The Day of Thunder

https://dayofthunder.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=803 - General invite if anyone wants to show up: Nozomi is re-doing the "Quiet Game" with a twist of focusing upon fears and regrets in meditation. There's no prizes. Think of it as an opportunity for characters to try and interact in looking w...

Nozomi had left a message up , a posting that anyone who wished or felt comfortable meeting her in the gardens. For the moment, she was seated in a meditative posture. There were bags under her eyes for the first time since she'd arrived at this town. She wasn't exhausted, but the night's dreams had...

She laughed bitterly. "I don't even know if the other monks know the trick at all, so there is that." Ukyou might. In fact, she suspected that he probably did, but he also might not intervene. It could be hard to tell with him, not to mention she needed to make sure he was alright still. "At the ver...

"And you as well," she said with a return bow and a smile playing on her lips, rueful as always.

(OOC: Very fun. Hope to have more when we have time in the madness!)

"They could use one last diversion in the meantime. We're on the lip of the precipice. They... need that. They're already too frayed as it is," she grumbled, reaching up to rub at her forehead and then sigh audibly. "I'm not quite capable of that kind of help myself. I'm going to focus on preparing ...

He smiled gently at the relief in her eyes, then turned serious once more. " Now, when the veil between Ningen-do and Yume-do is so thin, is when our thoughts become much more important. So please believe in him, despite everything. " "... I do. Because I believe in him, I'm ready to do what has to...

Matsu didn't press the issue. If Auntie Nozomi wanted to tell her, she would. But she also understood the reasoning for why she likely wouldn't answer. The Amazon respected the older woman. "We won't let Jigoku take her. Pa wasn't going to let hell take Lord Hisomu, and I'm not gonna let hell take ...

Nozomi found herself within the nightmare once again. It was yet another of the many things that she had seen a thousand times before, horrors that she had nearly experienced first hand. The thought of Shinsei, corrupted, his face nothing more than a featureless, egg-shell like mask, was enough to d...

"Definitely hungry. I have some rations, and food in my cart, but those would require heating, and with the weather as it is, why not let another do that? Also, I thought I knew this village - I was heading to a village set up very much like that that I traveled through about 4 years ago. But, none...

""Then again, nobody's doing what we expected now are we?" "A plan's just a series of things that don't happen, old friend. You oughtta know that by now. Shit, you think I planned on going into Jigoku? Or starting a library system? Or learning to read?"" "Pffft, I know for a fact that you never pla...

“I don’t know much about the Path or destinies to be honest.” She replied. “But you’re here now… And your path is wherever you put your feet next…” She shook her head, “There’s no reason to doubt yourself now… When you’re already this far.” "It's a bit of a tall order, but everything is. We are ask...

Anjing frowns slightly. "Just because you've killed don't make you a killer, anymore than taking the one rabbit makes you a hunter or growing the one crop makes you a farmer. Being a killer is a mindset, it's something you are, not something you do." Gesturing at her own hands. "Killed plenty of pe...

"I certainly hope that the lessons I took from him are the good ones." She at least had picked up how not to be overtly and completely self-destructive since her time in the South. She dragged her fingers through her hair and grunted. "We should pull back from here. The temptation is not going to ge...

Sora actually laughed. "Hey, I've been saying Destiny's crap for years now. But you know what isn't? Your judgment. Don't worry about your sight , if it comes to it..." He tapped the cheekbone under his eye. "I could always tell you what I see, and then you make your choice accordingly." "You know,...

Ukyou hugged her gently, whispering in her ear with no hint of a voice. " She is ready, and going where she is needed ," he said. Then he pulled back slightly to really look Nozomi in the eyes. " Nozomi. I need to ask something of you that will be extremely difficult. " "..." The relief in her eyes...

"I think he'd tell us some cryptic dogshit about how it's not his place. For all his ability, Shinsei is human. I think it has to be a human." "He might... and if he does, then it's reality and fate that are dogshit," she said, shaking her head. "My sight isn't nearly what the Teacher's was. I neve...

"Well, Matsu probably isn't. One thing for that girl is that she's afraid of nothing, even when she should be terrified." "Refuge in rage is hardly the mindset called for here." "That will always be her weakness. She is pure, unbridled wrath, where her father was a cold mountain's avalanche," she a...

She didn't miss that. Matsu moved, making sure the tent flap was closed, giving them a modicum of privacy. "Your... what ... Auntie?" She whispered, getting very close the monk. "Is there something I need to know? Because after the thrashing I got, I am looking for revenge, but I can't risk that hu...

"I think the most difficult will be the ones who need it the most- they think they're being dispassionate. But with troubled sleep, the weight of the future resting on our shoulders? None of us is dispassionate." "I am definitely willing to admit that I am not thinking straight right now. That admi...

Ukyou smiled with sympathy, pointing to himself, then his head. I know. They were family. He felt much the same way, and she likely knew it. He tilted his head a little and opened his arms, an offer. She took the offer and started to relax a little. "I won't let him have her, not if he's fallen. Yo...