Working Title: TianXia "Modern"

Hullo again Folks, The Cap'n here.

So on our most recent game night the Cupcake or Death gang started up a game of Tinaxia.  You might remember this game from such illustrious posts as: the previous post.

Now, before I get too far into discussing the initial interactions of our Jianghu heroes, I want to mention the liberties that I/We took with the setting. The stock setting is a mythical version of historical China, all we did was move the setting into a more modern age.  There's still an Emperor calling the shots and he still has eunuchs and officials / courtesans that want all that glorious power. Jianghu still wander around, and bandits and ruffians still need punching by said Jianghu.  All we did was give the world of Shenzhou a different color paint job.

The story begins in Feng-Boa city, the third largest city in the Jiangzhou province.  In matching the fictitious cities to the scale of real world cities, I equated the empires capitol as being roughly the size of Tokyo with the emperors palace being a miniature city within, similar to how Vatican City works within Rome. The capitols of the surrounding provinces would vary in sizes depending on the setting future material or personal preference later on.  I decided that the capital of Jianzhou, Bao Jiang was roughly the size of Seoul with most all other cities being smaller.
Now we come to my creation for the budding campaign, Feng-Bao City. Roughly the size of Toronto, with a currently undecided number of districts. Two districts were the focus: the Arts district, which was home to artists and many that desire a Bohemian lifestyle with little resistance from those surrounding them, and the southern slum of the Walled city which is modeled after the concept of the Kowloon Walled city.  

Beginning the session in the Arts district, we meet the blind swordsman, Princess in Cloud a resident on the top floor of the Wukong's Landing apartment building. We then moved to the Walled city to discover the the transient possessing a near constant state of inebriation, Xisheng and his accomplice/pillow at the time Dasheng.  From his closet sized squatters quarters he makes his move to start the day in the only way he would ever consider, in a wine house. For the sake of narrative, the chosen wine house rests across the street from Wukong's Landing.

Due to her extraordinary sense of smell and hearing, mostly smell though, she discovers the drunkard performing for the entertainment of the wine house denizens.

From this chance meeting, Xishen is granted a bath and new clothes, to his disapproval.  Following this, a high stakes game of Pinyin (Go in Japan) which results in Xisheng loosing three days worth of his time to Cloud.

We then find out the reasoning for Xisheng's lost time, the Princess in Clouds desires of change of scenery.  She has recently detected the signs of her fathers household, and desires to avoid her possible discovery.  Thus the move to the Walled City was facilitated.

To culminate the move the Jianghu were the subjects of an attempted accosting at the hands of four degenerate residents seeking to relieve the two of their valuable and/or virtue.  The ruffians stood zero chance.

The session drew to a close with Xishing finally finding out that Cloud was blind once a thug had observed it, humorously after Xisheng's repeated attempts to discern this fact throughout the session.


So there you have it folks.  a quick summary o the events of what I'm tentatively calling TianXia Modern.  I'm still working on the name.



With all of that, I wish all of you dear readers a good day.

Stay Frost