The various clan samurai came to the imperial city and met with Otomo Hana, the middle aged governess of the tax district.
Otomo Hana was quite bored with her life, and requested each samurai clan regail her with some test of skill. She then insisted they all stay for a few days, while she tormented her guests with off color and bawdy conduct, including inviting local eta to dine at the samurai's table, orchestrating a fake assassination plot, and tricking one clan samurai into wandering the grounds naked all night.
She gave the scorpion clan a gift to bring to their local daimyo. Investigation of the gift revealed a poor quality wakizashi (generally considered to be an insulting gift), though a closer look revealed a strange liquid concealed in a secret compartment in the handle.
During the event, several clan samurai were recruited by Otomo Toju, the hostesses brother, who, with a recently fired Jade Magistrate, Seppun Izo, were going to tour Rokugan to investigate reports of strange foreign magics and potential spy activity in the country, under the guise of working as tax collectors.
The party left early in the morning, and learned during their exit that the imperial city had been shut down- no one was to get in or out because of an attempted assassination in the imperial palace. No one was killed, but the would-be assassin escaped. Otomo Toju was able to use his connections to bypass the guard, but it looks like no one else would be leaving or entering the capital any time soon.
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