>>36333899
>Get Up. Try again.
Abeshi?

>>36333899
>Get Up. Try again
whining will only get us hit more, keep at it.

>>36333899
>Get Up. Try again.

Never give up, never give in

>>36333899
>>"Apologies Sifu. I shall try again."

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>>36333899
>"Maybe if you actually TAUGHT me instead of just HITTING me..."
Come on. Not going the sympathetic jackass route ?

>>36333928
>>36333933
You don't even wait for him to finish talking; instead you get up and launch yourself at him like an arrow from a crossbow, fallen Autumn leaves kicking up like a whirlwind has passed through them!

Your qigong Lightfoot Skill, a variety of skills and forms that grant the pugilist in question a body that is almost lighter then air using a specific application of Qi is the ONE thing you're proud about; you can catch deer, outrun the wind, land harmlessly on the thinnest branch and glide across water like a morning mist; the THOUSAND-CLOUD STEP is a the only thing Sifu said you were good at.

Never seems to be enough though

>Strike high! A combination of blows aimed at his upper body and head!
>Sweep low! Feint for his face and use your footwork to go for his legs.
>Mix it up! Try to distract him, using a mixture of blows or the forested Autumn environment to land a sneak attack!
>Write-In

>>36334167
>Mix it up! Try to distract him, using a mixture of blows or the forested Autumn environment to land a sneak attack!

>>36334167
>>Sweep low! Feint for his face and use your footwork to go for his legs.
He is feinting us, let's see what he thinks of us feinting him.

>>36334167
>Mix it up! Try to distract him, using a mixture of blows or the forested Autumn environment to land a sneak attack!
Wanna get a trip?

>>36334167
Mix it up!

>>36333899
>>Get Up. Try again.

>>36334167
>>Mix it up! Try to distract him, using a mixture of blows or the forested Autumn environment to land a sneak attack!

>>36334194
>>36334222
>>36334272
I have a trip, just not using it at the moment.

You cut through the air like a saber through flesh, pulling back a series of punches, moving so quickly the leaves swirl up around you like a hurricane!

Aiming at his face and body, your blows are effortlessly parried by his left hand (and JUST his left), and he sighs.

"Clearly I have offended the Gods to be gifted with such a-"

He stops in mid-sentence as a right hook flies harmlessly past his block and you swoop low, your left leg coming up towards his face followed by a sweeping kick, your body spinning in place like a windmill in the breeze!

He actually has to pull back to avoid the kick to the face and lifts up his left leg briefly to let the sweep pass beneath it, but this time his left eyebrow is raised, especially when you impulsively push up with your arms and go flying into the air, sending more leaves past his face!

In mid-air you spin pulling back a right punch, and then you...

>FOCUS!
>Center Yourself!
>Seperate the Yin and Yang!
>Feel the Force build!
>Direct to The Limb!

And you within a fractional instant run through the Five Steps of Heaven's Blessing's First Form; YIN-YANG ROTATION FORCE.

A sound like thunder tears through the air around you, flashing light and power surge up your arm, shooting pain and heat move through your bones and muscles as the energy of Heaven itself, pure Lightning gathers upon your blow!

>"HEAVEN'S BLESSING! HEAVEN KISSES THE EARTH!"

And the half-second you hang in the air ends as you fall, lightning trailing your blow like a God smithing the earth!

>>36334614
>FOCUS!
>Center Yourself!
>Seperate the Yin and Yang!
>Feel the Force build!
>Direct to The Limb!

>>36334748
This

>>36334614
And he blocks it.
Effortlessly if you're being really honest with yourself, and Sifu has spent a great deal of time ensuring that when it comes to martial training you are ALWAYS honest with yourself.

He raises his right arm up to block, catches the blow effortlessly in his palm and your power impacts with a brief flash of light! He does...something with his left leg (it looks like he raises it and stomps the ground?), and you go flying as he tosses you away like a ragdoll and you roll through the ground, smacking up against an oak tree, causing leaves an acorns to fall around you.

He shakes off the leaves on himself, gently shaking his head with closed eyes.
"Hmph. Not bad. You made me block with both hands in the same day for once, and your control over the First Form is improved, but perhaps you shouldn't shout out the form names when I taught you all of the maneuvers and so know every single counter-mo-" he begins, but his eyes blink in surprise as an acorn hits his head.

You're still seated against the oak tree, right arm outstretched after your remarkably accurate toss.

"Hit you."

>>36335051
He stares blankly for a second, then smiles a little, your Father for a brief second instead of Sifu. He's not Ba short for "Baba", basically saying "Dad" very often these days, and it's been so long since he was Father more often then Teacher that the memories involved are cloudy and vague. There's a woman in those memories too, but she isn't here anymore, and Sifu never speaks of them.

"Okay, yeah. You hit me. Want a reward?" he inquires.

"Yes!" you say, pumping your arm down in victory.

"Your reward is....going down to the village and buying some more rice, we ran our yesterday."

"YES....wait, what?"

"You heard me. And remember...."

You sigh and get up, brushing off the leaves. "Yeah yeah, I know, no fighting."

"Good. And hurry up."

>WDYD?
>Stay and talk to Sifu [Questions may be written in]
>Head to town and get your chores done, it's the only real break from training you get anyway.

>>36335221
>Head to town and get your chores done, it's the only real break from training you get anyway.

>>36335221
>>Head to town and get your chores done, it's the only real break from training you get anyway.
Chop chop. You're gonna need to eat before long, anyway.

>>36335221
>>Head to town and get your chores done, it's the only real break from training you get anyway.

>>36334781
>>36334748
ITT: Two people incapable of reading

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>>36335263
>>36335324
>>36335326
You nod and jog off down the mountain.
Jiuzhaigou Nine Village Valley is beautiful this time of year, but you're used to it, having grown up here most of your twenty years of life. Five Flower Lake's shining blue waters hold no majesty for you anymore, though your father always says that "he finds the country peaceful", whatever THAT means.

You're not allowed to get into fights when you fetch supplies from the nearby village, Shuzheng, and Father even warned against you using your Lightfoot Skill when in-town, claiming that "it just attracts attention and you're more then enough trouble as it is".

Sifu NEVER leaves the mountains, always sending you for supplies and other things with money he gives you (a one-hundred coin string this time), and your few friends in the valley often joke that your father is like your imaginary friend, as you're obviously capable of hunting and taking care of yourself anyway.

It actually took you until you were fourteen to realize you'd never heard your father's name; other kids learn their parent's names often from spouses or friends using them in conversation, but you've never seen your father speak or meet with anyone except perhaps that woman who's name you can't remember so very long ago.

This should be a Xiaolin showdown quest.
I thought that was haylin. Would be bitchin.

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>>36335674
Shuzheng's colorful buildings, banners, and farms approach and you slow your blurring speed, doing your best to not attract attention to yourself.

Some of the farmers wave to you and you wave back, passing donkeys and wagons. You're not the most common sight around here, but enough people know you live in the area for you to be considered "a local" you suppose, though everyone here is Tibetan or Qiang rather then Han, though none of them seem to mind so much.

It's fairly open knowledge that your father is a martial artist (you were never told to lie about that, and Sifu never seemed to care), who has been training you in isolation in the mountains, and while it seems weird to the villagers, they admit that jianghu literally "rivers and lakes", a slang term meaning the secret world of martial artists matters aren't really their problem anyway.
>>36335809
Stick around if you want to ACTUALLY LEARN about the origins of the Wuxia genre instead of the knockoff versions; this quest will talk and explain a lot about it over time.

>>36335903
>inb4 just as keikaku keikaku means plan

>>36335903
This is shaping up freaking awesome.

I picked up Legends of the Wulin a while back, and got curious about Wuxia, but never found anyone to actually play with.

Looking forward to more, man.

>>36333899

If you keep falling for feints you are a god damn retard

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>>36335903
"Hey, Tiankong!" a voice says behind you as the burly frame of Lobsang,Pronounced LO-sahng. Tibetan not Mandarin., the son of a porter and a porter himself now at 19 years old approaches carrying a huge wicker basket. If you have a best friend in the Valley, Lobsang is him. You blink at the usage of your name; Tiankong, meaning "Sky", is indeed your given name but Sifu nearly never uses it. The last time you can remember him using it is when he ordered you to not fight in town unless there was absolutely nothing else you could do.

"Hi Lobsang," you say absently, but you smile at him.

>Ask him what he's carrying.
>Ask him about his upcoming marriage.
>Yank his chain about his bachelor status loss.

>>36336142
>>Yank his chain about his bachelor status loss.

>>36336142
>Ask him about his upcoming marriage.
>Yank his chain about his bachelor status loss.
Both

>>36336142
>>Yank his chain about his bachelor status loss.

>>36336142
>Yank his chain about his bachelor status loss.

Now he can no longer fool around the ladies.

>>36336278
>fool around the ladies
I don't know what that means, but it sounds lewd

>>36336142
>Ask him what he's carrying.
>Yank his chain about his bachelor status loss.

Might as well take the chance to joke around a bit. A shame I'm about to head to bed, but I'll check this thread in the morning.

>>36335903
>Stick around if you want to ACTUALLY LEARN about the origins of the Wuxia genre
YYYYYYEEEESSS! OP, you are my freaking HERO! There is NOTHING cooler than a good Wuxia story!

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>>36336183
>>36336210
>>36336215
"How's the wife?" you interrupt before you can say anything else, and he rolls his eyes. You've been on him about this since you found out four months ago, and you admit it's an endless source of personal amusement for you.

What can you say; entertainment's a rarefied commodity when you live in a hut in the mountains with your hermit father.

"STILL haven't met her yet...," he admits, and you can't help but start laughing at that.
"Shut UP dude! It's not my fault my parents matched me with her when I was like seven years old or something! I haven't met her because she lives at Zhengzha at the bottom of the valley and I live up here in Shuzhang, and my family doesn't make enough money to allow me to stop and take a break from work!" he says sternly, puffing up his muscular chest. He's actually taller and physically burlier then you are, though you can feel he has no Nèijìng literally "Internal strength", a term for a developed body of Qi in your system created by practicing special exercises so if you tried to be you could probably lift more then him if you wanted to.

"And you're afraid she'll be ugly."

"Oh gods YES. What if she's a cow? What if she's this really pushy and annoying? What if she has gnarled teeth and I'm meeting her for dinner tonight with her family!" he says, admitting the truth.

"Relax, at least you HAVE prospects. I'm a hobo in the woods with a hobo father working on my hobo-fu all day every day, except when I go to fetch rice or paper for writing," you say, smacking him hard on the back in reassurance.

"Wait, you can read and write?" Lobsang asks, surprised.

"Hmm? Yeah. Hey what's going on over there in the main square?" you ask, nodding at the commotion you hear.

"Some wealthy guy from out of town came up. He's fighting in the arena, beating up on local pugilists in public. Hasn't lost yet."

>WDYD?
>Ignore it. Get the rice, go home.
>You almost never see people from out of the valley!

>>36336592
Bump for slow replies on my part, apologies.

>>36336592
>You almost never see people from out of the valley!
But do not get seen by someone who'd point you out to get fought.

>>36336592
>You almost never see people from out of the valley!

>>36336592
>>You almost never see people from out of the valley!
Let's check it out, strangers out of town to gawk at!

>>36336592
>You almost never see people from out of the valley!
So tempting... It won't make much of a difference to just have a little look, would it?

No fighting though. We promised our father. No fighting... Buuut he said nothing about watching.

>>36336592
>Ignore it. Get the rice, go home.

Get the rice, go home, tell father. This guy sounds like trouble.

>>36336758
>>36336771
>>36336778
>>36336795
"Mm," you say, heading over slowly in curiosity. "Is he any good?" you ask

"Well...," Lobsang begins to say, and your question is answered when you see someone go flying out of the arena and landing on the square three feet away from you.

In the town square there is a raised circular stone dais about six inches high and twenty feet wide. At the center stands a well-dressed man in finer clothes then you've ever seen in your life, with his long hair tied up away from his face, his right hand out in a claw-like motion with his left behind his back. He's not much older then you, if he's older at all.

"Tch! Next!" he says arrogantly, which makes you frown. You're not exactly familiar with Wulin etiquette yourself, but you're pretty sure that's a pretty damn rude way to act in ANY situation.

"Is he ALWAYS like that?" you ask Lobsang as a new challenger steps onto the platform, loudly proclaiming his school and style.

"Yeah, ever since he got here. The guy's a real asshole. Is your father like that when he fights?" your friend asks, as you note the foreign fighter doesn't even bother proclaiming his name, just takes up a stance.

"Hm?" you say, not taking your eyes off the fight. "I dunno."

"What do you mean you don't know?"

"Never seen him fight anyone. Hold on, I'm trying to wa-" you say, but then there's an explosion of movement!

The local fighter moves forward and swings an easily blocked fist and then there's a flurry of movement from the new guy, striking with only three of his fingers bent like claws! The movements are a shadow, so deceptive and swift that you can hardly see what was even done to the other, only that it left him screaming in agony before a blunt, no-frills palm strike sends him sailing back out of the arena.

>>36337296
The pugilist makes another "tch!" sound again and shakes his head.

"Ugh! Is this ENTIRE town filled with country hicks who can't even throw a proper blow?! What am I even DOING here if this is all a waste of time?!" he shouts loudly enough for the crowd to hear. "I came here looking for someone and since I can't find them, I might as well experience the martial skills of this land. CLEARLY I had my expectations set too high!"

Behind him on the opposite side of the arena are a group of five more Han men in similar garb looking around nervously. They seem uncomfortable with the man being the center of attention, but do nothing to stop him either.

"Can ANYONE here provide me with...," he stops...and then looks at you. As in, RIGHT at you, and you realize you might have been emitting hostile intent without even realizing it.

Oops.

"Something to say?" he says, more quietly, obviously directed at you, and the WHOLE crowd moves back from you, except for Lobsang, who tugs on you in an urgent "come on, let's go" motion.

>WDYD?
>Answer respectfully.
>Answer honestly.
>Ignore him and leave.

>>36337447
>Ignore him and leave.
The only way we can fight him while maintaining our promise is if he attacks us first, and ignoring him is the surest way of accomplishing that.

>>36337447
>Ignore him and leave.
what >>36337498
SAid

>>36333899
the fuck is a wulin

>>36337447
>>Answer respectfully.
He did address us; it would ne rude to ignore him. Manners, manners.

>>36337623
>it would ne rude to ignore him
That's the point.

>>36337642
It reflects badly on us and our sifu.

>>36337662
Not really, no. When someone is acting like an uncultured swine at you, you're not required to extend them full courtesy.

>>36337686
Very well then, but that won't change my vote.

>Ignore him and leave.

Let's scram. Nothing to see here.

>>36337498
>>36337522
>>36337623
You say nothing in response to the man at first.
"No, Gentle Sir," you say in perfect Mandarin, without a trace of accent like most of the locals have. "I was just admiring your skills. Excuse me," you say, turning and walking away without another word or a bow.

"So who's your Master, hick? I can feel your Nèijìng from here, and yet you aren't fighting?" he asks, rudely, raising his voice. One of his allies....or whatever they are speaks up.

"Young Lord, we should really....,"

"Shut up. This guy actually feels like he might be worth fighting," he interrupts without taking his eyes off your back.

You still say nothing.

"Just as well. Probably yet another no-name hick school and sifu who isn't worth my time," he says, loudly enough for EVERYONE to hear this time, which makes you stop briefly and your shoulders tense.

He just insulted your school (so what if it's just you and sifu), your Master, AND your father all in once sentence.

>WDYD?
>Suck it up. Keep walking.
>Defending pretty much every kind of honor you have is the same as "have no other choice", right?

>>36337812
>>Suck it up. Keep walking.

>>36337812
>Suck it up. Keep walking.
Dad won't see it as justified provocation. Asshole needs to throw a punch.

>>36337812
>Suck it up. Keep walking.
Tense up for a second and keep walking , he so much as touches you then there's a fight.

>>36337812
>>Suck it up. Keep walking

>>36337812
>Casually imply that his school was clearly deficient in teaching their students anything resembling manners, as was his family.

It's totally 'having no choice' if he attacks first. We must be polite, but we have to do something to rebuke a comment like that.

Always maintain calm and discipline however.

>>36337812
>>Suck it up. Keep walking.
His words are like water on our back. A man acting like a barbarian is no man at all, and his words have no meaning in them.

>>36337812
>>Suck it up. Keep walking.
You know our Ba won't give two shits about what some spoilt rich kid say's about his school or style

>>36337850
>>36337860
>>36337865
>>36337867
>>36337874
>>36337868
You tense up, and look behind you over your shoulder at him.
"At least my sifu taught me some manners," you say as your parting shot....an insult just about as sharp as the ones he's been flinging your way.

A sharp pain hits the back of your neck as a small stone bounces off it.....he just THREW it at you, and it HURT....his skill in throwing weapons must be pretty damn good....

"You obviously have a backbone, but refuse to use it for anything. Why?" he asks, now more curious the irritated.

>WDYD?
>Well he DID just attack you, sorta....
>Keep walking and leave for good this time.

>>36337580
It's a term used to describe the Chinese martial arts community, meaning something close to martial forest or something like that

>>36337999
>Keep walking and leave for good this time.
Because i made a promise and intend to keep it. I have my honor, can you say the same?

>>36337999
>>Well he DID just attack you, sorta....
We can truthfully claim self defense now. Let's beat the snot out of him.

>>36337999
>>Keep walking and leave for good this time.
We will not be swayed by such a pretty provocation.

>>36338058
*petty provocation
I need a spell checker I guess

>>36337999
>>Well he DID just attack you, sorta....

>>36337580
Basically a kind of parallel world in Chinese fiction. It is the world of heroes and villains; of emotion and honour and action, as opposed to the rigid, orderly, mundane structures of everyday life.

The two worlds occasionally touch and even effect one another, but by and large, they are two separate communities within the nation. Sadly, in the modern day, this has taken on the connotation of the criminal underbelly and regular society.

>>36337999
>Keep walking and leave for good this time.
"...Work on your throwing arm. It will take more than a pebble to break my backbone." Give him a mocking bow and make ourselves scarce. I have a nagging feeling I know who he's looking for...

>>36337999
>>Keep walking and leave for good this time.

>>36337999
>Keep walking and leave for good this time.
"You're not worth it."

>>36338040
>>36338058
>>36338139
>>36338150
You've wasted time and words and leave him behind.

"Tch! Fine. Just when I thought this would be interesting," he says, turning towards his men. "Let's go look for her elsewhere, and where's the other five of you? I said you could relax, not spend hours away from your duties!" he barks at his cronies.

Lobsang whistles as you both leave the square. "I've never seen you look like that in your life, Sky! I thought you were going to actually FIGHT him for a second there!"

"Trust me, I THOUGHT about it. But I promised Sifu I'd never fight unless to save my life. Which is good I guess because that promise saved HIS," you growl.

"You actually sound like you think you could've beaten him....." Lobsang says, clearly not as sure as you are.

"Maybe. He's definitely tricky and I can't say I've seen his style or anything like it before, but I sure as the Ten Hells know HE hasn't seen MINE either," you admit, shrugging.

"Sky.....why learn martial arts if you're not ever supposed to use martial arts?" your best friend asks, and for once you have no actual answer.

Your father is a hermit with no relation to the Wulin, and he teaches you no spiritual systems or faiths like Daoists or Buddhists do. He just teaches you his style then commands you never use it. It's never made any sense to you.

>WDYD?
>Get the rice and go home.
>Get the rice but go see if Lobsang's wife is ugly or not; you gotta admit you're curious as hell.

>>36338435
>Get the rice but go see if Lobsang's wife is ugly or not; you gotta admit you're curious as hell.
"Family tradition, maybe?"

>>36338435
>>Get the rice but go see if Lobsang's wife is ugly or not; you gotta admit you're curious as hell.

>>36338435
>Get the rice but go see if Lobsang's wife is ugly or not; you gotta admit you're curious as hell.

>>36338435
>>Get the rice but go see if Lobsang's wife is ugly or not; you gotta admit you're curious as hell.

>>36338435
>>Get the rice but go see if Lobsang's wife is ugly or not; you gotta admit you're curious as hell.
>>"Who knows, perhaps someone is after my father and he is trying to protect me from his enemies? ...pffhaha, okay, yeah I don't believe it either."

>>36338435
>>Get the rice and go home.
We were sent just to get rice. If we tarry too long, we're gonna get extra training...

>>36338478
>>36338481
>>36338489
>>36338490
You stop by Lobsang's delivery location and the market, where you pay for a pair of huge 20lb bags of rice with thirty cash.

"What? Yes, I said keep the change," you say as you walk away from the flabbergasted shop lady, dragging the bags.

"You need help with the-" Lobsang begins, but then with one foot you flip up the massive rice bag on the ground and catch it on your opposite shoulder while the other sits across from it.

"No. Come on, let's go see your wife," you say casually, heading to the part of town where he's to meet her, the only inn in this entire valley.

>>36338777
Arriving at Lobsang's house, you find that his wife is indeed hideous.

Laughing at Lobsang's horrified expression, you make your way back home.

>>36338985
Quest Over.

>>36338985
>>36339042
Thank you for reminding us how important trips are.

>>36338777
The inn is busy enough for once, with travelers everywhere going on about troubles back in Sichuan and the Empire in general. Something about pirates.
Honestly you've always had a hard time caring about stuff like that; your father oft mentioned the old Jianghu axiom of "The Rivers should not muddy the Well". Meaning that Jianghu and Wulin affairs should be settled solely within the Jianghu and Wulin, rather then involving the secular world. How often this tradition is actually followed varies widely by individual, clan, and even era in question.

The innkeeper nods at Lobsang, but not you; you don't come here often enough to know him.

"Lobsang, you should leave before...," he says, and then your best friend sees what was concerning the innkeeper; five men dressed akin to the prick back in the square harassing a group of young women.

The first thing that pops into your mind is that the woman wearing red bridal colors actually IS pretty good-looking; hardly gorgeous, but definitely one of the nicer girls you've seen.
The second is that The Buddah is obviously testing how well you can keep a promise as the five goons continuously harass the young lady and her ladies in waiting and seem totally unconcerned with how they're acting in public.

>WDYD?
>Okay, THESE guys get their assets beat, promise or no promise.
>Not your wife, no your problem.

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>>36339122
>Okay, THESE guys get their assets beat, promise or no promise.

>>36339122
>>Not your wife, no your problem.
"Hey Lobsang, here's a chance for you to show off."

>>36339122
Run interference, rebuke them for hitting on a betrothed woman so your buddy can get her away.

>>36339122
>Okay, THESE guys get their assets beat, promise or no promise.
Are we not a virtuous xia? It is virtue to respect our father. But it is also virtue to aid our friend in defending his bride. Let us set aside zhong and embrace yi.

>>36339211
This sounds stupid

>>36339241
You sound stupid

>>36339205
Being a faggot wins.

Writing now

>>36339241
>>36339280
>>36339304
Op please get a trip this is getting out of hand.

>>36339122
>Okay, these guys get their asses beat

OP, seriously, put on your trip

>>36339122
>Okay, THESE guys get their assets beat, promise or no promise

>>36339215
>>36339405
>>36339443

>>36339489
You're not the real one. I am.

>>36339215
>>36339405
>>36339443
You sigh as Lobsang begins to speak.
"Come on! I'm not going to let those assholes-"
"Hold these," you interrupt, handing him the rice bags, which weight him down as he reflexively grabs them and prevents him from getting into trouble as a side bonus.

"Hey...wait, what are you doing?"

"Breaking promises I guess," you admit with another sigh, and walk over to the gang.

"Seriously, a beauty like you is getting married? It's a mistake to get married without experiencing HRSSHFF!" he says, ending his sentence with an unintelligible noise as you replace the words in his mouth with your fist.

You feel teeth give way and something else in his mouth crack as he falls to the ground like a bolt of lightning struck him!

The other four, so engrossed in tormenting the women weren't even paying attention to you before you struck the first blow.

"H...HEY! What the fuck?! Who the fuck are-" one begins but without even bothering to answer you strike out and smash your elbow into his stomach, sending him to the ground with a sad little wheeze of what is probably an attempt at an agonized cry.

"Who the hell are you, you jackass!? Do you even know who we are!?" a final one says, as they finally take up some kind of stance.

>WDYS?
>Nothing. Introductions are for challenges, these guys are just garbage you're removing.
>Introduce yourself and offer them exactly one chance to drag their friends away and get lost.
>Angry verbal rebuke at their behavior.

>>36339736
>>Angry verbal rebuke at their behavior.

>>36339736
>Angry verbal rebuke at their behavior.
"Ill-mannered dogs escaped from the kennel?"

>>36339736
>Angry verbal rebuke at their behavior.
Men with any honor should know better and refrain from this behavior.

>>36339736
>>Nothing. Introductions are for challenges, these guys are just garbage you're removing.

>>36339736
>>Angry verbal rebuke at their behavior.

>>Nothing. Introductions are for challenges, these guys are just garbage you're removing.

Have some dignity.

>>36339808
>>36339815
>>36339830
"No," you say flatly. "And I don't care either. I'm guessing you don't know the Young Miss's name here," you point out, before blinking and before turning towards her briefly, as she and her bridesmaids are still obviously in shock.

"Oh, sorry. I'm Sky, Lobsang's friend. That's him over there, you should probably go say hi," you say to her, as politely as you can.

Etiquette was never exactly on the Heaven's Blessing's Style's teaching curriculum, so sue you.

One of the cronies charges you, with halfway decent form. Unfortunately for him halfway decent is not the same thing as ACTUALLY decent, and thus you block his relatively clumsy and inaccurate blows and return with a palm strike of your own on his chest, knocking him back!

Without pausing you leap over the table like a leaf carried on the wind and kick twice with the same leg in mid-air, smacking both of their heads they go flying in opposite directions and land hard enough to shake the tables near them!

Instantly they've had enough, and they carry each other out of the inn, knowing when to cut and run!

"Holy shit! You never told me you could fight like that!" Lobsang says as you casually walk back up to him and pick up the rice bags.

"Sure I did. I just never SHOWED you I could fight like that. Come on. Sorry for the damages," you say to the innkeeper, leaving him another thirty coins.

"Uuuh...there's no damag-" he begins, but you've already left with your rice, best friend and his new fiancee.

As you leave, everything seems to happen in slow-motion....or maybe it just felt that way.

Years later, you'll wonder if perhaps something only slightly different happened, like if you'd hit the first one a little bit harder when you originally decided to intervene or maybe had just headed home earlier everything that happened afterword would be completely different.

>>36340251
foreshadowing intensifies.

>>36340251
The first crony you downed stands with the others, who seem to urge him not to throw the small throwing blade in his hands, but he ignores them.

The blade is small, but when propelled at a proper weak point, it would be lethal. It's aimed at Lobsang, or just perhaps his fiancee, who was introducing herself to you as you walked out.

Seeing the knife, you took action...maybe the right one, maybe the wrong one, but it IS the action you took.

You dropped the bags, everything still in slow-motion to you as they fell to the ground by centimeters and the thug's arm began to slowly make the motions of throwing.

Your turned and you

>FOCUSED
>Centered Yourself!
>Separate the Yin and Yang!
>Feel the Force build!
>Direct to The Legs!

And though you'd practiced it before, you'd never actually performed it successfully in the heat of the moment...and in fact you'd only ever successfully pulled it off in practice just one.

Feeling the heat build in your legs you kick off, and a flash erupts behind you as you leave a shining cobalt afterimage of electric force, erasing the twenty feet of distance between the thug and you like a bolt of lightning taking the shortest possible distance between two points.

>HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS SECOND FORM:
TRAVERSING THE INSTANT PATH!

His arm is halfway through the throwing motion when you simply ARRIVE in front of him, leaving afterimages so bright they burn the eyes looking straight at them and a sound of distant thunder erupts behind you....and your right elbow, right fist in your left palm supporting the strike impacts directly into his sternum.

There is a sound you've heard before, but never from a human being; a crunching sound of breaking bone and ruptured organs, and blood comes up from his mouth as he falls like a tree felled by lightning, dead as a stone.

The other four's eyes are wide with fear as the thunder sound echoes slightly as you hold the position, your eyes hard and without mercy.

>>36340586
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DwRNDOTz_g
00:33
For reference.

>>36340656
>>36340586
Oh that guy got fucked.

>>36340586
>Separate the Yin and Yang!
Just one guys

>>36340778
Kek.

OP might consider taking away the greentext with the amount of people thinking that's a choice.

>>36340796
maybe people should just stop being retarded

>>36340825
Good luck with that.

>>36340825
People have been retards for 100,000 years.
I don't see that changing soon.

>>36340586
The other four just stand (or stagger back in terror), jaws agape.
You hear the sound of your dropped rice bags behind you, and turn and walk away, picking them back up and nodding for your friends to follow you.

You remember your Sifu's teachings;
>"When you must strike, do so like lightning. Swift, with no mercy, but hitting only what you have aimed for. The way of the jianghu is not for those of weak heart and will; men DIE for their ideals and goals in this world, so be certain you aren't the one doing the dying."

Father is a decent man. He seems to not wish harm upon anyone, and expects much of your skills, and seems quite proud when you improve.

Sifu however, is a hard one, and he seems nearly without mercy in his teachings. He's no violent killer, but like lightning from Heaven he teaches no pity or remorse, only certainty of intent and resolve.

The rest of your time with Lobsang and his fiancee (Dawa, you find out her name is) is quiet, as both are somewhere between shocked, appalled, and grateful for what you did, along with a decent helping of terror as your displayed might.

You leave them and head back up the mountain with your rice, the weight of the bags a burdon you scarcely notice after doing this sort of thing so many times.

>>36340938
You arrive back up at the hut, dropping the bags heavily with a loud THUMP.

"Sifu, I've brought," you say, as you see him turned from you...and you realize why he wasn't inside.

Away from him by several feet is a large bear, furious and foaming at the mouth, eyes bloodshot with madness. Sifu's shirt is removed, revealed muscles so powerfully corded and strong that he looks to you to be made of solid steel rather then flesh and bone.

The bear gives a maddened howl and charges your teacher, who stands unmoving between you and the rabid beast, before suddenly bringing up his palm in a single strike, electrical power dancing between his fingers and STOPPING all nine hundred pounds of rampaging charging bear with a single-armed blow, deafening thunder ringing and bright light flashing but for a brief second as the huge beast's howls silence instantly and it's fur smoulders like it's been in a fire.

It smells like ozone here now, acrid and bitter.

Suddenly Sifu is gone and Ba leans down over the fallen creature. "Poor thing. Some damn hunter elsewhere poisoned his arrows. It drove him mad from agony but didn't kill him. Nothing else to be done but to put him out of his misery before he hurt anyone or anything else," he says to you, sounding regretful.

"Get the rice?" he asks, and you jump a little bit as he turns towards you.

He only used the first form of Heaven's Blessings, but his raw power was so much greater then yours....

"Yea," you say.

"Did you fight?" he asks, getting off his knee and turning away walking towards the cabin you share.d

>WDYD?

>Truth
>Lie

>>36341186
>>Truth

>>36341186
>Truth

>>36341186
>Truth
I tried to help my friend get his wife away from the attentions of some unsavory men. They drew a knife on and rather than attack me they tried to kill my friend and his wife. I lashed out with Heaven's Blessing second form. I killed him accidentally. I beg your forgiveness Sifu I have failed.

>>36341186
>>Truth
There's no excuses.

>>36341186
>Truth
We did the right thing, even if it required us to defy him. We will not try to hide it.

>>36341186
>Truth

>>36341204
>>36341232
>>36341236
>>36341240
You pause.

"Yes," you answer truthfully, and the shame you were pushing away earlier hits you. It's the first time you've ever actually broken a promise, even if you've made very few of them to anyone in your two decades of life.

Ba doesn't get angry.
He doesn't even seem a little bit mad, or even particularly surprised. You hear him sigh, a sound very much like you made just before you got involved back at the inn...pretty much the EXACT same sound actually.

"Did you win, at least?" he asks, which completely surprises you.

"Uuuh....what?

"You heard me."

"Uh....yes?"

He sighs again. "Well, that's something at least."

"Sifu...Ba, I only did it beca-"

"Save it. I know you. You're my student," he says, his voice full of something you've not heard in....a very long time; complete understanding and sympathy.

"You're my son," he finishes as he heads inside. "Now hurry and help me with this, we need to make dinner."

"Why? What's for dinner?"

"Bear and rice."

>>36341382
And we'll stop here for tonight, as it's getting late in the other timezones as I understand it.

Will continue tomorrow.

>>36341460
lol our dads pretty cool

>>36341460
Really nice quest mate, keep up the good work.

You gonna archive it?

>>36341477
Actually the original idea for this quest BEGAN with him, but quickly spiraled off into a completely different idea.
>>36341497
Thank you, and I shall.
Not really certain how to archive stuff, as this is my first quest and I don't really pay much attention to any of the other quest stuff most days.

>>36341460
7am over here, so rather it is early.

>>36341562
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html

Just click on the Request Interface thin on the left menu thing, from there it should be pretty standard deal

Remember to put Collective Game in the tags along with something related to the quest, or it's name.

The thing in the upper part is the number of the thread by the way.

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>>36341562
Even though I was late to this quest and didn't get to contribute I love Wuxia stories and will wait with anticipation for the next thread.

>>36341562
Makes me wonder what MC's dad did, before MC was born.

One big thing with Wuxia is that stories have no clear beginning or ending. Our dad has a past, as all martial artists do, and we're going to have to face the consequences of it.

Should be interesting.

>>36341772
I hope I can keep this one going for awhile; the story I've put together is somewhat....extensive, I admit. Maybe a bit too much honestly.
I had to pick from one of five potential main character ideas just for starters, all of whom will STILL exist in this storyline.
>>36341790
Once a friend who I was watching Legend of Condor Heroes with asked why that was, and I told him the basic explanation is cultural in nature.

In Chinese culture your parents and family heavily determine who you are and are expected to become and be later in life.
A protagonist without parents or without any knowledge of them is considered extremely shallow because without parents there's no "context" so to speak in Chinese culture for who they are and are supposed to be or are rebelling against, so thus the MC's parents backstories must be extremely heavily detailed (there's many wuxia that go on for chapter after chapter without the real main character even being BORN yet).

Suffice to say, Sky's father has a similarly convoluted and complex past.

>>36341894
Looking forward to being able to participate in future threads. You've got the Wuxia ascetic flowing pretty good so I'm excited to see things progress and unfold. Liking the lightning motif as well.

>>36341894
Yes! Can't wait. I hope it never ends~.

>>36341978
>>36341989
Another goal I wanted to do with this was to Harry Potter this shit up.

Basically the idea is this; you understand how everything in Harry Potter works because you are introduced to it by a bit by bit basis in the novels. You don't get Apparating, Dementors, Patronuses, Snake-speak, Death-eaters, and Horcruxes all at once in the first book.You instead are introduced to every single basic concept one at a time so when all of it comes into play it's not an overwhelming mess.

Part of the reason (aside from cultural value differences) Wuxia is such a difficult genre to approach for many is because most wuxia stories begin assuming that you ALREADY have an understanding of the basic concepts of wuxia.

Think of it like this; why do they ride brooms in Harry Potter? Because witches are supposed to ride brooms. But why DO they? Well, there actually ISN'T a reason, they do it because that's always how it worked in stories we've heard since we were little kids, and wuxia operates under a similar assumption, that qi and qigong and neijia won't need an explanation as to how all that shit works.

Sky on the other had is only immediately familiar with the basics of his world, and thus makes an excellent introduction into the rules and tropes of wuxia stories so that the information isn't overwhelming all at once.

I'm partially formatting this quest to help explain wuxia by telling a good story about it and get people who don't understand it very well into the idea, much as Harry Potter stories gradually introduce their world to the reader.

>>36342190
That's a nice ideal.
Good luck Sage.

>>36342190
Again, can't wait!

>>36341894
>>36342190
This seriously sounds awesome.

You on any IRC channels or going to set up a twitter account or anything?

>>36342190
>>36342522
Yeah a Twitter or Ask page would be nice if you get around to it.

Do you plan to use a system of some sort as the game progresses?

TO LIONG TO INTENSIFIES

> INB4 MILF TEACHER WITH GIANT EAGLE MOUNT
> MFW SWORD SAINT

>>36342522
>Twitter account
I probably should do so.
>>36342663
>Do you plan to use a system of some sort as the game progresses?
In short, not so much, no.
Going for more of a VN feel here, since it lets me focus more actively on story. Keeping track of what skills and techniques you learn and practice on the other hand is something that eventually will need to start happening, since that kind of thing ends of being relevant even in wuxia novels where narrative stuff takes maximum priority.
>>36342707
>YFW FUNG WAN
>YFW DEITY OF WIND KICK
>YFW REPELLING PALMS

Expect PLENTY of references to existing Wuxia fiction, some subtle and some not.

bam

>>36344143

> MFW I GREW UP WITH MANGA, MANHUA AND MANHWA

TIME TO KICK DEMON DISCIPLE ASS AND DRINK RICE WINE, AND IM OUT OF RICE WINE

>>36344916
Sounds like you'll fit right in here, heh.

Bump for interesting.

Looks good. Waiting for next thread.

>>36344143
I'd recommend at least a basic system, so the players know what they're getting into. Just what the styles we know are good at and what they're bad against, as well as our mastery level, would do. Like...

>Black Turtle Style
Adept
>Laughs At
Highly aggressive and energetic styles exhaust themselves rapidly on the turtle's iron shell and leave themselves vulnerable.
>Fears
Cunning styles can spot the weak points in the Black Turtle's defense and strike at them, making the slow-moving turtle easy prey for pinpoint attacks. Long-ranged styles also excel in staying beyond the turtle's limited reach.

>>36344143
>Going for more of a VN feel here,
Oh jesus christ. So this is guaranteed to implode, then.

>>36348799
This seems like a nice idea.

>>36349345
continue already OP

New Thread, since I already archived this one.
>>36353234