Into the Void (Legend of the Five Rings)
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Actually he posted here. Ki -Rin is ludicrously OP. One re roll from Luck costs 3 XP. One re roll per round costs 4 if you buy a tattoo.
Emerald Oracle
Chaos, yet harmony. Death, yet the Force
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Hm, I am somewhat in favor of @storybookknight's plan, but what would the fluff justification for it? What's Hideo's backstory that has made him the first Rurouni of the Empire? Also, given the need for the 4 point Togashi Tattoo advantage how would that alter the flow of the Advantages and Disadvantages?
(Also, we should totally rename him Kenshin, just for the lolz).
(Also, we should totally rename him Kenshin, just for the lolz).
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@Hello Would it be possible to replace our katana with a reverse blade sword?
Nix's Warden
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Hm....Togashi Himura....sounds good!
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[X] Togashi Hideo
Better a hundred samurai die...
The kaisha you were a part of had been sent to accompany a powerful Isawa shugenja and his small group of Shiba protectors so that he could call upon the elements to destroy a great bridge before the armies of Jigoku could use it to strike further into the Empire.
Even with the losses suffered from war your kaisha still numbered well over a hundred men and Mirumoto Tomo, the chui in command, had made his displeasure at being relegated to escort duty clear.
When you arrived to discover that the village on the other side of the bridge had not yet been fully evacuated, it was this longing for battle which lead Tomo to heed your suggestion that he should lead the Dragon bushi in a holding action against the oncoming horde.
While the Isawa waited on a hill overlooking the bridge, you and your brothers fought a desperate battle against superior numbers while the remaining villagers fled.
Despite the skill of your clansmen, their numbers were endless and as the losses mounted, Tomo finally called for retreat.
The bridge was wide enough that a dozen men could hold it against an army, and hold it you did.
Even as the fire and lightning of the kami fell upon them, the fiends threw themselves at the dwindling forces of the Dragon again and again.
The minutes seemed like hours, but finally the entire massive edifice crashed into the deep chasm, bringing the battle to an end. Not a single foe took a step on the other side.
Only a handful of your brothers had survived, but countless enemies had been slain, the heimin villagers had all survived, great glory had been won for the Dragon, and the names of the fallen would live on in song throughout the empire.
After the battle, Tomo had taken you aside and asked why you had suggested the holding action instead of leaving the heimin to be slaughtered and preserving samurai lives. You could only give him the answer you felt in your heart:
"Better a hundred samurai die honorably to enter Yomi than a single heimin soul is claimed by Jigoku."
I'll give it a try. Hopefully you and @storybookknight will like it enough to accept it.
Better a hundred samurai die...
The kaisha you were a part of had been sent to accompany a powerful Isawa shugenja and his small group of Shiba protectors so that he could call upon the elements to destroy a great bridge before the armies of Jigoku could use it to strike further into the Empire.
Even with the losses suffered from war your kaisha still numbered well over a hundred men and Mirumoto Tomo, the chui in command, had made his displeasure at being relegated to escort duty clear.
When you arrived to discover that the village on the other side of the bridge had not yet been fully evacuated, it was this longing for battle which lead Tomo to heed your suggestion that he should lead the Dragon bushi in a holding action against the oncoming horde.
While the Isawa waited on a hill overlooking the bridge, you and your brothers fought a desperate battle against superior numbers while the remaining villagers fled.
Despite the skill of your clansmen, their numbers were endless and as the losses mounted, Tomo finally called for retreat.
The bridge was wide enough that a dozen men could hold it against an army, and hold it you did.
Even as the fire and lightning of the kami fell upon them, the fiends threw themselves at the dwindling forces of the Dragon again and again.
The minutes seemed like hours, but finally the entire massive edifice crashed into the deep chasm, bringing the battle to an end. Not a single foe took a step on the other side.
Only a handful of your brothers had survived, but countless enemies had been slain, the heimin villagers had all survived, great glory had been won for the Dragon, and the names of the fallen would live on in song throughout the empire.
After the battle, Tomo had taken you aside and asked why you had suggested the holding action instead of leaving the heimin to be slaughtered and preserving samurai lives. You could only give him the answer you felt in your heart:
"Better a hundred samurai die honorably to enter Yomi than a single heimin soul is claimed by Jigoku."
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Probably best to make sure that the guy understands that the samurai are on their way to Yomi or wherever not that they're taking that Heimins place in Jigoku.
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Done and changed
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I thought that was clear enough from the context, but I can change it if you have any suggestions.
Emerald Oracle
Chaos, yet harmony. Death, yet the Force
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Perhaps something like "better a hundred Samurai pass to Yomi than a single heimin soul is claimed by Jigoku"?
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As long as you're aware just how close that is to blasphemous then I'm fine.
In other news allow me to present the Should have been Kakita build.
-[ ] Plan Wish I was a Crane
--[] Iajutusu 10 for 52 XP
--[] Awareness 3 for 12 XP
--[] Reflexes 3 for 12XP
--[] Ki-Rin Tattoo for 4.
Backstory:
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That does sound better, thanks.
I really like it. However it is kinda overkill for the character. An act like that would earn you at least a rank of glory because while yes you did it for the heimin, it is still glorious combat against the Shadowlands. Also I am unsure how you would convince your ranking officer with a courtier of 1. Also your chui would be a Mirumoto due to the very few numbers of sword wielding Togashi. However I like it a lot, and might be willing to allow it if Fame was taken too.
Also, and I definitely should have made this clear this earlier, the quest will start with your tattooing.
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The way I had imagined it, the Glory would primarily have gone to Tomo, who lead the battle, and to the Isawa shugenja, who called upon the kami to burn the bridge. Hideo would've just been one of the soldiers who survived.
Tomo really wanted Glory and took credit for the idea? Changed it to a suggestion we made and he heeded. Not so much "convince" as "look, an opportunity to win great Glory".
Fixed.
Hmm, can't really fit that into the build with the 15 exp limit on advantages. Can't we just say that others got the Glory since we were just one of many foot soldiers?
That's a good place to start a Togashi Quest.
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If Tattoo is four points, I think the best thing for Hideo is probably to drop his Etiquette to 1 (freeing up 2 points) and to get rid of Hero Of The People for the other two points - basically, saying that he hasn't done anything especially heroic of note yet. However, we could keep 'Hero of the People' as an ambition, if not as a currently existing merit - and it solves some of our backstory woes.
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Which tattoo are you planning on getting. Keeping in mind that if you want anything other than Bamboo, Ocean and Ki-Rin you need to write a haiku about it.
In fact if you are getting one of those three write a haiku anywhere. It can't be worse than mine.
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I don't have the books at the moment, so I can't say for sure. I'm certainly willing to take other people's suggestions on this. Ki-Rin is pretty good, though, and fits Hideo's leanings as a Paragon of Compassion (the Ki-Rin are the Great Clan of Compassion, IIRC.)
Rereading @Hello's posts it looks like the Tattoo counts towards our exp cap for Advantages, so Hideo's going to have to lose Absolute Direction to make everything fit. Unfortunate, but it was a flavor pick to begin with, so that's okay.
Wade Garrett
Just trying to do the right thing
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No, no. Say it correctly.
"The GLORIOUS SPARROW MASTER RACE called. They want their schtick back."
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Well I forget what the forum rules are about posting or linking licenced material so I absolutely will not mention that theres a list on Thelasthaiku.com
Oh no. What ever will we do without absolute direction....
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Toku are master race and everyone knows it.
Clan OP.
Emerald Oracle
Chaos, yet harmony. Death, yet the Force
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Meh. The Ki-Rin Tattoo is roughly equivalent to the Toku Master Technique. Plus, you get all sorts of other benefits from being a Dragon Man. Or woman, I don't discriminate. At least that's what it looks like to me.
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Or we could pick up a Disadvantage to make up for the difference. I suggest Cursed by the Realm: Gaki-Do:
I can see absolutely no circumstances in which we would regret making our sweet succulent flesh irresistible to zombies.
Maybe pick up Ocean as our Tattoo, just for the extra irony. Hideo doesn't need to eat, and so an entire Spiritual Realm has decided it wants to eat him.
"Get lost" seems to be the obvious answer.
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Tell me more oh wise one.
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Per the core book rules skills and rings are limited to max 4 at character creation. @Hello has changed the amount of starting points we get however. Can we go over this limit?
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Or, if @storybookknight doesn't want to give @Hello a gift-wrapped excuse to throw a zombie apocalypse at us, maybe consider Ascetic or Gullible.
This usually fails to get them to where they want to go.
Incidentally, I really do think that Ocean is a pretty good choice for our first Tattoo. No thirst or starvation and instant rejuvenation of all Void points? The three day cooldown limits its utility, but in the right circumstances it might be a literal lifesaver.
Sometimes people go astray because they think they're traveling in a different direction than they actually are.
This usually fails to get them to where they want to go.