Heavenfall

I'm sorry to have missed the cool story. :( Saruko was awesome. And Umeno, I really liked that thread as well. She is just so down-to-earth! It was really helpful to be able to put all of this scary stuff on firm ground. Kaze would invite Doji and Nanzi, and possibly Bayushi Umeno and Saruko to the ...

Well, Birb has just approved the endgame goals! So: Kaze marries Dawei, becoming Seppun Kaze. The he will spend the next few years building an event called the Kaiki (Session), which is an annual festival of literary art so that many people can gather together and explore and celebrate the love of w...

Oh! It was nice. Birb triggered Kaze's Lady Doji Obligation to get me to go hunt down a spouse during the mission, and I thought it best to approach it the way I did. Dawei and Kaze are both damaged people, and as damaged people know, we have a knack for finding each other. I think they're probably ...

What was it like being part of the game's OTP? ;) What is an OTP? No question, just thanks--and I look forward to playing with you again! Thank you as well. I was flagging a little in the mid-game when I realized that Kaze wasn't going to be as effective in combat as I had initially hoped and was u...

All of Kaze's backstory came out between the Satone discussions and Dawei, in fact in a lot greater detail than I had originally written (isn't that always the way?), but I can lay it out here. Kaze was from the Chinsei tribe, but his mother died in childbirth, and his father blamed him for her deat...

I am glad to have had another Crane there, I hope I did not step on his toes too often. I felt having him tied so closely to his wife I just went with the thought that he saw Kaze as a surrogate son more so than servant. I think Nanzi and Kaze had very different ideas about how to bring about a rea...

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And so Kaze drifted to sleep in Dawei's arms, his own grip slackening as he slid into sweet dreams and the week's tensions began to slide from his shoulders.

"Hai," Kaze says, though the rest of his speech is interrupted by a yawn. "...I like your lap. You make me feel safe."

Kaze breathed in, then out it came: "Stronger than mountains: We two trees, once so lonely, Growing together. When the winds roar, his embrace, Like great roots, defies the storm. As saplings we grew, Young branches weather-beaten, Slight trunks lashed by rain I am sheltered in his lee, and he finds...

"Yes, this is nice. Much more of this." Kaze smiled against his fiance. "And the hunting together. This and the hunting together."

"And here you are." Kaze pressed a kiss to Dawei's neck. "My hero, who is to be my husband, is safe in my arms." He sighed. "I expect that there will be a lot less heroism in the future, though. I do not know if my nerves could take it."

Kaze is silent for a moment, absorbing the weight of that statement. His breathing synced with his lover's. Then he whispered in Dawei's ear. "I was...frightened, up here. It looked, for a moment, like Togashi-sama and I were going to be the last line of defense. I thought...that you were in great d...

"You need not worry, darling. I have been very busy while you were winning laurels and honor for our family." He pulls back so that he can slide his left hand up to Dawei's chest to feel his heartbeat. "I think you will find that the right flank of the camp is much less likely to be an avenue of app...

Kaze smiles his private smile behind his stone. Kaze: III, Dawei: 0 Then he slunk around it and sat in Dawei's lap, embracing him in a deep hug and resting his head on Dawei's shoulder.

"Welcome back, my love."

Kaze's patrol had come to an end. He was back at the edge of camp, just beyond the comfort of the firelight. He slung a heavy, bulging sack down next to a stone and perched behind it, sharp ears tuned to the sounds of the night, waiting for retaliation. Let the others rest , he thought, I will watch...

Emerging from the shadows to the edge of the wedding was the Crane, covered from the knees down in green blood. He came to stand by Saruko, leaning on his spear, and dropped the heavy sack he was dragging. A goblin's head rolled out into the dust. He said nothing, just stared coldly in the direction...

The Shiba school lets you double the effectiveness of spending Void, but using it that way seems to be dodging any kind of character reason for taking Momoku.

Kaze hits with an 8k4 on his spears, but his damage is 5k2. Atn 23 (ashigaru armor). Earth 2. He's been in two fights, one of them an event. I also tend to draw fire outside of a couple standard deviations and get conked out real fast. So I'm only going in if someone asks me to. There are better sui...

Can Kaze rig any of the rural/improvised traps to help thin out enemies for the first line of defense?