**FINISHED** Sanmatsu-mura - Town wins

[Haggis_McMutton]

Here's the basic rules that no one really reads. I've highlighted the ones you SHOULD READ.

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Real and Japanese names:

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Players that are still alive:

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Players that have died a (more or less) honourable death

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Game Summary:
Day 1
Tailzo attacks Edoku
Night 1
Day 2
Night 2
Day 3
Night 3
Day 4
Game Over

[aage]

Aagetamori Yabu confirms and notes he likes rule nr. 17.

[edocsil]

Edoku Shin Confirms.

[Victor Sullivan]

Ictorizmo Sullimoto confirms!

[lalaland]

Lala Ando Confirming here!

[TA1LGUNN3R]

Hai!

[ga7]

Gatsu Shinichi confirms. Yoroshiku!

[edocsil]

Vote Kenta Ryutaro for DoG

[aage]

WTF, everyone is copying my confirm method. How unoriginal.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

Not I, Sir aage.

-TG

[cena-rules]

IM FIRM!

[Haggis_McMutton]

Sanmatsu-mura(literally mountain pine village) is, as the name suggests, a little farming village nested between two ancient mountains. It is also your home, for one reason or another.

Generally life in Sanmatsu-mura is as peaceful as the scenery, except for the odd bandit raid or warring faction, but there's been little even of those occurrences lately. The daimyo that your village belongs to seems to have negotiated a satisfactory peace agreement with his neighbours, which means that for the last few years the samurai haven't been to battle, but have instead stayed in town watching their farms and deepening their appreciation of life and Bushido, this in turn means that bandits were apprehensive to strike, what with all the samurai about.

The news about the unusual tranquillity that your region benefits from has spread though, so over the months and years a number of "interesting" characters seem to have decided to either visit or even settle into your daimyo's region, including your little village. Thus Sanmatsu-mura has become quite a diverse place, a mix of all different social classes, from the occasional thieves, to only slightly more respectable travelling merchants, to the disgraced ronins, warriors with no master, to the simple yet honourable peasants, to the ascetic monks(some of them even have a settlement nearby) and, of course, the noble samurai.

Despite this unusual diversity, everyone seemed to manage to stay out of everyone else's way(and especially out of the samurai's way, of course), and your little village continued to coexist peacefully.

Peacefully, that is, until today, when the whole village is awaken by a shriek of terror. One of the children of a local samurai was sent to fetch water, when he didn't promptly return his mother sent a servant to scold him. The servant however could only shriek in horror as she found the boy dead near the fountain. One slash is all it took.

The sword had hit him on the left side of the neck just below the chin and had cut transversally through his young body like through butter, eventually exiting just below his right armpit, the boy's head and right arm now lay detached from his body, mixing their blood with the dirt. This doesn't look like the work of bandits.

The child's family collects him and starts to prepare for the funerary customs, meanwhile, the village head samurai, he who is ultimately responsible for the welfare of Sanmatsu-mura, orders everyone else to gather in the village centre to try to uncover the truth. Soon everyone arrives and ritualistically confirms their attendance of the special meeting. A few short laughs are heard when Ictorizu Sullimoto manages to pronounce his name wrong, obviously he has had a bit too much sake the night before, but the grave circumstances soon return to everyone's minds.

Day 1, go:

[cena-rules]

vote Lala Ando

[aage]

If I interprete the start speech correctly there's a Samurai, a Monk, some peasants, a Ronin and a Thief (or more than one, I don't quite understand yet).

I suppose the Ronin is the "arch enemy" of the Samurai, and that the monk and the peasants are on the latter one's side, whilst the thieves are with the Ronin.

Am I missing something here?


Also, vote Ictorizu Sullimoto for mispronouncing his name.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

If I interprete the start speech correctly there's a Samurai, a Monk, some peasants, a Ronin and a Thief (or more than one, I don't quite understand yet).

That sounds about right.

I suppose the Ronin is the "arch enemy" of the Samurai, and that the monk and the peasants are on the latter one's side, whilst the thieves are with the Ronin.

From what I know of Samurai (mostly from movies and Western perspective, so not much), I wouldn't necessarily say a ronin is bad, just disgraced because he didn't commit seppuku upon the death of his master. They might turn to mercenary work, but they might actually commit seppuku to avoid continued shame. If you're right about the thief as a character, he's definitely scum. idk

vote Edoku Shin-san

-TG

[edocsil]

If I interprete the start speech correctly there's a Samurai, a Monk, some peasants, a Ronin and a Thief (or more than one, I don't quite understand yet).

I suppose the Ronin is the "arch enemy" of the Samurai, and that the monk and the peasants are on the latter one's side, whilst the thieves are with the Ronin.

Am I missing something here?


Also, vote Ictorizu Sullimoto for mispronouncing his name.

There are also the merchants, so that likely leaves us with 2 VT's. There also is the chance that the named characters are good and the unnamed characters will be introduced as the scum after the inevitable kills.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

I believe the game was billed as No Vanilla.

-TG

[Victor Sullivan]

Hmm... Interesting. Well, we have our hypotheses as to what characters are in the game, but we still have no idea who is who and what each kind of person does (assuming your hypothesis is correct).

Vote: Gatsu Shinichi. ga7 is scary good at this game, so that's my opening vote. (No Mr. Squirrel )

[edocsil]

I believe the game was billed as No Vanilla.

-TG

Ah, good call. So, two enigma's then.

[ga7]

Vote Tailzo Gunshin Having no votes is a scumtell!
Nice scene btw. I see the rules do not have the classic one about scenes containing no particular clues, so I agree it's likely we'll have a mix of social categories, but what is sure is the scum is a samurai or ronin. Thieves would have neither the weaponry or swordmanship to inflict this kind of wound. I couldn't imagine an honorable samurai doing this, so a ronin would be my prime suspect...

[FloresDelMal]

ill be a reserve ^^ if i play i could be Shino Hana

[Haggis_McMutton]

Hopefully reserves won't be needed, but thanks( I reserve the right to give you a name that is more similar to your regular user name if you do get in )

Also, i upgraded the OP, it's much sexier now.

Don't think there's much of a point in a vote count right now.

Btw, things italicized will be out of character, just fyi. Actually I'm more of a narrator than a character, but you get the idea

[TA1LGUNN3R]

OMGUS unvote Vote Gatsu Shinichi-san

Having no votes just means I'm above reproach.

-TG

[TA1LGUNN3R]

So....is nothing happening?

[aage]

That is a very correct summary of the current discussion, which appears to be non-existent.