The first day of Winter Court has started, and gathering together in the great audiance hall are the most prestigious of warriors and courtiers (you!). Outside the winter storms of Osano-Wo the Fortune of Fire and Thunder race across the sky. Blankets of snow are falling and the scouts of Daimyo Hitagawa-dono have reported now that all roads out of the mountains around the estate are snowed in. You are trapped here until the spring thaw comes, so you might as well make the best of it.
As people are arriving from their private rooms there is a scream of a hemin servant that cuts the air like a katana! scrambling down the stairs into the audiance hall the pale woman screams again, "Lord Hitagawa! He's dead! He's been murdered in his sleep by Ninjas!!!!" She promptly passes out from fright and excitment.
With the Lord dead, the house falls into chaos. No one remains of any considerable rank to take comand and keep the peace, and so the task falls to you all!
The threat of Ninjas, also trapped inside the castle with you all by the winter storm, is very real. You must keep order, find the ninjas, and survive what will forever be known in the Empire as the Court of Crimson Snow!