Splunking [Travel/Private]

[Draven]

Draven would be in his SWM puppet. He had a plethora of equipment on his person. Worn on his back was a large scroll strapped to the small of his back horizontally. On top of that there was a Tower shield that he used when he is out of his puppet, when ever that may be. On his left ear he had his wireless radio, and it was tuned to his villages frequency, unless otherwise noted for a specific mission. He wore glasses on his face, with anti-flash lenses. A pair of top quality ear plugs hung around his neck. He wore a utility belt around his waist. On his right forearm he had a handheld surveillance monitor lashed down, that was linked to his 220lb Draw Rifle Crossbow camera vision. Of course he had his own 90lb pistol crossbow in a holster on his utility belt on his right side. This crossbow had a 200 bolt clip installed on it that was filled full with bolts. Within his utility belt he had 40 explosive tags, 9 kunai, and 17 Soldier pills. On his right arm he had a triple utility pouch that had 6 Soldier pills within it. Within his huge scroll he had 5 SI-BOMB puppets that had 6 grenades installed into their self destruction cores, each.

The puppet he was in was called SI-SWM. On the inside of the puppet, there was a monitor that was linked up with a camera in the eyes. Underneath that monitor was another for the RADAR function of its sensory system. It had a plethora of defensive systems, and other miscellaneous systems. Inside the puppet installed onto the walls by the monitors were a Compass Electronic (Overview), and a Compass Gyrocompass (Overview), so that he won’t get lost.

The SWM puppet itself was wearing its own plethora of equipment. On its thighs it had double knife kunai holders, which had 2 kunais each. On its entire body it wore an Akimichi sized robe that had its good drawn up so that it would be difficult to see the puppetry of the puppet, unless it had its arm mechanism going, or its wings. The robe had slits cut in the back ingeniously enough so that they wont flap open, unless the wings were deployed or he was getting out of the puppet. One would have to have some knowledge of puppetry to an idea about the SWM's capabilities. Within the robe there was 40 explosive tags, and 10 kunais. The kunais all had explosive tags attached to them. The puppet was holding another puppet with its left arm. This puppet was able to be used as a shield, and was in its shield mode. The right arm of the SWM puppet had an interesting feature to split into three separate different arms that connected at the shoulder. One arm was the main arm and had five fingers, the second had three fingers, and the third had three red tipped fingers. This mechanism was active when the right arm was wielding a crossbow.

This crossbow is a 4ft long 220lb Draw Rifle Crossbow t, that had a Monocular attached to the sights. The Monocular had a zoom function of x12, X-Ray vision, Thermal Vision, and a Camera vision that was linked to a handheld surveillance monitor that was strapped to his arm on the inside of the puppet. Also attacked to the crossbow was a Pouch Projector: Portable: Dual Release. The dials were on the stock of the crossbow, and the tanks coming from the bottom of the stock. It had hoses that ran the length of the crossbow till it peaked down one the business end of the crossbow so the thing was functional. The crossbow itself was strapped behind its right shoulder, so that the right arm had easy access to it. Also strapped to the right shoulder for easy access was a Huge shoulder mounted quiver. Within the quiver there were 150 normal bolts and 150 specialty bolts. These specialty bolts were comprised of as such. 50 had blunt point arrowheads, 50 had mechanical blade arrowheads, and 50 had fragmentation arrowheads. 100 of those had basic shafts while 50 had splitting shaft. All the specialty bolts had razor blade fetching on them. Also strapped to the outside of the shoulder was a Triple Utility Pouch which holds nothing in it. Loaded into the crossbow's Pouch Projector: Portable: Dual Release, 6 cylinders were: 15 goo pouches (1 slot), 15 pouch:smoke (1 slot), 15 pouch: Incendiary (1 slot), 15 Pouch: Elemental: Lightning (1 slot), and Pouch: Elemental: Ice (1 slot).

The puppet that the SWM was using as a shield was called SI-CRAB. It had its own plethora of defensive systems, and a few other miscellaneous systems. Draven just got done checking everything before deciding it was ready to go. Currently the puppet in its shield mode, can give full coverage with a 5th wide, with 7 1/2ft tall dimensions.

Draven would be waiting around on the first big boulder outside the gate. He would be waiting for Hitumo, his puppet sitting on this rock. He would have to walk for this travel, flying was not an option unless Hitumo had a means to on his own. But walking was just fine, he didn't mind anything like that really.

Techs used:

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Chakra Ito (Chakra Strings)
Kugutsu no Jutsu (Puppet Technique)
(trust me I can, on first post I checked with BM on this. This is so I can enter a thread from within my large puppet.)

Items used:

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Puppets Statistics:

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SI-SWM 2.0
Hardness:20 HP:290/290 (+50 Structural enhancement)
Tactical Tower Shield 0/40 explosives taken
Afterburner system use: 1/9
Jet Pack: 0/10,000 meters (100 meters/round)(600 meters/round[straight line])
Mechanical Light Shield Mark II: 0/20 attacks (10 round charge up)
Deflection Field: 0/10 hits (2 round charge up)
Flight capabilities with Tech/Equip: Good: The creature is very agile in the air (like a housefly or a hummingbird), but cannot change direction as readily as those with perfect maneuverability.
Ammunition (loose equipment)

[/b] 14
Explosive tags: 40
Crossbow bolts: 150 normal bolts. 150 specialty bolts
Mechanical Blade Arrowheads: 50
Blunt Point Arrowheads: 50
Fragmentation Arrowheads 50
Basic shafts: 100
Splitting shafts: 50
Razor Blade Fletching: 150
Pouch Projector: Portable: Dual Release: 6 slots of:
Pouch: Goo, Pouch: Smoke, Pouch: Incendiary x2, Pouch: Elemental: Lightning, Pouch: Elemental: Ice.
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SI-CRAB 1.0

[/b]20 HP:310/310 (+150 Structural Enhancement)
Tactical Tower Shield 0/40 explosives taken
Afterburner system use: 0/3
Mechanical Light Shield Mark II: 0/20 attacks (10 round charge up)
Deflection Field: 0/10 hits (2 round charge up)
Anti-shock Array Mark II 20/20 charges
Modifications: None
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SI-BOMB

[/b] 5/5
Grenades: 6/6 each puppet
Hardness:10 HP:80/80
Afterburner system: 3 Uses
Jet pack: Straight line: 600 meters/round 0/10,000 meters used. Poor flight when not jetting.
Cloaking screen: 10 minute use (20 minute recharge)
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[Hitomu Arishu]

Hitomu, though he was armed, took clear note of the fact he had nothing on Draven's puppet, and probably Draven himself, he thought. His four combat knives rested comfortably in the top left pocket of his tactical vest, whereas his six kunai took up the remainder of the left pockets. He kept his eighty makibishi contained in the very back of the vest, since he wouldn't be using them in direct combat, he hoped. As for the seventy-five shuriken, those were stored in all of his pockets contained on the right of his vest.

He glanced up at Draven. He hadn't been given all the details of the mission, only that he'd be partnered up with him. "So uh, just out of curiosity," Hitomu began to say, not wanting to intrude. "Could I get a bit more knowledge on this mission? Where we're going, what we're doing, et cetera? Didn't really get that much intel on it when we were heading out."

[Draven]

Draven would stand his puppet up and start walking. It was a long trip and hey needed to get moving. Indeed this mission was going to be just as interesting as the last temple, or so he hoped. Last time he met a statue who mite have turned out to be a god of ninjutsu. If he would have fought him, there would have been a reward from the god. But he was of the ninjutsu type and he was more concerned about the Taijutsu god. And this time he would be prepared to fight that god.

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[Fui]

Moved

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[Hitomu Arishu]

Hitomu looked up at Draven, something he wasn't acquainted with, sheer surprise and a tinge of doubt written across his face. "A God of ninjutsu?" he half asked, and half asked. "And he challenged you?"

Then Draven informed him that that he had hoped to encounter a deity of taijutsu. "Oh God..." Hitomu thought, not wanting any of that.

Hitomu noticed a slight change in the landscape. Though it wasn't much, the sight of rocks were no longer huge behemoths of stone, but rather, average in size and smaller. "Seems like we're here," he said. "Where to next?"

[Draven]

[lets use this thread for our mission since we are in stone, no messy changing threads or anything. Tie would take over as GM for the mission]

Draven stopped.

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Draven would then have his puppet seem like it would sprout wings. The wings would deploy and come out of the slits on the robe. A second later and the SWM puppet would be in flight. He would reach an altitude of 50 meters above the ground. He would have his RADAR at its maximum range and find a RADAR signature that matched up roughly the topography of the previous temple that he had visited. He would have the puppets right arm slit off into three separate arms and use the 12x scope to spy on the RADAR signatures that mite match up with the temple. From within the puppet he would look at the monitor on his arm that was connected with the camera vision on the 220lb crossbow scope. Once he found something that seemed like it matched up he would come back down and look at Hitomu.

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Draven would have his puppet go toward what he found. It would be a bit of a walk and he would finally reach his destination. Or hopefully it would be the temple in question. Though he would have to take a closer look. It was indeed a structure, but he was not sure if it was the correct one.

[ok make your post, I am going to message Tie and see if we found it.]

[Hitomu Arishu]

Hitomu took notice of Draven's sudden halt, doing the same. It was evident that something was up. Naturally, he tensed up, bracing himself. He had no idea what was about to happen until Draven said, "Okay this is it. Now we start searching. I am going to get a birds eye view right quick. Then I'll come back down and we can head to the temple. And, I don't know the fighting capability of these 'gods' but we should be fine."

Merely shaking his head, Hitomu was quite surprised when he saw the puppet actually could, fly, growing wings. "Say what now?" Hitomu thought, merely scratching his head in disbelief as it soared into the sky, some fifty-five meters away, Hitomu guessed. As he looked up closer, he noticed that it the right arm of the puppet broke off, as three radar-like objects took it's steed.

"Well then..." Hitomu said, feeling rather useless at the moment until Draven popped back down to the solid ground.

"Alright I think I found it. Okay follow me," Draven told Hitomu, nodding and doing just that to wherever he hell Draven planned on going. Hitomu had a feeling he'd need to keep an eye on Draven, though, just in case. He knew Draven could watch his back, but what about his own? If the two became separated, he didn't know how he'd be able to help out Draven if he needed it.

Then again, Draven was a tough bastard, but it was always good to have a plan B. "Draven?" Hitomu asked as they were getting closer to the temple in question. "Mind holding onto one of my ants?" Hitomu asked, holding one up. "I know you'd be able to keep an eye out for me, if you wanted, but just in case you'd be in need of support, I'd be able to come and find you if we were to be split up. Never hurts to have a back up."

[Tieren]

As the man with the puppet flew up high, he would notice a strange temple of sorts in the distance. But the golden color at the top, with the Hammer Like symbol floating above it was clear enough to see. As the two would approach and get closer to the temple, they would come to find three entrances, each leading to specific rooms. At the top rested the symbol of the apparent owner of this temple, Gabriel.



But which room would they enter? There was the larger, main room, and two smaller side rooms. Each one undoubtedly held their own secrets, but would this be similar to the previous temple that Draven had been to? It was hard to say without entering the temple itself.

[Draven]

"Oi" Draven thought to himself. The temple was indeed to small for his puppet as the Tsuchikage had said, and so he would get out of his puppet. The flap of the robe would open revealing the puppeteer inside. He would look at Toge and smile "Oh Hi! Yeah, not sure how it works but no problem, set it on me where you want. Oh an be respectful if we do find a god in here, they tend to get offended easily."

Draven would get to work, he would unwind his huge scroll and preform a few handseal. Two of the Medium puppets would poof into existance. One being a gift from some one random, the Artemis puppet, and another being the SI-BOMB puppet. Once they were summoned he would take the robe off his large puppet, and tie it around his neck to use as a improvised cloak. He would then take the pouch launching system and scope off his 220lb crossbow and attach them both to his 90lb pistol crossbow.

Draven would rest for a little while, "So make sure you get prepared, who knows what we will find inside." he would say to Hitomu as he started a series of handseals. He would push his chakra into his SWM puppet, with the items it has in all and push the whole thing into the huge scroll. He would then wrap up the huge scroll once again and strap it to his back.

Draven would have three puppets out. The SI-CRAB, SI-BOMB, and the Artemis puppet. The Crab and the Bomb would be crawling on the ground while the Artemis would be walking in front of them once he would get everything ready. He would still have his monitor on his right arm and all his equipment he had on him. Except now he had a cloak with the robe that was on the SWM puppet, and the Dual Pouch launcher was now on his pistol crossbow. He still had his tower shield out and it was strapped onto his back along with his Huge scroll giving him a hiker type silhouette if seen from the side. He would climb up on the Crab puppet and use his left arm to control all three puppets. One string for each puppet. And his right arm would unholster his pistol crossbow and he would use the scope as a night vision if needed. Though the sun was up and he hoped that was enough light to see within the temple. "I would say you could ride on that other crawling puppet, but its a bomb so I wouldn't suggest it. And so I am ready to go, when you are"


Tech's used:

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Chakra Ito (Chakra Strings)
Kugutsu no Jutsu (Puppet Technique)

[Hitomu Arishu]

Hitomu nodded, as he simply put the ant on Draven's shoulder, also encasing it in tinge of chakra to support it and give it balance. "If we do find a God," Hitomu said, "I'll be sure to pray. Fast." Of course, Hitomu wasn't referring to praying to the god. He was talking about praying for survival.

Despite the fact Draven himself had taken out of his puppet, Hitomu didn't really seem to be surprised, nor did he seem scared. He was a shinobi. He was his partner. And the two would work together on this mission. It wasn't anything more or less.

"So make sure you get prepared, who knows what we will find inside," Draven said.

Hitomu briefly stretched. He was already prepared, or so he thought. He had all of his weapons, kunai, knives, shuriken, and makibishi, within reach, and in order of importance. His makibishi were behind him because they would be of interference in actual combat. They were to be a trap, but he'd feel bad about setting up anything here. After all, this was a sacred site.

"I would say you could ride on that other crawling puppet, but its a bomb so I wouldn't suggest it. And so I am ready to go, when you are," Draven added after a brief moment of rest.

"Yeah," Hitomu said, pointing towards one of the smaller rooms on the left. "I'm heading to that room I'd appreciate if you accompanied me, but that's up to you if you want. I just get the feeling if I head right down the center, well. It's just going to be pointless. It's too obvious, 'ya know?"

With that, Hitomu made his way down to that area, preparing for the worst.

[Draven]

Draven would have Artemis lead, as he would be on top of his Crab puppet riding hit, sitting indian style. And finally the Bomb puppet would be following him. This train would be following Hitomu as they went down the to the left. This was their destination and it felt eerily familiar...

[Tieren]

As the two of you would continue forward, into the smaller temple on the left, you would notice the walls lined with the mark of Gabriel. Bookshelves scoured the room and on its shelves were books in various languages. Two people walked around the room, sorting books. But as you would look closer, you would notice that they were floating instead. Their bodies were lightly see through as they seemed to not care that you had just walked in. As though their only goal was to sort out these books. They paid no mind to you and didn't even look your way as You were free to enter, or turn back to go into one of the other rooms.

[Hitomu Arishu]

The two came to a library-like room. Hitomu, who had grown up as a noble for awhile, had done his fair share of reading, not to mention all the reading and studying that was needed during his academy days. "Screw this," he muttered quietly to Draven. "I'm not going to read all these books. Let's be on our way."

Oh, how he hoped Draven would agree, as unlikely as it would be.

[Draven]

Draven nodded. Indeed there was a whole plethora of books. But he would not discount it. He would read the titles and if anything sparked an interest he would stuff it into his pack. Though he had his Artemis, and Crab puppet on alert. He was keeping an eye on the two other things in the room. A part of him wanted to take all the books and bring them back to the village, but another seen the logic of Hitomu and felt that this would take far too much to invest into to try and haul the load. So he would be on his way after he scanned the titles of the books. After this he would go back and search the next room that was yet to be discovered.

[Tieren]

The books would be difficult to read. Faded, in other languages, and covered in Dust. But one book finally stood out of all of them. "Iwagakure." was all the title said. Should it be picked up and opened, you would find that it was filled with names of all the people that live there. After some searching, you would even be able to find yourselves within the pages of the book. But were the other villages in here? They were, but the language was set to only let those who lived in that area be able to read it. It was a strange magic, something that neither of you would be able to figure out.

[Hitomu Arishu]

Hitomu took notice of Draven's lagging behind, but didn't say anything about it. He knew better than that. "That bastard," he thought, smiling to hide his irritation over Draven's book grabbing. Hitomu walked back to the main hall way, where he'd wait up for Draven.

"Care to head down the right pathway this time?" he asked, shrugging.

[Draven]

Draven would indeed grab the Iwa book. He would have grabbed all the books that he thought were of the other villages. But instead he grabbed the Sand village's as well. Perhaps this would make them even more friendlier toward the Stone village if this was presented to them. But other than that he would leave the room and head to the next room with Hitomu, "Right path it is."

[Tieren]

Draven's attempt to take the book of the Sand Village would not work as, as stated before, he wouldn't be able to tell it apart from the other books. But as he passed the threshold with the book from his village, the two ethereal beings from before turned toward him. "Thief. Return the book." They both said, their voices monotone. Two rays of soft blue light would shoot out toward Draven, making him feel like his insides were getting attacked. They were soulcasters, or simply souls to begin with. And they took their job rather seriously.

[Assuming you both know what Searing Soul is. If I need to quote it, I will]

[Hitomu Arishu]

Hitomu wasn't the kind of person to allow a comrade to fall, especially one like Draven. He quickly preformed a set of hand seals, as he raised his left hand towards the beam that was sent at Draven, and his right hand aimed directly at the spectral figure closest to him. A stream of ants would shoot forth towards both directions, shot straight ahead towards their imposing targets.

[OOC: Hitomu has no idea that a Soulcaster technique is being used. He noticed the blue light as he was turning around, and went to protect Draven. He thinks that it's some sort of ninjutsu, and because they're in unfamiliar territory, that they're being attacked, which is still technically accurate. He thinks the ants will be of help.]

[Draven]

Draven had kept an eye on these book keepers. In fact he was watching these "Ghosts" because he had a feeling something like this was going to happen. It didn't register right away with him that they were tending to the books, and so would be upset with taking a book, but that's where the sneaky suspicion came from. So all he simply did was burn one shunshins trace and a shunshin arc, he would then find himself at the archway to the room. Whats more he would say "Easy easy, lets just take this easy..." the book would be still on the shelf, as he did not take it, though his Crab puppet would still be under it. Artemis would be in the center of the library with its left arm up in the air and the flamethrower exposed. "You better settle down or your books are going to burn..." he said this and had his Artemis blast a less than a fraction of a second of flame up above its head. Then Artemis would aim the flamethrower at a wall where one of the ghosts were and pointed right at the books. "Now see that Crab over there. He is going to take that book, and if you know whats good for you, your going to let it take the book. Consider it that we are checking this book out of the library. I promise I will be taking it to the master of this keep and asking for permission to take it. But for now, you will just have to accept the book is going to be checked out for the time being." He said that and had his Crab slowly reach up to the book that he was picking out of the bookcase. He would keep his eyes on the "Ghosts" as he did this. He would contemplate these creatures right quick. He knew a little about ghosts, through stories and hearsay. He knew rumors where they could walk through walls and are incorporeal. He figured he had a few attacks that were not necessarily physical, and so that would be his only bet, at defending himself against these things. So with the thumb on his right hand, he switch the dial on his dual pouch launcher to the lightning pouch setting. If anything else he would create his own light show, if this did not work.

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