Sengoku Chapter 3 : Knives in the Dark

Welcome to Chapter 3 of Warring States Period (Sengoku) Mafia

The following are the rules specific to this faction game.

Factions:

Each member of a faction knows their leader. The leader of each faction also knows a single member of their faction.

Victory conditions for factions:

Achieve numerical superiority over rival factions. Unaligned assassins are not included when calculating faction numbers.

Assassins:

Victory Conditions:

Be the last assassin standing.

The victory conditions of the factions and assassins are mutually exclusive. Two scenarios are possible:

1) An assassin eliminates their rivals and claims victory. Game continues until a faction victor is also decided.
2) A faction emerges victorious, but there is more than one assassin remaining in the game. The game is over. This results in a draw for the remaining assassins.

For all players: Reveals of any information to be found in your PM is forbidden.

Days will be 30 hours. Nights 10 hours.

This post has been edited by Path-Shaper: 19 September 2012 - 03:11 AM

It is the early 1500’s, in lands West of the Imperial capital, Kyoto. With the defeat of the Ashikaga in the East, it did not take much for Western clans to make their own strikes for power. Masamoto Hosokawa struck first. In a conflict between the Hosokawa and the Hatakeyama clan, shogun Yoshitane led troops against Masamoto.
The shogun was defeated.

Masamoto subsequently took control of Kyoto, and exiled Yoshitane, raising Ashikaga Yoshizumi to the post of shogun in his stead. Yoshizumi, however, was nothing more than Masamoto’s puppet to control.

This widened the conflict, as the neighboring clans of the Hosokawa decided to tentatively grab for more land, power and control of their destinies.

This is where the situation stands. Three clans, the Hosokawa, the Ouchi and the Amako push and prod each other, looking for any weaknesses. Not ready for open conflict yet, they seek diplomatic means, mild border skirmishes to keep each other off balance as well as even more…underhanded methods to try and seize the upper hand.

The time for brute force has not yet arrived. Instead, look for the knives in the dark….

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