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Togashi Udon has entered the room.
Hida Oku has entered the room.
Hida Oku: hi everyone
Togashi Udon: 'ello all (Bows)
Hantei Dave: hey people...need a few more minutes...no Brian or
Rishard tonight
Hida Oku: doh
Hantei Dave: I should ask if tony wants in
Hida Oku: how will you integrate him?
KibagamiKuno: i'm reading brian's letter heh
Togashi Udon: which one?
KibagamiKuno: dunno, there's lots of reading to catch up on i see.
Togashi Udon: yup
Togashi Udon: dave--vice is gone. maybe put it under misc.
stories?
Togashi Udon: or me blind
KibagamiKuno: where's the other half of vice, eh?
Togashi Udon: it is taking way too long
Togashi Udon: it is not coming as easy as the others
KibagamiKuno: i can't read all of your version of the taint now, skip,
not enough time. Will do it later, need to read windrider first (porn
before pain?)
Hantei Dave: sorry..having a small issue here
Togashi Udon: hehehe
Togashi Udon: on 3rd rewrite of virtue, josh... who'd a thunk i'd
have problems with something titled that, eh? ;-)
Hantei Dave: 1 more sec
KibagamiKuno: bah, nothing fun in keshijo's jaunt.
Togashi Udon: Kesh is worse at flirting then Udon!
KibagamiKuno: heh, so far oku and soush have gotten more than all of
us.
Hantei Dave: whew...k
KibagamiKuno: k... what was that all about?
Togashi Udon: k
Hida Oku: that's true....
Hantei Dave: just uploading some files
KibagamiKuno: k
Hantei Dave: it was being silly
Hantei Dave: when last we left our heroes...
KibagamiKuno: we was being nerdy
Hantei Dave: you were all chillin in the Library
Togashi Udon: You two could go and see Isawa Tsuke...
Hantei Dave: fortunatly, the only one who did research playing today
is Kuno
Togashi Udon: (lucky dave)
Hantei Dave: (whew) Sousha and Kesh couldn't decide
Hantei Dave: and Oku and Udon were busy
Hida Oku: very busy
KibagamiKuno: heh
KibagamiKuno: gettin busy.
Hantei Dave: and I actually wrote something for Kuno
KibagamiKuno: a poem
Hantei Dave: lol
KibagamiKuno: i found a poem
Hida Oku: oh no
KibagamiKuno: but i don't have it on hand right now
KibagamiKuno: dave?
KibagamiKuno: i'll start you off
Hantei Dave: something about roses and oni I believe
KibagamiKuno: roses are read, violets are blue
Hantei Dave: Oni are blue
KibagamiKuno: (that dude's) got the scrolls
Hantei Dave: :P
KibagamiKuno: and he'll use it on you.
Hida Oku: blood is red
Hida Oku: if you meet an oni,
Hantei Dave: Yogo Junzo
Hida Oku: you're probably dead
Hantei Dave: sooo...Udon has a suggestion
KibagamiKuno: yoyo justso's got the scrolls
KibagamiKuno: that was the line.
Togashi Udon: I am so confused
Hantei Dave: ^_^
Togashi Udon: go burn yourself away
KibagamiKuno: where are we going and can i use my sword on it
now?
Hantei Dave: you have no sword in the Isawa Library
KibagamiKuno: heheh, i didn't mean stay here necessarily.
Togashi Udon: how much more time do we have here?
Togashi Udon: I do have a scroll that needs deliverin
Hantei Dave: Udon: whenever you want to leave...my clock is ticking
either way
KibagamiKuno: I'm ready when you are
Togashi Udon: no Isawa Tsuke?
Togashi Udon: Did I scare you off?
KibagamiKuno: heh, no, i'm just not ready for that yet.
Hida Oku: yeah, maybe I should check in
Hantei Dave: Isawa Tsuke is currently not here (I decided)
Hida Oku: of course
KibagamiKuno: The war is not yet over, it's too soon to heal.
Togashi Udon: We could try and find out what he did to me...
Togashi Udon: How convenient Dave
Hantei Dave: is that anyway to accept a gift Udon?
Togashi Udon: We shall see
KibagamiKuno: here, hold out your arm, you can have some of mine...
Hantei Dave: its like asking someone how much a b-day gift costs
Hantei Dave: well, your original plan is to travel west somehow
Togashi Udon: You get an expensive gift for a powerful man and
then tell me what you would do dave!
KibagamiKuno: or wait, you can have some from both me AND oku,
we're both ready to help ...
Hantei Dave: there is no real clear way
KibagamiKuno: Or perhaps, you can deliver your letter and start
smiling again.
Hida Oku: whatever.... let's go
Togashi Udon: If you both would agree to travel with me to do
that...
Hantei Dave: ^_^
Togashi Udon: how long would that take HanteiD?
KibagamiKuno: stop waiting for us to offer three times, let's go.
Hantei Dave: to get where? the Badger Clan?
Togashi Udon: Where should we meet up with Sousha &
Shinjoten?
KibagamiKuno: Yes, to the badger clan.
Togashi Udon: yes the Badgers
Hantei Dave: It'll take a good 2 weeks
KibagamiKuno: Will it be in the same direction as the dragon?
Hantei Dave: yes
Hida Oku: then let's go
Hida Oku: the phoenix piss me off anyway
Hida Oku: but dace, can I make a painting for them before I
go?
Hida Oku: *dave
Hantei Dave: actually the dragon are 1st
Togashi Udon: Got honeycomb, Kuno?
KibagamiKuno: will soon :-)
KibagamiKuno: me want honeycombs!
KibagamiKuno: heh
Hantei Dave: ok...you set off
KibagamiKuno: so first the dragon, then the badja.
Hantei Dave: did you want to drop south to the road or mountain bike
it?
Togashi Udon: wow sounds like heck to me...
Togashi Udon: Hitomi?!?! jeez...
Togashi Udon: nice and easy eh?
Hantei Dave: ^_^
KibagamiKuno: let's go past the waterfall.
Hantei Dave: ok
KibagamiKuno: maybe stop at the shrines on the way.
Togashi Udon: well at least shinjoten wont be there to piss her
off with his whispering...but then again, oku is here...
Hantei Dave: just to clarify...it will take 2 weeks to get to the dragon
clan alone
Togashi Udon: ugh
Hida Oku: you're damn right I am
KibagamiKuno: or actually, let's go south into the mountains (through
that hook there) and then to the waterfall.
Hantei Dave: you start off west towards Shiro Asako
KibagamiKuno: Unless the phoenix feel like helping us travel...
Togashi Udon: Hai---oh good idea
Hida Oku: so dave, you didn't answer
Hantei Dave: what Oku?
Hida Oku: can I have painted something for the phoenix before
we left?
Hantei Dave: ummm...roll WILL
Togashi Udon: (Udon wants to fly!)
KibagamiKuno: ok, there are a couple outstanding issues we should
deal with:
KibagamiKuno: 2) Do the phoenix help us travel
Togashi Udon: (runs...jumps...thud)
Hida Oku: 20
KibagamiKuno: 3) Why are we going to Asako, we should be going
through
KibagamiKuno: Aojiroi Oku Shiro
Hantei Dave: GOOD QUESTION!
Togashi Udon: (Runs...jump...thud)
Hantei Dave: Oku: use your crappy brush and roll painting)
Hida Oku: it's not crappy!!!!
Hantei Dave: ok ok...everyone settle down
Hida Oku: 23
Hantei Dave: good painting....what was it?
Hantei Dave: and who gets it?
Togashi Udon: (brushs himself off...hops a little)
KibagamiKuno: i push udon out a window. "Look, yah flying yah fly...
uhoh"
Togashi Udon: If flying girl catches me Shinjoten will be awefully
jealous!
Hantei Dave: as for the traveling question...what do you want Kuno?
KibagamiKuno: can the phoenix assist us in getting quickly to the
dragon lands?
Togashi Udon: Instant teleportation
Hida Oku: it was a painting of the elemental masters fighting a
dark sky
KibagamiKuno: or a microwave oven.
Hida Oku: that is threatening their land
Hantei Dave: ok Oku. who gets it?
Hida Oku: well, the masters, I should guess
Hantei Dave: which do you present it to?
Hida Oku: Isawa Tsuke, if I managed to catch her
Hantei Dave: him
Hida Oku: oops, him
Hantei Dave: He looks at your painting.
Hida Oku: <bow low>
Hantei Dave: THank you for such a lovely gift but I cannot accept this
painting.
Hantei Dave: he says
KibagamiKuno: (offer offer offer!
KibagamiKuno: )
Hida Oku: please, it is a gift from the crab...
Togashi Udon: (hit him with it!)
Hantei Dave: "It displays an evil that is forbidden in these halls. I
cannot"
Hida Oku: <whack!>
Hantei Dave: roll anger Oku
Hantei Dave: heheh
Togashi Udon: (i was KIDDING!)
Hida Oku: just 3d6?
Hida Oku: 12
Hantei Dave: (I'm not)
KibagamiKuno: + will?
Hida Oku: 17 with will
Hantei Dave: Oku loses it anyway....you can ask one more time as
you turn red...if he turns it down....
Hida Oku: it.... would... honor me.... if you... would have it.......
Hida Oku: . . .
Togashi Udon: ...
Hantei Dave: "Alas, I am forbidden by our own laws. I am sorry."
Hida Oku: <teeth clenched>
Hantei Dave: anyone wanna run interference?
Togashi Udon: I will try.
Hida Oku: THEN SOMEONE MORE WORTHY WILL GET MY
WORK!
Hida Oku: I hand it to a servant and storm out
Togashi Udon: (Bow)
Togashi Udon: Sorry, his shell is not as hard as it looks, sama.
KibagamiKuno: Bow, and say"
Hantei Dave: Tsuke: Takes painting and hands it to Udon. "I do
apologize."
Hida Oku: Oku leaves the palace
KibagamiKuno: Tsuke-sama, my apologies, artists are very sensitive
about their work..."
Hida Oku: ...can't even appreciate fine art.....
Hantei Dave: He nods
Hantei Dave: to Kuno
Hida Oku: <curses, mutters, under breath>
KibagamiKuno: (udon and i take the painting and vacate)
Togashi Udon: Thank you for everything, sama. (bow and leave
w/painting)
Hantei Dave: (didn't work out like Oku wanted)
KibagamiKuno: heh
Hantei Dave: transport...transport....ummm...there is no good way
accept by land really
Togashi Udon: (Catch up with oku)
KibagamiKuno: understatement, but i don't think Tsuke's miffed about
it.
Hantei Dave: Josh: if you look at the map you are along the coast right
now
Hida Oku: they'll all be sorry once the evil is knocking on their
door
KibagamiKuno: right, we'll go straight west, then down through that
hook in the mountains
Hida Oku: they say "oh, if only we'd listened to that brilliant
painter, Hida Oku"
KibagamiKuno: that takes us past Aojiroi Oku Shiro
Hida Oku: he warned us, but we were too sissy to listen
Hida Oku: <and on, and on, and on...>
Hantei Dave: oh...ic...DUE WEST
Hida Oku: fools
KibagamiKuno: (he's cute when he's angry...)
Hantei Dave: you guys head off strait west
Togashi Udon: HAHAHAH--you called an Elemental Master a
SISSY! HAHAHAHA
Hida Oku: they are.... cowardly phoenix
Hantei Dave: we skip to Shinsei na Sumai Mura where many shinsei
temples are located
Togashi Udon: :-)
Togashi Udon: Any of the Brotherhood around?
Hantei Dave: it is a major crossway for the Phoenix
Hantei Dave: Udon: yes
Togashi Udon: :-)
Togashi Udon: any I know?
Togashi Udon: membership3
KibagamiKuno: yah. Let's decide what each of us will be doing during
the off-hours of our trek
Hantei Dave: well, monks of SHinsei anyway...not really Brotherhood
of Shinsei...sorry
Togashi Udon: :-(
Togashi Udon: get my hopes all up...
Togashi Udon: (kicks dirt)
Hantei Dave: roll membership anyway
KibagamiKuno: ok, oku kicks dirt during the off hours, oku, want to
learn anything from me while we travel?
Hida Oku: what have you got to teach?
Togashi Udon: 3d6 + memb?
Hida Oku: sure, kuno
Hantei Dave: you will need teaching to teach now people
Hantei Dave: yes Skip
Togashi Udon: 13
Hantei Dave: sorry...noone your recognize here
Hantei Dave: so far
Togashi Udon: (kicks dirt)
Hantei Dave: and just then...an Ise Zumi walks up to you people
Hantei Dave: "I am Togashi Josen. I bring the word of Togashi
Yokuni"
KibagamiKuno: (i have teaching. And can teach teaching heh)
Togashi Udon: Hai, Josen-san?
Hantei Dave: "The Lion have declared war on the western lands of the
Crane. It appears if they wish to travel deep into Crane lands. The
'Butcher' Matsu Agatoki has been released to lead the Lion army."
Hantei Dave: "Some Crane villages have already been hit."
Hantei Dave: "...and...occupied..."
Togashi Udon: ...In these dark times we choose to make war upon eachother?
KibagamiKuno: "I have no love of crane, and little respect for matsu..."
Hantei Dave: "War seems to be on the edge now...especially as the Emporer has taken
ill."
KibagamiKuno: which western lands to the lion attack?
Hantei Dave: "Towards Kosaten Shiro"
Hida Oku: ...stupid lion
KibagamiKuno: "Hmm, no doubt my father is fighting then..."
KibagamiKuno: "...old though he is."
Hantei Dave: "Do not be so angry at the clans Kuno-san. These are dark times."
Hida Oku: what is your word on Togashi Yokuni?
KibagamiKuno: "However, given our record with stopping wars, i suspect we must only
take this as an omen to hurry, rather than intervene"
Hantei Dave: "Udon, Matsu Hinagi travels with Agatoki. I am told you know him."
Togashi Udon: Hinagi is alive?
Togashi Udon: (face turns white)
Hantei Dave: He doesnt answer
Togashi Udon: You bear bad news brother.
Togashi Udon: We are strong. That is part of the answer.
Hantei Dave: He bows
Togashi Udon: bow
Hantei Dave: "is there anything else?"
Hantei Dave: oops...missed Oku's message
Hantei Dave: "Lord Togashi Yokuni....is...."
Hantei Dave: He smiles
Togashi Udon: I belive we are on our way to Kyuden Mirumoto, then perhaps we
will see you in Kyuden togashi, if Yokuni wills it so.
Hantei Dave: "Hai." He bows one last time and turns
KibagamiKuno: One moment, Josen-san
Hantei Dave: "Hai?"
KibagamiKuno: (I scribble out a letter indicating i'll let nabiku know when we are closer)
Hantei Dave: ok Kuno
Hantei Dave: but you might get there first
KibagamiKuno: possibly.
Togashi Udon: Suprises are good also, Kuno-san.
KibagamiKuno: They are, but less so in dangerous times
Hantei Dave: heh
Hantei Dave: it is midday in this town
Hantei Dave: activity is high
Togashi Udon: Say goodbyes to Josen-san?
Hantei Dave: you can leave to goto Mori Isawa next
Hantei Dave: poke
Hantei Dave: unless you guys wanted something from this town
Hantei Dave: a merchant approaches you all to buy incense
KibagamiKuno: "Anyone give a damn about their ancestors today?"
Hantei Dave: (he is just filler..you can continue)
Togashi Udon: (Bow) No thank you sir
Togashi Udon: lets be off
KibagamiKuno: "Guess not, sorry smoky"
Hida Oku: onward
Togashi Udon: upward
Hantei Dave: you leave town fast enough...feeling the urge of time now
Togashi Udon: hai
Hantei Dave: and quickly make it to the smallish path through the woodlands
Hantei Dave: it is traveled fairly well but bandits can be common on roads like
this
Togashi Udon: "Look, a smallish path!"(points)
Hantei Dave: there are no villiges until you reach the other side
Hantei Dave: only a small temple or woodman's house here or there
Hantei Dave: you start through...it is a refreshing peasceful walk
Togashi Udon: Oku, perhaps you should flank us stealthy like?
Hida Oku: so?
Hida Oku: erg lag
Hida Oku: sorry
Hantei Dave: np
Hantei Dave: (waits)
Hida Oku: yeah, I'll do the whole scouting thing
Hantei Dave: up ahead or on the side Oku?
Hida Oku: (stupid phoenix)
Hida Oku: on the side
Hida Oku: since that's where bandits would probably be
Hantei Dave: ok....roall stealth and jumping to do it from the trees. Add in the
shadow-stealth bonus
KibagamiKuno: "Who was that Matsu you so dislike, udon?"
Hantei Dave: and tell me any okudens you want to use
KibagamiKuno: (drawing attention to us, rather than oku)
Hantei Dave: Kuno and Udon make pleasant conversation
Hida Oku: 25
Togashi Udon: Kuno- "Matsu Hinagi was an enormous brute." (goes into story)
Hantei Dave: jumping? karumi-jutsu?
Hida Oku: 24 for athletics
Togashi Udon: (not a pleasent story, he might wait for the others and then tell it in
full)
Hantei Dave: thanks. You are jumping along the branches totally quietly
KibagamiKuno: (getting sake, brb)
Hantei Dave: anyone that wants to hear Oku roll hearing perception
Hantei Dave: beat 25
Togashi Udon: i dont want to hear him
Hantei Dave: ok Udon
Hantei Dave: You pass a small shrine with buddhas along the road
Hantei Dave: small statues..some with food in front
Hantei Dave: it seems to be getting late anyway...might be the best place to
stop.
Hantei Dave: or you can go a bit further
Hantei Dave: anyone?
Togashi Udon: How much farther until we are out of the woods?
KibagamiKuno: We can stop by these buddhas...
Togashi Udon: Ok
Hantei Dave: by tomarrow afternoon you will be out Udon
Hida Oku: evil buddhas!
Hida Oku: let's stop here, then
Togashi Udon: As long as they dont attack
Hantei Dave: Udon: good place to pray
Togashi Udon: I will pry
Togashi Udon: pray
Hantei Dave: Oku? Kuno?
Togashi Udon: then pry
Togashi Udon: then tend to my bodhi tree
Hida Oku: i said stop
Hantei Dave: i mean doing anything?
Hida Oku: oh, I'll scout the area
Hida Oku: in a wide circle
KibagamiKuno: hmm, well i was going to help udon learn something...
Hantei Dave: ok Oku
KibagamiKuno: but if he's busy...
Togashi Udon: (sorry)
Togashi Udon: later
KibagamiKuno: Anything smell strongly in my armor care kit, dave?
KibagamiKuno: like polish, or a wax or something?
Hantei Dave: Oku: roll perception (sight)
Hantei Dave: I doubt it. You have a care kit? lol
KibagamiKuno: yup, one for my sword, too
Hantei Dave: ah...no...you can weed out smells like that
Hida Oku: 25 again
Hida Oku: yeah keen eyesight
KibagamiKuno: actually, i want to weed them in. I bet they smell stronger when someone
rubs them... Oku and I need a signal and i have a good sense of smell.
Hantei Dave: Oku is missing
Togashi Udon: Looks at Kuno
Togashi Udon: Grabs Staff
KibagamiKuno: oku went off to check on things, define missing...
Hantei Dave: no...just not here I mean
Hantei Dave: relax Udon ^_-
KibagamiKuno: k
Togashi Udon: -_-
Hantei Dave: quiet night
Hantei Dave: crickets are out
Hida Oku: READY YOURSELVES
Hantei Dave: Oku bursts silentl in
Hida Oku: Oku appears from between the trees
Togashi Udon: >:-(
Hida Oku: winged creature
Hida Oku: and something on legs heading towards us
KibagamiKuno: I open my left eye and look about
Hida Oku: winged oni
Hantei Dave: Kuno sees nothing
Hida Oku: dave: move back into the trees
Hantei Dave: ok Oku..
Hantei Dave: Oku blends in again
Hida Oku: an ambush position
KibagamiKuno: I slip my hand around the Katana grip
Togashi Udon: Udon w/staff
Hantei Dave: You 2 here loud clunky footsteps coming down the path from
where you came
KibagamiKuno: and cock one leg to make hopping up quicker.
Togashi Udon: (points to himself, mouths "bait" to kuno and goes to sit by
roadside)
Hantei Dave: 4 young Phoenic samurai come running forward to you
Hantei Dave: Phoenix
Hantei Dave: They all put a hand on their katanas
Togashi Udon: Look up from seated position
Hantei Dave: "Where is the Scorpion?"
Hantei Dave: one says
Togashi Udon: No Scorpion, here.
Hantei Dave: "The one names Keshijo who travels with you!"
Hantei Dave: named
KibagamiKuno: "zzzzz...."
Togashi Udon: He does not travel with me anymore
Hantei Dave: He draws his blade trying to look tough
Hantei Dave: (anyone want inits?)
Hantei Dave: or do you forfeit for now
Togashi Udon: I have not seen him since his Clan was disbanded
KibagamiKuno: "zzz snck hnk... zzz...."
KibagamiKuno: how close are they to me?
Hantei Dave: Kuno...not within range to make the attack without running forward
Hantei Dave: Oku could jump using his jutsu to make an attack though
KibagamiKuno: that's what i wanted to hear - i.e. not about to chop off my head lol
Hida Oku: i'll just sit tight for now
Hantei Dave: Udon might be in trouble though
Togashi Udon: :-) never!
Hantei Dave: "You lie" he says
KibagamiKuno: i doubt they will strike a monk sitting by the...
Hantei Dave: unsuradly
Hida Oku: <oku is getting ready to take some aggression out on the phoenix....>
KibagamiKuno: roadside without asking his companion
Togashi Udon: I no longer travel with Keshijo!
KibagamiKuno: "hnk - udon, is someone there?"
Hantei Dave: He looks at his young friends
Togashi Udon: Someone looking for Keshijo again.
Hantei Dave: He sheathes his sword again
KibagamiKuno: "Tell them I ate him, maybe they'll believe that."
KibagamiKuno: "zzz.......
Togashi Udon: That would be a lie, Kuno-san. You know I cannot...oh nevermind.
Hantei Dave: "Please help us." He gets on one knee before Kuno (attack range
too)
Togashi Udon: What is wrong?
Hantei Dave: the others stay back near Udon
KibagamiKuno: "Perhaps i can bear a message for you (eyes still closed)"
KibagamiKuno: "in case we see him again"
Hantei Dave: "No, I...we...don't want the Phoenix tanto in the hands of a
Scorpion."
Hantei Dave: "Help us take it and we will join you."
Hantei Dave: "As the rightful tanto bearers
Hantei Dave: "
Hantei Dave: "We represent the Shiba!"
Hantei Dave: He says prously
Hantei Dave: proudly
KibagamiKuno: "Shiba, eh? (opening eye closer to him),
KibagamiKuno: Do the shiba defy the commands of the late hantei the 39th?"
Togashi Udon: Do not do this. It is the wrong path.
Hantei Dave: He looks at Udon for a second and back to Kuno
KibagamiKuno: (here we go again...)
Togashi Udon: (38th)
Hantei Dave: "The Shiba...would want this."
KibagamiKuno: (whatever, 38th)
KibagamiKuno: "Did the Hantei not command that the tantos were in the hands of their
undisputed owners?"
Togashi Udon: Perhaps The Shiba chose the Scorpion. Who is a man to say
want the Shiba wants?
KibagamiKuno: "Who is man to say that the Hantei is wrong?"
Hantei Dave: "but....We heard reports of a tanto in the hands of a murderer...can
this be undiputed?"
KibagamiKuno: "It cannot be disputed. I hold a tanto."
Hantei Dave: "We will be good allies" says the youngest one
KibagamiKuno: "And you stand awfully close to your doom."
Togashi Udon: Perhaps only a Scorpion who has found the falled ashes can
truely bear the Tanto of the Pheonix.
Hantei Dave: The youngest turns pale and take a step back
KibagamiKuno: (i'll get up now)
Hantei Dave: The leader is skaing his head
Hantei Dave: shaking
Togashi Udon: You interuppted his sleep. See how ugly he is?
Togashi Udon: He needs his beauty sleep.
KibagamiKuno: "You came all this way to demand we hand over a tanto we haven't even
got? I suggest you go home now."
KibagamiKuno: "That's your one chance. One."
Hantei Dave: He stands. "Do you dishonor me?"
Togashi Udon: (still sitting)
Hantei Dave: and puts a hand on his sword again
KibagamiKuno: "Wrong answer, Two!" (draw)
Togashi Udon: Come on, not in the shrine!
Hantei Dave: you attacking Kuno?
KibagamiKuno: (just drawing)
KibagamiKuno: (void him tho)
Hantei Dave: Kuno draws
Togashi Udon: Take it out into the road!
Hantei Dave: rolls void
Hantei Dave: the Phoenix doesn't draw
Hida Oku: "do you live for the good of the empire?"
Hantei Dave: Oku walks out
Hida Oku: (coming out of the woods)
Hida Oku: "and you have heard of our quest?"
Togashi Udon: That is Hida Oku. He is a Crab. Hense the name "Hida".
Hantei Dave: The Phoenix takes a step back in fear of Kuno
KibagamiKuno: "The scorpion isn't here, your objective cannot be achieved. But you
could always stake your honor and see how sharp it makes your blade..."
Hantei Dave: His sword hand shakes
Hantei Dave: the others are scared too
KibagamiKuno: I put my sword away.
Togashi Udon: Go.
Togashi Udon: Leave in Peace.
Hantei Dave: He is crying. "We will show you who deserves it!" He runs away
with his friends
Hida Oku: "It's been some time since Kuno's blade has been put to good use,
but I'd rather see it cleave the head of an oni that that of some little phoenix
bushi"
KibagamiKuno: "And get some incense for us, we may be dead tomorrow!" heh.
KibagamiKuno: (whisper) what did you see oku?
Hantei Dave: (wow...noone died)
Togashi Udon: (Them running away sounded very anime)
Togashi Udon: (like Team Rocket)
Hantei Dave: (well they did)
Hida Oku: (there is something flying above us)
KibagamiKuno: (blasting off again!)
Hantei Dave: heh
Hantei Dave: say it out of paranthesis Oku ^_-
KibagamiKuno: (oh, he's my pal. If he gets low? Let's kill him.)
Hida Oku: something is still out there
Hida Oku: there is something flying above us
Hida Oku: don't let your guard down
Togashi Udon: I make good bait.
Hantei Dave: worked with the Buddha Udon ^_-
Togashi Udon: (Takes off robe to display Crow tattoo)
Togashi Udon: (resumes sitting)
Hantei Dave: ok
KibagamiKuno: Going back to "sleep," i leave my feet uncovered.
Hida Oku: <move back to the cover>
Hida Oku: of the woods, I mean
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: Oku: full watch tonight?
Hida Oku: yep
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: it turns out to be a quiet night...except for the kids from earlier
Togashi Udon: ...\
Togashi Udon: fine
KibagamiKuno: bummer, wish we could have ended that flying f already.
Hida Oku: ugh... tired
Hantei Dave: Oku will need sleep tomarrow
Hantei Dave: you continue on
Togashi Udon: ok
Hantei Dave: and make it through the woodlands by mid afternoon
Togashi Udon: no bandits!
KibagamiKuno: I look up during the course of the day.
Hantei Dave: you arrive at Aojiroi Oku Shiro (Pale Oak Castle)
Togashi Udon: Who is the Lord here?
Hantei Dave: a miner castle of the Shiba
Hantei Dave: you don't know...roll high society ^_-
Togashi Udon: 0
Hantei Dave: ok then
Hantei Dave: there is a town here too
Hantei Dave: you are indeed hungry
Hantei Dave: and almost penniless
Togashi Udon: Is there an inn?
Hida Oku: I still have money!
Hida Oku: I got more when I went back home
Hantei Dave: Oku can afford food for you all
Hantei Dave: ^_-
Hida Oku: jeez, freeloaders
KibagamiKuno: glad someone has some left... i should have some from selling the raft, but
that's it.
Hantei Dave: it will run out eventually Oku
Hida Oku: I need to sell some paintings, I think
Hantei Dave: Kuno: you have enough for emergencies
Togashi Udon: i have no money
Hida Oku: so there's an inn?
Hantei Dave: hmmm...where would you have a painting with you (pokes Udon)
KibagamiKuno: heheh
KibagamiKuno: a painting!
Hida Oku: Udon took it?!
Hantei Dave: yes Oku, but you do not need an inn unless you want to stop
Togashi Udon: I didnt know if Oku would be offened
Togashi Udon: I am a great admireer of your work oku-san
Togashi Udon: he didnt even have to offer 3 times!
Hantei Dave: Udon looks at it for the first time ^_-
Hida Oku: well then you have more sense than the whole phoenix clan
Togashi Udon: (I saw it)
Hantei Dave: (at an angle)
Hida Oku: give me that, udon.... I'll paint something else for you
Togashi Udon: oh
Hida Oku: <grab>
Togashi Udon: Here
Hida Oku: <stupid phoenix>
Hantei Dave: did you guys want to do something here?
Togashi Udon: How about a challenge, Oku-san?
KibagamiKuno: How long are we here for dave?
KibagamiKuno: what is there in this town?
Togashi Udon: Paint something for my Grandfather.
Hantei Dave: as long as you want....
KibagamiKuno: Can we visit the Hantei's grave?
Hantei Dave: its a small town Kuno...merchants...farmers...samurai
Hantei Dave: only if you roll Histroy first ^_-
Hantei Dave: history
Hantei Dave: my typing sucks today
Togashi Udon: (pokes Oku)
Hantei Dave: there is a pretty koi pond with a brindge in the center of town
KibagamiKuno: How about folklore?
Hantei Dave: BRIDGE
Hantei Dave: nope...this is historical...sorry
KibagamiKuno: or just general knowledge (given that they probably teach us who the
hantei were in class)
Hida Oku: who's your grandfather, again, udon?>
Hantei Dave: half gen knowledge
Togashi Udon: The Tattoo Master, Giajitsu.
Hantei Dave: not really general
KibagamiKuno: heh good. 12.
KibagamiKuno: :-D
Hida Oku: ah, ok
Hantei Dave: then no Kuno ^_^
KibagamiKuno: bummer.
KibagamiKuno: "Hey, samurai, what's of interest around here?"
Togashi Udon: Challenge accepted?
Hida Oku: ok dave, I'm going to paint something for Udon
Hantei Dave: no metagaming! you never asked that in a town before...BAD
KUNO
Hantei Dave: lol
Togashi Udon: Great! He has been blind since birth.
Togashi Udon: :-)
Hida Oku: really........
KibagamiKuno: hold on a sec dave, it's not meta and i'll show you:
Hida Oku: wow, that is a challenge
KibagamiKuno: its a small town Kuno...merchants...farmers...samurai
Togashi Udon: :-D
Hantei Dave: heheh
KibagamiKuno: did you guys want to do something here?
KibagamiKuno: i dunno, did we?
Togashi Udon: I dunno
KibagamiKuno: why not ask? Last time we got to a set of gates i told em just who we
were, and we walked in.
Hida Oku: i want to stop
Togashi Udon: Did we want food & an inn?
KibagamiKuno: "Hey, Samurai, anything to do in this town?"
Hida Oku: food, a bed, a GEISHA!
Hantei Dave: "Get a whore ronin...."
Hantei Dave: says the samurai walking by
Togashi Udon: Where does one get a "whore ronin?"
KibagamiKuno: "I think he was advertising, udon"
Togashi Udon: Oh.
Hantei Dave: well, people are being fairly cold here
Hantei Dave: or just busy
KibagamiKuno: "You over there (someone else) - i'm bored - what do you people do in
this sleepy town?"
Hida Oku: Sorry, Udon, I'm not that confident yet
Hida Oku: but I will work on it
Togashi Udon: Kuno vs. Busy sleeping cold town---round 1
Hida Oku: I want to go to an inn
Hantei Dave: heheh...Kuno persists for the next 15 minutes and learns the
complete history of this town and of the orange groves that grow here!
Hantei Dave: :P
Togashi Udon: Take your time my friend.
KibagamiKuno: "I've solved the mystery...
Togashi Udon: Zokines!
KibagamiKuno: In this town, a long time ago, someone special came here...
Hantei Dave: you get no XP for that one
Hantei Dave: lol
Hida Oku: Udon, I think you've given me my ultimate challenge
KibagamiKuno: And he squeezed the oranges and made orange juice. Try some!"
Togashi Udon: Welcome to the puzzle, Brother Oku.
Hida Oku: no orange juice!
Hida Oku: Sake!
Hida Oku: ugh, lag
Hantei Dave: I guess you people wanna sleep here tonight
Togashi Udon: hai
KibagamiKuno: yes, breakfast should be good tomorrow.
Togashi Udon: i would like to bathe, also
Hantei Dave: Oku treating?
Hida Oku: oh jeez
Hida Oku: yeah sure......
Hida Oku: damn fools... freeloaders
Hida Oku: and Geishas, too
Togashi Udon: Domo, oku-san
Hantei Dave: you all have a good night of sake, food, women and sleep...you
can't afford geishas
Hida Oku: dammit
Hantei Dave: Udon: want one?
Togashi Udon: no sake 4 me
KibagamiKuno: no woman for me.
Hida Oku: than all for me
Hantei Dave: jeez...what a lame party
KibagamiKuno: I have udon (squeeze udon)
Hida Oku: then
Togashi Udon: no geisha's!
Hida Oku: here, udon, kuno... try to sell my painting
KibagamiKuno: ok
KibagamiKuno: I go outside...
Togashi Udon: hai!
Togashi Udon: goes with kuno
Hida Oku: (back to the revelry)
Togashi Udon: (sneaky dog!)
KibagamiKuno: "Dark times are ahead, but they have been foreseen! This painting
Hantei Dave: Anyone have the merchant skill? good luck on a price
KibagamiKuno: depicts the coming of evil times, and yet!
KibagamiKuno: the heroic triumph of good!
Togashi Udon: Kuno should (read his bio)
KibagamiKuno: The artists work hangs in the halls of the Hantei, look here at the
signature...
Hantei Dave: A peasant looks at kuno
Hantei Dave: "It would be nice in my mill." He offers you a pathetic amount
Togashi Udon: (Pretending to be Kuno's muscle)
KibagamiKuno: He hails from the land of the crab, painting in such gloriious splendor that
the eyes of the nobles twinkle at his work.
Hantei Dave: roll conversation Kuno
KibagamiKuno: And now it can be yours, if you have a place worthy to hang it.
Hantei Dave: you get the number of people above 17
KibagamiKuno: maybe persuasion? It's not as good, but more appropriate
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: you pick
KibagamiKuno: persuasion is int?
Togashi Udon: (Not to close everyone. Please, give him some space)
Hantei Dave: umm
Hantei Dave: gotta look
KibagamiKuno: presence/
KibagamiKuno: ?
Hantei Dave: checking
Hantei Dave: don't see it...go with presence
KibagamiKuno: 19
Hantei Dave: you get 2 now
Hantei Dave: dave makes a roll
KibagamiKuno: decent people or just farmers?
Togashi Udon has left the room.
KibagamiKuno: uh oh
Hantei Dave: the second is a samurai...he pushes the peasant over a little
Hantei Dave: no merchant skill Kuno (skip will be back i am sure)
Hantei Dave: He looks at the painting with a squint
Hantei Dave: "Not bad."
KibagamiKuno: "If you have a place worthy of this painting, i'd be willing to sell it...
Hantei Dave: He offers a little more
Hantei Dave: enough for about 2 nights sleep
Hantei Dave: "In my son's room" he says
KibagamiKuno: (softer to him) And if you'll offer what we both know it's worth, i'll
introduce you to the artist..."
Hantei Dave: He rubs chin
KibagamiKuno: "That is a worthy place, it would make your son courageous"
Hantei Dave: "Ok.. how much?"
Hantei Dave: (relatively)
KibagamiKuno: (dave, how much is it worth?)
Hantei Dave: Kuno: seeing is how it is from the emporer's artist and a tanto
bearer...I'd say a few koku at least
Togashi Udon has entered the room.
Hantei Dave: he didn't offer nearly that much kuno
Togashi Udon: morning all
Togashi Udon: or not
KibagamiKuno: It's probably worth a five koku, sir, but i can't expect it to fetch those
prices up here. How about 3...
Hantei Dave: but then again...who knows who oku is
Hantei Dave: "HA! Outta my range ronin!"
Hantei Dave: Kuno is pretty pathetic at this selling business Udon
Hantei Dave: heehe
KibagamiKuno: "Hmm, what more might you be willing to offer?"
Hantei Dave: He offers you half a koku, provided you can confirm the artist
Hantei Dave: (Oku might not like that)
KibagamiKuno: How many nights would that get us?
Hida Oku: (Common over here, honey, and bring that bottle..... <hic>)
Hantei Dave: Kuno...a few good weeks for the 3 of you
Hantei Dave: ...
KibagamiKuno: I raise it slightly more and indicate he won't need to... (still typing)
KibagamiKuno: finiish the transaction until after we've met the artist.
Hantei Dave: he nods
KibagamiKuno: (frickin honesty trait).
Hantei Dave: the peasant says, "woulda been nice in the mill..."
Hantei Dave: you go in to meet oku
Hantei Dave: who is drunk
Hantei Dave: he is chugging a bottl
Hantei Dave: e
Hida Oku: HEY!
KibagamiKuno: Udon, would you let Oku know we'd like to say hello and like him to
meet the new owner of the paintingt, who will be hanging it proudly in his son's room
Togashi Udon: Hai
Togashi Udon: (goes off)
Hantei Dave: The samurai approaches Oku. "Did you paint this?" points to
painting
Hida Oku: UDON! This is Sheju.... she's an.... actress?
KibagamiKuno: "Oku-sama, this good samurai is interested in purchasing the painting for
___.
KibagamiKuno: "
Hida Oku: Stands up
Hantei Dave: wobbly
Hida Oku: Good sir, you have quite a developed aesthetic taste!
Togashi Udon: Oku-san, please come and meet this man who has bought one of
your fine works of art.
KibagamiKuno: "Better than others we have met, who will remain nameless"
Hida Oku: (oh, I go, and say that to him)
KibagamiKuno: "for the sake of their own honor"
Hantei Dave: He makes a disgusted face
Hantei Dave: as he looks at Oku
Hida Oku: "Sheju, I'll be right back"
Hida Oku: oku half bows
Hantei Dave: The samurai lets you stabilize yourself on him
Hantei Dave: "who are you?"
Hantei Dave: holds hand over signature
KibagamiKuno: I position myself so that oku can lean on me if neccessary...
Togashi Udon: and me
Hida Oku: I am Hida Oku, Imperial Artisan from the Crab
Hantei Dave: "You represent the Crab in the palace?"
Hida Oku: Fomerly in the service of Hantei the 38th
Hantei Dave: "ahhh...I see now."
Hida Oku: I am an artist sir
Hantei Dave: "You are out of work since the death of the Hantei. I accept the price."
Hida Oku: Wha?
KibagamiKuno: "Domo arigato, good sir"
Hantei Dave: "He offers Kuno some money
KibagamiKuno: I hand him the painting, and hand oku some of the money
Hantei Dave: He puts a hand on Oku
Hantei Dave: "You will find work...there is always the Wall asa last resort."
Hida Oku: Dave, is it as much as it should be?
Hantei Dave: Oku: no way
Hida Oku: What mon is he wearing?
Hantei Dave: Phoenix of course
Hantei Dave: Shiba
Hida Oku: "Last Resort?"
KibagamiKuno: whisper:
Hida Oku: is that some sort of joke?
Hida Oku: what do you mean?
Hantei Dave: He takes the painting
KibagamiKuno: "money is money, and ____ is waiting"
Hida Oku: oh, I see how it is........
KibagamiKuno: (udon, help the good gentleman out)
Hantei Dave: "Hmmm?"
Togashi Udon: Hai
Hida Oku: You sit so safe on the oposite side of the land, expecting that we'll
always be there to keep you safe
Hantei Dave: The samurai begins walking out with Udon
Hantei Dave: looking back at Oku
Hida Oku: safe in your homes, away from the darkness
KibagamiKuno: "Oku, think of Sheju.
KibagamiKuno: She's much more fun tonight.
KibagamiKuno: and you have some extra coin to spend on her"
Hantei Dave: oku hears as he walks out... "And it is such a colorful picture too.."
Hida Oku: temper?
Hantei Dave: Kuno can hold you back ^_-
KibagamiKuno: heheh don't hit her! :P
Hida Oku: AGH!
Hida Oku: <throws money >
Hida Oku: CHARLETONS!
KibagamiKuno: "Oku, there are many who don't understand The Wall, and the critical
(get money)
Hantei Dave: (man...this painting will have to appear again later as a laugh ^_^)
KibagamiKuno: roll that it plays in staving off disaster
Hida Oku: SIMPLETONS!
Hantei Dave: ok...deal done
Hida Oku: Storms back to the inn
Hantei Dave: Oku gets drunker...he has had a bad week
KibagamiKuno: But we have our own mission at the moment, and this is three weeks
board. Well, 2 1/2 after tonight i bet."
Hida Oku: drinks more heavily
KibagamiKuno: Ah, the base lion.
Togashi Udon: (picks up thrown koku)
Hantei Dave: maybe 2 when oku finishes ^_-
Togashi Udon: oh, kuno got it
Hantei Dave: Kuno got it Udon
Hantei Dave: yep
Hantei Dave: you all can sleep well tonight...even Oku who forgets most of it
KibagamiKuno: OK, maybe dave will leave us alone about money for a little while.
Hida Oku: Kunnnno, is this what I'mmmm reeduced to?
Hantei Dave: i will
Hida Oku: a streeeet artist?
Hida Oku: etc........
KibagamiKuno: Ha! You're a travelling dignitary, signing autographs to help cover some
of the travel costs....
Togashi Udon: Kuno is right, oku-san!
Togashi Udon: hey, that actress lady was pretty.
Hantei Dave: Oku...make a will roll
Hida Oku: 16
Hantei Dave: Oku doesn't feel like women anymore and drinks to sleep
Hida Oku: zzzzzzzz
KibagamiKuno: saved himself a bad case of the crabs i'd bet.
Togashi Udon: he is a crab
Hantei Dave: tiddyboom
Hida Oku: zzzzzzzzzz
Hantei Dave: you all leave the next day...kinda relieved...kinda depressed
Togashi Udon: well looks like itll be a late start for us
Togashi Udon: why am i depressed?
Hantei Dave: Udon: maybe its just a grey day
Hantei Dave: ^_-
Togashi Udon: oh right
KibagamiKuno: onward, over the plains and into the mntns.
Hantei Dave: you spend the next day crossing a wide field that the town overlooks
Hantei Dave: anyone wanna roll history? no
Hantei Dave: then you make it to the woods by late morning
Hantei Dave: afternoon
Togashi Udon: ...apparently i know nothing of what happened before i was born
Hantei Dave: a small path brings you to the larger one...from here you go south
Hantei Dave: Udon: 1000 years of history is hard to follow
Hantei Dave: sorry 1100 or so
KibagamiKuno: maybe we heard something, or chat with pilgrims.
Togashi Udon: yet, for some reason, it feels like it is bearing down on all of our
sholders
Hantei Dave: again...it is a quiet walk...no villages...some woodland houses but thats it
Hantei Dave: it isn't important Kuno...ancient history...its not like Fu Leng is rising...
KibagamiKuno: I keep my eyes on the skies as we walk.
Hantei Dave: Kuno begins a stare
Hantei Dave: anyone making conversation here?
Hantei Dave: Udon: roll perception...sightt
Togashi Udon: maybe a little small talk--ok
Hantei Dave: Kuno and Udon walk over a slight hill and take one more step before
stopping in their tracks
Hantei Dave: same with Oku
Togashi Udon: uh oh
KibagamiKuno: Phoenix at our backacross the plains lie mountainsThere shall we tempt
fate
KibagamiKuno: see?
Togashi Udon: huh?
Hantei Dave: about 20 yards away...on lower ground standing over a small brook is 2
winged oni (like the type your guys met at another point)...and another one in red
armor.....or is it skin?
Hantei Dave: they see you
Hantei Dave: Udon and Kuno
Togashi Udon: Good
KibagamiKuno: Ah, here they are.
Togashi Udon: You pieces of Baka!
Hantei Dave: The one in red speaks
KibagamiKuno: "Welcome back, shall we kill you again?"
Hantei Dave: he smiles at Kuno
Hantei Dave: "you would not be able to Kuno"
Hantei Dave: "I am stronger now."
KibagamiKuno: "You mean 'dead already'" (voiding)
Hantei Dave: roll
KibagamiKuno: 23
Hantei Dave: he throws no blood lust at you Kuno
KibagamiKuno: err
KibagamiKuno: 333
KibagamiKuno: 33
Hantei Dave: either way
Togashi Udon: (Blessing weapon)
Hantei Dave: you get no stats
KibagamiKuno: he need throw none, i want to study how he stands.
KibagamiKuno: I can cut down an adversary better by analyzing him, he need not be
attacking.
Hantei Dave: true
Togashi Udon: same round--28
Hantei Dave: ok Udon....
Hantei Dave: Oku?
Hida Oku: still waiting
Hantei Dave: Kuno: I'll just tell you iaijutsu thou....9
Hida Oku: I'll void him
Hantei Dave: oops..well now you know too Oku
Hantei Dave: :P
Hida Oku: ok then
Hantei Dave: He says, "I bring a gift...from Yogo Junzo. You cannot refuse it."
KibagamiKuno: "Lay it there and we'll decide if we leave it in the dust"
Togashi Udon: "We are gifts from Togashi Yokuni. You cannot beat us."
Hantei Dave: He smiles from one side of his mouth
Hantei Dave: He holds out a scroll
KibagamiKuno: What's it look like?
Hantei Dave: it looks old...brown...plain
Hantei Dave: and is rolled up
Togashi Udon: (20 yards away you say?)
Hantei Dave: "We have been following you until the moment was proper."
Hantei Dave: yes...20
KibagamiKuno: "And this moment is proper?"
Hantei Dave: "Yes....it is."
Togashi Udon: (how far will dragon level 2 reach?)
KibagamiKuno: "Ah, that is a shame... (pause)...
Hantei Dave: one of the oni's screams like a loud bat
KibagamiKuno: for now it has passed. Let Junzo know you let the moment pass"
Hantei Dave: (skip...one sec)
Hantei Dave: 2 meters Udon
Hantei Dave: He smiles and lets the scroll open up
Hantei Dave: it is like a moving drawing....brown pictures shift around the page
Hantei Dave: it is too hard to see from back there
KibagamiKuno: (Kuno makes a funny posture)
Hantei Dave: roll Ki focus Kuno
Hantei Dave: they roll perfceptions
KibagamiKuno: 20
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: if they make it...it doesn't mean they understand it...fyi
KibagamiKuno: THen i'll start moving closer.
Hantei Dave: Udon? Oku?
Togashi Udon: i'll move closer too
Hida Oku: how close am I?
Hantei Dave: "This one is for free" he says
Hantei Dave: Oku: you can move...your movement this round
Hida Oku: but how close am I?
KibagamiKuno: distance now dave? 10 ?
Hida Oku: do they know I'm there? Can I get around them?
Hantei Dave: Kuno 20-your MOVE
Hantei Dave: Oku: roll stealth again
Hantei Dave: Oku: 20-MOVE
KibagamiKuno: ah, ok, 15.
Hida Oku: with the shadow bonus?
Hantei Dave: yes
KibagamiKuno: (void the left winged bat)
Hida Oku: 28
Hantei Dave: Kuno: if you do, you will lose the contact with the red guy
KibagamiKuno: (err, winged oni, bats are traditionally winged)
Togashi Udon: "Free? Like your mother?"(smile)
Hantei Dave: Udon: do you move forward
Togashi Udon: yup
Hida Oku: 29
Hantei Dave: "I would expect more from a monk. We are civil here Udon." one creature
screeches
Hantei Dave: Oku and Udon...tell me how close you got
Togashi Udon: (Laughing)
Togashi Udon: (How close can i get
Hida Oku: well, I'd like to get within jumping distnce behind them
Hantei Dave: Raab....THIS round....how close CAN you get?
Hantei Dave: do yo uwant to run?
Togashi Udon: (me, no)
Hantei Dave: Skip 20-MOVE
Hida Oku: no
Hantei Dave: well...how close then Raab?
Hantei Dave: 20 meters minus the MOVE
Hida Oku: to the edge of my cover
Hantei Dave: sheesh
Hantei Dave: raab...look at your sheet
Hantei Dave: what does the move say?
Togashi Udon: 4
Togashi Udon: so i can get to 16 yards
Hida Oku: 5
Hantei Dave: yes
Togashi Udon: ok
Hantei Dave: so Oku is 15 yards away on the side
Hantei Dave: whew
Hantei Dave: Kuno: you get a bit ahead of Udon
Hantei Dave: you can all now see...images of people on the scroll..moving
Hantei Dave: "This is the Scroll of the Oni's Eye." he says
Hantei Dave: "It lets you see things through the eye. It is a gift...but this time...I will hold
it."
KibagamiKuno: "And what do you see, oni?"
Hantei Dave: "You can't see from there...come closer."
Togashi Udon: "The First?"
KibagamiKuno: (I keep my eyes on him"
KibagamiKuno: )
Hantei Dave: He himself makes a screaching sound.
Togashi Udon: Kuno...
Hantei Dave: An image of a goblins head appears from the corner of the scroll...The
goblins mouth is moving and the images shifts wildly like the goblin was holding the
camera
Togashi Udon: Who's eyes does the scroll look through?
Hantei Dave: "Some long dead oni I imagine." He says
Hantei Dave: "You cannot hold it yet. It will taint you."
Hantei Dave: people wanna move closer?
KibagamiKuno: "Not very practical, then, is it? Now if it was seeing through your eyes,
what would it see?"
Hantei Dave: "Right now? fear. Weakness."
Hantei Dave: He looks at you
Hida Oku: ?
Hida Oku: shit, lag
Hantei Dave: ok raab
Togashi Udon: What does the goblin wish o show us?
Hantei Dave: "you need to come closer."
Hantei Dave: an oni screeches
KibagamiKuno: "Hmm, that would explain your companions cowardice at the canyon,
yes..."
Hantei Dave: "...closer...."
Togashi Udon: "you need to get bent."
Hida Oku: do I make it behind them?
Hantei Dave: Oku....this is round 2...do you want to move up?
KibagamiKuno: I move up slower.
Hida Oku: yes
Hantei Dave: last I checked you were far away
Hantei Dave: move your MOVE again and reroll stealth
Hantei Dave: subtract that from the previous distance
KibagamiKuno: I'm about 10 yards (30 feet) now.
Hantei Dave: ok Kuno
Hida Oku: 26 stealth
Hantei Dave: Udon must be about 12 yards away
Hantei Dave: as is oku
Hida Oku: yep
Hantei Dave: you can all see much better now
Togashi Udon: ok then
Hantei Dave: "Now....watch."
Hantei Dave: You see an drawing of an oni...he looks encased in a chamber. He is huge.
Togashi Udon: (Hand on tanto)
Hantei Dave: it looks like an army is approaching from across a barren landscape
Hantei Dave: ...they are far away
Hantei Dave: anyone? doing something?
Togashi Udon: Is the landscape recognisable
Hantei Dave: moving closer? anything else? Kuno, you watching the guy or the scroll
KibagamiKuno: Where are they looking? Us or them?
Togashi Udon: ?
Hantei Dave: Udon: roll INT
Hantei Dave: at Udon and Kuno...they watch
Togashi Udon: 18
Hantei Dave: Udon..not familiar
KibagamiKuno: I watch the guy, but i vaguely observe the scroll through peripheral vision.
Hantei Dave: ok Kuno
Togashi Udon: what is the army made of?
Hantei Dave: 3rd round...moving closer anyone?
Hantei Dave: they are far Udon...hard to see in the drawing
KibagamiKuno: I step in a little closer - 7 yards away.
Hantei Dave: ok Kuno
Togashi Udon: about 8 yards
Hantei Dave: ok Udon
Hantei Dave: the army slowly approaches
Togashi Udon: what are they made of
Hantei Dave: "Who are they?" says the man/demon "I am so excited."
Hantei Dave: He is sarcastic
KibagamiKuno: "Careful Akira, that armor is restrictive"
Hantei Dave: He smiles
Hantei Dave: It is a crab army
Hantei Dave: you can see the flags now
Hantei Dave: they approach the large oni...who hasn't moved an inch
Hantei Dave: anyone doing anything?
Hantei Dave: "patience" Akira says
KibagamiKuno: "It's sad, akira, you killed your wife, and your son (and he is your son)
wanders the world without his father."
KibagamiKuno: "all because you thought i touched her. sad...
Togashi Udon: "It is better that the boy does not know what his father has
become."
Hantei Dave: "Yogo Junzo has brought me beyond such needs now.
Women..family....meaningless."
KibagamiKuno: she died because of a misconception."
KibagamiKuno: "the anger is still there, is it not? Or are you merely a tool?"
KibagamiKuno: "Just some hapless oni Junzo thinks will bother me."
Hantei Dave: "I didn't say this is for you."
Togashi Udon: "A tool in constrictive armor with smelly friends."
Hantei Dave: The crab army walks strait up to the Oni now.
Hantei Dave: you can make out the 3 in front
Hantei Dave: Hida Kisada (the Bear), Yakamo, Kuni Yori
Hantei Dave: it is all silent in the scroll
Hantei Dave: Kisada seems to be speaking and the oni replies
Hantei Dave: "tsk...so predicable."
Hantei Dave: "and to answer your question, anger is simply one emotion
Hantei Dave: "
KibagamiKuno: "as is pity. I pity you akira, whay you've become."
KibagamiKuno: (what0
KibagamiKuno: )
Hantei Dave: "shhhh...pay attention"
Hantei Dave: Udon, doing anything?
Hantei Dave: Oku?
Hantei Dave: Kuno?
Togashi Udon: paying attention
Hantei Dave: ^_^
KibagamiKuno: Watching the enemies present.
Hantei Dave: Kisada is getting angry now...waving his arms
KibagamiKuno: (present as in here, not as in gift)
Hida Oku: just watching
Hantei Dave: "Should I stop?" whispers Akira
Hantei Dave: Yakamo steps forward and talks to his father
KibagamiKuno: "You should never have started on this path, akira, but you might as well
see it through to your end."
Hantei Dave: "Then let it be for my benifit that you watch." he whispers
Hantei Dave: an oni screeches quietly next to him
Hantei Dave: Kisada walks closer motioning towards himself
Hantei Dave: with wild motions
KibagamiKuno: "Junzo could have baited me better if i thought you were still within reach
of humanity, but sadly i know better.
KibagamiKuno: "
Hantei Dave: Yakamo puts a hand on his shoulder
Hantei Dave: "So much ego...."
Hantei Dave: says akira
KibagamiKuno: "Do you really think you can come back? Then there are bigger faults
present than ego."
Hantei Dave: Yakamo moves in front of his father
Hantei Dave: Kuni Yori steps up a bit
Togashi Udon: "So many opinions."
Hantei Dave: "I can't see the scroll...describe it to me." He says
Hantei Dave: "Tell me what is happening."
KibagamiKuno: "It is old, and brown."
Hantei Dave: "Be honest. Tell me what you feel monk?"
KibagamiKuno: "Pictures move on it as it rests in your hands, and as it rests there, you do
not hold steel."
Togashi Udon: It shows your son, older, eating your intestines."
Hantei Dave: (a lie?)
Togashi Udon: yup
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: "Does it make you sad? angry? Does it make you hate me?"
Togashi Udon: Nope.
KibagamiKuno: "It makes us wonder how you eat"
Togashi Udon: (smile)
Hantei Dave: Kisada steps back a bit
Hantei Dave: Kuni Yori steps forward.
Hantei Dave: The oni was speaking on and off the whole time
Hantei Dave: Now Yakamo puts his tetsubo on the ground
Togashi Udon: Hurmmm
Hida Oku: wtf?
Hantei Dave: Kuni Yori begins moving his hands slowly
Hantei Dave: does oku say that?
Hida Oku: no....
Hantei Dave: ok
Hida Oku: he thinks it
Hantei Dave: Yakamo raises his other hand now...the one that was on the side of his
body
Hantei Dave: There is no hand...only a claw...large and fearsome
Hantei Dave: Its as if Yakamo and the Oni begin glowing right off the scroll
Hida Oku: 20
Hantei Dave: Oku: you don't know
Hida Oku: ok
Hida Oku: damn, good role, too
Hantei Dave: The image of the oni begins shrinking slightly
Hantei Dave: and the cage disappears
KibagamiKuno: (smurfimorph oni?)
Hantei Dave: He is still massive...but less so now
Hantei Dave: Yakamo is motionless
KibagamiKuno: "Has he a name, akira?"
Hantei Dave: "Have they made a pact? Who was it with? Sukune?"
Hantei Dave: Akira asks
KibagamiKuno: (wryly/sarcasticly?)
Hantei Dave: He doesn't seem to know
Hantei Dave: "Not Kisada....
Hantei Dave: "
Hantei Dave: he says
Hantei Dave: "Monk?"
Hantei Dave: "Who?"
Togashi Udon: What?
Hantei Dave: "Who was the pact with?"
Hantei Dave: "Who gave his name?"
Togashi Udon: Some ugly oni.
Hida Oku: NOOOOOOO!
KibagamiKuno: "now now udon, he's handsome compared to these three..."
Hantei Dave: Akira sighs...I'll find out
Hantei Dave: Oku yelled?
Hida Oku: yeah
Hantei Dave: The oni's turn to the side and screech
Hantei Dave: "I thought you were here Oku!" yells Akira. We saw you traveling together
days ago
Hantei Dave: "
Hantei Dave: "I'm glad you can see. Who was it?"
Hida Oku: (luke skywalker-stlye "no")
Hida Oku: I tell them
KibagamiKuno: "If you'll find out anyway, why ask us? If you can't, why should we tell?"
Hantei Dave: Oku says "Yakamo."
Hantei Dave: "Yakamo no Oni" says Akira
KibagamiKuno: "Oh good, that answers that. You've been most helpful akira."
Hantei Dave: About 100 soldiers leave rank and follow the demon in the other direction
Hida Oku: "what have they done?..."
Hantei Dave: Kisada, Yakamo, Yori, and the rest turn around and leave
Hantei Dave: The image freezes
Hantei Dave: "Do you want the scroll? Can you refuse it?"
Hantei Dave: "It won't taint you while closed."
KibagamiKuno: "They have done what fate determined, knowing the present is not
necessary when the future will present itself."
Hantei Dave: He closes it
Togashi Udon: What good would it do us?
KibagamiKuno: "What must we do to accept such a gift?"
Hantei Dave: "Take it. You want it." He holds it out to the side...towards Oku
Togashi Udon: We dont need it.
Hida Oku: Oku grabs it from him
Hantei Dave: don't attack
Hantei Dave: lemme get this out
Hantei Dave: ^_-
Hantei Dave: Oku grabs teh scroll
Hantei Dave: Akira says, "Yogo Junzo's goblins are following the westers Shadowlands
army. You will know there position at all times with this scroll. Can you refuse it?"
Hantei Dave: western
Hantei Dave: He smiles "Be careful"
Hantei Dave: "There is a price when you use it now Oku."
Hida Oku: there always is
Hantei Dave: "But we will welcome you when it is paid."
Hantei Dave: he hisses lowly
Hida Oku: I draw my tanto
Hantei Dave: the 2 oni shift in front of Akira blocking Kuno and Udon
Togashi Udon: (wink)
Hantei Dave: inits...as the oni move
KibagamiKuno: 43
Hida Oku: when we do meet again, I'll sheath this blade in your black heart
Togashi Udon: 25
Hida Oku: 26
Hantei Dave: 30 oni right
Hantei Dave: 28 oni left
Hantei Dave: left closer to Oku
Togashi Udon: (smile)
Hantei Dave: 41 Akira
KibagamiKuno: gotcha heheh...
Hantei Dave: udon declares
Togashi Udon: activate dragon tattoo and pause to dodge
Hantei Dave: ok...Oku?
Togashi Udon: bonus next round for pause?
Hantei Dave: sure... +4
Hida Oku: strike from heaven
Hida Oku: (jumping)
Hida Oku: oni closer to me
Hantei Dave: ok...Oni left goes to meet Oku in the air
Hantei Dave: oni right goes to attack Kuno
Hantei Dave: Akira drops back a little
Togashi Udon: (how far?)
Hantei Dave: only about 1 yard
Hantei Dave: kuno goes
Togashi Udon: from me?
Hantei Dave: from both of you
Togashi Udon: k
KibagamiKuno: Seeking blade to Akira.
Hantei Dave: roll attack
KibagamiKuno: (made it to do seeking blade)
Hantei Dave: 35 dodge
Hantei Dave: (hm?)
Hantei Dave: (ok...roll attack)
KibagamiKuno: 38
Hantei Dave: woa
Hantei Dave: hehehe
KibagamiKuno: (14+24)
Hantei Dave: nice
Hantei Dave: hit...damage?
KibagamiKuno: 35 pts, no defense.
Hantei Dave: You slice in between Akira's armor
Hantei Dave: He falls back
Hantei Dave: he rolls Con
KibagamiKuno: (fail! Fail! i wish...)
Hantei Dave: he failed it and loses his attack...still alive
KibagamiKuno: Well that's something! heh.
Hantei Dave: oni right attacks Kuno
Hantei Dave: (no iaijutsu bonus kuno)
KibagamiKuno: (iknow)
Hantei Dave: 23 to attack
KibagamiKuno: (did akira get his sword out, btw?)
Hantei Dave: with its claws
Hantei Dave: kuno...no
KibagamiKuno: 25
Hantei Dave: shit
Hantei Dave: really?
KibagamiKuno: (uh, that was close.)
Hantei Dave: what did you roll?
Hantei Dave: bastard
KibagamiKuno: yeah... evade natural is 13, +12 roll.
Hantei Dave: damn you :P
KibagamiKuno: it's not like i'm rolling 18's here... (i wish i wish...)
Hantei Dave: oni left attacks Oku
Hida Oku: let's see what happens
Hantei Dave: oops wait
Hantei Dave: sorry
Hida Oku: no?
Hantei Dave: oni right has two claws
Hantei Dave: onle a 21 on the 1st attack
Hantei Dave: now the second Kuni ^_-
Hantei Dave: kuno
KibagamiKuno: oh you suck. But wait, the first one was dodged, right? I get the counter.
Hantei Dave: true...make your attack 1st
KibagamiKuno: 30 to attack
KibagamiKuno: no iaijutsu
Hantei Dave: shit...27 dodge (I gotta make these guys stronger)
Hantei Dave: you suck!
KibagamiKuno: or us weaker heh
Hantei Dave: roll damage
Hantei Dave: just Kuno
KibagamiKuno: 31. eh
Hantei Dave: 31?
KibagamiKuno: (that's why you pick on me in court i thought)
KibagamiKuno: yah.
Hantei Dave: with no fire?
KibagamiKuno: not AP.
KibagamiKuno: fire doesn't count in damage.
KibagamiKuno: does it?
Hantei Dave: oh yeah
Hantei Dave: Oni right is cut in half
KibagamiKuno: i roll 8d6.
Hida Oku: sheesh!
Hantei Dave: in left attacks oku...1st attack
Hida Oku: dodge 30
KibagamiKuno: (and stay down)
Hantei Dave: 21 to attack. second claw
Hida Oku: counterstrike
Hida Oku: 27
KibagamiKuno: yay! kill it!
Hantei Dave: 23 tot dodge
Hantei Dave: you hit
Hantei Dave: roll
Hantei Dave: damage with tanto Oku
Hida Oku: 20
Hantei Dave: with tanto?
Hida Oku: oops, tanto
Hida Oku: plus my strength, right?
Hida Oku: yeah, then 20
Hantei Dave: strength can up to double the damage...
Hantei Dave: it is not an addition
KibagamiKuno: (roll 2d6, why didn't you use the sword?
KibagamiKuno: )
Hida Oku: well, my strength is 6
Hantei Dave: what is normal tanto damage
Hantei Dave: ?
Hida Oku: max!
Hida Oku: 12
Hida Oku: +1, 13
Hantei Dave: +1?
Hantei Dave: woa woa woa
Hantei Dave: hold it
Hida Oku: WA... +1
KibagamiKuno: tea time!
Hida Oku: TEA TIME!
KibagamiKuno: :-)
Hantei Dave: tea time indeed
Hantei Dave: ok...slowly now
Hida Oku: ok, 2d6 for the tanto
Hantei Dave: lemme check tanto stats
Togashi Udon: but there are 3 oni's? i dont want to have tea with them...
Hida Oku: rolled 2 sixes
Hantei Dave: you can do 4d6 damage then...period
Hida Oku: the tanto has a +1 WA
Hantei Dave: +1 is to the attack
KibagamiKuno: oh booger, i've been forgetting about WA all this time.
Hida Oku: that's what I rolled origonally, and got the 20
Hantei Dave: kuno: good :P
Hida Oku: ah
Hantei Dave: ok...20 then
Hantei Dave: whew
Hantei Dave: game on?
Hida Oku: GAME ON!
Hantei Dave: GAME ON! ^_^
Hida Oku: that was my counterstrike
Hantei Dave: i know...he rolls CON
Togashi Udon: no tea for the oni's!
Hantei Dave: He falls to the ground
Hida Oku: from the air?
Hida Oku: heh
Hantei Dave: and loses HIS 2nd attack too
Hida Oku: my attack now?
Hantei Dave: Oku gets his attack now
Hantei Dave: go
Hida Oku: and he's on the ground?
Hantei Dave: yes
Hantei Dave: prone
Hida Oku: hidden blade!
Hantei Dave: no...you called cut from heaven oku
Hida Oku: + cut from heaven
Hantei Dave: thats it
Hida Oku: alright... .damn
Hantei Dave: roll the attack
Hida Oku: 26
Hida Oku: oops, 24
Hantei Dave: he actually made the dodge (didn't add evade because of prone)
