Nakata was already in a foul mood that day. He had recently received a call that his uncle Kuromaku would be sending a number of operatives to the school to both better themselves and to keep an eye on him.
His uncle had always been stingy on information but it was told throughout the family lines and in werewolf society that he was a legend among the Hakken tribe of werewolves that were part of the beast courts of Asia, but also in the entire Garou nation. He was the CEO of a company unaffiliated with the Yakuza and had already broken down barriers of millenia long hatred and battle between werewolves, vampires, demons, wraiths, kuei jin, and many other changing breeds beside the wolves. The star gazers even saw a future in which he would be legend for yet more millenia to come though the nature of this was still uncertain. He had been banished to the umbra for seven years and had come back unparalleled and the spirits and kami spoke of the defeat of an incarna of the wyrm who had bequeathed him with the knowledge of a lost martial art and the weapon inherent in it, making him a spirit teacher and one who had already adopted a protege at that. All of these things were fine and well but the thing that pissed Nakata off the most was that he was pretty much helpless to challenge his uncle's desires at any given point due to the fall back it would cause for earthly concerns.
His mood wouldn't normally be a concern to anyone else but today was his first day teaching at his former school, and he was set to organize a set of tests to evaluate the students and properly place them for power related development. As such the first was meant to be an obstacle course so to speak. His mood meant that the difficult had just gone up, though at college level one could assume that students should have been able to handle it. First he began weaving the pattern of the room so that once inside it could quickly become a highly enlarge environment using the spheres of matter, prime, and spirit to change the size of the gym, weave in the gaps in the pattern, and extend the physical area of the training ground into the umbral realm respectively. This would give him the chance to make the place seem more lethal. He left gaps in the pattern of the spells he weaved so that he could accommodate the individual powers of the students. First student to perform well on the obstacle course would get 1 star if they could finish.
Phase 2 of the testing was situational adaptation. He would be weaving patterns around the students to change the environments they were in, forcing them to use innovative methods for their powers in which he would constantly switch them from mountain, to forest, to tundra, to oceanic environments to determine how well they could protect themselves from the planet itself. 1 star would be earned from successful survival and students who couldn't handle any part would be removed and sent to the infirmary.
Phase 3 of the testing was a tournament between students though the nature of the judgement of such would be based on the student's performance not necessarily on if they had won or lost. Thus a student who had managed to lock down an opponent on multiple occasions before finally being defeated, or one that managed to somehow gain the edge but had made a simple mistake and lost would still be able to earn a star. Students who both performed well and won would earn two stars from this phase.
Finally phase 4 of the examination would pit the students, with their injuries, into teams which would then be forced to fight a clone of Nakata which he would create using the spheres of life, matter, prime, forces, and mind to imbue as a weakened version of himself. Students who performed well as a team would earn 1 star if they lost due to a mismatch in the compatibility of their individual powers while students who both worked well together and won would earn two stars.
This end of the exam would leave students with a rating of 0-6 stars. Ideally this would allow them to both reflect on how they could better themselves, and arrogant students might get knocked down a peg. While it wasn't ideal, he hadn't planned on being a teacher in the first place but found himself needing to do something to escape the monotony of the Yakuza world. This would be it, and as he remembered back to his power teachers, he couldn't help but consider himself lucky to be able to continue their education based on what they had so generously given to him.
When he finally felt the gym was suitable, Nakata left, allowing the students to take their places in about an hour. With a wave of his hand he hid the course so no particularly perceptive student would get a sudden unfair advantage... and for the dramatic affect of being able to wave his hand again and make an obstacle course appear. After all, as a teacher a show of mysterious and intriguing possibilities was a must in order to keep students engaged.
His uncle had always been stingy on information but it was told throughout the family lines and in werewolf society that he was a legend among the Hakken tribe of werewolves that were part of the beast courts of Asia, but also in the entire Garou nation. He was the CEO of a company unaffiliated with the Yakuza and had already broken down barriers of millenia long hatred and battle between werewolves, vampires, demons, wraiths, kuei jin, and many other changing breeds beside the wolves. The star gazers even saw a future in which he would be legend for yet more millenia to come though the nature of this was still uncertain. He had been banished to the umbra for seven years and had come back unparalleled and the spirits and kami spoke of the defeat of an incarna of the wyrm who had bequeathed him with the knowledge of a lost martial art and the weapon inherent in it, making him a spirit teacher and one who had already adopted a protege at that. All of these things were fine and well but the thing that pissed Nakata off the most was that he was pretty much helpless to challenge his uncle's desires at any given point due to the fall back it would cause for earthly concerns.
His mood wouldn't normally be a concern to anyone else but today was his first day teaching at his former school, and he was set to organize a set of tests to evaluate the students and properly place them for power related development. As such the first was meant to be an obstacle course so to speak. His mood meant that the difficult had just gone up, though at college level one could assume that students should have been able to handle it. First he began weaving the pattern of the room so that once inside it could quickly become a highly enlarge environment using the spheres of matter, prime, and spirit to change the size of the gym, weave in the gaps in the pattern, and extend the physical area of the training ground into the umbral realm respectively. This would give him the chance to make the place seem more lethal. He left gaps in the pattern of the spells he weaved so that he could accommodate the individual powers of the students. First student to perform well on the obstacle course would get 1 star if they could finish.
Phase 2 of the testing was situational adaptation. He would be weaving patterns around the students to change the environments they were in, forcing them to use innovative methods for their powers in which he would constantly switch them from mountain, to forest, to tundra, to oceanic environments to determine how well they could protect themselves from the planet itself. 1 star would be earned from successful survival and students who couldn't handle any part would be removed and sent to the infirmary.
Phase 3 of the testing was a tournament between students though the nature of the judgement of such would be based on the student's performance not necessarily on if they had won or lost. Thus a student who had managed to lock down an opponent on multiple occasions before finally being defeated, or one that managed to somehow gain the edge but had made a simple mistake and lost would still be able to earn a star. Students who both performed well and won would earn two stars from this phase.
Finally phase 4 of the examination would pit the students, with their injuries, into teams which would then be forced to fight a clone of Nakata which he would create using the spheres of life, matter, prime, forces, and mind to imbue as a weakened version of himself. Students who performed well as a team would earn 1 star if they lost due to a mismatch in the compatibility of their individual powers while students who both worked well together and won would earn two stars.
This end of the exam would leave students with a rating of 0-6 stars. Ideally this would allow them to both reflect on how they could better themselves, and arrogant students might get knocked down a peg. While it wasn't ideal, he hadn't planned on being a teacher in the first place but found himself needing to do something to escape the monotony of the Yakuza world. This would be it, and as he remembered back to his power teachers, he couldn't help but consider himself lucky to be able to continue their education based on what they had so generously given to him.
When he finally felt the gym was suitable, Nakata left, allowing the students to take their places in about an hour. With a wave of his hand he hid the course so no particularly perceptive student would get a sudden unfair advantage... and for the dramatic affect of being able to wave his hand again and make an obstacle course appear. After all, as a teacher a show of mysterious and intriguing possibilities was a must in order to keep students engaged.