monasteryofsaintatraft

[monasteryofsaintatraft]

A Father's Grief

Kresick sat in quiet contemplation in front of the altar. The Book of Avacyn sat there, closed, but already having the relevant passages marked. Now all that was left to do was wait for Valentina and... Adayn to arrive back on Innistrad.

And grieve.

Grieve for the child he had barely known but loved with all his old heart.

There was a knock at the door to the chapel. "Enter!" He said, his voice coming out strangled through the knot in his throat. One of the priests came in.

"A package arrived for you from Gavony, Kresick." The priest placed in from of him a heavy, medium sized wooden chest.

"Thank you. Dismissed."

The priest nodded and left. Kresick waited until the door had shut to examine the chest's contents. Inside was a set of animal bones, wrapped in cloth, for divining the future, several slim tomes penned by other witches, a journal, several jars of dried herbs, and a large brick, a souvenir of Ravnica's rubblebelt.

Kresick snapped the chest shut and sobbed into his hands, overcome with grief.

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The monk, was packing up all his little belonging, into his sack. The few wards, that he keeped after his capture, his journal, and a few kamiwagan coins, for an reminder of the plane.

The room that this strange building, the Cherry Blossom Orphanage, was austere. An bed and a desk. Even tought they were simple, he couldn`t erase this feeling of yearning. As he finally closed his sack, taking his staff, he send his goodbyes to the room. Possible, being lost among the birthing hallways and lost among the labyrinth passages.

As he walked down to the first floor, the two presences appeared. Master and Bodyguard. They changed little from this journey, unlike him. As the marks that the enforcers burned on their palms, burned with sorrow and sadness. Karahaka have become quite calmer, since the Hayazhi`s dead. That was enough for a few of the lost, to rest. But not all of thems. They refuse, to part away from him. It was for the adoration, of the few innistradi of their being, or the disagreement of the disparate reckoners, of to whose gang to return? Their deicison was on the end, to keep the bond.

Their footing was steady, firms. The connection of the reckoners with the akkis warrens, guarantting an safe pasage back to Innistrad. To the same omenpath, who unleashed all this journey.

He seeked her, across the aisle. As he hitted the ground, across the passages. He glimpsed the other tenents, the witted cepahalid Vasro. The solitary assasin, Leta, meditating. The dokuchi, welcoming him and chatting with each other.

During his standee, his faith and emotions, birthed two spirits. Hikariseizon, birthed from his hope against the cruelties of the enforcers. The beast of an griffin, who now it`s body surround every room of this realm. This creature, he would leave behind. It was an painfull decision, to leave behind, such a good company. An creature, who refuse to part away from him, in his lowest moment....His son.

"Hikari" He called to the kami griffin, who always watched him over the roof. "Where is your sister".

The creature birped in reply. Its animalistic roars and birps, understood as the words of his people. The second kami, Tsurutsuki, the kami of the heron moon. She was different from her brother. Cause, she was born from his faith. Its memories from the church, the prayers to Avancyn, the adoration to the heron moon. An moon, wich doens`t exist in Kamigawa. She, was a foreigner, in this plane.

She, also was in conflict, with the philosophies, tolerances and methods of the dokuchis. Trying to judge both kamis and mortals, that if they deserve to be banished, based on fear. The monk sighed in dissapointment, wondering, if that irrational justice of her, was products of his fears.

He found her, scurrying the lose blades and spoons of the ground. An statue, smaller that his legs. In the form of an heron, with an halo of silvermoon. "Tsurutsuki, kami of the heron moon" I adress her.

"Fa-Gouvle, monk of the Order!" She chirped with emotion."You...You are parting away?" She ask, now with her spirit low, as she notice my bags.

"Yes. I must return back home, with my flock. They will need my guidance, during our mourning, for those lost" The lost, that now are part of Karahaka. I clench my staff, as the memories of this injustice.

"As you shall too" He adress the kami. She tilt with her small frame, confusing; "Me?". She ask.

"You are an being, who belong to Innistrad. Not here." Gouvle tries to explain, yet he percieve the kami renuance. It`s understandable, he is asking her, to abandone this home, for an strange land. "Tell me Tsurutsuki, have you seen the moon?" The moon, she was endeared by the moon. The center of his faith.

"I did. The moon of this plane. It felt wrong. It doesnt have an heron, it isnt made of silver" She turn back on the monk, as she observe the window, where the moon shy between the lights of the city.

"Cause, you belong to Innistrad. I discussed with Koda. We both agree, that you should come with me. There, you will be properly revered, and you will undesrtand better your nature." He explain to her, yet she still have doubt.

"What about my brother? Will he follow us?" She ask, with an hint of sorrow. As I negate it, she cower.

"What if your flock. Despise me, as so does these mortals." Gouvle sigh, as these worries of the kami. Another motive, as to why he should taker her with him. Her temperament, wasn`t suited for the Dokuchis.

"They need guidance, protection. Everyone in my plane need it. An what gift you have." He extend his hand, to the kami. "What is my gift?" She asks.

"Hope. You will bring hope, to peoples, who witnessed the dead of her guardian." The monk cry, in silence. At the memory of the Travails`s lost. The kami, jump to his hand.

"Very well, Gouvle. I will follow you." She declare, her weight as feather on the monk`s hand.

The monk, could only smile, as he took his family, back home. To Breathold.

( @jasper-graphics, credit for the dividers)

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The Death of Adayn Sorackle

It was the early hours of the morning on Arcavios. Someone from the school of Strixhaven was talking a walk down a well trodden path that lead out of Witherbloom campus. A very normal, safe road. Usually.

She spotted something up ahead. Something in the road. It looked like a tree had fallen over. A big healthy one.

Strange. There hadn't been a storm.

She hurried over to investigate. As she got closer, she could see a pair of legs sticking out from underneath the tree. Robed in black. She got closer to the scene, trying to figure out what had happened.

It looked like a tree had fallen on someone and killed them. She carefully walked into the forest a ways and came out the other side of the fallen tree. The person lying underneath the tree wore a golden mask and a hooded robe.

And there were more bodies on the other side.

More masked men. One strangled to death with vines. One with a pitchfork stabbed in his gut, carved with intricate unfamiliar symbols. One hanging from a tree, a branch thicker than his waist in his abdomen.

An insectoid creature lay amongst the dead. It had been ripped in half with each half being held by a tree root.

But in the middle of the grisly scene was a human Witherbloom student, with short, brown hair, lying dead, run through the back with a sword.

Valentina Vazante was in shock. She held the red scarf she had taken months ago on Ixalan from Adayn close.

"And you are sure? No trickery was found?"

"None. They were found slain by Oriq agents. Many of them dead around them. Even took out a mage hunter on their own."

Tears began welling up in her yellow eyes.

"But we were to be married in the fall... on Torrezon...."

"I'm sorry. We will leave you to mourn. But we found these."

A sigiled pitchfork and a Ravnican brand communicator.

Valentina's wails of grief were heard echoing the halls for many hours after they had left her with all that was left of the witch.

[monasteryofsaintatraft]

NOT to be romantic but yeah my friends are the treasure i found along the way. fuck it, sure, friendship is magic; i've sat down at a table and felt at home and i don't even know what a "home" is. half of them are necromancers anyway. they found me half-dead and they put their hands to my inert body and moved my limbs and said it's okay. it sucks. but we'll both get up again.

[monasteryofsaintatraft]

Figuring out the dates in wich I honour the shintai of Tsurutsuki, the kami of the heron moon.

The enforcers have been punished by the village. Finally, the orders have claimed the stonghold of Kamigawa side as ours.

We had an good recuperation.

Alright, since the suitor stuff seems to have slowed down, I'm taking my own blog back and letting Boss Hayashi have a break.

So, how's everyone doing?

-Azzie

[monasteryofsaintatraft]

You experience an great tragedy, and reacted accordingly to your plane culture: violence.

I cant blame you with your outburst. I can`t speak for the rest of the network. But for me, you are good on my book.

Hey there everyone.

I'm okay. Mostly. I've been demoted back down to the starting rank of the family. I'll be taking steps to make amends for my actions going forward. I sincerely apologize to anyone who was hurt by my words or actions, directly or indirectly, and I hope that if something can be done to remedy any situation that arose because of it, that I may be of service.

Thank you all.

[monasteryofsaintatraft]

[This letter and attached flyer and appendices are also found near all suitors offered invitations to the suitor party, along with personalized routes through stable Omenpaths to get them there without danger in time for the party.]

The first suitor party for proposals to Koda Hayashi, Lord and Head of Clan Hayashi, Boss of the Dokuchi Reckoners, and First-Rank Kami Priest, has been arranged. Further suitor parties (of which there will be at least two more) will be arranged at a later time.

In addition to vegan catering done by Old Lady Hanako's, there will be four tables near the entrance featuring cheeses from a variety of planes with a variety of sources. All will be marked clearly with allergen information.

Entertainment for the day includes performances by artists such as Viridian of Xerex.

Formal wear required, it's up to you what that qualifies as given your home plane or individual faction of your home plane. If your home plane or faction within your home plane does not have formal wear, please arrive early and ask for Oak-Paw, then do what she tells you in order to get proper measurements.

Please make sure that you bring all pieces of your physical being and all members of your (optional) entourage with you when you leave.

Important information to know about me going in:

I am, first and foremost, the boss of the Dokuchi Reckoners, a criminal gang dedicated to the protection of our turf and people with a secondary focus on bringing more nature back into Towashi. If you are unfamiliar with Reckoner gangs, please refer to Appendix A section 1, "Reckoner Gangs of Kamigawa" for further information.

I, along with a few other members of my adopted family, run an orphanage in Towashi's Undercity. I have no desire to move and I will not be giving up this duty. The orphan kids are some of the most important people to me and if you're going to marry me you'd better be okay with kids.

I am also a first-ranked kami priest and put a lot of emphasis on the respect of the kami, no matter which kami they are and what they represent. If you are unfamiliar with the kami and the faith of Kamigawa, please refer to Appendix A section 3, "Kami, Oni, and the Kakuriyo" for further information.

I am the head of Clan Hayashi, but currently my regent is my cousin, Calisto Vazante of Torrezon. I reserve the right to beat your ass if you're rude to him.

I am a gay and transgender man. I am attracted to other men and men-adjacent beings. I have completed a physical/medical transition. Please refer to Appendix B for a summary of genders and sexual/romantic orientations.

As expected in Kamigawa, I am polyamorous and expect an open relationship. Communication is key and I expect to keep it clear. Please refer to the latter portions of Appendix B for further information.

I am half-human and half-oni, and as far as we know, I am the only one. My biological father is an oni, my biological mother was a human. (Shoutout to my dead mom, bravest monsterfucker Kamigawa ever saw.) Please refer to Appendix A section 3, "Kami, Oni, and the Kakuriyo" for further information.

In addition to my biological parents, I also have several adopted parents. Lethaltooth and Silentsign are my nezumi parents, and they run the orphanage that I assist with. They did most of the work for raising me. Shigeki is my orochi father figure and the leader of the Order of Jukai. And Arturo Vazante of the Legion of Dusk and Lazaro Ayere of the Church of Dusk are my vampire fathers. If you have any issues with any part of those parents, save us both the trouble and don't show up.

I also reserve the right to beat the ass of anyone who takes issue with the allies of myself or the Dokuchi Reckoners.

Basic information regarding Kamigawan suitor parties and marriages for those unfamiliar can be found at the linked posts, and further information can be found in any Living Historian library in Kamigawa or on their various websites and online presences.

Available buttons to wear will be available at the entrance to announce your intentions:

I'm just here for the cheese

I'm here to get money and power

I want Koda Hayashi

I'm just here to steal from rich people

I want someone adjacent to Koda Hayashi: (with a blank to write the name)

I'm here to support someone who wants Koda Hayashi

I am Koda Hayashi

I'm just hoping for a fight

I'm here to pick up declined suitors

I'm here to perform and entertain

I'm here to work

We would like to thank the Dokuchi Reckoners, the Okiba Reckoners, the Hyozan Reckoners, and the Grim Fleet for acting as security for this event. We would also like to thank various individuals for acting as the honor guard.

[monasteryofsaintatraft]

Fernard????

The same Fernard??

Currently waiting for Koda and Vasro to pick me up and take me to Kamigawa. Traveled to Ixalan to meet them since we can't go places we've never seen.

[monasteryofsaintatraft]

Oh.....congratulations?

This is Boss Koda Hayashi, currently also known as Lord Hayashi and the head of Clan Hayashi. For Azzie's peace of mind, I will be temporarily using their account on this side of the network to deal with the...influx of my current suitors to their ask box.

-Koda Hayashi

[monasteryofsaintatraft]

All my business on Kamigawa are done. So, as there is no longer any danger to my town and flock.

I am safe to return back to Innistrad.

I do neeed to explain about the kamis that I am bringing along.

Hello

[monasteryofsaintatraft]

hi.

The House took his price again?

I am returning to by old cabin in Innistrad.

Hello

[monasteryofsaintatraft]

[monasteryofsaintatraft]

SATORU UMEZAWA, HYOZAN BOSS VS GESSERITH EDMUND, THE BONDED BROKER—A BATTLE FOR THE RIGHTS OF THE DEAD

Taking place at my oni cult in Towashi TONIGHT, on the big stage. DON’T FUCKING MISS IT.

Admission at only 1000 kinsen a head.

Normal fight rules apply.

[monasteryofsaintatraft]

The monk, greedily ate the bar. All this assault with Karahaka, depleted all his energy.

Unlike his companion, he ignored the dragon fight, focusing his eyes on the hole, made by Karahaka`s destruction.

He waited, as the wind flew. As the distant roars of the plane guardians, raged against the villians.

From the hole, crounched an man. One of heavy clothes, of leather and fabric. With rectangle pauldrons of metal, with the Avancyn collar`s marked on thems. He oversaw the fields, untill his eyes meet, to the white-clothed monk, accompained by the cherised geist, and two strangers.

"Gouvle?" He whispered. Was he seeing an illusion, he tought? "Gouvle!" He screamed, from the high point of the stonghold.

"Blessed we are by Sigarda today!!" The monk responded, with jovilous at finally meeting, an fellow Innsiradi.

The cathars ran back to the building, claiming with hope and joy. "Gouvle is alive!! Gouvle is alive!!"

The cathars, the whole garrison, now watched over the hole. Seeing, an old aged men, with kind eyes, and long beard. With his dirtied`s priestly hat, accompained by his alwas loyals guardians.

"Gouvle!! Old monk!! " Screamed Krusher. Happy that all the somber belief of his demise, proved false in this moment.

The monk, could only cry. It was over. This dark shadow over his town, was vanquished.

The Deciding Strike

The Emperor was making a speech.

She wasn't one for speeches, finding them to be a waste of time when she could just do the work no matter how much Light-Paws stressed that public appearances would help her image. But she needed to draw attention away from everything else that would happen today. So she allowed her court to argue and fuss over everything - her hair, her clothes, her makeup - and rehearsed what she would say. It needed to be decently lengthy, but also not draw on far too long and make it seem like she was just grasping for time.

She was, as always, accompanied by the Shizuki twins when she finally stepped behind the podium to speak. Eiko stood tall beside her, and Kaito and Himoto waited in the shadows. While the three were united in their purpose, Kaito preferred to be the stealthy, hidden blade guarding the Emperor's back while Eiko was the strong and heavy shield at her side.

"People of Kamigawa," the Emperor began, "it has come to my attention that many people are asking what I intend to do as Emperor, and you all deserve to hear it from me. It is just one of the things I owe you after my spark severed me from our home for so long."

Doctor Selestri Zlovol's office was located in the foothills of the Sokenzan mountain range, hidden away from where most would find it on the way to Sokenzanshi. From the ground, the Order of Jukai were already using their magic, pulling from the Jukai Forest, to tear apart security mechs and open up the building for their Jundian allies for this fight.

"Strike swiftly and leave no Futurist alive!" Shigeki directed his Order as they breached the building's defenses. "Rescue what prisoners you can!"

The Warren of Dragons struck from the sky. Using Goro-Goro's summoned lightning dragons, they landed on the roof and began tearing into it, intending to meet the Order of Jukai and the Jundian warband halfway down.

"Smash everything!" Goro-Goro had told his akki. "No tech left, no mech left!"

"My goal is simple," the Emperor said, her voice loud and clear thanks to the microphones. "I dream of a better, safer Kamigawa for all of its people. Not merely the Imperial Court and our citizens, but those who have had their rights stripped away by my predecessor, those who are moving to our plane, and those who are traveling through it. Every kami, nezumi, akki, human, orochi, ogre, nantuko, soratami, kappa, and even oni deserves to be safe and respected."

The Sungrip Enforcer Academy in Eigan Town, about as far away from Eiganjo itself as you could get, was the number one provider of cloned enforcers thanks to their seemingly endless cloning machines. Cloning machines that one Reckoner in particular was more than happy to smash.

Unlike the other attacks today, this was a quieter infiltration mission. Redlash and Matona, two Dokuchi Reckoners, led some other Dokuchi as they slipped into weak points in the building, shorted out security cameras, and knocked out anyone who tried to stop them.

Redlash's body ached. He was a deteriorated clone, he knew better than anyone the fate that all clones - even ones early in the process - faced. And he wanted to ensure that clones like him were treated better than they were now, used as fodder for an endless war against Kamigawa's own people.

"Much of my time has been spent going through the laws of Kamigawa, which are written opaquely and with plenty of room to allow the most malicious and rich to use them for harming others. Bills that are passed 'for the betterment of Kamigawa' have lines in them that remove more and more protections from the average person. To get some of these protections back, to not die at the hands of enforcers encouraged to kill, people are then pushed to join Reckoner gangs. Is it any wonder, then, that the Reckoners hate the Imperial Court so much?"

Kaizen Tsuji and Satoru Umezawa were leading the Reckoners - Dokuchi and Hyozan both - attacking the Hayashi Omenpath Stronghold. Kaizen's many years spent infiltrating the Hayashis and serving them meant that he knew every gap in security. That gap in security was large enough for Karahaka, Kami of Empty Graves, to break into for their long-overdue vengeance, for both the Reckoners and Innistradi captured and tortured to death by the Hayashis through the years.

"Let the kami through first!" Satoru shouted to his Hyozans. "No bathing in blood, make it quick and don't get distracted!"

No such warning was passed to the Dokuchi by Kaizen, because he knew that they would follow it regardless. He was in his own enforcer armor, now with orange detailing instead of red, and was at the front of the fight near Karahaka to help protect the other Reckoners as they struck the relatively lightly-manned stronghold.

"Kyodai Omikami chose me to be your Emperor. I intend to live up to her expectations of me, but even more than that, I intend to re-secure the rights of Kamigawa and its peoples." The Emperor pressed a hand to her chest. "I had yearned for many years to come home. I will do everything within my power to become the Emperor that has been needed."

The shadows were darker today. That, of course, was on purpose.

Koda Hayashi stepped out of the shadows, pulling Prince Biilziebub and Vasro Hayashi with him. Haruko, the Kami of Restless Shadows, was not far behind. The four of them remained utterly silent as they moved through the halls of the Hayashi Manor. They had two targets and one goal - elminate Yuna Suzuki and Ichiro Hayashi, then get the hell out.

This was a Reckoning that was long overdue. For Ayame Hayashi, for Benkei Oda, for every person killed by the Hayashis directly or by the Saiba Futurists that they funded.

[monasteryofsaintatraft]

As I do not recomend Biilziebub, to recomend what Is safe and what Is not.

After all he is a demon. He can't felt burns

I fucking hate the question “how are you” because its a verbal trap that forces lies.

I can either say “good” and the interaction ends there, or i can say “bad” and then they fucking ask “oh whys that”

And then I have to be all like, yeah, apparently I got diagnosed with something called Late Onset Treatment Resistant Depression and Suicidal Ideation, and the doc says I’ll be taking medicine for the rest of my life for it. But the medicine costs 40 zinos a fucking month. And the doctor gave me a card to help cover the damages, that said “up to 40% off”, but UP TO 40% IS A RANGE OF VALUES, so its actually worth less than the plastic it was printed on. And I’m like “why do I have to pay for this, won’t I die without it?” And the doctor doesn’t give me a fucking answer. And now I need to reconcile with the fact that my life is worth 40 zinos a month in the eyes of the guildpact, and I don’t think you can come back from that.

[monasteryofsaintatraft]

Karahaka stopped their assault against the machines. Seeing with renuance, as the pilot ejected from the mech. Flyin to the edge of the fields.

Venered monk? They asked.

Gouvle, started to breath loudly, after all the consumption of his mana. To sustain the kami`s form and power.

We, are satisfied. We will rest. All of the dogs, were put down. They declared, as their bones felt to the ground.

Burrowing back, into their empty graves. Thanks for answering our pleads, great Ao The thanks, came from the mortals souls or the kami? Ao knew the answer.

..................................................

The monk stopped his pray. "It`s is done. Breathold is free." He concluded, as they breathed with difficulty.

They invoked the kami for a full hour of violence. It exhausted his mind and body.

"Can anyone feed me with some sustenance?" He asked to the akkis. " We can`t leave now. I need to meet someone, from the Stronghold."

The Deciding Strike

The Emperor was making a speech.

She wasn't one for speeches, finding them to be a waste of time when she could just do the work no matter how much Light-Paws stressed that public appearances would help her image. But she needed to draw attention away from everything else that would happen today. So she allowed her court to argue and fuss over everything - her hair, her clothes, her makeup - and rehearsed what she would say. It needed to be decently lengthy, but also not draw on far too long and make it seem like she was just grasping for time.

She was, as always, accompanied by the Shizuki twins when she finally stepped behind the podium to speak. Eiko stood tall beside her, and Kaito and Himoto waited in the shadows. While the three were united in their purpose, Kaito preferred to be the stealthy, hidden blade guarding the Emperor's back while Eiko was the strong and heavy shield at her side.

"People of Kamigawa," the Emperor began, "it has come to my attention that many people are asking what I intend to do as Emperor, and you all deserve to hear it from me. It is just one of the things I owe you after my spark severed me from our home for so long."

Doctor Selestri Zlovol's office was located in the foothills of the Sokenzan mountain range, hidden away from where most would find it on the way to Sokenzanshi. From the ground, the Order of Jukai were already using their magic, pulling from the Jukai Forest, to tear apart security mechs and open up the building for their Jundian allies for this fight.

"Strike swiftly and leave no Futurist alive!" Shigeki directed his Order as they breached the building's defenses. "Rescue what prisoners you can!"

The Warren of Dragons struck from the sky. Using Goro-Goro's summoned lightning dragons, they landed on the roof and began tearing into it, intending to meet the Order of Jukai and the Jundian warband halfway down.

"Smash everything!" Goro-Goro had told his akki. "No tech left, no mech left!"

"My goal is simple," the Emperor said, her voice loud and clear thanks to the microphones. "I dream of a better, safer Kamigawa for all of its people. Not merely the Imperial Court and our citizens, but those who have had their rights stripped away by my predecessor, those who are moving to our plane, and those who are traveling through it. Every kami, nezumi, akki, human, orochi, ogre, nantuko, soratami, kappa, and even oni deserves to be safe and respected."

The Sungrip Enforcer Academy in Eigan Town, about as far away from Eiganjo itself as you could get, was the number one provider of cloned enforcers thanks to their seemingly endless cloning machines. Cloning machines that one Reckoner in particular was more than happy to smash.

Unlike the other attacks today, this was a quieter infiltration mission. Redlash and Matona, two Dokuchi Reckoners, led some other Dokuchi as they slipped into weak points in the building, shorted out security cameras, and knocked out anyone who tried to stop them.

Redlash's body ached. He was a deteriorated clone, he knew better than anyone the fate that all clones - even ones early in the process - faced. And he wanted to ensure that clones like him were treated better than they were now, used as fodder for an endless war against Kamigawa's own people.

"Much of my time has been spent going through the laws of Kamigawa, which are written opaquely and with plenty of room to allow the most malicious and rich to use them for harming others. Bills that are passed 'for the betterment of Kamigawa' have lines in them that remove more and more protections from the average person. To get some of these protections back, to not die at the hands of enforcers encouraged to kill, people are then pushed to join Reckoner gangs. Is it any wonder, then, that the Reckoners hate the Imperial Court so much?"

Kaizen Tsuji and Satoru Umezawa were leading the Reckoners - Dokuchi and Hyozan both - attacking the Hayashi Omenpath Stronghold. Kaizen's many years spent infiltrating the Hayashis and serving them meant that he knew every gap in security. That gap in security was large enough for Karahaka, Kami of Empty Graves, to break into for their long-overdue vengeance, for both the Reckoners and Innistradi captured and tortured to death by the Hayashis through the years.

"Let the kami through first!" Satoru shouted to his Hyozans. "No bathing in blood, make it quick and don't get distracted!"

No such warning was passed to the Dokuchi by Kaizen, because he knew that they would follow it regardless. He was in his own enforcer armor, now with orange detailing instead of red, and was at the front of the fight near Karahaka to help protect the other Reckoners as they struck the relatively lightly-manned stronghold.

"Kyodai Omikami chose me to be your Emperor. I intend to live up to her expectations of me, but even more than that, I intend to re-secure the rights of Kamigawa and its peoples." The Emperor pressed a hand to her chest. "I had yearned for many years to come home. I will do everything within my power to become the Emperor that has been needed."

The shadows were darker today. That, of course, was on purpose.

Koda Hayashi stepped out of the shadows, pulling Prince Biilziebub and Vasro Hayashi with him. Haruko, the Kami of Restless Shadows, was not far behind. The four of them remained utterly silent as they moved through the halls of the Hayashi Manor. They had two targets and one goal - elminate Yuna Suzuki and Ichiro Hayashi, then get the hell out.

This was a Reckoning that was long overdue. For Ayame Hayashi, for Benkei Oda, for every person killed by the Hayashis directly or by the Saiba Futurists that they funded.

[monasteryofsaintatraft]

The Goliath of eight limbs, listened and followed, as they crawled the scales of Ao, once they fell into the dragon's body.

It's gifantic eyes, grabbing the mechs by surprise, riping their arms tosing thems to the abyss. Little skills they had, to stop the multi-limbed skeleton attack, whose size rivaled the macines.

They were yo confortable. As the metal-warrios, regconized their danger. Soon, the next meet who meet the kami, Glew away as a fly. Dodoging their arms. Guiding them, to their fellows enforcers.

Over the body of Ao, an enforced hit the left's arms the Kami, as the dodging enforced shoots an chain. Pulling their ribs to thems, competimg against his comapion wrestling against the skeleton.

The kami, felt how their bones brickled against the competimg forces. As thier chest, break in share against the chain.

One thousand dead. One millions bodies. Two billions bones

Bones of the lost, of the dead. Whose will and anguish, gave them form.

Soon, the enforcers of the rear, meat an claws from Karahaka's back. Topping their arma by suprise.

An to the one in front of Karahaka, an large spear of Bones and anguish, impaled it.

The Pilot could only watch un horror. As the millions of anguished faces, watched from the skull. As they got closer, to his window.

The Deciding Strike

The Emperor was making a speech.

She wasn't one for speeches, finding them to be a waste of time when she could just do the work no matter how much Light-Paws stressed that public appearances would help her image. But she needed to draw attention away from everything else that would happen today. So she allowed her court to argue and fuss over everything - her hair, her clothes, her makeup - and rehearsed what she would say. It needed to be decently lengthy, but also not draw on far too long and make it seem like she was just grasping for time.

She was, as always, accompanied by the Shizuki twins when she finally stepped behind the podium to speak. Eiko stood tall beside her, and Kaito and Himoto waited in the shadows. While the three were united in their purpose, Kaito preferred to be the stealthy, hidden blade guarding the Emperor's back while Eiko was the strong and heavy shield at her side.

"People of Kamigawa," the Emperor began, "it has come to my attention that many people are asking what I intend to do as Emperor, and you all deserve to hear it from me. It is just one of the things I owe you after my spark severed me from our home for so long."

Doctor Selestri Zlovol's office was located in the foothills of the Sokenzan mountain range, hidden away from where most would find it on the way to Sokenzanshi. From the ground, the Order of Jukai were already using their magic, pulling from the Jukai Forest, to tear apart security mechs and open up the building for their Jundian allies for this fight.

"Strike swiftly and leave no Futurist alive!" Shigeki directed his Order as they breached the building's defenses. "Rescue what prisoners you can!"

The Warren of Dragons struck from the sky. Using Goro-Goro's summoned lightning dragons, they landed on the roof and began tearing into it, intending to meet the Order of Jukai and the Jundian warband halfway down.

"Smash everything!" Goro-Goro had told his akki. "No tech left, no mech left!"

"My goal is simple," the Emperor said, her voice loud and clear thanks to the microphones. "I dream of a better, safer Kamigawa for all of its people. Not merely the Imperial Court and our citizens, but those who have had their rights stripped away by my predecessor, those who are moving to our plane, and those who are traveling through it. Every kami, nezumi, akki, human, orochi, ogre, nantuko, soratami, kappa, and even oni deserves to be safe and respected."

The Sungrip Enforcer Academy in Eigan Town, about as far away from Eiganjo itself as you could get, was the number one provider of cloned enforcers thanks to their seemingly endless cloning machines. Cloning machines that one Reckoner in particular was more than happy to smash.

Unlike the other attacks today, this was a quieter infiltration mission. Redlash and Matona, two Dokuchi Reckoners, led some other Dokuchi as they slipped into weak points in the building, shorted out security cameras, and knocked out anyone who tried to stop them.

Redlash's body ached. He was a deteriorated clone, he knew better than anyone the fate that all clones - even ones early in the process - faced. And he wanted to ensure that clones like him were treated better than they were now, used as fodder for an endless war against Kamigawa's own people.

"Much of my time has been spent going through the laws of Kamigawa, which are written opaquely and with plenty of room to allow the most malicious and rich to use them for harming others. Bills that are passed 'for the betterment of Kamigawa' have lines in them that remove more and more protections from the average person. To get some of these protections back, to not die at the hands of enforcers encouraged to kill, people are then pushed to join Reckoner gangs. Is it any wonder, then, that the Reckoners hate the Imperial Court so much?"

Kaizen Tsuji and Satoru Umezawa were leading the Reckoners - Dokuchi and Hyozan both - attacking the Hayashi Omenpath Stronghold. Kaizen's many years spent infiltrating the Hayashis and serving them meant that he knew every gap in security. That gap in security was large enough for Karahaka, Kami of Empty Graves, to break into for their long-overdue vengeance, for both the Reckoners and Innistradi captured and tortured to death by the Hayashis through the years.

"Let the kami through first!" Satoru shouted to his Hyozans. "No bathing in blood, make it quick and don't get distracted!"

No such warning was passed to the Dokuchi by Kaizen, because he knew that they would follow it regardless. He was in his own enforcer armor, now with orange detailing instead of red, and was at the front of the fight near Karahaka to help protect the other Reckoners as they struck the relatively lightly-manned stronghold.

"Kyodai Omikami chose me to be your Emperor. I intend to live up to her expectations of me, but even more than that, I intend to re-secure the rights of Kamigawa and its peoples." The Emperor pressed a hand to her chest. "I had yearned for many years to come home. I will do everything within my power to become the Emperor that has been needed."

The shadows were darker today. That, of course, was on purpose.

Koda Hayashi stepped out of the shadows, pulling Prince Biilziebub and Vasro Hayashi with him. Haruko, the Kami of Restless Shadows, was not far behind. The four of them remained utterly silent as they moved through the halls of the Hayashi Manor. They had two targets and one goal - elminate Yuna Suzuki and Ichiro Hayashi, then get the hell out.

This was a Reckoning that was long overdue. For Ayame Hayashi, for Benkei Oda, for every person killed by the Hayashis directly or by the Saiba Futurists that they funded.