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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Serpenteye" data-source="post: 479239" data-attributes="member: 1492">A message to the Fox Champion"Kitsune Ryosei. You have violated the sanctity of Otusan Uchi. You have broken the treaties between our two clans. You have murdered citicens of the Empire and attempted to blame your crimes on an innocent nation, to incite the Empire into an unjust war. You have discarded honour and reason and justice dictates that your sullied clan be wiped off the face of the world.  Nevertheless, I am not a man who takes pleasure in killing, however justified it might be, and I do not seek to annihilate the Fox, merely to exact a price for your crimes against us to save face for my clan and to save whatever honour remains for your own. I therefore challenge you to a duel, to let your death be the price of peace, though it would honour you, treacherous dog, far more that you deserve.Toshiro Akodo"-Ouch! Well, first of all we stop buying tea from the northern crab lands and start mapping which regions in Lion territory are most affected by the taint. We destroy all our stores of crab-tea. -We teleport a few spellcasters to an unguarded source of the plants to attempt to gather a moderate amount of the substance. If they encounter resistance of any kind they withdraw instantly.-[Ooc]: Interesting, does this mean that you have finished the world map (sorry about not being able to help you more with that, I've been rather busy lately.)?I seem to recall that the Dwarven People's Republic were a lot stronger than 200 PLs, (750 I believe) but maybe they need to keep some forces at the northern border to defend against the Darkspire Demons.Also, since we have expanded the map far beyond Rokugan and there are several thousand PLs in the rest of the world I think you should revise the trading rules. It doesn't make much sense that a PL 50 faction can trade with a PL500 faction and gain ten times as much from the trade, or that a 50 PL faction can gain  750 PL in a year from trading globally. (If it worked that way IRL small countries would increase their economies 15-fold every year, which would be great for Sweden or the Netherlands but would quickly erase the American world-hegemony.)    Maybe the PL gained from trade could be a function of, with a maximum value determined by, the PL of the smallest party in the trade, so that both parties would gain the same amount. And the PL% gained from the volume of trade should be reduced to limit the value of international trade and bring it into proportion to the PL gained by industrialization (which should probably be more profitable, for the reasons of realism and balance.)[/Ooc]The Lion clan continues exploring and mapping the rest of the world, we try to determine the origin of the southern invaders and monitor the conflict with interest.</blockquote>

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