Post by Seta Soujiro on May 13, 2013 17:52:13 GMT -5
January 1879 the 12th year of Meiji. It is a time of peace for Japan which finally seems to have set the ghosts of its past to rest. In Tokyo the former Hitokiri Himura Kenshin has done the same. With the defeat of Yukishiro Enishi the “Kesnhin-gumi” have gone their separate ways and found a fragile peace of their own to cling to. Though the lingering threat of colonization by the Western powers still looms, the people who lived through the storm of blood which was the Bakumatsu are finally able to live in peace and happiness.
The land is not without its troubles though, there are still men who would wish to enforce their own ideals to shape the Meiji Era as they see fit. One such man, a former Ishin Shishi named Saikyo Tsuneo has seized power over the government in the power vacuum left by the death of Okubo Toshimichi. An outwardly charismatic and inspirational leader, Saikyo seeks to change Japan into an economic and industrial powerhouse at any cost. Already in Aizu, Fukushima he has exerted his influence, instituting indentured labour in the areas gold mines as a form of judicial punishment, working anyone unlucky enough to be brought in to breaking point so as to sell off the proceeds for foreign weapons and expertise.
Elsewhere he sets about assassinating political opponents and any other threat to his absolute power. Beneath its tranquil surface Japan stands upon the cusp of upheaval and its fate is soon to be decided once more by the edge of a sword.
-
Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji-jidai Romantan is a play-by-post RPG forum set after the events of Rurouni Kenshin manga. We are newly opened and as such many of our Canon positions need filling and we welcome original characters to support our new, developing plot.
HOME-RULES-CANON LIST
The land is not without its troubles though, there are still men who would wish to enforce their own ideals to shape the Meiji Era as they see fit. One such man, a former Ishin Shishi named Saikyo Tsuneo has seized power over the government in the power vacuum left by the death of Okubo Toshimichi. An outwardly charismatic and inspirational leader, Saikyo seeks to change Japan into an economic and industrial powerhouse at any cost. Already in Aizu, Fukushima he has exerted his influence, instituting indentured labour in the areas gold mines as a form of judicial punishment, working anyone unlucky enough to be brought in to breaking point so as to sell off the proceeds for foreign weapons and expertise.
Elsewhere he sets about assassinating political opponents and any other threat to his absolute power. Beneath its tranquil surface Japan stands upon the cusp of upheaval and its fate is soon to be decided once more by the edge of a sword.
-
Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji-jidai Romantan is a play-by-post RPG forum set after the events of Rurouni Kenshin manga. We are newly opened and as such many of our Canon positions need filling and we welcome original characters to support our new, developing plot.
HOME-RULES-CANON LIST