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Tweak says, "I ATE MY MONKEY BARS"

Harmony (Alice Liddell) (liddellmisslost) wrote in sabra_la_tau,
@ 2011-11-24 11:30:00

Entry tags:

!days 290-299, alice liddell, aoi 'santa' kurashiki, ashikawa mitsuru, elliot nightray, maya fey, shinonome hangetsu, tomoe mami

Who: ??? + friends
Where: Orion
When: Day 292, morning
What: meet & greet

[someone new is coming down the stairs, peering into the common room]

Hello? ...Is anyone home?

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	doggedjustice 2011-11-27 11:57 am UTC (link)
	[laughs] Okay. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

byallmeans
2011-11-27 12:03 pm UTC (link)

Anyway, I'm starting now. "Kachi Kachi Mountain."

Long, long ago, an old man and an old woman lived on a mountain. They made friends with a rabbit who lived there, too, and they loved it like it was their daughter. But on the same mountain lived a tanuki who constantly played pranks on the old man and old woman, and who ruined the fields they used to keep themselves fed. One day, the old man caught it at its games and tied it up.

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	doggedjustice 2011-11-27 12:40 pm UTC (link)
	Ohh. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2011-11-27 12:44 pm UTC (link)
	The old man went out to work in the fields for the day, and while he was gone, the tanuki cried and pleaded. "Let me go," it said. "Let me go. I'll never bother you or your husband again." And because the old woman had a soft heart, she let it go. As soon as she had, the tanuki sprang free and killed her. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	doggedjustice 2011-11-27 12:48 pm UTC (link)
	Ehh?! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2011-11-27 12:51 pm UTC (link)
	I said, it killed her. Now, tanuki are notorious tricksters, and it took on the old woman's form before dragging her body back into the house. There, it chopped her up and made her into a soup and waited for the old man to come home. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	doggedjustice 2011-11-27 12:55 pm UTC (link)
	[l-listening] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2011-11-27 01:01 pm UTC (link)
	When he did, it pretended to be his wife, and it served him the soup. After he'd eaten it, the tanuki changed back to its true form and laughed at him, dancing around. "I killed your wife," it told him, "and made her into soup. How did she taste?" Then it left him there, horrified and grief-stricken. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	doggedjustice 2011-11-27 01:17 pm UTC (link)
	[equally horror-stricken] That's a terrible story. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2011-11-27 01:20 pm UTC (link)
	It's not over yet. The rabbit came to visit, as she often did, and found the old man where the tanuki had left him. In tears, he explained what had happened, and the rabbit promised she would avenge his wife's death. The very next day, she went out and pretended to befriend the tanuki. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	doggedjustice 2011-11-27 01:21 pm UTC (link)
	Un un. [listeeen] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

byallmeans
2011-11-27 01:37 pm UTC (link)

"Why are you not out on such a beautiful day? Come out with me, and we will go and cut grass on the hills together," said the rabbit, and the tanuki went with her. They both cut a lot to store for their food for the winter, and when they had finished, they tied it into bundles so that they could carry it on their backs. On the way home, the rabbit let the tanuki walk in front of her, and she took out her flint and struck it together.

'Kachi kachi,' went the sound of the flint striking, and the sparks set the tanuki's bundle on fire. "What was that?" asked the tanuki. "I thought I heard a sound."

"Did it sound like 'kachi kachi?'" asked the rabbit. "We are not far from Kachi Kachi Mountain, so that must be what you heard."

"Oh," said the tanuki, "I see." And he continued to walk until all the grass had burned away and scorched his back raw. When he realized what was happening, he screamed with pain and ran for home, as fast as he could.

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	doggedjustice 2011-11-27 01:40 pm UTC (link)
	[welp that explains the title of the story] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

byallmeans
2011-11-27 01:48 pm UTC (link)

[Sure does. :|b]

The rabbit followed the tanuki to his home, where he was lying in bed sobbing with pain.

"You poor thing," she said. "Let me bring some medicine to help you. It will hurt when I put it on, but it is the very best medicine for burns, so you must endure it."

"Yes," said the tanuki. "Yes, please. Please bring it."

So the rabbit went home and prepared a sauce made almost entirely from red pepper. Then she returned to the tanuki's side. "Here," she said. "I've brought your medicine."

She spread it all over the tanuki's back- and the red pepper on the fresh burns made the tanuki scream and howl. The rabbit left him there, wishing him a painful death for what he'd done to the old woman.

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	doggedjustice 2011-11-27 01:49 pm UTC (link)
	[w-wince] Ouch. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

byallmeans
2011-11-27 01:57 pm UTC (link)

[Ignores that. :|b]

But the tanuki didn't die. He recovered slowly, over the course of a long, painful month. When the rabbit learned that he was getting well again, she came to his home to visit.

"Lately," said the rabbit, "I have been fishing. It's a fine way to pass the time when the sky is clear and the water still."

The tanuki, who had done nothing for a month but lie in his bed in pain, was jealous. "It sounds like such fun," he said. "Won't you take me the next time you go?"

"Certainly," said the rabbit- and that night, she went home and built two boats- one of wood, and one of clay.

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	doggedjustice 2011-11-27 01:59 pm UTC (link)
	[That rabbit sounds like an Orion] I can see where this is going... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2011-11-27 09:22 pm UTC (link)
	[Whatever do you mean? :)] Do you? You can finish it yourself, if you want. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	doggedjustice 2011-11-28 12:04 am UTC (link)
	[You know what I mean] No, no, keep going. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

byallmeans
2011-11-28 02:15 pm UTC (link)

The very next day, the rabbit took the tanuki fishing. She gave him the brand new clay boat- and the tanuki, who knew nothing about boats, was delighted with the present. They got into their boats and began to paddle out to deeper water so that they could fish.

"I have an idea," said the rabbit. "Let's have a race."

"That sounds like fun," said the tanuki.

They each began to paddle as fast as they could, and for a little while, they held even. Then the tanuki's boat began to fall to pieces as the water softened the clay.

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	doggedjustice 2011-11-28 02:19 pm UTC (link)
	Uwa... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2011-11-28 03:10 pm UTC (link)
	"Help!" cried the tanuki, who couldn't swim. "Help! My boat is breaking!" But the rabbit did not help him. The rabbit smiled, and told him that this was what he deserved for having killed the old woman- that this revenge was what she had planned all along. Then she paddled her boat away and left the tanuki to drown. The end. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	doggedjustice 2011-11-28 03:12 pm UTC (link)
	I guess he deserved it. [that is still an unsettling story] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	byallmeans 2011-11-28 03:42 pm UTC (link)
	[In a whole lot of ways. :\|b] He did. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	doggedjustice 2011-11-29 01:32 am UTC (link)
	[weeelp] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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