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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nameless" data-source="post: 567801" data-attributes="member: 1543">I've got another self-sacrifice one to tell.This was in Legend of the 5 Rings, and my character was a Kitsu Sodan-senzo (bsaically, he could see, speak with, and summon ghosts). I was invited to a prestigous festival in the Unicorn lands, in which all castes were allowed to celebrate together around a great bonfire.The thing that nobody else knew was that the festival was haunted by numerous spirits. One from each unicorn family except for the Moto, as a matter of fact. As time went on, a brash unicorn killed a lower caste farmer, and the mystery became more clear. Basically, the Moto family had an evil ancestor come to wreak havoc hundreds of years ago. Only by a powerful ritual in which a member of each caste (Samurai, Heimin and Hinin) sacrificed their life to banish and imprison the evil spirit. The festival occurs on the same day each year to celebrate the cooperation of all castes and to renew the binding through the harmony. The slaying of the farmer ruined that harmony, and the Moto lord of the castle was aware of what must be done.He knew the only way to re-imprison the evil spirit was to re-enact the ritual which required the sacrifice of three lives. As the final preparations were made, the evil spirit broke free and began to destroy and corrupt anything it could. It spoke in the gibbering tongue of demons, which only I could understand as a Sodan-senzo. While I resisted its magic, I was still far weaker and unable to hurt such a powerful enemy. I assisted the Moto lord in his preparations, and we found volunteers of each caste who would lay down their lives to save the many. As the last moment, a great wall of flame erupted between the sacrificial ring and the people. The courageous Moto lord jumped through and awaited his two fellows. The virile farmer also leaped through and survived. Unfortunately, the elderly leatherworker was unable to handle the flaming pillar, and nobody else was willing to lay down their life.In the most dramatic way possible, my haughty, honorable shugenja cast down his sword and broke it under his heel, throwing away all his honor, glory, and social standing. Sacrificing everything he could want in the afterlife, he leaped through the flames, and ended his life as well.My GM was so impressed with my sacrifice that he not only let me reroll a new character with the same xp total as my last one, but gave me an additional 10 to play with *grin*.-nameless</blockquote>

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