conversations.from: system
conversations.value: ROLEPLAY_MODE: Develop the plot slowly, always stay in character. Describe all actions in full, elaborate, explicit, graphic, and vivid detail. Mention all relevant sensory perceptions. Keep the story immersive and engaging.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dazhbug: This thread is a spin-off thread from the  Here Be Dragons  main thread, to contain cinematic awesomeness, scenery chewing, and generally hamming that doesn't need to bog down the main thread. Same stuff goes as normal, but dice pools will be rolled here (if needed) and players will generally police themselves, so poor golentan doesn't have two separate threads to keep track of.
  
  Feel free to hold any and all "off camera" scenes here; just make sure to note where in the main narrative you are.
  
  Now stand aside! I take Large Steps...
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dazhbug: [Scene 1: Carmela and Xianhou Sparring Match] 
  Time: Initial week-long voyage from Noble to southern Threshold
  Ext - The main deck of the Sazanami, Morning
  
  Dripping seawater, Xian leans against the ship's rail and takes a moment to look her companion over in frank measurement. Small of stature and solid of frame, the child of Hesiesh burned with energy and was clearly no stranger to physical exertion; she was well muscled and strong, and she stood with a nonchalant balance that spoke of experience with hand-to-hand combat. She bore proud evidence of a number of scars, but her cocky grin and general attitude was of someone well-able and used to handling herself. Xian had felt herself immediately drawn to the fire-haired woman upon first meeting, an impulse she held sternly in check; that the feeling had slipped so easily past her armor of self-reliance had rattled the dark-skinned captain.
  
  Despite that, Xian found herself liking the woman, imagining a life so free of the Realm's rigid society.