Heavenfall

Xia hasn't had a chance to event yet and since this one has a start time I can be available, I'll probably be looking to toss my hat into the ring.

"Told?" Ko eyed Xia with fresh curiosity. "Aren't you a warrior? Lots of your Crab Clan seem to be. Almost everybody I saw around the big village..." "Oh I am.....they just don't really think I'm up to it, so you know, when there's a raid or something I'm the one who stays to guard the children. Wh...

Shinjo Koyama wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 05, 2020 8:26 pm

tick tock tick tock

Ko wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 04, 2020 11:15 am

"But it was exciting." Ko made the brushing-off-bad-luck gesture again, then shrugged. "It feels good to protect people."

"I've been told it's a great feeling, pride, a touch of nobility, maybe some light applause if you're overly effective."

Chisei chuckled softly. "Very perceptive, Xia. More often I share the highlights with her. She does not study as we do, but she has wonderful moments of inspiration." He smiled. Clearing his throat, he looked at Xia. "Maybe you need to find a spouse you can bounce ideas off of, eh?" "Oh that would ...

I feel like Xia's story is more about gaining legitimacy for her true nature within the Crab. Marrying out feels like short-changing that. Even if in character they're definitely compatible people. Jin is the wise mentor figure, we're just trying to make sure he doesn't have to die for character de...

It seemed as though Xia tosses and turns for hours before finally drifting off into a fitful sleep. When she opens her eyes the young Crab is in a huge palace built in the Kami's style. Tall pillars lead up to a roof so high it's shrouded in darkness while tapestries depicting the great deeds of he...

Jin has been just short of a hermit for all but the last five years and most of that time was as a reviled outcast. I'm not certain if he's a virgin, some of the people he saved might have been very grateful and he's not ace. But the idea of actually being worthy of romance ,and how to go about it,...

Seppun Chisei wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 05, 2020 6:16 am

Chisei tilted his head. "How many individuals are you exchanging letters with, all in all?"

"Tonnes! At least...4. But it could be 5, I suspect one of them has his wife also read the message, so that really counts as 5."

"On the matter of the organization I proposed... I would hope to see it staffed by members of every Clan- both to insure that the information needed to fight Jigoku's influence is not kept secret from anyone, and also because these officers should know the lands and populations they safeguard. It w...

Chisei laughed softly. "Well, perhaps. And yet, I felt rather silly in here by myself. I'm glad to have company with my stick-smelling." He tilted his head, regarding her. "Of course, I suppose I am used to having a partner in my studies. Another person to bounce ideas off of. I suppose you don't r...

Ko half-smiled, though there was a line between her brows "I think I should say I would rather catch fish than kill people. That's what the ancestors usually say in stories. And it's true I really didn't like that part." The But... hung unspoken. "But sometimes you need to catch people and kill fis...

Ko wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 04, 2020 5:05 am

"I hope so." Ko nodded, then thought again and shook her head, having run herself into the same trick corner as Xia had a moment earlier. "Not that there are raiders. But... you know."

Nodding "Oh yes, I know. I'm sure you would make a fine Crab if necessary, Ko."

I'm keen to be involved, but given the timezones, Xia will probably just be cheering folks on.

"I guess?" Ko's eyebrows rose quizzically. I wouldn't use that word like that... Not for the first time, she hoped she herself didn't sound too odd to all these inland people. "I fought some raiders today. With other people, of course, but still... it's a start." "Oh that's fantastic! Not that ther...

Xia wasn't explicitly invited, but then again she was never invited to anything, so she enters with a small smile and touchesNinube's jade before poking the Spider back with her own piece and stepping further into the gathering. She shoots friendly nods at those she recognises and waits to see what...

"Let the tides not wash that in," Ko quickly made a brushing gesture to scare away that unlucky possibility. "But thanks. When we come back from this journey, maybe I can talk with him. I mean to prove myself before I ask for favors," she added, straightening her shoulders and sitting up a bit tall...

Ko nodded thoughtfully. "Could your people spare him, though? Everyone back at your village had a lot to say about the ogres and trolls and, uh, well, the ratmen." That last occasioned an awkward shrug; Ko wasn't sure whether the expedition's semi-friendly interactions with the Nezumi she'd met so ...

"Not unless they can change sizes." Chisei said. "One of them is much shorter than me. But I've seen another that might be half again as tall." He frowned. "Unfortunately, I'm not sure if they're both unusual, or if just one is, or if Nezumi just have that much variation in their average height. Al...