The Darkest Strength {Ioshi}(Cursed Seal)

[Nira]

The small and lesser known village of Bunengkai is located here in the land of rain. It is a fairly weak farming village that prides itself in the signature high water, low soil vegetation that it grows. The lily pad is the symbol of this village, due to how the village is located, almost floating, in the middle of a humid swamp with constant pouring rain. There are three leaders in this village, who are also former farmers. However, unknown to many outside the village, all three leaders are old retired Shinobi who all wanted a peaceful life away from bloodshed.

These three aged Shinobi have each experienced a numerous amount of tragic events, and don't wish to disclose any information. The eldest amount them is about seventy years old, but refuses to state his actual age. The other two are in their mid-sixties. Due to the slight increase of the village's size, Bunengkai has attracted the attention of some renowned merchants. The merchants have increased trade with the said farming village for the exotic swamp plants and animals.

Unfortunately for the village leaders, although happy with the economic increase, it has become slightly more known outside of the village that they were former shinobi. The increase in knowledge is slight, but many people are well aware that old retired shinobi are actually extremely valuable sources for information. There has been two attempts from outsiders to try and forcibly obtain forbidden information from the three leaders, both have failed. Currently the village is running normally, but two shinobi guards have been hired for each leader, six shinobi guards in total.

So far this has been able to stop the constant attempts for information from the three old shinobi leaders, but rumors about them are still flowing in the trading and shinobi circuits, and who knows, one of them probably has knowledge of secrets that even the most powerful and successful of missing ninja even dream about. For those that wish to find the secrets, how will you approach them? and how will you take that information for yourself?

The names of the leaders are as such, Eldest leader Meibuhan, 63 year old leader Nebuna, and 66 year old leader Wouyiren. All three are males and are probably extremely high class ninja. The guards are each a master of either ninjutsu, genjutsu, or taijutsu. Each guard is at a low B rank and each know only one jutsu at A rank. Specific information of the leaders and the guards can be obtained from the villages if you ask them properly. It would also be advised to ask the villagers on their location and rumors surrounding the leader in question.

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Begin the search for what you want here, RP well and search hard.

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I walked into the lonely peasant village of Bunengkai. This was the city of many places but of course one of them was the city of hidden power. This of course refers to the three old ninja shinobi that had retired and settled here after a few years. They were knowledgeable in every aspect indeed but the true question is whether or not they knew the correct answer to my question. For my quest for power and my quest for the great darkness. But of course that would only come in due time as I entered the busy market street that was filled with tons of people. What to do what to do? Obviously it would not be smart to say that I was looking for the ultimate darkness but it would be smart to play along.

He would walk to a nearby merchant. The woman looked around the age of 69 and looked very wise as she sat on the chair in front of her little booth that sold old charms and mysticals voodoo. Though I do not know her it would be smart to play along. I’d approach her cart looking tattered and miserable. “Mam. Please help me. I seek the wise elders of this village. I need some guidance in my life.” This would be said as I would bow down before her grasping at her leg. Surely this would cause a scene but as I had said she seemed weird and quirky so she might not even mind

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[Nira]

The old woman raised an eyebrow at the uncommon gesture from the young man, but nothing more. The passerby villagers only chuckled and giggled before resuming with their everyday lives. The old woman just shook her head and took a human voodoo doll from her cart, holding it up against the sun. She smiled, and looked back down at the young man with the doll still held up in the air. "Good guidance is hard to find these days boooooy~" She suddenly said in a sharp and wicked tone. "The difference between wisdom and inteeeelllllllligence is but the sun to the moon, there is the genuine and there is the cheep reflection." She continued, throwing the cheep voodoo doll into the swamp waters, where it would float for a couple seconds, and then begin to sink into the murky depths.

"Yoooou there that is in need of guuiiiidance, you are like the doll. You can cliiiimb up back to the liiiight, the haaaard day, or sink to the belows, the darkness, be corrupted, decayed, and deeeessstroooyed." The old woman yelled. Apparently the nearby villagers were used to this crazy old lady, and most didn't bother looking up at her yells and cries. "Both are paths, both considered guiiiiidance.... boy-o! You said guidance, what kind of guiiiiidance?!?" The lady asked, speaking ever more loudly but attracting not much more attention. "Will you dig yourself ooooout, bask in the independent liiiight, and, though dirty, take upon that power?!? Ooooorrrr, sink yourself, do what you want but sink with the consuming swamp, let the corruption creeeep within yooou, destroying you, but at the same time making you dangerous to those outsiiiiiide the swaaaammmp?!?"

"My namme isss Edabina, and I know boooth ways. Do you seek that intelllligence, or that wisdooom, the light... or the darrrrrk. Booooooy~o?"

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Her answers. Strange yet so wise. Truthfully the quest I ventured for was one of many darkness and truthfully it was hard and death defying task indeed but there was no harm in trying of course. except for his life. He was done playing games with the woman. Straight answers was what she was going to get from the woman. He would look up to the woman glaring his crimson eyes into her violet eyes and said with his heart

"Mam I search for the path of drarkness. I search for the way to descend to the pits of hell and find the way to the end and obtain the treasure in the end then afterwrds travel back to the realm of llight. See this old woman. I had set foot on the real of light but to reach the end I must set foot in the real of drakness. So please. Give me what I need.

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[Nira]

"Darkness, then light? How ambitious boy~o." The old woman said with a little chuckle. "But not impossible I saaaaay, but remember booooy~ooo, like that doll. To swim back to the light after touching daaaarrkness, it is not a simple task. The darkness, what you seek, is like weight to the doll, weight to your beeeeeing... When it corrupts so, you may remove only so much, the rest is weight to you. Have too much weight boy~o, have tooooo much daaaaarkness, and you shall not be able to touch the light ever again... The darkness spreads and decays the host so it may surrrvivve, if you are tooooo ambiiiitious.... basking in toooo much daarrrkkkness, you will be consumed by the blackest of all darkness, my boy~o, you will be consumed by DEATH!" Edabina continued, ending in a rather dramatic shout of death and attracted a bit more heads turned than before, however, the villagers still continued with their oblivious ignorance and walked off.

"I can leeead you to many sources of daarrrkness... Booooooy~oooo, I know the paths, the people who hold the paths, and where to leave those paths..." Edabina started again, picking up another voodoo doll that was identical to the first one. "Pick up too much light, lose too much weight, that when you go back, when you fall dooooown... you will be crushed on the floor." Edabina said, and while she talked, the doll started to float upwards, like a balloon reaching for the skies, and then started to fall suddenly, like a balloon that just popped. The voodoo doll landed back on the hand of Edabina, and she continued her talking. "Take in too much darrkness, and you will be weighted down, controlled like a puppet..." the doll would fall from Edabina's hand, landing on the floor, before staggering upwards and walking limply around like weights were tied to every inch of its body. "Take more darkness than that, and you will be consuuuumed by hell, by the darkest of dark..." The doll fell, face and chest on the floor, like it was being crushed by something massive. The wooden floor itself actually cracked, and the doll eventually crashed right through the floor and into the swamp.

While this was all happening, the woman was moving her hands constantly, any ninja with knowledge and sense could tell that she was a puppeteer. "Hear me well Boy~o, if you want to walk in darkness, and then light, listen to me well, describe the darkness you waaaant... I will show you the possibilities, I will lead you down the paths... Accept my guidance above all elllllse, I'm sure you will get what you want... Tell me now Booooy~oooo, what is that darkness, describe it's every detail, everything you want it to be..." As Edabina made her proposal, she would not blink, and the sounds of ripples, of moving waters, were heard below. From the hole in the floor where the doll fell, a straw voodoo doll arm would be seen, grabbing hold of the edge of the hole. It would pull itself up, showing the straw body that was damp and dark with the waters and scum of the swamp.

But there it was, basking in light, dirty and heavy as it may be...

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This woman. She was strange. She was filled with darkness and and wickednessness yet willing to let him free for the chance of it. But freedom was not what he was looking for. No because freedom would not do well and he had traveled to far just to get this far. The darkness he seeked was pure darkness. he listened to her words slowly taking in all that is of value in her words. Of course all of it was valuable so he began to intake everything. She aseked of a description of the darkness I seeked. She knew what it was.

"The darkness I seek is the one most powerful than all. It creates a more powerful vibe than anythinng else. It collects tears from hell and uses those 3 tear drops and engraves it into the users body. Pain would only come. Suffering will only come from it. BUt of course I do not care. This is only the standby phase. The actual phase causes the teardrops to multiply and cry seeking and smearing painting itself all over my body. To obtain is once agan through pain. And finally the final stage of darkness creates me into a demon. The god of the demons. but of course you know howw I can obtain this seal don't you old woman. For one that speaks of darkness as if it was her friend you must know where I can find this darkness."

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"So... Boy~o... You seem to know exactly what you want, that darkness that corrupts the soul and in exchange grants the holder power. The seal of the demons, the Cursed Seal..." Edabina said, smiling a creepy smile. "But... my boy~o, to obtain this power is to lose wiiiill, for you and your soul will be controlled by that who grants the corrupt darkness. You will surely diiiie, would you want that... Boooooy~o?"

As Edabina talked, she began to walk into her voodoo both, further and further into the darker hidden areas. "If you want it... Boy~o, then come with me, I do know the path that you describe, but you will have to see something fiiiiirst, and run a little... service to prove power and worth. I advise you though, boy~o, to take this path is to throw away your liiiife, and that who grants you darkness, they will hold the thread of your fate, and can decay it upon their will..."

Edabina lifted up a finger, and a hidden trap door open up, stairs leading down to darkness. It seemed that, based on the location, this trap door led right into the swamp, a hidden passage underwater. Edabina would not care if the boy follow or not, she just threw a 'closed' sign to the front of the booth, and walked down. If the boy wanted to follow, he could take the risk and follow, if not, he could just try to search for what he wanted from someone else...

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Hook Line and Sinker. Of course I was only just fishing for the answer. I did not actually know that she was the one who possessed the knowledge of the actual seal. I thought she was one of the masters of the three courts and was just a servant that I randomly bumped into. I mean if you were looking for the seal of darkness of course you would go straight to the voodoo stand with the creepy smiling old lady. As she descended into the darkness I would follow her accepting my faith that was too come for this was of course the final trial of the darkness. The hard part would just go on. My death was highly unavoidable but of course there was a slight chance of survival though many known to have survived were often killed afterwards it would not make sense.

An errand she said? I spoke softly as we travelled down the hidden trap door. “A service you say?. May I ask from who? And what service is intended and needed?” The power of darkness would only settle for a service of evil. The granter of the seal would not just give me the seal because I frolicked in fields of flowers with children laughing and playing but of course I would only soon to find out.

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OOC: Whoops sorry, work is taking up a lot of my time card

"The blackest daaarkness is death, obviously the errand will be to... kill... Boy~o." Edabina said, in reply to his question on the service. She did not turn around to say it though, she just continued to walk down the passageway. It seemed to be a deep tunnel that went down many meters into the swamp, smelling old and of damp wood. If the boy followed the old voodoo lady all the way to the end, they would end up in a large 20 x 20 meter room crammed with nothing but a library of scrolls. The room was divided into two sides, one side was full of scrolls with white paper and blue ink, the other side was full of scrolls with black scrolls with red ink. There seemed to be a fairly even amount of scrolls on each side. At the very opposite end of the room, farthest away from where Edabina and the boy stood, there was a large glass case with a large puppet inside.

The puppet was about at the size of a regular full grown man. The hair was violet, the eyes were green, and a thick gray cloak covered the body. It was staring straight ahead, right at where Edabina and the boy should be. "This is my stoooorreoooom, most scrolls here contain the same type of thing... puppets... Those that lived and died in liiiiight... and those that lived and died in daaaarkneeees...." Edabina noted, walking towards the puppet in the glass case.

It was the boy's choice the continue or turn back, the errand was to kill, the question was who.

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"An imppressive collection old woman. But what does this have to do with anything?"

I would ask rubbing my hands against the glass case. death she says. An expert of death i was. Airontoku was a bloody race. from the beggining odf time children were taught how slash and kill and burn their opponents alive with a code of honour. Whoever she throws at him there would be no contest. hell he could kill everyone in this amn village if she wanted too.

ooc: Sorry short post

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[Nira]

OOC: Better for me to reply during my lunch break XD

"That man there in that case..." Edabina began, stopping her walk. "He tried to obtain both the greatest darkness and the greatest light, as you can tell, he failed in that pursuit." the old puppeteer explained, grinning a creepy grin at the boy and at the puppet. "You're goal is uncommon, but it has been attempted, know that in all my ears I know only two who have survived the cursed seal, and none who control their own will..."

"If you don't want to end up a failure... you'll have to do better than this man... Booooy~o..." Edabina said, look still at the puppet and the boy "The oldest leader of this village, he is the user of the rare and dangerous crystal release. Kill him or incapacitate him and bring his body to me mostly intact, and I'll show you the path to the darkest strength." She proposed, starting to walk towards the stairs again.

"He is a dangerous old bastaaard, I don't know if you can beat him... Boy~o, you can still turn baaack..."

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The Village Elder

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The village elder did she say? THE village elder? The one that is said to be the strongest out of all the elders and triumph with more guards than the average elder. Death come to those who seek it is what all people say and surprisingly death is what will come whether it be his or mine it would not matter. I would smile and bow towards the woman. “If that is the deed that must be done then so be it.” I bowed. “Now where may I find this village elder that is so highly guarded may I ask?”
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[Nira]

"The Village Elder isn't extremely hard to find. The tower that controls this village, shared by the three villages leaders, is right next to his home. A house of a dark blue roof and white walls, guarded by multiple lookouts. The lookouts are fairly weak, it's just two specific guards that you need to watch out for. They guard the elder Meibuhan fairly well as a team, one is genjutsu, the other is taijutsu. Fighting the two together is troublesome. Wherever the guards are, Meibuhan is close by." Edibina explained, sitting on a little stool on the darker side of the room.

"The leader's tower is the highest building in the village, if only by a few feet, you should be able to spot it easily. Good luck... Boy~o."

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ooc: U didn't give me much to work with but oh well.

I bowed to my client. this was my first assasination mission. Of course it didn't have to be completely stealthy but it was through the besy way possible to attack and bring the bod back to my madame. this was fairly easy. It wasn't too hard. the building wasn't too well secured than most so it would be easier. Dissarming the guards would be the easy part but capturing and getting out of there alive would be even harder.I would take my leave climbing back up the stairs and headed towards the castle.

I awaited until it was dark to attack. Visual was the thing that kept him hidden. Though they shone light through the places around it would be easy enough to get past. I crept through the shadows avoiding the lights as swiftly as possible. I would use one shunshin that got me out of the light quickly. It was a close call but once I reached the back of the building I would find myself at ease. There facing his back against a window was the elder. What a shame. The man was just over 75. There would be no hope for him. I would hold some seals together as I would complete the last handseal I would jump through the window startling the guards in the room but it was too late to react. As I hit the window I would hold the last seal sending a static pulse paralyzing them as I held the seal. It would be over.

I opened my mouth creating a horrible shreeking noise that paralyzed everyone that was in hearing distance. They would be deaf for a long time and completely paralyzed. I would crab the man by the head and snapped his neck instantly ending his misery. I would escape through the window I came in then quickly shunshined away. The deed was done. I had suceeded. I didn't even break a sweat.

I would return to the underground passage way dumping the elder on the floor. I would smile at the old woman. "Whats next?"

ooc: If you need me to redo it pm me but you didn't specify where he was. Two guards were there. You didn't tell me I couldn't do that so I assumed. still...

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[Nira]

Strangely, the old woman seemed to be gone. The scrolls were still there, but seemed to be operating by some lock and blood seals.

You could look for the old woman, or turn back now.

Choice

{In reply to quest termination request}