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Mission Location

Shango drifted through the village of mist with her headband wrapped inside out. It was a thing the kids in Mist were doing to signify that they had taken a particular mission involving a friendly spar. Though Shango always preferred kill-y spars to friendly spars, she did like foreign spears, as well as fuschia sorghum, so there was always those things. She wasn't sure what it meant, but she was sure that she meant it! She had her eye out for others with their headbands on inverted, knowing that they were all being carefully observed by the village ANBU.

Shango carried every item she owned on her person, the kanabo clubs, marbles, boomerang, her map, her various trinkets and gear, though most of this was inside of her, out of sight. She appeared completely unarmed, draped lazily in a red kimono with her white bra showing underneath. She strode with confidence, or rage, or hysterical shrieking, sometimes spitting, sometimes speaking to the trees or insects. She wandered until she felt the unmistakable presence of other shinobi, coming to a clearing a few miles out from the metal heart of Kirigakure's center.

The fifty meter wide circular area seemed to have once been a monument or a ruined set of buildings, carved primitively from stone. It was the remains of some temple construction, abandoned in favor of more economically satisfying jobs in the richer districts. Here near the shambles, Shango sat cross-legged atop a featureless stone block, facing away from the path that led her here. Behind her, others approach. Their headbands are reversed. It is time.

[Not a Doctor]

Silence.

She heard nothing but her own heart beating. Hammering in her chest, anticipation taking over her. She could feel her nerves getting to her in the pit of her stomach. Luckily for her, today was a happy day. Though it was hard to say if today being a good day was better for her or if it was better for those that were to face her. She gripped her chest tightly, letting herself be swept away in the emotions that had been building up inside of her.

Too many years had gone by. The only thing she wanted was to take the breath from one person and extinguish the life force behind it. That didn't seem like it was too hard to ask. No one seemed to want to volunteer for that position, no matter how much she begged and pleaded with them. The slaughter of small animals had to do. She would accept that.

"What a joyous day," Lilium said with a smile. She hadn't smiled this big in quite some time, so she knew this meant she had to be happy. She sought after this happiness for so long and just thinking that today would be the day she could take the life of another human sent chills throughout her entire body. "A joyous day, indeed."

Walking to what seemed to be the outskirts of Kirigakure, she looked into the large pools of water that seemed to overtake this particular area. In it she could see herself. Her scale-like skin due to her skin condition, her black hair that was combed over perfectly, her stunning black dress that seemed to belong more in a Gothic fantasy story than on a live person, and her stunning pink eyes. She smiled from underneath her featureless porcelain mask.

She held her headband in her hand. She was supposed to be wearing it and it was supposed to be inverted. That wasn't really her style. She didn't want it on any part of her outfit. She looked her absolute best today. The day where she was to kill someone else. So she wasn't going to ruin her outfit with the headband. So she held the headband, letting it hang from her left fist.

On her left hip was a katana. The katana was masterfully crafted, given to her at birth. She was always told that she was chosen for some greater purpose, but she just assumed that killing others was that purpose. This sword was a testimony to that. An instrument that was made to kill others, crafted so perfectly. She grabbed the hilt of her sword, letting the feeling of the silk ito consume her mind. Only for a moment.

Her mind then shifted to her right thigh. Hidden beneath her dress was a leg holster that held three utility pouches. Each pouch contained four kunai, giving her a total of twelve. With these being hidden, it appeared to anyone that would observe her that she only carried a single katana with her. Though, that really made no difference. Kunai hardly made any real difference in actual combat. But combat was unpredictable, so she carried them anyway.

She didn't consider any of this combat, anyway. Combat meant two people were fighting. She didn't plan on fighting anyone. She planned on killing whoever it was that had set this spar up. She wasn't killing them because they set the spar up. No. She would never kill for such a petty reason. She was going to kill her for enjoyment and happiness. It was a pure feeling she had.

As Lilium entered the district that seemed to be a failed attempt at constructing the village, she looked around and observed everything around her. She took in her surroundings. Mainly looking for places to hide so that she could strike someone down. In her observation, she found her target. It seemed to be a lone girl. Possibly the same age as her.

That was all she needed to know.

Lilium grabbed the hilt of the katana. Until now she had only been fingering at it. She slowly pulled it out of its sheath and simply walked in a defenseless stance. She didn't know who that girl was or what she was doing out here, but she was going to kill her. She knew that killing this girl would be the perfect warm up for the ninja that was going to arrive here to get slaughtered as well. With a Cheshire grin, underneath her mask of course, she prepared for the kill.

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Using Shapeless Stance

[Elsie]

It was Elsie's first mission spar since she left the academy and she was nervous. With her violet coloured clothing and black body suit on, Elsie was ready for the fight. As she arrived in the area for the spar, Elsie patted down the two bags of lemon flavoured clay, totalling 80 slots. Like the others she had her headband inverted, it hung around her neck back to front hiding the mist emblem. You got this.. you got this... you got this Elsie kept repeating it in her head over and over. Elsie pulled her hand mouth up to her eyeline checking it was still in good health before lowering it into a clay pouch pulling out one slot of clay to put in her mouth and taking a single slot of clay into it's own mouth.

Upon arriving she would see the others and give a polite nod of the head. With a mouth ful she didn't really want to talk too much, she recognised one of the two from her training but the other one was a stranger to her, but she had been warned to be careful about their intent to kill. When it was time to begin, Elsie would be ready

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Shango could tell merely from the presence of those who'd entered the immediate area that there would be no need to waste time with pretty words now. They could meet and greet after they had fulfilled their need to battle. The sound of a hand reaching for a hilt was unmistakable, alerting her attention. She had not yet turned around, but as the use of techniques was not possible within one's first instance of entering the field, Lilium would not in fact be in any stance.

Her defenseless posture would have to be a mundane one, rendering her actually defenseless within the instant that Shango moved. She would be caught flat-footed by Shango's strike, a double-footed kick to Lillium's chest region, performed by Shango rolling backwards in response to the approach. It would occur in the time it would take for the girl to attempt to enter any sort of real stance, and following the impact, Shango's soul lurched towards the other combatant, Elsie.

Her body would snap into position instantly, in front of Elsie, but with her body crouched, sinking her soul into place as she arrived. With less than five meters between any of them, and only seven meters between Elsie and Lilium, Shango's crouching form spun clockwise, her right leg spinning to crash into both of the girls ankles with the spin and take her off of her feet. This would occur as the other kunoichi, Lilium, would still be mid-recovery from her own assault, bringing Shango face to face with Lilium once more.

The flesh of her right arm had been twitching the entire time, preparing itself to shift. It made the necessary changes inside, under the surface, out of sight of the two kunoichi, though the arm still looked normal, the hand with its knuckles slightly bent, bracing. Her senses were focused on Elsie immediately to her rear, and Lilium seven meters to the front of her was being watched by Shango's multi-colored eyes. They lit with soul energy, to allow her to better track her opponents movements. She braced for reaction from behind, and the front, her chakra building slowly to the brink of transformation.

[/b], soul shunt, improved unarmed strike, dodge, mobility, eyes of the planes, unknown tech prep

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[Not a Doctor]

Lilium wasn't expecting much out of the girl that was just meters in front of her. She really didn't expect the girl to be a shinobi, so her rolling back to kick her in the chest before she drew her sword was definitely a surprise. It actually managed to stop her in her tracks. As the girls feet got closer to her, a swift pivot to the left helped her avoid the kick quite easily. During the pivot she had drawn her sword, just the way she had trained.

She actually didn't hesitate even for a moment though. Adrenaline was coursing through her veins. Excitement pounding in the back of her mind. She immediately raised her blade, the tip of the blade aimed at the throat of the kunoichi. Her back hand on the pommel of her sword. Her right hand holding the center of it. Both of her thumbs pointed forward. It was in the kunoichi's best interest to avoid being in close proximity to her.

In the very moment that she dodged, drew her blade, and took her stance; Lilium raised her blade over her head and then lunged forward, swing the blade down on the kunoichi. Of course she didn't know that the kunoichi would be using her soul to move, but having evaded the attack and counter attacked, she must have stopped everything from that point from taking place. If not, then her swing would of course hit nothing.

She didn't particularly aim at anything. She just wanted to land a strike. So instead of aiming for something that would kill, she was trying to lob one of the girls legs off. After her attack, she would remain in her stance. This was all if the girl didn't disappear from her sight.

If everything remained the same, the moment the kunoichi soul shunted, Lilium would catch the commotion just seven meters from where she was. That was where there was another kunoichi that was being targeted by the first one. Soon after attacking that one head on, she tried some spinning kick maneuver. This types of things hardly meant damage, but she still wasn't looking to take any sort of damage. So as the girl's leg came at her, she lowered the tip of her blade in order to block the attack.

This of course would cause the girl to lose the leg that she tried to kick her with. Lilium licked her lips and the only other thing she could think of doing was going for the kill. The girl's onslaught excited her beyond imagination. At this point, she just quickly shot her sword down, aiming at the neck of the Shango, attempting to end the battle once and for all. Though, she wouldn't end it here with Shango. She would move on to the other kunoichi as well.

The spar was meant to be friendly, but Lilium didn't give two shits. She wanted blood.

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Shapeless dodge
Heaven: Speed Step
Heaven: Blocking Technique (point down)
Heaven: Basic Strikes

[Elsie]

Elise realised very swiftly that she could be out of her league here with the speed that the first kunoichi struck. Having not been the first to be targeted, Elise backed up, jumping back so she stood atleast twelve meters away from the other two girls, hopefully breaking up the pattern of attack from coming her way. Elsie was a long distance fighter at best, and she couldn't wait to gain her wings and be out of range of most people's taijutsu.

Hoping to be far enough out of range, Elsie spat out two lumps of clay, creating two dragons, the first of which was charged as a flash bang, and the other as a pair of concussion bomb. Neither of them were particularly harmful techniques but they could do the job if her planning worked. She bought the three dragons to life and each one perched on her shoulder, Els tried to time to right so she could run forward two meters and shunshin in, leaving the two dragon bombs and shunning out the same instant. The moment she left, the pair of dragons flew up so they were 5 meters off the ground and flying to just behind an opponent each, and Elsie triggered the flash bang left betweenthe other two.

With the flash bang going off, the two should be blinded for 3 seconds and disorientated for 2 if afflicted allowing Elsie to trigger the second bomb to explode and force the two together and into the floor. During this moment Elsie would turn to face the other two, prepping a technique to aim at the first one to make a move at her.

Shinshin: 2/3

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“Flash Bang”
Rank: D-ranked
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Creates a clay bomb that can blind its enemies.
Special: Refer to “Katsu”
Consumes 1 slot for one mouth.
(Maximum size: small sized creature)
(Maximum amount: 1 creature for one slot used)
Drawback: Time and preparation. Non-lethal
Description: After molding and infusing a piece of clay, the user may form any creature they wish from the clay (spiders, birds, etc. Small size). This clay creation moves about, fulfilling the users desires. Upon command, this clay creature will explode, leaving a blinding light in its wake. This flash of light is similar to any normal “Light bombs” but somewhat weaker. The flash only covers a 5-meter radius, and blinds its enemies for less then 3 seconds, and slightly dazed afterwards for 2 seconds. The explosion does not harm enemies what so ever.
Limit: Must know "Katsu", Kuchisaki Seichuu (Mouth Control) at least once, D-ranked "Touji Hyu-zu" (Clay Infusion) and D-ranked "Touji Itonami "(Clay Life)

“Concussion Bomb”
Rank: D-rank
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Powerful wind released from a clay bomb
Special: Refer to “Katsu”.
Consumes 1 slot, for one mouth.
(Maximum size: small sized creature)
(Maximum amounts: 2 creatures for one slot used)
Drawback: Time and preparation. Does not harm
Description: After molding and infusing a piece of clay, the user may form any creature they wish from the clay (spiders, birds, etc. Small size). This clay creation moves about, fulfilling the users desires. Upon command, this clay creature burst violently, but in a non-lethal fashion. From the burst of the clay creature, a powerful wind is released instead of an explosion. This wind covers a radius of 10 meters, and can knock down any unsafely secured items, sway trees about and kick up little debris. When contact is made with an enemy, the burst may knock them off balance, or feel like the equivalent of a hard punch (if used correctly). Anything beyond 10 meters will just feel the strong wind
Limit: Must know "Katsu", Kuchisaki Seichuu (Mouth Control) at least once, D-ranked "Touji Hyu-zu" (Clay Infusion) and D-ranked "Touji Itonami "(Clay Life)

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Through Lilium's own admission, she did not expect Shango to be a shinobi, did not expect to be attacked, and wasn't expecting much out of her to begin with. As Lilium was incapable of performing a technique in the first round of combat, she would not already be in the heaven shapeless dodge stance when she was attacked by Shango. Because she was not in the stance, and did not expect to be attacked, it was simply absolutely unfeasible that Lilium could 'easily' avoid her attack, as she would have to expend time actually getting into her stance in order to gain its benefits, and the first move Shango made was to kick her. As the only move that she made to avoid the attack was attempting to both pivot to the left and draw her blade at the same time, each of which taking separate movements as well, it was a manner of Shango performing one movement while Lilium was attempting to perform three.

In order to pivot in time to avoid the attack, she would have to be able to have the benefits of a stance it would also take her time to get into. Due to her own actions, it was actually impossible for her to avoid being struck by Shango's feet, though they would likely impact the drawn blade before it fully escaped its sheathe, preventing any real damage, but pushing the girl back a bit. Considering Shango was gone an instant after, and had gone to the location of a person that Lilium had literally not even acknowledged existing before suddenly tracing an untraceable movement to find, acknowledging as a combatant, and then also ignoring, Lilium's subsequent 2 wasted movements of lunging forwards and swinging with her blade would meet nothing. Being somehow tracked and followed, and also responding to Shango's attack on Elsie as if it had targeted Lilium, placed Lilium somehow directly in front of Elsie with another movement. Using her remaining 1 of 7 movements, Lilium would lower her leg to block the kick that was intended for Elsie with her sword for some reason.

The maximum distance Elsie would be able to jump was ten meters, and since she would not attempt to stop her retreat or perform her techniques until she was at least twelve meters away from 'both' girls, considering that Shango had been moving to be in nearly the same position Elsie began in, Elsie would not have only five meters to travel (added to the seven meters that are between me and Lillium only), but the full twelve, in order to reach her specified distance. Though she would be able to jump back ten full meters to avoid the attack, she had no warning it was coming, no signaling of high speed movement being performed, no reason to assume she was going to be attacked, and no legitimate reason to back up at all, outside of the natural instincts of a long range fighter.

Of course, if Elsie saw Shango attack Lillium, considering that Shango's next instantaneous movement would be arriving in front of Elsie, she would have next to no time to even complete jumping back. Of course, it was easy now to tell that Elsie was a long range fighter, that she was attempting to create distance between them to better suit this purpose, and that she seemed to be able to gauge somewhere around the accurate distance of Shango's high speed movements. Of course, none of this would lead to her having the capability to perfectly evade the attack that she had not even acknowledged happening or seeing.

The earliest she could have made the jump backwards was after seeing Shango make contact with Lilium, and making the decision to jump back. Meaning that by the time Shango was in front of Elsie, moving to sweep her legs out from under her, Elsie would be, if she had absolutely the best reaction time in the world, lifting off of her feet to jump. This would mean she would have had to begin the movement of jumping back AFTER Shango had already arrived within her threat range, instigating an opportunity of attack for immediately fleeing it. Elsie would also have another two meters to cover after landing before forming her techniques, a distance she would have to cover at a much slower pace than her previous instant reaction.

Before her leap away could be completed, Shango would crash her own leg, which, having already begun spinning for the initial attack, was in the perfect position to do so, into the left ankle of the girl at a time when she would be a bit too preoccupied to counter. She would pitch the angle and weight of the attack downwards, driving Elsie's right ankle into the left one, and ruining her ability to adequately perform her jump back. This would have the added effect of occurring in timing with Lilium's blocking movement, which would move Shango's limb out of harms way and push Elsie's body into the path of the sword instead. As Lilium had already expended all the movements afforded a C Rank Taijutsu Master, she would quite literally have to sit and watch everything else that occurred during the turn.

Shango's right arm had been preparing to transform this entire time, and it would not remain idle, nor would her left arm. The right arm, as she had spent the previous time preparing the bulk of its shifting, would expand into a massive chain, her Mabuki weapon form partial change whose length easily dwarfed Elsie's waifish frame. Having already bent her fingers in preparation as well, Shango's massive chain-hand would now descend over Elsie's throat and chest area, fingers expanded into thick metal chains, while she would be attempting to recover from the shock of being knocked out of her jump. Shango would allow the girl to cover the remaining 12 meters she needed with the chain securely and tightly around the girls neck now, securing its grip by trailing her movements, still cautious of Lilium's position. She would arrive only one meter away from the girl, avoiding her retaliation by constricting the chain but not impeding her performance of handseals, with her transformed hand-chain firmly wrapped around Elsie's throat.  She watched Elsie create strange creations, but avoided the strange projectiles she weaved by throttling or whipping the chain that bound them.  She would knock them back into the girls face, or behind her, if they got too close to her, before they could explode, especially considering she could see the seal the girl needed to perform to further activate them.  Lilium, sandwiched between them and having just sliced into Elsie's own lower body, would be dragged along for the ride, maintaining her distance as well.

Her normal left hand was quite busy simultaneously. With one hand, Shango performed the seals necessary to lengthen and strengthen her long hair, pulling her left arm into herself in a tight ball immediately after to avoid the shell of chakra aided growth. Surrounding her, and spread out thick enough to impact both girls simultaneously, she would become a hedgehog-like ball of metal-sharp spikes that would drive downwards into both girls as she settled.

The spikes were more for defense than anything, while within the ball, Shango's chain arm returned to her flesh, and she curled into herself, becoming smaller, staring out with soul-lit eyes.  The hair growth had curved around the chain that was still in her right hand, and it would pull Elsie as Shango grew smaller and drew the chain inwards, most likely ending with her skin pressed against the Hari Jizo shell.  Shango observed her opponents carefully through her defensive wall, monitoring the damage she had already caused them.

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1 Day over the 48hr IIC for the mission. Neuro is skipped, though i believe he may be discontinuing with this character. Elsie its your post.

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12hrs past 48hr IIC for the mission. Elsie is skipped. My post.

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Neither girl offered any defense, sustaining maximum damage from her assaults, a critical hit on both of them. Elsie's small frame would be left choking, held against the hardened shell of the hari jizo, while Lilium would lay held underneath it. Elsie's leg would be bleeding severely from being rammed into Lilium's blade, which was now being forced upwards by her prone position, into Elsie's gut. With Elsie's movements constricted by the chain and with Lilium's grip held fast beneath the dome of spiked hair, she utilized her command of the shadow release, molding it into form quickly without handseals, causing the nearby shadows cast by both her adversaries bodies to leap up into spectral weapon chains.

These chains would seem to help further restrict the girls' movements, spiraling into place around first Elsie, then Lilium's non-dominant arms in place, awkwardly and severely bent, so that a hand mouth was pressed directly against Lilium's own free hand. The actual constricting was facilitated by Shango's real chain form, though it seemed to be bolstered by the appearance of the shadow chains, which clung to Shango's demonic weapon form instead of directly making contact with Elsie or Lilium. Shango then completed the transformation her body had begun shifting into. Around the loop securing Elsie's neck, a gauntlet appeared, its grip securing into place around her throat within instants. Around Lilium's throat too, another gauntlet had formed.

It too would grip at her throat, its fingers closing in to constrict the airways. Connecting the two gauntlets was long chain. The rest of Shango's body was gone, including her hair. The chain looped out, wrapping itself even more tightly around the girl's throats and heads, binding them together, back to back, covering their mouths and eyes. They were held together so tightly that neither Elsie's right arm nor Lilium's left arm could move, preventing them from performing handseals. If they did not free themselves soon, they would be rendered unconscious.

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Doing absolutely nothing to stop her, both girls were shortly thereafter rendered unconscious. Shango transformed back into her human body and default appearance. She carefully examine each girl, and would remove every single item, ryo, and bit of clothing and gear that they owned, including the girl's strange clay. Helpless and incapable of stopping her, the unconscious girls who had wasted her time would pay dearly, and literally. Having secured everything the two owned onto her own person, Shango would quickly leave the area, and the two butt naked girls, vanishing into the mist.

exit After Looting Both.
Mission Complete x2

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Name: Friendly Spar
Rank: C / D
IIC Length: 24 hours
Difficulty: Moderate
Description: In an effort to help make sure all the village shinobi are well trained and able to help one another out, the Mizukage has requested for shinobi to spar with one another. So that those who may not be as well trained can learn their weaknesses and train to better protect themselves. - Winners receive a C rank credit, losers a D rank - The thread will always ever be NDE and cannot fight the same person (for this mission) until 7 ooc days after the mission ended
Objective: Spar with a fellow Mist (PC) shinobi, observed by a member of the AnBu or the kagé.
Reward: 38,500 Ryo / 19,250 ryo

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You need to ask your kage for this!

[Cadoc]

Aug 14, 2018 13:49:02 GMT -7 snowflake said:

You need to ask your kage for this!

I see no mechanical reason per the rules to prevent this. You have posted your attempt of stealing their items and they have not responded in the allotted time, therefore as far as I'm concerned you can loot them per your post. Please post again confirming this action as you leave.

Be aware that this is a crime as per our cbox discussion, and that they could challenge you at a later date for the items. Also, the only items that you will be able to loot are those specifically mentioned as being theirs in this thread.

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Without being stopped, she competed her quick search of the scarcely dressed duo and would take her leave of them, with their items and ryo in tow.

[exit w/]

+ 21,100 Ryo
+ Sword, Longsword (Masterwork)
+ Pouch, Utility x1
+ Kunai x12
+ Flavored Sankuchi Clay x80 Slots
+ Clay Pouch x2
+ Kirigakure Headband x2

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Timeout!!!!

What mean is. Cadoc is a Kage so he can add your ryo.
You can't get headbands as an actual item unless you take them from another PC ninja. Items that have a masterwork also need to be crafted by Pc ninja unless approved via an event.

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Um...they are PC ninja.

Um....the masterwork sword is because Lilium has the chosen one trait, and mentioned having it on her person  snowflake

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Oh I see!

My bad I simply assumed you were doing a mission together. If you are taking their stuff then yeah. Looting approved

[Cadoc]

Aug 15, 2018 10:21:18 GMT -7 Xango said:

Without being stopped, she competed her quick search of the scarcely dressed duo and would take her leave of them, with their items and ryo in tow.

[exit w/]

+ 21,100 Ryo
+ Sword, Longsword (Masterwork)
+ Pouch, Utility x1
+ Kunai x12
+ Flavored Sankuchi Clay x80 Slots
+ Clay Pouch x2
+ Kirigakure Headband x2

5,500 opening ryo
26600 closing ryo