The Day of Thunder

Found a post/tree that would be visible in the morning. He had no idea if what he was putting was a good idea or if he was being a fool. But he would try it.

Everyone,
Since Shinsei said one of the things we must do is build connections with each other, I suggest we meet in the camp at *noonish tomorrow and tell our comrades about ourselves.
-Hisomu Goju

Goju then sat down by the fire and began writing about the day's events. Well, most of them.


*EA or MA if an Event is in the EA.

Sora, having utterly failed to get his meditation on, had emerged from his tent and was pacing around when he spotted the Spider- and his missive.

"Fortunes, if you've got armor with you, Hisomu-san, I suggest wearing it to this meeting of yours..."

Goju chuckled. "Are you saying my dream of getting Lady Matsu to become friends with Lady Nanzi is unlikely to become true?"

"I'm saying we could probably make a bundle running bets on the fight."

"I'll take Lady Matsu." He sincerely hoped they joking. Kami. He hoped they joking.

"Hm, can almost certainly take more punishment, and won't be impressed by who draws a sword the fastest..."

He scratched at his beard.

"But almost certainly slower off of the line."

"Well, I wouldn't have to think about it. You never bet against your own." Well, unless the fight was rigged, and Goju valued his life enough not to even hint at a suggestion Matsu should take a fall. Also, he did genuinely thought Matsu is probably among the greatest warriors in the Empire who wasn't a literal god.

"If she's half as tough as Old Man Yamadono, she'd take a fair bit of knocking down, that's for sure..."

"I just know she's the big reason why the Spider haven't had as much trouble with this madness as we could have. Wasn't her dad one of those that went into Jigoku to save Hisomu-kami?"

"Yep. He was there. It was his fortitude that maintained the protective barrier around us while we we found Hisomu."

"Oh. You were among those who went?"

Hadn't we covered that? I could swear I've bored everyone in the damn village with that story by now...

"I was. I was the one tasked with finding the real Hisomu among the illusions Jigoku wove to deceive us."

"Ah. Forgive me. I should have known." Goju was a bit embrassed. Really he should have. Though didn't think about those aided Hantei. Another flaw of his. Tunnel vision. "This probably won't surprise you, but I ignored my elders when I was child when they tried to tell me the stories."

He snorted.

"Might be for the best. It's one of those tales that usually grows in the telling."

Well, his father didn't actually talk about it much either. So, maybe some things are best left unsaid. "Well, if that is your wish. Though now you have me really concerned that someone with your perception is warning me to wear armor tomorrow. Well, I guess it is one way to narrow down who is to be Thunder." Goju chuckles again.

"Well. It certainly won't be me."

He grinned.

"But keep yourself open to the possibility, Hisomu-san. If there's one thing about the rescue of Hisomu, it proves that nothing is truly impossible."

"If it comes to that, I'll do my duty, but I'll leave it to Matsu until then. I'd rather be out to sea. But a samurai's duties..."

"... are a right royal pain in the ass, aren't they?"

Sora chuckled and shook his head.

"Glad I'm off the hook for this one, though. I've done my epic feat of heroism, time for someone else to take a turn."

Goju laughs at that. "That's only fair. Any suggestions for those of us who may have to commit our own epic feat of heroism?" Goju didn't think it would be him. But he thought it would be worth writing down.

"If you get out of your heroics alive, you're probably going to look, feel, and smell awful. And even if they leave that out of the stories, you should write it down somewhere.Well. Also, you're probably going to be absolutely terrified and barely keeping it together the entire time..."