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>>4646341
Honor/Dishonor Chart for reference.

>>4646345
Based

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The road dust seeps into the trails of spilled blood, making it thicken and coagulate. The air is full of the stench of death, and it is time to quit this place. Your message to O-Tora is pinned on a tree, prominently placed where anyone coming to relieve these men will find it.

Will you...

>[Make your way back to the village for the night, you can make it by dark if you hurry]
>[Make camp in the woods somewhere away from the routes O-Tora's men might take to get to the village or their ambush point]
>[Make your way directly towards the watchtower and lurk in the vicinity]

>>4646347
>[Make your way back to the village for the night, you can make it by dark if you hurry]

Time to rest and refuel, and let the bandits sweat it out for tonight.

>>4646347
>>[Make camp in the woods somewhere away from the routes O-Tora's men might take to get to the village or their ambush point]
No need to hurry back to the village. Spend that extra time to find a more suitably secluded place to rest instead.

>>4646347
>>[Make your way back to the village for the night, you can make it by dark if you hurry]
I'm pretty sure they're going to try for the village this time. Ten dudes dead, and that's the closest place for a reprisal raid. They're not going to go for a hard target like the castle, and they're not going to go scout out the woods just to lose more of them.

>>4646347
>>>[Make your way back to the village for the night, you can make it by dark if you hurry]
for basically the same reasons >>4646358
said. I expect a night raid reprisal or some other fuckery going on in the near future there.

>>4646347
>>[Make your way back to the village for the night, you can make it by dark if you hurry]

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The three of you clean your weapons, and make haste back towards the village, cutting wide around the watchtower to avoid being spotted. Fear is a powerful weapon, and even if O-Tora, a former Crab samurai, isn't afraid his minions surely will be. Like a tiger yourself, you have sprung from nowhere and savaged his small raiding parties, and when he began sending out ten men instead of a couple or a handful at a time, you savaged them too. The fact that most of them are lying in a bloody pile around the spot where you danced with them is sure not to escape his notice. How many does he have left? Tetsu had said thirty, perhaps more. For the sake of caution, you opt not to count the men you had already killed by that point. Or the two you killed in the village afterward. You killed ten on the road, thus twenty men remain. Twenty men can do a lot of damage in a well-armed, disciplined group. The bandits on the road didn't have armor and were armed with farming tools, but you know O-Tora's better men have more equipment than that. So you assume twenty men with armor, perhaps using real weapons instead of peasant-forged parangu and kamas, plus O-Tora himself.

If you were O-Tora, and you had an enemy that could bite chunks out of your forces with impunity, you would go somewhere that would force your enemy out into the open. You would launch a reprisal on the village, if you were that sort of honorless sub-dog. Either you catch your tiger in his lair, or you kill its cubs. Teach the villagers the price of cooperation with O-Tora's enemies. Almost wordlessly, you begin heading back in the direction of the village. With luck, you will make it there by nightfall.

Bamboo has lots of little sprouts, with lots of little leaves, and it's flexible enough that the wind makes it rustle appealingly as you and your companions walk. Now and then, the main stalks clatter together, a resonant clacking sound. Pleasant and familiar.

“I wish I'd brought Ritsu.” Sayaka remarks, “All of this walking is fine exercise, but I miss my horse.”

Yoshi snorts, “In this dense foliage? She would be terribly slowed.”

“Ritsu may be an animal, but she's a good listener. Even better than Daisuke, sometimes.” She smiles beneath the brim of her jingasa, “She makes good company, even when I'm not riding her. Animals don't lie.” There is something sad in that statement.

[Continue]

>>4646347
>[Make your way back to the village for the night, you can make it by dark if you hurry]

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“Some do.” Yoshi remarks, “The spider that mimics bird guano, the moth whose wings have spots like an owl's eyes. Things act according to their nature, Scorpion-san.”

“Even when that nature is hidden?” She lifts up a fallen stalk of bamboo with her bisento for you to duck underneath, and you hold it up for her and the monk to pass under it in turn.

“Nothing is hidden forever.” Yoshi replies.

“Then how can one prove what is on its surface is not its true nature?” She replies.

“Insight.” He says, then looks at the sky. It's clear, with just a few clouds, the sun slowly meandering towards the western horizon, “It will rain heavily soon, perhaps tomorrow.”

You nod. Sayaka raises an eyebrow, “How can you know?”

“Insight.” The old man replies.

“Experience.” You note. “He has been a retainer of my family since my grandfather's day.”

“Although that is true, your father and Mitsuaki-sama swore oaths to the Hiruma. Is this truly your family's land still? Or are your domains among the Hiruma lands, beyond the wall?” The old sohei smiles warmly at you, “The mind is a blade, and such thoughts a polishing rag. To be put away when duty calls, but to be run over the metal in times of peace, to keep it sharp and clean.”

“And these are not times of peace.” You note.

“Indeed, but...hush!” Yoshi suddenly puts a finger to his lips. He gestures with his head, and the three of you leave the animal trail you've been using and duck into the foliage. Before long, you hear the creaking of the squeaky wheel on a wagon, and before long you see it. It's being drawn by two bandits, and heavily laden down with earthenware jugs.

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“I can't believe we had to wait for so long!” One of the bandits complains, “We were outside that little side-door for an entire hour before they floated the boat with the sake across the moat!”

“It's called a postern gate, you idiot. I've told you before, just because you weren't born with a brain doesn't mean you can't stuff a little bit in there. Or better yet, shut your gob and pull. O-Tora will kill us if he thinks we stopped for a sip.”

“Fancy words considering I'm doing most of the pulling!” The first bandit snaps. “Besides, if we go too fast and the seal cracks on one of these, then he'll definitely think we stopped for a drink.” He's the larger of the two, and bald as an egg.

“See, this is why I hate sake tribute duty. Sure, it's not dangerous, you don't have some farmer lose his mind and come after you with a kama because he catches you dragging his daughter into the woods, but it's hard work and there's the chance you piss off the boss. It's not worth it. Especially because there aren't any pretty farmgirls.” The second bandit licks his lips. He's got a harelip.

“I bet they've got better ones up at the castle. Serving maids and all that. We should tell them to send out a few of those with the next load of sake.” Baldy says dreamily, “The way I hear it, that old lord sure liked his pretty girls back when his pecker still poked.”

Harelip laughs raucously, “Let's ask O-Tora and see if he likes your idea! Hey, c'mon, don't look at me like that, I'm being serious. Bosses appreciate a sense of initiative. Besides, it'd make this job a lot more fun, this sake's good stuff as far as I can tell but...they ruin it with all the honey and plum they flavor it with. I mean, why bother? Is the lady of the castle drinking that much that it's all this girly crap?”

“Nah, s'added in afterward. You can tell if you know your sake.” Baldy points out. “It's not made here, but the caps are made in the castle, so they must've opened them, added the sweet stuff, and closed them again.”

“See, finally a thought. I wonder if they just think we like that sweet crap ruining our booze for some reason. Fucking pissants.” Harelip spits messily.

“Yeah, if it wasn't for them paying us in sake and letting us do what we like, we'd have been over that wall and ruling that place like samurai ourselves years ago.” Baldy notes.

Harelip gives him a look, “You really think so? Those guards seem well-armed, and there's a lot of them. The few that came over to us from the castle are some of O-Tora's top guys. Maybe their bosses are just cowards?”

“Nah, way I hear it, the lady of the castle's letting her bodyguard poke his peeking pecker wherever he likes, and he executes anyone who mentions it.” Baldy lowers his voice, “You don't think it was him who killed...?”

>[Let them pass by]
>[Step out in front of them]

>>4646463
>>[Step out in front of them]
MURDER MURDER MURDER MURDER

>>4646469
>>4646463
okay maybe just murder one and keep the other as a witness/evidence

>>4646463
>[Step out in front of them]
The Crab bristles with righteous indignation

>>4646463
>[Step out in front of them]
No tribute from castle= tiger strikes at peacock, forcing him to action?

>>4646463
>[Step out in front of them]
Either we'll kill them before they'll see the remains of our dance party, or we'll scare the shit out of them and force them to deliver the goods to the town, and hear what other rumors they overheard, preferably ones about peacock boy.

>>4646471
>>4646469
I'd say keep them both alive for pulling the cart and possible rumors.

For now...

>>4646463
>[Step out in front of them]

*grins* We'll keep one alive, and feast on roasted chicken afterwards.

>>4646475
>>4646474
>peecuck*

I fixed your misspellings anons

>>4646463

>[Step out in front of them]

Ohaiyo bandit scum, we've got some arrows over here with your names on them. They're on the points, so we'll give you a real close look!

>>4646474
Well, the issue with that it would not just be O-Tora against the peacuck. It would be O-Tora against the peacuck and the rest of the castle, full of your families servants.

>>4646463
>>[Step out in front of them]
>>[But make sure this is not a trap first this seems too easy.]

Ok some thoughts here, the bandits getting tribute from the castle is one of three things, either a play for time on the peacock and Miho, Them trying to slip something into the bandits via the sake(likely poison and or Taint), or an agreed upon payment ahead of time by either Miho or the Peacock.

We need to keep one of these guys alive for questioning, and possibly sending a runner back to the Wall/nearest garrison if this is damning. Because if we have PROOF that the Lady/peacock are inleague with bandits and funding them? There is a HUGE problem here. We also need to have Sayaka examine the sake to see what else was added. Thankfully Crab give very little fucks about sincerity and if we bring decent proof? We can bring the higher ups down on people's heads.

That said them talking about this in the open when they've lost so many, and only two men to guard the most damning secret in the region barring maho-tsukai or taint shenanigans? Something smells funny about this.

>>4646494
I mean, and the considerable remaining guards. They’re not helpless on their own, after all. They merely need to be spurred into action.
The bandits here were just talking about how good some of the guards are by comparison.

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“He's supposed to be good. Really good.” Harelip notes, sounding worried, “But that skinny little shit, bedding a fine woman like that? I don't believe it, women like a bit of hair and muscle, you know? If you want my opinion, I think O-Tora...”

You step out onto the road ahead of them, sword in hand. The dappled sunlight casts rippling shadows and gleams of brilliant light off your Kaiu-forged katana. The two bandits stare stupidly at it, then at you. Then Harelip dives off the side of the road and begins pelting down the hill, screaming. Baldy stares at you, and you can smell him voiding his bowels as his mouth works in a panic. Of course. See, these two know that someone has been slaughtering them en masse, two to one suddenly stops being good odds in those conditions.

>[Cut down Baldy]
>[Chase down Harelip]

>>4646507
>[Chase down Harelip]
It's pretty hard to sprint away from something when you've just shat yourself.

>>4646507
>[Chase down Harelip]

>>4646507

>[Step out in front of them]

Sayaka and Yoshi can handle Baldy, we should be ahead of them enough to make going after Harelip the better choice.

>>4646507
>>[Chase down Harelip]

>>4646507

>[Chase down Harelip]

Chase down the Bandit like the filthy cowardly forsaken screaming Goblin he's acting like, surely Sayaka or Yoshi will capture the one that voided themselves.

>>4646507
>[Chase down Harelip]

If you move an inch, Baldy, you'll be missing much more than what's in your bowls.

>>4646497

The issue is, you don't have proof. You go to the nearest magistrate, show them the sake, and say Miho was bribing the bandits with this, it turns into her word against yours, as she can always say it was stolen without her knowledge or some servant is in league with the bandits or something.

>>4646507
>[Chase down Harelip]

>>4646535
And isn't there the thing in the setting where even if we had hard evidence it really wouldn't mean anything compared to testimony? So the sake and any material witnesses we find are effectively worthless, right?

>>4646507
>>[Chase down Harelip]

Work cannot get out.

Kill them both, hide the sake at the watchtower.

Watch O-Tora march on the castle.

>>4646562
>hide the sake at the watchtower

...You mean the watchtower where O-Tora is currently living out of?

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You chase after Harelip. Yoshi speeds along beside you, swift as a raging fire, supernaturally swift for such an old man. He kicks off a bamboo stalk, bending it nearly parallel to the ground, describing a graceful cartwheel through the air...and jabs his index finger into Harelip's throat. You see every vein in Harelip's neck swell up, his cries silenced before he can get any closer to the watchtower.

Your katana does the rest. When you return, Baldy is sitting on the ground...which given the mess he just made cannot be pleasant. There is a lump on the top of his head, and Sayaka has the point of her bisento at his throat, “...O best of boys, this man tried to take me hostage.” She gives you a smile, one of her sandals pinning down a kama Baldy must have dropped, “Isn't that cute? Isn't it just precious? Look at him, I think he's crying.”

“KEEP HER AWAY FROM ME!” Baldy wails, “SHE THREATENED TO PEEL MY WEASEL!”

>[Walk up and cut Baldy down]
>[Suggest Sayaka use Baldy's own kama to peel his weasel]
>[Begin asking Baldy questions, specify what you want to know]

>>4646569
>[Begin asking Baldy questions, specify what you want to know]
How many more bandits are there

>>4646568
Oh my bad, I was somehow under the impression that it was a place we were staging out off and O-Tora was in another fort.

>>4646569
>]
Joke that >>[Suggest Sayaka use Baldy's own kama to peel his weasel]

And then begin interrogation >>[Begin asking Baldy questions, specify what you want to know]
"Who gave you the sake."

>>4646569
>[Begin asking Baldy questions, specify what you want to know]
>"How long has O-Tora had people doing sake runs from the castle?"
>"How many ex-guards joined up with their merry band of reprobates?"
>"Would he like to pull this cart up to the village, or would he rather feed the local wildlife with his body?"

>>4646569
>[Suggest Sayaka use Baldy's own kama to peel his weasel]
Wouldn't want her to dirty one of her blades now would we.

>>4646569
>[Begin asking Baldy questions, specify what you want to know]

Huh. Describing it as a weasel... that's a bit generous, don't you think?

>>4646507
>[Chase down Harelip]

All bandits need to learn that they are the absolute bottom of the food chain. That there only point in life is to die and feed the worms and crows. We can not let this one get away as then he will start thinking he is not a bandit and that his fate is not to die by our sword. And we can not have that.

>>4646569

The set of questions here >>4646584 are pretty everything I debated on asking. For the last one, if he says no, kill him. Otherwise, we kill him when it's back at the village.

>>4646569
>[Begin asking Baldy questions, specify what you want to know]

This has my vote >>4646584.

If he gives us bullshit then >[Suggest Sayaka use Baldy's own kama to peel his weasel]. Just to get the point across not to waste our time.

>>4646569
>[Begin asking Baldy questions, specify what you want to know]
>"How long has O-Tora had people doing sake runs from the castle?"
>"How many ex-guards joined up with their merry band of reprobates?"
>"Would he like to pull this cart up to the village, or would he rather feed the local wildlife with his body?"
>Layout of O-tora's redoubt and the disposition of him and his men last time he saw them.
>Was there ever letters from the castle with the sake shipments?

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"That kama looks nice and sharp." You note, looking meaningfully at Sayaka. "Perhaps better than using your own blades for the purpose."

She smiles coquettishly back at you.

"How many more of you are there?" You ask Baldy, casually.

"W-we were alone, can't spare anyone for these trips, figured whoever was hitting us was just fighting back on the way to the castle and was probably holed up in there. Someone with a bunch of bodyguards or something, so we moved our patrols off that road and started sending everyone out in groups." He stammers.

You sigh, "In total."

He blinks at you. You keep in mind to revise whatever count he has in mind by ten, downwards, "Uh, thirty three, I think, not counting the boss."

"How long have you been doing sake runs from the castle?" You ask, "As long as you've been here?"

Baldy shakes his head, "Nah, the past...somewhere between seven and eight months. O-Tora made a really big show of the fact that the people in the castle were that scared of us, acting like he'd got something over on them. Him and his top few men, they don't share much with the rest of us, including those half-dozen guards from the castle who jumped ship and came over to us."

You examine your sword to make sure the edge is nice and clean, "Would you rather pull the cart up to the village, or become food for the beasts of the wood and the birds of the air?" You inquire.

"By myself!?" He groans, "Uphill!?"

"I respect your commitment. Please, bow your head." You raise your sword.

"No! Wait! Fine, I'll pull it!" He grabs the wagon, and begins turning it around, "...I was doing most of the pulling anyway." He grumbles.

>[Kill him when you reach the village]
>[Have him locked up somewhere in the village]
>[Give him the same warning you gave Tetsu and let him go...although this guy doesn't have the moral fiber or martial training Tetsu had]

>>4646612
>>[Have him locked up somewhere in the village]
Since we're already forcing the castle's Hands by intercepting the shipment and bringing it into the village... in for a penny, in for a pound.

>>4646612
>[Have him locked up somewhere in the village]
Tell him that he owes his life to Shirou at the castle. No need to tell him who Shirou is, just that he owes him his life.

>>4646612
>>[Kill him when you reach the village]

He's bandit scum

>>4646612
>[Have him locked up somewhere in the village]

>>4646612
>[Have him locked up somewhere in the village]
Well, bait is bait, whether he's bait for O-tora or for cuckoo is yet to ve seen though.

>>4646612
>[Have him locked up somewhere in the village]

A testimony would be nice... and let the villagers have their fun.

>>4646612
>Have him locked up somewhere in the village]

>>4646620
Random brainwave
>Inb4 uncle's baby is actually O-tora's shit spawn Because you can't trust a Centipede as far as you can throw an Oni.

>>4646612
>[Have him locked up somewhere in the village]

>>4646612
>[Have him locked up somewhere in the village]

Justice will be done for this man in the right time and place. And sadly that is not here and now.

>>4646612
Oh, yeah, did we put the kama on the back of the cart with the booze? Might as well give it to one of the villagers to arm themselves with it, maybe the serving girl or noodle obaa-san.

Unless they've got a mind to use the axe instead...

>>4646633
>[Have him locked up somewhere in the village]

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>>4646636
>Forgot muh picture of noodle obaa-san out for vengeance

>>4646625
If that was the case since the Peacock came here almost 3 years ago to the day, she'd have had to get over there and done the deed without his notice. It's possible but unlikely, unless she used her magic to Ko the phoenix and sneak out.

>>4646642
>Implying the cuckoo didn't watch

>>4646644
Why else is they giving O'Tora sake? *wink wink*

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As you goad Baldy along, you continue to interrogate him. You learn that usually this duty would be handled by four of O-Tora's more trusted men, the ones he's keeping close by his side right now, not two relative stooges like Baldy and Harelip, so it's possible that communications were exchanged they aren't privy to. You also learn a bit about the layout of O-Tora's hiding place.

It's a bit of a mistake to think of it primarily as a watchtower. The tower itself is old, and while it is guarded and patrolled constantly by at least a few men...generally one on each corner and two more guarding the path leading up to its gate, O-Tora himself seldom even sets foot in it. The tower's basement connects to the cave system in the lump of rock the tower sits on. O-Tora himself likes to hold court in a big cavern on the lowest level, with one big entrance and one exit that comes out somewhere Baldy doesn't know about and the bandits are strongly, strongly discouraged from thinking about. The rest of the bandits will either be there with him, drinking and gambling over favored bits of loot and captive women, stalking the road for prey, or guarding the tunnel intersections leading down to O-Tora's lair.

You reach the village as the daylight fades, unfortunately, which is a terrible pain in the ass, you nearly lose the wagon in the rice paddies once or twice. When you enter the village, you stand in its center and call out to the headman.

My migraine is winning, that's it for tonight, more soon.

>>4646651
Nice session Wong, hope the migraine gets better after a good nights rest.

>>4646651
Thanks for running Wong, feel better man migraines sucks.

Hmmm so the secret network of caves empties out into Miho's bed chamber eh?

>>4646651
Night, Wong, thanks for running! Hope your head feels better soon!

>>4646653
It seems a lot of little things empty out in Miho's bed chamber.

We should ask the bandit and the villagers about young women in the area. Something in my gut is telling me Miho might have been replaced by a Bog Hag in one of her solitary wanderings. Assuming that she wasn’t one from the start.

>>4646612
>[Have him locked up somewhere in the village]

>>4646969
>uncle crab married a Bog Hag
>do ghost dad proud by burning the whole castle down
>ghost uncle's never gonna live it down

Just read the archive.
I do have a question. If our nephew is not of our blood would we have to beg released from our Oath to Hiruma to take the ancestral lands and castle?

Or could we do it and still be Hiruma vassal?

Because it would be pretty fun to have to play landed gentry with potential scorpion waifu in a relatively happy marriage, doing pretty much everything right and one uping our uncle in everything dabbing on him hard with pulling a dad expy of his life but better, maybe still sworn to hiruma or to the crab clan proper (hida I think)

>>4647409
Also the crab clan vassals are the courtier that do commerce as stated previously and the famed fortifications engineers.

A landed lord quest could be fun. Developing our lands in a center of manufacture and trade and wealth to support our armies at the wall.

Arinaga makers mark on arrowheads and spearheads sent by the thousands to the wall.

And speaking of gunpowder the crane had a school that uses it?
I mean I could buy the Mantis and the Unicorn perhaps.

Maybe even Crab (beyond the wall is not rokugan proper so totally legal)or Scorpion

>>4647409
Scorpion waifus are only married outside of the clan to further its plans. Worst case, her task is to assassinate you should a need arise. Best case... doesn't exist.

I mean whats her face who "committed suicide" probably wasn't planned

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>>4647565
Unless it was.

>>4647443
Are you questioning the honor of the Crane, anon?

>>4647565
Aunt Chouko, and I'm willing to bet her ex fiance getting maimed in a duel wasn't planned. Regardless, figuring out how she actually died might help convince Papa Kodo at least to consider a possible offer of marriage, seeing as he sounded slightly sympathetic to the Crab.

Mama Kodo, however, sounds like a pretty big obstacle, as well as the one who wears the hakama in the family.

>>4647594
The Crane clan are nothing more than the personal cock sleeves and cum dumps of he emperor. That they all give there asses freely to the highest authority in the land is the only reason they are a great clan at all.

>>4646569
>SHE THREATENED TO PEEL MY WEASEL!”
There's a Punk Rock Album name.

>>4647719
Give them credit. They were chosen because they looked the prettiest taking it in the ass.

>no trap crane waifu
why even live

>>4647963
Isn't there a /tg/ horror story about someone who played an eleven year old Crane shota trap singer who was betrothed to the Crane clan champion?

>>4647969
I mean I didn't know about that but that sounds horrifying

>>4647969
MY EYES!!! WHY DID YOU TELL ME ANON, WHY!!!

>>4648000
>>4648022
I got some details wrong, but don't say that I didn't warn you.

http://www.big-metto.net/RP_Wiki/index.php?title=Doji_Nanako

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>>4648035
>The background and appearance description
>The constant comparisons to a songbird
>That Small disadvantage
>That Bad Fortune: Secret Love disadvantage

>>4648035
>fresh-from-gempukku
>Doji Nanako is but eleven years of age
Excuse me what now....
I regret reading this wall of cursed text.

>>4648083
Gempukku age ranges do jump around from 10 for child prodigies to 18 for slow motherfuckers who basically need to be pushed out of the dojo. 14-16 is generally the average though.

>>4648090
>Crane shota trap singer who was betrothed to the Crane clan champion?
According to the cursed character sheet that Crane Champion is their own sister

>>4648096
oh no

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>>4648090
That still doesn't stop the pain you've inflicted.

>>4648096
Oh Christ, I misread the sister's description as "busty" rather than "busy". I thought I was dealing with a momdom fetish as well.

Wong, if you'd like to distract us from... that, that'd be just fine, please.

>>4648096
>>4648107
Well, incest is the favorite past-time of the Doji family! They've got a bad case of hereditary epilepsy due to their inbreeding, don't you know.
In all seriousness though, that's the detail that I got wrong - champion's his sister, not his betrothed.

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>>4648126
OH WAIT NO THAT ACTUALLY IS A MOMDOM FETISH THING FUCK ME SIDEWAYS

Can purchase Karmic Tie to his elder sister and his nephew for two points less??

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>>4648126
>>4648150
Distraction!

>>4648096
Picked the fuck up

>>4648158
That's fucking awesome.
Usually big crustaceans weird me out but the absolute scale of this lad is amazing.

>>4648272
Enjoy
https://youtu.be/iQSHfutIzh8

>>4648281
Ya know, All the great clans are named and themed after lone solitary highly territorial animals or in the case of the Lion's small prides ruled by an alpha.
And then you have the Crabs
There is no alpha crab
There are no lone crab
Crab irl are just infernal nearly unkillable demons that swarm across the ocean floor and islands like a living carpet CONSUMING everything they come across.
The surely any sensible clans greatest fear should be triggering the multi mile long, ten crab deep swarm to come and ravage their lands.

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>>4648296
>infernal nearly unkillable demons

>>4648305
>"My ancestors are smiling at me imperial. Can you say the same?"

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>>4648305
Plz by all means try your scissors again

>>4648305
Okay cool but what about the six-hundred more crawling all over the place?

>>4647969

That was touhoufag/Colette and from the one game I was in with him he was so powerfully autistic he threatened to kill himself if he couldn't invent his own class.

>>4648083

He said "anything over thirteen makes me feel old". He is an incredibly wealthy NEET in the Philippines whose older brother died and whose parents gave him said older brother's gaming stuff and otherwise basically don't interact with him aside from giving him money.

>>4648397
That doesn't lessen the incredible level of cursed contained within that character sheet man.

>>4648404

No, it's a warning that this person moved, in that time, from newbie GM to newbie GM, killing games with characters like that.

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>>4648393
>>4648397
>>4648405
...Wow.

>>4648405
Clearly this guy needs their own containment zone, along with SleepyAnon.
Fuck those guys

>>4648412

Tell me about SleepyAnon.

>>4648393
>he was so powerfully autistic he threatened to kill himself if he couldn't invent his own class.
What a shame. Wait he didn't do it? Fuck.

>>4648418

Look, I told him to do a flip and reacted as you'd expect in the situation, but I wasn't the DM.

>>4648417
Is that rhetorical?
That's the anon that killed wrestle quest with a terrible write-in combined with samefagging because they hated the Waifu and was for a brief period in MSPQ and was mad butt hurt about Roark and tied for bestgirl Sam.
Among many other quest based atrocities.

>>4648426

I don't normally follow all that stuff, tell me more. He was in MSPQ? I don't remember him, just some arguments about Sam earlier on back when people were picking sides between her and Red Siren.

>>4648424
I'd have told him to go jumpstart a landmine.

>>4648426
Actually come to think of it I do think I've seen that guy around. Been a while though since.

>>4648428
Sleepy was very upset at Sam being the most precious of variants of womanhood.
I'm at work but I will try and dredge my memory for some other Sleepy stories.

>>4648436
>Guy
Sleepy always claimed to be a femanon
>>4648463
And that's not to conflate Sleepy with the one artfag who said banging Sam was Gay and dropped the quest.

>>4648505
>Sleepy always claimed to be a femanon
And I'm the Queen of Nepal. We all know it doesn't really matter.

By the way, are we still going for the Ghost Uncle disadvantage, or were we just memeing?

I hope we weren't, it'd be hilarious,

>>4649091
I think hope we were just memeing.

>>4649091
I wouldn't mind him haunting us every Blue Moon or so, but the novelty will have worn off after a couple sessions if he became permanent.

>>4649100
This, occasional haunting is fine. There's a reason why nobody could live with the bastard.

>>4649100
I feel like he should show up, like, once a week or something. No more than once a day.

But once every Blue Moon? That's nowhere near enough time with Uncle.

>>4649091
I'd be okay with it being a disadvantage for Daisuke to overcome (buy off) if we use those points for an advantage that could increase the pool of weapons with the Samurai keyword, if it exists. Maybe make it some sort of retool of the Crab Hands advantage?

>>4649125
Daisuke has proven that his bow is as invaluable as his sword, some kind of advantage for bow use might be nice.

I'm pretty sure we were just memeing

>>4649091
no ghost uncle please anons, I don't want some disgusting filthy horrible failure of honor to critique our honorable murder time, and to be completely serious the temptations he would try to push daisuke toward would be completely ineffective in how daisuke has acted so far. He is straight duty and honor first everything else be damned forever

>>4649172
Uncle wouldn't be *that* bad. He's not a total failure of honor, like Takeshi, he's just kind of shitty.

>>4649225
Remember he is a Disadvantage!

>>4649172
>>4649225
Uncle's failure is Compassion and Courtesy, not necessarily Honor. He wasn't a coward, didn't shirk from his duty, and was honest beyond common decency.

>>4649229
I thought we can buy off disadvantages with enough exp points saved up?

>>4649241
I guess, but then what's the point of taking the disadvantage to gain the exp in the first place?
It's basically just a loan where the interest is uncle fucking with our rolls for not maiming people to fuck their wives...
I've always been of the mind that disadvantages when available are in ttgs are roleplaying aids.
Either something to add spice like Daisuke's Contrarian disadvantage.
Or something to overcome in the narrative.
But as always that's imo.

>>4648428
Get the uncle, the penalty isn't that horrible and the roleplay will be hilarious

I'm just gonna say it "lol funny" is just as bad as "min/max".

>>4649091
I want it.

>>4649350
'for the lulz' is not a good enough reason to get something that will hinder us.

>>4649506
Not him, but I was thinking the Haunted disadvantage would be a temporary modifier that would have lead into a story arc where we finish uncle Toshiaki's unfinished business and gain some sort of spiritual reward for doing so. Like, say, if we got one last chance to say goodbye to Dad or talk to Grandpa Juro, or if Benten or Bishamon or heck, some other fortune gives us their thanks for taking out the guy who ruined so many promising soldiers and artists before they became something. Y'know, like something from a roguelike where you can willingly take a temporary disadvantage for a cool new weapon or ability.

>>4649506
>>4649350
I personally disagree, but this is because I think it will be FUN, not because I think it will be FUNNY. The Contrary trait, for example, though it CAN be funny, is mostly there for the sake of fun.

>>4649546
Should we also take compulsion: complain about non-crab noodles then? As that will also be something that is 'funny' and knowing quest players they'll run that meme into the ground anyway so might as well get EXP for it.

I just really don't want momentary jokes to become a reason to cripple our character.

No real point in going with Haunted imo. Let uncle Toshi jack it in the spirit realm in peace, he'd be more interested in Shirou's well-being anyways. We'll have enough issues trying to restrain our tongue when we meet some turd-burgling courtiers at the Winter Court with Sayaka without adding ghost bullshit into the mix. Let the old devil rest in piss, he can argue with Father all he wants instead.

>>4649563
Honestly I think Toshi is more likely to go haunt his last living brother before peacing out, for shits and giggles than haunt us.

>>4649571
Bro what if he decides to haunt his son and Shirou turns into a dickhead. Damn.

>>4649571

>H-h-h-h-h-hey f-f-f-f-faggot, h-h-how's l-l-life b-been?
>I got a kick-ass son who's going to rule over the family lands, while you and yours are begging for whatever scraps the Hiruma haven't already taken in the Shadowlands.
>S-s-s-suck o-o-on my t-t-t-t-taint.

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>>4649577
>Toshiaki's ghost face when we come over to visit Uncle Mitsuaki to tell him that Aunt Miho's been killed by Nishiyama after she discovered his plans to take over Koumugi Valley with O-Tora/been found out to be Chouko's murderer and is scheduled to be executed/been a Bog Hag the entire time and we killed her, and with Shirou now being an orphan, he needs to take over Koumugi Castle AND raise his albino six fingered nephew until he is able to take the reins.

>>4649592
Top kek

>>4649545
Actually, that sounds pretty ballin mate. Would support, if only to say goodbye to dad.

>>4649592
If she was a BogHag won't that disinherit our 'nephew' ?

>>4649713
>hey uncle, your going to have to care for the spawn of a bog hag
>uncle's face realizing that it's his nephew

>>4649725
So basically the same reaction as when his younger brother was born.

>>4649713
Eh, if the kid passes the test of jade we could just say he's still Toshiaki's kid, or if that "Greatest trick I ever pulled off" thing he said before he died comes into play and makes it obvious it isn't his, we can still adopt him into the family. Adopting adults into families was a big thing during samurai times.

>>4649736
>greatest trick I ever pulled off
>married a bog hag and got her to do the deed

Truely, Uncle was a madlad.

>>4649091
Holy crap no. No ghost uncles.

>>4649241
Nope, we can't.

>>4649545
>Uncle
>Saying goodbye to dad
Anon, he'll force us to piss on our dad's grave.

>>4649736
>>4649725
Becoming the lord of the family Domain will fuck up our uncles greatest trick something fierce.

The more important question I have is of bloodlines. Great clans claim descendaence from kami/divine bloodline/demigods/ whatever/ basically and I am unaware how boghags figure into that.

It might be something that has to be dealt with.

Then there is the suspicion that the child is fathered by the peacock and uncle dearest got cucked.

Either of those reason to disinherit the child and thus the family estate defaulting to Daisuke.

The issue is then of the interaction between Hiruma and Hida, with Daisuke sworn to the hiruma and the estate being in vassalage to the hida.

>>4649840
Vassalage to the Yasuki who are vassals of the Hida you mean. Both families are prominent Hida vassals. Hiruma are the scouting de fat fighter bois and the Yasuki are the talky talk merchant keep the clan in the black bois.

>>4649989
Right. That. Huh. I mean the shekellord family or the engineer family are the best ones to be the vassal of as those I expect can provide the best improvements to trade and land.

Hiruma and Hida are the fightan boys that give better martial development, and the first doing it as strict personal volunteer landless foreign legion style only for life barring extenuating exceptions

Still, complicated issue.

>>4649794
>Anon, he'll force us to piss on our dad's grave.
Pretty sure you’re thinking of the advantage Medium, anon. Haunted just means he ghost pisses on Dad’s grave.

>>4650142
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMTc8Xn6Kp8

>>4650305
Why is Moto Tsume commanding the inferior floating gaijin foodstuff kami to feed him? Doesn't he realize that the lobster season is over?

>>4650430
My man that is literally the haunted disadvantage.

So, uh... any idea if we’re playing tonight, guys?

>>4650799
patience anon the blood of cucks and bandits shall soon flow and we shall bathe our sword in the flesh of the wicked

>>4650806
Thought it was just wednesdays and any other day on a whim.

>>4650837
yee but that is soonish

>>4649545
That not so bad.....

>>4649701
>>4650978
I mean, that's kinda what I was hoping for if we DID get saddled with him, but that's up to Wong. That's also assuming he'll let us buy it off after a major plot point, which after reading through Core 4th edition rulebook doesn't seem possible. So we're probably going to have to give up being haunted by Toshiaki unless Wong decides to make getting him off our back and onto the Wheel of Reincarnation again be a major plot arc, which I got to admit might be a bit too much Toshiaki for us...

Don't feel too bad, though, there's still the chance we could see him in a dream of some sort after we finish fixing his shit or nearly die.

>>4650837
You can play Swamp Lord if you want a Wong quest tonight.

Guys, I'm sorry, I'm just picturing Daisuke's ghost dad holding Daisuke's ghost uncle back from haunting him in like a chokehold while Toshiaki yells "HE CAN TOTALLY GET UP IN THAT PEASANT GIRL LEMME GO YUDAI YOU BASTARD! GO FROTH AT THE MOUTH OR SOMETHING!"

>>4649545

The odds of you talking to your dad, let alone a Fortune, are pretty much nil. This isn't Forgotten Realms.

>>4649577

Mitsuaki is actually doing well for himself, he's got a great wife and an ugly but talented son.

>>4651926

>"Toshiaki's moving in, looks like he's going for a classic possession technique."
>"What's that!? That's Yudai's music! Why's he here? And he's got a steel chair!"
>"Toshi's not watching, he's completely wide open!"
>"By god, Toshi has been broken in half! That man has a family!"
>cut away to a shocked audience

Classy.

>>4651930
And unlike Toshiaki, he still got action from his wife without having to tape a pair of chopsticks to his dick to make it stay up.

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>>4651926
Over my immortal soul are you going back there

Just in case anyone else is in here waiting for Wong to possibly jump in and update again...

>>4653560
>>4654240

>>4654619
Ty anon

>>4654619
That sucks for Wong, hope he can get if fixed soon

>>4654619
big ol ooferino there pal.

...so, uh, anyone else in here waiting for an update from Wong, hoping he got the right charger cord, or am I the only one with nothing to do on a Tuesday night?

>>4656145
That's why you need to follow multiple quests anon

>>4656152
I normally do, but I'm really picky about what grabs my attention.

>>4656163
That's fair, I'm the same way. I only follow this and two other quests at the moment

>>4656164
They still running? I seem to have the bad luck of picking quests where the QM runs inconsistently, disappears for months at a time or sometimes starts a story/job arc that doesn't grab my attention.

>>4656175
Forgottens Black Company and Sworn to Valour quests are good and he is super reliable. I'm also reading the other L5R quest which has a very different flavour to this one but is good nonetheless

>>4656177
Much appreciated, anon. I'll probably try reading through that future Black Company quest's first thread. I've tried the other L5R quest, but I'm not really jiving with the spycraft/political drama stuff. Guess it's just too much of a slow burn for me.

>>4654619
>>4656145
Panic?

>>4657688
>Panic?
Always!
Welp see ya in another 2-3 years when Wong decides to try running again :|

Bought a replacement cord, didn't fit. Ordered a replacement for that, waiting on it.

WONG LIVES!!!
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>>4658685
Here, have a nut Wong.

>>4657786

So it would be ironic if I somehow had fixed it by plugging the space heater into another outlet, right? Say within the past hour or so?

>>4659178
Bru

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>>4659178

>>4659178
This is one of those times in a mans life when sudoku is the only answer.

>>4659178
Bruh does your place have hundred year old Nob and tube wiring?

>>4659214
I swear, if this ends up the same way as AC-Guy and a dog you are dog sitting pisses on an electrical outlet and it starts a fire.........
The QM curse can be very real sometimes....
Time to go see if I can find the old Wheel of QM suffering image

>>4659214

I live by a river. This entire house is full of interesting little quirks which I gladly endure for the sake of an easy aquatic escape route from the filthy ATF and my magnificent trees. The shape of the house is also ideal for hiding the fact that I can grow enough potatoes to feed and supply an entire ad-hoc militia if the power grid does go down.

Also it was one of those big radiator heaters.

>>4659225
Man I miss AC-Guy

>>4659233
We all do, anon. We all do.

>>4659226
Poor Mr Wong.

This might amuse you abit then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb1MVFDy_tw

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>>4659233
>>4659267
BROTHERS!

Any chance of a session tonight?

>>4662659
Swamp Lord's got some updates about an hour ago, so I think he's focused on that tonight, unfortunately...

>>4662668
>unfortunately

HERESY!

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>>4662678

I can't wait to kill the peecuck tomorrow(If wong is still doing Wednesdays mind you). Top notch job wong on making every villain a real shitter

>>4666539
Unless it's tonight....?

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>Maybe if I try to make another meme, Wong'll run early
>...Probably not, but fuckit, better than just sitting here hitting refresh all night for nothing.
>...AGAIN.

Because I'm a dumbass who still can't finish his shitty memes, if anyone can put a red menpo on the lady and a kabuto on the guy, they're more than welcome to, and I'd really appreciate it.

Was there ever a good reference picture for O-tora? I'd like to make something.

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>>4667291
I think this was the picture that was shown when we were talking to noodle Obaa-san.

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>>4667303
Not the best thing in the world since it blends in the background, and I don't have an easy way of getting a good outline on the text like they do in the games, but fuck it. I needed a way to justify still having this font ever since the delinquent Dragon Ball quest died.

>>4667336
Mind if I ask what that font's called and where you got it at?

>>4667345
Edo sz, and you can find it just by googling it.

>>4667352
Much appreciated, anon.

>>4667336
God dammit now he'll get ten times stronger once he rips his armor off.

Probably has another axe wielding bandit tattooed onto his back.

>>4668125
>Inb4 O-Tora has a tattoo of himself on his back

>>4668384
>And the tattoo of O-Tora has a tattoo of O-Tora

>>4668456
>O-Tora sheds his armor and strikes a pose, revealing a recursive tattoo of O-Tora striking a pose.

I'll post in a few, I had more to type than I thought I did.

+1 exp for the Yakuza reference. Even if you shouldn't take that picture as a portrait of O-Tora. One conceit I had in MSPQ that I haven't had in my subsequent quests was using anime characters as portraits. Partially this is because you can't upload images you don't have saved to your device anymore, partially this is because there is a LOT of mecha anime and not so much material for this.

>>4668468
And on the Tattoo of O-tora's back, is another tattoo of O-taro

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There is nothing quite so cowardly as the common Rokugani bandit. Afraid of meeting the challenges imposed by the difficult life of a farmer, productive artisan, or ashigaru, the bandit lives in a way that ensures he will probably never face anything that is a threat to him. Perhaps exceptions can be made for those ronin gangs that turn to banditry, and prey on considerably harder targets than O-Tora's band, but in that case those men are also tremendous cowards for running away from their place in the Celestial Order. Still, those bullying thugs that compose the peasant class of banditry are an all-around loathesome sort, and you need no further evidence for this than the specimen you have taken prisoner.

Between him begging for his life, answering your questions, and whining about the weight of the wagon, he has spent the entire time to the village promising you that O-Tora will assuredly come here seeking vengeance. Which is precisely what you expect.

The question now is...what to do about it?

When a samurai enters a village, by custom he goes to its center and calls for the headman to tell him what it is the samurai wants. The headman will then provide it, by whatever means necessary. If said samurai is a ronin, shenanigans from the headman will probably ensue, and if said samurai is a bandit preying on the village...well, the headman's situation is rough. You didn't do this on your first trip through for two reasons. One, you were en route to the castle. Two, you could directly trust the woman who runs the teahouse. Pragmatism overwhelmed propriety. The time for being subtle has ended, however. You call out, and soon enough a peasant scurries from his home, holding up a torch to see your face. He's a surprisingly young man, normally the headman is a true elder while this one is simply middle-aged, and barely starting to grey. He's soft around the middle, with particularly narrow eyes. “Find a storehouse whose door can be secured, and put this scum in it.” You put your sandal on the small of Baldy's back, and kick the bandit to the ground in front of the headman, “Have it guarded. If he escapes, that will be your responsibility.” You inform him.

The headman gawps, “B-but samurai-sama...”

You give him a look as piercing as a falcon's, and his stammering abruptly subsides. Your call has prompted a few farmers to peek out from their homes, and the headman points at two of them, barking for them to come and drag the bandit to a storehouse.

“He will bring every one of his men here.” Yoshi says bitterly, “Perhaps we made a mistake, returning to the village. We could have assaulted his base, fought one or two at a time...” He sighs and shakes his head, “No, ignore me. Old age breeds a contrary nature, there is a reason old samurai should retire.”

“You did retire.” You point out.

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“Twenty three against three.” Sayaka bites her lower lip, “Not the worst odds I've ever heard of. If each of us does as well as you did on the road, we should be alright.”

“We had their overconfidence on our side.” The sohei notes. “Daisuke-sama's archery too. They could not predict he would stand and fight, and that we would attack from the woods. Besides, it does not do to rely on luck. One slip, one wound, and even a great fighter can lose his breath and fall to an amateur. Perhaps that's why that Phoenix bastard hasn't come out to fight O-Tora himself, even odds aren't good enough for him.”

You stare at Yoshi, “Even odds? I've heard O-Tora is huge, and skilled with the ono.”

The monk waggles his stump beneath its empty sleeve, “Both true, as I can attest. He's young, maybe your age, but he has the vigor of youth and clearly received the proper training. I'd still say Nishiyama has the upper hand.” Taking in your expression, he sighs, “You underestimated him, didn't you? Saw the fancy kimono and those ornate swords and assumed he was just some fop? I've watched him training. He isn't just some prettyboy, he's fast as lightning and that sword goes exactly where he wants it to, every time. At my age, I'm lucky if my hand doesn't shake drinking tea.” This is modesty, clearly. Losing one arm has possibly strengthened the other, and you sure didn't see Yoshi's hand shake when he stole the voice from Harelip with that atemi strike. “Moreover, he wants the hit. Are you familiar with the concept?”

“You're talking about killing intent, aren't you?” You ask.

Yoshi wrinkles his nose, “I'm not fond of that term, necessarily. Some samurai, even good duelists, flinch from the feel of the blow they deliver. They don't want to feel the recoil go up their arm. They don't want the sound of impact in their ears. The splitting flesh, the spilling blood, these are things we rightly view as disgusting, and so they recoil from them rather than enduring it as a part of their duty. Nishiyama Takeshi enjoys it. The cutting. He does not hesitate, he thirsts for it. When he flogs a servant, he wields the switch himself. You can see the bloodlust in his stance.”

“A bizarre Phoenix, if he is still one.” Sayaka notes, “Pacifism is a rare vice in samurai, but not so rare among them.”

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You feel your stomach turn at the very idea of pacifist samurai. What an utterly disgusting concept. To be nothing but an ornamental sword, never to be drawn, to exist uselessly, how can that be called living? There is no room for pacifism among the Crab. You were trained and armed for the purpose of using that training and those arms to protect the Empire. The very idea of telling a goblin that you would rather have tea and talk out your differences goes beyond laughable to completely unfunny.

Perhaps your mind is just trying not to process the idea that Nishiyama Takeshi might actually be dangerous outside of an iaijutsu duel. Despite being a bastard, he acts as if his status is higher than yours, and while normally you wouldn't care...as the Wall grinds rich and poor boys alike to gristle...he is utterly infuriating.

“So what do we do? You're right, Yoshi-sama.” Sayaka is respectful to the monk despite, or perhaps because, he has thus far seemed slightly disapproving of her ever since he realized the two of you are intimate, “Fighting such odds outright is dangerous, we could easily be surrounded.”

“We...” You start.

A farmer abruptly runs up to you, “Crab-sama! Crab-samaaa!” He seems to be in some distress, “They're coming! Must be over a score of them!” He points down the road. Darkness has fallen. “Please, Crab-sama, it isn't safe. You must...” He chokes on the next word. Run perhaps, or hide. To suggest such a thing would insult you, but he seems genuinely concerned for your safety.

It's a clear night, despite Yoshi's promise of rain to come. The peasants cannot afford to keep lights beyond their hearths, and so there is none of the light pollution people accustomed to some age, unimaginable to you, of filament lights powered by lightning would expect. It is dark below a bright sky, full of the moon and stars. Only the castle stands illuminated, a constellation lodged in the earth itself, and down the road you can see, in the distance, coming through the rice paddies, the bobbing orange glow of torches in the dark.

You have mere minutes. While you were walking back from the scene of the slaughter, and then slowed down by the heavily laden wagon of sake pulled by one lone bandit, O-Tora must have sent men out to relieve the ambushers, found them dead, and immediately sallied forth with everything at his disposal to wreak vengeance. There is no time for a complicated plan, just a simple one, at best.

There will be a second vote after this one depending on what you choose.

>[Face him in the village!]
>[To the woods!]
>[To the castle!]

>>4668825
>[To the woods!]
Good cover, we could weave in and out in between the trees as we strike after a salvo of arrows, we could aim for the ones wielding torches and blind them when the torches go out...

>>4668825
>>4668825
>>[To the woods!]

>>4668825
>[To the woods!]

>>4668825
>>[To the woods!]
Fight them as the Hiruma would the Samurai of the other great clans, Stick and Fade. Put an arrow at O-tora first, see if you can't either get lucky or at least get him to mono-focus on us. Yoshi, Sayaka, while they chase me? Pick off the Stragglers.

>>4668825
>[To the woods!]
he can't be much of a giant if we turn him into a pin cushion, or better yet we get lucky and land an arrow in his eye

>>4668825

>[To the woods!]

If we intercept them and draw them off, we might be able to divert some of them away from the village. He'll either have to send all the men after us, sparing the village, or split his forces up between us and punishing the village. The village might not be able to take all of them, but they might be able to take down some of them if the number of bandits are low enough.

>>4668825
>[To the woods!]

>>4668825
>[To the woods!]

You have selected the forest and the use of your bow.

>[Begin shooting right away as they creep towards the village, taking targets of convenience if you don't see O-Tora immediately]
>[Wait for them to get into the middle of the village and start doing whatever dramatic, dishonorable bullshit cowardly bullies inevitably do in this situation, so that you can guarantee O-Tora will be standing somewhere well-lit and visible]

>>4668848
>>[Begin shooting right away as they creep towards the village, taking targets of convenience if you don't see O-Tora immediately]


Lets reduce numbers quickly and immediately

>>4668848
>>[Begin shooting right away as they creep towards the village, taking targets of convenience if you don't see O-Tora immediately]
Second option potentially allows them to take hostages/human shields

>>4668848
>[Begin shooting right away as they creep towards the village, taking targets of convenience if you don't see O-Tora immediately]
death before dishonor wong, and besides it's time to MURDER

>>4668848

>[Begin shooting right away as they creep towards the village, taking targets of convenience if you don't see O-Tora immediately]

Suffer not the bandit to live. O-tora will probably either stand his ground regardless, or flee near his tower, where we can burn him out.

>>4668848
>>[Begin shooting right away as they creep towards the village, taking targets of convenience if you don't see O-Tora immediately]

>>4668848
>>[Begin shooting right away as they creep towards the village, taking targets of convenience if you don't see O-Tora immediately]
The sooner they die, the less of a chance they get to hold a peasant girl hostage.

>>4668848
>[Begin shooting right away as they creep towards the village, taking targets of convenience if you don't see O-Tora immediately]

Some days it's clear I'm dealing with people who know their games. You do have one more choice, though, and I'll just present it now.

If you see O-Tora, what kind of arrow will you shoot at him?

>[Willow Leaf, bog-standard arrow, does 2k2 damage]
>[Armor Piercer. Narrow little bodkin point arrow, does 1k1 but ignores any bonus to his Armor TN from worn armor.]

Actually, two more choices.

>[Keep Sayaka and Yoshi with you, safety in numbers]
>[Split up, a bad stealth roll from one of them could conceivably fuck you over]

>>4668869
>[Armor Piercer. Narrow little bodkin point arrow, does 1k1 but ignores any bonus to his Armor TN from worn armor.]

Better that we actually pierce his armor and do damage

>>4668871
>[Keep Sayaka and Yoshi with you, safety in numbers]

>>4668869
>[Armor Piercer. Narrow little bodkin point arrow, does 1k1 but ignores any bonus to his Armor TN from worn armor.]
>[Split up, a bad stealth roll from one of them could conceivably fuck you over]

They can rally the peasants against these jackasses.

>>4668869
>[Armor Piercer. Narrow little bodkin point arrow, does 1k1 but ignores any bonus to his Armor TN from worn armor.]
>[Keep Sayaka and Yoshi with you, safety in numbers]

>>4668869
>[Armor Piercer. Narrow little bodkin point arrow, does 1k1 but ignores any bonus to his Armor TN from worn armor.]
>>4668871
[Split up, a bad stealth roll from one of them could conceivably fuck you over]
Need the armor piercing for his armor. Strength in numbers.

>>4668869
>[Armor Piercer. Narrow little bodkin point arrow, does 1k1 but ignores any bonus to his Armor TN from worn armor.]

>>4668871
>[Keep Sayaka and Yoshi with you, safety in numbers]

>>4668869
>[Armor Piercer. Narrow little bodkin point arrow, does 1k1 but ignores any bonus to his Armor TN from worn armor.]
>[Keep Sayaka and Yoshi with you, safety in numbers]
they want us they can come chase us

>>4668869

>[Armor Piercer. Narrow little bodkin point arrow, does 1k1 but ignores any bonus to his Armor TN from worn armor.]

>[Split up, a bad stealth roll from one of them could conceivably fuck you over]

He's almost certainly rolling up in armour to make an impression. Yoshi can be either be used in the village to rally the peasantry, or go up to the castle to shame the ashigaru into marching on the village while us and Sayaka can buy him time from the bandits. Even if the Peacuck tries to stall him out, Miho may be persuadable to get the ashigaru massed to remove the bandits.

You've opted for armor piercers and keeping them with you has a one point lead. I'll give it five minutes and if that's still the case, we'll go with that.

Begin rolling. Stealth/Agility.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>4668920
That a 1d10 roll, Wong?

Rolled 5, 9, 10 = 24 (3d10)

>>4668920
tactical crab espionage

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>4668920

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>4668920

Dice away!

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>>4668926
shidded myself on the first roll epic

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>4668920

>>4668931
Anon, exploding tens. Roll again

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>4668920

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>4668926
here we go bois

Rolled 6, 3 = 9 (2d10)

>>4668925
>>4668926
>>4668927
>>4668929

Taking the first dice of the guy that rolled three, you've got a 16.

Resume rolling dice, this is to shoot...welp, time for another vote.

>[Shoot one of the scouts]
>[Aim right for O-Tora]

>>4668934

Yeah but he doesn't get to roll three dice. So he's just wasting that explosion.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>4668942
>>[Aim right for O-Tora]

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>4668942
>[Aim right for O-Tora]
shoots to boots

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>4668942
>>[Aim right for O-Tora]

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>4668942

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>4668942
>Aim right for O-Tora
That’s a damn shame...

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>4668952
>a one
Blegh...

>>4668942
>[Aim right for O-Tora]

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>4668942

>[Aim right for O-Tora]

You see the shot, you take the shot.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>4668955
fug

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>4668942
Not sure how many dice you need so have another