Kobune "Emma-O's Fury"

Kobune "Emma-O's Fury" Summer 1197

Yoritomo Mashite was worried. Deeply worried. Something was wrong on the ship. He adjusted the kama on his belt and moved towards the bow of the ship.

He didn't know what he was looking for, but he knew that he was looking for whatever was killing his crew. Since he had set sail a month ago the ship had been plagued with all manner of mishaps and tragedies.

Mashite had already lost his boatswain, and to make matters worse it had been his nephew. He would have to tell the boy's mother when he returned to Rokugan.

Over the days, a number of his crew had succumbed to some sort of illness. Moshi Akiko, the chief shugenja on the ship, was at a loss to explain it. The crew just seemed to be wasting away. Finally, his pet monkey had died in the night.

They were a month out from the Colonies, but he feared that if things continued in this vein, they would be lucky to make it.His remaining crew were beginning to mutter about an unseen presence but Akiko could not find anything.

As his investigation continued, he entered the hold. It was dark and the sounds of the ship seemed somehow muted down there.

There wasn't a rat anywhere to be found, nor a mouse. And yet the ship's cat had died only a few days into the journey. For a minute he thought he heard a noise from further into the ship. His hands went to his kama instinctively, but there was no one to be seen..

.The Hidden flowed out of his hiding spot and engulfed the rokugani with the sickles on his belt. He sapped the man's life force feeling it's power suffuse his being. It would be a long journey back to Thrane and his fortress Blind-stack.

He had had enough of the so called Emerald Empire and longed to return home.