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Volume 2, Chapter 1 - Day 1, The Test of the Badger.

Posted by Kaze no KageFor group 0
Daidoji Kasumi
player, 89 posts
Beautiful and Deadly
Twin of Daidoji Sakura
Mon 24 Jul 2017
at 22:27
  • msg #66

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

"The sooner the better -- I can start immediately."
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 22:27, Mon 24 July 2017.
Kaze no Kage
GM, 1418 posts
Thu 10 Aug 2017
at 21:49
  • msg #67

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

”There is no time like the present, then,” Kitsuki Yaimoko replied, ”I believe the Sparrow have a space open for people to train.”

Yaimoko led the Crane Shugenja to the Sparrow encampment. The open training area was fairly empty, given that the Test of the Badger has just ended and the Test of the Dragonfly was approaching next. Finding a clear space, the Kakita Bushi drew his sword and extended to the apex of his swinging arc.

”Now, extend your blade just like this and hold it there,” he directed, ”your stance, your draw, your strike, all of these are merely preparation for this.”
Daidoji Kasumi
player, 90 posts
Beautiful and Deadly
Twin of Daidoji Sakura
Tue 15 Aug 2017
at 00:09
  • msg #68

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

Kasumi followed, borrowing a blade along the way (most likely a Bokken, given the sacred nature of the steel blade) for the training. She looked, cocking her head as her teacher showed the final stance. Unsure of the point of the exercise, she nonetheless obeyed and dutifully drew her blade and held it in the prescribed manner (or as close as she could manage, at any rate).

She then looked to Yaimoko, saying nothing.
Kaze no Kage
GM, 1420 posts
Tue 15 Aug 2017
at 00:53
  • msg #69

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

Nodding in approval of her silence, Kakita Yaimoko reached out and adjusted the angle of her weapon slightly and balanced a stone upon it's flat surface.

"This is the completion of the perfect strike," he noted, "all of your practice, all of your technique, all of your skill is meant to bring about this moment where the stone is balanced on the blade. Observe, but do not let the stone fall."

Picking up another rock from the ground, he examined it for a moment, then flicked it into the air. Smoothly, his body shifted as he took his stance and struck, quick as lightning with only a whisper of steel and the sudden ring of steel and stone.

Balanced on the blade was the pebble he had launched into the air.

"Like the stone, every opponent is different, every situation, unique. But none of it matters, if you focus on this, the perfect strike."
Daidoji Kasumi
player, 91 posts
Beautiful and Deadly
Twin of Daidoji Sakura
Wed 16 Aug 2017
at 02:41
  • msg #70

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

Kasumi watched, quite confused. Was the "perfect strike" not a motion, rather than a position? Of what use was the position if the motion did not hit the opponent? And what use was balancing the Kami of Stone on the Kami of Steel? Granted they were surrounded by the Kami of air ... and Steel was more balanced than the Kami of Stone. Still, that was probably not what he was getting at.

Kasumi watched and waited.
Kaze no Kage
GM, 1421 posts
Thu 17 Aug 2017
at 01:48
  • msg #71

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

Kakita Yaimoko glanced at Daidoji Kasumi and sighed. His instructor had made it look so easy.

"Look, you're a shugenja. This," he gestured to her stance with the extended blade, "is how the kami answer your prayer. All the rest, the stance, the draw, the strike, that's the prayer and ritual you perform so that the kami answer, like this."
Daidoji Kasumi
player, 92 posts
Beautiful and Deadly
Twin of Daidoji Sakura
Thu 24 Aug 2017
at 02:20
  • msg #72

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

Kasumi nodded. Not that she really understood, but ... well, at least it was something. She paid attention to the kami, both in the sword and around it. She paid attention to the Void Kami, which she suspected were actually quite important in this particular activity.

Kasumi focused on the blade for a moment, and realized just how small a fragment of time this represented -- even to humans. For an infinite being, this was quite a revelation. Still .... no, no more questions. Focus.

That's what Kedo-Kun would do.
Kaze no Kage
GM, 1431 posts
Thu 31 Aug 2017
at 02:38
  • msg #73

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

OOC: make spellcraft/Void roll

you always send me on the most interesting rule tangents ^_^

Daidoji Kasumi
player, 93 posts
Beautiful and Deadly
Twin of Daidoji Sakura
Fri 1 Sep 2017
at 14:31
  • msg #74

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

[Thanks ... I think. *lol*

Void/Spellcraft 42]

Kaze no Kage
GM, 1433 posts
Fri 1 Sep 2017
at 18:44
  • msg #75

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

OOC: so how do you feel about creating a new Shugenja technique? ^_^
Daidoji Kasumi
player, 94 posts
Beautiful and Deadly
Twin of Daidoji Sakura
Fri 1 Sep 2017
at 19:17
  • msg #76

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

I'm in! :) And, given this character's back story, it makes perfect sense.
Kaze no Kage
GM, 1435 posts
Thu 21 Sep 2017
at 02:10
  • msg #77

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

Kasumi focused and saw, in the ebb and flow of the elements through Yaimoko's body, as he performed his technique, a pattern something like she felt in the casting of a spell. Sakura would, perhaps, have told her she was looking at it wrong, that duelists didn't have the insight of shugenja in the flow of the elements and the void to perceive what she saw so naturally. But convention had not yet had the opportunity to take hold of Kasumi's understanding and so what she saw she thought of as natural.

And with some effort, could direct the elemental shift of void within her own body in a similar way.
Daidoji Kasumi
player, 95 posts
Beautiful and Deadly
Twin of Daidoji Sakura
Fri 29 Sep 2017
at 02:53
  • msg #78

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

Having seen the elemental shift herself (something that she never would have imagined possible in her previous life), she then tried to duplicate it. It would take some time, of course, but she would be able to do so ... eventually.

[OOC: Not entirely sure how much XP she has left, but adding a few ranks of Spellcraft might be appropriate at this juncture ...]
Kaze no Kage
GM, 1438 posts
Tue 24 Oct 2017
at 02:30
  • msg #79

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

OOC: I...don't know how much xp she has left either...oops. But yes, you can spend XP now if you'd like ^_^
Daidoji Kasumi
player, 96 posts
Beautiful and Deadly
Twin of Daidoji Sakura
Wed 29 Nov 2017
at 02:16
  • msg #80

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

[OOC: I believe both Sakura and Kenshin are 'in limbo' at this point.]

Something in Kasumi shifted, as the patterns of the Kami became more obvious. Not 'obvious', per se, but more so. But she suddenly went from "total newbie" to one who had a typical skill level. Which is not to say that she didn't need more practice -- she certainly did at that -- but, still ... novices aren't supposed to pick things up quite that fast.

Kasumi held her stance, focusing on the way the various Kami moved in and about the blade ...

[OOC: Improved Spellcraft to 3. Just one XP shy of improving it to 4.]
Kaze no Kage
GM, 1440 posts
Tue 19 Dec 2017
at 02:51
  • msg #81

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

OOC: oops...looking back on the thread, both Sakura and Kenshin were in the company of Doji Iwao who just had a public, but not very informative confrontation with his daughter Doji Naomi. Naomi is the betrothed of Kitsune Shoji.

[Doji Iwao (NPC), Bayushi Kenshin, Daidoji Sakura]

”My apologies Bayushi-san, Daidoji-san,” Doji Iwao sighed, ”for my rudeness. Family matters, you understand. Was there something you wished to discuss with me?”

[Kakita Yaimoko (NPC), Daidoji Kasumi]

”Are you certain that you have never studied iai before?” Kakita Yaimoko asked suspiciously, ”perhaps as a child?”
Daidoji Kasumi
player, 97 posts
Beautiful and Deadly
Twin of Daidoji Sakura
Sun 24 Dec 2017
at 05:35
  • msg #82

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

"No" Kasumi said shaking her head. "Not a chance of that. It's just that once I understood how you were communing with the Kami, it became easier to duplicate what you were doing."

Ah, wait ... this particular human may not realize that he's been communing with the Kami all of his life.

"Some humans -- Shugenja -- realize that they commune with the Kami. Others do not realize it, but they commune none-the-less."

"Of course, duplication isn't the same thing as understanding ... that will come in due time."
Daidoji Sakura
player, 702 posts
Crane Clan Shugenja
Beautiful and Seductive
Sun 24 Dec 2017
at 05:36
  • msg #83

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

[I honesty haven't got the faintest clue. I thought she was done with this thread.]
Bayushi Kenshin
player, 355 posts
Scorpion Junshin
Kakita Bushi Academy
Sun 24 Dec 2017
at 05:37
  • msg #84

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

"That was it. My wife and I will see you tonight for dinner" Kenshin said with a bow.

[OOC: That was it, wasn't it?]
Kaze no Kage
GM, 1443 posts
Tue 23 Jan 2018
at 03:10
  • msg #85

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

[Kakita Yaimoko (NPC), Daidoji Kasumi]

"Well, um, alright then," Yaimoko replied a little nervously. He wasn't the most astute student of the Tao and matters of shugenja were far beyond his ken, "I guess...um...that's it for this lesson."

OOC: did you have anything you wanted to do before the dinner?
Daidoji Kasumi
player, 98 posts
Beautiful and Deadly
Twin of Daidoji Sakura
Wed 24 Jan 2018
at 04:08
  • msg #86

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

[OOC: Nope, I'm good.]

"I assure you, I will be practicing what I learned here for a long time to come."
Kaze no Kage
GM, 1444 posts
Tue 30 Jan 2018
at 03:11
  • msg #87

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

OOC: is Kasumi going with Sakura and Kenshin or is she going to be doing something different?
Daidoji Kasumi
player, 99 posts
Beautiful and Deadly
Twin of Daidoji Sakura
Tue 30 Jan 2018
at 12:32
  • msg #88

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

Going with.
Kaze no Kage
GM, 1452 posts
Tue 20 Mar 2018
at 02:10
  • msg #89

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

link to a message in this game

here's your thread
Kitsune Shoji
player, 95 posts
Wed 28 Mar 2018
at 22:03
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  • msg #90

Re: Volume 2, Chapter 1 - The Test of the Badger

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