1 Raw Materials [Mission | Training | Private ] Sat Feb 10, 2018 2:17 am
Chigetsu Hōzuki
Dead
- Securing Assets:
Mission name: Securing Assets (Repeatable)
Mission rank: D
Objective: Secure important assets for Kirigakure’s effort
Location: Kiri
Reward: 150 Ryo
Mission description: “Raw metals are needed for the smithies and crafters. There’s an old abandoned mine on one of the islands west of here to collect them. Some say it’s haunted, be careful.”
Mission details: Go and collect 5 to 10 kilos of raw materials from the old abandoned mine, the mine seems to have had an accident some time ago, leaving raw materials lying around after travelling 200+ meters deep, haunting sightings up to the writer.
Chigetsu didn't exactly have high expectations for D-Rank missions. He was fresh out of the academy, so being assigned to some trivial work as a 'mission' wasn't out of the ordinary. The wisdom of sending trained shinobi out to do manual labor would only be something Chigetsu questioned when the pickaxe was placed into his hand and he was sent down into the mines. Going down to collect raw material didn't sound like it would be too bad when he had first read it, but it was a very different feeling down in the caves itself. It was a relief that he wasn't attempting this alone though. There were at least a dozen or two other genin who came to attempt the mission at the same time. This must be coordinated somehow to ensure it isn't just one or two genin who come down to assist at the mines by themselves. Twenty genin working together surely were more able to navigate and work these mines than just one or two idle pairs of hands. It was sure to make the job much more feasible, even if it didn't change how unglamorous of a mission it was.
It was a job though, and jobs needed to be done. Chigetsu fashioned himself as a tool, and a simple spade was a tool just the same as a kunai was. Hard manual labor that contributed to Kirigakure was something he needed to grow accustomed to. He kept these thoughts running through his mind as the tip of his pickaxe clanged repeatedly into stone. The bits of ore that were still in this mine needed to be dug out of the very deepest depths, and because no tracks ran down that far it would all need to be carried up by hand. The group of genin that went in divided out the work because of this, rather than simply have each person mine out their required amount of materials and then make several trips up. Chigetsu and some others had been sent down to dig out as much material as they could, and another group would ferry up all of what they dug up to the top of the mine. While this division of labor probably made the entire job go a good deal faster, it also made things incredibly dull. Chigetsu had been smashing rocks for at least two hours in the same position, mining out a deposit with five others. With him down here still collecting material there was no telling how close to being completed they were, or if they were even making any significant progress. As far as Chigetsu knew this was the first two hours of a ten-hour shift of swinging this pickaxe around.
He really, really hoped it wasn't.
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