The New Winds

Sensei: ???

The rules for this event are as follows: You will need to the following checks, all at TN6.

Players who have the following Disadvantages have these TN's increased by +2 instead of the normal +5: Seven Fortunes Curse: Fukurokujin’s Curse

Players who have the Precise Memory advantage gain +1 to their rolls

Pick three of the following:
Lore: Shugenja
Lore: Architecture
Lore: Gaijin (Pick Ivory Kingdoms, Burning Sands, Yobanjin, Pavarre)
Lore: Ghosts
Lore: Nature
Lore: Nonhuman Culture: Nezumi
Lore: Spirit Realms
Lore: Elements

All skills use the Intelligence trait.

--Gain +1 Dojo Point per passed roll
--Gain +1 to each lore skill rolled if you pass a roll with a raise (may use exceptional roll rule free raise for this, even if you do not have the skill). You may only gain this reward once per Lore
--Gain +1 Intelligence if make raise on ALL rolls (may use exceptional roll rule free raise for this, even if you do not have the skill)
--Special: If you have two dice explode on any roll, ??? will become a temporary 1/1 Ally to be called on at some point during your stay to train you further.

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  Seated at a small desk which looked very much like the table he had flung earlier, Setsuna pointed at an older monk who was in the room and was seated in front of the station labeled for Lore: Ghosts. "Monk-sama." The shugenja shifted position to allow himself to bow low, nose touching the floor. "If you would kindly oblige me, and be my resource on yurei, I would be ever humbled, honored, and most grateful." After all... the instructions were to pick a series of subjects and then given the proper materials to study. What more proper material than a man who had likely seen ghosts with his own eyes?
  
  While the monk raised a brow, he ambled over and sat opposite of the desk. Some hot tea was served for the two of them, and the shugenja listened as the man explained the basics to him.
  
  All humans have a spirit, known as reikon. When a person dies, the reikon leaves the body and enters Meido, where it waits for the proper funeral and post-funeral rites to be performed so that it may join its ancestors. If this is done correctly, the reikon is believed to be a protector of the living family and to return yearly in the month of Shinjo during the Bon Festival to receive thanks.
  
  If the person dies, however, in a sudden or violent manner such as murder or suicide, if the proper rites have not been performed, or if they are influenced by powerful emotions such as a desire for revenge, love, jealousy, hatred or sorrow, the reikon is believed to transform into a yūrei which can then bridge the gap back to the physical world. The emotion or thought need not be particularly strong or driven. Even innocuous thoughts can cause a death to become disturbed. Once a thought enters the mind of a dying person, their yūrei will come back to complete the action last thought of before returning to the cycle of reincarnation.
  
  The yūrei then resides in Ningen-do until it can be laid to rest, either by performing the missing rituals, or resolving the emotional conflict that still ties it to the physical plane. If the rituals are not completed or the conflict left unresolved, the yūrei will persist in its haunting. Oftentimes the lower the social rank of the person who died violently or who was treated harshly during life, the more powerful as a yūrei they would return. There are plenty of stories about this, the monk explained, but he would stand up and offer a small bow so the Kitsune could study for other subjects.
  
  Nature and Spirit Realms were less... foreign, to Setsuna, so he simply allotted his remaining time to reading. Two fat books would be slapped onto the low desk he was sat, and he pored over them. The boy was a nerd and thus very thoroughly engrossed by them. When the time came to demonstrate his knowledge via quizzes, he passed with flying colors.

Lore Ghosts / Intelligence TN6, raise
3d10k3
D3 Goat Lore Ghosts / Intelligence TN6, raise, unskilled: 3d10k3 13

Lore Nature / Intelligence TN6, raise
3d10k3
D3 Goat Lore Nature / Intelligence TN6, raise, unskilled: 3d10k3 23

Lore Spirit Realms / Intelligence TN6, raise, voided
4d10o10k3
D3 Goat Lore Spirit Realms / Intelligence TN6, raise, voided: 4d10o10k3 11

+3 Dojo Points
+1 Lore: Ghosts, Lore: Nature, and Lore: Spirit Realms
+1 Intelligence