Topic: Mythic Nippon Adventure VI (Read 183288 times)

killa_robot · « **Reply #450 on:** April 04, 2015, 09:56:29 pm »

"If the Ki-Rin can take us, we should hurry", Yuki says.

"Is there any advice you can give us, Ancestors?"

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #451 on:** April 05, 2015, 01:08:46 pm »

"We can do nothing more fore you," the Ancestors answer Udo, "The power of Masaki-Dai-Oni's corruption of you is beyond out ability to overcome. It is all up to you now."

To Yuki they add, "Take great care to accomplish all that you would do, before ending the life of Yunikawa - as in the very moment you do, you will create a paradox that will cause you to fade away, out of that new timeline forever."

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #452 on:** April 06, 2015, 10:08:43 am »

Beyond Time

The Samurai of Sendai leave the Ancestral Palace in the night sky, under the comforting corona of U-Mani the Moon, and fly on their Ki-Rin mounts not down toward the Realm of Man, but upward toward to blazing fiery inferno that is A-Buji the Sun.

Pressed on by Udo’s urging and with an unstoppable dragon god not far behind, the Ki-Rin shoot like comets through the great void between the two gods – never tiring – galloping on a road of shimmering sparks that fly from their hooves with every fervent step.

The journey seems timeless, dragging on hour after hour, and then day after day – until the Samurai are weary from the ride – only their two Wu-Jen companions, Yuki and Sakura, having been able to sustain them with magically conjured water and food.

At length, almost the entirety of what lies before them is filled with blazing white fire, when the Ki-rin finally pull to a stop. Behind is an empty expanse of darkness – U-Mani the Moon still visible as a small pale orb, standing watch over the Earth so very very far away …

Then, scanning the vista before them, the Samurai spot an almost invisible mote of darkness – floating just below the lower horizon of A-Buji’s all-consuming fire – held there by spiraling coils of flame emanating from the sun god itself.

It is a tiny world of some kind – but black against the night sky – seeming to absorb all the light and energy that A-Buji is feeding into it.

The Ki-Rin nicker and prance is a nervous manner, as if gathering courage in themselves, then rear back, whinny, and charge toward the dark planetoid.

Getting closer, the Samurai see that the darkness comes not from the surface of the tiny world – only measuring about one hundred and fifty miles in diameter – but from black swirling mists that enshroud it.

In a matter of moments, the Ki-Rin plunge into the dark mists – the light of the Ki-Rin’s fiery bodies struggling to penetrate the all absorbing darkness.

The Samurai can see only about twenty feet ahead of themselves with the Ki-Rin radiating a brightly as they can.

Then something large and shadowy slithers past – just beyond the light – followed by another and another.

As the Samurai move downward through the darkness, it feels like they are in an ocean surrounded by a pack of sharks – circling just beyond the edges of the light …

Not Aman · « **Reply #453 on:** April 06, 2015, 01:47:35 pm »

Roka looks around.
"Did anyone else just see that?" He asks.

killa_robot · « **Reply #454 on:** April 06, 2015, 02:35:13 pm »

Fearing the darkness, Yuki will use light manipulation to make the area around them light up normally.

Tanstaafl · « **Reply #455 on:** April 06, 2015, 04:15:56 pm »

Udo activates his danger sense, warily watching out for anything out of place.

"We must be careful, guys, somethings moving from beyond the light."

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #456 on:** April 06, 2015, 05:34:43 pm »

Yuki creates light, pushing it out like a bubble against the darkness - it literally causes the darkness too boil away like lifting fog out to one hundred feet - where huge long dragons of smoke and soot are momentarily seared and blistered by the light and slip away into the darkness with terrible howling roars ...

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #457 on:** April 06, 2015, 05:36:30 pm »

"It would appear that they cannot enter the light," Sakura points out.

Not Aman · « **Reply #458 on:** April 06, 2015, 05:37:58 pm »

"Damn, I guess Akira wasnt exgerating..." Roka mutters.

"Though if they cant enter light, we'll be safe on our way to the Bisan. There's no meed to worry." Roka states.

killa_robot · « **Reply #459 on:** April 06, 2015, 06:00:18 pm »

Yuki watches the dragons leave the light and concludes that this must be the darkness that Akira mentioned when Roka entered the Earth realm. Not bothering to repeat what Roka and Sakura have already stated, Yuki quietly waits until the exit the darkness.

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #460 on:** April 07, 2015, 06:28:11 am »

With the smoldering dragons of darkness unable to penetrate Yuki's barrier of magical light, the Ki-Rin push through the black mists and break free over a vast mountain range that opens to view.

Behind is the wall of darkness, curving off in either direction as far as one can see. Ahead are nothing but forested mountains and the light of day - yet there is no sun - just a general ambient light from an indistinct source.

The Ki-Rin slow and begin to circle, waiting for the Samurai to direct them further ...

Not Aman · « **Reply #461 on:** April 07, 2015, 08:21:08 am »

"Towards the sacred glen!" Roka orders, pointing past the mountains.

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #462 on:** April 07, 2015, 09:40:44 am »

It takes thirty minutes for the Ki-Rin to fly over the mountains, where the Samurai then see a central savanna (or Glen as the Bisan call it). Indeed, it’s a grassy plateau with a large central lake surrounded by trees.

when the Ki-Rin gallop down out of the sky and into the Glen, next to the lake, the surrounding trees erupt with hundreds of giant wasps (each about the size of a person) that fly into the air to surround everyone with loud angry buzzing …

Not Aman · « **Reply #463 on:** April 07, 2015, 09:58:36 am »

"That's a lot of wasps." Roka mutters, before quickly raising his hands into the air.

"Captain of the guards, Jar Thok! Where are you?" Roka quickly asks. "I have returned to the Glen, please disperse your guards!" Roka asks, trying to look for the wasp that looks like that guy

Tanstaafl · « **Reply #464 on:** April 07, 2015, 01:43:14 pm »

Not understanding what's going on, Udo begins grunting in the Wasp language, "We're not here to hurt you all! The fate of the world is at stake, so please let us through."

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #465 on:** April 07, 2015, 02:26:04 pm »

"Oh, I think it's a Forest Ward," buzzes a giant wasp to another.

"Yes, you are right," answers one back.

"OMG! Is that Roka of Sendai?!? It is it is!!!" a third buzzes excitedly.

Then the wasps pull back and a few of them land near the Ki-Rin - to morph into a regal collection of human-looking spirits. The Elders of The Sacred Glen.

A young girl, maybe thirteen years old, rushes over to Roka and hugs his leg as he sits on his Ki-Rin. It is Li Li, the girl he met while stranded here the first time.

A large well-muscled young man also steps forward. Jor Thok, Captain of the Bisan Guard.

"You have returned," a woman in her thirties spoke to to Roka. This was the Matriarch of the Glen.

Not Aman · « **Reply #466 on:** April 07, 2015, 02:35:42 pm »

"Li Li! It's good to see you." Roka says with a smile, glad his true body is hidden by an illusion. It'd be pretty bad otherwise.

"And yes, honorable Glen Mother, I've returned. The heart led me back to my home, thankfully. It has been an eventful week."

killa_robot · « **Reply #467 on:** April 07, 2015, 02:41:08 pm »

Yuki keeps silent, rather nervous since she can still see the other sacrifants for what they really are at the moment.

And those damn voices in her head...

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #468 on:** April 07, 2015, 02:41:31 pm »

"Week?" the Glen Mother replies. "You have been away from here for more than seven hundred years."

"But no matter, you and your company are welcome here and do honor us with your presence - as do the Noble Ki-Rin."

Here, the Ki-Rin all bow their heads to the Glen Mother and she takes a moment to bow back (as do the rest of the Glen Elders).

cool74 · « **Reply #469 on:** April 07, 2015, 02:57:50 pm »

Rai says, "Yes nice to meet you and all that but we need to move quickly if you don't want the twisted fire herald burning this lovely place to the ground."

Not Aman · « **Reply #470 on:** April 07, 2015, 03:19:52 pm »

"700 years?" Roka asks, mouth agap, "But.... wow. I'm sorry for being gone so long, Li Li. I was planning to come and visit earlier..." He says.

Roka looks at Rai, shocked. Does he want the place to go into a frenzied panic?! He then sighs, and tries to regain his composure.

"My ally here is, unfortinately, right, however. My companions and I must move to the Heartstone. Is the guardian still operating?"

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #471 on:** April 07, 2015, 05:04:19 pm »

"It's OK Roka!" Li Li says with a smile, "You look remarkably well for seven hundred years. The other humans aged so much faster."

Then looking at Udo, Li Li points out - "Oh, you are a Kuwabara . I had a Kuwabara once. He was a nice Kuwabara. So, you're a Forest Ward huh? That's pretty neat I guess."

The Glen mother meanwhile, answers Roka's other question - "Yes, the Guardian is still there."

"Still no match for you 'Great One!'" Jor Thok says, pounding his chest and saluting Roka. A bunch of the other Bisan, still in wasp form and flying in the air not to far off, all seem to buzz excitedly at Jor Thok's mention of the 'Great One'.

"It's him!"; "The only one to ever defeat the Guardian!"; "The Great One!"; Udo hears the Bisan buzzing to one another.

Not Aman · « **Reply #472 on:** April 07, 2015, 05:23:26 pm »

"Of course I do, Li Li." Roka replies with a chuckle.

"And yeah, someone tell Udo that Li Li's the one who took care of Akira. He probably owes her a thank you." Roka then adds, off handedly as the Bisan begin buzzing.

"Quite right, Jar Thok. The blood demon is nothing." Roka says confidently.

"Now we must get going. World Saving buisness, I'm afraid."

Tanstaafl · « **Reply #473 on:** April 07, 2015, 05:25:17 pm »

"That's what Roka mentioned... That Akira died." Udo states with a frown. He shakes his head, "Little girl, knew him well, then? Did he die honorably?"

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #474 on:** April 07, 2015, 05:37:11 pm »

Li Li looks at Udo, then at Roka, then at Udo and tilts her head.

"I think so," She says.

"He died when he saw Roka. But he died happy."

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #475 on:** April 08, 2015, 07:18:49 am »

"Of course," the Glen Mother answers Roka and points down the shore of the lake to a large outcropping of rocks.

There a strange prismatic fall of water can be seen.

Moving closer, everyone gets a good look at the strange phenomenon.

The fall came out over a naturally sheer rock face – falling about seventy feet and filling the lake with a thunderous roar of water.

What was odd about the fall (and immediately noticeable) was that the water flowing out radiated a scintillating rainbow of colors that streaked and swirled around it – leaking into the mist and spray, here and there, like brightly pigmented clouds of magical ink.

Another thing somewhat jarring about the fall, was that the water occasionally stopped and started midair – even reversing itself a few moments every now and then, before snapping back to what gravity would normally demand.

Yuki and Sakura immediately recognized this as some sort of time distortion - the fall wasn't actually reversing - time itself was.

Not Aman · « **Reply #476 on:** April 08, 2015, 09:34:04 am »

"Thank you, Glen Mother." Roka states, getting off his Kirin and bowing to the glen mother, as he then prepares to jump down into the water and swim into the cavern.

"The insides are worse then the outside." Roka warns. "And the blood oni like, erupts in deadly poison when it's killed, so I'd stay out until I kill it, alright?"

Tanstaafl · « **Reply #477 on:** April 08, 2015, 10:01:12 am »

"What's up with that fountain?" Udo asks, motioning to it from stop his horse. "And what guardian are you all talking about?"

cool74 · « **Reply #478 on:** April 08, 2015, 10:24:14 am »

Rai shakes his head and looks at the portal. "Until roka comes out we gotta be diligent in watching that distortion."

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #479 on:** April 08, 2015, 10:28:40 am »

"What a beautiful place," Lady Shirihata says, taking in the lake and Glen.

Not Aman · « **Reply #480 on:** April 08, 2015, 01:11:28 pm »

Roka nods, and jumps into the lake and swims through the fall.

killa_robot · « **Reply #481 on:** April 08, 2015, 05:20:38 pm »

"We should wait here."

Yuki states, sitting by edge of the falls.

cool74 · « **Reply #482 on:** April 08, 2015, 06:12:14 pm »

"Yuki Catch" Rai says throwing some purge root to her. "Eat it if you get hit with posion. We should all probably help." Tossing another piece to each of his team mates.

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #483 on:** April 09, 2015, 04:56:22 pm »

Once again, Roka dives under the pounding deluge – to access the wide hollow behind the curtain of magical water.

On the other side, he pulls himself up into the mouth the strange crystalline chamber.

The area looks exactly as he left it - still about forty feet wide, thirty feet high, and going back about sixty feet. As before, the walls prickle with huge iridescent crystals of some kind – the points of which seep floating beads of mercurial silver into the air that snake their way through the cave in tenuous rivulets; and down into the massive, eighty thousand pound boulder-sized diamond hovering in the center.

The diamond still glows with tremendous magical energy and like before, Roka can see reflections of All Creation in the mirrored surfaces of the mercury trails as they flow into the multi-facets of the gargantuan gem. Roka has to burn a Surge Point to tear his attention away from the images, before they suck him into doen into insanity.

Not surprisingly - the Guardian - a vast pool of slick and cloying blood the consistency of pudding, still pools under the huge diamond too.

When Roka enters, it initially surges forward like floodwaters - but then rears back - pausing a moment, before sloshing back into its pool under the Heart of Creation where it then does nothing more ...

Not Aman · « **Reply #484 on:** April 09, 2015, 05:05:54 pm »

Roka looks confused.
"What the hell?" He mutters to himself, before shrugging. It must be fearing the one who demolished it last time.

"Guys, I think the oni is afraid of me, ha ha!" He then shouts to the group, before moving closer, creating his ki spikes.

If it still doesnt attack, he'll send two flying true striking death touches.

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #485 on:** April 09, 2015, 05:20:18 pm »

Roka easily dispatches it again - and this time, it doesn't even make a retributive strike for some reason.

As before, it slowly begins to regenerate, the blood dripping from beneath the huge diamond into the pool - but Roka has plenty of time.

Unfortunately, no one can hear him shout through the thundering falls.

Not Aman · « **Reply #486 on:** April 09, 2015, 05:24:12 pm »

Roka shrugs, and jumps back into the lake, towards the group.
"Come on, guys. The blood oni's dead again. Didnt even explode into giant heaps of poison this time." He says, still in the lake.

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #487 on:** April 09, 2015, 05:31:11 pm »

Yuki, knowing how her magic works, seamlessly covers Roka's emerging form with the Illusion.

killa_robot · « **Reply #488 on:** April 09, 2015, 06:22:30 pm »

"Odd..."

Yuki states, entering the waterfall.

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #489 on:** April 09, 2015, 08:39:24 pm »

In the chamber beyond, Yuki sees the reflections of All Creation in the mercury trails as they flow into the multi-facets of the gargantuan gem. Her magically enhanced wisdom allows her to at least comprehend the basics of what she is seeing (after a successful Will Save).

Here is literally all time and space, every event that has or will happen.

Yuki spots something familiar - a reflection of herself when she was a small child. Following it forward she lives her own life out in her mind - from then to now - to nothing ... Her existence seems to vanish from the lines if she uses epic magic and then enters the Heart of Creation with the rest of her companions.

Curious, Yuki then traces her line back to when she first saw Yunikawa. There she jumps to his line and follows if forward. It goes through everything he did, including using the bones of fallen heroes, not only to desecrate the Naga Shrine, but also to cast an epic spell of some kind in the fiery heart of Mount Fuji, in order to awaken the corrupted Elemental Fire Herald Infernimus. Yuki notes that Yunikawa used the power of the shrine to do be remade, when his successful casting and the superheated environment killed him.

Continuing on Yunikawa's line, Yuki reaches a point at the Naga Shrine, where after feeling the death and rebirth of Kaitaro, Yunikawa teleported with Infernimus to the Shrine and had the great dragon crush it with one thunderous slam of its tail.

Then after waiting for the Samurai to come to him, he sensed the holy rays of the Celestial Palace burning the demon inside him and had the Dragon kill him too - in a gambit to stop the Samurai. His last order to Infernimus was to hunt down and kill the remaining Sacrifants one by one.

Then, going back the other way, Yuki peruses Yunikawa's young life, learning that he was born over five hundred years ago in the Sendai Orphanage . . .

killa_robot · « **Reply #490 on:** April 09, 2015, 08:49:34 pm »

Curious, Yuki looks along Yunikawa's line to find out how he managed to hide from the Naga when they first came for him (500ish years ago), and what caused him to fanatically try to bring the demon god back to life.

cool74 · « **Reply #491 on:** April 10, 2015, 12:29:25 am »

Rai steps inside the falls as well.

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #492 on:** April 10, 2015, 07:57:24 am »

Everyone, including Lady Shirahata, go into the chamber behind the falls (otherwise, Yuki's Illusion fails and the Sacrifants begin killing each other).

All spend a Surge Point to avoid madness as their minds are overwhelmed with too much information ...

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #493 on:** April 10, 2015, 07:59:19 am »

"Wow," Sakura marvels, "It's like being omniscient, except that the human mind can't handle it!"

cool74 · « **Reply #494 on:** April 10, 2015, 10:36:29 am »

Rai nods, "Except Yuki seems to be able to."

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #495 on:** April 10, 2015, 10:50:08 am »

"Yes, that is very impressive," Sakura agrees.

BerkaZerka · « **Reply #496 on:** April 10, 2015, 10:50:47 am »

"This place is so bizarre," Lady Shirahata comments, "Yuki? You know how it works?"

killa_robot · « **Reply #497 on:** April 10, 2015, 12:41:12 pm »

"It's... everything", Yuki replies.

She'll then (after finishing her look into Yunikawa's past), will try and figure out what other materials she'll need to travel back in time.

Not Aman · « **Reply #498 on:** April 11, 2015, 08:04:40 pm »

Roka nods.
"Yeah, it's a weird place." Roka says with a nod.

He then sighs.
"I said that I would be fine with this whole plan of ours, but... this whole thing is... We're gonna be erasing our whole lives, everything we've ever done is gonna be erased forever. It's a difficult task that we've been given." Roka states.

Tanstaafl · « **Reply #499 on:** April 11, 2015, 08:13:19 pm »

Udo scratches at his head, "So the plan is to simply kill Yunikawa when he was younger? That's like, centuries ago. Before the Chinese were able to overtake Nippon... You think we'd also be able to prevent that?"

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