Heavenfall

She returned Shinsei's bow with slightly less awkwardness than she'd had only a week ago. She was going to need to get used to doing that, she supposed. Smiling over at him, she nodded and then turned to the others. "I'll be doing everything I can to be worthy of standing on my own too, at your side...

Ok, overall good school. A nice Lore-centered version of the Scout/Ninja aesthetic that is more based around recon than assassination, which divorces it from the Shosuro Infiltrator and the Daidoji Scout/Seppun Hunters (who share a lot in common with the canon harriers). It's also less strictly Scou...

Bloodless magic before the Day of Thunder! Sacrilege! (And an excellent idea. Unlike canon, shugenja have reason post-game to realize Kansen are a greater threat than they originally knew, if they even knew of them at all. So, there's reason to push for bloodless casting. I'm glad it was funded now ...

I personally would have gone for the Twilight Mountains, as they're likely unaligned by any faction presently and a good source of ore (And the shakoki dogu can ultimately be dealt with, without the taint in the land). But that's me. This should prove an interesting storyline ultimately, and the aft...

Nozomi looked up at her and smiled, motioning to one of the cushions and then the door. "It's... going pretty good actually. I've had a hot bath. Food that wasn't trail rations I was worried might be tainted. I haven't had a nightmare that couldn't be explained by bad food in three nights, and now I...

"Fortunes!" she said, shaking her head and looking at him almost aghast. "Teach them how to knock some sense into a guy wit skipping stones, not that! You know what that's for, after all. I never got enough breathing power to do any real damage and they're useless without that if you have any armor ...

Survivor's guilt... was something that Phi knew all too well. It was almost a blanket she'd embraced and wrapped around herself since the age of eight. Surving when a friend had not? It was almost normal, but in the first week without his boisterous manner and music, it was harder to miss that loss,...

Playing dedicated yojimbo is not easy, particularly when their charges straddle the line between PC and NPC at times, as Reiko did (though I thin she was far more a plot-centric PC as played). It can keep interactions somewhat limited at times, so I wanted to mention that I liked Kanna's interaction...

*stretch* I wanted to thank you for a lot of the pre-game set up with Phi (now Nozomi). I ended up loving the Hikaru interactions with her former kinsmen, and her choice to renounce the tribe as part of a monastic vow wasn't as easy as I thought it might be because she had such good relations with t...

*laughs* Yeah. The whole itinerant monastic life definitely gives off a bit of a 'hobo' feel. I can't see it as being a thing that Kinsen ever fully understands. If she makes an appearance post-timeskip, I would be interested to see their interactions: Probably 15 years older, both very much fully a...

Guess I'll join in. Reiko won't be back, so I can answer most questions So, I just thought I'd zip in here and say thank you for the pre-game developments with these two. I kind of ran with them pretty hard, and it helped a lot in establishing Phi (later Nozomi) and her motivations coming down... n...

Shinsei is curious about two things. 1) Why so suspicious of Phi/Nozomi? She's not married. Not yet approved. That tracks. *nods* While Kinsen comes off as very non-traditional in some ways, it's also very clear that she is actively attempting to fit herself and her conduct within the lens of Hante...

Miuna was and is positively adorable. I enjoyed the scenes with Phi as she attached herself to her savior. I'm a little curious if you have thought of reprising her again. I know that they taint can bring unique complications for a soft hearted character like her. Also, I try to avoid this question ...

Nozomi relaxed in a seat on the floor of the room that had been given to her among the guest rooms. However ... intimate she and Shinsei were, it was best not to be TOO open right now. They could go back to normal once they were back on the road tomorrow. In fact, they could go back to more than nor...

*pokes in* You treat my little friend Shinsei well, ya hear?! :lol: *noogies Nozomi* And wow. What a journey it has been for Phi! And it's not over yet! I think you've answered most of the questions that would come to mind, except the old vanity question of "what did you think of my character"?. Ot...

"Mmmm, a name change and a vow do not a changed woman make. I'm just barely honest enough to say that. But maybe Shinsei will make a fully honest one out of me," she said before reaching into a pouch, pulling out a blowgun, staring at it for a second and offering it to him. "I guess honest enough to...

Bakuriel wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:55 am

Bayushi Umeno wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:52 am

"I'm always careful."

a pause

"Unlike someone I know"

pokes Nozomi in the stomach

Phi: "Hey, I made sure it didn't happen after we got into the shadowlands! I was careful!"

Sorta.

So. What exactly she wanted to talk about with Kinsen? Was it just random for fun, or was there a plan? No plan. Phi stopped being a woman with a plan right around the time that the bog hags happened. She realized that she was in deep over her head and got progressively more frightened of what was ...

Bayushi Umeno wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:52 am

"I'm always careful."

*laughs* that's about what I thought she might say. ^_^

"Good. If I ever know something that you need to know, I will tell you." the trick was 'know.' She couldn't say the type of certainty he needed to say what she felt in her heart, but what he had seen, the fact that she had seen his daughter, known her name before she ever mentioned it to Shinsei, an...