Despair and Wisdom: Imperial March

Having spent the intervening time making sure that Daidoji Kumiko's quarters were to her advantage, Hametsu took a few moments after being dismissed for the evening to head down to the great gate. Standing at an inner door looking down the deadly hall at the immensity of the thing, he felt his mind sliding in all sorts of interesting directions. How a Lion would defend this space. How the Crab must. And how the Legion would need to adapt its tactics to adjust for the almost claustrophobic spaces circumscribed by deadly traps.

He steepled his fingers and smiled. This would be fun.

D6 metagame roll. Tactics/Earth | TN: 2 | Success: 3 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 2


+1 to Legion Discipline for the Right Hand. Spending the Earth Opportunity to lessen the danger of offending the Crab by developing new ideas for defending their keep using Legion resources.

"Finding much of interest, Doji-san?"

Hiruma Akako stands behind him.

How she got there...

"Indeed," he replied, having bowed as expected. "The Crab supplement their tactics well, but prepared fortifications are an approach the Legion will need to adapt to. Quickly."

Akako smiles.

"Then it is fortunate that there are Crab to advise," she says. "And the Rikugunshokan respects expertise. My people will be happy to have the assistance, so long as those who don't yet know the details heed those who do."

Hametsu nodded. "The Rikugunshokan is wise. And it is well that we have been encouraged to follow his example. I was somewhat surprised to find in the course of my briefing that Hida Benkei-taisa was keen to impress on me that there were many, many situations he had experienced that were more severely dangerous that the ones I am likely to face. Was Hida-taisa implying that the situation here is normal?"

"'Normal' is a dangerous word to apply here," Akako says. "'Normal' days involve things trying to eat your face--with or without the rest of you. Or worse."

She shakes her head.

"Things have, by report, been less chaotic but not less quiet. And that usually means trouble. Consider the difference between, say, the Fourth and the Sixth on the march."

Hametsu bowed his head. "Thank you for clarifying matters, Hiruma-sama." Though your example could cut in either direction. "Will the Legion be maintained as a command separate from the Crab, or will we be placed under Crab officers?"

"Separate," Akako says. "For a number of reasons. There is a liaison, of course," and she grimaces, "and, as noted, the Rikugunshokan heeds the wisdom of experience. But too much change too quickly does nobody any good, as I am certain Doji-san knows."