Tenebris
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Post by Tenebris on Apr 20, 2012 7:59:18 GMT -5
Katachi Aburame walked slowly into the training field, his hands in his pockets and his collar up as he regarded the beautiful clearing, cut in half by a single stream, with stoic admiration. He looked down at the patches of dirt formed from feet eroding away grass, seeing the many foot prints, some old, some new, a couple probably his own. There was a tranquil nature in the air that made this location one of the most popular places to train. Indeed, he’d been planning on using this time to practice the new Jutsu he’d designed; Web Bomb. Though he considered himself to competently know it, ironing out some of the ruff edges never hurt.
He walked to the middle of the clearing and stood perfectly still, his hands clasped together as he called forth his spider-kikai. Deciding to start off slow for now, he felt the small arachnid like insects crawl to his hands. As he slowly began to pull his hands apart the spiders ran between his fingers and palms and began to spin a ball of web. He tried not to rush them as he watched the process of building this very careful weapon. After about ten seconds it was ready. Normally it could have been finished in fare less time, but for now he wanted to feel the insects work, to observe the exact movements they took to spin this projectile between his hands.
With it ready he moved his legs apart and bent his knees slightly, entering a combat stance, he moved his arms apart and held the ball of web in his right hand, keeping it there for a short time while he searched for a target. Eventually he saw a frog hopping along near the water, approximately 15 meters away. It was a small, moving target, that was at the maxim range. It was perfect. With less then a moment thought he aimed and threw the ball right in front of where the frog was about to land. It made a direct hit, causing the frog to yelp in surprise as the web burst around it and bound it almost completely.
Katachi took a long sigh of self pride as he walked over to the struggling amphibian to release it.
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Shio
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Post by Shio on Apr 20, 2012 11:06:29 GMT -5
Shio was meditating in a nearby pool of water, allowing his chakra to flow out of his body, turning the water vapor around his hands into water, hitting the floor as a puddle. It seemed to be getting deeper and deeper, and Shio was in the middle of it, in the only dry patch. He was trying to focus his concentration as well as he could, to take in his environment completely and understand everything. Despite the lack of vision, he could as good as see the area he was waiting in. The stream was flowing by peacefully, a slight trickle the only noise it was emitting, he could hear birds in the nearby bushes and...... A slight crunch that most people would miss gave away the fact that someone was coming close. He was about to stand up and see who it was, but decided better of it "It's probably just some local kids messing around, nothing to be interested about." he reasoned.
However, a surprised and scared yelp of a frog could be heard a few seconds later, followed by a prideful sigh. Shio finally got to his feet, deciding that someone was messing around nearby. He was about to move to somewhere too secluded, but noticed it was someone he remembered from the Academy. Katachi Aburame, spidey-boy. He walked up behind him and put on his sternest voice possible "Aburame-san, disturbing frogs are you now? You know how scared you probably made the poor thing?" His voice cracked into one of more humor and he grinned cheekily "How ya doin' Katachi? Haven't seen ya in ages!!"
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Tenebris
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Post by Tenebris on Apr 20, 2012 18:34:57 GMT -5
Katachi turned his head to see Shio. His mostly covered face bore little to no expression as he regarded Shio’s joke and welcome, "Hello Shio Senju. No, I don’t believe we’ve communed since graduation." He then bent down and began to pull apart the webbing with only slight strain to his otherwise indifferent appearance, and broke the net trapping the frog to which it swiftly bounded into the water and out of sight, "This frog was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He’s fortunate I'm not a hungry predator."
Getting back up he walked back over to the other genin and spoke calmly, "What brings you here? Training I assume?" He looked over at the round puddle of water, "Still specializing in wetting yourself I see." It was obviously a joke, but was still spoken with minimal emotion, "Your getting better."
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Shio
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Post by Shio on Apr 20, 2012 18:41:40 GMT -5
Shio stifled a small giggle as he mentioned the wetting himself joke. It was a strange experience to be good enough friends with an Aburame to hear them make a joke, but they had grown up together. Surely it was natural. Still, you'd never think that a water-lord and a bug-boy would ever be able to be friends. It's a weird, weird world.
"Shush, bug-boy." he controlled the air around his hand and started giving Katachi a head rub, using the chakra to turn the water vapor into water and soaking him. "Oh dear, you're all washed up." He said, grinning like a little kid. It had been a long time since they'd hung out properly, and he wanted to have some fun. "So, bug-boy, you want to test out just HOW good I've gotten? after all, we haven't been able to stretch ourselves properly since the graduation exam, and we've both gotten better since then."
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Tenebris
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Post by Tenebris on Apr 20, 2012 19:06:35 GMT -5
Katachi remained motionless even as he felt his scalp slowly dampen. "Perhaps some sparing wouldn’t hurt. We have a lot to catch up on." He removed his headband and wiped away most of the water in his hair with the back of his hand. "Isn't it ironic that we meet for the first time in weeks and the first thing you want to do is fight me?"
Putting his headband back on he walked over to a spot in the clearing and took a fighting stance. Really, a direct confrontation like this was not what his skills where meant for. but he needed to know what to do should something like this happen in the real world. it was a welcomed opportunity. "I trust you won’t cheat like last time we fought?"
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Shio
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Post by Shio on Apr 20, 2012 19:17:01 GMT -5
"of course I want to fight you, Katachi-kun!! The best kind of friendship is one where the other person is able to push you to be your best, and that requires competition." He went across the field and put his hands ready to do the creation jutsu. Before he could, however, he heard Katachi accuse him of cheating "Oi!! I did NOT cheat. You never said I couldn't use ninjutsu, and I just happen to have a ninjutsu-made sword. It was hand to hand, i used my hands to summon a weapon. You wanted it to be the other way around, you should have been a bit more precise about what you wish for."
He got to the proper stance and started to explain how to fight, in a mocking voice as if belittling Katachi jokily "I trust you know how to see how many attacks each person has?" He asked, but before waiting for an answer he continued "You look at the speed of the two duelists. for example, I've got 35 speed and you've got 15. That means that I've got more attacks than you do. All duelists automatically start at 4 attacks, but then you do some interesting maths. You like maths, right bug-boy?" he put his hand out before sticking his two fingers up in a peace symbol "If you take away the slowest person's speed from the fastest person's speed, you get a number. In this case, it's 35 minus 15, which equals 20. That number is then divided by 25, which would be .8, which is then rounded up. Therefore, i get one more attack than you do. Simple, no?"
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Tenebris
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Post by Tenebris on Apr 21, 2012 2:28:08 GMT -5
Katachi raised an eyebrow at this unexpected mathematics display. "I’m not all that slow…" he whispered to himself. What was all this to him? Some kind of game? He’d seen this ninja’s antics before but decided to play along for now. "So your saying that I have 4 attacks and you have 5 each round? Fair enough. What happens next, oh Games Master?"
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Shio
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Post by Shio on Apr 21, 2012 4:22:32 GMT -5
"Hmm..... maybe I should just go back to absolute basics. So, next we'll talk about movement." Shio said, his voice turning like that of their teachers. People had often said that if he wasn't so adamant about becoming an ANBU, he would have made a great teacher. "We've established that I'm faster than you, but now we talk about how far we can move per action. Substracting the slower person's speed from the faster person's speed, we have 20. We divide that number by 30, and we get 0.6 recurring. Due to the fact that we round down, that's 0, so we both have 1 Meter per action, or MPA. But, imagine if you're in a bind and you need to move faster. At the expense of physical energy, you can move additional meters but only up to a limit of 5 meters, where you'd have to give up 4 physical energy. So, as you might guess, that's 1 physical energy for every additional meter in that action. So, you could move up to a maximum of 20 meters in a turn, but you'd need to give up 16 physical energy."
Shio noted that they were around 2 meters apart. He lifted his hand up as if awaiting a highfive "If that made any sense, whatsoever, then you should be able to come over here and highfive me. Do that and I'll move onto the next bit that you need to know. oh, and a warning: Any roleplay action, such as highfiving or picking something up, will always cost one action."
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Tenebris
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Post by Tenebris on Apr 21, 2012 4:43:53 GMT -5
Katachi just stared at Shio for a few seconds, his glasses and collar hiding most of his expression as he finally sighed, "Fine…" He slowly took the three steps towards, stood there for a moment, and raised his hand pressing their palms together. "Your great at teaching people to walk. What’s next?"
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Shio
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Post by Shio on Apr 21, 2012 4:53:20 GMT -5
"Now, we actually do some combat. Since we're both currently unarmed, I should probably begin with just normal damage. Each shinobi has basic attack and defence values, which I will now explain to you how to calculate." He stepped back slightly, feeling like Katachi was getting too close for him to concentrate properly. "Important when dealing with combat is to know that you have two values that really matter when attacking. Your force and your Taijutsu, or Ninjutsu, depending on the attack you're launching. Since we're focusing on Taijutsu here, let's go with that for now. Now, even in Taijutsu, it's important to differentiate two important things. Styled attacks and unstyled attacks. If you want to turn on your style, I'd recommend doing it later. First I'm just talking about unstyled attacks."
"I personally have a force of 55 and a tai skill of 10. So, here's how you'd work out my basic attack value."
[(Force x .75 + Taijutsu)] = [(55 x .75 + 10)] = [(51.25)]
"rounded down, that's a value of 51. now, use the method I just showed you and work out your own."
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Tenebris
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Post by Tenebris on Apr 21, 2012 5:09:05 GMT -5
Placing his hands in his pockets, Katachi adopted his normal, almost completely motionless, stance. "Well… I have a force of 45, and a taijutsu of 10 also. So that means…"
[(Force x .75 + Taijutsu)] = [(45 x 0.75 + 10)] = [(43.75)]
"My basic attack value is… 43. I think you’ve made a miscalculation. Shouldn’t your value should be 51?"
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Shio
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Post by Shio on Apr 21, 2012 5:21:21 GMT -5
"Hmm," Shio said as he ran the numbers through his head and nodded. "That's correct! Well done! It looks like you're not as dumb as you seem." he said, sticking his tongue out.
"Now, since we've both practiced in Taijutsu, you will automatically defend against some attacks. Your body reacts in certain ways to attacks. Intelligent people will know how to take a hit to minimize the damage and skilled people will know to defend against every attack. When people deal damage to you, you will always subtract a certain number from their attack. This is known as final defense." Shio explained, moving slowly so Katachi would understand perfetly
"The way to calculate your defense is as follows," Shio explained, "we take your two key defense statistics, intelligence and either taijutsu or ninjutsu, depending on what you're defending against. In this example, we'll only be doing Taijutsu so we'll only work with the Taijutsu stat."
"Now, we're using ourselves as examples again. so I'll work out my own final defence." [(Taijutsu/3 + Intelligence/4)] = [(10/3 + 50/4)] = [(3.3 + 12.5)] = 15.8 "so, rounding it down I have 15 defence. Now, calculate it for yourself."
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Tenebris
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Post by Tenebris on Apr 21, 2012 5:35:12 GMT -5
He stood still listening, "Well as I said my taijutsu skill is 10, and my Intellect is also 50. However I don’t need help from gloves to get that." He teased.
[(Taijutsu/3 + Intelligence/4)] = [(10/3 + 50/4)] = [(3.3 + 12.5)] = 15.8
"So that means my defense is also 15."
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Shio
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Post by Shio on Apr 21, 2012 5:55:03 GMT -5
"You're just mad because my gloves give me extra swagger. You're jealous, mate." he teased back, sniggering slightly "Alright, now I'll give you the run-down of how this works in combat and also explain damage ranks," He waved his hand and made a fist, making a mock punch forward. "Let's say you hit me and I don't defend or dodge. We take your final attack, which is 43 and we'll take away my final defence, that's 15, leaving us with 28 damage."
"That would be HUGE amounts of damage per hit, but you now have to factor in attack ranks. Because regular styled Taijutsu punches are so weak, you'll only deal E-rank damage. That means that we'll subtract the damage dealt by 3 to get to the final damage. The only way to increase your damage is to learn specific Taijutsu moves that allow you to deal more damage."
"Now, using that, do how much damage i'd cause against you"
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Tenebris
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Post by Tenebris on Apr 21, 2012 6:09:46 GMT -5
"If you managed to hit me unbridled that would be your 51 attack with my 15 defense"
"You’d do 12 points of damage to me"
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