MISSIONS & EVENTS

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At one point during the hayday of the shinobi, In addition to acting as the army for their country, the ninja village also acted as a business by essentially contracting their armed forces out to private parties. Each day clients will come to the village and pay for the services of the ninja, requesting jobs that can range from the mundane, such as walking the feudal lord's dog and keeping it safe, to the assassination of deadly wanted criminals. These jobs are thus divided into difficulty ranks, each of which were assigned only to certain shinobi - D, C, B, A, and finally, S. If the mission was completed successfully, the client will then pay the village, which in turn pays the shinobi after taking a percentage; however, upon failure, no rewards will ever be rendered.

Before the Samurai take-over, missions were an essential way of keeping your village afloat, and keeping yourself in the game. However, now that the entire shinobi society is in shambles and turned upside down, all of this is no more. Missions for villages do not exist because the villages do not exist. And neither are the clients. Whomever was left to roam freely across the lands, without consequence as well as the brand of a slave, was most likely a Samurai. And they served their own interest - why should they feel the need to contract the very people they have enslaved?

However, this is not to say the concept of missions does not exist. Much like Shinobi used to perform these missions for their lords, Samurai too have tasks they have to perform in order to maintain order across the lands. And so, the concept of Missions remains the same for all factions. Whether it is a Samurai acting by their leader, or Shinobi operating on behalf of Samurai, missions have not changed. Certain ranked and able bodied players will be able to embark on tasks other simply cannot hold a candle to. This is a fact of Shinobi and Samurai life.

Another change from previous iterations of the Mission system is that they no longer rely on any one person to be massed produced. Whereas a Kage had to create many missions before, with the hidden villages abolished, Missions are now entirely player generated. This will prevent one person from controlling everyone's storyline, and won't risk going idle should a Kage/Leader disappear.

Essentially, each available RP board will be equipped with certain story related conditions that will affect role-play. By performing missions customized to attempt and manipulate these conditions, one can either fail or succeed and propelling the story, and completing your task. Creating missions isn't difficult, and requires only a few conditions to be met. If all this is good, then simply utilize the default Mission template, submit it in customs, and await a staff response. All you need is a single staff approval.

• Who's the client? Because the concept of missions through traditional means such as villages are gone, one must be creative. This means that as a shinobi, if you are a Samurai sympathizer, then you must perform missions that somehow benefit them in the end, while going along with the current RP landscape. As for Samurai, the same applies; you are the invader and dominating force, which means your missions will be more oppressive, free, direct, and unrestricted.
• Is the location feasible? Keep in mind that with the story, certain locations can change, and even be blocked off. Make sure your mission takes place in a sensical location your character can actually access.
• Is it realistic to our story? Basically, does this go with the site's storyline and present conditions, or does your own personal story make sense with the overall setting?

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Missions have been divided into their traditional difficulty ranks, each of which are assigned only to certain players that meet the base rank requirement - D, C, B, A, and finally, S. If the mission is completed successfully, the client will then pay the entity that provided you with the mission, which in turn pays the shinobi after taking a percentage; however, upon failure, no Mission Rewards will ever be rendered.

It should be noted that leaders have the ability to bypass the "rank" requirements for missions, and can assign any level mission, regardless of their personal rank. It should also be noted that missions should be justifiably written out in correlation to their rank. Should staff feel you did a poor job at your mission, they do retain the right to decline your completion, and render the mission a failure.

Below is an explanation of what each mission rank entails, and what you can earn from completing them successfully.

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[/u] quality posts to complete. These missions, if completed successfully, yield 10 EXP and 1,000 Ryo.

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'C'

[/u] quality posts to complete. These missions, if completed successfully, yield 25 EXP and 2,500 Ryo.

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'B'

[/u] quality posts to complete. These missions, if completed successfully, yield 50 EXP and 5,000 Ryo.

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'A'

[/u] quality posts to complete. These missions, if completed successfully, yield 100 EXP and 10,000 Ryo.

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'S'

[/u] quality posts to complete. These missions, if completed successfully, yield 200 EXP and 20,000 Ryo.[/ul]
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Outside of the regular role-play for Shinobi and Samurai, Special Events will occur that will affect one's overall ability to roleplay. These special events are essentially site-wide events that are meant to disrupt and alter the overall role-play landscape, representative of the overall story progression, as well as any efforts made by players around the forum to either assist to stop it. These events test the very makings of each and every participant, and serve as a defining point in the site's overall story.

Taking place in the form of Chapters, they serve to narrate the product of everyone's RP at once, as well as the direction the forum will go. Finally , events are ranked in the same way as missions in terms of difficulty, but are executed in a much different way. Rather than simply 'sign up', one has to meet the appropriate In-Character conditions in order to participate. Sometimes it is obvious what must be done to join a mission; sometimes, a bit of riddling is required first.

Rest assured that these events are the best ways of ensuring great boosts like rank-ups, prizes, kinjutsu, relics, bijuu, etc. We value everyone's effort to take our role-play seriously, and intend to reward those that help make the setting we establish better. Though much, much hard in nature, Special Events are without a doubt worth the participation.