From: owner-brotherhood-digest@flwyd.dhs.org (Brotherhood Digest) To: brotherhood-digest@flwyd.dhs.org Subject: Brotherhood Digest V1 #110 Reply-To: brotherhood Sender: owner-brotherhood-digest@flwyd.dhs.org Errors-To: owner-brotherhood-digest@flwyd.dhs.org Precedence: bulk Brotherhood Digest Thursday, May 11 2000 Volume 01 : Number 110 Today's subjects from the Brotherhood: RE: [Brotherhood] rant (sorry) Re: [Brotherhood] rant (sorry) Re: [Brotherhood] Hantei Sensei help RE: [Brotherhood] Iaijutsu Art - Corruptl? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 11:27:45 -0500 From: Chill Subject: RE: [Brotherhood] rant (sorry) ahhh......hit enter........break it up....I am blind! Using paragraph structure is a neccesity if you wish to use brush and ink within our monastaries :) MitsuMan http://www.thepearlherald.com - -----Original Message----- From: IceSith@aol.com [SMTP:IceSith@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 6:58 PM To: brotherhood@flwyd.dhs.org Subject: Re: [Brotherhood] rant (sorry) ok. first of all the brotherhood is not a clan in the real since. it has no true leader .it has had military comanders (ie tetsuya, suana, etc.) but no real leader. the closest thing we have had is some individuals who are closer to enlightenment than others (the acolytes, tetsuya, naka kuro, etc). second, monks are not necessarily retirees, they never swore fealty to the brotherhood, the brotherhood does not require anything of them other than a desire to seek enlightenment. anyone of any class or any clan can dedicate themselves to the quest for enlightenment and therefore become a monk. the dragon are not our enemies, our only enemies are those who would seek to hinder us on the path of enlightenment (the shadowlands who would destroy our places of retreat, the shadow that seeks to unmake the elements, and occasionally a clan which thinks we pose some kind of threat). the dragon are the closest clan to us because of the togashi family who an older order of monks than the temples groups of the rest of the brotherhood (as far as i can tell the togashi family was founded by togashi to follow the path of enlightenment before shinsei guided the thunders and wrote the tao, also the tao is not the road to enlightenment in itself, it is only a way shinsei sought to help others along the way and a few guidelines to make things easier; in my opinion the pheonix are the furthest clan from us merely because their goals are the complete opposite of ours. they seek to use the elements to achive the tasks they are set upon. we however seek to use the tasks we complete to get "in tune" withe the elements). thirdly, the hoshi family was not founded to oppose the dragon clan, it was founded for two motives, one of stopping what was at the time viewed as corruption but was in reality hitomi doing what was neccesary to defeat an enemy to us that we did not even realize existed. the other was hoshi's misguided ambition (which i believe he has since abandoned despite their realizations). hoshi was an honored guest of ours who learned much in his stay at the temples and has returned to his clan bringing along those who swore fealty to him. he is the daimyo of the hoshi family and will be until his demise at which point the hoshi will have a new daimyo and the dragon a new champion. the hoshi can choose to not follow togashi to the dragon and remain to seek enlightenment in the temples rather than in the halls of the dragon clan. if they choose to do this they need nod revoke their family names (examples: heichi chokei, the oldskool togashi, etc.) the togashi who forsook the name of togashi did so not because they were setting out on the road to enlightenment but because they believed they could do so better while not under the influence of hitomi. lastly, we should never have a brotherhood card which is specifically out to get a clan. the monk cards should have abilities that had to do with helping the player to enlightenment, the personality's own accomplichments towards enlightenment, what they have set themselves our to do to further themselves on the path, or any duties they have taken upon themselves in the brotherhood (defense of the temples, tending the scrolls, whatever). the monk of all orders and temples, whether they be togashi, hoshi, retired clan members, ashigeru who follow the teachings of shinsei, or just meditate in seclusion should not be about antagonism, opposition to any clan, or using theeir quests as an excuse to not follow their daimyos but should dedicate themselves wholeheartedly to their enlightenment, to defending the means they and others need to complete their paths, and to helping others in their personal path to enlightenment. * You received this message because you're subscribed to brotherhood * To send a message, mail brotherhood@flwyd.dhs.org To unsubscribe, * mail brotherhood-request@flwyd.dhs.org with a body of unsubscribe * You received this message because you're subscribed to brotherhood * To send a message, mail brotherhood@flwyd.dhs.org To unsubscribe, * mail brotherhood-request@flwyd.dhs.org with a body of unsubscribe ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 18:14:53 EDT From: IceSith@aol.com Subject: Re: [Brotherhood] rant (sorry) sorry got carried away. too used to having to keep talkingreallyfastindebateroundstogetallofmyargumentsin. * You received this message because you're subscribed to brotherhood * To send a message, mail brotherhood@flwyd.dhs.org To unsubscribe, * mail brotherhood-request@flwyd.dhs.org with a body of unsubscribe ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 18:18:32 EDT From: BShadrack@aol.com Subject: Re: [Brotherhood] Hantei Sensei help I prefer to hantei for confusion vs any low honor deck (scorp, naga, ctb, etc), not just SL, since they'll usually only be able to send one guy to a province to defend early game, so the favor is 3 to 4 times as powerful. * You received this message because you're subscribed to brotherhood * To send a message, mail brotherhood@flwyd.dhs.org To unsubscribe, * mail brotherhood-request@flwyd.dhs.org with a body of unsubscribe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 08:05:54 -0700 From: "Scott Schultz" Subject: RE: [Brotherhood] Iaijutsu Art - Corruptl? >IA does one thing - very well. FtH does five things, all equally well. IA >moves you one-fifth of the way to an enlightenment victory. FtH can move >you three-fifths (or more). See which one is *easier*. Okay, but that isn't the issue. The issue is where do you draw the line? When does "easy" become "corrupt"? The definition of "corrupt" in terms of Enlightenment seems to be "so easy it's automatic". Iaijutsu Art fits that definition perfectly. Iaijutsu Art is a crutch that lets you avoid fighting a real duel. Finding the Harmony is a crutch that lets you avoid meeting the requirements of playing a Ring. The difference is one of degree, not of kind. Scott Schultz scott@ceweekly.com Enlightenment Wannabe 45th member of the Horiuchi Shoan Fan Club Save the Ogres! * You received this message because you're subscribed to brotherhood * To send a message, mail brotherhood@flwyd.dhs.org To unsubscribe, * mail brotherhood-request@flwyd.dhs.org with a body of unsubscribe ------------------------------ End of Brotherhood Digest V1 #110 ********************************* * You received this message because you're subscribed to brotherhood-digest * To send a message, mail brotherhood@flwyd.dhs.org To unsubscribe, mail * brotherhood-digest-request@flwyd.dhs.org with a body of 'unsubscribe'