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The Zombie hord

Naruto has never really been the brightest bulp in the in the shed and he has a tendency to mass spam his kage bushin shadow clones again and again like a brain dead idiot even when they aren't having any effect.

So to me what better thing for him to transform into an undead zombie, I mean with his brains...or rather lack of them he's already almost half way there!! Of course the scary thing about Naruto as a zombie isn't that he's just one zombie that's easy to kill but rather the fact he's a LEGION of zombie just waiting to happen.

Sure you start with one rotting talking corps but one jutsu later and you'll have a thosand of them to deal with and what's worse unlike a normal zombie you can't simply just kill them off as once you defeat one the head Naruto zombie will simply generate another to take it's place as long as he himself is intact.

Now just like any Zomibe, He would crave eating flesh of his fellow humans, especially devoring their brains. This has a purpose and is Naruto Zombie's special power as he absorbs the knowlage and iq of any brain he eats making him more crafty and dangerious with each victom.

And of course any victom he bites that manages to get away before being eaten will eventually turn into a braindead zombie minion for Naruto to comman. Tsunade herself would rate this as a class SS poision as even she can't find a way to cure it's effects!!!

Below is a picture of Team 7 being confronted by the Naruto zombie hoard which is seaking it's first victom... Well Naruto always DID like Sakura for her brains, she just never expected him to quite take it this far

 

Posted Sep 30, 2008 by Midori | 5 Comments | Share It

Filed under: Halloween Warriors

Roam Freely - The Olympus Temple

The Olympus Temple – A sacred temple build near the top of mount Olympus. It has pristine white marble floors and a very high ceiling supported by many columns but no walls. Circular in design in the center in a Statue of Zeus holding a yellow lighting blot in his right hand and surrounded by a fountain of flowing water. Blue skies and white clouds stretch outside of the temple as far as the eye can see.

Fighters using this stage must be carefully as carelessly stepping past where the marble floor ends can result to plummeting to their doom and a ring out. Fighters can run between the columns in order to avoid and block attacks, as well as use the stone pillars as something to knock an opponent into, not to mention climb on! It’s even possible to climb into the water fountain and fight there with water splashing all around you and spilling onto the floor.

Posted Sep 17, 2008 by Midori | 2 Comments | Share It

Brewing up a storm: Support Characters

The feature I'm most looking foward to using in the upcoming Naruto: Ultimate Ninja storm game has to be the support character system. Being able to call on the helping hand of another character during mid battle is a very handy feature as they can assist you in racking up a higher combo count or cover your behind when you get knocked down and need a second to get back up on your feet.

Their's nothing quite like having a friend to get you out of a jam in a fighting game, and the most exiciting aspect of this system to me is the possiblity of teaming up characters that might not usually work together or otherwise might not get a chance to team up too much.

Imagain having Hinata with Sakura acting as her support for some extra girl power, or having Itachi and Kakashi team up for a double dose of Sharigan. Or you could always use the feature to recreate classic moments from the Show like Naruto and Sasuke teaming against Zabuza! The possiblies are nearly as endless as they are exciting!

An Example of The Support system at work! Saskue and Sakura lend Naruto a hand in order to teach Kakashi-sensai a lesson

Posted Sep 8, 2008 by Midori | 5 Comments | Share It

Filed under: storm support

Pax Part 1 - Getting to Buffalo

Becuse I don't have a passport it's impossible for me to fly between Canadia and the US directly becuse they won't let you clear customs without it while using air based travel. So in order to get to Seattle first I would have to get to buffalo (the nearest major airport across the border from where I live near Toronto).

Luckily for now at least crossing the border by land only requires valid id such as a drivers liscnes and a birth certifaget. I can't really drive but I do have a G1 learners licences that expires later this month that was still good enough to count.

Rather then driving which would have cost a lot in gas and even more in parking, My friend thought we could take a complimentary free shuttle directly from Hamilton to the Buffolo airport since his sister had taken it recently. The only problem was it wasn't free and it wasn't cheap at over $120 for a round trip per person.

Myself being a poor collage student and my friend not having a job at that moment we had to find another cheaper way to Buffalo and find it fast as we found out about this last thursday shortly before I had to go to work from 7pm to Midnight.

Doing some research I found a Greyhound bus ran their that would only be about $50 for a round trip which seemed the be the cheapest option we could get, only it didn't run directly to the airport making getting between the bus terminal and Buffalo a hassle to figure out.

Even $50 can be a lot when you don't have a lot of money and I wasn't sure I could afford it and stressed out about it for most of my shift at work, I was about to have a mental meltdown when I rememebered that I had stashed away around $50 for an emergancy a while back just before I had started an emergancy and if this didn't qualify for an emergancy then would ever would?

The next day my friend phones me early at 9am to go over the plan and we agree to take the 4pm bus from Toronto to Buffalo as it would give us the time we needed once we arrived to catch a local bus before they stopped running at night which was important since our flight was at 6:20 am on Saturday.

Packing simply for Pax, I got my backpack and stuffed it with 2 t-shirts, underwear and socks for 1 day and sleeping boxers. Then I loaded it with my digital camera, digital camcorder, Ipod and DS as well as a rain jacket since I heard seattle was quite rainy. This would be all I would take with my other then my id as I wanted to travel light and swift since it would be less hassle that way.

For the next couple hours I packed for moving into residence at collage which I would need to move into once I got back from my trip. By 2:20pm my friend showed up with his brother how was driving us to the grayhound station in toronto.

At about 3:30 we where in downtown toronto a few blocks away from said station with ultra thick traffic. Deciding that walking would be faster if we wanted to make it on time we had my friends brother drop us off at the nearest curb and began to climb slightly uphill towards the station.

Somehow we managed to get slightly lost and actually overshot the station a bit and had to double back. Once we got their the line was very long and we feared we would miss our bus and have to take the next one. But luck was on our side as the line moved quickly and we soon had our tickets in hand and not a moment too soon as the bus was about to depart if only we could figure out which one it was.

The station was chaotic as * and figuring out which bus to take wasn't easy with all the confusion and noise but somehow we managed to make our way onto the proper bus and were on our way to the United states finally.

At first the seats on the bus where comfortable but by the time we reached The Niagra region they began to seriously cramp my back. Thankfully it wasn't too much longer after that when we reached the Peace bridge to the US and had to stop for customs.

They sure take their job seriously their. We all had to unload of the bus and had to take our bags with us while they also unloaded the bagage and had a police dog sniff them out for any bombs or drugs.

At the first checkpoint I simply had to state my destination and busniess and show them my id and how I was planning to get back to Canada. After stamping my return bus ticket and checking my card over I was waved to the next station where they asked if I had anthing in my bag to declare.

After telling them I just had my clothes for travling and a couple of electrionc devies they asked if I was going to leave anythign I had in the US and when I said I wasn't then they simply waved me through with out even bothering to check my bag at all.

We should have been throught shortly afterwards but one old woman who was also on the bus held the whole thing up becuse she couldn't speak english very well so the customs people had a hard time figuring out where she was going and such.

Finally 45 minutes later that felt like an eternity we left and were soon at the bus terminal, only we had a new problem getting directions to the proper bus to take from their was like pulling teeth and we didn't have any change to pay for it since they didn't take bills.

Luckily my friend had a few one dollar bills (Why have dollars as bills anyhow? A dollar isn't worth that much by itself anyhow so a coin makes more sense) and was able to convert them into quaters using a change machine.

Eventually after asking around for a while a very nice gentelman with a speach impediment was able to help point us in the right direction, thought I am ashamed that it took us a while to understand what exactly he was trying to tell us.

Finding the right stop, we met a Russian exchange student who talked with us awhile while we waited for the bus. His accent was very thick making him hard to understand, especially since he didn't undertsand some of our english words but we managed to carry a good converstation despite these barriers.

The bus itself was quite good. $1.50 base fee with an extra 25 cent charge for each zone you crossed. Since the airport was in another zone we had to pay $1.75 each but that's still a deal compaired to the stupid $2.75 bus's we have around where I live, thought I suppose the fact that transfers had to be paid for in buffalo while we get them for free makes up for that a bit.

The bus moved slower then the ones around here do, but I was amazed at how it actually had a digital voice that told you things like which stop was coming up or about major landmarks like the libary. Our busses could definitly use that sort of thing to help you find where you are going becuse it can be quite confusing sometime.

Finally by 11pm we had reached the airport, only we still had 7 hours to go still and where quite hungrey by then as we hadn't eaten since lunch. Not wanting to clear security quite yet in order to get to the food stalls which where probally overpriced and most likely closed at that time anyhow we headed across the street to the local Mcdonalds.

I can't say it's price's where quite that great either. It cost me almost five dollars for my double cheeseburger meal that would usually only cost me about $3 hear as a value meal.

We stayed at Mcdonalds as long as we could dreading the long wait at the airport but at midnight they closed the inside of the store leaving only the drive throught and walk up window open.

Going back to the airport lobby we sat near the station that ran Airtran (the airplane surivce we where taking) and flipped on our ipods even as they turned most of the lights off at the airport and fellow travelrs tried to sleep by streching out on a bench of seets... It seems we had a long wait ahead of us before we would make our flight

*to be continued*

Posted Sep 3, 2008 by Midori | 3 Comments | Share It

Filed under: Part 1 PAX

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