[Dragon-new] Re: [dragon] Dragon/Crab unity?

[Barry Kunz]

Welcome to the game and the list!

>From: BayushiHitomi at aol.com
>
>My husband and I are relatively new to the L5R card game and we came across 
>a perplexing dilemma just a moment ago.  Since I am a Dragon >member, I 
>thought I'd ask (he is a Crab).
>
>He just noticed on his Mirumoto Taiu card that the picture is of a Crab 
>clan member.  Why is this?  His armor and weaponry all indicate that he is 
>a Crab, yet he is listed as a Dragon clan member.  What is the reasoning 
>behind this?
>

Below is the only offical comment on Mirumoto Taiu.


--- Rich Wulf <rwulf at m...> wrote:
>Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 03:40:08 -0500
>To: dragon at m...
>From: Rich Wulf <rwulf at m...>
>Subject: Re: dragon-digest Digest V2001 #301
>Reply-to: dragon at m...
>
>
> >Someone please tell me whats going on, cos I dont
> >believe my eyes. Thats a guy standing on the Kaiu
> >walls, wielding a bow carved from a tseubo, firing
> >at onis, wearing crab armor and with a big Crab mon
> >in the middle!! This guy is a Mirumoto?? He even
> >has the trade mark dodgy tash of the crab, if he ever
> >gets exped Im sure hell have a weird ass hat!!
>
>... Bow carved out of a tetsubo?
>
>Okay, I'll admit he's wearing a Crab mon on his
>(green) armor, but that thing he's holding is just a daikyu.
>
> >Rich please please please come up with something
> >fast to explain all of this. Has that marriage of
> >convience taken place so fast Hida Taiu didnt get a
> >chance to leave the wall? mysterious mix up at birth?
> >too much hair for an ise-zumi? Do we now have some
> >sort of a crab alliance all of a sudden? is there
> >even a dragon clan left or are we just the left
>overs from all the others???
>
>Don't get all worked up over this; friendly "hostage" exchanges happen in 
>Rokugan all the time. Occasionally those folks are
>allowed to swear fealty.  This fellow happens to be a former Hiruma. > He's 
>not on the Kaiu Wall;
>
>And whether you think the above is a quickly formulated excuse or was
>planned all along, well that's between you and your respective deity. > At 
>any rate, it's Taiu's story. More background on him
>will be forthcoming. (And no, he's not part of the challenge booth > > 
>prize; the Crab/Dragon hostage exchange is still on the way.)
>
> >Hitomi Hokosaki
>
>Rich Wulf
>L5R Writer Guy

Note that since this post was made to the Dragon list back in September, 
there has been no further information forthcoming about Mirumoto Taiu.

Barry Kunz
Togashi Zembu
Dragon Clan Hatamoto

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