Great gate repair (Mission)

[Runeska]

Name: Working With Builders, The great gate repair
Rank: B
IIC Length: 2
Difficulty: Medium
Description: The gates have been damaged after an attack from a missing ninja. Now that the threat has been resolved, you'll need to scout for some builders and assist them in repairing the gate. Pay special attention to the blue prints, these are made in order to enhance the security of the gates.
Objective: 1) Round up some builders from the Base and escort them to the village gates 2) Help with the repair of the base and follow the blue print (to be PMed to the one doing the mission).
Requirements: Any Ninja can take this.
Reward: 3000


Neoku had been hanging around the civilian’s quarters of the base for the duration of half an hour. He’d been looking for potential builders that could assist him on his personal mission. Normally, he’d never have volunteered for a non combat oriented mission. However, due to what this mission consisted of, he decided to make an exception. The village’s safety was important to him, if only slightly. So far, his appearance, or rather his presence, had frightened off many of the people he’d spotted. He decided to try and make his appearance less frightening. But as far as he could tell, those who had been frightened off had been young and perhaps weak.

After about another fifteen minutes, Neoku decided to move and walk farther within the base. It was then that he spotted a group of about fifteen gruff looking boys. They were all at least a few years older than him. When he approached the group, a few of their heads turned toward him. After a moment, they all looked back at each other and began to converse amongst themselves. That was a good sign. They hadn’t left yet, meaning he could at least manage to ask them a few questions. Before Neoku could open his mouth, one of the boys turned to him and said, “Do you need something?” His voice was rough and filled with a rude tone that grated his nerves.

With a bit of an edge, Neoku said, “In fact, I do. I’m on a mission, courtesy of the village. It would appear as though the village gates recently sustained some great damage. My first objective is to secure some builders. Enough to work on the gate and improve its defenses. My second objective is make sure who ever is building follows the blueprints that I will receive. These blueprints will note and document the most vulnerable areas on the gates, as well as the ways to improve them and make them more easily defended.” As he paused and allowed the boys to process the information, he surveyed their appearance. Of the boys before him, only a few of them appeared to have the muscle mass of builders. However, he realized that making such brash judgments could easily cost him later.

A moment passed, then Neoku said, “Now, are any of you builders by chance?” His voice was a little softer and less sharp when he asked this. “If so, please step forward. Though, I must warn you. If you come with me to rebuild/repair the gates, this will not be an easy job. I’ll expect nothing less than your best effort. Anything less will not be tolerated.” He noticed that as he said this, a few of the boys shot funny glances at him. He figured that they might have been amused by someone his age trying to issue warnings. To show that he was serious, he allowed his dark aura to surge for a moment. With his voice surging in a bit of flustered anger, he barked, “Do you think the security of your village is naught but a joke. Laugh when the village gates are breached and evaded. I imagine those of you who can not fight will die rather quickly.” There was no joking edge to his voice as he said this. It did manage to evoke the effect that he desired. It appeared as if all the boys before him were taking him seriously now.

After about five minutes, Neoku had managed to get 8 of the boys to agree to repair the gates. Dissapointingly, the rest were only apprentice craftsmen of the village and would be no help. With 8 builders by his side, It was possible to rebuild the village gates, but Neoku decided to look for more, perhaps older, more experienced builders to assist him. He continued his search in another portion of the civilians quarters.

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Later, about fifteen minutes, he encountered another man. This man had to be in his late twenties or early thirties. He was tall and broad shouldered with multiple scars along his arms. He actually appeared to be a builder. The assumption could be made by the tattered clothing he wore. He actually still had a few tools on him such as a hammer and measuring tape. He appeared to have just gotten off from another job.

“Hello sir.” Said Neoku. He still had the other group of boys standing behind him. They all appeared to be getting impatient, but if he got lucky, they’d all be heading toward the gates next. “It appears you may be builder. Is that so?”

The man instantly turned and looked up and down at Neoku. Bringing his face up to his, he said, “Well, seeing as I’m the head builder of the most accurate firm in mizu no kuni, I’d have to say yes.” His voice was in a matter or fact kind of tone. It wasn’t very annoying though. But the look on Neoku’s face suggested that he didn’t know. Wasting no more time, the man introduced himself. “My names Dominique. If you’re looking for builders, you’ve obviously got some kind of job to get done. Well, let me hear it.”

Imediately, Neoku relayed his dialogue about the mission and it’s specs. After he finished, he said, “Those who stand behind me have already agreed to the job. However, I still require more builders. The gate is a big job and must be handled accordingly. If I could have another twenty workers, It would more than suffice.”

“Well, as much as I would love to help you, I don’t have that many workers to spare. As it would happen, we’re actually on contract right now on another job. But here’s what I’ll do for you. I have ten more workers that aren’t on a job right now. They’ll do the job. But with the number of people you have, it might be rough. It’s up to you.”

“I’ll take them,” answered Neoku. With that, Dominique departed and reappeared a moment later with ten more men by his side. Most of them were in their mid twenties. They appeared more reliable workers than the eight he had by his side. Given the circumstance, this would do. He’d just have to work them hard. “All right. If you all agree to this, then let us be gone.” He surveyed the face of the men before him. They all seemed bored or eager to work. Their faces were nearly dead, which is to say they weren’t very lively. Of course, he would change that all too soon. “Ok then, to the village gates.” Neoku turned his back on the men and pointed in a direction. It was the way out of the mekei base, the direction they’d be going. Within five minutes, Neoku was leading the eighteen men at his disposal through the maze leading out of the base. It took a long time because he had to be sure that everyone would be able to get. This meant stopping every few meters, be extra slow passing traps, and ultimately, stopping to guide each individual over traps.

Two hours, two full hours. That was how long the process took. But no one was harmed. Everyone was in one piece and able to work. Quickly, he made up for the lost time by marching the builders toward the villages gates at a fast pace. He didn’t stop even once as he continued this pace. He would occasionally glance behind him to make sure that everyone was there. As it would turn, no one had quit or left, or been lost. So far everything was somewhat on course. As he continued at this for another fifteen minutes, he eventually approached the gates. He waited while the builders all caught to him. When they arrived, he bustled into the village with all the builders in tow. All he needed now was the blueprint, and hours upon hours of hardwork.

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Neoku opened up the blueprint for the villages new gate design and such. Taking his time, he read over all very slowly and carefully, soaking up every detail that he could. He needed to make this perfect and obviously, there was a lot of work to be done. Reading the whole list of things needing to be replaced and fixed, Neoku silently compared it to the mental image he was receiving in his mind. The first thing to come to his mind dealt with the large stone with the characters on it. According to the new blueprint, the old one needed to be replaced with one that also included a hidden camera in it. In addition, it needed an exact replica of it erected on the opposite side of the walkway. This was the first part he decided to take care of. He placed two of the young boys here with one of the older men. He instructed them to build a two exact replicas of the preexisting statue, leaving a hole large enough for surveillance cameras to be installed in each one. He left the three men to complete this job as he left to take care of other matters. He’d check in on them later.

The next part would take him a lot longer to get started. Glaring down blueprint, he compared it to the depression in the ground where his village was located. He was now looking at village gates themselves. He wa supposed to plant trees around the whole perimeter of the gates. These tree were to be very tall as to hide the wall from outsider eyes. It helped that the village was eternally shrouded in mist. This is where they’d have to spend the majority of his time for the moment. He instructed the builders where to place the trees to hide the village walls. The trees would be placed about ten meters away from the walls, all closely compacted together. By doing this, there would be a very limited view of the village. He continued to point out where the builders should plant the tree, all along, preparing to move on and check on those working with the stone statues. However, he stayed here for about two hours, helping to actually replant the tree where needed. When those hours were up, they’d already planted most of the trees in their locations as to hide the wall well. They only had to conceal the back side of the village. But as it stood, Neoku was observing the work that had been done so far. The tree that had been planted stood more than tall enough to obscure anyone’s view. Between each tree, the distance was about five meters, a very natural distance. He had it set up so that the pattern blocked the view, but at the same time, looked natural and inconspicuous. He allowed these workers to continue following his interpretation of the blue print. He departed to check on the three he’d left earlier.

Just over five minutes passed, and he found the three. Their job had come along easily. The stones carved with the riddle were nearly complete. All that was needed to place the camera’s within. This was actually a little more difficult. As Neoku began trying fill the voids with cameras, he figured out that the holes, despite the fact that they were created very neatly, were a tad bit too small. Taking out the cameras, he tried forcing them into the holes for a second. He had to stop though. As it appeared, there was no way they’d fit. So with that, Neoku assisted the builders in enlarging the holes. They had to be careful though. When he said make the replicas were perfect , the three builders had been great in doing so. If they missed up just a little, they’d have to start over. Fortunately, after only fifteen slow minutes, they’d enlarged the hole enough to place the cameras within. With the builders’ help, Neoku managed to test the cameras and discovered that they worked. Next using a great amount of skill, Neoku and the builders managed to make the cameras disappear within the stone pillars. They were still there and very function, but they were invisible to the human eye. Neoku stopped and took a look at the work they’d completed. It was perfect. Even once you stepped directly in front of it, you still couldn’t tell that they had cameras in them. Taking a moment, Neoku helped the other builders move the camera laden stones to opposite sides of the walkway. Now they were set. And with that, he proceeded back to the other workers, with these three quickly following behind him.

[Runeska]

Neoku opened up the blueprint for the villages new gate design and such. Taking his time, he read over all very slowly and carefully, soaking up every detail that he could. He needed to make this perfect and obviously, there was a lot of work to be done. Reading the whole list of things needing to be replaced and fixed, Neoku silently compared it to the mental image he was receiving in his mind. The first thing to come to his mind dealt with the large stone with the characters on it. According to the new blueprint, the old one needed to be replaced with one that also included a hidden camera in it. In addition, it needed an exact replica of it erected on the opposite side of the walkway. This was the first part he decided to take care of. He placed two of the young boys here with one of the older men. He instructed them to build a two exact replicas of the preexisting statue, leaving a hole large enough for surveillance cameras to be installed in each one. He left the three men to complete this job as he left to take care of other matters. He’d check in on them later.

The next part would take him a lot longer to get started. Glaring down blueprint, he compared it to the depression in the ground where his village was located. He was now looking at village gates themselves. He wa supposed to plant trees around the whole perimeter of the gates. These tree were to be very tall as to hide the wall from outsider eyes. It helped that the village was eternally shrouded in mist. This is where they’d have to spend the majority of his time for the moment. He instructed the builders where to place the trees to hide the village walls. The trees would be placed about ten meters away from the walls, all closely compacted together. By doing this, there would be a very limited view of the village. He continued to point out where the builders should plant the tree, all along, preparing to move on and check on those working with the stone statues. However, he stayed here for about two hours, helping to actually replant the tree where needed. When those hours were up, they’d already planted most of the trees in their locations as to hide the wall well. They only had to conceal the back side of the village. But as it stood, Neoku was observing the work that had been done so far. The tree that had been planted stood more than tall enough to obscure anyone’s view. Between each tree, the distance was about five meters, a very natural distance. He had it set up so that the pattern blocked the view, but at the same time, looked natural and inconspicuous. He allowed these workers to continue following his interpretation of the blue print. He departed to check on the three he’d left earlier.

Just over five minutes passed, and he found the three. Their job had come along easily. The stones carved with the riddle were nearly complete. All that was needed to place the camera’s within. This was actually a little more difficult. As Neoku began trying fill the voids with cameras, he figured out that the holes, despite the fact that they were created very neatly, were a tad bit too small. Taking out the cameras, he tried forcing them into the holes for a second. He had to stop though. As it appeared, there was no way they’d fit. So with that, Neoku assisted the builders in enlarging the holes. They had to be careful though. When he said make the replicas were perfect , the three builders had been great in doing so. If they missed up just a little, they’d have to start over. Fortunately, after only fifteen slow minutes, they’d enlarged the hole enough to place the cameras within. With the builders’ help, Neoku managed to test the cameras and discovered that they worked. Next using a great amount of skill, Neoku and the builders managed to make the cameras disappear within the stone pillars. They were still there and very function, but they were invisible to the human eye. Neoku stopped and took a look at the work they’d completed. It was perfect. Even once you stepped directly in front of it, you still couldn’t tell that they had cameras in them. Taking a moment, Neoku helped the other builders move the camera laden stones to opposite sides of the walkway. Now they were set. And with that, he proceeded back to the other workers, with these three quickly following behind him.


Five minutes later, Neoku had arrived back to the other workers who had been working on planting the trees. So far, the village perimeter had been covered. Now, they needed to plant more trees in an even more so inconspicuous setting that would confuse and incoming invaders. Neoku began working on this part of the blueprints with great joy. He could imagine the annoyance it would be on those who didn’t belong here. That alone was enough make grin very sharply. He had to stop the grinning though because he could tell it was making some of the other workers nervous. Specifically the younger workers. This much became obvious as one of the young builders was setting up a tree that nearly hit him. He was working fine until he had caught a glimpse of his grin next thing he knew, the tree was falling toward him. He only dodged it by a few meters. He would yelled and attacked the young man, but it was an honest accident. Not only that, but he couldn’t afford to lose the young man’s working effort.
Many long hours passed within the veil of mist as they replanted and organized the trees surrounding mist. This was its natural defense. Here, the first signs of trouble would have to pass before even reaching the villages gates. To add to the confusion of the misty forest, Neoku had certain parts of the forest blocked off by large portions of trees. He then had it appear as though the trees were leading to somewhere, only to have them ultimately lead nowhere. And then to further lead away those who would seek out the village, fake paths were set up. Many of them led out the forest on one side or the other. The rest led back to the entrance, meaning that a non mist ninja could travel the different paths for days, and never find one that led to the village. Then for what he had the builders do next, Neoku considered himself genius for. On all of the dead end passages that the tree naturally created after they’d been reorganized, he the builder erect stone pillars like the one at the entrance to the forest. Unlike the one at the entrance, these gave out false direction which were also hidden confusing riddles. Neoku figured that that much would do it for now. The forest was now many times more difficult to navigate through. Before it would be spotted, the village could easily launch a defense. With this accomplished, he head off to the actual gates to begin his work with builders there.

[Runeska]

Moving fast, Neoku arrived at what used to be the village gates quickly. He awaited on the arrival of his workers, though with a slightly harsher physique. As important as this mission was, he’d taken the time to fix up some of the problems with defense, but was ultimately getting very annoyed. This mission was taking longer than he’d hoped. The village gate was a mess, and before he could get a chance to repair it, he had to first remove the debris. With himself and 18 workers, that much was done in about fifteen minutes, none of which was done with a smile. He’d have some choice words with whoever had been so thoughtless as to leave such a mess lying around.

After the mess was cleaned up, Neoku began to discuss his plans of how to rebuild the gate. His first plan was to reinforce the foundation of the walls. He planned to do this by stabbing large 15-foot steam poles into the ground. These would dug in about five feet. The actual gate walls would be laced on and around these steel poles with cement. By doing this, should someone try to attack the walls themselves, the steel would reinforce the stone and cement prevent the collapse of the wall for at least some time. The individual stones themselves would be 1 ½ ft and 8 in wide and had opening in them so that the steel poles could be pushed through either side of the stones. As they began working on the design, the workers were sure to leave space for erecting the gate doors, as well as the spots for the projectile launchers. Those would be installed after the wall was nearly complete.

The workers began immediately. With Neoku constantly pushing them foreward and lifting as much as he could, the layer of rock had been laid down in less than twenty minutes. Next, they laid down cement to bind the next layer to the foundation. The work continued like this for long hours, passing deep into the night. The only notice to the time that Neoku gave was one glance to the passing moon. After that, he continued his grueling work. After a while, he could see that the workers were worn out and tired. He decided to spare them a bit of mercy. He told the workers to wait half an hour and break while he prepared the projectile launchers. These were positioned in an inconspicuous spot, hidden by very construction of the wall. There were six of them in all. Four of them were spaced further apart within the construction of the wall and were equipped with knives that would shoot out if the walls were attacked.

The two that were of his primary concern were position just a foot from where the door would be placed on either side. These all filled with senbon needles that were tipped with neurotoxic poisons. The poison would interfere with the messages between the victim’s brain and the rest of their nervous system. If a single needle as much as pricked their skin, immediately, the victim would slow down a little. Three would cause them to significantly slow down as the mind and nervous system stopped moving their muscles in synch. Seven or more would immediately immobilize someone in seconds. More than that, and they’d be dead with a minute. Each individual trap had 30 slots preloaded in them, and could be refilled from the inside. That was it was it with the traps. He made sure that as they worked on the construction, that these were all hidden in a way that only someone holding the blueprints could tell where they were.

After what felt like forever, they finally began to put the door up and in place. The doors were extremely large and made of iron. There were so heavy that it took all of them with ropes stuff to pull one door into place. After that, it was secured in with the other door following closely behind it. Once this was done, Neoku had the workers secure the frame of the large doors in place. This was done by adding an extra large strip of metal on the top of the walls that stretched all the way on to the frames. These were wielded into place. Once this was done, Neoku tested the doors to see how much they would withstand. After nearly breaking his hand, he was informed by one of the workers that nothing short of a siege weapon could break them. The only way to get in was to have the guards, that would be positioned inside, open the gate doors. Neoku looked up to the sky, and could see the sun high above. It was mid noon. He couldn’t tell how much time had passed since starting the mission. However, he considered it done. He’d followed the blueprints he was given very well, and the defense was complete. Having finished, he led all the workers back through the mekei base entrance and the maze, navigating skillfully though it all. It took another hour in its full length to get them to the civilian quarter safely. Their job was done. But now, Neoku headed toward the mizukage’s office. He wanted to collect his money, although, it felt good to say that he had repaired the gate. He’d repaired the gate and thus secured the villages safety a good deal.


[exit, mission complete]