The New Winds

This is a repeatable event, and will happen over multiple days. Each day, you must select a Ring to use, at which point, you may not use that ring again for this event. Players should make a note in their Personal Forum with a topic called "Daily Spellcasting Training " and note which days they used each ring.

Characters with Seven Fortunes Blessing may only use their blessing for one roll per event.

Characters who have the following disadvantages have the following penalties:
-Elemental Imbalance: The TN penalty listed for the disadvantage is +1 instead of +5 during this event
-Wrath of the Kami: If you succeed on the Summon for the element of this disadvantage, it deals 1k1 damage to you before being calmed by one of the sensei.

Only characters with the Monk or Shugenja school tag may enter this event

In order to complete the training, you must do the following:

Select a ring to use (not including Void), not using the same ring you have already selected before for this event.

Then, make a Meditation/Void check at TN6. If you succeed, you gain that ring as a bonus to your rolls for this event.

Then, you must complete the following steps in order:

(To cast the spells, you roll Ring+1, keeping ring, plus the bonus from the Meditation check as detailed above)

Sense, using the element of the ring you selected at TN5.
Commune, using the element of the ring you selected at TN6.
Summon, using the element of the ring you selected at TN7.


Rewards:

• -For each step you complete, you gain +2 Dojo points
• -If you complete all three Shugenja steps, you gain +1 to Spellcrafting (Shugenja Only) or Meditation (Monk Only). You may only gain this reward once.
• -If on the Sense roll you have a roll explode twice, you gain the Friend of the Elements advantage for the element you are using.
• -If on the Commune roll you have a roll explode twice, you gain the Friendly Kami (Shugenja Only) or Chosen by the Oracles (Monk Only) advantage for the element you are using.
• -If on the Summon roll you have a roll explode twice, you gain the Elemental Blessing advantage for the element you are using.
• -At the end of the event, you gain a permanent +1 to the Mental and Physical traits associated with the ring you are using. You may only gain this reward once per Trait.
• Special: On the final iteration of this event, if you have passed all rolls in at least 3 of the 4 events, you gain the Friend of the Brotherhood Advantage

• 
  With all the rain, Setsuna really should have considered speaking to the kami of the water today. His hair completely drenched as they are led out to the courtyard, he immediately sets about looking for somewhere decent to sit for the meditation. A large, flat decorative rock draws his attention the most and if it fits, Setsuna sits. Perched upon it, cross legged style, and as thoroughly soaked as one could be, his palms pressed together. Meditation time. His lips mumbled a short and respectful introduction for any of the mikokami and then...
  
  He felt it. Well, maybe felt was not the right word. Sensed? Closer, but not one hundred percent. But something told him that just around him, very nearby, resided a kami of the earth. Shielding his scroll as best as he could, he quickly incanted the holy words. Where are you, the silvery haired boy thought to himself. As the spell completed and he quickly jammed the scroll back into the safety of his case, he knew where it was. Scampering off the boulder, he went to the base of it and began to dig into the softened earth with his hands. No one could see the mikokami, he knew, but the rain would muffle his message. A small pile of grass and mud would pile next to him, and his hands would be very dirty. It was fine, no one got killed from a bit of dirt.
  
  Once again a scroll came out, and he began to speak the words, though very quickly so it would not get wet and mussed. The dirt seemed to vibrate slightly, and he pressed his hand to it. A small gasp escaped his mouth, and he could hear the kami very clearly, it's words channeling through the earth and into his arm. What did he want, and be snappy. The earth kami were not playful or fiery, but very... down to earth. "What can this one offer you, spirit of the earth? How have you been?" His hand sank slightly into the dirt as it softened into mud, the earth kami seeming to mull over his words. It vibrated, and he knew what to do.
  
  The pile of mud would come in handy here. He dug into it and began to make a shape, slapping it onto the grass. Yeah he was going to be filthy today. More and more would be taken from the pile and what he was working on became clear. 土 or "tsuchi," which was simply earth. That was what was wanted, so who was he to disobey? The last scroll, now that he had accomplished the task, it was time to ask the mikokami to make their appearance. Shielding the paper and touching it as gingerly as he could (though a muddy thumbprint and fingerprint would be on it), he at last began to recite the final prayer, voice loud and clear as he could make it be. When he completed it, before he could even put away the scroll, a large stone came into appearance just in front of him, mid air. The delight on his face lasted only a second though, before it immediately fell and landed with a sploosh onto his muddy creation and splattered him with even more mud.
  
  Still. A pass was a pass.
  

  Meditation/Void TN6
  3d10o10k2
  D4 Meditation / Void TN6: 3d10o10k2 13
  
  Sense - Spellcraft/Earth TN5
  2d10o10k1
  D4 Spellcraft/Earth Invocation: Sense TN5: 2d10o10k1 8 +1 = 9
  
  Commune - Spellcraft/Earth TN6
  2d10o10k1
  D4 Spellcraft/Earth Invocation: Commune TN6: 2d10o10k1 15 +1 = 16
  
  Summon - Spellcraft/Earth TN7
  2d10o10k1
  D4 Spellcraft/Earth Invocation: Summon TN7: 2d10o10k1 7 +1 = 8
  +6 Dojo Points
  +1 Willpower & +1 Stamina for passing