[D5LA] A gathering of seers (Special)

[Moto Mitsuki]

When waking up in the morning, every participant of the miai had the surprise of finding that an envelope has been slipped under their door during the night. It contains the following invitation:

Hello, astrologers, seers, fortune tellers, diviners and co! We're super excited to invite you to a meeting of people that can predict the future. There will be cake.

To prove that you're indeed a member of that select club, nothing simpler: You just have to divine when and where the meeting will take place and to come at the right time at the right place.

See you soon!

On the bottom half of the invitation stands what must have been the characters of one of the sixty standard years of astrology, written in red ink and circled, like a seal. Each invitation shows a different year, and there's no correlation between the recipient and the year (but you're free to imagine one).

must have been, because each invitation has been torn down, cutting circles and symbols in two.

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This thread is closed (inaccessible) as a default. To enter and post in it, a character must succeed at one of the following approaches. You can try them all if you wish. If you fail, you can do anything else with your timeslot (since you aren't here, you can be anywhere else instead).

The expected way
The invitations are heavily spiritually charged even if no actual magic was used to make them. Thus, if one is attuned with the world, getting a vision, a feeling, an inexplicable hunch, of where and when the missing piece can be found is not that hard. Some characters might even succeed without any formal training in divination if they're spiritually inclined enough.

Roll a TN1 Theology (Void) "Divination" roll. You do not need to know the actual Divination Ritual. If your school has bonus related to divination you can apply them to that roll.

If you pass, you can enter thread.

The mundane way
The organizers are only human, and not necessarily the most subtle humans. If you ask around, you may eventually identify who they are and what they've planned.

Roll a TN2 Commerce (Fire) or Skulduggery (Fire) Investigation roll (see core book, page 170).

If you pass, you can enter thread.

The freeloading way
Each party always has someone who was expected bringing in someone who definitely wasn't. This one is not different.

If a character who has managed to enter through the Divination roll states that you are accompanying them, you can enter thread. A character may only invite up to one other character this way.

Special rule: Don't take it too seriously

This is a fluff event. If you feel like your advantage/disadvantage/technique/whatever should apply to any of the previous rolls, sure, it does. You don't need to ask about it. Same if you have an invocation/ritual/whatever that you feel could be used as a substitute for any of the proposed approaches.

Similarly, while the organizers reserve themselves the right to give dirty looks to anyone who came through any mean but the expected way, there will be no loss of Glory/Honor/whatever for that.

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The gathering is actually hidden in plain sight, happening in a backroom of the tea house that has been booked for that purpose.

To enter, one simply needs to show their invitation to Koi, the owner, at (afternoon) tea time. She has been entrusted with the missing bottom of all the invitations, and if she finds a half that matches yours, she will then guide you to the right room.

In the room in question await tea, cake, a Moto warrior that already helped herself to a sizable portion of it, and a Seppun that will write themselves what they're doing.

[Kaikoga Koi]

D5 LA: The Expected Way | TN: 1 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 0

Koi didn't seem to have any difficulty finding the place she event entered shuffling the divination cards that she was fond of using before slipping them back into her simple clothing in the hues of her Clan, a small moth hair clip was attached to her hair. She entered the room, looked around to see if anyone else had found the location. "Hello?" She said, curiously.

Koi held onto her invitation.

[Asahina Soyokaze]

Soyokaze knocked on the door, a parchment in his hand. "Hello Koi-sama, I did not expect when we said our farewells yesterday that we would meet again so soon. Thank you for the invitation." He bows low and presents a letter with the mark of the Fire Goat on it.

丁未



[D5LA] A gathering of seers (Special) entry roll | TN: 1 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 0

Opportunity used to impress Kaikoga Koi

[Kaikoga Koi]

Koi blinked at the Asahina with a look of surprise and a fluttering of being impressed did spread across her face. "Asahina-sama, I did not take you for a diviner consider me impressed. Say, what was that mantra again?" She said, playfully.

"Also, this wasn't me. I wasn't even in the area when I got mine. I literally just got in." She said, softly, tiredly.

[Utaku Kheree]

Gathering of seers, honestry try first | TN: 1 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 0

Maybe, meeting some people with a understanding of the Kami would be good for her, at least it would calm her down and distract her after todays performance.
And so raven on her arm, she walked up to the Tea house, where she presented her strip , after having ..more or less.. suceeded at burning a feather and inhaling it to get a hint where the wind should carry her.

[Usogawa Narumi]

Not unaccustomed to ended up in places she probably shouldn't be, Narumi presented the invite to the tea house owner Koi, and was led to the back room. It hadn't been exceedingly difficult to suss out where to be - a few questions in the right ears, and eventually she got the answer.
And so Narumi was seen in, and wore a warm and friendly smile when she entered the room, making note of who was here already before she found herself seated with a small bite of cake.


D5LA the mundane way | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 2

1 opportunity spent to relieve 1 strife

[Moto Mitsuki]

Mitsuki first took a last slice of cake for herself.

Then she stood up, holding the teapot in one hand and the cake plate in the other:

"Thank you for coming mina-sama! Do you want some tea? Some cake?"

[Kaikoga Koi]

Koi sat patiently, quietly.

She was tired from the night before and her ribs were sore, she had applied a topical tiger palm but it just made it more noticable.

She looked into her cup and raised it. "Aye, yes please for the tea. What is the meaning of this gathering, Moto-sama?"

[Moto Mitsuki]

Koi sat patiently, quietly.

She was tired from the night before and her ribs were sore, she had applied a topical tiger palm but it just made it more noticable.

She looked into her cup and raised it. "Aye, yes please for the tea. What is the meaning of this gathering, Moto-sama?"

"I'll leave the exclusivity of the full explanation to Seppun-sama, but, simply put, we noticed there was apparently a great number of fortune-tellers among the participants of the miai. So we designed this little exercise to confirm our suspicion, as well as offering a quiet place to explore the possibilities such a gathering would open up. Discussing our own experiences, exchanging tips, maybe even planning a ritual requiring several priests at once, that kind of things."

[Bayushi Mitsu]

Bayushi Mitsu entered with a flourish, glancing at each of the samurai already there. "Ah...a secret meeting. How interesting."

(D5, LA) Divining the mysterious note - Theology (Void) TN 1 | TN: 1 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 0