Jay
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Roleplay posts: 22 
Age: 22
Registered: May 28, 2017 21:37:08 GMT -8
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Post by Jay on May 30, 2017 21:06:08 GMT -8
"Hmm, alrighty then," he said. He would pull out his dagger and make a small slice in the palm of his hand then, biting his lip as he did so since it was painful. He would let some of the blood drip to the ground then, "I swear to pay you back in a favor for information on where the Ryoichi family's lord is," he said.
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Ryoichi Masami
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Blind does not mean unseeing.
Roleplay posts: 82 
Age: Eighteen years old
Physical Description: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Masami is the epitome of Tawakoshi beauty but for one flaw -- she is BLIND. Her skin is pale as moon, her hair as black as night. Her face is shaped as an opal, her lips the shade of the peonies. Her eyes are fanned with dark lashes, but their irises and pupils are a pale blue -- to much water in her soul, they say.
As the Jade Cat, Masami is given jade ears and a sleek jade cat tail as well. Her eyes glow a subtle jade in the dark.
Clothes and Equipment: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Masami takes on many different appearances now as the "lost daughter" of the prominent Ryoichi family. However, she almost never allows herself to be seen and identified as Masami Ryoichi any longer, and tends to take on disguises as poor women.
When Masami is the Jade Cat, she wears dark, close-fitting clothes that allow her the freedom of flexibility, subtly decorated with feminine jade touches.
Registered: Mar 14, 2017 9:43:39 GMT -8
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Post by Ryoichi Masami on May 30, 2017 21:10:49 GMT -8
The Cat nodded. Then, she said to him, "I don't know where the Ryoichi family is~"
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Jay
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Roleplay posts: 22
Age: 22
Registered: May 28, 2017 21:37:08 GMT -8
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Post by Jay on May 30, 2017 21:27:03 GMT -8
Jay simply stared for a few moments, surprised. A moment later he clenched his fist, his hand still bleeding as he put away his dagger, "So I just cut my hand open for nothing now? Great..."
He seemed quite annoyed now, "Well if you can't help me, I guess I will just look around myself."
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Ryoichi Masami
Committed
Blind does not mean unseeing.
Roleplay posts: 82
Age: Eighteen years old
Physical Description: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Masami is the epitome of Tawakoshi beauty but for one flaw -- she is BLIND. Her skin is pale as moon, her hair as black as night. Her face is shaped as an opal, her lips the shade of the peonies. Her eyes are fanned with dark lashes, but their irises and pupils are a pale blue -- to much water in her soul, they say.
As the Jade Cat, Masami is given jade ears and a sleek jade cat tail as well. Her eyes glow a subtle jade in the dark.
Clothes and Equipment: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Masami takes on many different appearances now as the "lost daughter" of the prominent Ryoichi family. However, she almost never allows herself to be seen and identified as Masami Ryoichi any longer, and tends to take on disguises as poor women.
When Masami is the Jade Cat, she wears dark, close-fitting clothes that allow her the freedom of flexibility, subtly decorated with feminine jade touches.
Registered: Mar 14, 2017 9:43:39 GMT -8
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Post by Ryoichi Masami on May 30, 2017 21:37:17 GMT -8
The Cat waved at Jay, then disappeared over the edge of the roof, leaving Jay to his bloody-handed devices.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2017 18:25:17 GMT -8
The Ryoichi family never did return that night, but litters and carriages did arrive at the gates of the estate in the mid-morning. Yuudai Ryoichi was the first to leave, his servants bowing low. It was gossip spread all through out Quying -- how the prominent merchant family was now a noble one, with Yuudai now Lord Samurai.
He would be searching for Samurai warriors very shortly, everyone knew.
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Jay
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Roleplay posts: 22
Age: 22
Registered: May 28, 2017 21:37:08 GMT -8
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Post by Jay on May 31, 2017 19:13:18 GMT -8
Jay had stuck around the estate, knowing the Ryoichi family and its lord had to return eventually. He had stuck to the shadows for the most part and had taken a brief nap in one of the trees under the cover the of the foliage. He still remained in this tree, peering out as the caravan arrived. He remained perfectly still, waiting for them to pass and enter the house so he wouldn't be detected.
He needed to get into the estate somehow, he realized, and if things went well he would enter un-noticed. Once the coast seemed clear he would jump from the tree, gripping onto the wall of the building with the claw like contraptions on his feet and hands, and he would scale up the wall in a flash and get onto the roof.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2017 20:56:30 GMT -8
Yuudai went into the house, and his family soon followed, including his blind daughter, Ryoichi Masami. Otherwise, it was only his second wife, and his middle-daughter who returned into the house, their faces solemn. They had still not entirely gotten over how quickly Daimyo Akagi Zuikaku had dismissed their efforts to marry Miyuri to Akagi. Although Miyuri hadn't wanted to marry the Daimyo, she had been prepared to do her duty and her ego and pride were a little hurt that the Daimyo had so quickly let her out of his sight... ... all for that foreign woman in the veils and the gold, with skin as dark as bark and an accent that was strange and ugly. At least to Yuudai's ears. The women stayed inside for most of the day, occasionally traveling through the gardens, but Yuudai left shortly after for business with his retinue of guard. Mostly the estate was busy with the comings and goings of all the servants and the like who were busy making sure that everything was run smoothly, and that was the estate itself was well-kept. About an hour before sundown, Yuudai returned with his guards and entered into the house. He was inside for a few hours more, dark having settled upon the estate. Lanterns were lit all among the outer hallways and within the gardens. The women went to their rooms to sleep, but Yuudai... Yuudai dismissed his guards for a moment and went to the pagoda in his estate, took out his slender pipe and rested. He seemed world weary, and took only a small amount of pleasure in the smoke he got from his pipe. |
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Jay
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Roleplay posts: 22
Age: 22
Registered: May 28, 2017 21:37:08 GMT -8
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Post by Jay on May 31, 2017 21:44:41 GMT -8
Atop the roofs of the estate, Jay waited until night time, keeping a vigilant eye over the property from his vantage point. It was night time when he finally saw movement.
His feline eyes allowed him to see in the dark quite easily, and he spotted a man walking out of the house towards a rather isolated pagoda. It was the lord! This was his chance...
Creeping down from the roof, Jay landed lightly in the grass and began following the lord, sticking to the shadows all the while. Finally, he had him alone...
Jay would walk up silently, his agile feet not making a sound as he approached the lord from behind, drawing a dagger. Once he was within a few feet, he would rise from his crouched position, blade still in his hand as he seemed to relax a bit, "Lord Ryoichi... what a pleasure it is on this peaceful night," he said quietly, almost peaceful and tranquil sounding in the way he spoke, which contrasted heavily with the blade he held in his hand. He would wait for the man to turn around, but if he called out he would strike right away.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2017 21:55:31 GMT -8
Yuudai paused in his step, his heart steady in his chest. His shoulders stiffened at the voice, and he turned to look at Jay. He said nothing. His gaze was like stone, and he waited, unafraid of death, and mentally cursing himself and the coward he faced now that he would strike from the dark.
Yuudai's very stance seemed to say, Go on. Do it, fool.
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Jay
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Roleplay posts: 22
Age: 22
Registered: May 28, 2017 21:37:08 GMT -8
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Post by Jay on May 31, 2017 22:09:22 GMT -8
The moment Yuudai turned around Jay plunged his dagger into the man's heart. He would hold the man's gaze for those moments as he drew his last breaths.
"Stupid, leaving your guards behind, but that just makes it easier for me," Jay unsheathed his dagger from the man's chest and pushed him down to let him finish dying. Blood quickly spread, from the dagger and the wound to staining Yuudai's clothing and the wooden boards that made up the floor of the pagoda.
Jay would take the blood and write a simple phrase on the wall of the building with one finger before leaving, it read as follows:
Blood for the Statists, Freedom for the People
And with that, he would slip into the night.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2017 22:19:40 GMT -8
A small sound slipped from Yuudai's mouth -- shock. Shock at the pain that blossomed in his heart. His hand came up quickly then, even as he staggered a little, and he dug his hand into Jay's clothing, holding him there. Blood began to stain the seam of Yuudai's lips as it gurgled up from the lungs his blade had nicked, his heart rushing and making blood gush and stain the kimono he wore.
"There will be a reckoning," he murmured to Jay, and then let him go, staggering back against one of the posts of the pagoda. He felt weakness coming over him, as his heart still tried to frantically beat and keep blood running through his system -- but the blood was pouring down his chest.
He did not raise an alarm, but instead raised his eyes to the stars he could see beyond the pagoda as he sank down to sit... and his spirit slipped away on his last breath.
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Ryoichi Masami
Committed
Blind does not mean unseeing.
Roleplay posts: 82
Age: Eighteen years old
Physical Description: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Masami is the epitome of Tawakoshi beauty but for one flaw -- she is BLIND. Her skin is pale as moon, her hair as black as night. Her face is shaped as an opal, her lips the shade of the peonies. Her eyes are fanned with dark lashes, but their irises and pupils are a pale blue -- to much water in her soul, they say.
As the Jade Cat, Masami is given jade ears and a sleek jade cat tail as well. Her eyes glow a subtle jade in the dark.
Clothes and Equipment: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Masami takes on many different appearances now as the "lost daughter" of the prominent Ryoichi family. However, she almost never allows herself to be seen and identified as Masami Ryoichi any longer, and tends to take on disguises as poor women.
When Masami is the Jade Cat, she wears dark, close-fitting clothes that allow her the freedom of flexibility, subtly decorated with feminine jade touches.
Registered: Mar 14, 2017 9:43:39 GMT -8
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Post by Ryoichi Masami on May 31, 2017 22:26:03 GMT -8
She planned on visiting the Peach Pavilion, to see what things she could get there when she realized that she had forgotten something. Like a shadow, she slipped and slid over the rooftops of Quying and back to the Ryoichi Estate. Her feet were almost-silent on the clay tiles of the rooftop, as nimble and lithe as a cat.
She crested an edge and saw a curious sight, making her head tip to the side. Yuudai, sitting at the pagoda, and Jay...
Jay had just finished writing in that second moment -- the second moment the Cat needed to understand what she was looking at.
"Nooooo!!" she screamed, and her voice rang so sharply, so clearly in the night that it rustled birds from where they had been sleeping in their trees and immediately had lights coming on within the Estate. The Cat fled off the rooftop. Her claws popping free from her fingertips, but Jay was already running away from her -- into the night.
She was going to go after him, but the Cat of Quying turned back to where Yuudai was slumped over. Feeling panic rise in her chest, she hurried over to him and kneeled by his body, knees dropping into his pooled blood.
"Father," she whispered, her voice shaking with her tears as her hands lifted to hold his face. "No, no, no, no, no, no," she begged, hands on his shoulders now, shaking him. "Father!"
"Who's there?!" called a guard as they rushed onto the back patio, lanterns held high. The Cat whipped around to look at them, and when they saw what it appeared to be -- the Cat's claws out, kneeling in his blood above the dead Yuudai, they immediately drew their swords.
The Cat was crying as she suddenly had to flee for her life as well -- but she went after Jay, her sharp nose trying to catch his scent, her dark-vision trying to catch sight of him.
She was going to kill him, even as the guards surmised that the Cat of Quying had gone from thief, to murderer -- Lord Yuudai her first victim.
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Jay
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Roleplay posts: 22
Age: 22
Registered: May 28, 2017 21:37:08 GMT -8
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Post by Jay on Jun 1, 2017 10:23:36 GMT -8
Jay ran, and he ran quite fast. Perhaps faster than expected. With a leap, he would latch onto the external wall of the estate and scale it with ease using the claw-like implements he had to give him leverage. He would be over the wall and jumping down to the other side in no time.
Apparently, Yuudai was discovered right away, as his keen ears had heard the loud scream from Masami. That was rather unlucky and would give him significantly less time to make his escape. He would head for the countryside for now, though, with his headstart on The Cat.
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Ryoichi Masami
Committed
Blind does not mean unseeing.
Roleplay posts: 82
Age: Eighteen years old
Physical Description: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Masami is the epitome of Tawakoshi beauty but for one flaw -- she is BLIND. Her skin is pale as moon, her hair as black as night. Her face is shaped as an opal, her lips the shade of the peonies. Her eyes are fanned with dark lashes, but their irises and pupils are a pale blue -- to much water in her soul, they say.
As the Jade Cat, Masami is given jade ears and a sleek jade cat tail as well. Her eyes glow a subtle jade in the dark.
Clothes and Equipment: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Masami takes on many different appearances now as the "lost daughter" of the prominent Ryoichi family. However, she almost never allows herself to be seen and identified as Masami Ryoichi any longer, and tends to take on disguises as poor women.
When Masami is the Jade Cat, she wears dark, close-fitting clothes that allow her the freedom of flexibility, subtly decorated with feminine jade touches.
Registered: Mar 14, 2017 9:43:39 GMT -8
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Post by Ryoichi Masami on Jun 1, 2017 11:57:31 GMT -8
He was fast -- but so she was she. Enchanted to be above human scale, the Cat was sleek and swift as she rushed through the shadows and the darkness, her dark-vision allowing her to see everything clearly. Her cat ears were tilted back against her head as she threw herself into chasing after Jay. When she came upon the wall, her body coiled and she leaped, jumping off of a tree trunk and sailing over the edge, landing in a crouch, her jade claws digging into the earth on the other side. She was not going to let Jay go without ripping his heart out, first. |
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