Bakuhatsu no Jutsu (Sand Explosion Technique)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A technique that allows the user to take a small amount of sand to form the size of a ball that fits the palm of their hand. The user is capable of using the sand and allow the sand to move in the air. The explosion is mostly used for a distraction but is strong enough to distract opponents.
Special: "Hand Seals"
Drawback: Does not create a strong explosion, just strong enough to harm an opponent someone to stop them.
Description: The sand spreads out exploding outwards in all directions. The sand pushes forth being confined with the very chakra to where when it explodes outwards the sand is strong like glass. This technique cuts and slashes opponents if they are to close. In better terms the technique is more like a small grenade to where shrapnel spreads out in all directions.
Limit: Must have the Sand Release.

Brittle leaves crunched under the uncaring foot of Zeki as he entered a small clearing in the forest. The Sadojin had scouted out the clearing a few days ago and found it a ideal place to practice some jutsu, and he even thought up something to try out on the way to the clearing. He stopped at the center of the clearing before looking around at all the nearby trees and one just a few meters away catches his eye. He kneels down and scoops up a handful of dirt before straightening back up, all the while the dirt in his hand was quickly turning into a handful of sand. Zeki then begins to focus his chakra into the handful of sand, making sure to soak the sand evenly. Once he was sure that the handful of sand was soaked in enough chakra, he wound up his arm and launched the sand at the tree.

Zeki carefully watched the sand as it left his hand through both visual contact and through his sand manipulation technique. The blob of sand seemed to be holding together well, too well actually as the Sadojin noted as not a single grain of sand fell from the mass. When the sand finally impacted against the tree there was a muted boom and the sand flew apart in a instant. Zeki walked over to the tree to examine the damage done but only found disappointing results: the only visible damage done to the tree was a couple of darken scorch marks and the sand that he threw was scattered around the impact area to have really been apart of the detonation.

Zeki kneel down to examine the results in even more detail while mumbling to himself, "Chakra was not the problem, if anything there was too much chakra. It became the center of the jutsu and the effects are...lack luster. The sand should be both the vessel for the chakra and part of the detonation, not just one or the the other. Then maybe spreading the chakra more evenly would help but how? Shaping the sand may help. Yes...it would give the vessel more structure and allow the chakra to spread evenly throughout. That alone would decrease the chakra drain which means I just need to find a shape that allows the sand to be part of the detonation."

Zeki straightened up and begin to head back to his original spot in the middle of the clearing, all the while thinking up possible shapes that would be most effective in his new jutsu. Once there he gathers another handful of sand and starts to form it into shapes while infusing it with a decent amount of chakra. However this proves harder than the Sadojin first thought it would be as the influx of chakra caused the sand to want to naturally contort around the greater and lesser concentrations of chakra. So Zeki spent the next few minutes spreading out the chakra, smoothing it throughout the handful of sand so it would not become misshapen in mid flight. Finally managing to spread the chakra out evenly while keeping the sand from shifting too much, he returned his full attention to the sand only to realize that it had naturally taken the form of a, albeit very rough, ball. Interest peaked at this seemingly naturally occurring shape the sand had taken, Zeki let the chakra in the sand be released before repeating the process once again and again. And each time the sand kept forming into a ball in his hand, and with each passing attempt the ball of sand grew closer and closer to a more prefect spherical shape.

[Ranzu]

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Needed TP: 0/20 Post 2/2
Suna Bakuhatsu no Jutsu (Sand Explosion Technique)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A technique that allows the user to take a small amount of sand to form the size of a ball that fits the palm of their hand. The user is capable of using the sand and allow the sand to move in the air. The explosion is mostly used for a distraction but is strong enough to distract opponents.
Special: "Hand Seals"
Drawback: Does not create a strong explosion, just strong enough to harm an opponent someone to stop them.
Description: The sand spreads out exploding outwards in all directions. The sand pushes forth being confined with the very chakra to where when it explodes outwards the sand is strong like glass. This technique cuts and slashes opponents if they are to close. In better terms the technique is more like a small grenade to where shrapnel spreads out in all directions.
Limit: Must have the Sand Release.

Zeki stayed in the clearing for what felt like hours, constantly forming, dissolving, and then reforming the ball of sand in his palm. With each new form the ball become more spherical, more stable and the Stone Shinobi came that much closer to his goal of figuring out the jutsu. Finally, after a particularly difficult forming, Zeki held up a near perfect sphere in the palm of his right hand. He started to gently probe the sphere with his left hand while examining the inside of the sphere through his use of sand manipulation. He found no imperfections on the outside of the sphere and on the inside of the sphere he discovered the sand to be subtly shifting around, moving from high chakra area to low chakra areas. "Self regulating the chakra to keep it stable huh? Should help it in flight. Don't know how it would effect the detonation though. Now, lets test this out against the tree again." He says to himself before focusing his attention back onto said tree.

Zeki winds his arm back before launching the ball forward all the while keeping his attention, both through vision and sand manipulation, on the ball. No sand fell from the ball and the sand was still regulating the chakra while the ball was in mid-flight, so there was no problems there. Soon the sphere of sand was almost at the tree, then impact, then a bigger explosions than before happened! Excited at the progress he had made, the Sadojin quickly moved forward to examine the tree. What he saw quickly brought down his spirits though as the tree held only minimal damage once more: a few darker scorch marks, a few missing pieces of bark, and a light coating of sand.

The Sadojin went back to his spot, anger seeping into his walk, before forming another ball of sand and quickly launching it at the tree once again. A similar explosion like the last  and the Sadojin knew without even looking that there would not any improvement in the damage the ball had inflicted. Once again anger entered Zeki and he began to form orb after orb of sand, flinging each one at the tree only to have it preform the mild explosion as the ones before. Even as he grew more tired from every orb he only grew faster in his forming and slinging with each failure that he threw. He grew so angry, so frustrated at the failing jutsu that he made a mistake: he formed a ball too fast and with too much chakra that it destabilized which caused it to explode in the palm of his hand!

But what surprised the Sadojin was the damage done to him. As his right arm and most of his head slowly reforms from nearby sand, he went over what exactly happened in his mind. And then it hit him: The orb's chakra was uneven, probably focused near the outside of the orb, and when he kept adding more chakra to the orb it had burst open with powerful force and the sand that made it flew out like they were shards of glass! After his body was finished reforming, Zeki formed one last orb, took aim at the tree, and sent it rocketing towards it. However as the orb was just about to impact on the tree Zeki sent a burst of chakra through the orb via sand manipulation and sure enough it exploded like the one before it! Zeki breathed a sigh of relief, or at least acted like he did, as he walked over to the tree to examine the damage. Sure enough it looked like a small grenade had gone off only a couple of feet from the tree, bark was stripped from the tree's side almost completely and there were deep gouges dug into the wood beneath. Zeki just smiles at the damage before nodding his head in satisfaction and heading back to the center of the clearing.

[Celaena Kamyuja]

Eh Twenty

[Ranzu]

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Learning skills. Going to make a batch of posts. Don't know how this really works? So sorry if I mess it up.

Anyways, I got a trait to help out:

Without a Past (Freebie)
Rank: "C"
Skill: Trait
Effect: User knew they were going into a world where none go unscathed, and there is no turning back, so they decided to forsake their past in order to protect their loved ones.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User knew they were going into a world where none go unscathed, and there is no turning back, so they decided to forsake their past in order to protect their loved ones. They have no old friends or family to go in times of need, yet at least they remain safe from the enemies finding and taking their wrath out on them. User gains a +5 trait bonus to Forgery, and Language skill checks when used to forge documents. User gain a +1 per die roll when learning a Language Skill. This trait replaces 1 of the 5 Freebies.
Limit: Must start with Character; replaces 1 of 5 Freebies.

And the language I am going to learn first:

TP needed: 0/10
Draconic
Rank: "D"
Skill: Skill
Effect: A language spoken by Dragons and Reptilian Humanoids.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: It is believed that Draconic is among the oldest, if not the oldest language of the world. Because of this, nearly all other languages can trace some roots back to this primordial tongue. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

Zeki nodded to himself, happy from finishing the jutsu he thought of on the way to the clearing. Then he remembered why he originally came to the clearing in the first place and proceeded to the edge of the clearing where he had left a clearly overfilled satchel on the ground. Rummaging through the bag got Zeki one of the books he was looking for, "How to learn Draconic for dummies". Heading back into the middle of the clearing to get the most sunlight, Zeki settles down on the ground before opening the book and began reading.

And was instantly confused by the sheer complexity of the language before him. He read the introduction and then the entire first chapter, scratched his head, read them all again and was still confused by the simple phrases the first chapter gives. It didn't help that their alphabet had a few double letters in it for some reason, no those were very unhelpful. "And these symbols just look like a bunch of claw marks for some reason. Ugh, I think the Ah symbol is actually a claw mark! It is! What is up with this language?!"

The Sadojin recovered from the brief shock within a few seconds, reorganizing his wits before diving back into the book as to learn the language even more. It was true the language was quite complex and the alphabet was quite clunky when put in the written word thanks to the way it was, well, written. Or in this case clawed into the very stone instead of chiseled. However the grammar seem to be based on the Common language so it was not that hard to switch over the meaning of the words. "Oh, I guess it is the opposite. Common must be based off this ancient language. Yeah, I can see that now. This seems a bit rougher when comparing grammar yet at the same time there are so many ways to say the same word. I mean, how many ways do I need to say hello to someone?" Zeki mumbles to himself as he reads over the book.

It was not all bad though. There were quite a few words in the language that had no Common equivalent which was exciting to learn. And the language itself felt old and, well, powerful even when just reading it. The few times he tried to pronounce the words given to him by the book just felt right to him. As if this was the true language of the world, the one tha-

Zeki shook his head. His thoughts had become clouded as he read the book. Probably just got too absorbed into the reading. At least he hoped that was the case. Regardless he returned his attention back to the book. "Ah-ok. No, Ah-nok. Ah-nok. Ahn-ok. Ahnok. There we go. Ahnok. Hello." The word for hello in the draconic language was not hard to pronounce but it was still a bit harder than he thought. His hand reached up to his throat as Zeki wondered how sore his vocal cords would have been after he got through this training if he actually had any.

[Ranzu]

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Learning skills. Going to make a batch of posts. Don't know how this really works? So sorry if I mess it up.

Anyways, I got a trait to help out:

Without a Past (Freebie)
Rank: "C"
Skill: Trait
Effect: User knew they were going into a world where none go unscathed, and there is no turning back, so they decided to forsake their past in order to protect their loved ones.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User knew they were going into a world where none go unscathed, and there is no turning back, so they decided to forsake their past in order to protect their loved ones. They have no old friends or family to go in times of need, yet at least they remain safe from the enemies finding and taking their wrath out on them. User gains a +5 trait bonus to Forgery, and Language skill checks when used to forge documents. User gain a +1 per die roll when learning a Language Skill. This trait replaces 1 of the 5 Freebies.
Limit: Must start with Character; replaces 1 of 5 Freebies.

And the language I am going to learn first:

TP needed: 0/10
Draconic
Rank: "D"
Skill: Skill
Effect: A language spoken by Dragons and Reptilian Humanoids.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: It is believed that Draconic is among the oldest, if not the oldest language of the world. Because of this, nearly all other languages can trace some roots back to this primordial tongue. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

"Morokei Paar? I need morokei paar to learn this langauge? I don't understand why this phrase in this part of the book would even be written in the draconic language! I have not even got to the part that teaches these words yet! I haven't even learn half of the twenty eight ways to just say hello to someone! Why is this language so complicated!?!" Zeki shouts towards the sky in frustration!

He stayed in that pose, eyes closed as they looked up towards the seemingly uncaring sky, for a few minutes as he basked in the sunlight. He was not lying when he announced to the heavens that this language was hard to learn and it had taken it's toll on the Sadojin. The worst part was a very painful headache he had recently acquired after he went over a extremely difficult syntax problem, at least it was to him. Of course just putting more than two words together was pretty much a huge hurdle for him at this stage of learning.

"So this word needs to go before this word in order for it to be...present tense? No, something else. Why does the book keep referencing using your very essence in speaking the language? It is so weird. Maybe it is talking about different tones? This is going to be such a headache if the tone you speak the sentence in denotes the tense that it is in." Zeki mumbles absent-minded as he moves on to the next section within the book, but quickly got fed up with the section.

The Sadojin gets up off the ground and takes a walk around the clearing to help clear his head. During the walk he broke the problems he was having with the section into parts and focused on one part at a time. First he needed to figure out what the section was trying to teach him, then do some exercises from the back of the book while focusing solely on what the section is trying to teach him, then come back to the section and look through it again with the new knowledge. If that fails then it was back to the library for a a copy of "The Dummies' Guide on How to Learn from: How to Learn Draconic for Dummies". Zeki finishes up his walk and returned to the book with a plan, even if it was a vague one, and started to pour over the section once more.

[Ranzu]

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Learning skills. Going to make a batch of posts. Don't know how this really works? So sorry if I mess it up.

Anyways, I got a trait to help out:

Without a Past (Freebie)
Rank: "C"
Skill: Trait
Effect: User knew they were going into a world where none go unscathed, and there is no turning back, so they decided to forsake their past in order to protect their loved ones.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User knew they were going into a world where none go unscathed, and there is no turning back, so they decided to forsake their past in order to protect their loved ones. They have no old friends or family to go in times of need, yet at least they remain safe from the enemies finding and taking their wrath out on them. User gains a +5 trait bonus to Forgery, and Language skill checks when used to forge documents. User gain a +1 per die roll when learning a Language Skill. This trait replaces 1 of the 5 Freebies.
Limit: Must start with Character; replaces 1 of 5 Freebies.

And the language I am going to learn first:

TP needed: 0/10
Draconic
Rank: "D"
Skill: Skill
Effect: A language spoken by Dragons and Reptilian Humanoids.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: It is believed that Draconic is among the oldest, if not the oldest language of the world. Because of this, nearly all other languages can trace some roots back to this primordial tongue. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

"Mindah. .. do tinvok. .. .is suleyk? Huh. So knowledge is strength? No, that is," Zeki takes this time to go to the back of the book to look up the word in question. Once he had finished looking it up and doubled checked that it was indeed the right word, he went back to translating the sentence, "power. Knowledge is power. Knowledge of blank is power. Hrm. Language! Knowledge of language is power! Ha!"

Zeki pumped his fist in the air at the latest milestone reached in this long, long journey of language learning. It had been a hard journey so far and was probably only going to get harder as he went but the past hour the Sadojin felt as if Draconic has finally clicked into place in his mind. Sure, he still struggled on the grammar and syntax of the language and there was a lot of words that he still needed to learn but it was getting easier. The headache slowly receded into a dull throb in the back of his mind which made his mind felt as if a heavy weight had been lifted off of it.

The Sadojin turned the page and started on another series of exercises in the next section. This one had a few more words to learn and a few common phrases that used the words to decipher. Nothing too hard which was a minor relief to the Sadojin but it was not fast work either. He took his time learning the new words, committing them to memory as best as he could, and then began to figure out the phrases. Luckily the book was going easy on him this time as most of the phrases used a good chunk of words from the previous sections, which allowed him to breeze through this part of the section. Comparably at least, as it still took a better part of a hour before he was finished.

"Hrm, now all I have to do is two more sections and then I can start on chapter two. Whoever made up this language was insane. Or sadistic. Probably both." Zeki grumbles to himself as he moves to the next section and finds it spikes in difficulty once again. He groans before diving back into the work, praying that the headache stays away for a few more sections at least.

[Ranzu]

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Learning skills. Going to make a batch of posts. Don't know how this really works? So sorry if I mess it up.

Anyways, I got a trait to help out:

Without a Past (Freebie)
Rank: "C"
Skill: Trait
Effect: User knew they were going into a world where none go unscathed, and there is no turning back, so they decided to forsake their past in order to protect their loved ones.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User knew they were going into a world where none go unscathed, and there is no turning back, so they decided to forsake their past in order to protect their loved ones. They have no old friends or family to go in times of need, yet at least they remain safe from the enemies finding and taking their wrath out on them. User gains a +5 trait bonus to Forgery, and Language skill checks when used to forge documents. User gain a +1 per die roll when learning a Language Skill. This trait replaces 1 of the 5 Freebies.
Limit: Must start with Character; replaces 1 of 5 Freebies.

And the language I am going to learn first:

TP needed: 0/10
Draconic
Rank: "D"
Skill: Skill
Effect: A language spoken by Dragons and Reptilian Humanoids.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: It is believed that Draconic is among the oldest, if not the oldest language of the world. Because of this, nearly all other languages can trace some roots back to this primordial tongue. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

The Sadojin stared at the passage in the book for a very long time, not moving a single inch not even twitching as he reread the sentence before him. The book had finally started him on smaller paragraphs two chapters ago but this passage covered half of the entire page. Luckily it was not just hard to understand sentences one after another but a mix of hard and easy ones which has allowed Zeki to make steady progress through it. Though it was not without it's own problems like the current one Zeki is stuck on: two sentences which he thought he could not be put together were which means he either mistranslated some part of them and they are sentences that do go together or that he missed some sort of special rule about combining the two sentences earlier in the book.

After a bit more time re-translating the two sentences as best as he could but still could not see any way the sentences could connect to each other. Zeki sighed as he marked the page he was on before turning to the back of the book and locating the extra exercises section. Finding the few pages dealing with the current chapter he was on, he searched for a similar looking paragraph as the one he was stuck on and began to translate. It was eerily similar in structure, so much so that Zeki was able to finish translating it within twenty minutes. And at the end he saw the same problem that he had ran into before.

"So this was not a translation problem, huh. Now I just have to reread all of the chapters up until the last one to find out the rule that I am missing." He grumbles to himself as he flips to the index of the book. Luckily he managed to spy a chapter that seem to focus on unusual rules of the language and quickly turned to that chapter. It was a early one, which was where he was struggling the most, so he most likely didn't really absorb the knowledge too well the first time.

Zeki rereads the chapter quickly, finding and then focusing on the section that pertains to the problem at hand. He carefully reads that part and by the end of it has to resist the urge to face palm. It was such a obvious rule now that he read it again, no wonder there was no mention of it in the paragraph's section! "Well, at least I can get past it now. Only a dozen or so more chapters left! Keep morale high and it will be a breeze!" he yells out loud while throwing his fist into the air. Zeki then turns his attention back to the book in order to finish translating the rest of the chapter.

[Aimi Kaguya]

+10 TP and +12 SP, Drus gon hin dovah vun!

EDIT: Regrading because I dun goofed and didn't see that this skill was trained in bulk. The above grade is voided. New grade:

+40 TP and 21 SP. Gon hi hin dovahzul

Edit by Tie: Actually it's 25 SP due to the trait giving +1 per roll.

[Ranzu]

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TP needed: 0/10
Draconic
Rank: "D"
Skill: Skill
Effect: A language spoken by Dragons and Reptilian Humanoids.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: It is believed that Draconic is among the oldest, if not the oldest language of the world. Because of this, nearly all other languages can trace some roots back to this primordial tongue. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

trained 4 times, 25 skill points.
+1 skill point per die roll via Without a Past trait.

Zeki turned the page of the book before him, another text on the draconic language. This issue of the book was slightly more advance then the other one he was using which was fine to the Sadojin. The draconic language was hard to learn thanks to it being both complex and yet simple. Many of the words in the language were generalist in purpose as that they cover a broad range of meanings which caused the language to have a lot less specific words for certain things. Yet the sentence structure and overall grammar was quite complex while giving the more generalist words a narrower meaning when in sentence form.

Zeki sighed as he finished reading the page he was one which mostly consisted of a list of common words and the their meanings when used in certain sentences. The language gave off the vibe of being very old while not adapting to the new ages yet the grammar clearly shows that the beings that first spoke this language were very intelligent in order to shape the language this way. Of course the Sadojin was currently cursing the creator of this language under his breath thanks to how overly confusing and complex yet still be deceptively simple this language was. When he had finished studying the last book he thought that he had made some progress, thought he had put his foot through the doorway of learning this language. When he moved to this new book though? Oh, this new book slammed the door on Zeki's foot as hard as it could and told the Sadojin to try again when he actually learned some useful knowledge of the language.

So here Zeki was, going through the introduction section of the book to relearn the very basics of the draconic language. Luckily the previous book served as a sort of primer to this one so it was not as hard as just diving into the language with no idea what you are doing. Flipping the page to a excrise section, the Sadojin begins to put the words he learned in the previous into different sentences. It was not going to be a easy road learning this language, not at all.

[The Bearer of Bad News]

+10 Training Points

+12 Skill Points

Kos Pruza

[Ranzu]

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TP 0/5
Stealth
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: The user is skilled at avoiding detection, allowing the user to slip past foes or strike from an unseen position. This skill covers hiding and moving silently.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Action Needed: Usually None. Normally, the user makes a Stealth check as part of a movement, so it does not take a separate movement; however, using Stealth immediately after a Ranged attack (see Sniping) is a movement. User can hide, move silently, create a diversion to hide, hide behind creatures, and snipe. If the user has 25 Skill points in Stealth they may reduce the Stealth penalty from sniping by 25. If the user has 50 Skill points in Stealth; Stealth check penalties for moving quickly are halved including the ability unlocked at 25 Skill points, moving at full movements, reaching concealment after creating a distraction, and etc. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

Wind blew through the clearing with a cutting cold, causing the fallen leaves to rustle as they moved with the wind. A rabbit in the clearing stopped eating his leafy green meal to shiver a bit while his ears twitched, clearly on alert for any approaching predators. After a minute of this stiffened watch the animal went back to eating but was still clearly on alert for predators thanks to the stiffness of the animal. Zeki stood still on the edge of the clearing as he pondered how to approach the rabbit even further now.

The wind blew through the clearing once again and the Sadojin spotted his chance to move forward and took it, for while the sound of rustling leaves spooked the rabbit it also covered what little noise he did make as he approached the animal. It became a routine for Zeki, wait for the wind to blow and take a few steps forward before going completely still when the wind stopped blowing. Using this method he made it a few meters towards the rabbit before the animal suddenly spooked.

The rabbit instantly took off running out of the clearing, and while Zeki knew he could catch it if he tried that was not his intent. He had planned to sneak up on the rabbit without using any chakra, using just the skills he had learned. Clearly it was not enough and Zeki instantly knew how he messed up: he was so focused on the sound of his movements that the sadojin did not realize that he had left the shadows of the tree which meant he was much more visual. The rabbit clearly saw him as he left the shadows and spooked. Zeki took out a notepad, wrote down the lesson he learned here, and left the clearing in search of another animal to try and sneak up on because it seems that he had a lot to learn to be stealthy.

[Shallistera]

+5 TP, +10 SP

[Ranzu]

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TP 0/5
Stealth
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: The user is skilled at avoiding detection, allowing the user to slip past foes or strike from an unseen position. This skill covers hiding and moving silently.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Action Needed: Usually None. Normally, the user makes a Stealth check as part of a movement, so it does not take a separate movement; however, using Stealth immediately after a Ranged attack (see Sniping) is a movement. User can hide, move silently, create a diversion to hide, hide behind creatures, and snipe. If the user has 25 Skill points in Stealth they may reduce the Stealth penalty from sniping by 25. If the user has 50 Skill points in Stealth; Stealth check penalties for moving quickly are halved including the ability unlocked at 25 Skill points, moving at full movements, reaching concealment after creating a distraction, and etc. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

A couple of deer moved into the clearing now, clearly alert for predators from the way their ears were perked up and how often they looked around. The larger one of the two, the buck, kept watch on the surroundings while the smaller deer, the doe, started to graze on the grass. After a few seconds of grazing the doe suddenly shook her head in surprise and stared at the grass, spitting out what she had eaten. The buck came over to check on the doe and saw the other deer was now scratching at the ground with a hoof before he decided to graze for a bit too. However the buck spit out the grass he ate after the first bite like the doe, rearing up in surprise, it was clear the deer were not having a good day.

Zeki was also not having a good day. He had hatched a new plan to practicing stealth by imitating the grass in the clearing before attempting to catch whatever came near him. However the Sadojin didn't find out the flaw of the plan until much too late: he became drowsy if he stayed still for too long while basking in sunlight. So Zeki found him on the verge of conscious as he acted like the grass of the forest floor when suddenly he felt something literally walking all over him. He slowly became more alert from his drowsy state when all of a sudden he felt part of his very body being bitten into, losing much of the control over it when it became drenched with saliva. Zeki quickly reformed his body into the forest clearing with a startled shout as he assumed a defensive posture.

Then he received a cloven hoof to face as the buck came down from rearing in surprised, causing him to jump back in a attempt to create room! However he stopped when he noticed all it was were a couple of deer and for a few seconds all three stood in stunned silence before the deer scattered in fear. "Yeah, you best run! You freaking ate me! If I see you again I will turn you both into fur rugs!" Zeki yelled after them as they ran.

"Note to self, do not make ambushes that require you to stay in the sunlight for a prolong time. It sorta ruins the point of the ambush." Zeki mumbles to himself as he starts to plan his next stealth practicing session. After taking a quick nap of course.

[Ranzu]

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TP 0/5
Stealth
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: The user is skilled at avoiding detection, allowing the user to slip past foes or strike from an unseen position. This skill covers hiding and moving silently.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Action Needed: Usually None. Normally, the user makes a Stealth check as part of a movement, so it does not take a separate movement; however, using Stealth immediately after a Ranged attack (see Sniping) is a movement. User can hide, move silently, create a diversion to hide, hide behind creatures, and snipe. If the user has 25 Skill points in Stealth they may reduce the Stealth penalty from sniping by 25. If the user has 50 Skill points in Stealth; Stealth check penalties for moving quickly are halved including the ability unlocked at 25 Skill points, moving at full movements, reaching concealment after creating a distraction, and etc. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
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Deep within a forest was a raven whom pecked at some berries that were partially hidden in the underbrush. The raven had to dig through the tall grass and thorns to get to a berry and so was relying on his hearing in order to detect any predators nearby. However, unbeknownst to the feeding bird, something had already saw what the raven was doing and was taking advantage of it. Luckily for the raven, the sadojin that was creeping up on it was not looking for a meal but simply for training purposes.

Zeki had learned from his previous mistakes and used that knowledge in his current attempt at sneaking up on another living being. This wasn't a ambush while laying in the sunlight so he wasn't falling asleep, and he was being extra careful to stick to the shadows at all times. By following this knowledge he was almost at the raven, reaching out to touch the bird when all of a sudden a stick was snapped nearby on the opposite side of the bush. The raven was spooked and took off, leaving a dumbfounded sadojin and jungle cat looking at one another.

Zeki just sighed and reached to get his notepad, which also spooked the jungle cat into running off. He wrote in the notepad to be aware of the surroundings while in stealth for outside sources might make his target more alert.