The New Winds

As the contestants roam the streets, they are called out to by a traveling Merchant. The merchant explains that Tsuma is home to the famous Tsu Fish. These large, koi-like creatures leave the water to lay their eggs in nests along the fshore near the forest. The eggs are a great delicacy, and the merchant informs the contestants of a young chef who was assigned to get some of them for the dinner Kakita Toshimoko is hosting later this evening. The chefs stock has spoiled, and she is desperate to get more or she will lose face (and probably her job). The eggs also have a special ability whereby they can be used to create a solution that removes ink from parchment as well. Since the Chef came to the Merchant, the man said he would be able to get them for her, but he has had no luck finding the creatures.

The players may attempt to hunt the Tsu Fish by making the following checks, all at TN20:

-Lore: Nature / Intelligence to know the best places that the Tsu Fish would make nests. If they pass this roll, they will be able to find one nest, plus one additional nest per successful raise or exceptional success.

-Athletics / Agility to maintain their footing on the banks where the nests are made. Failure of this roll has the character fall into the river, ruining their clothing completely as it is soaked and coated in mud.

-Animal Handling / Awareness to get the Tsu Fish to leave the nest safely to they can harvest the eggs. Success grants a player 1 egg bundle, plus an additional egg bundle per successful raise or exceptional success. Failure on this roll has the Tsu Fish become highly aggressive and attack, dealing 1k1 exploding damage and preventing the nest from being harvested. Players may make this roll for as many nests as they found in the Lore: Nature roll.

The merchant requires 50 bundles to be able to have the Chef serve her dish at the feast. If 50 are given, all participants are granted 0.2 glory and 1 koku per egg nest.

-If a player keeps eggs for themselves and the merchant does not reach the 50 they need, they lose honor for a Minor Breach of Etiquette for not keeping their word.

Mirai thought she could find some Tsu Fish. She could not.

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Lore: Nature/Intelligence, 2 raises TN 30, V +1k1, 6k5 = 28 (Fail)

Nobuko could find the nests just fine, but when it came to getting them, the mud got the better of her and she took a dive. Well... it just meant she had to change before dinner.

Since her clothes were ruined, she just used her mud-slicked robes as a make-shift flag to store the eggs in once she managed to get the fist to safely leave the nests. She was grateful that she didn't end up hurting them. Only her pride when she had to return to the Academy to clean up and put on a new outfit.

After she collected as much as she thought she could with mud everywhere and making things difficult to see, she returned her catch to the merchant as promised.

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OOC
D6; Tsu Fish! Nature/Intel; 2 raises: 6d10o10k5 44 4 Nests found! 1 Success, 2 Called Raises, 1 Exceptional
D6; Tsu Fish! Ath/Agil: 6d10o10k3 17 SOAKED IN MUD OH NOES!!!
D6; Tsu Fish! Animal Handle/Aware: 4#6d10o10k5 57 50 37 21
(57-20)/10=3 Exceptional, +1 for passing (4)
(50-20)/10=3 Exceptional, +1 for passing (4)
(37-20)/10=1 Exceptional, +1 for passing (2)
(21-20)/10=0 Exceptional, +1 for passing (1)
=11 Bundles!!

D6 LA Tsu Fish - Lore Nature TN 20, Spend Void: 6d10o10k4 27

( 1 Nest)

D6 LA Tsu Fish - Athletics/Agility TN 20: 8d10o10k3 23

(Clean Clothes)

D6 LA Tsu Fish - Animal Handling TN 20: 6d10o10k4 27

(1 Egg Bundle)

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Wyn tries to help, using his maps to narrow down the correct spawning ground, but is only able to find one set of eggs.

+0.2 Glory +1 Koku

When Prash walks by and hears the poor merchant's story, he know he could not leave him to his troubles without helping - even if that meant possibly getting his clothes dry.

The Unicorn offers the man a calm, friendly smile and a promise to help as he could. He concentrates for a bit, making his now well-known yin yang gesture as he concentrates on his fire, and sets to the task.

Using the map Miya Wyn had given him two days before actually proved remarkably helpful, as it helped him pinpoint more likely nesting areas for the species, as well as finding good areas to walk on in the riverbanks to avoid falling down, and even how to best approach the nests without scaring the Tsu Fish too much and causing them to attack. For the last part, Prash decides to be extra careful - he takes a moment to meditate again, now focusing on his Air to approach the fish carefully, and takes his Kawaru coin earring and whispers a prayer to the spirits of the Water before actually approaching the nests.

The results are quite good, and Prash returns to the merchant with clean clothes, another smile and 13 bundles of eggs.

OOC
Day 6 LA - Tsu Fish Smuggling; Med/ Void for TtVD Fire. TN 20: 10d10o10k4 25
Day 6 Lore Nature/ Intelligence for Tsu Fish Smuggling. TtVD Fire; +1k0 Miya Map; Honour Roll +5k0 - 12k5 -> 10k6. 3 CR. TN 35: 10d10o10k6 46 - 1 + 3 CR + 1 Exceptional Success = 5 Nests found!
Day 6 LA - Athletics/ Agi to keep footing. TtVD Fire; +1k0 Miya Map. TN 20: 7d10o10k4 35 -> Clean clothes!
Day 6 LA - Tsu Fish Smuggling; Med/ Void to reactivate TtVD for Air. TN 20: 10d10o10k4 41

Reversal of Fortunes cast - active for three first Animal Handling rolls!

Day 6 LA - Animal Handling/ Awa for catching eggs. Nest 1/4 +1k0 for Miya Map. Using Reversal of Fortunes to get best of 2 rolls. 1 CR, TN 25: 2#6d10o10k4 33 35 -> Using 35; 1 + 1 CR + 1 ES = 3 Bundles. Also, actually 5 nests, not 4.
Day 6 LA - Animal Handling/ Awa for catching eggs. Nest 2/4 +1k0 for Miya Map. Using Reversal of Fortunes to get best of 2 rolls. 1 CR, TN 25: 2#6d10o10k4 21 51 -> Using 51; 1 + 1 CR + 2 ES = 4 Bundles. Also actually 5 nests not 4.
Day 6 LA - Animal Handling/ Awa for catching eggs. Nest 3/4 +1k0 for Miya Map. Using Reversal of Fortunes to get better of 2 rolls. 2 CR, TN 30: 2#6d10o10k4 27 33 -> Using 33; 1 + 2 CR = 3 Bundles. Also 5 nests...
Day 6 LA - Animal Handling/ Awa for catching eggs. Nest 4/4. TN 20: 6d10o10k4 37 -> 1 + 1 ES = 2 Bundles. 5 Nests you know, so one more roll...
Day 6 LA - Animal Handling/ Awa for catching eggs. Nest 5/5 (5 not 4!). TN 20: 6d10o10k4 23 -> Only 1 Bundle now!

Total: 13 Bundles

Results so far:
Mirai: 0 Bundles
Otomo Nobuko: 11 Bundles
Miya Wyn: 1 Bundle
Iuchi Prashant: 13 Bundles

Total: 25/50 Bundles gathered and handled to the Merchant

Student clothes already full of mud anyway, he joins it... He didn't expect to actually suceed!
(Day 6, LA) Tsu Fish Smuggling - Lore: Nature/Intelligence: 6d10o10k5 26
(Day 6, LA) Tsu Fish Smuggling - Athletics/Agility: 6d10o10k5 31 (Rolled wrong but passed)
(Day 6, LA) Tsu Fish Smuggling - Animal Handling / Awareness - Void for +1k1: 4d10 28

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OOC
Aiichiro's totals:
Lore: Nature/Intelligence: 26 vs 20 = 1 nest found
Athletics/Agility: 31 vs 20 = Did not slip and fall
Animal Handling / Awareness: 28 vs 20 = 1 Egg bundle gathered


Results so far:
Mirai: 0 Bundles
Otomo Nobuko: 11 Bundles
Miya Wyn: 1 Bundle
Iuchi Prashant: 13 Bundles
Kaiu Aiichiro: 1 Bundle

Total: 26/50 Bundles gathered and handled to the Merchant

Kaidan found Ninya in the streets she seemed to have sniffed out some fish. He looked at the merchant. The Bayushi sighed. "You are a menace, Ninya." He picked up the cat and placed inside his obi. He knew where to find a nest. He gingerly approached it. He picked the two bundles but Ninya wanted to eat one of the eggs. Kaidan managed to control the little cat.

//D6 LA Tsu Fish Lore Nature untrained TN 20: 5d10k5 28 1 nest found
D6 LA Tsu Fish Athletics AGI TN 20: 8d10o10k5 39
D6 LA Tsu Fish Animal Handling: 5d10o10k4 37 1 exceptional success 2 bundles
D6 LA Tsu fish Stopping Ninya from eating fish: 5d10o10k4 29

This smells kinda fishy, and not in the river. Unfortunately, Haruki doesn't have time to double-check with the actual chef. So he asks for the chef's name and the merchant's own. He then pulls out a fan and whispers something to the merchant. (PMing GM this since I already rolled and this won't affect my participaton)

D6 LA: Lore:Nature/intelligence, void point used, TN 20: 5d10o10k4 44 (pass +2 exceptional=3 nests)

D6 LA: Athletics/agility TN 20: 8d10o10k4 31 (pass, exceptional=pants were actually cleaned a little?)

D6 LA: Animal Handling/awareness, TN 30, 2 raises: 5d10o10k4 56 (nest 1 success, 2 called raises, exceptional =5 eggs)

D6 LA: Animal Handling/awareness roll 2, TN 20: 5d10o10k4 33 (pass, exceptional =2 eggs)

D6 LA: Animal Handling/awareness roll 3, TN 25, 1 raise: 5d10o10k4 21 (fail)
D6 LA: damage, TSU fish bite, 1k1: 1d10o10k1 8 (big damage but I can take it)

Total=7 eggs from me

((35/50))

Ichiro was not always the smartest and when it came to knowing where to hunt for fish nests he hadn't the slightest idea.

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D6 LA fish smuggling lore/int tn 20: 2d10 8

A different sort of hunting. That sounds like a decent warmup for the competition, even if she's never heard of Tsu fish.

Thankfully, the descriptions she gets are decent enough togo hunting them in a surefooted scramble along the bank. She feels a little bad luring them from their nests only to rob them, assuaging her guilty conscience with the hope that, like chickens, an empty nest only encourages them to lay more.

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The players may attempt to hunt the Tsu Fish by making the following checks, all at TN20:

-Lore: Nature / Intelligence
D6, LA, Tsu Fish Lore: Nature/Int TN 20 Void for skill: 5d10o10k3 39
2 nests

-Athletics / Agility
D6, LA, Tsu Fish Athletics/Agility TN 20: 8d10o10k4 25 pass

-Animal Handling / Awareness
D6, LA, Tsu Fish Animal Handling / Awareness void +1k1 2 raises, TN 30: 7d10o10k5 32 3 bundles

-Animal Handling / Awareness #2
D6, LA, Tsu Fish Animal Handling / Awareness 1 raise TN 25: 6d10o10k4 53 4 bundles
(1, 1 called raise, 2 exceptional success)

7 bundles total

((42/50))

"We don't actually have to kill the things, right? Just get the eggs to you?" Zashi looks a bit nervous, not at facing down the territorial fish but at the possibility that he might hurt them. The chef assures him that there is no risk, and that any damage to the fish would come from her.

Zashi sniffs the air, trying to suss out anything in particular, the trained senses of an outdoorsman helping him track down a small cluster of nests.

"Heeeeeere fishy fishy fishy" Zashi artfully hands from a tree branch to reach for the nest, staying clean in the process. The Fox is able to pluck out a treasure trove of eggs from each of the nests. Zashi returns to the grateful chef with the last bundles she needs, but pockets a few, having a nagging feeling that he might need some soon


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OOC

Tsu Fish Smuggling-Lore:Nature/Intelligence-TN 20-VP for +1k1: 5d10o10k4 33 Pass with exceptional success for 2 nests

Tsu Fish Smuggling-Athletics/Agility-TN 20: 7d10o10k3 21 Pass, clothes not ruined

Tsu Fish Smuggling-Nest Harvesting-Animal Handling/Awareness-+1k1 for Touch for Chikusudo-3 raises-TN 35-VP spent on each: 2#9d10o10k6 53 45 2 successess with a combined 6 raises, two exceptional successes for 10 bundles of eggs

8 egg bundles donated (50/50)
+8 koku and 0.2 glory
2 egg bundles kept

"Why would there be fish in the streets?" Dao wondered out loud, his search proving entirely fruitless.


D6 LA egg hunt Nature/Int + map. TN20: 5d10o10k3 17

Unsurprisingly Ichiro, not being from this area, had no idea where such fish might be.

(Unskilled Nature = Fail)

Somewhere out in the woods is a loud roar of frustration.

D6:LA Tsu Fishing Nat/Intel HONOR ROLL +2 raises TN30: 10d10o10k4 17
Failed honor roll. T_T

Asahi had done some fishing in the past, but not like this. He pondered the idea of fish nests and where they would be located, carefully making his way along the shore. He was a bit amazed that he actually found one. The Kitsuki was even more surprised that he was able to coax the fish away so he could harvest the eggs. It all went far better than he expected.

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(Day 6, LA) Tsu Fish Smuggling, Lore: Nature/Intelligence TN 20: 5d10o10k3 27

(Day 6, LA) Tsu Fish Smuggling, Athletics/Agility TN 20: 6d10o10k3 32

(Day 6, LA) Tsu Fish Smuggling, Animal Handling/Awareness TN 20, VP for skill: 4d10o10k3 24

1 egg nest and 1 egg bundle for the merchant.

Wyn speaks to the merchant, and asks him to provide Wyn's monetary award to the Ronin that spent several hours looking for Tsu Fish and came back empty handed.

(+1 Koku for Mirai