Hakkōdō Buko

Equipment Information

Weapons, Arms and Armor are all important parts of the game. From the stalwart Kumogakure wielding swords, to Kirigakure's Seven Swordsmen, and everywhere in between. A lot of sites, and a lot of places either are too strict on controlling weapons, harsh on who can have specific weapons, or how powerful they become. I won't mince words, I've seen both sides to this, and it isn't pretty. Where places are too loose, equipment gets out of hand, quickly. The more money people seem to think they can dump into something, the more powerful it should get. When its too restrictive, it makes having a weapon nothing special. Because lets face it, any guy with a knife can kill you if your knife isn't something awesome. I've taken a more liberal approach to those who can utilize weapons than those who can't. But left some room for those who aren't quite so good with weapons to attach on a ability or two. This goes without saying that, equipment, weapons, arms and armor can have abilities. Keep in mind, weapon specialists, its well there specialty. They get to have stronger, better and more prolific weapons than the rest of us commoners.

So, what is going on? How do I get my hands on a amazing weapon with some amazing abilities? And, finally whats the cost of them?

Let me start with the easy part, weapon specialties

• Weapon Specialists get a 30% price reduction in purchasing weapons, abilities, arms and armor. (Equipment too)
  
• Weapon Sub-specialists get a 20% price reduction in purchasing weapons, abilities, arms and armor. (Equipment too)
  
• Weapon Masters get a 40% price reduction in purchasing weapons, abilities, arms and armor. (Equipment too)
  
• Weapon Master+ get a 50% price reduction in purchasing weapons, abilities, arms and armor. (Equipment too)
  

[b][b][b]Weapon Ability Price Chart[/b][/b][/b]

D-Rank Ability - $3,000,000 Ryu C-Rank Ability - $6,000,000 Ryu B-Rank Ability - $9,000,000 Ryu A-Rank Ability - $12,000,000 Ryu S-Rank Ability - $15,000,000 Ryu

Ability Information

Weapon abilities are broken down into ranks, just the same as ninja and there jutsu's are. Each rank has a range of different powers, and also different strengths. Obviously getting stronger as the ranks increase. As you can see, abilities and such are quite expensive, that's because they are potent extra things to add on to your character. I would like to take this moment and remind everyone that having arms/armor requires a small part of weaponry specialist, otherwise everyone could have everything, and we just don't want to turn using weapons, into using weapons better.

[b][b][b]Ability Information[/b][/b][/b]

D-Rank Ability - Extremely weak and mainly developmental. Something like having a spirit live in your sword, or can absorb D-Rank amount of chakra per successful cut C-Rank Ability - More generic weaponry abilities. C Rank Chakra absorption, 10 CC off a specific element. Ability to use a C rank jutsu free 3 times a fight. Things like that B-Rank Ability - Abilities of B rank generally are things like B-Rank Chakra absorption, or reduction in cost of a specific element. (Max 20 CC) A-Rank Ability - Very powerful, in fact, this is the peak for all who don't have weaponry specialists. A Rank chakra absorption, or reduce the cost of a specific element. (Max 30 CC) S-Rank Ability - Extremely powerful, nearly as strong as many of the legendary artifacts and weapons. Something like, a sub-specialty is granted when wielding this weapon or increasing in strength an element by one rank.

Here on our site, we try and avoid many aspects we consider to be "cheap" or faulty with how the Naruto world works. Many members are quick to point out, guns have been seen in the anime, but the manga shy's away from them. You may wonder, how they can be consider cheap, or faulty and there is a perfectly good explanation. Guns and Cannons shoot a very far distance, out of the range of most sensors and jutsu capabilities. A sniper rifle can hit targets 1.5 miles away, even a regular rifle can hit targets 300-600 meters away accurately. And without allowing a person to meta-game a extremely fast, untraceable, un-noticable bullet, death comes near instantly. The other side of this, is removing that aspect, but then its not really a gun/cannon anymore and we go into bows and arrows. Which is a different subject entirely.

As such, guns, cannons, high powered air rifles, compression/chemical reaction are banned from our site. Staff also holds the rights to deny weapons and abilities that we feel cross into the lines of turning into a gun. Rapid Firing bows, multiple shot cross bows. Staff also monitors speed of which such things are fired, we are generally liberal on how we apply it, but we don't want to see weapons/abilities making projectiles etc move at 3rd, 4th, 5th etc etc gate speed. We generally rely on things moving about as fast as a jutsu of equal rank would.

Finally, enchanting things with Chakra, such as using chakra to power a bow to make it shoot 500 meter arrows, or a telekinetic sword. These style things will have an effective range and notation in order to make sure we aren't trying to slip poison in with our cake.

Name: Ōtamahagane (=Grand Soul Steel)
Rank: S-rank
Type: Unique
Requirements: Steel | 4,000 ryō
S-rank Ability | 15,000,000 ryō
Once made this item cannot be wielded on its own, it must be bonded to a weapon through a specific ritual before its ability has any effect.

Description: S-rank Ability - Connecting to the core of the user's chakra, the Ōtamahagane requires a very specific ritual to be performed on it. The user is to take a weapon while also holding the Ōtamahagane in the same hand, channel a quarter of their maximum standard chakra reserves (no Yin Seal, Sage Mode, Curse Seal, or such thing, just plain, normal chakra) into the held weapon and the Ōtamahagane, and then cut themselves somewhere, cutting down to the bone. A flash of the user's chakra will come from both the Ōtamahagane and the weapon used to perform the ritual, at which point they will both be bonded to the user's soul. The Ōtamahagane changes its appearance to reflect this, the change being outlined in the description below. The final thing to do is then to attach the Ōtamahagane to the pommel of the ritual weapon at which point the user which it is bonded to will be the only one able to use the following property: When the person bonded to the Ōtamahagane uses a weaponry technique while having the weapon to which the Ōtamahagane is attached upon their person (meaning the weapon has to be worn in a sheath or held, or something similar, it can not be hidden inside a seal or a summon) all their weapon techniques used by said person have their power increased by 1 rank.

Appearance/Picture: What would normally look like an ornamental piece of regular metal, this sphere of steel is intricately carved with small grooves all over its surface. Once the bonding ritual has been completed these grooves fill in with steel that is coloured either white or black, depending on the feel and purity of the user's chakra. The sphere is then to be attached to the pommel of the ritual weapon which it then becomes part of, melding seamlessly together into a whole. The weapon's appearance then changes to reflect that the small sphere is attached on the centre of the end of the weapons pommel (the "butt" of the sword, so to say), with the diameter of the sphere becoming that of the thickness of the weapon's handle once the bonding ritual has been completed.

Name: Raijū no Bijou
Rank: B-rank
Type: Unique
Requirements: Leather | 4,000 ryō
Titanium | 7,000 ryō
B-rank ability | 9,000,000 ryō
Description: A belt with a strangely shaped buckle, the user can at will channel a D-rank amount of chakra into the belt, as if using a weapon technique, and then be able to walk on air. The user can even, if he so wills it, grab the air and use it as a pole or hand hold to pull himself up from the ground. What happens is that the user imagines the surface to be walked on/grabbed and then as the hand/foot/other body part touches said surface a number of spider-like seals seem to write themselves into being in mid-air, forming the boundary and filling in said surface. Once this manifested surface is no longer touching the wearer of this item it vanishes and the user can pass through it like normal. This means that the user must stop and then start up the chakra channelling into the item if they want want to just drop down straight through the one that has currently been manifested.
Over to limitations. Whenever the wearer of this item leaves a surface other than those created by this ability a counter is started. This counter stops when the user utilizes a "manifest surface/handhold" from this item's ability. The purpose of the counter is that it tracks how high the user is, and the item can, at most, create a "manifest surface/handhold" at a maximum height exactly 10 meters above the first one. This means that after jumping into the air and settling to walk at "manifest surfaces" on a certain height above the planet's center the wearer-and-user of this item can scale at walk up to a maximum of 10 meters upwards. "Manifest surfaces" at such a height can not have any new "manifest surfaces" made that are higher up than them since attempts to create such surfaces just makes one at the height limit. The upkeep is that of a D-rank per post.
Appearance/Picture: An ordinary leather belt with two belt buckles, one at each end, arranged and functioning in such a way that the belt could be worn by a child and then worn by a large adult and then a child again without any adjustments being needed for the belt but a difference in where the buckles are attached. The titanium buckles are modelled after the head of the legendary Raijū, beasts that descend from the heavens with a flash of lightning. The belt itself is 1/10th of an inch (~0.25 cm) in thickness, an inch (~2.5 cm) in width/height, and 1 meter in length. The buckles are of the same width and thickness as the leather of the belt, and roughly circular in their shape. It is very flexible and Yoshitsune tends to wear it under his sash.