The Day of Thunder

Togashi Satsuki wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 31, 2023 2:51 am

Jiyo Sora wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 31, 2023 2:44 am

Thank fuck!

Sora got PTSD flashbacks for a moment there, being surrounded by a bunch of older daimyo women talking business!

Jiyo Sora wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 31, 2023 2:54 am

I mean, Otaku and Matsu are actually younger than he is by about one generation gap, but...

I'm more amused by the fact that some clans have Daimyo here, and others emphatically do not.

Togashi Satsuki wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 31, 2023 2:59 am

I'm sorry, but Togashi, Saruko, and Mirumoto are kind of superbusy at the moment. Don't worry, RANMARU is here though!

Otomo Akutou wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 31, 2023 10:54 am

Penciling in LM, then. For what my presence there is worth.

Jiyo Sora wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 31, 2023 8:31 am

Due to the daimyo thread and a subsequent Lion interview, Late Morning is my personal assumption- for whoever shows up for it.

While the daimyo have had their meeting, the clans without any daimyo present (Scorpion, Dragon, Crane, Bat) and the monks have as yet had zero input, and technically, nobody except the Crab, Lion, Ki-Rin, and Spider have agreed to the command structure as such (although since it broadly matches the Imperial suggestion, any alternate command proposal for the defense scheme is going to face some serious headwinds), someone from the Gang of Four should probably at least send a flunky

Particularly and especially since Makime never pretended to be much good at spiritual matters.

• Blue Lotus Village was built up about five years ago, after being previously occupied by heterodox Isawa. The village utilises a purification ritual left behind by these Isawa. This story has not been verified by any experts on the subject matter.
• Blue Lotus Village is, as far as we know and the kami know, in Ningen-do still (this rules out that we are in fact within the domain of Yume-Jigoku).
• The village is surrounded by a mist that will mislead anyone trying to pass through it. This seems to go both ways, as it is mostly preventing the enemy from coming through it.
• The village appears to be cut-off from other realms as well, with the exception of Yume-do/Y-J. Attempts to open portals to other realms or project one's spirit into another realm has failed (with the noted exception of Yume-do/Y-J). We don't know yet if this applies both ways, allowing spirits from other realms to come in to the village that way.
• Something is also keeping the kami here, and seemingly subdued in a way, as multiple shugenja have accounted for the kami's unusual nature to rouse to a shugenja's call. The kami are also unable to leave the village - this means that magical means of communication to outside settlements and allies have been cut off.
• We don't yet know the source of the mist or its purpose.
• When the kami were inquired about the inaccessible shrine and which Kami is enshrined there, their answer was "Many" and "None". This doesn't describe any potential benign Fortunes or spirits. It's a possibility that the place has become desecrated and whatever Fortune was worshipped has departed.
• The earth kami say that corruption lurks outside.

• There seems to be naturally occurring dreamstone in the village. Those that performed admirably during the purification ritual were gifted with a stone of natural dreamstone.

• River water dissolved powdered Dreamstone, giving it a iridescent green sheen. Reo has yet to detect the effect this has for sure, but it does not undo the inherent taint in Dreamstone.

Jiyo Sora wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 02, 2023 2:38 am

Startng Day 4, with Imperial support, Aoyama is included in future meetings.

Jiyo Sora wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 02, 2023 2:38 am

Startng Day 4, with Imperial support, Aoyama is included in future meetings.

Makime wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 02, 2023 2:46 am

But Makime definitely does not trust the villagers enough to tell them anything that doesn't directly involve them.