• @rockSlayer
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    However, it’s geographically improbable

    • @Dasus
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      Eh, pirate sails around the world, picks up disgraced samurai who needs to leave Japan. Afterwards they’ll sail to England at some point or another, and the thief is looking for passage to America (as a thief he needs to get abroad for a while). They sail over the Atlantic, where they meet the cowboy who’s driven cattle from the West to sell at a better price on the East coast.

      A call to adventure on top, aaand campaign is a go.

      • @[email protected]
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        3510 months ago

        You wouldn’t need anything that extravagant, you could reasonably find all these people in California in the late 1800’s. The earliest Japanese immigrants to California happened in the 1860’s. After the gold rush people from all over the world flocked to Cali.

      • @[email protected]
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        1410 months ago

        Would make more sense if the thief was bound for Australia as a convict with the privateer,then some shit happened and they ended up in Japan, then sailed for the west coast of the US.

      • @[email protected]
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        810 months ago

        It’s actually pretty plausible, the first wave of Japanese people to immigrate to California and Hawaii was in the 1860s. By the 1900 census there were nearly 25k Japanese people living on the West Coast.

        • @grue
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          And I guess since the Meiji Restoration was bad news for the samurai class, it makes sense that they would want to emigrate.

          (I looked it up because often it isn’t the upper classes that are motivated to leave a society, but in this case it checks out.)

      • Skua
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        The first Japanese embassy to America even landed in San Francisco in 1860

    • BrerChicken
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      1310 months ago

      Not with a sailor in the mix, it’s not!

      • @bassomitron
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        1010 months ago

        Yeah, the pirate could easily be the lynchpin that brought them together.