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 Post subject: Far away boy (Day 8 Early Afternoon)
PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 11:56 am 
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After the events of earlier in the day Yasuhiro set to wandering. His grandmother was eerily silent, and he couldn't help that think it had a good deal to do with the creature that apparently inhabited part of his soul. which was a uncomfortable feeling in it's own right. Repressing the urge to shiver, he wandered the cliffs. More wishing to be away from everything then anything.

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 Post subject: Re: Far away noy (Day 8 Early Afternoon)
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He found himself away from the cliffs, into the heather moors. His feet led him along narrow natural dikes...

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...and suddenly, there were troops all around, half-naked half-armoured, in strange riding vehicles. Dark-skinned warriors amid a rain of arrows, grunting:

"CHEPHREN! CHEPHREN!"

Thousands of them, tens of thousands, as far as the mist reached.



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 Post subject: Re: Far away boy (Day 8 Early Afternoon)
PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 9:14 pm 
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Yasu didnt know what was happening, but he wasn't going to just stand still. These gaijin lands were more then a little strange after all.

Drawing his sword he took up a stance, ready to defend himself should any of the strange soldiers attempt to assault him.



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 Post subject: Re: Far away boy (Day 8 Early Afternoon)
PostPosted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 3:23 am 
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They and their arrows passed through as if they were incorporeal, or as if he was incorporeal. As the impossibility of the situation stopped revolting against his senses and sense of danger subsided, he noticed the man who was likely to be leading this grand army, maybe the one they were raising the battle cries for, in a golden chariot.

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 Post subject: Re: Far away boy (Day 8 Early Afternoon)
PostPosted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 5:35 am 
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The man's features marked him as a gaijin, and not a particularly attractive one at that. Still with no other idea of what to do in this situation he approached albeit carefully, studying the man carefully as we approached. He had no idea why this war was being fought, or even the language being spoken. Though something told him it had something to do with the events earlier that day. The creature that resided inside him.



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 Post subject: Re: Far away boy (Day 8 Early Afternoon)
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And then, he noticed where the ugly man was looking at. If the strange gaijin army was large, the one stretching across the horizon was humongous. Maybe hundreds of thousands of warriors, preparing battle formations. Those closest within his sight were the cavalrymen, riding horses twice the size of ponies he knew from Rokugan. They were fully armoured and carried bows and long pikes. Above them, there waved purple standards the crest on which he already could recognise.

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That of the so-called Unicorn.

Even discounting for Lion military hubris, in a duel of sheer force the horde could likely obliterate any force the Lion Clan alone could assemble.

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Their leader stood out in the most obvious of ways. His horse was the largest, and he was the largest, as large as the biggest Crab warrior Yasuhiro had ever seen. His gilded armour was blazing in full sun. It was hard to tell over the distance, but his features felt disturbingly Rokugani. And when he began shouting orders, he drew two swords from the sheaths by his hips, two katanas, rising them high. He called in a language Yasuhiro did not understand, but at least two hundred thousand throats replied with a battle cry that completely deafened him and threw him on his knees.

"KUBLAI! SHINJO!"



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 Post subject: Re: Far away boy (Day 8 Early Afternoon)
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He couldn't recognize the first word, but he knew well the second. These barbarians before him were no Ki'rin though, as much as they might resemble Rokugani. The Ki'rin as he recalled were explorers, these men were conquerors. the size of the horses, the size of the men,these wee a people bred for war.

Regaining his feet he shook his head to try and clear the ringing. He'd know it in his first meeting with the man named Khenbish, one simply didn't send a solider somewhere to wait. Maybe not at the moment but soon ,the Unicorn would move to take this island. Those thoughts were for later though. he didn't know if this was a vision of the present or the past,but either way he needed to learn more. To see how these two sides fought, it might be needed in the future.



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 Post subject: Re: Far away boy (Day 8 Early Afternoon)
PostPosted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:34 am 
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What followed was harassment. Despite their size, the horses were extremely well-trained for sharp manoeuvres. They skirted the flatland between the hills and the marshy river valley where the ugly man's troops stood as they pleased, whirling like storms and parting like seas before the bow of the ship, only to close again. They received arrows but were paying their due back, with quick deadly volleys from horseback without truly stopping. The opposing army was becoming disorganised as they didn't know where the flanks and the centre was anymore. But the ugly general tried to keep them in line, riding his chariot along their lines, apparently realising that the large man's horsemen would not ride into wetlands. Still, they vagaries were obscuring how the whole force under the Unicorn banner was closing in...

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 Post subject: Re: Far away boy (Day 8 Early Afternoon)
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It became quickly apparent to the Lion, that whoever this gaijin general in the funny hat was he was going to lose. Unless there was some great miracle about to happen, which he at least doubted. The cavalry had played their part and brilliantly, the general in his efforts to keep his solider in line, had lost track of the bigger picture.

The battle was thus as good as over, once the bulk of the Unicorn forces hit it would likely become a slaughter. These were well formed tactics, though perhaps old... The Unicorn he had met seemed like they preferred more modern weapons. "I wonder what it takes to keep such large horses feed," He mused, trying to calculate various ways to defeat such a foe.



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 Post subject: Re: Far away boy (Day 8 Early Afternoon)
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Speaking of miracles, the ugly man in the funny hat was able to keep high morale. Many arrows were hitting him, and he should have been dead 10 times over, and yet he just broke them off and tossed away as if they were doing him no harm.

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Not that his personal invulnerability made a difference for the battle as a whole. Yasuhiro predicted it right; what he had not guessed was the way by which the Unicorn victory would be delivered. The answer to his wonderings was... just behind the riders. at some point they fell away to the flanks, reforming there, revealing what they had been obscuring - rows upon rows of men armed in muskets, marching as one. Between their columns monstrous iron tubes were rolled on wheels, resembling those Yasuhiro had been taught about in the college, though for ships - cannons. They couldn't be more diverse - in facial features, skin and hair colour, the extent of facial hair. It looked like they had been formed from men from all across the gaijin world.

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And among them there rode another figure of command now lauded by the marching Mamluk in what sounded like a dedicated song, an anthem. They sang in Mekhem, and the phrase that was vocalised and stressed was:

"At-Tarkhanstan Al-Maut Akbar!"

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The bald man in black just waved his hand. What came later was nothing short of terrifying. The cannons rained Jigoku on the half-naked army, tearing tens of bodies with each explosion and throwing body parts at great distances. Combined with archery fire from the flanks, it provided the cover for the Mamluk to approach. They were drilled to impossible level, marching as one man. Then, when they started shooting it was in rows of three, one firing, one readying, on reloading, without flaw. The thunderous noise of unstopping fire of thousands of muskets shattered the opposing army and it began to flee into the large, green-watered river beyond, perhaps larger than the River of Gold, with the other bank just looming blurrily. The bullets heeded no armour, and even the invulnerable commander was thrown from his chariot with chunks of his flesh now no longer with him. Still, he rose and tried to make the retreat orderly - there were boats among the sweet flags. But when the hellfire stopped, the cavalry struck from both flanks, slowly joined by the Mamluks themselves, attacking with bayoneted muskets or long pikes. The extent of slaughter was unimaginable. Green tinge of water started to turn into crimson red and spread like a mishap of a divine painter.



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 Post subject: Re: Far away boy (Day 8 Early Afternoon)
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The Matsu watched it all, though not even he could resist a,shiver going down his spine. This wasn't an army they could beat. Not as the moment at least, and it was disgusting. There was no need for individual bravery here, the men had been trained to a point they lacked all individuality. Well, all except the horsemen, who didn't meet the enemy with blade until they were already broken.

It was brutally efficient though, and he could believe it that these men faced few loses. Yasu continued to watch though, to gain what insight he could. The three ranks of men with muskets were a revolutionary idea, and made up for much of the downsides to the weapon. The lack of real training required to wield them, also likely would leave more time to practice those precise movements.

There were weaknesses of course, though the cavalry made up for many of those. Still if they could be eliminated separately.... Possibilities were whirling around in his head of ways to wraken this force, but as always he would need to know more. He had been studying the Merenaese to a degree, it seemed it had been the wrong culture though. He would need to adjust.



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 Post subject: Re: Far away boy (Day 8 Early Afternoon)
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Before he could finish contemplation, Yasuhiro was drawn to the point of battlefield where the onslaught was happening. The general of the army that has practically lost was heavily wounded but still fought. He was charged on by... Yasu? Certainly this is how his perspective now travelled, just next to the arm of a Unicorn magician, whose hand was gleaming with blue glow Yasuhiro found familiar...

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...but as it was released against the enemy general, it just washed over him. Now Yasuhiro saw it, and while amid the gore it was hard to be moved, this disturbed him deeply. Skin and muscle from the man's chest was torn away, and his ribcage was visible. Inside that chest... there was no heart, just a swirling maelstrom of dark energies inside. That blackness shot like tendrils toward the Unicorn and engulfed him. The rider screamed, but the thing was inevitably consuming him, breaking him down to the bone. What followed, however, was a split to that man, as his carcass limped. The familiar jinn - you - jinn - you? tubally howled as the chains of darkness pulled him into a bronze lamp...



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 Post subject: Re: Far away boy (Day 8 Early Afternoon)
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He had thought the general odd, the wounds he had taken were not ones that any mortal man could withstand. He didn't expect to see that though. A heartless creature with a well of darkness in the center if their chest.

There was more here then he at first suspected, if these visions were to be believed at least. He still couldn't see the Unicorn as anything but conquerors, but perhaps the others had no saving graces either. Knowing that whatever dark creature the general was seemingly entrapped the Jinn seemed important as well.

His lips forming a frown, he continued to watch. Trying to figure out everything he could from the bloody slaughter in front of him.



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 Post subject: Re: Far away boy (Day 8 Early Afternoon)
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Alas, the vision was at its end; Yasuhiro perspective was that of the jinn, once in detachable oneness with the Unicorn magician, now becoming entrapped in the immortal general's lamp. Before it all disappeared, vision and sound, downstream he caught a skyline of a large city looming on the horizon, very large, with tall minarets and sprawling domes, surrounded by high walls, greater in size and scope than Otosan Uchi...



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 Post subject: Re: Far away boy (Day 8 Early Afternoon)
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It was frustrating, the vision ending as it it did. This was but a fraction of the things he needed to know, wanted to know. He balled his hands into fists, resisting the urge to curse. "What do I do now grandmother." He murmured, mostly to himself. He didn't really expect a answer though. The hours of silence he had experienced thus far hinted at that.

Was this Jinn a curse? Or perhaps the reason his grandmother had pointed him on this path? It was impossible to know if she wouldn't answer. Still with the vision gone, and the fog lifting from his eyes there was littlehe could do.

Perhaps it was time to study, to find out what he could about this battle? Apparently it held some importance, in the past, in the future, it was hard to tell.



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The misty heatherfield moor was a stark contrast to the alluvial wetlands of the grand river crossing the desert he had just witnessed. But how many such places could exist in the world he had not known about before coming to this island? Surely there couldn't be that many.



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 Post subject: Re: Far away boy (Day 8 Early Afternoon)
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Certainly not many. At the very least it gave him a place to start, perhaps he could find information about this river somewhere. The Unicorn district would likely be the best starting point, though he might avoid it at first. Perhaps one of the Merenese could teach him something? There was that girl he promised archery lessons to at the very least.



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 Post subject: Re: Far away boy (Day 8 Early Afternoon)
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He might need to return here sometimes, for some reason or another. So yasuhiro decided to attempt to hunt any dangerous animals that might be in the area. His attempts proved fruitless though,and after a small amount of time he returned to the city.

Tension rolls: Escalating by colonizing. 4 raises for effect one for annonimity kyujutsu/reflexes tn 40: 10d10o10k4 30

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