User blog:SPARTAN 119/Nanashi (Sword of the Stranger) vs Onigafuchi Villagers (Higurashi)

Nanashi, the [[Ronin|ronin] who rescued prevented the sacrifice of a child by a daimyo and a group of foreigners intent on using his blood to make an elixer of immortality.

When Nanashi ventures into the village of Hinamizawa, in his time known as Onigafuchi, a village where the residents are stricken with a mysterious, insanity-causing illness which causes them to commit violent acts such as human sacrifices and the murder of outsiders.

Will he escape Hinamizawa and live to tell the tale?

=Combatants=

Nanashi
Nanashi (literally "no name") was a samurai of a daimyo in Sengoku-era Japan, until, after one battle he was ordered to kill two children, presumably heirs to the defeated lord. Nanashi killed the children, but deeply regretted it, becoming a traveling ronin and leaving his sword tied in its sheath. After encountering a child and his dog who were hiding for an unknown party searching for them, Nanashi and the child, Kotaro were attacked by several enemies. Nanashi and Kotaro's dog, Tobimaru, defeated the attackers, Nanashi fighting them with his sword still in its sheath. The dog, Tobimaru, is wounded by a poisoned throwing knife, and Nanashi agrees to give Kotaro a ride to town. After getting medicine to help the dog, Nanashi discovers Kotaro is being hunted by a Japanese daimyo working with a group of Ming Dynasty Chinese seeking to ritually murder the child and use his blood as an ingredient in an elixer of immortality. Nanashi is separated from Kotaro and he captured by the daimyo and the Ming forces, however, Nanashi fights his way through a battle between the Ming and a rival daimyo also seeking the child, finally drawing his sword and fighting his way through anyone who gets between him and the altar where Kotaro is to be sacrificed, including a master scythe-wielder and a highly skilled Western mercenary in the employ of the Ming, before finally rescuing Kotaro.

Onigafuchi Villagers
The Village of Onigafuchi, known in the modern era as Hinamizawa is a fictional village in Japan featured in the anime Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni. While Higurashi is take place in 1983, the past of Hinamizawa is a major plot point. Hinamizawa is home to a mysterious local disease that causes violent behavior in those infected with it, once the infection reaches a certain level. During the feudal era of Japan, Hinamizawa, then known as Onigafuchi, or "The Demon's Abyss", was home to a group of villagers who believed they were descended from demons. This was due to stories about a mass Hinamizawa Syndrome outbreak that resulted in widespread bloodshed. Not knowing about the infection, the villagers believed that those villagers with demonic blood had reverted the their evil nature, and massacred the fully human inhabitants of the village. In order to stop this from happening again, they made human sacrifices to the god of the their local Shinto shrine, Oyashiro. On the night of an event called the Watanagashi Festival in June, the villagers would take a sacrificial victim, torture them, before finally having a priest or shrine maiden cut open their intestines with a sword, scythe, or sharpened hoe-like tool. The victim would be left to bleed to death as they villagers all took a piece of their intestines and floated it in the river, symbolically washing away the sins of the village. In addition to this violent ritual, the Hinamizawans also tortured and murdered those who violated the "laws" of Oyashiro, including outsiders entering the town, villagers attempting to leave the town, and those who enter forbidden areas in the shrine to Oyashiro. In this match, there will be 20 total Onigafuchi villagers. =Weapons=

Katana
A katana is the classic samurai sword, made with a combination of hard and soft steel to maximize both strength and flexibility. Katana are known for being of extremely high quality, with a razor sharp edge.

Sheath
Nanashi is capable of using the sheath of his sword alone as a weapon, if he is disarmed of his sword.

Dao
A Dao is a curved Chinese sword used for slashing and chopping. Nanashi takes one of the these weapons after he loses his katana.

Ceramic Grenade (x1)
The Ming in Sword of the Stranger use crude grenades filled with gunpowder as weapons. While Nanashi never actually uses one in the movie, we are going the give him one, presumably taken for the Ming, in this match to help even the odds for the outnumbered Nanashi.

Sword Throw
Nanashi throws his katana at a Ming priest about the sacrifice Kotaro, killing him. In this match, Nanashi may do this with any weapon, including captured enemy weapons (see below)

Note
Nanashi will be allowed to pick up enemy weapons.

Onigafuchi weapons
=Scenario= Nanashi will be standing near the Shinto Shrine in Hinamizawa, shortly after the Watanagashi festival has been performed. The Nanashi will be able to retreat into the village or the forested mountains in order to gain a batter position. =X-Factors=
 * Katana (one in hands of priest)
 * Sharpened Ceremonial Hoe (one in hands of priest
 * Scythes
 * Axes
 * Nata (Japanese machete-like tool)
 * Improvised clubs

Basically, its a well-trained samurai vs an angry mob. =Notes=
 * Battle ends January 30th.
 * If you do not think Nanashi will survive, give how many kills he will score before he is himself killed.