Mempos

[Moto Yoee]

So you're not a Kolat. You're a Qolat.

[Daigotsu Thrakhath]

What are you doing killing us while your Emperor is still ruling by divine mandate? Don't you have work to do at home?

Hell, we'd help you depose the guy if you weren't so busy slaughtering all of our cannon fodder.

[Daigotsu Yukara]

There is evil in all man, from the highest samurai to the lowliest peasant. It is embracing that evil that gives us our strength.

May the cities of this so called empire burn..

[Kitsuki Yuushahime]

Bah, silly tainties and their flawed logic. Evil in all men is one thing. If you destroy everything then you're just achieved nothing. If you make everything evil or expose it as such... then you lose as evil cannot exist without good. If the whole world was destroyed then everyone loses. If the whole world was evil then it'd soon be destroyed.

[Daigotsu Thrakhath]

Not all of us are interested in destruction simply for its own sake.

The ones that are certainly have their uses.

[the monk Basufu]

Not Qolat, Moto-san, not really. What, you've never heard of Meishodo? It's only your clan and their descents that can really use it. Mostly the Iuchi.

[Shoju]

Young Kitsuki.

You have much to learn. I wont lose by exposing this empire for what it is. By exposing the "evil" as you put it in all men, we will unify this empire once and for all, under the banner of the strongest Kami. And Rokugan WILL. BE. FEARED.[/I] By all nations. The Gaijin war will end. The Ivory Kingdom will cease to quarrel with the Mantis. And once those pests are gone, There will be peace.

[Kitsuki Yuushahime]

Ronin,

The other kingdoms already fear us and our potential. This recent war is a sign of that fear. In actuality the enemies of the Empire do not realise how outclassed they are. As for peace... the kami warred, beasts battle one another and man is no different. Any idealistic notion of never ending peace, especially through power, is flawed. I respect your good intentions but not the sinister actions that support them nor the flawed destination you seek to take us.

A simple lesson; two wrongs do not make a right. And there is nothing more wrong than the taint. It causes you and your kin to be the opposite of everything Rokugan stands for (though I will agree in reality it does not always live up to these standards!). What you wish to uphold and strengthen you will only destroy

[Shoju]

The taint is a gift from the strongest Kami. It is a gift that has been wasted on those who are unable to understand it for what it is. There are those who have been deemed worthy of it, but in the end were just not strong enough to endure the gift.

You are wrong about other kingdoms fearing us. if the Yobanjin tribes feared Rokugan, they would have left a sleeping giant sleep, OR they would have paid tribute. Instead, they wage war on us. What is the goal of their war? Surely it wasn't in response to us not offering them Tea with the Son of Heaven? Of course not. They wage war with us because they see a weakness, and an opporunity to take from us.

Now, they will be crushed. It is time to set an example. Exterminate the Yobanjin without discretion, and the next group of would be attackers will steer clear.

There will be no true peace except peace that is held in check with power. The power to inflict unacceptable consequences to hostile actions is the only thing that keeps peace. Anything other than that is an illusion.

My actions only look sinister to one who has not yet learned the most dire lessons of life. Sometimes, to achieve something for the greater good, there are less honorable tasks that need to be done.

[Kitsuki Yuushahime]

Ha, you are truly beyond redemption and words. You claim to see the flaws of the empire but clearly do not know how to apply a mirror to your own. The yobanjin will be exterminated but I have no doubt others do fear us and that could be how they were provoked. I also have no doubt that your goal of peace is doomed to fail from the start due to the way you pursue it.

Pray do tell... why does this supposed gift keep getting wasted? Are you all undeserving of it or, consider, is the reality more likely that the taint weakens those it infects? If one of the kami was truly the strongest then they would have conquered the others in the end. Do you see that happening anytime soon? The yobanjin are more of a threat than all the shadowlands and as you say, they will be crushed...

[Shoju]

My flaw is simple, and yet complete. I was born a Scorpion with the Curse of the Yogo upon me. In my efforts to serve my empire that I love, and my champion whom I would fall on my sword for, I risked all and betrayed both to know every secret I could.

I opened a black scroll. My seppuku was meant to erase my failure. interestingly, someone had other plans for me, and I now walk this world in a state that you can't even comprehend. My flaw is my existence.

But through my existence, I will bring about a change to the empire.

Only the strongest can embrace the gift of the master and keep their sanity. Even the founding Kami of your clan saw the folly of giving his gift to one who isn't ready for it. Kokujin went mad from the gift of your kami. Fu Leng is far less discriminate than your Kami was, and those who aren't able to shoulder the burden of the gift are weeded out, and for that, I have the rest of Rokugan to thank. Fu Leng's gift is there for anyone to take, and those who can shoulder the burden are indeed emboldened for it. Those who can't, are doomed to a short existence on this mortal coil.

I do see Fu Leng claiming victory over this world. They had to trap his power in scrolls the first time, and only through the blind luck of a traitorous wife was he defeated before.

Mistakes were made in the past. History is a fantastic teacher, and I'm am but a humble student of it.

Not all Corruption needs to be the taint. Soon, you will see.

[Moto Yoee]

Feb 2, 2011 14:48:15 GMT -5 the monk Basufu said:

Not Qolat, Moto-san, not really. What, you've never heard of Meishodo? It's only your clan and their descents that can really use it. Mostly the Iuchi.

It's not because I don't yell everything I know that I have never heard about something. I guess your simple mind cannot really apprehend this, which explains a lot about your attitude.

It might even need an adjustment, eh?

[the monk Basufu]

Yah, because holding your cards to your chest is real, real important right now.