Gusai sighs.

"Don't do that again. Moss'll grow on every side.

"No, on a clear night, you look for the seven stars of the heavens' dipper; on a clear day--or even a partly cloudy one--you track shadows and find the midpoint. If you have to."

Gusai points at a wall. "That way's north, though."

"Long as you don't trust that bit about moss on trees for north," Gusai says. "Wait. You did, didn't you?"

Jiyo Sora wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 12, 2021 4:02 am

Halp me, I've statted up all five of Sora's kids at the 40XP level.

There is no help; it's too late for you, now.

"Mark 'em, then," Gusai suggests. "Lay 'em out with north in one direction, and mark each of 'em with the north. Should help."

"Big maps, then," Gusai replies, "given the lands between."

He looks through more papers. "Ah. There's the issue. You've got some of these oriented differently." Some shifting and rotation. "That seems to work better."

Gusai nods.

"Some folks need killing."

"Other than doing my damnedest to get jade moving," Gusai asks, "what can I do to help? I've seen shit," and his hand points at the eyepatch, "and that in court, it rattled me."

"I spend a lot of time at sea," Gusai says at the first, and nods along with the explanation. "So far, I follow," he says.

"I know that two of the Crane seemed to be...tainted, somehow," Gusai grasps for words. "Jade seems to hurt them. And they can hide remarkably well among us."

His eye fixes on Sora's own. "And they--it?--want us."

Canary wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 08, 2021 1:19 pm

Togashi Satsuki wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 07, 2021 5:50 pm

I suppose the same goes for the Otomo and Seppun Bushi too then (I can't remember if Seppun Bushi got changed in IH2 and effectively replaced with Hantei Bushi as the Bushi school of the Clan).

Yup.

Otomo have no School as yet, or I'd've had it.

Seppun Hunters are also a thing...

Gusai rummages through more of the documents. That the Spider have coastline aids his search, and he finds several leaves with markings on them he recognizes. "Don't know your coding," he says, "but this coastline looks like Hisomu land to my eye."

"How fortunate, then, that you found help!"

"About that," Gusai asks, "what can you tell me of it? Some I gleaned from the duel, but..."

He trails off, uncertain.

"You're doubtlessly right," Gusai agrees. "Voice of experience, or some other source of wisdom?"

Another nod, another pull at the drink.

"True," Gusai agrees. "Though there's danger in some things being...broadly accessible, as well."

Gusai's eye swivels over to Sora.

"I hadn't known that," he says. "But it makes sense, now that you say it."

Also here, at your convenience: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=412&start=7

"And some of what is lost will never be recovered."

"Or you make 'em as you go," Gusai replies. "Always a good thing to do, that. Or to draw 'ema s soon as you can after."

"Given how much people are...affected even by skirmishing..."

Gusai trails off, his eye closing.

"There'll be a lot of hurt done, and it'll be longer in healing."