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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Moonmover" data-source="post: 9062252" data-attributes="member: 7042230">Running FGU's Bushido.It is the month of Shimosuki in the 4th year of the Meiō Era. The Christians of the remote West would call this time December of 1500 AD.The party consists of:•Kurosawa, an itinerant vigilante•Hashitsu Ryu, a samurai of the Uesugi Clan•Matsura Rin, a friend and servant of Ryu with connections to Japan's criminal underworld•Suiren, an agent of a secretive cultic order known as the Order.•Hamato Yoshi, a samurai-born Shinto priestThe party had just completed several objectives around the coast of Echigo Province. Now, they had to return to the provincial capital of Ichikodai to report their successes.The journey took about four days, but was uneventful. I rolled for random encounters and none came up.When they arrived in Ichikodai, Suiren broke from the group and went to report to her master, who rewarded her and then gave her a new mission. The details of this new mission are secret and will not be shared here.The rest of the party went to the palace of the shugo, Ichikodai no Uesugi Hanako, Ryu's father-in-law who had sent Ryu and Ren on their mission. They received congratulations on a job well done and an appropriate increase in reputation with the clan. It was also confirmed that in the upcoming battle against the perfiduous Hōjō Clan*, Ryu would command a small detachment of samurai (since said group's usual commander was severely ill). The clan would assemble for battle when the winter snow thawed.Since Kurosawa had helped, Shugo Hanako offered her rewards as well.  She requested a new weapon, so the shugo ordered one of his blacksmiths forge her a fine nōdachi. The blacksmith** was a short man with a long beard and a Scottich accent, who introduced himself as "a fellow Japanese human like you." Kurosawa chose to overlook this.The entire party reunited and, at Yoshi's suggestion, went to visit the local shrine of Hachiman. There they learned that the head priest of the shrine** had gone missing. He had heard of a plague gripping the nearby village of Jarande and went to go help. He never returned, and travellers from Jarande have said that no such plague ever occurred. They also learned that yakuza*** had been harassing buisiness-owners in Ichikodai's 16th Ward.---Not the most eventful session. Hardly any dice even got rolled. But, the players now have lots of different directions in which they can head, and that is the essence of sandbox play.*In reality, this war would be more than a decade off. But, 1500 is such a nice, round number you know?**I need to get better about actually naming new NPC's when I pull them out of thin air..***In reality, the yakuza would not come into existence for more than a century relative to this campaign's time period.  But, it's a character class in the game and someone wanted to play one, so they're here anyway.</blockquote>

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