Lekkuen

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I didn't say she is or isn't

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Forcing Wei to wait to find out if Lady Ru is hot or not

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Not really, just we try to wait for others if a post involves everyone. Unless they say they are busy or to go ahead. For anything else just post as often as you want or in any order.

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I got a lot of work to do today but I'll catch up and maybe post over the weekend.

@Xartarin

So we should post without you?

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I hope we get to ru soon and pick up Vena.

How are they going to end up joining the group?

@Kitsune

You just want him for that neko on Oni action!

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Youkai experts are mean

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@Lekkuen

Also a shame that Yuudai was not born in Ru XD

@Kitsune

So she could fight all day?

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The people of Ru weren't the type to cause trouble when it was avoidable, them not making a big deal about the fight Tetsuya had been in or that he kept asking questions. But the people who could tell him how to get an audience with their leader stayed silent about the whole thing, no one wanting to just give that info to a stranger before they knew what was going and instead they just left him to wander about. Ru didn't have a massive castle like most places and Lady Ru didn't exactly stay in the village itself, so it would be pretty hard to find her by simply wandering around with no leads. While people coming to attempt to kill her was rare, it wasn't uncommon for some so called hotshot warrior to come seeking her out to stake some claim to her womanhood. People often felt because they were some sort of hero that any place with an unmarried female leader should belong to them, something that never went over well for the guy in question when he tried to take what he wanted via combat. Her people would rather not bother her with such things again if avoidable, so a few of the village guard followed him around from a distance making sure he wasn't trying to cause trouble and to see if his real intentions would show themselves. Until then the Neko would find himself continuing to have very little luck within the village of Ru unless he decided to do a change of tactics regarding how he was approaching the situation, gaining nothing but an asked for escort and lots of people staring at him with skeptical eyes.

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Some ru stuff

Ru

The small village of Ru has thrived in the Hasiano region of Baji for as far back as any records go. They pride themselves on their traditions which they claim come from a different human tribe than the one that the other clans of the region descended from. They have a strong focus on the path of the warrior and every child is trained to in a variety of martial arts from them and their sister village Kenzo. Both villages while small in population have successfully defended themselves from every larger clan that has tried to take them, their warriors having more advanced Ki arts than most of their neighbors. They have had mostly female leaders something unusual for the region and their insistence on training all women to be warriors has made them looked at strangely by more traditional villages.

They have grow a small amount of their food and mostly hunt or trade with Kenzo for the rest of what the village eats. Most of their artwork and buildings feature weapon motifs that emphasis the beauty of combat instead of just killing your enemy. Most of their festivals involve tournaments with even the elderly members of the two villages taking part and everyone having a blast. Many seek them out for mercenary work but for the most part they are content to only defend or fight for the fun/beauty of it instead of actually engaging in wars. Their current leader is Lady Himiko Ru the latest in a long line of village chiefs who focus on their swordsman style. She is generally welcoming and friendly to clans and outsiders but has little patience for those trying to involve her people in their war or politics.

The village's relationship with Shima specifically is mostly indifference, they are friendly to one another but have very little contact outside of individuals passing through on occasion. Most of Shima hasn't seen Ru or its sister village in person and only knows that they are one of the nearby unaffiliated villages.

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Yeah thought that was the plan/what you wanted?