Asami's training

[Asami]

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Mobility

Rank: "D"

Skill: TaiJutsu

Effect: User can easily move through a dangerous melee.

Special: ---

Drawback: ---

Description: User gets a +4 Dodge bonus against opportunity of attacks caused when the user moves out or within a threatening area. A Condition that makes the user lose their Minor Defenses also makes the user lose Dodge bonuses. At "C" Class user gains +1 bonus to Dodge. At "B" Class user gains a +1 bonus to Dodge.

Limit: Universal TaiJutsu Technique. Must know Dodge

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Sigh

A motion, and expulsion of air all too heavy for a girl her size escaped her. She saw it in his eyes the instant her green met his steel grey. The training was gonna get worse. Much, much worse, and graduating from the academy was not a free pas. As soon as the festivities from the rest of her family had ceased they would begin. For a good hour she was hugged and congratulated, she was given gifts of weapons, an bags even a medical bag filled with first aid equipment and some specialized equipment from her Stepdad. She smiled and laughed trying to forget the knot in her stomach that only grew worse with time.

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Finally, after dinner everyone was gone and Asami now stood with her stepdad on the patch of grass they called a garden fully equipped, except for her tonfas, which he had scoffed at and told her to keep in her room. "A medical shinobi does not attack, does not fight. If you want to waste your time with sticks, that will be on your own time. This is survival training." And so it would be.

He stood, holding no weapon himself yet Asami knew he could deliver devastating attacks with just those hands of his. She was not fooled. "Move past me." She looked up surprised, but dared not ask the question on her tongue, and instead bit down her lower lip to swallow it. With her green eyes narrowed suspiciously, she cautiously moved closer to him, ready to jump back with a moments notice. So when his muscles twitched before his arm came swinging, that is indeed what she did, only to be rewarded with a second hard slap on her right cheek that sent her tumbling. "I Said! Move. Past. Me." His tone was deceptively calm, but had gained the dangerous edge, that told her she had done very wrong. If her throbbing red print of his hand was no indication. She looked up at him with anger and hate, but knew there was no helping it, so she took her own hand away, which had by reflex risen up to cup her cheek protectively and rose to her feet. 

"You stay on the ground. Like water around a rock, you weave past me." Easier said than done. Yet as nice as he could be, as he once was before the training started, as deaf to her plights did he become once the training started, so there was no telling him that unless she wanted to receive a punishment veiled as even harder training. So she moved slowly carefully closer to him, trying to pay attention to the movement of this man, standing almost still as a rock. She docked under his first punch, gaining a nod she didn't see as she suddenly went flying once again, only halfway having her arms up in a futile block, which he bulled through with ease. Her knee had scraped against the dirt, and she came up gasping for air from the clean hit in her solar plexus, which had blown the wind out of her.

"Never take your eyes off the enemy. Always be ready for another hit. Never move yourself into a disadvantageous position. AGAIN!" 

She massaged the sore spot, and inhaled deeply a few times as she moved, knowing that he would not grant her time to recuperate. She was ready for the combination blow this time, and got just a single step behind him, only to be awarded by a kick that sent her pummeling straight down into the grass headfirst, her vision swimming for a moment by the force behind it. Shocked she looked back up into his relentless face that showed no remorse. He had never kicked her before. Never! And then realization dawned on her, just how advanced this useless peace of cloth with a plate on it signified. She felt no stronger than yesterday, nor faster, or smarter, she felt like the academy had only taught her a few things that would save her life in the missions to come, and none that would help him against this man, as he had made it very clear once she began, that unless he stated otherwise no ninjutsu techniques would be used in his sessions.

"You took your eyes off me. AGAIN!"

She got up on shaking feet, and was graciously allowed to move back to her spot to start anew. And this time, she felt an ember of heat ignite in her belly. She moved faster now, and managed to block his first hit with an arm that would have broken a few years back, but this time she could see in his expression that she had shocked him with the force. She had been forced to train her arm strength, when she learned to block with the tonfa, and even if she had no protective wood between her arm and his now, she used the same technique. He moved his other arm to swing, one she weaved under, her arms moved into blocking position both above and below, while she quickly got up again, and turned slightly to keep him in her vision at all times. Yet she was not quite fast enough to keep her defenses up as she found her footing once more, and was rewarded with a push in her torso, forceful enough to knock her back, even as she had managed to move a fraction of an inch to make the impact less powerful. She kept standing this time though, the ember in her belly having grown to a full fledged fire.

"Too Slow. Again!"

She raced towards him, now more focused on hurting him as she would pass him, and attempt that was met with swift justice and two kicks, one to sweep the legs out from under her, and one that sent her tumbling through the grass only to lie still for a while. "Do not let your anger cloud your judgement. Again!"

She did not hear him anymore. She whimpered but rose once more, holding her abdomen which would sport a big purple bruise in the morning, and moved once more, though more tenderly to account for the pain that was now shooting through her in waves from that last kick. She had noticed long ago, that he didn't use the same sequences, so she could never anticipate where his hit would be, so she had to be observant, nurse the fire in her belly that only grew, but feed it to her brain and not her muscles. And she found that zen. Where the feeling of grass tickling her feet because it needed to be cut didn't matter. The winter frost biting at her skin didn't matter, nor the delicious smell of her mom's cooking that played in her nose. Only he did. Only his movements his tell mattered, and after tentatively blocking the first punch, he movements got gradually more confident and filled with purpose. She would pay him back. Pay him back by getting past him, and she dodged and blocked the hits that came her way, focusing on maintaining speed and precision, as she slowly turned to circle him until finally she stood three steps away from him, and he lowered his arms. 

For a moment she stood there in bafflement. Arms still raised in defense, not really understanding what was happening, but then it dawned on her. She had done it. She had somehow, successfully moved past him, a dangerous man, holding nothing back, and not giving her an inch. A rushing thought made her look at his feet and she realized with horror, that he had not moved a single step. Of course she had not learned to dish out any punches yet, except what they had been taught in the academy, but for all her weaving and ducking, for all her blocking, and trying to direct his punches, she had not been able to make him more. *Like a rock!* 

[Flower]

Easily learned +10 tp

You can do less than this if you want, but loving the writing.

[Asami]

((Thanks ^^

I might do less per post, once I have to do multiple posts, but even if the technique is of low rank, I still feel like I need to show how difficult it is to learn for my character, if I have any inspiration for the writing ^^))

Observation
Rank: "E"
Skill: Sophisticated Skill
Effect: User's senses allow the user to notice find details and alert the user to danger.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Relevant Abilities: Perception Skill. Die Rolls: 1 Die Roll. Check Requirement: Game Master/Described. This skill focuses certain powers of observation - sight, smell, hearing, and touch. A failed check indicates that the character is oblivious until the thing is pointed out to him. This skill is important for ferreting out advancing enemies or ambushes, generally real-time events and actions occurring, versus scrutiny, which covers static objects or areas. A Game Master may roll an Observation skill check for the Character any time there is an NPC, creature, event or happening that a character might notice, even if they did not specifically state that they are monitoring their surroundings. Characters are capable of noticing any event within their perception; this skill will typically be used as a competing check against another's attempt to avoid detection (stealth, etc). Observation reveals only facts, not motivation. Some practical applications of Observation follow:
Limit: Must learn from Skills.

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A little later Asami entered into the medical facility for a impromptu training session. A messenger bird had arrived to her house with a note saying a time and the place she should arrive. Still sore from the earlier training, walking carefully to not move her abdomen too much, and irritate the big angry and purple bruise hidden underneath her outfit. Her right jaw was a bit swollen, sporting a red angry mark, darkening by the hour. Yet there was a light bounce in her step, and a tiny smile on her lips as she entered the door into the basement of the hospital walking down into the dank and chilly darkness.

She was greeted by a short and thin doctor, short hair and a solemn expression that in no way fit her pixie face. Yet Asami knew this teacher very well by now, and enjoyed her sessions with her. She had been the one to teach Asami about detecting and delaying poisons, together with general knowledge on atonomy. A patient teacher, who took her work very seriously, and expected the same in her pupils. Asami who had been taught to strive towards perfection only found the gentle patience behind that hard no nonsense exterior a pleasant change of pace from her step dad.

“Welcome. You have worked diligently, and have learned much in your time with us, but there is one thing a medic of your training should know, and yet the possibility have not presented itself until now.” The small woman gestured with a hand to a nearby metal table, steril and cold on which there lay a naked obese man with a simple white cloth hiding his lower body, middle aged and balding. Asami stopped dead in her tracks when she got closer and realized that there was no ‘is’ about this man. Because he was dead. Thankfully the short medic by her side had done this many times, and had kept an eye on her expression, so she instantly explained.

”This body was donated to us for teaching and research purposes. To handle dead bodies, and gain information from them is a valuable and important skill to have for a doctor of any kind, more so for a field medic as you have been cleared for. Normally you would not have been given permission until you have familiarized yourself with this, but we have not had any available until now, and you displayed the necessary skills in other subjects. Now. Grab a scalpel, open him up and tell me what you see.”

Asami bit her lower lip in an act of insecurity and took a deep breath, smelling the disinfectant that was a constant in the entire hospital, but in this room it also served to mask the more subtle and underlying smell of death that clung to the air, and was always present. she stepped closer to the table, and rose onto a small step put in place especially for training small people like Asami. Looking down at the corpse she took a moment to get her bearing and experience the corpse. Everything from how the folds in the linnen suggested the man was even more obese than she first calculated, to the greying hair that completely veiled the chest from sight, waving in the slight breeze that came from the air conditioning that circulated the air around in the room and keeping it chilled. It was the subtly moving hair that had thrown her off at first and made her believe that he was still alive.

Yet now the paleness of a body struck her, the oddly stiff way in which the body lay, how utterly unmoving it was in a way that could never again be mistaken for having life. The double chin so clearly visible even as he was lying down, should be always moving in some way or another, yet it had gained some spots, the veins showing even more coldly blue through the skin, colouring him in rigor mortis. The smell of death clung to him like a fog, the subtly too sweet whiff that tickled the back of her throat and made her dinner move around inside her in protest. No. She would never forget what she had learned already.

[Flower]

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That's fine by me! Just so you know, typically you need three good paragraphs or more for 10 tp posts and 1 good paragraph for 5 tp posts. But you're doing great!

[Asami]

Autopsy
Rank: "E"
Skill: Sophisticated Skill
Effect: An autopsy is a highly specialized surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause and manner of death.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Relevant Abilities: Intelligence Skill. Die Rolls: 5 Die Rolls. Check Requirement: Game Master/Normal. By combining medical knowledge with alchemical techniques, it is possible to gain a significant amount of information from a corpse without the use of Chakra. Autopsy forms the basis of forensic pathology, but DNA Analysis allows the user to test the characteristics of blood and is required for certain advanced actions. The table below indicates the type of information that can be gained with an Autopsy check (the check is made in secret by the Game Master), along with the Difficulty of the check. Performing an autopsy requires approximately 3 hours. At the end of this time, the user can make two checks (typically cause of death and examining the injury that caused death). Each additional check takes an additional thirty minutes to perform. User cannot try again after a failed roll. If user misses the check by 50 or more points user may come to a false conclusion, otherwise user will just be unable to obtain any useful information. Some practical applications of Autopsy follow:
Limit: Must learn from Skills. Must know First Aid: Healing.

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The steady presence behind her, didn’t rush her in any way, and showed no sign of impatience when Asami finally took up the scalpel with her right hand, and moved to touch the body with her left. Her hand was shaking a bit as she readied herself to cut into the flesh, and she froze for a moment to steady her nerves. ”Good. Never start a job you are not prepared to finish. And shaky nerves and hands are a doctor’s worst nightmare. If you want to be able to perform surgery in the future you will need to familiarize yourself both with cutting into flesh, and keep any stress from entering your body. Take a moment. Calm yourself. And begin when you are ready.”

Listening to the calm monotone voice Asami controlled her breathing forced herself to experience everything her senses could take from the man, and visualized herself cutting into him, the worst case scenario, the expected result and what could go wrong. It took even more time, but she felt that it was okay to spend time making absolutely sure she had fought down the vomit before beginning. And then her hand stopped shaking, a calm settled over her as she focused on what she wanted to achieve from this, and she could finally start cutting.

”First you need to do the right cut. A y-section from collarbone to collarbone, and one straight path down the middle. Be careful to do it right.”

She felt the woman’s eyes on her every movement as she rested the scalpel down and exhaled as she pressed down, slowly carefully. Nothing happened. She pressed a bit harder, and suddenly she heard the screeching of metal on something hard, and felt the scalpel dig into the same. The bone. Burning with shame she wriggled the scalpel free not wanting to see the disapproving look on her teacher’s face, but heard it in her voice nonetheless. ”You have to find the right pressure to apply. Try again, the other side.”

[Asami]

Autopsy
Rank: "E"
Skill: Sophisticated Skill
Effect: An autopsy is a highly specialized surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause and manner of death.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Relevant Abilities: Intelligence Skill. Die Rolls: 5 Die Rolls. Check Requirement: Game Master/Normal. By combining medical knowledge with alchemical techniques, it is possible to gain a significant amount of information from a corpse without the use of Chakra. Autopsy forms the basis of forensic pathology, but DNA Analysis allows the user to test the characteristics of blood and is required for certain advanced actions. The table below indicates the type of information that can be gained with an Autopsy check (the check is made in secret by the Game Master), along with the Difficulty of the check. Performing an autopsy requires approximately 3 hours. At the end of this time, the user can make two checks (typically cause of death and examining the injury that caused death). Each additional check takes an additional thirty minutes to perform. User cannot try again after a failed roll. If user misses the check by 50 or more points user may come to a false conclusion, otherwise user will just be unable to obtain any useful information. Some practical applications of Autopsy follow:
Limit: Must learn from Skills. Must know First Aid: Healing.

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Feeling the calm radiating from the medic behind her Asami would breathe out a shaky breath, before slowly placing the scalpel onto the skin, slowly applying the pressure until she broke the skin. Being mindful of just feeling how the scalpel moved in her hand, of the specific strength needed to break the skin, and how different it was cutting into a human being than a small animal which was how she had been taught to heal so far. But this was equally important. She knew they would not teach her to operate on people before she had cleared this stage, as cutting into a person takes precision, temperance and efficiency. One wrong move, a cut just an inch too deep, and she could kill someone. And while she couldn’t kill someone who was already dead, she could destroy any use of this body, and would have to wait for another to gain anything useful from it, and thus would have to wait longer until she would be considered a proficient medic. The only reason she was allowed out in the field, was because her skills in the few fields that she did, was pretty advanced, and because there was a general lack of medical trained shinobi.



”Well done. Now it’s time to open him up completely. Pull the skin apart and find the bonesaw. you need to rid yourself of the ribs. And be careful. The risk to both yourself and the cadaver is quite real.” Carefully Asami took two gloved fingers and pulled the skin at one side apart to reveal the red side, and the gory view of the ribs. Her dinner turned in her stomach, threatening to get up once more, but she wouldn’t want to stop now. It was better to get it over with. She could always run home and puke her guts out before bed.



With careful and deliberate motions she picked up the bonesaw and a face shield, once all was ready. It hummed to life, electrical and whirred angrily in the air in front of her, the sound turning into a horrible cracking and filing of bone as she touched it on the ribs. Instantly she took it away and shut it down, fighting with the nausea and her mind now threatening to faint on her. How could anything sound like this? Indeed it was nothing like mending the broken bones of small animals nor dissecting insects. She simply could not forget that she was violating someone who was once alive. Had dreams, hopes and apparently liked food a lot.

[Asami]

Autopsy
Rank: "E"
Skill: Sophisticated Skill
Effect: An autopsy is a highly specialized surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause and manner of death.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Relevant Abilities: Intelligence Skill. Die Rolls: 5 Die Rolls. Check Requirement: Game Master/Normal. By combining medical knowledge with alchemical techniques, it is possible to gain a significant amount of information from a corpse without the use of Chakra. Autopsy forms the basis of forensic pathology, but DNA Analysis allows the user to test the characteristics of blood and is required for certain advanced actions. The table below indicates the type of information that can be gained with an Autopsy check (the check is made in secret by the Game Master), along with the Difficulty of the check. Performing an autopsy requires approximately 3 hours. At the end of this time, the user can make two checks (typically cause of death and examining the injury that caused death). Each additional check takes an additional thirty minutes to perform. User cannot try again after a failed roll. If user misses the check by 50 or more points user may come to a false conclusion, otherwise user will just be unable to obtain any useful information. Some practical applications of Autopsy follow:
Limit: Must learn from Skills. Must know First Aid: Healing.

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”If you cannot do it, now is the time to say so. There are doctors who do not learn to work with the dead, but it’s important we know so someone else can gain this opportunity.” The voice showed no signs of the woman losing her patience. Not a single tone had changed, or turned sharper, edgier, yet there was an intensity to it, like the woman was waiting for something. Was it for Asami to throw up or flunk? Maybe it was her to fail and bow out, realizing that she wasn’t cut out being a medic. That she couldn’t deal with the nature of the work expected of her.



Slowly Asami took deep breaths, holding her shaking hands close to her chest to regain control once more. ”I’ll be alright doctor. Please let me try again.” Her voice sounded weak and thin even to herself, but as she looked back the woman she was greeted with a nod. Again she took the electrical bonesaw and with her teeth gritted she started making the cuts needed to finally crack up this man. Mentally she kept focusing on the medic she would want to be, and that all knowledge would be needed to achieve her goal. One rib at a time she pushed down the nausea and tried to spot the best place to cut, to give her as much space to work with as possible. As she was done the doctor behind her stepped up to oversee her work. ”you need to work on your precision, with such a tool.” she extended a finger and pointed at a rib peace a bit too long, and continued with a calm voice. ”This here, might scratch you as you work. Remember till next time.” With her fingers she showed the exact spot where Asami should cut in the future, showing that Asami had only gotten one right. But definitely she had learned something already.

[Asami]

Autopsy
Rank: "E"
Skill: Sophisticated Skill
Effect: An autopsy is a highly specialized surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause and manner of death.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Relevant Abilities: Intelligence Skill. Die Rolls: 5 Die Rolls. Check Requirement: Game Master/Normal. By combining medical knowledge with alchemical techniques, it is possible to gain a significant amount of information from a corpse without the use of Chakra. Autopsy forms the basis of forensic pathology, but DNA Analysis allows the user to test the characteristics of blood and is required for certain advanced actions. The table below indicates the type of information that can be gained with an Autopsy check (the check is made in secret by the Game Master), along with the Difficulty of the check. Performing an autopsy requires approximately 3 hours. At the end of this time, the user can make two checks (typically cause of death and examining the injury that caused death). Each additional check takes an additional thirty minutes to perform. User cannot try again after a failed roll. If user misses the check by 50 or more points user may come to a false conclusion, otherwise user will just be unable to obtain any useful information. Some practical applications of Autopsy follow:
Limit: Must learn from Skills. Must know First Aid: Healing.

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”The time is almost up. Please open up the cadaver, and tell me what you can learn from it.”

Asami looked at the clock in shock. It was impossible to tell the time down here, and only now did she notice that she had spent two hours and yet had accomplished so little. She carefully took the cage up, having to pull hard and apply force before it snapped up and almost put her on the ground. Out the corner of her eyes, she noticed the woman tugging a smile on her lips, and realized it must have looked comical indeed as she was balancing on one leg with part of a ribcage above her head, threatening to pull her down. Now the examination could finally begin. She placed the big ribs in a tray close to her, and looked down. For a moment it was impossible for her to know where to begin. There was just so much! Sure, she had seen charts of the human body insides before, but it was so different in real life.


”Where do you think you should start?”
The voice showed to be a savior. Clearly she would know how difficult it is to get over that sight the first time, and her voice, jumpstarted Asami’s mind once more.
”The stomach. He clearly was an overeater.” A nod made her gulp down and move her hands to move things around a bit and look at the stomach. Then she would merticiously move to the heart and artery, where she would find a weird bubble. With a feeling of success and a smile to prove it, she turned around to look at the woman. ”The man died from a heart attack, caused by a blocked artery. Something which can indeed be caused by exercising too little." She was met with a smile, and a nod towards the clock. ”Well done. Now go home and get some sleep. We will call you if we get another corpse, but you passed the basic trial at least.”



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