It really is sad, Bocc, that Shadow felt it necessary to warp the truth in order to make you mad enough to have to post this thread, but if in fact this is exactly what he has told you then he is either doing one of two things.
1] lying
2] not understanding what he is being told.
so let's clarify WHY shadow/acuma is being told he cannot be doing Sage Mode with the snakes at this time.
When he came to me wishing to sign the contract, I at first told him no because I knew how it would be. He would claim too much too fast. Summons are an RP perk. They have to be earned.
I have very definite ideas about earning things through rp. By now they are well known. So I will not digress into that issue.
So his reply was that he would just do it anyway and go and find the cavern on his own and all sorts of nice threats to bully me into submission.
Eventually I figured wtf and said, you know what? Sign the scroll. BUT!!!!!!!
1] don't learn too much too fast
2] don't change your name
3] don't transfer the contract to a different character.
and he did all three.
He was told the cavern could only be found if the Snake Sage allowed you to do so. Only snake summoners find it. Period. He causes the entrance to the cavern to appear when and where he wishes. It is mystical. It does not wander around all over the land as is being exaggerated here or no doubt to you in pms from Shadow.
It was explained to him that only after you have mastered each different level of snake summons and are ready to meet the Snake Sage would you ever be permitted to find the cavern. If you have been to the cavern and seek to go back there...chances are you will not find it for the entrance will have been moved. But it resides in the land of Earth and won't show up in other lands.
Trev was also RP'd through the same situation where he met the last surviving member of his clan. So was Matsuo, a snake summoner.
Now whoever scripted the rules for snakes certainly didn't check with the scroll holder. These rules just pop up and I hardly have time to read an entire wikia to make sure I am in compliance with something someone else decided was gonna be made law.
I know from RP president this is how it is because this is the way we RP'd it to be.
it is beyond ridiculous that since April 20th Shadow/ Acuna has acquired a mastery of [6/6] in Snake Sennin Mode. I gave the scroll to Zanto so that this round HE could endure the bullying that no doubt was going to rise up once Acuma was told he violated the terms of his contract. It matters not what some wikia says, HE was told how it would be before he was EVER allowed to sign. I talked to him about it while he was making these claims and doing these things he was requested not to do. I do not have Acuna's signature on the snake scroll. I have Li Kai. I objected to this very strongly with him but he feels a name change is no big deal so I added Acuna to the scroll. NOT RP...total OOC issue. Which annoys me to death.
He asked about a snake sage he could train with during RP. I told him all about Zanto. Not once until Zanto called him out for his mastery claims did he bother to speak with the man to receive RP training.
This is not about preventing Shadow/Acuna from achieving power. But to put a little bit of validity into EARNING power.
Now...as for the title of this thread, Akatsuki is abolishing summoning contracts...
I have to ask you, is this how we are really going to do things? Why stop with summons?
When I deleted my account I recently was surprised to see that Shadow wasted no time at all in editing the wikia to make himself the new contract holder...as though some one of the other 12 characters who HAD their name upon the contract would not have first dibs...as it was I gave it to Mariko. Metagame much?
Of all the summons contracts Snakes has the most signatures. I feel that I have been quite accommodating in not hording this summons all to myself but in sharing it in a moderate fashion so as not to glut the site with snake sages.
Additionally I have to wonder, did he bother to mention to you that even after all of this nonsense Zantos has agreed to train him so he can one day make the claims of being a snake sage?
1] I took a week to learn it as did Naruto basically. I enhanced the learning due to having natural senjutsu gathering from Jugo's clan.
2] I changed the name
3] The contract was never transfered
That's what your boy Zanto said. You two need to sit down and get your shit together if you are going to run around claiming two separate things telling me two separate answers.
The rules were told vaguely by you and Zanto is telling me different ones. You wonder why I'm confused.
Bullying? You're acting like I sit in pms with you and call you names, I do not. We've had plenty times where we had disagreements and if you were getting too heated I dropped it. You cannot deny that.
I have pms from you both which are both extremely different in how one finds the snake sage and the rules.
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