Village training grounds

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Fortify Craft
Rank: "D", "C", "B", "A", "S"
Skill: Fūinjutsu
Effect: A seal that increases the crafting time of crafting items and can even increase the difficulty of crafted items.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Equipment Type: Chest, Hands, Neck, Ring. User gains an Enchantment bonus to Crafting Time with Crafting Items. Fortify Craft Crafting Time stacks with other items (2 Rings will not stack with each other.). This means Chest, Hands, Neck, and 1 Ring will stack with each other. Minor Enchantment Seal: +5. Superior Enchantment Seal:+10. Greater Enchantment Seal: +15. +1 to Difficulty of item's saved when crafted (This bonus does not stack with other equipment as the Crafting time bonus). Epic Enchantment Seal: +20. Legendary Enchantment Seal: +25. +1 to Difficulty of item's saved when crafted (This bonus stacks with other equipment as the Crafting time bonus (Maximum +4)).
Limit: Must know Enchant Chakra Item - Minor. Must know Enchant Chakra Item - Superior. Must know Enchant Chakra Item - Greater. Must know Enchant Chakra Item - Epic. Must know Enchant Chakra Item - Legendary.

Yoko had arrived at the training grounds with a clear purpose in mind: she had been informed by an estimated scholar or two that a new jutsu had been derived deep in the heart of a school of arcane knowledge. The technique in question revolved around the enchantment field, namely, the enchantment of armour. This in and of itself was not that remarkable, indeed Yoko had already mastered several of the enchanting spells that revolved around the augmentation of armour. What made this different however was the end result.

The armour once enchanted allowed the wearer to craft to a higher degree, much like the effects Yoko derived from wearing her alchemical gems. There was however a notable difference, in that this spell offered a boost in crafting efficiency, or rather a slashing of the total amount of time required. These benefits were rather few and far between, much like the loremasters books that she had in her possession, and by virtue of learning them an incremental benefit was derived, one that decreased the more one knew rather than the standard linear increase.

Of course, this was a boon to anyone who wanted to dabble in the crafting art, but the true prize that Yoko was after was the boost to the existing effects. Namely, the effectiveness of other attributes the item possessed when interacting with other people: her dread armour's fear effect, for example, would be able to grip the minds of stronger warriors. Whereas her magical cloaks that provided protection to her, would not see an increase in its effect. The effect, in short, was one way, focused towards offence in a sense.

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Fortify Craft
Rank: "D", "C", "B", "A", "S"
Skill: Fūinjutsu
Effect: A seal that increases the crafting time of crafting items and can even increase the difficulty of crafted items.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Equipment Type: Chest, Hands, Neck, Ring. User gains an Enchantment bonus to Crafting Time with Crafting Items. Fortify Craft Crafting Time stacks with other items (2 Rings will not stack with each other.). This means Chest, Hands, Neck, and 1 Ring will stack with each other. Minor Enchantment Seal: +5. Superior Enchantment Seal:+10. Greater Enchantment Seal: +15. +1 to Difficulty of item's saved when crafted (This bonus does not stack with other equipment as the Crafting time bonus). Epic Enchantment Seal: +20. Legendary Enchantment Seal: +25. +1 to Difficulty of item's saved when crafted (This bonus stacks with other equipment as the Crafting time bonus (Maximum +4)).
Limit: Must know Enchant Chakra Item - Minor. Must know Enchant Chakra Item - Superior. Must know Enchant Chakra Item - Greater. Must know Enchant Chakra Item - Epic. Must know Enchant Chakra Item - Legendary.

00/10 training points; +1tp from training grounds.

For the time being at least, this seal was all but useless to her: it provided some form of benefit namely increasing her crafting speed and skill, but not by a significant enough amount for the opportunity cost to be worth it? This was an idea that Yoko used frequently, the notion that just because something provided a benefit did not mean that it was the optimum solution. Namely, in this situation, she would have to fashion some equipment to place the enchantment on.

In doing so she consumed time that could have been spent on another project, thus, the benefit derived by the seal was lessened. Of course, there would eventually be a break-even point, but given the seal's low output of power, she guessed that she would need to craft hundreds of items to make back the time she had invested. This calculation was based merely on an assumption rather than the calculation of an exact figure.

Still, it mattered not, for the youth was to improve upon this technique with the intent of unlocking the aforementioned abilities after all. As such, she had no intention of applying the seal in its current weaker stage. Instead, she was to empower it through diligent study and hard work so that the benefit she derived from it was powerful enough to be of use. As she worked away she carefully considered which seals she would replace on her equipment, after all, not all benefited from this new enchantment.

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Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Technique)
Rank: "B"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: This technique creates clones of the user. However, these clones are actual copies, not illusions.
Special: "Clone Seal"
Drawback: The user's chakra is evenly distributed among every clone, giving each clone an equal fraction of the user's overall power.
Description: The clones are capable of performing techniques on their own and can even bleed, but will usually disperse after 1 or 2 solid blows. They can also disperse on their own. The clones will be created in roughly the same condition as the original. Shadow clones cannot be distinguished from the actual person even by the Byakugan because the clones have the exact same amount of chakra and aren't made from any other substance. A characteristic that is unique to the Shadow Clone Technique is that any experience the clones gain during their existence is transferred to the user once they are dispersed. This makes the technique ideal for spying, since the user can simply send a clone to spy on a target, then have the clone disperse itself without returning to pass the information back to the user. (Cannot gain extra training points through training with Shadow clone.) User is able to make up to 5 clones at a time. Takes the amount of time to perform a "B" Rank Jutsu. Shadow Clones may travel between different threads within the same board.
Limit: Universal NinJutsu Technique. Must be Chūnin or gain Village Scroll.

00/40 +1tp from training grounds

The kage bunshin or shadow clone technique was quite powerful, yes it was a highly desirable technique, that was often sort after by genin and higher ninjas alike. The fact of the matter was that the technique often allowed one to distinguish themselves from a lower rank of ninja as the technique was normally only taught to those who bore the chunin rank or higher. The power itself had proved itself invaluable to Yoko on multiple occasions as it essentially allowed you to create perfect clones.

She had often used this ability to aid her in her gathering of rare herbs and creatures, not to mention its ability to increase her firing power. This was of tempered by the drawback of their inability to take damage, a drawback that was heavily offset by Yoko's combat style. After all, if she formed a clone some thousand metres from her target she was free to attack as she pleased with little course of reprisal by her opponent. The only real danger was that of close quarters combat.

Of course, the youth was keenly aware of this and had developed several countermeasures against such things. For a start she rarely took any direct damage herself, instead, focusing on dodging thereby allowing the clones to avoid taking the damage required to dispell them. Then there was the fact that these clones, unlike their elemental counterparts, could use skills with the same level of proficiency that she possessed. This meant that they could apply their stealth skills to hide in the environment.

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Grade please.

xx/40 +1tp from training ground

The confusing thing, however, was that Yoko was unable to recall the seals and motions required to form the technique. She knew that she had mastered it in the past, using it as easily as someone took in air, but still she had an inability to recall it in a fluid manner. Perhaps this was yet another side effect of her transformation: when Yoko had reforged her body into a new perfected form, she had lost access to several different techniques that she already knew. She had also been cut off from learning certain techniques such as elemental ninjutsu.

If this was such a side effect, then she merely needed to recommit the information to memory. As such, Yoko began to go through the motions of the technique, searching her mind for fragments of information that pertained to the technique. First, the seals that were required, which did she know and which remained foggy in the back of her memory. She could recall certain seals as definite parts of the sequence, some she held a degree of certainty about, and others remained a mystery. Thus, she merely had to decipher what the missing seals were?

Normally you would consult a book or a scroll, however, the shadow clone scroll was kept under lock and key. Yoko had an alternative technique anyway, she would merely ask her companions what they believed the seals to be, Johan was with her on these adventures quite frequently, so despite his inability to perform the technique, it seemed probable that he remembered the correct sequence even if it was just the missing fragments that she required. After consulting her friends Yoko attempted to perform the technique.

Grade please.

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Shield Block
Rank: "B"
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: Without sacrificing a movement user can protect themselves or another.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: 3 times per day when an opponent attempts to strike the user or an adjacent ally (within 2 meters of) with a melee or ranged attack, the user can choose to block the attack with their selected shield; when they do so they immediately use their shield guard to block the attack and the user does not lose a movement doing so. User makes a block against the opponent's attack with an added +4 hardness to their Guard Meter at any time.
Limit: Must be an Armiger. Must know Shield Specialization.

Spend 18 of 175 of my June reward tp to master the prior technique

00/40 +1tp from the training ground

With the successful formation of her shadow clone technique decided to move on to her next technique, this time she knew that she had not previously learned the technique. Not by name at least, as this was essentially a very basic move, similar to how everyone could throw a punch but not everyone had mastered the jab. The idea was to repeat the basic motion so many times that it became second nature, so fast that you could block any attack. The motion itself was a simple shield block.

Yoko drew out her training manual and read over exactly what was required, the idea was very simple, a handful of times a day the armiger could summon forth supreme speed to block the attack without expending an action. This meant that they could still perform the same amount of actions with or without this motion, it had become second nature. That wasn't the only effect of this technique, however, like so many of the armiger techniques merely using the shield over and over as part of these techniques was enough to improve their defensive ability.

The better control that they held over their weapon allowed them to defend against all attacks better, effectively improving the hardness of their shield, taking something that could have been formed out of wood and rendering it as effective as a shield forge from steel. So how did one go about achieving this level of control, well the book wasn't very clear on this. Presumably, because it was one of those techniques unlocked through repetition and self-observation.

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00/40 +1tp from the training ground

Namely, the ability to repeat the technique over and over again while removing the imperfections in ones form. Normally a boxer would achieve this through the keen observations of their coach, through the view of a third person it was often easier to isolate the problems someone was showing rather than through a first-person perspective. As such, Yoko had once again relisted her companions to aid in her training, namely Johan, who was already an Armiger user himself.

Whether or not this was the correct decision remained to be seen but for the time being Yoko quickly formed her guard against imaginary attacks, a task that was surprisingly difficult given the lack of an actual incoming attack. Instead, she had to remain on her toes, consciously creating attacks that were from a repetitive angle but rather ones that guarded all of her person at a given instance. Of course, Yoko already possessed some knowledge of the fighting style, so her blocks or rather imaginary blocks were not that of a youth wildly flailing her arms.

But at the same time, she had no idea whether they were concise enough to warrant the mastery of this technique. To her eye there was still room for improvement, the bracing of her arm and the movement path it took to reach its destination could still be improved upon. The idea was that this guarding attack was all but flawless? No, the idea was that the economy of actions was increased and that this technique could be used as a stepping stone to greater heights.

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Mask of Gentility
Rank: "B"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User can cunningly hide their true motives and nature behind a facade of camaraderie and gentility. 
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: If the user is subjected to a Jutsu that normally would reveal a user's alignment, the user's alignment registers as Neutral. In addition, if someone tries to use Sense Motive to get a hunch about the user's purpose or nature, the target must succeed a Sense Motive against the Target's Acting skill with a -30.
Limit: Must learn from Universal Miscellaneous. Must know Acting (45 points). Must know Disguise (45 points).

Spend 18 of 175 of my June reward tp to master the prior technique (36/175 spent)

00/40 +1tp from the training ground

Mastery of the shield was not the only form of defence that a ninja could aspire towards, they could dodge, deflect, and even avoid combat altogether. And this was the focus of the next technique that Yoko sought to master. Yoko was already a skilled actor, hiding her true motives and intent came second nature to her. Instead, she was able to seamlessly slip into a new character at will. There was however a far more specialised application of the acting skill.

This was something that set a master of the skill apart from their fellow masters, for while one master of acting might take the lead role in a play, another might take up a position in sales, or even as a spy. This was to say that the application of the acting skill was wide and diverse in its application. As such, Yoko turned her attention towards the mastery of this particular area: deception. It was after all the primary reason that she had mastered this skill, she had no real interest in appearing in a musical, nor being an infomercial saleswoman.

How exactly did she go about mastering this technique though, was it simply more of the same? Yoko was growing rather tired to that being the only instruction offered by her handbooks, and as such was rather reluctant to consult it. But she knew that she had to eventually look into how exactly to train this technique. Interestingly the technique had a rather supernatural quality to it, one that a even the keenest of actors would normally be defeated by.

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00/40 +1tp from the training ground

Yes, the technique allowed one to hide their true alignment, even from techniques that were powered by divine magic or chakra abilities. This in and of itself could be viewed as both a blessing and a curse, there would undoubtedly be times when you wanted to display your alignment as something else, but at the same time, there could potentially be times when being viewed as neutral was to the user's detriment. Fortunately, the book did offer some guidance on how exactly this effect was achieved.

After all even the most elaborate of acts could come undone when faced with chakra abilities, so how was this achieved? Apparently, this feat was not the focus of much attention amongst the acting community, and now that she thought about it stood to a good reason why it was not. Why would an actor care what their alignment registered as, given that the onlookers know that they are in a play, why would they purposely try to determine their alignment?

The act of concealing the alignment was rather simple, with a few quick tricks Yoko could effectively hide her true alignment from most people. The problem however, was that this ability was determined by two factors, the first the opponent's ability to perceive the truth and the second her own acting skills, if the onlooker was skilled enough they could potentially still derive a hunch about her motives and intent, but it was undoubtedly harder to achieve now given her commitment to this form of training.

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Elemental Attunement
Rank: "B"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User's senses are honed to detect the dance of the elements, granting the user an uncanny sense for Chakra.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Whenever Chakra is performed within 30 meters of the user's position, a Game Master secretly rolls a Will Save for the user as if they were the target of the Jutsu (even if the Jutsu does not normally target or require Will Saves). If this Will save is successful, the user is immediately aware that Chakra has been used and knows the location of the performer. This is the only brief flash of insight; if the user quickly moves or is concealed in some manner the user may not be able to identify them.
Limit: Must learn from Universal Miscellaneous.

Spend 18 of 175 of my June reward tp to master the prior technique (54/175 spent)

00/40 +1tp from the training ground

Yoko moved onto her next technique, if she was now able to effectively hide her own intent then it only made sense that she sought to better understand that of those around her. How better to do so than with the application of a technique she had previously mastered. Elemental attunement was just that really, or perhaps not. For on further reflection the technique was not simply attuned to that of the elements but to chakra itself.

The effect was rather simple, whenever someone performed a chakra technique within a range of thirty metres the user stood a good chance of detecting it, good being a rather subjective term given that it depended entirely on the practitioner's ability to defeat the techniques save. This meant against an extremely skilled genjutsu master a genin could still fail to perceive their illusion, but that was merely an example and really splitting hairs now that Yoko though about it.

Still, that was the basis of the technique the ability to sense chakra being used within an area, this was a rather interesting technique as not all techniques required a somatic component, they didn't all require the chanting or waving of hands, some could be cast by mere thought. Thus, their detection by a skilled user of this technique went above augmenting something the user already possessed and instead added a new ability to their repertoire.

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00/40 +1tp from the training ground

Yoko had previously been a rather skilled practitioner of this technique, she used the term previously with some rather clear rationale. For while she did not know for definite that she lacked this technique now, in the sense that it was a passive ability and therefore she did not simply forget the seals. The real reason for this conclusion was far simpler, namely, she was in a training area, observing people using chakra techniques, but her mind was not forewarning her as it once had.

As such, she could only conclude that this new ability had been lost upon her reformation. Quite the shame, but still now that she had identified her lack of this technique she could take measures to apply it once more. The idea behind the technique was rather simple but its application was somewhat difficult as such diligent study and hard work were required. Yoko set about recreating the field around her person, first start with a few metres, in which she possessed perfect clarity.

Then gradually she expanded the field as she would with a sensor technique until it encompassed a larger and larger area, eventually filling the full thirty-metre area, a considerable size indeed. Of course, the weakness of this technique was that it was based in the rather mid-range of combat, someone could shoot off a ball of fire or a genjutsu from say a hundred metres away and go unnoticed, but that was part of the fun was it not? Who actually knew that she possessed this ability with no means of detecting it, presumably no one.

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Quick Aim
Rank: "B"
Skill: TaiJutsu/Supplementary
Effect: This technique reduces the time to aim while using Far Shot.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This technique allows the user to aim faster in order to shoot faster. This technique reduces the time to perform Far Shot by 1 movement, allowing the user to shoot within the same speed proficiency as they normally would within the 1st Range Increment. This technique reduces the number of rounds needed to Aim from other Range Increments by 1 as well. Example: Eagle Eye normally needs 4 movements of aiming before firing a shot. This technique decreases the aim time by 1 movement allowing the user to aim for 3 movements before firing a shot.
Limit: Must be a Marksman. Must know Far Shot.

Spend 18 of 175 of my June reward tp to master the prior technique (72/175 spent)

00/40 +1tp from the training ground

It was when Yoko moved onto some archery practise that the youth realised that she was also lacking some of the techniques she had previously mastered, her aiming was more of an effort now, with her first few arrows missing the targetted area by a millimetre or so. To someone else, this might not have been that big of a deal, but Yoko demanded pinpoint accuracy, aiming her bow should have been instinctual, requiring no additional effort whatsoever.

To achieve this she clearly needed to commit herself to additional training, perhaps this to was the side effect of being in a new body, she was still aiming as if she was in her old, imperfect form? Only time would tell she guessed. Instead, she picked up her bow and began to aim at different targets in rapid succession, keenly observing the effect this movement had on her aim. The first few shots went wide missing the targets that she intended to hit. A bit of a disappointment no doubt, but still acceptable by most archers standards.

For if this had been in a combat situation both shots would have undoubtedly killed most combatants. The problem was that the arrows were not going to the exact place that she wanted. To address this Yoko examined her bows to see if anything had changed about them, before repeating the process on both of the weapons to see whether anything had changed between the pairings. Overall her grouping remained quite close, with the arrows all but touching.

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00/40 +1tp from the training ground

Still, she sensed that there was room for improvement, aiming shouldn't require a great deal of her focus, rather she should be able to pick out and fire upon a target without even needing to see them, to do so required a high degree of skill. Perhaps the powers of this new body could be accessed to transcend her former skill and instead aim even faster than she had previously found possible? She did not know if this was possible, but she saw no harm in trying.

Continually firing upon the targets, Yoko's arrows ripped through the air like a hot knife through butter, her strength providing sufficient power and force to each arrow so that it was able to effortlessly overcome the wind resistance in the air. If she was to be able to fire off arrows at a great distance then the mastery of her aim at this mid-distance would prove to be vitally important. To some extent, this technique could actually double her rate of fire should certain preconditions be met. As such, acquiring its power was extremely important to her.

Perfect aim and the skill to execute it with but a moments notice was what she was aiming for, several more practise shots at moving targets seemed to be enough to fully master the skill in her eyes at least. Johan who had been observing throughout was unable to tell any real difference in the technique, partly because the rate of fire had remained consistent through the training and the initial difference in targetting could only be perceived by Yoko herself: to an onlooker it had still been a kill shot.

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Improved Uncanny Shield
Rank: "A"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: When user has their selected weapon equipped, user cannot be flanked.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: When user has their selected shield equipped, the user cannot be flanked. This defense denies an opponent from performing a sneak attack against the opponent, unless the opponent is at least 1 class level higher than the user. If both users are "S" Class, the character who has at least 3,000 more Training Points would be considered 1 Class higher for the purpose of this technique.
Limit: Must be an Armiger. Must know Shield Block. Must know Greater Shield Focus.

Spend 48 of 175 of my June reward tp to master the prior technique (120/175 spent)

00/70 +1tp from the training ground

Now that she had brushed up on her archery techniques Yoko decided to once again turn her attention towards the armiger art. She wanted to learn how to become immune to flanking attacks. This technique at its core was not exclusive to the armiger style, rather to the contrary many different styles possessed this technique of an iteration of the technique that was arguably as effective. So why limit oneself to performing the technique merely when equipt with a specific type of shield, if she was able to use it without such a limitation?

Well, the armiger version of the technique could be used as a stepping stone to stronger defensive abilities, that specifically required this version of the technique. Perhaps it was important to build up the mind-body shield connection that was so often spoken of in the handbooks, the ability to move ones shield and body as a fluid motion. How exactly one did this remained to be seen but Yoko supposed, it related to how the former technique worked the ability to instantaneously guard against any attack seemed to relate quite closely to the ability not to be flanked.

If anything this could merely be considered an improved version of the attack that meant that the user was always on guard. There was an exception to this rule however, noted within the book if a gulf of power existed between two combatants then this technique could be overcome. This made a great deal of sense to Yoko's mind as if someone was so powerful that their attack could barely be perceived then how could you hope to guard against it even if you were skilled with a shield.