Okay everyone, here’s the introduction to the SAMURAI SERIAL NOVEL I’m co-writing: “THE DROWNING EMPIRE” with my fellow “Writer Nerd Game Night” friends (we play once a month). It’s basically Legend of the Five Rings fan fiction based on a samurai role-playing campaign I’m playing in with Larry Correia, our New York Times Bestselling author and Incredible Game Master. This is such a great story and Larry is sharing it free every Friday on his blog.
Legend of the Five Rings is an incredible role-playing game. Check it out. Please.
The details . . .
The players/co-authors:
Patrick Tracy–playing Moto Subotai of the Unicorn Clan, swordsman, archer, horseman, and poet–Subo is the best friend of my character Akodo Toranaka, and official hostage of the Akodo family–watched over of course by Toranaka.
Me, Paul Genesse, playing Akodo Toranaka–top graduate of the Golden Plains Dojo, a man dedicated to all tenets of Bushido, a swordsman and tactician, destined to be a great Lion Clan general and follow in his father’s footsteps someday . . . unless the Fortunes are cruel and his Secret Enemy (not in the group mind you, takes their revenge).
Steve Diamond–playing Ikoma Uso of the Lion Clan . . . “Nothing to see here, I’m only a bard,” Uso says (yeah right!) as he kicks everyone’s ass with his giant sword, a “no-dachi.” Uso has the help of one of his twisted ancestors, who haunts more than his dreams. Read Uso’s intro to the campaign on the link below.
Yoritomo Oki of the Mantis Clan, who is a lecherous and greedy drunken sailor with a gambling problem who is also the best archer of his generation, played with gusto by Tony Battaglino.
The lumbering oaf of a warrior, Suzume Shintaro of the lowly Sparrow clan who is the most honorable and gullible samurai (with a huge bladed spear!) and wannabe historian you’ll ever meet, played by with quiet panache by Zachary Hill,
Lastly, Tamori Isao of the Dragon Clan, a half-mad shugenja (wizard-priest) who speaks with the spirits far too often, and is haunted by the death of his mother, killed by a terrible tsunami. Isao is played by Brad Torgersen, whose fiction in this serial novel will blow you away.
All of the player/authors, and especially the game master, are excellent writers, and this is going to be a fun ride, as the samurai heroes try to save the Emerald Empire from certain destruction.
Larry Correia has created an epic storyline and we’ve already written over 100,000 words in what we’re calling, THE DROWNING EMPIRE. “Fear the water . . .”
Read the introduction here on Larry’s blog.
