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daidoji_giseiAfter a two week absence I got to play in my L5R rpg last night. Nothing really exciting happened (qualifications below), but all the guys were happy to have me back and that gave me warm fuzzies inside. We also had a new guy, Shawn?, join--he doesn't seem to have a lot of experience in rpgs, but he seems to be catching on.
As far as our characters are concerned, something exciting did happen: the Scorpion Clan Coup took place. We were not around for it, really, we were in Tsume getting the place ready for the Topaz Championship and being blindsided by the news from Otosan Uchi. Azami had a moment of pure terror when Doji Satsume, Emerald Champion, and his crew rolled through town, because the spring before she had married a Scorpion boy and while he joined her clan she had visions of becoming a young widow. But Masenoubu managed to convince that he was as horror-stricken as everyone else, so Satume didn't do anything untoward.
The whole coup thing is kinda interesting to me, for what I guess I'd call non-story reasons. John, Jesse and I are all older and have been playing various flavors of L5R for a number of years and so we all know where the canon storyline is going: coup, clan wars, day of thunder... Mike and Michael are much younger and this rpg game is their first intro to L5R, so it's all fresh to them. Their reactions to some things are fascinating to watch, because they don't know where all this is going. I think I envy them a little. But really, I could never play a game set in a larger story and not seek that story out. When I first picked up L5R I steadily hunted down every scrap of info I could find on it, much in the way I'm hunting down Bleach info now. I want to know the facts, and I don't feel that this diminishes the impact of the story when it finally unfolds for me.
This is probably one of the reasons why, if I'm reading a book that's really interesting, I'll skip back to read the final two pages of it. This is a practice that I picked up in elementary school, for reasons I can't recall. It was the cause of one of the five or so real arguments I've ever had with mbf Karin, who thought that it was incredibly disrespectful to the author, because they meant for the story to be told in a certain fashion and I was messing it up. I suppose that I'd agree with her if after reading the last two pages I decided that I didn't want to read the rest, but that never happens. I read the end, and then race back to the middle so I can finish the story. I have evolved the theory that if the story is good, a spoiler won't (automatically) destroy your enjoyment of it--it will simply change it from one type of enjoyment to another. I know that there are spoiler-adverse people in the world, and I try to remember that when discussing books, but that's not how I'm set up.
As far as our characters are concerned, something exciting did happen: the Scorpion Clan Coup took place. We were not around for it, really, we were in Tsume getting the place ready for the Topaz Championship and being blindsided by the news from Otosan Uchi. Azami had a moment of pure terror when Doji Satsume, Emerald Champion, and his crew rolled through town, because the spring before she had married a Scorpion boy and while he joined her clan she had visions of becoming a young widow. But Masenoubu managed to convince that he was as horror-stricken as everyone else, so Satume didn't do anything untoward.
The whole coup thing is kinda interesting to me, for what I guess I'd call non-story reasons. John, Jesse and I are all older and have been playing various flavors of L5R for a number of years and so we all know where the canon storyline is going: coup, clan wars, day of thunder... Mike and Michael are much younger and this rpg game is their first intro to L5R, so it's all fresh to them. Their reactions to some things are fascinating to watch, because they don't know where all this is going. I think I envy them a little. But really, I could never play a game set in a larger story and not seek that story out. When I first picked up L5R I steadily hunted down every scrap of info I could find on it, much in the way I'm hunting down Bleach info now. I want to know the facts, and I don't feel that this diminishes the impact of the story when it finally unfolds for me.
This is probably one of the reasons why, if I'm reading a book that's really interesting, I'll skip back to read the final two pages of it. This is a practice that I picked up in elementary school, for reasons I can't recall. It was the cause of one of the five or so real arguments I've ever had with mbf Karin, who thought that it was incredibly disrespectful to the author, because they meant for the story to be told in a certain fashion and I was messing it up. I suppose that I'd agree with her if after reading the last two pages I decided that I didn't want to read the rest, but that never happens. I read the end, and then race back to the middle so I can finish the story. I have evolved the theory that if the story is good, a spoiler won't (automatically) destroy your enjoyment of it--it will simply change it from one type of enjoyment to another. I know that there are spoiler-adverse people in the world, and I try to remember that when discussing books, but that's not how I'm set up.
Jesse's Reply
Date: 2006-06-17 02:05 am (UTC)I am enjoying the L5R RPG a lot, especially since I have never been able to run or play it until this group got together. I am recording my experiences and jubilations at my own blog (shameless plug: http://honorstwilight.blogspot.com/). Overall this has been some of the best gaming I have ever experienced.