-Are you very committed to the 'must have a specific Advantage' requirement? These are pretty rare in official Paths. I can see how it would help someone perform this duty, but would people without one of the Advantages be totally barred from the organization? Some official paths (including Jade Ma...

... Ayumu might have two points left, though. Points that are and will remain in the bank for long-term fruition. Note that if you don't manage to get this funded, any Crab player wanting to play a shugenja can just go Anjing Family and Chiyo Shugenja with the Different School Advantage, a in-pract...

Might be for the better than this goal is not completed this game. Honestly, from a story perspective, it makes more sense for Matsu to rise to greatness after a war than after a court event.

Seven. Or even less. If everyone's a Thunder, no one's a Thunder. It diminishes their specialness. And from a story point of view, having a lot of Thunders is likely to end up with Thunders that kind of hang around instead of having a well-defined role. Especially as this is already an issue in the ...

I'll throw them in.

Now what to do with my two remaining points...

I'll likely participate honestly. Just keeping my options open for now in case another GoFundMe project catch my attention. Especially, since the bulk of Ayumu's influence is due to the Tao, would be fluff for some of it to end up spent on a Tao-related goal.

There were not that many art forms one could achieve a semblance of result with quickly but Ayumu knew the basics of one of them. Using a piece of wood from the garden and an all-purpose knife, he began sculpting a simple statuette of the sun goddess herself. After having had to deal with scions of ...

She leaned in to whisper softly at some point in the evening, her eyes glittering a little. "Jiyo-sama. While you did not call on the Teacher's gifts long ago, or ask him to look into your eyes as he did mine, I am willing to see what might be seen today. Perhaps it will have some value." And after...

Now that there shouldn't be any issue with achieving our faction goal, the Imperial Families have a few points left. We have ideas of our own about what to use them on, but if some of the factions that have been best friends with us this court have plans that would require a complementary input, you...

"I mean, sure, from an external point of view, the garden might look like a storm just went through it. But in reality the damages are not as terrible as if it had been an actual storm. At least, not a big one. And... Uh... Kids will be kids... And old people are just grown-up kids... Okay, okay, we...

Jiyo Sora wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 29, 2021 12:52 pm

(Sorry Ayumu! We tried!)

Maybe the Tao was Ayumu's real event and the scholarly one a bluff all along? The spirits work in mysterious ways.

Sora approached Ayumu with the air of a man who has been vindicated, if only to himself. "That fucking bird came back with Nanzi fifteen years gone. Fifteen years. Fortunes only know what the hell it's done in all of that time..." "A common crow can lay half a dozen eggs a year. I don't know how th...

So. This was all about complexity addiction? Finding the most convoluted way to test a potential Jigoku shapeshifter with a sacred blade? Ayumu could think of a hundred ways such a result could have been achieved far more easily. This particular plan turned out almost fine in the end, but he was wor...

Ayumu sighed internally. It was obvious from the start this Kakita man had never been looking for a peaceful solution to his issue, whatever it was. But the laws of the Empire were designed in such a way that if both sides agreed to a fight, then they were allowed to fight. Well, they were probably ...

She glanced at him. "I'm not as good as Shinsei is, but you know he taught me that secret that he used all those years ago. I would not use it without both your and her permission, and your wife's at that, but if the three of you are willing, I could see what lies within her as potential." She was ...

Kinsen returns from the catwalk and provides a bow to the Imperial, then she poses again, saying, "See. your style has passed the test of time." "It would appear so indeed. There's a philosophical question about whether it remained unchanged all these years, or if some parts of it were lost but rep...

Rei's story wore out Ayumu's resistance, and he felt himself shivering. Likely, because it reminded him of a tale far too real for that assembly: Years ago, a great number of people had almost drowned themselves in a Shadowlands swamp, pulled in by similar feelings. As for the fictional tale he had ...

His work done, Ayumu quietly cleaned up his workstation, returning his tools to their bag, throwing away the scraps of cloth that were too small to be of any use and storing for later the others.

Then, he walked around to get a better look at the other creations.

Ayumu wasn't really so much competing in that contest that he was competing against himself. He hadn't forgotten about Kinsen's request for a wedding dress, and had practiced a bit in that regard. But was at a point where he wouldn't get much progress by simply dabbling. He had to either focus and w...