???Ken: Enduring Art [Episode 170063]

by Kestral

Ilmater's monks tended to choose places for their monastaries that were in difficult to reach locations, forbidding conditions, places sane people tended to avoid. On the other hand, Zen aesthetes would immediately have seen WHY some of those locations were chosen. Before its fall, the Yellow Rose monastary had been rumored to have a balcony where the view was just shy of a divine vision.

Another such, in the Great Glacier, supposedly opened up into a natural ice vault where the light came down through layers of ice and lit a single wooden table. There one could supposedly hear the thoughts of the glacier itself.

The Lost Mesa was one such location, in the continent of Anchorome. The monks had found a few distant neighbors, politely inquired about the one they'd chosen, snatched the arrows out of the air, and eventually gotten an answer. No, nobody claimed it.

So the monks, priests, and farmers went to the Lost Mesa. They kicked the ghouls and ghosts off, blocked off the trails leading upwards in front of the horse-raiders and settled down for a long stay. There were some lean times while they got the farms running, but it was a self-sufficient little community with only occasional airship traffic or teleporting mages to disturb the routine.

It was a time for five-year-old Ranma to perfect skills.

As the community grew, it was noticed that the path of the Monk was not the only path Ranma had access to. It looked like he would also be walking the path of:

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(Posted Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:56)


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