The Day of Thunder

"Have you ever met people like that? People who just seem normal, but are truly monsters?" she asked, curious. "More than a few. I've met people who threw their own children out into the cold to save a few coin. Seen more than a few who were rich and powerful but still consorted with the dark to ge...

"Are you telling me that humans are the worst monster of them all, even more so than Nezumi?" she asked with a raised eyebrow. "...Okay well I wouldn't go that far. But a monster, something with weird long black tentacles or that spits acid or is 8 foot tall and covered in fur. You know them by sig...

Snip "They do appear to be partying through the apocalypse. And they don't seem the mind the fog or that half the empire has shown up at their doorstep. It makes you wonder..." She shrugs "Or they are just a strange people and I'll have to try and fob them off on the Dragon. Maybe that half naked o...

Anjing grimaces. 9 Champions, decent odds people she knew, maybe family, maybe her. Decent odds a lot of them wouldn't be coming back.

And them dying to save the world was the good option.

Satsuki giggled at the mental image of Anjing using her sword to cut up food. Already she could imagine the scandal that would be with some clans. "Oh dear." "But yeah, nothing wrong with hand-me-downs, be it weapon or armor. It's expensive to make and at some point you're not using it, no point in...

Snip "Like a sap? Smart." Anjing is reasonably impressed. "Let me know if there's anything out there over the water. I've always wondered, there were lands over the mountains, stands to reason there has to be something." With a deep chuckle. "I do know what you think of decisions you wouldn't make....

snip Anjing watches with a squint. "Right, well that sort of makes sense. Probably need to be able to rub your stomach and pat your head at the same time to pull it off. Might be beyond me." As for everyone carrying swords around. "I suppose an empire with more swords is a safer empire. Not like a ...

Anjing focuses herself and does her best to be patient. At least he was speaking now, hopefully the truth behind all of this would come out soon.

Snip "He'd be compensating for his...ah, well all the usual stuff." Moving on quickly. "Most of us have two hands, and you can use both of them to swing a club just fine. Maybe he just needs a bigger sword." She chuckles. "Probably onto something if people are signing up though. Just another one of...

Snip "Ah, I remember. The Kami have a great fondness for non-humans. I hope their marriage is blessed and I pray her people and yours never see conflict. But if it should happen we can make space in the mountains." Curious despite herself. "It's hard to imagine something that large just floating ar...

Day 1 event the festival begins, TN 25 earth, voided. | 4k4 ⇒ 20 (TN: 25)

Upbeatness ensues.

Snip "He should stop finding new problems then." Although she reflected that was not exactly in his nature. Sounding a little irked. "My people have built many fine castles, roughly twice as many as any other Clan. We have built outposts at the tops of mountains that most wouldn't even dare to clim...

Snip "If a foe arrived that was a match for even the Lion the smart decision would be to retreat to our castles and hills and wait them out. But I do not think we would make the smart decision. Some fights are worth losing." Her expression is wry. "If by some stroke of the fortunes we both survive ...

Snip "Mmmmhm, perhaps the Shinsei of legend can inspire good in the world. Even if the Shinse of the world is a legendary degenerate. Huh, that's sort of philosophical, maybe we can include that in the Tao, an extended edition maybe." There's a slight smirk at the idea. "Hmmm. I forget that in as m...

Makime's jaw clenched at the mention of court. "Not one but two of those creatures in the presence of the Emperor himself. A disgraceful failure on the part of a great many. My daughter among them, a pity she had to feel so painful a lesson...I would have preferred a gentler one." She shakes her he...

She laughed with great mirth. "Oh, you know my home and upbringing was quite different than the likes of my kin among the Stag, Crane, or Imperial, for that matter. My brothers and I had free run of the mountains from early on, and haven't exactly had servants waiting on us hand and foot." Not that...

“When I was a young teen, I was cast out of my family because they couldn’t feed all of us. My elder brother was preferable to keep and the ones younger than me would have died.” Sukuna freely admits, like she doesn’t think much of it at all. “I survived from the kindness of others. And I wish for ...

"Are you sure you're not just sitting out here in the field to be difficult, auntie?" Satsuki asked with a sassy smart-ass grin. She wasn't a teenager anymore, but that didn't stop her from acting like the smartypants she often was. "Hmmph. I don't have to sit in a field to be difficult. I can be d...

“The freedom to move about. And… I feel it’s my purpose to help people in small settlements.” The monk takes a moment to look around and take in all the people setting up. “I was denied this kind of living but it doesn’t mean I can’t help them maintain it.” "Just altruism?" She follows Sukuna's gaz...

Oh how little they knew on that specific issue. "Mm, well, sometimes people deserve a little shouting. Even Kami and Emperors," Satsuki conceded with a chuckle. Not that she had ever seen her mom shouting at her dad, but they were different. "What's done is done though... can't take back a cut of t...