From:	IronRaven cyberraven@********.net
Subject:	NPC Deckers [was: Construction of items...]
Date:	Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:46:24 -0400

At 12.09 08-26-99 -0400, you wrote:
> In other words, continuing service to the family of the daimyo
>is often preferable to killing yourself. One also has to remember that

Miswording on my part. I've got an unfortuante habit of refeering to
one's lord's successor as a continuation of the former. (Basically, Jimmy
the 1st dies and is replaced by Jimmy the 2nd, only the face in the chair
has chnaged, not the person whom the honor is entrusted to.) Can get one
in trouble when the son arranges an accident for the father.

> It may be admirable to do this, from a samurai's standpoint,

I amire Bushido, I never said I live by it.
And there were houses that ceased to exist for that reason.

>he was a mere adventurer with a sword. And yet, all the ronin lived
>up to the code of the samurai.

I never said being ronin meant you stopped being samurai, not where it
counts. But int he eyes of the common people, the difference is there.

>better live up to the three principles of Loyalty, Right Conduct, and
>Bravery, 2060-style.

Personal difference- those don't change, regaurdless of time frame,
IMO.

> There's more to being a "samurai" than just those three
>principles, but that's the core of Bushido.

Yep.
Think of a samurai who uses an assualt cannon, but did not have the
chance to fire it after it was produced....

>
> Of course, in 2050 - 2060, "street sam" is shorthand for "gun-
>bunny."

And that is why I don't feel that the term is a good one. Any punk
with a free month and some sponsors can be be an increadably capable (at
lieast in the short term) operator.

>Only MCT, Renraku, and Yamatetsu would *expect* a street sam
>to follow bushido.

And they laugh every time someone says "street sam"





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