ADVANTAGES Ally (1/*2) - Shosuro Yuki is a childhood friend and one of very few to stick with him through his ordeal. Not long out of her gempukku, she has little to offer him besides a list of questionable skills, but what she does have she gives freely (albeit discreetly).
DISADVANTAGES Black Sheep (3) - For reasons hidden from polite society, Seizo's family is completely disgusted with him and his actions. He has not been cast out, but he is no longer welcome in his household. He may only maintain proper relations with any member of his family via the Allies Advantage, and he may not advance in school ranks without going to great lengths to find a willing teacher.
Dark Secret (4) - The secret he keeps is far more insidious than his punishment implies. If it is exposed he would surely have to end his life.
Obligation (3) - There is someone to whom he is indebted for the less severe nature of his punishment. Though no method of repayment has been requested, Seizo will still go far out of his way to perform favors and appeasements.
TECHNIQUES, SPELLS, KATA, KIHO, SHADOWLANDS POWERS School Techniques The Way of the Crane - The study of the sword demonstrates the many ways in which the art of Kakita’s technique can be applied. He adds twice his Iaijutsu Skill Rank to all Initiative rolls. He also gains a bonus of +1k1 plus School Rank to the total of all attack and Focus rolls while assuming the Center Stance. This bonus also applies during the Combat Round following one in which he assumed the Center Stance.
COMBAT Weapons Katana - 4k3 - 5k2 - Medium - Can spend up to one void point to increase damage by +1k1 Wakizashi - 4k3 / 3k3 (unskilled) if thrown - 4k2 - Medium - May be thrown up to 20'. Han-Kyu - 4k3 - Strength 1 - Small - Range: 100'. Attack rolls on horseback suffer +10 TN.
Armor TN To Be Hit = 25 (3Air x 5 + 5 + 5armor) Additional Modifiers = Reduction 3, Stealth and Athletics TN +5
DESCRIPTION Seizo is every bit the graceful Crane society has come to expect from his family. Standing an average 5'2" with an almost frail, effeminate-looking frame, his slim/athletic build accents a perfect look of almost enchanting beauty. Moonlight skin sits softly beside perfectly bleached strands of long white hair in the Crane style, and serene pools of blue eyes disguise the deadly grace within. Every move he makes or word spoken is concise, almost poetic in efficiency with not an ounce of energy wasted. Perfection in all things; that is the Kakita way. And Seizo is every bit its model (perhaps even too much so, in a desperate attempt to hide the Dark Secret behind those solemn eyes).
BACKGROUND ~WIP
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 9:09 am
As far as family goes, it's a bit tricky given Oharu's write up.
Given that most Rokugani start training when they're eight and end when they're fifteen-sixteen, Oharu would've began training in the Tsuruchi school in roughly 1157 and left it in 1165.
To me, it feels like Oharu was arranged to marry into the Mantis, trained by the Mantis, and then swore fealty to the Kitsune family when they were subsumed by the Mantis Clan. The greater portion of her life has been that of a Mantis.
Meanwhile Hikaru has been trained more or less as a pure Kitsune by this point. His siblings lived and died as members of the Fox Clan and he spent the great part of his early training learning what made the Fox Clan special.
It could be viewed as a matter of indoctrination. Oharu, who has lived most of her life as a Mantis would favor the Mantis above the Kitsune family. While Hikaru who was heavily invested in the Fox Clan would view things differently.
Still, Hikaru is a samurai of the Kitsune family and for the time being a member of the Mantis clan. He is loyal to the Empress, his family, and his clan. If by some extreme merit, he should be given a boon by the Empress, we all know how he will use it.
That basically tallies with my impressions of her, yeah; she's lived among Mantis and fought besides Mantis much of her life, and since the Fox's traditions primarily have to do with magic, she was shut out of a lot of them.
I actually think it would be completely amazing if the Fox Clan got reinstated, since then she has to make a seriously difficult choice about whether she goes with blood or marriage and school ties.
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 5:09 pm
I'll be finishing my sheet this weekend, hopefully.
And I'll be drawing a picture of my bushi, while I'm trapped on a 2-day trip to the middle of nowhere without internet or even a computer~! WOO....... Yeaaaaaah........
Someone save me. Please. TTvTT
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Future plans of Jade Legacy
The point of the chapter you got stuck in was to find something. Heichi Miko, younger sister of the Boar Daimyo all those centuries ago, was summoning characters one at a time back, since the 'portal' was opened by Agasha Ryuden shortly before. Ryuden had left his companions in the area, because the presence of life was required to keep the portal open.
You had three days to 'get it right'. In the present, those left would have had to hold the area versus the cultists and against Daigotsu Matsusuke (though you wouldn't know of any 'Daigotsu' family yet; they were just forming). Matsusuke would try to take the role of commander here, as he had the Soft Hearted disadvantage. Despite being a horrendous killing machine, his goal was to drive you out. Leaving behind your friends would have basically caused them to be captured when/if they returned. Could only two of you have held off such a pressing assault? What costs were you willing to pay?
In the past, Ghost Miko was trying to show you something. The point of the past half of it was to show you that history was immutable. You did not truly exist at that time, and you were not involved in the slaughter of the Boar (one way or another). Miko steals a scroll from Ryuden and hides is before she is captured, and she is forced to watch the slaughter of her clan one by one to try to break her and tell him where it is. However, the Shakoki Dogu are awakened by the ritual and start stealing away the few surviving Boar. Miko is killed, but her soul was still taken by the Shakoki Dogu rather than allowed to pass on to the afterlife or before it was merged with the anvil.
She persists in the place of Shiro Heichi, her soul stuck in the moment it just left her body, and as such she haunts the region. People have come and gone over the centuries, even squatted in the area, but the death of the magistrate and opening of the portal had revived her with power, allowing her to send you back.
As soon as you learned the location of the scroll she stole (even if it was only the first night with Shosuro Miyako by herself), then that chapter would have ended. When you found the scroll, it detailed the ritual Ryuden used to create the Anvil of Despair. With this information, one could probably find a way to destroy it... or create a new one. Either way, with Kaiu Kagae would have bonus experience for his Higher Purpose since he would probably be the one best able to make sense of the scroll, and learn some smithing techniques from it.
The immediate future
Your next mission would have taken you to Unicorn lands, to meet a very young Akasha, being tutored my Iuchi Gemmei (from Act 1!), the first returning face. The main plot of this one is that there was a second golden pearl kept by the Naga before they returned to their Great Sleep, and Akasha had strong premonitions that it was danger. With Terei's and Good's characters, you would have gone to Shinomen Mori to a Naga temple (that you could only enter and explore in Yume-do!). Here, the person who won that tournament I held would have gotten their magical item.
The party finds a couple thieves as they have looted the temple, and as everyone awakes, they get away, and you have to chase them to Ryoko Owari Toshi where they no doubt seek to make a profit of their ill-gotten gains, including the second golden pearl!
It becomes a four-way race between the band of professional ronin graverobbers, a yakuza-esque criminal cartel, and a Mirumoto treasure hunter, as well as you guys. How well could you maneuver through the city of masks and lies to steal back something of great importance to an entire race?
Far future plot hooks
When Bayushi Kojiro returns home after that chapter, he finds out that Bayushi Koyuki, his wife, is FURIOUS with him. He soon learns that killing that peasant in the tea house in Act 1 in Crane Lands caused a bit of political backlash, and his newborn son is fostered into the Crane as recompense for his deeds.
Beyond that, Ujina Denbe would have been caught up in a Hare chapter where his clan and especially his immediate family is accused of Maho by the Scorpion and attacked, causing inter-party conflict.
Storylines I planned to cover...
The Mystery of the Disappearing Crane - All the pretty Crane men have been disappearing in Kyuden Doji! The primary NPC of this one was someone I intended for Kagae to marry; a Plain Jane of Crane. She had so very little to offer and was double anti-social, but had been given a nemurani by a maho tsukai that trapped souls in print if she wrote about it. She would get crushes on pretty boys, write about them, and they would vanish in the night. Who amongst you would have been willing to be written into the diary to save all those hunky men trapped within?
The Tale of the Creeping Estate - The home of a wealthy Lion seems to have become possessed. The entire home. It destroys parts of itself to rearrange it's layout and effectively 'move'. As it encounters more buildings, it devours its pieces, making itself into a larger building capable of faster destruction. HOW DO YOU STOP A HOUSE?
The Voyage of the Ship of Mist - While traveling to Mantis lands, you find a ghost ship has been assaulting other Yoritomo vessels on the high seas. However, as you attempt to track it down and find the source of the phenomena, you'll learn more is going on involving the crew of this ship than you might have ever guessed...
Blood and Venom - This is the Scorpion story I had planned, where the Scorpion and the Hare would have a conflict. Denbe's older brother would have been taken prisoner, and they arrest Denbe as a maho-tsukai. They attempt to torture him to get him for information. They tell him they know he's not the maho-tsukai of his clan, but they do have undeniable evidence that he's harboring one who is, and they try to get that information from him in a 1984 manner.
Meanwhile, while the rest of the players are trying to clear his name, they learn that the Hare have been set-up by a real Maho Tsukai not amongst their number, and they have to track this person down to prove the Hare's innocence. But they would learn that Soshi Maru had a hand in the events involved as well. What roles would Maru and her yojimbo, Shosuro Naizen, play in this story? Just how deeply were they involved?
That's all I have memorized; the rest is written down, and I do not seem to be able to find the papers sad
And Plainsfox just reminded me. One story arc is about either Doji Kita, Seppun Benjiro, OR Kuni Raicho being killed. I know which of the three would have died, and why, but that's a secret I'm taking to my grave.
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 12:15 pm
All right, I have a basic idea of his description, but I'll mess with that later. I really suck at inventing background before I ever play the character, though. Usually the personality as it begins to express itself in roleplay starts informing me of the character's past.
I had to go back and forth a couple times, since I saw a couple rule differences. The biggest one in my eye being the fact that Defense Skill doesn't affect Armor TN at all if the character isn't in a defensive stance.
ADVANTAGES -Large – I'm over 6' tall and get +1k0 to Damage Rolls with large melee weapons (-3) -Forbidden Knowledge: Gaijin Pepper – I gain a rank of Craft: Explosives and a small pouch of gaijin pepper (-4)
DISADVANTAGES -Bad Eyesight – -1k1 to ranged attacks and Perception-based rolls (+3) -Gaijin Name – My individual dice may only explode once on a Social Skill Roll (+1) -Lechery – Temptation (Seduction) rolls against me get +1k1 (+2) -Jurojin's Curse – -2k0 to resist poison and disease (+3)
TECHNIQUES, SPELLS, KATA, KIHO, SHADOWLANDS POWERS -The Way of the Crab – I ignore TN penalties for wearing heavy armor for all skills except Stealth. I also gain +1k0 to the Damage Rolls for Heavy Weapons.
EQUIPMENT/CURRENCY Heavy Armor Sturdy Clothing Daisho Ono Traveling Pack: blanket, bottle of shochu, bottle of water, chopsticks, coin purse, smoking pipe, spare kimono and sandals, week's rations, whetstone, wide-brimmed straw hat, small pouch of gaijin pepper 3 koku
Touch of Yume-Do (5): Regain all Void points with 4 hours of rest, instead of 8 hours.
DISADVANTAGES
Bad Fortune [Evil Eye] (3): Heterochromatic eyes. Bad Fortune [Secret Love] (3): Stalker that’s willing to harass others in order to be with you. Can’t Lie (2): Physically can’t lie and must succeed in Willpower TN 20 to avoid correcting the lies of others. Lechery (2): +1k1 to an opponent’s Temptation (Seduction) rolls against you.
When spending a Void Point to gain +1k1 on a roll, you may choose to spend 2 to gain +2k2 instead. You may Guard as a Free Action, though doing so only adds +5 to your target’s Armor TN, instead of +10.
(Bottle of sake, Chopsticks, Instrument [Flute], Pet [Songbird] (Snow Bunting), Pillow Book, Sake Cup, Small Hand Mirror, Smoking Pipe, Sweets)
Finger of Jade Flint and Steel Small Knife (Grooming) Umbrella Netsuke (red feather necklace) Travelling Cloak
COMBAT Weapons
Katana – Attack: 6k3 - Damage: 6k2 - [Medium, Samurai] – May spend one Void point to increase damage by +1k1. (Emphasis) Reroll 1s once No-dachi – Attack: 6k3 – Damage: 6k3 – [Large] – (Emphasis) Reroll 1s once Wakizashi – Attack: 6k3 - Damage: 5k2 - [Medium,Samurai] – May be thrown up to 20’ as ranged
Armor
TN To Be Hit = 20 {Air(2) x 5 + Armor (5) + Other (5)} Other Modifiers = Reduction 3 (Armor)
Jun is of average height with black hair that he keeps in a ponytail. His right eye is black, while his icy blue left eye is covered by his bangs. He has red feathers as accents in his outfit. He wears the Phoenix Clan mon on his back, the Agasha mon on his left, and the Shiba mon on his right. This is to show that he values the charm of a person and leaves the duty of protection to the sword.
Jun is a happy-go-lucky bushi that loves to go with the flow. He's always talking to other people in town, making friends wherever he goes. He says he's looking for his one true love (since his parents have no marriage plans for him), though his behavior doesn't suggest such. Jun likes to be in the arms of women, even though he has no indication of bringing any home to show his parents. This may be for the better, however, considering that most romances he has tend to end rather quickly. He has the sinking feeling that it involves his childhood friend Kiriko.
BACKGROUND
Jun grew up in the southern portion of Phoenix lands, where the Agasha had been given land formerly owned to the Shiba. He is the youngest son of Agasha Kuon and Agasha Lixue (formerly Shiba Lixue) with 3 older brothers and a younger sister. Though Jun was born and raised Agasha, his mother insisted that he be trained Shiba. Jun was soon enrolled at a dojo taught by the same man that taught his mother. It was a specialty school that focused on swordplay and that the sword is to be used as a shield for others. Jun was particularly gifted and graduated earlier than most others around his age. After his gempukku, Jun was tasked with many jobs that mainly involved being someone's yojimbo for a certain amount of time. And, for a time, it was fun work. Jun got to see the world, someone got to not be killed, and then Jun got to meander back home afterwards like he had all the time in the world. Good times, good times.
Jun's parents once told him that the reason they specialize in fighting is from an ancestor of Kuon's. She was a shugenja by the name of Agasha Yukiko and a prized student of Fire magic. She could rain fire on the battlefield with such ease and finesse that it instilled fear into her enemies. Her other magics, however, weren't so great. Water was especially bad, more often failing than not. Not that it mattered, since she was "the representation of fire in the hearts of the Phoenix" or something. Jun still has no idea why his ancestor is important, but he respects his parents' wishes and specializes in the sword regardless.
Relations: Agasha Kuon - Father Agasha Lixue - Mother Utaku Yuo - Eldest Brother (married to Utaku Reiha) Agasha Ren - Second Eldest Brother (married to Shiba Chieh) Agasha Chomei - Third Eldest Brother (engaged to Isawa Yae) Agasha Aya - Younger Sister (engaged to Kitsune Bairei)
Agasha Yukiko - Shugenja Ancestor (Good with Fire, Bad with Water)
Shiba Kiriko - Childhood Friend/Stalker
Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 2:41 pm
Time for audits! Then I shower and feed.
ALSO GOOD NEWS: I ordered Book of Earth and Book of Fire this week. This will be added to allowed sources: Main Rulebook, Book of Air, Great Clans, and Emerald Empire!
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Can I request you remove unused Emphasis tags? It'll be easier to spot the ones you do have without them.
Can you mark your school skills?
Thank you for teaching me that skills can go above "2" for character creation ("3" for school skills); in 4th edition, there's a cap of 4 ranks in a trait or skill though. Good to know!
You need to choose a court for your advantage. Also, Courtiers purchase Darling of the Court for only 1 point.
As such, I have you at 39/40 points.
You need to name your Servant.
You need to calculate your Insight, and show your Experience Spent vs Experience Total (i.e., 39/40).
You needn't type out your Technique but I recommend it for quick reference (at least the important bits). Also note that it was errata'd in (since they forgot to include it but intended it), that Duty Before Honor lets you roll Intimidation with Willpower instead of Awareness.
Your Armor TN is 15 (5 + 5xReflexes now).
To attack, you'll be using 3 Staves + 2 Agility = 5k2 to attack, and 0k2 + Strength = 2k2 damage.
Awaiting description + background.
Would you like to make a roll on the Heritage table?
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Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 3:00 pm
Mongooseh
Can I request you remove unused Emphasis tags? It'll be easier to spot the ones you do have without them.
Can you mark your school skills?
Thank you for teaching me that skills can go above "2" for character creation ("3" for school skills); in 4th edition, there's a cap of 4 ranks in a trait or skill though. Good to know!
You need to choose a court for your advantage. Also, Courtiers purchase Darling of the Court for only 1 point.
As such, I have you at 39/40 points.
You need to name your Servant.
You need to calculate your Insight, and show your Experience Spent vs Experience Total (i.e., 39/40).
You needn't type out your Technique but I recommend it for quick reference (at least the important bits). Also note that it was errata'd in (since they forgot to include it but intended it), that Duty Before Honor lets you roll Intimidation with Willpower instead of Awareness.
Your Armor TN is 15 (5 + 5xReflexes now).
To attack, you'll be using 3 Staves + 2 Agility = 5k2 to attack, and 0k2 + Strength = 2k2 damage.
Awaiting description + background.
Would you like to make a roll on the Heritage table?
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Void Meditation --> Void Recovery, please?
Touch of the Spirit Realms --> Touch of Yume-Do, please?
I have you at 42/40 points. 30 points in Traits, 4 points in emphases, 9 in school skill ranks, 4 in nonschool skill ranks, 5 in advantages, -10 in disadvantages.
After inventory, you should have 5 more zeni.
Can you mark your experience as 40/40?
Fantastic work on your background and family! That's the kind of stuff I like to see! But no talk of your ancestor? sad
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Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 3:20 pm
Mongooseh
Can I request you remove unused Emphasis tags? It'll be easier to spot the ones you do have without them.
Can you mark your school skills?
Thank you for teaching me that skills can go above "2" for character creation ("3" for school skills); in 4th edition, there's a cap of 4 ranks in a trait or skill though. Good to know!
You need to choose a court for your advantage. Also, Courtiers purchase Darling of the Court for only 1 point.
As such, I have you at 39/40 points.
You need to name your Servant.
You need to calculate your Insight, and show your Experience Spent vs Experience Total (i.e., 39/40).
You needn't type out your Technique but I recommend it for quick reference (at least the important bits). Also note that it was errata'd in (since they forgot to include it but intended it), that Duty Before Honor lets you roll Intimidation with Willpower instead of Awareness.
Your Armor TN is 15 (5 + 5xReflexes now).
To attack, you'll be using 3 Staves + 2 Agility = 5k2 to attack, and 0k2 + Strength = 2k2 damage.
Awaiting description + background.
Would you like to make a roll on the Heritage table?
xX_Terei_Xx"
Void Meditation --> Void Recovery, please?
Touch of the Spirit Realms --> Touch of Yume-Do, please?
I have you at 42/40 points. 30 points in Traits, 4 points in emphases, 9 in school skill ranks, 4 in nonschool skill ranks, 5 in advantages, -10 in disadvantages.
After inventory, you should have 5 more zeni.
Can you mark your experience as 40/40?
Fantastic work on your background and family! That's the kind of stuff I like to see! But no talk of your ancestor? : (
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Your emphasis rerolls only apply to rolls when using a Katana and Bisento, not for any roll with that skill.
Under equipment, can you list "Bisento" in place of "Polearm"? This is free and need not be "purchased" by your starting koku. Unless you want 2 Bisento? o_o
Lovely background, I enjoyed it!
Would you like to make a roll on the Heritage Table?
WhimsicalXellos
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Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 3:34 pm
Mongooseh
Can I request you remove unused Emphasis tags? It'll be easier to spot the ones you do have without them.
Can you mark your school skills?
Thank you for teaching me that skills can go above "2" for character creation ("3" for school skills); in 4th edition, there's a cap of 4 ranks in a trait or skill though. Good to know!
You need to choose a court for your advantage. Also, Courtiers purchase Darling of the Court for only 1 point.
As such, I have you at 39/40 points.
You need to name your Servant.
You need to calculate your Insight, and show your Experience Spent vs Experience Total (i.e., 39/40).
You needn't type out your Technique but I recommend it for quick reference (at least the important bits). Also note that it was errata'd in (since they forgot to include it but intended it), that Duty Before Honor lets you roll Intimidation with Willpower instead of Awareness.
Your Armor TN is 15 (5 + 5xReflexes now).
To attack, you'll be using 3 Staves + 2 Agility = 5k2 to attack, and 0k2 + Strength = 2k2 damage.
Awaiting description + background.
Would you like to make a roll on the Heritage table?
xX_Terei_Xx"
Void Meditation --> Void Recovery, please?
Touch of the Spirit Realms --> Touch of Yume-Do, please?
I have you at 42/40 points. 30 points in Traits, 4 points in emphases, 9 in school skill ranks, 4 in nonschool skill ranks, 5 in advantages, -10 in disadvantages.
After inventory, you should have 5 more zeni.
Can you mark your experience as 40/40?
Fantastic work on your background and family! That's the kind of stuff I like to see! But no talk of your ancestor? : (
BegrudginglyGood
Your emphasis rerolls only apply to rolls when using a Katana and Bisento, not for any roll with that skill.
Under equipment, can you list "Bisento" in place of "Polearm"? This is free and need not be "purchased" by your starting koku. Unless you want 2 Bisento? o_o
Lovely background, I enjoyed it!
Would you like to make a roll on the Heritage Table?
WhimsicalXellos
Jurojin's Curse on a Crab? Ballsy!
Where did you get +5 to your attack roll with your Ono from?
Your experience should be 40/40.
Your Taint rank looks really surprised.
You can add to your background later, but your family would help. Look at Ms. Terei's and Ms. Good's families. It's a start, and family is VERY important to Rokugani.
