>>39092404
>>Write-in?
Hug.

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>>39092404
>What is this?
A quest set in the “Bleach” universe's afterlife, the “Soul Society”, some 200 years prior to the events of canon.
>Who are we, then?
Kusajishi Riku, a Shinigami-in-training.
>How closely will this follow canon?
I don't know yet. It mostly depends on you. That being said, be warned: metagaming will not solve any problems. Instead it will likely delay canon events, alter them, or replace them with new problems. Particularly blatant cases of metagaming will be ignored.
>How do names work?
Partly translated for accessibility, with proper names following the Japanese convention of family name first.
>How does I roll dice?
After figuring out what option has won I'll give a dice prompt. Usually rolls will be 3d10 against a set target, first three considered. To succeed, the best of the first three responses must have two passing rolls. A critical success requires three passing rolls. If the best result is one pass, the action fails. If nobody rolls anything that passes, the result is a critical failure. Other die rolls that deviate from this will be explained on a case by case basis.
>”But Queen,” some of you may be asking, “what about that crazy system of Kidō, unarmed, and sword-fighting? Won't that make combat a mess?
When you've learned some techniques I'll start keeping a character sheet with what you know. Write ins for how to accomplish varying actions in combat are always welcome (within reason), and may affect the difficulty and outcome of combat.
>Any other questions?
Lay 'em on me. I'll do my best to answer.

>>39092404
>Yeah no.Piss off tell me how to get out of here
None of those options are very rikuish

>>39092404
>>Is there anything about working with her you need to know?
>>What is this place, and why is it so weird?

>>39092404
>>Is there anything about working with her you need to know?

>>39092446
You do that edit of Alphard yourself King?

>>39092404
>What is this place, and why is it so weird?
>Is there anything about working with her you need to know?

>>39092404
>Is there anything about working with her you need to know?
>Ask her to teach you how to use her first release state?

>>39092404
>>Is there anything about working with her you need to know?

>>39092528
I did, in fact. It's why it's a shitty paint edit rather than something that's actually good.

I realized after working out the character design that Alphard was exactly what I had in my mind's eye when writing her.

>What is this place, and why is it so weird?

>>39092593
It's actually pretty damn good.You going to do more?

>>39092404
Ib4 the only way to get her to recognize us is to learn proper manners.[/spoilers]

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>>39092627
I have one or two for her with a Captain's uniform. It looks pretty good, I think.

>writing

>>39092675
As much of a chance as a snowball in hell

>>39092680
Nice! Looks pretty damn good

>>39092680
Is that for shadowing that Riku gonna be captain of the ninth?

>>39092872
Well, we are an prodigy and an MC - and it is the only captain slot available to us. It's safe to assume that if the quest lasts we'll get there.

>>39092404
“So,” you challenge your Zanpakuto, “you gonna yap all day long, vixen? Or are you gonna teach me something interesting?”

After a moment of stunned silence at your rudeness, Tenkotsuki starts laughing her head off behind that little fan of hers before getting herself back under control in an instant. She favors you with a dangerous, quite serious look.

“Unfortunately, your skill at kidō is insufficient to make use of my released state even if I were to explain it to you,” she explains, literally and figuratively looking down on you from her comfy spot under the cherry tree. “You have brute strength in overabundance, but no experience or knowledge to temper it with. To put it in terms of swords, it is as if you are fighting with a blade that lacks any fittings, only grasping the bare tang in your hands.”

“You are absolutely not ready to use my true shikai... however...”

A weapon slowly materializes in Tenkotsuki's hand, complete with sheath and fittings, and she tosses it to you. When it lands in your hand with a satisfying smack of hard lacquer against flesh, you quickly draw the blade.

It's a bit shorter than an uchigatana, which is the typical length of sword you've seen in the Seireitei, being a little under two feet long by your guess. That, and the curve is in the wrong place: it's a bit closer to the hilt, though it's not exactly pronounced. As you test the balance you find it strange, feeling a bit faster to swing and a bit more heavily weighted towards the crossguard than the other blades you've “appropriated” in the past. Its handguard appears as a nine-pointed silver starburst set in a ring of heavy, black iron... a striking effect.

Without a doubt, it's your sword.
(1/2)

>>39092404
>Is there anything about working with her you need to know?
We wint put up with shit we're from the streets dog err fox.

>>39092872
It happens to be the only Division with sleeveless uniforms: and I like its secondary color. You could end up commanding any division, or no division

>>39092986
But it's the culture and art division.....Totally not Riku's style....

>>39092947
“Why now?” you ask her. “What do you want me to learn here? How can I fight with you if you won't tell me how?”

Your Zanpakuto glares at you sternly, her polite image now shattered completely. “There are two things which I despise in this world: only two. The first is the existence of anyone who would dare to assert that their sorcery is greater than my own. The second is seeing you as weak as you are now.”

“You are here to speak with me, to learn my name, and so that I may see how well-suited you are to using that blade,” your vulpine hostess explains, drawing a sword and sheath that match yours from behind her back. “Now, enough idle chatter.”

Tenkotsuki slowly draws her own blade, holding the sheath at her waist and pointing the tip straight at your heart.

“If you have more you wish to ask me, do so with that sword I gave you.”

>Go on the offensive with your new sword
>Wait for her to make the first move
>What would Yoruichi do?
>Ask her something else anyway?

>>39093010
So we won't end up commanding it then. What's the issue?

>>39093020
>>Go on the offensive with your new sword

>>39093020
>>What would Yoruichi do?

>>39093020
>Go on the offensive with your new sword

>>39093020
>Go on the he offensive.

>What would Yoruichi do?

>>39093020
>What would Yoruichi do?

>>39093020
>What would Yoruichi do?
>>39092947
Uh shit.My weabo is not strong enough to know what blade that is....Wakizashi?

>>39093020
>What would Yoruichi do?
Time to get tricksy?

>>39093020
>>What would Yoruichi do?

>>39093020
>Go on the offensive
But do it carefully, try to figure out how strong she is before fully committing

>>39093020
>What would Yoruichi do?

>>39093020
>>What would Yoruichi do?
>Go on the offensive with your new sword

>>39093090
Kodachi. Quite uncommon to see, almost a novelty.

Few traditional schools focus on them over the standard tachi (like Eishin Ryu and similar old styles) or uchigatana/katana (like Tennen Rishin Ryu and other Tokugawa/Edo period schools).

>>39093020
>What would Yoruichi do?

And I think the answer to this question is, fight dirty. Look for a good chance to do something like throwing dirt in her eyes, try to use the environment against her, fake openings or weaknesses to try and get her to attack in a more predictable way.

>>39093154
Ah i see.Thanks for confirming what blade it was

>>39093154
Jesus it's hard to find good pics of those

>>39093020
WWYD seems to win.

Roll me 3d10. DC is only a 5, but hope for a crit.

Rolled 6, 8, 10 = 24 (3d10)

>>39093312

Rolled 4, 6, 4 = 14 (3d10)

>>39093312

Rolled 2, 5, 2 = 9 (3d10)

Rolled 4, 5, 9 = 18 (3d10)

>>39093312

Rolled 5, 8, 3 = 16 (3d10)

>>39093312

>>39093324
That good enough?

Rolled 6, 4, 5 = 15 (3d10)

>>39093312

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>>39093324
You son of a bitch i could hug you!

>>39093324
Well that went rather well. I think...

>>39093324
So, it seems you saw all of it.

>writing

So I think Riku has sacrificed something for the dice gods huh?

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>>39093154
>>39093187
>>39093298
If any of you remember Ruroni Kenshin from the old days, this guy, Aoshi, fought by using his Kodachi to defend, and then get close and punch people in the face.

>>39093368
That's obvious. Not getting eaten by Yhwach after dying like every other damn quincy.

>>39093438
dam Gatling guns

>>39093438
So we learning kempo as well?

>>39093460
opps. I totes forgot to add what she sacrificed. It was the piece of Yhwach's soul in her.

>>39093481
Well we are stealth corps we can learn some techniques from yoruichi

So is anyone else still seeing that thumb tac thing?

>>39093312
In this situation, with an unknown opponent and an unfamiliar blade in your hands... what are you supposed to do? You consider what your Captain would do were she in your position, thinking carefully about how she'd position her feet, and hold her body, and extend her arms.

“So,” Tenkotsuki growls softly to herself, “it seems you will not come to me? Very well then. I shall simply...”

“... have to come to you,” she finishes, already falling upon you with her blade after a mere instant.

Your own kodachi rises to meet hers, and the blades quickly slide towards each other's hilts where you can both apply as much force as possible against each other. It's in that moment, where all progress seems to have halted, that you see your opening.

With a shout you lash out with one leg, pivoting in place and forcing Tenkotsuki's blade away at your side as you deliver a kick to her ribs... only to find her foot has risen to intercept your kick. Both of you carry through to your right as Tenkotsuki's right hand leaves control of her sword to her left hand alone.

She extends her fingers towards you as you tumble, while your left hand instinctively moves to smack hers out of line with your body.

“Hadō 4: Byakurai!”

A powerful flash of lighting streaks past your ear as the side of your hand catches Tenkotsuki's wrist. That was close. If you hadn't been quite as quick that might have been game over already.

You break distance with your opponent with an instantaneous dash, and right yourself with your off hand while Tenkotsuki does the same.

“You catch on quickly, for a novice,” Tenkotsuki compliments you. “Though with me as your instructor it is only natural that you would be able to do so.”
(1/2)

>>39093540
It's doing my nut.

NO, I DON'T WANT YOU TO SHOW ME AGAIN YOU BLUE PRICK

>>39093540
Yes and I fucking hate him and want it to go away and never come back.

>>39093581
Serious question.Can you get a ban for using ad block? Because if you won't get one for using it I'm going to turn mine on for this site. I generally don't use my ad block unless there's annoying shit like that on a site.

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>>39093558
Mfw this is actually Bankai training....

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>>39093620
IT.DOESN'T.WORK
The bastard still doesn't go away.....

>>39093659
>>39093620
What the hell are you guys talking about?

>>39093659
Works just fine for me. THen again I used the select the shit you want blocked on a site feature of mine.

>>39093659
4chanx

>>39093632
I don't think we're jumping the gun that much anon.

>>39093558
You take a deep breath, before raising your sword and eying Tenkotsuki from a distance.

"This sword... its size and shape mean it doesn't get in the way of hakuda," you observe. "And from the look of it, it's easier to use kidō in the middle of a fight if you can parry or bind your opponent's blade."

"Just like you did to me just now."

Tenkotsuki smiles, bowing gracefully to you. "This combination of techniques is the most basic element of my power, Miss Riku. It will take you a long time, perhaps many years to fully master its intricacies. But even un-mastered, it possesses flexibility and power that should be the envy of any warrior."

Your Zanpakuto sits very formally, returning her sword to its sheath at her side. "You have earned the right to ask my magnificent self one question."

>Write-in

>>39093677
Apparently a blue prick of some sort.

>>39093712
What kind of questions can I ask?

>>39093712
>What is this place and how did I get here?
Also Riku still naked? If so ask that as well.

>>39093712
>Can we be friends?

>>39093712
>Whats your name?
Cheated the system

>>39093712
Troll answer
>how come youre acting like such a bitch

>>39093798
she already told us

>>39093712
>Can we be friends?

>>39093760
Fuck it second

>>39093712
>Can we be friends?

>>39093712
"How and why are you so complete, like personality and power wise? I mean I just got you."

>>39093752
Anon, please.

Don't waste the question.

>>39093760
>>39093821
>>39093829
>>39093878
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DmYLrxR0Y8

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>>39093712
"What am I? Or maybe it's what are we? Where does my strength come from?"

>>39093899
This also works, Yoruichi said it was an Asauchi, a nameless blade, when she gave it to us yesterday.

>>39093760
>>39093821
>>39093878
As amusing a question as it is, that seems like a bit of a waste for this.

>>39093899

I'll back this.

>>39093712
"So what kind of questions am I allowed to ask?" you ask your Zanpakuto.

There are several long moments of silence as Tenkotsuki stares at you in disbelief, where all you can hear is the faint sound of hissing steam from all around you.

Finally, after what seems like it could have been an eternity, you start to laugh. Tenkotsuki slowly joins you, covering her mouth once more with the fan.

"But seriously," you continue, "do you think at some point we'll be friends?"

Tenkotsuki shrugs. "What an impertinent question. I am a part of you, Riku. I was always with you, and I will always be with you. So long as you are at peace with yourself and with the path you choose, you will always be able to hear my voice."

"And so long as you may hear my voice, we shall always be able to take each other into confidence."

"So..." you frown. "Is that a yes, or a no?"

Tenkotsuki smiles, rising back to her feet and drawing her sword in one fluid movement. "I will show you the answer to that question with my blade."
(1/2)

>>39094181
>inb4 she shanks us

>>39094181
You're not sure how long you spend crossing blades with Tenkotsuki in this strange, yet peaceful world. It could have been minutes as easily as it could have been hours. But after a time, she seems satisfied at your progress.

“Remember this when you return to the world outside,” she advises you. “When there is an enemy you must defeat, we must simply prohibit them from expressing a power that exceeds our own. That is all you must know, for now.”

The next thing you know your eyes are open, and you're sitting back on the rock by the little hot spring where you were meditating. Yoruichi seems to have left, so you collect your clothes and head back to the surface.

It's already getting dark, and you're not totally sure how to get back to your apartment from here. And on top of that, you're already hungry for another one of these amazing Seireitei meals. After that breakfast, who knows what these people could do for supper?

>Look around for Yoruichi?
>Try and head back to the building you're living in?
>It's hard to imagine your captain just ran off. Wait here a while.
>Try and find food?

>>39094326
>>Look around for Yoruichi?

>>39094326
>Try and find food?

>>39094326
>>Look around for Yoruichi?

>>39094326
>Look around for Yoruichi. It seems odd she would just leave you there.

>>39094326
>Try and find food?
Priorities.

Captain is a big girl and the house isn't going anywhere.

>>39094326
>It's hard to imagine your captain just ran off. Wait here a while.

>>39094326
>Try and head back to the building you're living in?

>>39094326
>>Look around for Yoruichi?

>>39094326
>Try and find food?
this vote may or may not be affected by the fact that I can smell dinner cooking right now

>>39094377
Probably a bad idea as no one other than Yoruichi that currently lives there knows that we got sudo-adopted by Yoruichi

>>39094326
>Try and find food?

>>39094326
>Try and find food?
Priorities!

>>39094326
>Try and find food?
>>39094429
pseudo

>>39094326
>>Try and find food?

>>39094499
Fuck, I blame Linux Mint

>>39094499
Suu suu Sussudio!

>>39094326
>When there is an enemy you must defeat, we must simply prohibit them from expressing a power that exceeds our own.
Oh my, this is gonna be a tricky sword, isn't it?

So I was catching up on bleach and I found out that Yoruchi's younger sibling is a boy apparently. I totally thought it was a guy.

>>39094686
Her brother would make a stupidly good trap.

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>>39094710
>would

>>39094751
Yeah.. that's successfully confused my erection.

>>39094766
Aint nobody that wouldn't go gay for that face.

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>>39094796
Bah I meant to say we could be the one to get him to start dressing like that.

>>39094751
Proof that Shihoin genetics a best

>>39094326
Your grumbling stomach tells you exactly what you need right now: food. So you immediately set off to find a food stall or restaurant or something to fill the deep void in your gut.

A ways from the large hill you find a promising-smelling noodle stall called “Akamitsu”, which you invite yourself into. Wait... you can read the sign? Since when are you even literate? You ponder that question as you take a seat next to a tall, thin-looking man with long white hair and a white coat: the number on his back is “13”.

“I'll have... I guess kitsune soba, please,” you request, unused to actually ordering food like a regular person. “Make it a large one.”

“Soba, hm?” the man next to you observes with a gentle smile. “They make it well here, if you enjoy the taste of soba. I can never get any of the other Captains to come with me, though.”

Your meal arrives, steaming hot, before that statement even registers with you. “Wait, so you're a Captain?”

The white-haired man nods, a look of surprise on his face. “Yeah, I am. You must be new if you don't recognize the white coat as belonging to a Captain. Ukitake Jūshirō, Division Thirteen.”

“Kusajishi Riku. Well met, Captain Ukita... oh,” you realize suddenly that you still don't have any money on you. You were gonna fence that sword before a certain black cat dragged you off here to become a sword-swinging ghost magician, and you never got the chance.

Captain Ukitake nods knowingly. “I see, you must have left your money in your quarters, right? I'm in a good mood today, so I'll tell you what. As a newcomer into the Court Guard I'll treat you this once. All you can eat!”

>Sure, but I hope you know I've been training all day, so I'm really hungry.
>It's fine. I'm sure we can arrange something with the shopkeep.
>Actually, I'm still in training, and I don't have money. Like, at all.
>Something else?

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>>39094751
...welp, that's one reason to start reading again.

>>39094858
>Sure, but I hope you know I've been training all day, so I'm really hungry.

>>39094858
>>Sure, but I hope you know I've been training all day, so I'm really hungry.

>>39094858
>>It's fine. I'm sure we can arrange something with the shopkeep.
>>Actually, I'm still in training, and I don't have money. Like, at all.

>>39094858
>Sure, but I hope you know I've been training all day, so I'm really hungry.

>>39094858
>>Actually, I'm still in training, and I don't have money. Like, at all.
>>39094858

I would rather not lie to Ukitake

>>39094858
>Sure, but I hope you know I've been training all day, so I'm really hungry.

>>39094858
>Actually, I'm still in training, and I don't have money. Like, at all.
>Sure, but I hope you know I've been training all day, so I'm really hungry.

>>39094858
>>Actually, I'm still in training, and I don't have money. Like, at all.

>>39094858
>>Sure, but I hope you know I've been training all day, so I'm really hungry.
>>Actually, I'm still in training, and I don't have money. Like, at all.

>>39094858
>Actually, I'm still in training, and I don't have money. Like, at all.
>Sure, but I hope you know I've been training all day, so I'm really hungry.

>>39094858
>>>Sure, but I hope you know I've been training all day, so I'm really hungry.

>>39094858
>Actually, I'm still in training, and I don't have money. Like, at all.
Damnit....Can't lie to this guy......

But yeah my goal is to make Riku responsible for making yuushirou into a trap.

>>39094958
For what purpose? It'll happen on its own.

>>39094958
You can leave now

>>39094958
That's weird anon. And unlikely to actually happen

Technically we aren't lying to him just not correcting his mistake. Besides he said ouldnt hold it against us for too long.

>>39094981
Shits and giggles mostly. And on the odd hope we can make byakuya question his sexuality.

>>39094858
>Sure, but I hope you know I've been training all day, so I'm really hungry.
>Actually, I'm still in training, and I don't have money. Like, at all.

>>39095018
I don't think this quest will be as focused on sexuality as you hope it will be

>>39095062
I don't either. Honestly I wouldnt mind if it was an one off gag.

>>39094858
>>Sure, but I hope you know I've been training all day, so I'm really hungry.
>Actually, I'm still in training, and I don't have money. Like, at all.

>>39095081
Oh and I don't really think it will be focused on sexuallity at all really.

>>39095104
>At all
>Riku and Yoruichi have already check each other out, naked.

>>39095104
It's my goal to play Riku as asexual as possible.

>>39094858
>Actually, I'm still in training, and I don't have money. Like, at all.

>>39095168
I had totally forgotten about that. It's been a busy weak for me.

>>39095018
Byakuya probably isn't going to show up for a fairly long while, assuming the timeline doesn't get shuffled around. I'm guessing his Grandfather is already Captain of the 6th, not sure if his father is the Lieutenant or not.

It's about 90 years before Yoruichi meets him, and another 60 or so years before he becomes a Captain.

So amusingly enough we could end up something like an aunt to him.

>>39095212
Pretty sure we could be some kind of older figure to most of the current captains. This is a whopping 200 years before canon after all.

So does anyone have any theories on why riku's soul wasn't eaten by Yhwach when she died?

>>39095244
We might not be a quincy ya know

>>39095269
During the thread where we talked to yurochi about the war Riku remembered getting stabbed. I would put good odds on her being a quincy.

Why the fuck can we read now? QM fait or plot?

>>39095238
We might even become the Kusajishi that end up taking the most important position in Seireitei as the President of the Shinigami Women's Association.

>>39095315
I'm guessing plot. Either that or the shop has some kind of universal, subliminal text that anyone can understand. Even illiterate people.

>>39095315
Plot more than likely,Tenkotsuki probably did something

>>39095315
Obviously plot. Maybe something happened from our talk with our Zanpakuto.

>>39094858
“Well,” you admit with a frown. “I guess you could say I'm on provisional status.”

“That's fine. The offer still stands.”

You nod, grateful for the man's kind offer. “I'll warn you now, Captain. I spent all day training, so I'm pretty hungry.”

“On a Captain's salary?” Ukitake grins. “I think I can handle it!”

Half an hour later, the Captain's face looks almost as pale as his white coat. “How? Literally how?”

“I dunno. Sorry about that,” you pat your stomach as you look over the twenty-four bowls of noodles you emptied in one gluttonous go. “I ate almost as much as my own Captain does.”

“I'd expected as much. You've been meditating for nine days, after all.”

Behind you stands an amused Yoruichi, eying your trail of culinary devastation with a grin on her face. “I see you learned your sword's name?”

You nod. “Yes. Tenkotsuki.”

“I see. Sorry you had to foot the bill this time, Jūshirō,” your Captain apologizes playfully, almost as a taunt. “I'll get you back some other time.”

“Fine, fine,” Captain Ukitake sighs. “It's a student of yours, so I guess it's to be expected she'd have an inhuman appetite.”

“Oh? Is that an accusation I hear, Jūshirō?”

“Simply stating the facts, Yoruichi,” Ukitake smiles. “Train well.”

“Can I see it?” Yoruichi asks you as the two of you walk back, presumably towards your barracks. “Do you know the calling word?”

>Sure. I think it was... (Take a guess? I'll let you know if you get it right)
>She didn't tell me I had to do anything like that! Stupid vixen!
>She may have... let me try and remember what she said...

>>39095420
>>She may have... let me try and remember what she said...

>>39095420
>She didn't tell me I had to do anything like that! Stupid vixen!

>>39095420
>>She may have... let me try and remember what she said...
derp, something about not using the actual form because stuck up.

>>39095315
That's a side-effect of Tenkotsuki. In myth, possession by a fox was said to make illiterate people literate, or suddenly able to speak languages they couldn't before.

>>39095465
Huh Interesting I didn't know that.

>>39095420
>>She didn't tell me I had to do anything like that! Stupid vixen!
Honesty.

>>39095420
>>She may have... let me try and remember what she said...
>>39095465
Cool. Tenkotsuki best spirit.

>>39095420
>>Sure. I think it was... (Take a guess? I'll let you know if you get it right)
"Overcome?"
>>39095465
Does that mean we can understand...say, German and Latin now?

>>39095420
>>Sure. I think it was... Prohibit/Obstruct(Take a guess? I'll let you know if you get it right)

>>39095420
>She may have... let me try and remember what she said...

>>39095420
magnificent? Something or other? She loves referring to herself as such..

>>39095420
>She may have... let me try and remember what she said...
I'm guess it might be.Speak,Tenkotsuki?

>>39095499
>>39095501
Just because they gave me an idea, due OBSTRUCTive Lawyers
>"OBJECT(ION)!"

>>39095499
Yeah, I think it would be something like this. Especially with what she said in
>“When there is an enemy you must defeat, we must simply prohibit them from expressing a power that exceeds our own. That is all you must know, for now.”

>>39095514
>>39095510
No one thinks the release word is the verb form of "bitch"? You know, bitch.

>>39095420
>When there is an enemy you must defeat, we must simply prohibit them from expressing a power that exceeds our own.
>Sure. I think it was... "Quell/Subdue them, Tenkotsuki!"

>>39095501
>String... or nothing!
Which one do you think and why?

>>39095540
Meant to link >>39095501 though Overcome is good too.

>>39095562
Let's go with Prohibit because
>“Remember this when you return to the world outside,” she advises you. “When there is an enemy you must defeat, we must simply prohibit them from expressing a power that exceeds our own. That is all you must know, for now.”

>>39095420
>She may have... let me try and remember what she said...

>>39095540
Hmm, "Blitz"-ing almost comes to mind due to the Wehrmacht using fast-striking, multi-pronged assaults in its most effective offensives. Especially since our sword enables us to strike with not just the blade but also everything else we can use right now.

>>39095420
>Sure. I think it was... (Take a guess? I'll let you know if you get it right)

I'm guessing it has something to do with the last thing she said.

>“When there is an enemy you must defeat, we must simply prohibit them from expressing a power that exceeds our own. That is all you must know, for now.”

Hamstring, or Cripple, maiming the opponent so they can't use their actual strength fits her advice.

Alternatively maybe, Restrain, or Obstruct.

>>39095562
I think Prohibit will go well with it that or subdue.

>>39095420
>Take a guess, Prohibit them! Tankotsuki!

>>39095664
Prohibit seems like a decent candidate, here.

I'm gonna go with Prohibit.

Queen told us he'd let us know if we got it right..

>>39095420
>She may have... let me try and remember what she said...

>>39095420
>Sure. I think it was... (Take a guess? I'll let you know if you get it right)

Sabotage.

Prohibit seems a bit too peaceful a term for Riku, I'm guessing that the word would be something more active and vicious.

Hmm. That's a lot of favorable comments on what is basically "kinshi"...
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%A6%81%E6%AD%A2

>>39095739
And you have.

>update in a minute or two

>>39095420
>Sure. I think it was... (Take a guess? I'll let you know if you get it right)
Stop them? To simple maybe?

>>39095816
Nice. Now that Riku's literate, nothing can stop us!

>>39095853
Except for math.....Fuck math.....

>>39095420
You're angry at first when you realize that Tenkotsuki told you of no such thing... before you start to reminisce on what she did tell you. Particularly interesting is what she said to you right before you woke up from your nine days in meditation.

“Prohibit, Tenkotsuki!” you command, with as much confidence as you can muster. Thankfully, you watch as your blade flashes in the moonlight, shortening and bending into its initial release form. Somewhere, a part of you chuckles at the fact that you actually figured it out all on your own so quickly.

“A kodachi!” Yoruichi exclaims with an appreciative whistle. “The balance means it's responsive and good for parrying, while losing little of its cutting ability. It won't get in the way of hakuda and kidō, either... and the sheath changed to match it?”

“Isn't that normal?” you ask, rolling the sheath around in your hand. Sure it feels nice and sturdy, but it can't be that odd.

Yoruichi shakes her head. “No. Most Zanpakuto don't come with a sheath of their own in shikai. I'm guessing there's a lot about this sword she hasn't told you? Do you know if it does other stuff?"

You nod. “The vixen told me I don't know enough kidō to use her shikai properly, so she just gave me the chance to get used to the shape and balance.”

“I see. She must be a kidō type that modifies your spells somehow, probably to make them easier to use in battle alongside other techniques. Tricky to master, but probably very strong.”

“I feel a lot better after the healing springs and the food,” you yawn, stretching your limbs. “But I'm still tired. Must be from overeating."
(1/2)

>>39095871
Just skip over to calculus. It's what most engineers do.

>>39095935
>kidō type
Damn...Was hoping we'd get a poison type....

>>39095935
Then you look at your arms again, finding that there aren't even any scars. In fact, a quick look around your body reveals that most of your old scars are gone as well.

“Huh. My scars are pretty much gone,” you observe. “That a side-effect of the healing pools?”

Yoruichi nods, before placing a finger right between your shoulder blades. Your body feels sore there, almost as if an old wound is very close to re-opening. “All gone, 'cept this one.”

“Captain Unohana told me something once, that scars which carry strong feelings never fade,” Yoruichi tells you, her tone unusually sober and pensive as you walk on. “Least, not 'til the memories do. To carry that scar with you even after death... you must've truly hated the one who gave it to you.”

You give the notion some thought as you near the barracks. Really, you're not quite sure how that makes you feel, aside from unusually thoughtful. Almost... dare you say it... philosophical?

>Of course. How could I ever forgive someone for killing me?
>I don't remember it at all, so how could I hate them?
>Whoever I was then, that's not who I am now. May as well have been anyone else.
>I can't be sure, but I don't get the feeling there was hatred there.

>>39096003
>>Whoever I was then, that's not who I am now. May as well have been anyone else.

>>39096003
>Of course. How could I ever forgive someone for killing me?

>>39096003
>Of course. How could I ever forgive someone for killing me?

>>39096003
>I don't remember it at all, so how could I hate them?

>>39096003
>I can't be sure, but I don't get the feeling there was hatred there.

>>39096003
>>Whoever I was then, that's not who I am now. May as well have been anyone else.

>>39096003
>Whoever I was then, that's not who I am now. May as well have been anyone else.

>>39096003
>Of course. How could I ever forgive someone for killing me?

>>39096003
>>I don't remember it at all, so how could I hate them?

>>39096036
>>39096031
I'm going to laugh my ass off it when it turns out it was yurochi that killed us.

>>39096003
>Whoever I was then, that's not who I am now. May as well have been anyone else.

>>39096003
>I can't be sure, but I don't get the feeling there was hatred there.
Regret could also be a factor, if Rurouni Kenshin ever taught me anything about unfading scars.

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>>39096072

>>39096003
>I can't be sure, but I don't get the feeling there was hatred there.

Note to self, the sheath is probably just as much of a weapon as the kodachi. Remember to use it to beat people up.

>>39096003
>I can't be sure, but I don't get the feeling there was hatred there.
Deleted old vote

>>39096003
>I can't be sure, but I don't get the feeling there was hatred there.

>>39096003
>I can't be sure, but I don't get the feeling there was hatred there.

>>39096091
>Rurouni Kenshin
Fun fact, I'm listening to the soundtrack from Trust and Betrayal at this very moment.

>>39096003
>I can't be sure, but I don't get the feeling there was hatred there.

>>39096003
>>39096031
swapping vote to
>I can't be sure, but I don't get the feeling there was hatred there.

>>39096164
>Not listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lZZz8K87PA which is obviously Riku's theme
Pleb

>>39096164
the very first anime thing I ever bought as a kid

>>39096003
>that scars which carry strong feelings never fade
That explains how all the shinigami we see have pretty much no blemishes on them despite often sustaining grevious injuries, the exceptions being Zaraki and Yamamoto, who both are the type to carry those wounds with him.

>>39096003
"...How do you know I got this wound before I died?"

>>39096369
Hisagi and Unohana too, now that you got the ball rollin'.

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>>39096400
....Oh SHIT......

>>39096400
>>39096003
Seconded.

>>39096400
This

>>39096437
Well yeah, but those are singular memorable wounds. The reason I mentioned those two hardboiled men earlier was because they're completely covered in scars.

>>39096400
Second
Even if the other vote won you gotta include this King!

>>39096003
“I dunno that it was hatred,” you admit as you walk into the building, heading for your respective rooms for the evening. “Hatred's not the only strong emotion... desperation, maybe? Determination?”

Your eyes widen a little as the ghost of a memory, the imprint of your final moments of life, flickers in your mind like a candle before fading again. “No... regret. That's what it feels like to me.”

Yoruichi stops abruptly by the door to her room, her eyes aimed at the floor by your feet. “Riku... I have something I need to tell you. It's not easy for me to say it, but you need to hear it. And I need to be the one that tells you.”

You nod wordlessly, not entirely sure what to do in a situation like this.

“Some years ago there was a Sternritter: a Quincy musketeer of great power and skill. You remember what I said about them, about how we were once at war with them over the fate of the world. Many in the Fourth Division, including its former Lieutenant, were killed by this Quincy's skills without ever even seeing her face. She was herself killed in the last engagement of the war when a Captain stabbed her through the heart, as she bought time for her allies to escape.”

“This Sternritter, who called herself Rosa Rosette, “the Refusal”, knew she was dying. But even knowing this, she forced her broken body to keep fighting using her own spiritual energy like puppet-strings, rather than giving up and allowing her comrades to die. The Captain was deeply moved by that selflessness, and has lived with her doubts and regrets over the war ever since.”
(1/2)

>>39096517
Yoruichi no longer stands before you, but instead is behind you, one finger gently placed against your back. “After seeing your movement techniques, which aren't shunpo? After watching your absurd rate of growth? And after seeing that your scar didn't disappear in the healing springs, I know now: the Sternritter who died back then was almost certainly you, Riku. And the Captain who killed you?”

“I'm sorry, Riku, but that was me. I stabbed you through the heart, right here.”

You turn to stare at your Captain in surprise. She doesn't meet your eyes, but you can tell she's not lying. Too many questions run through your mind, words pile up behind your teeth until you're sure an incoherent ramble is about to start leaking out through them. You need to get a grip, Riku... one step at a time...
>How long have you known?
>Why did you kill me?
>More important, why did you take me in like this?
>Nope. I can't do this right now.

>>39096517
...I think you might be taking too many liberties here and should really reconsider. Yhwach's uprising was one thousand years ago, not two hundred, and without him, without drinking his blood and tasting his power, there can be no true Stenritter.

Hell, Yhwach didn't even have his heart beating again.

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>>39096517
OH FUCK IT'S HAPPENING ADFDUGSOPNOGDH

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>>39096072
>>39096400
>>39096517
>>39096578

>>39096578
>So? That was in the past this is the present

>>39096578
>Nope. I can't do this right now.
So I know where this great box is back in.. wherever it is we where.

>>39096578
"Well, you already told me why you killed me, but why take me in, if I killed your comrades and was on the opposite side of a war that had some really high stakes?"

>>39096578
>Why did you kill me?
>More important, why did you take me in like this?

>>39096578
>How long have you known?
>More important, why did you take me in like this?

>>39096578
>>How long have you known?
>>More important, why did you take me in like this?

>>39096400
Oooohhhhh nice catch.

>>39096608
Haha second

>>39096580
Who's to say it didn't take 800 years to form a body in the SS?

>>39096655
Because there's no fucking way Yoruichi is in the same age group as Unohana and Yamamoto?

>>39096578
>>How long have you known?

>>39096578
>How long have you known?
>More important, why did you take me in like this?

>>39096580
You can ignore the word if it bothers you that much. The fact remains that the final "extermination" of the Quincy is canonically around 1800 or so, and there would have undoubtedly been very strong Quincy present.

Riku, or rather "Rosa Rosette", was one of them. Emphasis here being on "was".

>>39096578
>>More important, why did you take me in like this?

>>39096672
Who's to say that?

I'm just fucking with you, guy.

>>39096578
"Wait... are you sure you've got the right person? You say you stabbed me through the heart, but there isn't a scar between by breasts. Why would my body, or soul I guess, only remember the exit wound?"

>>39096578
>>More important, why did you take me in like this?

>>39096728
Short blade. Maybe it didn't come out the front? She shanked us from behind.

>>39096578
>So? That was in the past this is the present

>>39096578
>How long have you known?
>More important, why did you take me in like this?

>>39096728
I'm guessing that she stabbed us in the back and got to our heart that way.

>>39096578
>Thursday, you'll be running into a Captain who will also immediately recognize what's going on.
So that was Ukitake? Not sure how he realized who we were...

>>39096781
I'm not finished yet, anon.

>>39096802
Is that why Yamma would hate us? Does he know?

>>39096578
>More important, why did you take me in like this?
Kind of obvious WHY she killed us guys.....

>>39096852
She wanted to give us some hardcore penetration?

>>39096885
We were at war and killing her allies.

>>39096852
Only one guy asked why she killed us.

>>39096851
That you stole his sandals prior to the first thread? No.

It'll seem obvious who it was when you meet said Captain.

>>39096903
In particular we were taking chunks out of the 4th division, the supply, logistics, and medical division. Healers are valuable, and you can get disproportionate results if you take them out since the foe will be even less able to recover after fights.

You don't let that shit keep happening when you're in a wartime situation.

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>>39096963
....Oh god it's Unohana isn't it......

>>39096963
>>39096976
>we were taking chunks out of the 4th division
...FUCK.
Unohana.

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>>39097013
>>39096976
>>39096963

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>>39097013
>>39097029
>>39097093
And that's why 4th Squad wasn't on the list of options for mentors.

>>39096578
"Wait... are you sure you've got the right person?” you sputter, still not quite believing what you're hearing here.

Yoruichi's response is to sink a short knife into the floor in front of you. “I use knives like this when I fight seriously. It would've left a large scar on the back with nothing on the front, just like yours. And since you've been looking more and more like her since you cleaned up, filled in a bit, and grew stronger? I'm pretty sure.”

Your mind reels as you start to understand: this is for real. She's not lying, and she's not wrong. All evidence points towards the fact that you were once a Quincy named Rosa, and that Yoruichi is the woman who took your life.

“How long have you known?” you press quietly, your knees shaking a little under you.

Yoruichi sighs, guiding you into her room where you practically fall to your knees. “That you were once a Quincy? Since I saw you use hirenkyaku, which unlike shunpo gathers spiritual energy near your legs and feet. Your poor control over that powerful energy is what damaged your clothing.”

“As for how long I knew that I had killed you? Since the healing springs. It took me a while to come to terms with it... the chances seem so astronomical. But I couldn't deny it, as hard as I tried.”

The Captain seems exhausted as she settles into her cushions, lighting a few candles with a little ball of kidō from her fingertips. “I'd be confused too, in your place. Ask away.”

“Why did you take me in like this?”

A sad smile. “Regret, partially. I knew you were the soul of a Quincy from the start. That was enough. But there's another side of it. You remember what I said about Shinigami?”

“That you're not all kind?” you ask.

Yoruichi nods. “I figure if we can't help one person, why are we so strong? If we won't even try to make our actions right, then do we deserve our power?”
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>>39097124

>>39097124
And we -are- going to meet her?

Panic.

>>39097124
Well, I guess we're not going to be learning healing kido then, are we?

>>39097154
>It's a good thought... Captain.
>I'm not sure it's enough to think that way.
>I think it's time you moved on. I already have.
>I don't know if I can trust you now.
>Write-in

>>39097180
>>It's a good thought... Captain.

>>39097180
>It's a good thought... Captain.
>I think it's time you moved on. I already have.

>>39097180
>>It's a good thought... Captain.

>>39097180
>>I think it's time you moved on. I already have.

>>39097154
>>39097180
>It's a good thought... Captain.

>>39097180
>>It's a good thought... Captain.
>>I think it's time you moved on. I already have.

>>39097180
>It's a good thought... Captain.

Not sure the moved on thing is quite right..

>>39097173
The good news is, we can learn shinigami stuff in general and use it in tandem with quincy stuff to pull off Kubo stuff.

>>39097180
>It's a good thought... Captain.
I'm curious about what time period exactly we will be in when we visit the real world

>>39097180
>It's a good thought... Captain.

I don't even

>>39097180
>It's a good thought... Captain.
>I think it's time you moved on. I already have.

That second part is more wish full thinking than actual conviction but, we can try.

>>39097180
>It's a good thought... Captain.

>>39097180
>>It's a good thought... Captain.
>>I think it's time you moved on. I already have.
>>39097237
Oh gods, you're right! And you always need more Kubo.

>>39097180
>It's a good thought... Captain.
>I think it's time you moved on. I already have.
I think Riku's the type who'd say this to keep up her "tough" shell. She considers herself different from Rosa but still has doubts.

>>39097180
>I think it's time you moved on. I already have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fRaWZji_Co

>>39097180
>It's a good thought... Captain.
>I think it's time you moved on. I already have.

>>39097262
>Oh gods, you're right! And you always need more Kubo

>inb4 Aizen tries to do weird shit with us and ends up creating a snowball that cannot be stopped, even by his other bullshit snowball that he couldn't stop


I can dream.

And this is why I was stoked to see all those 2's. Not only do I get to write the most interesting relationship with your mentor possible, where they're both your friend and your killer, but it's with the Captain I thought I'd enjoy writing most too.

I'm gonna have fun with this.

>>39097180
"I guess I'm confused as to what you think you've done wrong? If I killed your people, then regardless of who was right in the war itself, then killing me seems like the right move to make. Regardless, I don't think holding grudges is healthy, especially not from beyond the grave."

>>39097338
PRAISE THE DICE!

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Motherfucker.....I just realized....WE need to goddamn punch Urahara for lying to us about that blood BS!

>>39097338
Love the Cat man. She was best choice. Dice Gods apparently looking out for us this time around.

>>39097338
Why didn't you just pick that option instead of rolling for it?

>>39097237
I just hope we also don't somehow become a Vizard and Fullbringer and later find out Tenkotsuki wasn't our real Zanpakuto.

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>>39097338
Even the dice gods love best cat

>>39097180
"Seeing as I'm a former enemy to the shinigami, I take it it would be bad if people knew who I was when I was alive, or, say, take samples of my blood?"

>>39097386
GM integrity?

Practise with writing unplanned scenarios?

>>39097386
Wanted to give you a fair shot at other possible interactions and stories. Killing the Fourth div Lt wasn't something I planned, either. That was the lone 4 rolled in the first thread. If that'd been a 2 as well, holy shit would things be messed up with you and Yoruichi.

>updating

>>39097386
Railroading.

>>39097420
Fuck that. Even if we become a vizard and whatever else we keep the kitsune.

>>39097420
I'm kind of surprised that we even can have a Zanpakuto, since Quincy aren't quite human.

>>39097180
>>It's a good thought... Captain.
>>I think it's time you moved on. I already have.

At the same time, it was a war. So it was not a murder. Both sides knew what was on the line and was prepared to risk everything.

Besides, since most of the regrets, memories and any other thoughts gets washed away when they move into Soul Society, Riku is Riku, not Rosa.

>>39097455
I don't know the mechanics behind it, but isn't a Quincy soul the same as a Human soul when they die?

>>39097449
Wait, why didn't you have us roll 1d13 in that case?

>>39097420
Wouldn't we need to be alive to pull the Fullbring stuff? We're a bit lacking in that department.

Guys.
>I've already moved on
>Scars only stay if you're hanging on

Guys pls.

>>39097359
>>39097449
We should probably mention to Yoruichi that he took our blood....

>>39097449
I wonder if our quincy/shigami hybrid nature could let Hat and Clogs figure out how to modify the powers of still living quincy to purify rather than destroy hollows.

>>39097551
Probably. Though it's too late to do anything about it by this point. Queen said last thread that he realized already.

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>>39097316
>implying we wouldn't be trolled into being his emergency anti-snowball snowball
>snowball on snowball
>sprays everywhere
>snow gets backed up
>triggers an avalanche
>snowballs everywhere
>everyone's a snowball
>even Chad
>even that parakeet nobody remembers or cares about
>everyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3765b0KhLo
I may have lost the metaphor a little

>>39097594
I don't know what the fuck just happened, but I like it.

>>39097449
Soooo....Pic of Riku as a Sternritter when?

>>39097559

The problem is that Quincy powers, although we don't know this yet IC, don't destroy Hollows. They just feed the souls to their dickass leader, which makes it seem like they get destroyed but instead just end up as lunch.

Then again, things might be different from canon because any soul tagged with Quincy shit, the Quincy not being exempt from this, gets fed to their dickass leader. And since we're not currently soul food, we're probably safe.

Maybe.

Fucking Kubo.

>>39097449
In that case, wouldn't it have been better to structure that session so reader choices determined that, rather than die rolls? If the rolls had landed on an option that both you and the readers found less interesting, the quest would just be worse. I don't think this is a good thing to leave to the dice.

>>39097648
Technically we know that Yhwach doesn't eat all dead quincy, because Mayuri got his hands on the soul of grandpa Ishida, and did horrible things to it, remember?

>>39097658
Dude... it's already been done, nothing will change it and we got a good option. Let the issue drop.

>>39097648
We were so strong that fat fuck didn't manage to eat us and our soul was significantly weakened which is why we gain power so fast, we aren't developing our power we are just recovering from nearly getting nommed.

>>39097559
At the very least, Hat and Clogs is likely to get distracted by the possibility of Shigami/Quincy instead of making Vizards and the plot rock. We may have irreversibly derailed canon by thread 2.

>>39097648
I'm not sure we know that OOC yet. I mean it's extremely likely that that is the case, but we haven't had it stated that being killed by Quincy energy is fed to Yhwach, but then again, and this is an alarming point, we also have no proof that hollows killed by shinigami are purified, and not fed to the Soul King. I mean they're said to lack all memories of being a hollow, and we never saw Orihime's brother, did we?

>>39097180
“Yoruichi... you've lived with this for years, haven't you?” you ask quietly. “The guilt over what you helped to do, despite having what sounds like no choice?”

“That's right.” The woman across from you shuts her eyes, apparently deep in thought.

“Don't you think it's time you let yourself move on then, Captain?”

At your words her eyes open again, slowly. “What?”

You sigh, rising to your feet and turning your back to her. “Letting yourself get weighed down by guilt is no way to honor the dead. You have to lead by example, so let your actions reflect the changes you'd want to see in the world.”

“If you did that, I'm sure even Rosa would forgive you in time.”

“Even if you're the one saying it,” Yoruichi replies with a chuckle, “it doesn't sound easy, Riku. Much harder than if you said you hated me.”

“But the fact that it's tougher makes you want to do it more, right?” you ask with a weary grin.

Yoruichi claps you on the shoulder. “Yeah. You're damn right.”
(1/2)

>>39097758
How long have you been under the impression that we're not what inspired him to make the Hougyoku?

>>39097763

I assume that's more Kubo forgetting non-Ichigo cast members and their backstory/motivations exist, as opposed to something intentional. I mean you could chalk it up to a very long-running Kubo ruse, but it doesn't involve Aizen in any form or way so it's not actually going to turn out that way.

>>39097764
"But still," she mutters, "you bear that scar."

You shrug. "Like I said, I feel like the emotion there is regret. Maybe Rosa regretted not being strong enough to win. Maybe she regretted killing those Fourth Division people as much as you regretted killing her. I can't say for sure, and anyway it's a memory from a past life."

"May as well have happened to anyone else. It has no meaning to me at all."

Yoruichi nods thoughtfully. "I see. I guess I was the only one seeing anything in it."

As you slide the door open to your room, your arm is caught in Yoruichi's hand.

"So, knowing who I am, and what I've done," she asks, "not just to you, but to others as well, can you still call me Captain so easily? Until you're strong enough to stand next to me as a Captain yourself, can you stand behind me as my Lieutenant?"

>Response?

>>39097920
Yup.

>>39097920
>You had me at free food

>>39097920
Goodnight Captain

>>39097920
Of course

>>39097954
^

>>39097920
>>39097954
Supporting this.

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>>39097920
"For what good it'll do... I'll have your back, Captain."


>>39097450
>Fuck that. Even if we become a vizard and whatever else we keep the kitsune.
in b4 Riku's Hollow/Vizard Mask is pic related

>>39097954
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Second

>>39097954
This

>>39097920
This is the most fun I've had in the soul society. of course I can, captain

>>39097954
THIS

>>39097920
Turn around and hug her saying of course captain