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Glory of the Emerald Empire (Legend of the 5 Rings Quest)

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[X] Tell the whole truth.

Shasa deserve to be remembered as hero... but Glorious Hero With No Stains wouldn't be Shasa-the-remorseful-maho-tsukai. It would be somebody else that is remembered, not real Shasa.
 
I'm just going to reiterate, being a Maho and being discovered is the quickest way to be disowned by your family. Seriously.
 
[x] Tell part of the truth. (Write in.)
-[x] Leave out the fact that Shasa was a Maho babbled some meaningless, unimportant nonsense when suffering the after effects of a psychic attack that induced false visions. She bravely died closing the rift to Jigouku.
--[X] Spend a void point.

No smearing a dead woman, even in the privacy of our own head.

Also this way, we aren't even lying, we're leaving our an actually irrelevant detail.
 
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[x] Tell part of the truth. (Write in.)
-[x] Leave out the fact that Shasa was a Maho. She bravely died closing the rift to Jigouku.
 
Yasuki Goro needs to know. If some else finds out it could be used against him in the negotiations. He needs to be aware of this possibility no matter how small it is. I also trust in his discretion in this matter.
 
[x] Tell part of the truth. (Write in.)
-[x] Leave out the fact that Shasa was a Maho. She bravely died closing the rift to Jigouku.
--[X] Spend a voidpoint.
 
[x] Tell part of the truth. (Write in.)
-[x] Leave out the fact that Shasa was a Maho. She bravely died closing the rift to Jigouku.
 
[x] Write in:

Blink what happened....

Death/Life

Hate/Love

Gain /Loss

All of these things happened, it was...no, there was no easy way to say anything, just follow procedure.

"The ogre was, not the source of the kidnappings, and it told us of a cave where a Maho-Tsukai was and said that was the source. We checked it out, with the Ogre following. There we saw a man named who was indeed a bloodspeaker, he was using children at the behest of an oni. We fought, and the Bloodspeaker opened a portal to the Realm of Evil. Then the oni did something forcing us into a vision of our darkest nightmares. I saw the Empire fall, and myself broken...and something broke then, I don't remember anything but heat, fire and light. I used it to kill the Oni...and then before I collapsed forced the portal to weaken. Then...then Shasa-sama, gave her life to finish the task, how she did it I know not, but she did it. Then well I ended up back here."

Was Shasa a mahou-tsukai? Maybe, but in the end, she was my friend, and that seemed to matter more....
 
cokerpilot said:
Yasuki Goro needs to know. If some else finds out it could be used against him in the negotiations. He needs to be aware of this possibility no matter how small it is. I also trust in his discretion in this matter.
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If he knows, then he knows he has a duty to publicise the matter and make further investigations. That will destroy Shasa's memory. The fact that he travelled with a Mahou-Tsukai as his bodyguard for months without realising it will also cause him to lose an immense amount of face. We need to protect him from that knowledge and the political fallout it would produce.

This is also why the prevailing vote is a mistake. We also need to not believe what Shasa said, and dismiss it as the side effects of the mental attack. That way we aren't lying either.

Now, someone else might be in a position to try and smear Shasa post-mortem, but they'd fail. There simply isn't anything that could serve as evidence against her, and the only people who are in a position to try would reveal themselves as being corrupt in the process, so it would be rather counter-productive. They'd also fail, as when they were revealed as corrupt their previous allegations wouldn't be believed.
 
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[X] Tell the whole truth.
- [X] Do so in a way to make seem Shasa was merely delusional due to the illusions she was put in, and that reinforces that she died a hero to close the portal.
 
aceraptor said:
@Winged Knight how would various samurai see Shasa if they know the full truth? Would she be redeemed in their eyes or would she be forever damned?
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That depends heavily upon what the Samurai, their Family and their Clan tends to think about such actions. However, in general people who are Tainted are considered unclean, and those who use Maho are typically thought as monsters no matter the circumstances.

Many may feel Shasa redeemed herself, but at least just as many could believe she was nothing but an abomination. Such is just the way of things.
 
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That depends heavily upon what the Samurai, their Family and their Clan tends to think about such actions. However, in general people who are Tainted are considered unclean, and those who use Maho are typically thought as monsters no matter the circumstances.

Many may feel Shasa redeemed herself, but at least just as many could believe she was nothing but an abomination. Such is just the way of things.
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In light of this, and considering what we know of our boss's character...

[X] Tell the whole truth.
 
[x] Tell part of the truth. (Write in.)
-[x] Leave out the fact that Shasa was a Maho babbled some meaningless, unimportant nonsense when suffering the after effects of a psychic attack that induced false visions. She bravely died closing the rift to Jigouku.
--[X] Spend a void point.

Shasa claimed to be a maho and that she had been one for years, but then we spent part of that same sequence convinced that the forces of darkness had conquered everything and/or unable to recognize who she even was. It's entirely reasonable to conclude that she wasn't in her right mind given the information available to us, and all the more so if we believe her claim that the kansen were whispering to her- which sounds like she was fighting off some kind of horrific possession.

It's our choice what he believes, in the end. Objective truth as laid down in an OOC sense by the GM doesn't matter; what matters is whether Sousuke is willing to believe and report that a close friend of his was secretly evil for years, to the point of sharing that with his superior when he has only a few confused words and brief events before her death to push him to believe that it was so. I think I would prefer a Sousuke who has faith in those close to him and chooses to believe the best of them. He doesn't accept that Shasa was a practitioner of maho and because he does not accept that he will ensure that she is honored after her death by not sharing the details of her moment of weakness, when such a thing would only risk bringing unnecessary and pointless shame to her and others.

Sure, it might not make for as good of an investigator type as being a more suspiciously minded man, one with a keen awareness that anyone can fall or simply have secretly served darkness all along, but that's a price I'm willing to pay.

Felius said:
[X] Tell the whole truth.
- [X] Do so in a way to make seem Shasa was merely delusional due to the illusions she was put in, and that reinforces that she died a hero to close the portal.
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This is also good. The partial truth thing seems more accurate to me in that I consider it more favorable to leave out that information than to directly speculate as to what happened and its causes. If there is no discussion of something, there can be no question as to the reality of its aspects, and while we might have faith that Shasa was righteous others did not know her personally and might not be so accurate in their assessment.
 
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[x] Gman
-[x] spend a void point.

Honestly, I would prefer to advocate we we're ourselves on the cave incident. Goro is a trained courtier, and is highly probable that he will see through our words and, as Gil said, he will see that we're not only trying to protect Shasa's memory by disasocaiting her from her maho tsukai nature, but him as well for what Altaran said.

This information in the wrong hand will explode in our face.
 
It's truly up for debate, at this point, as to how Yasuki Goro would react; on one hand, he's not likely to rat out Shasa since he's a bro. On the other hand, we can't be entirely sure - in my case, especially so since I haven't read like half the updates and don't have a good read on him :V - so we run the risk of dishonoring Shasa, and that's not so good.

If we make the Etiquette (Sincerity) roll, we're rolling contested against an at the bare minimum Insight 2 courtier. This is not good in the slightest, not even getting into how he'll react if he sense we're lying. Which... again, is not something I'm sure of. On one hand, he trusts Sosuke. We're somewhat of a (no pun intended) paragon of Bushido, and an honorable young samurai - we don't lie. If something possesses us to lie by omission, he could trust our discretion.

Or he could get pissy a tad and we color his opinion of us and just end up making this wait to be resolved then blow up at an even more inopportune time. Who bloody knows.

Regardless, if we're rolling and playing things safe, we have to roll as high as we can since 7k4, even with the reroll on 1 ain't shit to what Yasuki Goro will be tossing around.

Therefore:

[x] Gman
-[x] spend a void point.

I do quite like the write in, @gman391 . Technically it's make me go "aaaaaa" but the quality itself is wonderful. :D
I also may or may not be writing omakes for Shasa's life and how she grew as a person but that is neither here nor there. :V​
 
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