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Togashi Udon has entered the room.
KibagamiKuno has entered the room.
KibagamiKuno: [bow]
Togashi Udon: <Bow>
Hantei Dave: bows
Hantei Dave: brian is making dinner
Hantei Dave: should be here soon
Hantei Dave: rishard will be late but thats ok
Togashi Udon: me need a drink, brb
Hantei Dave: its the 2nd half of tonight that is critical
Hantei Dave: k
Keshijo has entered the room.
Hantei Dave: now, where is raab?
Hantei Dave: give him a few minutes
Keshijo: Howdy
Hantei Dave: hey
Hantei Dave: so josh, what was you question last night?
KibagamiKuno: dave - can we try pushing these back to 7:15 or 7:30?
Hida Oku has entered the room.
Hida Oku: GAME ON!
KibagamiKuno: no no, game off - we're done
Hantei Dave: Josh: do what you gotta....we'll just tweak things right now
Togashi Udon: back <extra bows>
KibagamiKuno: we just killed you, then the crab smote us.
Togashi Udon: nice try
Hantei Dave: oh, you mean in general?
Hantei Dave: 7:30 is ok with me
Hantei Dave: anyone else?
Togashi Udon: huh?
Hida Oku: ?
Togashi Udon: i can wait, but i can start too
KibagamiKuno: or let's say 7:00 to start pre-game discussions or something, gmae
starts at 7:30 or when everyone arrives.
Keshijo: 7:30 is fine.
Hantei Dave: i think he means weekly
Togashi Udon: oh, my bad
Hantei Dave: fine with me
KibagamiKuno: this is probably the fourth week straight now where i've barely made
it.
Hantei Dave: we'll just mess around with kuno until then
Hantei Dave: heheh
Togashi Udon: 730 works
Hantei Dave: ok....7:30 it is
Hantei Dave: but since you are here now
Hida Oku: what do we do till then? Watch the simpsons?
Hantei Dave: ^_^
Hantei Dave: pheh....eps are boring now
Keshijo: SIMPSONS DID IT!!!!
Hida Oku: repeats
Hantei Dave: same old eps...new ones suck
Hida Oku: dare you desecrate the last decent show on network TV?
Hida Oku: go watch your "married by america," then
Hantei Dave: hheeheh...ok
Hantei Dave: just a note....once again. If you take real damage you must
deduct your stun damage also (after stun defence absorbs)
Keshijo: They should have really married all those people, then made them
get divorced...
Hantei Dave: stun damage does not affect your regular hits
Hida Oku: except for the emotional damage
Keshijo: That would be a show...
Keshijo: And don't get me started on Survivor....
Hantei Dave: uh oh
Hantei Dave: soooooooooo....shall we start?
Keshijo: Hehe
Togashi Udon: hai
Hida Oku: Survivor. . . sengoku style!
Keshijo: Hai
Hida Oku: Dave, we never got points for last session
Keshijo: Survivor should have been 10 people in a pit and 1 knife. Winner
takes all... :-)
Hida Oku: (just a friendly reminder!)
Hida Oku: (don't kill me)
Hantei Dave: k. You just finished up with the Crab. Oku had some business to
discuss but you waited outside the encampment
Hantei Dave: oops....I will give points soon...didn't have time to reread script
^_^
Hantei Dave: sorry
Togashi Udon: to all: I think we should visit the Phoenix and check out the cries
of "Totori" we heard from the Lion.
Hantei Dave: lets say 4 points just to start for last game
Hantei Dave: then I will give more
Hida Oku: woohoo!
Keshijo: I need to get to a library.
Hantei Dave: actually, I think it is Toturi. I spelled wrong in chanting...heheh
Togashi Udon: The Phoenix might be able to give us insights to our Tantos.
Keshijo: I think bad things are happening. I need to confirm something...
Hantei Dave: ohhhhh...NOW you wanna goto the pheonix ^_-
Hida Oku: I concur with the silly monk
Hantei Dave: you are all silly
Keshijo: Are they good with mythic legends and those types of things?
Hantei Dave: keshijo: best library in Rokugan
Togashi Udon: Definatly
Hantei Dave: but the library is restricted
Keshijo: Then, yes. We should go there.
Keshijo: Can I get in?
Hida Oku: Also, I'd rather not be caught here in the coming storm
Togashi Udon: Their Daiymo has all of the memories of his pervious lives, it is
said.
TyrusFlynn has entered the room.
Hida Oku: "Stuck in the middle with you" Themesong for our group
Hantei Dave: hey tony
Togashi Udon: They dont stand a chance against Kuno! They'll let you in.
Keshijo: Good.
Hantei Dave: bows to tony sama
Keshijo: Hey Tony.
Togashi Udon: Oi, Tony!
Hantei Dave: Tony: next game will be a good starter for you ^_-
TyrusFlynn: hey all
Hantei Dave: but feel free to watch
TyrusFlynn: you mean the one after this one?
Hantei Dave: yah...you still need a character anyway
TyrusFlynn: thats good, because things are not good for RPing online right
now anyway
Hantei Dave: ok
TyrusFlynn: firewall/router is on the frtiz
KibagamiKuno: did any of us get points at the end of last game?
Hantei Dave: ok, ahem.....so there is a war going on right now around you
people
Hantei Dave: boots kuno in head
Hantei Dave: i said take 4 for now...i'll give more after rereading script
Togashi Udon: When Oku returns from his "love meeting" with the crab I would
like to give him my tooth that was knocked out.
KibagamiKuno: gently removes hantei Dave's scalp - was fixing CDRW that broke in
rush to get online.
Hantei Dave: oops...is it ok?
KibagamiKuno: not likely.
Hida Oku: love meeting.....
Hantei Dave: sorry
Togashi Udon: Oku, Please give this to Yokumo. He seemed to want it, and I
no longer have need for it. (smile)
Hida Oku: I take the tooth and say... "I'm going to start a collection of
these, Udon... I may have a whole set soon"
Hantei Dave: Yakamo
Hantei Dave: you ok right now josh?
KibagamiKuno: hai
Hantei Dave: ok
Togashi Udon: It is good to have goals!
Hantei Dave: soooo...as I was saying...war
KibagamiKuno: woohoo! War!
KibagamiKuno: (kuno runs off)
KibagamiKuno: err, wait, belay that...
Hantei Dave: groan...long night ahead
Keshijo: Bah. We have more important things than war...
Togashi Udon: Hai, Keshijo!
Keshijo: Like saving the empire.
Keshijo: Let the children play..
Hantei Dave: so where are you all oging then?
Hida Oku: yes... let's do that first, then you can throw your life away
Togashi Udon: I have no reason to return to the palace. I say on to the Pheonix.
Lets ruffle more feathers.
Keshijo: I think we need to convince Toturi to delay a few weeks..
Hida Oku: Yes, to the northern "ostriches"
Hantei Dave: Udon: not enough time to goto Pheonix and make your one
month deadline with Dragon
Hida Oku: hmm
Keshijo: Didn't the dragon want to see us?
Hantei Dave: you have a week b4 you NEED to leave
Togashi Udon: To the pheonix HERE!
Togashi Udon: that army over there(points)
Hantei Dave: oops...i c
Hantei Dave: you can make that deadline
Togashi Udon: :-)
Hantei Dave: they have the samllest army here
Keshijo: Still.. We need to get Toturi to delay.
Hantei Dave: but not the weakest neccessarily
Togashi Udon: (that is very impolite to point out)
Hantei Dave: many wars have been lost in underestimating the Pheonix
Keshijo: The sooner they attack, the sooner the Third will take the throne.
Keshijo: And we need the other Tantos before that happens..
KibagamiKuno: we saw the dragon, let's go to phoenix
Keshijo: Shoju is the second, that I'm sure of now.
Hantei Dave: Pheonix all?
KibagamiKuno: there is nothing to say to toturi or the others, and nothing can save
the scorpions in the palace now, keshijo.
Hida Oku: Pheonix
Togashi Udon: hai
Hida Oku: Keshijo, Shoju is not emporer
Hantei Dave: THe Pheonix is situated near the Crane army
Hida Oku: he's a fool, but not that much of a fool
Hantei Dave: You begin your trek
Keshijo: I think he is trying.
Keshijo: I don't think he did it on his own.
Hantei Dave: You are stopped by Pheonix Shiba bushi with naginatas
Keshijo: Something is ... influencing him...
Hantei Dave: "What is your business?
Hantei Dave: "
KibagamiKuno: aside from us?
Keshijo: Kuno: Yes aside from us. But I'm not entirely sure...
KibagamiKuno: "We seek to discuss matters of war and prophecy with the phoenix"
Keshijo: We need more time...
KibagamiKuno: keshijo - the crab's flag means that no more time remains.
Hantei Dave: A beautiful samurai-ko comes to meet you
KibagamiKuno: that was the question mark the lion and crane were waiting on
Togashi Udon: (Bow)
KibagamiKuno: [bow]
Hantei Dave: She says, I am Shiba Tsukune, commander. She bows
Hida Oku: <bow>
Hantei Dave: the guards have their naginatas up still
Hantei Dave: "The Pheonix are already decided. You have no business here"
Hantei Dave: she is formal
Togashi Udon: We seek the wisdom of the Pheonix. About our Tantos.
KibagamiKuno: shiba-sama, we are the bearers of the tanto. we come only to seek
answers set before us by Hantei the 38th
Hantei Dave: "You problems are you own, but we are interested in speaking of
Hantei the 38th. Follow me."
Hantei Dave: They let you pass
KibagamiKuno: follow... :-)
Togashi Udon: follow
Keshijo: Follow
Hantei Dave: You are taken to the command tent and she announces you.
"The tanto bearers request a meeting with Shiba Ujimitsu-sama."
Hantei Dave: (see pic)
Hantei Dave: "Allow them in." says a quiet voice
KibagamiKuno: [enter and bow low]
Hantei Dave: You enter the tent. Shiba Ujimitsu, Clan Champion and Doji
Hotori, Crane Daimyo, are here
Hantei Dave: see more pics ^_^
Keshijo: bow
Togashi Udon: bow
Hantei Dave: diferentiate between bows and prostrates please
Hantei Dave: Oku?
Hida Oku: all the way down
Hida Oku: <prostrate>
Keshijo: bow
Hantei Dave: The nod their heads
Hantei Dave: "I am Shiba Ujimitsu. What can I do for you"
Hantei Dave: he is a pleasent quiet man
Hantei Dave: Doji Hoturi is silent
KibagamiKuno: Ujimitsu-sama, we respect your great wisdom and come to you
seeking wisdom...
KibagamiKuno: on the matter of the prohpecy and the task set before us by Hantei
the 38th before his passing to the world beyond
Keshijo: I nod to Hoturi.
Hantei Dave: "Our lord is a great loss. He has ascended to the heavens now"
KibagamiKuno: [moment of silence]
Hantei Dave: "We must keep the Empire from chaos now"
KibagamiKuno: The prophecy would indicate that we have a...
KibagamiKuno: role to play in that mission - that our path may prevent the coming of
evil and war amongst the lands. Or that...
KibagamiKuno: it may be a determining factor toward the victory of all that is good
should such a battle arise. What do you see of our way?
Togashi Udon: Ujimitsu-sama, we wish to learn of our place in the puzzle.
Help us to help the Empire.
Hantei Dave: "Alas, profecies are for scholars. I am a warrior. I follow the
decisions of the true scholars. If Shoju wanted council why did he not ask
the greatest scholars in the land?"
Keshijo: Shoju's decision may not have entirely been his own.
Hantei Dave: "We are all acountable bearer."
Keshijo: He did have the best intentions in mind.
Hantei Dave: "We will help you monk."
Keshijo: Yes. I am not excusing him from that.
KibagamiKuno: Keshijo - many a great samurai has...
KibagamiKuno: taken his own life upon discovery that he has been duped by another.
What Ujimitsu-sama says is the truth, we are accountable for our actions, whether or
not they are by our will.
Hantei Dave: "Why would Shoju's actions not be his own?"
Togashi Udon: Many thanks, Ujimitsu-sama. (bow)
Hantei Dave: Ujimitsu bows back
Hida Oku: (i think we're finally starting to get the protocol thing
down!)
Keshijo: I should not make such an assumption without more proof. I believe
Yashin may be involved.
Hantei Dave: (quiet)
Hantei Dave: everyone make a lore role
Keshijo: I am sorry to mention such evil in your presence.
Hantei Dave: difficulty = 25
KibagamiKuno: (woo! rolled an 18!)
KibagamiKuno: 25
Togashi Udon: 20...
KibagamiKuno: (watch, my next dodge'll be a 3)
Hida Oku: 22
Hantei Dave: k
Hantei Dave: Shoju holds Yashin? says Ujimitsu
Hida Oku: What is Yashin?
Keshijo: I am not positive.
Keshijo: Yashin is one of the Blood Swords.
Togashi Udon: nother role???
Hida Oku: He dare wield that?!
Hantei Dave: Doji Hoturi: "it makes sence. It is further proof of corruption
Keshijo: I describe the sword I saw to Ujimitsu.
Hantei Dave: Hoturi: "Shoju kills himself!"
Hantei Dave: Ujimitsu closes his eyes for a moment as if contemplating
something
Keshijo: Yes. But the sooner Shoju dies, the sooner the prophecy rolls into
motion.
Hantei Dave: roll perception (sight)
Keshijo: Hantei seemed to think we needed the tantos to stop the evil one.
We need more time to find them.
KibagamiKuno: A samurai's strength is in his head, his heart, and his arm. Everything
else should merely be an extension of those three and possess no power of it's own.
Togashi Udon: 21
Keshijo: 18
KibagamiKuno: 25
Hida Oku: 22
Hantei Dave: you all made it
Hantei Dave: You notice rapid eye movement from Ujimitsu. An odd
expression.
Hantei Dave: He opens his eyes
Togashi Udon: I do not remember Shoju entering the palace with the sword?
But he did have one later.
Hantei Dave: "Shoju's ambition will grow larger. He has sealed his fate."
Keshijo: Udon, Shoju is a Scorpion. We are good at hiding things.
Togashi Udon: no your not
Keshijo: Yes. His ambition will grow. I tried to keep him from taking the
throne but I realize I cannot stop him.
Togashi Udon: (wink)
Hantei Dave: Ujimitsu: "You would be best not involving yourself in a war of
symbolism."
Hantei Dave: Doji Hoturi is standing without expression
Keshijo: War is a forgone conclusion. I only want to prepared for what will
come after it.
KibagamiKuno: And where our path will lead
KibagamiKuno: We have done all we can to prevent war amongst the clans, it is time
for us to move on to another stage.
Hantei Dave: "Did you wish to discuss anything else?" says Ujimitsu
KibagamiKuno: Ujimitsu-sama, i am but a lion and do not grasp the intricacies you
have...
KibagamiKuno: alluded to; i do not yet understand where we must go from here.
Hida Oku: we seek the other tanto
Keshijo: Can you delay the inevitable? War will come, but can you delay the
assualt on the palace?
Togashi Udon: Togashi Yokuni-sama will know our path, Kuno. But, he might
tell us that we need to swim.
Hantei Dave: "Kuno-san. I am a man with many resposibilities and I do not
grasp the simplicity you have. But if I were a free man, I would go fishing."
Keshijo: We need to find these other tantos for when the dark one arises.
Hantei Dave: he smiles and bows for you all to leave. "Perhaps
TOgashi-sama has answers."
KibagamiKuno: If i could but give away the tanto and go fishing - i would eat well to
the end of my days. But this is the burden i bear, i must only discover it's meaning.
KibagamiKuno: [bow]
Togashi Udon: bow
KibagamiKuno: (dave's been waiting to use that fishing line for soooo long heheh)
Togashi Udon: hehehe
Hida Oku: <bow>
Hantei Dave: just made it up actually ^_-
Hantei Dave: "He says one thing as you leave
Keshijo: bow
Hantei Dave: "I have heard a rumer of a tanto passing though the Wasp
province. But I hear that man died."
Hantei Dave: "Good luck"
Keshijo: Hoturi, I am glad to see you are well. Thank you.
KibagamiKuno: [bow again]
Hantei Dave: Hoturi bows slightly
Togashi Udon: bow agains too
Hantei Dave: well, that was easy enough ^_-
Keshijo: Perhaps we shall meet again.
Hantei Dave: no tainted Pheonix this time...so far
Togashi Udon: (died???)
Togashi Udon: a bearer died???
Hida Oku: People do die, Udon...
Keshijo: (Guess it's not Tony... :-) )
Togashi Udon: Of course, Oku. Kuno carries a sword!
KibagamiKuno: Kuno carries more than one.
TyrusFlynn: I'm not dead yet...
KibagamiKuno: Should we visit the lion before going to the mountain?
Keshijo: (I'll refrain from the Python....)
Togashi Udon: How far are the Wasp?
Keshijo: Okay. Toturi would be interesting to meet.
Hantei Dave: wasp are kinda far south
Hantei Dave: past the world spine mountain
KibagamiKuno: maybe we'll encounter them in due time...
Hantei Dave: near bayushi palace
Togashi Udon: oh, no time for that then
Keshijo: Bayushi palace?
Keshijo: Hmm...
TyrusFlynn has left the room.
TyrusFlynn has entered the room.
Hantei Dave: ^_^
Togashi Udon: Toturi would be interesting... or we could head to the Mnts.
KibagamiKuno: besides, if the tanto has been claimed by another, we will need to find
them. And if they die and it is claimed by another, so-on. For now, there is war and
we must follow a request for attendance. Afterward we can seek the wasp.
Togashi Udon: hai
KibagamiKuno: any wisdom on speaking with the lion while they are encamped here?
Hantei Dave: the Akodo will at least be a bit easier than the Matsu
KibagamiKuno: agreed. the matsu are stubborn.
Hantei Dave: Akodo are also....but they are also tempered
Hantei Dave: its up to you
KibagamiKuno: perhaps we can approach the encampment from the side, thus
dodging those with overheated emotions
Keshijo: And they are Junshin.
Hantei Dave: Junshin?
Keshijo: Honorable
Hantei Dave: ah
Togashi Udon: I would tell Toturi to seek the wisdom of Togashi Yokuni-sama.
Maybe he would like to accompany us? I don't think he's busy. Maybe he
would like to fish?
KibagamiKuno: [bow to keshijo]
Hantei Dave: (he probably would like to fish)
Hantei Dave: oku? opinion?
Hantei Dave: no? ok
Keshijo: Pokes oku,,,
Hida Oku: bah... no time for the lion pomp... onto the mountains
KibagamiKuno: You would like my Daimyo to go fish? He probably has more
important things on his mind at the moment...
Keshijo: What is more important than fishing?
Togashi Udon: Bigger fish to fry?
Hida Oku: but I am interested in this Toturi
KibagamiKuno: the mountain is here, we need move north no faster than it.
KibagamiKuno: err, "than it will travel"
Keshijo: Toturi it is then.
Togashi Udon: hai
Hantei Dave: you goto visit the Akodo now ^_^
KibagamiKuno: ok
Hantei Dave: long night for you guys. it is getting late you know
Hantei Dave: you visited the Crab at sun down
Keshijo: Good thing I can see in the dark...
KibagamiKuno: can we travel between the lion and it's neighbor?
Hida Oku: then let's finish this meeting and travel tomorrow morning
Hantei Dave: and you need to walk formally
KibagamiKuno: (and sleep formally)
Hantei Dave: You arrive at the Akodo banner and explain yourselves to the
guards
KibagamiKuno: (if i know them, i greet them)
Hantei Dave: They recieve word that Toturi will meet you in the morning. You
may stay at the tea house for now (in this section of the outer town)
Keshijo: I look around for blunt arrows with messages attached...
Hantei Dave: just guards Kuno...VERY large army ^_-
Hantei Dave: keshijo: did you write one?
Hantei Dave: hhehehe
KibagamiKuno: i might be standing where they are if not for this tanto.
Hantei Dave: Do you accept the sleeping area?
KibagamiKuno: hai
Hantei Dave: the tea house is dark. If the owners are here, they are hidden in
a room.
KibagamiKuno: (everyone assume we are under constant watch and constant risk all
night)
Hantei Dave: the house is now guarded (for your protection)
Keshijo: I still go for my stroll...
Hantei Dave: Keshijo: they will not let you leave and come back
Keshijo: I will guard the guards then.
KibagamiKuno: Keshijo, the last time we tried scrolls and arrows, we wound up in the
dungeon. Tonight, perhaps some rest...
Togashi Udon: rest is good
Hida Oku: yes, rest
Keshijo: I was looking for the scrolls we sent here...
KibagamiKuno: (err, i meant strolls and arrows, but i guess that worked lol)
Keshijo: Curious if anybody read them...
KibagamiKuno: right, so who's awake, who's asleep?
Hantei Dave: Keshijo: who'd you ask
Hantei Dave: ?
Hantei Dave: a guard?
KibagamiKuno: lol
Keshijo: Nobody yet. Just looking around...
Hantei Dave: "Duuuuh, yeah...I tink I red dat!"
Keshijo: If I asked, they might not believe Kuno sent them...
Togashi Udon: i need to pray a bit, so i'm still yup
Hantei Dave: Udon prays
Hantei Dave: no candles are on here
Hantei Dave: everyone else sleeping?
Hida Oku: yep
KibagamiKuno: who is on watch?
Keshijo: I'll watch for a while...
Keshijo: Need to think..
Hantei Dave: ok...you can recover stun and 2 hits
Hantei Dave: if anyone needs it
Hantei Dave: ok....it is very quiet out there keshijo
KibagamiKuno: will do my usual sleeping thing.
Hantei Dave: ok Kuno
Hantei Dave: not too quiet....but not army loud
Keshijo: Are the guards talkative?
Hantei Dave: the town itself is like a graveyard
Hantei Dave: Keshijo: they talk...but about nothing important
Hantei Dave: usual war banter
Hantei Dave: second watch?
KibagamiKuno: "so what about that 103 airborne drop, eh?"
Togashi Udon: i'll do it
KibagamiKuno: i'll join him.
Hantei Dave: udon: you can pray now ^_-
Hantei Dave: kuno: you too if you want
Togashi Udon: k
KibagamiKuno: dave - i'm barefoot - i pray/meditate a bit.
Hantei Dave: sunup comes and some meager food is brought to you
KibagamiKuno: as we get closer to dawn, if udon finishes up maybe we'll talk a little
about hopes, dreams, plans to study in foreign places, and other trivial topics ;-)
Hantei Dave: rice...picked veggies....thats it
Togashi Udon: sounds good
Hida Oku: bah... barely a meal
Hantei Dave: hope its not poison ^_-
Hantei Dave: i take it you all saw my list
Hantei Dave: as josh calls it, the great equalizers
Keshijo: Lion don't use poisons... No honor in that.
Keshijo: I eat.
KibagamiKuno: poison is dishonorable and i would not read such a list... unless to
acquaint myself with the ways of dishonorable conduct necessary of punishment.
Hantei Dave: heheheh
Hantei Dave: food seems ok
Hantei Dave: but bland
Togashi Udon: oooohhhhh, pioson! Never had that before! I eat
KibagamiKuno: i eat some bison.
Hantei Dave: pioson is french poison. I wouldn't kill you with that stufff
KibagamiKuno: ahem, that's freedom toxin to you.
Togashi Udon: sorry, i'm lexdystic
Togashi Udon: and a bad speller
Hantei Dave: A man walks into the tea house. It is Akodo Toturi. It is less than
a grand entrance
Keshijo: (On a side note, Stewart's in Rahway has blacked out the French in
Fries...)
Keshijo: bow
Togashi Udon: bow
Hantei Dave: He takes a seat and sits very proper passing your bows
Hantei Dave: "It is an honor to have the tanto bearers here. I have little time."
KibagamiKuno: [near full prostrate]
Hantei Dave: "How can you help me?"
KibagamiKuno: Great Toturi-sama, I wanted only to let you know that the tantos are
no longer within the palace.
KibagamiKuno: and that they will not be there at any forseeable time in the near
future
Hantei Dave: "In the near future, the palace will be at its former glory where
you will be welcome."
Hantei Dave: "But I suggest you do not return now"
KibagamiKuno: [bow very low] (domo arigato toturi-sama)
Hantei Dave: Toturi gives a nod to Udon
Togashi Udon: Sama (nod)
Hantei Dave: "What is your opinion Udon-san?"
Hantei Dave: ....
KibagamiKuno: (nudge)
Togashi Udon: The Tanto Bearers must stand for the Empire against the Dark
One.
Keshijo: (poke)
Hantei Dave: "That is a bit presumptios no?
Hantei Dave: "
Togashi Udon: Of course!
KibagamiKuno: "We will be accompanying Udon to the mountain for a short time -
we hope to find more answers for the task given us by hnatei the 38th"
Hantei Dave: "I have been told the proficy. It speaks of your presence as a
signal of destuction."
Hantei Dave: "And nothing of a mission."
Keshijo: You do know of the prophesy?
Hantei Dave: "Since the tanto's appeared it travels Rokugan. Or words of it."
Hantei Dave: "It seems that you fight the Crab's battle now. But by whose
charge?"
Keshijo: Then you know we must find the Tantos before the third takes the
throne?
KibagamiKuno: "My trust is in your wisdom and that of Hantei the 38th - he
indicated that we have a role to play in preventing that destruction which you
speak"
Hantei Dave: "What would that accomplish? FInding a tanto?"
KibagamiKuno: "We are of no great importance to question the orders of hantei the
38th"
Togashi Udon: The smallest peice of the puzzle can unluck the most answers.
Keshijo: The Hantei thought it would help stop the evil one.
Hantei Dave: Toturi blushes alightly
Keshijo: Loyalty commands I agree with him.
Hantei Dave: slightly
Hantei Dave: "I see. Perhaps you can help me. I received your message."
Hantei Dave: "How does Kachiko get in and out of the palace?"
Hantei Dave: still here people?
Keshijo: She was the Hantei's advisor..
KibagamiKuno: Toturi-sama, i know only of the way...
Keshijo: She would naturally be given secret entrances.
KibagamiKuno: we have entered and exited"
KibagamiKuno: "even the windows are very small"
Hantei Dave: "Hmmmm..."
Hantei Dave: "Kachiko has been seen outside the palace although it is heavily
guarded.
Hantei Dave: ...and the same with her Yojimbo, Aromoro."
Keshijo: Aromoro and Kachiko are loyal to the Empire.
Hantei Dave: "I expect she is preparing to abondon her Clan."
Hantei Dave: "Along with Shoju's brother, Aromoro"
KibagamiKuno: From my experiences with them,
Keshijo: I believe they know what I can only suspect.
Hantei Dave: "And that is?"
KibagamiKuno: I would say that they are dangerous inside and outside the palace.
My fellow tanto bearers all have less than found words, i am sure..
Keshijo: Shoju is not acting of his own accord.
KibagamiKuno: for our time in the dungeon.
Togashi Udon: I think that may be an incorrect assessment, sama. A scorpion
does not sting itself.
Hantei Dave: "Hotori tells me of Shoju's accord."
Keshijo: No, if Aromoro was a threat we would already be dead, Kuno. I can
assure of that.
Hantei Dave: "Do you trust Kachiko?"
KibagamiKuno: Not a threat to the scorpion, Keshijo.
Hida Oku: NO!
Keshijo: I trust Kachiko.
Togashi Udon: Do I trust you?
Hida Oku: "Trust" a scorpion? feh
Keshijo: I shoot Oku a dirty look.
Hantei Dave: "She has proven herself unfaithful to her own lord already."
Togashi Udon: As have you.
Hida Oku: <big, toothy grin>
KibagamiKuno: Toturi-sama, she has not proven herself a friend to us
Keshijo: A scorpion's first loyalty is to the Empire.
KibagamiKuno: Everyone's first loyalty is to the empire.
Keshijo: I would not expect any of you to understand.
Hantei Dave: "And to the Crane Keshijo-san? Do you follow the Crane before
the Scorpion?"
Keshijo: The Crane? What do the Crane have to do with this?
Hantei Dave: "Why do you think that Shoju has never shown his face before?
Formality aside that is..."
Hantei Dave: "Shoju's son is not his own."
Hantei Dave: "It is the son of a Crane...and that who you would one day
follow."
Hantei Dave: "It is the son of Doji Hotori."
Hantei Dave: "and Kachiko."
Togashi Udon: ...
Keshijo: He may have Crane blood, but he is a Scorpion as well.
Hida Oku: Have you met with us to slander the other clan, Toturi? I
thought the Lion were honorable. . . We have our duties, and you
have yours. If you can not help us, and we cannot help you, then
our meeting is over, no?
Hantei Dave: "I hope we may all be so loyal one day..." He gives a sarcastic
grin to Keshijo
Hida Oku: clans
Keshijo: Blood does not matter. Only the Empire.
Hantei Dave: "It is over but only through truth. I was told this last night by
Hotori-sama."
KibagamiKuno: Toturi-sama, I am your loyal servant, and as bearer of this tanto of
our clan, i wish only to bring you honor. To do so i believe i must
KibagamiKuno: discover how my path, and that of my fellow tanto bearers, can halt
the coming evil. As such, i must travel with them, regardless of THEIR loyalty to
my clan.
Keshijo: I believe Shoju carries Yashin. That is why he acted as he did.
Hantei Dave: "Kuno-san. I want you to represent the noble Akodo well in front
of Togashi Yokuni. Even I have not met with the great Dragon."
Hida Oku: Thus far, we have served the Hantai better than you,
Toturi-SAMA
Hantei Dave: Toturi stops
Togashi Udon: Perhaps you should meet with Yokuni-sama.
KibagamiKuno: [bow very low] - In all ways that I can, sama.
Hantei Dave: "You are right Crab. I will make ammends."
Hantei Dave: Toturi leaves
Hantei Dave: abrubply
Hantei Dave: abruptly
Hida Oku: there, now that we've met with Toturi, we can be off.
Hida Oku: Likable fellow isn't he?
Keshijo: I was starting to enjoy the debate...
KibagamiKuno: My thoughts turn to fishing, Oku.
Togashi Udon: almost as likable as you oku! ;-)
Hida Oku: almost
Hantei Dave: he might have gone longer until Oku said that thing
Keshijo: Toturi has an interesting veiw of things..
KibagamiKuno: So, north we go eh?
Hida Oku: conflicted man, that one
Hida Oku: to the wasp!
Hantei Dave: you could always hang out for a few more days and watch the
fireworks ^_- Or leave now
Togashi Udon: so we were a sign of destruction eh?
Keshijo: (Aren't we in any game we play?)
Keshijo: :-)
KibagamiKuno: heh, right oku - north "to the wasp"...
Hida Oku: How odd for you, Udon
Keshijo: Kuno: Is he going to kill himself or start the war?
Togashi Udon: Yup. but you fit the bill perfectly.
Keshijo: Should we follow?
Keshijo: Toturi, that is..
Hida Oku: probably, the sooner we leave, the better
Togashi Udon: war is my guess.
KibagamiKuno: Oku? I'm not sure. Oku - Keshijo wants to know if you plan to
seppuku or just start a war, what say you?
Hantei Dave: Keshijo: where you going?
Hantei Dave: are you ready to leave?
Keshijo: I follow Toturi.
Hida Oku: oh boy. . .
KibagamiKuno: :-)
Togashi Udon: i follow keshijo
Togashi Udon: ;-)
KibagamiKuno: c'mon we're going to go to the mountain
Togashi Udon: it'll still be there, kuno
Hantei Dave: Toturi begins walking to the hill near the Matsu family
Hantei Dave: he is followed by 6 men
Hantei Dave: you are drawing much attention
KibagamiKuno: umm - dave - are we "supposed" to follow him or did he 'leave'
Keshijo: I follow.
Hantei Dave: he left
KibagamiKuno: i do not follow him.
Hantei Dave: but keshijo is not letting him go
Togashi Udon: ...Keshijo... what are you doing...
Hantei Dave: Toturi sees you out of the corner of his eye and gestures
Keshijo: (Me?)
Hantei Dave: 3 bushi turn to stop you
Hantei Dave: keshijo
Hantei Dave: The draw their swords
Keshijo: I avoid them.
Hantei Dave: they havent attacked yet
Keshijo: I walk by them.
Hantei Dave: you get blocked
Keshijo: ready to dodge.
Hantei Dave: ok....first attacks
Togashi Udon: i hold up my empty palm and try to stop this
KibagamiKuno: Keshijo - we have a path and that is not it. Please come back now.
Keshijo: I dodge.
Hantei Dave: 26 to attack
Hantei Dave: only 2 attacked
Keshijo: "If you strike me, you are diobeying the last commands of the Hatei
and shaming your family.
Hantei Dave: 24 to 2nd
Keshijo: Er... disobeying...
Keshijo: and Hantei...
KibagamiKuno: no keshijo, they are not challenging you for the tanto. they are
protecting their daimyo.
Hantei Dave: roll dodges
Keshijo: They're trying to kill me...
Keshijo: Do I get the +2 for a dodge action?
Hantei Dave: yep
KibagamiKuno: his orders were not that we couldn't be slain, only that we could not
be challenged for the tantos.
Keshijo: 33
Keshijo: and 29
Hantei Dave: k. but to slip through means turning your back
Hantei Dave: do you want to do that now?
KibagamiKuno: I shift my sword to the Not-Attack position and go hurry up to get
Keshijo.
Togashi Udon: Toturi, stop this foolishness! (scream)
Keshijo: "Any Lion who would strike me in the back is dishonorable.."
Keshijo: I keep walking.
Hantei Dave: Udon is swamped by about 15 loyal bushi
Togashi Udon: if they attack Keshijo's back I grab them
Hantei Dave: Keshijo same with you
KibagamiKuno: Oh good. I wait down here for them, then.
Keshijo: 15 is a lot...
KibagamiKuno: 5 is a lot.
Togashi Udon: kuno...
Hantei Dave: you insulted their Daimyo
Hantei Dave: they are piling on
Keshijo: I did not insult him. The Crab did.
Togashi Udon: uh, think that was me again...
Hantei Dave: ot in public
Keshijo: I did not insult him. The Dragon did...
Hantei Dave: keshijo did to by calling them dishonrable
Togashi Udon: heh...been a while..
KibagamiKuno: I approach the lion who are holding udon and keshijo
Keshijo: Only if they struck me...
Hantei Dave: You 2 get thrown into a circle
Hantei Dave: "you want a challenge?" says one.
Hantei Dave: "formal duel!"
Keshijo: No. I wu=ish to speak with your master.
Togashi Udon: no.
KibagamiKuno: (hello dave....)
Hida Oku: So. . .kuno
Hantei Dave: "Take off the armor Scorpion coward!!!!!"
Hantei Dave: I hear you josh. There are about 30 Lion putting them on display
KibagamiKuno: Who's in charge?
Hantei Dave: noone kuno. Just angry bushi
Hantei Dave: its a mob now
Togashi Udon: Thank you, though.
Keshijo: What's Toturi doing?
Hantei Dave: too many bushi to see Toturi
KibagamiKuno: long gone keshijo.
Keshijo: I may be a fool, but I am no coward.
KibagamiKuno: I push my way into the circle.
Hantei Dave: The 3 bushi that were with him are trying to calm the others
down
Hantei Dave: Kuno: you are in
Togashi Udon: Lets try to work on that together, eh, Keshijo.
Hantei Dave: "Watch out for hidden weapons!!!!" says one
KibagamiKuno: "Brothers, I will be escorting these ambassadors from the lion
encampment. Thank you for showing them our strength"
Hantei Dave: "He probably poisoned his blade!"
Hantei Dave: "He wants a honorable duel!!!!!"
Hantei Dave: "Let the other tanto bearer defend us!!!"
KibagamiKuno: "Come Keshijo, Udon, it is time to leave"
Hantei Dave: "He is the only one that can attack this coward!!!"
Hantei Dave: "YEAH!"
Keshijo: Kuno, they wish you to be their champion.
Hantei Dave: "Kill him Kuno!!!!"
Togashi Udon: Ok, Kuno. I shall follow you.
Hantei Dave: "Kill them both and show the Lion's might!!"
Hantei Dave: "They should beg now!"
Keshijo: Please tell them the Hantei forbade us from killing each other.
KibagamiKuno: "There will be plenty of killing soon enough, brother. For now you
have demonstrated our might without even needing to draw blood. It is the stronger
position.
KibagamiKuno: [ki-op] QUIET.
Hida Oku: <nice one>
Keshijo: I start back towards the hill.
KibagamiKuno: We will be leaving now.
Hantei Dave: A path opens slightly
Togashi Udon: I follow
KibagamiKuno: Udon, Keshijo, come now please.
KibagamiKuno: (we leave)
Hantei Dave: keshijo?
Keshijo: After Toturi
Hantei Dave: how would you?
Hida Oku: round 2
Hantei Dave: there is a circle of Lion
KibagamiKuno: Keshijo, that is done, come now.
Hantei Dave: a pride to be exact
Togashi Udon: (that was bad)
KibagamiKuno: i start exiting the circle with udon
Keshijo: I politely ask them to move.
Hantei Dave: They don't
Togashi Udon: Kuno...wait a sec...
Hantei Dave: One presses forward and stares you eye to eye
Keshijo: Is he voiding me?
Hantei Dave: He breathes down your nose
KibagamiKuno: I ignore Udon's "wait a sec" and keep walking.
Hantei Dave: he opens his armor to the side and his kimono
KibagamiKuno: (there's only one path out, i suggest you both take it quick)
Hantei Dave: he displays his belly
Keshijo: I ask him to move.
Hantei Dave: another lines up behind him
Hantei Dave: then a line of Lion's form exposing their bellies to you
Togashi Udon: (are they ticklish?)
KibagamiKuno: (udon did you follow or wait behind?)
Hantei Dave: the first says
Hantei Dave: "I would rather die for my lord then allow you to pass or lift a
hand to kill you."
Togashi Udon: Kuno, you know I dont want to leave anyone behind.
Hantei Dave: "me too!"
Hantei Dave: "me too!!!!"
Hantei Dave: "You will have to kill us to pass"
Hantei Dave: This is shameful to you Keshijo
Hantei Dave: or should be anyway
KibagamiKuno: (if he wasn't a scorpion, that is...)
Hantei Dave: "Kuno! Join us"
Keshijo: "I would not dishonor myself by killing you."
Keshijo: Such bloodshed would be a waste of the Empire's resources.
KibagamiKuno: Udon, go wait with oku.
Hantei Dave: "SPoken like a coward."
KibagamiKuno: i turn to go back for keshijo.
Togashi Udon: hai
Togashi Udon: go to oku
Hida Oku: hello, Udon
Keshijo: You are quick to call me a coward, yet you are the one afraid to live.
Togashi Udon: your missing the drama, oku!
KibagamiKuno: Keshijo, i'm here to save you as i promised, even if i must save you
from yourself.
Hantei Dave: They stand stone faced
Keshijo: You are afraid to let me speak with Toturi?
KibagamiKuno: Baka!
KibagamiKuno: Grab Keshijo.
Keshijo: You are afraid to let me pass?
Keshijo: You are the coward.
Togashi Udon: oh no...
Togashi Udon: (darn it, i never learned that "Part sea of Bushi" spell like i ment
to!)
Hantei Dave: There is a gong as Kuno tries to grab keshijo
Hantei Dave: "Fall in!!!" says a voice
Hantei Dave: the large Lion bushi gives you a glare before leaving Keshijo
Togashi Udon: ah... Saved by the Bell
Hantei Dave: "A lion's duty calls traiter."
Hantei Dave: The Lions go to fall into their ranks
Hantei Dave: ..leaving the fray
Hantei Dave: Keshijo?
Keshijo: I start walking.
Hantei Dave: Toturi is long gone
Keshijo: I go where he seemed to be headed.
Hida Oku: I already tried to find him
Hantei Dave: ummm...to the matsu....that's a different kind of Lion
Hida Oku: he's gone
Hantei Dave: they won't be so nice
KibagamiKuno: Keshijo, we're leaving. For your own safety, i would suggest you
come along...
Togashi Udon: but you were right next too me Oku?
Togashi Udon: Oku?
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Togashi Udon: (looks around)
Hida Oku: before that
Hida Oku: behind you, dummy
Hantei Dave: Well, everyone except Keshijo walk off I guess
Hantei Dave: Kuno has less say in that other family
Togashi Udon: Oh! there you are!
Keshijo: I find you guys later...
KibagamiKuno: Especially after our last little incident with them
Hantei Dave: uh oh
Hantei Dave: should I just have his head brought to you?
Togashi Udon: Baka!
Togashi Udon: (yea the monk said it)
Hantei Dave: I think Matsu don't always hear gongs when they are angry
KibagamiKuno: no, but if you could send the lion holding his tanto up to the
mountain, that would be appreciated.
Hantei Dave: i'll tell you what. You guys can watch from the hill
Hantei Dave: Keshijo: you walk over towards the Matsu command tent
Hantei Dave: and?
Togashi Udon: watch what?
Togashi Udon: oh, never mind
Keshijo: I bow as I approach.
Hida Oku: the slaughter, I assume
Hantei Dave: watching keshijo's stroll
Keshijo: Udon: My immenent demise
Hantei Dave: you aren't allowed in
Keshijo: I take out my Bayushi mask
Hantei Dave: off?
Keshijo: Drop it on the ground.
Keshijo: I'm wearing one of my basic cloth masks.
Hantei Dave: oh
KibagamiKuno: heh, wonder if anyone will step on that...
Hantei Dave: whew
Keshijo: Kuno: Yeah, me.
KibagamiKuno: it does represent the enemy...
Hantei Dave: they still won't let you in
Keshijo: Even when I step on it?
KibagamiKuno: Hello... plot line runs over this way...
Hantei Dave: Toturi steps out of the tent followed by Matsu Tsuko
Hantei Dave: Matsu Tsuko pressing in front of Toturi brandishing her sword
Keshijo: I bow.
Hantei Dave: You can get a word in now if you want Keshijo
Hantei Dave: for a turn that is
Keshijo: Honorable Toturi, Forgive me. I still require your counsel.
KibagamiKuno: chop!
Hantei Dave: "Hold Tsuko!"
Hantei Dave: "Speak fast"
Keshijo: I believe Shoju carried the Blood Sword Yashin.
Keshijo: This is why he acts the way he has.
Keshijo: It has corrupted him and caused him to
Keshijo: start the prophecy he hoped to prevent.
KibagamiKuno: (take over the throne)
Hantei Dave: "I know this already. You have betrayed him yesterday Keshijo."
Keshijo: But if you attack now you will only speed
Keshijo: along the coming of the evil one.
Keshijo: Is it not our duty to stop that?
Keshijo: Should we not do what we can to be prepared?
Hantei Dave: "A Scorpion of Evil holds the throne and you wish to let him
stay?"
Keshijo: It is a necessary evil.
KibagamiKuno: (Evil and Corruption)
Keshijo: For now.
Keshijo: Give us time to find the
Keshijo: tantos the Hantei commanded us
Keshijo: to find.
Hantei Dave: You others see a Crab contingent walking through the Matsu
fields...led by Hida Kisada
Keshijo: He believed that they were the key to defeating the evil one.
Keshijo: That is all I ask.
Hantei Dave: ...and the Crane from the west led by Doji Satsumi and Hotori
Hantei Dave: "Is that it?"
Hantei Dave: says Toturi
Keshijo: I am willing to sacrifice everything I have, Everything I am for the
Empire.
KibagamiKuno: (chop!)
Hantei Dave: Keshijo, the Crab are behind you
Keshijo: (Quiet in the peanut gallery)
Togashi Udon: (nudge Kuno)
Hantei Dave: a BIG Crab
Keshijo: (aren't they all big?)
Hantei Dave: a VERY big Crab
Hantei Dave: you feel him behind you
KibagamiKuno: A looming alaskan king crab...
Hantei Dave: because your sun is blocked
Keshijo: I give Toturi my sword, handle first.
Togashi Udon: (nudge Kuno)
KibagamiKuno: yes?
Hantei Dave: Kisada pushes Keshijo with his chest
Hantei Dave: as he holds out the handle
KibagamiKuno: doh!
Keshijo: I try to keep my balance.
KibagamiKuno: see udon, it's not entirely your fault this time.
Hantei Dave: Matsu Tsuko grabs you
Togashi Udon: thats why its not working out as nicely...
KibagamiKuno: marbe partially oku's, and definitely Keshijo, but not entirely udon's
:-)
Hantei Dave: "You are in the way of leaders. She throws you down."
Hantei Dave: 31 to throw
Hantei Dave: wanna rol a dodge?
Hantei Dave: ^_-
Keshijo: Yeah.
KibagamiKuno: (NO!)
Hida Oku: how is this my fault?
KibagamiKuno: heheh
Hida Oku: :-D
Hantei Dave: dodge roll
Keshijo: Do I get the +2?
KibagamiKuno: (he's really going to try to dodge isn't he?)
Hantei Dave: hmmm....were you defensive?
Hantei Dave: if so then yes
Togashi Udon: (i would too)
KibagamiKuno: (if only video cameras had been invented)
Keshijo: With a giant crab behind me?
KibagamiKuno: (no, you wouldn't. You'd let yourself get thrown to the ground, and
then you would crawl away as humbly as you could)
Keshijo: But I was offering Toturi my sword.
Hantei Dave: its up to you... +2 if you want it
Hantei Dave: roll it
Keshijo: 32 with it, 30 without.
Togashi Udon: (your wrong my friend. i would dodge, poorly, but i would try)
Hantei Dave: 32 is still fail
Hantei Dave: you are down
Togashi Udon: huh? she rolled a 31
Hantei Dave: oops...right
Keshijo: Yeah, what Udon said!
Hantei Dave: "I am tired of this." She says.
Keshijo: :-)
Togashi Udon: sorry
Hantei Dave: She attacks
KibagamiKuno: no, that should be a :-(
Hantei Dave: void
Keshijo: Okay
Togashi Udon: shit, my bad
KibagamiKuno: f\/ck
Keshijo: How do I do that again?
Hantei Dave: 28 to void
Togashi Udon: (now is it my fault, Kuno)
Hantei Dave: roll 3d6+perception+void
Keshijo: 19
Hantei Dave: roll init
KibagamiKuno: Ok udon, now what do i do? I promised to protect you all - and if i
run up there i might save him but they'll kill me. Which means i can't protect you
and udon. And it's unlikely i'll even make it there in time.
Hantei Dave: 35 to init for Matsu Tsuko
Keshijo: 31
Togashi Udon: lets all go!
Hantei Dave: what is your action?
Keshijo: Dodge.
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: she attacks
Hantei Dave: 39 to attack
Hantei Dave: ^_^
Hantei Dave: time to roll damage
KibagamiKuno: No, we can't all go, then they'll kill all of us. And since i promised to
try and protect all of us, i can't let you guys go. And i can't even commit seppuku
because that is also a failure to protect.
KibagamiKuno: wait here, this is an old acquaintance.
Togashi Udon: follow kuno
Togashi Udon: wait
Hida Oku: I stay back
Keshijo: I follow...
Keshijo: (I met him too)
Hida Oku: and approach very carefully and slowly
Hantei Dave: He is still not in attack range
Hantei Dave: for kuno
Keshijo: ... but only to the midpoint...
Hantei Dave: Udon: type it here
Togashi Udon: I put down my bodhai tree and unscrew my staff to 2 jo staffs
Hantei Dave: He draws his tanto too
Hantei Dave: with his free hand and holds it directly over his head
Hantei Dave: it is the Crab Tanto
Hida Oku: !!!!
Keshijo: hmm..
Togashi Udon: we got more crabs...
Hida Oku: and I have the Crain.... how cute
Hida Oku: Crane
Hantei Dave: He says nothing
KibagamiKuno: "It is hard to block from the memory one who places himself so
distinctly in it's path"
Hida Oku: (anyone going to say anything?)
Hantei Dave: "I am better then before Kuno. You can't win now."
Keshijo: Greetings Fellow tanto bearer.
KibagamiKuno: Tanto bearer,
KibagamiKuno: you are not alone.
KibagamiKuno: draw lion.
Togashi Udon: huh?
Hantei Dave: "I know I am not alone."
Hantei Dave: "My company is another."
KibagamiKuno: The hantei ordered us to find and bind ourselves in allegiance to the
tanto bearers for the good of the empire.
KibagamiKuno: if you must fight with me, it will need to wait.
Hantei Dave: "I serve a new leader...."
KibagamiKuno: And whom do you serve?
Hantei Dave: "It is who WE serve."
KibagamiKuno: "each other?"
Hantei Dave: He sheaths the tanto
KibagamiKuno: put away lion.
Hantei Dave: and holds his ninjato at attack posture
Hantei Dave: you remember his posture
KibagamiKuno: "That makes scarce time for fighting"
Hantei Dave: "You are far weaker than me now."
KibagamiKuno: You are wrong, I am a far better friend than you might imagine.
Hantei Dave: anyone else joining in here?
Togashi Udon: no, he's not (step forward)
Hida Oku: That is the rightful Tanto of my Family!
Hida Oku: hand it over!
Hantei Dave: roll init everyone
KibagamiKuno: "I don't think Oku is happy seeing his clan's tanto being weilded
contrary to the will of the Hantei"
Togashi Udon: 24
KibagamiKuno: 30
Hantei Dave: 39
Hantei Dave: i mean 35
Keshijo: Combat sense?
KibagamiKuno: oops, sorry. can't add.
KibagamiKuno: 40
KibagamiKuno: (24+16)
Hantei Dave: k
Hantei Dave: Udon declares
Keshijo: I rolled bad... Less than Udon either way.
Hida Oku: 24
Hantei Dave: and Oku
Hantei Dave: combat sense
Hantei Dave: then keshijo declares first
Keshijo: I prepare my bow and look for the other guy.
Hantei Dave: other guy?
KibagamiKuno: dave, can we attack to stun with a damage weapon?
Keshijo: Kuno said "he is not alone."
Hantei Dave: nope josh..unless you hold your sword backwards
Hantei Dave: -3 to attack
KibagamiKuno: ooh, now there's an idea (not)
Hantei Dave: you could if you want
KibagamiKuno: oh, i see what you mean
Hantei Dave: oku and udon?
Hida Oku: I yell "CAREFUL MY BROTHERS, HE IS ALLIED WITH THE
DARK ONE"
KibagamiKuno: (not "point on kuno's end" but "edge backward")
Hida Oku: and then do what I told you
Hantei Dave: right josh
Hantei Dave: like kenshin almost
Togashi Udon: I prepare to attack.
Hantei Dave: type it Oku
Hantei Dave: everyone would see anyway
Hida Oku: I jump off the road....
Hida Oku: there is no cover?
Hantei Dave: and?
Hantei Dave: its fields here
Hantei Dave: jump off the road and?
Hida Oku: oh
Hida Oku: am I close enough to attack?
Hantei Dave: no
Hantei Dave: ranged yes
Hantei Dave: neither are you Udon
Hantei Dave: he is still a bit far away...you could charge and attack
Hida Oku: then I'll move to flank him
Hantei Dave: i'll allow that
Togashi Udon: I'll move then to melle range
Hantei Dave: no charges?
Togashi Udon: not for me
Hantei Dave: he declares
Hida Oku: I want to be close enough to attack next round
Hantei Dave: He Karumi jutsu's and attacks with 5 shurikens at Kuno
Hantei Dave: He jumps backwards
Hantei Dave: you could charge him Kuno
Hantei Dave: before his jump
Hantei Dave: Kuno goes
Hantei Dave: lo?
KibagamiKuno: "Tomoe Akira! Have you disgraced our past and allied with the evil one!!?" I
run toward the side away from his throwing arm to screw up his planned shiruken attack.
Hantei Dave: ok...he still gets the attacks at -2's
Hantei Dave: -4's actuall with the technique
Hantei Dave: anything else Kuno?
KibagamiKuno: 1 question first, what's his distance?
Hantei Dave: you can charge him
Hantei Dave: so like...
KibagamiKuno: ah, so i could charge him thus also screwing up that attack
Hantei Dave: 11 feet away
Hantei Dave: i mean yards
Hida Oku: yards? 33 feet?
Hantei Dave: no...he jumps strait up
Hantei Dave: i think thats what we called the distance on the sheets isn't it?
KibagamiKuno: and how far can we sprint in a round?
Hantei Dave: look at your sprint
KibagamiKuno: that's it flat out or that's it in yards?
Hantei Dave: ok..lets go back to feet...lol
KibagamiKuno: 15 yards makes sense, that's ok
Hantei Dave: yards? ok
KibagamiKuno: i run UNDER him and past him.
Hantei Dave: whatever
Hantei Dave: he throws AS he ascends kuno
Hantei Dave: he'd get you on the run
KibagamiKuno: umm, i thought i had a higher initiative than him...
Hantei Dave: you do but you still are allowing him to jump first...handing him
the init
Hantei Dave: so which is it?
Hantei Dave: charge b4 the jump or during
Hantei Dave: his jump IS his action
KibagamiKuno: charge at an angle, as before, he throws with his right hand still?
KibagamiKuno: if so, charge to my right (his left)
Hantei Dave: yes....right hand
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: and then?
KibagamiKuno: which hand is the sword in, btw?
Hantei Dave: other...left
Hantei Dave: he throws 5 shurikens between his fingers
KibagamiKuno: i'll worry about dodging those shiruken this round.
Hantei Dave: ok +2 to dodges then
Hantei Dave: he attacks
Hantei Dave: 25
Hantei Dave: 14
KibagamiKuno: this is ranged evade, right?
Hantei Dave: yes
Hantei Dave: 13
KibagamiKuno: (and those are already after his -4, correct?)
Hantei Dave: yes
Hantei Dave: 14
Hantei Dave: 14
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: dodges?
KibagamiKuno: 21
KibagamiKuno: 20
KibagamiKuno: 19
KibagamiKuno: 15
KibagamiKuno: 19
Hantei Dave: 1 hit
Hantei Dave: 6 points damage
KibagamiKuno: none get through the armor.
Hantei Dave: Oku runs off to the side
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: Udon runs to attack
KibagamiKuno: so he's coming straight down now, right? heheh.
Hantei Dave: are you close enough skip?
Hantei Dave: yes, but you didn't declare an attack
KibagamiKuno: give him a little space so he's not QUITE in combat range.
Hantei Dave: josh
KibagamiKuno: (that's fine)
Hantei Dave: Udon?
KibagamiKuno: (lol! I forgot the +2's. Wouldn't have changed anything)
Hantei Dave: Keshijo draws his bow
Togashi Udon: ok, if i can attack i will, otherwise ill wait for him to land
Hantei Dave: what is your sprint?
Hantei Dave: he is farther now
Togashi Udon: 12
Hantei Dave: nope...no attack
Togashi Udon: k
Hantei Dave: next round
Hantei Dave: roll inits
Togashi Udon: i'll grimace at him
KibagamiKuno: 39
Togashi Udon: 24again
Hantei Dave: 30
Hantei Dave: 38 i mean
Hantei Dave: Oku and keshijo?
Hida Oku: 27
Hida Oku: how do you guys get it so high?
Hida Oku: sheesh
Hantei Dave: udon declares
Hantei Dave: Wind bonus oku
KibagamiKuno: (using iaijutsu)
Togashi Udon: i hit him where it hurts, hoping to knock him out
Keshijo: I forgot to void!
Hida Oku: ah! do I get to add that?
Hantei Dave: do it now kesh
KibagamiKuno: [shmack]
Hantei Dave: you need to make a void roll oku
Keshijo: 19 for void.
Hantei Dave: hit him with what Udon?
KibagamiKuno: (always void, do it while we prep for battle. that's when samurai are
sizing each other up, which just hide it in pithy small talk)
Hida Oku: 17 void
Togashi Udon: these 2 jo staffs i have
Hantei Dave: no good oku
KibagamiKuno: wakka wakka!
Hida Oku: doh
KibagamiKuno: (says fozzie)
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: Oku declares
Keshijo: 31 init.
KibagamiKuno: oku - just because you couldn't use void to determine your
adversary's strength doesn't mean you now can't use your own iaijutsu strength in
combat. use wind next round
Hida Oku: finally, I get to use this okuden
KibagamiKuno: heh, and fire this round >: )
Hida Oku: Cherry Blossoms fill the air where Oku was
Hida Oku: Thousands of them
KibagamiKuno: lol
Keshijo: Neat.
Hantei Dave: Keshijo?
Hida Oku: Oku seems to get lost in it
Keshijo: Are you dueling him formally Kuno?
KibagamiKuno: he did not request a formal duel, and is not fighting like a samurai.
Hantei Dave: doesnt seem formal to me ^_-
Keshijo: So it won't harm your honor if I shoot him?>
KibagamiKuno: not at all, though i am thinking it might be nice to talk to him before
he dies.
KibagamiKuno: he attacked first, btw.
Keshijo: I probably won't kill him. Going to use a humming bulb...
KibagamiKuno: I have a shiruken in my shoulder guard to prove it.
KibagamiKuno: attack... "You share your secret, tomoe"
Hantei Dave: roll the attack
KibagamiKuno: hmm... 40.
Hantei Dave: 33 to dodge
KibagamiKuno: oops, 41
Hantei Dave: you hit
Hantei Dave: roll damage
KibagamiKuno: shoot.
Hantei Dave: which okuden did you use kuno?
KibagamiKuno: 38 pts, as if he wasn't wearing armor.
KibagamiKuno: okuden? ah, that one. Seeking blade.
Hantei Dave: 38?
Hantei Dave: O_o
KibagamiKuno: 38.
Hantei Dave: well, ok
KibagamiKuno: sorry tomoe.
Hida Oku: heheheh
Hantei Dave: you cut him across the chest
Hantei Dave: or a join
Hantei Dave: how about an arm?
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Hantei Dave: or a stab into a joint
Hantei Dave: whatever
Hantei Dave: he loses his blossoms
Hantei Dave: roll arrow
KibagamiKuno: a stab to a vital, disabling, yet not quite lethal point?
Togashi Udon: (stab his legs together)
Hantei Dave: righ
Hantei Dave: Udon...you attack too
Hantei Dave: if you still want to
Togashi Udon: 22
Togashi Udon: 25
Hantei Dave: you hit
Hantei Dave: humming bulb Keshijo?
Hantei Dave: and Oku's attack too
Hida Oku: 27
Hantei Dave: hit
Hida Oku: from behind
Togashi Udon: 23stun
Hantei Dave: ouch
KibagamiKuno: "Your secret was safe tomoe, but now, sadly, it is silent"
Hida Oku: 24
Togashi Udon: 19stun
Hantei Dave: Keshijo?
Keshijo: Can I tell if he's diabled?
Hantei Dave: he seems pretty dead
Hida Oku: with MY ninjato
Hida Oku: oops.... guess the cats outta the bag
Keshijo: Well, I guess I don't need to shoot then..
Hantei Dave: Keshijo: you still might ^_-
Keshijo: Can I perform the Deed is Done!
Hida Oku: oku has a blade in his hand that you never noticed before
Hantei Dave: 3 demons dive bomb from the air
Togashi Udon: about time you came out oku
Hantei Dave: they are thin batlike men
KibagamiKuno: (heh)
Keshijo: Dave: Really?
Togashi Udon: go get em keshijo
Hantei Dave: yes, really
Hida Oku: uh oh
Keshijo: Okay then.
Hida Oku: I told you he was allied with Evil
Hantei Dave: roll inits
Keshijo: I shhot them
Hida Oku: no void, right?
Togashi Udon: 25
KibagamiKuno: 32
KibagamiKuno: (no wind)
Hantei Dave: kesh: you didn't see them...but I'll give you a +4 to init this round
Hantei Dave: no wind
Hida Oku: 24
Keshijo: Cool. Then 34.
Hantei Dave: 31, 38, 27
Hida Oku: oh goodie, me first
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Hida Oku: I grab the Crab tanto, and then . . .MORE Cherry Blossoms
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: ....udon?
Togashi Udon: are the demons in range for dragon?
Hantei Dave: yes
Togashi Udon: burn em
KibagamiKuno: (dave, are they headed toward us or headed toward Tomoe?)
Hantei Dave: strait for the 3 of you AND tomoe
Hantei Dave: first declares
Hantei Dave: He woops down to rake Oku
Hantei Dave: the 2nd tries to grab Tomoe
Hantei Dave: Kuno?
KibagamiKuno: is the tanto visible?
Hantei Dave: it's sheathed but he is slumped over it
Hida Oku: 25 dodge
Hantei Dave: WAIT oku
Hida Oku: ok then
KibagamiKuno: (can i pull him away from the demon?)
Hantei Dave: sure
Hantei Dave: you can cover him and pull to the side if you wanna try
Hantei Dave: they are dive bombing though
KibagamiKuno: defend tomoe, attacking #2 when he tries to grab the body.
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: Keshijo?
Keshijo: Hmm... Besides wish I had taken proper preparations...
KibagamiKuno: (oh shit, i'm in front of dragon breath again, aren't i?)
Hantei Dave: kuno: he is shooting UP
Hantei Dave: ^_^
KibagamiKuno: (whew)
Hantei Dave: kesh?
Hantei Dave: any day now
Keshijo: Are these nameless demons?
Hantei Dave: probably nameless oni
Keshijo: I go to slap a bind ward on the one attacking Oku.
Hantei Dave: you were in distance range...you need to make a throw ward roll
Keshijo: Okay.
Keshijo: Now, or after the last demon declares?
Hantei Dave: first action will be the prayer to throw and next will be the throw
Hantei Dave: 3rd oni gets to go first
Keshijo: Okay.
Hantei Dave: he attacks Kuno
Hantei Dave: by diving tackle
Hantei Dave: roll dodge Kuno
Hantei Dave: 34 to attack
KibagamiKuno: 24
Hantei Dave: you are tackled and lose your action
Hantei Dave: 14 stun damage
Hantei Dave: and he is on you
KibagamiKuno: does armor prevent some stun damage?
Hantei Dave: he looks like a ninja-type character with HUGE black wings
Hantei Dave: yes...it does
KibagamiKuno: k
Hantei Dave: keshijo attacks
Hantei Dave: roll the throw ward prayer first
Keshijo: 19 for the prayer.
Hantei Dave: ok...now the attack
Hantei Dave: as a flank
Keshijo: What does flank do?
Hantei Dave: 25 to dodge
Hantei Dave: he got a penalty
Hantei Dave: i mean 23
Hantei Dave: ^_^
Keshijo: I got 24 unless there's any bonus.
Hantei Dave: which did you attack btw...the one for tomoe or Oku
Hantei Dave: you got him
Keshijo: Oku.
Keshijo: I figured Kuno had the other...
KibagamiKuno: doh
Hantei Dave: lol...Oku an oni is flaling on you as a ward slaps the oni in the
face
Hida Oku: heh!
Keshijo: It should bind him in place...
Hantei Dave: the other grabs tomoe and goes back up
KibagamiKuno: fire away udon...!
Hantei Dave: Oku goes
Hantei Dave: and Udon
KibagamiKuno: doh
Hida Oku: How high is he?
Hantei Dave: about 3 feet from your head
Hantei Dave: coming strait down
Hantei Dave: roll a dodge
KibagamiKuno: (dave, did the demon leave the tanto behind?)
Hantei Dave: he goes first to fall on you...lol
Hida Oku: 20
Hantei Dave: you made it
Hantei Dave: no Kuno
Hantei Dave: i mean josh
Hida Oku: I mean, how high is the one that grabbed Tomoe?
Hantei Dave: Udon and Oku goe
Hantei Dave: he is about 6 feet up
Hida Oku: I'll jump up, and attempt to grab the Crab tanto
Hida Oku: I have the jumping okuden
Hantei Dave: oku:....you already declared your freaking attack
Hantei Dave: now do it
Hantei Dave: not a different one
Hida Oku: THAT'S WHAT I DECLARED!
KibagamiKuno: he is... he said he was grabbing the tanto :-)
Hida Oku: sheesh
Hantei Dave: sheesh
KibagamiKuno: just cause you moved it around doesn't mean he didn't keep his eyes
on the prize... like Queen...
Hantei Dave: no karumi...its an okuden and you were doing cherry blossoms
right?
Hantei Dave: just jump it normally then
Hida Oku: ok
Hantei Dave: roll.....hard difficulty
Hida Oku: well, I rolled a 14
Hida Oku: what do I add?
Hantei Dave: dex
Hida Oku: 20
KibagamiKuno: athletics?
Hida Oku: oh yeah!
Hantei Dave: ok
Hida Oku: 25
Hantei Dave: ok....I'll let you grab a leg instead for that
Hantei Dave: tomoes leg
Hida Oku: Fine, do I pull him back to the ground then?
Hantei Dave: and your okuden would be canceled of course if you hang on
Hida Oku: Well, I want that Tanto
Hantei Dave: crap....rolled a 4 on STR test
Hantei Dave: he falls
Hida Oku: heh
Hantei Dave: Udon goes
Togashi Udon: burning kuno again...this time there is an oni in the way! best
kick him off you next round, kuno...
KibagamiKuno: Heheheheh...
Togashi Udon: 27
KibagamiKuno: nice big wings on this oni. the better for toasting.
Hantei Dave: uh oh
Hantei Dave: FWOOSH!!!!
Hantei Dave: Kuno and oni roll's fire damage
Hida Oku: burn, baby, burn
KibagamiKuno: dave - i've an oni in the way for protection...
Hantei Dave: 3d6 i think
Hantei Dave: its fire...we'll make it 2d6 for both of you
Togashi Udon: oni was on top
KibagamiKuno: his fault, he tackled me.
Hantei Dave: ok...3d6 for him
Togashi Udon: thats why i chose him
Hantei Dave: few rolled low for oni...6
KibagamiKuno: so 2d6 got THROUGH the oni? that doesn't sound good for the
oni...
Hantei Dave: its a fire ball...it is not selective
KibagamiKuno: right, it hits the closest thing first. Like a big black bat winged
ninja-oni
Hantei Dave: ok ok ok...1d6 for you
KibagamiKuno: :-)
KibagamiKuno: (watch it also be 6)
Hantei Dave: suck it up
KibagamiKuno: (or better, 7)
KibagamiKuno: so what are the rolls?
KibagamiKuno: or do i have to roll my own damage?
Hantei Dave: go for it
KibagamiKuno: 4
Hantei Dave: ok...next round then ^_-
Hantei Dave: 2 demons left
Togashi Udon: 28
Hida Oku: init 26
Hantei Dave: 35 for kuno's fire oni
Hantei Dave: and 33 for the other
KibagamiKuno: 25
Hantei Dave: and the last oni is bound on the floor
Keshijo: 29
Hantei Dave: Oku declares
Keshijo: Need to void...
Hida Oku: kuno does
Hantei Dave: i mean kuno
KibagamiKuno: i agree, keshijo
Hantei Dave: wow...kuno is lowest
KibagamiKuno: heh
Hantei Dave: kuno?
KibagamiKuno: i roll away from the oni and prepare to void, then attack
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: oku
KibagamiKuno: (screw the "prepare" part, i roll to the side, void and attack - if that's
all ok in this round)
Hantei Dave: yep
Hida Oku: grab that Tanto, and attack
Hantei Dave: then Udon and Keshijo
Hantei Dave: ok Oku
Hida Oku: (can I void in there, too?)
Hantei Dave: sure
Togashi Udon: attack the flaming oni, hitting him of of kuno
Hida Oku: coolness
KibagamiKuno: grab, void attack oku.
Hantei Dave: ok Udon
Togashi Udon: off of kuno
Keshijo: I bind the oni that's not on fire. Can I just smack him or do I have to
throw it?
Hida Oku: ah, ok
Hantei Dave: you can smack him
Hantei Dave: ^_^
KibagamiKuno: ^_O
Keshijo: Can I void too?
Hantei Dave: The fire Oni wants to rip kuno's guts out
Togashi Udon: why?
Hantei Dave: he is using something similar to seeking blade
KibagamiKuno: i don't really want him to do that, can i get out of his way?
Hantei Dave: he attacks first
Hantei Dave: actually, I changed my mind
Hantei Dave: he want to fly away
Hantei Dave: so does the other
Hida Oku: with or without the body?
Hantei Dave: The one on Kuno leaves the attack and flys off
Hantei Dave: the other trys another strength test
KibagamiKuno: parting blow?
Hantei Dave: to take the body
Togashi Udon: hey i get shots!
Hantei Dave: no parting blow
Hida Oku: and do I get a grab?
Hantei Dave: you will
Hantei Dave: you never let go yet oku
Hida Oku: true dat
Hantei Dave: he made his strength test WITH oku
Hantei Dave: they both take off
Hantei Dave: Kuno rolls
Hantei Dave: Udon attacks
Hida Oku: heh.... how high are we?
Hantei Dave: not high yet ^_-
Hantei Dave: Keshijo attacls too
KibagamiKuno: cut off tomoe's arm, or whatever the hell they're holding him by.
Keshijo: Still smackable?
Hantei Dave: got him by the torso
Hantei Dave: yep keshijo
Hantei Dave: hard attack though but his dodge also sucks right now
Hantei Dave: we'll call it even
Hantei Dave: roll attack udon and keshijo
Togashi Udon: 23
Togashi Udon: 25
Hantei Dave: 28 on Kuno's fire bat
Hantei Dave: and the other rolls a 34
Keshijo: 32
Keshijo: Oh wait. Did I get the void?
Hantei Dave: Tomoa and Oku are airborn
Hantei Dave: did you roll it?
Hantei Dave: ^_-
Keshijo: No, but I declared it...
Hantei Dave: it is only for swords anyway kesh
Hantei Dave: not wards
KibagamiKuno: (i got void at 28)
Keshijo: But I have to hit him... :-)
Hantei Dave: well, they don't study iaijutsu
KibagamiKuno: but i do...
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Keshijo: Me too!
Hantei Dave: i know so you don't know their roll bonuses ^_-
Keshijo: I don't care about their bomuses... just mine... :-)
KibagamiKuno: so how high are they?
Hantei Dave: but you get you iaijutsu bonuses for sword attacks
Hantei Dave: the are getting higher now....about 18 yards
Hantei Dave: Oku...holding on?
Hida Oku: sweet
Hantei Dave: do you make your attack?
Hida Oku: yeah.... I'm getting that tanto, dammit
Hida Oku: well, I do the grab first
Hida Oku: for the Tanto
Hantei Dave: roll for the tanto then
KibagamiKuno: i would like to run along under them
Hantei Dave: ok
Hida Oku: sweet! 16
Hida Oku: what do I add?
Hida Oku: athletics?
Hantei Dave: jujitsu
Hantei Dave: its a grab
Togashi Udon: hey i want to throw my chain at them, hopefully wrapping them
up
Hida Oku: even better
Hida Oku: 30
KibagamiKuno: (and that tanto is a crafty dude, twisting and turning and evading...
heheh)
Hantei Dave: you got the tanto
Hida Oku: plus, I'm grabbing at a dead body
Hida Oku: I drop
KibagamiKuno: (I catch
Hantei Dave: it will be a hard hard attack!
Hantei Dave: ok..you let go
Hantei Dave: ^_^
Hida Oku: I can fall this far without getting hurt
Togashi Udon: i'll try
Hantei Dave: Oku...make an athletics roll
KibagamiKuno: 36 feet?
Hida Oku: !! 28
Hantei Dave: you're fine
Hida Oku: Plus, I have jumping okuden
KibagamiKuno: oops 54 feet
Hantei Dave: he's still fine
KibagamiKuno: cool, i don't catch him.
Hida Oku: yeah... I can jump mad far
Hantei Dave: 54 feet? yike...they weren't that high...they were flying at an
angle
Hantei Dave: we'll say on 10 yards up
KibagamiKuno: 18 yards dave?
Hida Oku: 33 feet
Togashi Udon: I olled an 18!!!+7=25 my max for the chain
Togashi Udon: rolled
Hantei Dave: i wasn't thinking....angle, so 10 yards up
Hida Oku: that's a little more than I could normally handle
Hantei Dave: anyway...they are fast sucker
Hantei Dave: s
Hantei Dave: anyone wanna take a parting shot?
KibagamiKuno: Hmm, nice work oku...
Hida Oku: well, now I'm on the nice, solid ground
Hida Oku: punks...
Togashi Udon: uhm...hello? did i miss?
Hantei Dave: what was it Udon
Hantei Dave: I'm sorry
Hantei Dave: the roll
Togashi Udon: chain
Togashi Udon: 25, my max
Hantei Dave: oh24 dodge
Hantei Dave: your snagged Kuno's fire oni
KibagamiKuno: and the fight continues...
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Togashi Udon: :-)
Hantei Dave: the other one however...
Hantei Dave: begins flying off
Keshijo: Can I toss a ward at it?
Hida Oku: ... the one with the body
Hantei Dave: Udon...make a STR roll
Hantei Dave: crap
Togashi Udon: bear?
Hantei Dave: he only got a 14
Hantei Dave: no..same round
Togashi Udon: 17
Hantei Dave: he is dropping
Hantei Dave: that one didn't get as high when Udon snagged him
Hantei Dave: but he falls
KibagamiKuno: heh, how close to me is he dropping, since i was kinda near them a
moment ago
Togashi Udon: :-)
Hantei Dave: kuno can get that attack i think
Hantei Dave: anyone else wanna shot?
KibagamiKuno: 42
Hantei Dave: Keshijo? throw ward?
Hida Oku: can I get to him?
Hantei Dave: he is far now
Togashi Udon: step right up!
Hantei Dave: yes oku
Hantei Dave: that his kuno
Keshijo: Can I Karumi-Jutsu to close range?
Hantei Dave: he is pretty far either way kesh
KibagamiKuno: aww, only 25
Hantei Dave: He will fight back next round
Hantei Dave: ^_-
Keshijo: Well, the wards are on paper, so, do I reasonbly think I can throw it
that far?
Hantei Dave: throw
KibagamiKuno: (give him another yank udon heheh.
KibagamiKuno: )
Hantei Dave: it is special throwing paper
Hida Oku: I charge and void attack him
Togashi Udon: yank yank
Keshijo: Gotta pray for the throw first..
Hantei Dave: works like a shuriken to you
KibagamiKuno: dave, since i have a moment at the end of this round (no movement):
lack of Weakness.
Hantei Dave: ok Oku...attack
Keshijo: 20 to pray.
Hantei Dave: ok Kuno
Hantei Dave: no way...he dodged that by a mile ^_-
Hida Oku: well, 18 on my void role
Hantei Dave: you need to get im in the head for bind
Togashi Udon: i caught us a demon!
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Keshijo: 27 to hit.
Hantei Dave: so did Kesh...a perfectly good one
Hida Oku: 22 to hit
Hantei Dave: oh...he still beat you kesh
Keshijo: Darn.
Hida Oku: did the void work?
Hantei Dave: yes oku
Hida Oku: then 28 to hit
KibagamiKuno: oku - you always can use your iaijutsu after a void roll. The only
difference is that a successful one tells you interesting things about your opponent,
too. Like this oni: He has no iaijutsu scores.
Hantei Dave: ok...you got im
Hantei Dave: damage
Hantei Dave: if he had iaijutsu you'd all be dead ^_-
Hida Oku: 20
Hantei Dave: ouch...this thing is dying
Hantei Dave: wanna nother hit Udon?
Hantei Dave: roll attack
Togashi Udon: sure
Hantei Dave: or tattoo
Hantei Dave: or whatever
Togashi Udon: 24 jo staff
Hantei Dave: hit
KibagamiKuno: yeah, whatever.
KibagamiKuno: if he had iaijutsu, we'd still toast him.
KibagamiKuno: (literally)
Hantei Dave: Udon has 2 jo's ^_-
Togashi Udon: 24
KibagamiKuno: gi-jo.
Hantei Dave: ouch...this thing is kinda dead....uncontious like
Hantei Dave: you guys can finish him off easy enough
Hida Oku: Finish it off!
Hida Oku: Finish him!
Togashi Udon: ok
Hantei Dave: Oku wins....fatality
Hida Oku: Mortal Kombat style
Togashi Udon: spring the yari
Hantei Dave: there is still an oni left btw
Keshijo: Watch the blood.
Togashi Udon: in the head
Hantei Dave: Udon flicks a yar from his jo
Keshijo: Don't want to get tainted.
Hantei Dave: the spear point extends and the oni twitches to death
Hida Oku: Yes, Keshijo I know. . . I did spend quite some time in the
Shadowlands.
Hida Oku: All Crab do
Togashi Udon: (i love this staff)
Keshijo: I deed the newly dead one.
Hantei Dave: Keshijo?
Hantei Dave: Yell it
Hantei Dave: and roll
Keshijo: THE DEED IS DONE!
Keshijo: 21
Hantei Dave: BOOM
Hantei Dave: it worked
Hantei Dave: its soul has been sent back to the pit of jigoku
Hida Oku: Excellent!
Hantei Dave: one oni left
KibagamiKuno: hey keshijo, did that work on tomoe?
Togashi Udon: wow!
Hantei Dave: It is hissing
Hida Oku: <nods respect to Keshijo>
KibagamiKuno: is it heading back around?
Keshijo: Now let's cut the other's head off.
Hantei Dave: it can't move at all
KibagamiKuno: oh, him
Hida Oku: destroy it!
Keshijo: I pull out my sword.
Hida Oku: slice and dice
Hantei Dave: Keshijo goes for the kill
Hida Oku: I'll let you, Kesh, as it is your victory
Hantei Dave: We'll say you do it nicely
KibagamiKuno: I wipe my blade clean from the other one.
Hantei Dave: i mean nice for an oni
Keshijo: I am a little prejudiced against them...
Hantei Dave: Kesh: one more time?
Hantei Dave: (takes out the binaca)
Keshijo: 21 again...
Hantei Dave: BOOM
KibagamiKuno: The deed is (dork)
Keshijo: THE DEED IS DONE!
Hida Oku: and there was much rejoicing
Hantei Dave: oops...BOOM
Keshijo: And now on to Tomoe.
Hantei Dave: the other boom was an echo from the 1st
Hida Oku: heh
Hantei Dave: in a few minutes we should hear the echo of the second
KibagamiKuno: so where is tomoe?
Hida Oku: the other oni took him away
Hantei Dave: he is gone gone
Togashi Udon: so who was that guy, kuno?
KibagamiKuno: BOOM
Hida Oku: I inspect the Tanto
Hantei Dave: you can see a dot
Keshijo: Oh. That's right.
Hantei Dave: Oku: it is the Crab tanto
KibagamiKuno: an old friend who wanted me to forget him. He just couldn't forget
me, apparently - much to our benefit.
Hida Oku: AHAHA!
Hantei Dave: it seems real
Keshijo: I clean my blade.
Togashi Udon: that was a freind?
Hida Oku: cleam my blade, too
Hida Oku: clean
Togashi Udon: cleaning
Keshijo: With a rag.
KibagamiKuno: Dave, did tomoe leave his sword behind where he fell?
Keshijo: Then burn the rag.
Hantei Dave: throw out the rag
Hida Oku: <flick, flick>
Hantei Dave: well, lets move on a bit further ok?
KibagamiKuno: yah, ditch the rag.
Togashi Udon: follow what they are doing
Hida Oku: yes, ditch and burn
Keshijo: Burn the rags.
KibagamiKuno: what he said.
Hantei Dave: Kuno can explain more to you if he wants in an email
Togashi Udon: k
Hantei Dave: You finally cross teh river into Dragonfly lands
Hida Oku: <blade disappears under Oku's clothes>
Hantei Dave: this is a minor clan which acts as emmisaries for the Dragon
Hantei Dave: who rarely show in court
Hantei Dave: the Dragonfly are often the diplomats
Hantei Dave: they also act as a gate for anyone entering Dragon lands
Hantei Dave: most travelers get denied
Hantei Dave: but are still welcome in the Dragonfly province
Hantei Dave: You see a short line of people asking permission to enter the
gate
Hantei Dave: a formal bushi sits in front with retainers
Hantei Dave: he asks questions
Togashi Udon: (Tattoos are displayed)
Hantei Dave: Do you get on line?
Hantei Dave: only 2 people in front
Togashi Udon: (Togashi family Mon also)
KibagamiKuno: anyone want to look around dragonfly land, first?
Hantei Dave: not many have reason to enter
Keshijo: How much time until we have to meet the dragon?
KibagamiKuno: lets stop at a rice house and sample the cuisine...
Hantei Dave: it is a small province Kuno
Hantei Dave: mostly farmland
Togashi Udon: IYea, I'll get in line
Hida Oku: yes, in line
Hantei Dave: the gate is at the foot of the great mountains leading to Togashi
Kyuden
KibagamiKuno: i buy a bun from a stand near the gate (surely someone must be
making some money off this "deny-em-all" thing)
Togashi Udon: I'll put in our request, if you all want to eat
Hantei Dave: the farmland is also rocky
Hantei Dave: hold up...don't eat yet (hint)
Hantei Dave: pokes you guys onto line
KibagamiKuno: ok, i carry around the bun.
Keshijo: Gets in ine.
Togashi Udon: in line!
Keshijo: er.. line
Hantei Dave: Everyone b4 you is rejected
Hida Oku: both of them!
Hantei Dave: The bushi says, "State your business with the Dragon."
Togashi Udon: Togashi Yokuni-sma has requested the precense of the Tanto
Bearers.
Togashi Udon: We have arrived.
Hantei Dave: "Yes, we were expecting you. Please wait at the guest tea
house. I will be done shortly"
Hantei Dave: he indicates the tea house to the side
Hantei Dave: with his fan
Togashi Udon: Thank you. bow
KibagamiKuno: put bun in pack.
KibagamiKuno: [bow]
Togashi Udon: go to tea house
Hantei Dave: This is actually a magnificient tea house worthy of upper class
guests
KibagamiKuno: drink tea. eat gyoza.
Keshijo: bow
Hantei Dave: you are treated well here
Togashi Udon: tea and noodls please
KibagamiKuno: order udon.
Hantei Dave: a few hours later, the man arrives
Keshijo: (THE man)
Hantei Dave: "I am Tonbo Ichi. I was instructed to inform you of current
events."
Hida Oku: (the MAN)
Hantei Dave: He bows and sits down as well and gets served tea
Togashi Udon: bow
Keshijo: bow.
Keshijo: Listen
Hantei Dave: I cannot allow Keshijo-san to pass through the gate wearing his
mon."
Togashi Udon: What has happened?
Keshijo: "What about my Families Mon?"
Hantei Dave: "I am sorry. The Scorpion Clan is being hunted.
Hantei Dave: "
KibagamiKuno: put a mask over it, Keshijo.
Hida Oku: uh oh.... it is over, then?
Hantei Dave: "The new Emporer, Akodo Toturi, declared it"
Togashi Udon: The second?
Keshijo: HE is the DARK ONE?
Hantei Dave: "Kuno-san, you are now part of an emperial line"
Togashi Udon: Or the thrid?
KibagamiKuno: (i realize this...)
Togashi Udon: Kuno-sama!!!
KibagamiKuno: [bap udon]
Togashi Udon: (bap Kuno)
KibagamiKuno: hey! don't bap your sama! :P
Hantei Dave: "The allied forces are returning to their lands but chaos lingers."
Togashi Udon: (takes back bap)
Hantei Dave: "We are fortunate here to recieve words as they occur."
Hida Oku: (un-bap)
Hantei Dave: "You have been granted access to climb Togashi mountain. I
will give instructions."
Keshijo: What of the Hantei's son?
Hida Oku: Your home, Udon?
Togashi Udon: Hai, Oku. (SMILE)
Hantei Dave: "Hantei's son is presummed dead."
Hantei Dave: "To climb the mountain, you must accept your own fates."
Hantei Dave: "There is a difference between accepting and conceeding to
fate."
Hantei Dave: "I have never made the journey as I have not been allowed to
pass."
Hantei Dave: "It is a dangerous climb."
Hantei Dave: "At the foot, it will begin easy. When you pass Miramoto
castle...it will become increasingly harder."
Hantei Dave: "You can leave tomarrow and rest today if you like."
Hantei Dave: "It shoud take one day to climb."
Hantei Dave: You have 3 before meeting
Hantei Dave: as a note from dave
Hantei Dave: actually 6 since you left early
Hantei Dave: you can be there 5 days early
Togashi Udon: Thank you, Ichi-san. Bow
Hantei Dave: He bows back
KibagamiKuno: [bow]
Keshijo: What of Kachiko?
KibagamiKuno: (smitten, are we?)
Hantei Dave: "Lady Kachiko has been taken captive"
Keshijo: And Aromoro?
Hantei Dave: "The brother of Shoju has escaped"
Togashi Udon: Shoju is???
Keshijo: Dead
Keshijo: I would assume.
Togashi Udon: The blade?
KibagamiKuno: I wonder if she finds that dungeon familiar. There's a book she should
read while she's down there...
Hantei Dave: "I am sorry. Shoju was killed by Toturi after Shoju cleaved the
Emerald Throne in half"
Keshijo: Did Toturi take the blade?
Hantei Dave: "...his son was also killed in battle by Hotori."
Togashi Udon: Interesting gesture...
KibagamiKuno: Indeed.
Hantei Dave: "I am unaware of a blade"
Keshijo: Shoju's Sword?
Togashi Udon: Hotori killed his son...
KibagamiKuno: Keshijo - Toturi was aware of the blade. If he thought it was a
danger, he would not have taken it.
Hantei Dave: "The EMerald Champion was killed as well. Doji Hoturi is the
undisputed leader of the Crane now"
Togashi Udon: Will there be a new Contest for the Emerald Champion?
Keshijo: Interesting.
Hantei Dave: "Noone has taken the Satsume's, the Emerald Champion's
place. I doubt that there will be time for a tornament now."
Keshijo: The blade has quite a lure.
KibagamiKuno: Keshijo, that is what i meant.
Hantei Dave: you guys mind going for a bit longer? ^_-
KibagamiKuno: ok for me...
Hantei Dave: c'mon....just till 1
Hida Oku: I can go for a bit
Hantei Dave: heheheh
Hantei Dave: skip?
Keshijo: Kuno: It can compell people to act against their natures.
Hantei Dave: we'll get to the good part then ^_^
Togashi Udon: k
Keshijo: I can keep going a little longer.
Hantei Dave: ok. Lets not dally in Dragonfly Province
Togashi Udon: hai
KibagamiKuno: then it wouldn't have been seen as a danger...
Hantei Dave: You sleep. You wake....you pray
Hantei Dave: full ki's and prayers
KibagamiKuno: meditate mucho grande.
Keshijo: Kuno: Exactly.
Hantei Dave: you are allowed through the gates into Dragon province.
TyrusFlynn: (I'm heading out)
Hantei Dave: nite tony
KibagamiKuno: dave - is there a place we can store some equipment for a while?
Keshijo: Later Tony
TyrusFlynn: night all
KibagamiKuno: esp if we have a lot of climbing to do?
Togashi Udon: bye t!
KibagamiKuno: (bye!)
TyrusFlynn has left the room.
Hantei Dave: The rocks are reddish in color here...and somewhat jagged
Hantei Dave: a path curves up the side of the mountain...it is quite wide at this
part
Keshijo: Can we get climbing equipment?
Hantei Dave: Keshijo: He tells you, "You will ot need it."
KibagamiKuno: (oh great, dave saw THAT samurai jack episode...)
Keshijo: Hehe.
Hantei Dave: actually I didn't...i guess it was just a natural response
KibagamiKuno: walk walk walk..
Hantei Dave: not a huge samurai jack fan
Hantei Dave: The rocks are strange
Hantei Dave: like none you have ever seen before
Keshijo: Are there any loose ones?
Hantei Dave: yes....
Keshijo: Udon: Is it improper to take one?
Togashi Udon: no
Hantei Dave: you have heard stories of a "volcano" that the dragon live on.
This is volcanic rock
Keshijo: I take one.
Togashi Udon: i'll lead
Hantei Dave: Keshijo: it cuts you
Hantei Dave: a small cut.
Hantei Dave: knicked your finger
Keshijo: I wrap it in a cloth.
Hantei Dave: a thin line of blood forms
Hantei Dave: you travel for about an hour and then you see a few Dragon
bushi in green and gold armor standing on the ridge above you
Hantei Dave: they are staring at you climb
Togashi Udon: you'll get more cuts then that!
Hantei Dave: as if it is entertaining
Keshijo: I make sure my Mon is covered.
Hantei Dave: ok
Togashi Udon: (I do my best to get up there quickly)
Hantei Dave: the path weaves around first
KibagamiKuno: slow and steady.
Hantei Dave: they are quite a ways ahead on the path
Hantei Dave: They hike off
Togashi Udon: Notice? The air is different up here!
KibagamiKuno: smells like dragon's breath?
Togashi Udon: It is beginning to thin, sama!
Hantei Dave: The entire land seems unfriendly here actually
Hantei Dave: little will grow except for stalks in between rocks and the
occasional grove of trees
Hantei Dave: it is a different world
Togashi Udon: (smiling)
Hantei Dave: Soon you see Miramoto castle
Hantei Dave: home of Hitomi
Hantei Dave: She is most likely not here
Hantei Dave: more dragon bushi walk this area
Hantei Dave: it would be very hard to attack this land
Hantei Dave: anyone got a thought?
Togashi Udon: I can't wait to see grandfather!
KibagamiKuno: keep climbing, since we aren't an invading army?
Keshijo: I want to go swimming...
Hida Oku: grumble grumble
Hida Oku: I hate climbing
Hantei Dave: ok....the Dragon bushi all ignore you as if you are not important
Hantei Dave: the path gets thinner
Togashi Udon: (Smiling)
Hantei Dave: very quickly at this point
Hantei Dave: it is hard to keep track of it even
Hantei Dave: sometimes it dips and sometimes it ascends
Hantei Dave: you seem to all be taking on some scrapes and cuts...some
more than others
Togashi Udon: Know this, my friends. The path to Togashi-Yokuni is different
for everyone. You must know yourself,
Togashi Udon: for when you reach him, he will know you. There is nothing you
can hide.
Togashi Udon: But first you must find yourself in order to find him in order to
understand yourself findings.
KibagamiKuno: I know what i can hide...
Hida Oku: $^&!#$@!!
Togashi Udon: We each must take our own paths. In order to find yourself,
leave yourself behind.
Togashi Udon: See you at the Top!
Togashi Udon: (Runs off)
Hida Oku: $#@*!
KibagamiKuno: i pause and take out my bun from yesterday and eat it.
Hida Oku: I trudge on
KibagamiKuno: Take a look around, take in the view.
Hantei Dave: you rest a moment
Hantei Dave: you are very high up
Hida Oku: I'll rest
Hida Oku: with them
Hantei Dave: you can see the Dragonfly town below
KibagamiKuno: care for part of a sticky bun?
Hida Oku: sure
Hantei Dave: Miramoto Castle can't be seen anymore
KibagamiKuno: split up what's left of the bun for oku and keshijo (if he wants some)
Hantei Dave: hmmm....Kitsune Castle was next on the path but you can see it
below.
Hantei Dave: you must be off the path
KibagamiKuno: we haven't moved since udon left us...
Hida Oku: #!@%&!!
Hantei Dave: keshido is gone
Hantei Dave: keshijo
KibagamiKuno: perhaps the path winds around
Hantei Dave: it is just Kuno and Oku right now
KibagamiKuno: do we seem to be on the same path that is behind us?
KibagamiKuno: (i eat keshijo's part of the sticky bun)
Hida Oku: dammit!
Hida Oku: what the hell is this place?
KibagamiKuno: top of the world as we know it, it would seem.
Hantei Dave: you et cut again Oku
Hida Oku: $^#!^!!!
Hida Oku: dammit... upward
KibagamiKuno: upward? Onward...
KibagamiKuno: dave can we make out the path?
Hantei Dave: the path is gone
KibagamiKuno: what is behind us?
Hantei Dave: you are just on a flat right now
Hantei Dave: just some rocks you hiked up
KibagamiKuno: and we can see the next castle below us?
Hantei Dave: yes
Hantei Dave: it should not have been like that
Hantei Dave: you see the path winding from where you came
Hantei Dave: but you missed an entire castle
Hida Oku: Kuno. . . where are wo?
Hida Oku: we?
KibagamiKuno: where does it disappear to? And can we see it nearer the castle?
Hantei Dave: yes...it goes right up to Kitsune castle
Hida Oku: DAMN Dragons!
Hantei Dave: keep going you 2
Hida Oku: yes
Hantei Dave: Keshijo catches up
Hida Oku: And where have YOU been?
Hantei Dave: you have been climbing for almost 6 hours already
Keshijo: Looking around.
Hantei Dave: A Dragon bushi walks by
Hantei Dave: and pays you no heed
Keshijo: Are they in full armor?
Hantei Dave: yes....full
KibagamiKuno: well, let's follow along the mountain, not going up or down, and see if
we find ourselves more on the trail.
Hantei Dave: it is hot out too
Hantei Dave: the Dragon hops up some rocks easily
Keshijo: Didn't Udon say we have to find our own paths?
Hida Oku: yes.... bye
KibagamiKuno: yes
Keshijo: Maybe we should split up?
Hida Oku: I split
KibagamiKuno: dave, i gave you my path.
Keshijo: (so Dave can kill us easier...)
Hida Oku: I will see you at the top, or in the next world
Hantei Dave: you all continue on your own?
Hida Oku: I do
KibagamiKuno: i guess so
Hantei Dave: You travel for hours
Keshijo: hai.
Hantei Dave: it looks like none of you make any progress
KibagamiKuno: do i find that trail?
Hantei Dave: the mountain looks higher than b4
Hantei Dave: no Kuno
Hantei Dave: you are lost
KibagamiKuno: am i closer to the castle?
Keshijo: I hate magic mountains.
Hantei Dave: you are all beginning to get badly cut up now
Hida Oku: "accept fate" rings in the back of my head
Hida Oku: hmm
Hantei Dave: it is getting late
Hantei Dave: you will all need sleep
Hida Oku: sleep, then
KibagamiKuno: i sleep, eat some rations.
Hantei Dave: Everyone, roll for sleep
Hantei Dave: CON+3d6
KibagamiKuno: 20
Keshijo: 12
Togashi Udon: 23
Hida Oku: 12
Hida Oku: oops
Hantei Dave: oku and kesh: no sleep
Hida Oku: 16
Hantei Dave: still no sleep
Hida Oku: Back to climbing, then, when there is light
Hida Oku: much cursing
Hantei Dave: it becomes light and it is hotter than before
Hantei Dave: at night, it seemed more hospitible
Hantei Dave: the climb is harder
KibagamiKuno: I take stock in where I am...
Hantei Dave: you should be near the top now
Keshijo: I sleep at the highest part of the day, using my armor as a bed roll.
Hida Oku: ok... no more cursing
Hantei Dave: the rocks have gotten even more jagged
Hida Oku: just climb!
Hida Oku: Must. . . reach. . . top!
Keshijo: And climb at night.
KibagamiKuno: i move more upwardly
Hida Oku: no more pissing around
Hida Oku: time to CLIMB, man
Hantei Dave: eheheh
Hantei Dave: 6 hours go by...no top
Hantei Dave: you all must stop for thoughts
Hida Oku: take a moment to rest
Hida Oku: yeah
Hantei Dave: indeed
Hida Oku: look out
Hida Oku: what do I see?
Hida Oku: must be quite a view
Hantei Dave: nothing Oku...you are between creacess
Hantei Dave: crevasses
Hantei Dave: hope people brought water ...cause you are thirsty
KibagamiKuno: water and rations
Hantei Dave: ok Kuno
KibagamiKuno: (heh, and wine)
Hida Oku: damn, this mountain is going to kill me.
Hida Oku: but... can't go down
Hida Oku: definately wont survive that
Hida Oku: upward it is, then
Hantei Dave: another day quickly begins to pass people
Hantei Dave: maybe we should end here so you guys can think this out this
week...lol
Hantei Dave: you aren't doing too well...any of you
Hida Oku: well, at least I know I'm in good company
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Hantei Dave: night approaches
Hantei Dave: Oku finds Keshijo lying in a pool of blood
Hantei Dave: Oku is badly hurt as well dripping from the wrists
Hida Oku: Keshijo!
Hida Oku: take my hand
Hantei Dave: Keshijo: you begin waking up
Keshijo: I can swim....
Hantei Dave: you can barely move though but you can crawl
Hida Oku: take my hand, you silly scorp, and lets go see udon
Keshijo: I take his hand,
Hantei Dave: you feel a little better
Hantei Dave: like you are sharing a life force
Hantei Dave: you stumble away
Hida Oku: Jeez, I'm actually holind hands with a scorpion
Hida Oku: I'll chat with him while we walk
Hantei Dave: you is dragging his feet Oku
Hantei Dave: you are
Hida Oku: "so you put yourself between Matsu (whatever her name is)
and Kisada? The evil one would not place himself between those
two
Hida Oku: "
Keshijo: It is good you think I'm not the evil one...
Hantei Dave: Keshijo...you can walk again alittle
Keshijo: Okay.
Hantei Dave: Oku takes a slightly bigger steps
Hantei Dave: Oku and Keshijo: you turn a corner and find Kuno
Hida Oku: Ah!
Hida Oku: now let's go find udon
Hantei Dave: he is ripping up papers and littering the mountain
Hida Oku: Kuno!
Keshijo: Interesting.
Hida Oku: are you ok, lion?
Hantei Dave: Kuno?
Hida Oku: he's dead!!!!
Hida Oku: crazy, and mute!
KibagamiKuno: hello
Hida Oku: ah
Hantei Dave: and they were about to steal your tanto too
Hida Oku: O:-)
Keshijo: Steal?
Hantei Dave: You feel somewhat better
KibagamiKuno: what is your fate?
Hantei Dave: kuno nicks himself
KibagamiKuno: i've written myself a new one.
Hida Oku: Same as yours, doofus
Hantei Dave: Oku stands up strait
KibagamiKuno: the mountain disagrees, by i see no reason why I can't succeed at this
one.
Hantei Dave: Oku: you feel rejuvinated
Keshijo: We all must die eventually.
KibagamiKuno: thus the end of our path.
Keshijo: Preferably not here though.
Hida Oku: even if I have to carry you, we're going to wherever Udon
is
KibagamiKuno: and what we do between here and that end is our fate.
Hida Oku: and I WILL throw away your armor
Hantei Dave: Udon is around the corner digging up his bodi tree
Hantei Dave: Kuno: you feel better
Hida Oku: Udon!
Togashi Udon: Well, that was fun!
Hantei Dave: Udon repots his tree
Hida Oku: Udon, you. . . you. . .
Hantei Dave: you hike another rock and a volcanic valley presents itself with
TOgashi Kyuden on the other side
KibagamiKuno: gardener
Hantei Dave: if was so close
Hantei Dave: but you couldn't find it
Keshijo: I hate magic mountains.
Hantei Dave: ...and we'll end here ^_-
Hida Oku: all warm and fuzzy like
Hantei Dave: saving all your adventures alone
Hida Oku: to quote Yosemite Sam:
Hida Oku: "Dragons is SO stoopid"
Togashi Udon: To quote Red Lobster:
Hida Oku: lol!
Togashi Udon: "All you can eat Crab Legs!"
Hida Oku: lol!
Hantei Dave: man...you shoulda sen what each other went through
KibagamiKuno: Udon - i've left the smiling monk a message.
Hantei Dave: Kuno spouted poetry
Hantei Dave: Keshijo went delirious
Hantei Dave: Oku started reminiscing
Hantei Dave: and Udon was desperate
Hantei Dave: i'll post them all
Hida Oku: I started trying to paint the mountain with my own blood!
Hida Oku: using my finger as a brush!
Hantei Dave: hehehehe
KibagamiKuno: that sounds about right, oku - after meeting a man who wanders up
and down the mountain, smiling at travelers, i decided my new task was to wander
around writing:
KibagamiKuno: My fate is poems from here to the mountaintop presents in the rock
Hantei Dave: Kuno falls back down
Hida Oku: even the mountain couldn't take your poety, huh?
Hantei Dave: fool...your fate is the fate of all of you
Togashi Udon: it was the damn monk
Togashi Udon: he was the one who threw me
Hantei Dave: ^_^
KibagamiKuno: no dave, fate is a personal thing.
Hantei Dave: you were way off Udon...trying to run up alone
Hantei Dave: not in your case
Togashi Udon: not really
Hantei Dave: your fates are tied
Hantei Dave: Oku figured it out first
Togashi Udon: exactly, so why would it mtter if we were together or alone?
KibagamiKuno: we may travel to our fates together, we may affect each others, but in
the end, our fates are our own.
Togashi Udon: matter
Hida Oku: Now don't make anything of it! I may be an artist, but
don't get any ideas
Hantei Dave: it didn't. but you left your friends to die without that realization
Udon
Togashi Udon: i was reinacting the ritual
Hantei Dave: and thus sealed your fate
Togashi Udon: realization comes in the process
Hida Oku: it is most definately bedtime
Keshijo: Oku: yes.
Keshijo: bedtime.
Hantei Dave: indeed
Togashi Udon: yup
Hida Oku: so next time will be.... meet with the Dragon, month "off",
and then continue?
Hantei Dave: something like that. Togashi won't take too long
Hida Oku: so we should plan now what we will do with that time?
Hantei Dave: yah
Hida Oku: ok
KibagamiKuno: duration is still up in the air, lets think about it for next time
