5. Missions and Events

[Wolfy]

In addition to acting as the army for their country, the ninja village also acts 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 are assigned only to certain shinobi - D, C, B, A, and finally, S. If the mission is completed successfully, the client will then pay the village, which in turn pays the shinobi after taking a percentage; however, upon failure, no Mission Rewards will ever be rendered.

Missions are an essential way of keeping your village afloat, and keeping yourself in the game. Although it is up to the village's Kage to make relevant missions with difficulty based on task, not writing length, the player is more than welcome to attempt and create their own in the Custom's board!

[/b] The easiest and least deadly of jobs, these missions are almost always given to the Genin. These missions help to build teamwork skills among the new Ninja Academy graduates, and are therefore non-combativeness with low pay. An example of such a mission would include aiding an important client by babysitting their child or pet, or even searching for a lost, valuable item. These missions, if completed successfully, yield 25 EXP and 500 Ryo.

'C' – Assigned to skilled Genin and on occasion Chuunin, these missions involve some sort of physical exertion on the part of the shinobi, with the possibility of combat lurking. Injury is therefore something to be expected should the participants somehow fail. An example of such a mission would include protective escorts, capturing wild, dangerous animals, and even mine clearing. These missions, if completed successfully, yield 50 EXP and 1,000 Ryo.

'B' – Now things get serious. With the anticipation of combat with other shinobi, only skilled Chuunin are deployed on these tasks. These also include protective escort, gathering foreign intelligence and even the intensive killing of ninja. Open battle is generally not an issue during this mission type, as it is expected at this level of combat. These missions, if completed successfully, yield 75 EXP and 5,000 Ryo.

'A' – The near impossible tasks, and as such, assigned almost always exclusively to Jounin. These include vital missions between nations, escorting VIPs and creating maneuvers against offensive ninja forces on a large scale. In the end, these missions will almost always involve combat and risk of death, something the shinobi must be at peace with before accepting the mission. These missions, if completed successfully, yield 100 EXP and 10,000 Ryo.

'S' – If a 'A' ranked mission was near-impossible, then consider these possibly world ending. Reserved only for the more elite of Jounin and available Sannin, these missions involve the assassination of important persons such as other Kage's or even a Daimyo, decimating a village, starting a war, or even transporting classified documents and materials that could potentially start or end one. These missions, if completed successfully, yield 125 EXP and 20,000 Ryo.


[/ul]It should be noted that Kages have the ability to bypass the "rank" requirements for missions, and can assign any level mission to any shinobi, regardless of their personal rank (i.e a kage could send a team of genin out on a s-ranked mission, albeit highly discouraged to do such).

It should also be noted that missions should be justifiably written out in correlation to their rank. While we won't require a set amount of posting, there's no reason for a s-rank mission to be completed in two poorly written posts. Should your kage feel you did a poor job at your mission, they do retain the right to decline your completion (simply in terms of payment of ryo and exp for completing the mission).[/div][/font]

[Wolfy]

Outside of the life of a shinobi, special events may occur that may change the way one thinks, acts, or even lives. These special 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.