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[cloudpotter]

[Apropos of nothing, towards the end of the return mingle...]

I'm in need of someone who wants to learn to become a ninja.

[This will surely end well.]

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[ninjayeehaw]

[Full offense Yakumo but he is absolutely taking over your psychic post.]

An' I'm lookin' fer someone who wants t'become a proper skilled ninja.

[fearinahandfulof]

...Why?

[cloudpotter]

Don't expect too much from yourself. American-cowboy Ninjutsu might prove too impossible to teach.

[rustyhonesty]

Since we're already sparring quite a bit, I wouldn't mind taking a turn in what to learn. If you'll have me, that is.

[highnoonsomewhere]

I got a ninja friend back home, might be fun ta learn some a your tricks just ta get his goat when I go back.

private

[runs]

So what can a proper skilled ninja do?

[rustyhonesty]

Are you extending your old married couple arguments to include others now?

[cloudpotter]

It's a matter of objective ability.

[naturaltwohands]

And what exactly is a ninja? I have heard they are warriors whom have mastered the arts of stealth and combat.

[He's pretty sure that his training is better. Which isn't necessarily a good thing, considering most drow that receive that training are evil. Which may explain the ever so slight hint of skepticism in his mental voice.]

[cloudpotter]

You aren't wrong. Ninja are those who utilize subtlety and stealth to overcome challenges.

[He hears that skepticism... but Yakumo has his own biases, and so he's assuming those are shared.]

They may be old-fashioned [and lame. so, so lame.], but I believe there's still a place for them in the world, and among Travelers.

[photonicfighter]

[Oh! Learning things! Learning ninja things! Excitement overtakes Dakki before she can realize just what's actually going on, here.]

What sort of qualifications are you two looking for? Are you planning on teaching just the combat skills, or also how to use 'Nintality?'

[cloudpotter]

Anyone can become a ninja with training and resolve; no qualifications are necessary.

That having been said, becoming a ninja is not easy. Without the focus and drive to train and better yourself, a person will be unable to make it.

[starshaper]

So, no one really loud and clumsy and extremely easily distracted then?

[cloudpotter]

[did you mean: literally Kinji?]

It doesn't seem to have stopped anyone before.

[chalicejoker]

...I think the two of you may need better hobbies.

[cloudpotter]

[it's this or start a mini soccer league, hajime. yakumo's infiltrations have ruined all his other hobbies for him.]

They say that the most skilled in their fields are those who can teach what they know.

[morethanashadow]

Should I even ask why?

[cloudpotter]

It's true, that this is something I wouldn't usually become involved in... [yakumo that is not the question phillip asked nor alluded to] ...but the alternative was to allow Kinji's unorthodox methods to become the assumed procedures for how a ninja trains and operates.

[forcechanic]

We've been to Bando twice now... I think we might be okay on that front for a while.

[cloudpotter]

I don't believe I was present for either of those visits.

[helborn]

... So it this a genuine interest in teaching, or did you and Kinji get into an 'anything you can do, I can do better' argument?

[ninjayeehaw]

[There's no actual response from Kinji, but a very strong, very distinct sense of smugness.]

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[runs]

What exactly can ninjas do where you're from?

not private whatsoever

[cloudpotter]

A properly skilled ninja is capable of many things. From combat to subtle social interactions, a ninja uses all means at their disposal to gain and keep the upper hand. They can be considered to be spies, assassins, thieves, or protectors; a ninja's duties encompasses them all.

[finalizes]

[Adding on to some of the other comments that have already been delivered:]

A lot of humans get that kind of tension out of their systems by having sex. You could try that instead.

[helborn]

[There's just laughter on Casper's end from this. Laughs, please...]

[vrepit_no]

Hm? Are these open ninja lessons? Kinji was suggesting that might be on the table from him at some point. Are you two working together, then?

[Someone's either missed all the chatter, or he's being amazingly smooth. ....50/50 odds, really.]

[cloudpotter]

[he is on to you, Shiro]

In a sense. [...in that competition breeds success.] The lessons may well be open for a time. I wasn't expecting such anticipation, truthfully... 'Become a ninja' isn't usually on a person's list of aspirations.

[bite_the_hand]

Ninja? Wasn't that a fighting style from Bando that uses stealth?

[cloudpotter]

I'm unfamiliar with Bando, but it would appear to be. You aren't the first to have mentioned it.

[verdeleonessa]

Sign me up for some ninja training.

[cloudpotter]

Consider it done. I'll come find you once the room is prepared.