Bijyoumaru's Story Everyone is running from something. Or so I've been told.There was an old beggar woman who sat at an abandoned shrine near one of the palaces where we frequently performed back in Rokugan. She said as much, the few times I spoke with her, and her words resonate with me now.We were called the I'kakujyo Players, though we were skilled at much more than acting and singing. Once a performance had ended, the lords and ladies of the court would bid for their favorite actor's hand. The highest bidder would receive a night of ecstasy, enabling them to act out their own private fantasy, their own little performance, with the actor they had purchas