Maze of the Fireflies Highlights

Yesterday's game put our Southern samurai on a mission to escort a convoy up a dangerous stretch of river on the way to an inventor's expo. Here are some highlights. Every single character had one or more of the following hindrances: Overconfident, Curious, Heroic. As you can imagine they were very...proactive. Here are some highlights.

* Attacked by river pirates!
* Pirate captain falls instantly in love with the dashing Mantis Bushi! Promptly loses an arm, and the battle.
* Pirate captain pledges to serve to atone for his crimes.
* Everyone but the Scorpion Shugenja makes friends with a crew of brave but distractible rat-people. * Many confusing conversations about time, fish, and shiny things ensue. Learn about monster called the Tomorrow Fish. Probably nothing.
* Crew explores creepy, rocky, lake maze filled with mist and fireflies and adjectives.
* Spoiler Alert! The mist is made of dead people!
* Ship encounters a Maze Dragon a 30 meter long gargantuan serpent capable of biting ships in half.
* Mantis Bushi promptly jumps overboard to fight said beast mano-y-dragon.
* Scorpion discovers priceless clutch of Maze Dragon eggs. Promptly doesn't tell anyone. Scorpion...
* Zaibatsu Inventor sets bait for the Tomorrow Fish by strapping super-sandals to a clockwork samurai and having him perform figure skating routine.
* Tomorrow fish appears!
* Is actually turtle-shaped ironclad submarine powered by captive elemental inferno with hull immune to cannon fire. It's probably fine.
* Tomorrow Fish cuts boat in half with one shot from mouth-cannon!
* Samurai respond by jumping straight into mecha-beast's mouth. Heroes...
* Mantis Shugenja calls upon spirits of sailors killed by the ironclad to attack!
* The two Shugenja sabotage engines while Mantis Bushi and Zaibatsu merchant engage in epic battle with steam-cyborg ironclad captain on the bridge. Is epic.
* Ship makes it to surface, but about to blow!
* Ironclad crew and hero samurai awkwardly share escape pods for two days.

Victory for the South! Sort of.

Image by Brian Wackwitz