The Day of Thunder

Xiaochen can scout or guard as folks require. She can also offer folksy wisdom and etiquette lessons (she read a book!).

Zhanshi is also one stud of a horse.

Although not plagued by the falling sensations of the night before (perhaps a consequence of not having been dosed with airborne drugs), Xiaochen found her sleep not as restful as perhaps she might have hoped. Although her spirit was mighty, it came up short against the weight of dreams. She was in ...

Otaku Xiaochen had been looking forward to participating in the village's weird little cult festival. After all, shooting one's anxieties sort of played to her strengths. She considered getting Zhanshi out here to give her anxieties a good trample after she put them down with her iron rain, but she ...

Sleep was not an easy thing for Otaku Xiaochen that night. Not when the stars still yearned to be embraced! And yet, one's body can only be held prisoner by one's fevered mind so long. Unable to boogie all night long as she might have before she gave birth to two rambunctious boy-children, she ended...

Day 1 ME: games/ agility TN 25 to knock them all down. | 4k4 ⇒ 17 (TN: 25) "Mm," Otaku nods approvingly, with a glint of humor in her willow-leaf-shaped eyes. "Promising technique." But... "Are you all right, Xiaochen-san? Reiko-san?" Otaku doesn't know Ohta well enough to guess her usual style, bu...

Reiko-san thinks I'm lovely! Thats a nice thing to say! Xiaochen looked about at what she thought was a normal rate. Of course, her head was moving at about half its usual speed. Then she caught sight of her hand and found herself giggling. "I say, have any of you ever noticed how strange hands are?...

Kaijarisuigyo wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:55 am

Wondering who's the token human PC with nothing weird for real about them. Haven't met any yet.

*tentatively raises hand*

Xiaochen's sturdy self nearly shrugs off whatever this influence is, but ultimately the power of rock is too great. The trouble with this is that Xiaochen might find herself a target in the future, because, as we all know, rock and roll never forgets. D1, Festival Event: Earth Ring roll, tn 25. Void...

D1, Festival Event. Perception/Investigation roll. | 4k3 ⇒ 18 (TN: 30)

Coming from a land where it was hard to hide very well, especially because everyone was sitting on horses basically all the time, Otaku Xiaochen had never really honed this specific skill. It showed.

snip snip snip "Well shot, Xiaochen-san," a quiet, pleased voice drifts up from one side, somewhere around the level of Xiaochen's shoulder. Otaku could be quite inconspicuous when she wasn't making an active effort to be otherwise. Xiaochen smiled before looking down at her daimyo. "Otaku-ue! Than...

Her ears pricking slightly to the steady rhythm of cursing emanating from the rear of the gathering, Xiaochen finds herself considering her own language. Nowhere in her etiquette texts did it suggest free use of cursing was an acceptable form of public discourse, indeed she tried to avoid it so as n...

snip Snip "It's easy enough, at least at first glance." Kenji said as he made his way over, his eyes moving to the ki-rin for a moment to see if she would come along. "The goal of the game is to take a wooden mallet and knock all the the sections out from under the Dauma on top. Without tipping the...

snip snip Ohta turned back to the other three, "Good to see you again, Otaku-san. Not a bad shot yourself." Xiaochen glanced over her shoulder, smiled in recognition, picked up her drink and strode back over. "Thank you, Reiko-san. I was pleased to see that I still have some room to grow, though!"

"Yep, two boys." She smiled proudly. "They're only little, but my eldest has been in the saddle 5 winters, and the baby took his first canter just a month ago. They're with their papa, of course. Couldn't bring 'em here, what with the high chance of having to fill stuff with arrows."

"Well, I'm not all that old. But you spend half your life in the saddle, you can't expect not to have a mark of it." She shrugged. "I'm not sure the kids helped, either. Not that I'd send 'em back, of course."

Xiaochen observed the impromptu archery contest with some attention. She'd arrived late; no need to strut her own stuff. But, then, a person liked to keep in form, and while she couldn't imagine shooting as elegantly as that Spider fella, she wasn't gonna hide in the tall grass either. She set her j...

"Yeah, and it fouls your bow string if you don't keep an eye on it. That and in about 10 years you'll start to feel what I'm talking about. Your O-Iemoto ain't the only one gets the aches and pains."

Xiaochen arrived, looked over the group, and took an involuntary step back toward her tent as she tasted the tensions in the air. It was an interesting group of hard cases. She looked from one famous face to another, then came to a decision. Shaking away the cobwebs in her mind, she maneuvered throu...

"Huh. Nezumi magic." She turned that over in her mind. "Neat. But it sounds like you've done a lot of traveling, Chouri-san. It's been a walking age, I understand, but it's no short distance from these parts down to where the Nezumi live. Where do you come from originally?"

Xiaochen returned the smile. She liked friendly folks like that.