#kenshi shek

[sadokyuban]

sketches from university

[gbssworks]

Marital artist/Rebirth survivor, Usu

[witchygod]

Kenshi

Keahi Journal #1

The first few steps out of Mongrel were easy enough - there were no signs of any Fogmen out on the road- not that we'd see them, the fog was so damn thick.

It was hard traveling with such a large group, my new friends and the mercs were too clumsy for us to sneak through like I had when I came to Mongrel alone. Honestly sneaking would be too slow- and the howls across the mountains was a reminder that we couldn't afford to be slow.

The mercs I hired to bodyguard were apparently the hot blooded sort, we had a clear path all we had to do was keep running but no they had to charge the Fogmen- their heads fetched a heafty bounty afterall- that's all fine and good but that's not what I paid you for. We got separated from our guard and swarmed by split of the horde when we tried to run. The Dregs aren't far now, we should be able to make it.

FINN MY MAN! Well my skeleton, not MY skeleton mind- ANYWAY he saw us running away from another pack of Fogmen right as we came up on the border. Guess cannibal bugmen doesn't scare you much when you've got no meat to eat- he was able to carry Crumblejon back while Shryke, Beep and I ran for safety - they got Yunomi though. I knew I should've left the kid behind in Mongrel but... No this isn't the time for regrets- she's a resourceful girl she can buy herself some time, the mercs I hired apparently survived their little skirmish with minimum injury and I found a woman who knows where the Fogmen are held up at, Finn's coming too, we'll save her.

I've never found Shek women more attractive than I did seeing those two beauties standing atop a mountain of Fogmen corpses with Yunomi behind them. The mercs were disappointed they were skivved out of a fight but who cares. Yunomi was a bit battered but she was whole and more importantly ALIVE. We'll take her back to Sanctuary to heal- she insisted she could walk but no way I was letting her with as bad as her legs were- she's lucky to keep them. I'll have a talk with her if she still wants to travel with me, I don't want to put her through that again but- she did survive in large part to her own capabilities I can't just baby her. Still after everyone heals we can talk it over.

[vagiz-ahm]

[sablerune]

Some of my girls in a previous Kenshi run

Terrible posture all around

[randomlymad]

Open your eyes. Look at me. I am your new king...

[introverted-character-town]

Kenshi gays!

[greyket]

And so peace settles for good in the town of Miqdash

All thanks to a brave Skeleton named Zan

If you wanna know more about any character on screen leave a comment!

For my experience with the game click more

Ive started this game a couple of months ago. Tried it before but it didnt click. But with my pc recently breaking and only having a notebook i decided to give it another chance.

And now here i stand 210 in game days later with 100+ hours invested into one playthrough.

I remember the humble beginning with Zan. Just trying to painfully level up martial arts by luring bandits into the Bar outside of the hub. It was painful, slow and inefficient but it kept me going, it gave me drive. Upon my friends suggestion i eventually recruited Ruka, my first party member.

As i continued playing i made my first goal of the playthrough to defeat the exiles outside of the shek kingdom. By painfully kiting them and picking them off one at a time, the party eventually succeeded. Their tiny little Exile camp became our base of operations for the time being.

Yet eventually i realised this game had base building. So right between stack and the hub established the town of Miqdash. I was scared of prayer day, having exactly one human at the time, but to my luck they got stuck.

In my playthrough i first dismantled the holy Nation and gave it to shek. I then destroyed Tengu for Tinfist and the anti slavers. The more Miqdash grew, the stronger Zan became, the closer i came to my ultimate goal.

Defeat cat-lon

After having beaten the bugmaster i decided it was time. On day 210 all of Miqdash stood before Cat-Lons exile. I was scared of the 100 stormthralls waiting for me, but with cunning planning we beat them all with no casualties.

Then Zan confronted with his trusted Daughter Seto and his first three companions Ruka, Rane and Hep. It took all the man power they had, but eventually the group defeated the Mad Cat-Lon

God i love Kenshi

[gundurr]

[mossrat-art]

A shek warrior from Kenshi!

[ribstongrowback]

girls i think the shek kingdoms might be an ethnostate

[masgwi]

Gonna play Kenshi.

I am pretty happy to know that Kenshi 2 is in the works. Such a great game, but visually kinda difficult to deal with.

[cronowander]

my first drawing of kenshi, a shek using a useful bluff xd

[theclanofsteelfists]

Personae Dramatis

The following characters are important characters to the story of Steel Fists and its clan.

Steel Fists

Pronouns: It/its

Race: Skeleton

Age: Old.

Back story: Steel Fists is a skeleton who dumps its memory every few hundred years and goes dormant for a random and unknown length of time, usually 50+ years. It calls these past “lives” iterations. The current iteration believes that it can only trust in two things – the things it makes, and the strength of its own steel fists. Status: Protagonist.

Trivia:

Steel Fists loves wuxia, and its decision to make itself a gi was directly influenced by the amount of old wuxia it watched in its first iteration. It does believe in fighting until its dead.

Ruka

Pronouns: She/her

Race: Shek

Age: Mid-20s.

Back story: Ruka is a disgraced Shek warrior, who survived an ambush with a group of dust bandits outside of Squin. Unfortunately for Ruka, her people viewed her survival as cowardice and broke her horns off, turning her into a second-class citizen who is only fit for servitude. She joined with Steel Fists after it wandered into Squin looking to sell copper. She finds Steel Fists intriguing and has joined up with it, as it does not care about her culture’s taboo about her fighting again, only that she can fight.

Status: Alive Trivia: Her back story is a retelling of her canonical back story, which simply states that she survived a fight she should’ve died in and was therefore disgraced. Gecko Pronouns: She/they Race: Human Age: Early 30s Back Story: A human woman who escaped from Rebirth with her friend, Joe. They are working on teaching Joe that the Holy Nation’s teachings are kind of bad. She likes Steel Fists, and views it as a pragmaticist. Status: Alive Trivia: Gecko was actually my first player character in Kenshi. I decided to bring her into Steel Fists’ story because I felt bad that I immediately abandoned her for Steel Fists. The back story of her escaping from Rebirth with Joe was something I changed, since for Gecko I had originally chosen the “Wanderer” back story. Joe Vanjoe Pronouns: He/him Race: Human Age: Late teens, early twenties Back Story: A human man who escaped from Rebirth with his friend, Gecko. He was initially imprisoned because he was caught stealing bread to feed his wife and kids. Status: Alive Trivia: Joe was made up because the NPCs in the Hub sometimes react to a skeleton character as though they were still members of the Holy Nation, which reviles and accuses all skeletons of being “Agents of Darkness”. Him and Gecko being escaped slaves is a reference to the “Slaves” game start. Joe’s back story and name are a loose reference to Jean Valjean “Les Miserables”

[graceofgosh]

kenshi adventures continue

i started in the holy nation slave start with me(cass) and a bugman(Metaru)

in a failed escape attempt i lost my leg, meanwhile my bugman had been building up his sneak and assassin skills instead of trying a brute force plan. he eventually succeeded at freeing not just himself but another slave, a shek man named Little. it was a really funny name honestly because Little is MASSIVE. he joined metaru's cru and they met burns in the flotsam. then they wandered down to the hub, getting their asses kicked many times along the way. eventually they defeated a shek exile lady's crew but couldn't turn in the bounty because she died and her body vanished when the fighting was done. but this really rough fight ended up turnin burns into the ultimate tank with massive toughness. we continued to train and fight.

eventually to make money we became hashish smugglers running from the swamp to flats lagoon and making a fortune, recruiting a few more guys. in mourn Miu started researching technology in a little shack we bought. over time we turned our smuggling operation into a growing operation and now we have a hydroponics compound right in the middle of mourn. we hired a girl named Adi and left her in charge of production. at this point we had a decent sized crew of experiences fighters and decided to head towards rebirth to break out Cass. we met agnu along the way in the tower of pain or whatever its called.

when we marched on rebirth, there were no survivors. limbs were flying everywhere, holy paladin heads being cracked open. Little is a damn juggernaut and burns is an unkillable blademaster. agnu is full of pure unadulterated rage and caved okranites heads in with his bare hands. while Cass was languishing in her cell, Metaru studied the blade, so he did some pretty massive damage too despite being a bit weaker than the main juggernauts. Ruka was swinging her meitou polearm we got from screamer the false and ponk. i had hamut and miu on archer duty but they lost their bows because they got enslaved and i couldnt find them in the aftermath when i broke them out. in the end we freed Cass and a couple other shek, a guy named Double who lost his arm trying to escape on his own, and a girl shek named Soo. now im genociding a holy nation farm for the hell of it

[faolonfiendrender]

The holy nation is outright stupid. So, I may have escalated things in my kenshi save, they managed to actually kill one of my guys, so, I kidnapped one of their top military officers and handed him over to the flotsam ninjas, a rebel group for the holy nation.

Anyways, they sent a full frontal attack on my fort. They sent a full frontal attack in a fort with no ranged weapons. One would think that maybe the holy nation would bother with basic intelligence gathering or just realize that the gate being open isn’t a good thing. Anyways, they walked into a kill box haphazardly, without so much as a single guy able to return fire. I picked their inquisitor’s unconscious body from the wreckage before patching him up and taking him to the shek kingdom.

Anyway the holy nation just lost one of their top military officials due to incompetent tactics.