The Day of Thunder

Tai nods. "Some of the herbs are likely harder to come by up in the mountains, but that's what trade's for." She sighs and shakes her head as she very often did when one of the kids was trying very hard to talk their way around a direct but easy question like 'did you do your chores?' Suddenly they ...

"A good point." Yukara glanced back toward the camp. "Shall I walk you back?" (scene?) Tai looks around the foggy forest, then back (she thinks) toward the village and decides that yes, it's likely better to head back than forage a few more mushrooms. "Thanks. Likely better to stick together when w...

Communing beginning here

Tai takes a long moment to look around. Stone as beautiful as this shouldn't be corrupted, and yet she doesn't doubt what the Nezumi smells. Beauty can be a temptation and deception. Still, for a moment she'll admire it...and trust to her jade. She shakes off the spell of it, noticing the drowsiness...

Tai nods once in satisfaction. "Sounds like Ayako was a solid bulwark for those she was protectin'. She should be proud of the work she did." Matsu too, but she was daimyo, and a bit of a legend, and that was just expected at this point." She nods again in understanding, then squats to put herself a...

"The monk Ukyou seemed to know something was wrong with Shinsei," Ayako volunteered. "Maybe he would be able to tell us something more about what happened." As Anjing takes the jade away, Tai pokes at a bruise, shaking her head. She slices another thin line along her palm to encourage the water kam...

Wait, what? Something said by the village healer when Ayako was there with hurt villager and then Yukara. Mentioned to Tai the next morning. Getting followed up on *sloooowly* with Enrou...though then it turns out it's Chouri she needs to talk to. Thanks to morning with Anjing thread getting a bit ...

work time

Day 1: was a number of folks noticing, rumors about 'those dang kids,' which wasn't super believable. And at least one person questioning lead folks in the village. Night of lots and lots of nightmares. Day 2: Ritual that set everyone's minds toward their worst fears. Fewer nightmares, but those tha...

Tai sighs, "well corruption that lets him punch folks halfway into the next world this way would likely react to jade...I think. But possession by somethin' corrupted is...contact of a sort, and that might plant corruption in him eventually too. Or at least I would think that's possible."

Planning some Earth communes in the mine. Still need to do some at the shrine, but that will have to wait for after work.

Tai nods and follows, shooting a sour look at the Spider. "So quick to run straight into the dark and danger then? You may as well run back for torches still as we'll likely be too cautious for your need."

"After years of nightmares? Yes, sometimes folks become so afraid to sleep that it takes somethin' to help. Ideal of it's somethin' that drops 'em so hard they don't dream, though that's always been inconsistent." Her eyes narrow a bit at a somewhat artificially casual mention. As they look through ...

Tai tidies her tea and herbs as others talk, thinking on the descriptions of the fight. "There's those who've gone mad from their dreams, or been corrupted by them. There's things that eat people and wear their skins, like the tales Anjing remembers from that court, but I think you'd have spotted th...

After working with Naraku, Satsuki needed a moment to come down and re-center herself. While some soup slowly simmered over her campfire (shielded by a tent-flap jury-rigged to be a cover from the weather), she sat outside the tent and felt the humid weather against the bared skin of her arms. Ther...

"Like a river gradually wearing away the bank." Hikaru said, his tone thoughtful. Then he shook his head. "I shall. This is the first step." He said. "Now that I have this rock, it is the step I am least concerned about. I think I need just a little more inspiration for the other two..." Again, Hik...

"Hmm, then I guess, it's her I'll need to talk to about the ritual itself. I'd be curious about your concoction though. Pain relief or drugging folks unconscious? Can never have too many recipes for those." She pauses a moment, thinking over the words. "Far as you're aware? Then you haven't watched ...

I think that's all very developing D4. The Shinsei fight seems known as 1. he seems to have smashed up a number of people while running off, and 2. several folks have done various alerts, judging by Maxime running off in the middle of our thread to do so. Dreamstone stuff I think led to something wi...

And while I'm trying to get my brain to shift from wiped out at work mode into IC posting mode... How many tents *can* we reasonably cover in the 30' diameter circle of a Ward of Purity? Currently sitting in a roughly 30x40 room and mentally hacking 10 feet off a side and thinking 4-5 of even the st...

Welp, if the weirdo who's already drugged us twice isn't offended by the idea like a normal human...I guess that's where it's going. *shrug*