The Day of Thunder

I'm last in initiative; I'm currently planning to guard someone who needs it - either Matsu if she's locked in melee, or Satsuki if the bad monk decides to go after her. Open to other ideas though!

“Damn it,” Ayako swore, as she watched Shinsei transform into a monster and strangle a man, who then transformed into a crow. The dense fog shrouding the garden made the scene seem even more unreal. “Not another bad dream!” I will not let these nightmares paralyze me again, Ayako vowed. I will face ...

Ayako nodded to Matsu and Sugri as she recognized them. "Something's wrong with Shinsei," she told them, sounding concerned. "Ukyou is trying to wake him up."

"Of course I'll help, Ukyou-san," Ayako said. She followed the monk to the garden and looked concerned as Shinsei seemed unresponsive.

"I saw something .... strange ... earlier tonight, too," she volunteered. "Maybe it was just a dream. But it seemed like some kind of obake."

"No, it's alright," Ayako said. "I've had more practice at this, and everyone's a bit different. Don't think about it as 'not normal', it's just... just what your body and mind does. You can think about how it feels, why you feel that way, and how to adjust it. Maybe you're sitting in a way that's c...

"And good job noticin' the healer bein' weird too." Whatever her worries about being enough, Tai thought she'd shaped up into a very competent member of the clan. "This whole village is a bit weird," Ayako complained. "I mean, there are some nice parts about it; some of the people have been nice. B...

"I suppose something may yet happen to prove that old fortune-teller right," Ayako said thoughtfully. "It'd be nice to think so, anyway." "Perhaps years from now, I'll be able to say, 'Oh yes, my path to greatness began when I met that Ivindi wandering priest all those years ago.' " She grinned at t...

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Shizuku nodded. "It's still painful... The bones will take some time to heal even after this."

"Ahhh, I'm sorry," Ayako said contritely. "Should I get you more of Enrou's tea? It seemed like it was helping before."

"I, uh, I don't think my superiors think I should be challenging them all the time," Ayako said, hiding a small smile behind one hand. "I know my mother didn't see it that way. I'm supposed to, uhh, 'respect and obey my elders.' But maybe it's different in your Clan."

Ayako opened her eyes and said, "It's okay. Maybe that's enough for now; just go back to sitting normally." So saying, she changed her position, unfolding her legs and stretching her arms a bit. "If you have that happen again, you can think about your body's balance and what you need to do to get ba...

He chuckled. "Well I get a scolding, that's for sure. Though she means well by it. The girl is younger than me and needs to be taken seriously, so when one of her subordinates causes a problem with people she needs to put her foot down, you know?" "Well, it sounds like you are a good sport about it...

"While it's possible to be careful and honest, some people are just too smooth", Norikage answered back. "You have to put it in the open and make them face it, even if their defense is like a wall of spears. Nobody ever won a battle without facing danger." "That seems like a good philosophy," Ayako...

"No need to think of anything ... just focus on your breathing ...." Ayako droned on in a soothing voice. "Innnnnn ..... outttt .... innnnn ....... outttt....."

"So, you chose the bow when you were a child?" Ayako asked, trying to understand. "What a nice way to literally choose your destiny! I am rather envious; we don't exactly have such a ritual here." "For my part, my mother consulted an astrologer soon after I was born. The astrologer looked up all my ...

If we see something during the Sleep Paralysis event, then chase it off ... are we now awake in the "real" world (or, at least, the world where we're samurai visiting the festival in Blue Lotus Village ... maybe that's just a dream too, idk), or are we still dreaming?

... or do we even know?

"But dreams? Where this madness is from? Anythin' can happen there." She tosses back the rest of her tea. "Hmph...past time I warded the tents too. I'll get them set up after breakfast...scoot your tent toward it if you're farther out. It doesn't stop nightmares, but it'll phase a wolf with black b...

Ayako cried out in horror at seeing the horrible apparition, the not-Ayako , looming behind her. Seizing her axe, the Crab hurled the weapon at the misshapen head of the dreadful thing ... but it had already vanished. The blade of the axe passed through the gauzy garment that still remained, floatin...

He scratches his chin, "I suppose it has in a certain sense. The bow was handed down not by blood family but by my soul. It is unlikely that she who first picked it up was our first incarnation but the bow has followed us ever since." "Incarnation?" Her eyebrows raised. "The bow is connected to you...

"Oh, I do! We've only been here for five years, though, " she replied. She looks down, uncharacteristically downcast. "I uh... was having some issues a while back. We left home looking for help and ended up here." She smiled. "I'm right as rain now, though! And the farm can be rebuilt. It's okay." ...

Akutou does as instructed, taking a seat and slowing his breathing. Ain't unlike quietin' f'r huntin' , he thinks. "Breathe deeply - with your belly, not your upper chest," Ayako instructed. "Breathe innnnnn....... breathe outtttt....." The cadence of her words slowed even more, to match the deep b...