Session 5 (4 XP)

Downtime

While the party practiced studying their martial techniques, they learned that they were accused of attempting to murder the Emperor, and that his sons were killed. The crane was vouched for by the Doji Family Champion, saying that there must be an identity mistake, as she was with him assisting with a personal matter during this time. The scorpion cousins were informed that they had confessed, been killed, and their bodies sent to the capital. They were informed that their identity had been stolen by three other Samurai, and that they should "be more careful." The Tsuruchi brought back the bounty hunters that had targeted the group earlier, but swapped out the bounty, so it looks like the hunters were the assassins, and the PC was collecting the reward.

To Mantis Lands

Otomo Toju had no protection, and his sister is in the capital city, removed from position. Yogo James convinced his brother to get new travel papers (They will travel as Scorpion bounty hunters), and to protect Otomo Toju and check on his sister.

They decided to go to Mantis lands to try to see if they could find more about gaijin demons from the clan that trades more with the gaijin. On the way, they saw a star fall from the sky some miles away.

The Fallen Star
The star crashed into a sealed-off zinc mine that was tainted several months ago. The collision opened the mine and goblins were coming out. Some ronin defended the city while the party went to investigate. At the bottom they found a powerful Oni and an Angel- some kind of celestial fallen kami. She cured all the taint from the mine (including severing the Oni's connection to Jigoku) and collapsed. They party took her back to town and told the townsfolk what happened. The townsfolk had already summoned the tiger clan to come help with the tainted mine, who was sending a small force. To protect the angel, the party rallied the peasants to fight off the tiger force.

The Angel (Yophiel) thanked the party, and blessed them all with a Blessings of the Oracles advantage. The town was happy to have their zinc mine back, and built statues to the party, overcoming their inability to gain glory for being to bland .