Kazuki: Lemme know when food's ready, I'll be back
Kazuki: Climb {+2 Thief} [1d6+2 = 5]
Kazuki leaps up into a tree
Kazuki: Stealth [Critical failure!] [1d8 = 1]
Kazuki is using a benny
Kazuki: Stealth [1d8 = 5]
Kazuki: Stealth [Critical failure!] [1]
Kazemi (Kazuki): picking out which tree is the best for sleeping on
Kazuki: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d6+2 = 7]
Kazuki tries to climb a tree, hits his head on a branch, swears profusely and loudly. Then he slides down the tree, tries again, and successfully manages to make it to the second limb without injury.
Chiri claps.
Kuutai: I see he is barked there for the eve
Chiri looks at Kuutai.
Chiri: When he is reborn as a monkey, she thinks he can be spotted by noting which one lacks grace.
Kuutai: Wha, maybe you want to branch out and sleep up there too.
Kuutai: Ahhahaahhaahha
Kuutai: Yes indeed.
Ikuko: Do not injure yourself Kazuki, I would miss you terribly if you fell from a tree and died.
Ikuko: Persuasion {+8 Charisma, -2 Blind} [1d6+6 = 9]
Kazuki (in_the_trees): Duly noted
Kazuki ("in): the trees" Hey, anyone have spare fabric down there?
Kazuki (in the trees): I want to make a hammock
Botan finds a spare blanket and tosses it to Kazuki.
Kazuki (in the trees): Thanks, Botan, I owe you one
Chiri grabs Botan.
Chiri: Next time she will cane you if you do not give her the blanket first so she can rub some itching powder in it first.
Chiri: She thinks it is good for building character.
Botan: Not all of us want character like yours.
Kuutai: Oh really?
Botan heads off to help Ikuko with whatever she needs, as he prefers to avoid Chiri entanglements.
Kuutai: You should take notice of genuine character...lady Ikuko has brainwashed you with...vanity.
Botan: Actually, really high persuasion checks...
Ikuko: Oh, sweet Kuutai, I adore you just as you are and would not want to change you one bit.
Kazuki (in the trees): I think Kuutai just requested iching powder
Ikuko: Persuasion {+8 Charisma, -2 Blind} (Defining Interest (Etiquette) +1) [1d12+7 = 12]
Chiri sits in the tree beneath Kazuki and plays a haunting melody that is just enough off-key that it is impossible to get comfortable or sleep for anyone within 30'
GM: Everyone else moves out of earshot.
Kuutai: Who shall be on watch this eve?
Ikuko: I think perhaps one of you would be the wise choice.
Kuutai: very well.
Kazemi (Kazuki): how high is the tree?
Ikuko: Not that I do not wish to contribute, but keeping watch might not be my greatest strength
Daichi: Shora, Yuto, and I usually watch, but you are welcome to join us.
Kuutai: I see.
GM: The tree is 20' tall, and can only support your weight to about 8' up.
Ikuko: I do not
Kazemi (Kazuki): can I travel to other trees from this tree?
GM: Nope.
Kazemi (Kazuki): what if I use the blanket as a glider?
Nick (Hida Sashimi): brb afk
Kazuki: Smarts [1d6 = 5]
Kazemi (Kazuki): nm, successful smarts check
Kazemi (Kazuki): going to have to wait for Fatigue to set in first
GM: You could construct a rudimentary parachute.
Kuutai: Wake me at the very bottom of the night.
Chiri: Vigor [1d6 = 11]
Daichi: Yes sir.
Chiri sings, "Don't worry, it builds character to go without sleep. You pansy, pathetic, tool."
Kazuki: Stealth [1d8 = 3]
Kazuki: Climb {+2 Thief} [1d6+2 = 6]
Daichi: Your ladyship...do you want to see if you can convince that sweet, adorable, girl which you pointed out to me and is actually quite lovely, to stop terrorizing Kazuki?
Kazuki successfully decends the tree
Chiri: Oh, done being a monkey?
Ikuko: Of course.
Ikuko: Oh Chiri, might I have a word with you in private my dear?
Botan: Hida Sashimi sir, I was wondering if you had any other tips on etiquette and tea ceremony to share?
Kazuki points to Ikuku
Chiri: Oh certainly. She loves your conversations, just as she loves being set on fire.
Kazuki: You've been called, ma'am
Chiri: Persuasion {-5 Charisma} [1d10-5 = 8]
Kazuki heads over to Botan and Sashimi
Kuutai: Hrm...tea.....Could I get a cup of that, Sashimi?
Chiri does a fantastically amazing imitation of Ikuko's voice.
Chiri: Servants, dress me in socks that match today!
Chiri: Servants, attend my needs.
Chiri: Servants! Make sure she does not defecate on her kimono because she doesn't realize it is in the way!
Daichi: THAT'S ENOUGH!
Kuutai: fufufufu.....
Ikuko: No need to get angry Daichi
Ikuko: Every court I have ever attended has a fool who makes their living in this way
Daichi: Yes your ladyship.
Daichi chuckles.
Hida Sashimi: Certainly, to both of you
Ikuko: They are always welcome in my sister's court, for example.
Kuutai: thank you very mat'cha.
Chiri: Who's the greater fool, the fool, or the one who follows her?
Hida Sashimi: Tea Ceremony {+1 Def. Interest} [1d6+1 = 8]
Chiri: Or, as my sensei always said, "Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person."
Hida Sashimi: and for teaching...
Chiri stomps off into the night.
Hida Sashimi: Unskilled {-2 Unskilled} [1d4-2 = 1]
Hida Sashimi is using a benny
Hida Sashimi: Unskilled {-2 Unskilled} [1d6-2 = 1]
Nick (Hida Sashimi): damn. again
Botan watches and patiently tries to learn the fine art of tea ceremony from Hida Sashimi.
Kazuki: Smarts [1d6 = 10]
Kuutai: Seems you are not steeped in as much knowledge as you claim, fat man....
GM: Barring player induced hijinks, the night passes uneventfully. You hear the wolves several times in the night, but they do not seem to be getting any closer.
Kazuki attempts to decipher the code to Sashimi's instructions
Kuutai: Ah....that was a nice nothingness of sleep.....
GM: The next morning dawns, everyone packs up and heads out. The day is sunny and bright.
Nick (Hida Sashimi): So, something bad must happen today.
Kuutai: How much longer till we get to Nihana?
Kuutai: I don't like this....daylight thing.
Kazuki: But...your head is eternally swathed in shadows anyways
Kuutai: ....
Kazuki: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d6+2 = 5]
The group treks along, nothing strange or unusual happens. The group sets camp for the night.
Kuutai: This time, pawns of Ikuko, Wake me in the dead of night
Kuutai: I am most displeased at the lack of being woken.
Daichi: Sure.
Daichi: I will make sure Shora wakes you up.
Kuutai: Excellent.
GM: Shora wakes up Kuutai when it is time for his shift.
Kuutai: Spellcasting [1d6 = 5]
Kuutai: Notice [1d10 = 8]
Kazuki: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d6+2 = 10]
Kazemi (Kazuki): are there wolves tonight?
GM: All right. So Kuutai has glowing red eyes.
GM: You do not hear any wolves.
Kazemi (Kazuki): my worries just switched gears
Kazemi (Kazuki): lolololol
Kuutai: Give me your secrets, night. Let mother void show me what lies in this blackness!
Chiri challenges Hida Sashimi to a game of Shogi.
Hida Sashimi: Gambling [1d4 = 5]
The next morning everyone packs up and moves along the road. Around mid-morning they spot a patrol of Ikusans in the distance. There is a light Kikai with them, which appears to be broken down. A Ganso is working on it.
Kazemi (Kazuki): LOOT
Kazuki: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d6+2 = 7]
Kazuki counts about 50 Ikusans and 2 Void Walkers among the group around the Kikai.
Kazuki: We're going around
Kazuki: That's not our loot
Kazuki: I mean, if you guys want to go through I can bring Botan around the side and avoid all of this
Kazuki: but then I'm pretty sure you'd all die
Kuutai: Well, I agree.
Daichi: I agree with Kazuki that we need to go around that group. Give them plenty of space to work on their Kikai and all.
Kuutai: But someone should at least get some...information from them.
Daichi: That would be...not her Ladyship.
Kazuki: Not me
Hida Sashimi: Nor I
Kazuki: Plus, if those Void Walkers see Kuutai they're going to gut him like a fish
Kazuki: and then they're going to gut all of us like fish just to be on the safe side
Ikuko: I doubt they would harm me under normal circumstances, but we did recently kill a large patrol of their soldiers, it might be best not to make their aquaintenance
Kuutai: You are going to make Hida Hungry, Kazuki
Kazuki: Also, you're with Kuutai, who they are predispositioned to annihilate
Daichi: Well, we can take this side path up into the hills.
Daichi gestures to a smaller road leading towards Sorimizu that is not as direct a route.
Kuutai: Oh sure.....Let's be sane....I guess.
Kuutai shrugs
Chiri: In an insane world, who judges sanity?
Ikuko: I'm sure the mountain route will be most scenic.
Kuutai: You do, apparently. Good at it too.
Chiri laughs at Kuutai.
Daichi guides Ikuko, Botan, and the servants to follow the side road where it splits off from the main one.
TADM: TPK Averted!
Chiri follows along behind the group.
Kuutai: I am curious....
Kazemi (Kazuki): brb
Chiri: Which is lethal to felines.
Kuutai: Perhaps they knew they hit paydirt when the first squad....
Kuutai: Lucky for us their machine god failed....
Kuutai cackles
GM: The rest of the day passes uneventfully. The following one does as well, in fact, other than a small group of deer grazing a ways off the road, you do not see anything really interesting at all.
Kazemi (Kazuki): back
Kuutai Looks mischevious
Kazuki: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d6+2 = 6]
Kazuki: Notice {+2 Alertness} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6+2 = 10]
Kazuki: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d6+2 = 9]
Kuutai: Spellcasting [1d6 = 16]
Kazuki: So, Sashimi, where did you get those neat chop-sticks?
Was distracted counting...it will take another 10 days of travel or so to reach Nihana.
Hida Sashimi: I had them custom made. Sometimes, the ones provided are of inferior quality
Hida Sashimi: So, I use my own whenever I dine
Botan: They are very nice looking. Perhaps in the future I shall have a set made for myself.
Hida Sashimi searches through his bag
Hida Sashimi: You may have these. I will admit, they are not as good quality-wise as the ones you saw, but they will do. In a pinch. Hoho
Botan: Thank you sir.
Botan bows and takes the chopsticks.
Kuutai: I'm bamboo-zled by your chopsticks.
Chiri wishes she was Xiu Li so she could in-character punch Kuutai.
The next morning you enter the mountains that mark the border between Ikusa Kokoro and Sorimizu. The path narrows but continues on through the mountains. You reach a section of the road where you are following what looks like a dried up river bed, there are cliffs on either side of you, about ten feet up. Halfway through the gorge you see a flamboyantly dressed man with bright red clothes heading towards you.
Hida Sashimi: Notice [1d6 = 9]
Kuutai: Notice (Defining Interest (Heraldry +1) [1d10+1 = 20]
Daichi: Ladyship, there is a flamboyantly dressed man with bright red clothes who is slightly obese and appears to be carrying no weapons heading towards us.
Kazuki: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d6+2 = 5]
Kuutai explains to the group.
Kuutai: That's Orziji. Ikuko had better be careful, he will most likely try to steal from you.
Kazuki: Kn(Lore & Legends) {+1 Defining Interest} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6+1 = 4]
Kuutai: Our best chance is to tell him there is a huge patrol with a machine he can plunder.
Kazuki: Common Knowledge [1d6 = 11]
GM: Kazuki agrees with what Kuutai is saying.
Ikuko: Knowledge (Nobility) [1d6 = 11]
Orziji walks up to the group.
Hida Sashimi: Kn (Underworld) [1d6 = 5]
Orziji: Ha ha! Well met good travelers! I am Orziji. And for the privilege of traveling down this road, I make the simple demand of 20% of your wealth.
Orziji: You may pay in equipment or bu, either works.
Ikuko: I am afraid that I carry very little wealth with me, I am not possessed of great strength and it would trouble me greatly to carry large sums.
Orziji looks at Ikuko.
Orziji: Well, your ladyship, I can think of another way for you to pay, but only if you are willing.
Ikuko: If you mean what you seem to imply, then I fear you would not meet my father's approval
Orziji shrugs.
Orziji: Well, the pity is mine.
Orziji: But I am not one to force anything other then the forfeit of money from such a beautiful specimen of womanhood.
Ikuko: You would rob a blind girl and pretend to have honor? What a shame...
Ikuko: Persuasion {+8 Charisma, -2 Blind} [1d12+6 = 15]
Ikuko is using a benny
Ikuko: Persuasion {+8 Charisma, -2 Blind} [1d6+6 = 11]
Orziji: Smarts [1d6 = 17]
Orziji: Hmm...I would rob a blind girl who has more servants than I have fingers...
Orziji: But...hmm....
Orziji looks thoughtful.
Kazuki: Well, while we don't have much in the ways of actual money....
Orziji: Notice [1d6 = 5]
Orziji spots Botan.
Orziji: Wait!
Orziji: It is him!
Orziji: Give me the child and we shall call it even.
Kazemi (Kazuki): is Orziji actually in striking distance?
Botan: Err...
Ikuko: No
GM: Heck no. He's a bandit, not an idiot.
Ikuko: Why should I give you the boy?
Orziji: After speaking with an old seer in the mountains, I had a vision of this boy. He is a Ka child and able to open the door to a tomb near here. I have heard the tomb contains great riches.
Orziji: Riches that should be distributed to the needy and not buried away.
Kuutai Is impressed.
Ikuko: He is far needier than you, he has lost his family and his home, and it is he who can open the tomb. He should recieve the lion's share of whatever wealth is contained within.
Ikuko: Persuasion {+8 Charisma, -2 Blind} [1d12+6 = 14]
Orziji shrugs.
Orziji: Smarts [1d6 = 16]
Kazuki: Perhaps, though, you would consider some information?
Orziji: Certainly. I shall be happy to split the haul with him. 30% of him, 70% to me. It is only fair.
Orziji looks at Kazuki.
Orziji: Or information, what manner of information do you seek?
Kazuki: There's a patrol to the east with a broken down Kikai
Hida Sashimi: Forgive me, Lady Ikuko. But I do not think kind words will work on him. Let me speak with him
Kazuki: One doesn't get many chances to loot that
Ikuko: Of course Hida
Orziji: Heh, there is a full regiment of Ikusans with four Kikai at the border to Sorimizu, straight down this road.
Hida Sashimi walks toward Orziji
Orziji: They are searching everyone and everything that comes through.
Orziji looks at Hida Sashimi.
Kuutai: Strange, I thought there was a big 'one way' sign on Hidas mouth.....
Orziji: A man who likes good food. Well met!
Hida Sashimi: Please, sir. You do not want to delay us on our journey. It would be unwise for "everyone" involved
Hida Sashimi: Intimidation [1d6 = 8]
Hida Sashimi is using a benny
Hida Sashimi: Intimidation [1d6 = 2]
Orziji: Smarts [1d6 = 4]
Orziji ponders Hida's words.
Orziji: Hmm...this journey would only be a couple days out of your way.
Orziji: But...there is much need for speed in your journey?
Orziji looks carefully at Hida.
Hida Sashimi: Not so much speed as lack of needless delays
Orziji: Hmm...well then.
Orziji looks at Ikuko.
Orziji: Very well, your companion is very persuasive. Give me 500 bu and we shall call it even.
Hida Sashimi: 50
Hida Sashimi: Intimidation [1d6 = 5]
Orziji: Smarts [1d8 = 2]
Orziji: 375?
Hida Sashimi: 80
Orziji: I cannot possibly go below 350. I have fifteen mouths to feed at home.
Ikuko: Why must we sully this with monetary transactions, how about a kiss and a lady's favor?
Ikuko produces a silk kerchief.
Orziji: Hmm...
Ikuko: Persuasion {+8 Charisma, -2 Blind} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6+6 = 13]
Ikuko is using a benny
Ikuko: Persuasion {+8 Charisma, -2 Blind} [1d12+6 = 17]
Orziji: Ah! Deal.
Orziji: Smarts [1d8 = 5]
Hida Sashimi: I shall make sure to remember that you can be a reasonable man, when the need suits you
Orziji looks at Hida.
Orziji: And I shall remember that you are a man who enjoys good food, when I am in need of an eating companion.
Orziji walks over to Ikuko for kiss and handkerchief.
Ikuko kisses Orziji on each of his cheeks and tucks the handkerchief into the fold of his armor.
Ikuko: Persuasion {+8 Charisma, -2 Blind} (Defining Interest (Etiquette) +1) [1d12+7 = 10]
Orziji: Thank you your ladyship. Safe journeys to you.
Orziji steps back and gestures for everyone to pass.
Ikuko: To you as well
Kuutai: Sigh....no bloodshed, no secrets gained......
Chiri: No screams of the dying and wounded to carry them into the Void.
Kuutai: Yeah, it really is hard dealing with his dysfunctional, non-combat centric band of misfits. :3
Ikuko: Yes, just what we need to do while being pursued by soldiers, have a big loud battle
Daichi: He was one man, your ladyship.
About 20 bandits come out of hiding.
Daichi: And some friends...
Ikuko: If I were you, I would keep my eyes peeled for this tomb he mentioned. Botan could certainly make use of the money to rebuild his family's position.
Ikuko: And I
Daichi: Yes your ladyship.
Kazuki: Kn(Lore & Legends) {+1 Defining Interest} [Critical failure!] [1d4+1 = 2]
Kuutai: Yes....what sort of....secrets are buried there.....muhuhahaha
Kazemi (Kazuki): DERP
Ikuko: And I'm sure all of you are fond of great treasure yourselves, or else you would have stayed in the capital where it was safe.
Kazemi (Kazuki): not burning my last benny for that
Ikuko: Notice {-6 Blind, -2 Unskilled} [1d4-8 = -5]
The rest of the day passes eventfully. You are climbing ever higher into the mountains. That night, just before you make camp, you come to a small rise and see the Ikusan force that Orziji mentioned. There are about 200 soldiers, four medium Kikai, and a number of Void Walkers camped in the valley below. You watched as a group moves to the checkpoint as the sun fades. Anyone passing through it is given a more thorough inspection than a guy named Usama Barn Luden at a TSA checkpoint while carrying a box of random electronics.
Daichi: I think I heard the snap of a surgical glove for a full cavity inspection from here.
Kuutai: Yuck....
Ikuko: Not to worry, I hadn't planned on hiding Botan in any of my orifices anyways
Chiri: She thinks most men would like to hide things in your orifices.
Daichi: May I smack her, your ladyship?
Ikuko: As long as it was vast sums of money and political influence my father would not object.
Kazuki: I think we'll actually need to trek off the beaten path
Ikuko: They will be patrolling, no doubt
Kazuki: Yeah, but patrols are easier to overcome than 4 kikai and 200 soldiers
Ikuko: Perhaps the tomb Orziji mentioned will have underground passages capable of getting us past these soldiers
Kazuki: not the mention the void walkers down there
Kazuki: It's worth a shot
Kazuki: At the very least we could pay for an escort around these guys
Kuutai: HRM....
Chiri: Perhaps we could get them drunk with firewater, surround them, and escape in the confusion?
Botan: Pss...wrong setting.
Ikuko: If only my sister were here, she could simply fuck them all into exhaustion...
Daichi: Err...
Chiri applauds.
Botan: My mom said not to use words like that.
Kuutai: Well that is very...course language. Have you awoken from your stupor of nobility?
Kazuki: Which sister is this?
TADM: <--- Is trying to figure out what Vigor stat would be necessary to pull that off.
Ikuko: It makes no difference, none of my sisters are here with us, sadly.
Ikuko: I do miss them so.
Ikuko: Persuasion {+8 Charisma, -2 Blind} [1d6+6 = 10]
Daichi: Well, do we camp here for the night and try to find a way around in the morning, or try to move on during the night?
Daichi: I am not sure how safe it would be for her Ladyship to move at night, but that might be best.
Daichi shrugs.
Kuutai: Who's for finding that tomb?
Kazuki: I don't think it'll be much worse for Ikuko. She's already blind. It's the rest of us that we need to worry about
GM: Also, based on earlier rolls, the entire population of the Iron Dynasty knows Ikuko is afraid of the dark.
Daichi looks at Kazuki.
Daichi: Good point. I was thinking more of her horse though.
Kuutai: Hrm....
Kazuki: Ah, right. Plus it'll be offroad
Kuutai: May...I see the horse?
Ikuko: I do not know, I cannot see the horse
Kazuki: oh dear
Chiri: The giant horse that is right there and the only one in the group? She hopes you can see it, otherwise Ikuko's contagious.
Botan snickers.
Botan coughs and stands up, pretending he did not snicker.
Kuutai: I was merely asking permission.
Hida Sashimi: I like him :)
Daichi defers to Ikuko's response.
Ikuko: I do not care if you look at my horse, but I would not be pleased if anything were to happen to him
Ikuko: I am not fond of traveling on foot
Kuutai: You get the idea that Kuutai is smiling
Chiri: It makes her little feetsies sore.
Kuutai: Spellcasting [1d10 = 8]
Ikuko's horse's eyes start glowing bright red.
Daichi: Err...
Kuutai: Now that's my kind of horse!
Daichi: Is that safe?
Kazuki: o.O
Ikuko: Is what safe?
Kazuki backs away from the horse
Kazuki: audibly
Daichi: Your horse's eyes are glowing bright red.
Ikuko: Is that unusual for a horse?
Kazuki: Yes
Ikuko has been awarded a benny
Kazuki: It's one of those "Here there be oni" sort of signs
TADM: That is well played. Benny!
Ikuko: What color do their eyes normally glow?
Daichi: They normally don't glow at all.
Kazuki: "No" would be the correct answer
Kuutai: NEIGH would the be correct answer.
Kazuki: I hate you so much
Quorteth (Kuutai): :3
Daichi: So...we are traveling through the night?
Ikuko: Kuutai, what have you done to my horse, and I want the truth
Ikuko: Persuasion {+8 Charisma, -2 Blind} [1d6+6 = 23]
Kuutai: I just turned on his blinkers!
Kazemi (Kazuki): are its eyes blinking?
Kuutai: So we could get as far from the Ikusans as possible!
GM: Nope
Quorteth (Kuutai): nawww.
Kazuki: And how is this going to help?
Kuutai: We won't be impeded by darkness for a bit.....
Kuutai: Come, let us not dawdle
Kazuki: Oh
Ikuko: Very well, lead on. Hopefully your strange magics are effective
Kazuki: Well, I suppose that'll work
Kazuki: What happens if you cast that on Ikuko?
Kazuki :3
Kuutai: You should try them when its pitch black. Maybe you will find you are able to see....
GM: Okay, so where is the group going with its "glowing red eyes" horse?
Kuutai: Onward! To Nihana!
Kazuki: Do we want to detour north or south?
Kazuki: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d6+2 = 10]
Ikuko: Notice {-6 Blind, -2 Unskilled} [1d6-8 = -3]
Hida Sashimi: Notice [1d6 = 5]
Kuutai: Notice [1d10 = 9]
Kazemi (Kazuki): what sort of terrain do we have on either side?
This is a steep mountainous valley with a narrow road going down the middle of it. However, in the failing light Kazuki (with his highest Notice check) spots something that looks like a goat trail on the north side that leads up a very steep incline. The ascent will be very dangerous under normal circumstances, and probably very bad for everyone who is not a horse with glowing red eyes at night.
Satsuki: Perhaps, if your ladyship wishes to travel by that route, the servants and all the gear can go through the checkpoint normally and meet you on the other side?
Kazuki: Everyone ride the horse
Satsuki gulps in fear at the thought of having to make climbing checks at night with no Wild die.
Ikuko: That sounds like a wise idea Satsuki
Kazuki: Would you like to borrow my +2?
Kuutai: Indeed.
Kuutai: Quite the idea.
Hida Sashimi: I will go with the servants. I do not think that path is suitable for someone of my stature
Ikuko: None of you have any contraband, so you should be able to pass through unmolested
Kazuki: OK, so Ikuko, Botan, Kuutai, and myself will go along the goat path
Ikuko: I think Chiri should accompany us, no doubt she knows a lovely song about falling off a cliff and dieing.
Kuutai: Sound lovely.
Hida Sashimi: You mean 'dying' or 'dyeing'?
Chiri: She will come with you, if only to laugh when people fall.
Kuutai: hrm, that will really mark you having a falling out with people.
GM: Okay, so Hida Sashimi and the servants setup camp and collect everything that the group taking the side trail does not need.
GM: Then the five of them begin the perilous ascent up the narrow goat path.
Kazuki: this is going to be fun
GM: Climbing checks. (Ikuko rolls d8 Agility for her Lowlands Brindle horse, as it can see in the dark and is surefooted)
Chiri: Climbing {+2 Thief} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6+2 = 7]
Kazuki: imagine all the stories you can tell your grandchildren, Botan
Ikuko: [1d8 = 1]
Botan: Climbing {+2 Thief} [1d6+2 = 6]
Ikuko: [1d6 = 2]
Ikuko is using a benny
Kazuki: Climb {+2 Thief} [1d6+2 = 21]
Ikuko: [1d8 = 6]
Kuutai: NoSkill [Critical failure!] [1d4 = 1]
Kuutai is using a benny
Kuutai: NoSkill [1d4 = 3]
Kazuki: Agility {+2 Acrobat} [1d8+2 = 7]
Kuutai is using a benny
Kuutai: NoSkill [1d6 = 7]
Kazuki catch Kuutai before he falls to his death
Kazuki: Watch that step there, sir
Quorteth (Kuutai): Wait, did I just make a skill roll for not having skill, or was I trying to actually do a No Dance?
Kuutai: Ugh....lousy goat trail....
GM: Okay, now a Vigor check for everyone. Ikuko's horse has a d10.
Kazemi (Kazuki): uh oh
Botan: Vigor [1d8 = 3]
Ikuko: [1d10 = 5]
Kuutai: Vigor [1d6 = 8]
Kazuki: Vigor [1d4 = 11]
Kazemi (Kazuki): whew
Chiri: Vigor [1d6 = 8]
Ikuko: [1d6 = 4]
You climb for several hours, following the trail by moonlight and starlight. Everyone seems to make it through the journey without serious mishap, although Botan seems really tired and needs to take a nap.
Botan yawns.
Kazuki yawns
Kuutai: Ikuko
Kuutai: Let me....Help you.
Chiri takes a drink from a metal flask she had in her robes.
Kuutai: Spellcasting [1d10 = 12]
GM: Okay, Ikuko has bright red glowing eyes. Other than marking her out nicely for any archers who might be in the distance, it has no effect.
Botan: That is a bit disturbing.
Chiri: Compared to what?
Ikuko: what is disturbing?
Botan: He made your eyes look like the horse's.
Ikuko: And that is unusual as well?
Botan: Well, yes.
Ikuko: very well, for your sake then...
Ikuko closes her eyes and ties a silk handkerchief into a blindfold around her eyes.
Kazuki: For the record, glowing eyes are always bad
Ikuko: Is that better?
Kuutai: Awww.....
Botan: Yes, your ladyship
Kuutai: I can defintely see where some people may not find it stylin, but Kazuki, really?
Kazemi (Kazuki): Botan kind of reminds me of Gohan from Team Four Star's DBZ Abridged
Kuutai: Ah well.
Kuutai: Who's for camping here?
Ikuko: If this strikes you as a good place to rest
Kuutai: Survival [1d4 = 11]
Ikuko: How far until we redevouz with the others?
Quorteth (Kuutai): Good Place?
GM: Very good spot to rest.
Kuutai: That I do not know, merely that this place...will offer refuge, for now.
The group finds a wide spot on the far side of the valley to camp. You get several hours of sleep while everyone else wakes up the next morning and goes through the check point.
By midafternoon, everyone is reunited and head down the mountains into Sorimizu.
Nick (Hida Sashimi): Nothing? I guess I'll take that
GM: The group does not contain any small children, and Ikuko's servants don't mention Botan, so other then being harrassed a little you are not seriously impeded.
GM: The Ikusans do make it very obvious to you that they are looking for a small boy matching Botan's description.
Kuutai: Hrm.
Kuutai: Botan, Why they want you?
Botan: I don't know, something my mother did.
Kazuki: Kn(Lore & Legends) {+1 Defining Interest} [1d4+1 = 10]
Ikuko: These sorts of power-plays are not unhear of, one day the pendulum will swing back the other way and you will reclaim your seat of power.
Kuutai: Ah well then. Onward.
Kazuki: How many days left?
Botan: Yes, your ladyship.
GM: Probably about 8.
GM: Since you were not distracted by Orziji for an extra four.
Kuutai: If only there were a faster way to travel....
TADM: You know what would be useful...a map.
Kazemi (Kazuki): we're on the main island on the mountain range between Ikusa Kokoro and Sorimizu, correct?
By the end of the day you are out of the mountains and on the northern edge of Sekisho.
GM: So now you just have to cross the vast fertile rice paddies of Sorimizu and make it to Nihana.
It is the evening of your second night in Sorimizu and the lands are peaceful and filled with the normal sounds of insects and birds.
GM: Notice checks
Kuutai: Notice [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 5]
Ikuko: Notice {-6 Blind, -2 Unskilled} [1d6-8 = 2]
Hida Sashimi: Notice [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 2]
Hida Sashimi is using a benny
Kazuki: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d6+2 = 30]
Kazemi (Kazuki): BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Hida Sashimi: Notice [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 7]
Quorteth (Kuutai): I SEE EVERYTHING
GM: They will fail when you get into combat.
Kazemi (Kazuki): I AM OMNISCIENT
GM: Kazuki notices a fox running into the underbrush near where Ikuko's cook, Akemi, is setting up the fire and preparing meals.
Satsuki writes, "Dear Daddy, I survived a trip through the mountains and after a brief makeout session with a bandit did not encounter any problems. Love you. Hugs and Kisses. Ikuko."
Kazuki heads over to Akemi
Hida Sashimi speaks with Atemi about cooking technique
Hida Sashimi: Kn (Regional Cuisine) [1d4 = 2]
Akemi looks at Hida Sashimi.
Kazuki looks at Hida Sashimi
Akemi: Now, I just add a pinch of pepper here, and it makes the flavor so much better.
Akemi apparently is entirely engrossed in a conversation about cooking techniques.
Kazuki: Got anything you think foxes would like?
Akemi looks at Kazuki.
Akemi: Oh, the little fox?
Kazuki: Common Knowledge [1d6 = 4]
Kazuki is pretty sure they eat meat
Kazuki: Stealth [1d8 = 7]
Kazuki: some meat has gone missing
Hida Sashimi: Pepper is a useful spice, yes
Kuutai: Smarts (Defining Interest(Classical Literature) +1) [1d10+1 = 7]
Quorteth (Kuutai): What does the fox eat.....What do fox like creatures like?
Kazuki heads over to the bush
GM: Meat is pretty common for fox consumption.
Kazuki: Hey there, little guy, want a treat?
Kazuki: Stealth [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 5]
Kazemi (Kazuki): this is relatively out of sight of the rest of the camp. As much as I can make it with a 5
Mayumi walks over to Kazuki while carrying a load of laundry.
Mayumi: Excuse me, are you trying to feed the fox?
Kazuki: Yes
Kazuki: Do you have any tips?
Mayumi: No, but he is not hungry because we already fed him today.
Kazuki: Aww, that's a shame. Has he been following us around?
Mayumi: He has been wandering by every night for the last week or so. He does some tricks and is cute...so we keep feeding him.
Kazemi (Kazuki): makes me sad that I didn't take Gambling
Kazuki: Oh, Ok
Hida Sashimi: comparing to Kip
Akemi: And then I flourish some paprika over the vegetables like this...it is all in the hand movement.
Hida Sashimi: Notice [1d6 = 5]
GM: Sashimi is quite convinced that the animal he did not see is probably a fox.
Mayumi walks off to hang up the laundry.
Hida Sashimi: Yes it is. People very rarely realize how important style and finesse are during cooking
Akemi: Yes, it is great to have such an avid connossieur among us.
Kazuki pulls out his pack of marbles to attempt to construct various ways to use them as mental excersises
Kuutai: What manner of arcane practice is this?
GM: Kazuki notices that he has lost some of his marbles.
Kuutai: What are you doing with these....baubles?
Kuutai is puzzled by Kazuki's actions
Kazuki: Agility {+2 Acrobat} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6+2 = 7]
Kazuki: Agility Trick [1d6 = 8]
Kazuki flicks a marble up, causing it to ricochet off of Kuutai's beak and down into his other hand
Kazuki: Playing around. Fortunately we have more servants than I know of
Ikuko: who is this we?
Kazuki: so I don't have much else to do at the moment. Plus, we've apparently earned ourselves a fox friend
Kazuki: (if I don't make any noise, she can't tell if I'm still here)
Kazemi (Kazuki): Move Silently
Kazuki: Stealth {+2 Thief} [1d8+2 = 4]
Kuutai: looks at Ikuko, then starts singing 'Foxy Lady'
Ikuko: Notice {-6 Blind, -2 Unskilled} [1d4-8 = 2]
Kazuki slips on his own marbles
Kazuki recovers his marbles
Kazuki: So, Kuutai, where'd you get that mask?
Kuutai: Uh.....its just some fabric.
Kuutai: I don't know.
Kazuki: Smarts [1d6 = 3]
Kazuki: Ah, alright
Kuutai: Why, want to buy clothes like mine? =)?
Kuutai shows off his rags.
Kuutai: These threads be dope, yo!
Kazuki: Where did you learn your craft, anyways?
Ikuko: They are very lovely Kuutai. I'm sure they will impress many people.
Ikuko: Persuasion {+8 Charisma, -2 Blind} [1d12+6 = 13]
GM: Okay...Kuutai needs to make a Spellcasting check as soon as he is done retorting.
Kazuki: Smarts (Obvious Lie is Obvious +6) [1d6+6 = 9]
Kuutai: I doubt so many of your fellow...nobles would feel so good about....discarded things
Kuutai: And craft? Everyone knows this, they have just...forgotten it for the things of the mundane world. Mhwhahaha
Kuutai: Spellcasting [1d10 = 4]
Kuutai is using a benny
Kazuki: Ah, but they cannot be discarded things if you, yourself, have picked them up again!
Kuutai: Notice [1d6 = 5]
Kazuki: nom?
Kuutai: Spellcasting [1d10 = 14]
Kazemi (Kazuki): SUCCES
Kuutai feels the hairs on the back of his neck stand up and that the very world around him is twisting and reforming into a new reality.
Ikuko: Fighting {-6 Blind, -2 Unskilled} [1d4-8 = -5]
Kuutai: I see....Our realm is being inundated by another.
TADM: Ikuko breaks out her Kung Fu fighting...and trips.
Kuutai: The border has been weakened! Prepare yourselves!
Kazemi (Kazuki): What has my nom benny done!
GM: Okay, everyone has their bennies reset and gained some experience.
Campaign saved.

Chat log started at 18.9.2011 / 17:38:30

Savage Worlds Ruleset for Fantasy Grounds II
(c) 2009 Pinnacle Entertainment Group.
Hideaki: All righty then. Let's get this party started.
TADM: THAT'S MY LINE.
Hideaki: Sorry
GM: All righty then, let's get this party started.
GM: Especially since for this first part, Ikuko will be pretty useless anyway.
Chiri: You mean more useless?
GM: %$^#$ Fricking insubordinate NPCs!
Kazuki: That's pretty much expeced of Chiri. I'm surprised she doesn't badmouth you more
GM: I usually keep her on a tight leash.
Chiri: Hey now, you weren't supposed to discuss bedroom antics in front of the group.
Nick (Hida Sashimi): I bet she likes that sort of thing
TADM: (looks up "Mute" hindrance)
ANYWAY.
Kazuki: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d6+2 = 6]
Kazemi (Kazuki): any sign of the fox?
GM: No.
Kuutai feels the air around the group shift in ways imperceptible to normal eyes. There is a cold gust of wind, and then the shapes of men form from lengthening shadows, pulling themselves together and reconstituting themselves from the inside out within the space of a few heartbeats.
Hideaki: Surrender the boy or die!
Quorteth (Kuutai): (still not quite here, bros, sorry, meeting is over time)
Kazuki: Oh, I thought you were one of Ikuko's minions
Hideaki is a bald man wearing black pants but no shirt. Glowing tattooes cover his torso and he carries no weapons. The same cannot be said of the Ikusan soldiers with him.
Kazuki: Common Knowledge [Critical failure!] [1d6 = 1]
Kazuki: WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE
GM: Kazuki, with that roll, is utterly convinced that he is being visited by Celestials of a Higher Power, who wish merely for him to bask in their splendor.
Hideaki: You have thirty seconds to surrender to me, or I shall kill everyone here, except him, and take the boy.
Kazuki: That doesn't sound like a very celestial thing to say
GM: Ikuko's servants scatter, using the "I only work here excuse." The bodyguards remain behind to protect the woman who seems to be completely oblivious to the world around her, and is busy knitting herself a hulu skirt out of grasses by the side of the road.
Hida Sashimi: Common Knowldge [1d6 = 7]
Kuutai: Notice [1d10 = 7]
GM: Hida Sashimi recognizes Hideaki as a Void Walker, and the soldiers with him are elite members of the Ikusan military. Kuutai agrees.
Kazemi (Kazuki): I got Yuto. My mook died first last time, and I kinda like Shora and Daichi
Kuutai: Hrm, how original....
Kazuki: Hey, aren't all celestials supposed to glow?
Kazuki: Why aren't all your other buddies glowing as well?
Kuutai: fool, celestials don't make ultimatums like that.....
Kazuki: Well, maybe he's being pressured by the higher ups?
Kuutai: Higher ups......maybe, heavenly.....oh no....
Kuutai: What use have you of this boy?
Kazuki: Who, me?
Kuutai: Why do you seek him so?
Hideaki: So you admit you have him? Hah! You have twenty seconds now before we kill you all.
Kazuki: YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME
Botan hides in the bushes and is completely invisible.
Kuutai: I admit to nothing. I am curious as to what sort of candy a boy could steal that would prompt such an inquisition.
Kazuki: Well, you see, even Celestials have "needs"
Kuutai snaps at Kazuki
Kazuki does air quotes as he speaks
Kuutai: They aren't celestial!
Kazuki: Then why are they glowing?
TADM: Critical Failures are the best.
Kazemi (Kazuki): especially on common knowledge
Hida Sashimi: I have seen the enemy. Let's send them pack-ing
TADM: Woohoo!
Kuutai: Spellcasting [1d10 = 5]
Kuutai: Now I glow, you think me a celestial?
Hideaki points at Kuutai.
Kazuki: Uh
Hideaki: A renegage Void Onmyoji! Kill him first!
Hideaki: CHARGE!
Kazuki: I'm pretty sure you just tore the eyes out of some other celestial
Round 1
The deck has been shuffled.
Dealing cards...
Hida Sashimi was dealt the Red Joker! Go whenever you want this round. You also get: Joker Trait/Damage Bonus [2]
The deck has been shuffled.
Hida Sashimi
Kazuki: That would explain why they're so upset at you
Kazuki: Wait, so is this boy you're talking about Kuutai?
Kazuki: he's really more of a grimy man
Kazuki: He doesn't even change his clothes, it's probably not safe to eat him
Hida Sashimi: I stab you, like a delicious piece of tempura!
Hida Sashimi: Fighting [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 5]
GM: That hits
Hida Sashimi: Chopsticks, metal damage [2d6 = 11]
Hida Sashimi plunges a metal chopstick into the man's heart and kills him instantly, lending new credence to the phrase, "fast food kills you."
Kazuki: Uh oh
Ikuko
Kazuki: Kn(Lore & Legends) {+1 Defining Interest} [1d4+1 = 8]
GM: Ikuko sits on the ground, meditating on the amount of dust she now feels on her bum.
Kazuki
Kazuki: Wait...
Kazuki: It's body isn't vanishing back to Anoyo...
Kazuki: WHAT TRICKERY IS THIS
Nick (Hida Sashimi): Fast food doesn't kill you. Eating too quickly can lead to heart burn, though
Kazuki pulls out his kusari-gama and launches the weight at Mook 4
Kazuki: Fighting [1d6 = 5]
Kazuki: Kusari-gama damage [2d6 = 21]
Kazuki flings his kusari-gama at one and crushes the man's head.
Kazuki: Just as I thought! These are not celestials at all! Kuutai, we've been tricked!
TADM: The group is doing much better in this combat than the last one.
Kazemi (Kazuki): I practically died without acting in the last one
Kazemi (Kazuki): well, that's my turn
Hideaki: Spellcasting [1d10 = 18]
Hideaki casts Quickness on himself.
Hideaki: Fighting [1d10 = 8]
Hideaki: Martial Arts damage [2d6 = 8]
Hideaki runs up and punches Kuutai.
GM: Kuutai needs to make a Smarts check.
Kuutai: Smarts [1d10 = 8]
Kazuki: Kuutai, I think these guys are Void Walkers! Don't let them know that you're on Onmyouji! They'll go for you first!
Hired Bodyguards: Fighting [1d6 = 2]
Hida Sashimi: [1d6 = 4]
Hida Sashimi: +2 [2d8+2 = 5]
Kazemi (Kazuki): lolololol
Kuutai: [1d6 = 3]
Kuutai (shaken)
Kuutai: Spirit [1d6 = 2]
Kuutai is using a benny
Kuutai: Sigh....what a waste of....talent...
Kuutai: Bolt (GO FOR THE GOLD!)
Kuutai: Spellcasting [1d10 = 8]
Kuutai: Put all 3 on Hideaki
Kuutai: Bolt(Enhanced) damage [3d6 = 26]
Kuutai: Bolt(Enhanced) damage [3d6 = 17]
Kuutai: Bolt(Enhanced) damage [3d6 = 18]
Kazemi (Kazuki): WHAT IS THIS
Kazuki: Clearly I was mistaken about who was the celestial in this whole ordeal
Kazuki: Sorry about that Kuutai
TADM: Okay, so that is Shaken + 4 Wounds, Shaken + 2 Wounds, and Shaken + 2 Wounds on Hideaki.
Hideaki is using a benny
Hideaki: Vigor [1d8 = 5]
Hideaki is using a benny
Hideaki: Vigor [1d6 = 10]
Kazemi (Kazuki): lemme guess, he failed?
TADM: No, he saved 3 of those Wounds...it's the other 5 that hurt.
Nick (Hida Sashimi): Hope he wasn't supposed to be a recurring villian
Hideaki explodes into a gruesome pile of gooey bits.
TADM: Only if he lived through this encounter.
Kazuki: You see, children, that is not how a celestial actually dies
TADM: Which I actually wrote into the campaign.
Kazemi (Kazuki): lol
Kazemi (Kazuki): well, we know one part that's not being playtested very thouroughly
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 2]
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 4]
Red Wolf: Katana damage [2d8+2 = 10]
Nick (Hida Sashimi): Tack's character?
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 7]
Red Wolf: Katana damage [Raise] [3d8+2 = 12]
Red Wolf chops Shora in half with a mighty yell of, "Kiaaaii!"
Quorteth (Kuutai): Noooooo
Kazemi (Kazuki): NOOOOOO!
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 7]
Red Wolf: Katana damage [2d8+2 = 10]
Red Wolf: Vigor [1d6 = 5]
Red Wolf: Katana damage [2d8+2 = 5]
Red Wolf ferociously stabs Hida Sashimi, and seriously damages one of his clay soy sauce containers.
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 5]
Red Wolf: Katana damage [2d8+2 = 5]
Hida Sashimi: You soy sorry?
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 4]
Red Wolf: Katana damage [2d8+2 = 6]
Round 2
Dealing cards...
GM: Well that's not good, they went at the end of the last round and the start of this one.
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 11]
Red Wolf: Katana damage [Raise] [3d8+2 = 16]
Quorteth (Kuutai): Halp! Teh gankin meh!
Red Wolf explodes Yuto in a shower of gore and intestines.
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 4]
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 10]
Red Wolf: Katana damage [Raise] [3d8+2 = 6]
Red Wolf ferociously attacks Kuutai, hits with a raise, and only succeeds in doing one wound because Kuutai is already shaken.
GM: Which he can benny if he wants
Kuutai is using a benny
Kuutai: Vigor [Critical failure!] [1d6 = 1]
Kazemi (Kazuki): lololol
Kazemi (Kazuki): I'll nom if you want
Kuutai: Vigor [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 2]
Kuutai (shaken)
Kazemi (Kazuki): wtf why did you waste my bennie?
Kuutai: Spirit [1d6 = 7]
Kazuki
Kazuki continues swinging the chain from before and sends it to greet Mook 3
Kazuki: Fighting [1d6 = 5]
Kazuki: Kusari-gama damage [2d6 = 11]
Kazuki: Excuse me, sir, if I may have your momentary attention
Red Wolf gets thonked by a kusari-gama and seems dazed.
Kazuki: [1d6 = 4]
Hida Sashimi
Hida Sashimi: Fighting [Critical failure!] [1d4 = 1]
Hida Sashimi is using a benny
Hida Sashimi: Fighting [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 3]
Ikuko
Quorteth (Kuutai): :3
GM: Ikuko spends this round decorating her hair by putting dandelions in it.
Round 3
Dealing cards...
Hida Sashimi
Hida Sashimi: Fighting [1d4 = 2]
Red Wolf is clearly skilled in the art of fighting against a master of chopstick-fu.
Hida Sashimi: Such a waste of good soy. Makes fighting difficult
Kazuki
Kazuki continues his barrage of weighted chain agianst Mook 3
Kazuki: Fighting [1d6 = 4]
Kazuki: Kusari-gama damage [2d6 = 6]
Kazuki: Daichi swings his blade down at Mook 5
Kazuki: Merc-Man Attack! damage [1d6 = 4]
Ikuko
Kazuki: which narrowly glances off of his foe's armor
GM: Ikuko asks, "I think I hear the sounds of fighting, Shora, what is going on?"
Kuutai
Kuutai: Your strength is but a shadow!
Kazuki: But their strength /is/ the shadow
TADM: It's a cage match, two men enter, three men leave....no...wait, that doesn't sound right.
Kuutai: Spellcasting (Battle Dammage -1) [1d10-1 = 5]
Kuutai One each
Kuutai: Bolt damage [2d6 = 16]
Kuutai: Bolt damage [2d6 = 6]
Kuutai: Bolt damage [2d6 = 4]
Red Wolf: Smarts [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 1]
Red Wolf: Smarts [1d6 = 5]
Red Wolf: Smarts [1d6 = 9]
Kuutai: You fools pass when the void wills it, and not a moment sooner!
Kuutai laughs sinisterly
Red Wolf explodes, as does the Red Wolf next to him, as black energy tears them apart and reduces them to a molecular level.
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 10]
Red Wolf: Katana damage [Raise] [3d8+2 = 14]
Kazuki: KILL THEIF
Red Wolf runs up and stabs Kuutai for Shaken + 2 Wounds.
Kazuki: Hey, let's leave one of these guys alive to interogate them
Kazuki: It'll be fun
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 9]
Red Wolf: Katana damage [Raise] [3d8+2 = 16]
Red Wolf runs up and stabs Hida Sashimi for Shaken + 2 Wounds.
Hida Sashimi is using a benny
Hida Sashimi: Vigor {+1 Mark} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6+1 = 11]
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 3]
Red Wolf completely misses Daichi.
Kazuki: Yeah!
Kazuki: You show'm Daichi!
GM: Evidently Hida is skilled is using his eating implements as a way to deflect all damage, because somehow Hida emerges unscathed.
Kazuki: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d6+2 = 5]
Hida Sashimi: These wounds are undercooked. I send them back to the chef
Kazemi (Kazuki): it stabs into him, just not far enough to draw blood
Round 4
Dealing cards...
Kazuki
Kazemi (Kazuki): It's like Ando used to say, "You need at least a 6" blade to bother me"
Kazuki: Excuse me sir, I would like to have a word with you after the party
Kazemi (Kazuki): how does grappling work?
Nick (Hida Sashimi): Problem was, I think he meant 6" wide
Kazuki: Fighting: Grapple [1d6 = 16]
Ikuko
Kazuki launches his chain out, which wraps around the guard's wrists first before continuing to wrap around his neck and giving him a solid thump in the head, dropping him unconcious
Kazuki: Whoops, out of chain
Kazuki: Smarts [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 11]
Kazuki: Hm, I should remember how to make one of these knots again
GM: Umm..he's actually only Shaken, not unconscious.
GM: Ikuko plays with her hair while reciting Haiku.
Hida Sashimi
Kazemi (Kazuki): yeah, I know...
Hida Sashimi: Fighting [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 3]
Kazuki: Merc-Man Attack! damage [1d6 = 5]
Kazuki: Merc-Man Damage! damage [2d8+2 = 8]
Kazuki: Daichi pierces his foe's skin!
Kazuki: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d6+2 = 13]
Kuutai (shaken)
Kazuki: Good swing!
Kuutai: Spirit (Battle Dammage -3) [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6-3 = -1]
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 20]
Kuutai: I.....will....never....yield.....
Red Wolf rolls a 20 Fighting against Kuutai.
Red Wolf: Katana damage [Raise] [3d8+2 = 16]
Kazuki: UH OH
Red Wolf for Shaken + 2 Wounds.
Kazuki: Wait, you are grappled!
GM: Nevermind...that Red Wolf is grappled.
Kazuki: I retroactively saved Kuutai!
GM: Kuutai felt his whole life flash before his eyes.
Red Wolf: Strength [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d8 = 1]
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 1]
Kazuki: Hey, get away!
Kazuki: Stop bothering Ikuko!
Red Wolf runs up behind Kuutai to stab him in the back...slips, and smashes his sword right into Ikuko's face.
Kazemi (Kazuki): OH NOES
Red Wolf: CRITICAL FAILURE!
Kazemi (Kazuki): well, at least it wasn't me
Kazemi (Kazuki): I assume she bennies
Ikuko is using a benny
Ikuko: Vigor [1d6 = 4]
Ikuko is using a benny
Ikuko: Vigor [1d6 = 2]
Ikuko is using a benny
Ikuko: Vigor [1d6 = 2]
Ikuko is viciously stabbed for 1 wound, which causes her to pass out and be removed from the rest of tonight's session.
Chiri: BEST. CRITICAL FAILURE. EVER!
Kazuki: Shut up, you're not even on the map
Daichi: YOUR LADYSHIP!
Quorteth (Kuutai): But shes soo cuuuuute!
Daichi goes Berserk.
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 8]
Red Wolf: Katana damage [Raise] [3d8+2 = 15]
Red Wolf ferociously stabs Hida Sashimi for Shaken + 2 Wounds - again.
Hida Sashimi is using a benny
Red Wolf: Fighting [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 1]
Red Wolf swings at Daichi and misses wildly.
Hida Sashimi is using a benny
Hida Sashimi: Vigor {+1 Mark} [1d6+1 = 6]
Round 5
Dealing cards...
Hida Sashimi (shaken)
Hida Sashimi: Spirit [1d8 = 5]
Red Wolf: Strength [1d8 = 5]
Red Wolf calls for an opposed Agility/Strength check from Kazuki.
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 10]
Red Wolf: Katana damage [Raise] [3d8+2 = 12]
Kazuki: Agility [1d6 = 5]
Red Wolf #7 stabs Kazuki for Shaken + 2 Wounds while his partner #1 remains grappled.
Kazuki is using a benny
Kazuki: Vigor [1d4 = 3]
Kazuki is using a benny
Kazuki: Vigor [1d6 = 7]
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 3]
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 2]
Red Wolf swings at Hida Sashimi and Daichi, and both Red Wolves miss wildly.
Kuutai (shaken)
Kuutai: Spirit (Battle Dammage -3) [1d6-3 = 5]
Kuutai: Striking....me....again...is a plea for DEATH!
Kazuki: [1d6 = 3]
GM: That hits.
Kazuki: Merc-Man Damage! damage [2d8+4 = 11]
Kazemi (Kazuki): Does Daichi have No Mercy?
Daichi chops the Red Wolf in half as white froth pours from his mouth.
Kazuki: I don't think that's healthy
GM: No really...I meant...he went Berserk when Ikuko was hit.
Kazuki (shaken)
Kazuki: Spirit (Wound Penalty -1) [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6-1 = 4]
Round 6
Dealing cards...
Kazuki recovers from being shaken
Kazuki: Hey, that's rude
Daichi: Fighting [1d6 = 5]
Kazuki: First you stab a helpless girl, then you stab the only person in your party not trying to kill you
Kazuki: Er, in the opposing party
Daichi: Katana damage [2d8+4 = 34]
Kazuki: It's not like I'm a Void Walker or anything
Kazuki: That would be ridiculous
Daichi runs up and hits the guy that stabbed Ikuko for 34 damage.
Red Wolf: Strength [1d8 = 1]
Kazuki: Daichi, help Sashimi!
Red Wolf #1 remains grappled. Also, Red Wolf #1 only rolls 1s on his d8 Strength.
Kazuki: Agility [1d6 = 8]
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 3]
Kazuki undoes the knot in the chain and reapplies it in a different position
Red Wolf swings near Hida Sashimi.
Kazuki
Kazuki: Fighting: Knockdown damage [2d6 = 7]
Kazemi (Kazuki): -1 for wound
Kazuki: Stop struggling and start laying down
Kuutai
Kazuki: Otherwise Daichi will probably split you in half
Kazuki: Intimidate [1d6 = 5]
Kazuki: Better to play dead for now
Red Wolf: Spirit [1d6 = 11]
Red Wolf laughs at Kazuki's feeble threats.
Kuutai: lurches away from anything that has a pointy object...
Hida Sashimi
Hida Sashimi: Fighting (Wound Penalty -1) [1d4-1 = 2]
Round 7
Dealing cards...
Kuutai
Hida Sashimi
Hida Sashimi: Could you stop trying to stab me? I've already had my daily requirement of iron today
Hida Sashimi has been awarded a benny
GM: Bad pun, no biscuit, yes benny.
Hida Sashimi: Fighting (Wound Penalty -1) [1d6-1 = 7]
GM: That hits
Hida Sashimi: Chopsticks, metal damage [2d6 = 7]
Daichi: Fighting [1d6+2 = 6]
Daichi: Katana damage [2d8+2 = 39]
Daichi hits the grappled Red Wolf for 39 points of damage.
Kazuki: Awww, I told you to stop struggling
Daichi evidently brought some d8s to the table that only have 8 on them.
Red Wolf: Spirit [1d6 = 11]
Kazuki: Daichi, quickly, you must attend to Ikuko's wounds!
Kazuki: You're her only hope!
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 3]
Kazuki: Persuasion (Acting) {+1 Defining Interest} (Wound Penalty -1) [1d4 = 3]
Red Wolf swings near Hida Sashimi.
Kazuki
Kazuki: Running damage [1d6 = 3]
Round 8
Dealing cards...
Kazuki: Red Wolf! Turn and face me!
Red Wolf: Fighting [1d6 = 3]
Kazemi (Kazuki): NOT THAT FAST
Kazuki: Yikes!
Red Wolf steps back, swings near Kazuki, begins to wonder if there is something wrong with his sword.
Kazuki
Kazuki: Fighting: Grapple damage (Wound Penalty -1) [2d6-1 = 12]
Red Wolf: So far my ancestral family blade has destroyed a bottle of soy sauce.
Kazuki: Stop being not-tied-up
Hida Sashimi: Bah! Your sword should be honored!
Kazuki: Hey, it also ruined Sashimi's record for not getting stains on his clothes. He was going 2 days strong!
Daichi begins giving Ikuko mouth to mouth.
Daichi and LIKES IT.
Kazuki o.O
Hida Sashimi
Hida Sashimi: Fighting (Wound Penalty -1) [Critical failure!] [1d4-1 = 0]
Kazuki: NOM BENNY
Hida Sashimi is using a benny
Hida Sashimi: Fighting [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 5]
Kazuki: whew
GM: That hits
Hida Sashimi: Chopsticks, metal damage [2d6 = 14]
Red Wolf dies from an acute case of sharp stabbing pains in his liver.
Kazuki: Great
Kazemi (Kazuki): Are any of them alive enough to question?
Kazuki: Notice {+2 Alertness} (Wound Penalty -1) [1d6+1 = 12]
Kazuki: They appear out of nowhere right in front of us and nobody bothers asking how they knew where we were?
Kazuki: Crimany
Kuutai coughs up some blood.
Nick (Hida Sashimi): Unfortunately, it's not hers
Red Wolf Post Battle Survival Check: [8d6 = 22]
GM: Nope, all the Red Wolves are quite dead.
[w] Kazuki: I'd like to Hunch Red Wolf 7
Kuutai: Notice (Battle Dammage -3) [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6-3 = 11]
Hida Sashimi: Notice (Wound Penalty -1) [1d6-1 = 4]
[w] -> Kazuki: Sure, you get an Ace and two Jokers. Would you like to use the Jokers?
[w] Kazuki: What's the worst that can happen?
[w] -> Kazuki: Let me go get my Realms of Cthulhu insanity guide and my magical dismemberment guide from my other book if you do.
[w] -> Kazuki: And I'll subtract 7 from your sanity score...
Nick (Hida Sashimi): brb for food