The Day of Thunder

"Don't rule it out," she said with a small, dark laugh. "He would never expect someone to hit him with the rock. He's been hauling it around for years. Nobody can lift that thing. But... I... will remain calm. I won't do something foolish. It would make things much worse." He nods, "Then you've lea...

"We would die. Or worse. It is unavoidable. Alone, there is nothing that we could do other than become a threat. I know it, but I am having to fight the wish to enter the darkness, to bash that fool's head in with his own boulder." She grunted. She couldn't even lift that thing, but she wanted to d...

I'm guessing using social skills to impose will on the dream probably doesn't count as resisting a contested social skill/technique? Or a Fear effect?

(Pretty sure it's a no but you can't get what you don't ask for)

"Well," she finally said with a sad, shaking laugh. "If you ever wanted a hammer to pound the steel of your body into proper shape, he would do that very effectively. I know that far too well." She shook her head, looking like she might just charge into the darkness, heedless. her lips were set in ...

On the blade of semantics, the world turned. "The stakes remain just as high as before this time. I am afraid that this may have just gotten that much harder. I can only imagine how hard fighting him, even with internal struggles, would have been. I have seen him fight." Many times. She knew all to...

If there is actually a shortage on the food side Sugri could be convinced to hunt as well. He still won't eat meat (and, honestly, is unlikely to recommend food taken from that forest or river....) but is willing to provide for others in need.

Jiyo Sora wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:17 am

So, in various fits and starts, Sora has been ginning up a "let's feed them like they (tried to) feed us event.

Soooo... poison?

I suppose it's fitting for Willow

But, yeah, being serious Sugri has nothing to add to the pot.

Unsurprisingly Sugri does not have jade.

"Our options are to do, or to die trying. It is that simple." She breathed in slowly and exhaled, clearly calming, containing her reactions. "We have to wrestle destiny back and force it to conform. I wonder if this is how it has been done many times in the past. Coerced and badgered into place, ha...

“Oh~~!!” Ayako blinked several times, and her eyes became more alert. Then a hint of a blush appeared beneath the black-and-blue bruises. “I’m so sorry, Sugri-san. I must sound completely foolish. Things have been … very strange.” He nods and smiles, "You have been through a lot. The truth is enoug...

"An interesting way to look at it. Reasonable even," she said, considering. "As you said, though. The path is not set. We may be forced to take hold of it for ourselves, to claim the destiny that is before us and demand it take the shape that we require." Her lips turned in a frown. "I fear that we...

"You're forgiven. You were nearly killed by one of the most powerful mortal men that lives, the living embodiment of enlightenment and the advisor of the Emperor. I think you're allowed to laugh in the face of the impossible if I'm allowed to scream at it." She laughed once, hollowly, mirthlessly. ...

There was a moment where she flashed him a look that could have murdered someone. And then, she sighed and deflated a little. "You sound a little like my daughter. She's a much wiser woman than I am." Her lips thinned and she sighed, shaking her head. "My connections to this world may yet be the en...

-snip- Close? Am I close to my husband? Her face was a war of emotions before her eyes took on a hooded look. "I am close enough to demand one of the family heads adopt me so that I may plunge myself into hell to beat the ever loving shit out of him for this. Does that answer your question?" She br...

“Oh,” Ayako said, sounding a little disappointed. “So this is still a dream. That’s too bad… for a moment I felt like a hero.” Sugri sighs, resists rolling his eyes, reaches down and flicks the tip of Ayako's nose... firmly. "You are awake. You are a hero. Stop doubting your damn self." Oh fuck, I ...

Nozomi wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 06, 2023 12:00 am

He nods once more.

"He was still within himself. Still fighting. At least the last I saw of him."

He looks to the darkness once more, "You were close, then, I take it?"

“Did.. did you see what happened to Ukyou?” Ayako asked tentatively. “I came here to help him, but I don’t know where he is now.” “I.. I thought I saw not-Shinsei turn him into a bird,” she admitted. “But I don’t know if that was just a dream.” "I saw feathers. Some sort of costuming I assume... bu...

On the plus side Sugri had no future-Rokugani compunctions against emotion, closeness, or touch to find such behavior uncouth. He noted the woman's ascetic garb, she must have been one of his followers. He pondered trying to calm her but he suspected that was likely moot until the story was told. "L...

Her eyebrow raised and she looked towards the darkness before nodding. "Do not enter the darkness until the time has come. That's clear enough if you ask me." But something about what he said... Her eyes narrowed and she stared towards the darkness. "What do you mean wounded beast? Has there been a...

He offers a short bow, hands clasped in front of him, though his eyes do not depart from the gate to the shrine as he does so.

"Dangerous indeed. But I am not fool enough to face a wounded beast within its likely lair... especially when the lair is... that." He gestures as the unnatural darkness.