Heavenfall

"Eh. He gave up more than I did, but the point stands."

Miyako wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:06 am

Really happy to see that the library is being done - yay books!

... but you also need books to put in it! If anyone has a point and wants to fund a maybe-not-so-starving artist, I got a couple ideas~

You have my attention.

"Oh, we'd love to work out some kind of exchange... nothing too secret, of course, but once we have a handle on the texts we'll be beginning with, I'd love to exchange lists, see what we can work out."

"Oh, if the Kami hadn't fallen, the Noriaki would have crushed the Seppun underfoot and then moved on to another target. Or Chosaku woukd have led the Hikaru on an ever-increasing number of raids, farther and farther afield. Or Jigoku would have launched its war on a bunch of disunited illiterate tr...

"Well. You can't back into the future- and if it hadn't been them, it would have been... something."

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I've never liked blood magic, but I could see a variation on it where instead of carving yourself open with a knife, you just directly offer up some of your vitality- a water spell takes some of your body's moisture, air leaves you short of breath, fire actually causes you to suffer burns, that kind...

"Kinsen is useful, because through her... you can see what the followers are up to. See the risks, as it were. Nanzi is a bit more dangerous, because for all of his dogshit about 'service,' he is not and has never been content to serve. Moreover.... he's like those praise-singers we had back in the ...

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Maybe just have Hanzou, who can speak to spirits, learn formalized utterances and/or gestures that the elemental kami respond to from some such source?

"Oh, he and I might well kill each other one of these days. He... embraces all about the Empire that causes me concern. I'm sure I embody the same worry for him." He grinned, a trace of the bloody-handed fighter he had been before leaving the Hikaru five years earlier. "I have spent this expedition ...

"I most certainly can call you a hypocrite, since you gave me the damn idea! Besides, everyone has it coming- you, me, and most definitely anyone the Crane send to visit..."

"Good, because I would sooner die than let that happen. You'll be seeing me."

He met her shoulder squeeze with a hug.

"Oh, be careful what you offer, I fully intend to descend upon you guys, just so Kinyoubi can get a break."

"Nope. They did their best. But their best was pretty fuckin' terrible, so I've got plenty of examples of what not to do."

"Can't possibly be worse at it than my father was, so I'll learn by doing. As usual."

"Killed a grand total of seven assassins while they 've been in my care. Got stabbed with a poisoned knife once doing it. Taught them to build a fish trap. Changed all of their nappies. Got food together for them. Teach 'em what I can when I can. Chased them out of trees and kept 'em away from venom...

"Oh, just different ideas of the future and what's to be. And the Stag and Spider have been a bit... on edge all the way back."

"Oh, I have only one secret from my Emperor, my friend, and the origin of this blowgun isn't it. When I go down, so do you!" At her musing on motherhood, he nodded. "Afraid so. And you're gonna want to eat some pretty weird shit." He shrugged. "But if you ever need a sitter, I've changed my share of...

"Oh, I'll just throw 'em in a pit with a badger. That'll sort 'em out in a hurry!"

Ninube wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:35 am

Who better to start the librarian ninja tradition?

So besides the Dragon, the Spider are clearly angling to be Imperial favorites