6/5/2012: News from the South

[Jay Luo]

The notorious duelist Shosuro Ichi has defeated the Crab Champion in a duel, and true to their word, the Crab have yielded to the Scorpion at Kyuden Hida. The Scorpion Champion has ordered the combined Scorpion and Crab armies on a forced march to reinforce the beleaguered Fortress of the Forgotten.

In other news, the Crane have pushed the Crab back to Lonely Shore City, and a mysterious ronin has been seen searching the ruins of Otosan Uchi.

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Scorpion duelists

Shosuro Ichi	759
Bayushi Hiromitsu	671
Bayushi Senshi	342
Shosuro Motoyami	244
Bayushi Haruka	233
Shosuro Shunsuke	213
Shosuro Aroru	205
Bayushi Hiryu	198
Bayushi Sasori	194
Bayushi Matojo	182

Crab duelists

Hida Maiku	415
Hiruma Hogai	215
Yasuki Chad	210
Hida Tatsuma	194
Hiruma Hanzo	193
Kaiu Rukia	191
Kuni Psyko	184
Hida Joji	159
Kuni Mago	157
Kaiu Kuma	149

[Takezo]

Apparently Takezo should have set up a dojo for the Toturists!

... and practiced more himself, of course.

:/

[Isawa Okibi]

*Shakes fist at stingy Brotherhood and their favors*

[Kenji]

Thank you Jay !
After all, all this infamy preventing from building that monastery might find an expected use !

For Rokugan !

[Akodo Keisuke]

My thoughts exactly:

[Mirumoto Daisuke]

Any particular reason the new actions @ Lonely Shore City do not have Emperor affiliations as a requirement? Conceivably, I could help both sides to farm the rings. Is this intentional?

[Shoju]

but..... I would like to have a great destiny

[Jay Luo]

Jun 5, 2012 19:23:00 GMT -5 Mirumoto Daisuke said:

Any particular reason the new actions @ Lonely Shore City do not have Emperor affiliations as a requirement? Conceivably, I could help both sides to farm the rings. Is this intentional?

With the Crab yielding to the Scorpion, strictly speaking they aren't in the Toturi camp any more.

[Akodo Kenzo]

Well, there's one done. Now I guess we just have to wait another day for that other iaijutsu duel to determine the outcome of the entire war.

[Bayushi Hiromitsu]

[Shoju]

At 11:32 EST, I grabbed Screens of the top 10 boards of the game, and will slowly get them edited and put up, in case our borrowed time from facebook is cut short.

[Shosuro Aroru]

Jun 5, 2012 21:31:44 GMT -5 Akodo Kenzo said:

Well, there's one done. Now I guess we just have to wait another day for that other iaijutsu duel to determine the outcome of the entire war.

...Saying the rebels wont just prop up another figurehead if kaneka loses the duel but still wins the battle?

[Akodo Kenzo]

Jun 5, 2012 23:46:48 GMT -5 Shosuro Aroru said:

Jun 5, 2012 21:31:44 GMT -5 Akodo Kenzo said:

Well, there's one done. Now I guess we just have to wait another day for that other iaijutsu duel to determine the outcome of the entire war.

...Saying the rebels wont just prop up another figurehead if kaneka loses the duel but still wins the battle?

Ignoring the unsubtle jab, who? The original emperor bloodline is gone and the only other person from the new bloodline around is Sezaru, who doesn't seem particularly interested. If this duel goes south, I really don't see any way that the war can continue as the entire reason we're fighting will be gone. Whereas if Hachi dies, another Emerald Champion gets proclaimed and nobody really cares. Heads Naseru wins, tails Toturi loses.

[Tamori Manji]

Jun 6, 2012 0:16:12 GMT -5 Akodo Kenzo said:

Heads Naseru wins, tails Toturi loses.

Gotta thank the Crane for that (as much as I've criticized their "peace treaty" with the Lion, I would be a fool to deny its impacts on the war). Otherwise the Lion would've besieged Kyuden Otomo and Naseru would've been in direct danger again. Although they took themselves out of the battles at CotSS and Crossroads, the Crane's "agreement" with the Lion did, immediately, protect Naseru and allowed everyone on our side to focus on getting Kaneka. Once the Emperor was safe, CotSS became the turning point in the war and the Dragon, alongside the initial Crane help and the Scorpion (among many others), ensured that, no matter our personal costs, it would end up in a victory. Luckily for the Crane (and for us), the Spellcraft display at the Drowned Merchant River is open to everyone, which ensured that they would be very well represented by the Asahina family (the Spellcraft "rivalry" in the Empire ended up becoming notorious. I'm amazed by the high scores we have all achieved, especially Koichi... its a huge honor to have him as the daimyo of my family). That is to say that what began as a rag tag resistance led by the Crane managed to become a, somewhat, concerted effort between Dragon, Scorpion, Crane and Phoenix despite our differences (it's a shame there aren't many active Phoenixes here though). If we went back in time to when Toshi Ranbo fell and told our past selves it would end like this, no one would've believed.

[Akodo Kenzo]

Turning point? Seriously? You're talking as if the Hantei forces had somehow been the underdogs at any point in this arc. The Toturi forces have won precisely two battles in the entire war: Toshi Ranbo, which we won by the skin of our teeth, and Lonely Shore City, which nobody really cared about. Everything else has gone solely the way of the Hantei. CotSS wasn't a turning point, it was just the lowest point in the long, steady decline to now, when it finally and mercifully ends.

EDIT: Incidentally, does anyone have a snapshot of what the Isawa's Fire leaderboard currently looks like? My passive spellcraft is too high to see the scores.