Kyuden Shika

A somewhat wan Shika Pei Pei greets the candidates under the night sky in the garden with a bow.

"Good evening everyone. Tonight is the final event we shall be hosting. Countless generations have looked towards the Heavens to find where their fate lies, and tonight you shall do the same. You'll fine blankets laid out for ease of viewing, and light refreshments are available. I hope that tonight will leave you confident in your future as well as refreshed." she offers.

Rules:

The players will make three checks: Earth/Culture (to consider what they know about the historical significance of star signs), Fire/Aesthetics (To divine new meaning from the alignment of the constellations) and Void/Theology (to consider the mystic ramifications of the stars seen). The TNs are 1, 2 and 3, but the player decides at the time of rolling each which one is which.

Scoring Priority:

Passed all rolls
Most total successes
Most total opportunities spent for flair
Pass Theology roll, but failed one other roll
Most total successes
Most total opportunities spent for flair
Pass Culture and Aesthetics, but failed Theology
Most total successes
Most total opportunities spent for flair
Pass Culture or Aesthetics, and failed theology
Most total successes
Most total opportunities spent for flair
Highest Status
Highest Glory
Highest Honor

Somehow, as Nesshin makes himself comfortable and stares up at the stars, his mind opens up, and memories he'd not realized he'd had come to the surface, spilling forth in a sudden stream that clearly shakes him to have happen. Indeed, it keeps him from realizing no small amount of what he has said, but a thing recalled from Shika Kan and his shugenja parents stands out to him, and he nods, understanding for once in his life.

It is a strange thing.

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Earth / Culture (TN 3), https://sakkaku.org/rolls/1933, passed at 616; 1 to cancel 1
Fire / Aesthetics (TN 2), https://sakkaku.org/rolls/1935, failed at 010; 1 for flair
Void / Theology (TN 1, adversity applies), https://sakkaku.org/rolls/1937, passed at 100

Scoring Priority:

Did not pass all rolls
7 total successes
1 total opportunity spent for flair
Passed Theology roll, but failed one other roll
7 total successes
1 total opportunity spent for flair
Irrelevant Did not Pass Culture and Aesthetics, but failed Theology
Irrelevant Most total successes
Irrelevant Most total opportunities spent for flair
Irrelevant Passed Culture or Aesthetics, and failed theology
Irrelevant Most total successes
Irrelevant Most opportunities spent for flair
41 Status
42 Glory
36 Honor

While Moshumaru did look to the stars and did decipher their meaning, when it came to understanding his mind could only really see one thing - and it wasn't a rearrangement of the stars.

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D13 Event - Earth/Culture TN2 | TN: 2 | Success: 4 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 3


Fire/Aesthetics TN3 (Seizing the moment) | TN: 3 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 1


D13 LE - Void/Theology TN 1 | TN: 1 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 1


Opp for flair
- - -
Sorting data:
Passed all three - no
Total successes - 7
1 Oppurtunity for flair
Passed Theology, Failed one other roll
Total successes - 7
Opportunities for flair - 1
35 Status
41 Glory
51 Honour

"Confident in my future"'? As if you fuckers haven't spent the last two weeks making it ABUNDANTLY FUCKING CLEAR that confidence in my future is the last thing you're of a mind to dole out?!

So the Deer are not merely insane, they're also sadists. Good to know.

Raizo knew what he was looking at, but he just couldn't make sense of it.

Which is par for the course at this Fortune-forsaken miai.

[Fire/Aesthetics, TN 1 to divine meaning from the constellations | TN: 1 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 0


Success. Huh.

Earth/Culture to consider what he knows about the historical significance of star signs. Per GM contact, Seasoned Applies. Spending Void. | TN: 3 | Success: 3 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 3


Using both Opportunities to show off. 3 strife taken.

Void/Theology to consider the mystic ramifications of the stars seen, TN 2 | TN: 2 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 1


Failed. 1 more strife taken, opp to show off in failure in some fashion.

Did not pass all rolls.
5 total successes
3 opps spent to show off
Passed Culture and Aesthetics but failed Theology]

Knowing the material was the easy part. "The temptation for the quick path is always present."


What to make of them? Well it was a bit mealy mouthed, but "The stars show the path. Trodding the path is our choice. "

But any real spiritual meaning? Nada.


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Love In the Stars- Earth/Culture TN 3 | TN: 3 | Success: 3 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 2
Pass 1 to show off.

Love In the Stars- Fire/Aesthetics TN 1 | TN: 1 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 0
Pass


Love In the Stars- void/theology- VP used | TN: 2 | Success: 0 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 1


Did not pass all 3
4 total successes
3 opportunity
2 out of 3 rolls passed

"The stars leave little room for alternative interpretations tonight. The arrow of Arash – the shooting star there, keep up with me a bit – went all the way from the boat of Morana – the constellation there – to the marches of Erlik – that constellation, here.

Arash entered the legend and ascended to the rank of Sovereign of Death after conquering a land with a single arrow. Morana the Undrowned is many things, death, rebirth, change, but here she clearly symbolizes the turning of the season. Erlik is the great guardian, the original Sovereign of Death.

War is coming to these lands. War will be there before a year has passed. And death will follow in its steps."

Mitsuki was really good at theology. Just not the right theology.

However, she definitely was terrible at reading the mood.

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D13LE | Earth/Culture TN1 | TN: 1 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 3


Passed
2 opp for show
Strife: 3/10

D13LE | Void/Theology TN2 | TN: 2 | Success: 0 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 2


Failed
2 opp for show
Passion Fortune-Telling -> -3 strife
Strife: 2/10

D13LE | Fire/Aesthetics TN3 | TN: 3 | Success: 3 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 2


Success
Strife: 4/10

Passed all rolls: No
Most total successes: 4
Most total opportunities spent for flair: 4
Pass Theology roll, but failed one other roll: No
Pass Culture and Aesthetics, but failed Theology: Yes

Despite what she'd pretended to be once, Narumi was no diviner. She could speak on constellations and their origins to an extent, but it's clear that's not where her proficiencies lay. And she did even poorer when it came to divining any new meanings or mysticisms.


D13LE Earth/Culture | TN: 3 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 1

1 opp spent for flair

D13LE Fire/Aesthetics | TN: 1 | Success: 0 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 1

1 opp spent for flair

D13LE Void/Theology | TN: 2 | Success: 0 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 1

1 opp spent for flair

Totals:
Passed all rolls: No
Most total successes: 2
Most total opportunities spent for flair: 3
Pass Theology roll, but failed one other roll: No
Pass Culture and Aesthetics, but failed Theology: No

Stars are pretty. Emiko was great at using them to navigate, and looking at the stars she could plot a perfect route back to the nearby river where she'd soon be going to head home.

That was the idea right? To plot a path home?

She had no idea, but she still thought the stars were pretty at least. Any other meaning went well over her head.

(ooc: D13 LE event - roll 1 Earth/culture TN3 | TN: 3 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 1
fail opporunity to heal strife
D13 LE event - roll 2 Earth/Aesthetics TN2 | TN: 2 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 2
fail opportunity to heal strife
D13 LE event - roll 3 Void/Theology TN1 | TN: 1 | Success: 0 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 0

0 passed rolls
2 successes total

Koi sat facing the stars.

She did not want to do this, she loathed looking at her future as it meant little to her. She did not care.

She partipated but only lightly tackled it.

Much to her dissatisfaction.
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Strifr counter clock: 2/8.

D13 LE. Event. Roll 1. Earth/Culture. Tn 1. | TN: 1 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 1

Strife Counter Clock 3/8

D13 LE Event. Roll 2. Fire/Aesthetics. Tn 3 | TN: 3 | Success: 3 / Opportunity: 0 / Strife: 2

Strife Counter: 5/8

D13 LE. Event. Roll 3. Void Theology. Tn 2. | TN: 2 | Success: 0 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 0

1 to show off.

Did not pass all.
Most total successes - 4
Most total opportunities spent for flair - 1
Most total opportunities spent for flair - 1
Pass Culture and Aesthetics, but failed Theology

The Suzume tries hard to think about what he remembered about the meaning of the stars and constellations as he looked up at the sky. He... did remember some things, here and there, mostly from stories, but nothing seemed particularly relevant....

... maybe actually looking at the stars and trying to 'find' new meaning in them would make more sense? Creativity was usually not his forte, but something about today seemed to help him. He felt himself getting inspired by the constellations, and could actually see images forming and dissipating, then new images, and, with quite a bit of effort, he thought he could make some sense of it - "create" some sense, more specifically.

Trying to actually understand what it all meant in light of what he knew about religion and mysticism was... somehow easier, after all that effort. He was no specialist in any of that, of course, but he felt a natural attunement to the stars and the meanings he had surmised from them, and ended up with a rather interesting theory on the mystic ramifications of that particular night.

He had renewed a number of interests in his time here... and found quite a few more. Whether the pairing he would leave Kyuden Shika with would be a 'match made in heaven' was still to be determined, of course, but it was quite clear this time would have a lasting impact on him.

OOC:
D13 LE - Love among the Stars. Roll 1 - Earth/Culture TN 3. VP to Seize the Moment! | TN: 3 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 1

2 - Fail!
2 - used to show off
1 - taken, to 3/10
1 VP used, to 1/2

D12 LE - Love among the Stars, roll 2. Fire/Aesthetics TN 2, VP to Seize the Moment. | TN: 2 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 2
(should read D13!)
2 - Passed!
1 - used to show off
2 - taken, to 5/10
1 VP used, to 0/2

D13 LE - Love among the stars, roll 3. Void/Theology TN1 | TN: 1 | Success: 2 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 4

2 - Passed, 1 extra success!
2 - used to show off
4 - taken, to 9/10

Results:
Passed all rolls NO
Most total successes -
Most total opportunities spent for flair -
Pass Theology roll, but failed one other roll YES
Most total successes 6
Most total opportunities spent for flair 5
Pass Culture and Aesthetics, but failed Theology NO
Most total successes -
Most total opportunities spent for flair -
Pass Culture or Aesthetics, and failed theology NO
Most total successes -
Most total opportunities spent for flair -
Highest Status 25
Highest Glory 31
Highest Honor 56