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- Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:19 am
- Forum: Pure River Brewery
- Topic: Final Farewells [D24, EE, expecting]
- Replies: 97
- Views: 17115
Re: Final Farewells [D24, EE, expecting]
"Eh. He gave up more than I did, but the point stands."
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:18 am
- Forum: Out of Character Chat
- Topic: Goal Collaboration
- Replies: 118
- Views: 20172
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:06 am
- Forum: Pure River Brewery
- Topic: Final Farewells [D24, EE, expecting]
- Replies: 97
- Views: 17115
Re: Final Farewells [D24, EE, expecting]
"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."
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 4:48 am
- Forum: Pure River Brewery
- Topic: Final Farewells [D24, EE, expecting]
- Replies: 97
- Views: 17115
Re: Final Farewells [D24, EE, expecting]
"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...
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 4:34 am
- Forum: Pure River Brewery
- Topic: Final Farewells [D24, EE, expecting]
- Replies: 97
- Views: 17115
Re: Final Farewells [D24, EE, expecting]
"Well. You can't back into the future- and if it hadn't been them, it would have been... something."
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 3:58 am
- Forum: Seidou River
- Topic: [Day 22, Early Afternoon] Telling Tales (Expecting)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 13609
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 3:57 am
- Forum: Out of Character Chat
- Topic: Elemental Magic (Bloodless Casting)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6558
Re: Elemental Magic (Bloodless Casting)
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...
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 3:46 am
- Forum: Surrounding Farmlands
- Topic: [Day 22, Late Morning] Let the Healing Begin (Expecting)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5393
Re: [Day 22, Late Morning] Let the Healing Begin (Expecting)
"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 ...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 3:03 pm
- Forum: Out of Character Chat
- Topic: Elemental Magic (Bloodless Casting)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6558
Re: Elemental Magic (Bloodless Casting)
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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?
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?
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 1:49 pm
- Forum: Surrounding Farmlands
- Topic: [Day 22, Late Morning] Let the Healing Begin (Expecting)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5393
Re: [Day 22, Late Morning] Let the Healing Begin (Expecting)
"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 ...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 1:39 pm
- Forum: Surrounding Farmlands
- Topic: [Day 22, Late Morning] Let the Healing Begin (Expecting)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5393
Re: [Day 22, Late Morning] Let the Healing Begin (Expecting)
"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..."
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 12:09 pm
- Forum: Seidou River
- Topic: [Day 22, Early Afternoon] Telling Tales (Expecting)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 13609
Re: [Day 22, Early Afternoon] Telling Tales (Expecting)
"Good, because I would sooner die than let that happen. You'll be seeing me."
He met her shoulder squeeze with a hug.
He met her shoulder squeeze with a hug.
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 11:18 am
- Forum: Seidou River
- Topic: [Day 22, Early Afternoon] Telling Tales (Expecting)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 13609
Re: [Day 22, Early Afternoon] Telling Tales (Expecting)
"Oh, be careful what you offer, I fully intend to descend upon you guys, just so Kinyoubi can get a break."
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 11:00 am
- Forum: Seidou River
- Topic: [Day 22, Early Afternoon] Telling Tales (Expecting)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 13609
Re: [Day 22, Early Afternoon] Telling Tales (Expecting)
"Nope. They did their best. But their best was pretty fuckin' terrible, so I've got plenty of examples of what not to do."
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:51 am
- Forum: Seidou River
- Topic: [Day 22, Early Afternoon] Telling Tales (Expecting)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 13609
Re: [Day 22, Early Afternoon] Telling Tales (Expecting)
"Can't possibly be worse at it than my father was, so I'll learn by doing. As usual."
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:46 am
- Forum: Seidou River
- Topic: [Day 22, Early Afternoon] Telling Tales (Expecting)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 13609
Re: [Day 22, Early Afternoon] Telling Tales (Expecting)
"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...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:39 am
- Forum: Pure River Brewery
- Topic: Final Farewells [D24, EE, expecting]
- Replies: 97
- Views: 17115
Re: Final Farewells [D24, EE, expecting]
"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."
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:37 am
- Forum: Surrounding Farmlands
- Topic: [Day 22, Late Morning] Let the Healing Begin (Expecting)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5393
Re: [Day 22, Late Morning] Let the Healing Begin (Expecting)
"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...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:34 am
- Forum: Seidou River
- Topic: [Day 22, Early Afternoon] Telling Tales (Expecting)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 13609
Re: [Day 22, Early Afternoon] Telling Tales (Expecting)
"Oh, I'll just throw 'em in a pit with a badger. That'll sort 'em out in a hurry!"
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:36 am
- Forum: Out of Character Chat
- Topic: Memorable Moments in History
- Replies: 77
- Views: 13207