[L5R] Minor Clan Quest
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lavanderjasmine
Master of decoration
- Location
- R'lyeh
[X] Explore the town.
[X] Make contact with a delegation - Scorpion
[X] Make contact with a delegation - Crab
[X] Make contact with a delegation - Scorpion
[X] Make contact with a delegation - Crab
Hobbes
Berrypicker as fuck
- Location
- Magrathea
[ ] Explore the town to get a lay of the land and figure out what's going on
[ ] Make contact with the Crab delegation, they're our friends and we should say hi
[ ] I think spending time with one of our advisors would be good, or perhaps just try to avoid the Crane delegation.
Edit: Just saw all the votes, are we sure we want to actively seek out the Scorpion delegation? I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with doing it, but it could definitely be risky. If we don't play our cards right things could go very wrong for us if they smell weakness. Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's a poor idea in general, but we should definitely have a good battle plan before we talk to Scorpion.
[ ] Make contact with the Crab delegation, they're our friends and we should say hi
[ ] I think spending time with one of our advisors would be good, or perhaps just try to avoid the Crane delegation.
Edit: Just saw all the votes, are we sure we want to actively seek out the Scorpion delegation? I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with doing it, but it could definitely be risky. If we don't play our cards right things could go very wrong for us if they smell weakness. Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's a poor idea in general, but we should definitely have a good battle plan before we talk to Scorpion.
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- Location
- Connecticut
- Pronouns
- He/Him
If you do seek out the Scorpion, I'll give people a chance to make a vote for a plan going in at that time.
Hobbes
Berrypicker as fuck
- Location
- Magrathea
Thanks for clarifying.
[X] Explore the town
[X] Make contact with the Crab delegation.
[X] Make contact with the Scorpion delegation.
Just so everyone knows, from page 71 of the core book here are the Scorpion's views on minor clans.
"They are too weak and unimportant to bother with, unless they threaten or defy us - in which case they must be crushed without mercy."
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- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Explore the town.
[X] Make contact with a delegation - Scorpion
[X] Make contact with a delegation - Crab
[X] Make contact with a delegation - Scorpion
[X] Make contact with a delegation - Crab
Currently we already have a Scorpion fucking with us, so...really want to get a "how did we diss you" out of them because we can't afford them escalating.
- Location
- madison
I think we may have just gotten in there way. they probably had the provence wrapped around there stinger, or where in the process of doing so. If we are lucky it was the man on the ground sticking to an old plan that didn't take the presence of a minor clan into account, and they can just cut a deal for whatever they are after. If we are unlucky they have some plan that needed the wave provence to collapse and we are now directly in there way.
Winter 913 - Turn 2.4 - Surprises In the castle town
- Location
- Connecticut
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Veekie
As much as you are tempted to see if Tamayo's squad has been assigned to the Face Of The East for the winter, you have all winter to look for them and only a few days before the Winter Court starts properly to do things like get to know the town, make contact with other delegations, and marshal your strength for the heavy politics ahead.
Now that all of your baggage has been stored in your rooms, and your armor removed and placed on its appropriate stands, you can return to the town that you rode through so quickly this morning and try to actually get to know it. Your advisers are equally happy to be exploring a new and unfamiliar place, so in the end it winds up being eight of you that go to explore the town while Jumonji and Taigen remain behind to watch your belongings. For a few minutes you all simply walk in companionable silence, glad to be finally free of the heavy weights of armor on your shoulders and enjoying the mountain air.
Surprisingly, it is Minato who is first to speak up. "Ooh, that's nice." He says, nodding his head at what appears to be an empty street.
"Beg pardon?" You say. "I'm not following you. What's nice?"
Minato rolls his eyes slightly in exasperation. "The building, woman, the building." You follow his gaze to see the building in question, a fairly ordinary looking home with plastered walls and a slate roof. Seeing your incomprehension, he sighs. "Look at how deep the windows are set. The whole thing's made kura-zukure." Again, you blink. "They, uh, they stick a bunch of plaster and crap between relatively thin sheets of wood to put up the walls. It's fire resistant, it's nice and warm in the winter, nice and cool in the summer - and then there's the slate roof." His gaze travels over to the other houses in the district, as does yours.
"All the houses here have slate roofs," you venture. "That must... make it easier not to have the house catch when an ember hits it, as opposed to straw?" You half-state, half-ask.
Minato nods in complete seriousness. "Now you're gettin' it. And they're all built a proper distance apart from each other too. Makes it easier to tear one house down without completely catching the houses next to it on fire when you do it." He whistles in appreciation. "Now this is a properly designed town!"
[Minato is surprisingly knowledgeable about construction! The Castle Town here is unusually well constructed.]
You smile in appreciation for having learned something, both about the building of houses and about one of your advisers. Any further discussion on the topic, however, is stymied by an audible growl from your stomach. You grin sheepishly and nod towards a street cart selling yakitori. "Anyone else in the mood for lunch?"
There is a round of assent, and you head over to that general direction. As you get closer, however, you realize a potential flaw in your planning. The street-cart's prices are clearly marked, the owner seems to expect payment from samurai (this is a Yasuki-owned trading post, you realize belatedly) and due to the very limited space in your delegation you did not bring a single heimin with you to the Face Of The East.
As you are trying to figure out how to go about buying lunch without publicly shaming yourself, Yu steps forwards. "Hey, you! What's the deal with these prices? This some kinda joke?"
"I assure you, samurai-sama, the listed prices are quite fair," the middle-aged merchant responds, waving himself with a paper fan to counter the heat of the grill."
"Fair, nothin'." Yu scowls. "Eight zeni for a chicken skewer? I could get the same thing for four back in Zakyo Toshi!"
The merchant's eyes widen in mock surprise. "Four, samurai-san? That is indeed remarkable. You must be new to Crab lands to be so surprised, for our land is nowhere near so fertile as land in many other places, and food is much more dearly come-by. I suppose though in a gesture of friendship to a newcomer to our lands, I could be convinced to go as low as seven zeni."
Yu grins back and takes on an almost wheedling tone. "Seven? Aw, come on, heimin-san. We Namazu are friends of the Crab! Saved the Emperor from dying on Crab lands! You don't have to gouge us as hard as the Cranes. I'll give you five."
You see a twitch at the corner of the merchant's mouth, a hastily-suppressed smile. "I'm sure I have no idea what you are talking about, Namazu-sama, but now that I recognize your mon I suppose I could take a temporary loss in order to better serve my lords. Six zeni apiece, then."
"Five and a half," Yu challenges - to your surprise, you rather thought going down to six from eight was a good deal! "There's eight of us, so you can cook them all at once. We'll help you close earlier today so you can go home and relax."
The merchant's eyes narrow, no longer quite so amused. "I'm selling at a loss, and you're offering to take a large amount of my stock at an even lower price as though it was a favor, just to save a few zeni?" He sighs. "Truly, the generous nature of the Catfish was greatly exaggerated." Despite this apparent condemnation, Yu remains unmoved, and finally the merchant sighs again. "If you must, then, I suppose I can do forty and six zeni for all of you."
Yu bows slightly. "Agreed. Pleasure doing business with you, heimin-san." With that, he turns on his heel and heads back to you with a satisfied look on his face.
You raise one eyebrow at Yu as he returns to your group. "I find myself surprisingly impressed, Yu-san. You did that quite naturally."
He shrugs uncomfortably. "You gotta do what you gotta do, running a village. Haggling with heimin is part of that." After a few seconds, he frowns. "It's not really my strong suit, though. Probably coulda gotten under five and a half if I did it right."
Despite yourself, you laugh.
[Yu suffers no loss of Glory or Honor when engaging in Commerce! Merchants are probably gouging outsider samurai. ]
As you wait for your yakitori, you notice that Wakaba has strayed away from the main group, and has somehow found a small pack of heimin children playing with a ball of rags. You watch with bemusement as Wakaba catches the ball on the side of her foot, pops it into the air, catches it between her ear and shoulder, then somehow throws with a movement of her shoulder in front of her where she can knee it back to the crowd of children. Despite the fact that she is samurai, the bonge children take her participation as the invitation that she intended it to be, and quickly include her into their game of kemari, even laughing when she makes a particularly ungraceful (and unsuccessful) lunge to attempt to keep the ball from hitting the ground. You find yourself smiling practically maternally as you watch the children play.
Soon, a delicious smelling skewer of seasoned chicken is thrust under your nose and you gratefully take it from Koibu, who gives you an amused smile. "Wakaba-san!" You shout. "Food's here!"
She gives a slight bow to the kids, they bow back, and then she comes running over with a grin. "Ah, not bad, not bad."
"I didn't know you were so talented at kemari, Wakaba-san!" You say with a smile, handing Wakaba her own skewer of chicken.
"Heh, thanks." She says, rubbing the back of her head with her free hand in embarrassment. "I get a decent amount of practice, what with Hoshi being how he is an' all." You must have looked quizzical at that, because after she chews and swallows her first bite of chicken she elaborates. "Mm, so Hoshi has a hard time following conversations and all on account of he can't hear, so when we've got free time to spend together or with friends we tend to play a lot of games. Kemari if it's nice out, Go if it's rainy... stuff where you don't have to talk to people to have fun, you know?"
You nod. "That makes sense." Your gaze travels to the pack of heimin children that Wakaba left behind. "You're quite good with children, Wakaba-san."
She shrugs. "Practice, mostly." After a few seconds, during which she takes a thoughtful mouthful of chicken, she nods. "I think it also helps that the heimin here are on pretty good terms with their samurai. They were a little nervous when I jumped in, but not too bad."
[Wakaba is skilled at games! Heimin have a good relationship with the local daimyo.]
With all of you well fed, you begin to explore the town in earnest. For all that the castle town here is smaller than Zakyo Toshi, the Golden Carp Marketplace is the equal of any market in your home city, full of brightly painted signs, the noisy chatter of commerce taking place, and the smells of street food. You are surprised by how clean the marketplace is kept until Minato points out the slightly slanted and rounded roads, with stone lattices covering empty pits where the rain or the eta can wash sewage off of marketplace streets. Koibu is particularly delighted when he realizes that the Face of the East is home to the Shell Of Stone distillery, makers of some of the finest mugijochu in Rokugan.
He invites you all to come have a drink with him, so you all sit up to what amounts to a stone-topped table outside of the Shell Of Stone. Behind the counter on the other side of the table is a heimin who proceeds to open up a box stuffed with snow from the nearby mountainside and removes a large clay jug. He pours the contents of the jug ceremoniously into what appear to be cups that have been blown from glass, doubtless products imported from Unicorn lands at what must be a significant expense. Koibu is practically salivating as he eyes the glass, and Minato and Yu are not far behind. Gohei, Tagano, and Kuroki look envious as they watch the five of you prepare to drink, their duties as yojimbo prohibiting them from partaking, and Wakaba looks downright nervous, leaving Chouko as the only one seemingly unaffected.
With the last glass poured, Koibu raises his glass high to you all, and shouts a toast. "To the Catfish, the Crab, and the Emperor!"
"KANPAI!" You all shout, and throw the glass back. The potent barley shochu stings your mouth and nose, but the fact that it was chilled in snow helps it go down smoother, numbing your mouth slightly to the powerful burn. Beside you, you hear Wakaba sputter and cough, and you grin at the fact that you have enough practice with strong drink thanks to late night planning sessions with Koibu that you are not completely incompetent when it comes to strong drink.
As you glance over at Wakaba, you notice that Chouko is still sitting there with her arm in the air holding the glass, a soft smile on her face at odds with her usual spacey expression. Finally, she speaks,
and puts the glass down ceremoniously. Your eyes widen in surprise. "Chouko-san!" You say, somewhat impressed. "You've been holding out on us! I had no idea that you were a poet."
Her mouth quirks into a smile. "The Kanosei Furudera order studies communication first and foremost," she says wryly. "Don't sound so shocked."
[Chouko is a talented poet! The Crab make some damn fine barley shochu.]
After a long day of exploring the city, you return to your quarters, to discuss with your friends and advisers how you should handle negotiations with the Scorpion the following day. As you prepare to send a letter, struggling slightly with the still unfamiliar calligraphy brush, Koibu coughs politely. "Ah, Tsubaki-dono," he says, and holds out one hand. "Would you like me to assist you with that?"
You give him a resigned look and hand over the paper and brush. Soon, Koibu is drawing elegant characters onto the paper, perfectly spaced so as to suggest a high level of respect for the reader. After completing the formal introduction, he notices you looking at him with envy and appreciation and shrugs. "Everyone has their hobbies, it seems."
[Koibu is skilled with calligraphy!]
With the introduction penned, you must now decide how you plan to address the Scorpion delegation. What do you plan to discuss?
[ ] Write-in.
- [ ] Consider: where do you plan to meet? What do you plan to wear? Do you bring anyone with you?
- [ ] Consider also: what do you plan to discuss? Please arrange topics that you would like to bring up in order of importance - depending on how the conversation goes, you may not get to them all.
As much as you are tempted to see if Tamayo's squad has been assigned to the Face Of The East for the winter, you have all winter to look for them and only a few days before the Winter Court starts properly to do things like get to know the town, make contact with other delegations, and marshal your strength for the heavy politics ahead.
Now that all of your baggage has been stored in your rooms, and your armor removed and placed on its appropriate stands, you can return to the town that you rode through so quickly this morning and try to actually get to know it. Your advisers are equally happy to be exploring a new and unfamiliar place, so in the end it winds up being eight of you that go to explore the town while Jumonji and Taigen remain behind to watch your belongings. For a few minutes you all simply walk in companionable silence, glad to be finally free of the heavy weights of armor on your shoulders and enjoying the mountain air.
Surprisingly, it is Minato who is first to speak up. "Ooh, that's nice." He says, nodding his head at what appears to be an empty street.
"Beg pardon?" You say. "I'm not following you. What's nice?"
Minato rolls his eyes slightly in exasperation. "The building, woman, the building." You follow his gaze to see the building in question, a fairly ordinary looking home with plastered walls and a slate roof. Seeing your incomprehension, he sighs. "Look at how deep the windows are set. The whole thing's made kura-zukure." Again, you blink. "They, uh, they stick a bunch of plaster and crap between relatively thin sheets of wood to put up the walls. It's fire resistant, it's nice and warm in the winter, nice and cool in the summer - and then there's the slate roof." His gaze travels over to the other houses in the district, as does yours.
"All the houses here have slate roofs," you venture. "That must... make it easier not to have the house catch when an ember hits it, as opposed to straw?" You half-state, half-ask.
Minato nods in complete seriousness. "Now you're gettin' it. And they're all built a proper distance apart from each other too. Makes it easier to tear one house down without completely catching the houses next to it on fire when you do it." He whistles in appreciation. "Now this is a properly designed town!"
[Minato is surprisingly knowledgeable about construction! The Castle Town here is unusually well constructed.]
You smile in appreciation for having learned something, both about the building of houses and about one of your advisers. Any further discussion on the topic, however, is stymied by an audible growl from your stomach. You grin sheepishly and nod towards a street cart selling yakitori. "Anyone else in the mood for lunch?"
There is a round of assent, and you head over to that general direction. As you get closer, however, you realize a potential flaw in your planning. The street-cart's prices are clearly marked, the owner seems to expect payment from samurai (this is a Yasuki-owned trading post, you realize belatedly) and due to the very limited space in your delegation you did not bring a single heimin with you to the Face Of The East.
As you are trying to figure out how to go about buying lunch without publicly shaming yourself, Yu steps forwards. "Hey, you! What's the deal with these prices? This some kinda joke?"
"I assure you, samurai-sama, the listed prices are quite fair," the middle-aged merchant responds, waving himself with a paper fan to counter the heat of the grill."
"Fair, nothin'." Yu scowls. "Eight zeni for a chicken skewer? I could get the same thing for four back in Zakyo Toshi!"
The merchant's eyes widen in mock surprise. "Four, samurai-san? That is indeed remarkable. You must be new to Crab lands to be so surprised, for our land is nowhere near so fertile as land in many other places, and food is much more dearly come-by. I suppose though in a gesture of friendship to a newcomer to our lands, I could be convinced to go as low as seven zeni."
Yu grins back and takes on an almost wheedling tone. "Seven? Aw, come on, heimin-san. We Namazu are friends of the Crab! Saved the Emperor from dying on Crab lands! You don't have to gouge us as hard as the Cranes. I'll give you five."
You see a twitch at the corner of the merchant's mouth, a hastily-suppressed smile. "I'm sure I have no idea what you are talking about, Namazu-sama, but now that I recognize your mon I suppose I could take a temporary loss in order to better serve my lords. Six zeni apiece, then."
"Five and a half," Yu challenges - to your surprise, you rather thought going down to six from eight was a good deal! "There's eight of us, so you can cook them all at once. We'll help you close earlier today so you can go home and relax."
The merchant's eyes narrow, no longer quite so amused. "I'm selling at a loss, and you're offering to take a large amount of my stock at an even lower price as though it was a favor, just to save a few zeni?" He sighs. "Truly, the generous nature of the Catfish was greatly exaggerated." Despite this apparent condemnation, Yu remains unmoved, and finally the merchant sighs again. "If you must, then, I suppose I can do forty and six zeni for all of you."
Yu bows slightly. "Agreed. Pleasure doing business with you, heimin-san." With that, he turns on his heel and heads back to you with a satisfied look on his face.
You raise one eyebrow at Yu as he returns to your group. "I find myself surprisingly impressed, Yu-san. You did that quite naturally."
He shrugs uncomfortably. "You gotta do what you gotta do, running a village. Haggling with heimin is part of that." After a few seconds, he frowns. "It's not really my strong suit, though. Probably coulda gotten under five and a half if I did it right."
Despite yourself, you laugh.
[Yu suffers no loss of Glory or Honor when engaging in Commerce! Merchants are probably gouging outsider samurai. ]
As you wait for your yakitori, you notice that Wakaba has strayed away from the main group, and has somehow found a small pack of heimin children playing with a ball of rags. You watch with bemusement as Wakaba catches the ball on the side of her foot, pops it into the air, catches it between her ear and shoulder, then somehow throws with a movement of her shoulder in front of her where she can knee it back to the crowd of children. Despite the fact that she is samurai, the bonge children take her participation as the invitation that she intended it to be, and quickly include her into their game of kemari, even laughing when she makes a particularly ungraceful (and unsuccessful) lunge to attempt to keep the ball from hitting the ground. You find yourself smiling practically maternally as you watch the children play.
Soon, a delicious smelling skewer of seasoned chicken is thrust under your nose and you gratefully take it from Koibu, who gives you an amused smile. "Wakaba-san!" You shout. "Food's here!"
She gives a slight bow to the kids, they bow back, and then she comes running over with a grin. "Ah, not bad, not bad."
"I didn't know you were so talented at kemari, Wakaba-san!" You say with a smile, handing Wakaba her own skewer of chicken.
"Heh, thanks." She says, rubbing the back of her head with her free hand in embarrassment. "I get a decent amount of practice, what with Hoshi being how he is an' all." You must have looked quizzical at that, because after she chews and swallows her first bite of chicken she elaborates. "Mm, so Hoshi has a hard time following conversations and all on account of he can't hear, so when we've got free time to spend together or with friends we tend to play a lot of games. Kemari if it's nice out, Go if it's rainy... stuff where you don't have to talk to people to have fun, you know?"
You nod. "That makes sense." Your gaze travels to the pack of heimin children that Wakaba left behind. "You're quite good with children, Wakaba-san."
She shrugs. "Practice, mostly." After a few seconds, during which she takes a thoughtful mouthful of chicken, she nods. "I think it also helps that the heimin here are on pretty good terms with their samurai. They were a little nervous when I jumped in, but not too bad."
[Wakaba is skilled at games! Heimin have a good relationship with the local daimyo.]
With all of you well fed, you begin to explore the town in earnest. For all that the castle town here is smaller than Zakyo Toshi, the Golden Carp Marketplace is the equal of any market in your home city, full of brightly painted signs, the noisy chatter of commerce taking place, and the smells of street food. You are surprised by how clean the marketplace is kept until Minato points out the slightly slanted and rounded roads, with stone lattices covering empty pits where the rain or the eta can wash sewage off of marketplace streets. Koibu is particularly delighted when he realizes that the Face of the East is home to the Shell Of Stone distillery, makers of some of the finest mugijochu in Rokugan.
He invites you all to come have a drink with him, so you all sit up to what amounts to a stone-topped table outside of the Shell Of Stone. Behind the counter on the other side of the table is a heimin who proceeds to open up a box stuffed with snow from the nearby mountainside and removes a large clay jug. He pours the contents of the jug ceremoniously into what appear to be cups that have been blown from glass, doubtless products imported from Unicorn lands at what must be a significant expense. Koibu is practically salivating as he eyes the glass, and Minato and Yu are not far behind. Gohei, Tagano, and Kuroki look envious as they watch the five of you prepare to drink, their duties as yojimbo prohibiting them from partaking, and Wakaba looks downright nervous, leaving Chouko as the only one seemingly unaffected.
With the last glass poured, Koibu raises his glass high to you all, and shouts a toast. "To the Catfish, the Crab, and the Emperor!"
"KANPAI!" You all shout, and throw the glass back. The potent barley shochu stings your mouth and nose, but the fact that it was chilled in snow helps it go down smoother, numbing your mouth slightly to the powerful burn. Beside you, you hear Wakaba sputter and cough, and you grin at the fact that you have enough practice with strong drink thanks to late night planning sessions with Koibu that you are not completely incompetent when it comes to strong drink.
As you glance over at Wakaba, you notice that Chouko is still sitting there with her arm in the air holding the glass, a soft smile on her face at odds with her usual spacey expression. Finally, she speaks,
A samurai smiles
Chilled shochu in late autumn
The Face Of The East.
Chilled shochu in late autumn
The Face Of The East.
and puts the glass down ceremoniously. Your eyes widen in surprise. "Chouko-san!" You say, somewhat impressed. "You've been holding out on us! I had no idea that you were a poet."
Her mouth quirks into a smile. "The Kanosei Furudera order studies communication first and foremost," she says wryly. "Don't sound so shocked."
[Chouko is a talented poet! The Crab make some damn fine barley shochu.]
After a long day of exploring the city, you return to your quarters, to discuss with your friends and advisers how you should handle negotiations with the Scorpion the following day. As you prepare to send a letter, struggling slightly with the still unfamiliar calligraphy brush, Koibu coughs politely. "Ah, Tsubaki-dono," he says, and holds out one hand. "Would you like me to assist you with that?"
You give him a resigned look and hand over the paper and brush. Soon, Koibu is drawing elegant characters onto the paper, perfectly spaced so as to suggest a high level of respect for the reader. After completing the formal introduction, he notices you looking at him with envy and appreciation and shrugs. "Everyone has their hobbies, it seems."
[Koibu is skilled with calligraphy!]
With the introduction penned, you must now decide how you plan to address the Scorpion delegation. What do you plan to discuss?
[ ] Write-in.
- [ ] Consider: where do you plan to meet? What do you plan to wear? Do you bring anyone with you?
- [ ] Consider also: what do you plan to discuss? Please arrange topics that you would like to bring up in order of importance - depending on how the conversation goes, you may not get to them all.
Hm... in regards to the Scorpion, I think the main issues to discuss are that member of theirs messing with us, in a "it's nothing personal for us, and we hope you take it the same way" sort of thing. The other would be a sort of general "let's be good neighbors" outreach, given that they're right on our border.
Though, it's implied that there's a sort of (small) rivalry between us and the Scorpion due to trade routes?
Though, it's implied that there's a sort of (small) rivalry between us and the Scorpion due to trade routes?
- Location
- Connecticut
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Note: I wound up accidentally deleting my post due to problems with my phone browser that made me think I had double-entered it. Kelenas actually responded to me saying something like 'you guys share trade routes, but there is competition over who does the caravan guarding, where people sell goods & buy them, where people resupply, and so on.'
Deadly Snark
Tryhard As Fuck
Then we should probably bring Yu and Boss Koibu, as that would seem to be their area of expertise.
Now as for the actual trade routes, the compromise I would go for would be for us to get the Rivers while they keep the roads. But I'm unsure as to how much that would cost for both sides.
Now as for the actual trade routes, the compromise I would go for would be for us to get the Rivers while they keep the roads. But I'm unsure as to how much that would cost for both sides.
- Location
- Connecticut
- Pronouns
- He/Him
You do get quite a bit of income from the land trade, specifically from the Unicorn and Crab, and there is potential for trade routes to develop through the Wave Plains as well. Something like price fixing or tariff agreements might work better than a simple geographical split.
So, anyone got ideas in this regard?
Place... probably semi-public? IIRC a teahouse is a pretty standard setting for such a meeting? Maybe a somewhat informal setting, to go with the "we want to be friends with everyone" appearance we're trying to put on?
As for what to discuss... I think I already mentioned Osamu and trade, in hopes of getting those things out of the way and prevent unpleasantness. Maybe see about dropping the info that Tsubaki is the bastard of a Scorpion samurai?
Wade Garrett
Just trying to do the right thing
- Pronouns
- He/His/Him
I thought we voted to talk to our Crab friends before we got involved with the Scorpions who are at best neutral and possibly even unfriendly to us? 
- Location
- Connecticut
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I thought we voted to talk to our Crab friends before we got involved with the Scorpions who are at best neutral and possibly even unfriendly to us?
Where? The majority of people who voted on the last one voted town - scorpion - crab, so I was going to do them in that order. If there is somewhere that I'm forgetting or missing, let me know and I can rearrange some things.
Wade Garrett
Just trying to do the right thing
- Pronouns
- He/His/Him
*Re-checks self*
*Is not in time to avoid wrecking self*
My bad, sah. Into the fire we go, I guess. This will be interesting.
- Location
- Connecticut
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Teahouse is indeed pretty standard, and your tour of the town revealed some nice ones that you could meet at. Osamu, trade, you can mention the Scorpion connection... that's a short enough list that I feel comfortable handling all three of those.
Are there any topics/issues to discuss with the Scorpion that come to mind for either Tsubaki or one of her advisors?