for none, only the death of as many abominations as here sword can ind Told him to do the same. have studied Sokokai’s teachings my whole life. know ther all by memory. Tan teach him nothing | Twenty-sixtn Day, MONTH OF THE Dracon, 773 Kuni Sagi has been helping me.I spent thirty hours in 1 shed this week watching him pall the finger joints from goblins. Their sereams were shrill and hardly notieable. The © ist pile knew nothing, but the last wept tears of Taint and 1 bhubbere for mer There were Hiruma who survived, it said, those who hadnt had anyone to take their heads. It slandered them sereeching its lies, claiming they turned to treason and alliance with the Dark One. It said they had gifted the allen’ servants with the ofuder Otokogt lft in his house. cannot believe them. But how would a goblin even what an okuden is unless it had been near one? What the Shadowlands would care to learn the secret F fechniques? Oni have no need for schools. Goblins have no patience. Zombies are dead. But I cannot help longing. IENTH Day, MONTH OF T know where it is now, 1 have mn the ghosts who guard it. They in the Gearing of what was ekura-Mori, the forest where students would prove their skills in a tial of strength. The scrolls are there, Tam sure of it The ghosts still practice You can watch them spar with blades of ar. We can convince them that the zombies they guard are not truly their descendants. We are the [Hiruma, Im certain we can make them understand, We will have our chool back. We will have our clan ack. ‘And 1 will know the meaning of Hummingbird Wings. Lost Rehes The Lost Airuma Busi School ‘The secret techniques of the Hiruma bushi school recorded on a scroll now lost to the Shadowlands. Ifthe Pt recover and study i they can try to decipher its lutration to recreate the fighting style. They must take the Multiple Schools advantage (ee Way of the Crane, p. 52), gel permission from their sensei and the Hirume daimyo, and ‘make Intelligence + Hiruma Bushi School Rank rolls once @ ‘month at a TN of 10 x the School Rank they are trying to learn. When they succeed six months in row, they have learned the technique. Failure means they have learned bad habits and if they try fo use the technique, their TN to Be Hil drops by 10. The newly-minted Hiruma Bushi must make these rolls everytime their Insight goes up enough to learn new Schoo! Rank. ‘The Hiruma bushi emphasized speed and defensive ‘movements in their style, understanding that the dificult part of swordplay was not inflicting damage, but surviving untouched. Hiruma spent much time watching the animals he hunted and many of his techniques were drawn from |