Realm of the Ninja: The Realm ~Needs Players!!~

here is the starting map.
Key:
t=tree, _ / \ or I=path, -- =hidden path(only usable by ninja), C c=cliff edge(small), W=wall, F=fortress walls, G=current General location, H=hut, X=boss location, M=current Mayor location, S=current shadow ninja location, =grass dirt or stone ground, Z=town hall, D=dojo wall, U=gate T(g)(s)=current campsite(dark samurai)(ninja)
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WWWWWWWW CC t t The Mountains I tttttttt t t t tt t
W FFFF W CC t t t tt t t t I t t t t t t tt ttt t
W F F W Paths of Darkness t C t tt t I t t t t t
W F X U______U_________ t ttCCCc tt t t t \t t t tt
W F F W t \________ t t ttt t t \ ttt tt t tt
W FFFF W t t t t t t \ t tt t t \_____ tt t
WWWWWWWW t t t t t I t Paltinor Foest t t \
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the plains of Nar tt t t t t / \ t t tt t I
t t t t t t tt / I tt tt t DDDUDDD
t t t tt ttt t ZZZZ tt t t / I t t tt t D D
tt tt t tt t t Z Z________/ t I t tt t D D
tt t ZZZZ t I t t t t DDDDDDD
Sumi Forest tt t t I tt tt t
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Rules:
Make sure if you're new that you first go to: Realm of the Ninja: an epic strategy game! All Realm of the Ninja forums and realms are found under Games, Jokes, and Fun!

Basic Rules
You cannot change your type, characteristics, rank, element(if ninja), awards(if ninja), paydays(if citizen), or Level(if dark samurai) unless I say so. BE SURE TO UPDATE THE OTHER PARTS OF YOUR CHARACTER SHEET IMMEDIATELY AFTER A CHANGE OR BATTLE HAPPENS. Also, what I say goes.
NO swearing. If your character is THAT mad, he can say, "f***!", for example. But I highly encourage that you avoid even that.
NO cheating, bribing, or being dishonest, escpecially with the shop. You CAN have a character "lie" to his enemy in order to stick with his character or to trick him into going somewhere.
The goal of the first storyline is for the ninja to defeat the mysterious Dark Warrior in The Fortress of Darkness, or for the dark samurai to drive the Ninja Leader out of the land. This RP is a bit different because nobody knows who will triumph in the end! The main storyline is in this forum but the battles are in different forums.

Moving
This forum is also where characters show where they move and declare battle. You can travel along any path as long as it is not a forbidden path. you can move past enemies as long as you avoid the area that they are in. For example, if a ninja camp is in the plains of nar, a dark samurai cannot pass through the plains without fighting. travelling through forest takes 12 hours; you cannot reach your destination immediately. in this case, you should PM me telling me where your camp is so that I can update the map. For a General, Mayor, or Shadow Ninja, travelling takes only 6 hours, but you must also make a camp. If you are a general, mayor, or shadow ninja, you can camp on a path and block any enemies from travelling past you. Please PM me immediately so that I can mark where you are.

Fighting
When you declare battle on a camp or a fort, declare that you are in BOLD in the forum. Then create a forum Titled: Realm of the Ninja: battlefield(location). PM any enemies whose current location is that place and tell them to go to the battlefield. They can either do that or retreat and lose 5 health. Then, in that forum, Say a time that everybody in the battlefield must come to that forum. If the time works, great! If it doesn't for some players, they MUST retreat back to their base immediately and lose 3 health. If a player is going to be gone(away from home) for more than one day, he/she must immediately move back to his/her base.
For battling, the character who started the forum secretly picks a number, 0-10. Then, each character picks a tool or weapon and types a number, 0-10. Based off the secret number picked, the characters each add the strength of their weapon to the strength that they recieved. Weapon strength will be shown in the forum titled: Realm of the Ninja: The Shops. Below is a chart to determine additional strength.

Guess=
exact number-10 strength
one number away-9 strength
two numbers away-8 strength
three numbers away-7 strength
four numbers away-6 strength
five numbers away-5 strength
six numbers away-4 strength
seven numbers away-3 strength
eight numbers away-2 strength
nine numbers away-1 strength
ten numbers away-0 strength

The closer to 5 the secret number is, the more likely it is that both sides will get higher strength additions.
After the strength is added to the weapon strength, each attacker(s) pick(s) a/some defender(s) to attack. every character must be engaged in conflict with at least one other character. The character(s) with higher strength take(s) away 1 health from his/their opponent(s) for each strength he/their has greater than his/their opponent(s).
If you die, please type in the battle forum that you're dead, update your character sheet showing that you are dead, and PM me telling me that. for each health you take away from your opponent, you get 1 doubloon. For killing an opponent, you get 50 doubloons. Doubloons are used to buy weapons, armor, potions, and tools.
If a citizen with a ranking of guard or higher joins a battle, all ninja must join him and gang up on the dark samurai the citizen is fighting. Attacking still goes as normal, except that only one samurai is involved in fighting untill he is dead or retreated. If the dark samurai is killed by the citizen, all dark samurai in the battle gang up on the citizen. If multiple citizens are in a battle, The ninja help the most popular citizen.

The rules will continue on the next post, if any are needed.

Links:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/763915/realm-of-the-ninja-the-villages
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...me-rpg-only-for-the-most-daring#post_10859458

sorry guys but BYC messed up. The paths and cliffs are a little distorted. look to the next post for more rules.

Death
If you die, you have a choice. Either:
Loose all weapons and tools and go to: Realm of the Ninja: The Nether(still being made). You can no longer recieve popularity. MAKE SURE to mark your character sheet as "dead and in the nether". You will spend your time in the nether trying to escape before you become a fire demon(More rules will be found in the nether forum).
OR
Mark your character sheet as "RIP" and start over COMPLETELY. You MUST start as:

a ninja if you were a dark samurai
a dark samurai if you were a ninja
a citizen ranked as "priest"(VERY RARE TO BECOME ONE; VERY SPECIAL POWER) if you were a citizen

More rules will come later, if they are needed.

A special Thanks to Chic CAN

and OwlLover

, who helped make this RPG come together

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As the sun crested the hills Ninja Mumakai felt the cold breeze caress his rough face. His chiseled silhouette stood like a stone statue as his kimono flapped like a low lying pennant. He gripped the hilt of his battle-scarred sword as he listened for the sound of anyone approaching the Dojo.
"No, not just 'the dojo'," Mumakai thought aloud, "the Mountain Dojo. Home of the Ninja master Sajari-ouy-von carlasstess hijiri-oistious-shalan."
"Really?" an cracked evil voice said from right behind him. "I thought he was just the old retarted 'master' Sajari-Shalan, who can barely hold up his walking stick!" The evil figure spoke these words with utter disrespect and mock. Mumakai spun around. Standing in front of him now was the terror of the three united villages, the bane of the former Ninja Master Kayaki-ko-san, the destruction of a thousand realms.
"GREYMON!" Mumakai shouted, louder than he actually intended. "You should know better than to disturb the peace up here on the mountain! I didn't know you were dull enough to challenge the master of the elements, and of couse his trustworthy invincible student, at the same time as the entire ninja assembly!"
"Oh, don't worry," Greymon muttered, "I have a perfect plan for taking down you and your little old sensei, and everybody knows that the ninja assembly broke up years ago. STEP ONE! Bust through the doors." And with that he swung his fist and shattered the sturdy ironwood doors to smoking spinters. "STEP TWO! Eliminate the opposition." Greymon grabbed the spluttering ninja's throat and shook him like an old rag doll. "STEP THREE! Oh, wait, you won't live to see step three." Greymon's grip around Mumakai's neck tightened, and the last thing Mumakai saw was Sensei Sajari-Shalan swinging his stick, a gigantic sword swingind at his head, a blur of colors, and then he was falling, falling... falling... falling...

Ninja Hijiri heard the bloodcurtling scream and the sound of crashing rocks. "So He's back," he muttered to himself. "The Grey Terror is back. I should have known. Well, this can only mean one thing. Sensei Sajari-Shalan is in danger."
As Hijiri ran over crunching leaves and rotting logs, fear welled up inside of him. What could He look like? How large and muscular is He? Am I too late?
When Hijiri arrived at the foot of the hill that the Mountain Dojo rested upon, he found a broken, battered Ninja. He is an earth ninja. I can tell just by looking at him. Hijiri Spanned the jagged hill in front of him, looking for a foothold. Aha! Hijiri grabbed the lifeless ninja that layed helpless beside him and hoisted him up onto his shoulder. "C'mon," Hijiri told his fallen companion, "Let's go for a ride." He smirked as he put all of Sensei Sajari-Shalan's weigh-lifting-while-jumping-up-a-rock-wall-with-ninja-throwing-stars chasing-you exersises to good use. When he reached the top, however, he found that the once-sturdy ironwood doors were now shattered, the once proud gate destroyed, never to rise again. But worse, he saw that Greymon was nowhere to be found, along with Sensei Sajari-Shalan.

Anguish was the only thing Ninja Hijiri knew as his eyes welled up with tears. No! Gone! It can't be! Hijiri balled his fists and threw his head up at the sky. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! IT CAN'T BE! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-"
"Uh, why arwe you scweaming, mister?" A young girl stared up at him with gigantic brown eyes that reflected the forest trees in the hot summers of the Realm.
Hijiri was so shocked he flew ten feet backwards and cut his hand on an ironwood splinter. "Who are you?" he inquired.
"Sanya," she replied.

Yoshi was well in the lower valley hanging upside down from a branch. He wasn't moving at all except for very still breathing. His thoughts drifting as is he were an insect creeping along the forest floor. Then his ears caught a disturbance, in the distance there was a rustling of something heavier than a man... but it was two legs he though for sure. He waited to figure it's direction... it drew near... perhaps it was a fat man... no it was to quick....perhaps a man carrying something heavy. The quick footsteps rang clearer, then they shifted direction towards the path growing farther and farther away.

Yoshi flipped out of the tree and moved to investigate.. he reached the path and saw nothing in either direction. he turned to his left and on a dogwood the leaves had been tainted on blood! He scrambled up the nearest tree and tried to catch vision of who this man was and what exactly was going on.

(I must say keeping track of points and stuff like that will get me lost)

(This seems interesting)

go to the second link above and sign up a character or two if you like

In the Fortress of darkness, Greymon stared into an azul water basin. He scowled at his own reflection. That cursed old man can put up quite a fight! he thought. Anyway, no time for distractions. A job must be finished. Greymon pulled out a shiny silver, pearl-shaped gem from his coat and dropped it into the basin. As the waves bobbed the pearl up and down, the basin began to glow like a star. Suddenly, the glow stopped, the pearl vanished, and an undescribable image that radiated pure evil appeared on the surface of the water.
"IS IT HERE?" the evil image asked.
"Yes," replied Greymon. "But I did not come here unnoticed. As I drew away from the forest path, a Ninja of water spotted me. Surprisingly, though, he just stared at me; he didn't attack or run."
"TYPICAL WATER NINJA," The voice replied. "AT LEAST HE DIDN'T SEE THE SENSEI."