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 Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 10:17 pm
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 Quietly, Agni considered the arena laid out before him from a spot not too far from the entrance. Whirling dummies that looked like they could hurt and the glimmer of a not insignificant amount of water. Either one risks getting hurt by the dummies, and Agni didn't have confidence in his "fall like a leaf" techniques to avoid their spinning hits, or one squeezes into close combat in one of the few open spaces.
From somewhere further in the field, not so far away it was the other end, but not so close that Agni could see the owner of the voice, his opponent's voice drifted a greeting. There was a small pause of consideration before Agni responded, "It's me," in the most monotone voice imaginable. Perhaps the absolute lack of any sort of tune to his words would elicit the musical reference he was ironically making.
It was some casual fun, and likewise, Agni began to carefully make his way through the forest of dummies. Duck, dodge, lean, slide, weave. His going was slow as, true to this arena's purpose, his type of combatant shouldn't be experienced with this type of movement. However, he was learning with each step. Growing accustomed to the rhythm of it.
Hopefully, Katou wouldn't attack him while he was vulnerable and shifting through the living whack-attack trap because that would end painfully. If Agni was let be to slide and waltz his way through, he'd get to Katou's clearing and peacefully greet him with a nod.
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Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 4:34 pm
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Katou nodded back somewhat listlessly. Her opponent seemed to have had trouble with the dummies. At the very least, that suggested that she wasn't up against someone with a lot of physical training. Another bad match-up, it seemed, though after her last match, she wasn't sure if she was the side being favored.
"Katou. Nice to meetcha," she greeted her opponent, offering up a shallow bow as the musical reference wooshed over her head. As she righted herself, she took the opportunity to loosen up her shoulders. "I know I was shouting about deckin' ya in the schnozz earlier, but let's keep this friendly, 'kay? Today's already been exhausting."
So saying, she crouched down and covered her arms in dirt, solidifying it into something akin to armor. When she stood up again, they came out of the ground with a slight "pop!" that sent her slightly off-balance.
"Ready when you are," she told Agni, raising her now (literally) dirty arms in front of herself like a boxer.
tab Jutsu Used:
Ishi Yoroi no Tamaki [ Stone Bracers ] (D)
465/475 Chakra
345/345 Stamina
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Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 9:35 pm
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Agni considered what Katou had just done and the puppet on her back. He wasn't sure how to go into the approach. Though, then again, he supposed it didn't matter to him, really. Or did it? It was impossible to see what he was thinking through his mask. The only answer he gave was a quiet nod of the head, so there wasn't even a voice to read his thoughts from.
Taking this with all seriousness, Agni readied himself. Mimicking the girl in front of him, Agni cast hand signs and waved his arms through the air. To match her fists coated in the earth, he coated his fists with the turbulent force of the air. Punching his empowered fists into each other, Agni gave Katou a good moment to process what he had just done. [Nadeshiko-Ryū Kōha Reppūken [ Nadeshiko-Style Hardliner Gale Fist ]]
He punched his fists into each other, mask hiding any expressions that may have crossed his face then. After Katou was given a good moment to process, Agni made the first move. He moved in nimbly but with no special flare. Fast, but not an empowered sort of fast. Agni began the fight with a simple, nimble strike, attempting to stab through Katou's defensive boxer's stance with a jab to his gut. Simple, originally quite weak, but made stronger by the gale surrounding his hands. [Hard Physical E-rank]
Chakra Pool: 310 / 350
Stamina Pool: 195 / 200
Nadeshiko-Ryū Kōha Reppūken [ Nadeshiko-Style Hardliner Gale Fist ]
Rank: B
Description: Following the principles of Chakra channeling, the user coats their hand in Fuuton Chakra. For 2 posts, all hand-based attacks the user makes are treated as minimally B-Rank in strength with a Fuuton elemental affinity. Shares a slot with Nadeshiko-Ryū Kōha Senkaigiri [ Nadeshiko-Style Hardliner Revolving Cut ] if that technique is already known.
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Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 5:37 am
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Katou watched as Agni mimicked her, but with air. Given her experience in the first round, she wouldn't be surprised if that wind would tear her to shreds if it hit. Well, at least he wasn't chasing after her with tidal waves of earth and trees.
Then came the punch. It was easy enough to see and she evaded with a hope to the side, but the force of the air moving around this Enpisee's fist gave her flashbacks to the worst parts of the first round. She was becoming increasingly convinced that buying a Chuunin's flak jacket had been woefully premature. Nonetheless, she couldn't help but be excited.
"Where do you guys get all these crazy techniques?!" She pulled back her fist as she spoke, like a spring storing power. "That wind fist is so dang cool! Will I die if I get hit? Is it C-Rank? Is it your specialty? Can you show me more?!"
Her questions slowed her down for just a tick longer than was probably necessary, but she did eventually remember to attack. She loosed the punch for Agni's sternum. It didn't have much force behind it, but it carried the weight of her jealousy over her opponent's jutsu, or was perhaps pushed on by the power of the stars in her eyes. At least she was getting less melancholic.
tab Jutsu Used:
Soft Physical: Evading the punch (D)
Talk no Jutsu: -
Hard Physical: Punching (E, treated as spiritual due to discipline)
465/475 Chakra
335/345 Stamina
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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:02 am
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Agni remained quiet, giving Katou no answers to her questions. It wouldn't be in character for him to start speaking up all friendly-like after all. Previously, he'd only stepped out of line because the other side was so reticent. That clearly wasn't the case now.
However, contrary to his prude lips, Agni's actions... Well, they didn't appear to be trying to fire up his opponent. However, the results of their actions coincidentally aligned with possibilities one might assume would make her opponent feel more lively.
Despite the tick of delay Katou had given with her words, Agni hadn't taken advantage of the lag. He took the punch to his cut, letting her land her first hit and reap whatever sense of accomplishment she might get from it. Then, before he really got into showing what his specialty was, he sated her curiosity of his gale technique with a counterattack.
The punch to the gut was taken, Agni buckling under the strength and bending forwards, and while Katou was busy drawing back her fist, Agni would make a grab for it [C-rank simple soft physical; empowered by Nadeshiko]. If successful, the winds that still whipped around her arm would rotate Katou in his favor as he spun and threw her over with a basic shoulder throw. Admit, one that would send her spinning once released because the winds that coated his arms. [2/2]
Chakra Pool: 310 / 350
Stamina Pool: 175 / 200
Nadeshiko-Ryū Kōha Reppūken [ Nadeshiko-Style Hardliner Gale Fist ]
Rank: B
Description: Following the principles of Chakra channeling, the user coats their hand in Fuuton Chakra. For 2 posts, all hand-based attacks the user makes are treated as minimally B-Rank in strength with a Fuuton elemental affinity. Shares a slot with Nadeshiko-Ryū Kōha Senkaigiri [ Nadeshiko-Style Hardliner Revolving Cut ] if that technique is already known.
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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 5:07 pm
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"Not very chatty, are yaaaAAAAAAAAAA!" Hanae's words would distort a bit as the wind took hold of her, spun her about like an egg in a mixing bowl, and then sent her tumbling into the field of dummies. The precious Sanshouuo puppet whose pieces she carried on her back took no small portion of the damage, parts of it scattering about as some of its attachments came off and joints came loose.
To her credit, Hanae was back on her feet fairly quickly. That was partly due to being smacked upright by the dummies, but her managing to stay upright despite her dizziness was more thanks to her experiences on ships. Swaying? She laughed in the face of swaying!
...well, maybe not this time. Her legs were shaking and her head felt a bit heavier than normal. She might've wondered if this was how it felt to have a brain if she could properly concentrate on anything but banter.
"First yer--erp--cold, then you hold my hand? What are you, a tsundere?" she managed to get out around some astounding queasiness. She raised her fists again, started to run at him, and then immediately faceplanted when her legs gave way. Not one to give up a fight just because of a little trauma to her limbs and possibly head, she formed half of a few hand seals and attached some Chakra strings to some of her puppet pieces. As one, they jumped toward Agni... then clattered to the ground as the strings bent toward the puppet's head and disappeared into it.
"Huh?" was the only thing she could say to that development. Her eyes shifted onto the head, then onto her opponent. Then back and forth again. "You sabotage my precious Sally? He's never been this hungry before! This another one of your tricks? Super secret main-Village illusions? Well-played, Enpisee. Ain't got a counter for that one."
The being of indomitable will known as Katou Hanae tried to struggle to her feet, but was having a bit of difficulty. Even with a Chuunin's flak jacket on to protect her torso, she would no doubt be a fairly easy target.
tab Jutsu Used:
Kugutsu no Jutsu (E)
460/475 Chakra
335/345 Stamina
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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:08 pm
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Agni was being falsely accused. He swore it! He ain't even touch that puppet!
So naturally, he remained stubbornly quiet in the face of such lies and slander, and waited patiently for Sally to find her footing. He hadn't joined the exams to beat up some poor genin or other, so he wouldn't take advantage of such an obviously vulnerable moment. As far as he cared, he had won the first bout. Though, of course, he wouldn't blame Sally for not showing him the same courtesy.
Besides, there was a second reason that further convinced Agni to not take advantage of the moment. The puppet. While the attack had evidently failed, Agni wasn't taking chances. He had high respect for just how dangerous puppets could be, and for all he knew, Sally's banter could be hiding tricks up her sleeve. It was all too easy for Agni to imagine that the moment he moved in for a strike, puppet blades would slice into his body from all directions.
The turbulence around Agni's hands died down, and Agni took his time collecting himself into a loose defensive stance: side to Katou, hands raised and ready, and a mask hiding hid internal thoughts. C'mon Hanae. Agni knew behind his stoically flat expression that you had more than just that in you. Show off everything you've got while there is an audience of influential figures.
Chakra Pool: 315 / 350
Stamina Pool: 180 / 200
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 6:43 am
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Hanae was used to hearing about how people from the main Villages were stuck-up elitists and didn't care about places like the Frost and crap like that. She'd heard it for basically all of the part of her life she could remember. Her opponent in the first round had been intense enough to make her believe the propaganda, but this guy? Agni what's-his-face? Man, he almost seemed like decent folk! Not attacking a lady when she was down, even if he had just executed a wicked throw to make her that way.
As achy as she was--and she definitely was--Hanae managed to get back to her feet. She needed a strategy, one befitting the cunning of a puppeteer. Sally wasn't accepting strings right now, for some reason, but what about her one remaining puppet, Momo? Or, wait, was it Jijin? The dang wooden men looked too similar. She'd etched names into them, but hadn't checked to see which one she'd partially destroyed in the first round.
She whipped out one of her tiny Genin scrolls and summoned one of her wooden men--this one temporarily designated Kuku until she could figure out if it was Momo or Jijin. It appeared behind her, standing with its arms crossed like an imposing father figure as she stuck some chakra strings to it.
"Thanks for waiting. I really appreciate it." Her tone was surprisingly tender for someone in the middle of a fight.
Then she was gone, and in her place was a chunk of the poor, broken Sally that had been to Agni's right. Hanae appeared where that chunk had been and immediately went in for a roundhouse kick to the side, only to pull back at the last second. Kuku had fallen over, the strings attached to it absorbed by Sally's head.
"The hell is going on here?!" Hanae cried, looking bewildered between the head of her puppet and her opponent.
tab Jutsu Used
Kuchiyose Kugutsu: Ichi [ Puppet Summoning: One ] (E)
Kugutsu no Jutsu [ Puppetry Technique ] (D)
Hard Physical: Kick (D, canceled)
445/475 Chakra
325/345 Stamina
((Second post incoming.))
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 6:51 am
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2019 9:20 pm
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See? Agni was right. Puppets could be scary. However one look at Hanae and her lack of any attacks at him while he was surrounded and outmaneuvered told him that not everything was how he thought it was. The death knell of iron doors slamming down only confirmed his suspicions. Well, he supposed, at least this was a lot more reasonable than having giant chunks of sashimi falling out of the sky.
Acting quickly, Agni grabbed a hold of Hanae's hand, whether she raised it to him or not and quickly forced her up to the feet. Netting spread high overhead. Ground exits blocked. His puppeteer friend (because yes they were friends now) losing what he imagined was at least half of her kit with the untimely destruction of her puppets. Who could have set this trap, though?Someone who had the opportunity to meddle with her puppets, and those people were?... Nothing jogged in Agni's memory. Though he had been resting in the same wing as Hanae, he hadn't randomly paid attention to her back then. He could ask her if she knew, but this was hardly the time.
While Agni pulled up Hanae with one hand, his other hand gestured in the air, and at its command, the wind solidified into platforms, a sparse four of them that crossed over the dummies to the observer's platform . "Let's go," Agni beckoned, as he dragged his feet back to make enough room for a three step running start and jumped atop the nearest platform. The dirt that had been rubbed into the soles of his shoes when he had dragged his feet back earlier mixed with the wind of the step, making it easier to see. If nothing went wrong, Agni would continue to hop from wind step to wind step until he reached the platform, dirt from his footwear mixing into each step to make it easier for Hanae to see where they were placed.
Chakra Pool: 295 / 350
Stamina Pool: 180 / 200
Wind Step [C-rank]
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Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2019 6:24 pm
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To be quite honest, with everything going on and with how injured she was, Hanae probably would've been fine with lying down in a safe spot and waiting for things to blow over. There was a near-100% chance that she would've done just that if Agni hadn't been so friendly in his own special way. She didn't resist at all when he started to drag her along with his escape attempt, but as soon as she realized what was happening, she grabbed Kuku.
This was hardly the time to marvel at the wind steps, which was just as well because they were similar to her own earth steps. Still, she did a wee bit of marveling before the bottom two-thirds of Kuku were chopped off by a dummy. That was a good sign she needed to pay attention.
When they landed on the Overseers' platform, she dropped the head, half-torso, and one arm that remained of her last puppet and took a deep breath.
"Thanks again," she said, a bit quieter than before. "What do you think? We gotta go up, right? I could maybe make a hole in it if I had Sally or--hang on. I'm gonna see if I can jack one of these bozos. They're kind of like shuriken, right? Bet their arms are sharp enough to get through a lame net."
She let go of Agni's hand and walked over to the edge of the Overseers' stand, where she knelt down and attached some chakra strings to one of the whirring death traps below. She used all of her strength to slow it, then gave it a good whack near one of the boundaries between its spinning sections, hopefully breaking off a section connected to some blades.
tab Jutsu Used
Kugutsu no Jutsu [ Puppetry Technique ] (D)
Tankyori [ Short Range Distance ] (D)
Hard Physical: Kick (D)
425/475 Chakra
320/345 Stamina
((Second post incoming.))
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Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2019 6:35 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2019 1:27 pm
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Agni continued to calmly assess his ever changing situation. Hitting the nets disabled chakra effects, and whether by trap mechanism or someone overseeing the chaos that occurred in this arena, their current footing was now no longer safe.
Nothing here was safe. Everything was a death trap. It made Agni even further concerned for the Mizukage who was out there... Out there probably refusing to leave because people from his village, most of all his son, was still in here. Agni couldn't think of anything to do out there, so he went back to focusing on back down here, where he just narrowly stepped to the side to avoid a drill suddenly popping up below his feet.
"Staying with the overseers and working on an escape route is safest," Agni would advise Hanae as he eyed the floor, the netting the separated this arena from the one next to it, and Hanae all in turn. He had people he needed to protect in two of the other arenas, but thinking about it rationally, his presence without any means of escape would likely just be prolonging everyone's demise.
It came back down to how to clear these nets. Or... thinking outside of the nets, bypass them completely? The nets extended all the way through the air, but what about underground? What was the structure of these arenas again? Would they have a metal foundation? To be honest, Agni thought it likely that they did.
His eyes darted then to the poles, and before the stage beneath him completely crumbled and he no longer had even these few seconds to just think and consider, Agni made a quick series of hand seals and pulled out his fan. With two quick flicks of his wrist, he opened the metal war fan and whipped it in a circle to generate a vortex of wind around it. At the end of the circle, the weapon was released, thrown in a straight line while the swirling winds around it condensed and carried it forwards, two techniques combining into one. [Suiranreppuu [ Jade Severe Gale Wind ]] [Hana Chirimai [ Flower Scattering Dance ]]
In the eye of a vortex, the fan shot upwards without hesitation to the nearest pole that the netting spread from. After reaching high and close enough, it paused, then angled sharply down and dove full speed at the base of a pole in the direction of the iron arena, aiming for where metal connected with ground to uproot if it couldn't destroy, and hopefully reach without expending any of its power on the wooden dummies. If the move connected, it would strike with all the force and sharpness of a weapon controlled by the winds while forcing a turbulence that could kick up blinding debris and knock a full grown man around onto the point of impact. Combined together, these two B-ranks should be something like an A-rank technique.
Chakra Pool: 215 / 350
Stamina Pool: 180 / 200
Korabo; self B-rank
Hana Chirimai [ Flower Scattering Dance ]
Rank: B
Description: After forming the needed hand seals, the user will create a spinning vortex of flower petals. This vortex can engulf a target to limit their vision and then slam them into nearby objects.
Suiranreppuu [ Jade Severe Gale Wind ]
Rank: B
Description: Allows the user to coat a weapon in Fuuton Chakra at a distance, levitate, and launch it at something. Can affect any small or medium weapon within 20 meters that isn’t being held by someone else. Requires the user to be stationary.
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