The Day of Thunder

Tai keeps walking, seeming for a long moment as if she'll ignore the ridiculous boy. Finally..."Ain't you a been dropped on your head too often to be let out on your own?," she says in the same slightly shocked tone. In her usual growl she adds, "like there's an age limit on words...what sort of ide...

"Who'd object to it?" Tai grumbles. "Maybe if you're meetin' the emperor...after all that nonsense a bit back with demons or somesuch in the court. Probably don't trust folks he doesn't know well with their weapons nearby, neh?"

"Haka..." Tai pauses a moment, thinking. "Followed the Emperor's twin, neh? Fair met in the dark, then, Tae-soo," She turns a bit to look at the younger with that dark grin. "And Ha-yeong." There's a pause trying to decide if it was just an odd but of noise, that 'nim'. Worth asking later. More urge...

Honestly, that sounded like the name of some tribal deity or local spirit. "Nah, heard a rumor from someone whose cousin got a letter. Though..." she pauses, brushing soil from the roots of the plant in hand. "guess that letter might've been from some Ajumeoni." The word sounds rather different in h...

Ayako licked her lips thoughtfully, as if to taste the air. "I mean, the fog tastes all right," the younger woman commented. "It would taste bad if it were corrupted, right?" "Right...?" This was about as much as Ayako understood of the elements, and she started to look concerned. Tai shrugs. "With...

Tai looks back at the odd young man, eyebrow quirked. It's not a terribly hard conclusion to come to, but she's still kind of surprised that he did. "Yep. If it's corrupted fog, well...been breathin' it for a while now so we're a bit fucked. Ain't seen any signs of corruption otherwise though." Stil...

Another head pops up a bit farther away, this one a good deal older, with no gleam of white to the eyes. "Hmm? Why shouldn't we drink there?" Tai straightens to her full, not terribly impressive height, lifting some sort of plant, roots and all. "And what about eatin' the roots by it?" There's somet...

Using her spear as a walking stick, Tai starts back to the road, offering Takuma nod as he returns. "Oh aye, found the...mostly...naked Dragon fellow here just fine. Definitely not threat enough to cut your scoutin' short." She keeps an eye on Ranmaru as they move to the road though, but doesn't spo...

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Wed Oct 18, 2023 11:59 pm

From the workshops of the Makime:

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I call it: Musings On the State of the Dragon

*dies*

I was purely making sure everyone knew what was going on OOC, since it was called out as fact in OOC. Actually no. I said Tai agrees, and vehemently disagrees with Soju's tribal practices. Any implication that this was an OOC declaration is not in that text. I have no intention of being in the midd...

I'm not sure I read most of that as a history of forceable assimilation so much as a very powerful culture next to less powerful ones and...change happens that not everyone is going to be happy about. Meanwhile, thanks to not really having a reason to see things from the less powerful perspective, s...

Shoju spittin' some truths.

Tai is going to *hate* her tribe's ideas of necessary sacrifice. But assessment of the Empire? mmhmm.

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"Hit em with everything we had. Blades, arrows, tetsubo, and a big jade rock. Didn't like the jade. Didn't die fast..or at all, really. Half of it ran away." Tai shakes her head. "Definitely don't take one on alone." With a jerk of her head toward the misty road she adds, "hopefully none on the rest...

Tai does not expect great insight from this Saru. Particularly after watching him apparently flex muscles at himself...she hadn't seen any of her kids doing that since their first year of actual weapons training. Still, she's had a few students by now, and it's always much more useful to let them sp...

Tai's head tilts to the side, eyes like dark pits in the light-drinking fog. "Not sure what life's like on your side of the mountain, but even my youngest grandchild can handle a tetsubo. I've raised enough warriors to consider that job well done, thanks. Keepin' the spirits settled and content's go...

Tai lets her gaze run across their retinue again--yep, all there--and looks back to Ranmaru with a raised eyebrow. Well, he could think he was protecting someone if he wanted. Couldn't be older than Ken'ichi and with less sense. She'd heard some of the folks on the other side of the mountains went a...

"These knees haven't jumped since Takara was old enough to drop a bucket of mice in the kitchen, boy." Tai says with a dark-toothed grin. "But Saru, eh? From the other side of the mountains then. I'd say we're a bit out of the loop to be followin' that monk. But we're not daft enough to dismiss anyo...

Name: Kaiu Tai Clan/Tribe: Crab/Seidou Age: 48 Gender: Female Height: 5'2" Build: Stocky Hair: Black shot with grey Eyes: Dark brown with dark swirls marking the whites. Features of Interest: Teeth and nails are charcoal black, cheeks, brow and arms scarred with old and new marks, some tinted in ear...

Air filled with water was possibly Tai's least favorite weather. Water wasn't supposed to be sneakily trying to crawl into your lungs like this or soaking your hair and clothing slowly enough that you didn't really notice until your hair is dripping into your eyes. Air was supposed to delight in car...

[quote="Haka Tae-soo" post_id=1940 time=<a href="tel:1697401358">1697401358</a> user_id=87] Fourth one here under crab families https://dayofthunder.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?p=8#p8 They just don't have a daimyo listed. [/quote] Yep. So curious if he’s still around. Hate to mention him in rp if h...