I will try to address things the best I can.
@ Arpax: Thank you. I will pencil you in and take all the DP you can throw at me.
@ Reimu: you should have plenty of time. I do hope so. Once I start the Jounin Exam Thread, registrations will be open for two weeks. I should like to restrict each round to one week to schedule the fight and get it completed. I do not think that is too short a time. Of course there will no doubt crop up special circumstances where rescheduling will have to occur. But if this is done through a notification, no disqualifications should be issued.
@Eric: I prefer a more realistic acquisition to gaining and actually using KGs. This issue has been hotly debated for years, I suspect ever since KGs first became available. Genetically speaking a person should only have one KG. I do not believe if my mother is a Kaguya and my father an Uchiha that both would manifest themselves. I believe one would be a more dominant trait. I also realize that many feel this is unreasonable. Since this is RP...I really don't care how many times you sat here over the years and pressed a button to earn the EMG. You still didn't kill your best friend and endure all the drama that came with it to activate it through RP. HOWEVER...the trouble with that is a person can just create his character and claim all of that through background information and not even actually RP it here. SO essentially with that rationale, a brand new player could claim any power and that is just not fair to those of us who have put in the time and done the work to earn these things. You can see the point is arguable for both points to be valid. And that is the huge trouble here. Any decision that is made is going to be viewed unfair by many people on either side of this issue. I suppose I could play the part of 'big bad meanie' here and just make a decision...for this event...and not for general RP outside the event.
So....I am not even gonna touch HOW you acquire a KG. That is someone else's nightmare and serves no purpose in this exam. You may have one KG and three affinities for the exam in use. Chuunin NPCs may have one affinity and no KGs. Jinchuuriki cannot use any benefits of the bijuu during the exam. And God help anyone whose opponent has the Rinnegan. It just seems like an auto win situation to me being, through canon means, an OP KG. The reason I am saying One KG is because I feel genetically that is how it would be. I also feel that even if you had more KG, to actually use them would not be possible at Jounin levels due to the amount of training you would have to put into each one. Despite opening up the exam to everyone regardless of RP or DK rank, for the purposes of this exam...you are all Jounin wannabees.
Feel free to express your many KGs in the zones outside this exam. Some leveling of the playing field has to be made. Think of it as being a music major in college and being in a music appreciation class. You are not being tested on the wealth of musical knowledge that you already possess but ONLY upon the material presented in that entry level course.
@ Isamu: Jounin are the upper crust of the village. They not only have to demonstrate power in battle but an ability to intelligently plan battle strategy as well as show leadership abilities. So...you will have the three person NPC chuunin team to use so that you may demonstrate those other two Jounin abilities in battle. It would be really cool to have real players in those slots. To have combined the Chuunin Exams with a Jounin leader taking his Jounin exam sounds like a dream come true to me. However...it is near impossible to coordinate everyone's schedules to meet and perform the event. So...you get NPCs instead and then only have to coordinate your schedule to meet with one other person rather than 7 more.
@Eric once more...I think you are quite capable of employing three extra color codes to represent your chuunins. Rita....she is a summons? I know you have more of a partnership relationship going on with her than that of a mere summons. I hate to hurt her feelings...but you may want to sneak off and leave her home for this test. I will not push the issue though. You decide what you feel is fair regarding her and I will back you 100% on the issue.
I am scared to go look in the plains now and see what it is you are talking about. Technically...I could do something to stop that kunai from hitting the ground. I know that sounds ridiculous but it is a valid point. Just try to be reasonable. I don't want this turning into the following...
"I try to walk across the street. Attempting to lift my right foot, presuming that no one does anything to stop me, the muscles in my legs contract, presuming I am not hit with a neurotoxin that prevents my muscles from responding to the synapses occurring in my brain that makes motion possible, and then extend my leg...assuming that no obstacles are suddenly placed in the way and room still exists for my leg to extend into, and then try to plant my foot down on the street...in the likelihood that a sudden sinkhole does not appear and the street still can sustain the weight of my foot.
Upon the successful completion of this first step, I would then try to lift my other leg for the sole purpose of extending my leg and setting my foot back down upon the street that was there when I first thought to cross its width. Should I actually succeed in taking these first steps unimpeded I then would proceed to try to take the next pair of steps with the aim of changing my location toward my destination. Unless some unforeseen series of events occurs, I reach the other side of the street after repeating the required number of steps in order to do so. Feeling pleased by successfully crossing the street I proceed to plan my next course of action assuming this event did not induce a stroke and I am not rushed off to the infirmary instead."
You can see how fun that would be...just please shoot me now and I will go read a book instead.
I feel that for actions that occur against the terrain...the throwing of that Kunai...you could safely assume it hits the earth. Your opponent can always say something like..."Unfortunately despite the wishes of Eric, I intercepted the kunai with one of my own in an attempt to prevent his kunai from reaching the ground.
HOWEVER...that does not mean you can cause massive destruction to a village and just succeed either. A give and take exists between RPers. Try stuff out, what do you get away with? What is foiled?
@ EVERYONE: I plan to go ahead and set up the Jounin thread and try to get this balls rolling. Please post the link to the event...which I will post here as well...all over the place. Clan halls MoTD...Clan Mail...Spam your friends list in PM and all that good jazz.
