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Yori and the villagers march him would come to a halt, do to the two ronin blocking their path with weapons drawn. They did not advance nor did show hostility, they merely stood in the way to keep them joining the main strike force. Yori ready himself as he walked between the ronin and villagers, looking at the ronin with a quizzical expression and indifferent tone.

"Trying to stop us from assisting are allies, seems pretty desperate. It's almost like you know you'll lose if we manage to team up. Since you know your going to lose how about you give up and save us some time or to improve your moral standing, join the winning side. It's better then bleeding out in the dirt or being capture and parade around before you swing by the neck like leaves on a tree. It matters not to me, however the villagers would prefer seeing you beaten to death".

While Yori was making small talk with the ronin whose attention focused on Yori and his words. Yori motioned the villagers to surround the ronin and at the end of their talk. The ronin notices that they were now surrounded. Yori seemingly disinterested in the ronin now, places his left hand on the grip of his sword and advances forward. As Yori advances forward so do the villagers raising their, sickles,hoes,shovels and so on.

Yori has been sent to quell a altercation between The Pro-Azai faction of the village and a zealot whos been slowly converting the village to follow, "The Way Of Unity". The zealot promises that he will unite all of Nippon, through word and the power that the gods themselves have bestow upon him. Yori absolutely must stop this movement before it spreads and becomes like many dangerous religious sects before ( The Yellow Turbans and the Nestorian Christians are one of many that cross Yori's mind ).

Upon arriving at the village Yori is greeted by villagers in red kimonos. " Welcome to are village traveler, seed of The Way Of Unity". Their voices and expression were kind and welcoming. Playing the fool Yori smiles and asks in a interested tone,"Way Of Unity-what is that"?

The villagers tell Yori that they are part of the movement and how there going to bring of unity and balance that will restore Japan to a whole. Listening to their words Yori asks how they plan to unite all of Japan when they haven't even united one small village. They pause for a moment and in unison say, " The Bringer Of Unity will show the way".

"Who is this bringer of unity and where is he", Yori asks? The followers say he is the one who will unite the land, follow us and your questions will be answered. These religious types sure like to repeat themselves, it does not matter at least they'll lead me to the cause of all this distress and I can settle the matter. Yori follows the followers to a unused grainery, upon entering Yori is greeted by even more followers.

Looking rather out of place with his light blue kimono in a sea of red, Yori requests to see the self proclaim Bringer Of Unity. All the followers attention now focused on Yori, an awkward silence fills the room as Yori contemplates readying himself for a fight. The silence would loom over the room for a brief moment longer till a soft voice would pierce the silence." Unity through the gods who watch over are great land". The followers would fall to their knees and bow while reciting the same words. Facing the leader, who was donned A red cloak with a hood covering his face.

"If your the deliver of unity how do you plan on uniting Japan" Yori asked the cloaked man? The voice was soft and quiet, making it hard to distinguish if it's a man or woman.

"The gods show me the way i merely act on their word".

"Many claim the same as you do what proof do you have that shows otherwise"?

"I other have the words of the gods and my faith to guide me and those who follow me to the right path".

This conversation will go on forever if Yori does not think of a way to outright prove that this person is a mere storyteller.Yori approaches the zealot and stop about three feet away from him." You claim to know the will of the gods,but why do you hide your appearance as they do, why not show those how follow you what the face of unity looks like"!? The followers seem to agree with my request as they cheer and ask also to see the face of unity. The zealot backs away and nervously says," My face has no bearINg-on how the land will unite". The zealot's voice cracks midway through his sentence, it sounded feminine. Yori moves closer standing right infront of.... her?

The zealot crys out,"Stay Away",in a completely feminine, and her follower desist requesting to see the zealot's face. Yori septs towards her and removes her hood revealing her face. The followers grow angry and call her names and saying a woman could never know how to unity a land, their anger grows and they start to close in on the woman. Yori draws his sword and Yells," I am Lord Fujji Yori in service to your Lord Azai, none of you shall harm this woman i will escort her back to stand trial"! The ex-followers, back down as Yori escorts the woman with him back to the capital.

(OOC going for misdirection)

Str: 12 (6)
Dex: 13 (6)
Con: 9 (5)
Wis: 18
Spr: 5

[Stat bonuses from faction and weapon]

It seems Yori was not the first one to arrive. He politely waited for the men to say their piece. He then stepped forward and bowed to Lord Iwasaki, and in an his usual blank tone said. " Lord Iwasaki i have come on behalf of Lord Azai, to regain that which has been taken from you. I have your letter to his lordship to confirm my identity". He takes out the letter and hands it to Lord Iwasaki.

Yori steps back for he can see all the participating parties, and for they can see him to. Looking towards the spiky haired youth he keeps his tone, but with a closed mouth smiles at him then speaks, " You have the right idea, however don't throw your life away to simply be a momentarily distraction". Yori then turns to Sanada Yukimura, his face goes blank and bows to Sanada, " We have never met before, but i know of you Sanada-San. People talk of your bravery and honor, they never speak of your intelligence which has been shown by how you wish to proceed in are current endeavor". Yori raises himself then looks forward to address everyone.

" Their Daimyo has been overthrow and their home is threaten by honorless ronin. With their hearts full of passion i will direct it to the castle. With the force of the passionate mob the majority of the ronin will be forced to try and suppress, the mob and i. This distraction should allow the two of you, less resistance in your goal removing the ronin leader from power. To quote a certain someone, the power one if fearless and focus is formidable, but the power of many if working together is better ". With his words spoken he bows and awaits their response and ideas.

Yori had to hand it to her, shes a wordsmith in her own right, but that fact she took the safe route and pandered to Yori's ego gave Yori extra reinforcement to push more. Her apologetic smiles fell to a halt when meeting the cold unfeeling face that was Yori. He flick her practically empty jug that held her sake, the jug let out a small hollow ring. Yori then spoke in the same unfeeling and noncomforting voice.

" Lady Santos i think the sake got the better of you. first you refuse us, then you tell what are reconciliation is. I believe we should move forward. The reconciliation for your dual insults shall be that items requested at cost ".

With that said we moved into the haggling phase. She smart and controlled, but everyone has a limit and this ones armed. Yori doubts that she would pull a gun on him, but stranger things have happened. Shes smart though she will most likely try haggle him back to a reasonable rate.

The port town's market was overflowing with trade, however Yori was not here on the Azai's behalf. He was here of his own volition, ( even if his plan would assist the Azai and possibly other factions in the process ). Glossing over the many stalls of various goods, Yori's ears would pick up on a young woman's voice. Drawning his attention to the disturbance, the creator of this disturbance was indeed a young woman of Japan dressed in a western fashion armed to the teeth. Her distane towards the arms merchants store front goods was odd. She must not be versed in the ways of trade, Yori thought to himself. Reaching the stall Yori apologizes for his " friends "behalf and says.

" You know how women are ".

The merchant smiles and nods in agreement. Yori inspects his wears complementing his wears, but he apathetically says.

" unfortunately my friend is looking for something special, do you happen to know where i might aquire such a weapon ".

The merchant smile grows and places a rolled up cloth and unravels it to reveal three unique rifles and five unique pistols. Yori picks up one of the unique rifles and turns to the woman barrelling towards him with a irritated look. Without batting an eye holds the weapon out towards her and asked.

" Was this what you were inquiring about - friend "?

The Azai currently has six hundred and ninety three soldiers. Their are obviously not going to arm everyone with rifles, that would be ludicrously expensive and would make are army less versatile. Yori places her pistol that he was holding in his left hand to the left side of her table and places his order.

" I believe The Azai would be interested in a trade of one hundred and fifty Tanegashima and ten large mobile cannons. For the training of operation of the new weaponry. I believe you would be prefect for the job, you know are language, your controlled and your already here ".

Though he was asking her to stay here as a personal trainer that is not the only reason Yori wishes her to stay in arms reach.

With his men back with their report the choice was simple. All the teams excluding the south team, would move to eliminate the lookouts on the south side. This will allow us to remain undetected while we converge on the inn, we don't really know how many are actually in the inn and it would be best not to alert a possible large force to are presence. With his path decided Yori signalled his watchman to signal the west and north to move in.

The unaware enemy lookouts proved no match and were easily silenced. Yori signals the south team to regroup, while they motion over Yori peers inside the inn to see what their numbers are. Their actually seems to be only three remaining drinking and harassing the local women. Yori faces his fellow Azai and tells them to surround the inn and charge in at the same time and eliminate the remaining deserters. Forcing them to surrender would be to risky and is not necessary, but be careful of the women and do not underestimate the enemy.

Arriving close by the occupied village a safe distance away as to not be spotted, Yori surveyed the village area. It was a very basic underdeveloped farm town no walls but it had a town center. with a inn and a small market. The village had four entry points all seemed to be manned by two sentries, it was a basic set up no makeshift alarms or partols most likely the had shifts and the rest were holed up in the inn. With his reconnaissance finished he turned to the men behind him.

" Alright heres the plan, theres four points of entry with two sentries on watch. Will be breaking into four groups of five, The Captain will lead the first group taking the north side. The Sergeant will take the west, I'll be leading the east. We need a group leader for south, who thinks they have what it takes "?

One of the soldiers steps for at attention

" I have it sir ".

Yori walks towards the man getting inches from the soldier's face

" You'll be responsible for are south side you could cause a lot of deaths including your own if you blow it. So i'll ask again do you have what it takes"!

Without hesitation the soldier speaks

" Sir yes sir i am from this village sir i would give my life to defend it sir "

Yori steps back and continues on explaining the plan.

" Two of each of the groups will close in on the sentries positions while the other two stay back out sight and provide support if necessary. While the last will stay out of the village to communicate between the other groups. It is inpairative that we strike at the same time, look to your man to see when it's time to strike. After we deal with the sentries will rally at the inn, stay out of sight i cannot stress this enough. Now any questions?

The information filled the borders of Yori's plan, painting a clear picture. Still at attention facing the captain he reveals his plan.

" Captain we should reach the enemy occupied village by nightfall, and scout the outer area, if they are not aware of are presence. We will surround the village and attack silently, at the same time taking out the sentries and leaving them no time to mount counter attack defense measures. They will most likely hole themselves up in a small defensible building if they have the chance, however it will be their undoing. This will avoid unnecessary bloodshed, but i have a back up plan in place if we are spotted. After dealing with the deserters i will personally deal with the matters of my town. Tomorrow their will be a festival which it turn means the guard will be out partoling the town in full force. There is a secret escape tunnel made by the third Lord of my town, that leads into the manor. This will allow me access to get in an out undetected and-do what needs to be done ".

Bowing again to the captain and in a loud driven voice Yori asks

" Captain your word is all i need to commence the operation and right what is wrong "!

" Itadakimasu "

Yori inattentively says while he enjoys his dish, almost disinterested in her fantastically said explanation of what her company is and what it trades. What interest Yori the most was rifles, is that the only firearm they trade or do they also have cannons? They the main supplier of The Oda but who else Yori wondered? Slowly placing his chopsticks down and putting his attention on Gabriella.

" Does your company only extend to The Oda or has it spread further to other factions, and do you have any trade agreements or manifest to back your companies's impressive feats "?

Yori asks in his same polite but somewhat disinterested tone, seeing if she is the real deal or a charlatan.



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"" OOC: Yes very impressive you definitely brought your A game "!

She seemed to have drinks on her mind and trade in the background, and her casual glance failed on the account that she did not pause to read any of the sighs three of them being restaurants. A bar to get me drunk or is it for her? Thinking back to her hidden side. She also mention her father quite frequently, and a variety of goods and services. This could translate into her not well know or is not who she say she is, using her so called father as a way of access to trade or other interests. The variety of goods and services is vague and show that they are most likely a small business with no strong monopolys on any commoditys. However these are merely conjectures and i need more information before i act on anything. For now i will play along and see what she has to offer.

" There are many restaurants around and a small private bar nearby, Since you are now a possible business partner and a guest of The Azai and me. What is your choice for venue "?

I say bowing to her in agreement of the change of venue.

Open trade with the Azai, on her father behalf. So she is a merchant's daughter, Her last comment and slightly soured expression showed Yori that he could no longer play the fool any longer. Though she seems easily provoked, if used correctly he could use her emotions against her. With the same blank face and tone of voice he speaks.

" I have been found out it seems, to confirm your suspicions I am Fujii Yori. However i am now at a disadvantage for i only know of your intent but not your name or the company you represent or further more what you wish to trade. "

He slowly turns all the way around, then looks back at her and adds an extra note.

" We also seem to be in the middle of a very busy main entry point. It's an odd place for a meeting such as this, however that is merely my opinion what's your opinion on the matter at hand "?