Hantei Dave: keshijo and oku are getting pretty bad scrapes
KibagamiKuno: hmm
Hantei Dave: actually, you are somehwat ok. Not too bad
KibagamiKuno: i have also been thinking about the difference between accepting fate and
conceeding to it.
Hantei Dave: your armor is becoming heavy though
KibagamiKuno: To conceed would mean i wander the mountain as if my fate were only to
find my way to the entrance or die trying. But that isn't necessarily my fate.
KibagamiKuno: it's to go beyond the mountain and to journeys beyond it.
Hantei Dave: you get knicked
KibagamiKuno: I am not simply climbing because there is nothing else to do, i'm climbing
to
KibagamiKuno: will you stop preempting me and let me finish.
Hantei Dave: hehehe
KibagamiKuno: (turn on your "i'm typing" option already)
KibagamiKuno: i'm climbing because that is the path i need to go in. I'm as much a part
of getting there as fate is in guiding me.
Hantei Dave: 1d6 damage...no absorbs
KibagamiKuno: 2
KibagamiKuno: with confidence
KibagamiKuno: and i stop looking for a path.
KibagamiKuno: the path is behind me, and i am at the front of it.
Hantei Dave: 2 points damage
KibagamiKuno: heheh, so says the mountain. It's a good thing there are many sources of
wisdom.
Hantei Dave: He smiles
KibagamiKuno: Nah, this time i'm going to be stubborn about it.
KibagamiKuno: I point out the error of the mountain.
Hantei Dave: oops...wrong window
KibagamiKuno: There are many paths in life. Many paths along our fate. To turn left
where one might have turned right, but still to arrive at a stage along the destination.
KibagamiKuno: The only true path is the path that we have so far taken.
KibagamiKuno: Everything beyond that is only hypothetical, even if the destination is
determined.
KibagamiKuno: There does not need to be a path on this mountain.
KibagamiKuno: But there is still a top, and still an Udon waiting impatiently for us.
KibagamiKuno: and that is the only "path" i'm concerned with.
KibagamiKuno: of course some of us leave longer paths behind us than others.
Hantei Dave: 1d6 damage
KibagamiKuno: does this damage seem to coincide with philosophy?
Hantei Dave: you aren't sure...it gets harder to concentrate though
Hantei Dave: you begin thinking of the past month
KibagamiKuno: btw - did i gain any pts back for last nights sleep?
Hantei Dave: no...bad sleep
KibagamiKuno: is there any difference in the look of the mountain?
Hantei Dave: it became worse
KibagamiKuno: which way does it look worst?
Hantei Dave: more jagged...hottor
Hantei Dave: the rocks redder
KibagamiKuno: which way does it look worst?
Hantei Dave: everyway...as if the mountain changes
KibagamiKuno: But is there a worst way at the moment?
Hantei Dave: none...its as if the mountain itself changes
Hantei Dave: "Find your fate" the wind whispers
Hantei Dave: an ise zumi walks by
Hantei Dave: he walks barefoot without a scratch
KibagamiKuno: watch him for a bit, follow a little ways observing
Hantei Dave: he turns back and smiles..."are you lost?
Hantei Dave: "
KibagamiKuno: is he confident of his path? Is he watching the ground or watching the
world ahead?
KibagamiKuno: "Hmm, i'm not sure. I believe, though,
KibagamiKuno: that i may be headed for the wrong destination.
KibagamiKuno: And thus not finding the stepping stone i seek"
KibagamiKuno: "I thought i might learn by your example how one sees their own way to
that stepping stone"
Hantei Dave: "I have no example for I have my own fate."
Hantei Dave: "My fate is to climb up and down this mountain
smiling at climbers"
Hantei Dave: he smiles
KibagamiKuno: i smile back
KibagamiKuno: "I hope your fate involves
KibagamiKuno: them smiling back"
Hantei Dave: "not always. SOmetimes our fates meet though and
he smiles back."
KibagamiKuno: [bow]
Hantei Dave: he walks off
KibagamiKuno: D: Perhaps fate means different things to different people - and a single
answer about the meaing of life is not the solution for any of us.
KibagamiKuno: Allow me to demonstrate by changing fate a bit at this point.
KibagamiKuno: I pull out my paper and brush...
KibagamiKuno:
My fate is poems
from here to the mountaintop
presents in the rock
Hantei Dave: can't concentrate
Hantei Dave: roll concentration
Hantei Dave: beat 35
Hantei Dave: 25
Hantei Dave: i mean
KibagamiKuno: 22
Hantei Dave: now write bad poetry
Hantei Dave: ^_^
KibagamiKuno: 21
KibagamiKuno: i write it small, rip a little bit of the paper off, and tuck it in the rock.
