Glory of the Emerald Empire (Legend of the 5 Rings Quest)
- Thread starter Winged Knight
- Start date
- Fantasy
Cannongerbil
I came here to nep at you
- Location
- Soviet Lunar Base
Imagine we are fighting this guy:
That's pretty much how screwed we are right now.
Alternatively see my first reaction pic.
@Woahdan
Oni are the first true and blessed citizens of Jigokou (hell) utterly suffused by the sheer malice and hate of the evil realm they are the monster that feeds on courage, the abomination that kills hope, the demons the shatter all faith. They have lived since time immemorial waging war on themselves and the world without ceasing. They cannot truly be killed in their realm but by the same token they are bound to that realm and can only go forth into the realm of humans if they are of truly terrifying power, power such that broke the Hida and nearly the Empire once.
Or they are summoned by Maho-Tsukai, and others like them, summoned and given proper bindings and tribute to a task, but they always seek to escape, most often through taking a human's name for their own, stalking and hunting that human until they consume the human utterly or the human kills them.
In either case they are twisted corruption that would see all before it broken and shattered into a mocking agonized impersonation of the world as it is in Jigokou
Oni are the first true and blessed citizens of Jigokou (hell) utterly suffused by the sheer malice and hate of the evil realm they are the monster that feeds on courage, the abomination that kills hope, the demons the shatter all faith. They have lived since time immemorial waging war on themselves and the world without ceasing. They cannot truly be killed in their realm but by the same token they are bound to that realm and can only go forth into the realm of humans if they are of truly terrifying power, power such that broke the Hida and nearly the Empire once.
Or they are summoned by Maho-Tsukai, and others like them, summoned and given proper bindings and tribute to a task, but they always seek to escape, most often through taking a human's name for their own, stalking and hunting that human until they consume the human utterly or the human kills them.
In either case they are twisted corruption that would see all before it broken and shattered into a mocking agonized impersonation of the world as it is in Jigokou
- Location
- Austrlia
In other words, it's gotta die. I still want to finish of the Blood Speaker first, if we can.
The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
- Location
- Wherever I am, which isn't where I'm not
Stop! It's Hammertime.
[x] Take out our finger of jade, use our tetsubo to drive it as deeply into the Oni as possible.
[x] Take out our finger of jade, use our tetsubo to drive it as deeply into the Oni as possible.
Winged Knight
Still just a crazy man with a wolf on his head
- Location
- Texas
Kohsa is actually still alive, if very badly wounded. The myriad benefits of having a high Earth Ring. The man feels like his stomach has turned into soup, which is more or less accurate, but he's still hanging in there.
And this Oni is not nearly as awful as the terrifying Sentei no Oni. This is a beast of my own design, actually. Several orders of magnitude less threatening than that creation of Shokansuru, but still mind numbingly dangerous by any measurement.
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Cannongerbil
I came here to nep at you
- Location
- Soviet Lunar Base
To everyone voting for the "Shove jade into it" option, you guys do realize that the Oni spreads taint simply by being present, and the only thing stopping us from getting tainted is that one finger of Jade that we have on us, right?
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[x] Slam it's face in with a tetsubo
No... I didn't know that...
[X] full defense, as we don't know it's powers
Winged Knight
Still just a crazy man with a wolf on his head
- Location
- Texas
Well, that and Sosuke's relatively high Earth Ring. The Jade certainly helps a great deal, though.
Dirtnap
Kanmusu Affecionado
+10 to resist taint rolls, yes a great deal indeed.
Ridiculously Average Guy
I'm you, but stronger
- Location
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EtchedSteel
*mumble mumble*
- Location
- Lima. Peru
Hi guys, how are you all doing-
HOLY
FUCKING
SHIT
Nope, this has to die. Like NOW.
[x] Slam it's face in with a tetsubo
I honestly would recomend regrouping and consider our options while it reveals what's capable of do. But... brash disadvantage.
On the other hand, the ogre now has a nice target for his newly made katana.
Winged Knight said:
HOLY
FUCKING
SHIT
Nope, this has to die. Like NOW.
[x] Slam it's face in with a tetsubo
I honestly would recomend regrouping and consider our options while it reveals what's capable of do. But... brash disadvantage.
On the other hand, the ogre now has a nice target for his newly made katana.
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Winged Knight
Still just a crazy man with a wolf on his head
- Location
- Texas
[x] Slam it's face in with a tetsubo
Will Roll to resist Fear: 3d10+6= 13. Failure
Attack Roll: 4k3=29
Fear hits you like a physical force as the Oni skitters toward you, its pointed legs clacking across the floor in quick taps. This is a monster above any other, a creature spawned from the physical substance of Jigoku itself. Evil made manifest, given shape and form to torment the innocent and break the valorous. Nothing stands higher amongst the banes of your Clan.
Your limbs feel heavy… Your mind… clouded. How can you hope to stand against something like this? How could anyone hope to defeat something so awful? This is an Oni. It is the monster that feeds on courage, the abomination that kills hope and the demon that shatters all faith.
It is death itself, and it is coming for you.
Those six, childish faces that compose the Oni's front smile at your shocked stupefaction as the creature rears up to loom before you. It is so large… How can it be so large? How can anything right and proper be this huge? But the answer is obvious. Nothing can, for this monstrosity is an affront against all that is natural and clean. Its very existence defies all sanity, destroys the comforting illusions of a rational world.
Move you fool! you scream within the depths of your terror-addled mind as the deadly sharp limbs of the Oni come for you. Fight! Fight, Heavens damn you! You're going to die!
With a wrench of your battered will you force yourself to move. You swing your tetsubo, trying desperately to force this awful thing away. Your weapon moves with unseemly haste, driven more from fear than determination or rage. But despite all your speed and desperation, the Oni's sinuous body twists out of the way just inches before your tetsubo would strike clean.
"Naughty boy," the Oni says in its six-tone voice, all its heads speaking at once. It strikes at you almost lazily, and you stumble away just in time to dodge a terribly sharp limb.
The follow up attack, however, hits you dead in the chest. You gasp as you are taken off your feet, flying back into the stone table where the boy Danzu rests. The power of that strike, the strength behind it, is such that you actually break off a few chips. A groan of pain slips past your lips, your composure slipping in the face of the utter horror of your situation
You barely keep a grip on your weapon, can only just manage to stop yourself from clutching yourself in pain. You can feel the bruises forming already on your chest and back, and know deep in your bones that it is only the grace of your mother's gift that kept that attack from being so much worse. You put a hand on the table and attempt to stand, your legs shaking as your enemy begins to skitter toward you.
A zombie flies through the air toward the Oni, but the monster dodges the corpse easily and turns toward its attacker. The Ogre, Muharanok, charges toward the spawn of Jigoku with sword in hand. The ground almost seems to shudder beneath the Ogre's weight, and with a roar of defiance Muharanok swings his sword. The power behind his blow is such that you can feel a breeze even from where you desperately try to regain your footing.
But it is to no avail. The Oni twists around Muharanok's attack as easily as it did your own, and continues to motion to wrap around the Ogre. Its sinuous body twists and constricts, closing tight. Its spiked limbs dig deep, drawing rivulets of blood as the Oni turned its many faces toward the Ogre.
"Oh, isn't this just wonderful!" the Oni says as it wraps ever-tighter around Muharanok. "The dumb beast finally has a chance to fight back against one of its masters! What fun!"
"I do not serve you!" Muharanok bellows. "I am free!"
"But are you really, little pet?" the Oni asks. "Your people saved the world once, defeated Jigoku's great champion Rakshasa back when everything was so much younger. So proud you all were! So fierce!" The smiles on the faces grow wider. "And now your kind is nothing but our slaves! How does it feel, beast, to be released of us only to better know your failures?"
"Silence!" Muharanok roars, his muscles bulging as he attempts to get loose. "The Mikata will be free of your ilk! We'll kill all of you wretched filth and send you screaming back into your pit!"
"So angry," the Oni says mirthfully. "Such an ill-tempered pet." Its claws dig in deeper, drawing rivulets of blood as Muharanok screams in agony. "We'll have to fix that."
[] Write in.
Sosuke has suffered 18 Wounds. He is in the Grazed Bracket and has 58 Wounds remaining. He will suffer +3 to all TNs until he has healed.
I will allow the use of an Honor Roll to shake off the effects of the Oni's Aura of Fear, should you decide to take it. Also note that you have two Void Points still because you've not spent any today, so you can choose to negate 10 damage should you desire.
Will Roll to resist Fear: 3d10+6= 13. Failure
Attack Roll: 4k3=29
Fear hits you like a physical force as the Oni skitters toward you, its pointed legs clacking across the floor in quick taps. This is a monster above any other, a creature spawned from the physical substance of Jigoku itself. Evil made manifest, given shape and form to torment the innocent and break the valorous. Nothing stands higher amongst the banes of your Clan.
Your limbs feel heavy… Your mind… clouded. How can you hope to stand against something like this? How could anyone hope to defeat something so awful? This is an Oni. It is the monster that feeds on courage, the abomination that kills hope and the demon that shatters all faith.
It is death itself, and it is coming for you.
Those six, childish faces that compose the Oni's front smile at your shocked stupefaction as the creature rears up to loom before you. It is so large… How can it be so large? How can anything right and proper be this huge? But the answer is obvious. Nothing can, for this monstrosity is an affront against all that is natural and clean. Its very existence defies all sanity, destroys the comforting illusions of a rational world.
Move you fool! you scream within the depths of your terror-addled mind as the deadly sharp limbs of the Oni come for you. Fight! Fight, Heavens damn you! You're going to die!
With a wrench of your battered will you force yourself to move. You swing your tetsubo, trying desperately to force this awful thing away. Your weapon moves with unseemly haste, driven more from fear than determination or rage. But despite all your speed and desperation, the Oni's sinuous body twists out of the way just inches before your tetsubo would strike clean.
"Naughty boy," the Oni says in its six-tone voice, all its heads speaking at once. It strikes at you almost lazily, and you stumble away just in time to dodge a terribly sharp limb.
The follow up attack, however, hits you dead in the chest. You gasp as you are taken off your feet, flying back into the stone table where the boy Danzu rests. The power of that strike, the strength behind it, is such that you actually break off a few chips. A groan of pain slips past your lips, your composure slipping in the face of the utter horror of your situation
You barely keep a grip on your weapon, can only just manage to stop yourself from clutching yourself in pain. You can feel the bruises forming already on your chest and back, and know deep in your bones that it is only the grace of your mother's gift that kept that attack from being so much worse. You put a hand on the table and attempt to stand, your legs shaking as your enemy begins to skitter toward you.
A zombie flies through the air toward the Oni, but the monster dodges the corpse easily and turns toward its attacker. The Ogre, Muharanok, charges toward the spawn of Jigoku with sword in hand. The ground almost seems to shudder beneath the Ogre's weight, and with a roar of defiance Muharanok swings his sword. The power behind his blow is such that you can feel a breeze even from where you desperately try to regain your footing.
But it is to no avail. The Oni twists around Muharanok's attack as easily as it did your own, and continues to motion to wrap around the Ogre. Its sinuous body twists and constricts, closing tight. Its spiked limbs dig deep, drawing rivulets of blood as the Oni turned its many faces toward the Ogre.
"Oh, isn't this just wonderful!" the Oni says as it wraps ever-tighter around Muharanok. "The dumb beast finally has a chance to fight back against one of its masters! What fun!"
"I do not serve you!" Muharanok bellows. "I am free!"
"But are you really, little pet?" the Oni asks. "Your people saved the world once, defeated Jigoku's great champion Rakshasa back when everything was so much younger. So proud you all were! So fierce!" The smiles on the faces grow wider. "And now your kind is nothing but our slaves! How does it feel, beast, to be released of us only to better know your failures?"
"Silence!" Muharanok roars, his muscles bulging as he attempts to get loose. "The Mikata will be free of your ilk! We'll kill all of you wretched filth and send you screaming back into your pit!"
"So angry," the Oni says mirthfully. "Such an ill-tempered pet." Its claws dig in deeper, drawing rivulets of blood as Muharanok screams in agony. "We'll have to fix that."
[] Write in.
Sosuke has suffered 18 Wounds. He is in the Grazed Bracket and has 58 Wounds remaining. He will suffer +3 to all TNs until he has healed.
I will allow the use of an Honor Roll to shake off the effects of the Oni's Aura of Fear, should you decide to take it. Also note that you have two Void Points still because you've not spent any today, so you can choose to negate 10 damage should you desire.
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Ridiculously Average Guy
I'm you, but stronger
- Location
-
[X] Honor Roll to resist Fear.
[X] Dammit, you will not fail here. As long as there is something to protect The Wall stands!
-[X] Spend Void point.
[X] "Keep the Oni in place, Ogre, lest it escape!"
--[X] Charge the Oni, pulp it's body with your Tetsubo.
[X] Dammit, you will not fail here. As long as there is something to protect The Wall stands!
-[X] Spend Void point.
[X] "Keep the Oni in place, Ogre, lest it escape!"
--[X] Charge the Oni, pulp it's body with your Tetsubo.
Cannongerbil
I came here to nep at you
- Location
- Soviet Lunar Base
[X] Honor Roll to resist Fear.
[X] Dammit, you will not fail here. As long as there is something to protect The Wall stands!
-[X] Spend Void point.
[X] "Keep the Oni in place, Ogre, lest it escape!"
--[X] Charge the Oni, pulp it's body with your Tetsubo.
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Well that worked out terribly. This thing has a good Armor rating if a 29 didn't meet it.
And RAG beat me too it
Oh well
[X] Honor Roll to resist Fear.
[X] Dammit, you will not fail here. As long as there is something to protect The Wall stands!
-[X] Spend Void point.
[X] "Keep the Oni in place, Ogre, lest it escape!"
--[X] Charge the Oni, pulp it's body with your Tetsubo.
And RAG beat me too it
Oh well
[X] Honor Roll to resist Fear.
[X] Dammit, you will not fail here. As long as there is something to protect The Wall stands!
-[X] Spend Void point.
[X] "Keep the Oni in place, Ogre, lest it escape!"
--[X] Charge the Oni, pulp it's body with your Tetsubo.
Dirtnap
Kanmusu Affecionado
[X] Honor Roll to resist Fear.
[X] Dammit, you will not fail here. As long as there is something to protect The Wall stands!
-[X] Spend Void point.
[X] "Keep the Oni in place, Ogre, lest it escape!"
--[X] Charge the Oni, pulp it's body with your Tetsubo.
It's got a TN of 30. We literally missed it by one. (Also Souske was rolling 4k3 because of the fear aura)
[X] Dammit, you will not fail here. As long as there is something to protect The Wall stands!
-[X] Spend Void point.
[X] "Keep the Oni in place, Ogre, lest it escape!"
--[X] Charge the Oni, pulp it's body with your Tetsubo.
It's got a TN of 30. We literally missed it by one. (Also Souske was rolling 4k3 because of the fear aura)
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Dirtnap
Kanmusu Affecionado
Oh yeah 30 is great. I'm just saying we barely missed the roll T_T
Quick the Fortune Arangee needs more sacrifices.
- Location
- Austrlia
[X] Honor Roll to resist Fear.
[X] Dammit, you will not fail here. As long as there is something to protect The Wall stands!
-[X] Spend Void point.
[X] "Keep the Oni in place, Ogre, lest it escape!"
--[X] Charge the Oni, pulp it's body with your Tetsubo.
Note, there is a small kid right behind us, allies near, and even the Ogre rages at the Oni. We know what side the Heavens are on.
[X] Dammit, you will not fail here. As long as there is something to protect The Wall stands!
-[X] Spend Void point.
[X] "Keep the Oni in place, Ogre, lest it escape!"
--[X] Charge the Oni, pulp it's body with your Tetsubo.
Note, there is a small kid right behind us, allies near, and even the Ogre rages at the Oni. We know what side the Heavens are on.
EtchedSteel
*mumble mumble*
- Location
- Lima. Peru
[X] Honor Roll to resist Fear.
[X] Dammit, you will not fail here. As long as there is something to protect The Wall stands!
-[X] Spend Void point.
[X] "Keep the Oni in place, Ogre, lest it escape!"
--[X] Charge the Oni, pulp it's body with your Tetsubo.
Wow this round was awful.
[X] Dammit, you will not fail here. As long as there is something to protect The Wall stands!
-[X] Spend Void point.
[X] "Keep the Oni in place, Ogre, lest it escape!"
--[X] Charge the Oni, pulp it's body with your Tetsubo.
Wow this round was awful.