Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)
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				Title: <strong>Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Zeth</strong> on <strong>04-03-2015, 07:05:02</strong>
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				&nbsp;Hello, this is the OOC thread for are game. Feel free to&nbsp; post any questions you wish here.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muse</strong> on <strong>04-03-2015, 09:59:34</strong>
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				<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/e/e0/%5EC2BA2CE1757D0521DF4743B6C5BFABDF7290C078594ABB883D%5Epimgpsh_fullsize_distr.jpg)</div><br><strong>Name:</strong> Jianyu<br><strong>Motivation:</strong> Governor Shan has stolen his work and used it to abuse the innocent.&nbsp; This cannot be allowed to continue.&nbsp; 5<br><strong>Action!:</strong> Electric knight! 4<br><strong>Profession:</strong> Gewu Scholar 3<br><strong>Weakness:</strong> Leacherous 1<br><br>Background: A Gewu Scholar and mandarin, Jianyu is the son of an Imperial bureaucrat from Hong Kong, working innovations in steam tech and electricity while practicing kung fu and tai chi chaun for health and enlightenment.&nbsp; <br><br>After seducing and fathering a bastard upon a higher ranking man's beautiful daughter, Jianyu was sent to the new world to "continue his studies into electricity free from the distractions of big city life."&nbsp; <br><br>Governer Shan got word of Jianyu's advanced work in electricity--both as a power source and as a weapon.&nbsp; When Jianyu proved unwilling to share that work, Shan planted an Irish woman--a beautiful redhead named Min McGavody--into his employ.&nbsp; Min subtly flirted with Jianyu and slowly yielded to his inevitable advances.&nbsp; She won his trust as well as his lust.&nbsp; Jianyu shared most of his innovations with her, including the location of his notes.&nbsp; One night, after bringing him drugged wine, Min exhausted Jianyu with a night of vigorous lovemaking and--while he slept for the better part of a night and a day--stole his designs and prototypes, then fled to the Rockies to teach Governer Shan what she'd learned and take her place among his minions as a Tao Hacker now called Mistress Thunder.&nbsp; <br><br>Upon discovering what had happened, Jian gathered what hadn't been ransacked from his workshop and constructed himself an armor and a variety of electronic weapons before embarking upon a quest to defeat Governer Shan and recover his notes before Governer Shan can create the Storm Hammer, a super weapon capable of leveling entire cities Jianyu had designated while studying how to harness naturally occurring electricity to power electronic systems.&nbsp; 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muse</strong> on <strong>04-03-2015, 14:55:05</strong>
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				Oh, how exciting!&nbsp; Should we already know each other?&nbsp; :)&nbsp; 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Pumpkin Seeds</strong> on <strong>04-03-2015, 20:35:06</strong>
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				<div class="floatleft">(http://www.famefacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/padma-lakshmi-wallpaper-2.jpg)</div> Name: Sayen <strong></strong><br>Motivation: Vengeance for her People 5<br>Action!:&nbsp; Spirit of the Wendigo style 4 <br>Profession: Huntress 3<br>Weakness:&nbsp; Stranger in her own lands 1<br><br><br>Background: Life was never meant to be easy, but never meant to be like this.&nbsp; A hunter and a warrior, Sayen was meant to provide for her people and keep their honor.&nbsp; She was not meant to wash their blood from her hands and serve the man who painted her face with their ashes.&nbsp; The railroad was not to be stopped though.&nbsp; Instead of resisting, the men were cut down and the women forced into chains to help construction.&nbsp; That lack of understanding kept her alive and kept her strong so that she could escape and bring the vengeance of her ancestors down on the heads of the governor, his men and his cursed Angel of Knives.<br><br>The fighting art of her people is one blended in tradition and in practicality.&nbsp; Chinese styles merged into warrior ways to produce a style to honor the spirit of the cannibal spirit, Wendigo.&nbsp; Swift like the winter wind, brutality efficient like the beasts of the land and dazzling beautiful to watch like the lights of the Northern sky the style was well named.&nbsp; Instruments of the people are of primary use as practitioners find tomahawk, knife and body to greater effect.&nbsp; Movements are meant to confuse while a true strike slips into place, much like an ambush being played over and over again.<br><br>A hunter provides and a hunter gives honor to Nature whom provides.&nbsp; Trained in the arts of the bow and spear, in the skills of stealth and stalking the woman called Sayen was trained by the best trackers of her people.&nbsp; She possesses skills honed by years of training and need.<br><br>Sayen is from these lands, but they have changed.&nbsp; Strangers outnumber her people and their customs are mysterious to her.&nbsp; Like finding home to be inhabited by strangers, she struggles to adjust.<br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MadPanda</strong> on <strong>05-03-2015, 03:56:53</strong>
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				Name: <strong>Sanniang</strong><br>Motivation: Filial Piety in Direct Action 5<br>Action!: Ten Feet of Steel Bear Style 4 <br>Profession: Vaquera 3<br>Weakness: Half-blooded foreign demon woman 1<br><br>Background:&nbsp; Sanniang is a big lass...nearly six feet of powerfully built, freckle-faced, big-nosed, round-eyed, grotesquely blonde woman.&nbsp; Her sire is properly Chinese.&nbsp; Her mother?&nbsp; Nobody's quite sure, but whoever she was, she was big.&nbsp; And like mother, like daughter.&nbsp; The Ten Feet of Steel wears a rugged sleeveless tunic, bracers, heavy leggings, and low soft boots.&nbsp; She carries two long blades in crossed scabbards on her back--not proper Chinese blades.&nbsp; These are something else, and the ornamentation on them matches the brilliant red and yellow tattoos that wind up her arms.<br><br>What is known is that her father was of noble blood, cast out for some imaginary slight or other and sent into exile in the Uttermost East across the waters.&nbsp; He returned some years later to bring his villainous Clan to justice...and failed.&nbsp; Fleeing ahead of the Clan assassins, he managed to ensure his wife and daughter were sent to safety before he was killed in a vicious duel that is still talked about in martial arts circles to this day.&nbsp; Now his half-blooded daughter has taken it upon herself to do a son's duty.<br><br>Her style, Ten Feet of Steel Bear, is largely a sword style with footwork reminiscent of Tiger and Crane kungfu.&nbsp; It is powerful, brutal, and it reflects her nickname all too accurately.&nbsp; She usually fights with one of those broadswords in each hand.<br><br>When she isn't playing with shy little tea girls, drinking away her cares, or stomping the crap out of mooks, she's a fully proficient ranch-hand and range-rider.&nbsp; Granted, she can't pull off some of the nimbler tricks known to Mongol and Tsung-niu, since she's too big for a nimble Mongolian pony, but she's quite capable in the saddle.<br><br>If she has a weakness, it lies in two spheres.&nbsp; First, the social: she's obviously an outsider, and she acts accordingly.&nbsp; Sincere courtesy is usually met with her rougher variant, but otherwise she assumes that normal people hold her in contempt because of parents she didn't ask to have.&nbsp; Second, the physical: she's larger than most men, so chairs are too small, doors are too short, cups are too fragile.&nbsp; And she's not terribly good at hiding in a crowd.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MadPanda</strong> on <strong>05-03-2015, 04:16:54</strong>
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				Cultural note!&nbsp; (or, The Stuff I Learn From Reading My Xmas Presents)<br><br>In Chinese myth, turtles were once thought to be, uhm, incapable of...uhm...husbandly duties.&nbsp; So female turtles were thought to get fertilized with the help of snakes.&nbsp; Thus, "turtle" is slang for a man whose wife turns to other men for satisfaction.&nbsp; And a "turtle's egg" is a fatherless, nameless bastard.&nbsp; It's a pretty severe insult, given the importance of filial piety in Confucian social structures.&nbsp; The odds of a tong or triad deliberately adopting such a nickname are pretty low.<br><br>Whether Sanniang knows and/or cares about this is anyone's guess.&nbsp; 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Zeth</strong> on <strong>05-03-2015, 12:49:39</strong>
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				You earn 1d6 for every detail in your post up to the cap. The splendid way you guys are posting you can just assume you earned the max cap and roll for yourself. This should speed things up. I aslo like the way you guys are doing the background characters. It gives me a to add to the banter. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MadPanda</strong> on <strong>06-03-2015, 05:19:42</strong>
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				Yep.&nbsp; What y'all are doing (what we're all doing at the moment) is called a 'filibuster'...posting until you're done and just taking the die cap because the ideas are flowing nice and smooth.&nbsp; That tends to happen a lot in play by post.&nbsp; :-)<br><br>It means you miss out on some of the fun of passing back and forth, but by all means send inspiring details hither and yon.<br><br>I heartily suggest just adding your rolls in at the bottom of your post as we go.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Crash</strong> on <strong>07-03-2015, 17:44:48</strong>
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				<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/4/44/Monk.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong>&nbsp; Ju-long, The Wandering Monk<br><strong>Motivation:</strong> Protect the Weak and Punish the Wicked 5<br><strong>Action!:</strong> Six-gun Shaolin Style 4<br><strong>Profession:</strong> Clockwork Youxia 3<br><strong>Weakness:</strong>&nbsp; Sake! 1<br>&nbsp;<br>Background: Ju-long grew up among the rail camps.&nbsp; He lost his parents at a young age, but found a mentor and master in Brother Fu a former Shaolin monk scattered to the winds by the Dynasts and flung to the far west.&nbsp; Brother Fu was old but spry and could do the work of man men half his age.&nbsp; Ju-long mimicked the old man’s behavior and earned his trust.&nbsp; Brother Fu taught him the arts and ways of Shaolin Wushu as they worked the rails for the Governor.<br>Working the rails in the Rockies is a nasty business.&nbsp; The Governor cares little for the workers and there was always the threat of tunnels collapsing, being caught in an explosion or simply being worked to death.&nbsp; It was a tunnel collapse that altered Ju-long’s fate.&nbsp; Brother Fu and a group of miners were trapped when the Governor ordered the use of unstable dynamite to further speed process of tunneling for the railway.&nbsp; The Governor’s overseers refused to order a rescue even with evidence that the men inside were still alive.<br><br>It was the last straw for the workers and Ju-long led a revolt against the overseer and the Governor’s guard.&nbsp; The revolt failed miserably.&nbsp; Ju-long and the other leaders of the revolt were knocked unconscious and set near the collapse where the overseer and his men laid new charges and blow the tunnel killed the conspirators and the men trapped inside they were trying to save…only Ju-long did not die.&nbsp; His arms were crushed and his body broken, but he was pulled from the wrecked tunnel by workers after the overseer left.<br><br>Ju-long was brought to camp where he was filled with opiate to lessen his pain while the men waited for his death.&nbsp; Word of this reached the overseer, but instead of finishing Ju-long off he gave the young man to a Hack Tao to experiment on.&nbsp; The Hack Tao rebuilt his arms in clockwork and replaced some of his internal organs, but when the surgeries were over Ju-long killed his tormentor and escaped.&nbsp; Since then he has been wandering from camp to camp in his shaolin robes, straw hat and six-shooters meeting out justice against the Governor’s men.&nbsp; His has added a number of surprises to his clockwork arms and is just as deadly with them as he is with his pistols.<br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MadPanda</strong> on <strong>07-03-2015, 17:57:38</strong>
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				And now we have a Monk.<br><br>"Sanzang Party, table for four..."&nbsp; :D
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Crash</strong> on <strong>09-03-2015, 01:27:25</strong>
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				Suffering from sudden muse death.&nbsp; Carry on without me.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Zeth</strong> on <strong>09-03-2015, 03:44:24</strong>
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				You suck Crash.&nbsp; :P<br><br>Anyways carry on.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Zeth</strong> on <strong>10-03-2015, 12:13:39</strong>
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				Pumpkin Seeds, are you still with us?
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Pumpkin Seeds</strong> on <strong>10-03-2015, 18:21:27</strong>
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				I'm here, just been busy.&nbsp; Was going to post today, but are we able to keep going with umm...this status change?
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muse</strong> on <strong>11-03-2015, 10:53:02</strong>
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				&nbsp; Zeth told me in Skype that he'd be trying to get back and continue this game when his suspesion ended.&nbsp; 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MadPanda</strong> on <strong>12-03-2015, 03:05:19</strong>
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				(props boots on table, grabs cup of tea, settles in to enjoy a spicy dime novel in the meantime...)
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Zeth</strong> on <strong>14-03-2015, 01:17:27</strong>
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				Put down the adventure of Tom Sawyer, MP. I am back and there are butts to kick!
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Pumpkin Seeds</strong> on <strong>14-03-2015, 01:18:53</strong>
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				I'll have a post up in the morning after work.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Zeth</strong> on <strong>16-03-2015, 13:25:23</strong>
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				Pumpkin Seeds, this fight against the native turned cyborg counts as Sayen's motivation. So all rolls succeed on a 5 or lower and only fail on a 6. Yang dive deal damage and Yin dice protects as always.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Zeth</strong> on <strong>04-04-2015, 21:13:53</strong>
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				Did we lose Pumpkin Seeds?
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muse</strong> on <strong>04-04-2015, 23:59:47</strong>
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				She's been offline all month.&nbsp; I'm confident she'll come bakc when her life settles down, but we should probably keep her off camera for a bit and keep moving.&nbsp; 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Zeth</strong> on <strong>05-04-2015, 00:52:01</strong>
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				You want to go on until he gets back?
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muse</strong> on <strong>09-04-2015, 14:45:30</strong>
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				&nbsp; Well, we did that for a while.&nbsp; She was on EVER so briefly two nights ago.&nbsp; Let's get things moving again and bring her back when she can.&nbsp; 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Wushu: How the East was Won (OOC THREAD)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Zeth</strong> on <strong>13-07-2015, 01:11:08</strong>
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				Well this games is officially DEAD! I have no desire to run it at all. Feel free to salvage what you can here.
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