What's To Come

[Martino]

The Spider haven't really been any worse than a lot of the Hantei Emperors that we served loyally, so it would be hypocritical (and show a massive failure to understand the setting) to think that "good vs evil" and "following the celestial order vs disobeying the celestial order" are even remotely the same thing. If a Hantei ascends to the throne, why the heck would be oppose him? We opposed Fu Leng in the Clan Wars because he actually wanted to destroy the Empire. Kanpeki wants to rule the Empire as a Hantei, just like Daigotsu always screamed. I don't see him being any better or worse a prospective ruler than Seiken, so I say if Kanpeki takes the throne we see what we can do to assure our place.

[Daidoji Reiji]

Yeah, but not if he uses oni and Jigoku to get it-then it's no different than a failed day of thunder. Do you want a thousand years of darkness?

[Dare]

[Martino]

[Kakita Shiro]

[Martino]

I'll relent on my love of KYD the day they write a Crane as compelling as Hoturi the Heartless. So far they've progressively gone from being a Kurohito who entreated with the enemy, to a Domotai who slept with the enemy, to a Makoto who has barely done anything at all, and one of those few things was have ineffective tea with the enemy. Bleh, so awful.

[Daidoji Reiji]

Lol, fair enough. My two favorite characters are Hideo and Hideshi, so I will disagree that there are no compelling Crane.... but YMMV.

[Martino]

Those two SHOULD HAVE BEEN compelling, but were basically ignored.

[Zaitoichi]

Isn't Hideo still around? He could be a great leader against the darkness now that Pan'Ku is out fashioned.

[Kakita Shiro]