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Month of July
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Alderac has started an EZboard GenCon 2002 Bounties page. Ray Lau apparently
wants the
Dragons to be corrupted - he's offering a 3-D "Mountain
Keep of the Dragon Stronghold"
made by Leon Phillips for the highest placing Corrupt Dragon
Deck that takes top 8. So where's the Honorable Dragon Movement HDM
when you need them? Did they all retire?
Were they all killed at the Battle for Oblivion's Gate? Or did
they just become old, slow and
apathetic? Maybe their time has passed and we should rely on
the Jade
Hand to save us from
ourselves? So far, no bounty for highest ranking non-tainted
Dragon. Where is all the famous Dragon
Gold? Did we spend it all on pretty geishas?
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Crab and Scorpion Strongholds Previewed The Shadowed Tower of the Shoshuro Stronghold
(Scorpion) can be seen on the pages of
the Ratling Battle Cry!
It's unclear to us why a Ratling site should get the preview
instead of a Scorpion site like
Ambassador Bayushi Murai's . . . perhaps AEG thinks that Iguesi
is back to his old tricks
of operating The Ninja Shadows? Hummm, maybe AEG knows something
that we don't,
like the Ninja are returning? Let's see, the powers of the Living
Darkness is now controlled
by the Tainted Air Dragon who is now allied with Daigotsu. If
the Shadowlands
are reduced
to just being a Faction by Diamond Edition, someone's got to
be the "bad guys". In the Broken Blades preview, the Steel Throne was Tainted. What does this
mean?
See the Rumours page
for speculation.
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In an unusual display of competence for a
Dragon, the experienced Tamori Shaitung
came without restrictions. Praise the Kami!
Crab Gets Biggest and Toughest Champion Hida O'ushi's boy looks like he takes after
his grandfather, Hida Kisada.
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Mirumoto Shokan Honored Today Long time Legends of the Five Rings player
and advocat Rob Bowman gets the ultimate honor
today by having his persona Mirumoto Shokan made into a card.
Other recent honorees
include:
Paul Jacoby (Mirumoto Shiryu)
Jim Callahan (Hitomi Bunjun)
Joe Keyser (Hitomi Kagatora).
Shadowlands Wins Season of the Mantis at
Brave New Worlds.
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Rumours
section updated with additional information about Daigotsu
and the possible collapse of
Rokugan society by the end of the year from internal strife and
war.  Click on image to go to Alderac's site
The Crane Clan get additional dueling support
with their new non-unique sensei, Kozue.
Fortunately the card is non-clan specific and we can use the
card as well.  Click on image to go to Alderac's site
Lady Moon's Curse is an interesting
anti-tattooed card. Why Alderac would specifically try
to counter tattooed decks is unclear because there haven't been
that many winning decks of that
design. Story-wise, this card gets interesting when used against
Kokujin, the corrupted tattooed
man who stole Togashi's Daisho. Tomorrow there will be a Season of the Mantis
tournament at Brave
New Worlds in
Jenkintown, PA at 6:00 p.m. Format will be 40/40 Gold constructed
decks. Entrance
fee is $6.00. Contact Eric
(store manager) for more details.
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Alderac Closes Organized Play Imperial
Assembly Utility The Organized Play utility for Imperial Assembly
membership and contact information has
been closed and will be replaced by the AEG Tournament Support
System on August 1st.
For questions about menbership, please contact Raymond
Lau at Alderac Entertainment Group. A map of Otosan Uchi dispicting the various
clan victories has been made available. Tainted
wins are represented by a darkened clan mon.
Yep, us Dragons control a small section at Life's Love in the
Toyotomi District. Hitomi Hokosaki has made a chart of Kotei 2002 wins sorted by greatest to least
participants. April Lee painted the artwork on the Mirumoto
Shiryu participation card.
See the real Mirumoto Shiryu's site at Yokuni's Legacy.
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Invitation to GenCon 2002 Here is the post card that was received for
the GenCon event:
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Dragons Place 4th at Origins Kotei According to Ryoko Owari la Cité des Rumeurs, the
Lion Clan won Kotei Origins 2002 with 4th
place belonging to the Dragon. We were tied for second with the
Crane in overall tournament points
behind the Phoenix this year. Mirumoto Izo's 1st place finish
in the Greece last week now becomes
more significant as the combined finishes let us equal the Crane
in points. (note: Ryoko Owari had originally placed the
Dragons 2nd but revised the rankings on July 8th.) Prelude to Darkness, Part Four: The
Curse Rich Wulf has posted the 4th part of Prelude
to Darkness. It's called The
Curse. Synopsis:
Doji Yasuyo is sent by a vision of Lady Doji to train under Kozue,
a kenku teacher who originally
taught her ancestor Doji Yasurugi the art of sword play along
with the craft of forging katanas.
Four blades were made by Doji Yasurugi with the assistance of
Kozue. The fifth blade was Doji
Yasurugi's finest blade and the first to be forged on his own.
It was named "Chukandomo" and
was meant to be a gift to the Matsu family to end the feud with
the Kakita. Unfortunately theft and
betrayal sabotaged the frendship gesture and the blade's soul
turned bitter and spiteful. The wielder
initially gains great power but eventually is destroyed by the
dark spirits bound to the blade. Lady Doji is trying to save Doji Kurohito,
and the Crane clan by having a blood relative, cousin
Doji Yasuyo, break the curse. Thus the need to train with Kozue
because he the only one who may
know how to break Chukandomo's curse. Apparently the answer is to be found in Otosan
Uchi. New in the story is the fact that Otosan Uchi
is a nexus "... where all Spirit Realms touch one another." Not being Crane, I had to make a scorecard
to remind myself who all the characters are - it's in the
appendix listed below: Appendix: Who's
Who and What's What in the Crane Clan
Doji Kurohito - Current Lord of the Crane
Clan and wielder of "Chukandomo", a powerful and
dangerous blade. It was he who beat Hida O-Ushi in her final
dual. No one will ever know if it was
skill or if it was "Chukandomo" that finally bested Hida
O-Ushi in "A Perfect Cut".
Doji Nagori - Younger brother to Doji
Yasurugi, now a magistrate working with the Emerald
Champion, Daidoji [Yasuki] Hachi.
Doji Yasurugi - Ancestor to Doji Kurohito
and Doji Yasuyo. An early student of Kozue, now
famous for forging 5 sister blades.
Doji Yasuyo - Cousin to Doji Kurohito
and wielder of "Naishi", one of Yasurugi's blades.
She is
the older sister to Doji Nagori.
Fuhao - A mujina who assists Kozue.
Kozue - 1100 year old kenku (non-human)
teacher.
Chukandomo - Fifth blade forged by Doji
Yasurugi, silver colored with a reclining crane on the
hilt. Said to be cursed by dark spirits, its current wielder
is Doji Kurohito.
Naishi - One of the five sister blades
made by Doji Yasurugi. Gold colored, currently held by
Doji Yasuyo. As far as is known, there is no curse on this katana.
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Mirumoto Izo wins the Greek Kotei for the
Dragon after his Crane opponent and friend
Kakita Shimazu conceded to repay a past favor.
Congratulations to Mirumoto
Izo for
the first and only Kotei win for the Dragon.
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Artwork is copyright by various artists who illustrated for Alderac Entertainment
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Dragon logo by R. Stier.
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