In the Service of Samurai: Recent Episodes
Gloria Oliver
The choice: Serve the undead or become one of them.Toshi never expected the strange visitor who one evening stepped foot insidehis master's shop. A samurai smelling of the sea, dripping on the ground,algae strung from his armor. For the first time in his life, he discoversthat monsters do roam the earth. And this one has been specifically lookingfor him.Dragged from his home and all he has ever known, Toshi must now use hisacquired skills in foreign maps to help the creatures who have taken him.Yet at every turn there are problems. There are even those seeking toterminate his very life, not wanting his new master to succeed in hisassigned task. And when they do find it, Toshi discovers his new master'senemies have prepared for their eventual arrival, leaving him the only onecapable of recovering what has been lost. Can he do what even the undeadcannot? Or will he fail and be forced to wander the world as one of them?
-In this episode: Toshi and Himiko come up with a desperate plan to try to obtain the Asano's attention
-In this episode: Toshi finds out that the end of his journey is not as close as originally thought.
-In this episode: Toshi makes his way to the old temple and looks for the object the samurai needs.
-In this episode: The right island is found! Toshi is told he will be needed but not how.
-In this episode: The group has found a bigger island. Toshi sees signs of living people.
-In this episode: After his near death experience, Toshi is charged with learning to protect himself. The group moves on to search other islands.
-In this episode: The ship reaches the first of the Shakuti islands. While most ofthe crew is gone, Toshi is attacked.
-In this episode: Miko despairs of waking Toshi, noticing that the ship's cold has taken hold of him.
-In this episode: Toshi makes a copy of the map hoping to figure out a way to use it to get help.
-In this episode: The map to the islands has disappeared. Toshi is accused ofdestroying it.
-In this episode: Toshi is tested again, learns a bit more about Asaka, and also finds out the instruments he is using were stolen from the foreigners he'd befriended at home.
-In this episode: Terribly sea sick, Toshi is comforted by the geisha and also gets to learn a little more of how his captors came to their fate.
-In this episode: Toshi's skills are tested by Asaka-sama on his ability to use foreign instruments and read foreign maps.
-In this episode: Toshi meets the undead geisha, Miko, and finds out the reason hehas been kidnapped.
-In this episode: Toshi is kidnapped by an undead samurai and taken to their shipwaiting out in the bay.