The Moto lord narrowed his eyes at the young shugenja kneeling before him.  
"Khujaji, you have a fine horse. A skin of water. A travel pack with everything you need to survive. And your honor tucked into your obi. What need have you of..." His face nearly sneered in disgust as the word passed his lips. "Money?"
"Moto-ue, if it pleases you.  I am traveling to Otosan Uchi in my new role as an Emerald Magistrate.  And I am traveling with a Scorpion."
The daiyamo laughed and rose to his feet.  "Well, in that case Khujaji-san, you will get two purses.  One scant with koku to show your stinging friend, and one with some real coinage to never show him."

The Moto lord narrowed his eyes at the young shugenja kneeling before him.  
"Khujaji, you have a fine horse. A skin of water. A travel pack with everything you need to survive. And your honor tucked into your obi. What need have you of..." His face nearly sneered in disgust as the word passed his lips. "Money?"
"Moto-ue, if it pleases you.  I am traveling to Otosan Uchi in my new role as an Emerald Magistrate.  And I am traveling with a Scorpion."
The daiyamo laughed and rose to his feet.  "Well, in that case Khujaji-san, you will get two purses.  One scant with koku to show your stinging friend, and one with some real coinage to never show him."

Ah, wait, i remember this one!  

When the scorpion poisons the child of a fellow party member, and during honor gains and losses, ends up arguing why it was for the greater good, and actually GAINS honor for the action. 
"I can't believe you gained honor from poisoning her kid!"
"I can't believe you gained honor from poisoning my kid!"
Scorpion player turns to DM.  "How the **** did you let me gain honor for poisoning her kid!?"

When your character has a crush on one of your fellow pc's nemesis, and you write them love poetry suggesting that you'd enjoy looking at their hair spread over your bed.  or their blood spread over the ground.  Whichever, both would be beautiful. 

The worst part is, because of their twisted sense of duty, they manage to do the right thing often enough that you can't even trust that you can't trust them. To many times not trusting the scorpion bites me when they were actually trustworthy for once! 

When the Scorpion says "Of course I burnt that document we found proving this samurai's heresy against the empire", what he really means is he burnt a scroll that looked like it, and sent the original back to his Daiymo. 
When your character who has the "irrepressible flirtation" anxiety, as well as the "Gaijin appearance" disadvantage (short, dark skinned, hairy looking desert nomad) and has already flirted with several important NPCS, and the Crane Clan Champion walks in, said Scorpion player mutters, "If you hit on her, I swear, I will cut you down here and now myself"
 
 
 

Ah, wait, i remember this one!  

When the scorpion poisons the child of a fellow party member, and during honor gains and losses, ends up arguing why it was for the greater good, and actually GAINS honor for the action. 
"I can't believe you gained honor from poisoning her kid!"
"I can't believe you gained honor from poisoning my kid!"
Scorpion player turns to DM.  "How the **** did you let me gain honor for poisoning her kid!?"

OY! (yabun)

When the Scorpion's "mother" comes into town to make sure her son is getting properly married, and proceeds to flirt with the rest of the party, with him present. 

When the Scorpion says "Of course I burnt that document we found proving this samurai's heresy against the empire", what he really means is he burnt a scroll that looked like it, and sent the original back to his Daiymo. 
When your character who has the "irrepressible flirtation" anxiety, as well as the "Gaijin appearance" disadvantage (short, dark skinned, hairy looking desert nomad) and has already flirted with several important NPCS, and the Crane Clan Champion walks in, said Scorpion player mutters, "If you hit on her, I swear, I will cut you down here and now myself"
 
 
 

I fear the day when the dreaded Octopus Clan becomes a real thing.  AHH THE TENTACLES!

Ah, wait, i remember this one!  

When the scorpion poisons the child of a fellow party member, and during honor gains and losses, ends up arguing why it was for the greater good, and actually GAINS honor for the action. 
"I can't believe you gained honor from poisoning her kid!"
"I can't believe you gained honor from poisoning my kid!"
Scorpion player turns to DM.  "How the **** did you let me gain honor for poisoning her kid!?"

When your character has a crush on one of your fellow pc's nemesis, and you write them love poetry suggesting that you'd enjoy looking at their hair spread over your bed.  or their blood spread over the ground.  Whichever, both would be beautiful. 

When the Kitsu shugenja flirts with an Utaku battle maiden by saying, "Hey gorgeous.  I heard your people like eating horse meat.  I've got something horselike for you to put in your mouth."

That's not evil.
You shouldn't have to 'do' your Giri to complete any specific individual adventure, but if it's not challenging to the point that failure is credible, or doesn't force you to give something important up to achieve it, it's not an especially meaningful duty.

Definitely discussion, but largely GM discretion.  My party started with Topaz, and our giri was, among other things, do well at the topaz.  We were tagged to be emerald magistrates, and my giri is now, bring honor upon the clan as an emerald magistrate, in order to make future tasks easier.  My long term giri definitly has other elements already GM determined after talking to me about who my lord is, and what they want, but from a CHARACTER perspective, its coming a piece at a time. (long term giri is (im a unicorn shugenja, meishodo school) to be trusted enough among the other clans to be able to study with and share lore, and bring back to the Unicorn some of the names and techniques of Kami / spirit worship that were lost during the journey in the Sands. but he doesn't know that yet)

Definitely discussion, but largely GM discretion.  My party started with Topaz, and our giri was, among other things, do well at the topaz.  We were tagged to be emerald magistrates, and my giri is now, bring honor upon the clan as an emerald magistrate, in order to make future tasks easier.  My long term giri definitly has other elements already GM determined after talking to me about who my lord is, and what they want, but from a CHARACTER perspective, its coming a piece at a time. (long term giri is (im a unicorn shugenja, meishodo school) to be trusted enough among the other clans to be able to study with and share lore, and bring back to the Unicorn some of the names and techniques of Kami / spirit worship that were lost during the journey in the Sands. but he doesn't know that yet)

Definitely discussion, but largely GM discretion.  My party started with Topaz, and our giri was, among other things, do well at the topaz.  We were tagged to be emerald magistrates, and my giri is now, bring honor upon the clan as an emerald magistrate, in order to make future tasks easier.  My long term giri definitly has other elements already GM determined after talking to me about who my lord is, and what they want, but from a CHARACTER perspective, its coming a piece at a time. (long term giri is (im a unicorn shugenja, meishodo school) to be trusted enough among the other clans to be able to study with and share lore, and bring back to the Unicorn some of the names and techniques of Kami / spirit worship that were lost during the journey in the Sands. but he doesn't know that yet)

When one of your players says "If I wasn't listening just then when you told me the TN, can I have a void point?"

I have had Avatar on mute for a while,since I came to the conclusion that their and my views of the game were so divergent that we couldn't actually discuss anything worthwhile with each other.  I recommend this approach.

I fear the day when the dreaded Octopus Clan becomes a real thing.  AHH THE TENTACLES!

When the Scorpion says "Of course I burnt that document we found proving this samurai's heresy against the empire", what he really means is he burnt a scroll that looked like it, and sent the original back to his Daiymo. 
When your character who has the "irrepressible flirtation" anxiety, as well as the "Gaijin appearance" disadvantage (short, dark skinned, hairy looking desert nomad) and has already flirted with several important NPCS, and the Crane Clan Champion walks in, said Scorpion player mutters, "If you hit on her, I swear, I will cut you down here and now myself"
 
 
 

Ah, wait, i remember this one!  

When the scorpion poisons the child of a fellow party member, and during honor gains and losses, ends up arguing why it was for the greater good, and actually GAINS honor for the action. 
"I can't believe you gained honor from poisoning her kid!"
"I can't believe you gained honor from poisoning my kid!"
Scorpion player turns to DM.  "How the **** did you let me gain honor for poisoning her kid!?"

When the Kitsu shugenja flirts with an Utaku battle maiden by saying, "Hey gorgeous.  I heard your people like eating horse meat.  I've got something horselike for you to put in your mouth."