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Savage Worlds Ruleset for Fantasy Grounds II. (c) 2009 Pinnacle Entertainment Group.
Kuutai suddenly develops an abject fear of heights and runs screaming down the mountain.
Ikuko: What a strange man
Kazuki: Maybe his spell just backfired?
TADM: So, anyway, off we go for tonight's adventure into "how can the party make no progress and get themselves killed?"
Feneril (Ikuko): Cunningly, I already got myself killed.
The group quickly loses sight of Yama as he bounds up the mountain, looking for the right path to take.
Kazemi (Kazuki): remove that before Tack read it!
Kazuki: Notice {+2 Trapsense, +2 Alertness} [1d6+4 = 8]
Well, okay, Kazuki keeps an eye on him longer than most of the group does, but even Kazuki loses track of him after a few minutes.
Hida Sashimi: Notice [1d6 = 7]
Nick (Hida Sashimi): awww
Hida and Kazuki also notices that it is pretty quiet around here, and not very exciting.
Hida Sashimi I attempt to follow him as best as I can
Kazemi (Kazuki): That needs to change
Kazemi (Kazuki): lol
Hida Sashimi: Unskilled {-2 Unskilled} [1d4-2 = 0]
Kazemi (Kazuki): You're going to make it about 10 feet!
Hida attempts to Track Yama, and realizes that he can't tell the difference between Yama's footprints, and those of the average Konoyo gopher.
Kazemi (Kazuki): how big are Konoyo gophers?!
TADM: About the same size as gophers on Earth.
Kazemi (Kazuki): or is it that he can't tell the defference between Yama's footprints and the average Konoyo gopher?
Ikuko: I don't think we'll be following him Hida
Kazuki: 'sides, he said for us to wait
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Notice {+2 Trapsense, +2 Alertness} [1d6+4 = 9]
Kazemi (Kazuki): defensible area nearby?
Ikuko: Why don't we have a look around the area and find a suitable place to camp for the night. If it comes to that.
[TOWER] Daichi -> Notice [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 3]
[TOWER] Daichi -> Survival [1d6 = 3]
Kazuki looks around for a defensible area, and instead spots a group of luminscent spheres flying right at the group from overhead.
Kazuki: That's not a defensible area at all
Kazuki expects to be struck by one in the next 6 seconds...
Daichi pushes Ikuko out of the way
Masakari (Kuutai): lol sorry
Kazemi (Kazuki): np, I hope that's you coming from above
The spheres veer and swerve to strike the group. As soon as you are hit, your skin and flesh fall away as your vision fades away and your bones shatter into dust. You begin to scream, but cannot. Suddenly, your lungs fill with air as your form is made whole again. You are in the middle of a snow storm far from where you were mere moments ago.
And with a loud "pop" noise, Kuutai appears a half-second later.
Kazemi (Kazuki): how convenient!
Kuutai: Trippy.
Ikuko: I hope your fear of heights does not deprive us of your presence again
Kuutai: Notice [1d10 = 4]
Hida Sashimi: Was this trip really necessary?
Kazuki: OW
Kuutai: Is life really neccessary?
Kazuki: It is for me
Daichi: Life is precious and priceless
The snow is blowing so strongly that ice is pelting your skin and it feels like you are being slowly flayed alive by shards of ice. Your companions are blurry outlines in the snow and the wind is howling so strongly that you can barely hear each other if you shout.
Sensei: Vigor checks
Kuutai: Vigor {+1 BATH TIME!} [1d6+1 = 5]
Kazuki: Vigor {+1 BATH TIME, +1 Survived Death} [1d6+2 = 7]
[TOWER] Daichi -> Vigor {+1 BATH TIME} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6+1 = 12]
[TOWER] Ikuko -> Vigor [1d4 = 3]
Kazemi (Kazuki): aren't we dressed in winter garbs?
Hida Sashimi: Vigor {+1 Mark} [1d12+1 = 10]
Masakari (Kuutai): its SUPER SNOW
Sensei: You are dressed in winter garb, which is why you don't get a -2 penalty to the roll.
Kazemi (Kazuki): oh, OK
The wind continues to howl and leeches away your warmth. It feels like the moisture in your mouth is freezing. Staying where you currently are will probably prove fatal.
Kuutai: Pft
Kuutai: The material world has no hold over one such as I
Kuutai: Spellcasting [1d10 = 22]
TADM: Actions? Otherwise I'll just keep calling for Vigor checks until people freeze to death. :)
[TOWER] Daichi -> Survival [1d6 = 4]
[TOWER] Daichi -> Notice [1d6 = 2]
Daichi looks for shelter from the storm.
Kuutai: On ward we go, unless anyone is up for some snow-beach volleyball. What nice weather!
Hida Sashimi: Look for shelter
Hida Sashimi: Notice [1d6 = 5]
Hida Sashimi: Survival [1d6 = 10]
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Notice {+2 Trapsense, +2 Alertness} [1d6+4 = 18]
Hida and Daichi look around and after several minutes consultation, determine a few really important facts: (1) You are far up a mountain, very far, as in oxygen deprivation is a concern. (2) You are on a ledge face and it seems that going about 10' to the right will result in plummeting a very far way down. (3) There appears to be a cave entrance around sixty feet away, up and to the left. (4) Snow is currently falling at a rate of 1" per five minutes.
Sensei: Vigor checks for the trip to the cave.
[TOWER] Ikuko -> Vigor [1d6 = 3]
Hida Sashimi: Vigor {+1 Mark} [1d12+1 = 11]
[TOWER] Daichi -> Vigor {+1 BATH TIME} [1d8+1 = 4]
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Vigor {+1 BATH TIME, +1 Survived Death} [1d6+2 = 5]
Kuutai decides to make snowcones
TADM: Just don't accept any "yellow" ones from him.
Masakari (Kuutai): Bath Time FUN!
Hida Sashimi: Cold? This is nothing. Tell Akemi that her food is just "okay", and you will feel true cold
Kazuki: Last time I said that I felt fire
Nick (Hida Sashimi): I've always said Kuutai was quackers
Masakari (Kuutai): ZING
Kuutai: Smarts [1d10 = 5]
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Notice {+2 Trapsense, +2 Alertness} [1d6+4 = 9]
You have reached the cave entrance, and stagger inside where you feel a sudden warmth rising through the stone. Strange, fat-bellied blue oni turn towards you, their eyes wild with fury as blood drips from their claws and teeth. On the floor you see the mangled remnants of a man. Without further thought, the oni rush you, intent on adding to their meal.
Round 1
Dealing cards...
Frost Oni was dealt the Black Joker! Go whenever you want this round. You also get: Joker Trait/Damage Bonus [2]
Kazuki: Hello
Kuutai: I think these guys will give us the cold shoulder, Kazuki, no point in trying to be warm.
Frost Oni: Fighting (+2) [1d8+2 = 9]
Kuutai: I.E. Negotiations have already frozen over.
Frost Oni: Fighting (+2) [1d8+2 = 6]
Frost Oni: Fighting (+2) [1d8+2 = 8]
Hida Sashimi: Apparently, they think all dishes are best served cold, not just revenge
Kuutai points at the dripping blood.
Frost Oni: Stone Club damage [1d6+1d8+2 = 24]
Frost Oni: Stone Club damage [1d6+1d8+2 = 22]
Kuutai: Looks like the like hot meals.....
Frost Oni can evidently hit REALLY hard.
Daichi: Well I hope they like cold cuts, because that's all they're going to get from me!
Kuutai interesting, given they are so chill
Masakari (Kuutai): nice one
Frost Oni smashes a club into Kazuki's chect for Shaken + 4 wounds.
Kazuki is using a benny
Kazuki: Vigor {+1 BATH TIME, +1 Survived Death} [1d6+2 = 7]
Kazuki is using a benny
Kazuki: Vigor {+1 BATH TIME, +1 Survived Death} [1d6+2 = 7]
Hida Sashimi: They must spawn asexually. I doubt their hearts go ablaze with love
Frost Oni smashes Daichi on the right shoulder for Shaken + 3 Wounds.
Ikuko is using a benny
Daichi: Vigor {+1 BATH TIME} [1d8+1 = 4]
Ikuko is using a benny
Daichi: Vigor {+1 BATH TIME} [1d8+1 = 5]
Hida Sashimi
Hida Sashimi attack 5
Hida Sashimi: Fighting (+1) [1d6+1 = 5]
Sensei: That hits
TADM: They have a Parry of 5.
Hida Sashimi: Chopsticks, iron damage (+1) [1d4+1d6+1 = 12]
Sensei: I need Agility checks from Kazuki, Daichi, and Hida.
Daichi: Agility [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 15]
Hida Sashimi: Agility [1d4 = 9]
Kazuki: Agility {+1 Pool Effect, +2 Acrobat} [1d6+3 = 12]
Hida stabs the Frost Oni in the chest with a mighty lunge, and must puncture a lung or something, because the creature drops over and wheezes for breath for a minute before dying.
Daichi (shaken)
Daichi: Spirit (+1 (Command) +1) [1d6+1 = 18]
Daichi: attacking #2
Daichi: Fighting: Katana (Wound Penalty -1) [1d6-1 = 13]
Masakari (Kuutai): !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sensei: That is a hit with a raise.
Daichi: Katana damage (+1 (Fervor) +1) [1d6+2d8+3 = 41]
Masakari (Kuutai): G_G
Frost Oni is chopped in half by Daichi's katana.
Masakari (Kuutai): (but everyone's DX was higher than average, due to the 'savage' effect of taking the best die all the time)
Kazemi (Kazuki): but not at 8...
Kazemi (Kazuki): for a d6
Ikuko
Masakari (Kuutai): even 8 is buffered, for all the times the wild die > the d8
[TOWER] Ikuko -> Intimidation {+4 Dealthy Pallor, -2 Blind} [1d6+2 = 7]
Masakari (Kuutai): its an interesting distribution to sample from, that's for sure.
Frost Oni: Spirit [1d10 = 6]
Ikuko looks in the direction of Oni #4, you are not quite sure how she is able to "see" it. Then she holds up a hand and a black cloud forms around her fingers that stretch out like a stream of ribbons and strike the oni in the chest. It freezes in place for a second, then drops to the ground and begins whimpering.
Kazuki D:
Kuutai: Spellcasting [1d10 = 16]
Ikuko snaps her fingers three times.
Ikuko: You know it. Mmmm hmmm.
Kazuki (shaken)
Feneril (Ikuko): brb, need more wine
Kazuki: Spirit (Wound Penalty -2, +1) [1d6-1 = 8]
Kuutai looks at Daichi
Kuutai: Your master is quite a Lich. =)
Kazuki: Agility Trick! {+2 Acrobat, +1 Pool Effect, +2 Shadow Arts} (Multiaction Penalty -2) [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6+3 = 7]
Kazuki: Fighting {+1 Sig Moves} (Multiaction Penalty -2) [1d10-1 = 2]
Frost Oni: Agility [1d6 = 8]
Frost Oni dodges out of the way of Kazuki's awesome looking attack, causing his attempt to make a bad-ass Bruce Lee move look more like the beginning of Kung Fu Panda.
Kuutai
Kuutai: Spellcasting [1d10 = 12]
Sensei: And go ahead and roll damage.
Feneril (Ikuko): back
Kuutai: Bolt(Enhanced) damage [3d6 = 19]
Kuutai: Bolt(Enhanced) damage [3d6 = 6]
Kuutai: Bolt(Enhanced) damage [3d6 = 12]
Kuutai: Mighty Kakatal, Lord of Flame, Burn My enemies to ash, and melt the ash into slag!
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Kn(Lore & Legends) {+1 Defining Interest} [1d6+1 = 6]
Daichi: I don't think you can melt ash.
Kuutai launches 3 bolts of fire at the frost oni. One of them is burned into a crisp. The second one seems to shrug off the blow. When the bolt reaches the third target (#6) it seems to hit a barrier about 5" in front of the oni and dissipates harmlessly.
Round 2
Dealing cards...
Daichi
Daichi attacks Oni 6
Daichi: Fighting: Katana (Wound Penalty -1) [1d10-1 = 7]
Daichi: Katana damage (+1 (Fervor) +1) [2d8+3 = 16]
Sensei: Agility check for Daichi.
Daichi: Agility (Wound Penalty -1) [1d8-1 = 1]
Feneril (Daichi): wah, wah, wah, wahhhhhhh
Daichi slices the frost oni in half, as it dies there is a burst of air from it that knocks Daichi to the ground.
Kuutai
Kuutai: Spellcasting [1d10 = 8]
Sensei: Any particular element being used? And roll damage
Kuutai: Bolt damage [2d6 = 13]
Kuutai: Bolt damage [2d6 = 7]
Kuutai: Bolt damage [2d6 = 3]
Masakari (Kuutai): lol
Kuutai launches three more fire bolts at the frost oni. One of them is burned to a crisp. The other one is evidently more scared of Ikuko than Kuutai's magic.
Ikuko
[TOWER] Ikuko -> Persuasion {+4 Very Attractive, -4 Deathly Pallor, +2 Most High, +2 Fine Attire, -2 Blind, +2 Charismatic, +1 Cultured} [1d6+5 = 8]
Frost Oni: Spirit [1d10 = 15]
Frost Oni: Fighting [1d8 = 7]
Frost Oni: Stone Club damage [1d6+1d8 = 12]
Frost Oni rushes over and smashes his stone club into Daichi's chest, knocking the wind out of the prone warrior.
Kazuki
Kazuki: Agility Trick! {+2 Acrobat, +1 Pool Effect, +2 Shadow Arts} (Wound Penalty -2) [1d10+3 = 12]
Frost Oni: Agility [1d6 = 10]
Frost Oni attempts to leap over Kazuki's chain and misjudges how that should work quite horribly. He lands flat-footed.
Hida Sashimi
Hida Sashimi: Fighting [1d6 = 10]
Sensei: That hits with a raise
Hida Sashimi: Chopsticks, iron damage (+1) [1d4+2d6+1 = 6]
Frost Oni is poked by Hida as the big man lunges forward, but does not really notice.
Round 3
Dealing cards...
Ikuko
Nick (Hida Sashimi): pfft and i thought lunge would be SO useful
[TOWER] Ikuko -> Intimidation {+4 Dealthy Pallor, -2 Blind} [1d8+2 = 14]
Frost Oni: Spirit [1d10 = 6]
Frost Oni drops to the ground and begins crying as Ikuko unleashes another streamer of black ribbons into his chest.
Kuutai
Kuutai: BLOOD AND SOULS!
Kuutai: Fighting [1d4 = 3]
Sensei: Actually, that hits
Masakari (Kuutai): Lol
Kuutai: Bo damage [2d4 = 4]
Masakari (Kuutai): (with the celestial staff)
Masakari (Kuutai): (my mods are busted)
Frost Oni crumples to the ground and stops moving as the Celestial Staff thumps him on the head.
Masakari (Kuutai): Oni bits. That sounds like a good name for a cereal
Feneril (Ikuko): But you couldn't put Milk on it, it would just freeze into a solid block
Nick (Hida Sashimi): Ice cream with oni bits?
Kazemi (Kazuki): what is the freezing point of milk?
Masakari (Kuutai): but some not water things can RAISE it, or LOWER it
Kazemi (Kazuki): but milk in general lowers it
Masakari (Kuutai): (and no one has that, outside of a lab)
Feneril (Ikuko): You can buy it from science supply stores
Feneril (Ikuko): They don't regulate it at all, because it is water.
The Frost Oni are all dead. Now that you have a moment to collect your bearings, you notice that this looks like a small cave complex. The walls radiate heat and causes the snow on your bodies to melt and leave puddles on the floor. The storm outside the cave seems to diminish to merely an annoying background noise once you are about 10' inside the cave.
Masakari (Kuutai): Well yeah, they don't, but its like 20$ for a litre.
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Notice {+2 Trapsense, +2 Alertness} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6+4 = 8]
Kazuki the body
Daichi runs to check on the deceased man he saw when they came in.
Kazuki checks the body
Hida Sashimi explores the cave
Hida Sashimi: Notice [1d6 = 2]
Kuutai: Notice [1d6 = 5]
Kazuki: Why are Ice Oni staying in a heated room?
Daichi: Spirit (+1 (Command) +1) [1d6+1 = 15]
Kazuki: And why is this room heated?
The half-eaten corpse on the ground appears to be the remains of an onmyoji. There are a few blood-stained and shredded books near it, and a pack lies nearby that is open and has a fur cloak spilling out of it. From what little remains of his face, you suspect you have never met this man before.
Daichi: Kuutai, do you think you could do anything about the wounds we suffered?
Kuutai: BOOKS!
Kazuki notices that the floors and the walls radiate heat.
Daichi: Kazuki needs you more than I though
Kuutai: I used all my boomy on boomy. =/
Kuutai focuses his attention to the books
Ikuko: I shall have to buy more of those healing concoctions when we are next in a town.
Daichi checks the pack for clues as to the man's identity.
Daichi leaves the looting to Kazuki.
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Smarts {-2 Pool Effect} [1d6-2 = 3]
Daichi: Notice [1d6 = 8]
Nick (Hida Sashimi): need to helpsomeone with math homework, so i'll be back when it's done. sorry everyone
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Notice {+2 Trapsense, +2 Alertness} [1d6+4 = 8]
Feneril (Daichi): no worries.
Feneril (Daichi): Don't forget, on a log plot, everything is a strait line!
'Nick' disconnected
Feneril (Daichi): That was my answer to every graphing problem in my calculus classes in college, I would just take a first order derivative and plot the log (base x) of whatever I was supposed to chart. That way, I never had to draw anything but strait lines.
Daichi looks through the pack and discovers a few herbs, some honey-colored vials, and the exceptionally nice ermine-cloak in the pack. The cloak is warm to the touch, which causes Daichi to suspect there is more to this cloak than its fine appearance.
Daichi: Kuutai, I am afraid that you may be better suited than I to identify these items
Kazemi (Kazuki): I was specifically told that we weren't allowed to do that unless we had reason to...
Kuutai: Smarts [1d10 = 9]
TADM: Feneril ruined it for everyone.
Feneril (Daichi): My reason was that I was shit at drawing curves, so I wanted to do everything with a single strait edge
Kazemi (Kazuki): Nah, the prof just said people get pissed if you publish work with logs graphs everywhere and you don't need them.
Kuutai looks over the body and the books and discovers a number or treatises on Fire kami, flame magic, Uzume, and a little black book with women's names in it for a town named, "Iro." This leads him to believe this man was a Flame Caller of Hinote Shima.
Feneril (Daichi): You need them if you can't do other shapes besides "strait line"
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Kn(Lore & Legends) {+1 Defining Interest} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6+1 = 3]
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Kn(Lore & Legends) {+1 Defining Interest} [1d6+1 = 6]
Kuutai: Odd place for a Flame Caller.
Feneril (Daichi): A book full of women's names? Where is Zeke when you need him?
Kazuki: Does it say where we are?
TADM: "P" is for party...
Ikuko: Daichi, could you read me some of the names from that book?
Kuutai: Daichi can read?
Kuutai: Wow.
Daichi: I lived in a mansion with a library larger than every place you have ever lived. Put together.
Daichi: Try not to be too shocked
Daichi reads names out of the book for Ikuko.
[TOWER] Ikuko -> Notice {-6 Blind, +2 Ghost Sight, -2 Unskilled} [1d4-6 = -3]
Kazuki: I don't know about that...
Kazuki looks at Kuutai
[TOWER] Ikuko -> Knowledge (Nobility) [1d6 = 4]
Kazuki heads toward the entrance of the cave
Kazuki: Oh, Kuutai, do you have healing power left?
Kuutai: Nope.
Kuutai: =/
Kazuki :'(
Ikuko picks up a small amulet from the ground next to her feet
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Notice {+2 Trapsense, +2 Alertness} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6+4 = 9]
Ikuko: Daichi, do you see the name Fumiko in that book?
Daichi: Notice [1d6 = 8]
Kazuki starts setting up sound-traps
Daichi searches for the name Fumiko.
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Repair (Traps) {+2 Thief} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6+2 = 15]
Kazuki sets a number of traps expertly.
Kuutai: Thank you, Kazuki
Kazuki: No problem
Ikuko: Well, while we are waiting for yama, I am going to touch up my makeup.
[TOWER] Ikuko -> Persuasion (as disguise) {-2 Deathly Pallor, +4 Very Attractive, +1 Defining Interest (Disguise), -6 Blindness, +1 Cultured, +2 Fine Attire, +2 Most High, +2 Charismatic} [1d12+4 = 20]
Kazuki: Even Ikuko should be able to tell if something solid enters
A plump man with a snow-white kimono walks from a side passage. He bows to the group, then turns to the corpse.
Kuutai: Hello?
Byakko: Farewell old friend, too bad you did not live to see your spell function.
Byakko looks back at Kuutai.
Byakko: Oh, do forgive my manners, I am Byakko, elder of my village.
Kuutai: Hello.
Kuutai: Could...you tell me more of what your friend was doing up here?
Ikuko: I am Aizu Ikuko, pleased to meet you
Byakko: My friend here was Oro of the Tenbin.
Ikuko: Your friend kept very classy company
Byakko looks at Ikuko.
Byakko: I am pleased to meet your ladyship as well.
Ikuko nods to the black book.
Ikuko: No doubt some of them knew the teachers I studied with as a young girl
Ikuko giggles.
[TOWER] Ikuko -> Persuasion {+4 Very Attractive, -4 Deathly Pallor, +2 Most High, +2 Fine Attire, -2 Blind, +2 Charismatic, +1 Cultured} [1d12+5 = 15]
Byakko: Hmm...I am not sure what company Oro kept when he was not upon Burnt Mountain.
Byakko looks around.
Byakko: Burnt Mountain being where you are now.
Ikuko: Thank you
Ikuko: We were wondering
Kuutai: ...Burnt.....Mountain? Who exactly is in charge of naming, either that, or we would be indebted if you'd be so kind as to tell us the story
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Kn(Lore & Legends) {+1 Defining Interest} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6+1 = 4]
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Kn(Lore & Legends) {+1 Defining Interest} [1d6+1 = 5]
Byakko: My village is being terrorized by these Frost Oni. Oro came to these caves to perform a summoning spell to find us outside help. I was coming to check on him, only to find him partially eaten, the oni slain, and you here...so I assume that the spell worked to some extent.
Kuutai: I see!
Feneril (Ikuko): If I were you, I would ask for my spell components back
Daichi: They didn't seem so terrible to me
Daichi: I guess your friend's spell worked though
Byakko: You are clearly a much more powerful and competent fighter than I then, good sir.
Byakko looks at Kuutai.
Kazuki: His aim must have been off, though. We were in Tetsu Sangaku.
Kuutai: Yes?
Daichi: Aye, we may not be heroes of legend, but, sadly, we are well acquainted with death.
Byakko: Burnt Mountain is a large and impressive volcano within Hinote Shima. This room is probably warmed by lava streams buried not far beneath the rock.
Kuutai: Hrm, interesting.
Byakko: But I have been gone too long from my village, and we have many Frost Oni terrorizing us. They are led by an Oni-Kaji named Borudaa.
Daichi: Unless there are silver tengu on Burnt Mountain, then we will have to get back to Tetsu Sangaku
Byakko stops to consider what Daichi has said.
Byakko: Hmm....
Byakko: There are no silver tengu here, but if you seek their feathers, I have some I can give you.
Kazuki: That would be excellent!
Ikuko: How convenient
[TOWER] Ikuko -> Streetwise {+2 Most High, -4 Deathly Pallor, +4 Very Attractive, +2 Fine Attire, -2 Blind, +2 Charismatic, +1 Cultured} [1d12+5 = 10]
Kuutai: Well that would be helpful! So We just need to kill this Borudaa chap, eh?
Byakko: The Frost Oni are a threat to my people, we are desperate. Do this for us and we will help you however we can. We have warm clothes. We have elixirs we have brewed to fight off the cold. We have treasure. You may have my daughter’s hand in marriage. Whatever it is that heroes like you require. The safety of my village is essential, and I can no longer protect it alone.
Byakko: Smarts +5 [1d12+5 = 10]
Byakko looks at Kuutai.
Kuutai: Deal.
Kazemi (Kazuki): lol
Byakko: Kill Borudaa? Defeat an Oni-Kaji? That would be something to see...
Ikuko: You need to drive a harder bargain with your daughter's hand in marriage
Byakko: If that is what I must offer to save my people, then she will do her duty.
Kuutai: I am Kuutai - I have already banished two Oni-Lords from this world - this Oni-Kaji is a mere pretender.
Kazuki: Hey, do you think you can get Oro-san's spell to work again, or was it something only he knew?
Byakko: I know nothing of his magic, so I have no idea how it worked. My humblest apologies.
Kazemi (Kazuki): both were kill steals
Byakko bows to Kuutai.
Masakari (Kuutai): Hardly KS's.
Byakko: Then I have little fear that defeating a Corrupted Master Smith of the Celestial Palace is difficult for you.
Daichi: Well, if it will help get us what we need, and rid this world of another Oni lord, then we have no choice but to help
Byakko: Good! But I see you are injured, and perhaps the cold here is too much for you.
Byakko opens a pouch at his waist.
Byakko: Here, I have potions for you that will make you immune to the cold and the wind, and help with your wounds.
Kuutai: Come, show us the way to your village, that we may get our wounds tended to, ascertain some info, plan, and of course, give your friend here a proper burial
Ikuko: I can think of many other choices. But we may as well take the opportunity while we are here.
Byakko offers everyone a honey-colored potion, much like the 3 of them found in Oro's backpack.
Kuutai slams it
Daichi accepts the potion.
Kuutai glug glug glug
Ikuko hands the potion to Daichi.
Ikuko drinks one of the potions.
Daichi drinks one of the potions.
Kazuki drinks a potion
Kazuki: How long does the protection last?
Sensei: Okay, I need to know who has the following: (1) Oro's Robe. (2) The pendant on the Frost Oni. (3) Oro's Books (4) The three honey-colored potions in Oro's backpack.
Byakko: About an hour, but we are perhaps forty minutes from my village, so we will make it in good time.
Feneril (Ikuko): Ikuko has the pendant, Dachi has the potions from the pack
Kazemi (Kazuki): I'll take the robe?
Kazemi (Kazuki): you want KNOWLEDGE Kuutai?
Daichi: Lead on then.
Kuutai: Sure
Kuutai: Ill take the robe.
Kazuki: I suppose I can use the books for Agility Tricks...
Kuutai: Smarts [1d10 = 14]
Byakko leads the group out into the snow. Somehow the potions seem to stop the wind from howling and the snow from falling...or something. You all find yourselves walking on top of the snow at your normal pace, almost like there is a little bubble of "no storm" around you. The group trudges along for 40 minutes until you reach the lip of a valley that leads down. Here amidst the snow heights and the barren tundra is a splash of green, a valley filled with lush, tropical, trees and tall grasses.
Byakko: Come, the village of Namura is not far. There we shall give you rest, let you plan, and hold a feast to welcome you this evening.
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Kn(Lore & Legends) {+1 Defining Interest} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6+1 = 3]
Kazuki: How do you keep the cold out?
Daichi: This is Hinote Shima. I believe the prefered method involves warm sake and women
Kuutai Puts the Cloak On
Byakko gives a wry smile that does not answer Kazuki's question.
Masakari (Kuutai): Dont talk shit about newspaper hats!
About twenty minutes through the tropical forest, you arrive at a village that probably holds ~100 residents. People come out of their houses or stop in their tracks and stare open-mouthed at the group.
Byakko: Other than Oro, my people rarely see outsiders.
Byakko: Forgive their rudeness.
Kazuki bows
Ikuko: No need to apologize. We draw blank stares and gaping mouths in every village we visit
Byakko: Ah, that must come of being mighty heroes.
Ikuko: Well, I usually assume it has something to do with my figure
Ikuko: But that works just as well as an explanation
Byakko: Here, you may rest in my house.
Ikuko: You are too kind
Kazuki: Thank you
Byakko leads the group to one of the larger buildings in the village. Although it is little more than a simple wooden house with a roof that has three rooms in it. The only structure in the village that is larger is the main hall, which looks like it can seat the entire village and has a stone wall with stone tiles for a roof.
Byakko gestures for the group to enter.
Ikuko follows Byakko into the house
Byakko: Here, my family is out working, so they will not disturb you. If you but need anything while you rest and plan, please ask, I shall be tending to the garden out back.
Kazuki: Do you know where the Oni Lord resides?
Ikuko: Kazuki, do not steal anything
Ikuko: I mean it
Ikuko: Persuasion {+4 Very Attractive, -4 Deathly Pallor, +2 Most High, +2 Fine Attire, -2 Blind, +2 Charismatic, +1 Cultured} [1d12+5 = 8]
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Smarts {-2 Pool Effect} [1d6-2 = 2]
The house is a small and simple affair. It looks like there is a main room that doubles as kitchen, living room, and family room. There are thin curtains between the other rooms. One is obviously the room of Byakko and his wife, while the other looks like a teenage girl's room.
Kazuki: It's not stealing if he says we can take anything we need :\
Ikuko: Behave.
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Notice {+2 Trapsense, +2 Alertness} [1d6+4 = 8]
Kazuki has his hands in his pockets
Byakko: He is farther up the mountain, past the forest of frosted trees, in an estate that was once home to Uzume's Champion in the last age, before the Celestials abandoned Konoyo after the Crimson Coronation.
Byakko leaves through the back door.
Kuutai: Im not sure if im in a love affair or not....I won't do anything. Besides, evidently, im into chicks with sentient swords and a penchant for bloody adventures
Byakko goes to fetch water from the well.
Ikuko: Thank you for sharing
Feneril (Ikuko): what time of day is it?
Sensei: It is late afternoon, Byakko mentioned something about a feast in three hours.
Ikuko: We should stay the night, and leave tomorrow to slay this Oni lord
Ikuko: It is too bad Hida isn't here. He always loved feasts.
Kazuki: I'm not very good at all at sneaking in snow
Hida Sashimi is tagging along, just being very quiet and sniffing at some food being prepared nearby.
Feneril (Ikuko): brb
Sensei: What would the group like to do now? Or just advance to the Feast?
Kuutai: (sorry phone)
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Notice {+2 Trapsense, +2 Alertness} [1d6+4 = 11]
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Stealth {+2 Thief} [1d6+2 = 7]
Feneril (Ikuko): advance to feast is fine by me
Kazuki Group Huddle Time:
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Notice {+2 Trapsense, +2 Alertness} [1d6+4 = 12]
TADM: Yes, so you can stop whispering...
Kazemi (Kazuki): Who can I find?
Sensei: Everyone is hanging out in Byakko's house.
Byakko is working out in the garden behind the house.
Byakko's wife and daughter are nowhere to be seen.
Kazemi (Kazuki): *Villagers
Kazuki keeps his voice down
Kuutai: SO...whats the matter?
Kuutai: I'm not following.
Kazuki: OK, so according to Oro's notes, the Frost Oni cannot attack if the village is warmed still
Kuutai: Excellent.
Kazuki: However, the Village Leader seems terrified of the Frost Oni and wants them gone
Kazuki: He seems to be the only one, though. Nobody in town even seems remotely worried
Ikuko: Maybe he is smarter than they are
Ikuko: I do share your distrust however
Kuutai: Hrm
Ikuko: he is too helpful
Kazuki: Or privvy to knowledge that they don't have
Kuutai: What are the seasons like here?
Ikuko: I will see what I can get out of him at the feast tonight
Kazuki: Oro seemed pretty convinced that they were going to wipe the village out in one fell swoop
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Notice {+2 Trapsense, +2 Alertness} [Critical failure!] [1d6+4 = 5]
Kazuki glances around
Sensei: Kazuki sees nothing unusual as he glances around.
TADM: He also rolled a Critical Failure.
TADM: So he doesn't even notice that he put his shoes on the wrong feet today.
Kazuki is using a benny
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Notice {+2 Trapsense, +2 Alertness} [1d6+4 = 9]
Kuutai: Kazuki is using a benny
Ikuko: Our suspicions aside, I still think we are on the correct course of action
Ikuko: Killing Oni is never a bad call
Kazuki: Fortunately, it seems like Frost Oni cannot shapesift, so I agree with you
Sensei: Kazuki realizes that somehow his shoes are on the wrong feet, and he is not sure how that happened. Also, there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING out of the ordinary in this house.
[TOWER] Ikuko -> Notice {-6 Blind, +2 Ghost Sight, -2 Unskilled} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6-6 = -4]
Kuutai: Notice [1d10 = 9]
Kazuki: Also, this house gives me the damn creeps
Kazuki: I'd rather go back and sleep in that cave
Kuutai: I smell an oni...
Kuutai investigates the room in question
Masakari (Kuutai): Realizes this will probably only cause mass trouble
Kazuki: There are no personal affects, nothing indicating ownership, everything is perfectly neat. It's all as if it was set up for us
Kuutai walks into the teenage girl's room and sees a young girl dive out the window and scamper off.
Kazuki: I bet this place is going to get very cold after dark
Kuutai: A Ha! The cultist of Chaos is exposed! Follow her, lest she corrupt the entire village!
Kazuki: Agility {+1 Pool Effect, +2 Acrobat} [1d6+3 = 12]
Kuutai: ...either that, or she is having a perfectly healthy life as a teenage girl, and is going to enjoy some time alone with some young samurai...
Kazuki takes chase
Daichi nods to Kazuki.
Kazuki dives through the window, executes a perfect rolling tackle, knocks the girl to the ground and pins her there.
Yukiko: EEEEKKKK!!!!
Yukiko: Please don't rape me!
Ikuko: Leave her alone!
Yukiko: I just needed my abacus!
Kazuki: Gah! Sorry
Masakari (Kuutai): (the names.....)
Ikuko: You crude man!
Kazuki gets off
Ikuko: Persuasion {+4 Very Attractive, -4 Deathly Pallor, +2 Most High, +2 Fine Attire, -2 Blind, +2 Charismatic, +1 Cultured} [1d6+5 = 10]
Ikuko: Are you alright>
Kazuki: I did not think you would still be right there
Kazuki: I usually chase things that are very, very fast
Kazuki bows in apology
Ikuko: I know Kuutai can be scary, but he isn't so bad. Once you get past all of his bad attributes
Ikuko: Kazuki is pretty bad though.
TADM: Gees Dave, it's like the names are making you suspicious or something....you and your knowledge of Japanese...
Ikuko: You should be ashamed of yourself
Ikuko: Chasing down a young girl like that
Yukiko curls up into a ball and stares at everyone in terror.
Kazuki facepalms
Yukiko: Please don't rape me!
Masakari (Kuutai): I don't know, Yukiko is sort of a flaky name. =)
Kazuki: Request granted
Yukiko: I have heard all sorts of stories about people from outside the mountain.
Ikuko: Don't worry, I won't let them hurt you. They do what I say. If they don't, I can have that one kill them
Ikuko points at Daichi.
Ikuko: Persuasion {+4 Very Attractive, -4 Deathly Pallor, +2 Most High, +2 Fine Attire, -2 Blind, +2 Charismatic, +1 Cultured} [1d12+5 = 15]
Yukiko looks at Ikuko.
Yukiko: Oh, thank you!
Ikuko holds her hand out for Yukiko
Yukiko sniffs and wipes tears away.
Kuutai: Man, don't have a meltdown, Yukiko, we are here to help!
Yukiko looks at Ikuko's hand, stands up without accepting it.
Yukiko looks at Kuutai.
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Notice {+2 Trapsense, +2 Alertness} [1d6+4 = 9]
Yukiko: I know, my father said so. He said to stay away from the house, but I needed my abacus to do the accounting.
Ikuko: You can stay in your room. I assure you that none of the others will bother you again
Ikuko: Will you?
Kuutai: icy what you mean.
Yukiko: I am sorry for inconviencing you like this.
Yukiko is actually quite attractive now that she is standing there and does not look completely terrified.
Feneril (Ikuko): I would expect so, given that our names are almost anagrams. That alone should make her pretty good looking
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Smarts {-2 Pool Effect} [1d6-2 = 13]
Kuutai: Well, you do draw suspicion acting like that, so be more careful.
Ikuko: Kuutai, if you stormed into my bedroom, I would flee too
Ikuko: What is suspicious about that??
Kazuki: Yukiko, you've lived in this village your entire life, correct?
Yukiko: Yes.
Kuutai: Its not good manners. You should Hail your visitors. Right Yukiko?
Yukiko looks shame-faced.
Yukiko: Yes.
Ikuko: Don't even think about taking Byakko up on his marriage offer you creepy old man.
Ikuko: You keep your mind away from that girl
Kazuki: Eh, don't be harsh on her. She snuck in and you popped out of nowhere
Yukiko looks morbidly terrified at the prospect of marrying Kuutai.
Kazuki would be too
Yukiko: I should leave you alone and respect my father's wishes. We can talk later at the feast.
Kazuki: One last thing: How long were you there?
Yukiko: In the room? Maybe a minute.
Yukiko looks at Ikuko and Kuutai.
Kazuki: And what did you hear?
Yukiko: Something about a setup, I was trying not to listen because that would be disrespectful of our guests.
Kazuki: What did you think of it?
Yukiko: The setup? I have no idea what you are talking about.
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Smarts {-2 Pool Effect} [1d6-2 = 1]
[TOWER] Ikuko -> Streetwise {+2 Most High, -4 Deathly Pallor, +4 Very Attractive, +2 Fine Attire, -2 Blind, +2 Charismatic, +1 Cultured} [1d12+5 = 9]
[TOWER] Ikuko -> Persuasion {+4 Very Attractive, -4 Deathly Pallor, +2 Most High, +2 Fine Attire, -2 Blind, +2 Charismatic, +1 Cultured} [1d6+5 = 10]
Kazuki: Eh, no worries then. You'll stay safe
Kuutai: Its wrong to speak for you like that, its snow way to treat a lady.
Kazuki: My appologies for all of that
Kazuki :\
Kazuki bows
Kazuki: If there's anything you need, don't be afraid to ask
Ikuko: You are both thugs, the way you scared that little girl
Yukiko now walks away as quickly as she can without running.
'Nick' connected
Kuutai decides to get a 'Thug Life' tattoo soon
Kazuki: Better a thug than dead with a knife in your back
Kazuki: Or a Frost Oni
Sensei: Okay, now what?
Masakari (Kuutai): We wait for more thematically named characters?
Kazuki: OK, should we ask the village leader about her?
Kazuki: And who she is?
Ikuko: She is his daughter
Ikuko: What else would you plan on asking him?
TADM: Nonsense, I doubt I could come up with more thematic names than I already have.
Kazuki: I suspect she's as blood-related to her father as your husband is to Kuutai
Masakari (Kuutai): You take the last 'ko' off a girls name.
Masakari (Kuutai): then you get the base word
Masakari (Kuutai): I can think of many situations where 'iku' is used. =)
Nick (Hida Sashimi): sorry for all of that. what did i miss?
Ikuko: Why should blood relation be the end-all be-all of family ties?
Kazuki: or species related
Kazuki: or plane-related
TADM: Okay, any questions for Byakko before we advance to the feast?
TADM: No problem, you made it back just in time for Hida to eat a lot of food. :D
Feneril (Ikuko): COOKIE MONSTER!
TADM: Okay, any questions for Byakko before we advance to the feast?
Feneril (Ikuko): Im all for advancing
Masakari (Kuutai): MONSTER!!!!
Kazemi (Kazuki): I thought SHE was a monster!
Kazuki heads off to Byakko
Kazuki: Anyone coming?
Kuutai: Sure, im down for a feast
Ikuko heads to the feast with Daichi.
That evening the doors of the main hall are opened and everyone is ushered into main hall. Almost a hundred villagers have gathered. There is a raised dias at one end where Byakko is waiting along with Yukiko and chairs for the group. In front of the dias are long rows of trestle tables with benches where the villagers gather. Enormous mounds of a variety of succulent food has gathered. You are not quite sure where this all came from...
Ikuko and Daichi join Byakko at the dias.
Byakko: My people, these brave heroes have travelled through magic and the dense snows of Burnt Mountain to come here and save us! We gather tonight to welcome them and celebrate their coming in the hope they will have victory over Borudaa and his army of Frost Oni!
Ikuko: My companions may be a bit rough around the edges, but I assure you that they are worth 10 men each when it comes to battle. So eat, drink and be merry. For soon, the cloud of fear hanging over your lives shall be lifted.
Ikuko: Persuasion {+4 Very Attractive, -4 Deathly Pallor, +2 Most High, +2 Fine Attire, -2 Blind, +2 Charismatic, +1 Cultured} [1d12+5 = 14]
Kuutai: Spellcasting [1d6 = 11]
Crowd: YAY!
Crowd: Yay for our heroes!
Kuutai: Witness the limitless depths of my powers - The cold depths of the void bend to my every whim! WHAHAHAAHA
Kuutai: Your Oni don't have a CHANCE
Ikuko ducks
Crowd: Ooohh!!! Aaaahhhh!
Yukiko: Umm...father, I don't want to be disrespectful, but if I have to marry one of them, can you select the large and, compared to the others, regal looking one as my husband?
Kazemi (Kazuki): fat chance
Masakari (Kuutai): ZING
Byakko: Now now, there will be time for deciding that later.
Ikuko: Hida is already married.
Yukiko looks unhappy about the prospect of being married to Kazuki or Kuutai.
Hida Sashimi: Yes. Happily married, I must say
Yukiko: Oh, that's unfortunate.
Nick (Hida Sashimi): She could marry Ikuko
Kazemi (Kazuki): also married
Feneril (Daichi): Also, not a lesbian
TADM: Nope, Ikuko is already happily married also.
Feneril (Daichi): Don't forget Zoidberg. err. Daichi!
Kazemi (Kazuki): She could marry Daichi, but that would be an empty marriage
Kazemi (Kazuki): Better than when he was possessed by a Rage Demon, though
Feneril (Daichi): Hey. Daichi is a nice guy now
Kazemi (Kazuki): lol because he would recognize another woman
Feneril (Daichi): Granted, he is about 30 years her senior
Byakko: So let us feast and be merry!
Crowd: Yay!
Masakari (Kuutai): :3
Daichi downs a couple flaggons of whatever they are drinking
Ikuko sips at the wine like a proper lady.
Kuutai: Spellcasting [1d10 = 37]
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Smarts {-2 Pool Effect} [1d6-2 = 5]
Masakari (Kuutai): WHAT THE HELL@!!?
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Kn(Lore & Legends) {+1 Defining Interest} [1d4+1 = 4]
Kazuki is using a benny
Food is passed and people being munching away on things. Daichi drinks a couple glasses of an incredibly delicious honey mead that fills him with a sense of warmth and peace.
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Kn(Lore & Legends) {+1 Defining Interest} [1d4+1 = 4]
[TOWER] Hida Sashimi -> Notice [1d6 = 5]
[TOWER] Kazuki -> Persuasion (Acting) {+1 Defining Interest} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6+1 = 5]
[TOWER] Hida Sashimi -> Persuasion {+1 Etiquette} [1d6+1 = 12]
Kuutai breaks out a bunch of tricks and engages in some super awesome displays of magical trickery that cause the entire crowd to gasp and elicits glee and applause.
For those eating (and who have functioning taste buds) the food is amazingly delicious. Frozen treats are brought out for dessert.
Then the main door shatters open from a single tremendous blow and the howl of freezing wind tears through the building. The torches and fires within the building are extinguished, leaving only the burning buildings of the village to illuminate the monstrous form that occupies the whole of the entrance.
The creature in the entry wayis about 12' in height and carrying a massive konobo that looks like it might have been an entire tree at one point. There is no hair on the body, and it looks like the skin is barely able to contain the musculature underneath.
Borudaa: You have summoned others to try and stop me? NONSENSE. I shall kill you all now.
Daichi: How good of you to save us a journey.
Daichi draws his katana
Kazuki: He's the most considerate of the Oni Lords we have met so far
Kazuki draws his kusari-gama
Borudaa steps into the room and swings his konobo at the two nearest tables, shattering them and smashing everyone sitting at them into a pulp.
Yukiko looks for the nearest escape window.
Ikuko: Everyone that hasn't killed an Oni lord before should probably flee
Masakari (Kuutai): How many hours worth of PP did i Regen between fights?
TADM: 6 total.
Masakari (Kuutai): Ok we are set.
Kuutai: Watch as I humble this boulder of a demon into mere pebbles!