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

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[x] Group up! If we're all together, we can hold out until help arrives.

This is not the time or place to try for a death or glory attack.
 
[x] Group up! If we're all together, we can hold out until help arrives.

Circle the Wagons!
 
[x] Group up! If we're all together, we can hold out until help arrives.

WE ARE THE WALL. TAKE BLOWS FOR OUR LESS ARMORED COMPANIONS.

Also, 5 on 4 is so much better than 7 on 4. Another round like the last one and we should achieve numbers parity and while Shasa and Bromonk have taken wounds, they don't seem to be impaired yet.
 
[x] Group up! If we're all together, we can hold out until help arrives.

the conservitive approach is best in this situation.
 
[x] Group up! If we're all together, we can hold out until help arrives.

I want to add somthing more to this vote, but don't know what. Oh well...
 
[x] Group up! If we're all together, we can hold out until help arrives.
 
[x] Group up! If we're all together, we can hold out until help arrives.

With their apparent resistance to damage, I don't trust our ability to push through them in an assault. Doing so means that we'll probably attain additional injuries, which could mean problems for the less armored/resilient members of our group. Can't afford to have anyone go down in this fight, and there's no way in hell that we'll break their morale, so a conservative approach it is.
 
We're still in the "healthy" bracket, IIRC. I would like to know the actual brackets of our party, if is posible. Just curiosity.
 
[x] Group up! If we're all together, we can hold out until help arrives.
[x] Try to pull as much of the foe's attention as you can to yourself. You are much better equipped to survive it.
[x] If you can't just pull in the enemy, then do what you can to aid whichever of your allies looks the most wounded and/or hard-pressed (probably by interposing yourself between them and whoever is trying to attack them, and smashing away)
[x] Be prepared to burn void points on wound prevention
 
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    • [x] Group up.

    Attack Roll: 7k3=16
    Damage Roll: 6k3=40


    "Group up!" you shout. "Don't fight them alone!"

    Shasa glances at you and nods, backing away from her opponents while still keeping her full attention on them. Shirou, meanwhile, simply jumps back as another knife swing comes for him and lands near by.

    In but a moment you are all together, standing back to back. The remaining five assailants close in on you from all sides, knives and kama glinting in the lantern light. But while they make little lunging motions, they do not attack. The gaps are closed, and it's obvious they're seeking an opening.

    In this brief moment of calm, you see that all the tables for this outdoor theater have been abandoned. The actors have fled, as well, and the streets are almost barren of people aside from a few watching from windows. It's not surprising, honestly. Combat is your duty, but that is not true for all people. And these foes are inhuman in their capabilities.

    Truthfully, the only surprising thing is that everyone cleared out so quickly. You've only been fighting for a short while. Not even two minutes. You don't feel tired, not with the adrenaline pumping through your body, but you know you're going to feel sore when this is over. Even now you can feel the ache in your arm where that kama cut you. It's not bad enough to be distracting, but it's close.

    The man Shasa injured, with the cut through his eye, strikes out toward you. It is not a badly executed attack, and this person obviously knows how to handle knives. However, it is still not enough. You turn and the attack glances off your armor, doing nothing.

    With a hard shove of your shoulder the man stumbles back, and then you smash your tetsubo into his chest. The force of your blow rips through his leathery hide and shatters his ribcage, leaving a gaping hole where his torso used to be. He doesn't even get a chance to scream as he falls back. He simply looks down at his chest, wide eyed, before looking back up at you.

    And then all life leaves him, and he collapses.

    The remaining four attackers hesitate for a moment, just circling around you and your companions as they seek out weaknesses in your formation. This fight has obviously not gone as they wanted, not with three of their number dead and the rest wounded. Even with you and your allies injured, this battle became very even very quickly. And you don't figure these people are much for a fair fight.

    A fight that shifts even more in your favor as an arrow erupts in the chest of the first man you struck, and he falls to the ground gasping for air.

    "Halt!" a woman cries, nocking another arrow. Eight armored Samurai are behind her, swords drawn. "Halt in the name of the Magistrates!"

    The remaining three look at each other for but a second, and then dart off. In but a moment they are in the alleyways and out of the light, revealing no sign they'd been there at all save for their blood on the ground. It is as if they just vanished like smoke. You keep your eyes on those shadows, and your grip tight on your tetsubo, even as the magistrates approach.

    "Toma, Chiaki," the leader says, motioning to two of the masked Scorpion Samurai in her group. "Take two companions each and follow after them. Do not let them get away."

    "Yes, Asami-san," both Toma an Chiaki say, quickly gathering two people each from their squad and heading out into the shadows after the assailants. Asami, obviously the leader, nods after them before turning to you, scowling.

    "What happened here?" she growls, and even though she's masked you can tell her expression is like she just finished chewing rocks.

    [] Explain. (Write in.)
    [] Let someone else explain. (Pick someone)
     
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    -[x] Thank you, Magistrate.
    --[x] proceed to tell her the truth, you and your companions were enjoying the play. You caught sight of the assailants approaching and brandishing knives. You called to your companions as the assailants charged and countered their charge. From there you fought them off as a group, until the Magistrate arrived.
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    "Hiruma Sosuke, these are my companions, Shirou of the Order of Osano-wo, and Hiruma Shasa. Bayushi-san here is Bayushi Mataru, and I'm glad he was around. Might have gotten a bit difficult otherwise. So um yeah that's what happened"

    How's this?

    Edit: (I'm totally yoinking that last bit gman.)
     
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    [x] "Well you see um, there was a bit of a fight. We had just watched a play, one about the First Thunders. It was a really good play. So after we were about to decide what to do next when Bayushi-san here decided to talk to us. So we talked for a bit and then the hairs on the back of my neck go up abit, you know how it is training and stuff right? So I see these people-things coming for us with knives, and that is just so not on. I threw a chair at them and the rest of us got into a fight, they didn't seem to go down to easily. Anyways we kept fighting and then you showed up...oh right!"

    Bow politely

    "Hiruma Sosuke, these are my companions, Shirou of the Order of Osano-wo, and Hiruma Shasa. Bayushi-san here is Bayushi Mataru, and I'm glad he was around. Might have gotten a bit difficult otherwise. So um yeah that's what happened"
     
    What is the polite response?
    She is a magistrate, someone with greater status than us...
    we don't realy know what is the status of the scorp samurai that has joined our group...
    The one with the greater standing is the one that should take charge and answer the magistrate question.

    we should take pint, making sure that we don't realy know our standing in relation to Bayushi, letting him answer as he see fit.
     
    Bastur2 said:
    What is the polite response?
    She is a magistrate, someone with greater status than us...
    we don't realy know what is the status of the scorp samurai that has joined our group...
    The one with the greater standing is the one that should take charge and answer the magistrate question.

    we should take pint, making sure that we don't realy know our standing in relation to Bayushi, letting him answer as he see fit.
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    Don't worry. we nailed our etiquette roll.
     
    Let's see then!

    Etiquette Roll: 6k3=44

    *Stares* I just… I… I don't understand.

    Alright, here's the deal. There isn't really a hard and set rule for "You get assaulted in the middle of the street in another Clan's territory." This doesn't happen all that often unless you're at war with said Clan, in which case the proper course of action is "Keep fighting until your superior tells you to stop." Obviously, this doesn't really apply here.

    There are pros and cons to either you speaking or encouraging another, like Bayushi Mataru, to speak. If he speaks, then Asami might be more willing to listen to him as a fellow Clan mate. He is familiar, you're not. And people tend to be easier on what they're familiar with. However, it could also appear that you're not willing to speak for yourself and perhaps have something to hide. Whether or not this is true is irrelevant, since you are standing in the middle of a pile of bodies and that's kinda sketchy.

    If you speak up for yourself, then it looks like you're taking full responsibility for your own actions. This is respectable, and makes you look more forthright. That aways goes over fairly well with Magistrates in general because it means you're cooperating fully right from the beginning. Less work for them, you know? However, you're still of a different Clan and you were part of a major public incident. Asami is likely going to be a little predisposed toward not liking outsiders being involved in a ruckus like this.

    So really, it depends a lot on Asami's own personality and mood. Like I said, there's really not a set rule for something like this.

    Another thing to note, though, is these guys look like peasants. You're Samurai. You're of a higher social status than them. That gives you a lot of leeway for something like this. Now, they're still Scorpion peasants so they're going to want answers, but even with that you're still on a higher rung of the social ladder than the dead people. So you should take that into account a well.
     
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