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Post by tsuruchi kasumi on Sept 30, 2014 6:54:12 GMT
"It would be my honour to sample the excellent Scorpion cuisine," Rokuro said, "I will bring Yoritomo Naoki and Moshi Kiku. Both are responsible for the security of the Mantis embassy and will be involved with the security of winter court, should it be in the Mantis lands. That way they can maybe speak with some of your people to set-up a workgroup concerning security during winter court."
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Bayushi Satomi
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Post by Bayushi Satomi on Sept 30, 2014 11:55:56 GMT
That would be excellent, Rokuro-san. We have, in fact, a Scorpion specialist visiting the court this week. Bayushi Sotaro-sensei. I'm going to arrange to have him with us in the next evening, so the discussion will be quite productive. It has great chances of having a Winter Court to be talked about for the next decades! A new standard of style and expertise! Komiya made sure to keep an excited intonation, as the success of their conjunct enterprise (even if only Mantis received the praise) could unfold into several lucrative possibilities in the future.
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Post by tsuruchi kasumi on Oct 1, 2014 7:00:10 GMT
"Very well, Bayushi-san," Rokuro said, as he stood up and bowed, "I'll see to it immediately and I'll send you my reply as quickly as possible." He was sure he could convince the ambassador, as the prestige of hosting a winter court would be very high, even if they had some scorpion look over security. Now he had to decide whom to contact next, as one clan alone would not be enough. The Crab were always a possibility, but in the political scene they weren't the biggest. In fact, if he wanted to be sure, or as sure as he could be, he needed both Scorpion and Crane support. Phoenix would help as well, but given the animosity between the two clans, getting the Phoenix to support the Mantis would be an exercise in futility. He knew the ambassador would have dinner with some Otomo tonight, so he might bring it up with them, as they too had a lot of political influence. Something to think about while he walked back to the embassy.
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Bayushi Satomi
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Post by Bayushi Satomi on Oct 1, 2014 13:51:21 GMT
Once the Mantis diplomat left, a messenger came in and delivered Komiya a message from one of the closest advisors of Lady Sunetra. After reading the somewhat long content, the Bayushi diplomat smirked:
This one promises to be great fun…
Not that it would be that easy.
For now, about Mantis all he could do was to wait. However, about this new task, he had much to do.
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Post by tsuruchi kasumi on Oct 2, 2014 13:10:23 GMT
After speaking with the Scorpion, Rokuro decided to alter his approach a little bit. He would try to find a back channel to talk about it before approaching official people. He had heard that a Kakita sensei was in the city and he thought this would be a convenient back channel. The sensei of the Kakita dueling academy had quite a bit of political power within the Crane, as they were often the means the Crane used to advance their diplomatic agenda. But he would go slow on this, as he still had some time, so first he had to get to know this sensei a bit better. As soon as he was back at the embassy and had spoken to the ambassador he would set some people on him.
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Post by tsuruchi kasumi on Nov 3, 2014 8:37:53 GMT
Over the summer Rokuro had continued to try and get more support to put the winter court in the Mantis lands. He had met with mixed success. While he had Scorpion support, the other clans had so far held out, except for the Unicorn. He considered the Phoenix a lost cause, as they would probably say no just out of spite, given the history between the two clans. The Lion might go for it, but not if the Crane would and he'd rather have the Crane court machine behind this kind of decision instead of the Lion war machine.
He decided to go to the Amethyst championship, as a lot of political figures would be there. Even if he didn't have this thing going on, he would have gone, as his former yojimbo was participating. But now he could support his clan in more than one way.
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