The Way of Sensei Wu

(It was greatly enjoyed, thank you!)

Planning on trying Maya out some more? I know RL got in your way this game... I believe so. The novelty hasn't worn off Maya and I think she's got plenty more stories to tell. Thanks for joining Naoko in some mystery-hunting shenanigans.:) Did the character work out as you expected? I mean, sort of...

Maya nodded agreeably. "First crossroad past the village, then."

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Are there really questions that need answering about Maya? If so, here's the thread!

I greatly enjoyed the small game format and thank you for having run it for us.

"There's some shrines that need tending to around these provinces." Maya explained, gnawing at the inside of her cheek at the mention of having to give up using the bow. That clearly was a non-starter as far as ideas went. "Out of the way places, but still just as important and sacrosanct as any oth...

Maya slumped her shoulders a little but gave an encouraging smile. "No need to apologize. It's all part of the job, so to speak."

"What matters is we got answers. So, what now?"

Maya had definitely gone quiet after the sandy skull's pronouncement, looking a little shaken for it as well. Fear was, of course, futile in matters like this: what will be, will be once spirits are invoked. "Yes, thank you for your attention this day." Maya echoed Naoko, collecting up the offering ...

"Spiteful arrows?" Maya stage whispered to Naoko, not sure she'd heard the Scorpion shugenja clearly.

Best to let the curse-dealing earth skull answer one question before asking more and thus, perhaps literally, tempting fate.

Continuing to dangle the feather absentmindedly, Maya did her part to keep the terror of Hanakuso at bay, lest the cat bring down spiritual misfortune upon all involved.

"If it would not be too much trouble for you to intervene on our behalf with Hofukushu-sama, it would be appreciated."

This was always a problem with cats during spiritual rituals of great import: no sense of propriety, no sense of the sacred, beyond themselves. Maya crouched onto her haunches and dangled a feather as a distraction. It was one of those things a well-prepared shrine keeper had on them: one day it was...

"I was taught that Crab shrine customs have unique in their own ways: much more jade involved, very much more security at their processions." Maya shared, centering her mind for the act of communing with the spirit. "We should be fine here, though, between what you and I and Hanakuso know. Let's get...

Yeah that sounds like the most reasonable course of action.

Let's try something on D4 LE.

Soshi Naoko wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 07, 2022 3:07 am

You may have mentioned it at some point, but I'm not on FA Discord, and my brain's a bit of a sieve lately. XD There are some things the timing just won't work on in a 5 day game.

Shall we then do some shrine opportunity on D4 instead?

"hmm? Thing that accompanies him? For all the chasing him around we've done, I haven't seen him leaving offerings yet. What's he leave?" The Soshi's interest has her paying no attention to the presentations." "As for the shrine...tomorrow sometime? Before he makes his decision and the monks politel...

Naoko nods. "Well...visited it. Nothing special about it, to look at. I'd like to try communing with the spirits there, but...hmm, never tried that where the answer might come from something so powerful, you know? Kind of interesting and terrifying all at once." She looks back out to the students p...

Maya looked over at Naoko. Sure, both of their clans were renowned for keeping secrets, each in their own way, each for reasons that were perfectly logical and reasonable to their own internal logic. But some things under the stars just didn't have to be logical. She nodded in agreement to the propo...

I will be on the road most of today (05 July in the US), so posting will be scarce.

Maya has the social acumen of a particularly graceless brick.

She's not a particularly great fighter either, but would probably fare better there.

"More real'n mine. The other guy got to beat me up, since mine wasn't even solid." She laughs. "Still...you're right that we look more in need of training than a lot of these folks." Nodding at the kind of interesting kitchen talk, she asks, "was it one of those daikon that looks like a weird root ...