Training [Sub-thread to main village training ground]

[Cadoc]

Mine Basics
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User knows the proper placement and concealment of various types of mines and anti-personnel explosives.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The Difficulty to detect mines and explosives they have placed is increased by +25.
Limit: Must learn from Universal Miscellaneous. Must know Demolitions (25 Points).

00/10 tp +1tp from training grounds.

Yoko had long since been an advocate for the use of explosives in her missions, hardly surprising on account of her alchemical background and ability to create weapons of mass destruction. Indeed, whilst other ninjas relied on ninjutsu to create vast areas of damage, she instead utilised chemistry to create massive amounts of heat and force to inflict massive amounts of damage on her intended target. Still, even she was able to realise the shortcomings of this style.

Indeed, perhaps it was because of her mastery of the particular art that she was so aware of where the pitfalls where. Chief amongst this in her mind was the use of long-range explosives, arrowheads and grenades were fine; even explosives rigged in concealed areas such as behind a door. But, the use of mines and other such disguised explosives were difficult to use. The problem stemmed from the skills they opposed: observation. It was a wildly mastered skill, with some ninjas going so far as to make it one of the only skills that they took the time to truly master.

Thus, the use of mines was normally disadvantaged by being used against people who had undergone training to spot mines. Still, if there was a way to learn how to better place the devices, something that could help to mitigate the drawbacks that she currently faced then Yoko was all for it. Keen to master the use of the explosives so that she could increase her options in future conflicts. With this perhaps her mines would go undiscovered by opponents possibly making the difference in a surprise attack where she had time to prepare.

[Skulking Shinzu]

[1] Learned.

[Cadoc]

Mine Mastery
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User's expertise with all types of mines is unmatched.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The damage inflicted by mines and explosives that the user places is increased by +1 per 6 Armour Points of Damage. Further, the Difficulty to detect mines and explosives they have placed is increased by +10. These modifiers replace those gained from Mine Basics.
Limit: Must learn from Universal Miscellaneous. Must know Mine Basics. Must know Demolitions (60 Points).

00/10 tp +1tp from training grounds.

The damage that her mines were capable of producing was something that Yoko worried about to a much smaller degree, she generally used all manner of alchemical methods and teachings to ensure that her explosives could deal massive amounts of damage. That being said her improved explosives were achieved via her own diligence and training, thus when confronted with an opportunity to augment this damage further still she elected to take it.

The book in front of her detailed a manner in which one could increase the effectiveness of mines; this in and of itself was somewhat strange on account of most explosive manually instructing you on how to make the whole class of weapons as a whole stronger. Still, she was keen to see a boost in this area and even considered what the difference between a so-called mine and an explosive just placed on the floor was. Still. She read on keen to learn more about the distinction and more importantly how to get the end results.

The tome was pretty thick, as one would expect on such a technical subject. Still, it didn't take all that long for the young Mizukage to read through it, committing the knowledge to memory as required. In doing so she sought to take these new tips and tricks and put them into her own workings, to adjust what she did already to make it better. A task that was simple in isolation, but when you already had numerous techniques like this the task became more difficult: Yoko had to be careful that she didn't replace or negate another of her techniques.

[Skulking Shinzu]

[1] Learned.

[Cadoc]

Healing Hands (Minor)
Rank: "D"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A Healer gains the ability to heal Minor Wounds within an amount of time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: When laying the hand upon a living creature, the user channels positive energy that cures Minor wounds within the amount of time performing a "D" Rank technique in handseals. While curing Minor wounds this technique brings higher wound levels down by 1 step. Since undead are powered by negative energy, this Jutsu deals damage to them instead of curing their wounds.
Limit: Must be a Medical Doctor.

00/10 tp +1tp from training grounds.

Even amongst ninjas, the ability to use chakra to heal someone was a rarity, and in a somewhat ironic twist, it just so happened that the young Mizukage possessed such a power. The irony here was that she was unable to perform release based techniques, she couldn't conjure fire, or grow a tree, despite such abilities being commonplace. Still, even though she possessed the ability to heal, she had yet to study the school of knowledge: Yoko had only learned a few minor spells.

And whilst she was unable to benefit from the techniques herself, it seemed somewhat sinful not to take the opportunity to learn this ability. After all, being able to heal people on the battlefield could quite literally save lives. Thus, she came to the training grounds today, seeking the first step in her understanding of the school of magic. Healing hands, minor, as the name suggested the technique did not do much. However, it would serve as the bedrock on which she built future training.

As such, Yoko needed to learn how to master the technique. She started by reading over a volume of text to understand the definition of minor damage: was damage categorised in such a manner by medics? Once she had read through the description, she began to test the ability out forming her chakra in her left palm and observing the effects.

[Cadoc]

Indomitable Strength
Rank: "B" Always 60 TP
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: The true strength of the Guard Meter. User may increase their Guard Meter.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The base technique that allows the user to increase their Guard Meter. Guard Meter allows a user to block oncoming attacks before their guard is broken. The Guard Meter decreases as the user blocks attacks. When the meter reaches to 0, the guard is broken and the user is unable to block further attacks. The Guard Meter regenerates over time. The User replenishes their Guard Meter 1/6th every Second so long as they are not within the Guard Position. When the user is in their Guard Position the Guard Meter will not replenish. Each time the user learns this technique they gain Points to their Guard Meter equal to the amount of Training Points needed to learn this Technique. This means if the user is "D" Class and learns this technique they gain 80 Guard Meter Points, while if the user is "S" Class the user gains 40 Guard Meter Points since it takes 40 Training Points to learn this technique. User may learn this technique multiple times. Each time learned the points is applied to the Guard Meter.
Limit: Must be an Armiger. Must know Enduring Shell One Time.

00/60 +1tp from B-Class, +1tp from training grounds.

Hmm, how rare. Barbas mused to himself while observing the Mizukage's actions in the training grounds: he was, of course, referring to her use of medical ninjutsu. Indeed, he knew from how close he was to Yoko that she very rarely used the techniques aside from to enhance a few berries every now and again. Still, regardless of her motive, her actions spurred him into action. He couldn't afford to slack off and allow the small gulf of power between them to grow any further.

Like his previous training sessions, Barbas sought to enhance his specialisation with the shield. This time, however rather than being equipped with some generic item that he could have purchased for a small fee from a store, he brandished a legendary weapon that the Mizukage had forged herself. Indeed, his shield soon began to hover about his body; one of the many benefits of possessing the magically enhanced item was that it automatically moved to guard him.

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00/60 +1tp from B-Class, +1tp from training grounds.

Still, the shield's magic was only an extension of the user's skill: inexperienced Armigers would not be able to guard against much damage at all, whereas a master such as Barbas could defend himself against vast waves. To this end, his training revolved around the use of his shield to guard against the training dummies. He had learned how to overcome the instinct to pull away from an attack or to close one's eyes.

Much like a boxer that received multiple blows to the face. Instead, he was able to observe incoming strikes and move his body and shield into an optimal line in terms of defence. This simple act actually had a massive effect on the course of a combat situation: being able to actively observe and interact with nan opponent without being overwhelmed with the subconscious urge to involuntary close one's eye.

[Cadoc]

Changestaff
Rank: "A"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User can create a treant with a wooden staff.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is touch. Target of this technique is staff touched. Duration of this technique is 5 hours per Class Level. User changes a specially prepared quarterstaff into a Huge treantlike creature, about 24 feet tall. When the user plants the end of the staff in the ground and speaks a special command to conclude the performing of the Jutsu, the user's staff turns into a creature that looks and fights just like a treant. The staff-treant defends the user and obeys any spoken commands. However, it is by no means a true treant; it cannot converse with actual treants or control trees. If the staff-treant is reduced to 0 or fewer Armour Points, it crumbles to powder and the staff is destroyed. Otherwise, the staff returns to its normal form when the Jutsu duration expires (or when the Jutsu is dismissed), and it can be used as the focus for another performing of the Jutsu. The staff-treant is always at full strength when created, despite any wounds it may have incurred the last time it appeared. Statistics of the Treant Staff: Huge Plant. Low-light vision. 160 Armour Points. 14 Natural Armour. Plant Traits. Damage Reduction 10/Slashing. Vulnerability to Fire. 3 Movements. Attack for 21 Armour Points of Bludgeoning Damage. Rock Throw 54 meters. Trample for 25 Armour Points of Damage.
Limit: Must know Wood Release.

00/90 +1tp from the training ground, +1tp from B-Class.

While the others focused their attention on the physical arts of healing and defencing against income attacks, the small pipefox instead turned its attention towards ninjutsu of the elemental variety. The pipefox pondered for a few moments considering what release to learn techniques from, water, earth, or wood, before finally settling upon the latter option. Earlier in the library, she had prepared a small list of techniques that she wanted to learn from each of the releases, this came in handy when it came to selecting what she was about to learn.

She knew that she wanted to learn one of the higher-ranked techniques on the list, but thought for the time being at least that an S-ranked was not something that the pipefox had any desire to learn, instead she wanted something to help her warm-up. Thus, by process of elimination, Yoko selected an A-ranked technique, one of only two on her list, 'Changestaff'. She vaguely recalled the description of the technique and why she had elected to include it in her list.

[Cadoc]

00/90 +1tp from the training ground, +1tp from B-Class.

Still, vaguely recalling the details of the technique was not good enough to master it; as such, the small pipefox withdrew the scroll once again from one of her pockets and read over the details of the technique. She took a mental note of the key features and attempted to summarise them in her mind. This process was in and of itself a form of learning, for she was committing detailed information to memory and accessing gaps in her knowledge.

At its core, this technique dealt with summoning a treant, not a true treant but still a powerful creature that shared many of its traits. Under normal circumstances Yokō served as the partiers crowd control, specialising in de-buffing the enemy and controlling an area. A treant could aid with the latter category, for having another body on the battlefield could help to break up the flow of combat.

[Skulking Shinzu]

[1] Cadoc, Learned.
[2] Barbas, +20 TP.
[2] Yoko, +20 TP.

[Cadoc]

Healing Hands (Light)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A Healer gains the ability to heal Light Wounds within an amount of time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: When laying the hand upon a living creature, the user channels positive energy that cures Light wounds within the amount of time performing a "C" Rank technique in handseals. While curing Light wounds this technique brings higher wound levels down by 1 step. Since undead are powered by negative energy, this Jutsu deals damage to them instead of curing their wounds.
Limit: Must be a Medical Doctor. Must know Healing Hands (Minor).

00/10 +1tp from the training ground.

Like so many other techniques there was no real way in which one could determine whether they had fully mastered the technique that they were working on. However, this technique was especially difficult for Yoko to confirm her mastery of, for she was unable to use it on the surrounding environment or herself, instead she had to observe the effects on a creature. Still, after some testing, she was happy enough to confirm that her works were successful.

Still, this was no the end of the readily accessible healing techniques, having mastered the use of the minor version she could now move on to the light healing. In doing so, she could readily provide aid to those she encountered on her adventures. Even so, the degree of wounds that she now possessed the capacity to heal was quite limited being in the range: deeper cut and sprained joint. As part of the process, she focused her knowledge on how to repair this damage.

Once she fully understood what the damage entailed she went about channelling her chakra to her hands. In doing so, her hands started to glow green taking on a healing property. Upon laying her hands onto the test creature she began to extend her chakra outwards so that it flowed through their body, in doing so, she cultivated a regeneration effect within their body starting the healing process.

[Cadoc]

Indomitable Strength x5
Rank: "B" Always 60 TP
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: The true strength of the Guard Meter. User may increase their Guard Meter.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The base technique that allows the user to increase their Guard Meter. Guard Meter allows a user to block oncoming attacks before their guard is broken. The Guard Meter decreases as the user blocks attacks. When the meter reaches to 0, the guard is broken and the user is unable to block further attacks. The Guard Meter regenerates over time. The User replenishes their Guard Meter 1/6th every Second so long as they are not within the Guard Position. When the user is in their Guard Position the Guard Meter will not replenish. Each time the user learns this technique they gain Points to their Guard Meter equal to the amount of Training Points needed to learn this Technique. This means if the user is "D" Class and learns this technique they gain 80 Guard Meter Points, while if the user is "S" Class the user gains 40 Guard Meter Points since it takes 40 Training Points to learn this technique. User may learn this technique multiple times. Each time learned the points is applied to the Guard Meter.
Limit: Must be an Armiger. Must know Enduring Shell One Time.

00/60 +2tp from C-Class, +1tp from training grounds. (Doggo)

Doggo had come to the training ground on the young Mizukage's behest to engage in some training with Barbas. Barbas was a master Armiger, far more skilled than the small toy dog was, so seemed to fill the perfect role of instructor for their coming training. Like other canines in Yoko's pack Doggo lacked the use of hands, so was unable to physically wield a shield in his paws. However, there was a way around that.

The normal function would be to carry his shield on his back, simply running into the way of an oncoming attack. The alternative approach was to utilise the power of an animated shield, in doing so he could freely control the shield to guard himself against attacks without the requirement of having hands or paws that needed to be able to handle a shield. To this end, he reported into the training grounds, lifting a shield via animation ready to continue his training.

[Cadoc]

Indomitable Strength x4
Rank: "B" Always 60 TP
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: The true strength of the Guard Meter. User may increase their Guard Meter.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The base technique that allows the user to increase their Guard Meter. Guard Meter allows a user to block oncoming attacks before their guard is broken. The Guard Meter decreases as the user blocks attacks. When the meter reaches to 0, the guard is broken and the user is unable to block further attacks. The Guard Meter regenerates over time. The User replenishes their Guard Meter 1/6th every Second so long as they are not within the Guard Position. When the user is in their Guard Position the Guard Meter will not replenish. Each time the user learns this technique they gain Points to their Guard Meter equal to the amount of Training Points needed to learn this Technique. This means if the user is "D" Class and learns this technique they gain 80 Guard Meter Points, while if the user is "S" Class the user gains 40 Guard Meter Points since it takes 40 Training Points to learn this technique. User may learn this technique multiple times. Each time learned the points is applied to the Guard Meter.
Limit: Must be an Armiger. Must know Enduring Shell One Time.

00/60 +2tp from C-Class, +1tp from training grounds. (Johan)

Johan similarly reported into the training grounds; in the past, he had worked closely with Barbas augmenting each other's defences. As a result, he had some experience with Barbas' teaching style. Like Doggo before him, Johan activated an animated shield, the tower shield—his preferred weapon—sprang to life floating up from the ground before slowly orbiting him in a defensive manner. This form of defence was somewhat unusual for him, so, for the time being, he worked on his control.

Unlike a normal animal, Johan and his companions had been awakened by the young Mizukage, granting them human-like intelligence. As a result, the task of allowing a shield to float around him whilst foreign to him was indeed manageable. He spent the first five or so minutes of his training manually controlling the weapon, forming a defensive posture with it to defend against imaginary blows that were inbound.

[Cadoc]

Indomitable Strength x4
Rank: "B" Always 60 TP
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: The true strength of the Guard Meter. User may increase their Guard Meter.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The base technique that allows the user to increase their Guard Meter. Guard Meter allows a user to block oncoming attacks before their guard is broken. The Guard Meter decreases as the user blocks attacks. When the meter reaches to 0, the guard is broken and the user is unable to block further attacks. The Guard Meter regenerates over time. The User replenishes their Guard Meter 1/6th every Second so long as they are not within the Guard Position. When the user is in their Guard Position the Guard Meter will not replenish. Each time the user learns this technique they gain Points to their Guard Meter equal to the amount of Training Points needed to learn this Technique. This means if the user is "D" Class and learns this technique they gain 80 Guard Meter Points, while if the user is "S" Class the user gains 40 Guard Meter Points since it takes 40 Training Points to learn this technique. User may learn this technique multiple times. Each time learned the points is applied to the Guard Meter.
Limit: Must be an Armiger. Must know Enduring Shell One Time.

00/60 +2tp from C-Class, +1tp from training grounds. (Ichi)

Ichi had approximately the same level of experience as Johan, having been similarly awakened by Yoko. Still, he found the task of animating the shield slightly harder, having to pause for a few moments, focusing his power until he was finally able to get the weapon to respond. Still, these problems were by-large a result of him using the village training ground equipment: teething problems.

Adding his energy to the flow, Ichi started to work to manipulate the shield, moving it around to defensive positions, guarding against various angles and positions. The idea was to use the tower-shield to perform total three-hundred-and-sixty-degree protection, the shield orbiting around them like an orb. The defence was already augmented, by diligent training; but the guidance of Barbas would likely help the large creature hone his skills further still.

[Cadoc]

Indomitable Strength
20/60 +1tp from B-Class, +1tp from training grounds.

Barbas continued to hone his skill with the shield. He had performed this exact technique numerous times, so many times in fact that he had lost count. Still, every time was different, that was the beauty of the shielder style, you were able to always find small flaws in your technique that you could fix, little errors mounted up. And it was by focusing on these small factors that one was able to progress their style overall, to increase their guard.

The guard metre for Barbas as it stood was a vast amount, able to adsorb multiple attacks at a time. Still, there was work to do, every time he completed his training Barbas was able to increase his guard pool and the rate at which he recovered it. The latter was the effect he desired to master; a rapid guard regeneration tended to infinity: the faster he regenerated the closer it came to a flat defence. If he was able to recover from powerful blows in split seconds, then sustained damage output was meaningless against him.

[Cadoc]

Changestaff
20/90 +1tp from B-Class, +1tp from training grounds.

The small pipefox observed as the other companions poured into the training grounds like a small zoo on tour or perhaps a circus. Still, she did not have sufficient time to sit there watching; instead, she had to quickly work on her technique, trying to think of a way to draw the power of the natural environment out and into the quarterstaff that she held. The idea of animating some wood to create a living creature sounded easy, but the reality was not so simple.

Indeed, the task was difficult how did she even go about creating the mind of this creature? It had to think and function by itself, not simply drawing on her instruction but going beyond, acting on its senses and feelings. To the pipefox's mind, this was perhaps the hardest part of the task at hand, creating a functioning sentient creature. Still, the task was not impossible; and she wondered if perhaps her genjutsu training and mastery would aid in the endeavour.

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[Cadoc]

Loremaster Encyclopedia: Volume XI: Gymnastics
Rank: "B"
Type: Main, Book, Textbook
Effect: Encyclopedia book pertaining to escaping.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Page Count: 800 pages. This book explains all of the techniques to condition the body for stamina and flexibility. It grants a +20 competence bonus to Jump Good, and Escape Artist checks. The true value of this book is in its lessons on damage. It includes an entire chapter on how to soak up damage by bending or bracing the body in certain ways. This knowledge reduces the damage from physical attacks (such as weapons and claws) by 2 Armour Points. It has no impact on damage caused by Chakra sources, falling, crushing, etc.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Special Book Shop. 5% chance finding.
Cost: 140,000 Ryo

00/10 +1tp from the training ground.

Yoko had already read a few of the loremaster's tomes, and most had proved to be quite useful. However, upon making her initial selections she had elected to read the volumes that appeal to her the most, those that she would gain the greatest boon from first. As opposed to merely proceeding through them in numerical order. As such, the books she was now returning too where by definition either not as interesting or held a lower benefit.

This was the case with volume XI: Gymnastics. Yoko worked to remove the tome from the library's shelf, to inspect it and read through its passages although she did not expect to learn all that much from it. It was not that the book was useless, but rather that it did not focus on skills that she commonly utilised: Yoko rarely jumped or worked to escape bindings. Still, learning how to condition the body for stamina and flexibility were interesting and due to the length of the book composed a fair part of it.

By reading through the book Yoko was able to memorise all manner of helpful tips that aided in the manipulation of the body, indeed with any luck, she would be able to brace with her Armiger style against on-coming attacks with greater proficiency, or evade with greater ease. The book itself had a whole chapter on this information, but unfortunately, the lessons did not extend to chakra effects; instead, they centred about the defence against physical blows such as the many sword styles.

[Skulking Shinzu]

[1] Learned.