After the Pandemic: Sacrifice of Nine Men Part 1 (539 hits)
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Submitted by Chronic Masturbator (View user info) at 2005-03-09 01:53:48 EST
This takes place in Japan's Feudal Age, WAY before the Pandemic. Virus was found in Japan when it is in its Feudal Age. It was on the small Island of Sedo, southwest of the northern tip of Japan, in the middle of the Sea of Japan.
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See no evil; hear no evil; speak no evil.
That's what my Sensai used to say before his death, before he was taken by the Hitrikai.
On this small Island, there is evil in the darkness. It lurks behind you like your shadow. The depths of the night only bring murder and blood.
But yet the day, it brings forth peace. A time for those who lost someone to mourn. The dead were buried in sheets of white cloth to symbolize purity and innocence.
Harmony. Good and Evil. Ying and Yang.
Ever since I was a child, bells would go off every duck, where every single villager in the city had to light their candles, torches, and lanterns. May it be inside the house, outside, on the street, the whole place is illuminated. Those candles would illuminate the streets for the warriors, the Samurais. They had the difficult battle. They had to battle a foe who lived in the shadows, and ate off your own fears. The city walls would help us a great deal. People were not allowed to enter the city gates at dusk, for the fear of Hitrikai among them.
I joined the ranks of the warriors at the age of fifteen. I was handed down a sword from my father, who's father gave it to him and so forth. This sword itself as seen many a battle, slain main Hitrakai.
A warrior like myself needs to live in the darkness. I sleep during the day, and am awake during the night. Only the candles in the city illuminate the path before me. My sensai showed me that the bite of the Hitrakai could poison you. Many a warrior has fallen victim to the cursed bite. It would transfrom the warrior to the shape of the demonic Hitrakai.
For centuries, warriors carried wooden pikes with them.
Pike in one hand, swing, stab at the Hitrakai. The heart was the weakest point. Warriors then have several seconds to slash the neck. That was the only way to battle these creatures. This sword I carry is secondary. I carry two daggers just in case.
The sun is falling...
It is time for me to suit up, and prepare for another night...
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Submitted by notyou (user info) at 2005-07-07 19:04:53 EDT (#)
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Submitted by nrduncan (user info) at 2005-05-12 17:44:23 EDT (#)
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I have just got done reading these all and I have enjoyed them all. Great work everyone, +2's for all!
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2005-03-10 03:44:28 EST (#)
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odd.
but good.
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-03-09 17:55:46 EST (#)
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Written pretty well -- ducks not withstanding -- but no explanation of how the virus gets created or comes about hundreds of years in the past.
"I'm gonna hunt you down and shoot you like a duck!"
"Uh...that's dog, Buford."
The only line I remember from Back to the Future 3.
Submitted by ChronicMasturbator (user info) at 2005-03-09 13:38:20 EST (#)
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Oh shit, I meant dusk. haha.
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2005-03-09 11:42:02 EST (#)
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"...bells would go off every duck."
Makes sense to me.
In feudal Japan, the duck represented the reanimated dead.
This is such an unusual take on the whole thing I have to give it a +2.
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-03-09 11:27:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
excellent!
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-03-09 04:26:33 EST (#)
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"Ever since I was a child, bells would go off every duck"
This sort of threw me a bit.