The New Winds

Sensei: Doji Murashige
-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: Obtuse

Players who have the Seven Fortunes Blessing: Fukurokujin’s Blessing advantage gain +1 to their rolls

Calligraphy / Awareness, to represent your usage of aesthetically pleasing calligraphy
Calligraphy / Intelligence, to represent your ability to use more ancient calligraphy
Calligraphy / Willpower, to represent your ability to create a long scroll of many different characters

--Gain +1 Dojo Point per passed roll
--Gain +1 to Calligraphy skill if 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.
--Gain +6 Dojo Points 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 the Calligraphy / Awareness, Doji Murashige will become a temporary 1/1 Ally to be called on at some point during your stay to train you further.

• Kitsune Setsuna perched at a desk, now dried off from earlier events and was prepared for writing. After all, most shugenja did calligraphy so he was set. The task was to write with aesthetically pleasing characters, in High Rokugani (the elder and more formal written language) and to write a lot. No sweat. Since there was not a guideline given on what to write, he would simply put to paper what came to mind.
  
  "This is the story of 'The Ronin of the Little Village.' A tale I was taught while sailing on towards here, by an Ikoma Courtier of great skill and beauty, Ikoma Chiaki-san. As winter begun one year, a ronin woman called Hina entered the village. This wasn't unusual for the village, many passed through as they made there way along the coast. In fact the village had a young craftsman by the name of Atomu who himself was ronin and had helped the villages with his skills when ever possible."
  
  "Given the nature of winter, the two ronin would spend much time in each others company, a large cause of tension in the village as Hina was a swordswoman who lived and ate by her katana while Atomu could barely hold his. The two fought all winter, trying to convince the other they must follow their way and nearly tearing the town in two with their argument."
  
  "As spring came, Hina left the town in a boat and Atomu set about fixing the village. However a restlessness had settled in the man, each day he would go to the tip of land and pratice his Kenjutsu. This continued for many years until one day he saw a boat approaching. He knew this boat, a trading vessel that brought many resources to the village and so he headed to the village dock where the fishing boats were unloading and waited."
  
  "As the trader arrived, he noticed another shocking individual on the deck as Hina had returned to the village. 'You were wise to learn art' she admitted as he admitted 'you were wise to learn the katana.' And together they agreed to share what they had learned and crafted a statue of a samurai with a sword in one hand and a brush in the other, placing on top of the boulder that now sits on the point before heading off on the next boat to share their wisdom."
  
  He softly spoke as he wrote, visualizing each character and telling the story as he did. However, he was only able to complete the first saga of the adventures of Hina and Atomu, his brush furiously scribbling before it came to a sudden stop. Halfway through, he'd begun feeling a strange tension in his wrist but ignored it. Unfortunately, it didn't go away and suddenly it felt like something sharp was inside of him, piercing his tendons. The white haired boy jerked back from the desk in surprise, brush dropping to the floor as his fingers clenched and unclenched in pain. To his credit, he did not cry aloud or make noise to disturb the other students, but his incarnadine hues were watery and large as the pain shot through while he cradled it with his other hand. Thankfully, the time for class would not last much longer and when it came time to be dismissed to go clean, he was was probably the first one out the door.
  
  He could pretend that it was perhaps the digging from the spellcasting training earlier, but truth be told he wasn't sure why it happened. Oh well.

  Calligraphy / Awareness TN6, raise
  2k2 unskilled, void for skill
  3d10o10k2
  D4 Calligraphy / Awareness TN6, voided for skill, raise: 3d10o10k2 12
  
  Calligraphy / Intelligence TN6, raise
  4k4 unskilled
  4d10k4
  D4 Calligraphy / Intelligence TN6, raise, unskilled: 4d10k4 19
  
  Calligraphy / Willpower TN6, raise
  1k1 unskilled, void for 1k1
  2d10k2
  D4 Calligraphy / Willpower TN6, raise, voided for 1k1: 2d10k2 3
  
  +2 Dojo Points
  +1 Calligraphy