Kyuden Shika

"Oh, pretty sure this one was the very first one. 'Present your genealogy in a way that's technically true but very much avoiding the inconvenient parts of that truth'."

"Oh, your ideal spouse will definitely go through a difficult first year of marriage. But after that, maybe they will have kicked your butt enough time for some of the skills you need to learn to make their way into your brain. ... Okay, I can't find a situation where you'll have to ikebana for your...

"In the desert, all life is scarce, even spiritual ones. It's a law of average thing. On average, the desert is lifeless and spiritually dead. In practice, there are some spots with huge density of people and powerful magic. The later being among the secrets of the desert I myself do not know. But i...

"And thus that you definitely need a spouse that's good at at least some of them to cover your ass when you will be in a life-of-death... kemari situation?" playfully answered Mitsuki.

"It is an interesting place. I can see parallels with the jungles of the Ivory Kingdoms and the Shinomen, but here is more peaceful and not as dangerous – at first glance at first. The main difference I believe is that the natural barrier is not nearly as thick, and thus, while the Deer keeps the ap...

"Your words sound dangerously close to the rhetoric of a opium addict Kitsu-sama. There's a thin line between finding a refuge in these things and them becoming a prison."

Mitsuki laughed:

"We were out of our element for sure... But as I've been told, it was very likely on purpose. Force us to experience new things we may have never experienced as part of our duties to our clan, so we may grow up as persons."

This chat dead af. Yall still alive? One month and a half of game. Less IC interactions due to a lot of plots having reached their conclusion, and the game being too close to the end to begin weaving new ones, which in turn means less OOC interactions. September is the start of the school year. Pro...

"Sword training is definitely a worthy endeavor. Improving one's body is never lost, as the brain is but a part of the body, and indeed having a better idea of how to handle a sword will make you better at making them too. I was worried that you would get lost in it instead of seeing it as what it i...

"Indeed, as often, the issue is money. Building and maintaining roads cost money, and the better they are, the more expensive too. Not something most local governors can afford but for the most important ones, at least not without sacrificing something else. A lot of places don't even have roads wor...