A Champion and his Guard OCC Thread

[Khamul]

A couple notes on the Venomous Shrine and Khamul's small part in all this:

First, there are no maho-users or tainted individuals at the Venomous Shrine; Khamul views the taint as a weakness, and would not tolerate it among the ranks of his followers. Likewise, he sees maho as a crutch that only the weak need to rely on.

As Shoju pointed out, Khamul is in posession of an artifact from Isawa Chuda. He has used the shrine to draw followers that he had intended to throw away as a distraction in order to get close enough to challenge Kaneka (whom he believes to be the only living opponent worthy to test his skills against) but realised that he would need something to prove legitimacy, and so approached Shoju. He comes across as focussed and clear headed, but make no mistake, Khamul is quite insane (in fact I am considering making him a protage of Kokujin.)

Unfortunately, my real life schedule went haywire, and I didn't have time to follow through with my original plan (which included having one of the monks approach both the Phoenix and Ox and lead them back to the shrine in order to curry favor for the shrine while Khamul was at Toshi Ranbo.) Now I will likely retcon Khamul's little bits at Toshi Ranbo and have him stay at the shrine with the arrival of the two clans. I had meant to post in this earlier, but simply didn't have the time to type out anything serious.

I never specified where the shrine was located except to say that it was near Shiro Chuda, though I always envisioned it being somewhere where you could easily see the ruins from it, if that helps at all (whether or not you could see it from the ruins however is another question all together...)

Regarding Asuka's Question 2, the storms were first mentioned in the Dragon response to my original "seeking recruits" post and then carried over to the Venomous Shrine thread, so they may or may not be related to the storms off the Phoenix coast. However, nothing unatural was really mentioned about them at the time, except to say that they seemed like a bad omen to the Dragon investigators.

Anyway, I'll try to become more involved so this all makes a little more sense from here on.

[Morito Asuka]

OK I might need help with a plausible character then, I'm trying to work out the wierdo stats and abilities of my FB character into something that works for RP. She's a morito Bushi, but she's sitting at raw 25 spellcraft right now because I wanted some items from specific missions. That's like halfway to being able to do white orchid at this point, nowhere near a spellcasting level of a dedicated shuggie, but still something.

I'm totally out of the loop on 4ed, the last time i played rp was Saphire throne (year 1500) in 2006-2009 when i had more time and money around, and that was 3ed i made it to Origins once with my Kakita trained Doji and I've never played the card game at all, and only dabbled in the d20 editions. 3ed was such a short run print when I was active that I never got a book before it was totally sold out so I don't have hard copies on hand of anything. Anyway. Just trying to make sense of my character and the rp together

[Suzume Satoru]

If I may comment, re: Asuka: Trying to reconcile the FB stats to 4th ed P&P RP stats is simply best not done. Your example of spellcraft and being a bushi is the best example- you have spellcraft because many actions in the game dictate that you need it. But for the sake of the RP connected to the game (ie, the rp done here), its best to handwave that and just act, like a normal by the book bushi, that you don't actually speak to the kami(cast spells). Its seems the best route is to simple imagine what your character is capable of, what is reasonable, and what is expected, and not worry about the Facebook stats.

[Morito Asuka]

alright I'll play it that way.