A terrible discovery

As you all must know, the time of war draws near. We will fight viciously, for that is who we are. We will kill everything, for that is what we do. But do not get your hopes up too high, my brothers and sisters. I have some terrible news.

I have just recently heard a tale told by a very reliable source. Red Mangetsu is very prepared. We may have won the first battle, but what happens when you are defeated? You become stronger, smarter, and you learn what must be done to make sure another defeat never happens. My fellow clan members, Red Mangetsu is very prepared for any battle we throw at them.

According to this reliable source, Red Mangetsu is FULLY ARMORED! All of them…from neck to knee. As you all must know, Sosei Bonzai and its “affiliates” only have so much armor to our name. What else could Red Mangetsu have up their sleeves? Do they have more boffers? My friends, in a war we will have to use boffers. We hardly have enough. Does Red Mangetsu have more shields? We only have so many. Is Sosei Bonzai truly prepared for war or have we been doomed since the beginning?

I call upon all of you. Make boffers. Make many boffers. Make boffers that are not only beautiful, but also deadly. Vaughn, as we all know, is highly skilled at this. It has nothing to do with the material or how you put the boffer together; it is the art that goes into it. I don’t care who helped Vaughn learn to make boffers, for no one can create them as beautifully as he can. He offers time and time again “Let me make you a boffer.” He can make you all boffers that symbolize who you are, a boffer tailor made for your personality. Ask him to make you one for when we go to war, what better way to boost your vicious behavior then that of a boffer…your own personal boffer?

How did we hold off our enemy during that first battle? We had shields, spears, and naginatas. We must ban together. I call for a shield team, a spear and naginata team, and a sword team to create more weapons. We defeated them before because we were better equipped than they were. The time draws near. We must act fast, my brethren, if we plan to defeat them yet again. Let us not show Shogun that we made a mistake. There are no mistakes in Sosei Bonzai anymore! We must prove to our dear Daimyo that we are strong. We cannot always wait around to be told what to do! We must act now! I know where there is material for armor and I have the means to make it. On Tuesday I will call upon many of you to speak with me. I do believe we are all on the same page when I say we need to get this done and we need to get it done fast.

We need armor. We need to protect ourselves. We must win! I do not care about the old saying anymore. “You’re job is not to win, it is to die.” This is horrible to stand by. How are we ever going to live by our new saying: “Sosei Bonzai! What do we kill? EVERYTHING!” if all we are going to do is throw ourselves on the sword? Honor? What honor is there if all you do is die? What happens to a village when all their soldiers die? The village gets ransacked! The village dies, too. Do we really want Sosei Bonzai to die, especially now that we are glowing brighter then ever? I do not believe so. I believe you, too, feel the same way.

Sosei Bonzai, we are under a new rule rather it has become official or not. Our Daimyo, Miyomoto Toshiro Mifune, has been a wondrous leader; a magnificent being worthy of the title GOD. Let us make him proud of the clan that he has trained. Let us prepare for what will come. Let us do it NOW! Our job IS to win! Not only to show that Sosei Bonzai is a formidable force, but to also prove that winning is a glorious feeling.