Outtakes
Out of Character Outtakes
Story Outtakes
Out of Character Outtakes
New Characters
Sophie Lagace wrote:> 1) As you can see from the list of addressees, we're getting new
> recruits. Right now; it looks like we'll get, over the next
few days, a
> monk/Old (drunken) Master, a Transformed Ki-Rin, a Mirumoto Magic
Cop, a
> Karate Cop of yet uncertain clan, and possibly a Ghost. If
everybody
> settles in well, I may split the group in two so that combats don't
take
> too long. We saw how it could get with only six players.
Hey, can the ghost be Kaneka-sama? That would make the investigation much easier! Or would it?
Rik: "Who killed you?"
Ghost-of-Kaneka-sama: "The yellow chrisanthemums
lose their color
in the light of the hand lantern."
Rik: "Ummmmmm.... huh?"
-- Ed/Rik
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Cursed Dice
I'm writing my posts for the game tonight, and I roll for the Ishi's Perception (on the rock ledge, end of Chapter 8). Really, I don't intend to give him much; the party is on amountain path, they have reached a bridge which has been cut, and Ishi climbed to a lookout spot. He found a mook and put him down. Unbeknownst to the PCs, Bad Guys (TM) have set the forest on fire behind them, but time-wise it should be a little early for them to notice it. So I think, I'll tell Ishi a flock of ravens just suddenly took off to the west, give a little foreshadowing.
I use the same two dice I've used for months. I roll (+6, +6, +6, +6, +6, +3, -5). For every one of those sixes after the second one, I make damn sure I'm shaking and rolling the die, and dropping it from a good height so it will bounce on the table (by the end I was dropping them onto the floor.) AND Ishi's got two levels of Hair-Trigger Neck Hairs, and a good vantage point that I had said gives him a +3...
Down on the path, Hiro wants to make a Perception check too (they're checking independently, separate posts and can't see each other) and I roll (+6, +6, +4, -4) and he too has the HTNH schtick! Finally, Kentou gets a normal roll, (+2, -2), I feel better.
In another part of the forest, Tanto (end of Chapter 6) decides to use his Intimidation skill to gain an advantage on his next attack against a mysterious samurai. I roll... (+1, -6, -6, -3). Actually, I rolled one more -6: the first one made me go "Oh no!", then I dropped the die for the reroll, got a second six, decided I hadn't dropped it from high enough, ignored it, rolled again, got another six...
Then Shinji, to help Tanto, makes an attack on the mysterious samurai with a Killing Frost spell. I roll boxcars, followed by (+1, -5). Instant Backlash. Five rolls, four flirting with the edges of the curve. What a night!
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Story Outtakes
Rik and the Movement Rules
Finally having managed to close with the hooded ninja-like skulking assassin, Rik chitters in triumph as he leaps towards his foe, swinging his iron pipe in wide arcs over his head. At that moment everything begins to go horribly, horribly wrong.Try as he might, the valiant nezumi cannot seem to close the distance with his foe. Despite any number of cartwheels, kips, pawstands, and flips, he neither gains nor loses any ground! Lack of success only seems to drive him into greater and greater exertions, until he becomes a veritable blur of gray fur and pink tail. Alas, all his attempts are for naught, and eventually even his frenetic efforts wind down as he at last comes to a halt, gasping for breath and scowling as a horrible realization dawns upon him. Somehow or other he has temporarily fallen out of "Musashi" and landed squarely in "Vertigo"!
Carefully, Rik takes a few seconds to scratch a large "X" in the dirt with his tail. Standing on it, he leaps forward. On landing he looks down and notes that he is still on the "X". He leaps backwards. Still on the X. He leaps left. He leaps right. STILL on the X. He looks up towards his attacker and shrugs. The hooded ninja-like skulking assassin grins and raises his bow slightly.
"Curse the godless Kami bastards who set things up like this," Rik wails,
shaking a fist at the heavens. "Robin Deraws-san, I will get you
for this!" With that he picks up a rock and hucks it in the general
direction of the hooded ninja-like skulking assassin channeling all his
aggression into the throw and using his ratty tail as a counterbalance.
-- Ed/Rik
Rodent's Revenge
HEY! Someone is just asking to have their scrolls gnawed on some dark night!-- Ed/Rik
Tea Time
Awwww... you mean no bad-tempered cooks or saucy kitchen wenches to waylay him? I now have this image of Toshino leaping around with teabags in his hands, yelling at black-clad ninja bad guys, "Quake with fear and loathing, for now I wield the awesome power of the Celestial Seasonings of Herbal Righteousness!" Um, okay... sorry about that.-- Darrin/Toshino
That's it - you get nothing to drink but Sleepytime tea from now on...
-- Sophie/GM
Bet You Can Hear This
Nezumi have very keen hearing. Be careful who you bet on! ^_^-- Ed/Rik
Kung-Fu Fighting
Hopefully you are familiar with the original Carl Douglas song "Kung Fu Fighting" lyrics. [If not, they're found here and the MP3 is here.]- Rik and Tazeko were kung-fu fighting
(HOOO!)
That rat was fast as lightning
(HA!)
For a gambler it was very exciting
(HOOO!)
cuz the master had expert timing
(HA!)
There was little Hero Rik, and Takezo the drunk
Well the first one was a rat and the other one a monk
When Takezo he whacked a guard, the others really took it hard
But Rik he called out "dibs" and poked the Master in the ribs!
Then the two of them were kung-fu fighting
(HOOO!)
That rat was fast as lightning
(HA!)
For a gambler it was very exciting
(HOOO!)
cuz the master had expert timing
(HA!)
Toon Time?
You know, now would be the perfect time to plant a big, ratty kiss on Tazeko's lips, à la Bugs Bunny, but as the GM points out, this WAS a 1 sequence combat.-- Ed/Rik
Merry Men
Am having flashes of The Hooded Man, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet et al appearing but am repressing the thought... :)-- Andrew/Tanto
You know I now have to have a group of bandits which will include Komadori
no Zukin, Chiisai Jon, Shimaikomu-gobou, Ishi no Senkou... And you'll
have only yourself to blame.
-- Sophie/GM
Who Won?
No way on that! I had him three to one! Granted, it was two annoying distractions and a rib tickle, but even so.... ^_^-- Ed/Rik
That argument would carry a whole lot more weight, if ole Cheese Eater
wasn't caught like....... um.... well.... a rat in a trap at the end of
the fight. 8-)
-- Mark/Tokkan
Cunning Rodent
But in reality, Rik was just trying to use a sufficient amount of Deception to fool at least the gamblers - with a sufficient roll perhaps he'd even make Tazeko wonder if he really had him held or if Rik just "let Takezo catch him". Appearance is everything. The point was to put on a performance convincing enough to make people believe Rik wasn't really held. Rik isn't so crass as to actually deny he was held (that would be lying!) - simply sowing doubt in people's minds is sufficient (in particular he wanted to sow doubt in the minds of the two gamblers!)So we rolled for everyone's Deception or Perception, whichever was higher, and Tokkan, Kentou, Hiro, and Toshino bought it. Takezo was not fooled, but what could he say? The most amazing was Ishi, leaning way over the railing of the garden, with a roll of (+6, +6, +5, -4) for a total of 20. Ishi definitely saw right through this rodent deception. I asked him: "Ya gonna tell on your old buddy Rik the HERO?"
But Ragnar/Ishi answered: "You mean ratting on the ratling? Nah, what's to gain but a fursome enemy? Much better to keep silent and let them sort it out for themselves :]"
Oops...
OOC: Hey, didn't you do just what you shouldn't do in slasher movies? Walk off into the deepest, most secluded part of the woods with the undead guy?-- Sophie/GM
OOC: Yes, and it's getting dark. Do nothing spooky except at about
10 am on a sunny day... Good news is that Tanto doesn't know that
Shinji is dead people. :(
-- Andrew/Tanto
Bump!
Poor Mark/Shinji forgot his Limitation #2: "Tree bark, whether still on the trees or used in making an object, such as rain coat, basket, hat, etc. Leaves and undergrowth are no problem." It was so funny, we had to leave the scene in, so I guess it's not really an outtake. He did MEAN to walk through that darn tree though!
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