- Location
- Moon-Station
[X] Leave it
[X] Go find Moshi-sama and tell her the lead
[X] Go find Moshi-sama and tell her the lead
Legend of the Ronin (Legend of the Five Rings)
- Status
[x] Etiquette check to try to remember how to respectfully dispose of his daisho. Surely just leaving it on his body to be found by passers-by can't be right, right?
-[x] if that fails, "Grandmother, I apologize. I am having difficulty remembering what to do with a fallen enemy's blade. Could you please remind me?"
[X] Go find Moshi-sama and tell her the lead
-[X] Then get medical attention
-[x] if that fails, "Grandmother, I apologize. I am having difficulty remembering what to do with a fallen enemy's blade. Could you please remind me?"
[X] Go find Moshi-sama and tell her the lead
-[X] Then get medical attention
- Location
- Leeds
[x] Etiquette check to try to remember how to respectfully dispose of his daisho. Surely just leaving it on his body to be found by passers-by can't be right, right?
-[x] if that fails, "Grandmother, I apologize. I am having difficulty remembering what to do with a fallen enemy's blade. Could you please remind me?"
[X] Go find Moshi-sama and tell her the lead
-[X] Then get medical attention
Sorry Sirroco, we've already had one assain after us, I wouldn't like to fight another.
Out of interest how was he stated? Based on that fear effect I'm thinking Kenburos way duelist or some alternate version, given that we've seen there are unique Insight ranks in this game.
-[x] if that fails, "Grandmother, I apologize. I am having difficulty remembering what to do with a fallen enemy's blade. Could you please remind me?"
[X] Go find Moshi-sama and tell her the lead
-[X] Then get medical attention
Sorry Sirroco, we've already had one assain after us, I wouldn't like to fight another.
Out of interest how was he stated? Based on that fear effect I'm thinking Kenburos way duelist or some alternate version, given that we've seen there are unique Insight ranks in this game.
@Dark as Silver
Hisao was statted as duellist slightly past Megumi's level, (Fire and Earth were both at 3 for him, while Megumi has a better Void and they were tied for Air and Water Rings)
Mostly compensating for relatively mediocre duelling stats by being bloody terrifying with a Kenburo's Way analogue.
Hisao was statted as duellist slightly past Megumi's level, (Fire and Earth were both at 3 for him, while Megumi has a better Void and they were tied for Air and Water Rings)
Mostly compensating for relatively mediocre duelling stats by being bloody terrifying with a Kenburo's Way analogue.
- Location
- Leeds
Knew it. Anyway, awesome that NPCs will also get unique ranks, shame we'll probably never know what they are.
Without asking at least.
It is a time of transition and change for the Emerald Empire, in such turbulent times, new paths are inevitable.
Glad you like it though.
Sirrocco
Pedantic
It's a reasonable argument. I hadn't been under the impression that the monk sicced this guy on us, though - rather that he was afraid of him. Did you interpret differently, or were you meaning something else? Do you think that whoever we're dealing with has *two* PC-tier enforcers hanging around this place?
I'm not saying with absolute certainty that they don't... but if they do, then the level of available resources that suggests is somewhat concerning.
- Location
- Leeds
Given that he gave his bosses name we can assume it wasn't the monk or mr killer was willing to lie with his dying breath.
What I'm concerned about is that between us getting this job and finding the obsidian Yasuki whats his face found out about us, and had time to stick a follower on us to make sure we didn't find anything important.
I feel that the most likely explaination for how this happened is that he had people watching the temple to make sure the monks didn't go to the legion, when they saw us snooping around they split up to try and keep track of both risks.
I could be wrong, the next most likely place we could have been spotted would be when our boss/handler gave us the mission, and for the most part the same thing happened.
If I'm wrong with this vote, by the time we're spotted again, we will be back with the legion again and safe, so theres not much danger. However if we assume its safe to go back to the temple and we're wrong then we are isolated and cut off facing an unknown amount of enemies.
Vote tally:
##### 3.18
[X] Sirrocco
No. of votes: 1
EtchedSteel
[X] Leave it
No. of votes: 3
Macros, Yorick's Skull, whydoyoubother
[X] Go find Moshi-sama and tell her the lead
No. of votes: 5
Macros, Yorick's Skull, whydoyoubother, veekie, Dark as Silver
-[X] Then get medical attention
No. of votes: 6
Macros, Yorick's Skull, Sirrocco, veekie, Dark as Silver, Simonbob
[x] Etiquette check to try to remember how to respectfully dispose of his daisho. Surely just leaving it on his body to be found by passers-by can't be right, right?
No. of votes: 4
Sirrocco, veekie, Dark as Silver, Simonbob
-[x] if that fails, Grandmother, I apologize. I am having difficulty remembering what to do with a fallen enemy's blade. Could you please remind me?
No. of votes: 4
Sirrocco, veekie, Dark as Silver, Simonbob
[x] Go confront Soju again.
No. of votes: 2
Sirrocco, Simonbob
-[x] Don't be threatening about it. Obviously, this miscreant was threatening him so that he didn't dare tell you anything, right? Give him a reasonably honorable way out.
No. of votes: 2
Sirrocco, Simonbob
-[x] Keep it short, but mention that you may be back with more detailed questions later - once your shoulder has been seen to. For that matter, if you can't find him quickly, let him go for now.
No. of votes: 2
Sirrocco, Simonbob
-[x] Then go tell Moshi-sama the lead.
No. of votes: 2
Sirrocco, Simonbob
If I'm parsing this right, everyone wants to get medical attention next update, but there's a tie between going to confront the Soju now, or going to see Moshi-sama first. While most seem to want to ask Misaki what do if Megumi can't remember due to the blood loss.
Soooo new vote?
[] Go confront the Soju first
[] Go talk to Moshi-sama first
##### 3.18
[X] Sirrocco
No. of votes: 1
EtchedSteel
[X] Leave it
No. of votes: 3
Macros, Yorick's Skull, whydoyoubother
[X] Go find Moshi-sama and tell her the lead
No. of votes: 5
Macros, Yorick's Skull, whydoyoubother, veekie, Dark as Silver
-[X] Then get medical attention
No. of votes: 6
Macros, Yorick's Skull, Sirrocco, veekie, Dark as Silver, Simonbob
[x] Etiquette check to try to remember how to respectfully dispose of his daisho. Surely just leaving it on his body to be found by passers-by can't be right, right?
No. of votes: 4
Sirrocco, veekie, Dark as Silver, Simonbob
-[x] if that fails, Grandmother, I apologize. I am having difficulty remembering what to do with a fallen enemy's blade. Could you please remind me?
No. of votes: 4
Sirrocco, veekie, Dark as Silver, Simonbob
[x] Go confront Soju again.
No. of votes: 2
Sirrocco, Simonbob
-[x] Don't be threatening about it. Obviously, this miscreant was threatening him so that he didn't dare tell you anything, right? Give him a reasonably honorable way out.
No. of votes: 2
Sirrocco, Simonbob
-[x] Keep it short, but mention that you may be back with more detailed questions later - once your shoulder has been seen to. For that matter, if you can't find him quickly, let him go for now.
No. of votes: 2
Sirrocco, Simonbob
-[x] Then go tell Moshi-sama the lead.
No. of votes: 2
Sirrocco, Simonbob
If I'm parsing this right, everyone wants to get medical attention next update, but there's a tie between going to confront the Soju now, or going to see Moshi-sama first. While most seem to want to ask Misaki what do if Megumi can't remember due to the blood loss.
Soooo new vote?
[] Go confront the Soju first
[] Go talk to Moshi-sama first
- Location
- Leeds
Couldn't you have tallied by plan?
[X] Go talk to Moshi-sama first
I just use the vote counter to try and figure things out, when there are plan votes, it works out but sometimes it gets confusing.
- Location
- Moon-Station
[X] Go talk to Moshi-sama first
Sirrocco
Pedantic
As the lead on the "go confront Soju" side, I can tell you, we lost, 3 to 5. Talking to Moshi-sama was the winner
Also, there were 5 votes trying to get an etiquette check as to what to do with the daisho, followed by asking grandmother if that failed.
Arc IV: Meeting Expectations.
Etiquette/Awareness=35 (11,9,9,6,4,4,2) -15=20
Intelligence check=10 (8,2)-15= -5
The feeling of blood soaking through your kimono isn't an unfamiliar one...and you can't even say it's not your blood right now...world's spinning, like someone put it at an angle.
You walk over to the katana on the ground, it's not yours, you can't keep it...unless...no it's too hard to remember right now.
Kneeling down, you put his blade away, and then stick the daisho in the ground as a head marker.
Technically you're supposed to do some other shit like stay with the body for three days....but you aren't entirely sure you have three days. A fresh wince of pain surges through your body letting the world focus in for a bit.
You need medical attention, that much is clear, and the closest would be...Sister Chou, Fortune's haven't thought about her in months, you hope she's okay.
She'd be in the Jurojin Temple...You think you can make it that far. Putting one foot in front of the other you walk out of Tsukune's Shrine...you'll have to come back to confront that monk later, but first, not dying and then reporting to Moshi-sama.
The world has turned a distinct shade of grey as you stumble into Jurojin's Temple. You bow apologetically to the monks, before putting your hand on the wall.
"Sorry honoured ones...but I...seem to need your help."
"Megumi-san?!" Sister Chou's voice rings across the room.
"Hello Sister...." You say weekly.
"Dear Fortune...what did you do?"
That's the last thing you really remember processing coherently. Sister Chou handed you some tea and then? Then it was somewhat blurry. You remember being force to sit down and take off your kimono, you remember being scrubbed, you remember Sister Chou taking a needle and thread to your body, sowing the skin back together before making you drink something else....but it's all jumbled, in and out of order. Like you were drugged...what was in that tea?
And then somehow, it's four hours later, the sun is setting, you're sitting on a porch over looking the rest of the district while being bandaged from behind, and Sister Chou is begging you for the love of the heaven's not to get into any more fights.
"I did what I could Megumi-san, but you've lost a lot of blood, and your body is going to need time to heal fully. If you get into more fights, well, your stitches will tear, and then you'll probably die. "
"Thank you Sister Chou, I'll take your words under advisement" You say.
The ache in your shoulder is still there, but it's not as bad as it was.
"I mean it Megumi-san. You samurai are usually tougher than most people, but you aren't invincible. Whoever did this was aiming to cripple you from drawing, if not kill you"
"Yeah, that seems like something he would do." You say thinking back to Hisao.
"So promise me, you won't get into anymore fights for at least a week, and that you'll come back here so I can check those stitches"
"I will" You say.
"You'd better Megumi-san, I will send someone to hunt you down if you don't. Now what happened?"
"Well...I got into a duel and won, but not cleanly." You say simply.
"Samurai and their duels...but still I hope whatever matter had you duelling has been resolved."
You think back to the dead corpse on the ground.
"It's resolved Sister Chou."
The larger woman sighs rising from behind you.
"Your kimono will be given back to you in a moment. It took them forever to get out all that blood. After that you can leave."
You turn around and bow to her.
"Again, thank you for all your work Sister Chou."
"Thank me by making sure it isn't undone." She says her brown eyes looking at you.
"Hai." You reply.
A short young boy no older than nine years, climbs up the stairs and hands you, your kimono. Huh, they even took the time to put fragrance in it, you're not really a fan of mint, but the thought was nice.
The boy hurries away, allowing you to dress yourself.
"See you tomorrow Megumi-san." Sister Chou says.
"Tomorrow Sister Chou"
With that you head out of the Temple and back into the city proper.
It's a long walk back to Moshi Naeko's office, but it gives you time to collect your thoughts. Soju Makoto was obviously hiding something in his Shrine. But it might not have been entirely by his own will given Hisao's presence. But how did that connect to Yasuki Gozabaru? Who was that anyways? One thing is for sure that you would be going back to the Shrine.
The guard is this time a nice enough Dragonfly that waves you through without checking you over thrice.
You get the feeling you'll be familiar with these halls soon enough, but at least the grey isn't bad to look at it.
Announcing yourself at Moshi Naeko's door, you get a curt 'come' from inside.
With a deep bow, you do so.
"Moshi-sama, I return from my initial investigations... Kaiu-sama liked to frequent the Shrine of Tsukune, so I heard, so I went to investigate. There the Soju was evasive about something, but I was unable to find out what. On further investigation, the statue of Tsukune-no-kami had been altered, I found the original piece of the statue hidden on the grounds."
You take out the piece of ebony wood glad no one stole it from you. Naeko takes it from your hands, running her fingers over it as she motions for you to continue.
"After doing so I was confronted by another ronin, named Hisao. He promised to kill me, but allowed me a chance to duel him...I won, but not without taking severe damage to myself. So I went and got medical attention to make myself presentable before daring to darken Moshi-sama's office. However, Hisao also gave me a name before I killed him. Yasuki Gozabaru, said that was his employer"
A deep breath escapes you as you finish the report. Naeko's breath hitches at the mention of Gozabaru.
"So that's what it is...damn, the case will have to be called off." She says quietly.
"Called off?" You ask, still not looking up.
Naeko stands and turns around looking out at the city.
"Yasuki Gozabaru is arguably the wealthiest man in the city, and master of Mori Ward. If he's behind Kaiu-san's disappearance, then we'll never get her. He's too well protected from official legal reprisals, and has too many guards for unofficial ones. Over the years a number of magistrates have tried to bring him in. The last one was found hanging on the walls by what was left of his body."
Your honour burns, for this this...Yasuki, to be so vile...to have hurt Kaiu-san, and worse for you to be told nothing would be done about it...it burns.
She continues ignoring, your stinging sense of injustice
"Hida-sama will just have to wait for another Kaiu from his homelands. Still, for more or less solving the case, I suppose some congratulations are in order. Take the next few days off. Report at the same time you did today."
"Yes Moshi-sama" You say through gritted teeth.
"Very well dismissed." Moshi-sama says without preamble.
Another bow from you as you walk out of the office. On the one hand you understand Moshi-sama's hands are tied, and her desire not to throw lives away...but on the other, honour demands something be done...
She did give you a few days...
[] Return to the Soju and beat his face in until he talks.
[] Go find Iuchi Yukiko, get healed fully, and then head into Mori Ward
[] Go talk to Bayushi Sora, maybe she can give you some tips.
[] Leave it, Moshi-sama said it was done. You follow orders.
[] Some other plan?
Megumi is at 15 of 51 wounds, she is grazed (+3 to all TNs)
Intelligence check=10 (8,2)-15= -5
The feeling of blood soaking through your kimono isn't an unfamiliar one...and you can't even say it's not your blood right now...world's spinning, like someone put it at an angle.
You walk over to the katana on the ground, it's not yours, you can't keep it...unless...no it's too hard to remember right now.
Kneeling down, you put his blade away, and then stick the daisho in the ground as a head marker.
Technically you're supposed to do some other shit like stay with the body for three days....but you aren't entirely sure you have three days. A fresh wince of pain surges through your body letting the world focus in for a bit.
You need medical attention, that much is clear, and the closest would be...Sister Chou, Fortune's haven't thought about her in months, you hope she's okay.
She'd be in the Jurojin Temple...You think you can make it that far. Putting one foot in front of the other you walk out of Tsukune's Shrine...you'll have to come back to confront that monk later, but first, not dying and then reporting to Moshi-sama.
The world has turned a distinct shade of grey as you stumble into Jurojin's Temple. You bow apologetically to the monks, before putting your hand on the wall.
"Sorry honoured ones...but I...seem to need your help."
"Megumi-san?!" Sister Chou's voice rings across the room.
"Hello Sister...." You say weekly.
"Dear Fortune...what did you do?"
That's the last thing you really remember processing coherently. Sister Chou handed you some tea and then? Then it was somewhat blurry. You remember being force to sit down and take off your kimono, you remember being scrubbed, you remember Sister Chou taking a needle and thread to your body, sowing the skin back together before making you drink something else....but it's all jumbled, in and out of order. Like you were drugged...what was in that tea?
And then somehow, it's four hours later, the sun is setting, you're sitting on a porch over looking the rest of the district while being bandaged from behind, and Sister Chou is begging you for the love of the heaven's not to get into any more fights.
"I did what I could Megumi-san, but you've lost a lot of blood, and your body is going to need time to heal fully. If you get into more fights, well, your stitches will tear, and then you'll probably die. "
"Thank you Sister Chou, I'll take your words under advisement" You say.
The ache in your shoulder is still there, but it's not as bad as it was.
"I mean it Megumi-san. You samurai are usually tougher than most people, but you aren't invincible. Whoever did this was aiming to cripple you from drawing, if not kill you"
"Yeah, that seems like something he would do." You say thinking back to Hisao.
"So promise me, you won't get into anymore fights for at least a week, and that you'll come back here so I can check those stitches"
"I will" You say.
"You'd better Megumi-san, I will send someone to hunt you down if you don't. Now what happened?"
"Well...I got into a duel and won, but not cleanly." You say simply.
"Samurai and their duels...but still I hope whatever matter had you duelling has been resolved."
You think back to the dead corpse on the ground.
"It's resolved Sister Chou."
The larger woman sighs rising from behind you.
"Your kimono will be given back to you in a moment. It took them forever to get out all that blood. After that you can leave."
You turn around and bow to her.
"Again, thank you for all your work Sister Chou."
"Thank me by making sure it isn't undone." She says her brown eyes looking at you.
"Hai." You reply.
A short young boy no older than nine years, climbs up the stairs and hands you, your kimono. Huh, they even took the time to put fragrance in it, you're not really a fan of mint, but the thought was nice.
The boy hurries away, allowing you to dress yourself.
"See you tomorrow Megumi-san." Sister Chou says.
"Tomorrow Sister Chou"
With that you head out of the Temple and back into the city proper.
It's a long walk back to Moshi Naeko's office, but it gives you time to collect your thoughts. Soju Makoto was obviously hiding something in his Shrine. But it might not have been entirely by his own will given Hisao's presence. But how did that connect to Yasuki Gozabaru? Who was that anyways? One thing is for sure that you would be going back to the Shrine.
The guard is this time a nice enough Dragonfly that waves you through without checking you over thrice.
You get the feeling you'll be familiar with these halls soon enough, but at least the grey isn't bad to look at it.
Announcing yourself at Moshi Naeko's door, you get a curt 'come' from inside.
With a deep bow, you do so.
"Moshi-sama, I return from my initial investigations... Kaiu-sama liked to frequent the Shrine of Tsukune, so I heard, so I went to investigate. There the Soju was evasive about something, but I was unable to find out what. On further investigation, the statue of Tsukune-no-kami had been altered, I found the original piece of the statue hidden on the grounds."
You take out the piece of ebony wood glad no one stole it from you. Naeko takes it from your hands, running her fingers over it as she motions for you to continue.
"After doing so I was confronted by another ronin, named Hisao. He promised to kill me, but allowed me a chance to duel him...I won, but not without taking severe damage to myself. So I went and got medical attention to make myself presentable before daring to darken Moshi-sama's office. However, Hisao also gave me a name before I killed him. Yasuki Gozabaru, said that was his employer"
A deep breath escapes you as you finish the report. Naeko's breath hitches at the mention of Gozabaru.
"So that's what it is...damn, the case will have to be called off." She says quietly.
"Called off?" You ask, still not looking up.
Naeko stands and turns around looking out at the city.
"Yasuki Gozabaru is arguably the wealthiest man in the city, and master of Mori Ward. If he's behind Kaiu-san's disappearance, then we'll never get her. He's too well protected from official legal reprisals, and has too many guards for unofficial ones. Over the years a number of magistrates have tried to bring him in. The last one was found hanging on the walls by what was left of his body."
Your honour burns, for this this...Yasuki, to be so vile...to have hurt Kaiu-san, and worse for you to be told nothing would be done about it...it burns.
She continues ignoring, your stinging sense of injustice
"Hida-sama will just have to wait for another Kaiu from his homelands. Still, for more or less solving the case, I suppose some congratulations are in order. Take the next few days off. Report at the same time you did today."
"Yes Moshi-sama" You say through gritted teeth.
"Very well dismissed." Moshi-sama says without preamble.
Another bow from you as you walk out of the office. On the one hand you understand Moshi-sama's hands are tied, and her desire not to throw lives away...but on the other, honour demands something be done...
She did give you a few days...
[] Return to the Soju and beat his face in until he talks.
[] Go find Iuchi Yukiko, get healed fully, and then head into Mori Ward
[] Go talk to Bayushi Sora, maybe she can give you some tips.
[] Leave it, Moshi-sama said it was done. You follow orders.
[] Some other plan?
Megumi is at 15 of 51 wounds, she is grazed (+3 to all TNs)
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- Location
- Moon-Station
[X] Some other plan?
-[X] Go find Iuchi Yukiko, get healed fully
-[X] Go talk to Bayushi Sora, maybe she can give you some tips
-[X] Head into Mori Ward
-[X] Go find Iuchi Yukiko, get healed fully
-[X] Go talk to Bayushi Sora, maybe she can give you some tips
-[X] Head into Mori Ward
- Location
- Leeds
E: Stupid dark as silver, the other option was soju not chou.
How will votes of some other plan be handled when its just, do all of the things, like whydoyoubother's?
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Well the intent behind the options was to allow for different threads to be followed up. Yukiko would allow you to follow a lead to Gozabaru's dastardly plots than Sora's, which in turn would still be different from beating up the Soju or leaving it alone. With the write in potentially opening up a whole new lead, depending on what it is. So at present, whydoyoubother's plan would just get you the Mori option, albeit in a different form, (and probably worse because Megumi takes longer to get on the scene)
- Location
- Leeds
I consider it probably worth it to not have a -15 on our rolls. It's a harsh penalty. I will vote when I get to a PCs.
You have a -3 to your rolls right now. Sister Chou does good work.
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