It's the active focusing of your attention on your thoughts, emotions, speech, and actions; Like real-time self examination of everything you do. You basically train yourself to not just coast through anything unconsciously or without control.
Have a wiki and some info.
I think Deepak Chopra is an advocate of it too, if you heard of him.
[X] Chakra Development - Control
[X] Clamber - Improves Agility
[X] Run - Improves Stamina
[X] Read/Write - Develop written language skills Alter behaviour?
[X]No
Goals [X] Ask Inoue and Kagome separately of why do they think of ninja's that way.
Self-Development Actions - Choose four.
[X] Chakra Development - Control
[X] Clamber - Improves Agility
[X] Run - Improves Stamina
[X] Read/Write - Develop written language skills
If we master these basic chakra control exercises right now that means we will not have to do again for awhile so that free's up next turn choice. Alter behaviour?
[X]No
Goals [X] Ask Inoue and Kagome separately of why do they think of ninja's that way.
[X] Chakra Development - Control
[X] Clamber - Improves Agility
[X] Run - Improves Stamina
[X] Read/Write - Develop written language skills Alter behaviour?
[X]No
Goals [X] Ask Inoue and Kagome separately of why do they think of ninja's that way.
You can't help but feel you're reaching the limits of how far you can push some of your training, at least under these circumstances. Your chakra control is definitely improved, no doubt there, but without any jutsu or more precise exercises you don't think you'll be able to easily refine it much further. It's definitely turning up benefits, you can pretty instinctively manage wall-walking on any surface now without needing to focus exceedingly. If you recall correctly boosting control lets you use jutsu while wasting less chakra, but again you don't really have any way of checking.
Your agility is similarly reaching a peak. You fair hurtle everywhere you go and your balance is fantastic, but whilst you're still trying to look sort of normal-ish you can't do things that would test you enough. People would rather notice a kid hurtling from roof to roof, y'know, just a touch. All the exercise is turning it our pretty great as well, your chakra reserves are definitely increasing, and moreover your general resilience is nothing to sneeze at. For a four year old.
On the other hand you are fairly sure Kanji were put on this earth to spite you and drive you to villainy. Katakana? Hiragana? Fine, more than fine!
Kanji however. You are more thankful than ever for neural plasticity, because otherwise this would have been complete hell. Your reading selection isn't fantastic but you make do, and the caretakers are as helpful as they can be. They want the children in their care to be as equipped as they can make them, given they can't take care of them forever and the kids will have to try and get accepted into professions where they can.
Inoue remained largely vague about details when you asked her about her feelings about ninja. She mentions that she saw a group of them take down a group of pirates who had been raiding villages a long way from here, but she won't let herself be drawn any further. She just describes all the happy faces she saw in the village the pirates had been attacking and she couldn't think ill of anyone who could bring so many smiles. Kagome you can get a little more of, as he slips into melancholic recollection. He mentions having been a novice monk at a small temple, and that one of the novices who had given up his past life to join the temple was sought out by a group of ninja. They came to the temple and took that novice away by force even though the novice had not sought anything but to act in humble service.
Both of them definitely strike you as having a rather more personal stake in events than they give away. Which is honestly quite impressive of them, they're trying to keep their own histories from tainting the children. They make pretty good orphanage caretakers by your reckoning!
You have been hearing rumours of increased tension on the national borders. You don't know if this is just the prelude, or if the second shinobi world war has started, but then it's a ninja war, how would you know? Your memories of the pre-canon events are...spotty at best, but it does sound like it's the beginnings of the war. Which does rather leave you in a spot. You were way, way away from the borders, so all things considered it probably wouldn't effect you all that much. And in all honesty you were hardly equipped to do all that much at the moment.
Children usually joined the Academies at the age of five or six or so, but you could impress a recruiter and get in early of you wanted to. But what exactly would that achieve? You didn't have plot armour, a war could easily leave you dead and did you even want to get involved with a ninja village? You had a lot of freedom of action at the moment, and you'd be giving a lot of it up.
Mechanics wise I've been basing this initial period around the target age of five. Choosing to improve an attribute once will put you on par with the average five year old development. Zero times would obviously leave you underdeveloped, and more than once leaves you some way developed of how you'd expect a five year old to be. You've been getting away with this overdevelopment because chakra lets you do that apparently. Attributes: Agility, Strength, Stamina, Perception
Skills: C Control, Survival, Weapons, Jutsu, Swimming, etc.
Checks will usually be made with a pool of both an appropriate attribute and skill. Attributes also act as a cap on skill maximums. At the moment your attributes are way, way above par, but with both a lack of any teachers, or any way of hiding obvious things like weapon practice, your skills are minimal.
Seek early Academy enrolment?
[] Yes
[] No
Other actions - only applicable if you choose not to go
Turn 4 14 BN - 13 BN
Self-Development Actions - Choose four. [] Chakra Development - Nature training [] Run - Improves Stamina [] Explore - Improves Perception
[] Write-in
[X] Chakra Development - Nature training
[X] Run - Improves Stamina
[X] Explore - Improves Perception
[X] Swim - As there are many rivers and hot springs in Lightning, learn how to swim
I'd like to spend one more year as a civilian before we go to the academy (if at all). As soon as they realise we're a prodigy, which will be fast, we'll be put under watch and won't be able to practice nature training without being seen.
Alter behaviour? [X] No
Goals:
[X] As previous, try to remain relatively inconspicuous.
Aspiration:
[X] Survive the beginnings of the upcoming war.
[X] Chakra Development - Nature training
[X] Run - Improves Stamina
[X] Explore - Improves Perception
[X]Chakra muscle enhancement-Try to become proficient with this technique.
Alter behaviour?
[x] No
Goals
[X] Ask Kagome about Monks: what they do, practices, prayers, meditation, etc.
Aspiration should be a lifelong goal, not a simple Goal.
I honestly want to become a ninja, so learning from Kagome seems as our Aspiration seems meh to me.
[X] No
[X] Chakra Development - Nature training
[X] Run - Improves Stamina
[X] Explore - Improves Perception
[X] Swim - As there are many rivers and hot springs in Lightning, learn how to swim
Aspiration should be a lifelong goal, not a simple Goal.
I honestly want to become a ninja, so learning from Kagome seems as our Aspiration seems meh to me.
[X] No
[X] Chakra Development - Nature training
[X] Run - Improves Stamina
[X] Explore - Improves Perception
[X] Swim - As there are many rivers and hot springs in Lightning, learn how to swim
[X] Chakra Development - Nature training
[X] Run - Improves Stamina
[X] Explore - Improves Perception
[X] Swim - As there are many rivers and hot springs in Lightning, learn how to swim
Alter behaviour? [X] No
Goals:
[X] As previous, try to remain relatively inconspicuous.
Aspiration:
[X] Survive the beginnings of the upcoming war.
[X] Chakra Development - Nature training
[X] Explore - Improves Perception
[X] Swim - As there are many rivers and hot springs in Lightning, learn how to swim
[X] Chakra muscle enhancement-Try to become proficient with this technique.
Alter behaviour?
[X] No
Goals:
[X] As previous, try to remain relatively inconspicuous.
Aspiration:
[X] Freedom. To nudge society into being a place where all children run as free as you do now; a place where a man can leave his sins and be a monk; a place where a ninja can leave her village without betraying anyone.
[X] Chakra Development - Nature training
[X] Run - Improves Stamina
[X] Explore - Improves Perception
[X]Chakra muscle enhancement-Try to become proficient with this technique.
Alter behaviour?
[x] No
Goals
[X] Ask Kagome about Monks: what they do, practices, prayers, meditation, etc.
They honestly don't come up much, but it's safe to say that they're there.
They vary, generally speaking from Shinto Priests to Buddhist Practitioners, they certainly aren't ninja. I think they came up once in a filler arc or film or something where the monks of a particular temple kept a demon imprisoned. The appeasement of spirits or banishment and containment of demons are the things that they use chakra for mainly. (Those that even use chakra)
The closest a ninja comes to monkhood would be Hidan, as he certainly has some religious tendencies. Heck, become a monk and you'd be totally safe from him, as he isn't willing to attack priests.
I just had a crazy slash stupid idea: Capture Hidan, rip out his spine and replace it with the pole part of his scythe, wrap his flash back together,wrap him up up in ninja wire until we can't see him anymore.
Then use him as a weapon that will constantly suck up the blood of everyone we hit then damage them since we would be constantly channeling lightning chakra through our home made weapon.
I just had a crazy slash stupid idea: Capture Hidan, rip out his spine and replace it with the pole part of his scythe, wrap his flash back together,wrap him up up in ninja wire until we can't see him anymore.
Then use him as a weapon that will constantly suck up the blood of everyone we hit then damage them since we would be constantly channeling lightning chakra through our home made weapon.
Won't work.
Hidan needs to create a ritualistic circle (mark?) on the ground to transform, because he can't reflect injuries in his normal form.
The moment he leaves the mark, he loses that ability, and has to return to it or create a now one.
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[X] No
[X] Chakra Development - Nature training
[X] Run - Improves Stamina
[X] Explore - Improves Perception
[X]Chakra muscle enhancement-Try to become proficient with this technique.
Alter behaviour?
[x] No
Goals
[X] Ask Kagome about Monks: what they do, practices, prayers, meditation, etc.
sora was a monk. his father gathered wisps of the nine tails chackra after the attack on konaha and sealed it into him (not sure why) and he became a sorta psudo jinchuriki there were people saying he was demon posesed but it was whisps of biju. durring the episode the monks showed signs of knowing stuff about chackra . and its been implied sometimes (not sure if its canon or not) that alot of monks feel that chackra was supposed to be used by them to enlighten everyone and ninja are misusing it.
