Post by Bayushi Satomi on Jan 27, 2014 19:47:23 GMT
Pre Winter Court Events
22nd day of the Month of the Horse in the Year 1160
Prelude: The Return of the Four Winds
Later in the Year
Shiba Kaigen is assigned to attend duties in Kyuden Meyo
Ide diplomat is found dead in a Crane Port: it stays unresolved as Doji Hatosenshi, Moshi Yoru, Ide Kinto and Otomo Yatsuji were forced to attend other duties/interests elsewhere
The Asako family has a new daimyo, Chisato; he and the governor of Shiro no Shosuro, Himitsu, meet each other (ongoing)
A dispute for the ownership of a library is still to be set by Phoenix and Dragon.
Kuni and Kuroiban went missing in Shadowlands: a group comes in their rescue, but discovers that a Lion high ranking samurai was kidnapped in Kyuden Meyo by Cultists. After dealing with the issue, Kaiu Satomi, Moto Arandaru and Yasuki Odai head to the Winter Court, attending their clans political interests.
The massive costs of Kyuden Meyo cause a lot of controversy and revolt in Lion Lands. It seems to involve Scorpion, and Shiba Kaigen comes to help dealing with peasants riots. Bayushi Kimiko and later, Bayushi Katsuro, are involved as well.
The Winter Court
Day 1:
Morning:
An unsolved murder causes chaos next the Kyuden Meyo gates.
Afternoon:
Bayushi Mai, Doji Hatosenshi, Yasuki Odai, Kaiu Satomi and Moto Arandaru meet in the garden. While Crab uses this meeting to invite non-clanners to their private dinner in the following day, Doji and Bayushi seem to engage in a productive conversation about art.
Evening:
Shiba Kaigen and Moshi Yoru have a casual and brief meeting outside the Castle
Night:
Bayushi Katsuro is investigating the murder from earlier; he stumbles over a bunch of criminals
Yasuki Odai and Moshi Yoru meet each other: Moshi Yoru asks Odai a favor to put him in touch with Kaiu Satomi, his half-sister
Meanwhile, Kaiu Satomi and Shosuro Mai talk in the Scorpion shrine.
After what, Yasuki Odai delivers Yoru's Message to Kaiu Satomi
Day 2
Morning:
Moto Arandaru and Shiba Kaigen have a brief meeting by the morning, before the Official Opening.
A blind Ise zumi arrives to Kyuden Meyo, and meets Bayushi Kimiko somewhere in the city. The blind woman helps him to properly present himself in the court.
THE OPENING COURT
Empress Toturi announces she will dissolve her court in order to make a new selection of persons to fill the positions. Also, she announces her three brothers will be married into the clans, causing a commotion. Imperial gift giving ceremonial and a lot of faux pass ensues.
Afternoon:
Shiba Kaigen meets the charming Shosuro Mai.
Doji Hatosenshi uses an opportunity to make politics with Crab, offering them the financial aid they "asked" to the Empress. The political favor exchange is informally set.
Evening-Night:
Crab clan offers a party to special guests.
In this party, Kaiu Satomi meets her half-brother Moshi Yoru (private conversation); Yasuki Odai and Shosuro Mai engage in conversation; Satomi and Doji Hatosenshi cause some rumors by being seen in good terms; Togashi Moeru and Bayushi Kimiko join the party. Sakura Hiromoto (minor clan daimyo) talks to Doji Hatosenshi about alliances; Shiba Kaigen and Moto Arandaru join as well; Kaiu Satomi appoints a business meeting with Moto Arandaru; a puppets play written anonymously by Kaiu Satomi succeeds in please the public. The Kaiu general mentions in a veiled manner the events involving the cultists and Kyuden Meyo.
Day 3:
Morning:
A supposed event between Asako Todome, Shiba Kaigen and the Scorpion.
A supposed meeting between Moto Arandaru and kaiu Satomi, regarding his impressions about the kami in the castle.
Moto Arandaru receives his first appointment regarding court affairs, a Crane one. He's helping the Ide Ambassador. Later in the same morning, he reunites with Bayushi Katsuro, regarding Scorpion interests. Both meetings seem to relate either to the vacant positions in the Empress Court, or to the Winds marriages.
Shosuro Mai has her petition to talk with the Imperial Matchmaker granted.
Afternoon:
Kakiu Satomi invites Moto Arandaru, Shiba Kaigen and Togashi Moeru to discuss about the possibility of cultists either near or infiltrated in the court. She asks to Moeru and Kaigen to investigate in the city. The meeting is interrupted because they must attend the Court.
DISPERSAL OF THE WINDS
The Empress gathers the court to announce her brothers' choices for the clans they wish to marry into: Nazeru will marry into Dragon, Sezaru will marry into Scorpion and Kaneka will marry into Crab.
After that, a Yogo arrival causes commotion. He says to have a message, and opens a scroll; soon it's revealed that the man is just a puppet for Sahai. Sahai threatens the Empress, who reacts appropriately superior to her words.
Night:
Doji Hatosenshi invites Crab, Dragon, Unicorn and Phoenix representatives in order to trace a plan to combat Sahai advances and to form a council. Some heartily discussion between Crab and Crane almost distracts them from the real objective in the meeting, but they resume the alliance plans.
Shosuro Mai and Shosuro Sezaru have their first meeting, but things don't go as she expected.
Yasuki Kaneka has a meeting with Yasuki Odai in a dojo. (still ongoing)
Day 4:
Day:
Togashi Moeru uses meditation to contact Togashi Satsu and asks him about important decisions he has to take. The experience is quite distressing for the monk, who needs to rest. He seems quite linked to the Dragon servant assigned to help him.
Doji Hatosenshi and Shosuro Mai talk about art and politics.
Moto Arandaru helps the Scorpion shugenja to discover how Sahai passed by the castle's magic defenses. He discovers there are cultists hiding in the forest nearby. Plus, he leaves a brokenhearted Yogo wondering why he rejected her love.
After an earlier incident involving debts and honor, Doji Hatosenshi and Otomo Yatsuji present themselves as champions of the respective parts (Crane and Lion) for an iaijutsu duel. The Crane wins.
Kaiu Satomi blends personal business and politic interests, going to hunt a golden bear and taking with her the lovely Shosuro Mai. There, she meets an old friend, Horiuchi Jini, and also learns that the golden bear is in fact a spirit of Chikushudo defending the forest. The spirit alerts about the cultists in the forest a well. Satomi manages to get some golden bear fur and presents Mai with the magic ingredient. Satomi's rival in love is caught in a trap, but Mai cures the woman revealing her gift as shugenja.
Night:
A group of watchmen (Shiba Kaigen, Bayushi Katsuro and Doji Hatosenshi) finds trouble in the city as they hunt down a maho sorcerer known as Isawa Haruko. It seems to make the Phoenix bushi a bit depressive.
Later on, a mysterious encounter occurs in the depths of Kyuden Meyo…
And in the same night, Shiba Kaigen is drawning his sorrows in a sake house and meets a ronin woman. The ronin woman is in truth, Shosuro Mai, in her disguise as Sakura. Kaigen saves the ronin from a group of aggressors, but it later turns against him, as a "mysterious figure" attacks them (or more probably, attacks Mai). THe mysterious figure didn't expect to face the ferocious resistance of Shiba Kaigen, and resorted of chemical substances to poison the air and flee. Shiba tries to rescue Mai/Sakura, but will it be too late?
(still ongoing)
Moto Arandaru and Kaiu Satomi have a sui generis meeting about politics and business. After that, she meets her clan's leaders.
Day 5:
Morning:
The corpse of a Crane servant was found in the kitchen of the castle. In the Dragon's Wing, Kaiu Shigekazu, Satomi's husband, was found stabbed and about to die.
Afternoon:
Togashi Moeru and Kaiu Satomi start to collect clues about the murders in the castle. They found the real murderer, the Kitsuki diplomat who was belived to be next target of the mysterious murderer. She is tainted and threatens the Empire along her acomplices. Fight ensues, Moeru reminds why he was called the Dragon of the East and Satomi, why she is feared. The Empire seems more threatened than ever.
Night:
Satomi's husband dies.
Day 6:
Morning:
Kaiu Shigekazu's funeral. In the funeral, Satomi meets Daidoji Kousei, a veteran from the Walls, to whom she tells about the ongoing presence of maho around the Empress and in the court. He offers help.
Moto Arandaru tells Satomi he saw the ghost of her husband claiming for justice. He also proposes a ritual to try to understand what else needs to be made to appease the Kaius tormented soul. It required the aid of a monk, and Satomi asks help to Togashi Moeru.
Afternoon:
Early in the afternoon, Moto Arandaru, Togashi Moeru and Satomi reunite to decide what must have be done to appease Shigekazu's soul. Moto Arandaru suggests a ritual, which reveals that a great vil resides in a ravine near Kyuden Meyo. They decide to request official permission to investigate, which was granted by Yasuki Hachi.
Later in the afternooon, Doji Hatosenshi and Kaiu Satomi have a conversation about how the "etiquette lessons" - part of an agreement between clans, will be.
Bayushi Katsuro and Moto Arandaru join forces to try to interrogate Ikoma Katanubo, a person they believe to know something about the problems in the building of Kyuden Meyo. The method chosen starts in the Kitchen... Through several questionable methods, both discover the liasson between kitchen staff and a cartel of crime, involving Katanubo as well. Katsuro manages to assassinate the Lion, to cover a possible link with the Scorpion, while the Unicorn is deluded by the arts of a more experienced shugenja, member of this cartel.
Night:
Togashi Moeru goes to the sake house, seeking as many others, a bit of relief from the pressuring stay in the Court. As does Ikoma Tono, the Voice of Lion. Moeru is having a good time with his new friend Shanko.
Satomi receives a message from her yojimbo, ang goes to the Sake House. She is lured to a alley, where she faces the very sister of the leader of cultists she and her friends defeated in the Sadowlands. Out of vengeance, the woman turned herself into a pennaggolan. Combat ensues when Moto Arandaru, Daidoji Kousei and later, Lion guards, joins the Kaiu general.
A bit later, safe in the sake house, the group listen to one of Moeru's reminiscences.
Day 7:
Morning:
Moeru awakes beside Shanko, his aide. The monk will do what is possible to avoid rumors about their blooming romance.
A normal morning for the Winter Court finally seems to happen. This is time to meet each other, make acquaitances, intrigues, matchmakings and to leverage your clan, as expected for the event.
Afternoon:
The newly appointed Asako Daimyo, Chisato, is receptioning guests while he releases his book about genealogy.
Evening:
Togashi, Moto e Kaiu (and probably, others of "the council") discreetly meet to plan their action against the powerful evil, envisioned by Moeru in a contact with Kaiu Shigekazu's spirit. They got tehe premission of the Emerald Champion to investigate the matter, and decided to check a ravine nearby. After an accident where Satomi fell into a cave, 4 other members of the scouting mission (Kousei, Moeru, Satomi and Arandaru) were inside the enormous cave and found signals that " undentified enemies of the Empire" had been there not long ago. Arandaru sensed a strange evil, and when they checked further, they found a khadi's heart... Arandaru tried to examine the bizarre item, but it tried to take control of the Unicorn shugenja. The only alternative Satomi found to prevent that evil to totally taint Arandaru's body was cut his hand off. After a hast retreat, they reported the incident to the Emerald Champion ...
Day 8:
Evening:
Arandaru recovers, and remembers a Gaijin name... (ongoing)
Day 9:
Late Morning:
Shiba Kaigen was found by heimin in a alley, and is recovering from the attack of a mysterious figure in the inn, under their care. Satomi incidentally discover his location, and comes to help.
Afternoon:
Satomi meets the Ronin Keitaro, and her son Takai. A strange conversation about who is the father and what to do next ensues. Satomi next decisions will have consequences that will reflect for years to come.
Late Night:
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE COUNCIL
Empress Toturi gathers the high ranking samurai present in the court and announces her plans of initiate a Council of War, to be set in the day after, presided by the Shogun.
Day 10:
(not tagged, so I'm arbitrarily pinning in an approximate date)
Bayushi Katsuro arrives in Broken Wave City, after his patron have decided to send him somewhere else, after the assassinate of Ikoma Katanubo.
Supposed conversation between Satomi and Hida Kuon.
Day 11:
Moeru accepts to educate Takai, bastard son of the Shogun, within the Dragon.
Post Winter Court Events
The Dragon's delegation returns home. They passes by Hiro Tonbo, where Moeru meet his parents and his sister Azula, not an entirely agreeable meeting (ongoing).
22nd day of the Month of the Horse in the Year 1160
Prelude: The Return of the Four Winds
Later in the Year
Shiba Kaigen is assigned to attend duties in Kyuden Meyo
Ide diplomat is found dead in a Crane Port: it stays unresolved as Doji Hatosenshi, Moshi Yoru, Ide Kinto and Otomo Yatsuji were forced to attend other duties/interests elsewhere
The Asako family has a new daimyo, Chisato; he and the governor of Shiro no Shosuro, Himitsu, meet each other (ongoing)
A dispute for the ownership of a library is still to be set by Phoenix and Dragon.
Kuni and Kuroiban went missing in Shadowlands: a group comes in their rescue, but discovers that a Lion high ranking samurai was kidnapped in Kyuden Meyo by Cultists. After dealing with the issue, Kaiu Satomi, Moto Arandaru and Yasuki Odai head to the Winter Court, attending their clans political interests.
The massive costs of Kyuden Meyo cause a lot of controversy and revolt in Lion Lands. It seems to involve Scorpion, and Shiba Kaigen comes to help dealing with peasants riots. Bayushi Kimiko and later, Bayushi Katsuro, are involved as well.
The Winter Court
Day 1:
Morning:
An unsolved murder causes chaos next the Kyuden Meyo gates.
Afternoon:
Bayushi Mai, Doji Hatosenshi, Yasuki Odai, Kaiu Satomi and Moto Arandaru meet in the garden. While Crab uses this meeting to invite non-clanners to their private dinner in the following day, Doji and Bayushi seem to engage in a productive conversation about art.
Evening:
Shiba Kaigen and Moshi Yoru have a casual and brief meeting outside the Castle
Night:
Bayushi Katsuro is investigating the murder from earlier; he stumbles over a bunch of criminals
Yasuki Odai and Moshi Yoru meet each other: Moshi Yoru asks Odai a favor to put him in touch with Kaiu Satomi, his half-sister
Meanwhile, Kaiu Satomi and Shosuro Mai talk in the Scorpion shrine.
After what, Yasuki Odai delivers Yoru's Message to Kaiu Satomi
Day 2
Morning:
Moto Arandaru and Shiba Kaigen have a brief meeting by the morning, before the Official Opening.
A blind Ise zumi arrives to Kyuden Meyo, and meets Bayushi Kimiko somewhere in the city. The blind woman helps him to properly present himself in the court.
THE OPENING COURT
Empress Toturi announces she will dissolve her court in order to make a new selection of persons to fill the positions. Also, she announces her three brothers will be married into the clans, causing a commotion. Imperial gift giving ceremonial and a lot of faux pass ensues.
Afternoon:
Shiba Kaigen meets the charming Shosuro Mai.
Doji Hatosenshi uses an opportunity to make politics with Crab, offering them the financial aid they "asked" to the Empress. The political favor exchange is informally set.
Evening-Night:
Crab clan offers a party to special guests.
In this party, Kaiu Satomi meets her half-brother Moshi Yoru (private conversation); Yasuki Odai and Shosuro Mai engage in conversation; Satomi and Doji Hatosenshi cause some rumors by being seen in good terms; Togashi Moeru and Bayushi Kimiko join the party. Sakura Hiromoto (minor clan daimyo) talks to Doji Hatosenshi about alliances; Shiba Kaigen and Moto Arandaru join as well; Kaiu Satomi appoints a business meeting with Moto Arandaru; a puppets play written anonymously by Kaiu Satomi succeeds in please the public. The Kaiu general mentions in a veiled manner the events involving the cultists and Kyuden Meyo.
Day 3:
Morning:
A supposed event between Asako Todome, Shiba Kaigen and the Scorpion.
A supposed meeting between Moto Arandaru and kaiu Satomi, regarding his impressions about the kami in the castle.
Moto Arandaru receives his first appointment regarding court affairs, a Crane one. He's helping the Ide Ambassador. Later in the same morning, he reunites with Bayushi Katsuro, regarding Scorpion interests. Both meetings seem to relate either to the vacant positions in the Empress Court, or to the Winds marriages.
Shosuro Mai has her petition to talk with the Imperial Matchmaker granted.
Afternoon:
Kakiu Satomi invites Moto Arandaru, Shiba Kaigen and Togashi Moeru to discuss about the possibility of cultists either near or infiltrated in the court. She asks to Moeru and Kaigen to investigate in the city. The meeting is interrupted because they must attend the Court.
DISPERSAL OF THE WINDS
The Empress gathers the court to announce her brothers' choices for the clans they wish to marry into: Nazeru will marry into Dragon, Sezaru will marry into Scorpion and Kaneka will marry into Crab.
After that, a Yogo arrival causes commotion. He says to have a message, and opens a scroll; soon it's revealed that the man is just a puppet for Sahai. Sahai threatens the Empress, who reacts appropriately superior to her words.
Night:
Doji Hatosenshi invites Crab, Dragon, Unicorn and Phoenix representatives in order to trace a plan to combat Sahai advances and to form a council. Some heartily discussion between Crab and Crane almost distracts them from the real objective in the meeting, but they resume the alliance plans.
Shosuro Mai and Shosuro Sezaru have their first meeting, but things don't go as she expected.
Yasuki Kaneka has a meeting with Yasuki Odai in a dojo. (still ongoing)
Day 4:
Day:
Togashi Moeru uses meditation to contact Togashi Satsu and asks him about important decisions he has to take. The experience is quite distressing for the monk, who needs to rest. He seems quite linked to the Dragon servant assigned to help him.
Doji Hatosenshi and Shosuro Mai talk about art and politics.
Moto Arandaru helps the Scorpion shugenja to discover how Sahai passed by the castle's magic defenses. He discovers there are cultists hiding in the forest nearby. Plus, he leaves a brokenhearted Yogo wondering why he rejected her love.
After an earlier incident involving debts and honor, Doji Hatosenshi and Otomo Yatsuji present themselves as champions of the respective parts (Crane and Lion) for an iaijutsu duel. The Crane wins.
Kaiu Satomi blends personal business and politic interests, going to hunt a golden bear and taking with her the lovely Shosuro Mai. There, she meets an old friend, Horiuchi Jini, and also learns that the golden bear is in fact a spirit of Chikushudo defending the forest. The spirit alerts about the cultists in the forest a well. Satomi manages to get some golden bear fur and presents Mai with the magic ingredient. Satomi's rival in love is caught in a trap, but Mai cures the woman revealing her gift as shugenja.
Night:
A group of watchmen (Shiba Kaigen, Bayushi Katsuro and Doji Hatosenshi) finds trouble in the city as they hunt down a maho sorcerer known as Isawa Haruko. It seems to make the Phoenix bushi a bit depressive.
Later on, a mysterious encounter occurs in the depths of Kyuden Meyo…
And in the same night, Shiba Kaigen is drawning his sorrows in a sake house and meets a ronin woman. The ronin woman is in truth, Shosuro Mai, in her disguise as Sakura. Kaigen saves the ronin from a group of aggressors, but it later turns against him, as a "mysterious figure" attacks them (or more probably, attacks Mai). THe mysterious figure didn't expect to face the ferocious resistance of Shiba Kaigen, and resorted of chemical substances to poison the air and flee. Shiba tries to rescue Mai/Sakura, but will it be too late?
(still ongoing)
Moto Arandaru and Kaiu Satomi have a sui generis meeting about politics and business. After that, she meets her clan's leaders.
Day 5:
Morning:
The corpse of a Crane servant was found in the kitchen of the castle. In the Dragon's Wing, Kaiu Shigekazu, Satomi's husband, was found stabbed and about to die.
Afternoon:
Togashi Moeru and Kaiu Satomi start to collect clues about the murders in the castle. They found the real murderer, the Kitsuki diplomat who was belived to be next target of the mysterious murderer. She is tainted and threatens the Empire along her acomplices. Fight ensues, Moeru reminds why he was called the Dragon of the East and Satomi, why she is feared. The Empire seems more threatened than ever.
Night:
Satomi's husband dies.
Day 6:
Morning:
Kaiu Shigekazu's funeral. In the funeral, Satomi meets Daidoji Kousei, a veteran from the Walls, to whom she tells about the ongoing presence of maho around the Empress and in the court. He offers help.
Moto Arandaru tells Satomi he saw the ghost of her husband claiming for justice. He also proposes a ritual to try to understand what else needs to be made to appease the Kaius tormented soul. It required the aid of a monk, and Satomi asks help to Togashi Moeru.
Afternoon:
Early in the afternoon, Moto Arandaru, Togashi Moeru and Satomi reunite to decide what must have be done to appease Shigekazu's soul. Moto Arandaru suggests a ritual, which reveals that a great vil resides in a ravine near Kyuden Meyo. They decide to request official permission to investigate, which was granted by Yasuki Hachi.
Later in the afternooon, Doji Hatosenshi and Kaiu Satomi have a conversation about how the "etiquette lessons" - part of an agreement between clans, will be.
Bayushi Katsuro and Moto Arandaru join forces to try to interrogate Ikoma Katanubo, a person they believe to know something about the problems in the building of Kyuden Meyo. The method chosen starts in the Kitchen... Through several questionable methods, both discover the liasson between kitchen staff and a cartel of crime, involving Katanubo as well. Katsuro manages to assassinate the Lion, to cover a possible link with the Scorpion, while the Unicorn is deluded by the arts of a more experienced shugenja, member of this cartel.
Night:
Togashi Moeru goes to the sake house, seeking as many others, a bit of relief from the pressuring stay in the Court. As does Ikoma Tono, the Voice of Lion. Moeru is having a good time with his new friend Shanko.
Satomi receives a message from her yojimbo, ang goes to the Sake House. She is lured to a alley, where she faces the very sister of the leader of cultists she and her friends defeated in the Sadowlands. Out of vengeance, the woman turned herself into a pennaggolan. Combat ensues when Moto Arandaru, Daidoji Kousei and later, Lion guards, joins the Kaiu general.
A bit later, safe in the sake house, the group listen to one of Moeru's reminiscences.
Day 7:
Morning:
Moeru awakes beside Shanko, his aide. The monk will do what is possible to avoid rumors about their blooming romance.
A normal morning for the Winter Court finally seems to happen. This is time to meet each other, make acquaitances, intrigues, matchmakings and to leverage your clan, as expected for the event.
Afternoon:
The newly appointed Asako Daimyo, Chisato, is receptioning guests while he releases his book about genealogy.
Evening:
Togashi, Moto e Kaiu (and probably, others of "the council") discreetly meet to plan their action against the powerful evil, envisioned by Moeru in a contact with Kaiu Shigekazu's spirit. They got tehe premission of the Emerald Champion to investigate the matter, and decided to check a ravine nearby. After an accident where Satomi fell into a cave, 4 other members of the scouting mission (Kousei, Moeru, Satomi and Arandaru) were inside the enormous cave and found signals that " undentified enemies of the Empire" had been there not long ago. Arandaru sensed a strange evil, and when they checked further, they found a khadi's heart... Arandaru tried to examine the bizarre item, but it tried to take control of the Unicorn shugenja. The only alternative Satomi found to prevent that evil to totally taint Arandaru's body was cut his hand off. After a hast retreat, they reported the incident to the Emerald Champion ...
Day 8:
Evening:
Arandaru recovers, and remembers a Gaijin name... (ongoing)
Day 9:
Late Morning:
Shiba Kaigen was found by heimin in a alley, and is recovering from the attack of a mysterious figure in the inn, under their care. Satomi incidentally discover his location, and comes to help.
Afternoon:
Satomi meets the Ronin Keitaro, and her son Takai. A strange conversation about who is the father and what to do next ensues. Satomi next decisions will have consequences that will reflect for years to come.
Late Night:
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE COUNCIL
Empress Toturi gathers the high ranking samurai present in the court and announces her plans of initiate a Council of War, to be set in the day after, presided by the Shogun.
Day 10:
(not tagged, so I'm arbitrarily pinning in an approximate date)
Bayushi Katsuro arrives in Broken Wave City, after his patron have decided to send him somewhere else, after the assassinate of Ikoma Katanubo.
Supposed conversation between Satomi and Hida Kuon.
Day 11:
Moeru accepts to educate Takai, bastard son of the Shogun, within the Dragon.
Post Winter Court Events
The Dragon's delegation returns home. They passes by Hiro Tonbo, where Moeru meet his parents and his sister Azula, not an entirely agreeable meeting (ongoing).