Cearnach wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 15, 2025 3:11 pm

While we have not gotten into a lot of the Event writing, yet, there's a mechanic in the bones of the game that rewards a much wider set of house stats than Influence.

Gonna suck to be Ryusei

This is very much in my realm of reasoning. We are an Empire at the edge of War, wandering off to phoenix land on some Phoenix Lord's request would be a hard sell for a lot of characters. I honestly don't see too many characters from this game reprising for that one regardless, so we'd be looking a...

And suddenly, I feel like Shingo's minimal contributions to this game will conveniently justify Higashime volun-tolding him to go "help" the master of fire's important work. ! I love this! Ryusei likely won't be a good pick for that game (he has way too many responsibilities at home, especially aft...

Since Court is resolved, here, have some of our clan objectives! This is mostly prompted by the fact, that, uh... y'all have no idea how insane Isawa Takao is and why I look forward to the next game so much :lol: None of these should be seen as secret, given how the treaties shook out... except for....

Please, it's OBVIOUSLY Keihime.

And Masaki poisoned Mariko for failing to stop the marriages...

If we DO find an answer, expect Takao to hijack it in some way

Working for Takao?!

I am IN

That's gonna be SUCH a trainwreck, especially since the Phoneix delegation did literally NOTHING to advance his request of them.

Doji Shinnosuke wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 13, 2025 11:49 pm

I don’t think AI can even reach the coattails of fallenash’s finest failpost writers, though.

Let's be real, *I* can't reach the coattails of fallenash's finest failpost writers.

Let's be honest, if someone's a Matsu, they're automatically offended.

Lock a Matsu in a room alone and they'll find a way to have a fistfight with themselves.

Gonna be a little controversial with this take, but the change to iai rolling it into kenjutsu actually made the gap between Kakita, Shiba and the rest even wider. Before now only a pure glass cannon Kakita duelist was gonna blast everyone away, and a normal Kakita likely is gonna win but not a hug...

Closest we came to interacting would have been if you'd jumped in to defend Yuna in a duel instead of the literal champion of the Dragon :lol: Woulda been a fairer fight, and Honoka *probably* would have won (Ryusei was decent with a sword and had Shiba void trickery, but wasn't built to duel), whi...

Hiruma Daichi wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 13, 2025 8:10 pm

Daichi's advice to future Crab going to Imperial Court. "Just don't bother working with the Imperial Matchmaker if you can avoid it."

Now, now, the new one might be more to your liking

Fuku and I got tired, is really the answer there. I actually think it indirectly reinforces both the lingering damage the Gozoku did to the way courtly power is viewed, and to the fact that with the Otomo and Seppun at odds (due to Kiehime versus Tomaru), the Otomo aren't exactly paper tigers, but ...

Oh yeah, nobody asked, but Wind-Related curtain-yank- Ryusei is pro-Tomaru for reasons both IC-logical (nothing about this whole mess is logical XD) and emotional- but ultimately, he genuinely thinks ANY of the winds but Keihime could do a good job if given the right support, and kind of hopes they ...

Double-Post, but I feel like this is the post-Higashime View on the season:

The guy Ryusei wants as a brother-in-law XD I greatly enjoyed Ryusei's scenes with Ryoichi, since they seemed to be on similar businesslike wavelengths, which led to my guy feeling relaxed BEWARE THE DREADED FORM QUESTIONS! Please Fill Out Form Questions @ through pumice, and submit them in triplica...

Akodo Kenji wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 13, 2025 4:14 am

Game 2 is dealing with the aftermath of Kenji and Daichi's successful invasion.

Ahhhh, the Shiro Shiba Drunk Tank Game *nod*

One of two Crane Ryusei talked to, and the only one he did any business with!

1. Stoked to have seen her patron Fortune in action?

2. Sounds like a hell of a kitbash (5E isn't for me, so I'd probably need it explained to me XD). Care to walk us through it?

Hmmm... most of my usual go-tos are kinda covered by "RL-no-Oni trampled you"

1. Had you had more gas in the tank, what was plan A for Kiuchi?

2. Please tell me someone's on hand to look after his dog

Hiruma Daichi wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 13, 2025 4:07 am

When are we invading Phoenix Lands Kenji.

When the Crab and Lion finish giving and taking delivery of all the stuff we swapped, and the Crab feel like losing the use of that port they're gonna build