[UA] The Bolters

[David M Jacobs]

At 09:17 PM 5/03/02 -0500, WingedCoyote at aol.com wrote:

>This reminds me of an old scenario of some kind... I forget the game, but 
>it was a Samurai setting. There were these little spirits that ate 
>different kinds of things, and one of them ate Knots. It's a little 
>floating invisible thing, so the knot just vanishes. This caused huge 
>problems for boats, etc., but mostly for Samurai who lost face greatly 
>when their topknot hair fell apart in court. Or something.

Not to mention when they arrive at court with their scabbard tied at 
"combat" angle...  (Part of Japanese courtly etiquette required that 
samurai wear their scabbards at such an angle that they couldn't 
effectively draw their swords.)



David M Jacobs
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