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 Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:05 am
Bunbuku Chagama:
"Bunbuku Chagama roughly translates to 'happiness bubbling over like a tea pot'. The story tells of a poor man who finds a tanuki caught in a trap. Feeling sorry for the animal, he sets it free. That night, the tanuki comes to the poor man's house to thank him for his kindness. The tanuki transforms itself into a chagama (tea kettle) and tells the man to sell him for money.
The man sells the tanuki-teapot to a monk, who takes it home and, after scrubbing it harshly, sets it over the fire to boil water. Unable to stand the heat, the tanuki teapot sprouts legs and, in its half-transformed state, makes a run for it.
The tanuki returns to the poor man with another idea. The man would set up a circus-like roadside attraction and charge admission for people to see a teapot walking a tightrope. The plan works, and each gains something good from the other–the man is no longer poor and the tanuki has a new friend and home.
In a variant of the story, the tanuki-teapot does not run and returns to its transformed state. The shocked monk decides to leave the teapot as an offering to the poor temple where he lives, choosing not to use it for making tea again. The temple eventually becomes famous for its supposed dancing teapot."
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:06 am
The Buried Moon:
"Once upon a time, the Carland was filled with bogs. When the moon shone, it was as safe to walk in as by day, but when she did not, evil things, such as bogies, came out.
One day the moon, hearing of this, pulled on a black cloak over her yellow hair and went to see for herself. She fell into a pool, and a snag bound her there. She saw a man coming toward the pool and fought to be free until the hood fell off; the light helped the man make his way to safety and scared off the evil creatures. She struggled to follow until the hood fell back over her hair, and all the evil things came out of the darkness, trapping her under a big stone with a will-o'-the-wyke to sit on the cross-shaped snag and keep watch.
The moon never rose again, and the people wondered what had happened until the man she had rescued remembered and told what he had seen. A wise woman sent them into the bog until they found a coffin (the stone), a candle (the will-o'-the-wyke), and a cross (the snag); the moon would be nearby. They did as the wise woman said, and freed the moon. From this time on the moon has shone brighter over the boglands than anywhere else then there were no more evilness in Carland and there would be always hapeness and godness."
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:36 am
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:54 am
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:56 am
YAY! Storwy, I prefer role play though
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:58 am
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:00 am
I only do one really, the others are a bit... shoddy. not much plot in the others
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:07 am
Ah,it's gotten that bad in the RP threads? o,o;
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:12 am
oh, no I mean separate guilds
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:14 am
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:16 am
the thread type rose are only good for a handful of pplz
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:23 am
'rose' should have been 'rps'
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:23 am
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:26 am
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:27 am
mums boyfriend bitched at me <(｀^´)>
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