Heavenfall

"At the time, a little. However, I was then able to rush forward, and provide some needed healing to the party at the edge of the closed pit. So, perhaps the spirits were guiding the selections. Each went where they were truly needed." "As to why to commune without a sacrifice - it is something I fo...

"I know I am not a member of the Empire, but sometimes that can be a benefit. Might I ask about the internal stresses? I might be able to find a solution, one not obvious to someone on the inside."

"You wish to spend time with her. It might be dangerous to spend time with her - for her, and any children that might result. Especially if you are not completely successful in your quest to come. But, there are also ways for you, and her, and any little ones, to hide. And not all require you to cha...

"Mostly that. Also, while I initially thought it larger, there was another stone, a brown one, mixed in with it. Once I took those off, it was shaped such that it reminded me of a fist, in a gauntlet."

"Thus why it is carefully wrapped in cloth, and in a pouch with only the two arrowheads and that cloth. It feels... dangerous on an existential level. Or maybe as a last gasp item, useful only for killing what you need dead, with no doubts about it."

"Have you seen the large hand I have been carving? I have been working at it for almost 5 years now. But, for each bit, I practice on other pieces first. Make sure I have the attempt right. I have only ever found one piece this size, don't want to mess it up now."

"I have been mated for several years. There are certain sounds that are... distinctive, when a man and a woman spend time together to slake the physical needs. Even when they are trying to be quiet. Need I be more explicit?"

"I have not tried touching one to another, no." He reaches into a pouch and pulls out a small carving of a badger. Reaching forward, he carefully drops it next to the marked obsidian arrowhead.

There is no reaction.

"While I have a strong affinity with Earth, I am also almost as capable with Fire. But, the Dragon was able to do it. So, I was there if needed, but not needed. Story of my life at times, it seems. And an understudy is a term I heard from a group of actors one time. It is the person who studies for ...

So, why grind down the jade and make it into nail polish? And why didn't the avatar change to show it?

What did she think of Kyosei, beyond a source for the Jade?

So, it's stated that Bloodless magic needs 4 points. I am contributing one.

Will the spider also become more of a casting clan, perhaps with multiple Shugenja families?

"Heh. True. Then, they were cut forth, and now we have to deal with them." He shakes his head. "Still, there is also your first idea - that it absorbed the Foulness. Another form of protection, but one that leaves the item with bite. Jade only gets destroyed, after all."

"I do know one difference, between these two pieces. The normal one is from a volcano I passed on the way down here. The other? I found that at the base of Seppun Hill. With no volcano around. But, it is where the little gods fell. And... if the stories are correct, where the blood of their father m...

He's also got a standing invite to Kyosei's mine and home.

"That, that is my best guess. I have experimented, and believe it also somehow has all four elements in it, and there is a space I can't touch, which I think is Void. But then that happened. I'm... I'm at a loss with what to do with this information."

"Heh. Your understudy, in a way. I have some skill with both Earth and with Fire, so if, in the final ritual, neither of you could persuade the kami, I would step in. I am Kyosei, of the Isawa Tribe."

I don't remember much of Kyosei from Dawn 1, but what caused his dislike of Togashi? And why the "little gods" nickname for the Kami? :lol: He entered the event where you could ask questions of Togashi, and asked his, and Togashi completely ignored him (the GMs missed it, but makes it interesting s...

"mmm. I suppose that's all true. Though I did have another reason for asking you to meet me. First, for various reasons, I have felt closer to you than to most of the others on this expedition. But second, for this." With that, he reaches into one of his pouches, and pulls out a cloth, wrapped aroun...