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Hantei Dave: hey brian
Keshijo: Howdy.
Suzume Sousha: yeah looking at it now
Hantei Dave: josh will be about 20 min late
Suzume Sousha: just opened my char sheet
Togashi Udon: (Gonna go find food---fell free to start
w/o me--call cell phone if nessissary)
Hantei Dave: skip. di dyou need to get a snack?
Togashi Udon: HI BRIAN!
Hantei Dave: ok
Hida Oku: hello!
Togashi Udon: brb
Hida Oku: wow, a full house today?
Hantei Dave: yep
Hantei Dave: and Isawa Inquisitor Monme
Keshijo: I have 4 of a kind...
Keshijo: I win... :-)
Suzume Sousha: lol
Hantei Dave: Inquisitor steals your cards....devils game
Hantei Dave: shame
Hantei Dave: whats going on brian?
Hantei Dave: how was the latest test?
Keshijo: Passed it. 1 left.
Hantei Dave: nice
Hantei Dave: when?
Suzume Sousha: whats the test for?
Keshijo: Sept. 6th.
Keshijo: I'm getting my MCSE.
Keshijo: I have the core design test left.
Suzume Sousha: oh cool
Suzume Sousha: I haven't done alll that in a long long long
time
Keshijo: I wouldn't bother but work is offering a big bonus
for getting it...
Suzume Sousha: cool
Suzume Sousha: thats always worth it
Hantei Dave: well, since josh isn't here yet. ANy good
ideas what to do with Akira's armor?
Suzume Sousha: sell it!
Hantei Dave: Isawa Inquisitor Monme would be very
interested in seeing it
Keshijo: Slap it on the Inquisitor...
Hantei Dave: if he knew about it
Hantei Dave: you wanna make him wear it?
Hantei Dave: lol
Hida Oku: let's feed it to the inquisitor
Keshijo: call him an agent of Fu Leng and send him to the
Isawa...
Keshijo: :-)
Hantei Dave: ok, now how about REAL solutions?
Hantei Dave: heheh
Hantei Dave: its currently in the river
Keshijo: Oh. I thought Kuno fished it out...
Hantei Dave: rishard: in case you missed it, it is evil armor
(like what Femto wears)
Suzume Sousha: intersting.
Hantei Dave: well, you can still stop him Kesh
Hantei Dave: Kuno is GOING to fish it out
Keshijo: It would be irresponsible to let the peasants find
it...
Hantei Dave: who knows what it does to the water
Keshijo: It might also taint the river...
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Suzume Sousha: what does this evil armor do?
Hantei Dave: sousha: you aren't really sure
Keshijo: Apparently it couldn't save Akira...
Hantei Dave: but it is obviously evil
Suzume Sousha: how do I know its evil?
Hantei Dave: a gift from Yogo Junzo
Togashi Udon: back
Hantei Dave: Udon: what do you want to do with Akira's
armor?
Togashi Udon: sell it to testuo
Suzume Sousha: can we return it to where it was forged?
Keshijo: Mount Doom? :-)
Hantei Dave: you mean to Yogo Junzo? be my guest
Hantei Dave: "here you go. Thought you might want this
back Junzo."
Suzume Sousha: (I got the 2 towers DVD early which has
a 10 minute feature on Return of the Kings which looks
AMAZING)
Togashi Udon: i think we should let kuno deside
Suzume Sousha: seriously though can we destroy it?
Hantei Dave: fire didn't work sousha
Keshijo: I hope so. It seems fire resistant.
Suzume Sousha: its metal right? Perhaps we can figure
out a way to freeze it and then break it
Togashi Udon: we cant keep it aroud the inquisitor
Hantei Dave: it's more like a leather
Hantei Dave: (oni hide)
Togashi Udon: he's too nosey
Suzume Sousha: hmmmm
Suzume Sousha: the freezing idea might work even better
on that. . . not sure
Hantei Dave: where will you get ice?
Suzume Sousha: hey, I'm just coming up with idea's. I
didn't say there were viable solutions.
Suzume Sousha: :-)
Keshijo: We are in the mountains....
Togashi Udon: lets switch sides
Togashi Udon: and use it
Keshijo: Umm... no... Code of Honor...
Togashi Udon: j/k
Suzume Sousha: I would have said burying it, but it looks
like that was sugested before
Keshijo: Loyalty to Clan....
Togashi Udon: no sense of humor
Keshijo: Stuff like that...
Hantei Dave: hehehe..what clan?
Keshijo: Exactly...
Keshijo: Oh yeah...
Suzume Sousha: is the person tthat we got it from still
around?
Hantei Dave: Udon becomes the noodles of evil
Keshijo: We killed him...
Suzume Sousha: doh!
Keshijo: and banished his soul...
Suzume Sousha: what did u do with his eveil body?
Keshijo: and buried the body...
Suzume Sousha: why not just leave the body with the
armor?
Hantei Dave: maybe burring the armor is a good idea
O:-)
Suzume Sousha: was there fear he might resurrect or
something>
Keshijo: The body was purified.
Suzume Sousha: aaaah
Keshijo: No resurrection....
Suzume Sousha: hmmmm.
Hantei Dave: sousha: I don't resurect more than once
Suzume Sousha: :-)
Hantei Dave: this guy comes back too often ^_-
Togashi Udon: We can give the armor to Yokuni.
Keshijo: Udon: Good idea...
Hantei Dave: ok, will you carry it?
Suzume Sousha: how are we curretnly carrying it?
Togashi Udon: He'll know what to do with it---how to
destroy it.
Hantei Dave: its in the river sousha
Suzume Sousha: ahhh
Hantei Dave: well, I guess Kuno takes it then
Suzume Sousha: its leather right? Can we just cut it up
into litle pieces?
Hantei Dave: anyone wanna tell the Inquisitor something?
Togashi Udon: we have to keep the inquisitor away
from kuno & the armor
Suzume Sousha: or better yet, why can't we just bless it
and make it not evil?
Hantei Dave: Udon: he is here to inspect Kuno
Hida Oku: "don't look at me", and don't EVER talk
to me""
Keshijo: I can only purify a dead soul...
Togashi Udon: I'm not talking to that fascist bully.
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Hida Oku: ok...... inquisitor excluded (does he have
a name, dave?) I have a slight problem here
Hantei Dave: Isawa Inquisitor Monme is washing the
bottom of his robes while you all talk
Keshijo: I make small talk with him...
Hida Oku: I can't use my abilities with him around
Togashi Udon: brb
Suzume Sousha: ok no purification . . . what about cutting
it up?
Hantei Dave: you can try sousha
Suzume Sousha: very well I will try.
Hantei Dave: Kuno fishes the armor out
Hantei Dave: Kuno refuses to let you try
Suzume Sousha: very well.
Hantei Dave: (I think)
Suzume Sousha: since i dont' want to get my ass kicked I
will wait
Suzume Sousha: :-)
Hantei Dave: ^_^
Hantei Dave: try again when josh comes rishard
Suzume Sousha: okey doke
Hantei Dave: hopesully soon
Hida Oku: anyone? solutiuons?
Suzume Sousha: hell I'd just volunteer to wear it and seee
what happens
Hida Oku: I don't want to have to use MY solution
Hida Oku: it's rather.... final
Suzume Sousha: if somethign bad happens being the
weaksest member u guys could take me out if I went
bad :-)
Hantei Dave: Kuno puts Oku's wet robe around it and
slings it on his back
Keshijo: Oku: For the armor or the inquisitor?
Hantei Dave: Rishard: suggest that one too when Josh
shows up
Hida Oku: for the doofus... as I said... I can't use
any of my abilities around him
Hantei Dave: He is wringing his robes out
Hantei Dave: He comes over to you all
Suzume Sousha: I will suggest bot to him when I see him
Hantei Dave: and stands quietly
Hantei Dave: (awkward silence)
Suzume Sousha: very. . . specially since I can't ask him to
do anything till he gets here :-)
Togashi Udon: back
Togashi Udon: shall we continue on our journey
Togashi Udon: ?
Keshijo: Okay.
Hantei Dave: (awkward silence)
Togashi Udon: I belive we were heading towards the
Dragons, correct?
Hantei Dave: you all continue on...to the Dragon lands
Hida Oku: i still don't know what I should do
Hantei Dave: Oku: you with everyone else? or behind?
or what?
Hantei Dave: Isawa Inquisitor Monme walks next to
Kuno
Keshijo: Is the Ki-Rin shrine on the way?
Hida Oku: I'll walk in back
Togashi Udon: I move between him and
Kuno--"Move."
Hantei Dave: if you want to pass it Kesh
Keshijo: Guys, Toturi is near there...
Togashi Udon: Yes, lets, if it is not to far out of the
way.
Hantei Dave: he doesn't argue
Hantei Dave: Toturi is actually on the other side of the
Dragons...sorry kesh
Suzume Sousha: I follow along
Hantei Dave: first Dragons...then Toturi
Togashi Udon: (some clan of secrets--all the infos
wrong)
Keshijo: Okay...
Suzume Sousha: :-)
Hantei Dave: sorry...my mistake people. TOturi was at
the OTHER ki-rin shrine...hehehe
Hantei Dave: forgot its location
Hantei Dave: i won't let you miss it
Suzume Sousha: lol
Hantei Dave: for ease...lets say the shrine isn't coming up
Hantei Dave: It flew west
Suzume Sousha: it must be possesed to fly
Togashi Udon: the badger are on the other side of
the dragons too, right?
Hantei Dave: (freaking world)
Hantei Dave: yes udon
Togashi Udon: thnx
Suzume Sousha: badger? Is that a lower clan?
Togashi Udon: yup
Togashi Udon: minor
Suzume Sousha: k
Togashi Udon: i suppose we walk in alkward
silence.
Togashi Udon: everyone stare at the intruder...
Hida Oku: man, life is no fun with this dork
Hantei Dave: Isawa Inquisitor Monme: "....
Hantei Dave: sorry josh called
Hantei Dave: Kuno is walking quick
Togashi Udon: keep up
Hantei Dave: quick quick
Hantei Dave: Isawa Inquisitor Monme does the same
Suzume Sousha: I follow
Hantei Dave: oku?
Togashi Udon: "That anxious to see Nebiko,
Kuno-san?"
Hida Oku: sure
Hantei Dave: he grits
Hantei Dave: you all keep up a strong pace for quite
some time
Hantei Dave: you should be entering Dragon lands soon
Hida Oku: I sent you all the same message
Hantei Dave: message?
Hantei Dave: not me...heheh
Suzume Sousha: hold on a moment dave. Important
things are afoot.
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: for once...dave waits
Togashi Udon: hehehe
Togashi Udon: sorry, udon is not cool enough for
them...
Hantei Dave: no?
Hantei Dave: hehe
Hantei Dave: i guessed at the discussion
Hantei Dave: ^_-
Togashi Udon: yup--this is Udon
Togashi Udon: "Oh look a bird!
Togashi Udon: Wow, look a slug!
Hantei Dave: heh
Togashi Udon: Hey check out that dragonfly!
Hantei Dave: a dragonfly passes
Hantei Dave: btw Udon: you are still suffering from your
lil lie
Togashi Udon: Is that a wolf print?
Hantei Dave: you haven't had time to pray
Hantei Dave: just reminding you
Togashi Udon: ok, what does that do to me?
Hantei Dave: it may afect your casting potential
Togashi Udon: k
Hantei Dave: or may nullify it
Togashi Udon: k
Hantei Dave: you'll have to try to be sure
Hantei Dave: lalalalalalalal
Togashi Udon: hehe
Hantei Dave: Isawa Inquisitor Monme starts conversation
with Udon and Kuno
Hida Oku: dave, what's the homepage, again?
Hantei Dave: Isawa Inquisitor Monme: "Where do you
plan to go now anyway?"
Togashi Udon: Why?
Hantei Dave: Isawa Inquisitor Monme: "As part of my
investigation I should know...after all, I am coming
along."
Togashi Udon: (Udon wil answer, so Kuno doesnt
have to)
Hantei Dave: (thanks)
Togashi Udon: "You'd think you should know."
Hantei Dave: Isawa Inquisitor Monme: "I know you are
angry but we are on the same side. I am sorry if my
master was harsh."
Togashi Udon: We are going west.
Hantei Dave: Isawa Inquisitor Monme: "Ah....you are a
monk of Togashi are you not?"
Togashi Udon: Hai.
Hantei Dave: Isawa Inquisitor Monme: "I have always
respected the Agasha. They are very thorough in their
work."
Hantei Dave: "Togashi Yokuni-sama must be proud."
Hantei Dave: (huff huff)
Togashi Udon: Why must he?
Hantei Dave: Isawa Inquisitor Monme: "I would be."
Togashi Udon: That is you.
Hantei Dave: "...."
Hantei Dave: you guys ready soon?
Hantei Dave: (awkward silence)
Keshijo: Almost..
Hida Oku: dave, have we passed any caravans
lately?
Hantei Dave: caravans? you really are running through
fields right now
Hida Oku: shoot
Hantei Dave: and up and down hills
Hantei Dave: you can make it to the road soon though
Keshijo: We head for the road...
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: you can make it there in about an hour
KibagamiKuno has entered the room.
Hantei Dave: hey josh!
Hida Oku: Hey!
Hida Oku: ok dave....
KibagamiKuno: whew - hi
Togashi Udon: Hi Kuno!
Hantei Dave: Josh: hold up...a plan is in works
KibagamiKuno: k
Hantei Dave: you guys turn slightly south to the road and
continue your hike
Togashi Udon: Kuno--dont talk to the Inquisitor. Ive
been answer ing for you.
Suzume Sousha: going to put someting in the microwave.
be back in a few minutes
Togashi Udon: "Now we are going south."
Hantei Dave: you guys cross the top of a hill
Hida Oku: let's do it
Togashi Udon: "Now we are going up a hill."
Hantei Dave: skip: I'm gonna send you a dif pic right now
in email then
Suzume Sousha: is that us in the picture?
Togashi Udon: dont bother
Togashi Udon: ame with email--its a memory thing
Hantei Dave: oops
Hantei Dave: too late
Hantei Dave: hhehehe
Togashi Udon: ok
Hantei Dave: sousha: no...thats the 7 samurau. I don't
think you guys got the movie deal yet
Keshijo: Yes we did...
Suzume Sousha: I know I was just joking :-)
Hantei Dave: thats not very ninja of you
Hantei Dave: selling your story
KibagamiKuno: My understanding, dave from what we
discussed on the phone and from the fact that i never
rejoined the group and that people couldn't find the
armor from last time, was that i had picked it up and left.
Keshijo: What ninjas?
Keshijo: Where are the ninjas?
KibagamiKuno: the inquisitor also never joined the group,
he just went off looking for kuno.
Togashi Udon: so whats the deal?
Keshijo: There's no such thing...
Hantei Dave: well, either way you got yourself an
inquisitor and it is a very long walk Josh
KibagamiKuno: well he found kuno, and kuno never went
back to the group.
KibagamiKuno: yes, it is.
Hantei Dave: sousha could easily catch up for instance
Hida Oku: so?
Hida Oku: what's going on?
Hantei Dave: as will certain (ahem) stealthy people
Suzume Sousha: yes yes I could
KibagamiKuno: but did they?
Togashi Udon: i dont know...
KibagamiKuno: per our conversation (which you didn't
say anything against) kuno is headed to the togashi to
dump the armor.
KibagamiKuno: and everyone else was off to see hitomi
Keshijo: Dave crashed...
Togashi Udon: doh
Hida Oku: doh
Hantei Dave has left the room.
Hantei Dave has entered the room.
Hantei Dave: back
Togashi Udon: yeah
Hantei Dave: hmm
KibagamiKuno: too f'n frustrating.
Hantei Dave: well, don't let it eat you up josh
Hantei Dave: better we stay together right now
Hantei Dave: or else game will be slowed
Hantei Dave: anyway, they turned south ^_^
Keshijo: How about we saw Kuno get the armor,
distracted the Inquisitor and all got back together...
KibagamiKuno: Right, fine. screw it, i'll just follow along.
Togashi Udon: "Look a bird!"
Hantei Dave: ok...on we go then
Keshijo: We thought bringing the armor to Togashi was a
good idea anyway..
Keshijo: so it all works out...
KibagamiKuno: (i thought we just turned south?)
Keshijo: :-)
Hantei Dave: look VILLAGE!
Keshijo: That too...
Togashi Udon: "Dont kill the bird, Sousha!"
Hida Oku: yay, a village!
Suzume Sousha: heheh
Keshijo: I think Dave wants us to go to trhe village....
Hantei Dave: feel free to skip it brian
Hantei Dave: and the evil buddha...err...good buddha
Suzume Sousha: does this village have wagons or
anythign around?
Keshijo: Evil Buddha...
Hantei Dave: looks like a farming village sousha
Keshijo: no village then.. unless there are wagons...
Hida Oku: yeah
Hantei Dave: down then?
Hantei Dave: or around?
KibagamiKuno: togashi are north...
Hantei Dave: well, north west
Hantei Dave: and the road might be quicker anyway
Keshijo: Roads are a good idea...
Hantei Dave: ok...i'll assume you all go down to the
village
Togashi Udon: we can keep to them--but no dueling
bushi unicorns!
Hantei Dave: a crowd forms as you all approach
Togashi Udon: crap
Hantei Dave: the Inquisitor takes out his scroll
Hida Oku: great....
Keshijo: What scroll is that?
Hantei Dave: he smiles "notes"
Hantei Dave: "...for my investigation"
Keshijo: "Notes?"
KibagamiKuno: Dave, where is there a well?
Keshijo: I look over his shoulder...
Hantei Dave: "how you deal with people are important."
Togashi Udon: Will there be a test later?
Hantei Dave: Kuno: the stream is close by
Hantei Dave: and also diverted a bit to the fields
KibagamiKuno: I wander off to the stream.
Hantei Dave: the inquisito follows Kuno
Togashi Udon: If we torchor them do we get bonus
points?
KibagamiKuno: heh.
Togashi Udon: You guys seem to like that.
Hantei Dave: the river/stream is about 30 yards from the
village
KibagamiKuno: I take off my sandals and walk into the
water.
Hantei Dave: are you crossing Kuno?
Togashi Udon: (watching Kuno & IQ)
KibagamiKuno: hmm, am i?
Hantei Dave: what is everyone else doing?
Suzume Sousha: looking around
KibagamiKuno: What's the IQ doing?
Hantei Dave: the inquisitor stands at the edge "Are you
trying to leave Kuno-san?"
KibagamiKuno: I look back at him, he's standing happily
on the shore eh?
Hantei Dave: "You must not violate this inquisition."
Keshijo: I read the Inquisitor's notes...
Hantei Dave: "I must warn you."
Hantei Dave: Keshijo: notes about approaching the
village..thats all
KibagamiKuno: I cross and start walking away.
Hantei Dave: turn your back Kuno?
Keshijo: How much paper does he have?
Hantei Dave: just one sheet right now Kesh
Keshijo: I ask him for some. For Wards, of course.
KibagamiKuno: Sure, i'm not violating anything by going
for a walk.
Hantei Dave: He ignore Keshijo
Hantei Dave: "Please ask him to return Keshijo-san."
Togashi Udon: I will tend to the crowd
Hantei Dave: "He is not being helpful"
Togashi Udon: if no one else is
Hantei Dave: Udon walks tothe village
KibagamiKuno: I look back over my shoulder to see if
the IQ is following.
Togashi Udon: to the crowd
Hantei Dave: over a small bridge near by (east)
KibagamiKuno: If not, i shrug and keep walking
Hida Oku: so dave.... any merchants of anyone
passing thru?
Keshijo: "We often split up in towns. It helps us learn the
ways of the people and the land more quickly."
Hida Oku: *or
Suzume Sousha: I want to walk around and look talk to
some farmers.
Suzume Sousha: oh how much money do we have?
Hantei Dave: He grimaces. "I will wait in town. Have him
come in one hour or I leave."
Hantei Dave: "With a bad report."
Hantei Dave: SOusha: alot
Keshijo: "Very well."
Keshijo: I go tell Kuno.
Hantei Dave: The inquisiot walks to the bridge
KibagamiKuno: (heh, the report that kuno crossed the
river without him)
Hantei Dave: no, Oku. What are you doing?
Hantei Dave: now i mean
Togashi Udon: (Smiling) "Greetings." (to the
gathered crowd)
Hantei Dave: Udon: the villages are waiting puzzled at this
arrival
Hida Oku: I want to search around the town
KibagamiKuno: I wait until the IQ has left then cross
back
Hantei Dave: ok Kuno
Suzume Sousha: (curious . . . if something were to happen
to this inquisitor how would anyone know?)
Hantei Dave: Oku: you are swarmed at the moment
Hantei Dave: The inquisitor follows Udon
KibagamiKuno: sousha - we cannot harm the inquisitor.
Togashi Udon: How are you all?
Keshijo: I follow the Inquisitor.
Suzume Sousha: I never said we would.
Keshijo: and Udon, I guess.
KibagamiKuno: Exactly.
Hida Oku: "Get away from me people...."
Suzume Sousha: if an accident happens to him we get in
trouble though right>
Hantei Dave: "Eh....are you hear for a reason?"
Hantei Dave: "....sirs?"
Keshijo: "So how does one become an inquisitor."
Keshijo: "?"
KibagamiKuno: Battle is a tricky thing.
Hantei Dave: Oku: they leave you alone
Togashi Udon: Just to rest.
Hida Oku: gppd
Hida Oku: good
Hantei Dave: who you asking Kesh?
Hantei Dave: they look around
Hantei Dave: one guy bows
Togashi Udon: Get some supplies for our journey.
Hantei Dave: "I....I have room"
Togashi Udon: Wow. Thank you kind sir.
Keshijo: Isawa Momne
Keshijo: I was following him...
Hantei Dave: He seems like he is disturbed Kesh. He
looks at you with a blank face and follows Udon
Keshijo: I sniff the air.
Hantei Dave: roll Kehs
Hantei Dave: kesh
Keshijo: 21
Hantei Dave: nothing odd Keshijo
Hantei Dave: just the rice fields
Hantei Dave: ^_^
Keshijo: Hmm..
Keshijo: "What bothers you Isawa Momne-sama?"
Hantei Dave: "I must warn you" he says. "My report will
be less then good with such treatment. It is afterall,
stopping an investigation to be so uncooperative."
Togashi Udon: I follow the man, gesturing to the
others like -- look I got us all free rooms
Keshijo: "Uncooperative?"
Hantei Dave: he brings yo uall in..or whoever want to go
Togashi Udon: (big smile--THAT WAS EASY!)
Hantei Dave: He seems to live alone
Keshijo: "Are you not supposed to observe us as we act
normally?"
Hantei Dave: He watches you all from the corner of his
eyes
Togashi Udon: oh, wait---we did not want to stop did
we?
Hantei Dave: He looks at Keshijo. "No. I should
inspect you as if I am there."
Keshijo: "Changing our normal routines would invalidate
your report."
Togashi Udon: (DOH!)
Togashi Udon: sorry
Hantei Dave: Udon: it will be night eventually anyway
KibagamiKuno: Kuno enters:
KibagamiKuno: "I am worried, friends,
Hantei Dave: The inquisitor stands strait.
KibagamiKuno: there is an isawa visitor in this town who
fears nature and will not cross a stream.
KibagamiKuno: Perhaps he is an oni?"
Togashi Udon: (look at it this way-- i finally got us
kicked into some where!)
KibagamiKuno: "Are you an oni, traitor of hantei 38?
KibagamiKuno: "
Hantei Dave: He stands strait.
KibagamiKuno: "Refusal to answer?"
Keshijo: I get out of the way...
Togashi Udon: what?
KibagamiKuno: "Mighty suspicious"
Togashi Udon: crow tatt
Hantei Dave: "An attack an an inquisitor is an attack on
your lord. I will leave now with my completed report."
KibagamiKuno: "How many oni have you slain, traitor of
hantei 38?"
Hantei Dave: roll Udon
Togashi Udon: 26
Hantei Dave: THe inquisitor begins to leave
KibagamiKuno: "Who is attacking? We are having a chat.
You wanted to talk, did you not?"
KibagamiKuno: I am still standing in thedoorway
Hantei Dave: he raises his hands
Hantei Dave: and takes out a flint
Togashi Udon: Kuno- I sense nothing.
Hantei Dave: from his sleeve
Hantei Dave: he holds it before Kuno
Hantei Dave: "move."
Togashi Udon: Don't do it. Everyone calm down.
KibagamiKuno: I step back outside.
Hantei Dave: He walks out and walks backwards not
leaving Kuno's gaze
Hantei Dave: He makes for the bridge slowly
KibagamiKuno: I walk with him
Hantei Dave: the villiger stays low in a bow
Hantei Dave: the other villigers outside scurry
KibagamiKuno: I pull out paper and a quill.
Hantei Dave: He keeps his sight on you kuno
Hantei Dave: He backs up more
KibagamiKuno: "Refusal to cross water..."
Hantei Dave: anyone else doing something?
KibagamiKuno: "Refusal to answer questions..."
KibagamiKuno: "Fleeing an inquisition..."
Togashi Udon: I will go out side
KibagamiKuno: "Blasphemy toward the emperor's
servants..."
Hantei Dave: make a will roll Kuno
Hida Oku: jeez, he blows a lot opf hot air
Keshijo: I'll watch the fun...
Hantei Dave: sousha?
Suzume Sousha: Am I in the room?
KibagamiKuno: (any skill i should use?)
KibagamiKuno: (18 w/o a skill)
Hantei Dave: wherever you wanna be soushsa
Suzume Sousha: if so then I will back off
Suzume Sousha: I was wandering around the village
previously
Suzume Sousha: originaly wanted to tal to a farmer, but
now i don't think its necessary
Suzume Sousha: :-)
Hantei Dave: the villagers are in there houses now
Hantei Dave: some watch from fences
Hantei Dave: or around corners
Hantei Dave: your host is in the doorway
KibagamiKuno: "You never answered me, how many oni
have you slain? I need it for my report to Isawa
Tadaka"
KibagamiKuno: "Or did you miss the fact we met with the
elemental masters?"
Togashi Udon: "Inquisitor! You leave and your
investigation will be incomplete! You say that the
inquisitors are very even handed, but by leaving
so soon you prove me right. Your truth is
onesided and based on fear!"
Togashi Udon: Stay and prove me wrong!
Hantei Dave: He gets to the bridge.
Hantei Dave: "Come with me Udon...away from that
monster."
Keshijo: I walk up.
Togashi Udon: And go to your Mater Monster?
Togashi Udon: Master Monster
Suzume Sousha: I start walking back to where everyone
else is
Hantei Dave: He turns and runs across the bridge
KibagamiKuno: "How Many?!"
Keshijo: "As I told Isawa Nakamura-sama, if any fall to
the taint I will kill them and purify their souls. You have
my word."
KibagamiKuno: "Answer me, traitor! Or are you oni
blood yourself?
KibagamiKuno: "
KibagamiKuno: I follow him
Hantei Dave: he is running Kuno
Keshijo: "As a Mystic Demon Hunter that should be
enough."
KibagamiKuno: "Come back you traitor"
Hantei Dave: are you running too?
KibagamiKuno: (i run to keep up, he hasn't put any
distance between us yet)
Hantei Dave: whats your RUN?
Togashi Udon: jeez, I hate being right.
KibagamiKuno: 10
Hantei Dave: you will catch him in 2 rounds
KibagamiKuno: I sprint. that's 15.
Hantei Dave: first round...roll inits
Hida Oku: oh jeez, what jsut happened
Suzume Sousha: where am I in relation to what is going
on?
Togashi Udon: "Kuno is not scary! He's a teddybear!
Sousha's the scary one!"
Hida Oku: I go to the bathroom for one min and all
hell breaks loose
Togashi Udon: hehe
KibagamiKuno: 28
Suzume Sousha: perhaps I can hit him in the leg with a
shuriken :-)
Hantei Dave: sousha: kuno crossed the bridge. you are
in the village
Suzume Sousha: I guess I'm way to far :-)
Keshijo: I follow them...
Hantei Dave: you can throw one Sousha
Keshijo: Quickly...
Hantei Dave: roll inits all: kuno has a 28
Togashi Udon: if kesh is going i'll go
Suzume Sousha: Cool. I'll go for that then with Dogakure
to use 5 at once
Hantei Dave: 26 on inquisitor
Keshijo: 30
KibagamiKuno: (dave - will the sprint help me catch him
faster?)
Hida Oku: 23
Togashi Udon: 26
Hantei Dave: sousha?
Hantei Dave: init?
Hantei Dave: kuno: yes, you can make a leap if you want
Suzume Sousha: 25
Hantei Dave: ok....Oku delcares
Hantei Dave: then sousha
KibagamiKuno: Nah, i'll keep running
Hida Oku: well, I'm in plain sight of everyone
Hida Oku: I'm just an artist
Hida Oku: "STOP HIM"I'll yell
Hida Oku: heh... sorry guys
Hantei Dave: sousha?
Suzume Sousha: dogakure
Hantei Dave: throwing 5?
Hantei Dave: ok
Suzume Sousha: yeah
Hantei Dave: Udon and me
Hantei Dave: Inquisito turns staff planted in ground
Hantei Dave: and he will tap his hand to his staff
Hantei Dave: Udon?
Togashi Udon: Holding hands out to try to talk him
out of whatever dumb thing he is about to do.
Hantei Dave: Kuno?
Hantei Dave: and then Keshijo goes
KibagamiKuno: I stop in front of the inquisitor
Hantei Dave: and?
KibagamiKuno: "Now come along back, we haven't
finished OUR report yet."
Hantei Dave: keshijo?
Keshijo: I get in the way of Sousha's Shuriken...
KibagamiKuno: (I am in the way, i believe)
Keshijo: And whisper for everyone to stop...
Hantei Dave: whisper won't cut it
Keshijo: Then I get hurt...
Hantei Dave: ok.
Keshijo: Yeah, well, whisper is all I can do...
KibagamiKuno: "(and stop being such a pain in the ass
before i take a shiruken for your miserable hide)"
Suzume Sousha: oooh this will suck. I actually made a
few good rolls for attakc (though damage is week)
Hantei Dave: Well, if you are all talking....the inquisitor
will go
Keshijo: Unless arrow catching can work with shuriken...
:-)
KibagamiKuno: Dave, i'm talking to him.
Togashi Udon: excuse me i was talking to him
Hantei Dave: well say it quick Kuno
KibagamiKuno: i did, it's up there.
Hantei Dave: cause it all happens at once anyway
Hantei Dave: ok
KibagamiKuno: He stopped and put his hands on his
staff.
KibagamiKuno: Next round?
Hantei Dave: kesh: not with your back to sousha ^_-
Hantei Dave: nope.
Hantei Dave: Inquisitor taps his staff with the flint in his
hand
Keshijo: Ouch...
Hantei Dave: a fireball rushes out from it
Togashi Udon: If you attack it will only prove your gult
Hantei Dave: strait at Kuno
Hantei Dave: too late ^_-
KibagamiKuno: umm, dave, he spent this round running...
KibagamiKuno: that would be his action...
Suzume Sousha: Hea already claimed we attacked him
and then started leaving
Hantei Dave: josh: I declares his stop and turn and tap
Hantei Dave: declared
KibagamiKuno: so this would be the second round?
Hantei Dave: no. first round...you got too close...he
turned
KibagamiKuno: ok.
Hantei Dave: he shoots...roll ranged evade for half attack
KibagamiKuno: so he changed his action?
Hantei Dave: no...i declared it josh
Hantei Dave: go look
Hantei Dave: right before Udons
Togashi Udon: i want new inits for next round
KibagamiKuno: i'm kinda confused, we spent a round
running, correct?
KibagamiKuno: nm, it's not worth it.
Hantei Dave: you sprinted
Hantei Dave: he turned
Suzume Sousha: excepft for me who wanted to attack
him
Suzume Sousha: and stop him from running
KibagamiKuno: (yes, but i never let him move more than
a few feet from me, i followed him all the way to the
bridge, so i've been right with him the whole time)
Suzume Sousha: but u did that already
Hantei Dave: sousha: you lost the init...you can still attack
Suzume Sousha: no thats ok.
Hantei Dave: after him
Hantei Dave: roll ranged evade
Suzume Sousha: no sense in hitting friends
Togashi Udon: save it for the bids ;-)
Keshijo: Phew...
KibagamiKuno: is he voided then?
Hantei Dave: oh yeah...roll void
KibagamiKuno: 29
Hantei Dave: he has no iaijutsu
Hantei Dave: roll ranged evade now (no iaijutsu
bonus...no swords)
Togashi Udon: fireball coming at kuno--IQ
voided...my staement ignored, new inits???
Hantei Dave: udon: still same round...rerolls next round
KibagamiKuno: 22
Hantei Dave: you were talking this round
Hantei Dave: ok...half damage kuno
Togashi Udon has left the room.
Hida Oku: doh
Suzume Sousha: doh!
Suzume Sousha: I guess he didn't like your answer
Keshijo: (guess he got upset...)
Hantei Dave: 19/2 = 9 points to kuno fire damage...and
you are on fire
Hantei Dave: make a con roll
KibagamiKuno: 19
Hantei Dave: ok...you can still function but you might
wanna put yourself out
KibagamiKuno: No thanks, next round?
Hantei Dave: sousha: wanna attack?
Hantei Dave: you can have -4's on all your rolls
Hantei Dave: to not hit the others....hehehe
Hantei Dave: rishard?
Suzume Sousha: sure
Hantei Dave: ok....rolll your attacks
Hantei Dave: he'll roll evades
Suzume Sousha: I had rolled my dogakure a while ago
Keshijo: I was actually trying to get innn Sousha's way...
Suzume Sousha: with deductions its 16, 19, 20, 18, 22
KibagamiKuno: (dave, now there's a flaming kuno in the
way)
Hantei Dave: 18, 21, 17, 25, 17
Hantei Dave: 2 hit rishard
Suzume Sousha: kick ass.
Hantei Dave: roll damages
Togashi Udon has entered the room.
Hantei Dave: udon ducks the shurikens
Hantei Dave: hehehe
KibagamiKuno: (matrix-like)
Togashi Udon: with style
Suzume Sousha: damage of 6 and 9
Hantei Dave: he rolls con
Keshijo: Can I block any of them?
Hantei Dave: at -4
Hantei Dave: do you have arrow cutting kesh?
Hantei Dave: or that advanced version?
Keshijo: Um... catching...
KibagamiKuno: (need advanced version)
Suzume Sousha: I rolled a -4 to avoid u though kesh . . .
Hantei Dave: then yes...roll for 1 catch
Keshijo: 22
Hantei Dave: rishard: I know but he is going out of his
way
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Suzume Sousha: oh well.
Suzume Sousha: its all good
Hantei Dave: he got one
Hantei Dave: SNAG
Keshijo: Can't get two?
Keshijo: :-)
Keshijo: I'm quick...
Hantei Dave: IQ takes 6 points
KibagamiKuno: Hmm, well can i get the other?
Hantei Dave: :P
Hida Oku: oh jeez
Hantei Dave: or 9 rather
Hantei Dave: kesh got the first one
KibagamiKuno: after all, they're headed my way...
Hantei Dave: the IQ goes down on his side
Suzume Sousha: kuno is the reason I'm attacking to begin
with and he wants me to stop him :-)
Keshijo: 2 hands...
Hantei Dave: holding his wound
Keshijo: :-)
Hida Oku: next round?
KibagamiKuno: I pick him up, STILL ON FIRE, and
start walking abck with him.
Togashi Udon: is kuno hurt?
KibagamiKuno: Let's burn a little more
Keshijo: (Sousha: attacking inquisitor physically is very
bad...)
Hantei Dave: next round...roll inits
Hantei Dave: -2 for you kuno
Togashi Udon: 24
Hantei Dave: and for me
Hida Oku: 27
Suzume Sousha: if he's truly a traitor as kuno said then
whats the problem? Do u let traitors just run away?
KibagamiKuno: (make him feel good, keshijo, tell him his
name is now etched in the history books or something)
Togashi Udon: (and pack your daughter, Oku like's
em young)
Keshijo: Can I use my Leadership here?
Hida Oku: heh
Suzume Sousha: I don't even rememer the hantei having a
tanto at this point
Hantei Dave: lol
Suzume Sousha: its been so long
Hantei Dave: kesh: roll
Keshijo: "Fate has brought this to you. You should be
honored."
Keshijo: 19
Togashi Udon: (name?)
KibagamiKuno: (yohei!)
Hantei Dave: "I have to take care of my mule..." (your
leadership works)
KibagamiKuno: (Udon - see now, HIM, i don't mind
bringing into our pact)
Hantei Dave: (i love yohei)
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Keshijo: "Do you have a weapon?"
Hantei Dave: He tries to hand the tanto to kesh again
Keshijo: "Besides that one..."
Hantei Dave: shakes head
Keshijo: I lead him back to the hut we were at.
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: you introduce him i suppose
Keshijo: Yeah.
Hantei Dave: Udon is kneeling in a corner
Keshijo: I use Shinjoten for myself...
Hantei Dave: IQ is not doing well
KibagamiKuno: (Kuno's a little shocked, but not
unhappy)
Hantei Dave: ok Shinjo
KibagamiKuno: Kuno
Togashi Udon: why i gotta be in the corner?!?!
Keshijo: "We have found another Tanto Bearer my
friends."
KibagamiKuno: Pray, monk!
Hantei Dave: Udon: quietest praying place
Hantei Dave: or people can step over you
KibagamiKuno: I gesture to udon "Udon"
KibagamiKuno: "Like the noodles"
Hantei Dave: you will need rest and stuff people for
tonight...and Udon needs prayer time
Hantei Dave: Yohei is awkward
Hida Oku: Kesh.... <pulling him aside>
KibagamiKuno: (of course that comes out as "Udon like
the udon"
Hantei Dave: he hobbles around
Togashi Udon: heheh
Hida Oku: we can't take him with us
KibagamiKuno: I patch myself up, too heh.
Hida Oku: he will not survive
Keshijo: "We have to..."
KibagamiKuno: "And he will have to..."
Keshijo: "We will have to try..."
Hantei Dave: he sits next to your host
Hida Oku: you have to accept it from him
Hida Oku: he's not ready for the burden
Keshijo: "Kuno, can you teach him to fight?"
KibagamiKuno: "Hai."
KibagamiKuno: "And he can teach us to farm. Sounds
like a good trade."
Keshijo: "Fate believes he is Oku. Who are we to
argue?"
Hida Oku: ANOtHER FOOL TO WATCH!
Hida Oku: feh
KibagamiKuno: "Heh, oku, as if you didn't have enough
already..."
Hantei Dave: Yohei is still holding the tanto in the wrap
with both hands
Keshijo: "I'll watch over him until he is ready."
Hantei Dave: rishard is rebooting
Togashi Udon: done yet?
Suzume Sousha has left the room. Togashi Udon: guess not
Hantei Dave: well, you guys staying the night right?
Togashi Udon: yup
Hantei Dave: roll prayer Udon
KibagamiKuno: "wake me up if IQ wakes" (i keep his
staff on the other side of me from IQ)
Togashi Udon: 25
Hantei Dave: ok. You regain your faith you think ^_-
Togashi Udon: heal iq
Hantei Dave: roll
KibagamiKuno: (ok, this would be where i'd wake up...)
Togashi Udon: 28
Hantei Dave: ok kuno...
Hantei Dave: Monme coughs a bit and sits up
Hantei Dave: tries to anyway
Togashi Udon: "Dont move, you are still weak."
Hantei Dave: he lies back down
Togashi Udon: Lie back. I will bring you some tea.
Hantei Dave: "All I wanted to do was my job...."
KibagamiKuno: "You attacked the hantei's emissaries..."
Hantei Dave: "and to escape."
Suzume Sousha has entered the room.
Keshijo: "Explain."
Keshijo: "What exactly was your job?"
KibagamiKuno: "By all rights you should be dead, but we
aren't what you'd like to think we are..."
Togashi Udon: Kuno, wait until you are both healthy
to kill eachother, please."
Hantei Dave: "I will record your activity. If it is not the
consumption of evil it is at least the path."
Keshijo: "We are preventing the rise of evil."
Hantei Dave: "You can kill me if you desire but my
message will be clearer then."
Keshijo: "You must realize that."
Togashi Udon: You can not see our path in just a few
hours.
Hantei Dave: "not all of you...."
Keshijo: "How do I convince you our intentions are pure?"
Togashi Udon: You only see what you want.
Hantei Dave: "I do not doubt some of your intentions are
pure...but not everyone (looks at kuno)."
Hida Oku: LEt's flay his skin and use his blood in
our unholy rituals, and make weapons from his
bones
Hantei Dave: (heheh)
Keshijo: "If Kuno falls to evil I will kill him."
KibagamiKuno: "You asked me long ago, isawa, if i was
tainted. The answer is simple. Yes, protecting the
Hantei. However, i have since slain many oni, and
saved one wretched isawa inquisitor."
Hida Oku: <grin>
Hida Oku: hahahahaha
Hantei Dave: "Where is the cloth giving for Kuno?"
Togashi Udon: His bones tend to break easily Oku.
Keshijo: I give Kuno the cloth.
KibagamiKuno: (cloth?)
Hantei Dave: "To commit seppuku once the taint takes
you."
Keshijo: "Yeah. Cloth. From Isawa Nakamura."
Hantei Dave: "If he doesn't, the rest of you should."
Keshijo: "The taint will not take him."
KibagamiKuno: "Heh, I have my own cloth for seppuku,
domo. Isawa, you talk rather big to those whom you
now owe your life....
Hantei Dave: He laughs.
KibagamiKuno: However, I'm prepared to let you live,
despite the 'taint' and despite all the trouble you've
caused,
KibagamiKuno: know this, though,
Hantei Dave: He goes to stand (con roll)
Hantei Dave: and stands
KibagamiKuno: you are hereby under arrest.
Hantei Dave: "My report...goes to the Emporer."
Togashi Udon: This is no way to indroduce our new
Bearer.
KibagamiKuno: When the war is over, i will return to find
you and take you before the Hantei to stand trial.
Hantei Dave: He struggles his way out the door with a
hand in his side.
Keshijo: "Your report is not complete nor accurate."
Hantei Dave: He looks for his staff
KibagamiKuno: I am holding it.
Keshijo: "You shouldn't move. You are in no condition.
KibagamiKuno: You are hereby stripped of your
position.
Hantei Dave: "my staff."
KibagamiKuno: (break the staff)
Hantei Dave: you can try...it is thick though
Hantei Dave: not like a fighting staff
Hantei Dave: its heavy too
KibagamiKuno: You have no position, and no staff isawa.
Hantei Dave: well, Kuno just holds it i guess
Keshijo: "Honorable Isawa Momne, do not send a report
that is inaccurate. It would dishonor us all."
Hantei Dave: "My staff."
Keshijo: "We may make mistakes, but we do what is
right."
Hantei Dave: "or would you have me hobble back."
Keshijo: "You should rest more."
Keshijo: "Let us heal you and you will see we stand for the
good of the empire."
Togashi Udon: I shall heal you again when I am
ready.
KibagamiKuno: Fine, You will not hobble back on my
account.
KibagamiKuno: I take out my tanto
Hantei Dave: he takes a step back
KibagamiKuno: I carve into it "Isawa Monme owes his
life to Kibagami Kuno."
Hantei Dave: giving it back
Suzume Sousha: must be small letters
Hantei Dave: ?
KibagamiKuno: (i use what little calligraphy i have to
make it legible)
Keshijo: "Would you hinder the symbols of Hantei the
38th's faith in his people by hindering his last wish, his
last order, his symbol of strength against the dark one?"
KibagamiKuno: I take a shaving off of the staff and
pocket it, then hand him the staff.
Keshijo: "If you report we are evil, you will destroy the
empire...
Togashi Udon: Prove to us that you can be trusted.
That you are not an agent of Fe Lung.
Hantei Dave: he steps towards keshijo
Keshijo: "and call Hantei the 38th a traitor. Can you live
with that?"
KibagamiKuno: "I suggest you rest a bit longer, we won't
hinder you in your little quest for vengeance."
Togashi Udon: Prove it.
KibagamiKuno: (Fu leng)
Hantei Dave: "I have seen....men...strong men fall on their
knees tongue wretching black from their mouths. I have
seen them chew on the bodies of their fathers. Do not
think you are above this."
Togashi Udon: Do ot think you are above us.
Togashi Udon: not
Hantei Dave: He takes his staff....says a word and the
carving begins burning smooth.
Hida Oku: BLAH BLAH BLAH!
Hida Oku: You all have no idea
Keshijo: "We will fight the good fight and we will win.
Share Hantei the 38th's faith in us."
Hida Oku: shut up!
Hantei Dave: he runs his hand over it several times
Hida Oku: now.... IQ..... LEAVE!
Hida Oku: <grab him>
KibagamiKuno: "I have already been offered a cure by
Tsuke-sama, and next time we come by, i will receive
his help"
Keshijo: I stop Oku.
Hantei Dave: He stops...with only small scars in the staff
left.
Hida Oku: I'm not going to hurt him
Hantei Dave: Oku: you grabed his arm
Hida Oku: I'M JUST GOING TO WHIP HIM
Hida Oku: idiot
Hantei Dave: Yohei begins sneaking out the door
KibagamiKuno: "And Isawa, there is no carving-ridding
magic your lords cannot see through.":
Hida Oku: go tell whoever you want:
KibagamiKuno: Yohei...
Keshijo: "Yohei, please stay."
Hantei Dave: Yohei begins walking away
KibagamiKuno: You are now under the protection of the
hantei, scum like this isawa cannot hurt you.
Hida Oku: the prophesy will be fufilled.... and you
only hinder us
KibagamiKuno: I go lead Yohei back.
Hantei Dave: He isn't running fast at all
Hida Oku: we are nothing... you are nothing
Hantei Dave: As kuno leaves...the Isawa leaves behind
him with his staff
Hantei Dave: he walks away
Hida Oku: Get outta here
Hantei Dave: Kuno grabs Yohei who comes back
Hida Oku: before I get all medieval on yo ass
Keshijo: I follow the Inquisitor.
KibagamiKuno: (grabs isn't quite the right word for it)
Togashi Udon: I go with kesh
Hantei Dave: took his arm?
Hantei Dave: shoulder
KibagamiKuno: better.
Hantei Dave: ?
Togashi Udon: i mean shinjoten
KibagamiKuno: shoulder
Hantei Dave: ok
Suzume Sousha: is someone mad because he got
torutured? :-)
Hantei Dave: Kesh: he seems to be leaving
KibagamiKuno: (i grabbed the isawa, yohei just gets
lead)
Keshijo: I follow him anyway.
Hantei Dave: kuno: oh no...you got yohei
Hantei Dave: heheheh
Keshijo: "My apologies for my friend's behavior."
Hantei Dave: He turns to Kesh
Togashi Udon: No apologies from me. What did you
expect?
Keshijo: "Think of how you would react. Isawa
Nakamura-sama tortured beyond what was needed."
Keshijo: "Beyond what was right."
Hantei Dave: "You don't know what you are dealing
with. Remember, if it wasn't for the inquisitors, the
Emporial line would be dead now."
KibagamiKuno: (Beyond what was human heheh)
Keshijo: "You must have faith in us."
Hantei Dave: "And you do not know your place."
Hantei Dave: "It is not my job to have faith."
Keshijo: "Dead? What do you mean?"
Keshijo: "It is precisely your job to have faith."
Suzume Sousha: our place shoudl be united against
fu-leng. There is no room for any other "Place"
Hantei Dave: "Why were the Inquisitors needed? Don;t
be stupid. We were created by the hantei."
Hantei Dave: "Impossible."
Hantei Dave: He leaves
Hantei Dave: frustrated
Keshijo: "Yes. To protect the Empire from the
bloodspeakers."
Keshijo: "Not torture the Hantei's legitimate servants."
Suzume Sousha: making the wrong report will make the
empire you wish to report fall.
Hantei Dave: "And would you not give your own blood
for what is right?"
Suzume Sousha: wish to save
Keshijo: "I have. My family is dead for exactly that
reason. And I do not refer to my former clan."
Togashi Udon: Would you?
Togashi Udon: You ae quick to judge.
Togashi Udon: Quick to leave.
Hantei Dave: "No...because that is to save....and my
report is mine to give Sousha."
Suzume Sousha: and eventually u may perish because of it
Togashi Udon: You have an empty frightened
existance chasing shadows that are not there.
Perhaps---
KibagamiKuno: (Call out) "Just don't forget the details,
isawa! It was your "tainted one" who carried you back
to bed last night."
Hantei Dave: "We'll be back." (quote Senator
Schwartzennegger)
Togashi Udon: Perhaps, you have done some good,
Hantei Dave: he walks off
Togashi Udon: but your meens are unnessissary
Keshijo: "I only ask you do what is right."
Hantei Dave: he waves his hand up and doesnt respond
again
Togashi Udon: We want the same things, but I guess
we are willing to get them done.
Hida Oku: great.... we really handled that with
finesse
Keshijo: "Give Isawa Ouna-sama my regards."
KibagamiKuno: "heh, some never get their head out of
the clouds and look around. That's what happens to
those who try to fly."
Hantei Dave: Yohei tries to scoot away from all the mean
people
KibagamiKuno: Yohei, let's make some rice.
Togashi Udon: Fine then. I still do ot like them very
much.
Hantei Dave: he bows and gets a pot
KibagamiKuno: I start up a little fire and get water.
Hida Oku: ok TANTO BEARER.... hope you're
ready to give your life for the empire
Hida Oku: <grin>
Togashi Udon: Udon is pissed off. He's going for a
alk.
Hantei Dave: yohei gives his usual face
Togashi Udon: walk
Keshijo: "Oku, don't scare him."
Hantei Dave: whats wrong Udon?
Togashi Udon: stupid IQ
Hantei Dave: says the voice in his head
Keshijo: "Udon, want company?"
Hida Oku: I'm going to paint tonight
Togashi Udon: Judge jury and exicutionor all on a
whim.
Togashi Udon: sure shin
Hantei Dave: Oku: no more paper
KibagamiKuno: I give oku a piece of paper.
Hida Oku: DAMMIT DAMMI DAMMIT!
Hantei Dave: ok
Hantei Dave: you got one
Hida Oku: thank you, kesh
Hantei Dave: he was about to kill Yohei
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Suzume Sousha: whats wrong oku?
Hantei Dave: no paper Sousha
Keshijo: ??
Hantei Dave: eheheh
Keshijo: You taking my ward paper?
Keshijo: You could just ask, you know...
Togashi Udon: lets go kick the crap out of a
scarecrow or a bail of hay or something
KibagamiKuno: huh? i thought i gave oku a piece of my
poetry paper.
Keshijo: Even better...
Hantei Dave: Udon goes and beats up a scarecrow
Togashi Udon: rolling paper, he wants rolling paper.
Hantei Dave: kuno: you did
Hida Oku: well, it's no canvas, but.....
Hida Oku: time to paint
Hantei Dave: well, the day is wasting all
Hantei Dave: you could be off instead
Hantei Dave: or heal a bit longer
Hantei Dave: and paint
KibagamiKuno: we are eating breakfast, do you mind
GM?
Hida Oku: 30
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Hantei Dave: oku: it will take time..looks like you are all
waiting
KibagamiKuno: I make up congee.
Hantei Dave: ^_^
Suzume Sousha: yummie yummie yummie I got something
in my tummie
Keshijo: "So Udon, what do think of the world? It is
different than what I expected."
Hantei Dave: your host feeds you....angrily it seems (why
won't they leave?)
Hida Oku: a picture of a samurai fighting darkness
which is trying to envelop him
Hantei Dave: what is your pic Oku?
Hantei Dave: oops
Hantei Dave: what type of samurai?
Togashi Udon: Shin: I cant believe some people.
Hida Oku: what do you mean?
Hida Oku: clan?
Hida Oku: no clan
Hantei Dave: ok
Hida Oku: if someone wants a mon on it, I'll paint it
later
Hantei Dave: because of the paper, it is not your
best...but very good all things considered
Keshijo: "Besides the bad, there are good."
Keshijo: "The Isawa puzzle me the most."
Keshijo: "On the one hand we have Nakamura and
Momne."
Togashi Udon: Fools, as Oku would say! (smile)
KibagamiKuno: (because of the paper?)
Keshijo: "On the other we have Kaede and Ouna."
Hantei Dave: you mean women and men? ^_-
KibagamiKuno: (what do you think i use my paper for,
the outhouse?)
Togashi Udon: your flying lady friend?
Suzume Sousha: flying lady?
Keshijo: "If I should be so honored to call her friend."
Hantei Dave: oku is an imperial artist...he uses larger
canvas
Hantei Dave: Uona actually
Keshijo: (Oops.)
Hantei Dave: (np)
KibagamiKuno: heh, make little paintings. It's paper, not
a canvas, so i guess that's a problem.
Hantei Dave: (not like you messed up the hantei's name)
Hantei Dave: ^_-
Togashi Udon: So your saying we should stick with
women? Hitomi is coming up next you know...
Hantei Dave: guess its water color for him Kuno
Hantei Dave: Sousha: Uona can fly
Hantei Dave: it seems
KibagamiKuno: What a shock in japan...
Hida Oku: can we take a little break?
Hantei Dave: sure raab
Keshijo: "Well, not exactly. Isawa Tsuke seemed
personable."
Suzume Sousha: we should get her to fly our buts out of
here then :-)
Hantei Dave: UNOFFICIAL TEA TIME
KibagamiKuno: Tsuke-sama made udon all hot under the
collar.
Hida Oku: ICED TEA TIME
Hantei Dave: hehehe. 5 min people...then on to the
Dragon
Suzume Sousha: okey doke
Keshijo: "Everyone is different regardless of clan..."
Keshijo: Tea Time it is then.
Keshijo: I need more as it is.
Hantei Dave: btw....because of RIshards unfortunatle
laptop theft, he lost his character. How many XP
points would you say you people gained on average
from the start?
Keshijo: I dunno....
Keshijo: 3 or 4 per game...
Keshijo: I know I missed a few...
Hida Oku: back
Hantei Dave: josh? you know?
Hida Oku: i'd agree with that... about 3 or 4
Hantei Dave: no ideas on totals eh?
Togashi Udon: id say that is cliose
Hantei Dave: hmm...i'll figure it out rishard
Suzume Sousha: okey doke
KibagamiKuno: no idea, i've been deleting as i went.
KibagamiKuno: He had 50 or so last time we checked,
remember?
KibagamiKuno: 42? 52? some number like that.
Hantei Dave: thats what i remember too
Hantei Dave: i don;t think he played since then either
Hantei Dave: well, I'll double check
Hantei Dave: laptop stolen=sucks
Suzume Sousha: yeah
Suzume Sousha: sux to be me.
Hantei Dave: well...everyone is back i think
Togashi Udon: k
Keshijo: Hai.
Hantei Dave: you all get a late start today
Hantei Dave: you are now on the road anyway
Hantei Dave: it will only be a few days to the mountain
Hantei Dave: Shiro Mirumoto
Hantei Dave: will be your first stop
Togashi Udon: home
Keshijo: And Hitomi liked us so much before....
Hantei Dave: you also have a pack mule now
Hantei Dave: so that makes it easier
Hantei Dave: Kuno: wanna offload the armor?
KibagamiKuno: (sigh) can't.
Hantei Dave: don't want the ass wearing it?
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Suzume Sousha: yes now we can discuss the fate of the
armor
KibagamiKuno: Heh, that would be one bad-ass bad ass.
Suzume Sousha: what shall we do with it
Hantei Dave: well, after a good day of village raping and
mule stealing you are off
KibagamiKuno: "I am taking it to the togashi.:
KibagamiKuno: "
Hantei Dave: they are sad to see Yohei kidnapped
Togashi Udon: he should be their hero
Hida Oku: Pruned the hedges....
Hida Oku: of many small villages
KibagamiKuno: Yohei is part of the history books, he is a
tanto bearer of the prophecy....
Hantei Dave: Udon: did you feel like a hero?
Hantei Dave: anyone have survivial here?
Togashi Udon: Prove me wrong IQ!!!
Hantei Dave: survival?
Togashi Udon: my mountain...
Togashi Udon: nope...
Hantei Dave: i know some of you do
Hantei Dave: >:-(
Hantei Dave: (whistles)
KibagamiKuno: guess not.
Hantei Dave: doh! how are you gonna find honey then?
Hantei Dave: guess you gotta get lucky
KibagamiKuno: heh, follow the bees.
Hantei Dave: and then getting them is another matter
Hantei Dave: jeez...I think Yohei has survival
Hantei Dave: yep
Hantei Dave: you guys suck
Hantei Dave: hehehe
KibagamiKuno: see? he's got the goods.
Keshijo: I have that other survival...
Hantei Dave: Yohei helps forage for honey
Keshijo: Good. We teach him to defend himself, he
teaches us survival..
KibagamiKuno: hai.
Hantei Dave: 15..he failed
Hantei Dave: he makes his face
Suzume Sousha: he sux!!!
KibagamiKuno: I teach him to defend himself, even if he
does fail on the honey search
Hida Oku: he sucks... let's kill him
Hantei Dave: he starts walking away from Oku
Hida Oku: ;-)
Hantei Dave: into a field
KibagamiKuno: i follow him.
Hantei Dave: (his version of running)
Keshijo: I glare at Oku and follow Yohei.
KibagamiKuno: Time to learn to fight, Yohei. I hand him
a wooden sword.
Suzume Sousha: tough love
Hantei Dave: He holds it upside down
KibagamiKuno: i position it correctly.
Hantei Dave: well, todays teaching went...slow
Hida Oku: great... a new pet
Keshijo: "Kuno, maybe he should start with a tanto..."
Keshijo: "Something easy..."
KibagamiKuno: "swords are easier - they're bigger."
KibagamiKuno: "Let's teach him how to swing before we
worry about the intricacies of a dagger."
KibagamiKuno: dave how are you doing teaching?
(shinjo - good idea)
KibagamiKuno: (learning to teach that is)
KibagamiKuno: (then you can teach me things heh)
Hantei Dave: well, because its really up to the
student...your teaching bonus adds to his roll. So it is
harder at first
Keshijo: (Yup)
KibagamiKuno: does my sword skill help? I.e. if i was a
1, it wouldn't help much for me to try and teach him.
Hantei Dave: Yohei doesn't do to well at first. He'll have
a +2 tomarrow though
KibagamiKuno: ok
KibagamiKuno: well then we work a bit on it today when
we need to rest.
Hantei Dave: Kuno: the greatest master in the world still
teaches the same basics
KibagamiKuno: Right, but he knows them better than
someone just introduced to the basics.
Keshijo: I would think you couldn't train someone to be
better than you...
Hantei Dave: well, thats the teaching skill
Hantei Dave: ^_-
Keshijo: So you couldn't train someone up to level 3 if you
were level 2...
Hantei Dave: kesh: yep
KibagamiKuno: teaching is the ability to convey those
skills to others.
Hantei Dave: right...but holding a sword is still holding a
sword
Hantei Dave: and Yohei sucks at it
KibagamiKuno: should my applicable stat be in there,
too? I.e. if i had an int of 1 and a teach of 5, vs an int of
10 and a teach of 5....
Hantei Dave: remember, a beginner doesn't know what
makes a master better than another
Hantei Dave: hmmm....na. Cause yohei added his
INT...more important
Hantei Dave: and smaller
Hantei Dave: anyway...there is a road house tonight
KibagamiKuno: ok, good...
KibagamiKuno: I practice patience in my teaching then
heheh
Hantei Dave: 3 merchants are here
Hantei Dave: they are moving oranges
Hantei Dave: and grapes
Hantei Dave: and....ummm...bananas
Hantei Dave: ^_^
Hantei Dave: they are resting their feetsies
Hantei Dave: still here all?
Hida Oku: yep
Suzume Sousha: didn't we eat earlier?
Suzume Sousha: :-)
Keshijo: Hai.
Hida Oku: no IQ now.... don't need the merchants
Hida Oku: "Where are you headed, merchants?"
Suzume Sousha: of course we could get food for later just
in case
Suzume Sousha: :-)
Hantei Dave: they say north...to Mirimoto bringing
supplies
Hida Oku: (which way are we going, dave?)
Hantei Dave: north...same plce
Hantei Dave: place
KibagamiKuno: I take a moment to relax and write a
poem.
KibagamiKuno: Isawa, too high!Where is the ground
below you,Who are the people?
Hantei Dave: (i like it )
Hida Oku: merchants, may we travel with you? We
will give you protection in exchange for
provisions
Togashi Udon: nice
Togashi Udon: guys, i am gonna run--i am way tired
Hantei Dave: "Ha! No thanks. We are good. Heres an
orange." throws you one
Togashi Udon: sorry
Hantei Dave: np skip...night night
Hida Oku: night, skip!
Togashi Udon: bye!
Hida Oku: <catch>
Hida Oku: <eats the orange>
Suzume Sousha: c ya skip
Hantei Dave: with peel?
Togashi Udon has left the room.
Hantei Dave: hhehe
Suzume Sousha: lol
KibagamiKuno: How hard do we fightWhen to battle on
is wrongand right means no war
Hantei Dave: 1 sec
KibagamiKuno: 28
KibagamiKuno: "Does anyone else here a woman singing
outside?"
KibagamiKuno: (err, hear)
Keshijo: I listen...
Suzume Sousha: nope. Not a damn thing, but if its a
woman it could be worth checking out
Hantei Dave: roll for listen Kesh
Hantei Dave: and sousha
Hantei Dave: perceptions
Hida Oku: I'll listen
Keshijo: 18
Hantei Dave: you too oku
Hida Oku: 32
Hida Oku: (woot!)
Hantei Dave: Kesh, Oku, you hear nothing except
cicadas
Hantei Dave: even with the good roll Oku
KibagamiKuno: (does anyone say they didn't hear it?)
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Keshijo: I look like I'm listening very hard...
Suzume Sousha: hwat is a listening roll annyway?
Keshijo: "I don't hear it Kuno."
Hantei Dave: perception sousha
Suzume Sousha: 13 :-)
KibagamiKuno: "Huh....long day...."
Hantei Dave: with a hearing talent bonus if you have it
Suzume Sousha: woohoo! I heard absolutly nothing!
Suzume Sousha: but I do have acute hearing
Hantei Dave: add the bonus...but you still failed
Suzume Sousha: :-)
Hantei Dave: merchants are chatting to themselves
KibagamiKuno: "Well that's weird, cause i still hear it.
Should we check it out or trust the --gnolls--, err, oni
won't eat us?
KibagamiKuno: "
Keshijo: "Let's check it out..."
Hantei Dave: the merchants heard the oni word and
looked over...and then went back to talking
Suzume Sousha: if u hear a women then I think we should
look . . . what does it sound like exactly?
Hida Oku: agh! lag!
KibagamiKuno: i hum the tune.
Hantei Dave: Yohei tries to ignore Kuno as best he can
and eats a dried fish
KibagamiKuno: Yohei, any idea? You heard anyone sing
that in these parts?
Hantei Dave: he shakes his head
Hantei Dave: ...
KibagamiKuno: <shrug> "Guess tonight i get music to go
to sleep by. If no-one else hears it i'm just going nutty
and might as well go to sleep before i write some
REALLY weird haiku"
Hantei Dave: hehehe.
Hantei Dave: everyone catching some sleep?
Keshijo: "Why not follow the sound Kuno?"
Hantei Dave: Udon is asleep already
Hida Oku: you're hearing things, Kuno
Suzume Sousha: :-)
Suzume Sousha: perhaps the sound is putting people to
sleep
Suzume Sousha: perhaps we should investigate it
Hantei Dave: guess so
Hantei Dave: WHAPS EVERYONE
Keshijo: I duck the hand of god...
Hantei Dave: but not... gahod
KibagamiKuno: Her sad songs at dusk
KibagamiKuno: cut coldly through the night air
KibagamiKuno: It is but a dream
Keshijo: Doh!
Hantei Dave: (I think that was an accepting haiku all)
Hantei Dave: everyone for sleep?
Hida Oku: ARGH!
Hida Oku: Kuno! No more!
Hida Oku: (t's like Vogon Poetry!)
Suzume Sousha: :-)
Hida Oku: *It's
Keshijo: Lol
Hantei Dave: lol
Hantei Dave: a little shorter
Hantei Dave: well, if noone says otherwise you are all
going to sleep
KibagamiKuno: ah words, like chunks of coal thrown at
the painter's ear
Keshijo: I take a stroll...
Hantei Dave: thought so
Keshijo: :-)
KibagamiKuno: murmur "let me know if you see her..."
Suzume Sousha: sleep sounds like it would be good
Hantei Dave: roll sousha
Hantei Dave: WILL
Suzume Sousha: bah!
KibagamiKuno: I sleep near Yohei.
Suzume Sousha: 9
Suzume Sousha: :-)
Hantei Dave: Sousha will keep watch
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Suzume Sousha: I guess I used up all my luck wityh that
dogakure earlier. now my rolls suck
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Suzume Sousha: I haven't had higher then a 2 since then
Hantei Dave: well it worked at least
KibagamiKuno: (tru)
Hantei Dave: you should just make your excell sheet not
roll lower than 5 like Josh
Hantei Dave: ^_-
Suzume Sousha: lol
Suzume Sousha: I need an excel roller! these dice are
cursed
Hantei Dave: i think there is one on your sheet rishard
Hantei Dave: well anyway....you all wake up...accept for
sousha...who doesn't bother with the waking part
Suzume Sousha: cool. u can teach me how to use it
another day
Hida Oku: heh
KibagamiKuno: is shinjo about?
Hantei Dave: the merchants are loading up
Hantei Dave: is he? I think so
Hantei Dave: shinjo?
Keshijo: Yeah.
KibagamiKuno: heh, curious if he made it back
Keshijo: I came back and went to sleep last night...
Hantei Dave: well, moving on. by late today you make it
to the bottom of the mountain.... (dave does a fast
forward)
Hantei Dave: Yohei makes another survival roll
KibagamiKuno: Hitomi's mntn, right? Not togashi's?
Hantei Dave: 13
Hantei Dave: near Hitomi
KibagamiKuno: I keep my eyes out for bee's nests.
Hantei Dave: you are at the village at the foothills of the
mountain...guarded by a Dragonfly emmersary and
Mirimoto Family guards
Hida Oku: back again
Hantei Dave: yep. You are before the same gates as last
time you were here
Hantei Dave: an Ise Zumi is out front as well
Hantei Dave: Udon greets him
Hantei Dave: (and lets you others talk)
KibagamiKuno: "Greetings, Ise zumi, any messages for
us? or answers we need to pass along this day?"
Hantei Dave: He looks to the sides and brings you all to a
quieter section of the road
Hantei Dave: "Strange happenings in Crab lands. You
will be glad to know that Yakamo is still there at last
check although he....has changed."
Hida Oku: what do you mean?
Hantei Dave: "He now carries a claw of his namesake."
Hida Oku: oh no
Hantei Dave: "After the duel where his hand was lost to
Hitomi."
Hantei Dave: "Very odd..."
Hida Oku: this is not good, people
KibagamiKuno: "Oku, perhaps he knows more of that
scene we watched?"
Keshijo: "Turning a weakness into a strength. Very wise
of him."
Hantei Dave: "Also, He has been making trips to the
Yasuki province to oversee new construction of ships."
Hida Oku: really
Hantei Dave: "I haven't seen the ships. I have only heard
stories. All Ise Zumi are banned from Crab lands
now...as are most visitors."
Hida Oku: We should go there!
Keshijo: Indeed.
KibagamiKuno: "Heh, in good time..."
Hantei Dave: "Last I know of Isawa Tadaka, he has
entered the Shadowlands. No word of him since."
Keshijo: "How are things here."
Hantei Dave: "Not good."
Suzume Sousha: (there are seas???)
Hantei Dave: look right on the map sousha
Suzume Sousha: (I gotta take a better look at this map)
Hantei Dave: hehehe
Hantei Dave: there is even an island out there
KibagamiKuno: (seas swarming with mantis....)
Hantei Dave: he continues...
Suzume Sousha: (oh yeah. I usually don't look at that end
of the map)
Hantei Dave: "Togashi Yokuni-sama is no longer seeing
visitors. He is locked in his chamber. Only few Ise
Zumi can confer. I am sorry Udon. You have not been
approved for now."
Hantei Dave: Udon is suprised and hurt
Hantei Dave: ....waits for reactions
Keshijo: "And Mirumoto Hitomi? How is she?"
KibagamiKuno: "Who is approved to see yokuni-sama?"
Hantei Dave: "She is in Shiro Mirumoto. I'm sure you
can obtain an audience."
Hantei Dave: "Only few Ise Zumi. can see Yokuni-sama."
Keshijo: "We may need his guidance. Is there anything
we can do?"
Hantei Dave: "Oh...and I have been instructed to tell you
that the emporer's health has worsened."
KibagamiKuno: "What happens should he step beyond
this world?"
Hantei Dave: "I am afraid all those seeking guidance are
turned away. ...Beyond this world?
Hantei Dave: "
Hantei Dave: "You mean the EMporer."
Suzume Sousha: (ok I am a bit lost on something . . .
what emperor are we talking about? The Hantei died.
Wasn't he the Emperor?)
Hantei Dave: "He has no heirs. It would be left for the
Empress I would imagine. I am not a high diplomat
though."
Keshijo: (His son Hantei Sotorri took over)
Hantei Dave: Rishard: son of the 38th, 39th is now in
charge
Hantei Dave: and is now sick
Suzume Sousha: (ahh ok. Thanx for clarification)
Hantei Dave: rumer: the wasting disease
Hantei Dave: ...
KibagamiKuno: "Well, i guess it would be good to let the
other ise zumi know we are nearby; i have a brief
mission to shiro togashi... (readjusting armor bag) while
we are in the area"
Hantei Dave: "Access beyong the Agasha castle is
forbidden now."
Hantei Dave: "Including Shiro Togashi
Hantei Dave: "
Hantei Dave: "I can pass on a message though."
KibagamiKuno: "Hmm, so we cannot visit then... "
Keshijo: "And Shiro Mirumoto?"
Hantei Dave: "It is available."
KibagamiKuno: "are the ise zumi free to come and go as
they please?"
Hantei Dave: "Not as free. We must be accompanied by
select other members. It is simpler to not try for now. I
hope this matter resolves soon."
Hantei Dave: "I, for one, cannot."
Keshijo: "What is going on, then? Any idea?"
Hantei Dave: " (sigh)....we must only trust in
Yokuni-sama."
Hida Oku has left the room.
Hantei Dave: oops. Oku snuck up anyway
Suzume Sousha: doh
Hantei Dave: we'll end soon anywho
Suzume Sousha: (yeah getting very tired)
KibagamiKuno: I have a... burden that needs to be stored
safely. I had hoped that would be shiro togashi.
Hida Oku has entered the room.
Hantei Dave: we'll end soon raab
Hida Oku: ok
Hida Oku: just jumped off the mountain is all
Hantei Dave: anyone wanna ask the ise zumi more. I will
leave him hear for nesxt time if you want
KibagamiKuno: I did...
Hantei Dave: I'm sure skip will appreciate it
Keshijo: okay.
Hantei Dave: oops
Hantei Dave: "Yes Kuno-san?"
Hantei Dave: "May I take it?"
KibagamiKuno: "I have a... burden that needs to be
stored safely. I had hoped that would be shiro togashi.
what do you suggest?"
Hantei Dave: "I can pass it along."
Hantei Dave: (muahahaha)
Hantei Dave: (j.k)
KibagamiKuno: I would carry it as far as Togashi's law
allows, to minimize the burden of any other.
Hantei Dave: "I see."
Hantei Dave: "Fine then. I can accompany you up as far
as you may travel."
KibagamiKuno: That would be good, shall we leave in a
few hours?
Hantei Dave: "Hai. You must be approved by the
Dragonfly representative anyway. We can drink tea
until next week."
Hantei Dave: (lotsa tea)
KibagamiKuno: "Very good, i haven't had decent tea in a
long time."
Hantei Dave: Yohei looks happy about sitting for a week
^_-
Hantei Dave: end game?
Keshijo: "A week?"
KibagamiKuno: "OH! and we have some news for you...
Hida Oku: sure
KibagamiKuno: "
Hantei Dave: oops
Suzume Sousha: yeah
Hantei Dave: news?
KibagamiKuno: "This Is Yohei,
KibagamiKuno: he bears the hantei tanto"
KibagamiKuno: (present yohei)
Hantei Dave: He lifts his chin and steps up to the Ise
Zumi holding out a packasge
Hantei Dave: Ise Zumi smiles and puts and arm on
Yoheis shoulder.
Keshijo: "Yohei, you have to keep that."
Hantei Dave: He frowns and steps back
KibagamiKuno: "I know, Yohei, i wish i never found mine
either. But life takes funny turns, eh?"
