first post for aizen

>>764391
All according to keikaku

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>>764389
“And here I was expecting a fight,” she taunts as she pins you down by your shoulders. “But this could be nice too.”

“Were you really? Because it seems to me like you were holding back.”

Yoruichi laughs softly to herself, and her grip on your shoulders relaxes ever so slightly. "Now whatever gave you that impression?"

“How many years have I known you for?”

Yoruichi's grin turns devious. "I held back, wife, because I knew you would be holding back as well. Remind me, how many years have I known you for?"

“More than I like to admit,” you grumble.

It seems from her attitude like you were right, and that while she's not totally in control at the moment Yoruichi will still pretty much cooperate with you however you want to handle this. You have to keep her occupied and out of trouble somehow, for her own sake and for those around you, and two options immediately suggest themselves. Behind you is a window that leads out into the courtyard where Tatsuki has been training, and if you can roll Yoruichi off of you it'd be easy to lead her out there. After that you could kill two birds with one stone, entertaining your wife with a fight while giving Tatsuki a demonstration of hakuda at its highest level. That way you could turn Coyote's little prank to your advantage, and 'outplay' him.

Or you could just put her to sleep.

Yoruichi's energy and enthusiasm may be near-limitless, but right now she's relaxed enough that she's being pulled in two directions. Part of her wants to play, part of her would rather just take a nap. Appeal to that latter half and you may get her to simply clock out on the spot, also outplaying Coyote in the process.

It feels good to have options.

>Playtime
>Naptime
>Other?

>>764395
>>Playtime

>>764395
>>>Playtime
You can sleep when you're de- oh.

>>764395
>>Naptime
Hey king.

>>764395
>Playtime

>>764395
>>Naptime
Find a sunny, warm spot and apply relaxing belly rubs?

>>764395
>>Playtime

>>764395
>PLAYTIME
>Other: Try to mentally project a message to Coyote with the message: "Well-played Coyote."
>Playtime idea: First-half of playtime, Give Tatsuki a demonstration of pro-level Hakuda. Second-half of playtime, Attach a bell on Yoruichi, tell Tatsuki she passes if she manages to fight her way with hakuda against Yoruichi and snatches the bell.

>>764395
>Playtime

Tatsuki is in for a world of hurt

>>764412
>>764395
>as additional incentive, we can make the reward (if she passes) be having us take her out to a luxurious (still intact) restaurant in Seireitei.

>>764395
Ay yo hold up where's Kaoru in that picture

>>764412
Yoruichi already has a small bell on the choker she's worn since Riku was her Lieutenant.

>>764419
Haven't yet settled on a portrait image for her.

>>764395
This reminds me of that time anons were playing as Ichigo and managed to catch Yoruichi in cat mode by waving a reed and making clicking sounds.

>>764420
Uh. Is it missing the clapper or something? Wearing bells during combat or stealth is Kenpachi-tier logic.

>>764420
Well that's even better! No need to find a bell!
By the way, How long is Yoruichi's "drunken phase" whenever she gets drunk on the "3am drunk?".
Also, if Yoruichi gets "catnip drunk", does Raijusenko also get "catnip drunk"? I can just imagine the lightning cat rolling around on the porch acting high as fuck while Tatuski struggles to survive against a "catnip drunk" Yoruichi.

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>>764444
Free information: this lasts about ten to fifteen minutes, same as how long cats who react to catnip are affected, and manifests in somewhat similar ways. IC Raijūsenkō is the part of Yoruichi's instincts and soul that causes her to have the reaction in the first place, and OOC are what (when unchecked) lead to her kinda dumb transformation in canon.

Alright, I need a 3d10 roll, DC 6.

Rolled 7, 3, 5 = 15 (3d10)

>>764466
SATAAAAANNNNN

Rolled 3, 10, 2 = 15 (3d10)

>>764466

Rolled 7, 3, 9 = 19 (3d10)

Rolled 10, 10, 4 = 24 (3d10)

>>764466

Rolled 5, 8, 4 = 17 (3d10)

>>764466

>>764471
once again, we clutched it on the last roll.

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>>764471
o-oh jeez anon

>>764480

First roll I've done on this quest. And I'm off to my fiance's house. So I'm content with my rolling tonight.

Praise the hat & Clogs.

>>764454
Hot though

>also, writing
While I'm doing that, I'll take suggestions for styles to work with through the fight. Generally one of the three:
>Boxing
>Kung Fu (simplified)
>Kung Fu (stylized)

>>764526
>Kung Fu (stylized)

>>764526
>>Kung Fu (simplified)

>>764526
>>Kung Fu (stylized)

>>764526
>Kung Fu (simplified)
Tatsuki's a simple girl. We give her simple and easy to learn style. If we give her a stylized one she might end up killing herself for pointless style.

>>764526
>>Kung Fu (stylized)
Wushu?

>>764526
>>Kung Fu (simplified)

>>764526
>Boxing

Fancy martial arts are cool, but there's something to be said for just straight up punching folk in the face.

>>764526
>>>Kung Fu (simplified)
>>Kung Fu (stylized)
Not sure what practical difference this would make. Boxing's too limited though.

>>764526
>Kung Fu (simplified)

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>>764526
You quickly decide to move this outside, since even if she's 'playing nice' with you Yoruichi's unlikely to extend the same courtesy to your office. The garden outside is a bit more open, and out there you'll be able to give Tatsuki a good demonstration in the bargain. So you carefully tuck your legs in, roll back, and propel Yoruichi through the open window with a surprised yelp before following her with hirenkyaku.

Your wife lands lightly on her toes, backpedaling effortlessly to gain a little space as you drop from the edge of the roof to join her. Tatsuki looks at you in confusion.

“Why did you just throw Yoruichi out the window?” she asks, glancing from her to you. “Are you having a fight or something?”

“Something like that,” you agree, raising your fists into a high ready position and inviting Yoruichi to do the same. She adopts a similar stance, feet barely even touching the ground as she looks you over.

“Fine, if you won't come to me...”

Yoruichi aims a high kick at your head and you duck, only to feel her other leg connect with your arm and shoulder as she follows through in midair. Shifting your stance forward allows you to through a right uppercut that Yoruichi blocks with her arm before pushing off you into the air. You ready for her next move, a classic boxing stance preparing you for the very moment her toes touch the ground and she uses a shunpō to instantly accelerate back towards you.

“Watch carefully,” you advise Tatsuki as you use your arms to redirect most of Yoruichi's momentum to the side before blocking a spinning kick towards your ribs. “This is how two masters of hakuda fight... try not to blink.”

With that, you move to match your wife's technique with a similar speed and technical mastery. She's still holding back a little, having likely deduced your intention even before you explained it to Tatsuki, and you're a little more comfortable in taking an equally playful approach.
>1/2

>>764526
>Kung Fu (simplified)

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>>764575
You lure Yoruichi into using shunpō again, allowing her to strike a clone as you use Utsusemi to attack her from behind. Despite performing the move with a fluidity and precision most other 'masters' would be hard-pressed to match, attacking even as you complete the final step with your hirenkyaku which lets you lunge towards Yoruichi's exposed back, she's ready for you. She twists back and right, catching your arm as your fist passes over her and throwing you over her shoulder before using shunpō yet again to catch up with you. Blows are exchanged at blinding speed, hers pummeling you backwards through the air as you create a tenuous footing for yourself in the air above you, leaving you with no time to compose a counterattack. The air crackles and pops with static as your reiatsu and Yoruichi's swirl and clash.

Finally you near a wall, and manage to use two steps to kick off of it and reengage with Yoruichi after righting yourself, sweeping low with your right leg then pushing off with your left as she dodges. Your heel strikes heavily against her wrists and she's thrown backwards, only to recover instantly with a shunpō that takes her back to where you started.

A hirenkyaku allows you to rejoin her in an instant, squared off once more as Tatsuki's jaw hangs in awe.

“Are you two trying to kill each other?” she muses, eyes still wide as Yoruichi walks slowly towards you once more. “I couldn't keep up!”

“Have you ever seen someone sashay to a murder?” you chuckle in response. “No, this isn't really a fight. This is flirting.”

“I hate to break it to you two,” Tatsuki counters, shaking her head in disbelief, “but I've seen flirting before, and I'm pretty sure this isn't how it's done.”

“Maybe you've just been doing it wrong?” Yoruichi suggests playfully.

>Let's slow down a little, let Tatsuki get a better look at what we're doing.
>Give me a moment to call Rukia over here, she could use some instruction too.
>Tatsuki, time to see how far you've got! Your objective? Don't die.
>Other?

>>764581
>>>Tatsuki, time to see how far you've got! Your objective? Don't die.
Soft love is for soft people. Try hard instead.

>>764575
>that pic
DAMN YOU LIGHTNING BRA!
>>764581
>All of the above! Lets subject both Rukia and Tatsuki to playfull hellball that is a drunken Yoruichi!

>>764581
So naive Tatsuki. The flirting game changes when you're weird death-god beings.
>Let's slow down a little, let Tatsuki get a better look at what we're doing.
I might be naive too, for thinking we can get Yoru to slow down right now.

>>764581
>>Let's slow down a little, let Tatsuki get a better look at what we're doing.

>>764581
>>Give me a moment to call Rukia over here, she could use some instruction too.
>>Tatsuki, time to see how far you've got! Your objective? Don't die.

>>764581
>Tatsuki, time to see how far you've got! Your objective? Don't die.

>>764581
>Give me a moment to call Rukia over here, she could use some instruction too.
Fun for the whole family!

>>764581
It's got an element of being feisty, Tats. It's as close enough a definition for Yoru and Riku, and I'm sure you'll see it that way soon too.

And the best way to see it is up close, soo...

>>Tatsuki, time to see how far you've got! Your objective? Don't die.

>>764581
>Tatsuki, time to see how far you've got! Your objective? Don't die.

Wheee

>3d10 DC 7

Hopefully catnip-Yoru won't get miffed that we skip flirting for training.

Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>764635

Rolled 5, 6, 3 = 14 (3d10)

>>764635

Rolled 2, 2, 6 = 10 (3d10)

>>764635

Rolled 7, 9, 5 = 21 (3d10)

>>764635

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>>764641
>>764640
THE MEDIOCRITY IT BURNS!
>>764642
GOD DAMN THIS CLUTCH STREAK.

>>764642
Thank you anon

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>>764642

Rolled 2, 2, 10 = 14 (3d10)

>>764649
Fucked up.

>>764658
WELP. TATSUKI AIN'T LEARNING SHIT.

>>764666
With that result? Probably not, no.

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>>764713
“Tatsuki,” you instruct cheerfully “your mission should you choose to accept it, is to play with Yoruichi for a while without dying.”

“Don't wanna,” Yoruichi frowns.

Tatsuki sighs in relief, like she's just had a death sentence commuted at the last second. “Oh thank god!”

“I mean she's strong for a human, but for either of us she's just gonna be boring as hell!” Yoruichi continues, throwing a quick combination of punches and kicks that you expertly block.

“What the hell does that mean, Yoruichi?” Tatsuki demands, eyes narrowing as she falls for Yoruichi's taunt. “What's gotten into you?”

You carefully block a punch, crossing your arms and locking wrists with Yoruichi. Pushing back and forth, each of you launch one probing kick after the next, carefully testing one anothers' footing until Yoruichi's forced to sidestep a punch aimed at the back of her head.

“I see you've grown a spine again!” Yoruichi comments cheerfully. “That's good, but you'll need more than that to keep up!”

Even with Yoruichi's focus mostly on you, Tatsuki's nowhere near the level where she can keep up with a Captain and she almost immediately catches a foot to her teeth for her trouble. The human girl slams into the wall behind her leaving spiderwebs of cracks, though you take the opportunity to wrap a small reishi chain around your wife's wrist and pull her off balance for a moment.

“How!?” Tatsuki demands, rebuffed again as Yoruichi uses shunpō to sidestep and kick Tatsuki under the ribs even as she blocks a punch, which you follow up by turning in place with hirenkyaku and trying to kick her in the back. One step ahead of you, Yoruichi leaves behind an afterimage for you to kick in half and comes to a stop a few feet behind you.

“You have my back,” you offer, spreading your arms and practically begging her to attack. “Why don't you attack?”

You blink once, ducking low as Tatsuki comes flying over you after being bodily thrown by your wife.

“Okay, so that's why,” you shrug as you're forced to raise your arms to stop a falling axe kick.

Tatsuki stares at you, almost beside herself. “How do you two do it? You're not using much more reiatsu than I am, so why can't I even come close!? Were you holding back that much when we sparred that first time, Riku?”
>1/?

>>764787
man the frustration is palpable when it comes to the ludicrous power creep. Almost everyone's feeling the pain of being outmatched in someway.

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>>764787

>there may be a slight delay, the exact wording of this update's tripping me up a little.

>>764787
“Of course she and I fight differently than you do. What made you think we wouldn't?” Yoruichi replies calmly, stepping back away from you and circling to your right. Her amber eyes don't stray for even an instant as she seems to analyze everything about you in search of anything that might betray your thoughts or vulnerabilities.

“I've seen and done things you and your friends wouldn't believe,” you explain carefully. “That's why my instincts and skills are so finely honed. Such ability is partly inborn, yes, and you've had a good start.”

“But you're inexperienced,” Yoruichi continues, almost casually abusing shunpō to launch a rapid series of punches from several different directions, each expertly blocked before you force her away with a sweep of your leg. “You've only been at this for a few months. Riku and I were on the front lines in the 'war to end all wars', then in the war that came after that, fighting for our lives and for those under our command.”

You pick up the thread, going on the offensive at the same time. Each step, each strike, each block... every movement set to the fluid tempo and countertempo of your respective footwork. “Earthquakes, bombs, artillery barrages, pandemics... all of these draw hollows into the living world to threaten humans. Shinigami adapt and grow or die, and when the fighting is the worst we Captains take the field ourselves.”

“That's how we do it. It's the instinct and experience drawn from decades, even centuries of survival.”

“So I can't match that?” Tatsuki concludes grimly, “Is that what you're trying to tell me?”

>No, and you shouldn't even try. Rely on your human instincts and training, they're just as valid.
>In time, your instincts will sharpen. But you need to start with the basics the same as we did.
>That's right. But that only applies to fighting like we do... so learn to fight your own way.
>Other?

>>764912
>In time, your instincts will sharpen. But you need to start with the basics the same as we did.

Thing about Bleach is that it seems to be implicit to the setting that the closer you are to death, the faster your power grows. Naturally, the people who survive all the shit that gets thrown their way find themselves so far above the norm that they can't even see it from where they're standing.

>>764912
>>In time, your instincts will sharpen. But you need to start with the basics the same as we did.

>>764912
>>That's right. But that only applies to fighting like we do... so learn to fight your own way.

>>764912
>That's right. But that only applies to fighting like we do... so learn to fight your own way.

Perhaps remind Tatsuki that she is probably stronger then most lieutenants, and her potential surpasses that.

>>764912
>>That's right. But that only applies to fighting like we do... so learn to fight your own way.

Of course, she'll still need to consider how her opponents would fight in their way. You don't counter or survive by going toe-to-toe against someone ahead in experience, you figure out ways around it instead. Bring something unique and unexpected to the table.

>>764912
>>In time, your instincts will sharpen. But you need to start with the basics the same as we did.

>>764912
>That only applies to fighting like we do... so learn to fight your own way. You can still learn a LOT from observing us, but once you have the basics down and figured out a fighting style that suits you, that's when the magic begins. Multiply that with the teaching environment you're in to the power of how ludicrously experienced your current tutors (me and Yoruichi) over your human instincts and training, and you have a formula for an easier access to fighting at a higher weight level.
>Still, your instincts will sharpen over time so you'll eventually get there, and also consider the fact that you opponents will try to fight in a way that lets them hold the field advantage. So consider that as well while you're training.
>Go around, ask for some sparring sessions with different fighters with different styles, learn how to adapt and use your unique powers to your full advantage.

>>764912
>That's right. But that only applies to fighting like we do... so learn to fight your own way.

>writan
Dice +3d10 for trying to talk and fight at the same time. DC 6.

Rolled 1, 9, 8 = 18 (3d10)

>>764993

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

>>764993

Rolled 6, 3, 3 = 12 (3d10)

>>764993

Rolled 10, 6, 5 = 21 (3d10)

>>764993

Rolled 2, 2, 1 = 5 (3d10)

>>764993

>>764996
Is okay

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>>764996
Not bad at all.

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>>765135
Another post claimed victim by the fickle powers of whiskey.

>>765135
>>765138
DRINK.
also you drunk posting?

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>>765138
“That's exactly right,” you agree even while continuing to trade furious blows with Yoruichi. “You'll never be able to catch up with two centuries or more of combat experience, and you'll never be able to truly fight the way we do. Not with only one human lifetime to work with.”

“But don't get too down over it!” Yoruichi insists cheerfully, taking a quick swipe at your face to cover a sweep at your ankles that takes you off your feet for a moment before you can spring back off your hands. Yoruichi leans back to avoid a rising kick. “Because you don't have to fight like us. In fact... I don't even think you should try.”

“What do you mean?”

“You skipped a step,” you explain as you counter one of Yoruichi's kicks with a high kick of your own, then a second lower kick that meets her ankle, and then a third roundhouse that meets her own in response, “in that you never really got the basics down. We can teach you those... none better, really!”

With a grunt of exertion you move to block Yoruichi's fist as she dramatically changes styles on you, settling into a lower stance and charging forwards with her hands raised in a somewhat loose boxer's guard.

Wait, you think to yourself, this is new...

“You'll only reach your potential by learning your own advantages,” she tells Tatsuki as she slips a hook past your guard, “not merely by mimicking us!”

When you throw your own punch Yoruichi grabs your wrist and steps behind you with shunpō, nearly wrenching your shoulder from its socket and striking you in the back of the head with her elbow. Your visions swims as you respond in kind with an elbow of your own that loosens her grip on you just enough to break free and reverse the hold on her. Your left hand finds her shoulder and presses her forward as your left leg hooks in front of her shins in a powerful throw... which she simply follows through with. The momentum twists her wrist free of your grasp and lets her land evenly on her feet.

“You clever girl...” you grin, adopting the hand position of a muay thai guard. “You went and learned a new style, didn't you?”

Yoruichi grins right back at you, rushing in with a kick of her lead foot that you counter with your knee shifting into a southpaw stance as you await a punch that never comes. “Nope... just took your example, wife.”

A sweeping kick forces you onto your back foot, and about a handful's worth of gravel flies towards your face. You instinctively shut your eyes, and open them to find a closed fist hovering a few centimeters in front of them.

“You're pretty good,” you compliment Yoruichi as she relaxes her arm, lowering her fist.

She glances down at your foot, where you stopped it just before stomping the exposed side of her kneecap with it. “It's still a work in progress.”
>1/2
>>765140
Maybe.

>>765140
>drunk posting
Isn't that the usual QM fare?

>>765143
I'm not hearing a no. So that means yes.
>>765145
The only QM I know that regularly drunk posts is Soma.

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>>765153
>regularly

>>765143
“What was that just now?” Tatsuki wonders aloud. “It wasn't kung fu at all... more like Vale Tudo.”

“That's actually quite perceptive,” Yoruichi admits, exchanging a brief congratulatory fist-bump with you. “But you're wrong on a few counts. It fuses jujutsu and Shorinji kempo in a similar manner to how Vale Tudo fuses its parent styles, but really the end result is closer to Krav Maga.”

“It was really unexpected,” you tell her. “Have you learned how to combine it with heihuquan, or your butterfly swords?”

“Who do you think I am?”

You shrug, conceding the point immediately. Of course she's already figured that out, she wouldn't use something against you if she hadn't thought it through at least that far. “Wait, how long have you been thinking clearly?”

Yoruichi smirks. “Oh, not long at all!”

>Run Tatsuki through her paces with shunpō, teach her how to use rapid movement better in combat.
>Teach her some hakuda, so she won't rely on her powers for the basics anymore.
>Go get Rukia. There are a few things they can both stand to learn, and they'd make good sparring partners.
>Other?

>>765237
>Go get Rukia. There are a few things they can both stand to learn, and they'd make good sparring partners.

>>765237
>>Go get Rukia. There are a few things they can both stand to learn, and they'd make good sparring partners.

>>765237
>Run Tatsuki through her paces with shunpō, teach her how to use rapid movement better in combat.

>>765237
>>Teach her some hakuda, so she won't rely on her powers for the basics anymore.

>>765237
>Go get Rukia. There are a few things they can both stand to learn, and they'd make good sparring partners.
>Run Tatsuki through her paces with shunpō, teach her how to use rapid movement better in combat.

>>765237
>>Go get Rukia. There are a few things they can both stand to learn, and they'd make good sparring partners.

They both could use the practice, besides Tatsuki will learn better when fighting more varied opponents not just Riku

>>765237
>Go get Rukia. There are a few things they can both stand to learn, and they'd make good sparring partners.
Theoretically they are both near the same stage of development and are quite acquainted with each other so it would work out well.
>Have Yoruichi run Tatsuki through her paces with shunpō, teach her how to use rapid movement better in combat.
Yoru teaches Tatsuki while Riku fetches Rukia so she can both cram them together in the training program. Two burds with 1 rock and a lightning cat.

Oh, and you might want to consider that any fighter worth his salt would easily take advantage of a subpar combatant trying to cover her inexperience with flash steps. It's probably a better idea for Tats to have a solid foundation and build up from there with reishi shenanigans.

>>765237
>>Teach her some hakuda, so she won't rely on her powers for the basics anymore.

>>765237
>>Go get Rukia. There are a few things they can both stand to learn, and they'd make good sparring partners.
And maybe transition to cooperative partners in the future, if Rukia also decides to stand beside Ichigo in the battle lines. It's a start.

Going to go fetch Rukia it is. Rolling to see how she's been healing up in the interim.

>>765390
oh no. dice luck says she's a cripple now.

Rolled 4, 4, 9 = 17 (3d10)

>>765390
It would help if I actually rolled, wouldn't it. Sometimes I wonder about my basic level of competence.

>>765399
>2 4s
KNEW IT. SHE'S CRIPPLED!

>>765399
Eh, if you've had a drink or two its remarkable how quickly you start forgetting such little things. Also that roll was...Not great.

>>765399
>Double 4s

She's developed early onset Alzheimers.

>>765399
So she has a serious case of Unohana?

>>765417
Aizenheimers! Symptoms include keikaku and narcissistic megalomania

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>>765441
>Aizenheimers

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>>765399
“I'm going to go see if Kuchiki is able to move yet,” you declare, turning to leave. “Yoruichi, if you're feeling back to normal I'll leave you to do as you please, but I'd appreciate if you let Tenri know where I've gone.”

“I'll hang around a bit longer,” Yoruichi yawns, stretching her arms as she turns back to your home. “Besides, we've still got two artifacts to puzzle out.”

That's actually a fair point. The pipe was just the first of three divine objects you need to figure out how to use and draw shinreiryoku from, and if this was any indication the others will be a pain in the ass as well. Not to mention that it's clear at least the masu was meant to be shared as well.

“We'll deal with that next,” you promise.

It takes moments to reach the infirmary, where you find that Kuchiki is right where you left her after yesterday's fight with Mask de Masculine. This time however she's a bit more conscious, if still in rough shape.

“Please forgive my appearance, Captain,” she apologizes queitly. “I'm afraid I didn't get through my battle as cleanly as the others did.”

“And you'll have to forgive me as well, Captain,” a new voice agrees as Lieutenant Kotetsu joins you from across the ward. “I'm under orders from Captain Unohana to oversee Third Seat Kuchiki's recovery.”

You raise an eyebrow at the skyscraper of a Lieutenant as she bows politely, her long beaded sidelocks and dangling earrings swinging as she does so. “Byakuya put her up to this.”

“Captain Kuchiki was concerned about his sister's recovery,” Isane admits quietly, “and while few can argue with the results your Commandos attain it's common knowledge that you push them harder than any other seated officers in the Gotei 13.”

“Because they can take it,” you counter. “If they couldn't I wouldn't have selected them.”

“I'm sorry, Captain,” Isane bows again, sincerity clear in her voice, “but this is an affair of the Kuchiki house. Unohana didn't like it either, but she accepted the political reality of the situation. Until such time as Kuchiki recovers, I can't let you push her at all. Even though I do agree with your assessment.”

>Then I bear sole responsibility for taking her with me, and you can tell Byakuya as much.
>And if she were to suddenly be healed, by some... 'unknown' means? Would she be free to go?
>Explain to Rukia how you fought Mask with a hole in your gut. Let her decide from there.
>Other?

>>765490
>Explain to Rukia how you fought Mask with a hole in your gut. Let her decide from there.

>>765490
>>And if she were to suddenly be healed, by some... 'unknown' means? Would she be free to go?

>>765490
>Explain to Rukia how you fought Mask with a hole in your gut. Let her decide from there.

>>765143
>“You're pretty good,”

Tell me we did the hand thing

>>765490
>And if she were to suddenly be healed, by some... 'unknown' means? Would she be free to go?

>>765490
>Explain to Rukia how you fought Mask with a hole in your gut. Let her decide from there.
>Guess I've got a lot to explain to Byakuya then.

>>765490
>And if she were to suddenly be healed, by some... 'unknown' means? Would she be free to go?

>>765490
>Then I bear sole responsibility for taking her with me, and you can tell Byakuya as much

Why do we suddenly care what Byakuya thinks?

>>765635
About Riku? Probably none of you do, and IC she probably wouldn't either. It's more about absolving Isane of any responsibility.

>writing

>>765690
I care only because having him in our corner makes it easier to stop the C46 from doing stupid shit.

>>765690
Well, if Riku really wanted to take Rukia with her, there's nothing Kotetsu can really do about it. Byakuya should know that. So anything that isn't just leaving with Rukia is trying to please Byakuya and his silliness.

>>765690
Eh, just tell her to pass the message along and be very clear about the fact that she couldn't have stopped us.

QM needs a roll real briefly, got to a point near the end of the update where it's kind of a tossup.

Give me a 3d10 roll, DC is 8. Best of three.

Rolled 9, 3, 4 = 16 (3d10)

>>765882

Rolled 2, 8, 8 = 18 (3d10)

>>765882
Byakuya picks this moment to visit his sister in hospital

Rolled 7, 8, 8 = 23 (3d10)

>>765882

Rolled 4, 4, 3 = 11 (3d10)

>>765882

>>765892
Good jaab

Rolled 10, 3, 8 = 21 (3d10)

>>765882

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>>765896
Argh! I was so close! SO CLOSE!

>>765896
Awww....

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>>765896
SUCCESS!

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>>765934
“And if she were to leave on her own power?”

Isane frowns, glancing down at Rukia in her bed. “My orders are to ensure nobody interferes with her recovery, and to speed it along as best I can.”

“I see,” you sigh before looking Rukia straight in the eye. “Do you know how I managed to fight Mask in the condition I was in?”

“With a hole through your stomach?” she asks, staring at the ceiling. “No. I've been wondering that since I woke up, Captain.”

“Brooding, more like,” Kai interrupts.

Nearby, Mirai briefly looks up from the book in her hand, glancing over at her fellow Third Seat. “We both know that feeling, Nikko.”

“The trick is simple,” you continue, ignoring your other two Commandos for now. “I fought with that wound for two reasons. First is that I knew I had no choice, and that so many lives were in the balance I couldn't afford to lose.”

“Desperation?” Rukia asks glumly.

“Focus,” you correct. “O la vittoria, o tutti accoppati – either we win, or we all die. Having no way out but forward tends to encourage that mindset.”

“And the second reason?”

“The Onmitsukidō taught me to ignore pain and discomfort, the things that hold you back from accomplishing your goals, and to focus on what you still have available. Lose one ability, sense, or limb... simply use the others. But in any case, continue to move forward as best you can.”

“That sounds unhealthy,” Isane comments.

“And I'd normally agree,” you nod. “We shinigami are tough, but not invincible... but when the alternative is to die in battle, or to allow those who fight beside you to die? I've seen humans pull themselves up in the midst of battle with that determination, and accomplish incredible feats in the face of their own mortality. Those of us who call ourselves Commandos, Lieutenants, or Captains all come to that understanding. I believe that even you understand that essential truth, Lieutenant Kotetsu.”

Your eyes meet Isane's and hold them there, as if she's unable to look away. “When faced with death, any alternative is preferable.”
>1/2

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>>765944
“Consider those points, Third Seat Kuchiki,” you conclude, turning to leave the infirmary. “My wishes for your speedy recovery.”

But as you begin to walk away, you hear a commotion. Looking back you see that Rukia has struggled out of bed, much to your surprise, leaning heavily on her sword to prop herself up. She's barely standing, and even Kai and Mirai seem nervous at her condition... but the fact remains that she is standing, and the look in her eyes is one of cool determination. You imagine many hollows last memories are of a similar look in your own eyes.

“Well now, that's more like it!” you grin. “Looks like you've finally made up your mind, Kuchiki Rukia.”

>Heal her back up to full. She's going to need it, and you can spare the reiatsu.
>Heal her partway. The struggle will make her stronger than any other training.
>Don't heal her at all. Push her right to her breaking point, even if she's close already.
>Other?

>>766000
>>Heal her back up to full. She's going to need it, and you can spare the reiatsu.

Wait, shit. It just hit me. The pipe was for Starrk.

I guess we can share a holy meal with him? He's related to a divine being, so giving him shinreiryoku seems appropriate. But then again, rice is more of an Inari thing, so maybe not?

Fuck.

>>766000
>>Heal her partway. The struggle will make her stronger than any other training.

>>766000
>Heal her partway. The struggle will make her stronger than any other training.

That latest ask.fm answer is sitting in my mind and I would really rather Rukia didn't kill herself through her own determination, but I also don't want to invalidate that determination.

Hardship builds character.

>>766013
>The pipe was for Starrk.
The pipe full of fucking Catnip was for starrk?

>>766000
>Heal her partway. The struggle will make her stronger than any other training
Nice trips

>>765934
>Heal her partway. The struggle will make her stronger than any other training.
>Rukia, I'm only going to heal you half-way. This will simulate a commando situation where you're forced to fight unprepare and not fully rested in uneven terms and prepare you for the upcoming skirmishes should a scenario like this arises.

>>766013
The Masu box is more related to drinking rice wine. We can give him some wine to drink from the box.

>>766019
It's a win-win gambit, because if anyone but Yoruichi smokes it, it probably wouldn't even be noticed.

Also that bit probably wouldn't have been written in.

Or maybe it was for Yoruichi, and examining it would've revealed the catnip and thus made it obvious who it was for, and we need to do the same for the other artifacts.

I'm just probably just in shadowruns mode for no reason and we get to do whatever we want with them. Stick it up the cooch, who cares? As long as the divinity gets absorbed.

>>766018
link?

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>>766000
Rukia is filled with determination

By the way queen that gif is fucking adorable holy shit.

>>766053
>So whenre we going to bring Rukia to the secret training room until she gets bankai?

>When she wouldn't just end up accidentally killing herself, maybe?
>Just a suggestion.

Not strictly relevant, but you know. The same principle applies.

>dice+3d10
Higher roll means closer to an "ideal balance". Low roll could impede her progress, or put her in danger later on.

Rolled 5, 2, 1 = 8 (3d10)

>>766150

Rolled 10, 10, 3 = 23 (3d10)

>>766150

Rolled 10, 3, 8 = 21 (3d10)

>>766150
dammiT BEST OUT OF 3?

>>766167
Well, I hope so

>>766164
Well, at least we passed!

>>766164
I think we did it.

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>>766164
>>766150
Now Rukia's gonna get a power boost.

Rukia's doing pretty good, but give me a 1d10 roll. Taking the second one.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>766331
2 or 10 pls

>>766331

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>766340
Don't know how I messed that up. Maybe I erased the plus or something.

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>766331

>>766346
...anon

>>766346
>1
FUCK THAT'S SUPER HORRIBLE.

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>>766346
welp.

>>766346

well, something interesting occurs... not inherently bad, but likely...

>>766346
Well.... It's not a 4?
I can't stop laughing. Messing up the dice was a sign.

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>>766346
>writing

>>766371
Yes, I hope it will be okay!

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>>766371
“Now hold still, Kuchiki,” you instruct. “I'm going to heal you partway, using kaidō through your blood. It won't heal you completely, nor will I replenish your reiatsu completely.”

Kuchiki nods in understanding as you slit your own palm. Isane recoils at the sight.

“Captain, what are you doing!?”

You press your palm against the deepest of Kuchiki's wounds, and allow your blood to flow into her body. “To use this trick I need to be bleeding. You know I was a quincy when I was alive, I trust?”

“I think everyone at Lieutenant or above does, ma'am,” Isane replies. “Why?”

“There's a technique called Blut,” you explain. “In a past life I used to be able to use that to heal my own body from the inside. By pushing my own blood into someone else, I can heal them in the same way.”

“What about your hollowfication?” Isane asks, examining Kuchiki's wound as you heal it. “Isn't there a risk of infection?”

You shake your head. “No. Not only has it never happened before, but the infectious agent seemed to have a fairly short life by design. Otherwise anyone I ever cut with my sword would probably have been infected same as Yoruichi and I were. Zaraki'd have been one for a century otherwise.”

“As much as I hate the man Aizen knew what he was doing.”

“I see,” the Lieutenant frowns as you complete your task.

“That should be fine,” you nod, stopping the healing as soon as you feel Kuchiki will be able to fight. This should make for a significant challenge to manage her limited reiatsu and physical injuries, and satisfy Isane's orders. “So will you stay here, Lieutenant?”

Isane looks at Rukia thoughtfully as she tightens her kosode. “I suppose this fulfills my duties. I can stay here and tend to your other Commandos if you want.”

“Please do.”

With a subtle gesture you silently order Rukia to follow you, and offer Kai and Mirai a polite bow. Really not much more than a nod at that point, but the significance of even receiving a bow from their Captain is lost on neither of the two. Kuchiki for example would never even consider bowing to anyone except under the most exceptional circumstances, and out of the other Captains the only one particularly known for bowing to her peers is Unohana who's polite to almost everyone she meets.
>1/2

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>>766541
You lead Rukia back to where Tatsuki and Yoruichi have been waiting, and notice something of an unseasonable chill in the air. Is Hitsugaya working out somewhere?

"Kuchiki," Tatsuki greets your Commando in a cool voice.

With no warmer a tone Rukia responds in kind. "Arisawa. Why are you in my Captain's garden?"

"Training," the human teen replies, with what feels like an unspoken accusation. "And what have you been up to lately?"

"Recovering from a near-fatal wound," Rukia explains.

Yoruichi, who's been eying the two as they trade icy jabs, cocks her eyebrow at you and makes a mocking, claw-like motion with one hand.

You shrug.

>Both of you, shut up and pay attention. I'm giving you a training regimen.
>Screw 'training', if you're gonna be catty anyway just get to the fighting.
>Set aside your petty bullshit, you'll need to start helping each other if you want to get strong quick.
>Demand to know what this is about, then loudly berate them when it turns out to be chickenshit.
>Other?

>>766640
>Set aside your petty bullshit, you'll need to start helping each other if you want to get strong quick.
>Demand to know what this is about, then loudly berate them when it turns out to be chickenshit.
>Unless you too want Ichigo to do all the fighting while you sit on the sidelines, buck up and get your asses together.

>>766640
>Both of you, shut up and pay attention. I'm giving you a training regimen.
Pls no cat jokes around the Yoru

>>766640
>>Both of you, shut up and pay attention. I'm giving you a training regimen.

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>>766640
>Demand to know what this is about, then loudly berate them when it turns out they're fighting over Ichigo

> post yfw the BerryBowl heats up

>>766640
>Set aside your petty bullshit, you'll need to start helping each other if you want to get strong quick.
>Headbonk both Rukia and Tatsuki via shunpo/hirenyaku(dunno if this is spelled correctly)
>Loudly complain how Rukia and Tatsuki act like girls vying for the same boyfriend.
>>766671
Seconding the mention of the whole Berrybowl debacle.

>>766640
I guess >>766671 covers it.

And that d10 was for Rukia and Tatsuki's relationship?

>>766640
>Demand to know what this is about.
>Tell them that they’d better hope you find it a good reason.
>Else, it’s time for RIKU brand training.

>>766640
>>Set aside your petty bullshit, you'll need to start helping each other if you want to get strong quick.

>>Demand to know what this is about, then loudly berate them when it turns out to be chickenshit.

I know picking two options isn't really...allowed, but seriously these two are more or less the same thing, only difference is that Riku bothers to ask wtf they are mad about. Or that is what I read into these options anyway

>>766640
>give Rukia and Tatsuki [i]the glare[/i]

>>766754
See, they're really not even close.

It's a big difference how deeply you want to pry into their personal affairs, and whether you want to actually try and address their disagreement or just tell them to fuck off and get to work like adults rather than dwelling on petty shit.

>>766640
>>Demand to know what this is about, then loudly berate them when it turns out to be chickenshit.

>>766745
>that d10 was for Rukia and Tatsuki's relationship
Ha, cute.

>>766774
Roll me 3d10 for the effectiveness of Riku's patented "Serious The Fuck Up" glare.

Rolled 7, 8, 5 = 20 (3d10)

>>766838

Rolled 8, 6, 3 = 17 (3d10)

>>766838

Rolled 10, 8, 4 = 22 (3d10)

>>766838

>>766852
>10,8
>They both start crying and asking Ichigo to save them

>>766858
more like they regret having brought up the petty issue in the first place and fear Riku cranking up the difficulty meter in their training regimen to Dark Souls newgame+++ difficulty.

>>766813
It's tricky, I'm not sure if Riku ever was in a love triangle with someone so it's hard to understand what it's like. We shuld probably try, I guess.

>>766913
Well, Little Bee had a crush on Yoruichi.

>>766920
She had lost before she even had a chance.

>>766838
Tatsuki freezes in place as you glare at her, and to your side you can practically feel Rukia stop breathing at the very same moment.

“Would either of you two young ladies care to explain to me why it is that you're acting like spoiled brats chasing after the same boy?” you growl, and to your immense displeasure Tatsuki's eyes immediately find your shoes and resolutely avoid your gaze. Rukia too remains silent.

Your hand finds your forehead as you sigh. “Don't tell me that's it? This is about Ichigo, isn't it?”

“Kind of,” Tatsuki mutters quietly.

Yoruichi perches herself on a nearby rock, watching in fascination as the drama unfolds. “Well, maybe you weren't doing it wrong after all... flirting, that is. Boy's thick as a brick wall when it comes to women.”

“It isn't like that,” Rukia insists in a low voice, almost as if she hoped you wouldn't hear her.

“Then what is it like?”

“If Ichigo hadn't met Kuchiki none of this would have happened,” Tatsuki explains with a mutinous scowl at your Commando. “His entire family's gotten dragged into this mess because of it!”

Rukia glares right back at her. “And had you kept him from coming here as I had intended he would never have been hurt the way he was! The Central 46 wouldn't know about him either. The last thing I wanted was for him to put himself at further risk over me!”

“Ichigo would never listen to that sort of talk, you know that!”

“He would have listened to you!”

“Enough,” you insist loudly. “Ichigo needs your help now, and as you are neither of you has the strength to fight at his side. You're both important to him, and you both know as well as I do that he'll gladly accept getting hurt to keep you safe if he feels he must. Though he'd never say it to you, I'll tell you what you are to him right now.”

“You are both liabilities.”

The garden falls silent once your voice stops. No catty responses are exchanged, no accusations leveled, no defenses offered. The full weight of your words sinks in slowly, as difficult truths usually do.

“So if you want to change that, listen very carefully: I want the two of you to begin drilling your shunpō. Rukia, you will offer any pointers you can until Tatsuki can match you. Then you will push each others' speed until one of you collapses or the sun goes down. Whichever happens first.”
>1/2

>>767019
dayum. There's Drill Sargent Riku right there.

>>767019
You glance first at Rukia, then at Tatsuki. Neither one moves initially. “That wasn't a request ladies, I am dead serious. Refuse, complain, or bitch at each other over pointless shit again when I'm in earshot? One of you gets sent home immediately and her training ends, the other gets relieved of duty.”

“Do I make myself abundantly clear?”

“Yes, ma'am,” Kuchiki bows. “I apologize for my previous outbursts.”

“Understood, sensei,” Tatsuki bows as well. “Sorry to be a pain in your ass.”

“I don't care,” you sigh, sitting down next to Yoruichi, “so quit wasting each others' time with apologies and get to work already.”

>Monitor their training, offer advice where necessary.
>Try and work out with Yoruichi how to use another artifact?
>Other?

>>767134
>Monitor their training, offer advice where necessary.

>>767134
>Monitor their training, offer advice where necessary.

>>767134
>>Try and work out with Yoruichi how to use another artifact?

>>767134
>Try and work out with Yoruichi how to use another artifact?

Let them hash their shit out, don't be all micro-managey

>>767134
>Try and work out with Yoruichi how to use another artifact?

A more powerful Riku will probably be more useful than a not-jobber Tatsuki and timeskip Rukia.

>>767134
>Monitor their training, offer advice where necessary.
>Maintain "Serious the Fuck up" the glare while monitoring them.
Just to reinforce that Riku is still able to chew them out like common nasty drill Sargent in military boot camp, she was soft on them with their initial training, Rukia's sheltered upbringing into Commando rank by Riku personal tutelage, and Tatsuki with Riku personally helping her become a living Shimigami like Berryboy via a dangerous soul surgery operation, but now the two need to realize that "playtime is over" AND RIKU NEEDS EVERYONE TO GET THEIR WARFACE ON.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6vHOR8lzTg

>>767134
>>Monitor their training, offer advice where necessary.

Okay, so which would you like to focus on? And what thoughts do you have on how to make each work?

>The wooden masu-box
>The silver sacrificial knife

>>767385
>>The wooden masu-box
Share a meal with someone out of it?

>>767385
>The silver sacrificial knife

>>767385
>The wooden masu-box
Given Japanese customs over the time in terms of ceremonial use, it's often they use the box by filling it to the brim with wine, the more full the box is the more it means for their wealth/health/life to be prosperous, overfilling the box is also a sign of generosity.

>>767385
>The wooden masu-box

>>767385
Didn’t monitor training win?

>>767484
I think this is Riku and Yoruichi discussing which artifact they plan to try out next. They're not actually going to use the artifact, it's more like setting up an appointment, all the while monitoring Tatsuki and Yoruichi in their training.

>>767484
I counted >>767215 as both by mistake, because I saw two lines of greentext and assumed more people would... you know. Stay focused on the long term goal rather than continue micromanaging everything.

It's 2:30 in the morning and the butter's slipping off my noodles. So I'm going to go ahead and call it here for the night and pick up here tomorrow, 10am PST. Archive is up already, and hope you've enjoyed so far despite my being a little out of it. I'll try and bring my A game tomorrow.

>>767521
Maybe fold it into the same vote?
>Also, which artifact will you discuss with Yoruichi while you watch?

>>767385
>The silver sacrificial knife
Still no idea what to do with this. Like the one time Artemis wanted a human sacrifice it didn't really turn out well/she actually just wanted to fuck the sacrifice and switched her with a deer.

>>767521
I don't know, the problem is that we have no idea how to use either object right now.

>>766541
>Zaraki'd have been one for a century otherwise

[worry]

>>767595
The intent was to start floating ideas and discuss with Yoruichi how they might work. I'll be back on briefly when I get home to see how the discussion goes, and answer any questions.

>>767595
Grab a deer, and stab it.

sacrificial daggers I think was more of a communal thing among the greeks for delivering the killing blow to a sacrificial animal for the community to feast upon for a meal, but of course they had to respect the greek pantheon and all that so they added a ceremonial flair to the process.

>>767693
it's gotta be a ghost one, not a mortal live one. Sacrificial animals to be considered: Goats, Deer, pig, cow, rabbits, fowl, sheep, lamb.
The dagger might also have a requirement of the sacrifice being acquired from hunting quarry.

>>767693
Artemis really doesn't seem to like deer being killed, though it could be she just doesn't like the specific deer she likes being killed.

>>767416
>it's often they use the box by filling it to the brim with wine, the more full the box is the more it means for their wealth/health/life to be prosperous

Maybe it's meant for Shunsui? Y'know, after taking the reins from the Old Man.

And he really likes drinking too.

Wait, maybe it's for cutting off the best portions of a meal and throwing them into a fire. How Greeks were supposed to honor the gods at meals.

>>767810
>From the last thread: “This must be a ceremonial weapon. The blade geometry is all wrong for a hunting knife, and the ornamentation adds no functional purpose. I'm getting as much from Shōsōtō.”
Not a bad suggestion, the only issue with that however is that we're performing a greek ceremony to a Greco-Roman deity on spirit-Japanese soil.

>>767856
Ah, but here's the thing: WE are the 'deity' that's supposed to benefit from this ritual.

So perhaps we need someone to carve up a sacrifice made to Riku. Which Yoruichi may be able to help with.

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>>767796
Another thought about the Masu box is that drinking wine from a masu box has a different flavor/taste compared to drinking heated sake from a porcelain cup. The wood in the masu box actually adds flavor to the wine which I think is how you get the shinreiryoku from the box, by literally drinking the shinreiryoku infused wine from the masu box.
>pic related

>>767906
so.... stab the sacrifice being offered with the knife and let the shinreiryoku diffuse through the meat before eating it? We got the shinreiryoku from Coyote's pipe by smoking the shinreiryoku through the pipe, so it should make sense that the artifacts need to infuse shinreiryoku through another object for consumption through their use.

>>767999
That sounds plausible. It's worth a try.

I'll leave you all with a thought for the night: Coyote, Inari, and Artemis all want Riku to figure out how to use these three objects properly. She already figured out the pipe, and the fact that there was catnip in the pipeweed basically confirms that not only were they meant to smoke it but that she was intended to do so with Yoruichi.

So with that in mind, try not to overthink it too much. While there are definitely "wrong" ways to do it the "right" way is not going to be super obscure or painfully specific. And one of you definitely has one of the two completely figured out.

>>768407

Huh, that's it for the night? Oh well.

As for which one is completely figured out, I'd guess it's the Masu box. That sounds like a very solid deduction there.

Does make me wonder if there's a way to confirm that yes, we've done it right, as Coyote did with the catnip. That was clever, and I wonder if the goddesses were just as clever..

>>768544
Yeah, that's it for the night. I'm pretty beat.

>>768553
Fair enough. Are you planning to continue tomorrow?

Sleep well!

>>768688
Yeah, same time.

I just had an idea.

Let's get Orihime in here to restore the pipe to its original state, with the shinreiryoku. Or some of the other stuff. Then rinse and repeat until we (and Yoruichi) have enough shinreiryoku.

Or both are too baked to continue smoking.

>>769307
I think shinreiryoku is susceptible to time shenanigans. Also thinking about the sacrificial dagger, most greek/roman sacrifices use either behead the sacrifice with an axe or simply use sacrifical dagger to slit the throat. Considering Artemis gave us a dagger, that means we'll need to find the throat of a livestock to slit for a blood-offering sacrifice. And considering how shinreiryoku works when it comes to infusions or transferring through object use, the shinreiryoku's gonna end up in the blood since we're using the dagger.

>>769393
Blood sausage anyone? Shits good.

>>769393
Eh, we may want to try anyway. Orihime's power would be very useful for this...presuming we don't let Aizen know about it and have him try this method. We don't need a rescue Orihime arc.

Though if the objects can be restored but minus shinreiyoku, it may be worth trying to use Orihime to fix Kukaku's arm. We could give her back her arm, without the King's Key. Everyone is happy.

Except the Royal Guard, who are probably now freaked out about Orihime's power, but they can join the club.

A theory on Artemis' Contribution:

Artemis is the Goddess of the Hunt, one of her sacred animals was the Golden Hind. So in that respect, shouldn't we use that alongside Apacci?

Then considering that Artemis is also the Protector of Children, Virgins, and Pregnant Mothers, and the dagger itself, it's pretty obvious that some blood-letting will need to be done.

Between us and Apacci.

>>770313
Fuck, forgot to add:

Basically, think of it as a ceremony in which we mixing our blood with Apacci's and declare her as our daughter.

In this respect, we hit pretty much all points associated with Artemis.

>>770319
I'd rather just kill and eat something with her desu

It's not a bonding knife, it's a sacrificial knife

>>768692
Hey Queen, what would have happened if >>766838 had gone 10, 10, 10?

>>770368
I imagine she wouldn't have had to even say anything. Reality itself would simply know better than to disobey her will.

>>770313
That seems reasonable to me, I can't think of anyone we know with a closer thematic connection to Artemis.

Given the confirmation that someone had one of the two figured out already, I'm thinking that the Masu box is meant to be shared with Shunsui, and giving him some shinreiryoku ought to be worth a lot of good will in the future for whatever shenanigans we pull.

>>770368
>Rukia grows chest hair

I'll be back on in a little more than an hour. It may be a little bit late, since I was out most of the day.

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>>770593
You are Kusajishi Riku, and your two new students have begun trading tentative blows with each other in the garden near your home in the Ninth Division. Rukia seems uncertain of Tatsuki's speed and skill at rapid movement techniques, and Tatsuki seems unconvinced of Rukias physical power and technique. And you have to admit that they both have good reason to doubt each other: Rukia's not exactly great at hakuda, and you're not sure you've ever seen Tatsuki use shunpō or anything like it.

“Tatsuki, you need to learn how to move your feet properly,” you declare, watching the girl move about. “Shunpō relies on forcing one's body from resting to peak exertion in as short a period as possible. It would probably shred a human body, but a shinigami of your caliber can handle it.”

“Yes, sensei!” Tatsuki replies, trying to act on your advice. She succeeds... in running headlong into Rukia.

“Be more careful!” Rukia demands loudly. “If you cannot stop your shunpō properly, avoid using it in my direction!”

“You could have stopped her,” Yoruichi observes calmly. “Taken advantage of her mistake. Hands higher, feet further apart, hips lower.”

“Yes, Captain Shihōin!” Rukia replies, trying awkwardly to assume a proper boxer's stance.

Yoruichi sighs. “Other foot forward, Kuchiki.”

This... isn't exactly an auspicious start.

“So what do you think about the knife and the box?” you ask, resting your chin on your palm as you watch the two continue to spar. “How do we go about using them?”

“Well, it seems we did the pipe right,” Yoruichi concludes thoughtfully. “That rat bastard Coyote did us one service in slipping me catnip, since it confirms we did what he expected.”

“Sadly it tells us nothing more about the others aside from the fact that I'm meant to share,” you sigh. Tatsuki cracks Rukia across the eye as Yoruichi considers the point.

“Actually, we don't even really know what happened with the pipe,” your wife admits. “I could try and figure out the answer to that, but I think we both know there are people better suited.”

>Urahara might be able to tell us more about how the shinreiryoku affected you.
>We could speak with Hikifune or Shutara, ask them to keep this quiet.
>I don't trust anyone else with this information. We'll rely on your judgment.
>Let's focus on investigating one of the objects instead.
>Other?

>>770420
It's possible it's not meant to be shared at all in this case. Shunsui becoming part divine would definitely be a sticking point between him and the Royal Guard. In that regard, perhaps it isn't much of a gift.

I buy Yoruichi being meant for shinreiyoku, she's our wife. >>770313 I can almost buy this being correct, it hits a lot of points with Artemis but also seems very complicated, more than I'd expect the answer to be.

>>770714
>We could speak with Hikifune or Shutara, ask them to keep this quiet.

>>770714
>>Urahara might be able to tell us more about how the shinreiryoku affected you.

>>770714
>We could speak with Hikifune or Shutara, ask them to keep this quiet.
>Let's focus on investigating one of the objects instead.

Hikifune is a preferable person to approach with in unraveling the Masu box. It's right up her alley.

Cuts it close regards to the Monk getting wind of this and taking action though.

Didn't we already talk to one of the Royal Guard about consuming shinreiyoku? It's...probably safe to talk to them about a little more. The only real escalation here is the gods actually making sure some of the stuff gets to us. The Monk may be alarmed by that, I suppose, but it was probably inevitable.

>>770714
>>Urahara might be able to tell us more about how the shinreiryoku affected you.
I mean he's basically ghost Batman.

Come to think of it, now that Yoruichi has shinreiyoku isn't it possible that her copy of the Plot Rock will now actually do something?

Still kinda looking for a tiebreaker here.

>>770776
I haven't cast a vote but I'm legit divided here.

On one hand, if Urahara can be trusted, he may be able to come up with unconventional solutions. Maybe even be more open now that this affects Yoruichi too. On the other hand....IF he can be trusted, and if he is more open.

Versus the Royal Guard, who know some of what we're planning, but the Monk is definitely not on our side and we're skirting rather close to him.

>>770786
If all else fails go with your gut, anon.

>>770714
>Urahara might be able to tell us more about how the shinreiryoku affected you.

Making this vote because sooner or later we need to get Urahara on the same page with us. We can't be at war with our own side, least of all if Urahara is against us.

So..roll dem bones, hope it ends well. This is as good a chance as we're likely to get.

>>770714
>>Urahara might be able to tell us more about how the shinreiryoku affected you.

>>770714
>I don't trust anyone else with this information. We'll rely on your judgment.

> clogs, always bet on clogs.

>Urahara selected
>3d10, DC 6
Best of four.

Rolled 2, 9, 3 = 14 (3d10)

>>770800

Rolled 9, 10, 1 = 20 (3d10)

>>770800

Rolled 8, 6, 2 = 16 (3d10)

>>770800

>>770798
clogs right now is nervous as fuck because of the rampant implications that affects the G13 as well as the RG's rep for killing part-divines. Probably because his sword also has a ded god inside.

Rolled 4, 8, 5 = 17 (3d10)

>>770800

Rolled 9, 6, 8 = 23 (3d10)

>>770804

Rolled 5, 8, 1 = 14 (3d10)

>>770800

PRAISE CLOGS

>>770810
DAMMIT YOU'RE ONE SECOND TOO LATE.

>>770805
Nice.

>>770810

Damn it all I rolled too late. BY ONE SECOND.

Hey, idea: are we getting an extra dice because Tenktsuki is helping us, or Yoruichi?

Since both are reasonably assumed to be helping us here, does that mean we should get FIVE dice?

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>>770805
>>770807
Success. You'll see what for in a moment.

>>770820
In this case it's just Tenkotsuki.

>>770821
that's not a happy image.