Late Nights at the Office [Open Training]

[Ace Detective Nara]

-Late at night in the KMP forensic lab-

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1st Stage of Training: Familiarization With Points
Rank: "D"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User learns the general locations of all Kyusho-Jitsu points while gaining benefits to Autopsy.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The main thing in Kyusho-Jitsu is the knowledge of point location. Knowing the location of points and their activity at different time of the day, you may make a movement toward those points with your hand or leg and. A prerequisite of Kyusho-Jitsu. Must be known to learn any technique of Kyusho-Jitsu. Due to learning generalized area of points user gains +5 per Class Level to First Aid: Healing skill.
Limit: Must Learn from a Master of Kyusho-Jitsu.

Tetsu had been up all night mulling over the report files of Tarah Featherook. He was tired of it. He had spent much of his day working with paper and decided to pay the forensic lab a visit. This trip was not a leisurely trip, as he had to inspect some of the bodies recovered by from Tarah’s residence. She had been keeping them, using them to her own gain…which was disgusting at best. He had recently picked up a book on Kyusho Jitsu, the medical practice of pressure points, which he figured as an officer of the law it might be good to study. He entered the lab and inspected the bodies. They were certainly dead alright. One had a set of empty eye sockets; the blood limit having been removed for some reason or another. He saw the body as it was and decided, as he did the autopsy, that he would first use this opportunity to learn.

He looked over the body, putting on his lab coat and latex gloves as he felt the individual’s arms up and down. He could see that the chakra points on the chart seemed to line up with the physical points on the body. He gently pressed into the elbow, feeling the cluster of nerves there. The body had been preserved, but it was still not in good condition. The corpse was stiff. The book had been written to work with a living individual, which did not help Tetsu in this moment. He opened a notebook, scrawling some notes down about the body’s tension and presence before returning his attention to the Kyusho Jitsu text. He would have to feel the abdominal space next. The book seemed to indicate that there was a plethora of points located in the body’s center of mass. He wondered about this but was sure that this was indeed where a lot of striking was done.

A strike to the solar plexus or the liver could often be enough to put a man down. Tetsu knew this much but wondered why all these places on the chart seemed as if they wouldn’t cause any damage. The disruption to the body had to be done in a precise way, much like how a scalpel cut needed to be sharp and straight to not botch a surgery. Tetsu knew of this fact, but only in application to medicine. He was still a budding forensic analyst and was working to discover more by using the martial arts to further develop his skills. He would have to learn how to offensively apply these points so that he could eventually cause some serious damage and determent to his opponents without exerting and extreme about of effort. The laziest way to fight, not to mention how applicable it was in conjunctions with his Aiki-Jujitsu.

[Christoff]

+10 TP Learned

[Ace Detective Nara]

0/5

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.

TP:10
SP:59/125
+1 to roll (Physician)
+2 Dice (Able Learner)

The cold, unmoving corpses of the morgue always seemed to peaceful. Tetsu had spent much of his time in the cold tile room doing the forensic analysis on the bodies that came to the office. He was one of the few remaining officers with a medical certification and was often put to use in this way. The metal tray of tools held an assortment of scalps, bowls, bags, and clamps that he used periodically during the autopsy to be able to access and preserve all parts of the victim. It was about 2230 hours when a metal gurney was rolled into the medical suite by a pair of KMPD officers. They said nothing, the mangled face of the poor woman explaining why they had brought her to him. He stood up from his little stool and adjusted his lab coat. “Just put her here on the examination table, I’ll go ahead get scrubbed together...so that the evidence may maintain it’s integrity.” Tetsu explained as he walked into a side room where a sterile sink and a medical bib, face mask, and hair net resided.

He washed his hands, taking cursory glances at the body now being put into his laboratory. The woman seemingly had suffered from blunt force trauma to the head, but that was an obvious analysis. He would have to look more closely at the body to know more accurate details. He fastened his gloves and put on his bib as he wheeled over a supplementary cart with instruments of the trade. He first looked at the woman’s wrists, looking for bruising of sorts. Usually signs of a struggle begin in the hands and wrists, as they are the most likely to be grabbed pulled or beaten first. Tetsu noticed a small bone protrusion under the skin of the middle right metacarpal bone, often referred to as a boxer’s fracture. This, though not definitive, could be a sign of a struggle.

[Ace Detective Nara]

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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.

TP:10
SP:59/125
+1 to roll (Physician)
+2 Dice (Able Learner)

Tetsu next decided to run X-rays and take fluid samples before moving onto the dissection phase of the autopsy. These precursory tests would help him see what kind of bone based trauma had taken place. He rolled the corpse into the X-Ray machine, the radioactive camera began working its magic as Tetsu operated it at a distance. The body wouldn’t mind the radiation to be sure. After collecting the pictures, he moved onto the sample collection phase.

He pulled the body out of the lead lined chamber and began to look underneath the finger nails for any skin or blood samples that might have gotten trapped during a scuffle. As the X-ray pictures developed, he worked on his collection. It looked like there were some dried coagulated blood samples underneath the right hand of the woman, probably from scratching her attacker. This could prove to be valuable evidence. Tetsu gently scrapped the sample onto a microscope sample plate before placing it aside and labeling it (unknown blood sample FN A Right). He then checked her other areas for viable samples.

When he reached her nether regions, he could see that there was also intense hematomatic bruising on the upper thigh and private region. There was clear scarring in the region that also seemed to hold dried fluid samples that would have indicated sexual crimes in addition to the murder. He quietly collected his sample and appropriately labeled it before deciding that it was time to open the body. Evidence of the internal kind was hard to dispute.

[Ace Detective Nara]

0/5
Should be enough TP w/ bonuses to master. No rolls needed.

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.

TP:10
SP:59/125
+1 to roll (Physician)
+2 Dice (Able Learner)

it was time to open the body up. Tetsu did not relish this part of the investigation. He opted to use his finger’s chakra scalpel over a conventional tool as he focused the hand blade towards the body. He slowly preformed a long vertical incision down the body’s center line as well as doing an abdominal incision for easy access. As this was not a reparative surgery, Tetsu had little concern for the patience’s survivability as he cut into the flesh. He could see that coagulation had started maybe days prior to the autopsy that was now taking place. He slowly began to remove each organ from body, putting it in a corresponding container so that the contents could be inspected and tested individually. The brain and cranial cavity was extremely damaged, and this Tetsu had to handle these parts with care. Interestingly enough, he could tell, by the clogged arterial chambers, that the lack of blood had been the cause of death over the head trauma. When the trauma took place, the party in question had already been dead, as there was little signs of internal head bleeding, as would be the case with this type of trauma.

Tetsu configured that the difference in the time of death and discovery was to blame for this, as the perpetrator had most likely attempted to dispose of the body. This action of disposal had probably resulted in the head trauma that was acquired postmortem. Tetsu thought for a moment as he removed the stomach and emptied the contents into a platter for inspection. He ran the test vultures of the stomach, finding that there was indeed the presence of some foreign substance that might have been a poison of some kind. The official cause of death, from what tetsu could gather, was actually asphyxiation. This could have been caused by a poison, but also could have been the result of an allergic reaction to something else. He was unsure.

[Cadoc]

15tp 3 posts
Mastered
narutoforumrp.proboards.com/post/1111970/thread

[Ace Detective Nara]

0/10
0/125 SP
Able Learner (7 Die rolls)
Post 1/6

Alchemy
Rank: "D"
Skill: Artisan Skill
Effect: Users with this skill can combine strange ingredients in secret ways to make marvelous substances.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Relevant Abilities: Intelligence Skill. Die Rolls: 5 Die Rolls. Check Requirement: Always. Alchemy gives a character the ability to mix compounds and to know what those compounds do. An alchemist can mix up medicines and healing potions. The user can even mix a mean Long Island Iced Tea. Alchemists have long sought out to know the secrets of the world. For most other chemical mixtures, an alchemist can do the trick. Creating Items, the user must first have the ingredients which is listed in every creature, plant, mineral, and mixtures. Then the user must craft the item based on the item's Cost. Calculate 1/3 of item's cost. Write a crafting post equal to a Search Creature/Plant post. If a staff member is satisfied with the post a Craft check will be rolled. The staff member will roll a 1d100. Once the number is determined from the roll add the number to the user's skill plus any additional bonuses or penalties. Subtract the calculated bonus skill from the 1/3 price of the item. Continue with this process until you have reached 0. Once you have reached 0 you have created the item. Synergy: A user with Mathematics gives a +5 Mastery Level Synergy Bonus to Alchemy.
Limit: Must learn from Skills.

Tetsu took off his latex gloves and switched to a new pair as he prepared to do the toxicology test on the individual that he had been doing the autopsy on. He had taken a blood sample and prepared an iodine reactive dye that would become a deep blue color if the blood contained any foreign substances that activated an antibody reaction. He slowly lowered the sample into the vial with the dye, watching as the blood permeated the liquid. He watched carefully as the solution slowly turned a light violet color, indicating the presence of a caustic material. He sighed as he put it down on a beaker stand and thought to himself. There were often instances where intoxicated bodies were brought to his morgue, but why would that be? It was a common occurrence because of one simple fact.

Many deaths, at least recently, had all been drug induced overdoses. In each instance, Narcan had been used to revive the individual, this instance not excluded presumably. He figured it would be best to do a full blood scan. The deceased was not going to need the blood anyway, what harm could it do? Tetsu carefully took a syringe and created an IV port, trying to syphon off some of the slowly plating blood cells that were slow a stagnant now. Tetsu took a syringe and drew as much blood from the port as he could before removing it. He took the sample and slowly squirted some in a vial with a saline solution.

He watched the blood spread within the solution. He put the vial in the mixer, letting it spin the vial as he would run the liquid mixture though a couple of tests to see what kind of substances are detected. He waited for a moment, taking the mixture and eventually putting into the scanner. It came back with some interesting results. There was a presence of a narcotic drug and an amphetamine, but also that of wolfsbane another unknown toxin that he was unfamiliar with. The chemical compound seemed complexly related to methanol and had bonded with the blood in such a way that it had made it impossible for the blood to for coagulation. This was very likely the cause of death for this individual. How interesting. Tetsu’s skills with alchemy would have to improve if he was going to understand not only the detection of drugs, but also understand toxins and how they worked.

[Ace Detective Nara]

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Post 2/6

Alchemy
Rank: "D"
Skill: Artisan Skill
Effect: Users with this skill can combine strange ingredients in secret ways to make marvelous substances.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Relevant Abilities: Intelligence Skill. Die Rolls: 5 Die Rolls. Check Requirement: Always. Alchemy gives a character the ability to mix compounds and to know what those compounds do. An alchemist can mix up medicines and healing potions. The user can even mix a mean Long Island Iced Tea. Alchemists have long sought out to know the secrets of the world. For most other chemical mixtures, an alchemist can do the trick. Creating Items, the user must first have the ingredients which is listed in every creature, plant, mineral, and mixtures. Then the user must craft the item based on the item's Cost. Calculate 1/3 of item's cost. Write a crafting post equal to a Search Creature/Plant post. If a staff member is satisfied with the post a Craft check will be rolled. The staff member will roll a 1d100. Once the number is determined from the roll add the number to the user's skill plus any additional bonuses or penalties. Subtract the calculated bonus skill from the 1/3 price of the item. Continue with this process until you have reached 0. Once you have reached 0 you have created the item. Synergy: A user with Mathematics gives a +5 Mastery Level Synergy Bonus to Alchemy.
Limit: Must learn from Skills.

Tetsu put the sample aside and contemplated making a neutralizer, that would work much like Narcan does with narcotics, but to work in tandem with such a mixture to stop the affects of amphetamines. He put the sample aside for a moment, looking at the compound that he was working with Diethazine, which had an interesting chemical structure. Tetsu took the compound and attempted to see what would convince the molecules to bond separately. He took some alcohol and attempted to mix it in with the mixture to test the reaction. Both substances were complex compounds. He took a moment to note exactly how the reacted before attempting to take some known drugs and testing the substance against those each in turn. It was, without a doubt, a slow and methodical process; however, Tetsu was making progress towards discovering exactly how the chemical compounds worked in tandem. This methodology could be applied with making medicinal mixtures as well.

Tetsu took a moment and crushed up some herbs that had been left around the lab for medicinal use and attempted to create something to help with his cause. He knew of very few plants that would work to help cleanse the body of poisons in the way that he wanted. A detoxifying agent was a nice component to have in your arsenal. This would work similarly to how an antivenom worked, neutralizing the molecules of the toxin by binding with them to form a less caustic compound. This would also up the body’s natural resistance to the caustic substance. Tetsu worked aimlessly as he left the corpse he had been autopsying in the open laboratory as he worked the tox screens and did the subsidiary lab work. He took notes as he is attempts, most in vain, created interesting results. Some compounds did nothing while other created possibly more caustic substances.

Getting something to bind with a molecule in a way that did not have a caustic byproduct was proving quite difficult. In fact, in one instance, he had accidently produced synthetic acid that slowly ate away at plastic but seemed content to retain itself in glass containers. Tetsu shook his head as he adjusted his glasses and stuffed some notes in his pockets. He had no clue what it meant to be a chemist; however, alchemy was an undeniable part of medicine. He had slept though most of those classes during his medical schooling. Self-determined to teach himself, he pulled out some of his botany books and began to study plants in their natural forms and how they could be used to create mixtures that would be beneficial to the creation of potions and medicines that could have positive effects.

[Ace Detective Nara]

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Tetsu was now intrigued by the chemical compounds to a point that he wanted to work on creating a potion of healing. He was by no means yet qualified to do so, but with the labs materials on standby it couldn’t hurt to play with the kits present. Tetsu thought about the challenge, but then decided that making a simple fertilizer while he waited was a more productive project then doing something as outlandish as making a healing potion. He quietly gathered some materials, including some bentonite and dimethylnitrate. Tetsu carefully prepared to mix these compounds in to some prepared compost to make a fertilizer that would work well in a forested environment.

He hummed quietly as he mixed in the sloshy components and made a strange slurry of nutrients that seemed to be doing well at first glance. The compost itself was made up of high nitrogen decomposed plants and the chemical compounds tetsu had amassed to create the concoction. It looked really gross in all honestly. The young fellow spared no time in mixing and working the compost into a thick clay like paste. Feeling contented l by this result, tetsu ran to grab a flower pot and a small forest flower that had been put aside to test the potency of his home made soil.

Tetsu tested the soil’s ph and and made sure that it was within healthy ranges, though the ph level should differ from plant to plant. He noted the levels and transplanted the plant unto the pot using his soil mixture. He watered the plant and noted that the soils porosity seemed very Low as water was remaining at the top level for a long period of time. Making his notes, tetsu decided to finish his autopsy for the day and return to work while the plant experiment was being run. He would check in on the plant daily to make sure it remained in a controlled environment. He was very pleased with himself and his experiment.

[Ace Detective Nara]

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So he began a new experiment as he finished up his other workings in the morgue. The fertilizer had proven too dense for the plant, and consequently it had wilted in such a poor and sad fashion. He figured he might try something simple this time, before moving onto complicated tasks. He was going to make saline, a simple salt and water solution that requires precise measurements. One of the many important skills gained by doing alchemy is that of precise measurement. Tetsu brought our his measuring cups and a salinity testing kit in hopes that it would allow him the ability to add a specific amount into the water when creating the solution. The basin would do the mixing, but a majority of the works happened in adding the right amount of salt. He watch carefully as he produced the large basin of water and prepared to make the solution.

Tetsu now took a bag of ionized salt and prepares to mix the chemical into the water. Taking a small tea spoon, tetsu carefully scooped up the salt and let the particles trickled into the water. He took one of the testing strips and let it sit casually in the water as the watched the fibers change to a light pink. How strange it was to watch such a cool process. Taking note of that, he them took the sample and put it into machine, letting it test the percentage of salinity. The ocean has a 3.5 salinity, but the seared salinity for the saline solution is only up to .25, a much smaller degree. Tetsu frowned as his test came back with a .12 degree solution. At this point, tetsu prepared to add more salt to his solution, though it was going to be a minuscule amount.

Taking his tea spoon once again, tetsu scooped up some salt and added it again, letting the basin swirl and mix the added salt. He trick was to have an even mix constantly throughout the whole container. Watching as the basin mixed, Tetsu repeated the testing process once again. Seeing that there was a deeper pink sheet and a good reading of about .24 tetsu was pleased with the results. He felt as if he would not need to move any further. One of the sad truths about mixtures is that there can sometimes not be a perfect mixture. Sometimes you have to live with whatever purity you get. He shrugged and began to bag the saline solutions into IV bags so
That they might be used in the hospital for serious injuries. He would certainly take his time when working on chemical compounds.

[Ace Detective Nara]

5/6

Tetsu has spent most of the day in the lab, playing with chemicals in a way that might resemble an academy child first learning of chemistry. He was bored and simply sought entertaining reactions. He decided to add some magnesium strips to his list of things to fiddle with as he took out one of the strips and a vial of HCL acid. He wanted to watch the creation of hydrogen gas, as he created a tapered version of an experiment beaker so that the gas would remain present inside vial. This was going to be a fun and flashy demonstration of how the gas worked in general and the reactions metals can have to acids. The chlorine molecule of the HCL would bind with the metal, leaning hydrogen glass to float about. The metal began to react as tetsu dropped it into the beaker, letting of fizzle and spark as the acid changed the composition of the metal.

The metal was now becoming magnesium Chloride. This is sometimes used in vitamins but is also found in most cosmetic products. The hydrogen gas and the salt breakdowns are a byproduct of this procedure. One could see the hydrogen gas, as it is naturally lighter than oxygen molecules. It pressed towards the top of the beaker as the reaction continued. Tetsu was always fascinated by this type of chemical reaction. Watching it happen right before himself was certainly a treat. Magnesium was alas a component often used in explosives and in flash Grenades to create that intense and bright flash that the weapons were often known for. Chemical weapons were also a threat but in comparison the magnesium was harmless. No one would miss this one strip, he thought to himself as he reaction slowed down. Opening up the beaker, a waft of hydrogen gas floated up toward the ceiling.

Tetsu had taken a liking to the whole alchemy thing. This was the study of taking one agent and making it another. Famously created by Nicholas flammel, one of the corner witches within that astrological belief. He was sure that he too possessed some aptitude for this skill set. He was very much proud of this and decided it might be time to call up the queen of the witches, Loki herself. Once he had mastered this skill, he would be able to move onto making explosives and demolition chargers that he would have never thought possible prior to his teaching.

[Ace Detective Nara]

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An emergency! The hospital room had taken in an injured person that had been caught in a domestic fire. They seemed to be suffering from smoke inhalation and from serious burns all over their torso and arms. Tetsu, being as medically savvy as he was, took the time to begin preparing a healing balm that would allow the relief of the pain as well as offer positive cell growth after healing began. He looked around for a certain leaf of something and took a moment to smash it into a fine pulp inside of his mortar with a small stone pastel. He smashed away, adding some dog’s blood (willingly donated...though kinda gross) to the mixture as it became a sloshy red paste. He needed something to balance the properties of this concoction and this went fishing though the drawers in hope of finding something to help treat these burns. He was by no means a botanist, but he did have a knack for alchemy. Finding some nuts labeled beech nuts, he quickly smashed them up.

He mixed the nuts into the mixture after having ground them into a fine powder. The addition of a gauze bandage would allow the strange mixture to remain applied to the site until after they had regained some level of healing. If this didn’t work then they would need to use a skin graft in conjunction with the balm and his healing hands. He took a small brush and lightly painted the balm onto the gauze, letting the cotton fabric soak in the ointment before he approached the patient with post haste. The worst part about addressing the patients wounds would be the antiseptic he would have to apply before using the balm. He took out a cotton swab and a bottle of hydrogen peroxide. Dabbing the swab and putting on clean gloves, he carefully cleaned the wound put before moving to apply his alchemical creation. He carefully wrapped up the disinfected wound and hoped for the best as he wrapped the pulp infused gauze. Hopefully there would be some benefit to doing what he had.

Putting his hand over the site, he began to use some of his chakra to perform the D Rank healing hands technique to promote a little cell growth, trusting that the balm would do a good deal of the work. He was attentive of his patient, and prepared another set of balm for the torso and other arm of the patient. Gently, he wrapped on the bandages, each time using his healing hands to assist the balm with healing the wounds. It was a stressful ordeal, but manageable for a master doctor such as himself. He had been a medic for many years, and at this point was studying to further his mastery in that field.

[Christoff]

+60 TP Automastered
6 posts

[Ace Detective Nara]

Able Learner
0/125

1/6

Demolitions
Rank: "D"
Skill: Artisan Skill
Effect: Demolitions can be used to help create, set, and disarm explosives, and covers all various types of explosives used.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Relevant Abilities: Intelligence Skill. Die Rolls: 5 Die Rolls. Check Requirement: Normal. With the skill demolitions the user is able to create and set up Demolition Charges. A demolition charge is a device powered by explosives and splash weapons. These are normally used as traps, or simply placed down. Using explosives is always risky. The user will need to use "Alchemy" to prepare and create Explosives and Splash Weapons, however for every Mastery Level the user has in Demolitions they gain a +5 to Alchemy when creating Explosives and Splash Weapons. Once user reaches Skill Mastery 125, then the bonus increases by +1 per 5 Skill Points beyond. Some practical applications of Demolitions follow:
Limit: Must learn from Skills. Must know Alchemy.

The art of making a bomb is that of precision and probability. The volatile nature of an explosive makes creating a charge just as dangerous as using it. Tetsu, having been on the police force and faced with these creations understood that better than most people. He sat quietly in the back of the class of their KMP EOD Certification while he played with his tool kits and the dummy detonator charge he was suppose to defuse. It was at this moment that the grizzled, old instructor made his appearance. If Tetsu hadn’t known any better, he would have thought that the fellow had skin spots from grafts that must have been from detonated explosives. “Attention Cadets! You have been selected to be your precincts Explosives Ordinance Disposal Specialist!” The instructor explained with a strange pride in his profession.

“Explosives are not toys! They can make any operation a hundred times more complicated if you’re not careful,” he explained as he paced around the desk at the front of the room. He gestured to the dummy device that was in front of them. “These are black powder detonator devices, with a liquid nitrogen electrically charged detonator. It is your job to defuse this device, and I’ll show you how the first time” he expressed as the man picked up a tool belt and our on a face shield. Tetsu watched the man work, and he payed attention to the steps carefully making notes work his eidetic memory. There were often 3 crucial wires within the device, the trigger, the heater, and the fan. It was crucial to defuse the bomb in the order of trigger, heater, fan, or else the device might explode. The fellow traced his tools along the wires to find what port they went to on the device. While only 3 wires were important, 2 wires were fail safes, for when someone attempted to tamper with the device, they could cause an explosion if the heater or fan cut off. This was why the trigger must be cut first.

Tetsu wrote some notes down, watching the fellow as he finished up and removed the volatile portion of the charge. Some devices were more explosive than others. Tetsu figured that the device would have to be disposed of in a special way if it were to be disposed of at all. Tetsu looked at his own tool belt and picked it up, checking his butt bag for tools as their training bomb was extremely tempting to tamper with. He took out his screwdriver and carefully worked open the face plate, looking the insides of the device over in search of the transponder that alerted the bomb when the detonator has been triggered. Stopping this first makes defusing the bomb in the field much safer, as the device, though still volatile, can not be triggered by an outside source.

[Ace Detective Nara]

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He had taken the bomb’s face plate off and was now inspecting the interior of the bomb itself. He checked each port, taking his pliers and his wire cutters in his hands. He followed the wires back to their respective hubs. Finding the fan was fairly easy. The fan hummed quietly in the bomb, and made it fairly obvious when taking the bomb apart. The heater generated heat and was warm to the touch, this was how tetsu identified this part of the bomb. The trigger itself was the tricky part. The wire needed to be identified before anything could be done. He carefully followed he green trigger wire back to it’s origin just above the heater and the charge source. He carefully prepared to dismantle the bomb as the instructor watched them work.

He carefully cut the green wire, holding his breath as he did so. He was very uncomfortable with the guess work that was part of defusing bombs. Doing it in training was completely different from doing EOD in the field. He could feel the pressure just there in the class room as he went down the wires, defusing the device. He put the dummy device down and sighed as they fiddled with other kinds of explosives. Some devices were triggered by collider plates that spark and create the ignition that way. Tetsu figured it might be a good idea to learn how to deal with this type of device. He put it aside carefully and moved his little tool box over to him so that that he could look at the tools that were at his disposal. This device was super simple, where some devices might be much more complicated.

He pulled out the EOD handbook and looked it over, finding the device they had just defused. It was classified as a low grade explosive, which would be different from many of the explosive charges they might be dealing with. He sifted through the pages and contemplated creating devices himself. Having bombs and grenades might be a good idea. He made some notes, jotting down his thoughts as he worked. The instructor drones on about the device and how it was the most common blah blah blah, tetsu thought as he worked his one interests in regards to explosives. He desired to be a specialist in making and defusing devices.

[Ace Detective Nara]

3/6

He had passed his certification, and was now the resident EOD specialist. He heard on his radio the dreaded call as her was on patrol. “All units be advised we have 10-31 in progress at 313 Wind District Dr SE please advise the suspect is armed and dangerous and there seems to be an unidentifiable device on his person.” He heard as Tetsu jumped into action. He quickly jumped up and threw on his flak vest and grabbed his eod tool kit and medical gear. He quickly arrived on the scene, working to set up his gear as he approached. By the time he arrived, the suspect had been surrounded, but he had a device present on a civilian that made it impossible to approach. Tetsu sighed as he contemplated a way to quietly defuse the device. He thought hard for a moment before taking off his belt and throwing it on the ground.

He quickly weaved some seals before holding the rat as his shadow came to life. The thick tendrils rose from the ground, two in total, snatching up his belt as they quietly approached the pedestrian and began to pull out the necessary tools. He was using his hands to try to have the tendrils mimic his actions. He couldn’t see what he was working with, but he was being given instructions as he carefully worked the face plate off the bomb. In the field it was so much more stressful than in class. He worked his way into the bomb’s inner workings, carefully plotting out what to cut first. Trigger, fan, heater, he reminded himself as she worked to grab the wire cutters with his tendrils. He had to concentrate as he cut the trigger wire.

The victim screamed when the trigger wire was cut, alerting the assailant of the attempted defuse. He pulled the detonator switch, which kicked the fail safes into play. Tetsu only had time to wrap the bomb with his tendrils before it detonated. The blast hit the civilian with splash damage. Moving quickly onto the scene, tetsu checked for a pulse and found that he would have to start cardiopulmonary resuscitation. This was the life of defusing bombs, sometimes it was a success and others not so much. The tragic reality of EOD was part of dealing with such dangerous devices.

[Ace Detective Nara]

4/6

They had another bomb, but this time it was unmanned and on a structure, as if left behind after some sort of war. How tragic. They had created perimeter around the site and had called in all the EOD personnel they could find on duty. Tetsu was of course among these people. He was trying his best to remember his training as they identified the device as a collider charge. This was Semtex surrounded by a steel canister and filled with an ignition device that was struck with collider plates when the detonator was hit. Tetsu was a bit nervous because he had never, up to this point, dealt with such a device. He decided that since this was an unmanned device then this would be an excellent time for him to learn how to disable these devices. Taking a moment to compose himself, he pulled up hid belt and made his way into house.

The site was lit up with stationary lights that had been placed. He approached the bomb carefully, feeling a rock in his stomach as he thought about how this was an active device. We carefully pulled out his small crow bar, working off the face plate and exposing the inner mechanism. He quickly took his wire cutters and cut the transponder wire before moving on to the collider plates. Taking his pliers, he would have to separate the colliders and take he magnesium strip that was the trigger. He sweated a bit as e carefully grabbed his pair of pliers and slowly moved towards the trigger. This would be the most dangerous EOD procedure he had ever done up to date.

He slowly closed the clamp on the plate and separated it from the center mechanism, almost slipping on his grip due to the sweat. He carefully raised the plate and pulled out the magnesium strip using a second set of pliers. After doing so, he carefully lowed the plates and let the team know of the defused device. “The device has been defused, we’re taking it out,” he announced over the radio as he grabbed the now triggerless device and began to carry it out to the steel box that would be its container. The device would be taken out to the old team blitz hideout to be used in a controlled demolition, which was a fine way of disposing of the device according to Tetsu. He was sick of that old place anyway....

[Ace Detective Nara]

5/6

“Oh shit...” tetsu quietly announced as he was underneath the bank in the catacombs beneath as a robbery was in progress. The robbers had planted devices along the supports in the lower half of the bank so that they could create an escape route from the safe. This would have been a good plan, had there not been a tip given to the KMP
Prior to the attempt. Tetsu had found the charge and had now realized how large the device was. It was a central charge with 5 external devices hooked up to it. Tetsu realized that he would have to severe each device first before defusing the central charge. The external charges were probably set to detonate if the central charge was tampered with, meaning that Tetsu would have to separate the external devices first before moving on to the central charge and trigger.

Carefully cutting each wire, Tetsu worked his way around the device with his wire cutters, trying to make sure that the external devices were severed from the central charge. If the central charge couldn’t get the signal to the other devices then they couldn’t detonate. It looked like the external devices consisted of a simple electric trigger and Semtex plastic explosives. This was fairly advanced for most bomb makers, but was set up as if an armature had made the setup. He sighed as he worked his way around the room, cutting the wires that connected the charges to the main device. Whoever set this up must have been inexperienced in detonations, as they had set the bomb’s up not to just clear an opening in the wall but also the cavern’s structure. This would cause the cavernous sewers to collapse if the bomb was detonated.

He now addressed the main device. Carefully working open the face plate, he noticed that there were some wires in different places and just like a regular detonator; however, Tetsu noticed that there were also liquids vials that would make the explosive more volatile. Holy shit, he thought as he figured this was a fail safe for when someone tried to defuse the device. He followed the wire of the failsafe and cut it taking the vial out quickly. It was advanced and yet crude to the point that it wouldn’t go off. He quickly defused the device as normal from this point on, sighing as the device kicked off. He was relieved to hear that the perps has been caught due to their inability to detonate their devices. He and the team collected the explosives and repurposed them to constructions and controlled demo.

[Ace Detective Nara]

6/6

He was finally ready to try his hand at crafting a bomb. He had never done this before, so he had prepared a safe chamber in his lab to work on the device. He carefully worked first with the bomb’s themselves. He took 2 bricks of Semtex and carefully configured them together. He was excited at this choice and carefully wrapped a non conductive steel strip around the blocks to hold them in place while he affixed a spot for the trigger to go. He worked with the device for only a short while before he realizes that he would need to control where he worked with the device and so he went out to the training field.

He now worked with the trigger, using his pliers to carefully hook up the device to the fan then heater. The left the trigger wire loose as he hooked up two fail safe wires. Something he personally put on the device was a trigger wire that ran along the face plate that would possibly trigger the device when the plate was moved. The collider plates within the actual device were situated with a magnesium strip down the middle that would ignite the device when it lit up nice and hot from the sparks. He carefully hooked up the other wires and made sure tee heater and fan were workin properly. He was pleased to see that each aspect of the device seemed to be working well. Re quickly prepared to put the trigger in place as the wires from the bomb itself would be implanted into the plastic explosives.

He carefully worked the magnesium strip into the Semtex, situating the trigger before planting the device in the field with a log person. He wanted to see the damage. He was about to leave when he remembered the vial from before. Carefully opening up the device again and implanting the strange liquid into the device, he backed away to a safe distance and hit the detonator. The device exploded spitting a volatile flaming liquid all over the log and the landscape. Any part of the log man that survived the as currently ablaze. It was strangely satisfying to destroy stuff...go figure. He was pleased that he was able to make a bomb as well as defuse one. What a valuable skill set this was indeed.

[Skulking Shinzu]

Learned! +125 SP.