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Hida Oku:
so I guess I could start there
Keshijo: <Bows>
Hida Oku:
<bow>
Togashi Udon:
Kuno nods, Udon bows
Hantei Dave: k
Hantei Dave: whew
Hantei Dave: got my food...got my post up....
Hantei Dave: got keshijo
Keshijo: Got milk?
Keshijo: Sorry...
Hantei Dave: Brian, there is a line for another game in case you felt like GM'ing
Hantei Dave: but anyway
Keshijo: Hmm...
Hantei Dave: Oku, you guess on where the other's went
Hantei Dave: it seemed logical...and closest anyway
Hida Oku:
hmmmm.... I follow the carnage
Hantei Dave: Crane land...to Doji Hoturi
Togashi Udon:
Well, that's easy...
Hantei Dave: your fav
Keshijo: We didn't kill anybody...
Keshijo: Oh.. wait...
Togashi Udon:
cept part o me.
Keshijo: Unless that Oni counts...
Hantei Dave: Udon...thanks to the help of the talented Asihina shugenga pasifists, you have been totally healed in under 3 days
Togashi Udon:
woopdie freakin doo
Hantei Dave: JUST the time Oku shows up
Togashi Udon:
OKU!
Hantei Dave: Sousha has spent him time chasing geishas
Hida Oku:
Oku is wearing some new robes.... darker this time. Deep reds and blacks
Hantei Dave: and Kuno I assume was brooding
Hida Oku:
and even oku seems darker
Hida Oku:
Hello Udon, all
KibagamiKuno: (hai, brood brood. and looking around suspiciously at crane)
Togashi Udon:
Oku, you seem...darker...
Hantei Dave: every luxury has been giving to you people
Hida Oku:
funny that...
Keshijo: Red and Black? He join the Scorpion?
Togashi Udon:
maybe the geisha's will paint your face? make it brighter?
Togashi Udon:
Or light it up some other way?
Hida Oku:
not so much.... but the crab mon is not so apparent anymore
Hida Oku:
they are smaller, and seem to be added as afterthoughts
Keshijo: Guess he wouldn't recognize Keshijo either...
Hantei Dave: eek...where is my traditional puke green text?
Hida Oku:
eh, who is that?
Hantei Dave: better
KibagamiKuno: (puke)
Togashi Udon:
so, shall we get thrown out of here?
Hantei Dave: Hoturi invites you to stay for the next 3 week so that you can enjoy the
Hantei Dave: crashing
Keshijo: Enjoy the crashing?
Hantei Dave: brb
Hantei Dave has left the room.
Keshijo: Oh...
Togashi Udon:
man that was easy...
Hida Oku:
we win!
Keshijo: We win!
Keshijo: :-)
Hida Oku:
we beat Fu Leng!
Keshijo: jinx
Hida Oku:
(doh)
KibagamiKuno: (hantei go bye bye?)
Keshijo: Hehe. Udon is the only one who can speak now...
Togashi Udon:
...
Keshijo: Oku.
Keshijo: Now there are two capable of normal speech...
Togashi Udon:
Stop whispering!
KibagamiKuno: (hmm, long crash... better find phone)
Hantei Dave has entered the room.
Hantei Dave: did I mention how much i hate XP?
KibagamiKuno: So where were we, eh?
Hantei Dave: guess it didn't like puke green
Togashi Udon:
I thought we won.
Keshijo: Yeah.
KibagamiKuno: Oh yes, Hoturi wants us to wait here for the world to end.
Keshijo: Right.
Hida Oku:
we lost?
Keshijo: That too.
Keshijo: But then we won.
Hantei Dave: well, Hoturi invites you to stay for 3 weeks for the Cherry Blossom festival
Hantei Dave: the biggest Crane festival
Hantei Dave: already decorations are begin gathered
Hida Oku:
Do I have time to make a painting for him?
Hantei Dave: depends on the others
Togashi Udon:
What do you all think we should do?
Hida Oku:
Should we stay?
Hantei Dave: of course, in three days you could have all discussed where you should go next
Keshijo: We could have...
Togashi Udon:
which is?
Hantei Dave: dunno...where to?
Hida Oku:
Well, I tell everyone about the bad luck I had with trying to convince Hida Yakamo that he's the thunder
Keshijo: But we probably didn't...
Hantei Dave: the next thunder i imagine
Hida Oku:
(see my solo)
Togashi Udon:
(darn, i thought it might work)
Hantei Dave: hehe
Keshijo: Shintojen introduces himself to Oku.
Hantei Dave: i mean Kachiko
Hantei Dave: ^_-
Hida Oku:
And who are you?
Hantei Dave: you can make contested rolls if you want
Keshijo: Err.. typ-o ... Shinjoten.
Keshijo: Sure. Why not?
Hantei Dave: keshijo's disguise vs Oku's perception
Hida Oku:
22 perception
Togashi Udon:
Yea, Oku. I wanna go kill, I mean talk to Jago (was that his name).
Suzume Sousha has entered the room.
Suzume Sousha: hey
Keshijo: Ak. 17.
Hantei Dave: Sousha is chasing Geisha
Togashi Udon:
Kuno nods, Udon bows.
Hida Oku:
Udon, WHAT?
Keshijo: Hehe. That's right.
Suzume Sousha: woohoo!
Hantei Dave: Oku: you know who it is
Keshijo: Hey Sousha.... See ya Sousha....
Hida Oku:
Oh boy
Togashi Udon:
Oku: He shouldn't have put you in that spot.
Keshijo: Keshijo is wearing a beard and an eyepatch.
Keshijo: No mask beyond that.
Hantei Dave: so, what do you people want to do? You have 6 more Thunders to get...or you could relax here ^_^
KibagamiKuno: Kuno crosses his arms impatiently.
Hida Oku:
Well, he may be the tougest one to convince.... I suggest preschool tactics....
Hida Oku:
"All the others are doing it..."
Keshijo: He also wears no mon and carries a Jade Naginata.
Togashi Udon:
It was unfair to you, unless I am missing something, he manipulated you through an evil brush.
Hantei Dave: Jade infused
Hida Oku:
Kesh: Oku seems more forelorn and his skin is more ashen
KibagamiKuno: (heh, that's good, jade itself isn't too strong. i've got jade chopsticks and they are prone to breaking)
Hantei Dave: oku has a jade brush ^_-
Hida Oku:
oh... that was Yori
Togashi Udon:
is it the bad one?
Hida Oku:
not Yakamo
Togashi Udon:
yori,yeah
Togashi Udon:
he needs to be spanked
Hantei Dave: Dave pushes for conversation at hand
Hantei Dave: push push
Suzume Sousha: pull pull
KibagamiKuno: (Kuno glares)
Hida Oku:
to the next thunder, then
Suzume Sousha: who shall we seek
Keshijo: Oku: Do you have a spare finger of Jade?
KibagamiKuno: Kuno points north.
Hida Oku:
as I said, I think Yakamo should come a bit later
Hida Oku:
yes, I do
Hida Oku:
3 fingers
Keshijo: Udon may require a piece.
Hantei Dave: Yakamo is in a very bitter mood...since Oku saw him he lost a hand
Keshijo: Udon: Sorry if this is an imposition...
Hida Oku:
Udon, you need one?
Hida Oku:
(hands one over)
Suzume Sousha: hmmmm . . .
Togashi Udon:
Yes, I am tainted.
Togashi Udon:
Domo.
Keshijo: I wasn't quick enough...
Hida Oku:
You should all know, that I am as well
Hantei Dave: Udon: the jade feels cool and refreshing in your hand
Hida Oku:
I will not hide anymore
Togashi Udon:
Great, we're a happy family!
Suzume Sousha: eeep
KibagamiKuno: "We are not so different, after all..."
Hantei Dave: are you all a family?
Suzume Sousha: the adams
Togashi Udon:
Bugger off Hantei!
Hantei Dave: some people might not be tainted
Keshijo: I look at Kuno, in shock that he finally speaks.
KibagamiKuno: "and more like the oni than we care to acknowledge"
Hida Oku:
"The Tainted Bunch"
Hida Oku:
heh, you have no idea
Togashi Udon:
hehehe
Suzume Sousha: u keep your taint away from me :-)
Togashi Udon:
So who do we infect next?
KibagamiKuno: "I suggest north, to Isawa, he is already receptive to us, and we should see the scorpion queen last."
Keshijo: I give Sousha a big hug!
Keshijo: :-)
Hantei Dave: Isawa? You never met them really
Hida Oku:
who is closest?
Hida Oku:
(other than Kisada)
Keshijo: Kuno: I agree. Kachiko is in the heart of the evil's empire...
KibagamiKuno: We are closest to Isawa now.
Hantei Dave: you are at Kyuden Doji, south of the Emperial Palace
Togashi Udon:
Who is receptive? What about Toturi?
Keshijo: Toturi is mad.
Hida Oku:
hmmm, I insulted him last time
Keshijo: And being watched.
Togashi Udon:
So, he'll get over it.
Keshijo: Oku: I don't think he even remembers...
Suzume Sousha: last time was a while ago I think
Hantei Dave: you don't know that udon
Hida Oku:
If we are closest to Isawa (other than Yakamo AND Kachiko), when that's where we should go, ne?
Togashi Udon:
don't know what?
KibagamiKuno: Shinjoto - you speak as if you know the whereabouts of Toturi...
Keshijo: In a round a bout way.
Keshijo: I saw him during our journeys...
KibagamiKuno: Is he near to northern Shinomen ?
Keshijo: He was in Scorpion lands last. Heading north.
Hantei Dave: last you people know, TOturi was headed north towards the Pheonix lands
Keshijo: I can't speak more of it here.
KibagamiKuno: Argh. baka. Stupid humans... he may try for Oni no Jimen, and that'll be the end of our thunder.
Hantei Dave: and you still never actually met Isawa Tadaka
Keshijo: He's being watched...
Keshijo: Toturi that is
Keshijo: I don't know Isawa...
KibagamiKuno: Be that as it may, he's also likely looking for an easy death in battle.
Suzume Sousha: perhaps we should introduce ourselves
Suzume Sousha: to Isawa Tadaka that is
KibagamiKuno: Hai, Isawa Tadaka, let's leave before it starts hailing cherry blossoms.
Hantei Dave: Sousha takes command
Keshijo: Yes.
Togashi Udon:
Oh, right! Tadaka! Ok!
Hida Oku:
yes
Suzume Sousha: doh!
Suzume Sousha: ;-)
Togashi Udon:
(i thought i threw sousha into the river after the tony the tiger tanto???)
Suzume Sousha: ok to Isawa Tadaka it is :-)
Hantei Dave: your path will take you through the Emperial City again
Hantei Dave: unless you want to charter a boat
Keshijo: I practice whirling the naginata when we leave the castle.
Hida Oku:
gah, I hate boats, now
Hantei Dave: The Doji could set it up for you...it is the season now
Keshijo: Um... passing the heart of the empire shouldn't be so bad..
Togashi Udon has left the room.
Hida Oku:
let's go thru the city
KibagamiKuno: oh - we're not in northern crane lands?
Suzume Sousha: doh
Hantei Dave: you are south of the palace...see map...Isawa are WAY north
Hida Oku:
I think we should go see Kachiko
Hantei Dave: she is on the way
Keshijo: Oku: Did you have the Crane before?
Hida Oku:
I can get a message to her
Hida Oku:
remeber, I AM in the service of the Emporer
Keshijo: I am nervous about the palace...
Suzume Sousha: and the emperor too
Hida Oku:
Whatever Hantai it may be
Hida Oku:
that too
Keshijo: But I would like to see another Scorpion alive...
Hida Oku:
*Hantei
Hantei Dave: well, boat or walking?
Suzume Sousha: someone had an aversion to boats so walking sounds good
Hida Oku:
<nod>
Hantei Dave: says your leader
Keshijo: Walk then.
Togashi Udon has entered the room.
Hantei Dave: You begin the road north...a clean well constructed road...for Rokugani
Suzume Sousha: perhaps it will give me time to get more tain . . . I mean aquainted with my friends.
Hida Oku:
Maybe I should deliver a message to her, when we pass thru?
Hida Oku:
heh
Togashi Udon:
Hi
Hantei Dave: WB Udon
KibagamiKuno: nice shade.
Hida Oku:
yikes, udon
Keshijo: Ouch... yellow bright...
Togashi Udon:
Yea, I'm still getting used to it.
Hantei Dave: you pass many people along this road. This is the area of the Crane's best farmland
Hantei Dave: merchant caravans travel the length
Togashi Udon:
I hope I can get ride of it, but its not as easy as it sounds.
Hida Oku:
(that they probably stole)
Hantei Dave: no, they always owned this land
Hida Oku:
ah
Hantei Dave: merchants, farmers, even an acting troup
Togashi Udon:
Killing myself will get rid of it, but that does us no good.
Suzume Sousha: what time of day is it right now?
Hantei Dave: these people seem unaffected by recent dark events...
Hantei Dave: midday
Keshijo: Oku: Did you have the Crane tanto before?
Hida Oku:
um....
Hida Oku:
yeah..... about that....
Togashi Udon:
The jade feels good though. Maybe if I rub it all over...
Hida Oku:
er.... remember how I said I don't like boats?
Hantei Dave: whereas once some of you would have been relieved to be here...it is now slightly annoying that they are ignorant
Hantei Dave: its warming up too people
Keshijo: Oku....
Keshijo: What happened?
Suzume Sousha: interesting
Suzume Sousha: perhaps we should see if they have a budha statue and dispatch of it before it becomes tainted.
Hida Oku:
when my daimyo took the tanto from me, it was to be transported to the Yasuki for safe keeping.... the ship never reached the port
Suzume Sousha: or was that last statue just a coincidence.
Hida Oku:
only a plank was found
Hida Oku:
though I personally suspect the Mantis
Keshijo: Sousha: I'm hoping coincedence. I don't want to break another one...
Suzume Sousha: perhaps that is how the taint trully spreads from town to town.
KibagamiKuno: "In loose tongues and careless words? possibly, sousha"
Keshijo: I understand no survivors or bodies were found from the ship..
Hida Oku:
correct
Keshijo: Dave: Are we near the shoreline?
Hida Oku:
so it is either at the bottom of the sea, or looted
KibagamiKuno: It sounds like the tanto still seeks it's rightful owner...
Hantei Dave: right along the shoreline
Keshijo: Specifically near where it happened?
Hantei Dave: it is mixed...sandy and rocked
Hantei Dave: no...way north of that
Hida Oku:
it happened in crab lands
Suzume Sousha: Kuno I am throwing out an idea. Nothing more
Togashi Udon:
Sure, Sousha.
Keshijo: Gentlemen, is this worth investigating?
Keshijo: Sorry, I just remembered it now..
Hantei Dave: thunderclouds in the distance...
Hida Oku:
I think we should stick to gathering the thunders
KibagamiKuno: Keshijo - the tanto has reentered the cycle, it will emerge once more.
Togashi Udon:
How long to reach it?
Hida Oku:
time is against us
Suzume Sousha: Perhaps I will let the idea go for now, but if we ever come across another budha statue that has gone mad then obviously that is our sign.
Hida Oku:
and I'M SICK OF BICKERING!
Hantei Dave: Yasuki lands? IT would take weeks
Hida Oku:
LET'S MAKE A CHOICE!
Hantei Dave: less then a week to get to the palace
KibagamiKuno: Isawa. We agreed on Isawa, let's stop the rhetoric.
Hida Oku:
Oku storms in the direction of the palace
Keshijo: Weeks away? Isawa it is.
Keshijo: I thought it might only be a day or so away..
Hantei Dave: YAAAAAA...Kuno said the secret word
Hantei Dave: Rhetoric
Hida Oku:
mutters: still fools...
Suzume Sousha: :-)
Togashi Udon:
Dont be so hard on yourself, Oku!
KibagamiKuno: Oku - correction - "stupid humans."
Hida Oku:
SHUT UP KUNO, YOU'RE A HUMAN TOO
KibagamiKuno: Hai.
KibagamiKuno: I'm a human too.
Hantei Dave: clouds will hit before night fall. If you want you can stop for the night at a temple
Keshijo: Shinto?
Togashi Udon:
We could play "chace the dragon". Now that is a stupid name...let me tell you...(goes off into story)
KibagamiKuno: (hehheh)
Hantei Dave: (rolls dice).... Temple of the Fortune of Harvest (Shintao)
Togashi Udon:
Sounds good to me.
Hantei Dave: There are some peasants praying for good harvests
Hantei Dave: It is a fine Crane temple
Hantei Dave: open on all sides...2 floors with a balcony on top
Suzume Sousha: Can any of you tell whether the statue at this temple is tainted?
Hantei Dave: and the Fortune or harvest in the middle
Togashi Udon:
i'll try.
Keshijo: I observe it.
Togashi Udon:
if i start screaming, hit me.
Togashi Udon:
if i dont stop, then dont stop.
Suzume Sousha: maybe we wont' even if u do
Togashi Udon:
I walk into the temple after paying proper respects.
Togashi Udon:
Then use Crow.
Hantei Dave: roll skip
Togashi Udon:
26
Hantei Dave: Udon screams once (loses one hit) The pain passes quickly...anyone wanna hit him?
Suzume Sousha: MEMEMEMEMEM
Hantei Dave: sousha wacks udon. Hard?
Suzume Sousha: Let it never be said that I refused a friends request
Suzume Sousha: Medium hard
Hantei Dave: whats your strech Sousha?
Hantei Dave: strength
Togashi Udon:
(Medium thanks!)
Hantei Dave: Udon: you detected only that which you travel with...
Suzume Sousha: 5
Hantei Dave: in the others too
Hantei Dave: not from the statue
Keshijo: Not from me!
Hantei Dave: Udon takes 3 stun also
Togashi Udon:
ok
Suzume Sousha: wow. I didn't know my own strength.
Hantei Dave: Udon: you detect no taint in Keshijo or Sousha
Togashi Udon:
yet
Keshijo: What?
Togashi Udon:
You and Sousha are still pure. For now.
Hantei Dave: sounds like Udon was threatening you Kesh
Keshijo: Nah. Not Udon.
KibagamiKuno: heh
Togashi Udon:
Nah. Not me.
Hida Oku:
dave, stop sowing seeds of discord!
Suzume Sousha: I am not afraid of the taint
Hantei Dave: The peasants want nothing to do with Udon and his yelling.. They leave
Suzume Sousha: if my friends can bear it then I can as well.
KibagamiKuno: I give dave the taint.
Hida Oku:
heh
KibagamiKuno: then i get an eggroll.
Keshijo: I sow the seeds of... rice...
Togashi Udon:
shall we stay the night?
Hida Oku:
i think so
Keshijo: I go pray.
Hantei Dave: well, you can rest here tonight. No real good sleeping area but it should do
Hantei Dave: rain starts up hard
Suzume Sousha: sure if its late
Suzume Sousha: and the rain isn't any help either
KibagamiKuno: i meditate a bit.
Togashi Udon:
I'd like to sit in the rain for a bit.
Hida Oku:
I wander off and go thru some forms
Hantei Dave: Udon: ok...feels good
Hida Oku:
then rejoin
Hantei Dave: Udon: a crane samurai is running in the rain towards the temple. He holds his straw hat in place
Keshijo: Maybe practice with the naginata a bit..
Togashi Udon:
I'll watch him as he runs
Keshijo: I greet him.
Keshijo: Greetings honorable Crane.
Hantei Dave: He runs to get to a dry place
Hantei Dave: He shakes off his hat and rings his kimono a bit
Hantei Dave: "konichiwa" he says
Keshijo: I am Shinjoten.
Hantei Dave: brown out
Hantei Dave: eek
Keshijo: (I have a way with intros...)
Hantei Dave: He smiles slightly and walks past the ronin
Keshijo: (Shoulda been a witch hunter....)
Hantei Dave: He looks at each of you strangly
Hantei Dave: but doesn't ask questions
Hida Oku:
"What is your name, Crane?"
Hantei Dave: He has a Kakita mon
KibagamiKuno: I walk over toward udon
Togashi Udon:
(the crane has ruined my moment. I head into the temple)
Togashi Udon:
Hi Shinjoten.
Keshijo: Greetings Udon.
Hantei Dave: He looks at Oku and tenses his eye brows
Suzume Sousha: I stay with the others and the crane.
Keshijo: How are you feeling?
Hantei Dave: He ignores you and starts up the steps
Togashi Udon:
I think I should tend to my Bodhi tree. I am... different.
Suzume Sousha: Oku, perhaps he didn't like your tone?
Hantei Dave: (perhaps Oku didn't introduce himself first)
Hida Oku:
oops(!)
Hida Oku:
"I am Hida Oku"
Hantei Dave: He goes and knocks at the door on top and a monk allows him to enter
Hida Oku:
"Forgive me for my brusqueness"
Hantei Dave: He ignores the rude Crab
Hantei Dave: and shuts the door
Hida Oku:
heheh... oops
Togashi Udon:
I am on fire, Shinjoten. But I will put it out. (wink, lame smile)
KibagamiKuno: Is he, then, inside with us?
Suzume Sousha: I walk over and introduce my self to the crane.
Hantei Dave: protocal protocol protocol
Suzume Sousha: kuno he walked past us inside
Keshijo: I have faith in you Udon.
Hantei Dave: sousha: he is gone now
Keshijo: We will find a way.
Hantei Dave: unless you wanted to knock
Suzume Sousha: ahhh . . .. hmmm. . . no thats ok
Hantei Dave: well, you guys can get some reast
KibagamiKuno: are we inside or outside? or is he on an inner inside?
Togashi Udon:
I am glad someone does. Thank you brother.
Hantei Dave: you are under the 2nd floor..which is closed. You have no walls down there
KibagamiKuno: ah, he went upstairs.
KibagamiKuno: I resume meditation, and listen carefully.
Hantei Dave: it is an open pagoda on the 1st floor
Hantei Dave: kuno: roll
Suzume Sousha: I stand and there for now and look out into the rain just marvelling at it and the town.
Hida Oku:
blah... I used to have such a great room in the palace
Hida Oku:
now I sleep outside
KibagamiKuno: 28
Hantei Dave: you sound like a Crane Oku
Keshijo: Oku: It is good to sleep outdoors. Keeps us grounded.
Hantei Dave: Kuno: seems quiet enough up there...some footsteps
Hida Oku:
(blowdart at dave)
Keshijo: and ready for the worst.
Togashi Udon:
To some, outside is the greatest room in the greatest palace, Oku.
Keshijo: I go for a stroll before sleep.
Hantei Dave: ok Kesh
KibagamiKuno: (listen listen listen)
Hantei Dave: the rain starts and stops
KibagamiKuno: if there's nothing for a while, i'll stop bothering.
Hantei Dave: nothing much happens this night
Hantei Dave: Sousha: roll concentration...for sleep
KibagamiKuno: Udon - it is the greatest palace, i went up on it's roof recently, i'll tell you all about it in the morning.
Suzume Sousha: 13 :-(
Hantei Dave: Sousha stays up the whole night
Suzume Sousha: Can I practice my sword fighting ability since I have nothing better to do?
Togashi Udon:
I've lived my life in the rafters Kuno.
Hantei Dave: Sousha: just as the sun peaks out, the samurai leaves his room...and yes, you can practice on and off
Suzume Sousha: very well.
Hantei Dave: the samurai walks outside (no longer raining) and stares at the temple...hand on his hilt
Hantei Dave: he is in a stance
Suzume Sousha: Where am I in relation to him?
Keshijo: What is wrong?
Hantei Dave: far enough away unless you want to be closer
Keshijo: I say to him...
Hantei Dave: kesh is asleep
Togashi Udon:
(and whispers)
Hantei Dave: unless you have light sleeper
Keshijo: Oh...
Suzume Sousha: I mean is he looking at me or in my direction?
Suzume Sousha: does he know I'm there
Hantei Dave: no...just at thin air
Keshijo: No, just 10 or so spells...
Keshijo: and combat sense... :-)
Suzume Sousha: then I will stay where I am and watch him . . . for now
Hantei Dave: He holds the position for 10 minutes and does nothing...did you want to do something in that time
Hantei Dave: ?
Hantei Dave: the sun rises over the ocean
Suzume Sousha: yes I will train for now but keep an eye on him
Hantei Dave: You watch as he swings in mid air
Hantei Dave: and sheathes his sword again
Hantei Dave: shing...chik
Hantei Dave: after a moment, he does it again
Hantei Dave: roll perception sousha
Suzume Sousha: 22
Suzume Sousha: If I include void 25
Hantei Dave: he does it a 3rd time. You can see what he is doing now. As drops of water fall off the roof, he is slicing them
Hantei Dave: shing ...chik
Suzume Sousha: wow!
Suzume Sousha: impressive.
KibagamiKuno: I stand up.
Hantei Dave: he doesn't change stancs
Hantei Dave: shing ...chik
Suzume Sousha: I walk over to him still keeping some distance with my weopon sheethed.
KibagamiKuno: I walk toward him, for a moment, smile, and then try to do it over at a different dripping spot.
Hantei Dave: he sheathes
Suzume Sousha: Please do not stop on my account
Suzume Sousha: I mearly came to marvel at your abilites up close.
Suzume Sousha: I am suzume sousha.
Suzume Sousha: I bow
Hantei Dave: "It takes years of practice. You will not learn in a day. Rain-Splitting Technique"
Hantei Dave: he bows back
Togashi Udon:
(insert anime music here)
Hantei Dave: "Kakita Mokubane"
Suzume Sousha: it looks like you have put many years into your technique. My friend here is a good swordsmen himself. I'm sure he meant no disrespect.
KibagamiKuno: I call out from where i'm trying to imitate him "Kibagami Kuno."
Suzume Sousha: imitation is the highest form of flattery.
KibagamiKuno: this IS harder than it looks
Hantei Dave: "Hai. Good journey" he says with a slight bow
Hantei Dave: He begins to leave
Suzume Sousha: hmmmm . . .
Suzume Sousha: I let him go.
Hantei Dave: ok
Suzume Sousha: I feel I would dishonor someone that great by asking him to help me practice
Hantei Dave: the others begin waking with all the talking
Togashi Udon:
Do my morning rituals.
Hantei Dave: Udon: you wake up under the smile of the Fortune of Harvest
Suzume Sousha: (probably would have been like in one of those movies where some sap wants a great martial artist to be his master, but the martial artist knows he's a sap and won't take him
Hantei Dave: it attacks!
Hantei Dave: j/k
Suzume Sousha: :-)
Togashi Udon:
gggrrrrr... geat way to start the day...
Hantei Dave: The samurai has walked off
Togashi Udon:
feh
Hantei Dave: Udon: your tree needs care
Togashi Udon:
(I saw to it last night)
Hantei Dave: but it is a new day
Hantei Dave: and it needs new water
Hantei Dave: and there is much
Hantei Dave: and sun
Togashi Udon:
Is it dying from my touch?
KibagamiKuno: heh
Hantei Dave: Udon: it looks fine.
Togashi Udon:
(udon starts muttering to himself and goes to care for his tree)
Hantei Dave: ready to continue north?
Suzume Sousha: your plant is tatinted too
Hida Oku:
yep
Suzume Sousha: :-)
Hantei Dave: Udon: roll WILL
Togashi Udon:
three 1's
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Hantei Dave: You didn't like SOusha's last comment...it was teasing you
KibagamiKuno: your plant beat you.
Togashi Udon:
I know
KibagamiKuno: it got a 5 at least...
Suzume Sousha: LOL
KibagamiKuno: we should continue north
Keshijo: Hai.
Hantei Dave: you gather stuff and coninue the walk
Suzume Sousha: if north is toward isawa then sure
Hantei Dave: sousha: http://www.kolumbus.fi/ksaarto/map/Map.html
Hantei Dave: the sun has reallyy come out now
Hantei Dave: still a chill in the air but nice
Hantei Dave: the next couple of days are also uneventful...then you come to the edge of the south hub city of the EMporer
Hantei Dave: An Ise Zumi is kneeling before a shrine on the side of the road
Togashi Udon:
Who is it?
Hantei Dave: (roll your membership) membership+3d6
Togashi Udon:
20
Suzume Sousha: who are u talking to?
Suzume Sousha: just udon?
Hantei Dave: yah
KibagamiKuno: (btw, i told udon about Yama sano Kaminari, though probably more about what i observed than the trip itself0
Hantei Dave: Udon: It is someone you know. He was just starting when you left the mountain after finding your tanto
Hantei Dave: you forget his name. He is young
Togashi Udon:
Greetings Brother.
Hantei Dave: he puts his hands together
Hantei Dave: "Greeting Udon. I am glad to meet you again. I remember how lively it was when you left"
Hantei Dave: "My own Gempukku was not so much so" he chuckles
KibagamiKuno: (i stand a back a bit from the rest)
Togashi Udon:
I wish I was there, Brother.
Hantei Dave: "Excuse me. I am Tenan"
Hantei Dave: he bow
Hantei Dave: s
Togashi Udon:
I remember you Tenan.
Hantei Dave: He says" I bring word from Togashi."
Keshijo: <Bow> I am Shinjoten.
Togashi Udon:
I am honored I made an impression on you for the short time we were together.
Hantei Dave: He bows back to Keshijo
Togashi Udon:
Sorry, this is Oku and Kuno.
Hida Oku:
hello
Suzume Sousha: I bow and introduce myself since my frined forgot about me
Hantei Dave: "Otaku Kamoko now rides along the Spine of the World Mountain...on the Scorpion side."
Togashi Udon:
That one is annoying. (points to Sousha)
Suzume Sousha: I am Suzume Sousah
Suzume Sousha: Sousha
Hantei Dave: he bows to all of you
Suzume Sousha: (I just realized if I was spanish I could be sammy sousa)
Hantei Dave: Kuno is writing something
Hantei Dave: WHAPS SOUSHA
Togashi Udon:
What word do you bring us this fine day?
Keshijo: Is your bat corked?
Hantei Dave: Ise Zumi points up above
Hantei Dave: to text already said
Togashi Udon:
thnx
Hantei Dave: He bows. May I join you before leaving?
Hantei Dave: ""
Togashi Udon:
Of course, brother.
KibagamiKuno: I step up to the ise zumi
Hantei Dave: He grabs his pack
KibagamiKuno: "Please take this back with you,
KibagamiKuno: and see that it finds its way."
KibagamiKuno: (hand him rolled up letter)
KibagamiKuno: "Domo"
Hantei Dave: "Do you like my tattoo? It is the Carp!" He turns to Kuno
Hantei Dave: "O...okay...he says."
KibagamiKuno: "Does it swim fast?"
Togashi Udon:
You received the Carp! Wonderful!
Togashi Udon:
(pats on back)
Hantei Dave: "Maybe not fast...but elegant I'd say."
Hantei Dave: you enter the South Hub VIllage
Suzume Sousha: *looking confused* does the carp sybolize something?
Hantei Dave: tummies rumbling
KibagamiKuno: (good eats?)
Togashi Udon:
Shall we find food?
Hantei Dave: "It is for luck."
KibagamiKuno: (oh yeah, you're all those "not flesh eating" samurai...)
Hantei Dave: he says to sousha
Suzume Sousha: ahhhh. Then may your life be filled with it.
Hantei Dave: you find a restaurant....not much money for most of you though
Hantei Dave: Oku: you still have money
Hida Oku:
I'll pay for them
Hida Oku:
heh
Togashi Udon:
So, How is everything at Keyoden Togashi? (The Ise Zumi talk)
Togashi Udon:
Thanks Oku.
Keshijo: Domo
Hida Oku:
but don't eat too much, udon, kuno....
Hantei Dave: "Busy Udon. Thanks for the food Oku-san."
KibagamiKuno: I should have some money left (sold the raft...)
Hantei Dave: Kuno: you have some
Hantei Dave: some
Suzume Sousha: I have money as well. . . . surprising.y
KibagamiKuno: enough for millet heheh
Suzume Sousha: but oku said he will pay.
Hantei Dave: "Tog...ashi Yokuni has us all looking for you."
KibagamiKuno: "we met another in crane lands"
Hantei Dave: You all order
Togashi Udon:
Another Bearer?
KibagamiKuno: (another ise zumi!)
Togashi Udon:
oh, heh my bad
Hantei Dave: "Bearer? Of what?
KibagamiKuno: "heavy burdens."
KibagamiKuno: "what was his name, udon?"
Togashi Udon:
Te.
Togashi Udon:
He said Fuaki was before him.
Togashi Udon:
Yokuni has the order delivering messages to us, eh?
Hantei Dave: Tenan
Togashi Udon:
(I know)
Hantei Dave: A peasant walks up to your booth
Hantei Dave: he is quiet and looks around once
Keshijo: I smell...
Hantei Dave: he looks sweaty
Hantei Dave: roll kesh
KibagamiKuno: I smile
Hantei Dave: he doesn't smile
Hida Oku:
what do you smell, kesh?
Keshijo: 19 again.
Hantei Dave: Kesh: nothing odd it seems
Hantei Dave: he stands there a moment
Hantei Dave: Tenan says, "Hello?"
KibagamiKuno: (i let my smile drop)
Keshijo: Dave: I don't answer to Kesh.
Hantei Dave: k
Hantei Dave: :P
KibagamiKuno: "What."
Hantei Dave: He lifts his hand in a fist over the table
Hantei Dave: doing anything?
KibagamiKuno: (I pull my millet away)
Keshijo: Getting ready to jump...
Togashi Udon:
ready
Hantei Dave: he opens his fist and a small finger falls out onto the table
Hantei Dave: He says, "Habikki."
Keshijo: A literal finger?
Hantei Dave: yep...literal

SNIP!  (Debacle Edit)

 

You have just entered room "Chat 40634002741273456101."

Keshijo has entered the room.

Togashi Udon has entered the room.

Hantei Dave: there

Keshijo: Bows

Hantei Dave: josh will be late

Hantei Dave: bow

Togashi Udon: Hi (bows)

Suzume Sousha has entered the room.

Togashi Udon: Raab comin?

Hantei Dave: and raab is logged in under the wrong name

Togashi Udon: Hi Sousha & Kesh

Hantei Dave: hehe

Hantei Dave: he will be a little late too

Keshijo: Umm... He's just in disguise...

Keshijo: Yeah. Ninjas...

Keshijo: In disguise...

Hantei Dave: Y'know...brian. You could just create a dif user name you know

Suzume Sousha: hey all

Keshijo: Wait a minute...

Keshijo: Ninjas in disguise...

Keshijo: If I used a different name I'd be a ninja...

Hantei Dave: i thought everyone here was a ninja

Togashi Udon: (slaps Kesh upside the head) Stop thinking!

Keshijo: Doh!

Hantei Dave: so, any interesting comments and suggestions on last week's explosion?

Keshijo: Um..

Keshijo: Er...

Keshijo: Yeah...

Togashi Udon: yea what he said

Suzume Sousha: did I do anything wrong last week? Aside from yelling out and telling kuno to take those 3 or 4 out.

Keshijo: I wasn't even really there....

Keshijo: :-)

Togashi Udon: I think we should press the magic rewind button.

Hantei Dave: Rishard: not so much a matter of doing wrong as it is just needing to take a tea break

Hantei Dave: for everyone's sake

Hantei Dave: if you are the last sane person...you call it...and I think you were

Hantei Dave: hehehe

Keshijo: I'm sane...

Keshijo: mostly...

Hantei Dave: you were absent!

Togashi Udon: no your not

Suzume Sousha: :-)

Hantei Dave: >:}

Hantei Dave: and evil does not equal sane

Keshijo: :-)

Togashi Udon: I get it! Kesh is evil cuz he's NOT tainted!

Keshijo: I'm the good guy, remember?

Keshijo: No taint, no murders...

Togashi Udon: NOW IT MAKES SENSE!

Hantei Dave: All those tainted, raise a tenticle

Keshijo: No innocent blood spilt by my hand...

Hantei Dave: ok, wanna start up then?

Keshijo: I don't think I've killed anything not tainted...

Hantei Dave: Kesh considered it in his solo brian

Keshijo: But he didn't...

Keshijo: And that's what counts..

Hantei Dave: but he CONSIDERED it....no samurai heart there ^_-

Togashi Udon: what, prejudist against innocents? They not good enough for you to kill?

Keshijo: We are all tempted by evil, it's overcoming it that matters.

Hantei Dave: wow...wisdom too

Keshijo: And they were bad guys anyway.

Hantei Dave: wow...i mean...wow

Hantei Dave: hehe

Togashi Udon: if that helps you sleep at night ;-)

Hantei Dave: ok...Josh and Raab can jump in to the clean up section...

Keshijo: Clean up section?

Hantei Dave: suction?

Hantei Dave: session?

Hantei Dave: swaray

Hantei Dave: whatever

Hantei Dave: section...thats a word

Keshijo: No Tony?

Keshijo: Or Kim?

Hantei Dave: I think Tony is out pretty much

Hantei Dave: unfortunatly

Keshijo: Ah.

Suzume Sousha: hibiki!

Togashi Udon: out too, me thinks. though she did miss her finger.

Hantei Dave: speaking of which...the villiger runs in...says her name in a monotone voice, draps a finger...and bolts away never to be seen again

Keshijo: Was it really her finger though...

Hantei Dave: drops even

Hantei Dave: no ninja's...no guards....no problem

Togashi Udon: Piece of tanto bearer... big problem

Keshijo: Ninjas? There's no such thing...

Hantei Dave: not at all

Hantei Dave: Why, who would want to hurt you guys?

Keshijo: She had my tanto, too...

Hantei Dave: everyone...roll Lore....tell me if ou get three 6's

Keshijo: Crap.

Keshijo: 20

Keshijo: :-)

Keshijo: Yakuza?

Hantei Dave: can't tell

Hantei Dave: ^_^

Hantei Dave: Rishard?

Suzume Sousha: 14

Hantei Dave: udon failed also

Suzume Sousha: 2 6's and a 2

Hantei Dave: didn't expect anyone to get it

Togashi Udon: 20 total :-(

Hantei Dave: close but...

Hantei Dave: nope

Keshijo: Do we have an inkling?

Togashi Udon: May I cover the finger with a napkin?

Suzume Sousha: oooh wait

Suzume Sousha: 22

Suzume Sousha: I did add the other 8

Hantei Dave: Udon: your Ise Zumi brother decides he better leave too before things get worse ^_-

Keshijo: I smell the blood...

Keshijo: Bah. 14.

Togashi Udon: "Bye you little SCAMP! Be good!"

Hantei Dave: He says, "Yo homey, I be outtie"

Keshijo: I bow.

Keshijo: And wonder about this strange Ise Zumi speech...

Hantei Dave: He puts on his gold medalions and raps out the door

Togashi Udon: Catch you on the flipslide homes!

Suzume Sousha: :-)

Hantei Dave: that'll be fun for a reread

Hantei Dave: now we are back to basics

Togashi Udon: May I cover the finger with a napkin?

Hantei Dave: sure Udon

KibagamiKuno has entered the room.

Keshijo: Sitting in a restaurant with a finger on a table. That's back to the basics alright.

Hantei Dave: Kuno: you are all killing the guards again!!!!

Togashi Udon: I gag as Kesh sniffs the digit...

KibagamiKuno: nani?

KibagamiKuno: am not.

Hantei Dave: hehehe

KibagamiKuno: where is the guy?

Hantei Dave: no no...he ran away fast

Togashi Udon: Hantei Dave:speaking of which...the villiger runs in...says her name in a monotone voice, draps a finger...and bolts away never to be seen again

Hantei Dave: and disappeared into the ether

KibagamiKuno: someone want to tell me what the "new" version of events so far?

Togashi Udon: see above

Keshijo: Sitting in a restaurant with a finger on a table. That's back to the basics alright.

Keshijo: Just about sums it up....

Hantei Dave: hehe

Hantei Dave: no Ise Zumi..no nothing

KibagamiKuno: Is it a woman's finger?

KibagamiKuno: The ise Zumi already left, right?

Keshijo: Someone claimed it was Habiki's/

Hantei Dave: you see no evidence to argue with the finger Kuno

Keshijo: That doesn't mean it is.

Hantei Dave: he left too

Togashi Udon: Hey!!! i'm right here!!!

Hantei Dave: rapping about something

KibagamiKuno: Do we have an empty bowl?

Hantei Dave: ehhehe

Hantei Dave: Kuno: sure

Keshijo: (ACK!)

Hantei Dave: if you eat your rice

KibagamiKuno: i put it upside down over the finger (it wasn't rice, it was

Togashi Udon: the finger is covered by a napkin

KibagamiKuno: shoot, i forgot what it was now...

Hantei Dave: don't bother...it was rice ^_-

KibagamiKuno: oh, then nevermind about the bowl.

Hantei Dave: heheh

KibagamiKuno: millet.

KibagamiKuno: it was millet, that's right ;-)

Hantei Dave: good enough

Togashi Udon: kesh is sniffing it

Togashi Udon: it=finger

KibagamiKuno: Kesh, stop sniffing the table.

Hantei Dave: and sousha went to the little samurai's room

Hantei Dave: ..and wackiness ensues

KibagamiKuno: "Looks like a sign - get out of town cause we know you're here"

Hida Oku has entered the room.

Hida Oku: <bow>

Keshijo: Millet Smells funny...

Hantei Dave: deep breath...one more time...

Hida Oku: hello, everyone

Keshijo: Hey Oku.

KibagamiKuno: hida - summing up for you in im

Togashi Udon: Oku!

Keshijo: Keshijo: Sitting in a restaurant with a finger on a table. That's back to the basics alright.Keshijo: Just about sums it up....

Hantei Dave: oku: finger on table...all guests gone...no guards...no ninjas

Hida Oku: of course

Hantei Dave: (Oku stuffs his mask back into his sleeve)

Hida Oku: :-D

KibagamiKuno: hehhe

KibagamiKuno: some days they have the best smiles on this thing.

Hida Oku: ninja? What's a ninja?

Hantei Dave: so, anyone want to take the finger?

Togashi Udon: "I do not wish to leave. A Bearer is in danger, obviously hurt. My pledge was to you all, including those who do not walk our path."

Togashi Udon: For all we know she did not leave us like we thought

Togashi Udon: but was taken

KibagamiKuno: "The tanto take their own road to our joined path. That tanto has crossed once, but not yet joined"

Hantei Dave: (good fill-in SKip)

Hantei Dave: ^_-

Keshijo: So where to start looking?

Togashi Udon: The Lady of Sercrets perhaps?

Hida Oku: dave, I wuold like to create a painting when I have a chance

Hida Oku: Udon, I'm going to send her a message

Hantei Dave: Oku: you need a place to work quietly..not this restaurant in the city

Hida Oku: true

KibagamiKuno: "Would you tempt fate by slaying a tanto bearer?"

Hida Oku: tonight, then

Togashi Udon: A message in a Bottle?

KibagamiKuno: "Let us continue on our journey north, quickly and quietly,

Keshijo: I would like to see her, actually...

Keshijo: There are so few of my people left..

KibagamiKuno: we can return to see her as the final thunder

KibagamiKuno: "

Hantei Dave: staying the night? or going north now?

Togashi Udon: Kuno- "only if they are traveling with Oni's. And I have not seen any of us do that yet."

Togashi Udon: Just your friend (wink)

Keshijo: Udon, there was that one guy...

Keshijo: Yes. Him.

Keshijo: I still need to purify his body...

Keshijo: Or he'll bother us agin..

Keshijo: again...

KibagamiKuno: I do not think Habikki will be harmed, even if she is being used to threaten us, or ensnare us. Our course is clear, and it does not yet involve the scorpion queen.

Hantei Dave: Sousha returns from the little samurai's room

Suzume Sousha: yeay

Keshijo: We should stick to the original plan if we don't say hi to Kachiko.

Keshijo: Besides, the Hantei

Keshijo: is too close to her...

Hantei Dave: they are married now

Keshijo: Revealing our plans may be

KibagamiKuno: I agree, whatever your new name is -san.

Togashi Udon: ...Information. I will be satisfied with some more information.

Keshijo: a bad idea..

Keshijo: Shinjoten. And Kuno, you're talking!

KibagamiKuno: (started talking a while ago, btw, don't recall quite when in the last game.)

Hantei Dave: After Udon mentions wanting information, a drum beats loudly

Keshijo: Yes, well, last game was erased... :-)

Hantei Dave: you can hear it come down the street

Togashi Udon: (I didn't do that drum thing!)

KibagamiKuno: it was saved for editting heh

Keshijo: I look out a window...

Hantei Dave: you mean eliminating Josh

KibagamiKuno: d - part of it is useful, part is not.

Hantei Dave: A crowd from the restaurant gathers at the door with you Keshijo

KibagamiKuno: "nani-o..."

Togashi Udon: "Look, Kuno, I cannot leave with out knowing. Or atLEAST not TRYING."

Hantei Dave: a procession of Pheonix samurai walk down the street...a drumer in the lead

Hantei Dave: people clear a path

KibagamiKuno: Who said you weren't trying? But it is unlike the dragon to rush into such things...

Hantei Dave: A caravan room is being carried by 2 samurai in the center

Togashi Udon: I thought I was the first Dragon you ever met?

KibagamiKuno: we will be back soon enough, and hopefully we won't be expected and can gather evidence more discreetly.

Togashi Udon: I'm hurt.

Hantei Dave: Kuno and Udon talk without notice of the change in atmosphere ^_-

KibagamiKuno: I have met many more since you.

Hantei Dave: that's ok with me though

Suzume Sousha: (is a caravan room those things that people sit in?)

Togashi Udon: I thought you would expect me to run head long into danger by now?

Keshijo: Can we see in the room?

KibagamiKuno: Umm, udon, where'd everyone go?

Hantei Dave: yes sousha

Hantei Dave: Kesh: no

Keshijo: Any Mons displayed?

Suzume Sousha: only 2 people carrying it. . . I wouldn't want to mess with those 2.

Togashi Udon: Especially to get us all thrown out---uhm... where did they go?

Hantei Dave: Pheonix of course. Most carry the Shiba mon

KibagamiKuno: I get up to figure out what everyone is staring at.

Hantei Dave: SOusha: their hands are tied ^_-

Togashi Udon: I pocket the finger, making sure to touch it through the napkin

Togashi Udon: and go follow kuno

KibagamiKuno: (heh, if we don't go to the phoenix, they come to us.)

Hida Oku: I'll also follow kuno

Togashi Udon: to continue whinning

Hantei Dave: the processions stops in front of THIS restaurant...so much for Kuno's plan

Togashi Udon: Man, Kuno, you're bad luck (whisper)

KibagamiKuno: "heh, you have no idea"

Hantei Dave: the drummer stops and the carriage is placed on the ground

Keshijo: No Isawa mons?

Togashi Udon: (Looks areound the restaurant--empty except for us?)

Hantei Dave: Kesh: there is an Isawa mon on top of the drape on the carriage

Hantei Dave: The Shiba samurai remain regimental

Keshijo: Maybe Isawa Tadaka is here.. :-)

Hantei Dave: in their gold and shiny red armor

Hantei Dave: the captain walks to the drape, and stands next to it

Hantei Dave: a female hand gently puches the drape to the side and he assists her out.

Keshijo: I pay attention...

Hantei Dave: You have seen her b4. It is Isawa Kaeda. Mistriss of the Void.

 

 

 

 

Hantei Dave: She has a smiley on her face

Hantei Dave: smile even

Hantei Dave: :-)

Keshijo: bow.

Suzume Sousha: bow low

Hantei Dave: The villigers look on eagerly

Suzume Sousha: and I smile back :-D

Togashi Udon: (whisper) Kuno, just do it. Its for her not you. <BOW>

KibagamiKuno: <pause or a moment>

Hantei Dave: She walks over to Sousha, Keshijo, and Oku

KibagamiKuno: <bow>

Hantei Dave: and Kuno too I guess

Hantei Dave: hehe

Keshijo: Err... Shinjoten... :-)

KibagamiKuno: (awkwardly)

Hantei Dave: yeah. Shinjoten

Hantei Dave: She says, "Captain, can you please assure me some privacy. Arigato." She bows to you all

Hantei Dave: She waits to be let in to the restaurant

Togashi Udon: Move aside

Hantei Dave: with less subtle eye movements

KibagamiKuno: (is anyone other than us inside the restaurant?)

Keshijo: I move..

Hantei Dave: She walks in carefully

Hantei Dave: Kuno: waitresses

KibagamiKuno: glare at them and see if they take a cue.

Hida Oku: to the waitress.... "you may leave us"

Hantei Dave: "But how will I order tea then?"

Hantei Dave: Kaeda says

KibagamiKuno: I go looking for tea.

Hida Oku: you asked for privacy, my lady

Hantei Dave: Kuno walks off

Hida Oku: <bow>

KibagamiKuno: any tea around? tea cups?

Keshijo: Being a ronin, I start to leave as well...

Hantei Dave: Kuno walks into the kitchen for materials

Hantei Dave: Keshijo: a large Imperial samurai stands in your way

Keshijo: I guess I don't leave.

Togashi Udon: I'll gather Shinjoten.

KibagamiKuno: "Her lady has requested tea, have you seen any?"

Hantei Dave: he says, "I am Seppun Bake. The Lady Isawa Kaeda would have words with you."

KibagamiKuno: Hai, Words. And tea.

Hantei Dave: he leans into Shinjoten

Hida Oku: hard to disagree with that

Hantei Dave: "She knows you" he whispers

Togashi Udon: Come on, Shinjoten, it is not often you are granted so great an audiance.

Keshijo: I bow. "Yes honorable sir. I assumed a ronin would have no place here."

KibagamiKuno: I return.

Keshijo: (I type too slow)

Hantei Dave: Kuno gets tea and cups and a serving tray

Keshijo: I go back.

KibagamiKuno: "Tea, sama?"

Hantei Dave: Kaeda kneels down at the table

Hantei Dave: and sits quietly

Togashi Udon: Most honorable Mistress, your presence here gives us comfort. What may we do for you?

Hantei Dave: Two Pheonix samurai come in and guard the door

KibagamiKuno: (i'll awkwardly be transgender here and try pouring tea properly)

Togashi Udon: (Motions for us all to sit)

Hida Oku: Thank you, kuno

Suzume Sousha: I sit then

Hantei Dave: "Talk a bit" she says. "I felt you were looking for answers when I reached into the void."

KibagamiKuno: Udon-san?

Hantei Dave: sousha: roll WILL test...add diplomacy if you have it

Keshijo: I sit.

Togashi Udon: Hai, Kuno-san?

Hantei Dave: Kuno serves everyone

KibagamiKuno: I think your wish has been granted.

Hantei Dave: awkwardly

Hantei Dave: actually...Udon wants to perform no?

KibagamiKuno: (he can, if he likes)

Suzume Sousha: 13 I htink

Keshijo: (oh no)

Togashi Udon: Tea Ceremony? ok, if Kuno doesn't mind...

Hantei Dave: Rishard: WILL+DIPLOMACY+3d6

Suzume Sousha: yeah that looks about right

KibagamiKuno: I present the tray to udon rather than pouring, then sit.

Suzume Sousha: no diplomacy for me

Hantei Dave: no diplomacy? then bushido at -2

KibagamiKuno: "Sama, i have a question..."

Hantei Dave: Udon: make your roll for tea ceremony

Hantei Dave: She lifts a finger while Udon performs

Togashi Udon: Kaeda-sama, Ise Zumi are not known for their skill in this, but it would be an honor to bumble through it for you.

Hantei Dave: She smiles and nods

Togashi Udon: The last person I did this for was Yokuni-sama.

Togashi Udon: 18

Hantei Dave: "Then it is an even greater honor to follow his Lord Dragon."

Hantei Dave: Udon begins the tea ceremony at a normal pace

Hantei Dave: Sousha controls his animal urges the entire time

Hantei Dave: for, she too, is quite lovely

Suzume Sousha: perhaps some drool coming out occasionally but thats it.

Hantei Dave: She sips her tea. The Emperial Guard, Seppun Bake, and the 2 Pheonix stand quietly by,

Hantei Dave: she says, "Now Kuno san. What was on your mind?"

KibagamiKuno: The lion only teach that honor is a path of rigid rules. What is honor when the rules are gone?

Hantei Dave: She giggles a bit. "I am no oracle Kuno-san."

Togashi Udon: Honor is what is beyond the rules, brother.

KibagamiKuno: "Hai, but you have seen more than most."

Hantei Dave: "Hai. I have seen much that eventually attains the void."

Hantei Dave: "You should listen to Udon-san for advise in such matters"

KibagamiKuno: "Then i will take that advice, even if Udon-san does suggest another mountain <wink>"

Hantei Dave: what is Oku and Keshijo doing?

Togashi Udon: This time we wont split up.

Keshijo: Sitting back and watching...

Hantei Dave: She smiles and sips her tea.

Hantei Dave: "I understand..."

Hantei Dave: "that you are looking for my brother, Tadaka."

Hida Oku: just listnening

Keshijo: I look up at that.

KibagamiKuno: "Hai, we are on our way to see him"

Keshijo: "Yes milady."

Keshijo: "We are"

Hantei Dave: "Of what recourse may I ask?"

KibagamiKuno: "It was suggested by Yokuni-sama that we discuss with him the nature of these prophecies,

KibagamiKuno: that perhaps he might shed additional light on the mystery"

Keshijo: "We believe he has a great role to play in them"

Hantei Dave: "I am afraid I lied. I did not know you were searching for him but realized you were not searching for me and sensed the desire to reach the Masters (Elemental)"

Togashi Udon: "I fear I may have been looking for you. I think. Maybe. A little."

KibagamiKuno: "Yes, there is much we do not understand about our fate and how it is linked to that of the empire"

Hantei Dave: "How so Udon-san?"

Suzume Sousha: (was she married. . . I can't remember)

Hantei Dave: Sousha: you wouldn't know.

Togashi Udon: "I have a couple of questions."

Togashi Udon: "if you dont mind."

Hantei Dave: "Hai"

KibagamiKuno: dave - i might know something of it...

Keshijo: (I think she was engaged to Toturi, as I recall from intro at the coup)

KibagamiKuno: (yup)

Hantei Dave: roll gen knowledge Kuno...-2...everyone else -4

Hantei Dave: oh ok...you do know then

Hantei Dave: ^_-

Hida Oku: 5

Hantei Dave: Sousha: she is engaged to Toturi...well, was

Suzume Sousha: 13

KibagamiKuno: 17

Togashi Udon: "One of our number maybe in daner, and though our path leads to your brother, I cannot go on in good concience

Hantei Dave: don't bother...i must have said it in a game

Togashi Udon: danger

KibagamiKuno: (yes, if she was in a diner, we wouldn't be so worried)

Togashi Udon: without trying to find her or save her. I gave a vow to the Bearers (shut up kuno)

Hantei Dave: "Very admirable of you I would say."

Togashi Udon: of protections that extends to her. i am at a crossroads

Togashi Udon: yet again.

Hantei Dave: she blinks a few times.

Hantei Dave: ...awkward silence....

Hantei Dave: "I ....

Hantei Dave: "I am not sure of what you are asking Udon-san."

Togashi Udon: "Neither do I, sometimes...hehe...(studder)

Hantei Dave: She looks down at her tea.

Hantei Dave: and takes a sip

Togashi Udon: Uhm, howcouldwemaybelocateher?

Hantei Dave: Seppun Bake: "Ummm. Do you have a lead?"

Togashi Udon: (Looks at party)

KibagamiKuno: "(sad) hai... shinjoten?"

Hantei Dave: "I will place lookout for her in the area if you wish."

Keshijo: "There is the small matter...

Keshijo: "of the the...

Hantei Dave: "..."

Keshijo: "finger..."

Hantei Dave: Bake looks at you oddly

Togashi Udon: Udon lifts it out of his pocket

Keshijo: And the peasent...

KibagamiKuno: "we received a message earlier... loud and clear."

Togashi Udon: wrapped in napkin

Hantei Dave: Kaeda lifts her fan to her face

Hantei Dave: She gasps a bit

Hantei Dave: before you open it

Togashi Udon: "Sorry, Sama"

Hantei Dave: "That is....suprising."

Hantei Dave: she says

Hantei Dave: Bake offers to take the napkin

Togashi Udon: Domo

Keshijo: My apologies.

Hantei Dave: She says, "You walk a dark path...like that of my brother."

Togashi Udon: There is light at the end of the tunnel.

Keshijo: "It is after the darkness that the light is most appreciated."

Keshijo: "These trials serve to strength us all, and the Empire."

KibagamiKuno: "Do you see him walking it with us?"

Hantei Dave: She smiles as the lights in the room flicker on by themselves.

Suzume Sousha: lights???

Hantei Dave: candles and lanterns

Suzume Sousha: (ahhh ok)

Suzume Sousha: (actually thats even more spookier)

Hantei Dave: "Him? Tadaka, Kuno-san?"

Keshijo: (I didn't do it)

Suzume Sousha: Did you do that miss?

KibagamiKuno: "Hai, sama."

Hantei Dave: She looks at Sousha from behind her fan but doesn't answer

Hantei Dave: "Tadaka is a busy man...but good. He means only the best and underneath, he is in pain."

Hantei Dave: "Much like you."

KibagamiKuno: "What does he seek for redemption from that pain?"

Hantei Dave: "He is consumed with missions and feels...like he cannot rest until finished."

Togashi Udon: I think we all can understand that, sama.

Keshijo: "What kind of missions?"

Hantei Dave: "He has searched his whole life for...The First..." As she says it, her eyes widen and the lights dim for a moment

KibagamiKuno: (holy wind here, thunder there, he's been the rolling boulder three times this week...)

Hantei Dave: roll lore all

Hantei Dave: 20 passes

KibagamiKuno: bleh. 14.

Keshijo: 21

Togashi Udon: 20

Suzume Sousha: 21

KibagamiKuno: heh. i'm in the dark, swell

KibagamiKuno: you all got lanterns, and i'm here under the candle that flickered out

Hantei Dave: (ehhehe)

Keshijo: "Why would he seek that of all things?"

Hantei Dave: (where;s your sword skills now kuno?)

Keshijo: "To destroy it?"

KibagamiKuno: (useless in these matters)

Keshijo: "Some things are best left to the Kamis."

Hantei Dave: "yes...to destroy it. It has consumed our families history and now he seeks an end."

Keshijo: "A noble cause. Perhaps I could aid him

Keshijo: when these current matters are finished."

Hantei Dave: "It takes his life more each year...He does not need help. He needs to let go of that memory."

Hantei Dave: "Why do you seek him?"

Togashi Udon: "We must remind him who he is."

Keshijo: "The Oni? They are my family's enemy."

Hantei Dave: She looks at Oku...oddly quiet.

KibagamiKuno: Sama - i have another question...

Hantei Dave: "Hai Kuno-san"

KibagamiKuno: please tell me if it offends and i will ask no more of it. You know my history and origins, and you know the dark path we walk; what of Toturi?

Hida Oku: anyone? beuler?

Hantei Dave: Her eyes drop a moment

KibagamiKuno: "I am sorry, please forget i asked."

Hantei Dave: "He has chosen his path long ago I believe."

Hantei Dave: "A great man...perhaps not as great as many would belive."

Keshijo: "We all have flaws. It is what makes us human."

Hantei Dave: She turns to Oku again and makes a confused face behind her fan

Keshijo: "Toturi will redeem himself, I am sure."

KibagamiKuno: "Has he a role left to play in this?"

Keshijo: "He also has a role in all of this."

Hantei Dave: She turns back to Kuno and bows a bit

Hantei Dave: I mean Keshijo

Hantei Dave: I mean..Shinjoten

Hantei Dave: whew

Suzume Sousha: shinjoten

Suzume Sousha: :-)

KibagamiKuno: shinjijo.

Keshijo: (I should change my name again next week...)

KibagamiKuno: (shinjojo?)

Hida Oku: I am so confused.... why have you come to see us?

Togashi Udon: (mojoshinjojo?!?!)

Hantei Dave: She looks at Oku again a bit distressed.

Keshijo: I look at Oku.

Hantei Dave: I think I should leave now.

Hantei Dave: ""

Keshijo: I bow

Keshijo: "It has been an honor, milady."

Suzume Sousha: bow low

Hida Oku: Please, lady... explain to me... I am only a simple crab

Keshijo: "With you permission, we hope to seek your brother?"

Keshijo: err... your...

Hantei Dave: She stands from the table and Seppun Bake, and older man with the start of a greying thick moustache helps her

Hantei Dave: She looks at Oku and says,

Hida Oku: we must see your brother

Hantei Dave: "Be careful of my brother Oku-san. He is very powerful and you seem to be hiding something..." She turns towards the door

KibagamiKuno: <stand, bow a little better this time>

Hantei Dave: She relizews she forgot to bow

Hantei Dave: and turns to do so before leaving

Togashi Udon: "To some crabs a shell is protection, to others it is a cell, honorable mistress. Thank you for your time." (bow)

KibagamiKuno: (much better time in the restaurant than pissing off the guards)

Hantei Dave: Seppun Bake "I will look into Habikki's matter."

Hida Oku: <bow low>

Hantei Dave: (I agree)

Keshijo: "Thank you, honorable sir." bow.

Hantei Dave: Bake: "Send message to me where I can tell you of progress."

KibagamiKuno: "domo"

Hantei Dave: He bows formally low and leaves

Hantei Dave: the drums begin again

Hantei Dave: Sousha goes to the little samurai needs a power cable for laptop room

Hantei Dave: A waitress returns and warely collects the teac cups

Togashi Udon: "Now we may go, Kuno-san."

KibagamiKuno: "I'm glad we waited for that... heh."

Keshijo: Off to see the wizard...

Hantei Dave: which wizard?

Keshijo: (ducks slap from Dave)

KibagamiKuno: order of the phoenix.

Keshijo: Yes

Hantei Dave: Sleep tonight?

Keshijo: Yes.

Hantei Dave: No Kachiko?

Hida Oku: make a painting

Hantei Dave: you need rooms

KibagamiKuno: what, in this town?

Togashi Udon: And Kuno, I am Nebiki has rubbed off on you. But even she realizes that silly ceremonies still serve their purpose.

Togashi Udon: i am glad Nebiki--imean

KibagamiKuno: which is what? to mock people with false ceremony?

Keshijo: "They put people at ease...

Keshijo: "surround them with the familiar."

Togashi Udon: it is not mocking if you do it out of respect.

Hantei Dave: do you people have money?

Hantei Dave: (most are running low)

Togashi Udon: is the pesent mocking you when he bows?

KibagamiKuno: It is quite paradoxical to think that the people worthy of respect would need it through ceremony.

Togashi Udon: of course, what else would ceremony be for!

KibagamiKuno: They should already know they have respect.

Suzume Sousha: I think I do though I don't know how much

KibagamiKuno: But if they require it to keep up pretenses, then so be it.

Keshijo: That is a good way to see it Kuno.

Hantei Dave: it is still quiet in this restaurant

Keshijo: Comfort is hard to come by.

Hantei Dave: only one waitress

Hantei Dave: and gotten dark out

Togashi Udon: Kuno, ceremony is nothing more then easing insecurities. I am glad you are a secure Samurai, but the rest of the Empire is not as advanced as you.

KibagamiKuno: If i have learned anything in these past few months, tho, it is that our own honor has nothing to do with our past, with ceremony, or with our rank. It is only our actions from now into the future.

Suzume Sousha: I will treat you all to food if you are hungry.

Togashi Udon: Well, I am glad you learned something.

Togashi Udon: Stubborn Lion (wink)

Hantei Dave: sousha: you ate...sleep now ^_-

KibagamiKuno: Feh. I am no more secure than the next samurai, and probably worthy of less, but for the sake of your comfort, and that of those we meet, i'll keep up the ceremony.

Suzume Sousha: ok

Keshijo: I go for a walk.

KibagamiKuno: (ok, good, got that out of the way, now i can go be an honorless but respectful samurai heh)

Togashi Udon: Well, in that case Kuno, for the sake of my comfort, will you also make my bed? And rub my back?

Hantei Dave: ok keshijo

KibagamiKuno: Ecchi.

Hantei Dave: Udon ^_^

Togashi Udon: hehehe, try not to go over board Kuno, you'll lose yourself.

KibagamiKuno: (actually, it's one skill i probably should have learned - samurai are supposed to know shiatsu, it's origin is actually from samurai)

KibagamiKuno: I go practice on Udon.

Hantei Dave: you know...enough to pass you as a physical therapist Kuno

Togashi Udon: OUCH!

Hantei Dave: a not so great one

KibagamiKuno: -2

KibagamiKuno: :-)

KibagamiKuno: heh, i try to remember all those shiatsuey things they taught me in school.

Togashi Udon: If you break my back I will fart in your general direction!

KibagamiKuno: You'll have to teach me the pressure points for that one, monk.

Togashi Udon: hehehe

Hantei Dave: (teach him Bladder Point 1)

Suzume Sousha: :-)

KibagamiKuno: hmm, udon, is it HERE?

KibagamiKuno: nope, well how about... heheh

Togashi Udon: So, we goin or what? OUCH__NO!

KibagamiKuno: no, we're sleeping heh

Hantei Dave: sorry if i am quiet all...some private conversations here

KibagamiKuno: ok, we'll go have some too

Hantei Dave: just keep fighting like little geishas

Togashi Udon: fighting little geishas---where?!?!

KibagamiKuno: Heh, would you know what to do with one if i caught her for you, Udon? Bladder Point 1 won't go over well...

Togashi Udon: I don't know. I havent kissed a girl since Jikata

KibagamiKuno: (have you told us that story yet?)

Togashi Udon has left the room.

KibagamiKuno: DOH!

Hantei Dave: hehe

Hantei Dave: he passed out

KibagamiKuno: my victim, err, patient left

Hantei Dave: SOusha is here

Suzume Sousha: yey

Suzume Sousha: er . . . nay!

Suzume Sousha: :-)

KibagamiKuno: Hmm, is it raining out?

Hantei Dave: no...clear...dark night

Hantei Dave: small moon

Hantei Dave: 5 minutes people...gotta finish up here

KibagamiKuno: k

Togashi Udon has entered the room.

KibagamiKuno: Sousha - want to feel better? I know some shiatsu...

Suzume Sousha: yey

Togashi Udon: sorry crashed hard

Suzume Sousha: your lab rat has returned

KibagamiKuno: Aha, he's back - lay down.

Togashi Udon: anyway that night udon told the story of the bodhi tree

Hantei Dave: still that night ^_-

Togashi Udon: ok, Udon tells Kuno & who ever is there about Jikata.

Suzume Sousha: so . . . yeah

Togashi Udon: so...whats up? everyone but the 2 tainted ones dead?

Suzume Sousha: I was waiting to hear that story. :-)

Togashi Udon: :-)

Hantei Dave: sorry skip...some privates ^_-

Togashi Udon: Well, if everyone is content on story time, Udon will tell his "Lava" story.

Hantei Dave: ^_^

Hantei Dave: please email josh and rishard skip ^_-

Hantei Dave: oku and keshijo are missing

Togashi Udon: I dont have it here, sorry :-(

Togashi Udon: we'll post it later

Togashi Udon: essentially it is a tale of a lesson about trust and teamwork.

Suzume Sousha: I think we all trust each other asnd have good teamwork

Suzume Sousha: therefore it could be a story about sus

KibagamiKuno: now that we've heard the lava story.

Hantei Dave: almost done hee

Hantei Dave: here

Togashi Udon: It is a tale written for us. I thought it would be nice (as a player) to build upon why Udon was chosen to carry a tanto... so it is another peice of the puzzle

KibagamiKuno: don't keep giving us pieces of the puzzle, BE the puzzle.

KibagamiKuno: "zzzzz"

Hantei Dave: OK...next day

Togashi Udon: HUZZAH!

KibagamiKuno: [STRETCH]

Togashi Udon: Udon shows Kuno the 5 stances of Niten.

Suzume Sousha: lets eat :-P

Hantei Dave: you all eat and move on

KibagamiKuno: Kuno spends each rest stop tinkering with the stances, trying to figure out how to fight from them.

Hantei Dave: ^_-

KibagamiKuno: He asks udon lots of "something like this maybe?"

Togashi Udon: First, you'll have to correct me a bit

Togashi Udon: yeah, like that

Hantei Dave: where are you all going today? north?

KibagamiKuno: hmm, it is hard to think of the swords as moving separately, when in the past my hands move with one mind.

Togashi Udon: Mirumoto said, "A Samurai's duty is to protect his lord. Can you not see that two swords is better then one?"

Suzume Sousha: Inless other people think otherwise why not just continue on our path

KibagamiKuno: continue on the yellow brick road to the wiz.

Keshijo: "Why use swords? There are other ways."

Hantei Dave: that would be the palace Kuno ^_-

Togashi Udon: I maybe better help with the philosphy perhaps.

KibagamiKuno: I keep playing with it.

Hantei Dave: ok

Hantei Dave: so...you continue north until someone says otherwise...into and beyond the Emporer's city

KibagamiKuno: (whew)

Togashi Udon: ugh

Hantei Dave: k

Hantei Dave: you all walk for a few days without much trouble (dave skips ahead)

KibagamiKuno: (yay skipping ahead and not playing out the entire trek! ;-) )

Suzume Sousha: :-)

Hantei Dave: hehehe

KibagamiKuno: i keep practicing these stances and the shiatsu. I'll also try applying the stances to single sword combat.

Hida Oku: hey, everyone!

Hantei Dave: dave goes to check map

KibagamiKuno: A log pop's into an oku.

Hida Oku: (Oku comes back)

Hida Oku: <he needs a nap>

Hantei Dave: hehehe

Hida Oku: Where in the hells are you leading me now?

Hantei Dave: did people want to do things while journeying

Hantei Dave: ?

Keshijo: I keep practice with my naginata along the way.

Hida Oku: practince CLIMBING!

Keshijo: er practicing...

Suzume Sousha: defintiely sword practice

Togashi Udon: the usual routine

Togashi Udon: practice, pray, tend to the bodhi

Hantei Dave: k

Hantei Dave: Kuno: passing Akodo Castle

KibagamiKuno: I practice sword fighting with anyone who wants practice...

KibagamiKuno: umm,

Hantei Dave: ex-Akodo...Matsu control now

KibagamiKuno: except near there.

KibagamiKuno: I'll be rather low key at that part of the trip.

Suzume Sousha: why is that?

Togashi Udon: that is his old families castle, sousha

Suzume Sousha: hmmmm

Togashi Udon: so...

Hantei Dave: you all also pass the Emerald Champion's castle...although no Emerald Champion resides anymore

Hantei Dave: under Doji control

Hantei Dave: now

KibagamiKuno: (anyone want to practice sword fighting?)

Togashi Udon: (got us kicked outta there)

Keshijo: Sure.

Hantei Dave: yep

Togashi Udon: (check)

Hantei Dave: bad memories there too ^_-

Suzume Sousha: I would

KibagamiKuno: yay - two practice partners.

Hantei Dave: uh oh

Hida Oku: I'll practice, too

Hantei Dave: Kuno: do you still have a wooden sword? lol

Keshijo: I have 2.

Hida Oku: I'll practice with hand-to-hand

Togashi Udon: i'm up for that oku

Hida Oku: or, hand-to-sword, in this case

Togashi Udon: oh...you need a sword?

Hida Oku: nope

Hantei Dave: The Crab and the Bear

Hida Oku: but I want to fight someone with armor

KibagamiKuno: no, no wooden swords, haven't found good enough wood.

Hida Oku: using only my hands

Hantei Dave: ok...wanna roll out a duel now?

Togashi Udon: and i wanna fight someone good, but we all cant have what we want. ;-)

Suzume Sousha: bamboo

Hida Oku: fool! Let's fight!

Hantei Dave: one sec one sec

Keshijo: You both want to fight me?

Hantei Dave: Kuno vs who?

Hantei Dave: Keshijo AND Sousha?

Suzume Sousha: ooh

KibagamiKuno: shrug, ok

Suzume Sousha: that would be cool

Hantei Dave: if you want you can do that

Keshijo: 2 on 1 has no honor.

Hida Oku: udon vs oku

Hantei Dave: it is just a game Keshijo ^_-

Keshijo: I will sit out and watch.

KibagamiKuno: This isn't a battle, it's practice.

Hantei Dave: ok..Kuno vs. SOusha

Hantei Dave: take your positions

Hantei Dave: Sousha: he is using a sword..real one

Suzume Sousha: doh

KibagamiKuno: you should use a real sword.

Hantei Dave: make your void rolls you 2

KibagamiKuno: just don't cut hard.

KibagamiKuno: 32

Suzume Sousha: u could keep it sheethed

KibagamiKuno: The qualities of a blade are important in a fight

Suzume Sousha: how do I do that void thing again?

Hantei Dave: VOID+PERCEPTION+3d6

Suzume Sousha: oh ok.

Suzume Sousha: 22

Hantei Dave: Sousha: tell Kuno your stats in private

Togashi Udon: Well, Crab, we gonna tango or are you gonna jump around?

Keshijo: I watch the competitions.

Hantei Dave: Sousha: you couldn't determin his stats

Hantei Dave: roll initiatives

Hantei Dave: INIT+WIND rishard

Hida Oku: let's do this

Hantei Dave: one sec oku and Udon

Togashi Udon: k

Hida Oku: ok

Hantei Dave: rol Kuno and Sousha

Hantei Dave: inits+wind

Suzume Sousha: 29

Hantei Dave: ...

Hantei Dave: + combat sense if you have it sousha

KibagamiKuno: 35

Hantei Dave: (okuden)

KibagamiKuno: (FYI - dave - i'm pulling the cuts)

Hantei Dave: k

Hantei Dave: ok....Kuno goes first I assume

Hantei Dave: Sousha declares

Hantei Dave: strait attack sousha?

Suzume Sousha: dodge then attack. Can I declare that

Hantei Dave: so no attack at all?

Hantei Dave: you can't win then

Hantei Dave: he goes first regardless

Suzume Sousha: very well I will attack him straight out.

Hantei Dave: ok..kuno attacks

KibagamiKuno: (and you'll have to dodge that attack, regardless)

Hantei Dave: roll kuno

Hantei Dave: roll dodge Sousha + WATER

KibagamiKuno: 38 to attack

Suzume Sousha: 24

Hantei Dave: Kuno's sword rings against Sousha's but he oddly managed to block it

Hantei Dave: SOusha attacks

Hantei Dave: roll attack + fire sousha

Hantei Dave: Kuno must roll dodge

Suzume Sousha: 25

KibagamiKuno: 30.

Hantei Dave: Sousha. You missed. Tie

Suzume Sousha: (this is commical)

Hantei Dave: bow to each other as equals

KibagamiKuno: <bow>

Suzume Sousha: bow low

Togashi Udon: (not from where we are standing)

Hantei Dave: ^_^

Hantei Dave: k

Hantei Dave: wrestling?

Hantei Dave: UDON VS OKU

Togashi Udon: no, kung fu

Togashi Udon: vs.

Hida Oku: fight!

Suzume Sousha: everybody was kung-fu fighting.

Togashi Udon: weird crab style

Hantei Dave: oh..and btw, Sousha and Kuno noticed how rude Shinjoten was walking around your match

Hida Oku: no, that's with a tetsubo

Togashi Udon: oh, its on now BITCH!

Hida Oku: bring it, baldie

Hantei Dave: roll inits your 2

Keshijo: Rude>

Togashi Udon: 26

KibagamiKuno: "Sousha, would you show me your sword for a moment?"

Keshijo: I was keeping an eye out on everything?

Hida Oku: 26 also

Suzume Sousha: I pass my sword to kuno

Hantei Dave: uh oh

Hantei Dave: write to me in prive your actions

Keshijo: I have a bad feeling about this place.

Hantei Dave: and I'll decide the outcome!

Hantei Dave: hehehe

Hantei Dave: Udon goes to bitch slap Oku as Oku drops down low for a sweeper kick...

Hantei Dave: both roll your attacks now!

Hantei Dave: and dodges

Hida Oku: 27

Hida Oku: attack

Hida Oku: 23 dodge

Togashi Udon: 26 attack

Togashi Udon: 27 dodge

Hida Oku: Counterstrike!

Hida Oku: oops... only when you miss

Togashi Udon: counter counter strike strike!

Hantei Dave: Udon grabs Oku as he ducks....as Oku's leg passes short of Udon's

Hida Oku: I though the same roll hits

Hantei Dave: You are in a hold now Oku

Hantei Dave: oh yea

Hantei Dave: oops

Hida Oku: *thought

Hantei Dave: you both go down together as Udon falls!

Hida Oku: don't play me like that, sucka!

Hantei Dave: he takes Oku down

Togashi Udon: who's on top big boy?

Hida Oku: athletics roll?

Hantei Dave: sure...athletics for on top

Hantei Dave: then inits

Hantei Dave: again

Togashi Udon: dex, str?

Hida Oku: 23

Hantei Dave: athletics is dex

Togashi Udon: 20

Hantei Dave: Oku on top

Hantei Dave: roll initsa

Hida Oku: 25 init

Togashi Udon: 28

Hantei Dave: Oku declares

Hantei Dave: submission hold oku?

Hantei Dave: choke?

Hida Oku: hell yeah

Hantei Dave: the ol crab attack.....Udon goes

Hantei Dave: Keshijo watches

Togashi Udon: what is the WORST possible thing I could do???

Hantei Dave: Kuno looks at a sword

Hantei Dave: drink his blood

Togashi Udon: I kiss Oku.

Hantei Dave: lol

Hida Oku: AGH!

Hantei Dave: KISS ATTACK!

Hantei Dave: roll

Hida Oku: ACK ACK ACK ACK!

Hantei Dave: roll dodge oku

Togashi Udon: 27attack

KibagamiKuno: O_o

Hida Oku: 28

Hida Oku: hahaha!

Suzume Sousha: :[_

Hida Oku: counterstrike

Hantei Dave: His lips are getting close Oku

Suzume Sousha: :-)

Hida Oku: !!!

Hantei Dave: counterstrikes for swords Oku

Hida Oku: smack his face

KibagamiKuno: smack attack?

Hida Oku: damn

Hantei Dave: just choke him

Hida Oku: ok

Suzume Sousha: this has a ranma feel to it

Keshijo: Hehe.

Hida Oku: 26

Hantei Dave: throw water on them ^_-

Hantei Dave: dodge Udon

Togashi Udon: 27

Suzume Sousha: (Anything goes Martial arts final attack!)

Hantei Dave: Oku: you sure you don't wanna give up? the stakes are high now

Hantei Dave: ROll inits again!!!

Togashi Udon: 22

KibagamiKuno: sword battles are so much faster.

Hantei Dave: Kuno: but this is more fun ^_-

KibagamiKuno: one two and that's it. All this tangling, and kissing... how drawn out...

Hida Oku: damn, 17

Hantei Dave: Oku declares

Hida Oku: fast jump retreat!

Hantei Dave: you heard Kuno's remark Udon

Hantei Dave: Udon goes

Togashi Udon: (Kuno is thinking of challenging Nebiki to a kung fu fight)

Hantei Dave: heheh

Hantei Dave: every night ^_-

KibagamiKuno: (heh - if it's anything like this? maybe...)

Hantei Dave: Udon attacks

Togashi Udon: submission hold

KibagamiKuno: But i'm definitely saving this story for her.

Togashi Udon: 25

Hantei Dave: roll dodge Oku +2

Hida Oku: 30

Hantei Dave: damn...this could go on a bit ^_-

Togashi Udon: Slippery one!

Hantei Dave: time for the sword Kuno

KibagamiKuno: heh

KibagamiKuno: what ever will i practice my breaking technique on?

Hantei Dave: well...the game turns into more of a tag game after this

Hantei Dave: Udon chases Oku

Togashi Udon: a draw crab? or shall we continue?

Hantei Dave: Oku escapes the kiss of death

Hida Oku: ack ack!

Hida Oku: don't touch me, charleton!

Hantei Dave: and everyone has a relaxing laugh

Togashi Udon: smoochieboochies!

KibagamiKuno: feh, kids ;-)

Hantei Dave: finally Oku jumps up the northbound hills

Hantei Dave: away from the madness

Togashi Udon: does my breath smell?

KibagamiKuno: i wonder if this was in the prophecy, or if the oracles are busy hemmoraging back in front of their crystal balls

Hantei Dave: the setting sun begins creating a red glow over Yama no Kuyami (Mountains of Regret)

KibagamiKuno: We should find a place to rest for the night

Togashi Udon: hai

Hantei Dave: everyone roll perceptions (hearing)

KibagamiKuno: 24 (feh)

Togashi Udon: 23

Keshijo: 21

Suzume Sousha: 19

Keshijo: Do I smell anything?

Hantei Dave: you all make it

Hida Oku: 30

Hida Oku: (18, baby!)

Hantei Dave: the yells of men or monsters echos through the walls

Hantei Dave: as the sun finally rests

Togashi Udon: uh, oh

Hida Oku: Not human.... be alert

Hantei Dave: you quickly find a place along the road

Togashi Udon: that is not good

Keshijo: I sniff.

Keshijo: ANy excited blood?

Hantei Dave: keshijo: only your own and those around you

Hantei Dave: it will only work nearby

Hantei Dave: very nearby

Hantei Dave: the yells start up again and again as it gets darker sometimes a pause for nearly an hour

Togashi Udon: we should check it out, huh?

Hida Oku: yes!

Hida Oku: let's go!

KibagamiKuno: what do you mean yells - are they like howls and shouts? Or is it a battle?

Hida Oku: inhuman yells, kuno

Hida Oku: some oni, or something

Hantei Dave: not like a battle...because they come from different places around you

Hantei Dave: howls and shouts

Hantei Dave: and grunts

Togashi Udon: (Like Blair Witch?)

Suzume Sousha: are we in an open field, or are there trees?

KibagamiKuno: follow the river. No, the R-I-V-E-R.

Hantei Dave: never saw blair witch....rocky...but many trees too

Hantei Dave: on the side of a road

Hantei Dave: not a field

Togashi Udon: Lets go check it out!

Suzume Sousha: Can I climb a tree to see if I see anything.

Hantei Dave: Sousha: climb roll

Hantei Dave: anyone else wanna do something? it is dark now I'll add

KibagamiKuno: start a fire?

Hida Oku: where are the screams coming from?

Suzume Sousha: I don't think I have climb

Suzume Sousha: I rolled a 9.

Togashi Udon: I would like to try to see anything in the distance

Hantei Dave: nope sousha: the tree defeated you

KibagamiKuno: i know i don't have see in the dark...

Hantei Dave: rol perception Udon...hard roll

Hantei Dave: almost no moon tonight

Togashi Udon: 21

Hantei Dave: you don't see much

Hantei Dave: do you people have a fire going?

Hida Oku: FYI dave, I have "Blind fighting"

Hantei Dave: it might scare away the ...things

Hantei Dave: k oku

Hantei Dave: or attact them

Togashi Udon: prob

Suzume Sousha: and I have seeing with ears

Hantei Dave: k sousha

Suzume Sousha: and night vision

Hantei Dave: it will help you

Hantei Dave: k

KibagamiKuno: i started the fire

Hantei Dave: ok Kuno

Hantei Dave: you all huddle around like it was before our gempukku trying to act tough

Togashi Udon: ...act?

Hantei Dave: heh

Hantei Dave: its easier to show off before hand

Hida Oku: bring it... I'm sure I've seen worse

KibagamiKuno: if nothing comes soon, we should split up the night watch to get some sleep

Hantei Dave: like Buddhas, Oku?

Togashi Udon: Maybe 2 of use should walk the perimiter, now futrher the 20 yards out

Hida Oku: nah... the things on the wall

Togashi Udon: just in case

Hantei Dave: what wall? ^_-

Togashi Udon: no further then--i mean

Hantei Dave: well...ANYONE sleeping?

Hantei Dave: ROWWWWWRRRRRRRR

Hida Oku: Feh... I need to

Hantei Dave: HOWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Hida Oku: rowr?

Hantei Dave: hehehe...sound effects

Keshijo: Can I see anything?

Togashi Udon: i guess only sousha can sleep ;-)

Hida Oku: yeah... I'll sleep.... Udon, wake me up if something happens

Keshijo: (I have night vision)

Hida Oku: heh.... actually this kind of reminds me of home

Hantei Dave: roll kesh

Hida Oku: back on the good ol' wall

Togashi Udon: get it? hes an insomniac... get it...

Hantei Dave: i got it i got it...sheesh...hehehe

Keshijo: 23

Suzume Sousha: ha ha.

Hantei Dave: roll sleep roll Sousha

Suzume Sousha: what was it again . .. will power?

Hantei Dave: you don't notice anything shinjoten

Hantei Dave: yeah

Hantei Dave: will

Suzume Sousha: 17

Hantei Dave: luckely you are tired

KibagamiKuno: i'll go to sleep, wake me if anyone gets eaten.

Hantei Dave: Sousha falls backwards

Hantei Dave: Udon awake?

Togashi Udon: Hey Oku, wake up...Shousha rolled sleep roll and went to sleep!

Togashi Udon: yup

Keshijo: Hehe.

Suzume Sousha: :-)

Suzume Sousha: (smiling in sleep)

Hida Oku: <daggers in eyes at Udon>

Hantei Dave: Udon: meditate will up?

Keshijo: Udon: Get some sleep. I'll take first watch.

Hantei Dave: while

Togashi Udon: 2 should stay up tonight Shinjoten

Hantei Dave: sousha: softest rock you have been on for awhile

Togashi Udon: i'll try to meditate

Keshijo: Okay.

Hantei Dave: Kesh: no water to purify

Hantei Dave: oh well

Keshijo: I study my scroll...

Hantei Dave: shinjoten concentrates

Hantei Dave: on a new shiney candy like scroll

Keshijo: But keep an eye out...

Keshijo: Or ear, anyway...

Hantei Dave: k...nothing this night

Hantei Dave: half i mean

Hantei Dave: no beasties

Togashi Udon: "Darkness-imprisoning me-all that i see-absolute horror-i cannot live- i cannot die-trapped in myself-body my holding cell!"

Keshijo: One?

Keshijo: The One?

Keshijo: The first Oni?

Togashi Udon: (sorry- metallica)

Hantei Dave: next watch?

Hida Oku: Neo?

KibagamiKuno: heh

Togashi Udon: seemed to fit

KibagamiKuno: next watch....

Togashi Udon: kuno, tag your it

Hantei Dave: skip: that'll be one of things 3 years down in the reread where you'll go...heheheh..Metallica ^_- LOL

Keshijo: Put away scroll.

KibagamiKuno: right, so nothing happens?

Hantei Dave: anyone else up?

Keshijo: I should sleep.

Hantei Dave: Kuno takes off his sandles and kneels down this night

Hantei Dave: ^_-

Hida Oku: zzzzzzzzzzzz

Hantei Dave: just Kuno then

KibagamiKuno: ok

Hantei Dave: roll perception Kuno

Hantei Dave: hearing

KibagamiKuno: 29

Hantei Dave: wow

Hantei Dave: you hear rocks moving...but far away yo uthink

Hantei Dave: doing anything?

KibagamiKuno: heh, i rolled well. far away and above us?

Hantei Dave: its all above you...too many echos here

KibagamiKuno: i concentrate on the vibrations of the earth.

Hantei Dave: k

Hantei Dave: in other words nothing

Hantei Dave: my snare didn't work....yet

Hantei Dave: nothing happened this night

KibagamiKuno: ok, we wake up then?

Hantei Dave: a sleepy 3-some continue on

Hantei Dave: and the 2 others ^_^

Hida Oku: zzzzzzzzz

Hantei Dave: hehehe

Togashi Udon: Grumpy & dopey?

Hantei Dave: someone kick sousha too

Hida Oku: zzzzzzz....cretins.....zzzzzzz

Togashi Udon: i'll kiss oku awake!

Hantei Dave: zzzzzzzzzz.....ninja-samurai-artists.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Hida Oku: uhh, huh? wha?

Hida Oku: AGH!

Keshijo: (Hippies.... Hippies everywhere....)

Hida Oku: GET OFF GET OFF!

Togashi Udon: HAHAHA!!!

Togashi Udon: I WIN!

Hantei Dave: Oku...morning breath...not your own ^_-

Keshijo: hehe.

Togashi Udon: I Win! One to NOTHIN!

Hida Oku: (blech, blech)

Hida Oku: (have toothbrushes been invented, yet?)

Hantei Dave: you continue on...it takes you 3 more days to walk this range (my snare fails each time)

Keshijo: Snare?

Hantei Dave: the path straitens at the ground level and splits north and south

Hantei Dave: south will take you the wrong way sooo....

Togashi Udon: west!

KibagamiKuno: north

Togashi Udon: oh

Keshijo: East!

KibagamiKuno: when you are drunk, you forget...

Hantei Dave: all those sounds from before are gone now

Hantei Dave: THAT WAY!

KibagamiKuno: (but we will forever be haunted by their echos)

Hantei Dave: it is a gray morning

Hantei Dave: on the 4th day in this range

Suzume Sousha: much like today

Hantei Dave: you are running low on supplies

Hantei Dave: and water is scarse

Keshijo: I forage...

KibagamiKuno: Hmm, we are running low on supplies, a town would be good...

Hantei Dave: do you have survival?

Hantei Dave: shinjoten?

Keshijo: Umm..

Hantei Dave: hehehe

Hantei Dave: not that other survual shinjoten

Hantei Dave: the normal variety

Togashi Udon: yes a town...without a bad buddha...

Keshijo: Umm...

Hantei Dave: hehehe

Keshijo: Traveling...

Keshijo: Tracking...

Keshijo: That other Survival...

Hantei Dave: you travel on dry mouthed

Hantei Dave: ^_-

Suzume Sousha: perhaps it can rain for us

Hantei Dave: the path opens up here and the gray stones become straiter

Hantei Dave: no rain

Hantei Dave: up ahead, the path turns almost 90 degrees

Hantei Dave: it is dead silent

Keshijo: I kill it anyway...

KibagamiKuno: (i saw a piece of a terrible movie where this ship crash landed and they had no water, so they just drank scotch instead... you can imagine how often they got jumped while drunk)

Hida Oku: canI scout ahead?

Hantei Dave: if the others agree

KibagamiKuno: very quiet here, eh?

Hantei Dave: or just go on

Hida Oku: ah... just go on, then

Keshijo: I smell

Hantei Dave: stealth roll Oku

Hida Oku: oh, ok

KibagamiKuno: sniff sniff

Hida Oku: 28

KibagamiKuno: 23

Hantei Dave: you all watch as Oku moves as silent as the wind to the near wall and steps along it

KibagamiKuno: and?

Togashi Udon: ...

Hantei Dave: youll see

Togashi Udon: (closes eyes)

Hantei Dave: he looks around the corner

Hantei Dave: kuno: nothing odd smells

Hantei Dave: quiet

Hantei Dave: Oku is still looking

Hantei Dave: he starts coming back

Hantei Dave: Oku returns

Hida Oku: ok people

Hida Oku: listen up

Hantei Dave: he whispers

Hida Oku: There's a man in red robes sitting cross legged and a path to him with hundreds of statues, and one large one behind him at the end

Hida Oku: just waiting, apparently

KibagamiKuno: <shrug> sounds ok...

Hantei Dave: says a confident kuno

KibagamiKuno: was he an ise zumi?

Hida Oku: i don't know

Hida Oku: I wasn't close enough

Togashi Udon: did he have tattoos?

Keshijo: I go take a look.

Keshijo: Stealthily

Hantei Dave: roll kesh

Hantei Dave: stealth roll

KibagamiKuno: did he notice you, oku?

Hantei Dave: or something else ^_-

Hida Oku: no

Hantei Dave: Kehsijo begins casting

KibagamiKuno: (brb - need to revive)

Hantei Dave: k josh

Hantei Dave: Keshijo begins an elabrate prayer

Togashi Udon: long spell...

Hantei Dave: he casts for a full minute

Hantei Dave: everyone roll perception...sight

Hantei Dave: not keshijo

Togashi Udon: 25

Hida Oku: 25

Hantei Dave: sousha?

Suzume Sousha: 21

Hantei Dave: k

KibagamiKuno: damn, 32. could have used that roll elsewhere

Hantei Dave: all of you witness Keshijo mist into nothing...except Kuno.

Hantei Dave: everyone else loses sight of Keshijo

Hantei Dave: completely

Keshijo: I sneak up the path.

Suzume Sousha: eep

Togashi Udon: (He's picking a wedgie)

Hantei Dave: Kesh: you get to the turn

Hantei Dave: want to do it here or in private?

Hantei Dave: do you mind if we do it here?

Keshijo: I"m going to tell them anyway..

Hantei Dave: good

Hantei Dave: walking out to the middle keshijo?

Hantei Dave: or sneaking still?

Keshijo: Keeping to the wall first.

Hantei Dave: you turn the corner with your head. As Oku said...

Hantei Dave: a man far down in red robes....

Hantei Dave: hundreds of statues line each side of the wide passage

Hantei Dave: and a large statue behind the man

Hantei Dave: you have limited time for this prayer Kesh

Keshijo: Facing towards me, inwards outwards?

Hantei Dave: 1 round is over

Hantei Dave: he faces strait down the corridor

Keshijo: I know. I get 9.

Hantei Dave: ok

Hantei Dave: if you run you can make it to him

Hantei Dave: by 8

Hantei Dave: no...9

Hantei Dave: and i mean fast

Hantei Dave: he is far

Keshijo: I quietly start rechanting the spell as I walk.

Hantei Dave: what is your run?

Keshijo: So it will reactivate when it should run out...

Hantei Dave: move i mean?

Keshijo: Move is 5

Hantei Dave: it takes time to recast I'll remind you

Hantei Dave: 5? you wouldn't make it anyway

Hantei Dave: in 9 rounds

KibagamiKuno: I hope we handle this as a team....

Hantei Dave: each staue stares at you as you go Keshijo

Hantei Dave: each a samurai

Keshijo: Actively stares?

Hantei Dave: seems to stare...do you want to take the time to check?

Keshijo: Hmm...

Keshijo: Yes.

Keshijo: Just a round though.

Hantei Dave: The one you picked is a stern faced samurai with empty eyes...he wears the Shiba mon. and stands on a pedistal..like all the others

Hantei Dave: it may be your imagination that he is staring at you

Hantei Dave: on the podium is the number 956

Hantei Dave: and the name

Hantei Dave: Shiba Yorimoni

Hantei Dave: end round

Togashi Udon: (whisper) guys if he is in trouble we'll never hear him cuz he cant shout louder then this...

Togashi Udon: member?

Togashi Udon: re

Suzume Sousha: (whisper) what do u propose?

Keshijo: And the sitting man is a shugenja?

Hantei Dave: that was round 3 kesh

Hantei Dave: to far to tell kesh. Can't see mons

Togashi Udon: lets walk up, we can be his diversion?

KibagamiKuno: Screw this, let's all of us go in there now, if they can't see Kesh, then he'll still have an element of surprise and we'll be a distraction

KibagamiKuno: yes, what udon said

Hantei Dave: you all run out?

Togashi Udon: :-)

Keshijo: I walk closer.

KibagamiKuno: We stride out around the corner.

Togashi Udon: no, walk.. stroll...

Togashi Udon: or stride

Keshijo: To the sitting man.

KibagamiKuno: or stroll

Hantei Dave: Kesh: walks 4th round...at the end the others stride to the center...the man stands up

Suzume Sousha: brisk walk?

Hantei Dave: want to recast yet kesh?

Togashi Udon: power walk?

Hantei Dave: you have many more rounds

KibagamiKuno: nope, draw them this way.

Hantei Dave: lets say 14 at this pace

Hantei Dave: you all see the hundreds of statues

Keshijo: Yeah. Restart so it ends at round 9.

Hantei Dave: ok....dif 20 then ^_^

Keshijo: 25

Hantei Dave: round 5...doing anything?

Keshijo: Walking closer.

Hantei Dave: anyone?

Hantei Dave: the man brushes himself off

Togashi Udon: stroll...stroll

Hantei Dave: Anyone else?

Hida Oku: I'll sneak around again

Hantei Dave: yells? anything

Hida Oku: to where I as before

Hantei Dave: too late oku...you are there

Hantei Dave: in the middle now

Hantei Dave: staring down this man

Hida Oku: when did happen?

Hida Oku: ah well

Hantei Dave: ummmm....asked and you all strolled

Keshijo: (doda doda do... wah wah wah...)

KibagamiKuno: "Ni Hao!"

Hantei Dave: Kuno's voice echos

Togashi Udon: Kuno's voice echos

Hantei Dave: lol

Suzume Sousha: :-)

Hantei Dave: the man bows

KibagamiKuno: <bow>

Suzume Sousha: bow

Togashi Udon: (bow)

Hantei Dave: coming up to 6th round

KibagamiKuno: "I am Kibagami Kuno..."

Keshijo: I start going back to the group.

Hantei Dave: k

Hantei Dave: where do you go kesh?

Hantei Dave: 6th round

KibagamiKuno: (do these statues have swords?)

Keshijo: To my friends.

Hantei Dave: The man waits in that spot

Togashi Udon: lets walk to him

Suzume Sousha: agreed

KibagamiKuno: yup, we keep walking, right past kesh, then let him fall in behind us.

Hantei Dave: Noone knows what you mean Kuno..but they know you can see him now ^_-

Keshijo: Yup.

KibagamiKuno: yup

Hantei Dave: hehehe

Hantei Dave: Kesh falls in behind you all

Hantei Dave: and suprises all but Kuno as he mists into existance

Keshijo: I drop the spell while behind the others.

Hantei Dave: shhhhhhhh

KibagamiKuno: ("who, him? He's been there all along, he was just, uh, ducking")

Hantei Dave: The man in red shifts when Kesh does that

Keshijo: "These statues are disturbing."

Hantei Dave: The statues stare at you all take a funeral? march

Togashi Udon: stroll stroll

Hantei Dave: the man yells

Hantei Dave: "I am shugenja of the Isawa! State your purpose!"

Hantei Dave: He holds up a hand

KibagamiKuno: "We are here to see Isawa Tadaka-sama, having just met with his sister, Isawa Kaede-sama"

Hantei Dave: "For what purpose?"

Hantei Dave: you are about half way there

Hantei Dave: each statue stares at you

Hantei Dave: and the large one behind him...he stands at the ankle

KibagamiKuno: "As bearers of the tantos, we come to speak to him about the fate of the kingdom"

Hantei Dave: "I am Isawa Nobimen! Student of the wind! Leave your tantos on the ground so I may have the Kami bring them to me as proof!"

Hantei Dave: anyone doing something?

KibagamiKuno: "Would it not be proof of deceit if the tanto bearers were to part with their tantos?"

Togashi Udon: (Looks at group) I dont want to do that...

Hida Oku: (nor do I)

Suzume Sousha: (I was about too)

Hida Oku: I'm already responsible for the loss of one tanta

Suzume Sousha: :-)

Hantei Dave: "Then leave one! I will accept that as proof enough!"

Hida Oku: *o

Hantei Dave: HALT!

Keshijo: "Kuno. Remind him it was the Emporer's decree we not part with them."

Keshijo: I stop.

Togashi Udon: stop

KibagamiKuno: "We are not permitted to part with them by decree of Hantei 38th, but"

Suzume Sousha: I stop with my brothers

KibagamiKuno: I hold my tanto up

KibagamiKuno: "I would gladly show it to you that you may know we speak the truth"

Hantei Dave: did you stop walking kuno?

Hantei Dave: and oku?

KibagamiKuno: yes

Keshijo: I hold mine up as well.

Hantei Dave: He shifts his raised hand

Hantei Dave: roll strength Kuno

Hida Oku: I do too

Hantei Dave: beat 20

Hantei Dave: ^_^

KibagamiKuno: 22

KibagamiKuno: 14+8

Hantei Dave: the wind attempts to pull the tanto from your hand Kuno

Hantei Dave: and almost does

Hantei Dave: your feet shift throough the lose ground

Hantei Dave: no one else though

KibagamiKuno: "Do you require more proof, Isawa Nobimen?"

Hantei Dave: He lifts his hand higher

Hantei Dave: roll again

Hantei Dave: damn 17

KibagamiKuno: 21

Hantei Dave: you hold tight

Keshijo: I put mine away...

Hantei Dave: as you are dragged slowly

Hantei Dave: anyone?

Hida Oku: just watching

KibagamiKuno: I put it away. "Enough, will you let us pass?"

Hida Oku: for now

Suzume Sousha: walking towards him

Hantei Dave: He says, "These are dark times! I guard this pass!!!"

Hantei Dave: He raises his other hand

Hantei Dave: all roll strength

Hantei Dave: crap...beat 16

KibagamiKuno: 24

Suzume Sousha: 17

Togashi Udon: 18

Suzume Sousha: even I beat it!

Suzume Sousha: :-)

Hantei Dave: the sind hits you all now

Hantei Dave: wind

Hida Oku: 19

Keshijo: Um... 14

Hantei Dave: you all struggle into the wind

Hantei Dave: except kesh....

Hantei Dave: hehehe

Hantei Dave: roll dex kesh

Keshijo: Bye guys...

KibagamiKuno: seeyah jojo

Hantei Dave: kesh slides back...on his ass if he fails

Hantei Dave: hehehe

Keshijo: Just dex?

Keshijo: You athletics?

Keshijo: Or Acrobatics?

Hantei Dave: athletics too

Hantei Dave: ^_^

Keshijo: 24

Hantei Dave: you surf backwards

Keshijo: With a flourish...

Hantei Dave: The shugenja digs his feet down

Keshijo: I make it look like I meant to ride the wind..

Hantei Dave: the next round

Togashi Udon: Nobimen, we only seek an audiance. Calm your winds. Please.

Hantei Dave: anyone doing anything else?

KibagamiKuno: getting pissed off.

Suzume Sousha: keep walking towards kuno

Hantei Dave: kuno: roll anger ^_-

Hantei Dave: Oku too

Hantei Dave: will test

Suzume Sousha: you wouldn't like him when he's angry

Togashi Udon: dave MU

Hida Oku: uh oh, 14

Hantei Dave: roll skip

Togashi Udon: 28

Hantei Dave: 26 against you skip...you won

KibagamiKuno: difficulty?

Togashi Udon: looking at him

Hida Oku: how am I doing?

Hantei Dave: The wind lightens a bit....Oku is angry and foaming

Hantei Dave: 18 dif. Kuno

Hida Oku: ENOUGH!

Togashi Udon: We are not your enemy in these dark times. We only wish peace and an audiance.

Hantei Dave: Kuno is angry too

Hida Oku: STOP IT NOW!

KibagamiKuno: lol, IM'd you my 17, guess that wasn't good.

Togashi Udon: dave can i use tatts while under MU?

Hantei Dave: yes Udon

Hida Oku: dave, will the wind take me to him?

Hantei Dave: roll str again all

Togashi Udon: may i?

Hantei Dave: no Oku ^_-

Hantei Dave: go Skip

KibagamiKuno: 20

Suzume Sousha: 16

Hantei Dave: you all walk easier now

Togashi Udon: 17

Hida Oku: 19

Hantei Dave: He puts his arms down

Togashi Udon: wasp, then dove on oku, then dove on kuno

Hantei Dave: ok Udon

Togashi Udon: 21wasp

Hantei Dave: k

Togashi Udon: 30dove oku

KibagamiKuno: hey, we were having a bonding experience - mutual pissed off mode... and youhad to go put out the fire, sheesh

Hantei Dave: Oku: roll will

Hida Oku: RRRAAOOOoooorrr.....

Hida Oku: hmm

Togashi Udon: 28dove kuno

Hantei Dave: sound effects ^_-

Hantei Dave: Kuno: roll will

KibagamiKuno: 13

Hida Oku: 13

Hida Oku: what was I yelling about?

KibagamiKuno: see? mutual

Togashi Udon: hehe

KibagamiKuno: it was just a little wind...

Hantei Dave: you 2 relax

Togashi Udon: release wasp, ready dove for wind-man

Hantei Dave: Udon: no more wind

Togashi Udon: :-)

Hantei Dave: you can all walk normally now

Keshijo: "Kuno: What's that?" I point to the thing in the sky.

KibagamiKuno: (look up)

Togashi Udon: (oh geez)

Hantei Dave: everyone roll hearing

Hantei Dave: kesh can only whisper and he is behind you all

Keshijo: 18

Hantei Dave: not you kesh!!!

Hantei Dave: heheh

KibagamiKuno: 29

Hida Oku: 23

Hantei Dave: Kuno: you heard keshijo

Hantei Dave: and oku

Keshijo: I knew Kuno would hear me...

Togashi Udon: ...what...12

Suzume Sousha: 22

Hantei Dave: and sousha

KibagamiKuno: right, so can i look up now?

Hantei Dave: you look up...something flying very fast....red

Hantei Dave: the shugenja sees you all doing that and looks back too

Hantei Dave: it is coming closer

Keshijo: I ready my Naginata.

Hantei Dave: anyone else?

Hantei Dave: it moves FAST!

KibagamiKuno: what do we know that flies and is red? Superman?

KibagamiKuno: Ah, Neo!

Suzume Sousha: watch and wait

KibagamiKuno: shit, that's black

Togashi Udon: what are you guys looking at???

Hantei Dave: black Kuno

Hantei Dave: It is getting closer...looks like a man (not superman)

KibagamiKuno: does shugenja seem surprised?

Hantei Dave: Kuno: no

KibagamiKuno: or concerned?

Hantei Dave: no

Hantei Dave: Udon? doing anything?

Togashi Udon: MU baby, so NOTHING

Hantei Dave: ehehhe...to what?

Hantei Dave: you need eye contact with entities

Hantei Dave: or at least close presense

Togashi Udon: the wind guy still

Hantei Dave: ok Udon

KibagamiKuno: i wait

Hantei Dave: Sousha?

Hantei Dave: Oku?

Hida Oku: move to near a statue

Suzume Sousha: wathcing and waiting

Hida Oku: something I can jump on

Hantei Dave: statues

Hantei Dave: and you can try to grab onto the walls from there

Hantei Dave: with another jump

Hida Oku: ok

Hantei Dave: roll then

Hantei Dave: jump

Hantei Dave: athletics

Hida Oku: 25

Hantei Dave: you are on a staues shoulders

Hida Oku: ok

Hantei Dave: one sec

Hantei Dave: the man swoops like an eagle across the canyon walls to the other side out of sight

Hantei Dave: he was wearing pheonix armor

Togashi Udon: wow

KibagamiKuno: someone see a mouse?

Hantei Dave: anyone? ealse

KibagamiKuno: oku?

Suzume Sousha: I pull out my shuriken

Hantei Dave: oku...climb the wall

Hida Oku: umm

Suzume Sousha: but don't do anything else

KibagamiKuno: "Right, where do we go to meet him?"

Hida Oku: yeah

Hantei Dave: roll

Hantei Dave: -4

Keshijo: Interesting technique.

Keshijo: I'll have to learn that one.

Hantei Dave: oku

Hida Oku: 25 again

Hantei Dave: you begin climbing the wall

Suzume Sousha: who's rolling?

Hantei Dave: oku

Hantei Dave: anyone else?

Hantei Dave: kesh?

Togashi Udon: mu babe

Hantei Dave: the other man prostrates

Keshijo: The big statue... What is it?

Hantei Dave: you don't know kesh

Togashi Udon: may we have that audiance, Keeper of the pass?

Hantei Dave: sorry...phone

Hantei Dave: back now

Hantei Dave: The flyer swoops back around and begins to decend quickly

Hantei Dave: anyone taking action

Hantei Dave: he is landing in front of you

Keshijo: I resume a relaxed stance.

KibagamiKuno: bow

Togashi Udon: eye contact?

Keshijo: bow.

Hantei Dave: He lands firmly with both feet between you and the monk...dfacing you

Hantei Dave: "Greeting bearers. I am Shiba Ujimitsu." He smiles

 

 

 

Togashi Udon: back to me? a smart one...

Suzume Sousha: bow

Hantei Dave: He has shining red armor with feathers along the arms

Hantei Dave: all roll will

Suzume Sousha: I am suzume Sousha . . .. (crap time to roll)

Hantei Dave: beat 23

Hida Oku: 12

Hantei Dave: oku fails

Suzume Sousha: 17

Keshijo: 16

Togashi Udon: 22

Hida Oku: (I'm behind him, right?)

KibagamiKuno: dave, who did we meet back during our liasoning after the coup?

Hantei Dave: heheh...he leaves you all speachless...even Udon

Hantei Dave: Josh: I think you met Ujimitsu...hehehe

Togashi Udon: (his back is to me)???

KibagamiKuno: 16

Hantei Dave: no..facing you all

Togashi Udon: oh...can i dazzle him with some MU?

Hida Oku: but I'm still on the wall

Hantei Dave: Udon...he is using it on you too ^_-

Togashi Udon: DOH!

Togashi Udon: Mine was higher!

Hantei Dave: Oku: oh yeah...to the side of him...but too far to jump

Hantei Dave: Udon: that wasn't him MU roll ^_-

Hantei Dave: add 10 to that last number for that

KibagamiKuno: "Greetings again, sama, we have come at the direction of Yokuni-sama to talk with Tadaka-sama about the fate of the empire"

Togashi Udon: gah!

Hantei Dave: He smiles

Hantei Dave: "You are welcome here." He raises a hand for his other to stand up again

KibagamiKuno: domo arigato... <pause><bow>

Hantei Dave: Shiba Ujimitsu prostrates before the shugenga.

Hantei Dave: lets end here

Keshijo: Okay.

Togashi Udon: k

Hida Oku: k

Hantei Dave: that was much.......better...whew

Hida Oku: oh, update for everyone

Hida Oku: I managed to get a message to kachiko

KibagamiKuno: yay, progress.

Togashi Udon: yah!?

Suzume Sousha: cool

Suzume Sousha: who the hell is kachiko?

Hida Oku: I workin the wee hours of the night, rmemeber?

Hantei Dave: SOusha: queen of scorpions

Togashi Udon: was it a good message or a bad horney crab message?

Hantei Dave: and emporers bride

Keshijo: Hehe

Suzume Sousha: oh ok

Hida Oku: I sent her a painting that depicts her as a thunder fighting the forces of Fu Leng

KibagamiKuno: nice

Hida Oku: hopefully she'll get it

Hida Oku: I think she might... she's a smart cookie

Hantei Dave: we'll see ^_-

Togashi Udon: Perfect---hey Oku, do you know which Thunder survived the last meeting with Fe Lung???

Suzume Sousha: unfortunately they were stick figure drawings.

Hantei Dave: I'll post Oku's thing

Hida Oku: as I said, I hope

Suzume Sousha: :-)

Hida Oku: <slices soushas throat>

Hida Oku: group never notices.... thinks he's sleeping

Hantei Dave: hehehe

Keshijo: Um.. Wait a minute...

KibagamiKuno: how cute, sousha finally fell asleep

Suzume Sousha: LOL

Togashi Udon: The Scorpion...only the Scorpion survived... we should use that piece of history

Hantei Dave: sleeping?!?!?! there must be a problem with sousha!!!

Togashi Udon: what, is sousha nappy time?

Keshijo: And what, look at our group... :-)

Keshijo: Guess that's good for me... :-)

Togashi Udon: hey it looks like he cut hi neck shaving

Hantei Dave: as we all know..the scorpions are the good guys

Hida Oku: yeah... sure

KibagamiKuno: heh

Hantei Dave: oh...and Oku met REAL ninjas this time

Hida Oku: eat me, dave

Hantei Dave: ^_-

Hida Oku: they were quaking....

Hida Oku: i know it

Hantei Dave: hehehe

Keshijo: Hehe.

Hantei Dave: buck up..they won't kiss you

Hida Oku: thankfully... they'll just kill me

Togashi Udon: we all know a crab ninja is really just a --wait for it-- SOFT SHELL CRAB!

Hantei Dave: WHAHAHA

KibagamiKuno: i had a spider roll tonight

Hida Oku: oh, it's so on, Happy-noodle-boy

Keshijo: Spider roll?

Suzume Sousha: well I'm getting outta here since my neck is cut. I'll talk to u guys later.

KibagamiKuno: (took my brother out for sushi for his first time)

Hantei Dave: bye rishard!

Keshijo: I have a secret map into the palace... :-)

Hida Oku: later

KibagamiKuno: sleep well sousha!

 

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