10/28/2011: Castle of the Swift Sword

[Jay Luo]

The Dragon are storming the Castle of the Swift Sword, hoping to take the castle before the arrival of Toturi's Army. Meanwhile, investigators have determined that the so-called "Spider Clan" was responsible for the assassination attempt on the Imperial Ambassador. The Scorpion have vowed to avenge this slight to their honor.




Dragon Strategy Debate

Actions arguing for the Dragon to turn to face Kaneka	2273 (44%)
Actions arguing for the Dragon to Storm the Castle of the Swift Sword	2396 (46%)
Actions arguing for the Dragon to Refuse Battle	440 (8%)

This outcome did surprise me a little after the debate on this forum, but it certainly will make for a dramatic story.


Investigation of the attempt on Imperial Ambassador's life

Actions accusing the Shosuro	1416 (45%)
Actions accusing the Spider	1684 (54%)

No new actions from this (yet), just wrapping up old actions per player demands.

So the Imperial Ambassador visits the Scorpion court, gets attacked by a Scorpion assassin, then gets rescued by a Scorpion yojimbo. With utmost sincerity Scorpion courtiers proclaim their eternal loyalty to the Hantei. Magistrates in Kyuden Bayushi investigate the whole incident and declare that the Spider are to blame. Hmmmmmmm!

[Agasha Shodai]

Finally, a use for alchemical elixers!

[Daigotsu Thrakhath]

Bring it on I say.

[Shoju]

Oct 28, 2011 14:25:52 GMT -5 Jay Luo said:

So the Imperial Ambassador visits the Scorpion court, gets attacked by a Scorpion assassin, then gets rescued by a Scorpion yojimbo. With utmost sincerity Scorpion courtiers proclaim their eternal loyalty to the Hantei. Magistrates in Kyuden Bayushi investigate the whole incident and declare that the Spider are to blame. Hmmmmmmm!

It is clan directive from the champ. Senshi thinks I'm the sweaty piggy bad man.

[Asahina Yukihime]

Aaaaaah... a few more months of war... noooooooooooo >.< I was hoping the Dragon would end this suffering.

I wanan fun, friends, cakes and rainbows. Peace, pleaaaaase

[Tamori Manji]

Yay! Another great victory for Kaneka! ;D



Oooohhh, wait... *sigh*



PS.: I'm going to save my jokes about "Kaneka Wins! Flawless victory! Fatality!" for after the war is over.

[Mirumoto Machu]

Do you not have faith that the Dragon will win?


I am going to miss all you guys.

[Tamori Manji]

It's not a question of faith, I'll do my best to help even though I completely disagree with this course of action. It's just that I don't believe we can safely defeat the Lion by the required amount of votes (3x1) and still have resources left to fight against Kaneka.

Still, I guess that we'll just have to see.

[Kakita Sojiro]

Why 3x1?

[Agasha Shodai]

Just remember, it's not going to be you guys alone. If the Phoenix hop on the Drowned Merchant River and kick the Air and Water kami into overdrive, we can be there in very short order. ;D

[Akodo Tomatsu]

Manji, if you guys want peace, we can always work something out, I'm sure the Crane will agree I'm a rather reasonable guy.

[Tamori Manji]

Sojiro, this is the answer that you seek:

Oct 7, 2011 11:20:05 GMT -5 Jay Luo said:

2. Storm the castle: If we go this way, the Dragon will have an initial numerical advantage against the Lion, something like 4:2 or 5:3. If the Dragon beat the Lion by 3-to-1 (a high ratio, but IMHO isn't out of line for storming a well-defended castle; if they had no time pressure, they wouldn't need nearly this much) before Toturi's army arrives, I'll rule the Dragon capture the castle and can hole up within; this would make their force roughly equal to that of Toturi's army. On the other hand, if the Dragon do not beat the Lion before Toturi shows up, they will be in serious trouble, caught between a big army and a tough castle.

Shodai, I hope so, but I'm not counting on it. If the Phoenix do arrive to save the day, that will be a very pleasant surprise.

Tomatsu, IC, I would be very interested in that. But I have no way to assure it OOC. By this I mean that, even if we agreed to a peace treaty, there's no way for us to control our players (or, at least, not the ones who don't frequent the forums) in order to assure it. So, I don't see how we could establish a peace treaty that wouldn't be rendered useless by the next war update/action. If you have any suggestions, I'm sure we can discuss them.

[Shosuro Aroru]

...So are the previous battle missions there counting towards the total or just the two new ones? Not that we really have a chance either way.

[Asahina Yukihime]

Oct 28, 2011 15:31:56 GMT -5 Shosuro Aroru said:

...So are the previous battle missions there counting towards the total or just the two new ones? Not that we really have a chance either way.

Yap, we don't. This time Lion is not busy with a side battle like Permission City All their clicking effort is going to the Castle.
If pro-Hantei couldn't beat them at TR, they won't be able to do it now. Specially by 3 to 1
The outcome is kinda clear, imo.

And, whatever truce we do IC RPing here, it won't work as real outcome to the Clicking game (and would be unfair if the game of 6-8 folks here were more important than the clickings of loads of players who are not here).
It will just look bad (again, my opinion only) all the chars saying "truce" while in the real setting of EE we are at war (I'm more than wishing for peace, but... I need it to have some sense >.o )

[Bayushi Senshi]

thats hilarious. I love the description of scorpion events Jay.