This Event is limited to the following characters: Shugenja, Ise Zumi, Asako Henshin, characters with the Blood of Osano-wo, Chosen by the Oracles, Inari’s Blessing, Medium, Seven Fortune’s Blessing, and Touch of the Spirit Realms: Meido, Tengoku, Gaki-do, or Yomi advantages, and characters with the Haunted, Seven Fortunes’ Curse and Cursed by the Realm: Tengoku, Yomi, Gaki-do, or Meido Disadvantages.
Even if you fulfill one of these conditions, if you also have the Disbeliever disadvantage, you may not participate in this event.
You participate in this event by making a post (or posts) in which you perform the steps of the event in the course of normal threads you are in during the Late Afternoon. You will then link those posts here. Please link all of the relevant posts to 1 post in this ooc thread. Please do not make multiple posts in this thread. Though it will be tempting, please do not comment on posts made in this thread. Save that for ooc chat or a tracking thread, if that is what you would like to do. The resulting tidiness here will make it much easier for us to adjudicate and evaluate this event. Thank you for being so cool!
Note that while there are descriptions of environmental phenomena in the event, these are only experienced by the participants. Those nearby will see the participants react, but will not experience the phenomena themselves.
Event Mechanics wrote: Step 1: The Rending of the Veil
Perhaps you are in conversation; perhaps you are writing a letter, perhaps settling down to a cup of tea. Wherever you are and whatever you are doing, you feel it: first the wind picking up, then a rapid cooling of the temperature. Then, amid the cold and the rising shriek of the wind, a sound like someone ripping a shoji screen in half and a tremendous weight falling across your back.
Roll an Athletics/Stamina check to resist the force or an Etiquette/Reflexes or Perform: Dance/Reflexes check to sink gracefully to your knees. These rolls are to be made at TN: 20.
Should you fail your check, you are thrown violently to the ground. Take 2k1 damage from the blow. You are prone.
Step 2: The Rebuke
The spirits–all of them–are clearly shocked and angry. You have an opportunity to assuage the anger of the spirits immediately around you before they rebuke the mortal realms–and you, specifically. You might want to act fast.
Consider carefully the nature of your connection to the spiritual world and consult the following table. You must pass this roll to continue to part 3. If you fail this roll, you experience spiritual backlash and take 2k2 damage.
Advantages that apply: Benten's Blessing, Fukurokujin's Curse
My Connection is with a Fortune
1. My Connection is Broadly Positive: Lore: Theology/Awareness, tn 15
2. My Connection is Broadly Negative: Lore: Theology/Stamina, tn 25
3. My Connection is Broadly Neutral: Lore: Theology/Intelligence, tn 20.
My Connection is with the Elemental Kami
1. My Connection is Broadly Positive: Cast Commune with 2 Raises
2. My Connection is Broadly Negative: Cast Commune with 3 Raises, or Cast Banish with 2 Raises. If you choose the latter option, you may not proceed to step 3, but you avoid the damage.
3. My Connection is Broadly Neutral: Lore: Elements/Awareness or Lore: Elements/Intelligence at TN 20, or Cast Banish with 2 Raises. If you choose the latter option, you may not proceed to step 3, but you avoid the damage.
My Connection is with the Spirit Realms
1. My Connection is Broadly Positive: Lore: Spirit Realms/Awareness, tn 15
2. My Connection is Broadly Negative: Lore: Spirit Realms/Stamina, tn 25
3. My Connection is Broadly Neutral: Lore: Spirit Realms/Intelligence, tn 20
My Connection is with my Ancestors
1. My Connection is Broadly Positive: Influence Rank/Awareness, tn 15
2. My Connection is Broadly Negative: Influence Rank/Intelligence, tn 25
3. My Connection is Broadly Neutral: Influence Rank/Void, tn 20
My Body Art is Made with Kami Blood
1. My Relationship with Togashi is Broadly Positive: Meditation/Awareness, tn 15
2. My Relationship with Togashi is Broadly Negative: Meditation/Stamina, tn 25
3. My Relationship with Togashi is Broadly Neutral: Meditation/Void, tn 20
I Walk the Path of Man
1. Roll Meditation/School Rank, tn 25
Step 3: A New Resolve
Having created a moment of peace in which to get a handle on the situation, you are now able to act to console your favorite spiritual entity. They still aren’t entirely forthcoming on the cause of all of this–the trauma is too severe–but at least they will be less likely to lash out in the future.
Make a Meditation/Void, Courtier/Ring (if you can speak with the kami), Lore: Spirit Realms/Awareness, or Influence Rank/Awareness roll at TN 20.
Advantages: Benten's Blessing
Results
Characters who succeed in Step 3 are able to soothe the spirits in their location.
Characters who fail at this roll are unable to soothe the spirits. They will remain agitated, and it will take an additional Raise to cast spells in that area until the Spiritual Order has been put right.
If a majority of characters who attempt the Event are able to succeed at Step 3, the spirits of the castle are broadly soothed. This means that there will be normalcy for the remainder of court (with the exceptions noted above). Characters who attempted part 3 receive 4 Glory for their efforts. Characters who succeeded at part 3 receive 6 Glory and 2 experience points toward the Friendly Kami advantage instead.
If a majority of characters who attempt the Event are unable to succeed at this roll, whether because they failed at Part 2 and were unable to roll in part 3 or because they were unable to succeed at part 3 itself, then the castle suffers under the negative attention of the entirety of the spirit realms.
The following things occur:
The entire castle triggers the Cursed by the Realms: Tengoku Disadvantage.
Everyone with Shadowlands Taint or Cursed by the Realms: Jigoku will be required to make a Shadowlands Taint resistance roll (in your pfs, please).
A spiritual malaise will settle across the court. Everyone will be under the effect of Cursed by the Realm: Meido until the Spiritual Order has been put right or Court ends, whichever comes first.
