|
|
|
|
|
Plainsfox rolled 1 10-sided dice:
5
Total: 5 (1-10)
|
|
|
 Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:03 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Plainsfox rolled 1 10-sided dice:
2
Total: 2 (1-10)
|
|
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:06 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Plainsfox rolled 1 10-sided dice:
8
Total: 8 (1-10)
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:07 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:09 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:16 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:53 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:21 am
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 6:11 am
 |
|
|
 |
Player: Plainsfox
Name:Bayushi Kojiro
Clan: Scorpion
School:Bayushi Bushi
Rank: 2(Insight only)
Insight: 153
Experience: 32 (31 used)
Glory: 1.0
Honor: 1.5
Status:1.6
Taint: None
Heritage: An ancestor lost his fortune to the sea. Another ancestor was utterly unremarkable. A final ancestor was corrupted by the Shadow Lands.
EARTH: 2
WATER: 2
FIRE: 3
Agility: 3
Intelligence: 3
AIR: 3
VOID: 2
Void: 2
Current Void Points: 2
SKILLS
Athletics (Various) - [None]- 1
Battle (Perception) - [None] - 1
Chain Weapons (Agility) - [Kusarigami] - 3
*Courtier (Awareness) - [Political Maneuvering] - 2
*Deceit (Awareness) - [None] - 2
*Defense (Agility) - [None] - 2
*Etiquette (Awareness) - [None] - 2
Hunting (Perception) - [None] - 2
*Iaijutsu (Reflexes) - [None] - 3
Investigation (Perception) - [None] - 2
*Kenjutsu (Agility) - [Katana] - 3
Know the School/Crane (Intelligence) - [None] - 1
Currently studied schools: Kakita Duelist and Doji Courtier
*Kyujutsu (Reflexes) - [Yumi] - 4
Lore: Law (Intelligence) - |None| - 1
Lore: Shadowlands (Intelligence) - [None] - 1
Meditation (Void) - [None] - 1
Performance: Music (Awareness) - [None] - 1
Stealth (Agility) - [None] - 1
Storytelling (Awareness) - |None| - 1
* indicates skill gained from School package.
MASTERY ABILITIES
Iaijutsu: May make one more focus.
Kyujutsu: Reduce range penalties by 5
ADVANTAGES
Quick 2pts; When making an initiative roll, you may roll one more die.
*Bland: 3pts; Attempts to recognize or remember Kojiro are increased by 10
Wealth: 3 pt; Gives 3 additional Koku to a starting character, and an addition of 3 koku to Kojiro's annual stipend.
Dangerous Beauty: You gain two additional rolled dice on deceit checks made against someone of the opposite sex.
Ancestor: Yogo Sanjuro (Soldier/Justice/1): 0 pts
Note: Kojiro's glory may not be higher than his status until he spends 10 exp to remove this penalty or raises a high or bugei skill to rank 6.
DISADVANTAGES
Wrath of the Kami: Water (3 pts): All hostile Water spells have a free raise when cast against Kojiro
*Driven (4 pts): Destroy Bayushi Masamune
Obligation (2pts) to Bayushi Taira in thanks for the well considered marriage that buoyed his family's fortunes.
Lost Love (2pts): Yogo Rin
*Phobia (2pts) Ocean
Bitter Betrothal (2pts) to Bayushi Koyuki
*indicates that it was received from heritage rolls and does not affect character point costs or etc
TECHNIQUES, SPELLS, KATA, KIHO, SHADOWLANDS POWERS
Way of the Scorpion: May add dice equal to school rank to initiative, May not be the target of combat reflexes; +5 to To Hit number when fighting anyone who has a lower initiative than himself.
EQUIPMENT/CURRENCY
Light Armor
Traveling Pack: Blanket, Daisho Stand, Finger of Jade, Set of Dice, Copy of Lies, Spare Kimono and Sandals, Shakuhachi, Small Tent,
10 Willow leaf arrows (4k2), 5 Flesh Cutters (4k3), 2 Rope Cutters (3k1), 3 Humming Bulb Arrows (2k1)
Kimono and Sandals
2 days worth of rations.
1 Koku, 4 Bu
COMBAT
Weapons
Katana - 6k3+3 - 5k2 - May spend two void points to roll and keep two dice on damage
Wakazaishi - 6k3 - 4k2 - When held in offhand, do not suffer normal +5 TN to all attacks. Still suffer +5 TN when attacking with the weapon
Yumi - 7k3+4 - Damage is as per arrow - Average Quality - Range 300', Str rating is 3
Kusarigama - 6k3+3 - 2k2 for Kama, 2K1 for Chain - Two free raises to disarm or knock down someone, An opponent who is knocked down or disarmed mus succeed in a contested strength roll with you. If he fails, he is entangled and you are then considered to be grappling the opponent. The kama may be used to attack grappled opponents and gains a 1k1 to it's damage roll when attacking grappled opponents. One raise may be called to use the kama portion as a kama.
Armor
TN To Be Hit = 24/29 Reflexes (3) x 5 + Armor (Light;+5 to Athletics/Stealth) +5 vs. Lower initiative, -4 in full attack
Initiative
7k3
Wounds
HEALTHY (+0): 0/4
NICKED (+3): 0/4
GRAZED (+5): 0/4
HURT (+10): 0/4
INJURED (+15): 0/4
CRIPPLED (+20): 0/4
DOWN (+40): 0/4
OUT (+N/A): 0/10
DESCRIPTION
Kojiro is of average height for a Rokugani. Like most of his clansmen, he has black hair and brown eyes. He wears a black silken mask over his head (like the Dread Pirate Roberts) None of his features stand out particularly, and he has a minute tattoo on his arm that reads "Husband of Bayushi Koyuki."- it is the only way Koyuki can recognize him. He looks like his age (which is 22)
Strangely enough, Koyuki can recognize almost anyone who is not him, due to the fact that they are more recognizable in some way than Kojiro. A member of the Shosuro acting troupe was fascinated by this and tried to impersonate Kojiro three times. The first time, Koyuki claimed that his hair was a length too long. The second, his walking was too rhythmic. The final time the Shosuro actor attempted this, he was told that his scent was too clean to be Kojiro. Koyuki has never had to check anyone but Kojiro for the tattoo.
Kojiro's armor is black trimmed with red, the opposite of most Scorpion schemes, but popular amongst those who are normally scouts. His Kabuto has a half mask attached to it and has two pincers rising from the brow.
BACKGROUND
Place of Birth: Yasuki Shiki, Junkin Province, Crab Lands
Current Residence: Trail's Respite Village, Hizoku Province, Scorpion Lands
Kojiro was born near Yasuki Shiki in Junkin province during the Scorpion Exile. His father, Jiro sent his mother, Ikue to live with her mother, Yasuki Minako, as he did not want to endanger her or their child in the exile, nor did he want his child to grow up as a hostage to the Crane. Thus, Kojiro spent the first three years of his life as a Crab. When Jiro returned to Rokugan with the rest of the Scorpion Clan, he reunited with Ikue and Kojiro and brought them to Trail's Respite Village in Hizoku province. Kojiro grew up as a Scorpion, although he did visit his grandmother now and again as he grew older.
Like his father, Kojiro was trained in the Bayushi Bushi School. While he was attending the facilities, word was leaked of his Yasuki heritage, earning Kojiro ill will amongst the contingent of Crane students at the school who adhered to the ancient grudge held against that family. Kojiro won handily against his peers, but several of their older brothers came to the school to restore honor by dueling Kojiro, putting the Kakita techniques on display for the whole academy. After Kojiro's Gempukku, he was married to Bayushi Koyuki, a daughter of a prominant citizen of Ryoko Owari Toshi who owned a profitable shipping concern.
During the War of Spirits, Kojiro was assigned to be the yojimbo for his great uncle, Soshi Taisen. Taisen was a hot headed, argumentative old shugenja who delighted in getting his younger relation in trouble and thus further increasing his dueling skills. Fortunately, Kojiro's skills as an archer and a scout were needed elsewhere and he was eventually replaced.
Notable People in Kojiro's Life:
Yogo Sanjuro: Sanjuro has recently replaced Masamune as the oldest relative that Kojiro is involved with. During his life, Sanjuro betrayed his father and took a position as an Emerald Legionnaire. He served dutifully and loyally during his lifetime and was rewarded with his daughter's marriage into the Asako family. The Asako family tried to gain a measure of revenge for this insult by arranging for this granddaughter to be married into a Bayushi family, but this came to nothing as he had broken his curse and his descendents were free of it.
Bayushi Masamune: The oldest, is Kojiro's great grandfather. He got Lost when attempting to retrieve an artifact from an agent of the Shadowlands. He also supposedly teased part of a secret from his Asako relatives, enraging the kami of the water against his line.
Soshi Taisen: Kojiro's grand uncle. Taisen admired his Matsu father and took his name upon gempukku. Hot headed and aggressive in the extreme, Taisen did his best to make the burning lands, the burning lands. Things were worse after he learned that his son decided to marry into the Asahina family and took their name. Taisen got most of his angries out in the War of the Spirits.
Yasuki Minako: Kojiro's grandmother. After the death of her husband and son during that fateful expedition, Minako has withdrawn from the world to a point. She still helps teach future Yasuki about the art of the deal and the like and is often visited by her granddaughter Arisa.
Bayushi Jiro: Kojiro's father. Jiro has long served as a scout in the Scorpion armies and has somehow managed to survive the most turbulent events of the past decades. Mostly due to not being tremendously noteable. He now teaches in the Bayushi school.
Bayushi Ikue: Kojiro's mother and Minako's daughter. The mother of three was born to the Crab clan and married off to Jiro to cement a profitable alliance between the two families. Ikue didn't expect her fortune to change so greatly, but she has weathered the decades well. Now her time is mostly spent managing her eldest son's wife, Koyuki.
Bayushi Koyuki: Kojiro's wife. Koyuki was born to a rich Bayushi father and a Daidoji mother in Ryoko Owari with key dealings on the River of Gold twenty five years ago. Koyuki expected to be married to a man of promise and ability. Instead, she got Kojiro. With little recourse, Koyuki has striven to motivate Kojiro into developing higher ambitions for himself. She is currently pregnant with the couple's first child. Koyuki is also an author of some ability and a tremendous gossip. This may explain why she is far, far away from Ryoko Owari right now.
Yoritomo Rin: Kojiro's first love. They met in the Yogo libraries while Kojiro was researching information on how to deal with Masamune. A marriage was arranged between the two as they recieved permission to ignore the long standing rule against Yogo family members marrying within the clan. Unfortunately, the needs of diplomacy reared their heads and the contract was dissolved when Rin volunteered to marry a minor Yoritomo lord in order to gain allies for the Clan in the Mantis' courts.
Utaku Kazuhiko: Kojiro's younger brother. Kazuhiko possesses many of the same skills as his brother. Due to Koyuki's abilities, Kazuhiko found himself married to a minor Utaku of some influence not long after Kojiro's marriage. Kazuhiko has attended the Ide Duelist School.
Utaku Kirano: Kojiro's sister in law. Lamed in an accident during her youth, Kirano attended the Ikoma Tactician school due to the fact that she can no longer ride a horse in combat. Deeply cares about Kazuhiko, is friendly with Kojiro, and loathes Koyuki.
Yasuki Arisa: Kojiro's sister. Arisa found herself married, with Koyuki's aid, to a distant cousin in an attempt to rekindle the alliance that brought prosperity to both sides. Arisa's skill in using her family's native blandness has been a blessing in the Yasuki Courtier school.
Yasuki Inomoto: Kojiro's brother in law and distant cousin. A Yasuki Taskmaster, Inomoto has little of the business acumen or wealth of his relatives. Inomoto also indulges in habits and attitudes that are more common with the Hida family than with the Yasuki family.
Yasuki Gintaro: Arisa and Inomoto's son. A one year old.
Edit: After rereading Way of the Scorpion, I'm adding this.
THE LIST (in no particular order)
The Scorpion Clan
The Empire
His Family
Koyuki's Biblography
Books written by Kojiro's wife
Golden Current
Synopsis: The story of one Phoenix and her affairs with several Crabs set before and after the Day of Thunder. Long story short, the Crabs end up fighting themselves to death after they find out they are all in love with the same woman.
Along the Banks
Synopsis: A retelling of an ancient story involving a priest and a river spirit. Noted for the fact that it makes the priest more vulnerable than in other tellings of the story.
A Truthful Account in the City of Lies
Synopsis: Koyuki once had a rival who dared her to publish an honest story instead of make believe fiction. This is the book Koyuki wrote that detailed the secrets of several noble women, including her rival. After the resulting duels and retirements to convents, it was decided that Koyuki should perhaps find a new life far, far away from Ryoko Owari.
Betrayal's Curse
Synopsis: This is a story of a love triangle involving a young shugenja, her childhood friend, and the shugenja's Turtle betrothed. The speed with which Koyuki wrote the book after her marriage is astounding. Koyuki chalks it up to the inspiration of Benten.
The Tales from the Village of Gentle Rest
Synopsis: A collection of vignettes involving travellers passing through a small village that is located along the roads leading into and out of Scorpion lands.
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 6:26 am
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 6:34 am
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 6:42 am
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 6:45 am
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 7:01 am
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:34 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
