Considering the fact that our last group died to a man after surviving the Tomb of Iuchiban, we needed new characters, so we made some. Something new something old, and none of them liking the others : ) Our new group of Heroes consist of:

Shiba Hiraku: All star boy from the void monkey family. (I believe this is the reincarnation of Otaku Kozo from our last game)

Kuni Yjimbo: The Crab Dragon of legend. A Kuni trained at the Mirumoto dueling academy (figure that one out)

Hida Saburo: The littlest Klingon...I mean Crab. Also the ugliest most uncouth Crab (and that's saying something about his achievements in those areas thus far)

Ikoma Reiako: Johns umpteenth million lion bushi-ko samurai chick type (he seems to die a lot, a lot more than the rest of us, anyway)

Agasha Doshi: the famous Agasha monk type, bald, carries nothing, smells.

and yours truly:
Bayushi Yashin: My 2nd sneaky git type. Though I haven't had a chance to do anything really sneaky yet.

Highlights from games gone by:
05/30/99 Shiba Hiraku to the Emerald Champion, explaining why he spilled tea on him: "You'll have to excuse me, I was struck by lightning yesterday."

05/16/99 Mirumoto Yjimbo in a slip of the tongue: "Look, it's the Elemental ass-Master of Air."

A note to our players, if you can think of anything else that should go here, sing out.