> You are Suzume Toranaga

No I'm not.

death to the furry
the touhou
the quest thread

Your Stats

Honor: 3.8
Glory: 1.5
Status: 1.5

Traits
Air 3

Earth 2
Willpower 3

Fire 2
Agility 3

Water 2
Perception 3

Void 2

Skills
Calligraphy 2
Kenjutsu 3
Lore: History 2
Performance: Storytelling 3
Theology (Shintao) 1
Etiquette 2
Courtier 2
Kyujutsu 1
Stealth 1
Defense 1
Commerce 1

Advantages
Ebisu's Blessing
Precise Memory
Voice
Way of the Land (Sparrow Province)

Equipment
Your Grandfather's Daisho
A Fine Calligraphy Set
A Footman's Bow
20 Standard Arrows
Average Traveling and Courtly Attire
Traveling Pack
2 bu (silver coins)
Bayushi Hiroshi's Personal Chop
Shinichi of the Wasp's Personal Chop
Shinji of the Wasp's Personal Chop
A Borrowed Horse
Traveling Papers countersigned by Emerald Magistrate Shinichi of the Wasp
Arrow with the Ezo Wolf sealed within

Single bump to spite the trolls.

>>10170492
whoops forgot my trip

I'd play but I don't know a lick about L5R. You might want to try back later when your regular players on though.

This Bushi cannot join tonight;
I have become victim of a most perilous plight.
My significant other has thrown a party,
And I cannot fly freely.

bump for l5r

>>10170158
>Up ahead on the road your companion Shinji of the Wasp has spotted two riders wearing the Lion Mon heading in your direction.

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

EVASIVE ACTION, CAPTAIN.

>>10170158
Challenge the Lions. LIKE A BOSS.

>>10170935
>Challenging Lions, who are either scouts or spies
>like a boss
>laughingelfman.jpeg

This man (>>10170896 ) has the right of it. Do like we did before and lie in wait/ambush by the side of the road.

Perhaps next Saturday, Shinsei? Doesn't look like there's much interest tonight :<

sage this thread
LIKE A BOSS

>>10171047
Bump this thread.
SUFFER NOT THE SAGEFAG TO LIVE.

Sing the Lion the song of our people while our compatriots sneak by. Once the Lion either fall asleep or kill themselves, we do likewise.

>>10171043
Yeah, it looks like that will be the case. I was hoping enough saw my post in last night's L5R thread saying I had to cancel due to work. It looks like my core of players come on then and are not available on Sunday.

>>10171156
I just dropped a note in the other L5R thread, hopefully some people will drop by.

>>10171198
I'll hang for awhile then and if it picks up I will run with it.

All right, L5R quest. Nifty.

Hiding with three samurai equipped with horses is much less feasible than when we were alone and on foot. Accordingly, I think that we should continue riding towards our destination, and keep an eye on the Lions.

I haven't read the previous threads yet, but if the lions are overtly hostile (duh lions) try to avoid them. and if they aren't ramble, i mean talk to them and try to get through

Let us do this. Have the Lion seen us?

FOR HONOR!

>>10171263
If the Lions are overtly hostile, we have our companions ambush them when the song of our people is responded to by jeering and swordplay.

>>10171277
You are on the open road, so in all likelihood the Lions have seen you. They may not see the danger as of your group only one, Shinji, is wearing armor.

>>10171263
They are likely scouts for the upcoming invasion that have slipped through one of the smaller passes in the mountains between your lands and Lion lands.

Currently the Lion are preparing to go to war with the Scorpion and plan on cutting through the lands of the Fox, Sparrow, and Wasp to attack the Scorpion from a more open position as opposed to going through the mountain passes that they are sure the Scorpion have heavily trapped.

>>10171399

So, if we show no hostility, neither will they? I suggest ignoring them as long as possible, then.

Ride up to them casually, like we own the place. LIKE A BOSS.

>>10171399
Ride right past them, if we can get away with it. The time is not right to fight them... mostly because our minor clans can't afford to lose any members in a straight fight.

Invite them to join us at the nearest tea house.

They our on our lands, they are our guests. We are honor bound to offer them hospitality in our lands, yes?

>>10171399
Perhaps some sort of negotiation or at least acknowledgment of their presence might be a good thing to do.

rolled 4, 3, 4 = 11

>>10171475
>>10171500
>>10171503
As you near the Lion Outriders you can see that one is hastily putting away some papers and the other is watching you approach cautiously, his spear tilted back over his shoulder.

>>10171544
>>10171544
>>10171544

SOmething like: "Lion-sama! Welcome to Sparrow lands! May I invite you to ride with us today?"

>>10171625
San. Not sama. They're just scouts, and these are our lands; even if they're a great clan and we're not, we can't bow and scrape to everyone.

But what the hey, why not? We can try and force them into repeatedly lying to us for honor loss, or attacking us unprovoked for honor loss. Just to be dicks.

>>10171611
"Honorable lions, how might i greet you i the land of the Sparrow?"

>>10171696

This.

We should play up our 'provincial clan' and play dumb, invite them to ride with us in the country side. Leave them with an awkward silence. Keep that silence until they talk.

You know lions. <_<

ANYONE STILL HERE?

>>10171625
>>10171693
>>10171696
Actually you are in Wasp Lands, but the situation applies as Shinji is of the Wasp Clan. As you get closer you can see that Shinji is somewhat annoyed to see the Lion in his clan's territory when war is about to break out.

As you speak up the Lion that put away the papers says, "My apologies, little Sparrow, our journey takes in the opposite direction and we have no time to waste on the chirping of little birds." With that they begin to maneuver their horses by when Shinji speaks up.

"Your traveling papers, please, Lion-san.," says Shinji as he holds out his badge marking him as an Emerald Magistrate. "If you do not have proper traveling papers, you will be required to report with me to Kyuden Asahinabachi, to explain yourselves to Lord Tsuruchi."

The Lion slaps down Shinji's Badge with the flat of his spear. "We do not have to take orders from a clan of rabble who can't even afford swords," says the second Lion as the badge falls into the dust in the road.

Shinji's face turns crimson with rage and you see Hikaru reaching into the sachel at her hip.

Stab them in the faces?

>>10172006

Shit just got real.

>>10172006
unlock blade, prepare for fight.

>>10172006
A few more words before engaging in combat, first. Make sure that they're firmly in the wrong, by pointing out that it is not Shinji's Clan which they must heed, but his authority as a representative of the Emerald Champion and Emperor. Have they so little respect for those men that they would insult their servant so?

>>10172006

"But you do obey imperial laws, do you not? He is an Emerald Magistrate, and you embarrass your Clan by refusing to comply."

>>10172006

PUNCH THEM BOTH. IF I'D TRAINED THEM, THEY'D KNOW BETTER MANNERS. SOMEONE DOESN'T NEED TO BE GREAT CLAN TO KILL YOU DEAD.

Bring out the arrow of the Ezo Wolf.

Let them feel its cold.

Then casually mention how awful it would be if such a thing were to be broken when the Lion attack us.

>>10172268
Uh... no. Very no.

rolled 8, 10, 8 = 26

>>10172141
>>10172179
"Hah, these lands will belong to the Lion clan soon enough, and the Lion are the right hand of the Emperor's Law," sneers the Lion as swings his spear your way, narrowly missing you.

Hikaru draws a scroll from her sachel and begins chanting. The other Lion curses and tries to charge her, only to be cut off by Shinji.

You free your sword and prepare to strike, but you are unused to mounted combat. If you choose to stay on your horse, you must make a raise without any effects in order to keep your balance.

Your attack roll is 6d10, keeping the best three. If you roll a 10 the die explodes and you use the rightmost digit of your post for next die continuing left until you run out of 10s. Calling raises makes a harder by 5 but can generate greater effects such as targeting a location (2 limbs, 3 head) or dealing greater damage.

>>10172179
>>10172179
>>10172179

This. They disregard the Emerald Magistrates, they disregard the laws of the Emperor. They tossed a symbol of the Emperor onto the ground.

They had best be apologizing.

rolled 6, 1, 6, 1, 7, 9 = 30

What do the Lions have in terms of armor?

>>10172413
Raise to stay mounted, one raise for damage if they're heavily armored, two otherwise.

rolled 7, 4, 3, 5, 5, 9 = 33

>>10172413

Dismount, cut one of them open.

>>10172507
They are both wearing light armor.

Your roll of a 22: Your sword goes wide as your skittish horse pulls away from the Lion. Your horse's skittishness saved you some pain though as his thrusting spear grazes your sleeve.

Hikaru's finishes her spell and bands of energy appear around both of the Lion Samurai, slowing their movements as their own weight is turned against them.

Shinji strikes the flank of his opponent's horse with his bow causing it to buck throwing the Lion to the ground.

rolled 8, 9, 4, 9, 9, 3 = 42

>>10172723
Attacking the still-mounted Lion. Raising to target the strap that keeps the saddle on his horse.

>>10172723
concentrate on the still standing lion

rolled 1, 1, 6, 7, 3, 6 = 24

>>10172723

Dismount horse. Kill fallen lion.

>>10172557
You charge forward and strike ducking underneath his defenses and land precise strike, cutting the saddle's straps and spilling the slowed Lion to the ground. Hikaru's spell makes his counterblow childishly easy to dodge.

Shinji tramples his horse over the fallen Lion, breaking bones and sending him to meet his ancestors.

Hikaru draws another scroll while maintaining concentration on her spell of Earth's Stagnation.

>>10172930
oops that should have been, >>10172838

rolled 5, 7, 5, 3, 10, 3 = 33

>>10172930
Knock the other one unconscious with whatever is most practical. Raising once to try to avoid killing him outright; a prisoner to take with us would help prove our point.

Knock the other one out and interrogate quickly? Loot their bodies. Search for documents and shit. Take their armor and/or good weapons if it wouldn't seem odd to do so.

>>10173076
It's dishonorable to handle the dead, I'll point out.

It would be more dishonorable to fail to bring critical intelligence to our lord over personal distaste, though.

>>10172975
You leap from your horse and quickly subdue the barely mobile Lion. A quick inventory of their possessions turns up the following:

2 Daisho
2 Yari (Spears)
2 Suits of Light Armor
2 Riding Horses
6 Koku (gold coins)
A map of the region marked with locations of possible invasion routes.

Simple Etiquette tells you that all but the Daisho are perfectly legal spoils of war. Though getting one of the suits of armor off would require you to become unclean by handling the dead. The proper way to handle the Daisho is with respect and to return them to the Clan of origin after the conflict is settled.

>>10173144
What about laying the Lion clansmen down on the ground as if they were sleeping, taking their final rest as it were, with their swords in their hands?

<--- Like this.

>>10173144
take jewgolds. take maps.
spears/1 suit of armor if necessary. suffer not the unclean to live. spare horses are a plus. also, proper etiquette demands we return their swardz eventually, so let's not leave them for some commoner to pilfer or something..

>>10173144
Is it worse to handle the dead long enough to bring the Lion's body with us for proper disposal, or to leave it lying in the road to rot?

>>10173206
Being as he was killed by your group, throwing him over his horse and leading the horse to the eta for proper cremation would not be considered too terrible. You can easily restore your purity by visiting any shrine and cleansing yourself.

Though you do have a prisoner that you can have take care of that as well...

>>10173185
The armor will need to be resized to fit someone else. Something that can be done fairly quickly at almost any armory, though you'd probably want to remove all the Lion themed fittings and replace them with something more appropriate, again something that can be done fairly easily.

>>10173206
Strap the corpse to the back of one of our captured horses. We can lead the horse, and return the Lion's body or ashes to his clan later for proper disposal.

>>10173330
Our prisoner is unconscious and will hopefully remain so. Besides, it seems vaguely unclean to force a prisoner to dishonor himself simply to spare us from the minor honor loss of taking the body of someone we killed to a place where it can be properly laid to rest.

>>10173144
>Simple Etiquette tells you that all but the Daisho are perfectly legal spoils of war.

No. This isn't D&D, in L5R you don't loot corpses unless you are scum. Period.

we should probably assist Shinji in apprehending the living Lion to answer for his crimes etc. After all, this is his jurisdiction.

Not sure on the corpse handling for disposal thing... don't really remember proper Rokugan corpse etiquette...

However, leaving it behind won't slow us down, taking it along might...

>>10173332
That's an Eta's job. Not yours.

Do any of you faggots know anything at all about L5R?

>>10173330

Sparrow revel in simple property, we don't need ostentatious armor, just remove the lion bits and have the coloring changed to simple dun-and-brown. Perhaps a pair of small wings for horns on the helmet.

>>10173371

Difference in loot and spoils of war, friend.

>>10173474
No. Its just looting the dead bodies no matter what you want to try to call it. Something only Eta do.

If the GM wasn't shit you should be nailed with an honor loss.

Thirding having our prisoner strip the corpse and toss it over a horse, then restraining him, taking his stuff, and going to a village to have eta burn the corpse.

>>10173332
>>10173368
You strap the prisoner to his horse and sling his partner's body to the other horse. Your handling of dead flesh has reduced your honor to 0.0 until you can go to a shrine and purify yourself at which point it will be restored.

As you now have to lead two horses you are slowed down and will arrive at the Castle of the Wasp fairly late, Shinji estimates that you would arrive at around 11pm.

Do you wish to push on or make a camp for the night?

>>10173507

It's more dishonorable to fail due to being poorly equipped, or demanding funds from our host or lord when such is readily available. But then again, I am a Scorpion.

>>10173516
Push on. We can afford to lose a little sleep for this. Besides, sleeping while unclean is to be avoided when possible.

>>10173538
>It's more dishonorable to fail due to being poorly equipped,
No, its not. Its FAR more dishonorable and spiritually unclean to take the belongings of the dead. On top of that its even more dishonorable to blame your failure on your lack of equipment.

>or demanding funds from our host or lord when such is readily available.
No, its still not. The entire purpose of being able to ask your lord for funds is so that you are not improperly equipped, otherwise he is a poor lord. Also being reduced to looting corpses is insulting to your lord, since you're implying HE can't provide for you.

>But then again, I am a Scorpion.
And a shitty one at that.

>>10173507
No, actually, there's a pretty damn big difference between killing someone in open combat (not a duel, but a battle) and removing useful items they won't be needing anymore and just looting any corpse you come across.

>>10173638
See.
>>10173635

>>10173635
We're Sparrow Clan. We're poor as fuck. While normally we have no problems with that, right now we need to do everything possible to ensure the success of our mission.

Well, your honor already got dropped to 0.0 for messing with the dead bodies.

>>10173654
One of the Lion is just unconscious. His stuff is fair game.

As for the dead one, the only things we're taking are his spear (a generic weapon) and his money (generic cash). His personal belongings are either being cremated with his body or returned to his clan.

>>10173697
This. Thank the Celestial Heavens you don't have a Monkey Clan with you.

>>10173516
Push on. We will purify ourselves in the shrine at Kyuden Asahinabachi before we rest this night.

>>10173725
Why, exactly? I'm not quite as knowledgeable on L5R's lore as I might like.

>>10173757
The founder of the Monkey Clan was a peasant who stole a dead samurai's swords.

Since Toku was a writer's pet character (I don't want to say Mary Sue, but...) he got rewarded with an entire fucking minor clan instead of just being executed on the spot.

>>10173654

Dude, you obviously know nothing about the fluff, and even as a fellow Lion fan I'm embarassed by you. Can you just shut the fuck up?

>>10173815
Well, that much I knew. I'm just not sure why it's relevant to us, given that we're a Sparrow Clan Bushi accompanied by a Wasp Bushi and a Fox Shugenja.

>>10173635

You know the fluff is full of examples that tell you you're both retarded and wrong, right? Stop trying to derail the thread.

>>10173697

Also his armor, I thought, once it was refitted and had the Lion bits removed? If he's a scout, it's likely to be pretty generic too.

>>10173857
U Mad?

Yeah, I don't know anything about the fluff, except if you actually read any L5R rulebook you'd see I'm right. They make it a point to say looting corpses is a big no-no, for pretty much all the exact reasons I stated.

>>10173815
Stole them off a dead bandit, actually.

>>10173912
Well, the prisoner's armor goes without saying.

The dead guy's armor, assuming it wasn't trashed by the blow that killed him, would be tricky to get off without more additional corpse-handling than I'm comfortable with.

>>10173918

Except that, as already stated and explained, this is different from buzzarding around and looting corpses. Also, if you have to use childish memes to make your argument, you're either a troll or underage b&. So, no, not mad, just finding you pathetic.

>>10173918
Actually, the real reason they make a point of it is so that L5R players don't fall into the trap of seeing enemies as walking bags of loot.

That's not a threat in this situation.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I believe your pancreas has a date with the point of a tanto, and I wouldn't want it to be late.

>>10174000

Yeah, touching corpses again isn't exactly pleasant or honorable. Let's get the still-armored corpse to a town and have some eta or something remove it. Hopefully they'll have a shrine, too.

>>10174029
More like using childish meme's to point out how silly you look getting so worked up about it. I'm just going to drop it entirely now since you seem to be taking it way too seriously, and seem to get way too easily offended over being told you're wrong.

Good day.

>>10174096
Ah, good. Have you composed your poem yet? Would you like me to be your kaishaku? Or do you intend to finish the job without crying out?

>>10173548
>>10173732
You push on through the night and arrive at Kyuden Asahinabachi shortly before the Hour of Togashi. On being recognized you are let in. You head straight for the and Hikaru oversees your purification, your honor is restored to 3.4. You lost 4 pips of honor for taking the Lion's possessions (1 pip) and for willfully handling the dead (3 pips).

Exhausted you take a quick bath and are shown to a room where you quickly fall asleep. The next morning you, Hikaru, and Shinji are called in to speak with Tsuruchi and Ryosei.

Tsuruchi and Ryosei are sitting before a large table with a map of the region laid out on it. On the map there are several blocks marked with unit designations. Most of them are Lion Orange.

Tsuruchi congratulates you on your capture of the Lion scouts and their plans. He also mentions that your daimyo has sent word that he is mobilizing the Sparrow forces and sending them to Kyuden Asahinabachi. They should be arriving in the next couple of days.

Knowing the routes the Lion are considering, Tsuruchi hopes to trick the Lion into thinking one of their routes in lightly guarded. By using the terrain, Fox magic, Wasp harassers, and Sparrow skirmishers he thinks that the three Minor Clans can give the Lion a bloody nose that will make them think twice about using them as a doormat.

>>10174042
>Now, if you'll excuse me, I believe your pancreas has a date with the point of a tanto, and I wouldn't want it to be late.

Internet Tough Guy spotted.

>>10174313
Oh no, you misunderstand.

He's the one holding the tanto.

>>10174282

But...won't the Lion realize that we have their scouts and, thus, their map? Or it could be false information.

>You lost 4 pips of honor for taking the Lion's possessions (1 pip) and for willfully handling the dead (3 pips).

For the record. I win.

>>10174351
When you mention this Tsuruchi shows you reports that several groups of scouts have been spotted. He believes he has figured out the pass they are taking but is waiting for a report from the men he sent to investigate. He takes this as the Lion expect a few not to return.

>>10174447
What do we do now?

>>10174728

Volunteer to go get that report, and earn back some pips?

>>10174818
This, of course.

>>10174818

This would be the right thing to do.

You there Shinsei?