Greetings from a Lion Clan Envoy

[Daigotsu Daisuke]

Most honorable Crab,
Let me state that first, I Akodo Jin look forward to working with you in the future. A clan such as yours is well known for a great many things, first and foremost in my mind is your noble spirit and your unyielding will. These things are qualities that we in the lion prize above many others. It is in this spirit that i give you a story recently found amongst the Ikoma library of a Hida Michio. He was a cousin of Hida Kenzan. This scroll details his unyielding will and noble spirit through his many journeys through out rokugan and the shadowlands

After his death a fellow wounded Hida was found by an Ikoma working in the shadowlands alongside your most esteemed samurai. It was there that the Ikoma took down Hida Michio's story. It is in the spirit of friendship and tender feelings of brotherhood between our two clans that i present a newly restored scroll of the tale to your clan.

I have come to the Crab clan seeking to best serve both our clans. Please do not think of me as just a lowly courtier for such a title would greatly embarrass and dishonor me. While I have not spent my life in the shadowlands, I have served there among your fine Samurai and will continue to do so now that I am once again in your company. I am a bushi first and foremost, but i also desire to be your friend and brother to fight with you against whatever enemies you may encounter. I am here to say that you have friends in the Lion Clan, and I will always be here to listen to your concerns and answer your questions as best I can.

May the Kami forever hold the Crab clan in their favor,

Akodo Jin
(OOC: Sorry i dont actually speak japanese so if said scroll is a rather exquisite recipe for bean soup, please accept my humble soup as delicious gratitude for being in your company)

[Akodo Tomatsu]

(YOU GAVE AWAY THE RECIPE FOR AKODO'S BEAN SOUP?!? YOU FOOL! NOW THEIR FLATULENCE WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE!)

[Daigotsu Daisuke]

(hahahah +1 buddy, that cracked me up to no end)

[Akodo Tomatsu]

(I'm always looking for new ways to give the Lion clan power, so I figure we might as well corner the cooking market in Rokguan, and no better place to start than with Akodo's Bean Soup)

[Kuni Kaymar]

Greetings most honourable Akodo Jin. I am surprised that noone else has greeted you as yet, please do not take our tardiness as an insult as many of our finest are even now engaged with Yobanjin raiders within the Unicorn lands. Combined of course with our other duties, it does take up quite some time saving the Empire neh?

I am sure that the family of Hida Kenzan will be delighted with this most precious of gifts, please allow me to attempt to locate one of them for you, I am sure they have many questions.

[Daigotsu Daisuke]

Jin turns to Kaymar and bows low. After being we received he stands and says in kind:

I thank you most humbly Kuni-san for your hospitality. I understand the delay, for many of my clan are on the march as well. I will sometimes be sent north to join them as i have an important position as well amongst the Lion units, but i feel that especially in a time of war, we must find peace and common ground with our cousins from other clans.

(ooc in case you dont know Hida Kenzan was one of Osano-Wu's sons)

[Kuni Kaymar]

(ooc - ahhh, I knew I had heard/read the name before but had completely forgotten that, so thanks for the pointer At least what I said could still be said to be ok since Kaymar isn't a Hida... hopefully a Hida will post soon (tm))

[Hida Tsunogawa]

Greetings Akodo-san! I'm Hida Tsunogawa and it is an honor to have another Brother-in-arms make his way to the Lands of Crab. I do apologize for my Tardiness as i was not expecting any visitors, but i couldn't help but overhear that you had a scroll telling of a cousin of ours. I'm glad to know that his tale is not forgotten. and Thank you Kaymar-san for arriving to meet our guest in a more timely fashion.

[Kuni Kaymar]

(ooc - for information, Kaymar would have left a rather hurried scrawled note and passed it onto one of the Hida family functionaries to pass to someone of importance. He had to leave Kyuden Hida in rather a hurry due to some concerns he had. If you wish to add that in (or not) if it is anyhelp I don't have a problem with it )

[Daigotsu Daisuke]

Thank you Hida-san. Glorious tales such as his and all the crab clan are remembered and told time and time again with in the hallowed halls of the ikoma. I will bring more the next time i return from lion lands. Thank you both for your hospitality