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Keshijo has entered the room.
Togashi Udon has entered the room.
Hantei Dave: well, we have two it seems
Hantei Dave: kinda hoping for Oku too
Togashi Udon: Hello all!
Keshijo: A las dos.
Hantei Dave: oh, and brian, I forgot to give you back Rwoko
Owari at the party
Togashi Udon: Solamente tres
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Keshijo: Donde esta numero quatro?
Keshijo: y cinco?
Keshijo: y seis?
Hantei Dave: Juan rompa la pierna
Hantei Dave: Que comida mas rica!!!
Togashi Udon: Yo no say
Keshijo: Mira! Mira la television!
Togashi Udon: Que?
Hantei Dave: (kicks the teleprompter)
Hantei Dave: there
Keshijo: (oh the flashbacks..... the flashbacks....)
Togashi Udon: LSD?
Keshijo: BTW: Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball is the
best game ever....
Hantei Dave: hehe...do zombies play?
Togashi Udon: really? x-box or playstation or both?
Keshijo: Umm... no... you play volleyball...
Keshijo: to buy bikinis!
Togashi Udon: :-)
Hantei Dave: oh, THAT dead or alive
Hantei Dave: cool
Togashi Udon: so they start naked?
Keshijo: Well, no... Why would you buy the bikinis then....
Hantei Dave: yeah, shouldn't it be the goal to lose the bathing
suit?
Keshijo: The more expensive ones are skimpier...
Hantei Dave: I should market dentl floss
Togashi Udon: then the last round they bribe the judge to allow a
naked beach?
Keshijo: I haven't gotten that yet...
Keshijo: I can hope.
Togashi Udon: keep trying
Hantei Dave: so, you guys wanna say hi to the Crab tonight?
Keshijo: I'm trying.
Keshijo: Hi Crab!
Keshijo: Phlppt!
Keshijo: Neener!
Keshijo: <poke>
Keshijo: <Dodge>
Hantei Dave: a thousand crab and peasants chase you
Keshijo: <run>
Togashi Udon: i suppose i can deal with crabs...(nice
segway...naked non-living women to crabs)
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Hantei Dave: Should I add Oku in for diplomacy reasons
Togashi Udon: should i have kesh know another tooth out before
we get there...
Togashi Udon: knock
Hantei Dave: I think I can play him: grumble grumble
Keshijo: Tooth?
Hantei Dave: well, I have one question first off anyway. Do you
guys got any jade fingers?
Togashi Udon: the crab champion kicked my tooth out the last
time we met
Hantei Dave: Yakamo
Togashi Udon: i think oku and kuno had the jade
Hantei Dave: doh!
Keshijo: I have 1.
Togashi Udon: I have 0
Hantei Dave: ummm....ok, well lets say you both have an
additional 1 from the others
Keshijo: And a naganata blade..
Hantei Dave: Keshijo has 2 and Udon has 1
Togashi Udon: Let's say
Hantei Dave: well, lets start out right at the Crab gate leading to
crab lands. It is heavily guarded with a huge contingent of
samurai and ashigaru
Hantei Dave: oku and kuno and sousha are not here
Togashi Udon: Hrm... maybe oku should...Doh!
Togashi Udon: We forgot Oku!
Hantei Dave: there is also a large group of other people camped
out near the gate
Hantei Dave: mostly samurai from other clans
Togashi Udon: Shinjoten, didn't you stay with the Crab?
Hantei Dave: and also diplomats
Keshijo: Hai.
Togashi Udon: Maybe you could use that to get us through?
Hantei Dave: you are now closest to Kyuden Hida
Keshijo: Maybe.
Hantei Dave: btw...noone is being let through the gate
Togashi Udon: Why not?
Hantei Dave: there is a large stone staircase leading up to the
gate with walls on both sides...easily defendable
Togashi Udon: Is the gate broken?
Hantei Dave: nope
Hantei Dave: you can go ask if you want
Togashi Udon: Ok.
Hantei Dave: ...
Togashi Udon: "Excuse me, noble Crab, but why is no one being
let through?"
Hantei Dave: Gatekeeper: "These borders are temperarily
closed. I can give no further instruction or when they will be
reopened."
Togashi Udon: "Hrm... Thank you, sir."
Hantei Dave: thoughts?
Hantei Dave: goig home?
Togashi Udon: back th Shin
Keshijo: Hmm...
Togashi Udon: Well, I guess he's dead and the Empire will fall.
Togashi Udon: Wanna go to a geisha house?
Keshijo: Where do the Kuni live in relation to where we are?
Togashi Udon: Stubborn Crab (mutter mutter)
Hantei Dave: well, Shiro Kuno, house of Kuni Yori is a bit
north... but the Kuni have no real homeland. Their castles are
scattered
Hantei Dave: on the other side of course
Hantei Dave: of this gate anyway
Keshijo: Hmm...
Togashi Udon: Yori is the one I want to beat up, right?
Hantei Dave: heheh...yep
Keshijo: I walk up to the crab guard.
Hantei Dave: ok
Keshijo: "My friend and I have business with Kuni Ryoko. You
must let us see her."
Hantei Dave: "I am afraid that is not possible."
Keshijo: "And why not?"
Hantei Dave: "No outsiders are permitted through these gates.
All of the Crab border is closed."
Keshijo: "So send someone to get her."
Hantei Dave: "By whose order."
Keshijo: "Keshijo the Demon Hunter. One of her students."
Togashi Udon: (wanna whip it out?)
Hantei Dave: He pauses and looks at you.
Keshijo: (not yet)
Hantei Dave: through his kabuto
Togashi Udon: (oh...name drop...)
Hantei Dave: "Forgive me but I will need proof."
Togashi Udon: (is dropping your own name still name dropping?)
Keshijo: I show him the blade of the Naganata.
Keshijo: "It was damaged fighting the enemy."
Hantei Dave: "I'm sorry. I will need to see further proof I am
afraid. I am under orders."
Keshijo: "What do you need?"
Hantei Dave: "I was told that is the tanto bearers (he names them
all) were to approach I may allow them entrance by order of
Hida Yakamo but only under strict supervision."
Hantei Dave: (a horse rides up behind you two)
Keshijo: Okay then....
Togashi Udon: (look over shoulder)
Keshijo: I take out the tanto. "This tanto?"
Togashi Udon: "Or this one?"
Togashi Udon: (shows it)
Hantei Dave: (Udon, it is Iuchi Karasu. He nods to you.)
Hantei Dave: (he is the one that attacked you that time)
Togashi Udon: (nod and smile)
Hantei Dave: the gate keeper orders the doors to be opened
Hantei Dave: Karasu hops off his horse and kneels in front of
you two
Keshijo: "Our companions will arrive shortly."
Keshijo: (I try not to kill Karasu)
Hantei Dave: "Sama's, please allow me to accompany you."
Hantei Dave: "These borders are closed to me."
Togashi Udon: "On what grounds?"
Hantei Dave: "My friend is hurt."
Hantei Dave: "I want to find him."
Togashi Udon: "Who?"
Hantei Dave: "Isawa Tadaka-sama."
Togashi Udon: (look for advise from Shinjoten)
Hantei Dave: "I have waited here for you for 2 weeks now."
Hantei Dave: roll your hate roll kesh ^_^
Togashi Udon: (raise eyebrows--what do you think a guide may
be useful--kind of look)
Keshijo: "Why should we help you? You attacked us with
provocation, gaijin."
Keshijo: 15
Hantei Dave: 3d6+complication
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: you can tolerate him
Keshijo: Oh... I thought it was 3d6 +will...
Hantei Dave: oops...yes, will too sorry
Hantei Dave: add in your complication though
Keshijo: So it's 3d6 (11) + Will (4) + Intolerance (5)?
Hantei Dave: right...20
Hantei Dave: you failed
Togashi Udon: ugh
Keshijo: Oh So it's a don't roll high thing...
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Keshijo: I would have thought you'd subtract the complication...
Hantei Dave: you give in to your intolerance
Keshijo: and have normal target numbers...
Hantei Dave: no...higher the complicaiton...the harder the roll is
Hantei Dave: right?
Keshijo: Right... I would have had 3D6 + Will - Complication...
Keshijo: I figured I'd fail anyway, but that gives me a 10, failure
on the normal scale anyway...
Hantei Dave: lol
Togashi Udon: I would have 3d6 + comp - will since you are
using will against the complication
Hantei Dave: If you make a diplomacy roll, I'll let you add in
INT though to help
Hantei Dave: anyway you slice it, he failed
Keshijo: Yeah.
Keshijo: Even if I roll diplomacy I don't think I could get it...
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: He is still bowed
Hantei Dave: "I can sense him" he says
Togashi Udon: "How?"
Hantei Dave: "I... have that ability. He is fading and is already
weak."
Keshijo: "Udon sama. He attacked you. I will not have anything
to do with him. If you want to take him, feel free. I will not
protect him."
Hantei Dave: (fair trade off kesh)
Togashi Udon: (I reach towards his kneck with my hand)
Hantei Dave: Guard: "If you speak for him, I will permit his
entrance."
Togashi Udon: Is he wereing a necklace?
Hantei Dave: his neck is badly scarred. he doesn't stop you
Hantei Dave: no necklace
Hantei Dave: only his iron mask
Togashi Udon: "Who do you serve?"
Hantei Dave: He looks up with his red eyes.
Hantei Dave: "I....I serve...."
Togashi Udon: "Don't you dare say me."
Hantei Dave: "It is not that easy." He drops his head.
Hantei Dave: "I serve too many, but I am loyal to my Clan in
heart."
Togashi Udon: "Another tool. You may come."
Hantei Dave: "domo" he whispers
Hantei Dave: He gets his horse.
Keshijo: We still have our horses, right?
Hantei Dave: Guard: "you will be acompanied by two guards.
You may not break from them at any time until they are ordered
to do so."
Hantei Dave: (you still have a horse. Udon lost his)
Togashi Udon: "Sorry my friend, but it is a tool we must bear for
now." (whisper to Kesh)
Togashi Udon: "Domo." (bow)
Hantei Dave: "The guards will bring you directly to Kyuden Hida
and you will await your host. Is this clear?"
Togashi Udon: "Hai."
Keshijo: "Hai."
Hantei Dave: Karasu: "Hai."
Keshijo: "About Kuni Ryoko? Will I be able to see her?"
Hantei Dave: "She is most likely at Kyuden Hida or in the
Shadowlands."
Keshijo: "I thank you."
Keshijo: <bow>
Hantei Dave: going in? Ok if Udon rides with Kesh?
Keshijo: Yes.
Hantei Dave: ok
Togashi Udon: thnx
Hantei Dave: when you enter the mighty gate, you notice the
obvious state of alert in these lands
Hantei Dave: even the nearby village is practicing fighting forms
Keshijo: "Almost like they are ready for war. That is good. War
is coming."
Hantei Dave: in the distance is the enormous kai wall...longer
then your eyes can see
Togashi Udon: Hai
Hantei Dave: patrols walks all along the wall and bushi train in
fields below
Hantei Dave: Kesh: it was not like this last time you were here
Keshijo: Really?
Hantei Dave: the peasants were hard...but also mindful of their
duties... no preparing for war
Hantei Dave: it is serious here
Keshijo: Anything else unusual?
Togashi Udon: "It is not right. Farmers should not have to
practice forms. But I suppose it is a blessing that they are willing
to fight for what is theirs."
Hantei Dave: the two guards (each on a pony) lead you to
Kyuden Hida
Hantei Dave: well, nothing more unusual than what you just
noticed
Hantei Dave: Karasu: "It is rumered the Crab are preparing for a
great war."
Hantei Dave: "But even the peasants...."
Togashi Udon: "Kesh, perhaps you should speak to
Yokumo-sama. I would rather not lose another tooth. And
Karasu, you should not talk at all when we are there."
Hantei Dave: Yakamo
Togashi Udon: sory
Keshijo: "Quiet Gaijin. At least they will be ready. It is an
honor."
Hantei Dave: Karasu: "I don't plan too."
Hantei Dave: to kesh: "Hai."
Hantei Dave: Karasu shuts up
Hantei Dave: guard: "It will take abut 2 hours to reach Kyuden
Hida."
Hantei Dave: (anything anyone wanted to ask or do at this point?
kill some guards?)
Keshijo: I ask the guards if there has been activity in the
shadowlands of late... at least more than usual.
Togashi Udon: not me
Hantei Dave: Guard: "It has been unuasuably quiet in the
Shadowlands. It has given us a chance to fortify the Wall...
thankfully."
Keshijo: "The calm before the storm..."
Hantei Dave: other guard, "very little attacks for some time i
hear."
Keshijo: "Fu Leng is up to something...."
Hantei Dave: Guard: "Its best you not say that name here. Fights
have started for less."
Togashi Udon: (Udon is lost in thought until they arrive)
Keshijo: "Hai. But it is the truth."
Hantei Dave: "Anyway, He's just hiding...HA!"
Keshijo: I laugh with him...
Hantei Dave: anything else Kesh?
Keshijo: Do I see any Kuni Witch Hunters around?
Hantei Dave: no witch hunters in sight
Keshijo: "Odd."
Keshijo: "Where are the witch hunters?"
Keshijo: "I spent many months with them."
Hantei Dave: "I'm not sure. Their business is their own. You
know, Moshu?" Moshu: "Nope. Haven't heard."
Keshijo: "It would be nice to see a familar face here."
Hantei Dave: "War brings us together friend."
Keshijo: "That it does. What is your name friend?"
Hantei Dave: "The longer you stay here, the more you will
understand that. I am Hoshu. (for ease)."
Togashi Udon: (looks at guard oddly...goes back into head)
Keshijo: "I have been told the best way to know someone is to
be in battle with them."
Keshijo: "It is where their true face cannot be hidden."
Hantei Dave: "Well said."
Hantei Dave: "Mind if I ask you a question friend?"
Keshijo: "Not at all."
Hantei Dave: "What is Lord Yakamo like? I have never met
him."
Hantei Dave: (Keshijo tries to be nice)
Hantei Dave: (udon?)
Togashi Udon: "He killed my cousin."
Keshijo: "I have only met him once. Under less than friendly
circumstances... He was everything I had heard him to be."
Hantei Dave: The guards shifts in their saddles.
Hantei Dave: and stay quiet
Hantei Dave: anything else to make them uncomfortable?
Togashi Udon: hehe, sorry
Keshijo: "He has a great destiny I think."
Hantei Dave: I guess we go to Kyuden Hida then.
Togashi Udon: "I am sorry. I have been on the road too long. I
harbor no ill will towards your lord, I was just stating a fact."
Hantei Dave: They shift again.
Togashi Udon: "I should think less, perhaps." ^_^
Hantei Dave: "no harm done, sir."
Togashi Udon: "And pay attention more." ^_^
Hantei Dave: "My apologies for asking."
Keshijo: I keep an eye out for Witch Hunters.
Hantei Dave: Karasu stays silent
Hantei Dave: you approach the massive stone castle Kyuden
Hida built close to the Wall. Giant bone jaws hang over the
door. It is nothing of this world you have seen. They could
easily swallow all of your horses and you.
Togashi Udon: o.O
Hantei Dave: Your guards accompany you into the hall. Armor
of past ancestors and the Hida House Guards are at attention.
Hantei Dave: there is nothing flashy here
Keshijo: "Ah, the joys of the shadowlands..."
Hantei Dave: it is the opposite of the last castle you saw Udon
Togashi Udon: hrm...
Hantei Dave: the House Guards await you in front of some
mighty double doors, one goes in to announce you.
Hantei Dave: he comes back, "Sirs, Lord Hida Yakamo is
unavailable due to prior duties elsewhere in the lands. Lord
Hida Kisada awaits your audience."
Togashi Udon: "Domo." (bow)
Hantei Dave: Hida Kisada = great bear and father of yakamo
(for reminder)
Hantei Dave: he is the leader of the Crab
Keshijo: I bow. "This is a great honor."
Keshijo: I wait until asked to dismount.
Hantei Dave: "Lord Karasu, you are not permitted in."
Keshijo: (Just read the Code of the Samurai....)
Hantei Dave: Karasu nods and waits at the side in traditional
kneeling posture
Hantei Dave: (I assume you left the horses outside...heheh)
Keshijo: Okay then.
Hantei Dave: they open the doors for you
Togashi Udon: hai
Hantei Dave: Kisada sits in his full armor on a throne that fits his
enormous size perfectly
Hantei Dave: Hida House Guards stand ready on either side
Hantei Dave: about 20 in all
Hantei Dave: and the ronin and monk with a tree walk in humbly
Hantei Dave: SLAM (behind you)
Hantei Dave: anyone wanna roll diplomacy? (you should know
to kneel and bow by this time)
Togashi Udon: know i just kneel
Togashi Udon: no, i just...
Togashi Udon: not know
Togashi Udon: no
Keshijo: He didn't respect us last time we bowed... I just stand.
Togashi Udon: (oh well)
Keshijo: I do wait for him to speak first.
Togashi Udon: (i stand after I am done)
Hantei Dave: He waits
Hantei Dave: he grabs his throne with both hands tightly
Hantei Dave: He gestures with one hand
Keshijo: Gestures how?
Hantei Dave: 5 house guards run in front of the throne and kneel
on one leg with yari pointed towards you. You are far from the
tips still
Keshijo: Me?
Togashi Udon: (across his throat I guess)
Hantei Dave: both of you
Keshijo: Uncomfortable silence...
Togashi Udon: (Place down the tree)
Hantei Dave: Kisada: "Why have you come here" His voice
resinates
Togashi Udon: (Kesh???)
Togashi Udon: (You still have a better record with crabs then
me)
Keshijo: "We have come to retrieve Isawa Tadaka from the
shadowlands, Hida Kisada sama."
Hantei Dave: "Speak loudly when addressing a Lord. Come
closer...."
Hantei Dave: you will need to move up to the yari tips
Hantei Dave: ^_^
Togashi Udon: :-(
Keshijo: I walk closer. "You will forgive my handicap, sama. I
mean no disrespect."
Hantei Dave: Udon comes too?
Togashi Udon: sure
Hantei Dave: ok, I got you guys in piercing range now
Keshijo: I go right up to the spears.
Togashi Udon: ear lobe please...
Hantei Dave: Keshijo whispers loudly
Hantei Dave: "Lord Tadaka has asked permission to enter the
accursed lands. I have granted that."
Hantei Dave: "....Several time."
Hantei Dave: s
Keshijo: "We have been told he is in greater danger than usual
this time."
Keshijo: "We have been asked by Lady Kaede to assist him."
Hantei Dave: "Why should I permit you rather than send my own
trained professionals?"
Hantei Dave: "Why would the lady not ask me of this service?"
Keshijo: "If we are lost, you lose nothing."
Keshijo: "We owe the Lady a favor. She was collecting it from
us."
Hantei Dave: (sorry to use your idea but....)
Hantei Dave: "Who do you serve?"
Keshijo: "The Empire."
Hantei Dave: "Who controls the Empire?"
Togashi Udon: "The people."
Togashi Udon: (sorry)
Hantei Dave: He looks at the monk
Hantei Dave: "What do the people want?"
Togashi Udon: "Peace and safety."
Hantei Dave: "Answer me truthfully. In all your travels, where
are the people most safe?"
Togashi Udon: Truthfully, sama?
Hantei Dave: no answer
Togashi Udon: It is a tie.
Keshijo: "No one is safe anywhere.. Not now."
Togashi Udon: In the mountains of Togashi and here in the Crab
lands.
Togashi Udon: But my view maybe biased.
Togashi Udon: (bow)
Hantei Dave: "I admire your honesty, monk."
Hantei Dave: "You, however, are confused." talks to Keshijo
Hantei Dave: "I wish my people safe, and they love me for that."
Hantei Dave: "You ask me for assistance, yet you do not show
proper respect."
Togashi Udon: (look confused)
Hantei Dave: "I grant you passage as soon as you confirm my
lordship." looks at kesh
Keshijo: "The last time I bowed before you, sama, you were most
displeased. I would not make the same mistake twice."
Hantei Dave: 1 sec
Hantei Dave: k
Hantei Dave: "You represented someone else at that time."
Hantei Dave: "A representative from the people, bows before a
Lord."
Keshijo: "I still represent him. I am ultimately on his mission to
me."
Hantei Dave: whosa whatsa?
Hantei Dave: you mean Shoju?
Keshijo: Yes.
Hantei Dave: "Then prove by following Lord Shoju into death."
Keshijo: "I will do so when I complete his mission. To do less
would dishonor him."
Hantei Dave: (good argument)
Keshijo: "You would not have me fail him, sama?"
Hantei Dave: (he was about to get mad)
Hantei Dave: He laughs
Hantei Dave: "Shoju's mistake has been a lesson well learned. It
is this strength that I admire most. It is unfortunate his servant
had learned it before he himself did"
Hantei Dave: (that was almost an insult)
Hantei Dave: "I grant you passage into the Shadowlands. You
may use a Hiruma guide, or else you may not last long."
Hantei Dave: "He will return as he sees fit."
Togashi Udon: "Domo, sama." (bow)
Keshijo: "Shoju-sama has taught us all a great deal. I thank you."
Hantei Dave: "Stand down!" The guards move back to their
posts
Hantei Dave: "If that is all, you may leave."
Togashi Udon: (1sec dave, talking)
Hantei Dave: k
Keshijo: "I would like to see the Kuni, if that is permissable."
Hantei Dave: (kuni witch hunters you mean?)
Keshijo: "I have a favor to ask of them."
Keshijo: (yes)
Keshijo: "If I could speak with Kuni Ryoko I would appreciate
it."
Hantei Dave: "I can send message of your favor. All kuni witch
hunters were deployed on special mission."
Hantei Dave: "You were given reprive of this duty."
Keshijo: "I wished to ask them to reforge my blade."
Keshijo: "May I ask the nature of their mission?"
Hantei Dave: "I will have my Kaei Engineers do so."
Hantei Dave: "They have taken full command of my legions of
The Damned. Of more, I will not say."
Keshijo: "I thank you." I present the Naganata blade and my
katana.
Hantei Dave: (and katana?)
Keshijo: I want the blade of my katana to be jade infused....
Keshijo: It would honor my family sword.
Hantei Dave: "Do you plan to take no weapons into the
Shadowlands?"
Keshijo: And make it really cool...
Hantei Dave: heheh
Keshijo: "I have this "show my tanto " this " show my smaller
sword " this " show my bow " and these" show my wards.
Hantei Dave: "As one of my Kuni Witch Hunters, I agree to
reforge your weapon on my service. The katana is
representative of your duty to Lord Shoju, my enemy, and I will
not do so."
Keshijo: "Shoju is your enemy?"
Hantei Dave: (he did attack Shoju)
Hantei Dave: (his armies anyway)
Hantei Dave: (that would not make them friends ^_-)
Hantei Dave: talking skip
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: anything else?
Togashi Udon: (bow) "Sama, as you are well aware, the second
Day of Thunder is fast approaching. It is also our burdon to
alert certain people that they have been chosen as the Thunder
for their clan."
Keshijo: I keep my sword.
Togashi Udon: "The Crab Thunder is your son, Lord
Yakamo-sama."
Hantei Dave: "My son, Lord Yakamo, is well awair of your
interests as told by my servant Oku."
Togashi Udon: "I would be remiss if I did not bring it up once
again."
Hantei Dave: "He agrees to your terms once Lady Mirimoto
Hitomi is removed from her similar offer."
Togashi Udon: ^_^ "She said nearly the same thing, sama."
Hantei Dave: "You should now be awair, she is but a shadow of
her former self. One week ago she challenged my son to duel
in these lands."
Hantei Dave: "She is without sword arm now."
Togashi Udon: >.<
Hantei Dave: hehe
Hantei Dave: "She will present useless to you. She left broken."
Togashi Udon: "It will not serve the people to have the Thunders
dismembering eachother."
Hantei Dave: "It is her childish blood feud."
Hantei Dave: "She is a poor leader."
Hantei Dave: "Poor leader...but stronger than Shoju."
Hantei Dave: (had to throw that one in)
Togashi Udon: "Perhaps she will realize that enough of her blood
has finally been taken. Please, sama, she is my cousin."
Hantei Dave: "You have my sympathy."
Hantei Dave: (hehehe)
Togashi Udon: (Udon stands straight)
Hantei Dave: "No one more thing."
Keshijo: "Shoju commands respect beyond death. We shall see
who the strongest leader is..."
Hantei Dave: "You travel with the shugenja Iuchi Karasu. He is
a dangerous man who has survived the Shadowlands before."
Hantei Dave: "His own loyalty is in question."
Hantei Dave: "If you bring him with you, you may find yourself
betrayed."
Hantei Dave: "That is my warning."
Keshijo: "Do not worry yourself. I do not trust him. One keeps
one's friends close and enemies closer."
Togashi Udon: "In the end, I am afraid that everyone will betray
us."
Hantei Dave: "That is the essence of truth. Remember those
words...remember them well."
Hantei Dave: he was speaking to kesh)
Hantei Dave: "Only your enemies will betray you."
Keshijo: "I am Scorpion. It is our law."
Hantei Dave: "It is a shame the Scorpion are destroyed...but you
are no Scorpion now."
Togashi Udon: (Udon is ready to leave)
Hantei Dave: (he will let you leave when you are ready too
Kesh)
Keshijo: "The Scorpion will be back."
Hantei Dave: "..."
Keshijo: I smile and turn to leave.
Hantei Dave: Udon? one last bow?
Keshijo: "We are stronger than you think."
Togashi Udon: (slight bow & leave)
Hantei Dave: ok, you 2 exit the castle
Hantei Dave: and are brought to THE WALL
Hantei Dave: dum dum dum
Hantei Dave: the wall is 100 feet high
Keshijo: How tiny...
Keshijo: ")
Hantei Dave: no ladders are on the wall
Hantei Dave: doorways lead to staircases
Togashi Udon: "You have my sympathy's."(gumblegruble) "Show
him the Bear."(hits right arm-grumblegrumble)
Hantei Dave: which go to single chambers and eventually the top
Hantei Dave: within the chambers are units of guards that rest of
Kaei engineers working on weapons or other projects
Keshijo: "Don't let him bother you Udon. He acts strong to hide
his weakness."
Hantei Dave: at the top, the wall is wide enough to allow 2 units
to pass each other
Hantei Dave: about 15 feet across
Togashi Udon: Stops & looks at kesh for a moment then "No,
I'm pretty sure he is strong." ^_^
Hantei Dave: the other side looks down at a barren wasteland,
gray, with some battlements in the distance
Hantei Dave: guards are stationed all along the Wall
Hantei Dave: Karasu is with you now too
Hantei Dave: A sweaty Kaei Engineer comes up to Keshijo
holding a naginata.
Keshijo: I bow.
Hantei Dave: "Oi! You!" He scratches himself.
Hantei Dave: "You Keshijo?"
Keshijo: "Hai."
Hantei Dave: he wears some light armor over his skin
Keshijo: I present the tanto as proof.
Hantei Dave: He chucks you the polearm.
Keshijo: I catch it.
Hantei Dave: "Don't break this one. They aren't easy to make."
Keshijo: "I thank you and your Lord."
Keshijo: "It was broken for good reason."
Hantei Dave: "Its gonna take me all day and night to fix the old
one, you know."
Keshijo: "I will take care of this one."
Hantei Dave: he scratches
Togashi Udon: "When did you break a pole arm? Did I miss
something again?"
Keshijo: "In the Ogres head..."
Hantei Dave: (he cut open an ogres head i believe)
Hantei Dave: ehehe
Keshijo: "It was quite a battle."
Hantei Dave: "Just an ogre? Don't waste your jade next time."
Togashi Udon: "Ok."
Keshijo: "There were 4 of them."
Hantei Dave: "It'll work better on oni."
Keshijo: "Hai. It will. And has."
Hantei Dave: he nods a few times looking at the floor and turns
to walk away
Keshijo: "What is your name friend?"
Keshijo: oh...
Hantei Dave: "eh?
Keshijo: guess he's gone..
Keshijo: "What is your name friend?"
Hantei Dave: "I'm Kaei Kyo Jo"
Hantei Dave: "See ya." waves backwords
Keshijo: "Well, Kaei Kyo Jo. I thank you."
Hantei Dave: (yay! i added kaei kyo jo)
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Hantei Dave: couldn't resist
Keshijo: (I knew you wanted to somewhere... )
Togashi Udon: heheheh
Hantei Dave: (thats it, maybe he'll say hi if you return)
Hantei Dave: well, I thinkk we should wait for the others at this
point
Togashi Udon: maybe he could put jade in my staff
Hantei Dave: he just handed kesh a brand new naginata
Hantei Dave: it'll take time to add
Togashi Udon: ok
Togashi Udon: later then
Keshijo: I hope to see him again.. I want the old naginata back.
It has history... :-)
Hantei Dave: shall we stop here then?
Keshijo: Okay. Don't want to get too far ahead of the others...
:-)
Togashi Udon: i guess
Hantei Dave: kesh did that well with kisad
Hantei Dave: kisada
Hantei Dave: he was about to be pissed
Togashi Udon: i have another story to write...
Keshijo: Hehe. Crab are funny... :-)
Hantei Dave: i like em
Togashi Udon: i like em broiled in beer
Togashi Udon: with some drawn lemon butter on the side'
