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Burden of the Emerald Empire (A Legend of the Five Rings Tale)

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Hida Kuon - to try to get the Crab's take on all of this, allowing us to adjust as appropriate.
Togashi Satsu - for wisdom and further insight overall.

[X] Hida Kuon

I suppose I can hop on the bandwagon. It's certainly not a *bad* bandwagon.
 
Kuon it is...hmm. TN 10 to hold your liquor, let's see how this goes.
Edit, with a surprise upset, Hisao drinks until only he and Kuon are left. Good show.
gman391 threw 4 10-faced dice. Reason: Drinking with Kuon Total: 24
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Year 2:Winter Court III.5
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    • -Hida Kuon

    You blink, the faint warming buzz in your ears, distracting you as you tried to focus. Gods, how much sake had you drank? Holding one hand up you begin to count.
    That bottle of Far Water Gold, and the Cherry Blossom Snow, and the White Oak, then the Hano...so that... bottle of Moto's Own sake would be your fifth bottle.

    You feel oddly proud for managing to suss that out. Beside you, finishing off his own bottle of sake. Hida Kuon lets out a large belch. He looks down at you, with somewhat amused eyes.

    "...Who'd think that you'd be able to match me drink for drink this far...where do you put it all?" He asks.

    "Inside me, Kuon....I put it inside me."

    He laughs.
    "That makes sense...glad this worked"

    "Eh worked?" You say, looking around for your cup.

    Kuon waves at everyone else. The combined contingent of 'warrior brothers' passed out around you. This had officially been a 'moon viewing party for young warriors to show the brotherhood of the Empire. In practice, it had been excuse to get shitfaced.

    "Know, I'm not good at like talking all fancy...so figured with my wife...that if we were drunk first...it'd be okay, anything goes wrong we blame it on the sake...now where did I put the Red Vine?"

    You bend over, world swaying as you pick up the bottle of Red Vine sake from beneath your toes.
    "Here"

    "Thank you" Kuon says, pulling the cork and thinking for a moment.

    With a shrug he goes to just drink it from the bottle. You punch him in the arm, giant or not he has to share!
    "Hey, hey, give me a glass before you drink it all!"

    Kuon shakes his head. "Mouthy aren't ya, here."
    He pours sake into the stone bowls that the Crab prefer.

    You take a long gulp of the slightly spicy sake, ah...good stuff. What were you doing again?
    Right talking fancy.

    "So what'd you want to talk about?"

    "Feel little bad now, but I gotta say cousin....can't lose the Yasuki...can't lose my grandfather either."

    You blink, yeah that was about the size of it.
    "Kuon, I...Scorpion are fucking terrified of your grandfather."

    "Nah they're just punk ass bitches still sore that my grandfather cost them the Throne."

    "Okay, they can be both" You say wagging a finger at him.

    Kuon blinks for a moment.
    "...yeah, I mean...fuck, it's not like...Reiha hasn't explained it to me. If I wasn't a Crab, I'd be a punk ass bitch too if my Grandfather was just over the border ready to start shit. But he's my Grandpa, he's all of our Grandpa's...you get it right?"

    A shrug from you.
    "I get it man, but I get them too...I mean your Grandpa...he's done a lot, I think he deserves a rest too, but I'm pretty sure everyone would flip the fuck out if my Grandpa came back, so it's like...what the fuck do you want to happen?"

    "I'd like it if he was...given a chance to be a hero again...truth is, I don't measure up to him"

    "Hey, hey, none of that Kuon."

    "Nah, I might be a good as fighter...but my brother got his brains, and well..."

    His brother was dead because Kuon had killed him. Kuroda had fallen to the machinations of an oni...hadn't been any help for it.

    You punch him again.
    "Look man, you...got this, okay? you got this. Wasn't your brother who held the Wall of FUCK YOU EVIL, it was you and your people. Don't take that away from you..."

    Another moment of silence as you finish off your bowl of sake.
    "Truth is, I'd like to have your grandpa be a hero too. We got a fucking war against a damned Shadow Dragon with glass golems and who the fuck does that? Who looks at glass and says 'you know what? Imma make an army out of that!' "

    Kuon laughs.
    "Someone whose had his wife through a sake bottle at his head I guess...still, if you want it, why can't ya?"

    "Because your grandpa is a monk, and his monky power doesn't let him stop being a monk like that. So I need to make him a different monk, but monks are jealous of their monky power."

    "Monky power"

    Another shrug.
    "You know 'oooh I hit you once and now your arm can't move' ...damn sensei did that to me all the time"

    Nodding in sage understanding, Kuon says.
    "Kenku man, fuck Kenku"

    You think about that for a moment
    "Do you think anyone has?"

    Kuon shudders.
    "I hope to the gods no"

    A wise man, Hida Kuon, you decide.
    "...good call Kuon, good call"

    Waving his arms around Kuon goes on.
    "Right? I mean feathers everywhere...it's not like fucking a Crane. At least, I don't think it is. Never fucked a Crane...Reiha would kill me if I did."

    "...I mean I know Kaname would" You say in agreement.

    "To our wives!" Kuon has somehow given you yet more sake.

    Kuon is a good friend.

    "To our wives!" You echo.

    "Kuon, serious though, if I found a way to get your Grandpa into a different order, where he could help us fight the Shadow Dragon...you'd guys be okay with that?"

    Kuon shrugs.
    "No, I mean, we'd manage...and we'd be proud...but we'd miss him too, I know he's fucked up, he knows he's fucked up...but everyone has a story from their grandpa or great grandpa about how Kisada came in at the last second and saved their lives. Everyone has a story about how Kisada, not the Clans, not the Emperor, Kisada, held the line for another day by himself...it's...hard"

    "You guys don't want to let him go now that he's back"

    "Yeah....but if you give him something like that...I think, we'd be okay with it, so long as he could visit"

    "Of course man, I ain't going to take away your grandpa." You say.

    "Thanks, I mean if you let us thump a Scorpion we can call that even too...hell just have them give us free medicine for a while....Crane's hard though, been fucking each other so long."

    "Well Domotai doesn't want to make her dad sad either..."

    "I get that, but the Yasuki are Crab, they've been Crab....they're Crab. We gotta have them or we're like...blind, blind people don't fight."

    "Well they shouldn't fight, but okay...what would you give for the Yasuki."

    "Give? Anything...my job to protect them you know?"

    "I know...but I'm thinking we've got to give Domotai something so she can say that she won even if she didn't."

    "...Might have something for that...uh Yasuki have this old fan, or at least, I'm told they do, locked up in that palace of theirs. Its supposedly the first fan of Doji-no-kami, she started using Lord Kakita's after they hooked up...the Yasuki aren't gonna wanna give it up at all...but you know...if it means we can stop fucking wasting our time punching Crane in their damn pretty boy faces...."

    Kuon shrugs.
    "Might be able to swing it....now the Unicorn say they picked this up on their ride north. They call it Airag and say that it's even tougher than Shochu...what say we test that?"

    He holds a bottle of the Airag in front of you.

    "Kampai!" You call.

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    Why is everything pain? And why does Lord Sun hate you so much? PLEASE TURN OFF LORD SUN
    "Ooooh" you moan out.

    You roll over in the silks of your broad with a loud groan as a loud clap echoes from your accursed door.
    Why by all the Gods, did you schedule an early...wait, you didn't schedule one did you?
    Maybe you did. This head ache is making it hard to think.

    Right no...you had...worried that the moon viewing would get out of hand and cleared the morning...
    Then what dumb fuck was interrupting your recovery time?

    Another clap.

    You swear to the gods, someone is getting an ass kicking for this.
    Staggering to your feet, and tying some clothes on, you stumble to your feet to see...

    [] Utaku Xieng Chi, daimyo of the Utaku
    [] Kitsuki Akane
    [] Horiuchi Shem-Zhe
    [] Daidoji Kikaze, Daimyo of the Daidoji

    (AN: If Hisao was more lustful as indicated with earlier choices, You'd be rolling over to see someone. But fortunately Hisao is good at keeping it in his pants, and drinking apparently)
     
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    • [X] Horiuchi Shem-Zhe

    wait that is Daidoji not doji.... hmmm, I do think Shem-Zhe is the least likely to cause issue with us being drunk (Utaku can get prickly on Honor and Daidoji are still Crane and could use it against us).
     
    [X] Kitsuki Akane

    gman391 said:
    Considering that the customs of the Empire explicitly say 'If you are drunk it's okay to do whatever' I can only assume that it came up often enough to make an exception. That is to say, getting drunk is a time honoured tradition.
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    Also means you have a huge advantage if you can hold your booze
     
    [X] Kitsuki Akane

    It is good to know, that the Crab are not funadamentally opposed to our lets make Kuon fight aginst the glassgolems plan.
     
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