Senri Lightning Dojo. (Stronghold, Training, Open)

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雷道場

The Senri Lighting Dojo

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Location and background:

Nestled high on the edge of the massive caldera that overlooks Kumogakure lies the Senri Lightning Dojo. The Dojo is an ornate multiple room facility made specifically by Kyoudo Shiki Senri to help other kyoudo and lightning users develop their skills and abilities under his tutelage. Accepting ninja and non ninja alike the Dojo will open its doors to anyone willing to learn.

The building boasts a perfected smithy, Perfected alchemy station, Perfected workshop, lodging quarters and bathrooms for students who wish to live in the Dojo. There are servants who cook and clean and work to keep the massive compound usable by the students. The whole compound was built to be as close to the sky as possible to allow the students easy access to the storm clouds above. While living in the Dojo is not a requirement many choose to in order to focus on their studies. 

Surrounding the dojo, massive castle walls adorned by guard posts and sentry towers and snipers nests, the dojo itself is a literal fortress. Towering castle turrets shot up over the horizon peaking out of the cloudy caldera of Kumogakure. Deep blue banners with sigils of a direwolf and a raven hung from the castle walls. Large spires stretched out to the sky past the cloud line revealing the skies and heavens with no fear of acclimate weather. A waterfall poured from the top of the mountain through a channel into a lake below. 





Dojo Crafting Threads:
The Foundry
The Fires Of Hephaestus
The Mortar & Pestle

Other Dojo Training Threads: 
Sakurai Training Area
Inner Dojo Yard

The Entrance to the dojo



To get to the inner courtyard of the dojo there is a long flight of 1000 steps that one must climb to get to front door of the dojo. The steps are mostly ceremonial in nature and first year students are forbidden from entering or leaving the dojo except through the steps. Those that have earned their place may use one of the many pulley systems to pull themselves up the cliff face into the dojo itself. Supplies are brought up this way too or it would simply be unfeasible. 

After a new student successfully finds themselves at the top of the stairs they would eventually end up facing a massive dark iron door that was engraved with ornate runes and depictions of lightning. In common language above the door there is a steel engraving that simply read "Return With Honor" on both sides of the arches leading into the courtyard. While the doors can be opened with some moderate force. Anyone that has the kyoudo blood limit of any rank could move the massive doors effortlessly. This leads to the courtyard. 

The Entrance Courtyard 


A large open and spacious area used mostly for training is also one of the main connector points to the rest of the dojo. From here there are several places you could go depending on your cardinal direction. Directly to your right or westword direction after about 60 meters would be three massive walls that could be moved to enter the Dojo Master's Quarters. If you headed east you would end up towards the individual and group training rooms that were constantly being utilized by students.


The Dojo Masters Quarters:

The Dojo masters quarters are strictly off limits for all students unless they are summoned to the office by his will. The path to the office is blocked and held shut by 4 heavy steel barricades that are roughly 1 meter thick and can only be lifted with the power of a very powerful Kyoudo blood limit. Although more brutish tactics might break the doors down it would take nothing less then two consecutive S ranks of damage to break the doors down each. 

(Kyoudo Blood Limit Requirements to open the door. Must be able to work on 15 meters, have the ability to overcome 50% of the targets field in a round and must be able to effect 5 items simultaneously.)

Behind the doors leads to the dojo masters office. It is a rather plain room yet richly decorated. Books, scrolls, parchment and vellum from several ages all stacked and stored neatly in piles and in book shelves. Dark wood wardrobes filled with furs, clothing and rare and powerful relics that the dojo master had procured over his life. Trophies from the monster hunters life and relics of his battles fought covered the room.

Training Rooms:
The Dojo contains 30 training rooms.
Three of the rooms are communal training rooms that can seat about 30 people.


The remaining four training rooms are private rooms for individuals or small groups to practice.



Teleportation rooms:

-Teleportation circle created to the land of fang. Created ooc date of July 21st 2017. 

-Teleportation circle in front of the room to the land of fang. Created ooc date of July 21st 2017.



The Dojo Armory

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The Dojo armory has many weapons that can be freely taken and stored for use. The Kyoudo drawing in their sword culture from the now all but extinct Sakurai clan. The dojo master has chosen to make the Itosen Blade the cultural weapon of the dojo. While training is not mandatory with the weapon it is highly encouraged and its mastery has become a status symbol. The Lightning Dojo's mission is to learn anything and everything about the nature of lightning. Honoring the clan that once held the title of masters of lightning the ceremonial Itosen blades are free for students of the dojo.

(Please PM the Dojo master Snowflake should you wish to draw one.)


Itosen Dagekimi (Thread Wire Shock Sword) x9
Rank: C
Type: Main
Effect: A unique sword that cuts, slashes, and hacks with both the wire and the blade.
Special: --
Drawback: --
Description: The Itosen Dagekimi is a normal katana of average length and sharpness, but for a single exception: A razor sharp wire is wrapped around the katana, extending from the bottom of the hilt all the way to the tip of the blade. The blade is polished steel and the hilt is traditionally black with white trimmings. The wire is attached to the bottom of the hilt, and ends in an unattached, razor sharp point at the tip of the sword. The wire is five meters long at full extension.
Limit: Can only be purchased in Kumogakure.
Cost: 7,500 Ryo

Itosen Habanami (Thread Wire Spark Sword) x9
Rank: C
Type: Main
Effect: A unique short sword that cuts, slashes, and hacks with both the wire and the blade.
Special: --
Drawback: --
Description: The Itosen Dagekimi is a normal wakazashi of average length and sharpness, but for a single exception: A razor sharp wire is wrapped around the wakazashi, extending from the bottom of the hilt all the way to the tip of the blade. The blade is polished steel and the hilt is traditionally black with white trimmings. The wire is attached to the bottom of the hilt, and ends in an unattached, razor sharp point at the tip of the sword. The wire is three meters long at full extension.
Limit: Can only be purchased in Kumogakure.
Cost: 6,000 Ryo

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Over time other students and the dojo master come across gear or perhaps even make it themselves. Should you like to donate an item or take one please get in contact with the Dojo master to leave something for your fellow students. Ridiculous requests will be turned down should the request be simply unreasonable. 

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Bokken Tachi - Chestnut (Katana)
Rank: "D"
Type: Main, Bludgeoning, Sword
Effect: A weapon with a long wood blade and a hilt with a hand guard.
Special: Hardness: 6; Armour Points/Inch: 10; Armour Class: -2
Gem Slot # 1: Empty; Gem Slot #2: Empty: Gem Slot #3: Empty
Drawback: ---
Description: A One-Handed Weapon. These weapons do +8 Amour Points of Damage. A longsword (also spelled long sword, long-sword) is a type of sword characterized as having a cruciform hilt with a grip for two handed use and a straight double-edged blade of around 100–122 cm (39–48 in). The longsword is characterised not so much by a longer blade, but by a longer grip, which indicates a weapon designed for 2-handed use or 1-handed use. These Bokken are Japanese wooden swords used for training. It is usually the size and shape of a katana, but is sometimes shaped like other swords, such as the wakizashi and tantō. Some ornamental bokken are decorated with mother-of-pearl work and elaborate carvings. While its use has several advantages over use of a live edged weapon, it can still be deadly, and any training with a bokken should be done with due care. Injuries occurring from bokken are very similar to those caused by clubs and similar battering weapons and include compound fractures, ruptured organs, and other such blunt force injuries. In some ways, a bokken can be more dangerous as the injuries caused are often unseen and inexperienced practitioners may underestimate the risk of harm. It is not a sparring weapon, but is intended to be used in kata and to acclimate the student to the feel of a real sword.
Limit: Custom Made by Ryutatsu Kyoudo ('Little Wolf')
Cost: 1,000 Ryo

Aeroglass Katanas (Advanced) x2
Rank: "B"
Type: Main, Slashing, Sword
Effect: A weapon with a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard.
Special: made of Special material allowing armour to float, and a user to strike +1 extra time for 1 movement.
Drawback: ---
Description: A One-Handed Weapon. These weapons do +16 Amour Points of Damage. A longsword (also spelled long sword, long-sword) is a type of sword characterized as having a cruciform hilt with a grip for two handed use and a straight double-edged blade of around 100–122 cm (39–48 in). The longsword is characterised not so much by a longer blade, but by a longer grip, which indicates a weapon designed for2-handed use or 1-handed use. Examples of Longswords: Katana, Jian, Tachi, Scimitr, Shinai, and Waster.
Description: Identification: Average; Hardness: 7; Armour Points/Inch: 12; Armour Class: -4. Aeroglass is a light, strong glass containing small amounts of adamantine and numerous minute air bubbles. It is sometimes found as slag floating on top of lava in active volcanoes. Not as strong as steel per unit volume, it has hardness 7 and 12 Armour Points per inch of thickness; an equivalent volume of aeroglass weighs only 1/5 as much as steel. Weapons made of aeroglass are always masterwork. Due to their light weight, they gain an additional +1 additional attack in 1 movement per round while using a weapon made of Aeroglass, though this bonus does not stack with any enchantment bonus. Aeroglass armour needs to be thicker in order to provide the same protection as normal Armour, so gives no special benefits. However, since it floats, adventurers sometimes wear armour of this substance.
Limit: Crafted by Ryutatsu 'Little Wolf'
Cost: 47,250 Ryo

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Strong hold components:

The construction of the Dojo took months. Movers, carpenters, craftsmen and wood workers managed and toiled in a frenzy of moving parts and intricate construction planning. The project was immense. Quarry men moving tons and tons of stone from the great mountains of the land of thunder directing mules laden with wagons full of stone to build sites. Craftsmen moving heavy yards of deep wood pulled from the surrounding forests. Artisans of all shapes styles and varieties labored away to make this jewel in the mountains. 

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Throne Room, Luxury
Rank: "S"
Type: Main, Room, 2 Stronghold Space, Room
Effect: A chamber, usually containing a throne, used by a sovereign for audiences.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Affordable only to the most puissant of emperors, queens, and absolute monarchs, this, the finest of assembly rooms, displays the ruler’s wealth, power, and dispensation for the sweet comforts in life. This chamber spares no expense in impressing the visitor, whether visiting ambassador, merchant with goods for sale, or the simplest commoner. The walls display a splash of colors that depict complementary themes of blue skies, splashing white-tipped and wave-filled oceans, white birds awing, and fish jumping into the air. Sparkling gems and precious metals adorn the enormous throne. Raised up on a dozen pink marble steps, the throne and its occupant gaze out on the chamber like an omnipotent ruler. This room holds up to thirty guests in addition to the throne’s occupant. Purchase this space multiple times for a larger area.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 800,000 Ryo

Alchemical Laboratory, Perfected
Rank: "S"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Alchemy Room
Effect: An advanced laboratory to help Alchemists create concoctions.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this laboratory, the alchemist has every tool they may need at their ready disposal. This includes the things described in Alchemical Laboratory, Basic, plus an even broader of tools. The walls of this place is covered with blackboards upon which all sorts of obscure notes can be scrawled. The floor is made of rough tile, all the easier to clean chemical spills off while not being too slick to cause slips in such situations. The room includes four basins, each which has a barrel (Barrel, Large (Overview)) of water suspended over it, complete with a tap to permit easy access at all times. An emergency barrel (Barrel, Large (Overview)) mounted on a hinged platform can be tilted to pour water over a person in case of emergency. A single Alchemist using this laboratory and having its resources all to himself receives a +100 circumstance bonus to their Alchemy. Alternatively, up to 4 alchemists can share this space at the same time, and they each receive a +80 circumstance bonus on their Alchemy skill.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 130,000 Ryo

Workplace, Perfected
Rank: "S"
Type: Main, Room, 3 Stronghold Space, Workplace Room
Effect: A Crafting Room dedicated for all kinds of Crafting other than Blacksmithing/Metalworking.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This area resembles the basic workplace, but it has finer tools and equipment. When using the area for the appropriate purpose, it grants a +80 circumstance bonus on appropriate skills checks. There may be up to 6 people working in this area.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 130,000 Ryo

Auditorium, Luxury
Rank: "S"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Room
Effect: The part of a theater, concert hall, or other public building in which the audience sits.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A luxury auditorium offers plush and cushioned seating for the audience, and a stage that can be moved or adjusted as necessary for performance of theater, orchestra, or choir. Perform checks in this space receive a +10 circumstance bonus. Up to 30 people can fit in here for a service. If you need a greater capacity, purchase this component multiple times.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 100,000 Ryo

Training Area, Combat
Rank: "S"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Training Room
Effect: A room to train in the art of Combat.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This open area allows guards and soldiers to train in the art of war. It has a rack of wooden weapons and padded armor, archery targets, and practice dummies. Training in these areas grant the user a Circumstance Bonus +1 additional TP per post. Up to eight people can train in such a place at once. If you need a greater capacity, you can purchase this component multiple times.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 100,000 Ryo

Training Area, Rogue
Rank: "S"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Training Room
Effect: A room to train in the art of thievery.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This area allows rogues to practice their skills of theft and breaking and entering. Padded dummies lined with powder, bells, or blades hang from the ceiling or on ropes and pulleys, allowing rogues to practice picking pockets and balancing in unusual positions. Dozens of locks of various quality levels are forged into the wall. Walls of various difficulty allow climbing practice as well. Training in these areas grant the user a +1 Circumstance Bonus per Die Roll when learning the skills Lockpick, Pick Pocket, and Sleight of Hand. Up to eight people can train in such a place at once. If you need a greater capacity, you can purchase this component multiple times.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 100,000 Ryo

Chakra Sage's Study
Rank: "S"
Type: Main, Room, 2 Stronghold Space, Laboratory
Effect: A special room used to increase the power of Jutsus.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Nothing in the mlutiverse is stranger or more dangerous than the study of a dyed-in-the-wool Chakra User. Oddities adorn every murky wooden shelf, from a relatively-usual human skull to a planar vortex in a jar or a preening psuedo dragon atop a bookcase. The air reeks of Chakra of a specific type. Choose "Basic Releases", "Advanced Release", "Illusion GenJutsu", or "Enchantment GenJutsu". While present within this expansion itself, the owners of this structure and their allies perform all Jutsus of this Chosen category as if the Jutsu was 1 Class Higher. May be built as an Interrogation Chamber.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 60,000 Ryo

Alchemical Laboratory, Perfected
Rank: "S"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Alchemy Room
Effect: An advanced laboratory to help Alchemists create concoctions.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this laboratory, the alchemist has every tool they may need at their ready disposal. This includes the things described in Alchemical Laboratory, Basic, plus an even broader of tools. The walls of this place is covered with blackboards upon which all sorts of obscure notes can be scrawled. The floor is made of rough tile, all the easier to clean chemical spills off while not being too slick to cause slips in such situations. The room includes four basins, each which has a barrel (Barrel, Large (Overview)) of water suspended over it, complete with a tap to permit easy access at all times. An emergency barrel (Barrel, Large (Overview)) mounted on a hinged platform can be tilted to pour water over a person in case of emergency. A single Alchemist using this laboratory and having its resources all to himself receives a +100 circumstance bonus to their Alchemy. Alternatively, up to 4 alchemists can share this space at the same time, and they each receive a +80 circumstance bonus on their Alchemy skill.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 130,000 Ryo

Smithy, Perfected
Rank: "S"
Type: Main, Room, 3 Stronghold Space, Craftsman Room
Effect: A Crafting Room dedicated for all kinds of Blacksmithing/Metalworking.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Similar to the basic smithy, this area features a polished stone floor and marble-encased forge of the highest quality. Working in this smithy gives a character a +80 circumstance bonus on any Craft pertaining to Blacksmithing/Metalworking (Armour, Blacksmithing/Metalworking, etc.) checks. This area requires the services of a smith. There may be up to 6 people working in this area.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 130,000 Ryo

Dining Hall, Fancy x3
Rank: "S"
Type: Main, Room, 2 Stronghold Space, Room
Effect: A large room, typically in a school or other institution, in which people eat meals together.
Special: ---
Drawback: Must have purchased a Kitchen.
Description: This upscale version of the standard dining hall includes finely made tables surrounded with chairs instead of benches. The fireplace usually dominates the center of the room, the smoke drawn into a stony hood that goes into the ceiling. This provides a more even distribution of heat (and more equitable comfort level) in the room. The mural-covered walls depict local legends or the pantheon of deities respected by the owner. The floor is made of fine flagstones or polished wood. This seats 30 people comfortably. Purchase this component multiple times if you want a larger dining hall.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 120,000 Ryo

Courtyard, Luxury
Rank: "S"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Grounds
Effect: An unroofed area that is completely or mostly enclosed by the walls of a large building.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This well-appointed courtyard is paved entirely with smoothly cut flagstones. A massive fountain forms the centerpiece, in which water pours endlessly from a masterfully carved statue dedicated to the higher power of the builder’s choice. Statuary is placed tastefully throughout the area, and cushioned benches (usually of iron or fine wood trimmed with gold) are scattered about the place. At the builder’s option, such a courtyard can be roofed, although this should be at least 20 feet above the floor. The roof can be made of reinforced glass, wood, or whatever. Anyway, portions of the roof can be screwed open to let in fresh air and sunshine, or closed to keep out inclement weather. Purchase this component multiple times if you want a larger courtyard.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 300,000 Ryo

Study/Office, Luxury
Rank: "S"
Type: Main, Room, 1.5 Stronghold Space, Room
Effect: A study is a room in a house which is used for paperwork, computer work, or reading.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This room represents the ultimate in office luxury. A well-appointed waiting room features an exquisite couch and a polished wooden desk. The main office features another stuffed couch and a set of comfortable chairs arrayed around a marble topped desk. The walls are covered with fine art, including a portrait of the owner of the stronghold and any family he might have
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 150,000 Ryo

Study/Office, Fancy x4
Rank: "A"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Room
Effect: A study is a room in a house which is used for paperwork, computer work, or reading.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Much like the basic office/study, this room comes with furnishings of a higher quality. The floor is usually polished wood or smooth stone. The polished wood or stone-floored room includes a few upholstered chairs for visitors.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 25,000 Ryo

Chakra Laboratory, Fancy
Rank: "A"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Laboratory
Effect: Laboratory used for the study of Chakra and Rituals.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Similar but superior to the basic Chakra laboratory, this room has every tool the aspiring meddler in Chakra might need at his ready disposal. The walls of this place are covered with blackboards upon which all sorts of arcane or obscure notes can be scrawled. The rough tile floor allows easy cleaning while also preventing slips and falls. Four basins are in the place, each of which has a barrel of water suspended over it, complete with a tap to permit easy access. An emergency barrel mounted on a hinged platform can be tilted to pour water over a person in case of an emergency. A single user using this laboratory and having its resources all to himself receives a +20 circumstance bonus on Jutsu Lore Skill checks. Alternatively, up to 4 users can share this space at the same time and gain a +10 circumstance bonus on such checks.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.

Hangar/Garage, Turntable
Rank: "A"
Type: Main, Room, 2 Stronghold Space, Hangar
Effect: A room used to store transportation gadgets and keep them in pristine condition and turn them around.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This room to store transportation gadgets, usually situated at the edge of the building, with usually one door leading to the rest of the house and a large gate on the outer wall to allow the vehicle to enter and exit. Little to no furniture is present in this room due to its use to store transportation gadgets. To keep transportation gadgets in the optimal condition the room is heated but also equipped to funnel moisture away through proper ventilation. To store transportation gadgets large than the room or a multitude of them you can purchase this component multiple times. The floor of this component is reinforced, nicely polished and usually inlaid with large slabs of natural stone. A circle is traced around the centre of the room, which can turn like a giant turntable, saving the user the need and possibly arduous task of turning the vehicle inside the room himself or moving it in backwards.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 50,000 Ryo

Battle Ring
Rank: "B"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Training Room
Effect: A dusty ring of honor stands, lined with racks of weapons, as a test of mettle for those who enter. Win or lose, sparring teaches everyone a little something.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A dusty ring of honor stands, lined with racks of weapons, as a test of mettle for those who enter. Win or lose, sparring teaches everyone a little something. Those who spend at least an hour sparring or training here add 4 Armour Points to the damage of each of their attacks until their next long rest, end of an event, or end of a mission. May also be built as training grounds.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 20,000 Ryo

Library, Fancy x5
Rank: "A"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Library
Effect: A collection of manuscripts, publications, and other materials for reading, viewing, listening, study, or reference.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Fine polished shelves extend from this chamber’s tile or wooden floor to the ceiling above. Several ladders allow access to upper shelves. Several small tables scattered throughout the place allow researchers space to work. This library can hold up to three different lots of books on specific subjects. For example, it could contain books on religion, general knowledge, and the planes. The Books Component has prices and information for book lots. If you need a greater capacity, purchase this component multiple times.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 30,000 Ryo

Trophy Hall, Fancy x4
Rank: "S"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Room
Effect: A room for the keeping and exhibition of trophies.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: More like a museum than a storage area, this polished wood- or stone-floored chamber holds its trophies in glass cases. Engravings detail each piece and its history. If you need a greater capacity, you can purchase this component multiple times.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 60,000 Ryo

Armoury, Fancy x4
Rank: "B"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Room
Effect: A fancy armoury used to house equipment for 25 soldiers.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Murals and other artwork depicting the glories of war cover the walls of this armoury. As with the basic version, this area has sufficient armour and weapon racks to equip 25 soldiers (price does not include such equipment. 2 Main Weapons and 15 Slots of Secondary per Soldier). If you need a greater capacity, you can purchase this component multile times.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 20,000 Ryo

Storage, Fancy x5
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Room
Effect: A room in which things are stored.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This room includes shelves of every variety and a finished floor. The superior organization allows more efficient use of space than a basic storage component, so this space has about 3,000 cubic feet of usable storage space. If you need a greater capacity, you can purchase this component multiple times. You can turn a storage space into a vault.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 10,000 Ryo

Prison Cell
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Room, 0.5 Stronghold Space, Room
Effect: A cell in a prison, in which a prisoner is locked.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This cell includes iron shackles on the walls and hay mattresses strewn about. You can shackle up to six Medium-size prisoners in a communal cell. Alternatively, you can replace the communal cell with independent jail cells. In this arrangement, each prison cell component includes two to four small cells each capable of holding one or two Medium-size creatures. If you need a greater capacity, purchase this component multiple times. The standard prison cell comes with six sets of manacles with wretched locks capable of binding a Medium-size creature (May Purchase better Locks). A Small creature takes up half the space in a prison cell as a Medium-size creature. Manacles for Small creatures cost the same as for Medium-size creatures. Tiny and smaller creatures take up one-fourth the space, and their manacles cost 10 times normal. A Large creature takes up twice the space of a Medium-size creature, and a Huge creature four times the space. (Must Purchase Larger Manacles if needed). Generally, you can’t keep Gargantuan or larger creatures in a simple prison cell, though by buying enough components you could get a large enough space.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 5,000 Ryo

Torture Chamber x1
Rank: "A"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Room
Effect: A room in which torture is inflicted
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: All sorts of pain-inducing devices fill this dark chamber, including an iron maiden, a rack, thumbscrews, vises, and so on. Wall-mounted shackles allow the torturer to dangle victims from chains, and a lockable cage in the center can hold a single Medium-size prisoner between sessions. A fireplace allows heating of brands, while a barrel of water stands nearby for extinguishing flames.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 30,000 Ryo

Tavern, Fancy
Rank: "S"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Room
Effect: An establishment for the sale of beer and other drinks to be consumed on the premises, sometimes also serving food.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This place serves wine as well as liquor and beer from its polished, marble-topped bar. It can call on the stronghold’s kitchen for food; alternatively, you can attach an extra kitchen assigned purely to this component. The tables are round, with solid chairs, and there are a few booths lining the walls. The cost of this component does not include any food or drink. The tavern can seat up to 20 people. If you need a greater capacity, you can purchase this component multiple times.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 40,000 Ryo

Common Area, Fancy
Rank: "A"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Room
Effect: Describe a type of shared lounge, most often found in dormitories.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This room features polished stone or wood floors with comfortable benches. The walls bear impressive murals and sound-dampening curtains. It might serve as a waiting room, a general meeting area, or an all-purpose room. Purchase this component multiple times if you want a larger common area.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 30,000 Ryo

Kitchen, Basic x2
Rank: "B"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Craftsman Room
Effect: A room or area where food is prepared and cooked.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This rudimentary stone- or wood-floored kitchen centers around a fireplace or stove. It includes a pantry, in which basic foodstuffs are stacked on shelves or hung from the ceiling. The kitchen includes pots and pans made of tin (4 Jug (Overview)), 2 Large Pitcher (Overview)). A scullery provides storage for brooms and rags, along with a basin for washing dishes and laundry. You can prepare meals for up to 15 people in this space. In a pinch, you can avoid hiring a cook by preparing the meals yourself.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 20,000 Ryo

Barbican x5
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Room
Effect: This room sites atop a gate or gatehouse, usually in an exterior wall.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This room sites atop a gate or gatehouse, usually in an exterior wall. It features murder holes/arrow slits (included in the price) in the floor, through which the guards can attack those in the area below (little more than a hallway that usually includes a portcullis or sturdy door at each end).
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 10,000 Ryo

Guard Post x5
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Room, 0.5 Stronghold Space, Guard Post
Effect: A small building for the soldiers who are protecting a place.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This component allows guards to keep watch upon the surrounding environs. If part of the exterior wall, it includes free arrow slits instead of a window.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 5,000 Ryo

Bath, Basic x4
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Room, 0.5 Stronghold Space, Craftsman Room
Effect: A basic bathroom with simplistic accessories.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This standard, sparsely furnished room contains a simple wooden or metal tub and a chamber pot or two along with some rough wooden benches for seating.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 4,000 Ryo

Bedroom Suite, Basic x4
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Craftsman Room
Effect: A suite of furniture for the bedroom.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This master bedroom includes a walk-in closet and privy. The furnishings are rough, but they include a bed on a low frame, 2 chests of drawers (Keg, Large (Overview)) and a mirror hanging on one wall. The bedclothes are made of rough cotton, wool, or even burlap, and the blanket is often a patchwork quilt made of whatever was available. A couple of rough benches form a sitting area next to a small table.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 8,000 Ryo

Servants' Quarters x10
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Room
Effect: Servants' quarters are those parts of a building, traditionally in a private house, which contain the domestic offices and staff accommodation.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: These are basic, no-nonsense living quarters. Six slots exist in each such component, separated by thin walls that give the occupants some small semblance of privacy. Each slot has enough room for a bed, a chest of drawers (Keg, Medium (Overview)) with a small mirror atop it, a small table, and a chair. The furnishing and flooring are all rough but serviceable. Personal decorations hang from the walls. This component includes a privy, though it need not be attached or adjacent to the servants’ quarters. If you need a greater capacity, purchase this component multiple times. For especially important servants such as a butler, it’s appropriate to put them in a basic bedroom or even a basic bedroom suite.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 4,000 Ryo

Animal Pen x4
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Room
Effect: A large pen made to securely hold willing or unwilling beasts. A small nearby larder ensures food will not be in short supply, should the creature find itself hungry.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This expansion allows creatures to be held securely and safely, whether or not they desire to be, until the user chooses to release them. The creature must not be humanoid, and this expansion may hold 5 creatures sized small, 3 sized medium, or 1 large small. If built using 2 expansion units, this capacity is doubled, and the pens may house 1 huge creature. This expansion does not automatically include creatures, which must be acquired through other means. This expansion also may be bought multiple times. May be built as a Monster Cage, Roost, or even as Kennels.
Cost: 10,000 Ryo

Escape Tunnel x5
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Tunnel
Effect: Deep beneath the earth, a tunnel lined in ancient masonry runs from the structure to some safe and innocuous point in the outside world. Should the worse come to pass, people at least have a way out.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A secret tunnel runs from a point in the user's structure to another point outside within the range of the 4000 cubic feet. The size and place is dependent on the structure being placed. Escape Tunnel may have a Secrete Door attached (cost not calculated). May be used as an Escape Room for a Portal
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 5,000 Ryo

Garden x5
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Grounds
Effect: The smell of green, growing life fills the air here. Lush vines laden with savory tomatoes grow alongside mandrake root, ephedra, and even more esoteric herbs.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The smell of green, growing life fills the air here. Lush vines laden with savory tomatoes grow alongside mandrake root, ephedra, and even more esoteric herbs. A single gardener using this area and having its resources all to himself receives a +20 circumstance bonus to their Agriculture. Alternatively, up to 4 gardeners can share this space at the same time, and they each receive a +10 circumstance bonus on their Agriculture skill. May also be built as a greenhouse, a grove, farm plot.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 5,000 Ryo

Gatehouse x5
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Room, 0.5 Stronghold Space, Gatehouse
Effect: A house or enclosure near a gateway.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This space usually serves as a primary entrance into the stronghold (or one of many entrances). As its name suggests, the gatehouse includes a gate (and a drawbridge, if stationed adjacent to a moat). Defense can be enhanced with a portcullis. Most gatehouses are fortified with a barbican, guard post, or both.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 5,000 Ryo

Cargo Elevator x5
Rank: "A"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Door
Effect: Room sized elevator for moving large or heavy cargo.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Consists of a large reinforced door, usually connecting the roof or basement to a storage space, garage or stables to move large loads, items or animals frequently between storage spaces or the outside world at different levels. Can also be used to connect underground or mountaintop bases to the outside world. Can be upgraded with a Door, Secret to hide.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 50,000 Ryo

Door, Secret (Pristine) x10
Rank: "A"
Type: Main, Room, 0 Stronghold Space, Door
Effect: Secret passages are hidden routes used for stealthy travel.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A Advanced Secret Door adds a +70 against a person's Observation check to notice the Secret Door.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: +10,000 Ryo

Graveyard
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Grounds
Effect: A burial ground.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Rows of rough-hewn gravestones rise from the ground like jagged teeth, punctuated with the occasional stately monument denoting the death of someone of station. It is quiet, here, but the silent air runs thick with dark energy of death. While present within this stronghold space, the owners of this structure and their allies perform all Necromancy Jutsus as if the Jutsu was 1 class level higher. If a Necromancer Jutsu requires a corpse to function, that requirement is automatically filled while within this Stronghold space. May also be built as a crypt, maunsoleum, necromancer's Laboratory
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 4,000 Ryo

War Room
Rank: "A"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Room
Effect: A room from which a war is directed.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Improperly planned, war can be a nightmare. With adequate planning, supply lines and intelligence, though, warfare becomes a much more feasible enterprise. Journeys planned in the war room and then undertaken by the owners of this structure and their allies always take 1/4 less travel time (Random Encounter is reduced by 1/4) than they otherwise would. In addition when a structure that contains a war room is under attack, all creatures fighting in the structures defense add 5 Armour Points of Damage to their striking attacks. May also be built as a bureaucrat's office.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 30,000 Ryo

Labyrinth x50
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Labyrinth
Effect: A complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way; a maze.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Generally found only in dungeon strongholds, labyrinth components serve to confuse and bewilder foes, and perhaps trap them forever. In addition, since the walls of a labyrinth often undergo attacks from those wandering through, consider upgrading the quality of these walls from your standard interior walls. For a larger maze, purchase this component multiple times.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 5,000 Ryo

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Senri Mission Board

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

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Sometimes the Dojo master or other Students need things done and will offer incentives and missions for people to complete them. All students may request a mission be added to the board but the pay for the missions do not come from the village and must be funded out of pocket. Some missions may be completed more then once others are removed upon completion. 

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Name: Call out a student
Rank: C
IIC Length: 48 hours
Difficulty: Easy
Description: Jutsu, Skills and Equipment are meaningless in the hands of the unprepared. Fight among yourselves and establish who is the strongest. Use this as a moment to establish what you need to do to improve on.
Objective: Challenge Another PC member to a fight at the dojo. Feel free to gamble against each other.
Reward: Winner gets 15000 Loser gets 5000.


ONE TIME COMPLETION!
Name: A Hunt for Portals!
Rank: C
IIC Length: none
Difficulty: Easy
Description: Shiki has decided he wants to become a Travel ritualist. He is currently looking for several Travel rituals and is willing to pay top dollar for certain rituals upon finding and returning them to him.
Objective: Find one of the following rituals for him and bring it to him.
Phantasmal Conveyance
Transmit Remains
Summon Friend
Mutable Door
Linked Portal
Feet of Cloudrunner
Create Teleportation Circle
Cheetah’s Ineluctable Pursuit
Astral Sojourn
Zolobachai's Wagon
Item Instant Summons
Fey Passage
Reward: 4x the cost of each ritual found.



ONE TIME COMPLETION!
Name: A Hunt for Life!
Rank: C
IIC Length: none
Difficulty: Easy
Description: Shiki has decided he wants to become a restoration ritualist. He is currently looking for several restorations rituals and is willing to pay top dollar for certain rituals upon finding and returning them to him.
Objective: Find one if the following rituals for him and bring it to him.
Sun's Renewal
Hidden Soul
Raise Dead
Ease Spirit
Reward: 4x the cost of each ritual found.

ONE TIME COMPLETION!
Name: A Hunt for knowledge!
Rank: C
IIC Length: none
Difficulty: Easy
Description: Shiki during his travels came across a very powerful and insightful book on metal working by the legendary loremaster Linus Winterguest. He wishes to have a complete set and is willing to pay top dollar for it.
Objective: Find one of the legendary lore masters books for the dojo.
Reward: 30000 Ryo plus a bonus for certain books. (paid by Shiki Senri on completion)

Book: Textbook: Volume I: Animal Training and Handling
Book: Textbook: Volume II: Appraisals
Book: Textbook: Volume III: Covert Activities
Book: Textbook: Volume IV: Cultural Studies
Book: Textbook: Volume V: Craftworks: Artistic Expressions
Book: Textbook: Volume VI: Craftworks: Fabrics
Book: Textbook: Volume VII: Craftworks: Gems and Stones
Book: Textbook: Volume VIII: Craftworks: Glass and Pottery
Book: Textbook: Volume IX: Craftworks: Metals
Book: Textbook: Volume X: Craftworks: Wooden
Book: Textbook: Volume XI: Gymnastics
Book: Textbook: Volume XII: Language Constructions and Speech Patterns
Book: Textbook: Volume XIII: Mechanical Devices
Book: Textbook: Volume XIV: Mental Acumen
Book: Textbook: Volume XV: Nature Studies
Book: Textbook: Volume XVI: Occult Studies
Book: Textbook: Volume XVII: Performance: Acting and Speech
Book: Textbook: Volume XVIII: Performance: Music and Dance
Book: Textbook: Volume XIX: Planar Studies
Book: Textbook: Volume XX: Professional Development
Book: Textbook: Volume XXI: Psychology
Book: Textbook: Volume XXII: Religious Studies
Book: Textbook: Volume XXIII: Survival

Book of War and Valor
Creatures of Chaos and Mayhem
Essential Alchemy
Legions of the Dead
Little Blue Book of Riddles
Miracles and Mysteries

The Grimoires
Grimoire Cognitas
Grimoire Enamoris
Grimoire Facilitas
Grimoire Illusionatus
Grimoire Mortalitas
Grimoire Mutamateria
Grimoire Repartus
Grimoire Tempestus

Name: Feed The Machine 
Rank: C rank
IIC Length: 1-3 IC days
Difficulty: Easy
Description: The white wolf is in desperate need of chakra and is looking for people who have enough to feed his black sun seal.
Objective: Donate Chakra and receive monetary compensation.
Reward: Price is determined by market value

Name: Generating revenue
Rank: C rank
IIC Length: None
Difficulty: Easy
Description: The dojo needs to generate revenue to continue placing contracts for the village. Bring at least 100.000 Ryo in items that you no longer wish to have. Items may be crafted items. Old gear or simply donations. The dojo master will pay you 85% of the items total value. (Rather then the 50% from the shop.)
Objective: Bring 100.000 Ryo of objects to the dojo master to sell.
Reward: 85% of the items value. The 15% will go to the dojo for works and projects. (paid by Shiki Senri on completion)

Name: Tame The White Wolf I (NDE)
Rank: B Rank
IIC Length: 36 hours
Difficulty: Hard
Description: Shiki Senri has been boasting that he can take on anyone in the village blindfolded and with one hand tied behind his back. Someone please kick his ass so we can let some of the air out of his head.
Objective: Defeat a one armed, blindfolded Shiki Senri in a sparring match.
Reward: 45000 Ryo (paid by Shiki Senri on completion)

Name: Tame The White Wolf II (NDE)
Rank: A Rank
IIC Length: 36 hours
Difficulty: Hard
Description: Fight the Dojo Master Shiki Senri and his Tokihaga. 
Objective: Defeat Shiki in one on one combat using whatever gear you would like to use.
Reward: 80000 Ryo (paid by Shiki Senri on completion)

Name: Tame The White Wolf III (Death Enabled)
Rank: S Rank
IIC Length: 36 hours
Difficulty: Hard
Description: Fight the Dojo Master Shiki Senri with no handicap.  
Objective: Defeat Shiki in one on one combat using whatever gear you would like to use.
Reward: All of Shiki's worldly possessions, The Dojo and his title of Dojo master. 

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The Leaderboard

I don't mind being called tough, because in this racket, it's tough guys who lead the survivors.

General Curtis E. Lemay, Chief of Staff, USAF

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Prestige points determine your ranking in the dojo. Official titles ranks and rewards will become more cemented out later. methods for earning prestige points will be added later. 

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Shiki 

Ryutatsu

James

Calynn & Caela's

Kimi 

Remus

Masar

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Spanning of two solid, fifty meter rectangular doors, adamantium slabs descend from the heavens after Shiki made the summon, closed in nature as they rapidly propel themselves downwards under a hail of dark skies and thunder. It suddenly halted midair, remaining closed as the occasional spark runs through it. There it remained floating 20 meters off the ground. Shiki felt faint. The chakra strain was massive on his body. Shiki realized that he needed to regain his strength quick or he would risk running out of energy to continue the training. 

He reached his hand outwards towards the lightning clone and clutched his fingers around the clones. Shiki tapped into his residual chakra inside of the lightning clone as the clone released its form. The clone having absorbed a massive amount of electricity itself was filled with a massive amount of lightning themselves. As the clone released its form it converted back into electricity. The large rush of electricity pushed through Shiki's body as it attempted to disperse itself back into heat energy. 

Shiki used his chakra to coax the lightning back into his body and once he had his hooks inside the lighting he forced the lightning to carry through his body. Shiki's mastery of raiten had gotten him to a point where he could focus on keeping lighting from staying stagnant in his body. The science behind it was rather simple on a surface level. For the sake of time, to put it simply, When lightning was not touched by your own chakra it was dangerous to keep settled in one area in your body. 

Rather taking the lightning and letting it sit in one spot and begin to damage your body you give it a direction to move about your body in a set direction. Shiki created a circular loop moving in through his arm. Into his stomach, up back along his chest and running back into the same circular current. As the lighting was passing through his stomach Shiki would pull off a usable chunk of lightning and convert the lightning back into chakra. Once the chakra was made he would start to spread it back out through his body.

Shiki felt his body become rejuvenated as the chakra started to come back into his body. His muscles suddenly felt less fatigued as he felt the soothing process of the lightning literally recharging his body. Shiki got to his knees and watched the faint blue lightning start to arc off the gate and strike the blacktop underneath him. The arcing lightning was causing a beautiful cascading thunderbolt over the blacktop. Shiki waited for the gate to open and could already feel his new strength being tested.

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Post 5

The door was hovering in the air a good 10 meters off the ground. But it was much too high for Shiki to make any meaning full observations about the gate. The remaining lightning clones began to start taking notes on their own respective notepads. Each one was tasked for a different purpose of observational notes about the door. Upon closer inspection, Shiki realized that the door was in fact inscribed with hundred and thousands of small runes that were located along the doors arches. 

The runes weren't in the language of normal men. Nor did Shiki expect them to be honestly. They were probably as old as the door itself. Shiki considered for a moment where this door came to be and how it had such great power and energy inside of it. Shiki used his blood limit to move a small piece of sheet metal along-side the edge of one of the massive doors. Putting a much larger piece of metal underneath it. He stood on the smaller piece of metal and changed the magnetic repulsion of the metal. 

Standing on the floating piece of metal Shiki increased the repulsive properties and watched as he was sent higher into the air finally getting to the edge of the gate he started looking at the runes along, side them with a closer eye. The runes themselves were old and weathered but still clearly defined against the gates themselves. Trying to look at them with his blood limit on was very difficult as the gate itself was giving off such strong electric charges that the waves coming off of them were almost blinding. 

Shiki squinted trying to focus on the shapes of the gate but it wasn't possible. Shiki gave a frustrated sigh. if he released his blood limit right now he would plummet two stories to the ground and if he tried to grab hold of the gate it would surely electrocute him. Shiki backed away slightly from the gate and that's when he noticed it. There on the gate's electromagnetic field... It was far from natural. Someone had tampered with the gates magnetic field in such a way that only a Kyoudo could.

Shiki started to look closer at the magnetic lines that were caught in between the electromagnetic waves. It was a pattern of some sort, not one that was naturally forming in the electromagnetic waves but one that was laid dormant in the gate itself. Sealed and locked away in a manner that was feeding off the power of the gate. Just a small amount, enough to go unnoticed but Shiki needed to figure out what this message was trying to say. Converting thousand year old language into a modern tongue through electronic waves was going to be difficult. 

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Post 6

Shiki thought about the simplest way that a conversation between two people using nothing but electricity could use to talk through time. Shiki focused on the wavelengths in front of him. He saw the electrons moving in and out of the wavelength. There were coming in sets of ones and twos moving in and out of the wavelengths themselves. Shiki counted the numbers... one and two over and over again. They were coming in a pattern that was repeating but there was a long series of numbers. 

Shiki started writing down the series of electricity that was coming out of the gate. Shiki pulled out his pen and started writing down on the paper all of the sequencing that was being emanated from the gate. Shiki started trying to compile down the electricity and converted the pulses in the only thing that made any sort of reasonable sense. Shiki was starting to make this all break down into binary or something similar. After a few moments Shiki was able to create a working depiction of the wavelength. 

Shiki moved his hands along the stone pillar and started trying to feel out the where exactly his wavelengths were being generated from. Shiki prepared himself for a static shock when his finger tips touched the stone. But there was no such electric shock that came. In fact if felt like there was far from any electrical current at all. Shiki ran his fingers across the textured surface of the stone. After just a moment there was just the faint hum of electricity that was causing the stone to vibrate under his fingers.

Shiki started to try and take an etching of the pillar itself. Shiki put a piece of paper against the pillar and took a piece of charcoal and started to rub it against the paper. Putting that piece of paper away Shiki started moving up the poll taking different etching of the poll. Once he put that one away he started the long process of doing that all they way up and along the poll. Shiki noticed after a while that the magnetic charges that were coming off the pillar were different every couple segments up from the pillar. 

Finally after a while Shiki put the etching aside and slowly descended to the floor. Judging from how exhausted he was realized that the lighting gate was taken far to much energy. Shiki reached the bottom of the black top and started walking over to the lightning clones that were collecting chakra at the bottom of the gate. Shiki reached his hand out and grabbed the hand of the second lightning clone. After just a short amount of time Shiki squeezed down on the clones arm. 

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Post 7

Shiki felt his body become rejuvenated as the chakra started to come back into his body. His muscles suddenly felt less fatigued as he felt the soothing process of the lightning literally recharging his body. The lightning clone was finally drained of all its chakra as it was absorbed into his body. The faint amount of lighting that was present where it once stood was still pouring into him. Shiki realized that he may have over charged the lightning clones just a little bit. 

His vision was turning blue from and everything had a faint blue tint to them. Shiki felt drunk on lightning as the power overwhelmed his body. After just a faint moment he felt his limbs come alive. It was like his body was back at it's unstable conduit level of electrical charge. Shiki smiled as the power was coming through his body not just in waves. But it was coming through his body as a pure live wire of energy. It was coursing through his body and he even felt his understanding of the lightning in his blood limit increase.

Finally looking at the door with his new eyes He realized that there was something beautiful about the door. Almost captivating. Shiki was seeing new wavelengths that were coming off the gate themselves. Fainter but they were now more pronounced under the heavy wave increase into his lightning chakra. Shiki looked up at the gate with wonder. It was all being cast off in a loop. There was so much "coding" in the gate at such a intense level of detail that it must have taken someone who was a natural chakra power house to make this thing seal.

Shiki realized that this must have  been the only way that such a thing could have been accomplished. Whoever made this gate must have been a Kyoudo and not just any normal Kyoudo but one with super human powers. One that had the ability to set and control the pulse of this entire door. Who ever this was it could only have been one person that Shiki knew of that could have done this. It would had to have been one of the progenitor. Not just any progenitor. 

But it would have had to have been the Primogenitor. The father of lighting himself. The one who spawned the first Kyoudo. Legend had it that when he had approached the end of his life he stepped into heavens door and became lightning himself. Shiki remembered the fables from when he was a kid. The man was so strong that he was able to create life from  lightning. He created creatures that had moved through the world as free spirits. Each one of these monsters was a creature of impressive power.

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Post 8

Shiki's mind wandered back to the days he spent when he was still with his primary family. He barely remembered what his father looked like. There wasn't much to go off of except the fact that he looked like himself. His dad had bright green eyes and snow white hair as well. He remembered traveling with his father and moving from city to city learning how to live off the land and how to survive in the wild. Growing up as a young child hunting, fishing and foraging took up the majority of his day while his dad tried to teach him of his powers away from the world. 

"Your strongest power Shiki is in your heritage. It is not what you are but who you are that defines you. Your past was passed down from generation to generation of Kyoudo that all lived as we do. People will try to use your gifts as a weapon. But this is more then just a weapon of war Shiki. It is a tool to build. A shield to protect and something the ability to see the natural world better then those who live in the safety of their villages Shiki." Shiki was no more then a wide eyed kid as he heard these lessons. 

"If we really are so strong why don't we just use our powers for good?" Shiki would ask his father. Shiki remembered how the smell of the crackling fire of the tepee would seem to dance and glow over an orange flame as his father spoke. "Son... Let me tell you a tale of the Kyoudo. Let me tell you a story of your heritage. The stories of the Ancient Days that lead to the creation of the wandering clans is told by word of mouth to the children when they become old enough. Son... Listen to me for these next words are not just your past..."

Shiki fidgeted as he leaned closer into the fire. His bright sapphire eyes were glowing with excitement. "These stories are not just about your past. They are about your future as well. A time long ago, before the existence of the ninja village system, when great beasts roamed the earth, and when the earth itself was a smaller place. This was before the time when men were the creatures that ruled the earth. A time long before the creation of Shinobi. This was the time where the untamed wilderness surrounding everything and all people were nomadic. 

There existed many warring clans. Not just the ones known about today. All attempting to do one thing they wanted to create a location strong enough to resist decimation. During those times, there was so much bloodshed and violence that whole clans would be destroyed overnight. One day there existed a man. A man who us kyoudo revere a the Primogenitor. He was the Tenkai. The divine Oracle. He was a magnificent user of  Lightning, and rapidly decimated through sheer force the enemies that he was paid to destroy. He... was the one who started it all."

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Post 9

"The Tenkai?" Shiki asked with a hint of confusion. "Yes son... He is the divine oracle. To put an end to all the fighting he created lightning so strong it was rumored to come to life. He created animals that were based on all the mighty creatures he had meet during his travels. He made an Eagle that's very wings would cause the sound of thunder. We simply call the eagle Harbinger in our language. The Beacon of the Storm. He had made Panthers out of lightning as well who could prowl the world searching for darkness."

There were many other creatures Shiki. They fought to keep men safe from the dangers of nature. They would have mighty battles with the dark creatures of the woodlands. Eventually however they had to fight an even more dangerous monster." Shiki blinked a few times. "You mean the story of the bandersnatch?" Shiki's father would throw another piece of wood on the fire. "no no... Something far more destructive in nature. These noble animals would have to fight the evil inside of men. As men grew they grew less and less afraid of nature. They build massive walls to keep the beasts out."

Shiki nodded in faint understanding. "Eventually... The very men that once sought to use them for their powers turned to darkness Shiki. They grew too attached to their cities and petty allegiances that they forgot the differences between what is simply right and what is simply wrong. Fearing the great power of the creatures humans tried to hunt them down and extinguish their light." Shiki gave a small shudder. "Did they kill them?" Shiki's father just shook his head and continued. "The oracle would never let something like this happen to his children."

"Man kind owed a debt to the oracle. As you know how the legend goes Shiki he went on to father the first Kyoudo. This was because of how much time he had spent with the lighting animals. His chakra nature and their chakra nature blended to form a lightning that was truly the deepest shade of lightning. From these animals he learned the secret of lightning that none had ever learned. He learned how to enter... The Paragon State." Shiki took in the words for a moment but was absolutely clueless as to what he meant by that. Shiki was just about to keep asking questions. 

"Shiki... It is rumored that the Tenkai took the companions away with him and disappeared into the heavens. The rumors say that he took all of the creatures with him. He turned into lighting and walked into heavens door. Even know Shiki the Oracle lives somewhere beyond the gate of heavens door. But enough stories Shiki... Go wash your face before we go to sleep. We have a big day tomorrow." Shiki would smile and flash a bright grin and run off to do his tasks......

The flash back hit Shiki like a truck. Looking down at the etchings his fingers began to tremble.

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Post 10

Shiki looked at the gate with new eyes. He looked down at the etchings and saw pictures of magnificent creatures that were covered with lightning. Ancient beings that had served the earth for a thousand years. Creatures of power... And in the center was one man. The oracle. Looking at the etchings Shiki realized that this was more then just a gate to the heavens. It was the gate to answers. It was the gate to reconnect with someone older then the villages. To connect with someone who could make him stronger. 

But he would need more energy. He would need Every ounce of lightning he could summon to open the gate for the first time. The lightning clones stood up. Each grabbed one of his arms... Shiki took a deep breath. His vision was already distorted from the pure amount of lightning chakra that was inside of him. He wasn't sure if he could take anymore as it was. But if he was going to get stronger he would need to push himself. The lightning storm was still waging around him. Errant lighting bolts flew off into the distance. The clapping of thunder was met with the sound of falling rain. 

Shiki squeezed down on the lightning clones and froze as his heart stopped. The two clones were of different polar charges. The lightning surging through him was two powerful and it was destroying his body from the inside out. Shiki screamed out for help but there was no one around him. The clones Chakra kept pouring into him. Shiki's eyes went from blue to white and suddenly he couldn't feel his body anymore. His vision was gone. He could only feel the heat of the lighting in his body. Shiki reached out with his mind to feel the door. 

Not like this... Not here.... NOT. LIKE. THIS. Shiki screamed into the sky as he clapped his hands together crashing his lighting into the door in a focused hyper beam of lighting. The lightning had transcended normal voltage it was coming out in such a hyper condensed form that hot chunks of non Newtonian plasma were falling off the beam. The door was like a sponge. The more lighting Shiki pushed into it the hungrier it seemed to be. There was an enormous explosion of thunder as a force wave exploded of the door. A concussive force blew the etchings and note pads off the desk. 

The table with his equipment were blown away. The batteries and wires were sent flying away from a giant electromagnetic wave. Shiki was pouring everything he had into the gate. He tapped into his unstable conduit of electricity and let the over charged lighting fly into the gate as it continued to suck on his chakra. Shiki slowly saw the definitions of shapes start to come back into his vision as the lightning was being drawn from him. Shiki didn't feel like he was the one casting the chakra into the door. Rather he felt like the door was reaching into him and extracting his power. 

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Shiki roared as he continued to press his lightning into the door. How much more could this thing possibly need? Was he even strong enough to make this happen?  This words are not just about your past Shiki... Shiki's eyes widened as he felt a new wave of energy inside of him. It was something he had never experienced before. The chakra was warm and inviting. It was confident and strong. The Lightning beam that normally has traces of red lightning started to turn a warm golden color. These words are about your future too... Shiki felt a tear run down his eyes. Images of a wide eyed boy in a Tepee clashed in his mind against the reality present. 

Shiki clung to this emotion like a drowning man would grab onto a floating plank. The memory was one of the few good ones he had. He could feel his fathers chakra in his chest. His blood limit awakened to a new height. Charging the ground underneath him in a massive negative charge and parts of the sky with a strong positive charge he was inviting the lightning. Shiki knew the bolt was coming before it happened. The crashing force of lighting came down on him in a explosion of heat and force. But rather then absorb the lightning he redirected it. 

The bolt reflected off his body at hit the door at full force. More. I need More. Shiki called lightning bolt after lightning bolt down from the sky hitting both him and the door directly. Shiki was determined. Shiki felt his knees grow weak. But before letting the strength in his chakra weaken he let the lighting draw its strength from his physical body first. The lighting poured into the door and Shiki dropped to one knee. Leaning into the beam of energy he kept charging the door. He was beyond exhausted. The chakra from his body was being drained at an alarming rate. 

The world started to dim. First things first was colors started to dull. Objects were losing their focus. He was running out of chakra. He was out of lighting recharges. His blood limit was barely active at this point. His peripherals started to fade as suddenly he was only stuck in a narrow tunnel vision. Feeling the last ebbs of his chakra being pulled from him Shiki knew this was the point of no return. Either this gate would open or Shiki would die right here. Shiki fed the lightning into the door and released the beam with one hand. The beam was only 1/32 the size it once was... He was fading into darkness. I love you son...

Shiki felt his blurred vision stagger briefly and he pushed the last inch of chakra out bringing him to an inch of death. The beam stopped hitting the door. There were several moments of nothingness... an eerie quite as Shiki struggled to keep the door in focus. Breathing heavily the door to the gate began to tremble. There was a large crashing sound as the gate suddenly creaked open. As the door opened their appeared a large swirling purple vortex behind it. There was a flash of blinding white light as a elderly white man with flowing white hair seemed to float out of the portal. He did it.

[Nekomata Minh]

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Ichimatsuzetsumei (A Touch of Death)

Rank: "S" Rank

Skill: Ninjutsu

Effect: see Description

Special: "Handseals". Requires that the user have the Sutatikku Nagare active.

Drawback: The user suffers from the shock as well, but at a lesser amount. While the voltage sent into the opponent is strong enough to stop the heart, the user receives a voltage amount large enough to paralyze the arm that the current is channeled through for twenty posts. After that, the arm will be numb and slow to be able to be used for an additional 50 posts. This effect cannot be countered with medical Ninjutsu.

Description: After performing the required handseals, the user rushes at the opponent and attempts to grab hold of the opponent. Then, the user creates a somewhat suicidal effect, sending an intense voltage of electricity throughout their arm and into the opponent’s body. This voltage is amazingly high, which will run through the opponent’s body with enough electrical force to stop the heart within three seconds. If the opponent escapes the grasp early, they will still have suffered from an incredibly high voltage, paralyzing the area of impact for up to five turns, as well as causing an extreme amount of pain (between A and S Rank, depending on if they moved away at one second or two). If the thread is not death-enabled, then the opponent will fall unconscious until they can receive medical treatment from someone with Shosen no Jutsu of at least "A" Rank. The user will also suffer negative effects, as listed in the drawback.

Limit: Kyoudo Clan only, as it requires the Sutatikku Nagare to create an electrical current.

The man slowly walked towards Shiki. Well maybe walked towards him was the word. The man was floating above the ground towards him. floating on without motion on his feet around the ‘safe zone’ area of the gate. His robes are as his long, whisking beard, white like the clouds. On his sleeves, ancient kanji; the left one translates to ‘heaven’, while the right means ‘skies’. In the middle of his robe, a small lightning bolt painted black runs downward. A lack of iris leaves his eyes constant intense and purely white, adding a haunting look.

Shiki looked at him with a sense of awe and total delirium. Shiki was getting ready to pass out. The old man wandered over to him and set his out almost as if he was asking Shiki to take his hands. The old man wandered over to Shiki and looked at him. "Where is the clan that opened the gate?" The old man ask Shiki. His voice was slow and calm but was obviously part of something ethereal. Shiki thought it sounded like there was an echo to his voice. He was speaking from two dimensions. 

Shiki blinked. He was weak. He couldn't answer the man. He lazily looked at him and around his neck exists many a trinket of tribal nature intended to increase the potency of his natural thunder strike. Shiki could only wonder what that was made out of. Or even more interestingly what meaning that talisman had to this man. This man was clearly was someone who had seen more then a normal amount of events over the course of his life. Shiki couldn't keep his eyes open another second. 

He closed his eyes and let his head hit the ground. The old man walked sighed in contempt and looked around at the mountain ranges. "So the city still stands" he would say. The murmured mixed voices would say as he looked around. The old man would move over to Shiki and roll his body over. Shiki was surprised at how easily the man was able to roll his body over with just the smallest of exertions of force. Shiki was barely able to open his eyes but he felt the strangest sensation. 

A feeling of power rushing back into his body as he was rolled over. Shiki gave a small smile and started letting the power surge towards him. It was more then just chakra. It was like he was receiving some level of divine power from the staff itself. Shiki realized that the man was looking down at him. Literally. The expression on his face was one of almost sadness and happiness across the sages face. Shiki looked back into those white eyes of his in confusion. "Who are you?" The sage would whisper. 

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Shiki finally was able to gather up enough strength to be able to respond back to the man. "My name is Shiki Senri... Shiki Senri of the clan Kyoudo." The man finally flashed  a rare smile. It was a warm smile. One of those smiles that seemed to brighten a whole room and make the storm part around him. The man reached down with his staff and reached it down and sat it down on his chest. "grab the rod little bird." Shiki reached up and grabbed the rod with both hands. With just a quick jab he pulled up on it. 

Shiki was suddenly pulled to his feet. With just a short moment Shiki felt like he was almost back to his whole strength. He was still lacking down on just a little bit on his Chakra. There wasn't much more he felt comfortable taking from the man. The man gave a weak chuckle. "You have quite the chakra capacity little bird. I'd expect nothing less considering your birth right." She man would gesture around to the open caldera. "So once again... Where is the clan?"

"What Clan?" Finally asked. The old man gave a small smile. "The only people that could have opened that gate and summoned forwards would be someone who shared a blood bond with me. The only one who would be able to do that would be the clan that descended from my son." Shiki looked at the man with eyes full of reverence. "so it is really you... The Primogenitor..." Shiki was at a total loss for words. The old man started to laugh. His laugh was so deep and coming from the very sky itself.

Shiki looked around with a sense of wonder.  The very clouds themselves seemed to chuckle with an explosion of a rolling thunder. The warm thunder made something deep inside of Shiki smile. It was like visiting your grandfather for the first time in a long time. Something about him was just naturally comforting. "The Primogenitor? Am I that old that people consider me the starter of an entire species..." The old man laughed and stroked his beard as he looked around the mountain range.

The old man looked at Shiki. "Little bird, I was the one who founded this village so many years ago. Back then it was just a bunch of warring tribes fighting for control of this caldera. Back in those days I simply put an end to the fighting." The old man stretched his back just a little bit and breathed in the cool mountain air. "I forgot how fresh the air is up here in this village... Now once again little bird, where is the tribe that summoned me forwards." The old man looked around. "The amount of power that would have taken to open the gate for his long..."

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It took 100 masters of lightning to make the gate and all of them almost perished trying to close the gate. In fact if I had not altered their electric current with my own the gate would never have been able to open ever again. I encoded the electric current in such a way that only someone who could either see the magnetic fields themselves or have such a strong understanding of the lightning element that they would simply be able to feel the electricity around the gate and control it.

Shiki looked at the gate and back at his table where all his research supplies had been blown away. Shiki looked back at the gate. "So that explains how I was able to open the gate." Shiki said calmly. The man looked back down at Shiki with a small smile on his face. No little bird, even with your gift there is no way that you could have opened this gate by yourself. The amount of lightning that it would require to come through your body as a conduit would have killed you. Opening the gate takes a master of the craft.

Shiki felt a little upset that the man had insulted him as such. Sorry to disappoint you. But there is no secret counsel of lighting ninja's who summoned you and opened this gate. It was me and me alone. I climbed to the top of Thunders tooth for weeks and found this gate frozen in a glacier. I summoned the gate here and I've spent weeks and weeks just trying to figure out what the gate does and how it behaves. Normal means of charging it with electricity don't seem to work. It needs chakra.

Shiki started to look around at the gate. I found the message you were trying to hide inside the lighting. The series of electrons were a code. It was like you were giving me the blue prints to the lock I was looking for. In reality you were looking for the key. The only issue was is that you were looking for such a specific wavelength to open the door that there was no real way to replicate it on my own. There were literally millions of different wavelength patterns that might have worked.

The old mans face changed from a look of hilarity to one of a mild bemusement. Alright then kid. Lets say I did believe you. How on earth did you find the right frequency to hit the gate with? With so many different combinations how could you have possibly selected the right one so soon? I've felt aspiring lighting masters try for eons to try and open the gate. Some giving up thinking that the door had found them unworthy and the others believing that it would open with some prophesy. 

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Ahh but you know the real answer to the riddle don't you? It wasn't a prophesy at all but rather it was a blue print for a key. The only real question is how did you figure out what exact electromagnetic wavelength to use against the door to open it. I admit im rather curious. Shiki gave a small smile. I didn't know which wavelength to use. I simply knew that I needed to hit within a certain range. So I gathered a lot of lightning energy and simply tried to hit every possible range at once.

The old mans face went stone like. I suppose that perhaps that would work. But there is no way on this earth that you were able to create that much power. The old man looked him up and down. Little bird that amount of power you are talking about is something that only myself and my soon were able to do. To this Shiki felt a small ping of acknowledgement. Sir. I wish there was some way I could show you with definitive proof that it was me who did this. Shiki gave a sigh. It wasn't easy sir.

The old man gave a wry smile. Listen to me little bird and listen to me close. If what you are saying is true... And your heart is indeed strong enough to handle that amount of chakra then that means you are much stronger then you realize. There comes a rare moment in the history of out blood where one can achieve four corners of lightning stability. These corners are what make the four pillars of lightning. 

The four pillars of lighting Shiki asked quizzically? Yes... There are four things that make up someones abilities to climb to the ranks of greatness over the element of lightning. The first is a natural affinity for lightning. This is something absolutely something needed for one to be a true storm bringer. The first is a natural resistance to lightning. It means that they can hold a larger amount of lightning inside of their bodies. 

Shiki's mind thought back to the moment he absorbed the all that lightning chakra and he could almost feel his heart stop just from all the lightning that was being absorbed back inside of him. Shiki reflected on that for a little bit. So it wasn't just something that helped him with the resistances. It helped him control his vessel so to speak. Shiki looked back at the sage and waited for him to finish.

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Shiki listened to the old sage continue. The words of the oracle were seemingly true right now. Shiki listened in as he continued. The next is to be an elemental pupil of the lightning tech. What that means isn't just that you were trained in a specific field of elemental use. Not simply like you are taught by a lightning master. But rather that you learned lightning form the hands and minds of someone that has not only mastered lightning but someone who has mastered the essence of it.

Shiki tried to follow what that meant. The old man looked at him clearly understanding that Shiki was confused. Let me elaborate little bird... Anyone who knows the release of lightning can turn chakra into lightning. While making simple lighting in and of itself is a beautiful thing in and of itself. But honestly the lighting that they make will pale in comparison to one who has learned chakra efficiency to their fullest extent. Meaning this little bird... Lets say one normal person has 10 parts of chakra.

They can take those 10 parts of chakra and while converting it through their body they can start to make the lightning move through their body. Once they get the chakra inside of them they start to mold the chakra to change their chakra's nature they start to make it something different entirely. Lightning chakra is made by taking the chakra and making it move along a race track of sorts. Once the chakra is moving at a high speed they start to vibrate.

Shiki nodded. He was aware of how this process worked after all. He could always feel the electricity moving through his body. Shiki remembered how he could excite the electricity by increasing the speed at which the chakra was moving around through his body. The old man continued. Most people when they started working on the electricity in their body have no earthly idea how they are making the lightning. 

Shiki looked at the man... What do you mean they have no idea how they are making it. Shiki looked at the man confused. What do you mean... The chakra is clearly something different. It isn't like you are just using normal chakra. It's not a fuel source. It is already energy. Shiki looked at the man. They way it moves through your body it energizes your entire being. Like you are a part of a closed system. This power is what really makes lighting better then the other elements. Shiki said looking at the sage.

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The old man looked at Shiki with a small twinkle of appreciation in his eyes. Yes exactly... You see there are people who forget that there is something quite scientific about how someone can change chakra. For instance fire is an perfect example of how someone is not familiar of how to properly use the element. There are so many things that can determine the level of someone's flame. For instance staying out of the basics of fire such as the growth of the fire and the spread of it there lies the concept of heat. 

There lied the source of the main problems. Look at how fire effects water. If you heat water to 222 degrees it starts to boil. However at 221 degrees it will do nothing other then simply get hot. But at 222 degrees something magical happens. At 222 degrees water starts to boil and turn into steam. Once water is turned into steam it can do so many magical things. It can clean wounds, power ships, run factories and handle a multitude of other things as well. This comes down from the difference between one simple degree.

Fire is very much the same way. There is only so much fire you need to perform certain jutsu. If you used to much heat to do something like simply heat up water you are wasting a lot of energy to perform a very simple jutsu. If you use to little fire on something like trying to boil water it would take far to long. Also if you didn't have enough heat you can sit there for as long as you want but the fire will never get that water to boil. So there can only be so much time that you can use without wasting a ton of energy.

So fire obviously has its own sets of rules and is different with different rules and limitations. But most importantly it follows a principle of heat. Lighting is a different animal entirely. The way that the current flows through your body it needs to be moving fast through your body. The trick is that the faster the lightning moves the hotter it gets. The heat is a byproduct of the lightning not a result of it. Most people when they try and to form lighting they try and create something that was hot and creating heat.

They take the lightning and well it up inside of them in a small ball of lighting. The problem is that creating that amount of lighting in such a close area causes the lightning to fight each other. When there was finally nothing that was keeping them from arcing around each other they start to create a massive amount of heat inside of the user. This makes the user feel like they are generating a lot of lightning but in reality all they are doing is wasting that extreme amount Chakra.

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Shiki nodded. I understand sir. So tell me... what do the other two pillars of lighting represent. The sage looked at Shiki clearly annoyed that he was interrupted. But at the same time was also pleased that Shiki seemed to be making some headway in understanding how the nature of the elements worked. Slow down there little bird... we need to work on getting you up to speed before we get you to move forward on this. 

We need to learn how to crawl before we get you to start walking. We can't get you to start walking until you learned how to get a feel for the floor. Until that floor is properly learned and you are walking running is simply out of the question. Shiki looked up at the man. His ethereal voice was echoing across the courtyard. Shiki looked at the robes and the small figures on the flowing points of his robes.  The words simply meant lighting.

Shiki looked at the man. Why do you have lightning on your robes? The man looked down at the robes. Ahh... These old things. This was back before the days of the ninja village. The person you would now call the Raikage would have something like this. This was simply a title that was given to people who wore this symbol. Those that did wear it wore it as a challenge. Anyone who wished to claim the robe from me would simply need to challenge me to a dual of the elements. Where only that tech could be used.

Shiki looked up at the man and he continued the next step is obviously the Kyoudo bloodlimit. There are many other lightning elements that manifest themselves as bloodlimits but those were simply adaptations to percieved small amounts of lightning. People like the kazeriaku were a development that came physically to help them understand lighting. But it would never be true master of lightning as the Kyoudo could make. 

Shiki nodded. I never thought that the day I started a family was the day that I would start a clan of genetically engineered super humans. The kyoudo are a special group of people who have gained the ability to actually summon forwards the electromagnetic waves that are in the natural world. With this gift they will finally be able to control the magnetic charge all around them to summon forwards the power of their blood limit. They are truly masters of this element.

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Finally the last is something completely unique. It is not something that can be taught or even created in someone's skill set. It is something that they must discover on their own. The person needs to be a walking living conduit to the realm of the elements. Shiki looked up at the man slightly confused. Don't act so surprised. I can feel your energy in the gate now even as we speak. Surely you must have noticed that you are sometimes you can dip into a little bit of extra damage when you are in the middle of a fight. 

The way it works is that your body is able to process a small level of lighting ability inside of your inner workings. This lightning comes from two distinct parts. Mainly one from your physical body... We call this part the binding of the lightning or in this case the conduit. The conduit has a very important process in the survival of of the lightning. The lightning needs to run through a current or it will never actually gain any traction or power. Shiki looked at his body. So we are basically just giant circuits then.

The man looked at him. If you are referring to a system then yes. I'm exactly sure what a circuit is but I can only imagine that it is something similar to that. The way it works is pretty simple to be honest. The lightning is given a track and the track has to keep moving in a circuit the lightning would start to dissipate. But obviously dissipation has a limit though. Just by the process of moving there is a loss of energy. Kinetic forces always lose energy as the move through their medium. 

The more conductive the medium the more easy the lightning can move through the person without having to over come the resistances inside of someone. That much should be obvious. But the thing people forget to realize is that there is a lot of energy from lightning that is wasted even as it travels through any sort of medium. Lightning really needs a conduit that can be something that is both conductive that can allow it to travel and create a powerful current. But that is not exactly enough either.

Lighting also needs a powerful insulator that can cover the electrical conduit or else the lightning will simply start to let itself escape from the wire in the form of heat or by the release of the lightning into the air. Finding a perfect conduit is one that has those two perfect things in balance. But there is a way to cheat that. Those that have this connection with an unstable portal have the power to call on just such an insulation and chakra build up inside of themselves by pulling in on the chakra in a particular way.