Carefully read onward.
The book continues by talking about several case studies of what it calls "mythical individuals", individuals which made it into the afterlife with a great deal of myth, rumor and superstition associated with them. It says that these individuals often come into the afterlife in forms related to the myths that surround them, demonstrating the fact that the beliefs of those in the afterlife may affect even those they may have never personally seen or interacted with. It speaks specifically of a "Senji M." who was apparently regarded as a craftsman of inhuman skill, but whose works excelled at their task but carried a powerfully negative connotation as well. Likewise the man himself was considered to be greatly talented but also possessed of a demonic or insane quality.
"This Senji M. came into this world in a form much like his living form, but twisted and demonic, created seemingly to do nothing more than to continue the work he did in life. And his works, and even duplicates of them, gained some part of their much rumored nature. He was taken on as a forge master to a local king and it is said that as his works spread and as this king conqured with them, he took on an even more frightful appearance. And his works grew ever greater for it."
"Alright, I'll take the closest thing to Hyena pelt ya got. How many Gladi... Gladiuses... Gladiyi? Swords. How many do you want for that?"
Trade.
He trades you a cloak made of the pelt of something that looks vaguely lion-ish, but with crimson hair, in exchange for two swords.
Hey, this is an interesting question; does meta cancer go across games?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnXPqUU6fI0Name: Chang
Soul: Terracotta Samurai, accidentally destroyed by a careless worker in around 2000 A.D.
Incarnation: A masterfully made, beautifully painted clay man with chinese ethnicity, without any wear, he almost looks exactly like a normal person, he wears a basic T-shirt and jeans.
What He's Good At: Painting, Crafting, years upon years of fixing wear and tear gave him very good skills at these things.
What He's Bad At: Swordfighting, as much as he says otherwise, he's terrible at swordfighting, all he got in the way of training was some people giving poses for the construction of him.
Hopes: To become his own legend.
Fears: To be put under another's shadow.
What He Needs To Survive: Fixing his wear and tear, basically, he doesn't have any need for food or water in particular, but the more his paint is shaved off and the more he looks like a statue, the clunkier and the more immobile he becomes, if he does become fully a statue, he dies and reincarnates, it can be slowed down by not moving, but the paint flakes off naturally anyway.
What He Has In His Pockets: A couple rolls of scotch tape, a small paintbrush, and a few unopened capsules of paint.
((I feel obliged to point out that samurai is exclusively japanese thing, while the majority of your background refers to chinese culture. If I just put swordfighter instead of samurai on wiki, would that be okay with you?
Well, technically while you're on waitlist your charsheet is just a link to your b12 post, so I guess what I'm saying is you might wanna review it while you're waiting.))
((Shit, I knew there was something wrong, I just heard about the terracotta soldiers thing and decided 'that would be a kickass thing to design a character from'.
Changing it now.))
((If you haven't, I suggest watching "Sword of the stranger" because it has some great Chinese swordsmen characters in it that you could model yourself after, or draw inspiration from))
Flap wings impatiently. Keep an eye out.
[Squawks internally]"I just want a normal life. Normal people, who talk about normal things.
This afterlife seems to have everything in it, and most things aren't that, but I believe I'll be able to find it.
Of course, this skull is very helpful, as are you."
- The closest to normal we found so far are a bunch of creepy same-looking people inhabiting a town who were literally paralysed in front of anyone not born in hell. And even these are no longer around. So, we'll just look out for something you want as we pass stuff by. Speaking of stuff to pass by...
I got that map of the land-beyond-stromclouds. Check that out.
The map is labelled as "Super-hell: Big Gray" and appears to show an area that is rather astoundingly large for a hell. Several hundred miles across at least, maybe more. It seems to be broken up into several labeled areas, as though the hell itself was made up of a patchwork of other heavens and hells that merged together into a conglomerate mass. All the areas are labeled and some have a bit of writing on or next to them: Convict bay, Black Sun Cult, Deep Woods, Deathless Armada, Dead Silence, Sinner's Mechanism, Divine Wastes, Sky Crawler Hive, Idol Henge, Garden of War Gods, Wandering Cities, Cemiac Empire, Godeaters, Olympus, Cult of the Imperfect. You have no idea where you are in relation to the things shown on the map though. You could be entering at any point on the edge.
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