It is my understanding that there are a lot of in game and out of game repercussions of tournaments and bribes with players etc. What are some of the really good stories (I just heard about the last one where Mantis sacked their clan champ with a black scroll for out of character $1000)

4 minutes ago, wolfien8 said:

It is my understanding that there are a lot of in game and out of game repercussions of tournaments and bribes with players etc. What are some of the really good stories (I just heard about the last one where Mantis sacked their clan champ with a black scroll for out of character $1000)

I'm still looking for the story behind this.

Just saw the post in the other thread

Some of my favorite (Although I am well aware this is not the case of the majority) were when the story Team actually acknowledged a Spider win made with a Goblin deck.

Two examples come to mind:

1. The Horiuchi family became infected with a very dangerous Zombie plague, and the winner of the tournament was awarded the honor of cleansing the family in the name of the Empire. Spider won, and the story is about Spider monks smuggling a band of goblins inside Rokugan to kill and eat the family.

2. The tournament's winner could select a personality who would kill a destroyer (think hindou killer god-thing). A Goblin did the deed and was somehow transformed into a multiple arm oni-like monster. Unfortunatly (or fortunatly depending on your point of view), the story Team forgot all about it and never used the character again.

52 minutes ago, JRosen9 said:

I'm still looking for the story behind this.

Just saw the post in the other thread

Could I get a link there a lot of other threads.

I remember reading about the second day of thunder and although I don't know all the in game results all the irl action was cool. I think one of the first threads in the l5r section has links to it.

i would like to hear what lead to the resurrection and death by ninja army of Kisada.

Well I finally got around to posting my tournament report for the 1996 AEG invitational and posted it on the FFG boards somewhere. It is pretty long but might be worth a read of you can find it.

There are only a couple other tournaments that stand out to me. Probably because they are two of the only tournaments in which I wasn't playing a Shadowlands beatdown style deck.

One was when I ran a non-personality Dragon honor deck at a Dragon-con around 1996-1997ish? I wanted to play Dragon at the Dragon con but it was a special "highlander" event were all personalities were considered unique. Dragon didn't have enough good personalities to make a decent deck so I just went with events and holdings. It was undefeated in the double elim tourney all the way up to the finals and then lost horribly when my flips came out bad twice in a row. Almost looked like I was going to pull out the second game when some timely events looked like they might turn things around, but, my opponent was slow-rolling an Avoid Fate for the final nail in the coffin. He actually said he wanted me to suffer a little for playing something so janky. The peanut gallery around him were in agreement with his move. I thought it was kind of funny that I somehow managed to draw so much hate from the locals. I remember thinking it was pretty rich that a group of 6 or so guys that had come up with this event and were running almost the exact same deck considered me the jerk for playing something different. Whatevs.

The second sword tournament I won was pretty memorable because of the player I had won against had played against me quite a bit and had prepared some special things to take me on, if he faced me. Sure enough we met in the finals of yet another double elimination event. I had come from the winners bracket so I only needed to win one game. Sean was a die hard Dragon player sporting a sweet dueling deck and firey red mullet. The look on his face was pretty priceless when I revealed the Phoenix stronghold.........."you're not playing Shadowlands?" Well not exactly. The recently updated Phoenix stronghold produced 7g for shugenja but they gained the Shadowlands trait.....however almost all my pesonalities were high personal honor so I could run Shadowlands tricks, high honor tricks and even honor-run if need be. The stronghold eventually had to be erratad since it was just bonkers. In game one I got a slowish start and lost a key duel putting me on the brink but I fought back instead of scooping. I was pretty much dead in that game but Sean was giving me way too much respect so I was showing off some tricks the deck could do. Eventually we get into a really big battle and Sean very skillfully baits out some cards from my hand and then rips off another well times duel to seal the win. He's pretty much over the moon at this point since he has a bunch of near misses against me up til now. I congratulate him and then ask him if he's ready for game two.........he forgot that it was double elim and it seemed to instantly deflate him. If he had any hope of beating me twice in a row, it was instantly squashed as I ran out a Void Dragon on turn 3 and proceeded to empty his hand of cards. I really felt bad and had discussed gifting the sword to him. He said no he wanted earn it fair and square and besides now that I had two swords I could train niten style and maybe start backing the Dragon.

I don't think I've ever done anything significant to impact the story in any way. Missed my one shot at the invitiational 20+ years ago. At least the Shadowlands finally won in the end.

The whole story was sold by 'firey red mullet'

Just now, Kuni Katsuyoshi said:

The whole story was sold by 'firey red mullet'

If you lived in Northern CA in the mid to late 90s and you played L5R, you knew the Dragon player with the kick a$$ red mullet was serious business.

38 minutes ago, Ishi Tonu said:

If you lived in Northern CA in the mid to late 90s and you played L5R, you knew the Dragon player with the kick a$$ red mullet was serious business.

If nothing else I admire his bravery.

In the northern IL of '97, even if your mullet came with a Mettalica shirt and a chain wallet you risked ....'censure'

The tabletop community was ponytails and 'standards'

Billy Ray Cyrus ruined it for everyone.

15 hours ago, Ishi Tonu said:

If you lived in Northern CA in the mid to late 90s and you played L5R, you knew the Dragon player with the kick a$$ red mullet was serious business.

I seriously hope he comes back for the new Era.

One of my stories, really has nothing to do with the l5r story but it sticks out to me. I was playing in some event, I think it was a kotei. I was playing a very janky Spider chi death deck that ran like 9 spider personalites, 9 scorpion personalities and I think a mantis. I called the deck Arachnid Alliance. It was a slow deck that if it got to the mid game would work very well.

Anyhow, I was paired up against a scorpion dishonor deck and the player was playing fairly slow (which I don't fault them with as there was a lot going on). The game goes to time and they are down 2 provinces and I'm at like -16 honor. However, I have killed every personality in her deck that can cause an honor loss and in the next few turns I will kill the rest of her personalities and take her remaining provinces. She insists that she will be able to dishonor me out even though I try to explain that it is impossible with what she has left. Neither of us will concede so we roll off and I lose the roll and think nothing more of the game as I move on. That is until a few days later. I'm reading through tournament reports and I'm reading the one that unbeknownst to me is written by that Scorpion player. I don't remember much from the report but there was a line in that called me "the douchebag spider player." I laughed so hard I took that line and put it in my signature on all my l5r boards.

On 7/10/2017 at 4:27 PM, Cold Iron1 said:

Could I get a link there a lot of other threads.

I remember reading about the second day of thunder and although I don't know all the in game results all the irl action was cool. I think one of the first threads in the l5r section has links to it.

i would like to hear what lead to the resurrection and death by ninja army of Kisada.

I have NO idea how to quote from another thread, but TheItsyBitsySpider explained it on this page:

Page 4 of the Smacktalk thread.

Here's his quote:

"Sorry, so during the last Gencon of the CCG the side events and the main event revolved around the fact that in story the Black Scrolls were remanifesting in rokugan and the clans were fighting over who got what scroll.

The prize for the main event was the 13th scroll which had the power to strip the power from a being, like it was used to contain the demon lord Kyoso no Oni long ago. The winner of the event could choose which character got it and if they kept it or used it, and if used... on who.

So at Gencon there was a bounty placed for over $1000 for someone to use the scroll on Yoritomo, sapping his divinity away with its power. The winner of the event was a Mantis player who, if I'm recalling right, had car troubles on his trip there and needed to pay to repair their car. So they won the event, chose their favorite mantis and chose for him to turn the scroll on Yoritomo.

It was a rare moment when everyone was shocked, but also totally got it, because a Mantis selling out his God for money is something everyone can kinda see happening.

So yeah, the last major story prize was Mantis punking yoritomo. Playmats were made, fanart was drawn, hilarity ensured."