Chapter 234: Wind Mastery vs Explosion Mastery ​

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Spoiler: dice Rolls and modifiers are already factored in to everything below. FP use and rerolls are not shown except for Keiko.



Initiative order: Kashiwagi, Keiko



Round 0, Kashiwagi:

Supplemental x2: Move onto the pond (-6 Athletics)

Standard: Cast Mirage





Round 0, Keiko:

Standard: Summon Pangaya (105 CP. Keiko is now at 85)





A new player has entered the fight! Initiative order: Pangaya, Kashiwagi, Keiko! Pangaya goes last on the current round due to the need to orient after summoning. Everyone else has gone anyway, so that's fine.



Round 0, Pangaya:

Standard: Cast Noble Funnel: ?

Supplemental x2: Maneuver: Emergency Shove Technique against the water to create the Aspect "Rough Seas, Bad Footing". She gets a tag and passes it to Keiko. (NB: I'm requiring two uses of the technique in order to perform the Maneuver once; there's a lot of water to shove around. Also, I'm bending the rules a bit here since the pond is one zone, the land is another, and this technique is Range:0. Still, if your massively clawed toenails are getting wet then it's probably sensible for you to be able to target the water. Please do not use this as a precedent for hivemind planning.)



Round 1: Pangaya

Hold until after Keiko moves. (Kashiwagi is on the pond, where Pangaya can't go)



Round 1, Kashiwagi

Supplemental: Prime explosive tag

Standard: Thrown Weapons: ?



Attack does not beat the Noble Funnel! It swerves, targeting Pangaya instead of Keiko.

Pangaya, Dodge: ?

The kunai hits, the explosive goes off. Due to the effects of Noble Funnel, Pangaya takes no damage from the kunai itself, but she gets pretty beat up by the explosion. Kei is protected and takes no damage from the explosion.



Round 1, Keiko

Supplemental: Prime explosives

Supplemental: Prime explosives

Standard: Attack. TW 40 + 5 (tag "Rolodex of Doom") + 5 (invoke "Just Follow the Plan") + 5 (tag "Rough Seas, Bad Footing") + 6: 61

Kashiwagi, Substitution Dodge: 63



Kashiwagi is now in Keiko's zone and at -2 to all skills until her next initiative



Round 1, Pangaya (delayed actions)

Standard: Set up a Block (grapple based on taijutsu) against Kashi doing anything: ?

Kashiwagi: Athletics (Dodge): ? (includes the -2 from last round's substitution which she doesn't shake off until her initiative)

Kashiwagi is grabbed. The Block expires on Pangaya's next initiative, so Kashiwagi will automatically wiggle free at that time unless Pangaya successfully re-establishes it.



Round 2, Pangaya

Standard: Re-establish the Block: ?

Kashiwagi: Athletics, beat the block: ?. (She doesn't get Mirage because she's already been grabbed so targeting her isn't an issue.)



Round 2, Kashiwagi

No actions because the Block prevents them. (NB: Crunch, Pangaya set up the Block on her initiative and Kashiwagi resists it on her initiative.)



Round 2, Keiko

Standard: Drink a bottle of chakra water

Supplemental: Walk up to Kashiwagi and place an explosive tag on her nose. Win.

...probably get in to see Jiraiya now, as he's up in the stands

...hang out and enjoy the party

...get some dinner, then head back into town and go to bed early

...punch a random ninja and start an international incident

...do something else. (Write in.)

"Laaadieesssss and gentlemen!" the new referee cried. She looked close enough to the original pale-skinned woman (who was standing beside her looking sour) that they were probably sisters, and Kei was willing to give odds that this was the younger sister. She had that annoyingly happy, bouncy, gimme-attention thing that younger sisters who weren't socially inadequate freaks seemed to have.No.She pushed the thoughts aside. This was not the time to focus on her own failings. This was the time to focus on the failings of Mist. Of the system that had brought her here today. Of the support that herfamily gave. Of all the pain in her life, from being pushed away by Ami to having to watch Mari-sensei crumble. Focus on that, and focus on the surprisingly pleasant thought that today she was not just justified in taking this pain out on someone else, she was actually. Granted, the orders were implicit. Still."Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the fourth match of this year's Chūnin Exams! To my left, in blood red and forest green swirly patterns, hailing from the lush and glorious nation of Hot Springs, we have the mighty, the miraculous, the massively overpowered jutsu hacker extraordinaire, four-time winner of Hot Springs's coveted 'Shoot Shit Out of the Air At Eighty Yards, Genin-edition' trophy, already two years a hunter-nin at the ripe old age of fifteen: Kaaaaaashiwaaaaagi Noriko!"The crowd cheered and slammed their hands together, getting into the hype as the referee moved back and forth, pumping her arms to set a beat. Soon enough, most of the crowd was rocking in place, the thunder of a thousand people clapping in unison echoing across the field.After a minute the referee started waving the crowd down, calming the fevered clapping enough that she could be heard again."And to my right, may I present to you: Gōōōketsu Keeeeiko! Coming to us most recently from the Village Hidden in the Leaves, Gōketsu is a member of the self-named 'Team Uplift', the first ever group of missing-nin to come in from the cold! The newly-renamed Gōketsu scion comes to this battle with the brilliant mind and tactical abilities that are the mark of her birth clan, the Mori of the Mist!"Kei idly wondered if her vengeance would be better satisfied by drowning the woman or having her gnawed to death by a pangolin. Perhaps she would ask Hazō; he was the creative sort and could undoubtedly come up with something appropriately gruesome."Young Gōketsu's ability with thrown weapons might be the equal of her opponent's, so we should expect an interesting fight on that front! But there's more to her than mere thrown weapons and bloodlines, my friends! Do you want to know what it is?""Yes!" shouted a few people.The referee cocked her head and cupped one hand to her ear. "I can't hear you! Do you want to know what it is?""Yes!" shouted a lot of people, much to Kei's ongoing irritation. The referee was going to keep dragging this out, wasn't she?"I can't hear you!""YES!" thundered a thousand voices."All righty, then! Our bright young spark here is no mere missing-nin anymore! No, she is now a princess of the Leaf, a girl so talented that she was adopted by Jiraiya of the Legendary Three, Toad Summoner, doting father, and the greatest sealmaster alive! And, as such, she is: The Paaaaangolin Summonerrrrrr! Yes, this wisp of a girl is mistress of mighty monsters from beyond time and space! They tower into the sky, with fangs as long as your hand and claws as long as your leg! They breathe fire on command and tear the earth asunder when they walk! She may have no ability in close combat, but her mystic mayhem machines will happily make up for it! Watch closely, because this fight will be EPIC!""Woo! Woo! Woo!" the crowd barked, once again in time with the pumping arms of the pangolin fodder."Okay, kids," the woman said, finally getting tired of the crowd and turning back to the contestants. "I want a good clean ninja fight. Remember: Endangering the audience counts as causing a fatality; your entire village is kicked out of the Exams and their bond is forfeit. When I give the word, you enter the arena immediately and then the fight begins. The fight ends with knockout, tap out, ring out, or on my command. When the fight ends, youNo killing or maiming. No tools except explosive tags, storage seals, ninja wire, and weapons light enough for an average civilian to pick up." She grinned and waggled a finger at them both. "And also, since it seems like Ms. Gōketsu's brother didn't pick up on it: The fight doesn't start until you're both in the arena. Empty hands and no jutsu until you're down there, away from the audience. That most definitely includes summoning your monsters, young lady!"Kei nodded, not trusting herself to speak an answer. She gripped the hem of her serape tightly, forcing herself to keep her hands still."Okay, now, before I kick things off, anything you'd like to say to one another?" She stepped back, grinning wolfishly and gesturing invitation."Yeah, I've got some words," Kashiwagi said, stepping forward with a confident look. "I want to thank our hosts for letting me warm up so easy, but I hope they've got something better next round!""Ooooh," went the crowd."See, I've done a little research on this chickie," Kashiwagi said, hooking a thumb in Kei's direction but talking to the audience. "The baby of the family, never quite measured up. Kinda weird as a kid—never talked to anyone, spent most of her time crying in a corner."She turned back to Kei. "Too bad about your sister, yeah? She was some kind of crazy badass...I guess your parents were pretty bummed out that they got all the good parts in the first kid and just the junk in the second, huh? Hey, I heard you were kissing girls back in the Academy. Are you still doing that, or did you manage to find a boy who can stand your looks?"Kei seethed. "For your information, I am affianced to the heir of the Nara clan."Kashiwagi nodded understandingly. "Sure, sure. Major clans need to cement those alliances somehow. I'm sure he's not too happy getting stuck with someone like you, but I'm sure he'll do his duty at least once. Looking forward to that? Being in his bed, having his arms around you?"Kei stiffened, her breathing catching for a moment, then speeding up. Kashiwagi took notice and her grin spread wider."Look at that, folks! She's getting excited just thinking about it! Well, don't worry, little Keiko. I'm sure that after I kick your ass up and down this arena you can go running home to him. He'll hold you close, wrap his arms tight around you, kiss your ne—""STOP!" Kei's chest was heaving, her skin cold and clammy. Her mind, normally her greatest weapon, had turned against her, stabbing her in the back with images of Shikamaru's arms...wrapped...oh, Sage, she was going to vomit. Or cry. Or maybe scream.She could feel herself dangling above the abyss, her feet waving unsupported beneath her as she held onto sanity by her fingernails. Fanged jaws of sheerest terror roared upwards, the remembered sound of her own screams as she ran from Anna's touch the only thing she could hear.She fled, diving deep into the Frozen Skein to escape that horror. Layers and layers of the Ice broke before her and sealed themselves behind her as she plunged down and down and down until the world was far away and everything held a bluish tinge.whispered the Mori Voice.For just a moment, she wavered. The Voice was right that it really wouldn't matter if she lay down and allowed herself to fall to the bottom of the bottomless Ice. The Exams were a farce; she would be promoted one way or the other, so it made no difference if it happened. After they ended, she would be forced to marry, and forced to live among the endless swarming crowds of Leaf. It was so difficult, dealing with people. It was like being a dog in a human household—just smart enough to know that you could not even see all the communication happening around you, much less understand it.It was an apt comparison: a dog. She was an attack dog for Leaf. She was a breeder for the Gōketsu and the Nara. Always wanting to please her masters, never able to understand what brought reward and what brought punishment except in the broadest outlines. Never fitting in or truly welcome except when she was utterly passive. And it wasn't her fault! They were all such liars. They lied with their words, they lied with their faces, they lied with their gestures. Some of the lies were meant to be kind, but they were still lies and still exhausting and hurtful. And it wasof them. Even the Mori lied, constantly. And everyone else understood all those lies. For normal people, the lies weren't even lies, they were merely nuance. It was only for her that they were lies. For poor, broken, useless Kei.No.No, not everyone lied.Kagome didn't, and he understood social rules barely better than she did.Hazō lied, but he also made efforts to bridge the gap, to help her understand. His Clear Communication Technique had been created explicitly for her, designed to turn lies into nuance.Noburi...ah, Noburi. He lied more than all of them put together, but his lies were never aimed at her. He had no skill at reaching out, at bridging the chasm between them, but he wanted to. He cared about her, for whatever bizarre reason, to the point where he would have gone with her to forcibly extract Tenten and her contemptible tagalongs from the Mizukage's grasp despite knowing that it would cause a war. He had joked about how it was the job of brothers to "beat up anyone who makes their sister sad."whispered the Voice.Would be it so bad...?No.No!She would not give in to the Voice. She would not be driven from the world by the jagged words of a puling teenager. She would not lose her control simply because this...thisdecided to play headgames."Awww, did I hit a nerve?" Kashiwagi said, grinning. "Don't worry, I'm sure he's a nice boy. He'll probably pretend to be happy at the idea of bedding you."Kei cocked her head, studying her attacker. She felt strange, distant, the moment no more important than one in which she observed insects or flowers. The Ice was wrapped tight around her but its whispers were momentarily silent as she held the Voice quiescent within bonds forged of her will."I am going to hurt you very badly," Kei said calmly.Kashiwagi blinked.A thought occurred and Kei turned to the referee. "To clarify: You said that maiming was against the rules, but exactly what definition of 'maim' are you using?""...What?""Sometime 'maim' means only the excision of a limb, other times it will be interpreted more broadly, to encompass any severe and lasting injury. Would it be considered maiming if I broke both her legs and crushed her hands?""Uh...yes. Yes, that would be maiming.""To be clear: Would it be maiming if I, or only if it caused long-term injury? Because Lady Tsunade is something like my adoptive aunt, and I'm sure I could convince Jiraiya to convince her to fix this offensive little brat." Kei paused to study her subject's musculature and bone structure. "If it helps, I will promise to avoid compound fractures so there won't be any risk of her bleeding to death before the medics get to her. Even without Lady Tsunade's help, I'm sure she would be walking again in a few months, and probably able to make handseals within a year."The crowd was completely silent. Kashiwagi and the referees, prior and current, stared wide-eyed."That...would still be maiming," the referee said carefully. The older one from yesterday, not the annoying cheerleader."Hmph. Very well." She turned back to Kashiwagi. "Be advised: My uncle's favorite saying is that 'Explosives solve all problems'. I am currently carrying several hundred explosive tags with which I fully intend to solve the problem that is you. I will throw the first few to your left in order to judge how quickly you dodge. Please use your best efforts so that I can accurately calibrate placement. I don't wish to maim you...by accident, anyway.""Uh...right.""No," Kei snapped. "I will throw them to your. Your left hand is that one." She pointed to the relevant appendage, taking care to maintain plenty of distance between herself and it. She shook her head. "Does Hot Springs not even teach its children right from left?"For some reason, a titter went through the audience."Also, once one of my pangolins grabs you, your best bet is to go limp. Struggling will at best annoy them and at worst startle them. When startled, their instinct is to roll into a spiky ball with blades pointing in all directions. If they were holding you at the time then you would be caught in the middle of the ball, and the best outcome would be that you were folded in half and your spine snapped. That would definitely count as maiming and I would not want to have to argue with Hazō's aunt as to whether or not your stupidity should impact my chances for advancement."Kashiwagi, face utterly pale, stepped back."I think perhaps this would be a good time for us to start," the senior referee said, moving between them with one hand upraised. "Contestants ready? On my mark, get into the arena and then the battle begins. Mark!" She slashed her hand downwards like a sword.Kashiwari vanished, a rock appearing in her place.Kei calmly took her serape off, revealing the twin bandoliers of tag-equipped kunai and two water bottles that crossed her chest. She calmly dropped the serape into one of the storage seals glued to her belt. She calmly walked to the edge of the quarry and stepped off the edge.The wall of the quarry was rough and blocky from where chunks had been mined out too vigorously, leading to cracking and spalling. A civilian child would have had no trouble climbing it; for a ninja, it might as well have been a ramp.Kei kept her eyes up as she bounced down the wall, marking Target's movements. Target had been running flat out, taking a more aggressive route down the wall and then probably chakra-boosting to get across the bottom of the arena faster. Now she was standing on the pond, in the same spot Noburi had gone, except she was staying on the surface instead of diving in.Kei walked forward slowly until she was a few yards from the edge of the water. "Stealing your battle plan from my brother, I see."Target laughed. "Nah, I'm not a coward like he is. I just thought I'd give the audience a good show. Softfeet love watching ninja walk on water, and I'm betting your big ol' bitey things don't swim too well. Now, how about you come over here and let me give you a great big hug. We can be cuddlebuddies! What do you say?""I say 'Summoning Technique: Pangaya'."There was a loudand the area was briefly flooded with green smoke. When it cleared, the two-storey bulk of the pangolin bodyguard loomed in front of Kei."Greetings, Summoner," the pangolin said, nodding politely. "I take it this is that brat you wanted me to deal with. Did you ask if I'm allowed to rip her arms off?""Sadly, you're not," Kei said. "Minimal damage, please. To the extent that is convenient, anyway. If she's too slow to dodge...well, it's hardly our problem.""Don't have to dodge," Target said, with an absolutely insufferable grin. "You can't hit what you can't see. Wind Technique: Mirage!"Wind blew sharply in Kei's face for an instant, forcing her to squint and turn her head. When she glanced back, the surface of the pond was covered in heat shimmers that made Target's form seem...smeared, or stretched. Difficult to target, certainly."Pangolin Clan Technique: Noble Funnel of the Sage's Breath!"Pangaya swirled her hands, her enormous body swaying in time with the motion. The air moved with her, circling around her and then spiraling outwards. Within seconds, Kei and her bodyguard stood at the center of a spinning vortex that tore dust and small pebbles from the ground and sprayed them everywhere.It was impossible to tell through the smearing effect of the Mirage jutsu, but Kei was confident that Target had lost her smile.Pangaya wasn't done yet. "Pangolin Clan Technique: Emergency Shove!" She thrust both massively-clawed hands at the water, sending forth a blast of air so dense it was slightly visible. The air hit the water like a boulder, sending a huge wave spreading across the surface. "Pangolin Clan Technique: Emergency Shove!" She timed it perfectly, firing the second blast into one of the troughs so that the wave action was amplified. Within moments, the entire surface of the small pond was filled with chop. The kind of chop that made waterwalking hard...unless you had hiked across ten miles of storming ocean, in which case it wasn't an issue. Kei doubted that Target had ever needed to do that.The Mirage rippled as Target threw a steel spike straight at Kei's head. Kei watched it come and did not bother moving; she had faith in her bodyguard's jutsu. At least, she did until she saw the explosive tag wrapped around the handle, at which point she leaped behind Pangaya.The spike entered the Noble Funnel and was whirled aside, the protective jutsu slowing it and retargeting it from where Kei had been to where Pangaya was. The pangolin bodyguard spun, crouching down over Kei to form a tent of pangolin strength resting on four pillar-like legs. By the time the kunai actually touched her it wasn't even moving fast enough to make a dent. The explosion, on the other hand, made her grunt and cracked her scales, but did not dispel her.Kei stepped out from under her protector and looked at where Target still stood on the water."That," she said, "was rude. Also, inefficient. Allow me to show you how one uses explosives."She pulled one of her special kunai out of the bandoleer. Unlike her usual weapons, this one had two separate explosive tags on it, one in the normal place around the handle and one wrapped around the blade. (There had been no more room on the handle, so Hazō had suggested this when they made the plans for this fight.)"One." Kei activated the seal on the handle. "Two." She activated the seal on the blade. "Remember: To your left." She, chakra-empowered muscles trained by thousands upon thousands of hours of practice sending the blade arrowing towards where she guessed Target was standing, plus a little to the left. The explosives weren't full demolition charges but Kei really hoped that the girl was as good as she should be. As tempting as it was to imagine putting the blade straight through Target's face, she didn't actually want to do that...much. Probably. Well, there would be tiresome political consequences if she did so no, on balance she did not want to. Still. Target had better dodge.Fortunately, she had calculated her throw just right; far enough not to actually hit, close enough to startle Target into making a mistake. The better way to escape would have been to stop water-walking and allow herself to fall below the surface where the explosives wouldn't injure her. That was very much counter to ninja training; being in the water eliminated mobility, and a ninja without mobility was a dead ninja. No, the trained response when there was no cover to be had was to Substitute away from an explosive. And, of course, Kei had positioned herself such that there was exactly one clear choice for a Substitution Target: the yellowish rock to her left.The rock vanished, the air shimmered and twisted in a sure sign that Target was now there. Pangaya, already briefed on the plan and knowing what to do, lunged forward with arms extended, sweeping them in like the nets of a fisherman."Let me go!" Target cried, struggling against the pangolin's crushing embrace. Her arms were pinned at her sides so she couldn't make handseals and so long as she was held off the ground and clasped tight to Pangaya's broad chest, there were no valid Substitution paths for escape. She drummed her heels against her captor's scales and slammed her head back as though trying to break a human grappler's nose. None of it was effective.Kei calmly took one of the water bottles off her bandoleer and drank it, feeling the chakra flow back into her from Noburi's gift. She had expected him to be disconsolate and unapproachable after his own loss but instead he was angry, embarrassed, and determined that his siblings would not be defeated so easily. He had joined in the discussion last night, both of her adopted brothers uniting to provide her with the plan and the tools she needed."Ahhh," Kei said, exaggerating for effect. She tucked the bottle back on her bandoleer and took three steps forward. Pangaya obligingly bent down so that Target's head was at a convenient level for Kei to stick an explosive tag on her hair."This is a half-strength antipersonnel tag," she said calmly. "I can prime it and Substitute away. Pangaya will be dispelled back to the Seventh Path, at which point I will simply summon her again. You, however, will be badly injured. A severe concussion, certainly. Probably some damage to your eyes, although hopefully not permanent. Your eardrums would be burst, so you would not be able to hear and your balance would be unsteady."Now, I just drank a bottle of my brother's chakra water. He seems to have overloaded it, because I find that I am heavily overcharged on chakra and I admit that it's making me more aggressive than normal. My tessera has been pestering me for more time on the Human Path and I'm inclined to give it to them. What do you think? Should I set the tag off and then summon them all back so they can bat you around?"Target struggled for a few more seconds, then nodded in admission of defeat. "I surrender."Of course, they were too far into the quarry for the judges to actually hear that and call the match. Furthermore, it hadn't been that impressive. She couldn't hear the crowd's reaction, but it certainly was not thunderous applause. She was of two minds about that. On the one hand, efficiency was its own reward. On the other hand, there was something to be said for building a legend."Pangaya, please bring her along." Kei turned and walked towards the wall of the quarry nearest the judges.Kazue was annoyed. There was only so much that you could do to pump a crowd up for a fight that ended in seconds, the way most ninja fights did. This one had been less exciting even than usual. One girl ran onto the water and disappeared, a monster was summoned (okay, that part was pretty cool), a couple of kunai were exchanged, a few explosions (once again, cool) and then everything stopped. The Gōketsu girl actually drank some water, which was an intensely insulting thing to do in front of an opponent, especially one who couldn't be seen. Then she talked to her monster for a bit, then the two of them walked towards the judges until they were in the narrow blind spot along the bottom of the cliff. Kazue was just starting to climb off the judges' platform and move to the edge of the cliff to see what was going on, but a thunderous shout sent her scrambling back."Pangolin Clan Earth Element Technique: Immobile Artillery!"A screaming and flailing Kashiwagi soared up from the bottom of the quarry, passed ground level at massive speed, peaked about thirty feet up, and then landed with an unpleasant-sounding thump on the grass a couple of yards in from the edge. She was moving, albeit sluggishly, so at least she wasn't dead.Kazue stared in shock until her sister nudged her."Go on," the older woman said. "They made you lead judge because I wasn't exciting enough, so go be exciting."Kazue stared for another moment, then shook it off. "Right." She hopped off the platform and strode out in front of the crowd, pulling the familiar smile across her face."Wasn't that amazing, folks? Explosions! Screams of terror! Ninja walking on water and flying through the air! Let's hear it for the show! Kashiwagi, the Hotty from Hot Springs, the mighty jutsu hacker, has been defeated! Ring out equals fail out, so the winner is—"The crowd went wild, no one paying the slightest attention to her. Kazue spun in place to see Gōketsu Keiko standing on the head of an enormous pangolin that was just now cresting the wall of the quarry. Equally massive ones flanked her on either side, claws longer than Kazue's leg anchoring them firmly in the dirt as they pulled themselves up."Me. And also my companions: Pangaya, Pandamonium, and Panjandrum. Loyal soldiers of the First Army of the Pangolin Clan."The cheers of the crowd redoubled, dying out only slowly as Kazuho jumped off the judges' platform and stalked towards the victorious genin."Gōketsu Keiko, you are disqualifed!" shouted Kazue's rules-stickler older sister. The one with no sense of the dramatic, no ability to work a crowd or to realize when a situation was beyond salvaging.Gōketsu didn't move anything except one eyebrow. "Why? My opponent clearly left the ring.""You endangered the audience with a thrown projectile!"Kazue facepalmed. "Kazuho," she muttered. "Let it go. Leave it for the Mi—""I did not. She did not even make it to the judges' platform, much less anywhere near the audience."Kazuho digested that one for a moment. "It doesn't matter. You drank Wakahisa chakra water, and that's not an approved tool for this tournament!""I drank only normal water. To wash the grit from my mouth, of course. There was quite a lot of dust kicked up by my pangolin bodyguard's techniques."That was a step too far even for Kazue. "Oh, come on! That was absolutely Wakahisa water! You couldn't possibly have summoned three of these things on your own!""Prove it."The audience laughed and applauded.Kazue deflated. Kazuho started to continue the argument, but Kazue placed a hand on her arm and shook her head. The older woman glowered but nodded; the crowd saw the gesture and went wild. Shouts of "Gō-ke-tsu! Gō-ke-tsu! Gō-ke-tsu!" started making the rounds, gathering momentum as they went.Kazue's smile was a mask of gritted teeth as she faced the audience. "Winner by ring out: Gōōōketsu Keiko!Vote time! What to do now?It's about 4pm and sunset is around 6pm. There will be partying and celebrating here at the tournament area until easily midnight. You could:Voting ends on Wednesday, December 19, 2018, at 12pm London time.