Forays Into the Shadowlands - A Samurai RP - Interest

[Lumenskir]

You may have heard this tale before. Once long ago, there was a man who made it his duty to create balance in a world of chaos. He was a great man but he could not do this task alone. His brothers and sisters agreed to help him, and each assumed a duty to aid in his task. Once sister became an artist and created beauty and culture. One brother became a scholar and accumulated the wisdom of the universe. One sister became an explorer and set out to master the world. One brother became a recluse and made it his duty to master the mysteries that lie within the self. One brother became a warrior so that the way of bushido would never be forgotten. One brother became a spy so that his brother's secrets would be well hidden.

The last brother, however, did nothing to help build the Empire. Instead, he took those that would follow him and marched to the southwest. They came here, where the armies of Fu Leng gathered to rend and crush and tear apart the world. This brother made it his duty to stand against the darkness, to defend what his brothers and sisters created, to always stand apart from it.

This was Hida, the First Crab

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Welcome to Rokugan, a place not-exactly like Japan but with enough similarities to make you look twice. For example, everyone is Japanese, but if you listen closely they call themselves Rokuganese. Small things.

From what I can gather from the novel my friend lent me, there's seven Clans, but six of them are pussies. This RP is about the Crab, the Clan dedicated to staring down the armies of darkness so that everyone else in the Empire doesn't have their teatime disturbed. They built a Great Kaiu Wall that keeps the beasties out but still find time in their day to go into the Shadowlands and fuck some demonic hordes up, even though doing so means risking insanity or possession thanks to the Taint. So yeah, duty before honor, just straight up balls all around.

You would be in a group of Crab Samurai called the Relievers. As mentioned, sometimes it is necessary to enter the Shadowlands, but this doesn't mean that those who go in come back. This is where you come in. After a predetermined amount of time following any Shadowlands mission, those samurai are assumed to have fallen to the Taint. You are then sent in after them and are only allowed to return if you have the head of the first group's leader. The PR reason for this is to give the leader an honorable death and a nice funeral in their homeland. The pragmatic reason is much more concise; An experienced samurai is a powerful weapon, while a Tainted samurai is a powerful weapon for them.

It's interest only right now because (1) I don't know if anyone is up for this (2) I've been mulling this over between/during exams and don't have a proper sign-sheet ready and (3) I'll probably start this, at the earliest, in late December, early January. However, I figure we can use this thread to gauge interest and present questions I might need to have figured out by the actual deal.

And for those wondering, it's based lahoosely on Legend of the Five Rings, i.e., what I gathered from a few chapters from the aforementioned novel. e.g., Crab.