The Day of Thunder

Nozomi was ... well, it was close to a miracle that she was thinking straight right now. She really wasn't, but she'd had a couple hours to beat the shit out of a tree that never did anything to harm anyone and scream into the void until her throat was hoarse. But eventually, a conversation that she...

-snip- Close? Am I close to my husband? Her face was a war of emotions before her eyes took on a hooded look. "I am close enough to demand one of the family heads adopt me so that I may plunge myself into hell to beat the ever loving shit out of him for this. Does that answer your question?" She br...

-snip- Her eyes hardened when he started to speak. She didn't shift her position, listening to his every word. One nod, and then another. She knew the monk, or guessed that she did. He was alive, good. She needed to find that old bird. She needed to be sure. At least he wasn't dea... Of course he w...

"He's got his good traits, wouldn't have married him otherwise. Loves his family, even with a laugh or a smile, never shirks the work. Plenty to like." Nodding along at Nozomi's non-retirement plans. "Well, make sure you get a little rest here and there, easy to tire out otherwise. But if you're co...

-snip- Shinsei has fallen... That was the only thing that she heard. The color drained in her face. She staggered for a second, like someone had struck a very real blow. She was having flashbacks to the time when a fake Shinsei had returned, had almost killed Matsu. Whatever skill she had at contro...

"Eh, they're not that different from you and I. Share a bedroll with one for long enough and you notice they're pretty human, even if one wrong snore and roll over and you're gonna be crushed. Dear oh dear, that took some getting used to." She smiles slightly at the memory, her eyes bright. "But ye...

He offers a short bow, hands clasped in front of him, though his eyes do not depart from the gate to the shrine as he does so. "Dangerous indeed. But I am not fool enough to face a wounded beast within its likely lair... especially when the lair is... that." He gestures as the unnatural darkness. H...

Kyosei had managed to repair the broken wheel on his cart, but it was very jerry-rigged, and he had to travel slowly so as not to break it again . So, he found himself looking around the market for a woodwright. Maybe a barrel maker? Anyone talented with wood beyond his own meager skills. So, he ex...

Nozomi didn't come towards the shrine often. The mists made her nervous, and she had every reason to believe that whatever was making this entire situation so very impenetrable would make it likely that something might come out to play with their minds. Still, for whatever reason she found herself v...

"I believe he is busy coordinating the search and research against the darkness." She shook her head. "But I am not one of his clan, so I could not truly say what his business is about. I tend to think that the tasks of the kami are above me enough that I try not to draw their gaze unless needed." S...

Duuuuuuh, uh, you can safely assume Nozomi is available for medical emergencies at the very least. I didn't notice this thread for some reason.

"The champion of Jigoku fell. That is all that I know. As for how? Old relics. You and I will leave ripples in this life behind. So did they, long before we walked these plains. And each of us endeavors to leave behind something that will carry the truth to the next generation. I have already made m...

"In heaven, they are not subject to that then." Ok, that made a certain amount of sense. Why they were so much more than mortal here in the basic sense, and yet still under its curse and touch. "Hmmmm... Is Ningen-do's control greater than Jigoku's? We are here, after all." "Or put another way... ca...

"Your understanding is as valuable as any others. It is not as though many of us undertook apocalypse school." Anjing shrugs slightly with a 'what can you do? Sometimes the world is ending' motion. "No argument from me about whether a warrior fights better with allies at their side. You know, I was...

She laughed softly at being called that, not for the first time, when Matsu arrived, giving her a bow and a wink. "If it isn't my beloved niece," she said, the faint mirth very apparent. Perhaps the next day would have far sadder and more haunted thoughts, but for now it was going to be good to get ...

"Control?" she said, quirking her head a little bit. "Oh, do you mean that the fact that all of us are mortal somehow makes us more under the control of this world? But the kami aren't exactly mortal are they?" Well, Hantei probably was at this point because of what he'd done to sacrifice his golden...

"One of us has to be the gloomy one," she offered with a small wink. She almost sounded affectionate, or at least as affectionate as she could get away with at a time like this. "It sounds as if it leaves much room for the possibilities. Perhaps Ningen-Do likes to leave options, just in case Jigoku ...

Anjing sits back, brow furrowing. "Well, it is a good conversation starter. Every village he walks into, people will want to ask about the rock and then I suppose he can go from there. But there is no doubt as to his strength. Although he has seemed quiet lately, the pressures of leadership. I can ...

"It is something the teacher has said. A thousand years ago. In ages long forgotten, this battle happened, and other defenders of the realm of the living stood against the champion of that day. This battle comes again and again, though there are thousands of years between." She shook her head. "Hard...

"I have never gotten a consistent story out of him about that," she said, neither confirming nor denying that the two of them were indeed close... a lot closer than she ever publicly let on. "I think he has carried it since the time when the kami fell, perhaps longer. My guess is that it had some si...