General Poll: Number of Thunders

How Many Thunders?

Poll ended at Tue Jul 06, 2021 10:23 pm

7 Thunders: It's like the 7 samurai! No other reason than that and aligning with the canon number.
2
6%
9 Thunders: One per Clan. This is the default.
12
36%
10 Thunders: One per Kami. Includes the Imperials.
6
18%
11 Thunders: One per Kami, plus Nezumi.
10
30%
Another number: Suggestions welcome in the comments.
3
9%
 
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Re: General Poll: Number of Thunders

Post by Doji Tsubaki » Mon Jul 05, 2021 6:49 pm

Yeah about the only thing from canon I really hold to is my belief in no Ratling Thunder. Which is not to say no Nezumi involved in the final conflict, there certainly will be, but this isn't their date with destiny - they already had that. They're support staff (and vital ones at that) but this is humanity's time to face the darkness.
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Re: General Poll: Number of Thunders

Post by Hisomu Kuni » Mon Jul 05, 2021 7:16 pm

That always felt weird to me. Humans got a specific e email to defeat. Nezumi got a meteor (basically) at about the same time. Like how were they supposed to fight that.

I could see an argument for a Nezumi Thunder either way. They get one because they they weren't a destroyed race and have the same claim on the Realm as the humans do. Or they don't get one because they passed it by closing the pit.
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Re: General Poll: Number of Thunders

Post by Kakita » Mon Jul 05, 2021 7:35 pm

Lots of possibilities for Nezumi participation in the jigoku fight without being a thunder.

2nd day of thunder had a big battle going on while the strike team took on Fufu. All sorts of options for Rats.

Whatever it ends up being, I’m sure it’ll be enjoyable!
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Re: General Poll: Number of Thunders

Post by Jiyo Sora » Mon Jul 05, 2021 8:28 pm

Doji Dojihime wrote:
Mon Jul 05, 2021 4:18 pm
Maybe I am morbid, but samurai drama to me usually means death all over.

Or at least the kind I find fun.
While it looks like there won't be an Imp thunder (which I'm down with- who was Hantei's Thunder in canon? Shinsei), if there were and Sora got the nod? I would go in PLANNING for him to die.

It's not just samurai drama that needs it- it's also a way to hammer home the gravity of the task.

So put me in the "as few survivors as possible" camp there.
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Re: General Poll: Number of Thunders

Post by Canary » Mon Jul 05, 2021 10:26 pm

Oh yeah. Don't bring characters you want to survive to the DoT.

1) 80% will likely be killed in the best case scenario.
2) One of the things with an adaptive setting is that success is never guaranteed.
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Re: General Poll: Number of Thunders

Post by Hisomu Susumu » Mon Jul 05, 2021 11:09 pm

Ahh. So Thunders are likely to die?

I guess it's fitting that I know so little of what actually happened in canon, I can't meta it!
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Re: General Poll: Number of Thunders

Post by Togashi Satsuki » Mon Jul 05, 2021 11:14 pm

Be prepared to die, hope to survive. :D
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Re: General Poll: Number of Thunders

Post by Kakita » Mon Jul 05, 2021 11:17 pm

Be prepared to survive, hope to die.
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Re: General Poll: Number of Thunders

Post by Doji Tsubaki » Mon Jul 05, 2021 11:44 pm

Kill 'em all, and then yourself, and let Emma-O sort it out.
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Re: General Poll: Number of Thunders

Post by Kuu » Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:42 am

Hmm... With Jigoku trying to invade using different spirit realms... What if it was one Thunder per spirit realm?

Then Nezumi could be included by training and supporting a human Dream Thunder.
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Re: General Poll: Number of Thunders

Post by Hisomu Kuni » Tue Jul 06, 2021 1:50 am

Gonna be awkward for the Jigoku Thunder.
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Re: General Poll: Number of Thunders

Post by Otomo Gusai » Tue Jul 06, 2021 2:52 am

Hisomu Kuni wrote:
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Gonna be awkward for the Jigoku Thunder.
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Re: General Poll: Number of Thunders

Post by Kuu » Tue Jul 06, 2021 5:08 am

The Thunder of Jigoku would be chosen by Jigoku to be one of it's minions and not chosen by the empire maybe?
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Re: General Poll: Number of Thunders

Post by Jiyo Sora » Tue Jul 06, 2021 5:17 am

Dibs on Thunder of Gaki-Do!
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Re: General Poll: Number of Thunders

Post by Bayushi Sasori » Tue Jul 06, 2021 1:27 pm

Seems we are getting one Thunder per clan.
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