Vote tally - Burden of the Emerald Empire (A Legend of the Five Rings Tale)
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[X] It was at the first great event of Winter Court, that it became clear that someone wished to divide the Scorpion from the Emperor. During the Winding Water Banquet, as the night wore on, the drunken poems flirted with disaster as several Scorpion 'mistakenly' composed poems to the Emperor's wife and why she had taken in so many Shiba. It was lewd and crude....and the Emperor nearly had me executed on the spot.
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[x] It began almost from the beginning, a whisper campaign against me within the Imperial Winter Court, that I was foolish, that I was being chastised by the Emperor for my obstinance against him. His Kizoku, Otomo Kotaro came to speak to me...
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[x] The first tournament was to be something simple in my mind, a competition of martial arts, specifically hand to hand as the Emperor was known to be quite proficient in jiujutsu. A ronin with a death wish had won it, and then in his victory speech insulted all the Scorpion as being too weak and low to ever be a challenge. I sent my most trusted agent to find out who he worked for....
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