The Day of Thunder

Now that the house seemed stable - for the moment - the young Crab turned her focus to Aoyama. "You aren't a monster!" Ayako told her, a determined look on her face as she tried to make the woman stay human by sheer force of will. "You're a mother! Help us get your family to safety!" - Healthy (0 wo...

Essentially the inspiration is that (if things go as planned) Susumu is going to leave the Spider to marry into the Bat. Neither of them have a courtier group of their own, and he sees them at a disadvantage in politicking. He wants to make a group to settle disputes between the northern clans, whi...

Suggestion (feel free to steal or discard, whichever you like): Rank 1:Sound Words and Cold Steel Ring True The Susumu Arbiter enforces the law through the art of the duel. If you have received credible testimony that someone of samurai rank is suspected of a crime, gain +2k0 to Courtier rolls to ma...

Not a GM, so all this is just my opinion, take it with lots of salt. If you compare to the Advanced Schools in the basic rulebook, all the rulebook Advanced Schools have Ring and Skill requirements around 4 to 5, and have techniques that are somewhat more limited. For example, the book Kenshinzen, d...

"That's the best any of us can do," Ayako said with a wry smile. "Hopefully, it will be good enough!"

You have learned the ebb and flow of dreams and how to manipulate them. When you are in Yume-do, either physically or dreaming, as a Simple Action you may make a TN 20 Willpower roll to change one thing about the environment or raise or lower a Ring of an existing Dream Object (one discreet object,...

Yoshitsune Ayako moved to cover Yukara’s flank, then blinked at the sunlight streaming in through the windows. “That… that’s not right,” she breathed in a quiet voice. Ayako mentally focused on what the house should look like … at night. In the Real World. The room seemed to shimmer again.... - Heal...

Ryoshun Yukara wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 13, 2023 1:46 pm

Rest now, my brother, dispels the mental distortion caused by taint and temporarily disables shadowlandd powers.

That sounds great. Hope it works!

Ayako has Lucid Dreaming and was already thinking about trying to stabilize the house, so I can give that a try - then with her other action, either guard whomever is still near the door, or move partway towards one of the people we need to rescue. She is only Water 2 so isn't the fastest at that. W...

Ayako nodded. "Right. Let's go!" The Crab followed Yukara into the house, looking for the people who were in trouble. The hazy shimmering made it all still feel rather dreamlike to her. Could she make the shimmering stop, she wondered? - [OOC: could Lucid Dreaming be used to somehow stabilize the ho...

"Darn it, is this another dream?" Ayako rubbed her eyes and moved in next to Yukara. Everything still looked foggy to her. "What... what's going on in here?" She hefted her axe, wondering if it would be needed. - 6LE Family Matters: What's all this then? Investigation/Perception TN30 | 3k2 ⇒ 26 (TN:...

"Oh, yes, definitely!" ... "We have a lot of injured people, and Enrou's unconscious, so it's just me helping them. I can give you the recipe for the medicine I'm using," she said, heading in and gesturing for them to follow her. "If we have leftover plants, you'll be more than welcome to take them...

Canary wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 12, 2023 9:51 pm

With Enrou laid up, Shizuku is running around like crazy looking after patients. When she spots them, she gives a quick wave and a grin before running back in.

"Hey! I heard there was some trouble," Ayako said as Shizuku ran by. "Could you use some help?"

Naraku's eyes widened as the woman stopped in front of him. He stumbled to find any words, merely managing to produce a simple nod. "I don't know what to say. It is an honor" "Go, Naraku!" Ayako cheered, pumping her fist as Hiruma Naraku's name was called. "You'll be the BEST thunder!!" The young C...

"I've heard that the village has a shrine, but I haven't been able to find it," Ayako admitted ruefully. "I think the fog here plays tricks with one's sense of direction. Maybe someone doesn't want us to go there... but maybe that just means the shrine is actually really important." She shrugged at ...

Having heard of the last night's violence, Ayako stopped by the healer's house that morning to see how Enrou, Shizuku and the (surviving) patients are doing... and to help out, just in case any other craziness happened.

The last time a monk had asked for her help things had gotten pretty rough, but Ayako was not about to let a little thing like nearly dying stop her from coming to help. The young Crab offered a warm smile and a friendly wave to Sora, Yukara, Han-hei and Sugri as she recognized them. - Spiritual adv...

It had been an eventful day for Ayako, what with the talk with Shizuku, the healing ritual in the evening, and the rumors of attacks. When the Crab turned in for bed, she fell asleep quickly. Ayako saw an amazing dream of herself. She found herself walking through a village, Shizuku at her side. Th...

"You hadn't heard? A couple days ago some kind of ... unnatural wolves attacked the outlying farmhouses," Ayako said. "And just this morning, some kind of evil spirit possessed the revered monk, Shinsei, and caused him to go on a rampage." The Crab rubbed her bruised jaw at the memory of this. "It's...

After finishing her stew, Ayako returned to the construction project. Working with the villagers and other samurai, the young Crab helped set two wooden posts, then a horizontal beam connecting the tops of those posts. Ayako's wounds from the previous day seemed to be largely healed, not slowing her...