Courts of the Crane Clan

The boys and the niece probably refer to the child survivors of the coastal attacks. They do not. The boys are Makoto's nephew and son. The girl his niece. More detail on Makoto's family coming in the Crane Clan letter. As for the monstrosity... Ahem. WHO was the mother? How/where did she die? Who ...

Jigoku hasn't been the big bad threat since what, the 4 Winds-arc? It's been Daigotsu/Iuchiban/Daigotsu, then no-one, then Kali-Ma then... back to Jigoku. When since Lotus has Jigoku been the the big bad guy? And no the Destroyer war was not a war or even a fight against Jigoku but another foreign f...

Yes because walking all over and laughing at another player base that's just been butchered is a good thing for the game in general, right?

Tacticus: Okay lots of good points that I really can't counter with anything other than 'but you don't know for certain what will happen after this initial choice is made'. That no clan/faction has even considered, or is even willing to consider, the equivalent of our option 2 because they don't wan...

In the idealised situation all L5R players go while regarding any 7v2 or 8v1 scenarios: all of 5 minutes. With the possibility of it being only slightly longer depending on if/how much force can be brought to bear at once. I have no doubt that if the story goes in that direction that the length of t...

And how much of the government/culture of the Empire, which is what people are going to be fighting over, will be left standing if we're just going with the option of 'smash face whilst ignoring the politics of the Empire' (which IS *option 1 in a nutshell since it has 0 focus on politics)? Because ...

Yes but that's mid-to-late game story and not right now. Building an option of 'Mantis Path #2 but we call it Crane instead' doesn't do anything for us and isn't really that interesting. Most Crane players are ignoring Option 2 even with it being the most political option (and thus the most likely t...

I read option 1 as "congrats Crane you're a military clan just like you wanted to be". 1 line about how we're a unifying element and good at making alliances is like the line in Option 2 that says we may be corrupted if we later choose that option, its not enough to expand upon other than ...

Wouldn't creating that path just be being spiteful since its a pre-set option available for the Mantis as is? Yeah Crane are all about making friends but why design an option thats exactly the same as one available to the Mantis, and secondly how many people do you think would vote for it for us whe...

Option #2 is capitulation, ... Okay seriously why does everyone assume that option 2 is all going to be about betraying everyone else, siding with the evil, drinking the taint by the pint and generally resulting in a 'we're all doomed and gonna die' attitude? Running the Empire whilst someone we do...