I’ve been reading precious little on my own account over the last few months. What I have been doing, most nights of the week, is reading to David. He’s a strong reader in his own right and is well able to cope with run-of-the-mill kids’ books, so I’m leaving the Horrid Henries of this world for him to explore on his own. However, for slightly more ( Read more... )

OK, I think I'm sorted for a plot for the next L5R adventure...

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I've been sorting through some of the L5R card art and stuff from the earlier edition books I have, and I've found a few images which might be appropriate for various members of the party. What do you think?

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LiveJournal is being difficult about posting long entries, and this is taking rather more posts than I thought...
So, the magistrates are about to start their second progression through the puzzle path set them by the kenku at Serpent Hall.

Part IV

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Following the path away from the Lady’s Bower leads the samurai to a succession of odd situations. It soon becomes clear that, while the country they are travelling through resembles the hill country and forest they are familiar with, it is subtly changed, and does not contain the same human habitation that they would expect. Isawa Kyasuta suspects ( Read more... )

Bayushi Kenzo (Richard) ... Scorpion clan - bushi (warrior), Emerald (Imperial) magistrate.

Bayushi Muneori (Jonas) ... Scorpion clan - bushi (warrior), Imperial magistrate, cousin of Kenzo

Isawa no Superu Kyasuta (Jeff) ... Phoenix clan - shugenja, yoriki (assistant) to the magistrates.

Yumi (Wayne) ... Wasp clan - archer, yoriki to the magistrates.
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Where were you?

Beijing. We'd been in China about 3 days and were joining an organised tour that day. When we arrived at the hotel there were garbled rumours amongst the rest of the group but we only found out the horrible scale of the events when we went to the tour guide's hotel room and watched the planes hit the WTC on a postage stamp sized ( Read more... )

The Tonza valley is high and narrow at this point. The road is difficult, barely suitable for horse traffic, and Bayushi Muneori’s inexperience on horseback nearly leads to disaster on a couple of occasions. The magistrates overnight at the little village of Tessaku, which clings to any vaguely horizontal surface, and where they see that the rope ( Read more... )

 
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