Normal Everyday School Life [Training]

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Appraisal (Gems & Jewelry)
Rank: "E"
Skill: Academia Skill
Effect: User can evaluate the monetary value of an object.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Relevant Abilities: Intelligence Skill. Die Rolls: 5 Die Rolls. Check Requirement: Always. Appraisal provides the ability to estimate the value of items in certain categories. Appraisers can estimate an item's inherent quality (compared to typical items) and current market price. An estimate's accuracy depends on the skill level—the best appraisers know an item's every nuance as well as market fluctuations. Appraisers cannot detect if an item is Chakra or the degree to which a superior piece of Armour or Weaponry may aid its user in combat (i.e., its "+" to attack or defense). However, since most Chakra items and superior quality arms and armour are meticulously crafted, the appraiser can make eerily accurate guesses... A successful check can also reveal counterfeit or fake items. Synergy: A user with Craft gives a +5 per Mastery Level Synergy Bonus to checks related to items made with that Craft skill. Some practical applications of Appraisal follow:
Limit: Must learn from Skills.

0/5, Able Learner



Time, mid afternoon. Class, Home Economics. Titania Lemegeton, Emmisary of the Wolf, ninth seat of twenty in Class C. Can't be helped, it was a luck of the draw thing. Although Titania bad wanted to pursue a mundane education, somehow it ended up like this. But she supposed that was only natural in a society such as the Sand Village. The school was a Military-run establishment! The instructor was a member of the ANBU corps, Owl divsion. Basically, the youngest Chuunin in the history of the Village had no way of hiding her identity from the faculty, and all eyes were on her.

This was not inherently a problem, and ordinarily she would relish the opportunity to continue to impress the brass, but something in her heart had compelled her to seek out a 'normal girl' experience. The fact that she had been stymied frustrated her. The current lesson was however a valuable one. Quite literally, it was about valuables. Things that in case of emergency may serve as collateral for funding, or even as a substitute currency altogether. In other words, metal adornments or precious stones.

A simple silver ring, if well maintained, could sell for enough ryo to purchase food and lodging for a day or two, maybe more. Something rarer like a ruby could, to the right customer, be worth a small fortune - or a large favor. Jewels such as that were of great value to those with arcane leanings, ritualists and alchemists primarily.

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0/5, Able Learner

Apparently some backwards cultures traded in metallic coinage instead of the efficient and space-effective Ryo bills, largely in the same materials that adornments and jewelry were crafted from.

Such trade often existed in multiplicative tiers of some kind, for ease of use. A specific amount of one currency could be traded for one unit of another currency, and then the same amount could be exchanged for yet another currency. In this way, a consistent exchage rate allowed for mathematical reliability. Paper bills didn't need anything that complicated though.

The average gold coin had a value roughly equal to one thousand ryo, give or take, though purer gold or larger coinage could increase the value, while the opposite could decrease it. Commonly Silver was the immediate lower denomination, at ten silver to a gold, making it worth roughly one hundred ryo. Silver and gold were extremely common. Sometimes platinum was used after gold, at ten thousand ryo each, or sometimes copper would be used before silver at around ten ryo, but both were significantly less commonly circulated.