Sengoku - A Hunting Trip, Gone Horribly, Horribly Wrong! - Part I Yabu the Archer is wandering central Japan, he'd heard his companion Toshiro was now the Hatamoto of a small farmiing village. Yama, a peniless Ronin wandered into this same town about the same time. Yabu wandered around the streets calling Toshiro's name, and Yama began to wonder if Yabu might cause trouble in town. Armed only with his family swords, Yama made sure to keep himself between Yabu and any of the innocent townsfolk. Meanwhile Toshiro had just recieved a message from a courier telling him that one of the Shogun's Nephews was coming to visit Toshiro. Tokugawa had taken the lad for the summer while his father (a great general) was fighting in Korea. Unfortunately Iyeasu was now so busy with the duties of being Shogun, he had little time to entertain his nephew Hikaru, and hoped Toshiro could take him in, teach him to ride a horse, and shoot a bow. A short hunt in the mountains near Toshiro's village would be enough to make the boy, and his father happy. This would be Toshiro's first lesson in the responsibilities a noble must assume when serving their masters. If he succeeded in this task, he might one day become caretaker of the Shogun's Hunting Lodge, or some other more prominent position. A local boy ran into Toshiro's house, and told his manservant Shiro that there was a ruffian in town making trouble and telling stories about Toshiro killing bandits. Toshiro gave the boy two silver Monme-ita coins, and instructed him to tell the Innkeeper to feed Yabu, and then give the second coin to him to get him to leave in the morning. The boy ran to the inn, and did as he was told. Yabu and Yama entered the local inn, Yabu ordered some sake, and some ricecakes, he bought a round of drinks for the inn, and asked to buy the ronin Yama some of whatever he was drinking. Yama said he did not take to strong drink, but would have some Tea. I rememeber Neil would take a story hook here, and we began playing 'Messenger: The Role-Playing Game' so I pushed a bit to see what would happen. Yabu was sitting in the inn, talking with Yama and recounting his tales of bold lord Toshiro, and the time he slew the unarmed peasants. Yama's took notice of that one, as did no small number of the peasants in the inn, Toshiro had been their new lord and master for less than a week, and none of them had yet taken the measure of their new lord. The Innkeeper told his daughter to go find Toshiro before there was too much panic in the inn. "You there" Yabu and Itoh looked at each other for a second, and Yabu spoke "why do you not answer this great lord, he obviously needs you for something" Itoh looked back at him as if to say something but... Ok this part still needs punching up, a little, and I don't remember which scenes happened this game session, or the next one... so I think everyting after this will be session 3 when we got ready to work in the Shukenja That's it so far...