Kiyata's Study (Training Thread/ Closed)

[Kiyata Mojiretsu]

Alchemy Skill Training 0/10 TP

Able Learner - Gain 1/2 a die for each die roll. = 7.

Alchemy
Rank: "D"
Skill: Skill
Effect: A skill that allows people to mix all components.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Alchemy is the skill allowing the user to create concoctions found in plants, creatures, and minerals while also mixing them into more valuable mixtures. Alchemists have long sought to know the secret of turning lead into gold, but so far, that is an ability beyond their reach. To find plants or creatures the user must have the right Biology Skill or the right Creature Lore Skill. To cultivate the Plant or Creature parts the user must have the right Cultivation skill. To prepare the Plant or Creature parts for either consumption, or usage for mixtures the user must use Alchemy, using the Alchemy rules for preparing objects. If user has 25 or more Ranks in Alchemy user gains a Synergy Bonus +10 to Demolitions when interacting with Alchemical Components. If user has 25 or more Ranks in Alchemy user gains a Synergy Bonus +10 to First Aid: Healing. Each time learned user gets 5 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

His parents books

The air was well ventilated, Kiyata purposefully set his study up like this to ensure he could continue studying for the maximum amount of time, he was critical of these things. Today had gone slow, in the morning he'd cleaned and maintained his weapons and then set out his goals for today; arriving at the goal of education. His parents had a lot of books on alchemy due to them being medical practitioners so it saved Kiyata time and money. One book on alchemy basics aswell as a few others that contained more advanced information, he'd start with the basics. Kiyata already had an alchemy set up on the nearby table so that he could test out the more practical components of alchemy, after learning he would do just that. He sat at the desk in his dark green casual cloths, a shirt and pants, hair tied behind his head and eyes focused on the itinerary of information.

It's impossible to make reading a book enjoyable but thankfully Kiyata no longer enjoys much, some of these basics in alchemy he already knew or overheard. Mixing procedures, how mixing at different times can produce different results, different parts of plants or animals would produce different effects even when in conjunction. At first it was really hard to wrap his head around but he started to understand the foundation of it, all be it droning a bit. After he'd gone past the introductory section he'd started to get well into the book, poisons can be medicines and medicines can be poisons, beakers, test tubes, distilling agents and reactive agents; it was all very interesting. Kiyata got half way through the book before he'd felt the urge to actually give it a try, standing up he walked over to the alchemy table he'd set up, grabbing the mortar and pestle aswell as some of the common ingredients that are found around the leaf village, courtesy of his mother and father.

First he added the leaf and flower of betony, a plant typically used in helping with colds or minor things, very common in temperate forests and it just so happens there was an entire forest around his village, no short supply. While he didn't truly understand the plant all that well he did know what to do with it, grinding it up under the pestle inside the mortar and every few moments sprinkling ash on it to help thicken it up. After crushing the ash and betony he put it into a beaker, eyeing the lemon gras which he took a whole clump of in his hand just as the book suggested, holding it like the book told him he squeezed and rotated his hands as if wringing it, the grass broke and broke until small drops fell into the beaker as he squeezed. It was a green sappy color, strange to look at as it landed in the mush he had made....was he doing this right?

Kiyata added hot water and began stirring it, his eyes trailing as it almost looked like tea?. The hot water helped it before he set it up with the heating component of his alchemy set, the build up of heat didn't take long for the beaker to start its simmer then boil, the catcher above it allowing for the condensation to slip down into a separate container. Kiyata went back to reading the book, keeping his eye on the set with a passing glance ever few moments until the green-black sludge had kind of hardened into a sort of paste. He left the book on its section involving poisons and how they react to with a heat glove, pick up the beaker and empty its contents back into the mortar and pestle, there he mixed hit again, grinding it until it was a thick brown paste where everything inside it had practically disintegrated. He poked it and then slipped it in its mouth..Taking it out and with a straight face remarked "...Bitter"

[Kiyata Mojiretsu]

Training for Alchemy

The basics were easy, any idiot could do it if they were given the ingredients and the items aswell as a brief education on plants, Kiyata was starting to arrive at a conclusion though...he'd have to learn botany and cultivation. His head back in the book, Kiyata flipped through until he reached a very interesting part!. It wasn't often that Kiyata got excited but this time he did, the alchemy in this particular section revolved around tonics and ointments that don't heal as much as they enhance. Some of these pills restored energy while others increased energy, some of the tonics would assist in training the physical body to advance it such as chemical agents like proteins and macro-nutrients. To think that he could advance his physical taijutsu training if he was to just employ some of these techniques and ingredients, his eyes lit up and he smiled for only a moment before, realizing he was smiling he stopped. His face returning to a lack of expression and sigh, time to continue reading properly.

At the end of the book he sat back in his chair, looking over at the table where he'd made a paste used to help people with colds and to be honest...he didn't even know what the paste was for. He took the next book in line of reading, slipping a pair of reading glasses upon his face as his eyes were starting to get strained. This book was on tonics, pastes and poultices, his eye practically twitched at the thought of reading another book...as much as he needed to learn he was still a young person and studying non-stop despite his maturity annoyed him. He pushed passed it, flipping the book open and then going through the index, Putting highlights on certain areas that he would need to go over later. The careful reading was the hard part, making sure to memorize every word and ensure he understood it before moving on, looking at the window he’d realized that it had been quite some time already. The clock said it had been four hours since he started, sure he’d gotten through the first book nicely but only because he’d sat there and read every word without many breaks.

The pastes, he’d open to that section first and understand it so that it doesn’t hang on his mind, he wanted to know how the hell he could use the cold helping paste he’d made, the answers weren’t what he expected. One was to add a small amount of it into a drink and then rest after ingesting it but it said the better way was to put all of it into a container with hot water and then inhale its fumes. It works as an anesthetic for the sinus’s, clears up the air ways. Kiyata didn’t want to risk trying it when he didn’t have a cold because there was information in the previous book that said if you introduce a medicine to someone who isn’t sick, then there is a chance the medicine could cause a different affect. An anesthetic and clearing of the nose if there is no cold could lead to dry nose which could likely cause other problems or symptoms like dry throat, in which you’d need another medicine…wait? It means he’s starting to understand alchemy a bit better.

He adjusted himself to stand up, placing the book open on the floor and then placed himself in a push up position above it, reading glasses still on which would mean he would need to perform these pushups slowly as not to have them come off. Why was he exercising while studying? The answer is simple, so his body doesn’t lose efficiency. For the fifteen minutes he would do a series, stopping only to flip the page but never did he once not understood what the book had to say. At the end of the fifteen minutes he stood up, a light mist of sweat forming over his forehead. It wasn’t long before he’d finished the second on pastes and then went back to the first section of the book, putting it on the study table, he took a deep breath and went into the kitchen for a break and a glass of water.

[Kiyata Mojiretsu]

Another Alchemy Training Post

Alert his eyes to the front entrance as the door opened, his mother standing there with groceries and a half-hearted smile on her face, looking at Kiyata in motherly endearment and hope. _{"I'm home, I brought groceries do you want anything to eat?"} She said, that hopeful expression almost making sense but she would only find disappointment. Kiyata finished his glass of water and looked to her blankly "I'm fine, I already ate but thank you for the offer." he said, an awkward pause for a moment before Kiyata gave a fake smile and said "I need to get back to studying alchemy." The mother went to open her mouth but before she did Kiyata had already gone back into his study, which was coincidentally also his room. The young genin sighed as he came into his room, walking over to the desk and sitting himself infront of the open book, a new drive for him to learn courtesy of his mother arriving home, no matter how he could think it, he would need to stick this out, even if it meant over studying. Well into the night Kiyata went over all these books, taking a break now and then to stretch and maintain physique or get a glass of water, maybe some fruit. It wasn't until late hours of the night that he'd finished the books and book marked all the relevant areas that he'd need to look over again for his training in the alchemical arts.

Kiyata went to bed and was asleep within minutes, all the stress of studying through the day aswell as the small physical training between he had exhausted himself enough to require it, homeostasis of the body. The next morning he awoke, nine hours sleep by the time of day, confirmed by the noise of the bamboo clock tapping against the stone, he blankly looked outside and back to the alchemy set. Getting up with a slide out of bed he dressed himself, breakfast was already just outside the door as he opened it, his mother probably prepared it before she went to do her duties, He ate his breakfast quickly so he could resume study. At the alchemy set he tinkered with some of the set up, aligning it in certain ways to test how he could concoct different things, heating up water there to familiarize himself with the fumigation method, adding different random ingredients there to study and practice different results. Every now and then he would consult the books to see if the conclusion he reached was the right one, this would carry on for some time.

Later in the day as he was making notes on the paper next to the alchemy set he wanted to see what would happen with the practical application of heating and rapid cooling, a silly mistake. Rather than using a preferable container for such he used a beaker and a bowl of cold water, when putting the beaker of how water into the cold it cracked then shattered, cutting along his hand. "Tsss-MMMmmmm" He said, quelling his anger via a descending pitched hum, it was painful and a surprise but...at least it was practical in testing minor medical ointments. He left his study and then with a swab and some medical alcohol cleaned his wound, coming back to the study and then looking to his alchemy set. He dressed his wound with a temporary bandage and then got to work, mixing healing herbs with solvents and numbing agents. Eventually he'd created a paste which he then poured a luke warm oil into, not a lot, just enough. He stirred the ingredients then put it on heat for not long at all, about forty five seconds just to heat up the oil before he put it in the mortar and pestle.

He ground it up and eventually made a thickened ointment, the oil had hardened and the squeezed it out after it had absorbed the chemicals and weak properties of the common herbs, his eyes glazing over as he removed his bandage, rubbing the ointment into his cut, breathing out and then re-bandaging it. This was going to be another long day....Hopefully he wasn't going to get any missions soon.

[Kiyata Mojiretsu]

Yet Another Alchemy Training Post

It had been an hour since he'd cleaned up the glass and spillage, this was of course after applied the bandage and medicine. Moving passed that incident he was still concocting minor things, throwing the waste into a small metal bin beside the table and then storing the minor thing he'd created in little containers next to him. Now was the next part of alchemy, to analyze and comprehend different concoctions and to mix them. He toyed with this idea for quite some time but hadn't actually begun to use them, why not start now. He removed his bandage and looked at the small wound that he'd made earlier, the ointment was really weak but at least it served as a protective layer against infection, the wound looked to be healing up nicely, probably wouldn't even scar. The bandage back on and his head back into the study so Kiyata went over several of the different mixing methods, mortar and pestle, spin mixing, synthesis, brewing and folding, he couldn't wait to try some of them.

The two tonics he had made would go first, reading from the book and checking his notes he decided to add these two different false tonics together, false meaning he used false herbs and plants that were similar in compound and how they broke down without the effects. He used an emulsification agent, egg and honey to help bind the otherwise incompatible fluids, one was primarily oil based and the other was water based but the egg and honey acted as a adhesive catalyst. Applying heat and a stirring method he was able to get a cream, a poorly constructed cream with chunks in it but a cream none the less, he'd need to put it through one of the filtering methods in the book. For the next hour he applied and joined the things he'd created using this method, making creams out of two different things until he'd gotten the method down pact, now all he'd need to do is practice a form of separating the two.

The notes and the book said that acids break down the catalyst of the two and they should separate normally but because the two were joined for such a period of time that they would have exchanged properties while maintaining their own, a sharing system. Effects would grow weaker using this method but more effects would be present, Kiyata was really starting to get the hang of this. The separation of these different concoctions took a long boring hour but eventually he came to understand and master that basic in the form of mixing and breaking down, at least when it came to emulsification, it was the easiest but as he came to the end of that learning curve, there was more. Now he would need to learn about the combination of pastes, ointments and salves, thick alchemic creations and how they interact with one another. A long and under-excited yawn from Kiyata as it approached mid day.

[Kiyata Mojiretsu]

Training for Alchemy

Alchemy was hard not because it was hard to pick up but because there was so much to pick up, he was getting tired again. In the kitchen he had a drink of water, flicking a kunai around his hands in thought. Along the last drainage of the glasses contents he placed it empty upon the counter, that rebellious nature wanted to just leave it there for his parents to clean but it was overshadowed by order. He washed it and returned to his study room, back over to the various alchemy books that had dozens of tags sticking out in bookmark for review. Whether or not he would master this skill was determined by his will to do so, as such he would throw himself back into it. He took the book in hand and walked over to the alchemy table, looking at the series of contents which he with proper language and writing he'd gotten from the book, he'd mark them. Everything had to be marked from what it was, what it was fore, the time it was created and the date of which it was created. It was alot to put on the smaller containers, Kiyata wore the reading glasses so as not to damage his eyes with strain, Kiyata took exceptional care of his body.

After labeling them he got to another of the advanced books that was filled with different mixing components and which different alchemic ingredients go together, at their fundamental levels. Kiyata was curious as to what he could make to improve his physical training, he loved taijutsu; but of course he was torn between the two. What else could he learn from these books...he'd pretty much covered all the basics of it and would need to continue learning so now he needed a new avenue. Changing compounds maybe? Chemical values or maybe just.. "Ah yes...Chemical reactions." . The young ninja did plan on testing and familiarizing himself with the different types of chemical reactions, he pulled one of the mixing bowls over and some of the different cooking ingredients he'd raided from the cupboards to test. First he applied the acidic natured concoctions he'd made, mixing them together in the center of the bowl and then stirring them until it was a liquid with small chunks in it, lifting it and applying it to heat. Small amounts of gas started to rise from them as they were acidic in nature, the heat causing the pockets to rise but Kiyata just as quickly added the carbonated soda powder little bits at a time, stirring quickly and constantly to stop the major reaction until he'd finished a decent amount of it. To his surprise the acidic compound had turned into a brown colored honeycomb? raising a brow in question.

He removed what he would from the mixing bowl and put it into a container marking it with a big '?' question mark, along with a date, time and some abbreviations of the ingredients used. Putting it aside Kiyata felt a sense of joy, achievement and excitement, he'd been at it for hours and now he'd found something that he was having trouble understanding, it was probably nothing but, the thought of learning about it gave him hope to keep going. Piece by piece and bit by bit he started to randomly mix different things together with no real purpose, because if doing it the right way wasn't helping him to learn he would do it a strange way to gauge results. After about two hours he'd created seven different strange concoctions...and now, he got to analyze them and see what they did!.

[Kiyata Mojiretsu]

Alchemy Training

An hour in and he was already starting to see why this could become tedious and drawn out, countless concoctions and containers and the book was non-specific on how to break them down or analyze them. It appears most analysis is done through the use of different agents used to derive what's in a substance, alkaline, PH testers, microscopes and petrel dish's, this was getting boring. None of the book notes seemed to correlate with what he was doing so the head ache already was starting to form. He broke down some of the random chemical agents he'd made through reactions, learning about those reactions in the book but for the most part none of the actions could be reversed. The ones he could reverse how ever took too long and were too boring to make a note of. At the end of this he put his face against the table and then resisted the urge to scream, but, leaning back he regained composure, thinking back to that time in the alley. It had been a long time since then, his stupid actions have put him in this position and so...it's kind of a punishment, one he'll gladly accept.

He broke down and through trial and error had ruined the majority of everything he'd made but in the process had learnt the basics of how to learn what they are comprised of. It was late in the evening when his father knocked on the door, Kiyata's eyes slipped in a glance at the door before he closed them and sighed. "Come in." he said with depressing look. His father entered and gave a weak smile, walking up and patting Kiyata on his shoulder, "Your mothers worried." his father said, a brief pause while Kiyata just looked at the book in a stare. "Have you eaten?" Kiyata just shook his head 'no', finding the words to speak was hard, the father was looking over his notes and the alchemy station and then back to the notes, taking Kiyata's pen and then scratching out a couple of the break down formulae he'd written, the father re-wrote them in a simpler more correct version. Kiyata closed his eyes, letting it happen, "If you substitute composite with a math problem, I think you'd find it easier." the father said before exiting the room.

Kiyata stared at the paper, eyeing that small formulae his father had written, it added math into the equation which he didn't think about, Math and chemicals are like fire and water...but then again he'd been using fire and water all through alchemy. The young genin rolled his eyes and began to work with the new formulae, a slight smile hidden even to himself at the help he'd received from dad. Well into the night he worked with new ideas and created new composite basis, mixtures, synthesizing agents and separation strategies, all of which were now beginning to make more sense. Kiyata bookmarked and kept that single formulae in his mind while laying in bed, night had come and it was time to sleep again but maybe he could think on it just a little longer, no, He fell asleep.