(This is not sign up for the actual game... just for this weekend RPÔÇÖing, Knowing big parts of the art, and properly going to make more of it, means that IÔÇÖll not participate as a player, all the text here are just my musings, and not any plots or the like in it)
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Kai does not remember his past before he was 5, to him, his life both started and ended then! The first thing he remembers is looking out on the street from a little dark ally, not awakening, not afraid, just looking out, feeling like it was something he had done for a long time, had done many times. Suddenly guards came running into the ally, they grabbed him and forced his face to the ground, screams around him awoke his attention to his surroundings, he had not been alone in the ally, a dozen or more beggars were held down alongside him!
Before he knew it, they were all in a line walking towards the center market! Here he heard a voice booming out ÔÇ£By order from your lord, Shogun; Hitmuzu AkaiÔÇÖe-ra, It is today declared that all ill is to be purged from our glorious city, the streets are to be clean in the eye of the sun! Therefore we today start by eradication of the plague that is the thiefÔÇÖs of the shadow, the low of life, the beggars that darkens our everyday life!ÔÇØ
As these words were spoken what he saw stroke terror in his bones! The beggars were brought to a platform in the market, here a man stood and repeated the words, time after time, as beggar after beggar were brought before the Shogun, and beheaded. In what seemed like minutes of eternity, suddenly Kai himself was on the platform, head bend down on the chopping block. He did not know if it was just him, but he felt the seconds spread to hours and all fell silent, but what happened next defined the rest of his life!
The voice spoke out again ÔÇ£But!... Hitmuzu AkaiÔÇÖe-ra, Your lord, Your Shogun! Is a merciful lord, and therefore he declares, that This boy, This boy is no beggar no more, This boy will be send to the temples in the mountains, and become a Monk! That is the grace of your Shogun!ÔÇØ
With that, KaiÔÇÖs hearth started to beat again, heavily and slowly in his cheats, and slowly he was lead down from the platform, away from the markets... But, not to the Temples, not even to the mountains, but to the Shoguns palace! Here, he was shown to a room, and locked in. Hours passed, and Kai did not know what to do, try escape? Stay put? Or? Or what? He did not know and before he made a decision, the door opened, and in front of him stood the Shogun ÔÇ£Do you know who I am boy?ÔÇØ - ÔÇ£You... you are...ÔÇØ ÔÇ£IÔÇÖm the Shogun, Lord of all you can see from the top of this palace, and from this day on, I am also your father!ÔÇØ....
....That was 14 years ago....
In the time that has passed Kai has not once set foot outside the palace, spending all day in the training room, trying to become a Samurai as his step-father, trying to be just as good with the katana, trying to be just as swift in tactics, and just as calm in mind. The late evenings, after dinner, was the only time he saw the Shogun, they talked, the shogun told him how his day had went, not the Shogun, KaiÔÇÖs! he simply told Kai that Kai had been to the market today, or had taken a ride in the hills, and Kai agreed, and gladly told about minor details in his day that had never happened to him, he did so because; the only time he had ever questioned this odd conversations, had also been the day he got slapped by the shogun, yelled at, and then locked in his room for four days with no food and little water! That had taught him not to question his Lord again... and with time, he had come to enjoy the conversations, they were his only escape from the palace, they learned him about the land and... when he wanted to, the Shogun was a nice man...
Fast forward to today ÔÇ£Kai... Kai! Come here boy!ÔÇØ the Shoguns voice called ÔÇ£Yes my Lord!ÔÇØ - ÔÇ£ Here... Put this on!ÔÇØ Kai hesitated, he did not believed his own eyes, he was presented with a full Samurai uniform, complete with sword and everything.. ÔÇ£Come on boy... Put it on...ÔÇØ And so he did... ÔÇ£Good... you look.... good..... Now... this wayÔÇØ The Shogun shoved Kai through the halls of the palace, and suddenly, through the outer hallway, one on the outside of the palace, a bacon, facing the city... shortly they stopped ÔÇ£Look Kai... look on the city for the first timeÔÇØ Kai was speechless, here he stood, for the first time in 14 years, and looked out over the city, and down there, hundreds of people... all looking up on him... it was all so... so... ÔÇ£Well... that must be enough boy... come along...ÔÇØ The Shogun suddenly broke in and shoved him forward.. a single push, and suddenly Kai was in a room he had never seen before, and yet... it was so familiar... it looked just like his room.... -SLAM- The door was closed behind him... locked!... what was happening ÔÇØMy lord.... My lord I donÔÇÖt understand!.... My lord?.... Father?...ÔÇØ
Hours passed... Kai looked out the window, no way he could climb that... the darkness fell... Kai was getting sleepy... *crack*** what was that?......
Sorry for the wall of text....