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Jul 23, 2012 22:18:00 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jul 23, 2012 22:18:00 GMT -5
"We don't know in specific. When we try to fight back, something goes wrong every time. Our guys get knocked out, or when we show up, everyone's not there. It's just enough not to get Konoha sending their best guys, but just enough that we can't proceed. My guys are leaving in droves".
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Jul 24, 2012 13:02:22 GMT -5
Post by littlejesse on Jul 24, 2012 13:02:22 GMT -5
"You have are word that we will stop."said Blackstar.
I say."So how exactly do you want us to do? Do you intend to use us as guards?"
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Jul 24, 2012 16:16:29 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jul 24, 2012 16:16:29 GMT -5
Tazuna looks at BlackStar. "You remind me of that kid". He responds to Jesse, "I hired you! You're the ninja! I want you to keep an eye out, maybe pretend to be workers. Do some recon. When something goes on, try to find out what happened".
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Jul 24, 2012 17:12:46 GMT -5
Post by littlejesse on Jul 24, 2012 17:12:46 GMT -5
I say," we will start as soon as possible if thats ok with you and are sensei."
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Jul 24, 2012 18:51:02 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jul 24, 2012 18:51:02 GMT -5
Yoruichi nods. She smiles to herself. She seems to be taking a backseat, letting the young shinobi do what they need to. She almost exudes a motherly sensation.
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Jul 24, 2012 20:24:24 GMT -5
Post by littlejesse on Jul 24, 2012 20:24:24 GMT -5
"So were do you need us?"
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Jul 24, 2012 21:23:46 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jul 24, 2012 21:23:46 GMT -5
Tazuna says, "The biggest attacks have been near the bridge. We've been seeing lots of repair work for the foundations, and our workers get ambushed, or have their tools stolen or broken, or get fog coming in that prevents them from working. Maybe you could check that area out".
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Jul 24, 2012 23:30:15 GMT -5
Post by littlejesse on Jul 24, 2012 23:30:15 GMT -5
We will head there right away unless there is something? said jesse with apperent haste.
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Jul 25, 2012 0:48:41 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jul 25, 2012 0:48:41 GMT -5
Tazuna shrugs. "You might wanna rest, eat. Other than that, I don't know".
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Jul 25, 2012 2:08:37 GMT -5
Post by littlejesse on Jul 25, 2012 2:08:37 GMT -5
"Right then lets go'" said jesse running out the door with blackstar close behind.
Gaara:What the hell am I doing here with these little kids their annoying and allwais running off with so much enthusiasm... what pests.
Jesse stops at the door and looks back,"Hey Gaara you comming?"
Gaara responds with an unenthusiastic *grunt*
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Jul 26, 2012 15:30:01 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jul 26, 2012 15:30:01 GMT -5
Tazuna looks at Gaara. Yoruichi also examines him.
What's the plan?
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Jul 30, 2012 14:35:15 GMT -5
Post by littlejesse on Jul 30, 2012 14:35:15 GMT -5
oog that was his thoughts
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Jul 30, 2012 23:14:31 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jul 30, 2012 23:14:31 GMT -5
OOG: I know. Tazuna and Yoruichi look at his body language and face; they're not telepathic, at least not apparently.
What's the plan? You could observe the workers from a distance from a building, slip into the water and use the reeds/water wings trick, or use Henge to have one or more of you infiltrate into the workers and act as a TARP
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Aug 4, 2012 22:26:25 GMT -5
Post by littlejesse on Aug 4, 2012 22:26:25 GMT -5
Me: How about I go undercover as a worker while Blackstar hides under the water close enough that he will be able to assist if needed while Gaara stays at a distants and looks for any unusual activity or an ambush with his sand and we all keep in constant radio contact to report our findings.
Blackstar: Actually I would prefer to go undercover as well if that's alright with you.
ME: Certainly. Gaara are you alright with your role in this?
Gaara: Hmm yeah I guess that's fine.
ME: Great then let's head out.
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Aug 7, 2012 18:12:17 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Aug 7, 2012 18:12:17 GMT -5
Both BlackStar and Jesse go undercover. They use shapeshifting (Henge in Jesse's case, a similar shapeshifting technique in BlackStar's case). The workers continue to repair the foundations. BlackStar and Jesse find that they are unable to mimic their work too well, so they find themselves naturally attracted to taking breaks and simply looking like they're doing support work.
BlackStar and Jesse suddenly get an instinct that they are about to be attacked. At that point, they smell a heady scent in the air, and a yellow crackling sphere of... something that looks like lightning strikes near them! They may react.
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Aug 9, 2012 15:45:58 GMT -5
Post by littlejesse on Aug 9, 2012 15:45:58 GMT -5
OOG: are any of the workers injured and can Gaara tell who did it ?
Jesse and blackstar jump to there feet and look around for the assailant while also preparing for another attack.
ME: "Gaara can you move the sands around us?"
ill also pick up a hammer
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Aug 11, 2012 1:06:45 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Aug 11, 2012 1:06:45 GMT -5
OOG: It's a little difficult for BlackStar and Jesse to tell from their vantage point, but between the three, it's fairly clear that while some workers might be targeted depending on how BlackStar and Jesse react, it looks like it's focused on you and they'll be collateral damage. It also seems that they're not trying to kill anyone. Gaara deduces that they can't do too much damage because that might actually require some real reaction from Konoha or some other group.
Neither Gaara nor Jesse can sense nor see the potential assailants. BlackStar, however, has tools that neither of them do. He realizes that there are three attackers in the bridge, hiding behind a Magic Cloak of Invisibility (the Jutsu not actual magic).
The very fact that Gaara cannot see them easily indicates that they're very good ninjas, probably at least Chuunin or ANBU/gifted Genin.
Jesse is a little slow on the draw and gets tagged. The electricity is powerful: He finds that he is paralyzed from pain and shock and loses his next action. BlackStar, on the other hand, leaps away successfully, only getting a bad burn on his leg. Three workers are also struck down but are not killed.
Gaara's defenses start to move, which in turn help the enemies realize where he is. An arrow flies at him at immense speed. The shield starts to form, and actually catches the arrow... and then the arrow drills out and fires a smaller metal bolt from inside of it, slashing Gaara's face. Gaara's sand armor defends him, but it is astonishing how damaging it was.
Jesse can't act this round, but BlackStar and Gaara can.
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Aug 11, 2012 20:15:20 GMT -5
Post by littlejesse on Aug 11, 2012 20:15:20 GMT -5
Gaara quickly makes a sand clone and has it run to attack the enemy while also raising his sand armor around Blackstar.
Blackstar has Subaki turn into sword form and using soul resonants uses speed star to run to attack the enemy.
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Aug 11, 2012 20:50:52 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Aug 11, 2012 20:50:52 GMT -5
Gaara's sand clone rockets off to attack the three assailants. A second arrow darts out, but Gaara ducks underneath it and it is ultimately harmlessly absorbed by barrier. The clone comes in and prepares to attack. One of the ninja produces two sai and fails to strike Gaara, but the other uses a kusari-gama and basically clotheslines Gaara. Luckily, in doing so, this takes a good number of the reaction time of the enemies.
BlackStar is lucky in that the beach below him is pretty easy to walk on, but SpeedStar is not as good when it comes to leaps with little ability to correct. BlackStar struggles to readjust when a bow has extended blades that shove out at him, and he has to jump onto the bridge's cross-supports. BlackStar is still able to charge in and strike at the other three. He leaps down, and though braking is not his strong suit in SpeedStar, he makes an arcing strike that hurts the sai user and the kusari-gama user, though the kusari-gama user is able to use the chain to stop BlackStar and let them all get away. BlackStar has drawn blood, literally and figuratively.
The bow user hisses, "Shinobi. Not bad ones either". They wear anonymized head protectors, but Gaara can tell that the way that they fight and act, their training and their equipment is distinctive Lightning. The sai user nods and says, "Something's wrong with the blue-haired one. I've never seen that style before".
The sai user calmly and detachedly says, "You're not the only one with a speed ability." There's a ringing and suddenly he's charging forward. The velocity is immense and BlackStar's passive dodging isn't enough to protect himself.
The kusari-gama user begins throwing the ball around. This creates an electric net which she uses to hem in the workers and try to get Jesse; however, Jesse is done being stunned so he can dodge.
The archer stands behind the other two and hisses, "I don't have any Earth Jutsu on hand!" She loads up a cartridge into the rear of an arrow and fires it. The arrow flies true at Gaara; Gaara may react.
[FN: E-Net 84, Ear-Ar 32, Si 324]
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Aug 11, 2012 21:35:57 GMT -5
Post by littlejesse on Aug 11, 2012 21:35:57 GMT -5
The sand clone will deform and try to cover the man in the sand its made out of.
Gaara, raising his defenses anhd hiding in the ball of sand to help negate the arrow, uses all the sand from under the bridge to try to wash away and trap their attackers in the sand. (from behind them)
Blackstar will use trap star to catch the sai user and whoever else gets caught.
Jesse will run out of the way of the net toward the kusaru-gama user and use shadow clonex2.
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Aug 12, 2012 13:01:49 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Aug 12, 2012 13:01:49 GMT -5
OOG: I totally just forgot Yoruichi, so... have like four GMFs. I'm just going to say she's watching and is going to be able to capture some of them.
The sand clone was destroyed by the kusari-gama.
Gaara easily succeeds in his defense. He summons an immense amount of sand and begins to prepare to wash the assailants away. The sai user stares to the side in fear and begins to turn away: Though he had simply jumped over the Trap Star, this had committed him to forward motion. Jesse realizes by the way that the sai user is moving that he has basically charged his sai so that they constantly rocket him forward, but this means that he cannot change direction easily, a similar weakness to SpeedStar. The sai user is washed away by the sand.
The sand dispels the electric net very rapidly, letting the workers run, as wind beats lightning. Amazingly, the kusari-gama user manages to swing the ball end up and get away from the sand, but he is struck down by Jesse from both sides.
The archer realizes very rapidly that this is not going well, but a bow substantially slows her response times. She shoots an arrow up and reels herself up and away from the sand, but she gets cut by the chains of TrapStar which close in rapidly around her.
Only the archer stands on their turn. She attempts to flee, firing a smoke arrow then shooting a kite arrow. However, the sand interferes with her escape. At that point, Yoruichi strikes her down.
Yoruichi says, "Good work. Let's take them for interrogation".
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Aug 12, 2012 13:23:55 GMT -5
Post by littlejesse on Aug 12, 2012 13:23:55 GMT -5
OOG: Gaara can reform sand clones and their better than normal clones and dont die after the first attack.
me: Whoo we did it good work Gaara. You as well Black Star.
Gaara begins to move the sand off the bridge so the workers can continue.
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Aug 12, 2012 22:20:41 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Aug 12, 2012 22:20:41 GMT -5
OOG: I know. The clone was obliterated by a strong attack entirely, not just one small glancing blow. There wasn't enough sand to easily reform.
The workers regroup and try to figure out what's happening. Yoruichi says, "I think there's something else coming. We better get out of here". She signals to leave; she apparently has an interrogation area ready.
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Aug 12, 2012 23:02:06 GMT -5
Post by littlejesse on Aug 12, 2012 23:02:06 GMT -5
We follow.
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Aug 13, 2012 0:27:26 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Aug 13, 2012 0:27:26 GMT -5
It seems to be a room constructed out of pure energy. Everything seems solid, but it isn't really there. Gaara deduces that it must be like that ability she did earlier.
She whispers to the three Genin [you three], "So, how would you proceed breaking these guys?"
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Aug 13, 2012 8:14:42 GMT -5
Post by littlejesse on Aug 13, 2012 8:14:42 GMT -5
Gaara gives a slight smile but said nothing.
Jesse sais," Mabey if Blackstar disrupts his soul waveleanths enough then he'll talk but other then that you have more experience than we do doing this sensei."
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Aug 14, 2012 1:33:32 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Aug 14, 2012 1:33:32 GMT -5
Yoruichi nods. "How do you know? Maybe I haven't tortured anyone in my life. Don't make assumptions about the skill levels of your comrades. Luckily, you happen to be right. The soul wavelength is a good idea". Yoruichi blinds each of them with a kido barrier and whispers into each, "The first person to talk doesn't get dropped into the tub". She has a tub of water ready to go. "Okay?"
She whispers to each of them. Each says nothing until she dunks the archer in the water. She freaks out and screams, but she isn't sinking. At that point, the sai user says, "We're from Lightning Village. We've been tasked to attack in order to distract Konoha and help local crime bosses".
When Gaara figured that they were Lightning Village earlier, he had a strange hunch that something was strange. Jesse independently gets the same feeling here. Yoruichi is sure that they aren't lying, but the information does seem to be a little too easy to get. Even Genin are trained against interrogation, and certainly would if they went for this kind of long-term mission. Moreover, it's weird that Genin would be sent on this kind of mission at all, even given how experienced and powerful these three were.
At this point, the improvised kido fortress being shaking.
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Aug 14, 2012 15:18:57 GMT -5
Post by littlejesse on Aug 14, 2012 15:18:57 GMT -5
Blackstar asks Yoruichi if he should do it before the barrier falls.
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Aug 14, 2012 17:48:15 GMT -5
Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Aug 14, 2012 17:48:15 GMT -5
Yoruichi says, "It might be worth a try, assuming you can do it fast enough".
When BlackStar goes over to do it, he instantly finds something amiss. While his wavelength modification is not prodigious, he can nonetheless tell that something was done to these ninja.
Meanwhile, the barrier falls. There is a massive gorilla-looking creature, but over its thin layer of fur it is covered with thick red and white thorns that match its coloration; it is sixteen feet tall. A cephalopod stands near it, similarly as large, seemingly made out of a natural brass, its eight tentacles ending in dragon heads. And there is a gigantic monstrous humanoid with three arms each wielding an improvised wooden club, scaly skin like a fish, a face like an ogre's and acid dripping down its mouth.
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Aug 14, 2012 19:25:02 GMT -5
Post by littlejesse on Aug 14, 2012 19:25:02 GMT -5
ALL three: WHAT!!!
Blackstar uses Trap star.
Gaara forms his ultimate defense.
I release my bugs while running at the 3 armed monster wielding my zambota.
ME: Blackstar do you have any idea what these things are?
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