A season for war.....

War, in my Shogunate?

It's more likely than you think!

Why war, though, after months of peace? Why go and start a fight all of a sudden?

Because it's about damn time, that's why! When I started fighting in the Shogunate back in July, the seeds of war were being sown.

"You will train, you will fight, we will go to war, and you will die in battle for the Shogunate."

These were the words that fueled a fire that forged the warrior spirits of many a noob in those days, myself included. Then a few odd things started to happen. Just when it seemed that the epic battle we'd all been waiting for was just around the bend, the leadership just decided to call it off. It was damn close too: plans had been made, shinobi missions carried out. Armor was being forged. Prior to the feast, many were told we would feast, then we would go to war. The feast came, an epic clan battle was fought, and there, many brotherhoods and rivalries were born.

The clan up north, Rosuto Wood, became our ally, while the samurai of the Red Mangetsu, and their brothers, Azure Gengetsu became a sort of rival of ours. Many powerful blows were dealt on both sides, and the fields of Sosei Bonzai were strewn with the dead and dying. In the end, it was Sosei Bonzai, and the their brothers of an uneasy truce, Itsukaten, who came out on top.

Things then changed within the Shogunate that would shake it to the very core. Slips of a careless tongue were soon forgotten and forgiven when an even more loathsome beast reared its head, Betrayal, and its brother, Treason. A core member of the Shogunate, one who had been with us from the beginning, decided to spread a few rumors, and in the author's opinion, it was the backlash from this that killed the war against Falling Fire.

But what of the war now? It may be coming, but as for when, no one knows. However, for one man within the Shogunate who refused to sit on his laurels, even after a resounding performance at the Feast, on a bum ankle no less, this peace had gone on too long. This man was none other than Daimyo Miyamoto Toshiro Mifune (Kyle). The idea of a raid was brought up, much to the approval of the clan.

A surprise raid on an unsuspecting Red Mangetsu seemed to be the best Christmas present that Kyle could've possibly given to his loyal fighters. Someone, however, just couldn't resist telling a certain Shogun all about it! Now let's not blame Jared here, he's all about getting together and having some fun, but now Sosei Bonzai, in my opinion, has a vendetta of sorts. We've been promised a war for months and months now, and just when the damn thing's about as close as it could get, he wants to turn the damn thing into a feast!

My friends, my brothers and sisters in arms, this cannot be tolerated! It's time for Sosei Bonzai to live up to its great name. Once again, the seeds of war have been sown, and now, men, there's no turning back. We cannot back down now that our enemy knows we're coming. To do so would be a display of weakness, and that's not what Sosei Bonzai is, is it? Are we weak, are we scared? Hell no!

Lets go to Orlando and show them who we are!

"Who are we?"

I think you all know the rest!