Ashikaga Sohei wrote: And is the real Ashikaga Yoshinori Shogun still alive somewhere!? He is alive somewhere... In the legendary Thirty Six Chambers of the Shao-Lin Temple in China...
Here, he was spirited by his oni abductors to be tempered in the crucible of the infamous Thirty Six Chambers of Shao-Lin. If he mastered the Five Animal Styles of kung fu, and survived the Thirty Six Chambers, then he would come out of the ordeal a greater, more powerful, more worthy mortal. This was the oni's plan. Sink or swim, consumed in the fire or tempered like steel...
Yoshinori had mastered the Five Animal Styles--tiger, snake, eagle, monkey, and dragon... He now faced his final test, a test of life or death, in the lethal Thirty Six Chambers!
As he creeps into the twenty-third chamber, a gauntlet of spinning, swinging circular saws the size of heavy shields cuts through the air, presenting yet another deadly test of agility and reflexes...
Acrobatics 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (14) + 14 = 28 beats the DC 25 challenge!
Tumbling and cartwheeling with expert precision, Yoshinori navigates the dangerous gauntlet without injury...
Meanwhile, in the infamous Thirty Six Chambers of Shao-Lin Temple...
If I survive this gruesome ordeal, and return to Japan to unmask the usurper ogre mage, I will have been perfected in the merciless crucible of the gods... thinks the real, human Ashikaga Yoshinori... If only I survive...
Blood and sweat drip from Yoshinori's body as he stealthily, cautiously, attempts to make his way out of the nefarious Thirty Six Chambers...
Meanwhile, in the infamous Thirty Six Chambers of Shao-Lin Temple...
If I survive this gruesome ordeal, and return to Japan to unmask the usurper ogre mage, I will have been perfected in the merciless crucible of the gods... thinks the real, human Ashikaga Yoshinori... If only I survive...
Blood and sweat drip from Yoshinori's body as he stealthily, cautiously, attempts to make his way out of the nefarious Thirty Six Chambers...
In the great hall nearby, Ashikaga Yoshinori Shogun notes the silence following all the roaring of his pet underworld imperial dragon... Several moments of muffled conversation are heard from the front entrance, and then, he hears the hideous cackling of his spirit oni, and the words "Intruders! Attack!"
How can this be!? Has my underworld imperial dragon been slain!? I must see for myself...
Turning invisible, the Shogun flies from his throne to investigate the disturbance in the Hall of Masks...
Underworld Imperial Dragon wrote: ROUND 2:
Seeing that its frightful presence is not frightening these gaijin away, the underworld imperial dragon roars again...
RRROOOOOOAAAAAARRRR!!!
... and attempts to slaughter Dire Bear Johann!
In his great hall, Ashikaga Yoshinori Shogun starts at the rumbling roar of the underworld imperial dragon that guards the entrance to his Flower Palace!
Intruders at the door! Underworld Imperial Dragon San will have a snack, it seems!
Watashi no pettodorago n wa okyakusama o kangei shite imasu! Dare ga kare no hirune o midasu hodo bakagete iru nodarou ka?
Glancing to the large, empty pile of silken pillows to the right of his ornate cedar throne, he wonders...
Hmmm... Spirit Naga San is late to return from the hunt... I wonder what has happened?... Strange happenings are amiss lately...
Jorogumo of the Palace Gardens wrote: Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshinori wrote: Leering malevolently at the little Fox in the bamboo cage, Ashikaga Yoshinori Shogun is certain he has captured one of the offspring of one of the pirates his grandfather condemned to the seventh generation.
Japanese: You look a lot like your scumbag pirate father, Fox... I'm sure you're one of the pirate's spawn... And if you aren't, well... I'll still be doing a service to the World by killing another tricky, good-for-nothing kitsune!
Japanese: Ashikaga Shogun... I humbly beg of you... Please, allow me to... play with him for a while first? I would like to mate with this handsome kitsune, and implant my egg within him before he dies... Please, grant your humble and lonely servant this request... as a reward for capturing him for you? The Shogun grins maniacally at the jorogumo, and laughs cruelly! HAHAHAHAHAA!!
Japanese: I suppose I do owe you a reward, my pretty jorogumo! HAHAHAHAHAA!!
Grinning with malice at Ogon Fox, the Shogun proclaims: Then I sentence you, Fox, to death by jorogumo! HAHAHAHAHAAA!!
Leering malevolently at the little Fox in the bamboo cage, Ashikaga Yoshinori Shogun is certain he has captured one of the offspring of one of the pirates his grandfather condemned to the seventh generation.
Japanese: You look a lot like your scumbag pirate father, Fox... I'm sure you're one of the pirate's spawn... And if you aren't, well... I'll still be doing a service to the World by killing another tricky, good-for-nothing kitsune!
As the heroes pay their respects to their fallen brother in arms, in Kyoto City, at the Flower Palace of the Ashikaga Shogun, a geisha displeases Yoshinori Shogun by receiving his amorous advances with less enthusiasm than he should like.
She is sentenced to being chained at her wrists and ankles alone at a dead end inside the palace, to be used by the palace guards as they please...
Kanojo ga dono yō ni kyūden no josō ga sukika o mite mimashou!
The Shogun blames pirates and other scum like vigilante kitsune Ogon Fox for the recent catastrophic return of Gojira and Mosura to devastate Japan. He plans to capture, torture, and execute as many such miscreants as possible until the gods forgive the people for their inequities...
In Japanese to his samurai and ninja: The outlaw vigilante Ogon Fox is somewhere in my domain! My official astrologers have forecast It! I want him found and captured! When he is found, bring him before me to hear my pronouncement! GO!!
The Shogun blames pirates and other scum like vigilante kitsune Ogon Fox for the recent catastrophic return of Gojira and Mosura to devastate Japan. He plans to capture, torture, and execute as many such miscreants as possible until the gods forgive the people for their inequities...
Ogon Fox GM bot wrote: Meanwhile, unlucky Ogon Fox, victim of the cursed intelligent cape of the mountebank known as Irish Farewell, finds himself in the court of the grandson of the Shogun who put a bounty on the heads of Fox's father and all his descendents...
Stunned and astounded that he had teleported out of the frying pan and into the fire, Fox tries to think fast, turning into a common fox... but that shape is not innocuous enough in a land where shapeshifting foxes are common, and the Shogun at once is suspicious and demands that his samurai capture the little fox just in case it might be a kitsune of a certain lineage...
Seeing a kitsune suddenly appear in the midst of his court as he is giving orders to his samurai, and then transform into a fox and begin to run this way and that, the Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshinori, whose grandfather put a bounty of 80,000 golden yen on the heads of Ogon Fox's clan, becomes immediately on alert and suspicious that this is one of his ancestral enemies!
Kitsunedesu! Kare ga dasshutsu suru mae ni, sono yakkaina alluma o tsukamaeru!
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