The Day of Thunder

Clearly the Crane team need to organize Tea Ceremony lessons for the rest of us.

I wouldn't be bad at it if I had a point in the skill... and a tea set... and any tea... uhhh.... well, anyway.

"Dreams aren't ordinary these days." Otaku says softly, shrugging one shoulder. "No one heard of dreams that could make a man change shape or a woman kill her children, until they did." She sighs and, belatedly, remembers she hasn't introduced herself to these youngsters. "In case you're not dreams,...

"If..." Otaku hesitates, frowning. "If this whole place is a dream that has already trapped us, could we discover it?" Or would it already be too late for them all? She too reaches up to brush her fingers against a piece of jade--the piece stitched to the brow band of Tsubame's headstall--before scr...

"It's said he has deep knowledge of the enemy. And about fate." Otaku reflects for a long moment before adding, "I'm concerned with the first one, less with the other."

"Do you think it's dangerous to stay?" Not that they had much of a choice, since Shinsei believed the great defense must be mounted here, and no one could get out through the fog in any case. The thought of staging that confrontation--whatever form it might take--in the middle of a village's worth o...

"Yes," Otaku agrees. The quiet after this probably goes on long enough to become awkward again. "Lady Shinjo thinks he'll have some plan. Some spell, perhaps." She nudges Tsubame to circle wider around a clump of trees so that the fog-sodden branches won't brush the two riders. "The little teacher,"...

"Hmm... True," he said, even though he appreciated size in itself. However, he was more about performance above all else. Some men of shorter stature were magnificent too. At first, it was actually that Ranmaru thought that these women were mislead on the basis of destiny and that nothing but femin...

Otaku seems to be following this explanation somewhat better than the average non-shugenja, though at first she just listens and lets her own thoughts turn the problem over while the other two discuss Satsuki's findings. "So could it be that..." her brows draw together as she considers a different p...

D1 EN--Go to sleep, Meditation/Void, VP. TN25 | 6k5 ⇒ 14 (TN: 25) D1 MN--Go to sleep, Meditation/Void, VP. TN25 | 6k5 ⇒ 34 (TN: 25) Sleep D1 MN, LN & D2 EM. Losing only a few hours of sleep to vague nightmares, general unease, and a looming sense of peril is really not much worse than usual, althou...

"Hm." Otaku considers all this. While his mistress attempts to retreat into quiet thought, Tsubame can't fail to notice he's being admired. He tosses his head showily and almost seems to wink at Satsuki... if that's even a thing horses do. Surely if any horse could, it would be this one. "Tch. Nonse...

"I think so. So does my lady." Otaku frowns ahead at the thinning woods. "But no one knows how to fight dreams."

She glances back over her shoulder. "Is it bad in the mountains, too?"

"It's the realm of Hell, striking at our world through people's dreams." Otaku's quiet voice has the matter-of-fact quality of one who's had to explain this and hear it explained more than once. "From all I've seen, it's true. People dream strange dreams, and sometimes they turn strange. Then the la...

[/quote] Reiko-san thinks I'm lovely! Thats a nice thing to say! Xiaochen looked about at what she thought was a normal rate. Of course, her head was moving at about half its usual speed. Then she caught sight of her hand and found herself giggling. "I say, have any of you ever noticed how strange h...

"Anything Shinjo asks of me," Otaku replies with quiet confidence. "I count myself a warrior. And other things." Then Shinsei finally says his piece, so she goes quiet again--a natural state for her in any case. "Hmm." So be it. On some level, she realizes she'd expected the answer to the mysteriou...

"In places where people's dreams have gone too far wrong for too long, sometimes there are strange clouds." Otaku says, quietly and a little tightly. "This place seems ordinary, but I can't find true north. So I mislike it." She nods agreement as Ayako points the way, and guides Tsubame in that dire...

By most people's standard, Satsuki's observation would ranked be the more accurate of the two. The woman wouldn't necessarily stand out in a crowd, but the horse... the horse really is remarkable. Otaku reins in a few paces from the two and coughs politely to break into their conversation. "Your par...

Otaku doesn't seem to mind much whether he likes her ginger tea or not. She nods, takes the cup back, turns it, and drinks some more herself. Her thoughts are running along much the same lines, only half her attention on Ranmaru and half on what might happen next if this meeting actually comes to o...

snip ...or rather, his nose. Akutou interrupts play to ask "Any o' y'all smell that? Like turned dirt an' cut grass or somesuch?" "No." Kenji replies after taking a moment to test the air. Of course, he had been more than a little distracted by the fireworks as well as Ohta's attempt at the Daruma ...

Will continue RP later because work, but passed the check!

D1 ME festival event—Earth tn25, VP | 4k4 ⇒ 32 (TN: 25)