Lion Poll: The Iron Chrysanthemum

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What will the Lion do about the Hantei and the returned spirits?

Poll ended at Fri May 12, 2017 9:18 pm

The spirits are unnatural and should be returned to Toshigoku! With the assistance of the Kitsu, the Lion put the spirit armies to the sword. The act of cutting down their ancestors takes a terrible psychological toll upon the Lion, however, and when they turn to the Kitsu daimyo for guidance, she fails them and claims that the Lion Clan is doomed. Seppuku and depression ripple outwards through the Clan to devastating effect.
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The Lion allow the spirits of their ancestors to move freely among the Clan, that they might speak with their ancestors. Even those spirits who are not Lion are allowed to return to their homelands with travel papers issued by the Lion. Unbeknownst to the Lion, however, this is all part of the Steel Chrysanthemum's plan, and the returned spirits begin to agitate their descendants into increased tensions with the throne. The Clans begin to separate into "traditionalist" and "modernist" factions as the debate grows in the courts, dividing the Empire in half just when it needs to be strongest.
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The Lion Champion personally meets with Hantei XVI to discuss the issue of the spirits. The strength and surety of the Hantei catch the young Lion Champion off guard, however, and it casts the weakness of the current Emperor into stark contrast. When the Hantei promises the lands of the Crane to the Lion Champion for her support, she bends her knee and pledges fealty to the former Hantei.
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The Lion delay their decision until the Emperor can arrive to speak with his ancestor. When he does, however, the Steel Chrysanthemum takes his descendant hostage and threatens to murder the Emperor unless he abdicates his throne. The Emperor refuses and is killed as the spirits rampage through Morikage Toshi, throwing the Lion Clan into chaos and leaving the Empress, Hantei Tokiyo, in control of Rokugan.
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The Kitsu daimyo visits the spirit camp to atone for the sin of opening the Toshigoku portal that dragged the spirits back into Ningen-do. While in the camp, she is attacked by the spirits, who brutalize and murder her before seizing control of the Mirror of Sorrow. The spirits present the mirror to Hantei XVI, giving him access to the whole of Toshigoku. The mirror shatters as he uses it to open a colossal tear in dimensions, giving him an army of slaughter spirits bolstered by the ancient Kitsu... who have been warped and twisted into the fearsome Tsuno. The armies of the Iron Chrysanthemum then march on the throne, plunging the Empire into war.
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Total votes : 51

Re: Lion Poll: The Iron Chrysanthemum

Postby Moto Butaj on Thu May 11, 2017 5:00 am

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Re: Lion Poll: The Iron Chrysanthemum

Postby Matsu Nintoku on Thu May 11, 2017 7:08 am

I voted for the one that allow us to get the Crane.

See, I told you we'd get a land border with the Fox!
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Re: Lion Poll: The Iron Chrysanthemum

Postby Matsu Yurio on Thu May 11, 2017 7:21 am

Kitteh is very conflicted.


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Re: Lion Poll: The Iron Chrysanthemum

Postby Kitsune Takeo on Thu May 11, 2017 7:31 am

Matsu Nintoku wrote:I voted for the one that allow us to get the Crane.

See, I told you we'd get a land border with the Fox!


I don't understand, the Lion already have a birder with the Unicorn....
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Re: Lion Poll: The Iron Chrysanthemum

Postby Matsu Nintoku on Thu May 11, 2017 7:36 am

Kitsune Takeo wrote:
Matsu Nintoku wrote:I voted for the one that allow us to get the Crane.

See, I told you we'd get a land border with the Fox!


I don't understand, the Lion already have a birder with the Unicorn....


Its all part of the demand for the Fox Lands to be given to the Lion in return for giving the Lands to the Unicorn and if they deny we just invade them and recover our original breadbasket.
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Re: Lion Poll: The Iron Chrysanthemum

Postby Otaku Kitakuhime on Thu May 11, 2017 8:55 am

Miya Mei wrote:Give me an Empress!

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Go! Kato, Go!
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Re: Lion Poll: The Iron Chrysanthemum

Postby Shimizu Ryori on Thu May 11, 2017 9:03 am

Isn't my family in Mori Toshi?


Is it too late to become a Shinjo?


Wait Shinjo are becoming Zombies

Dang...

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Re: Lion Poll: The Iron Chrysanthemum

Postby Kakita Nanami on Thu May 11, 2017 10:02 am

Shimizu Ryori wrote:Isn't my family in Mori Toshi?


Is it too late to become a Shinjo?


Wait Shinjo are becoming Zombies

Dang...


Join the Crane! We're safe...
... for a few more days.
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Re: Lion Poll: The Iron Chrysanthemum

Postby Shinjo Monkhbaatar on Thu May 11, 2017 10:48 am

None of this bad stuff would have ever happened if people hadn't been so mean to the Scorpion. They could have been able to focus on all these bad things and taken care of them in the shadows like they always do.

Everything is the Crab's fault.

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Re: Lion Poll: The Iron Chrysanthemum

Postby Shinjo Kemuri on Thu May 11, 2017 10:50 am

I feel more and more confident that the Emperor will die soon. This, at least, gives him a relatively good death.
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Re: Lion Poll: The Iron Chrysanthemum

Postby Shinjo Monkhbaatar on Thu May 11, 2017 11:08 am

well, at the very least, with the empress in power, Daidoji Nobu will be there to protect her as a member of the Empress guard!
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Re: Lion Poll: The Iron Chrysanthemum

Postby Isawa Nonin on Thu May 11, 2017 11:23 am

I saved the Emperor once, maybe twice, not so today.
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Re: Lion Poll: The Iron Chrysanthemum

Postby Kitsune Takeo on Thu May 11, 2017 11:43 am

I feel bad for the Emperor. He seems like a nice guy.

Was looking forward to the showdown with him and Kato, though I suppose watching Kato throw down with the Lion empress would be fun too.
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Re: Lion Poll: The Iron Chrysanthemum

Postby Kitsu Takashi on Thu May 11, 2017 2:07 pm

I'm genuinely surprised that there isn't enough Lion hate to have produced more votes for the Doom option. Especially when a post-ancestor-focused Lion Clan is such an interesting thought experiment.
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Re: Lion Poll: The Iron Chrysanthemum

Postby Kakita Nanami on Thu May 11, 2017 2:09 pm

Kitsu Takashi wrote:I'm genuinely surprised that there isn't enough Lion hate to have produced more votes for the Doom option. Especially when a post-ancestor-focused Lion Clan is such an interesting thought experiment.


I chose the way that would see the Lion doom themselves by trying to fight both the Crab and Unicorn... <_<
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