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SPEAKER_04 0:39

Hi, welcome back to the final insert cool. Pretend rockagoni music here. So welcome back. As always, I have Mr. Marco.

SPEAKER_02 0:50

Hello. Hi, Lord Edward II, King of all the Britons. Shh, that's don't tell the others. I'm just reading the title that you put there.

SPEAKER_04 1:00

Did I did not put all the rest of that in there? I mean Yes, you did. Okay, that's true. Move over, Charles. I'm taking over. You can't do too bad a job, to be fair. That's true. How hot can it be? I mean, sure. We also joined by Tony the betrayer.

SPEAKER_05 1:16

Yes, I don't know who I betrayed, but I know who I betrayed.

SPEAKER_04 1:19

He's never gonna let it go. Tony, you're never gonna let it go.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

You know, Tony. Now I know. Now I know. Never betray a Sicilian.

SPEAKER_04 1:28

No, I can't see. Clearly, Scott and Charlotte have not got to Marker's eye yet, because they are indeed Scott. Hello. Hello.

SPEAKER_03 1:39

Yep, just mean I have no cool subroquet just yet. I need to be more nefarious. Hmm.

SPEAKER_04 1:45

I it won't take long. And of course, Charlotte. Greetings. We're all here. Let's get this thing on. If you're just joining us and you know nothing about the previous sessions, you're a fool. Go all the way back to episode one, and then you'll kind of eventually get here. Or I mean you just want to be that person who reads the last chapter of the book. Then cool, go ahead. I don't mind either way. As long as you give us lots of cash.

SPEAKER_02 2:11

Or, you know, like or subscribe something. That would be smash the like button, whatever the kids are saying these days.

SPEAKER_03 2:18

We would much rather prefer the cash. I mean we want the cash rather than the likes. I don't know why you're saying the cash, you get no money. I don't get to see any of it, anyways.

SPEAKER_02 2:27

But can't we can't we turn likes into cash? Isn't that the the beauty of this brave new world that we live in?

SPEAKER_04 2:34

If you get enough of them. This is what happens when a bunch of manuals create a podcast, people. This is why we have people like Charlotte and Tony to do other stuff, which is cool. Hmm. But yeah. So what were we talking about? Oh yes. The last episode. Let's get straight into it. Where we last left off, everyone's about to make a decision about what they want to do. And the kind, caring Kitsuni Akira had willingly decided to take the pact on for himself to allow the Zurai family to like not be part of it, which I thought was very magnanimous and very sort of honourable of him.

SPEAKER_02 3:18

Yeah, I should get some I should get some like glory honor points or something.

SPEAKER_04 3:22

Definitely. Well, there won't be any glory because that means you have to be acknowledged by all the others, and we want to kind of keep this on the down low, so no glory, but definitely potentially it could lead to status and honour. Definitely. I mean, unless anybody else decides to like out you all.

SPEAKER_02 3:40

So I guess the question is they were plotting against me when I stepped away from my desk, so there's definitely something afoot.

SPEAKER_03 3:47

There was there was no plotting, there was merely consideration of alternative storylines.

SPEAKER_04 3:52

So having having having decided decided, well, offered that option, we have three potential choices. One is to renew the pact, two is to break the pact, and three is to create a brand new pact. What do you want to do?

SPEAKER_01 4:13

Let's try and take the easy road first, just to see what would happen. I want to create a light in here, a firelight that will show us behind the shadow or dispel the shadows. Okay. I don't want to set the contract on fire.

SPEAKER_04 4:32

Look at it. That's fine. You just wanna you want to essentially illuminate the entire circular chamber that you're in.

SPEAKER_01 4:39

Yeah, like are there torches in here? Do we have anything that's not?

SPEAKER_04 4:43

Yeah, so there'll be a l there'll be lanterns because you wouldn't have been able to see to get here. So definitely you would one of you would have been given a lantern, I probably would imagine it would be Niroshi or Nori, one of those two probably.

SPEAKER_01 4:55

Those lanterns would create the shadows. They would. Do we have any materials that we could set at like the center of the back wall that could be illuminated? Ignited underneath me. You could potentially summon a whole heap of light. It needs something to burn though, or else it's just like a flash and then out. So you want something to actually burn from longer.

SPEAKER_04 5:19

Yeah. Well, the room is made of stone, so there's nothing here to burn. And the pillar is stone too, yeah. All the doors are made of I say they're doors, they look like doorways made of stone.

SPEAKER_01 5:31

What about the haft of Hiroshi's uh Naganata?

SPEAKER_04 5:36

I mean that would burn. But so would you whilst you were trying to get it off of them. You could definitely make a light. I mean I mean what is your what are your spells that you've got there that I mean that would be summoned. Yeah, I mean definitely summon what is envious flames too. Okay, I see, yeah, so that's that creates a fire karmy, uh, which you unleash on someone, so probably not that. The fires of purity. That's the old fireball. No, that's the flames that protect someone. I mean, technically you could do that, and then you would be the burning or whoever you did it on, would then illuminate the entire chamber. Or yes, you could summon up the fire from the castle and create a massive ball of fire ahead of you. And I'll pay the target in a shroud of bright flames.

SPEAKER_01 6:27

Yep, you could do that. On yourself? Yeah. And then I'll then I'll just walk towards the end of the hall.

SPEAKER_04 6:35

Okay. So it'll last for a minute if you wanted to obviously make it last longer. You could also go for a raise. I think one minute would be sufficient. So it says here the damage is you get an extra 1k zero per two raises. If you were to go for two raises, obviously it would make it brighter. If you went for every every raise means you would make the actual protecting fire brighter, which means it would make it more kind of like 50-50 for a roll of successes right now.

SPEAKER_01 7:02

I don't know if I want to gamble with the raise. Okay. Which case the basic title number is ten. Well, that's it. That's it. So I got three and fire, so that'd be three dice, plus my spellcraft is three, right? So it's your ring and your mastery, so. Okay, so ring.

SPEAKER_04 7:17

Your ring would be fire, whatever whatever that is, plus your mastery or whatever your insight rank is one, so. Oh yeah, so four dice. And is your fire your proficiency? Yes.

SPEAKER_01 7:32

My elemental blessing. That's your yep. Oh, and it's an elemental blessing as well, is it? Ooh. Oh, elemental blessing just gives me a reduced cost on.

SPEAKER_04 7:42

So when I'm saying a ring, chosen when advantage of decreased by one, for example, you choose earth. Okay, that yeah, so it basically means that when you are later on and you had higher spells, they just have a mastery level of one less, as if it was. So if you ever had a mastery level of two, target numbers are easier to hit, that kind of thing.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

Do I want to go for one raise? Go for a raise. I'd go for a raise, make it brighter. Fifteen DN at that point? Fifteen, yeah. Alright, let's do it. So how this would look would be if we're talking or whatever, I would start to walk towards the end of the wall, they would hear my words of invocation, and then hopefully just like a Phoenix. Okay, so use spell fire slot, yes. Wound penalty, sure. I don't have any wounds, no modifiers, spellcasting roll, three dice, twenty four.

SPEAKER_04 8:34

Well, there we go. Pretty easy. Yeah, you walk towards them, you uh mass a invocations and various other religious words entreating the kami, and you suddenly are engulfed in flame. A lot brighter than you would normally go with, and yes, the flames disappear, all the kind of like shadows disappear, apart from the shadow that's on the back wall, which starts to move back and up, and so it kind of hangs halfway up the the wall, just trembling. The the the flames illuminate it, and you can see that it sort of bubbles and seethes and hisses.

SPEAKER_01 9:19

Can I is it within like my arm's reach? No, it's higher than that. Is it within a Naganata arm's reach? It is, indeed. Hiroshi, and I'll just put my hand arm up. And I will strike at it. No, no, no, no. Throw throw me your Naganata. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 9:40

He will pass her the Naganata.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

And then I'll try and take a swipe with it. Because then at that point I have the bonus from my flames of purity for attacks. Correct. So technically it's a fire attack at that point, one could say. So are you going to try and attack it then? We're going to try and take a swipe at it, yes.

SPEAKER_04 9:58

Cool then. Why don't you try and take a swipe at it? Do you have spears at all as a skill? Yay! So you can use this as an untrained skill. So I do believe this is my first like physical attack in the game. Hiroshi, I think it is agility, so. It is it is agility. Hold on. Make an agility roll, and then when it says unskilled, click that.

SPEAKER_01 10:24

Okay, so clicking on agility, I'm going unskilled, and I'm going to roll. That's not terrible. A 19. I mean, you hit it.

SPEAKER_04 10:33

I got three agilities, so. Yeah, you you whack it. What's the damage of Naganata? Damage is three, keep two. So add your strength to the three plus one for the from the fire. So my my strength is two. So that gets added to the three keep two, so that's five keep two. And then you add the fire from your defence that you've cast on yourself, so it adds an extra one. To the keep, I think, isn't it? To the roll. Not to the keep. Keep is. I think it's plus one K0. I think you should be rolling six keep two for this one. I think that is the plan? No. They take two K2. Okay, so that changes. So that becomes five, that's seven, keep four. Alright. And you got and you got an extra success with the uh the rays. So that's another plus one. So it's eight keep four is what you're rolling.

SPEAKER_01 11:29

Okay, so let's go eight dice. This escalated quickly. Alright, so it should be thirty-seven.

SPEAKER_04 11:39

So you thirty-seven and roll two more D10 at 13. Uh so six, thirty-seven, four-seven, fifty. 40-50 damage. There is no noise, nothing screams, nothing shouts, but the darkness jumps off of the wall and hits the daimyo square over, and it disappears into its nose, into its mouth, and the daimyo is like scratching around, trying to grab onto this nothingness. Well shit. What do the rest of you want to do? Well, you I guess we'll look at I guess the Kiri generally has a higher initiative. So what does Akira want to do?

SPEAKER_02 12:16

So this shadowy entity has essentially gone up the Daimyo's nose.

SPEAKER_04 12:21

It's basically the Daimyo is being having having the entity absorbed into him.

SPEAKER_02 12:26

He will he will tell the entity that he will make a new pact if he lets this family go.

SPEAKER_04 12:33

Okay, what does Hirinobo want to do?

SPEAKER_05 12:35

Uh I don't know. I'm just shocked by what happened. And I'm like just holding my hand next to my katana and getting ready for whatever comes next. If this entity comes out, I will be ready to strike.

SPEAKER_04 12:48

Okay. Scott. What does Hiroshi want to do? Can Hiroshi grab the Naganata off of Ayame? Nah, because it's currently wreathed in fire. And if you want to, you'll take 2k two damage. I mean, only if you want to drop it. Or you can throw it back to him.

SPEAKER_01 13:05

Yeah, I'll pass it back though. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 13:07

In order in order to in order to access accelerate the grabbing and having it ready for the next round of combat, Hiroshi will grab it from Ayame whilst it's still burning. So not not taking like a coordinated grab, but it's still gonna be burning and hot and out.

unknown 13:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 13:27

Ayame roll be two dice.

SPEAKER_04 13:29

Don't roll high. Just two dice? That's that's that's that's not the kind of high that I wanted.

SPEAKER_01 13:37

Roll a ten.

SPEAKER_04 13:38

He's not attacking me though. No, I know, but that's the damage he takes. I'm basically grabbing the hot burning 23 damage, I think that was. That's 23 damage. Puts me onto injured. But you can reduce it by your armor. That's actually a good point.

SPEAKER_03 13:52

My armor is man reduction is only three, so that does take me down to hurt, which is nice. God damn it! This is what I get for looking cool. But can I strike with the burning Dagonata?

SPEAKER_04 14:06

Yeah, because as soon as you take it, it's no longer burning.

SPEAKER_01 14:09

Okay. That's why I wanted to throw it at you.

SPEAKER_04 14:12

Do you know what? I like that. Drum dramatically appropriate and cool, even if completely ineffective. We love that. Yeah, I mean, you know nothing about the spells and how they work and stuff, right?

SPEAKER_03 14:23

So he will he will grab it while still burning and strike. Prepare and ready, then be thoroughly unimpressed when it doesn't actually carry on burning.

SPEAKER_01 14:31

If you die from this, it's on you. I'm just saying. What was that you were saying last session about uh tailpike?

SPEAKER_03 14:38

Yeah, well yeah, okay. No, that that would just seem wrong, right? So Hiroshi is now on her. Can't believe you did that. Yeah, I thought it'd be cool. It ended up not being cool because yay mechanics.

unknown 14:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:52

And also, you rolled 23 points of damage! I just rolled 50 before that.

SPEAKER_03 14:59

You could have rolled two points of damage, but no, you had to roll 23. Too easy, right?

SPEAKER_01 15:04

So it's your fault. Like, is my 50 the highest damage that we've done in a single strike so far? So far, yes. In my only try to physical. Hooray! I've rolled some initiative for everyone.

SPEAKER_04 15:16

Five days, right. Hero, you're first.

SPEAKER_02 15:19

As it should be.

SPEAKER_04 15:20

So, what is the what is his response to my nothing. He he's he's now getting up, and his hand is going onto his katana.

SPEAKER_02 15:29

Well then, I will strike him with my katana before he strikes. Okay. Why don't you do that thing?

SPEAKER_04 15:36

You need a 34 to him. Well, I got a 23, so fuck. Okay, yeah, you go to sort of like strike out him, you pull your katana out to attack, and he pulls his katana out at the same time and deflects your blade and goes into a stance. It is a Tony, it is a type of Miramoto stance. It's a it's a it's a type of Miromoto stance that you have not really seen before. Well no, actually, you probably would have done. So when you were doing the um training with the uh the clan samurai from the Zero family, this is their own techniques that they're using. And he is a defender, so he's he's he's a he's a Yojimbo, so he's used to defensive manoeuvres. It's his turn. And he strikes out at you, Akira. May the best man win. So I got a twenty-one. What's your target number to be hit, Marco? Vertien is twenty-three total. Yeah, so um he misses you. You kind of like see it coming and either block it or take a step to the side.

SPEAKER_02 16:37

I will block it, then I will tell him again, I am prepared to make a new pact if you leave this good family alone. Okay. He does not say anything. Go.

SPEAKER_04 16:46

What is Hiroshi gonna do?

SPEAKER_03 16:48

Hiroshi is going to shift into a standard stance and he is going to strike. So he gets an extra plus three. That's not great. Okay. Not his best, I don't 32, which I think you just said we need 34 to hit. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 17:07

Yep. Miss. Yep. You kind of go to to attack him, and he kind of like tight takes a step and he deflects your Naganata, so he's now fighting two of them. Which he seems to be doing weirdly with quite a bit of ease. Also, I tell a lie, that was 22 because I forgot to take my penalty for being hurt. Okay. But that then leaves Erinobu.

SPEAKER_05 17:34

You know, this uh center starts. The center.

SPEAKER_04 17:37

You take you take a moment to sort of like wait and centre yourself. Okay. Nori kind of like pulls her blade and then looks at I, thinking, are you gonna defend your dad or not? And she kind of like is not quite pointing the blade in her direction, but sort of looking at her, ready to defend you lot, if should I decide to attack? What's the Yame doing? Charlotte's disappeared. Okay, well, we'll get back to her. Back up to Akira. Ayame doesn't seem to do any sorry, uh Aye doesn't ref seem to do anything. She is sort of like hesitant to decide what's gonna happen. She does say, Father! Akira! You're up next, sir.

SPEAKER_02 18:23

Can I move into a full attack stance and then also attack? To a full yeah, you you can go into a full advantage starting. Does going into the stance count as my action or no no no, you pick your pick your stats that you want to go into. Okay, and then you uh So it says here it gives me a plus two keep one to attack rolls. Correct. But my armor is reduced by ten.

SPEAKER_04 18:47

Yes, so your target number to be hit is reduced by ten, so you they need a twenty-three to hit you. So before it was twenty-three, you need a thirteen to hit you. Essentially you're going all in and not worrying about your defense. Exactly. Oh, that's an extra dice roll. I only got balls. Only a 26. Yeah, he clearly has got the measure of you, and he he sees that you come steaming in and he just blocks your attacks as you do that. Okay. It's his turn. He's going to attack Hiroshi. Wow, I'm not even good enough.

SPEAKER_02 19:21

To be attacked.

SPEAKER_04 19:22

He looks at you and goes, Yeah, you're not really a a threat. So he You're not you're not the threat. The guy who's just set himself on fire. That's the threat. Well, you've got the reach, my friend. What's your t what's your target to be hit, Hiroshi? Twenty five. Looks like I've got a 38. I don't like that huge amount of explosions that just happened there. Yeah, I hit you. Oh. What's your armor reduction again? My reduction is three. Take 16, so 13 damage. And Hiroshi is out.

SPEAKER_03 19:53

Oh as in unconscious or out as in dead? Well, that depends on a few little bits and pieces now, because I don't think we've actually had this in the game yet.

SPEAKER_04 20:03

Not, so let's have a look at at Hiroshi. So you are well no, I so what how many damage how much damage you've taken? I've taken 38.

SPEAKER_03 20:12

My total to put me out is 38.

SPEAKER_04 20:15

Yeah, so yeah, you're not dead. He basically he runs you through with the sword. It goes straight through your armor, straight through your stomach, and you kind of like stagger back, holding your hand to your stomach, and then sort of like cough up some blood and then drop to the floor out. The last thing he does before he drops is smile serenely. Mmm. Okay. Alright, well, oops.

SPEAKER_05 20:39

Hirinobu. Well, I will strike, I think, because of the weight of the crane. I have a plus one, plus one K1 plus my school rank to hitting. So I guess it's Jajutsu. How do I so modifier roll is one, keep modifier is one, and then how do I add the three from my school rank?

SPEAKER_04 21:03

So where it says total where it says total modifier, put three so role modifier. Modifier. Yeah, and then your total modifier, it means that whatever is gonna add plus three to your total role.

SPEAKER_05 21:16

Okay, so I put L3. Okay, so uh basically I strike quickly, and I think I will not do 35! You hit him! Nice, okay. So damage, I guess, now please. I will draw damage. So do I have any modifier?

SPEAKER_04 21:35

Uh no, because you haven't got you didn't go for obviously you didn't go for any uh raises. So it's just your standard standard damage that you get. Ooh.

SPEAKER_05 21:44

27.

SPEAKER_04 21:46

Okay. Yeah, you kind of you slice out of him. What do you do to him? I mean, it's a fairly significant wound.

SPEAKER_05 21:54

I guess I just take my stance and you know, and then I rush. Towards him, and then I just strike. And as I cut, I just pass him through. So I cut on the side, on the belly area, I guess. So basically, my sword just hits the armor, hits the skin, and I keep on going through. Yeah. Like I slice my my weapon and I end up with my my katana up the blood from your katana across the well-lit circular chamber as it slices across the wall.

SPEAKER_04 22:26

Zero to Tomo kind of stops for a second, and you can see like a waterfall of blood come out from the side of his underneath his armor as it starts to stream down his right leg. Aye kind of like takes a step forward and Nori positions herself between her and the rest of you, and she raises her katana up to Aye and says, Please, my lady, do not get involved. So back to Ayame. Do we have a Charlotte again?

SPEAKER_05 22:59

She sent a message on Discord that she needs to take a moment away.

SPEAKER_04 23:04

Okay, no problem. So Ayame clearly hails Hiroshi. Well, Ayame starts to chant and appears like magic.

SPEAKER_02 23:14

We chanted her name three times and and spun around in front of a mirror and she appeared.

SPEAKER_04 23:19

That always happens with Charlotte. You can imagine what it was like when I was playing cult with her. You can imagine what it was like watching Marco spin around in front of the mirror. Right. So the thing jumped into Azura Totomo, and everyone else is basically piled in on him. No one apart from Hiroshi, well, apart from Hironobo has actually hit him, and Hiroshi has gone down with a deadly wound. Of course he has. He got run through. Which then leaves Well, he's just been hit by um Hironobu. You started to chant something. What would you like to do? Cast Fireball.

SPEAKER_01 23:55

I mean, yeah. So Hiroshi's on the ground? Hiroshi's on the ground. Alright, I can't do anything for him. Alright, I am going to cast Earth's Stagnation on him to slow him down. Nope, I'm not, I don't have any Earth points left. Oh no. Okay, so Envious Flames. Is that just 2K2?

SPEAKER_04 24:16

Plus whatever damage you're gonna be doing. So if they attack you, you attack them. Yeah, that's what you'll get the bonus for. And you're still within the first minute of doing it, so you don't have to roll for it. That'd be fires of purity.

SPEAKER_01 24:30

This is Envious Flames. Envious Flames. Which one's Envious Flames? Invokes a single fire kami which lances toward the target, hitting unerringly so long as the target is within range. The spell deals 2k2 wounds. The burns the spell inflicts are quite painful, and if the spell targets a Shugenja who is casting a spell, their willpower roll has a TN of 20 plus damage dealt.

SPEAKER_04 24:53

Okay, that's nice. Yeah, so I think the So there are no other so it's a it's a very basic kind of spell. You'll do 2k2, so that's it. Spell casting roll, let's go. 32. I think it's say it unnervingly hits. I think you might. Yeah, so the the spell goes off, which you mean to automatically hit it. So now you just do the damage.

SPEAKER_01 25:13

So da da da 13.

SPEAKER_04 25:16

13? Okay. The kami lances out of your hand across the room and hits the daimyo square in the chest, erupting flame and an explosion of fire erupts over his armor and his his Huckama and his G, and you can see his hair start to catch light and fizzle and burn to sort of his scalp, his face pogmarked from all the sort of like scorching. And he sort of like opens his mouth and the silent scream, but all you can see is this dark void kind of coming out of its mouth, and starts to appear in front of Sutomu. The daimyo falls down from its wounds, and this dark cloud of nothingness is now floating in between all of you, and it makes its way straight to Hiroshi.

SPEAKER_02 26:05

Kira, make your deal. Ben making my deal, it's ignoring me. I grab the scroll and I start reading it out loud. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 26:15

You start to read the scroll. As you start to read the scroll, you start reading the incantation that's on it. It comes really easily to your mind, it's easy to say, it's almost like it's written just for you. The thing stops just as it hits Hiroshi and it turns. You continue to read it, and as you kind of get to a certain point in the scroll, you can either now renew what was already said and take on the previous pact, or you can create your own bargain. I created my own bargain. Can you please make a void roll? In fact, do you have like meditation or anything like that that uses void? I do, I have meditation. Make a meditation roll for me, please. Just a simple sort of ten is fine. 18. Okay, cool. Yeah, you sort of like start to sort of meditate and you start kind of like chanting the words that are on the scroll. Over and over, and the dark creature starts to move towards you and it kind of starts to envelop around you. Um, what are the rest of you gonna do?

SPEAKER_01 27:20

I am going to go put out what is his name? Hiroshi. Yes. No, Hiroshi's not Hiroshi's not burning. I mean, sorry, the uh Kenji, Zurai.

SPEAKER_04 27:32

Zurai Kenji. Zurai. I'll call him Kenji. He's uh Zurai Tutomo. I think that was his original name. Yep, okay. You're gonna put him out. He is horribly charred and burnt. And he is in a bad way. He is definitely he's bleeding. He probably needs heating quite quickly. Aya has basically run to her father's side and is kind of sort of like really panicking as to what to do. Hirinobu, what do you want to do?

SPEAKER_05 27:58

I will holster, well not holster, put away my my katana. You know, like I clean it and I put it back. And I will get Akira is still talking. Akira is currently chanting.

SPEAKER_04 28:10

And where is the darkness? It's all around him. He's kind of like starting to form like a barrier around him.

SPEAKER_05 28:18

So I'm getting I go into a center stance just seeing what's gonna happen with Akira.

SPEAKER_04 28:24

Okay. Hiroshi. You're giving up to the sweet surrender. The fields are rushing to meet you. You can see the steps ahead of you, the wind in your hair. It's almost like where you should be.

SPEAKER_02 28:37

I think he's trying to tell you that you are embracing death.

SPEAKER_03 28:40

They are basically. There's not a lot. Once you've been run through with a katana, having been set on fire, you you you tend not to do too well after that. Don't what you mean? It's some flesh wind. You you need some pretty cool healing stuff to happen fairly quickly. But we are.

SPEAKER_04 29:28

So, what it wants from you? It wants you to give up your most cherished memory. What is that memory?

SPEAKER_02 29:36

And are you willing to give it up? What if he doesn't have a cherished memory? What if he just has like a mediocre memory? Well, the packet might not be a thing then, right? Right, right, okay. Yes, his most cherished memory, he will definitely give it up. What is it? Well, I'm on the spot now. Let's see. Absolutely. Cherished memory. Cherished, cherished memory. Cherished memory. His father probably telling him old sort of legends stories about when the Fox clan you know, the of the Fox clan prior to when it joined the Mantis clan. And in its heyday. Sorry, if that was boring. No, no, that's fine. Okay. So you don't have the Fox Clan book in front of me. No, no, it's fine. As Scott is reading his Unicorn clan book.

SPEAKER_04 30:27

On top of that, it means you will have to give up the memory of your father. Okay. Okay. Fine. The um the darkness accepts and it starts to dissipate. It dissipates, you said? Dissipates. Leaving you holding the scroll, so none of you heard the bargain. You just know that, you know, he kept chanting the same thing. Is that shadow mark still on the wall? No, it's gone. There's no shadow anywhere.

SPEAKER_02 30:55

Okay, I'll put my hands up and say, my friends, it is over. Never again shall this darkness harm this noble family. This clan.

SPEAKER_05 31:04

What did you do, Akita-san?

SPEAKER_02 31:07

I made it see reason. It's in you? Don't worry about the details. It is not in me, no. It dissipated, it is gone. It has returned to wherever it came from. Look, look at the wall, it is no longer there. You lie. What did you do? How dare you question my honor?

SPEAKER_01 31:26

As I said from day one, what honor.

SPEAKER_02 31:28

What did you do? I take my leave of you now. I've saved this family.

SPEAKER_04 31:34

Okay, well while you're saying that, Nori is going to very much tries to uh save Hiroshi's life. Could we Coterize the wound? No. Um afraid not. Nori does not have the skills, unfortunately, to save Hiroshi. And Hiroshi goes to his resting places on the plains, where every other unicorn samurai goes, and Hiroshi expires. Look at that. A death.

SPEAKER_03 32:01

And all because he thought he could do something utterly cool and completely forgotten the show.

SPEAKER_01 32:07

He should have let me throw it.

SPEAKER_02 32:09

But then it wouldn't have been on fire. He was an infuriating but noble samurai. He shall be missed.

SPEAKER_01 32:16

I could have reignited it after you had it in hand. Well, you never told me that, did you? You didn't give me a chance to say it.

SPEAKER_04 32:26

Okay, so the the daughter of the Daimyo says, What will you tell your your lord?

SPEAKER_02 32:34

I will tell him that we have defeated this evil and that the dragon lands will no more be plagued by this darkness.

SPEAKER_01 32:42

And that we suspect Kitsuni Akira to be a harbinger of the shadow. Hey! It's a part of my character. She says, What will you say of my father? That he died an honourable death.

SPEAKER_04 32:52

You are Daimyo now. She shakes her head and says, I will I will do my best to offer duty and honour to my clan and my family, and I will do what I must. Thank you for not saying more of this. I will do you all proud, and I thank you. And she sort of like she bows and says, You are always welcome within the Zoroands. I will provide you with horses so you may make your trip back to Shirokitsuki and offer whatever explanation you wish to them. You'll I will forever be in your debt. And she sort of like bows low. And with that, she says, Please help me take your fallen comrade and my father up from this terrible place. Yes, of course, of course, of course. As you um as you look around, those names that were on those doors that you couldn't quite focus on are very clear. All the names have come back, and the curse of the Zero family is lifted. Which case, you very quickly make your way back out. She says that something bad has happened to the daimyo. She makes a story up to saying that he was trying to help defend from more of those dark creatures that arrived, and that unfortunately he fell in battle to grave wounds. And then she orders horses for you all and says, with all haste, please. And she offers you a group of five samurai to take you wherever you wish to go, presumably back to Shirokitsuki to hand in your report. I'm gonna take Hiroshi's horse. Okay. Okay. Fine. You take Hiroshi's horse. Hiroshi's horse should burn you.

SPEAKER_03 34:32

She burns him to death and then she steals his horse.

SPEAKER_01 34:35

I'm not stealing, I am letting it serve in honor in memory of its master, former master. Okay. What Klan Unicorn are gonna have to say about that?

SPEAKER_04 34:47

Guess we'll find that out. I'll give it back when we find them. I think this belongs to you. I just found this wandering around. That's fine. So you kind of make your way back to Shiro Kitsuki. When you arrive, what do you wish to say to the Kitsuki Daimyo as to what happened? But he asked you to.

SPEAKER_02 35:03

That the lands were attacked by Shadowland creatures, and we we defeated them with the help of the Daimyo of the Zurai family. Yeah, and he fell in battle. I don't know what Ayami-san wants to say. Maybe she has something she wants to say. Yeah, what what I guess what's the Yami, sorry. And also, of course, that we lost Hiroshi-san as well.

SPEAKER_04 35:26

The body will probably come a couple of days later to Kitsuki Lands and will be presented back to Hiroshi's master.

SPEAKER_01 35:33

I would go along with most of the story, but I would say that I suspect that Kitsuni Akira made a pact with the darkness.

SPEAKER_04 35:40

So you're doing that outside of obviously an official thing, so as a separate thing? While we're relaying our information. Well you're right. You're actually I think he's basically okay. Well, that's interesting.

SPEAKER_02 35:51

Isn't that what about is it doesn't that like break etiquette or something to like accuse another samurai?

SPEAKER_04 35:56

So I guess that needs we need to compare some things.

SPEAKER_01 35:59

So first thing we need to do. I think so, but but my disadvantage is can't lie. Nice.

SPEAKER_04 36:08

Alright, what is a Yame's honour rank? Four. She's what I I'm just bringing up. So 4.5 versus Akira's three. She's 3.5. Okay. So in the grand scheme of things, she has more honour than you. You both have the same glory. Of course. And you both have the same status. So it's a matter of he said, she said kind of thing. And unless you wish to take absolute disdain for what she said and offer some kind of retribution on your name and your family, it will be a grudge that you will have towards each other, and it'll be logged in the Kitsiti book that that's basically what's happened. He has no family. He can't remember his dad. He's got a family, he only remembers the rest of his family, just not his father. So are you are you gonna take any particular discourse against that or just go, no, don't be silly.

SPEAKER_01 37:02

Our final confrontation is as Kitsuni Akira has stated. I do have suspicions around the ending of the battle, in which it is my belief, as the Shugenja of the Phoenix clan, that Kitsuni Akira is now in league with the Shadow.

SPEAKER_04 37:21

Clan that you were at war with, I might add. It's all very embarrassing for everyone else in Port. Kikiji Rinobu is like, I want to be somewhere else.

SPEAKER_05 37:28

I mean, of course I will try to respect the honor of Shudai, and you know, I will that would be probably, you know, I'm an honorable person, and they did sacrifice, you know, at the end, and she did the right thing. So I will probably try to protect them so they don't incor entry into any dishonorable thing. I know how hard it is, you know, when your ancestors do something that is not perfect.

SPEAKER_04 37:53

So when Kitsuki Mizuochi asks, what do you think about this thing that Ayame is saying against Akira? What will you say?

SPEAKER_05 38:03

Choose wisely now. You're in the middle. Well, I will say that I also have my suspicions, so I have to be in that sense. That I have my suspicions too. Because I saw him surrounded by this darkness and the darkness disappeared. Yeah, because I defeated it.

SPEAKER_04 38:18

I guess then Kitsuki Mizurochi will ask Akira how you defeated it.

unknown 38:24

Fuck.

SPEAKER_04 38:28

Um, and I think we'll leave it with Akira going, do I need to find something to get out of this? That seems like a good place to end the story. Thank you for playing Five Rings. It scratched an itch that I wanted to do for a while. Tony was very much like, hey, let's play this game. And I was like, absolutely, I love Five Rings, it's a really cool little little world. I really wish I could spend a massive campaign in the Five Rings, which I did years ago, and it was great fun. So maybe we'll have a second season where we'll see what happens with that.