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powersthatbe) wrote2016-03-13 09:52 pm
powersthatbe) wrote2016-03-13 09:52 pm
Code of Dishonor Plot Infiltrator Information.
Plot spoilers below; read at your own risk.
Week 3: any news / plans/ conflicts / events to report?
Week 3: any news / plans/ conflicts / events to report?
Not particularly? If Ritsuki's netted herself a Mystery Tattoo, or if anyone else who has makes their way to her to ask, Chiyo's going to boggle about that. Otherwise, she might be traveling this week along with three-quarters of the Sun Guard - I haven't decided yet.
She had a run-in with Tim (infiltrating as an Akyryu) but he let her go. She possibly planted the seed of doubt in his mind about the elder before she did.
She had an interaction with Judgement (I think) (tho she thinks it was a dragon).
She's currently up north at the monastery but is considering trying to get the ear of one of the Masters and telling them what she knows and pleading for peace on behalf of Koroshima.
She had an interaction with Judgement (I think) (tho she thinks it was a dragon).
She's currently up north at the monastery but is considering trying to get the ear of one of the Masters and telling them what she knows and pleading for peace on behalf of Koroshima.
She's been acting strangely due to stress and her spiritual abilities (spooking at Hajime's haunting, abandoning patrol to follow Raidou into the woods). Melissa is confronting her over this strange behavior but the thread isn't far enough along to have a conclusion about the consequences yet. The Hajime and Raidou threads are also still in progress.
She also made contact with a dragon and one of the foreign spirits! That thread isn't quite concluded yet but it's far enough along that I can say that her overall attitude is of deep suspicion of the foreign spirit and worry that her careless questions may have caused the dragon to be harmed somehow. :(
Plan-wise, Matthew's player, some other Sun Guard players, and I have been hashing out ways for her relationship to Matthew to be revealed. I think the current plan is for Matthew to send spirits to spy on Suzuki, and for one of them to be one of the spirits to recognize her. This should happen during the next mingle. (I think Matt should be looped in on that Plurk as well!)
She also made contact with a dragon and one of the foreign spirits! That thread isn't quite concluded yet but it's far enough along that I can say that her overall attitude is of deep suspicion of the foreign spirit and worry that her careless questions may have caused the dragon to be harmed somehow. :(
Plan-wise, Matthew's player, some other Sun Guard players, and I have been hashing out ways for her relationship to Matthew to be revealed. I think the current plan is for Matthew to send spirits to spy on Suzuki, and for one of them to be one of the spirits to recognize her. This should happen during the next mingle. (I think Matt should be looped in on that Plurk as well!)
RIGHT SO! In the last mingle, Masshuu handed control of the Sun Guard's warriors to Ridou - although since we figure that the Masters insist on having a Master in charge, Masshuu's still technically in charge. It's just that they are now telling everyone that everything Ridou does is on Masshuu's orders, even though it's not.
From the beginning of the next mingle then, he'll be gone from the monastery - he'll have left basically for two reasons: to hit up as many shrines as he can, conferring with the dragons and trying to find any that have been visited by the barbarian dragons, and setting spirit spies all over the place. He'll be focusing mainly on Koroshima there (and especially the Akuryu), but he'll also set some along the border with Nakamiyo.
At some point during all of this he'll also find some of the spirits he'd set to haunt Hajime, now inexplicably not haunting him any longer. I'm not sure how much those ghosts would be able to tell him of Hajime's marking, though.
Anyhow, he'll be out doing this for the whole mingle, and won't be getting back until right at the end.
From the beginning of the next mingle then, he'll be gone from the monastery - he'll have left basically for two reasons: to hit up as many shrines as he can, conferring with the dragons and trying to find any that have been visited by the barbarian dragons, and setting spirit spies all over the place. He'll be focusing mainly on Koroshima there (and especially the Akuryu), but he'll also set some along the border with Nakamiyo.
At some point during all of this he'll also find some of the spirits he'd set to haunt Hajime, now inexplicably not haunting him any longer. I'm not sure how much those ghosts would be able to tell him of Hajime's marking, though.
Anyhow, he'll be out doing this for the whole mingle, and won't be getting back until right at the end.
The Gyakusatsu is pretty much going to hell in a hellbasket at this point. At the war meeting Ren discovered how dodgy they all were and got kicked out if the family, while Izanami discovered that Mari was alive and has been brainwashed by Shinjuu. Also Hajime will be having the Asshole Granddad who is the head of the family assassinated between mingles here. So basically this family is going to be completely destabilized at this point.
At the start of the next mingle, Izanami's going to go to a shrine, pray to the dragons for the power to destroy the Shinjuu and save Mari from them, and then immediately die after being attacked by Mari and the Sentais in succession. After which Istas will then remain in Nakamiyo and pretend to be her own ghost so that she can kill all the Shinjuu. And possibly then take Mari with her on an epic journey of carnage. (Obviously this is the best plan ever, yup)
At the start of the next mingle, Izanami's going to go to a shrine, pray to the dragons for the power to destroy the Shinjuu and save Mari from them, and then immediately die after being attacked by Mari and the Sentais in succession. After which Istas will then remain in Nakamiyo and pretend to be her own ghost so that she can kill all the Shinjuu. And possibly then take Mari with her on an epic journey of carnage. (Obviously this is the best plan ever, yup)
WELP. Mari would have reported this happening to Shinju and her sisters, so she'll be sent at the beginning of the third week to murder her mother on behalf of her mistresses... while Izanami is praying at the dragon shrine near the Gyakusatsu compound. Only she's gonna end up weenie-ing out at the very last second (because the stuff that happened in the thing I linked has been getting to her) and only wound her in a very bloody fashion.
(However, the Sentai siblings are going to finish Izanami off.)
Anyway, as a result of this, nearer to the end of the third week, Istas is going to bust into the Shinjuu compound as a giant wolf bear, kill all three of Mari's mistresses, and try to make off with Mari.
(However, the Sentai siblings are going to finish Izanami off.)
Anyway, as a result of this, nearer to the end of the third week, Istas is going to bust into the Shinjuu compound as a giant wolf bear, kill all three of Mari's mistresses, and try to make off with Mari.
Reporting in for Airdra here, since she's not able to herself atm - but she says that Hajime will be having Ren and Izanami's Asshole Granddad and head of the Gyakusatsu family assassinated, and also arrange to kidnap Masshuu's NPC apprentices, Jeishen and Anakin, who are also Jeina's brothers. I know that'll be happening while Masshuu is away from the monastery, and I think while Ridou is away too, though you might need to check in with Gail on that.
As far as I know, just the stuff Bii mentioned above. She may come up with other plans as a result of the war meeting, if we ever get to threading that out, but I don't know for sure what they'd be or whether or not she'll have time to execute them before wolfbear happens, so don't worry about it now.
Ridou is now kinda-sorta in charge of the Sun Warriors, and he spent a good chunk of last mingle-week talking to people and trying to get the monastery a little more defensible from ninja types (stickying up the door, more lights EVERYWHERE, summoners/elementalists on guard with spirits/elementals, that sort of thing). This week's mingle he's going to trek out to find a few of the other leader-types and discuss a truce, if not a full-on partnership (and look for people to make weapons for, because he usually is).
Are there any particular people he WOULD feel a draw to craft for, if/when he meets them, or should I go with how I feel based on threads? :3
Are there any particular people he WOULD feel a draw to craft for, if/when he meets them, or should I go with how I feel based on threads? :3
Asshole Grandad's not dying until after word gets back to Hajime that Ren's being ousted from the clan because he wants to destabilize things, but yep, that's all I got.
Izanami might be dying...before or after that, then, depending on how long that does actually take. If he's dead at the start of the next mingle, she'll die after.
Ren accidentally stumbled into the half of the war meeting no one told him about because they were discussing a lot of really dishonorable tactics. Ren tried confronting Asshole Grandpa who's the current head of the clan, and in the process he found out his father had his mother murdered, he himself had accidentally caused his father's death in an accident during training, and got disowned and kicked out by the family. The only things that got him through that were the remaining Sentai clan taking him in and his fiancee Mikasa following him into exile from both his and her families.
Around the beginning of the next mingle, Hibine will tell Ren about the Sentais killing Izanami to avenge Bai. Despite this he'll remain allied with them, even requesting they be his bodyguards as he begins traveling again - as devastated as he is to lose his sister, what she did was horrible and the Sentais' honor demand she die. He's just thankful being disowned means he's under no obligation to continue the cycle of revenge.
Soon after that he'll begin traveling across Nakamiyo in an attempt to still be the champion he was groomed to be, but this time as a figurehead for the people to rally around in rebellion against the Shogun. He'll be trying to spin his being disowned to his advantage - claiming he believes in this enough to go against his family and give up everything to see it through. He's going to try and get the Mibugumi to join him in turning against the shogun. No idea how this part of the plan will turn out yet but if it goes well he'll head to the other provinces in later mingles in an attempt to unite the provinces against the shogun.
Around the beginning of the next mingle, Hibine will tell Ren about the Sentais killing Izanami to avenge Bai. Despite this he'll remain allied with them, even requesting they be his bodyguards as he begins traveling again - as devastated as he is to lose his sister, what she did was horrible and the Sentais' honor demand she die. He's just thankful being disowned means he's under no obligation to continue the cycle of revenge.
Soon after that he'll begin traveling across Nakamiyo in an attempt to still be the champion he was groomed to be, but this time as a figurehead for the people to rally around in rebellion against the Shogun. He'll be trying to spin his being disowned to his advantage - claiming he believes in this enough to go against his family and give up everything to see it through. He's going to try and get the Mibugumi to join him in turning against the shogun. No idea how this part of the plan will turn out yet but if it goes well he'll head to the other provinces in later mingles in an attempt to unite the provinces against the shogun.
Just adding to this - since Masshuu's going to be finding some of the now dispersed spirits that were haunting Hajime, and they'll tell him that the dispersing happened at a shrine, he's going to think this means the trumpdragons are backing Hajime and the Akuryu. He'll also mention this to the the dragons.
No direct conflicts, but if anyone suspicious looking has tried to get near the village Mifeng has proooobably shot at them from her post. She is highly considering moving against the Sun Guard, especially with the Akuryu, and is in contact with the Mibugami to talk about some kind of alliance.
Want Tatsutomo to do the assassinating, and should that be threaded or handwaved offscreen?
Entirely your call based on threadfeels! (I know Souji would like one)
Souji needs to interact with him more to get on his radar if he wants one ;)
Hey, that would work out perfectly/be pretty cool if you want to play that out!
o7 since the guy is an NPC, I don't know if I'll have much of a chance in thread, but here's hoping!
Are there any established shrines around Suzuki? As opposed to roadside/ad hoc shrines.
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