#bayushi kachiko

[jen4k2]

Heyyy, L5R and samurai drama fans!

I wrote a thing! It's a summary of the game sessions written in epistlatory fashion of John Wick's "The Shadow Throne" Legend of the Five Rings (1st Ed) campaign, playing a Scorpion working for Kachiko in the era before the Clan War.

https://startplaying.games/gm/clodguyo20005mo0815pdesu6

https://www.patreon.com/thejohnwick/posts

[elaxiber]

real random headcanon but kachiko would be SUCH. a drag race fan liiiiiiiiikeeeeee you cant tell me she wouldnt eat that shit up. you KNOW shed get her acrylics done and do the nail clap shes a classy fucking bitch

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Bayushi Kachiko by Mario Wibisono

[confused-in-rokugan]

In the strict-mannered world of Rokugan, there is a man talented enough to be allowed to do whatever the hell he wants: SHOSURO Hideaki. This playwright is (or was) a mentor to the dancer DOJI Kyouka, who craves the freedom and talent of this man.

In the name of Art, he is ready to risk his life (mostly other people's lifes, though), to desecrate temples, and anger any clan by revealing their secrets in his works. Even his allies, like BAYUSHI Aiko or DOJI Matsuo (who is apparently his ex?) barely know what to do with him.

Where is he now? Nobody knows exactly. He is apparently planning something (a play?) with Bayushi Kachiko, and spending most of his time in the spirit world with his new wife... a kistune.

[darksidereju]

Bayushi Kachiko (Legend of the Five Rings) by Raynkazuya (Mario Wibisono)

Scorpion Clan Seductress💋

[garland-on-thy-brow]

could we hear more about your dainty l5r boy?

Oh alright! I do not remember what I mentioned before and what I did not, so here goes. The system is L5R 4th edition.

Daidoji Senmei, courtier of the Crane. Low pain threshold, soft heart, haunted by the ancestor of Daidoji family (that badass with a spear who performed a katabasis for his sister's soul). I hope the ancestor is enjoying whatever this is.

Dabbles in every art, but his artistic ambitions are with painting (and the combination of painting and poetry). The work he is proud of is The Star's Travel, a tactile painting for his blind friend (shugenja of the Dragon).

Currently is helping the aforementioned friend marry into the Emperor's family for love. What can go wrong?

Being an Emerald Magistrate in turbulent times, developed an intuition-based method of investigating conspiracies by painting ripples on the water (it is about reconstructing the general shape by fragmentary information).

Served his office first in Kyuden Tonbo (that beautiful rainbow tower of the Dragonfly clan, next to Keen Eyes' Strike Village), then in the lands of Asako family. The proximity to Kitsuki crime theatre village did not necessarily make him a better investigator, but it did make him worse in a way that I cannot put into words.

Has a spy network, of course.

Two important things about his interpersonal relationships are (1) queer attachment to four people (one of them being the shugenja mentioned above); (2) conviction that nothing good can come from Bayushi Kachiko, in whose figure he found The Devil (as in, the set of meanings symbolized by this tarot card). Not going to unpack all this, but it is emotionally intense.

"He appears to be constantly on the verge of a breakdown, I like it" - my co-player.

In his teenage years, he met a Hida girl who could snap him in half. They drank and joked together, she saved his life, they spent the evening transfixed by the fireworks' reflections in the river and, in passing, exchanged opinions whether more is owed to the Empire or the Emperor. Eight years later, he dreams of meeting her again to confess that he was wrong, and she was right all along. She spent those eight years probably on the Wall, and he at sophisticated courts. She is another one of the aforementioned four people.

The only melee weapon he willingly uses is a pair of fans. The only martial skill he is good at is defence. His typical battle behaviour is deflecting blows from his friends (protect maneuver), which, surprisingly, proved to be quite useful.

Decent, and occasionally clever, with a bow.

Averse to participating in anything that so much as resembles professional sport.

If left to his own devices, will be just doing arts, picking gay little gifts for his friends, and trying to get into state secrets.

[epiclad]

Planning to get some L5R art done for the portfolio soon.... ... so did some fanart to get myself in the mood. Bayushi Shoju and Kachiko, and Shiba Ujimitsu... my favorite characters from the books.

[quarkmaster]

Bayushi Kachiko

The Scorpion palace is dark and empty, it has been under siege for sometimes now, and most of the imperial guards has perished in the battle. Bayushi Kachiko swiftly moved through the palace hall, passing scattered dead bodies. She approached a lion statue on the South and gently pressed a hidden button. The statue’s eyes gleams and a rough noise is heard along with the appearance of a secret door to a path beneath the palace. She glances over her shoulder to make sure that no one follows her. Although, she doesn’t really care either if anyone does, since her deadly poison gas already filled the room as she makes her escape.

Copyright AEG. / Legend of the Five Rings

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Mario Wibisono

[hadesbeast]

Artist Wisnu Tan...Bayushi Kachiko 😈 ~ßεศş†~ https://www.instagram.com/p/CCGZeCbFF6R/?igshid=15s1v6sy91u27

[gatheringsteveargylesmagic]

The Gathering Steve Argyle’s Magic Top 25

#20

Bayushi Kachiko (Experienced COM)

This piece is down two positions from #18.

[empusaegirl]

Breaking into the Industry - My L5R Journey

Well, it’s finally here. My first fiction for Fantasy Flight Games went live today. So far, it seems to be pleasing fans, particularly the Lion Clan players. In celebration, I wrote a personal history about my time working with the brand both at AEG and FFG for those of you who are interested in my story about breaking into the industry.

Summer 2014, Alderac Entertainment Group held open auditions for Story Team members for their Legend of the Five Rings brand due to a number of their veteran writers leaving for various reasons. At that point in my life, I hadn’t been seriously involved with writing, as I had graduated from college two years earlier and hadn’t really picked up the pen since my last creative writing class. I also hadn’t dabbled in L5R for over a decade since my path led me away from it though I’d had brief reminders that it was still nestled in the softer spots of my heart.

My first exposure to L5R had been in middle school. My mother bought me several novels with samurai on the covers. The first one had a cover image that simply stuck me through to my soul. The samurai wore blood red armor and a fearsome steel mask that made him look like a demon. However, he was a demon brooding, ready with sword in hand but biding his time. Brom, the artist, had given the portrait enough life to crawl off the cover and nestle into my thoughts for weeks. As I read through the books, I came to later know it was a portrait of Bayushi Shoju, the Clan Champion who would later become one of my favorite characters of all time, the poised underhand of the Hantei emperor that waited to strike at the right time. Shoju, along with the Mother of Scorpions Bayushi Kachiko, later defined the Scorpion clan for me, and I was hooked. I was obsessed with the Scorpion Clan, cheering and mourning with them throughout the entire series as the Clan Wars followed their ups and downs. Stephen D. Sullivan, Ree Soesbee, A.L. Lassieur, and Stan Brown developed the Crab, the Phoenix, the Lion, the Unicorn, and others in my mind, making Rokugan, its conflicts, and its bushido real in my mind.

Those novels were the Wizards of the Coast novelizations of the Clan Wars storyline, and after the brand returned to AEG, I lost touch with the world though my love of the Scorpion remained constant. (In tribute, I made my own personal emblem that I marked on all my art pieces and signatures all through high school and college which featured primarily the tail and stinger of a scorpion.) My love of Rokugan reemerged years later when I met my future husband.

While I was living in Japan and getting to know S. better, he was telling me about some of his favorite things in the world. When he mentioned L5R’s Lion Clan, I did a double take (a mental one because we were only communicating through letters back then) since Rokugan had been a seminal part of my young imagination. He had been playing the L5R card game for about 20 years at that point, and needless to say, he was shocked that I knew what he was talking about. I think this solidified in his mind that we were meant to be, even if I was Scorpion Clan.

A few years after that, I was married and living in Hawaii when S.’s brother shot us a text with the news that AEG was doing open writing auditions for a position on their story team. He suggested I apply. The audition called for a story in the style of Rokugan, so I crafted a story called “The Dishonorable Death of Matsu Gohei,” S.’s favorite Lion Clan samurai (besides Toturi). It was an interesting tale describing more in depth Gohei’s end as he had primarily died off-screen in the fictions. After I submitted it, nearly an hour before midnight on the day of the deadline, I heard nothing for about six months. I didn’t actually believe in my ability to join the story team since I didn’t consider my fictional writing all that marketable, so I figured that I just got passed over. My husband read on the L5R blog, however, that there had been hundreds of applications, so the time it took in deciding the new members could just be due AEG being buried alive under all those stories. Well, long story short, I was contacted by the brand manager in January 2015 who offered me the position if I wanted it. I was chosen with two other people (Chris Hand and Maxime Lemaire), and we joined the L5R Story Team giants like Shawn Carman, Robert Denton, Rob Hobart, and Fred Wan as the Three Musketeers. ;)

I worked with AEG on their Twenty Festivals and Onyx projects until the brand was sold to Fantasy Flight Games, so some of my fiction went unpublished due to bad timing. However, I got some pieces published in 2015, such as the “Aftermath’s Misfortune,” “The Ghost of the Grove,” and “Gathering Steel.” I also was involved in their daimyo project, letters to the clans for 20 Festivals, and some Spring Kotei fictions. In 2016, several Story Team members, though we weren’t officially on the Story Team anymore, decided to do a final tribute to AEG’s storyline to complete pieces of the Onyx story line. We self published Onyx Dawn, a fiction series outside of the L5R canon, in which I wrote the final piece for Bayushi Nitoshi, the reincarnation of my favorite Bayushi Shoju, allowing him to redeem his soul from the sins of the Clan War. It was an emotional and terribly poignant piece for me, and I felt like the end of my time at AEG with L5R ended on a beautiful note. Those of us that worked on it proceeded with heavy hearts, knowing that its publication would most likely be the end for us working with L5R.

Last year, I was approached by Katrina Ostrander, lead fiction editor for FFG’s version of the new L5R brand, who asked if I would be interested in working on the brand again, writing fiction. It definitely felt like a reality-warping surprise more than anything, and I was worried that I’d been chosen over people who had given their heart and soul to the brand for decades. I felt inadequate. I felt scared. I wondered if this was really who I was now, a marketable, industry-respected writer, not just a hobbyist… and it felt unreal. However, after hearing what fans had said about my stories on the forums and learning that some of the old AEG people had put in a good word for me, I gained enough confidence to say yes.

It feels like another dream come true to be working with the Clan War storyline, the plot and characters that ignited my passion for Rokugan. Needless to say, S. was ecstatic, and he was more elated when we heard I would be working with the Lion Clan and Akodo Toturi. I am also able to rub shoulders with some of my hero-authors of the older fictions as fellow L5R alumni, like Nancy Sauer and Ree Soesbee, and continue working with friends and acquaintances from my Story Team era. It’s really been an honor, one that I approach with the reticence of one who feels imposter syndrome and the incredulity of the dream becoming reality, and it’s a honor that I now take very seriously.

I’m thankful for the opportunity to continue working with a brand I love with people I respect and care about on projects I believe in. It’s more than I ever could have asked for, and I’m grateful to be breaking into the industry with such good people on such a cool game. It’s opened lots of doors for me. It’s given me experiences I’ll never forget. It’s made me a much much better writer as I hone my craft with each passing draft. It’s a gate I get to walk through, and I’m grateful to everyone who opened it for me.

[jen4k2]

Ohhh wowww, I've just broken 24k words.

@kleenexwoman is going to be so proud of me. I've even done some revisions.

From the game sessions of John Wick's "The Shadow Throne" Legend of the Five Rings campaign, playing a Scorpion agent working for Kachiko in the era before the Clan War.

John talks about our game here.

I've framed the game as letters from my little courtier and musician, Shosuro Kotone, to one of the party's occasional handlers, Bayushi Yojiro.

During the course of the games, we wreck a wedding, expose a murderer, sort-of abduct a Clan damiyo, sabotage reputations, get important people murdered, do a bit of seduction, a bit of murder (for good reasons, we swear), befriend a wise fool and one of the greatest samurai of all time, strategically place a few artifacts, travel to the past, travel off the edge of the map, meet someone who was said to be the most fearsome blood sorcerer of all time, and, most dangerously... fall in love.

Game is still ongoing.

I'm pretty proud of what I've done so far, there's some good lines in there, and I've even written some erotic poetry.

Break for random poetry

follow the curve of my hip

I could have wept then,

grandfather’s soul in your hands,

but your heated voice --

you could have taken me there

and then, over the books of law

(There was, sadly, no library sex, but there could have been.)

The night holds her breath--

and trace the crescent moon,

drunk on kisses

we drown in candlelight

As the pale jasmine

your skin in the moonlight--

and across my pillow

dark hair a tangled river--

‘cannot’ becomes ‘only once’

[ravenkult]

Bayushi Kachiko by Mario Wibisono https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8o3gn

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Bayushi Kachiko (Scorpion Clan Champion) by Darren Tan

[bayushiosamu]

Before I get into the details, let me start by saying this: it's your game! Everyone's version of Rokugan differs from the canon slightly even if they don't mean it to. If it makes sense for your play group and the stories you want to tell, go on ahead! :)

The production of heirs is of critical importance in the Rokugani worldview of marriage - in example, neglecting to mention a child's potential infertility when arranging a marriage contract is grounds for a blood feud.

The Rokugani view on the role of marriage, as well as their views on homosexuality, are based on a mixture of the Edo- and Sengoku-era Japanese views. The personal feelings of those to be wed are almost never considered during the marriage process, except in extreme circumstances; marriages exist to serve purely practical means such as increasing a family's wealth and status, as part of a peace treaty, etc. While homosexual relationships aren't forbidden, they are never considered "serious" relationships, like all personal romances, and also like all other romances, they must be nearly (but not completely) invisible to the public and expressed "just so" with the proper gestures and public displays in order to be proper. When it was written about in the past version of the game, there is some lingering homophobia in Rokugan in that most Rokugani prefer gay relationships to be more hidden than straight ones, but it's unclear if this remains true in the FFG version of the setting, and it's a minor detail regardless.

All personal relationships, gay ones included, are seen as expressions of romantic love, an emotion which is admired when expressed properly but ultimately seen as a distraction from ones duty to marry well and have many offspring that will then serve your lord. Thus, in the standard Rokugan, much like historical Japan it draws from, a gay marriage would never be considered. They're not so homophobic to want to legislate it, but moreover the law against it doesn't exist because there's no point stipulating on something that's never going to happen anyways.

These non-egalitarian policies can lead to great fiction at the table, especially since the Rokugani view on love (and the stories samurai drama is geared toward telling about it) is essentially tragic; a forbidden love held apart by a troubled marriage and Rokugan's strict views on infidelity can be a great story, and indeed, the current writers of the game seem intent to explore this particular dynamic in the stories of Bayushi Kachiko and Doji Hotaru. I personally had a great experience in my first L5R campaign dealing with the frictions caused between my asexual character (especially since Rokugani culture lacks the context for him to understand that about himself) and his wife over concerns about preserving her legacy.

But again, it's your Rokugan; if that isn't the sort of stories you're interested in telling and want a more egalitarian world, go for it!

I’m only just now delving into L5R, so someone more familiar with the setting feel free to tell me if I’m wrong.

My read on the situation in Rokugan is that the laws are unisex, but the culture is not, and marriage among the samurai caste exists to bind families and produce heirs. For this reason, gay marriage is uncommon, but not strictly illegal. Thus, my character can have a wife if I can write a reasonable explanation for how that came about.

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