[D2-EN] Dancing snow, hidden mantis [open]

Kanade · **Joined:** Tue Mar 31, 2020 10:32 pm **Posts:** 129

Kanade stood in her light summer yukata completely unburdened by the deep snow. Half closing her eyes and raising her arms about her she focused her mind. The wind began to whip up dancing the snow flakes around her in a flurry.

Child of the sea: Spending void, pming gm.

Mindshred · **Joined:** Sat Dec 07, 2019 7:24 am **Posts:** 1559

Further down the wall, a small group of hooded figures unfurls a rope and lowers it down the side of the city walls. One by one, they begin sliding down the rope to the darkened snow below.

Mindshred · **Joined:** Sat Dec 07, 2019 7:24 am **Posts:** 1559

Kanade wrote:

(Attempt to notice? Does clear thinker help or just investigation/preception.)

(Investigation (Notice)/Perception TN 20)

Kanade · **Joined:** Tue Mar 31, 2020 10:32 pm **Posts:** 129

Kanade noticed movement on the wall, and cursed to herself. Sneaking like that meant nothing good could be happening. She decided to hit one still climbing with the fury of her favorite fortune.

41 to notice
casting fury of osano-wo!

Kanade · **Joined:** Tue Mar 31, 2020 10:32 pm **Posts:** 129

Kanade aimed her bolt at of the uppermost intruders, hoping to knock some people off the wall.

18 Success

Kanade · **Joined:** Tue Mar 31, 2020 10:32 pm **Posts:** 129

Mindshred wrote:

(Go ahead and roll damage)

26! also all within 10' need to make a stamina roll vs tn15 to avoid being deafened for two rounds. Does the fall hurt them?

Mindshred · **Joined:** Sat Dec 07, 2019 7:24 am **Posts:** 1559

A single bolt of lightning arcs downward, striking one of the figures and lighting up the sky in bright white for a single instant. A split-second later, a deafening crack rings out from the vaporized air. The figure tumbles to the ground, landing with a sickening crunch among a group of surprised refugees, who immediately begin to scream and panic.

The other figures stagger backwards, grabbing at their ears, then throw themselves off the walls of the castle, trusting their odds of landing safely atop those below (or ideally, in a large drift of snow) over their odds of surviving a lightning strike.

One landed poorly on their leg and crumpled to the ground with a shout of pain, but the others spread out quickly from the impact site, limping as they tried to blend in with the panicking refugees beyond the castle's walls.

(Thread is open to anyone wanting to investigate random lightning strikes along the castle walls.)

Kanade · **Joined:** Tue Mar 31, 2020 10:32 pm **Posts:** 129

Kanade sighed slightly as the others escaped. Pulling out her wakizashi, she goes to finish the rather gruesome job. At about 10 feet away she will attempt to recognize the 'deserter.' Either way, so long as there is no resistance, she will fish them with a simple stab to the throat.

Mindshred · **Joined:** Sat Dec 07, 2019 7:24 am **Posts:** 1559

Kanade wrote:

Kanade sighed slightly as the others escaped. Pulling out her wakizashi, she goes to finish the rather gruesome job. At about 10 feet away she will attempt to recognize the 'deserter.' Either way, so long as there is no resistance, she will fish them with a simple stab to the throat.

Reaching the figure will require climbing down the wall, into the crowd of panicking refugees below.

Ikoma Sugimoto · **Joined:** Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:05 am **Posts:** 132

Sugimoto stomps onto the wall, an arrow drawn back on his yumi, his ears still ringing from the fearsome crack of lightning.
Were they under attack? Some trick of the pretender? He squints into the darkness, seeing a dark figure with blade drawn.

He takes a deep breath and then bellows into the darkness at the figure, his hair whipping around him as his voice rings out
"Hold and identify yourself! Guards, to the walls!"

Ikoma Toshiko · **Joined:** Sun Apr 05, 2020 5:09 pm **Posts:** 38

Toshiko was a light sleeper at the best of times. But she hadn't been sleeping this night, instead she was thinking about all the refugees on the other side of the gates while walking the wall when she saw the flash. And thunder in the middle of a snowstorm wasn't kosher. Not that she knew what kosher was but you get the idea.

Dressed in brown and orange she rushed down to the place where she had thought she had seen the thunder and started looking for someone, anyone, who looked mildly suspicious.

Her husband's voice was easy to recognize and she yelled out. "Sugimoto! What is going on?"

Kanade · **Joined:** Tue Mar 31, 2020 10:32 pm **Posts:** 129

"This one is Kanade of the Mantis, I was trying to improve upon the snowy conditions when I spotted people sneaking on the wall. I called on the kami for aid. One fell as they were hit outside but I think the rest escaped."
46 contested sincerity to be honest

Ikoma Sugimoto · **Joined:** Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:05 am **Posts:** 132

Ikoma Toshiko wrote:

Her husband's voice was easy to recognize and she yelled out. "Sugimoto! What is going on?"

Toshiko would make sense of this
"I don't know, but it could be infiltrators. Be on guard Toshiko."

Sugimoto regards Kanade for a few long moments as the Mantis attempts to explain
Dryly "I see."

Not releasing the pull on his bow he peers over the wall
"Remain here for now. We shall have to see if we can find the person you attempted to strike down with the kami."

Kanade · **Joined:** Tue Mar 31, 2020 10:32 pm **Posts:** 129

Kanade was more than happy to stay put, she slipped her wakizashi back into the scabbard and relaxed her stance lightly. The lion could handle it, this was their lands. I gave testimony and I will again as needed. I'm barely a shugenja, yet.

(Center stance, just in case this gets ugly)

Togashi Myo-en · **Joined:** Mon Apr 06, 2020 4:27 am **Posts:** 418

Myo-en is still among the refugees, finishing another brush shelter like the one Tsukimi had constructed earlier. She's warm enough from the work that she's rolled up her jacket sleeves, but her hands in their winter wraps are soaked, scratched, and beginning to stiffen, and she can hardly feel her toes; she knows she'll have to go in soon.

Then the lightning strikes, out of a sky that hadn't looked remotely thundery a moment ago.

As people around her begin to scream and panic, Myo-en thinks she might have seen someone falling near where the lightning struck. A very unlucky guard...?

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D2 EN--finishing another shelter, unskilled Craft: Woodworking/Int TN 15: 3d10 18
KI-RIN ~ D2 EN--finishing another shelter, unskilled Craft: Woodworking/Int TN 15: 3d10 22

I used a re-roll like a doofus because I misread the first roll as 8 instead of 18. Smort!

Either way, more shelter. Can I try to spot one of the climbers/fall-ers?

Mindshred · **Joined:** Sat Dec 07, 2019 7:24 am **Posts:** 1559

Togashi Myo-en wrote:

I used a re-roll like a doofus because I misread the first roll as 8 instead of 18. Smort!

Either way, more shelter. Can I try to spot one of the climbers/fall-ers?

Myo-en spots one of the figures that fell from the wall limping slowly away with a broken leg, leaning heavily against the wall and making very slow progress.

Ikoma Toshiko · **Joined:** Sun Apr 05, 2020 5:09 pm **Posts:** 38

"Infiltrators?" The Ikoma ran up to her husband finally rather out of breath. Considering the Mantis was not peppered with arrows by this point Toshiko assumed the woman had been vetted by her husband and was not an infiltrator.

"Where? Down there?" It didn't take a genius to guess why her husband was leaning over the wall. She joined him looking into the darkness.

"Would you lower me down husband? I don't think we are going to see much from up here."

Ikoma Sugimoto · **Joined:** Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:05 am **Posts:** 132

Ikoma Toshiko wrote:

"Infiltrators?" The Ikoma ran up to her husband finally rather out of breath. Considering the Mantis was not peppered with arrows by this point Toshiko assumed the woman had been vetted by her husband and was not an infiltrator.

"Where? Down there?" It didn't take a genius to guess why her husband was leaning over the wall. She joined him looking into the darkness.

"Would you lower me down husband? I don't think we are going to see much from up here."

Sugimoto shoots the Mantis sideye before looking back at Toshiko, a small signal before he nods.
((If there is a way to lower Toshiko down safely, Sugimoto would do so))
"Be careful. If they draw steel....."
She knew what to do

He calls out into the darkness again
"If servants of the empire are beyond the walls. RESTRAIN THE FUGIVITVE"

Togashi Myo-en · **Joined:** Mon Apr 06, 2020 4:27 am **Posts:** 418

Brows drawing together, Myo-en weaves fluidly through the crowd of agitated refugees toward the injured person.

She approaches, but hesitates once she's a couple of paces away--she remembers when Sister Hiyari survived a close-by lightning strike back when Myo-en was still a novice, the older monk had been disoriented, tender-eared, and half-blinded for a while.

"Hello? Do you need help?" She reaches out an open hand.

Togashi Mai · **Joined:** Sun Apr 05, 2020 4:22 am **Posts:** 417

Though she'd invited herself to the venture, Mai wasn't one to leave something when it was half done and so she'd stayed with Myo-en until even now. When she knew it would affect her none she simply kept to Myo-ens side while others may have seen themselves home.

While Myo-en took the center stage Mai remained close as she could to the other woman, keeping those nearest her calm with some well spoken words if need be. They were, after all, only here to help.

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