Maybe because some of them haven't posted for... over a week at least? I know I've been waiting for something to happen (see my last post), but I think some of the other people just kinda zoned out or something.

Either that, or I haven't been paying enough attention to anything.

Well, I was hoping to get the crash done today, but I haven't managed to get the time to write a post worthy of such a momentous event. I should be able to get it up the next day or so I believe.

I'll just clarify a point or two a point or two about my last post while I'm at it. As I said in the post, the actions are deliberately shown in a way intended to make Kirakiri seem unstoppable.

Psychology aside, Kirakiri has several advantages in this situation. The monks are physically outgunned by him. He's the one with the massive strength, sharp stabby bits and several times their natural reach. About the only part of him they can effectively attack is his head, or one of the claws he's gripping onto the deck with. That means coming well within range of his attacks, where he's very stable and they have to contend with poor footing. His increased physical strength and size also make his attacks virtually impossible to block in most situations, meaning the only real option is dodging.

Also, physically the monks simply can't do much to him. They're fighting with just their bodies after all, and those martial arts styles work best against another humanoid opponent. What are they going to do? Punch him in the eye?

Thus, the two most effective things they can do to him is attempt to get prayer strips on him, where, given the situation, throwing them at him isn't likely to be too effective. Thus they'd have to get close to him, where the advantages are mainly his.

The other thing is the elite monk's ability to create bolts of flame. Somewhat less likely to get affected by the winds as they're not just a strip of paper, Kirakiri deflected the attack before by taking it on his head crest. At least an inch of reinforced bone there. It still probably hurt more than he let on though.

Also, you may have noticed the two monks Kirakiri killed are the ones who made mistakes. The first one was a little too quick to rush into the fray without getting any idea of what his enemy was capable of and the second broken form the more defensive position with the other monks and rushed forward to try and save his ally. Admirable, but foolhardy unsupported.

I'll just add that attacking him one at a time like that, Kirakiri can take the monks down fairly easily. In his battle with the pair of monks before, his greatest difficulty was their coordination. His multiple limbs this time also allow him to more effectively deal with several opponents at once.

Hopefully, this should clear up any problems.

Finally however, I do believe Raikotsu's monk kill was a bit fodderish. I find the argument of the monks being 'unable to block invisible blade-missiles' specious, as the same description could be applied to most of the players. Also, even direct blows seem to be turned rather easily by that air-shield of his. I suggest you reign things back a touch in the future DB.

Tayuumi crushed the airshield, and both of the monks attacked alone, with melee weapons and paper strips. They both underestimated a seemingly weaker foe, and their recklessness got them slaughtered, just like the two monks Kirakiri killed.

Many of the advantages Kirakiri possesses are also held by Raikotsu. He may not have huge claws, horns, or multiple limbs, but he does have the capability to manipulate the environment here, and he has been lucky enough not to be targeted by the Elite Monks yet. Raikotsu has superior maneuverability in this situation, as well as a long-reaching polearm and an ability that happens to work well here. Now, the bolts of fire the Elite Monks are shooting would DEFINITELY be a problem. Unlike Kirakiri, Raikotsu can't hold those off.

Also: On the Yaburo comparison... Yaburu would have had advantages that the monks didn't have in that situation.

I mean, yah, the fire is nifty and all, but it doesn't really stop things. Just hurts them. Yaburu COULD have blocked blows from Kirakiri with the Tekken Semehorobosu, by simply turning his flesh into tiny-explodey-gooey-bits when he struck at him.

Without the Semehorobosu, however, I admit that Yaburu would've gotten pwned by Kirakiri in that situation. Might have managed to dodge a bit better, but then, the two monks did make mistakes--and dodging around in a tornado would have probably brought as much fire down on me as Kirakiri killing those two did.

The elites stand a chance if they just stand back and burninate at his limbs repeatedly while dodging anything that gets too close... but that's about the only way I see even a VERY skilled martial artist winning under those situations.

I too am questionable on the wind blades killing the monks that easily, though. It seems a bit too convenient to constantly have the monks underestimate the party.

As this IS the first time they've met I say we let it slide, but put forth a future notice: The monks have now (or will shortly have) lost three elite monks (the one Taken killed + two on the ship) and 9 normal monks (2 Taken Killed, 4 Kirakiri killed, 1 Sakiko killed, and 2 DB killed). In the future they probably won't under estimate any of team evil. May even OVER estimate T.E., being more cautious than actually necessary.

Now I don't mean for them to be quite equal to players (lets face it, prayer strips and fire do NOT rock as much as the semehorobosu), but close to it. Obviously I took down three with Taken with little in the way of injury--but the fight lasted much MUCH longer, and there were a few close calls for him. AND he's better suited to fighting them than most of team evil, being non-demonic, and thus rendering pray strips impotent.

Of course, I'm not one of the GMs, so my view is entirely arbitrary.

If they are not already called, I would enjoy fighting the two elite monks. I admit this is rather metagamish, but it will prevent anyone else from engaging them while I write a long and involved fighting post once the airship crashes.

Just making sure no-one else has any plans for them.

I'd like to use a few of the martial arts ideas I've been having.

I imagine I wouldn't be any more disadvantaged than Taken, being an anti-human demon myself.

I've completely lost track of where everyone was and where Youji would be at this moment. Since he wouldn't make much of a difference at this point anyway, I'll wait until this particular battle is over to post again.

The airship has landed.

I was hoping to write a slightly more impressive post, but this will have to do. In case you're wondering, Takin's hardly dead, although he may be in trouble if no-one goes to his aid.

Team Evil can begin arriving on the scene very soon. Team Good should probably notice the crash about now. There will be some delay between them getting there and Team Evil getting there though.

Now, Ecurt, as I recall, Youji was actually on the airship wasn't he?

I've posted my arrival, since I seem to be in the front of the ground-based group. There is still several tens of seconds of delay or so between Kirakiri's crash and Koyuki leaping atop the Airship's deck. Go, dramatic athletics!

Granted, Kirakiri seems to be going after Takin, so I'm taking care of those two Elite Monks who would invariably try to save the engineer.

Pheonix, Koyuki would be at a much greater disadvantage then Taken, since she is a demon. Also,
Arhra, I'm assuming that Kirakiri' purposely went after Takin. But how would he know where the control room is?

Bah, so much for a sword style specifically designed to fight humans. Bear in mind the monks would be at a much greater disadvantage against her than Taken, if we're going to get technical like that.

I'll deal with one of the elite monks then. The other will deal with Kirakiri.

So much for that idea. *Shrug* I guess your average faceless shaolin monk is more than a match for one of the more powerful demons of the world. How silly of me to think otherwise.

I still wonder how he'll manage to block aggravated lethal damage with his hands. I suppose I'll have to make him be really cool to compensate. In other news, edited.

You know, IHMN, for the purposes of dramatic struggle, we should be stronger than Team Good anyway. Unless this is Pokemon, and it was never said at any time that Team Evil was really Team Rocket.

Now, if you get Elite Monks, in all fairness we deserve elite NPC units too. They can fight, because they cannot be defeated by the PCs in groups, while we all sit back and drink tea and chat about Garud's arthritis.

In fact, I'll go write up the stats for some Elite Tentacle Rapist demon troops. You cannot defeat more than one, no matter your abilities, they breathe clothes-melting acid, and they desire to take your virginity in all orifices.

Is that preferable to you, a game in which the PCs are rendered useless by NPC characters? Do you enjoy Railroaded Tentacle Rape?

I apologise.

You see, I'm just afraid that DB and I joined thinking our characters might have some small impact on the story arc. Perhaps by actually being able to slay a few NPC monks before being beaten back by the combined forces of Team Good, whom outnumber us.

We're sorry if this has upset you in any way, shape, or form.

If you'd rather we withdrew, please say so. This RP is quickly going the way it did last time, and I fear our continued involvement will merely exacerbate the situation for all involved.

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Dammit, this is why I can never get sick.

DB and Phoenix, the faceless Shaolin monks that, while they really weren't supposed to be cannon fodder but I guess they are anyway, were the average Monks. The Elite Monks spent their lives training to defeat demons. The way it is. Having two monks, with abilities and skills that they trained specifically for killing your kind, is not going to be very good. I did that so they wouldn't turn into Cannon Fodder AGAIN, like they were last time.

The thing is, yes, your characters are very strong. However, you're not the end-all of warriors in the world. There are powerful people out there. It's not so much that your characters are strong that has some people aggravated. It's just the mindset that just because a character isn't run by someone, it means that you'd be able to kill them without a lot of hassle..

Phoenix, how pissed off would you be if we managed to kill all your minions, just because they weren't PCs? And not just that we killed them, but that we did it in basically one post, and gave the excuse "they underestimated us"?

Now, don't turn this into a reason for the RP to die. Instead of complaining about how your character should be able to kill two of the most powerful monks she could face on her own, use it as a chance to make some good fight scenes against the one of them.

Also, the monks are powerful, but not super uber. They can't do stuff like grab Koyuki's blade, since it has a whole bunch of stuff on it that would likely tear their hands to shreds.

They were. Koyuki's bodyguards in the last RP were killed by Sanjuro and Vance with rather casual things like dropping a tree on them or kicking them with hook-swords stuck in their feet, respectively.

So much for being elite servants.

Really now, it's unrealistic.

And you were pissed, I would guess?

That was the last RP. Let's try not to do things like that again, 'k?:D

Yes I was. I'd expected them to last a bit longer since they were sisters and tended to pair attacks and defenses.

But besides, right. Let us not do this again. Had I known this however, I might have decided they weren't pointless to bring along this time around.

So it's agreed. A character's NPCs are their own part of their profile. If you're going to kill them, then fine. However, you make the death worthy of the level of the NPC. If the creator of the NPC feels like you killed their NPC too easily or some such like that, we'll bring it up in the Discussion thread, and they'll likely edit it after coming to an agreement.

I think Kirakiri has more than enough NPCs, and I'm not sure about Koyuki's, but yeah. If you make a NPC, post their entire profile here, and get it approved by at least three of the four GMs.

To clarify from the last rp: Sanjuro didn't drop the tree onto one of them, he crushed the tree down upon them. Since he was superstrong I figured using something as solid as a giant oak would be ok to kill someone with. Also they might have lived through that, And I'm pretty sure that I just said there was a snapping noise, they could have lived through it had you desired.

Also I believe mintaro spent two posts or so fighting the remaining gaurds. So they weren't just wasted through a one line spiel about the attack he created through a simple wave of his hand, while he pulled an airship out of the sky, while fighting a pc, while flying 1/32 of an inch above the ship he was pulling from the sky.

And I don't post this to argue, I just want to make it clear we didn't crush the oppossing npcs with any disregard to those whom created them.

I'd never intended to kill the two elite monks in a single line or post, TBM, I had fully intended to draw out a long, over-the-top Wuxia style melee that would do justice to all of the combatants involved. Without relying on any of my own minions to do the job for me.

Rather, IHMN just said I'd die horribly.

So that's the reason why I said that. ;) I'm not sure I fully agree with DB's style either, but meh.

So, if I read it right, Youji just saved Takin, and has joined Sanjuro in facing down Kirakiri.

You know....Youji may actually have a chance to be wielded. But by Sanjuro? Start being afraid, people.

"I, THE GREAT SANJURO YAMADA, SHALL MAKE THE RIVERS, STREAMS, AND OCEANS OVERFLOW WITH BLOOD! AND THEN I SHALL HAVE MILK AND COOKIES!"

And thus, Sanjuro destroyed Talkatz and Kurama, defeated all the soldiers of light and darkness, thus bringing balance to the planet which he ruled over with an ignorant, yet mighty fist.

Hope you don't mind me using Chi for a sec, Pyros. I thought that was an in-character reply for her, though.

And it got the fighting started quicker. :)

I don't mind. Sanjuro I can do, but i had some doubts about Chi. I'm trying to do my best to be evil, insane, and childish, and polymorphic. Just as long as you don't make her do something logical and purehearted then you can't go wrong, I suppose.

I think CMP offered to take over control of Chi. Did he change his mind, or did we just ignore him?

I did, Mintaro said I should PM Pyros to smooth ot the details and I guess I thought I already did or just plain forgot. But yeah, I'll handle Chi if it's ok with everyone.

Pyros/Prismatic, don't forget that Chi is creepy. Creepy, creepy, creepy. Like, sneak up behind you and whisper, "I want to touch your fleeeesh" level of creepy.

You mean like transforming into demonic school teacher who paddles his students, while having bloody tentacles hold them prisoner, and occasionly brush against their naughty parts, while also speaking in a little girl's voice the whole time telling them they're "A bad girl?"

I'm okay with Prismatic having chi, but I may take her back over when I find it comical.

Paddles HER students. She has to stay female in order for it to have the right tone, making it male just makes it perverted.