The Day of Thunder

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Mon Nov 13, 2023 10:04 pm

I'm wondering if I should even try. I feel Makime would be more like "are they so weak willed they need coddling to save their own future?"

I've got Awa 3.
Sakkaku simply laughs at me.
But that's honestly as it ought to be.

Blade later, boy now , Akutou thinks, and he hauls the boy back to the door, dumping him outside unceremoniously--but safely. That done, he creeps back in, still quietly, any incidental noises likely covered up by the sounds of the ongoing struggle in the main room. He is just behind the door, and ...

"Y' know, ma'am," Akutou says, "I believe you 'bout your family. An' not just b'cause they're, y' know, who they are. "But it's easy t' stand t'gether 'gainst a common outside enemy," he adds. "How'll you and yourn keep folks t'gether in a generation'r two, when you're either too far sep'rated t' be...

"Yes'm," Akutou replies.

He takes another bite. No sense letting what's here go to waste.

"Y' get th' feelin' this'll be the most unified folks'll be f'r a good long while?"

It's in a terrible hand and somehow, somehow actually reads as if it's in the accent he speaks, but Akutou's message gets to the people. Y'all, This here hullaballoo represents a great turnin' point in th' hist'ry not only o' Blue Lotus Village, but o' th worl'. Hell's takin' over th' world o' dream...

"Well," Akutou says, "I liked 'em when I got inta town. An' then, when Chuchu got t' town, she ran inta me while I was eatin', an' I ordered 'er some rice an' pickles. She took t' th' pickles, an' when we went t' meet her granny--I think that was th' word she used--she tol' me I'd do well t' bring s...

Regarding the D6 event:
1. Anything in my favor for being Hero of the People?
2. Can I lie, using what would be equivalent to the Deceit Emphasis, for the Sincerity bit?
3. Do you want the rolls in the event itself, or in PFs?

Thank you!

Akutou has the good grace to blush. "You're a kind woman, ma'am," he says. "I hope folks're as kind to you." He takes a bite of the food that has been provided for him. "I have 'preciated the victuals hereabouts. Gonna try t' get th' pickle recipe. If nothin' else, it'll help with our southern neigh...

"C'n you 'magine if they were on th' other side of it?" Akutou posits. "Or even just not on our side? Things ain't certain now, but they'd be a lot less comfor'ble in that case. "But I'm glad th' O-Iemoto's work's come t' some good on that front. I'll have t' hope t' do somewhat here t' rise t' his ...

At that, Akutou laughs. "It were, in fact!" he says after a moment. He holds up a hand, makes a loop with his thumb and index finger just shy of an inch around. "'Bout that big, caught me above th' left eye as I come out th' door. Saw double f'r a couple o' minutes, had a headache f'r a good long wh...

"I ain't s' good as to've done it m'self, ma'am," Akutou admits, "although I do fancy m'self somewhat knowledgeable regarding hats an' such. Quality work stands out. "An' I were right; that hat do suit you nicely. Looked like a tight weave on it, too; should shed rain an' such well." He grins. "Don'...

Akutou takes the seat and takes his hat off. "I receive it humbly," he says of the food, and he laughs a bit at the comment. "It's a mem'ry I'll treasure always," he says in response to Kumori's remark. "An' I were glad t' go with you. I gather, fr'm how we first met, that you ain't as much f'r the ...

"Considering work, no matter how difficult and nebulous, is perhaps an expression of hope. At least, being optimistic that there will be a mostly normal future where we can seek to improve. I'll say that was the purpose of our thought exercise at the very least," she nodded a few times on that note...

His own ablutions being somewhat less involved than those of the Imperial Princess--washing facilities in camp are present but not advanced--Akutou has made his way to the house appointed. Hat in hand, and his own on his head against the looming threat of rain, he knocks at the door. Once admitted--...

Shang shrugged at that. "With only a few cities in the land, I think this is something that'll happen incidentally, I'm sure. Clearly, we're both already doing that in our travels. We can't all fill out and comb through the land to discover every corner of the claimed Kami Empire to realize this. W...

"I can blame you for that. Even I wouldn't walk up to a creature in the woods with the expectation that I'll be having tea and an enlightening conversation. So, kind of hard to wish that I would be in your boots instead there, Otomo-san," she said with a sigh of dismay. "But I suppose it was a lear...

"A talking something that shouldn't have talked, at least. Still very much fantastical. It's a shame that your encounter was so brief, I could imagine the sort of conversations you could have with such a thing." "You're right about that now that you've mentioned it. Just because some things are con...

She titted with a shake of her head. "Even after seeing that baku you talked about? I get the feeling that sentiment runs true for most visitors to the village and our time here. I do kind of fear that this might do in our sentiments in the future. Suppose we go to the next village and see someone ...

"Once again, another sudden miracle," she said at the conclusion of the ritual performed on Reo. "It's going to take a while for these things to seem normal, even if we're getting exactly what we're being told here. I don't know why I as expecting overwise here." "Don't know as anybody expected qui...