Last night we finished playing the Mountain Witch, the game where everyone plays a Ronin with a dark secret out to kill a magician on Mt Fuji.
I had a fantastic last session where I fulfilled my dark secret goal by stabbing C, then I went hard and helped to kill the Mountain Witch, took some proof and skedaddled out of the place to collect the reward money. With the reward money I liberated my sister from a brothel and we moved into the country where I started my own dojo.
I won the game!
My big speech, right after I saw C's character Kiyo grabbed by the giant claw of a monster and dragged through a wall. I leapt after and attacked the monster, telling Kiyo "don't worry, you do not die like this." After we defeated the monster, Kiyo was on the floor, clutched in the claw of the monster still. I stood over him with my sword out...
"My family used to be important. We used to be wealthy and well thought of. Then something happened to my Father's business, and he lost all his money. They sent some people to collect that money, and they killed him. Because of this my sister was sold to a brothel and I am reduced to fighting ghosts on a mountainside.
The good thing is, I found out who killed my father. I didn't want that monster to kill you, because that pleasure shall be mine!"
Then there was stabbing, and I left, and then Kiyo got up, felt around in the wound, got up and rearranged himself. Because he was really the servant of the Mountain Witch.
Awesome stuff.
I found this game difficult, but ultimately fun. The genre is a very interesting one and we all had fun being Ronin. My character Yuki, won, but not after gaining himself the title of "Yuki the stupidly impetuous"!
Posted by jenni at October 3, 2007 02:49 PM