In reply to Chiisai Tori (msg # 132):

What happens when your skill goes over 70?  Is it just the pluses or do you subtract 70-your skill to that value?  My Atemi Waza is at 69.9 so I'm sure the first week will be to move that up but after that I'll have to think about what I will do.  Depends on how much things will move up.  If anyone is interested in learning I would be teaching Atemi Waza the first week for sure.  I also have Jujutsu on a 60.9 if anyone wants to improve that.  I'm sure Hiro has me beat on this.  I will either be focusing on 1 of these 2 skills or probably Yadomejutsu or physician.  Is there a skill for battle tactics?  I didn't see anything listen for this.

What about personal status and group status?  I have not been tracking this and my character has not updated this since you updated it after 1st level.

If your skill is over your teachers skill, you get no bonus from private instruction.

Remember that being over 60 is an automatic hindrance to learning:
(Learning rate + Learning bonuses)/(2*Learning Hindrances)

Hindrances include:
Not studying with a teacher (not the case).
Current score over 60.
Not studying a Freely Improvable Skill (if you have not designated these yet, let me know and we'll walk through the process)
Not studying full time (not the case)
Wounded/Ill (not the case)

Takeshi Training for 8 weeks:

Week 1, Water magic skill from 43 to 51
Week 2, Water magic skill from 51 to 58
Week 3, Water magic skill from 58 to 64 (future training at a hindrance)
Week 4, Magic skill from 60 to 66 (future training at a hindrance)
Week 5, Magic skill from 66 to 69 (hindrance so learned 3 instead of 6 points)
Week 6, Learn spell: Binding of Limbs KN:32 BCS:16 rolled 8... +8 task points, 8/32
Week 7, Learn spell: Binding of Limbs KN:32 BCS:16 rolled 8 and +1 for focus ... +9 task points. Total Task points to learn Binding of Limbs 17/32.
Week 8, Learn spell: Binding of Limbs KN:32 BCS:16 rolled 18... -2 task points. 15/32.


Takeshi also put up his Wit by 1 to 30.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:16, Wed 05 Aug 2020.

In reply to Chiisai Tori (msg # 135):

So I'm assuming this means that once my skill goes over 70 then the private instruction will become 0 (not a negative value).

Thus the first week Atemi Waza would be LR+2+1(if bonus skill) + (70-69.9) then divide the total by 2 since it is over 60.  Thus [1+2+1+(0.1)/10]/2 = 4.01/2 thus 2.005 assume round off to 2 decimal places bringing the total to 69.9+2.01=71.91.
If I continue the second week then it would be 1+2+1+0(private training) then divide the total by 2 since it is over 60.  Thus 2 points per week for all remaining weeks.
Week 2:  71.91 + 2 = 73.91
Week 3:  73.91 + 2 = 75.91 (went up 6.01 after 3 weeks)
Week 8:  75.91 + 2 = 77.91 (went up 8.01 after 4 weeks)

Jujutsu 60.9
Week4: [4+(70-60.9)/10]/2=(4+0.91)/2=4.91/2=2.46 for a total of 60.9+2.46=63.36
Week5: [4+(70-63.36)/10]/2=(4+0.664)/2=2.33 for a total of 65.69
Week6: [4+(70-65.69)/10]/2=(4+0.431)/2=2.22 for a total of 67.91
Week7: [4+(70-67.91)/10]/2=(4+0.209)/2=2.10 for a total of 70.01 (went up 9.11 after 4 weeks)

Put increase of 8.01+9.11=17.12 towards health (thus increase health 1.712)
Let me know if I did anything wrong.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:16, Wed 05 Aug 2020.

I believe most of us have shares in a tea house, cost me 15GP which was %50 of Arashi's share in the tea house.

How is our investment?

In reply to Takeshi Oshiro (msg # 138):

Totsu invested 5 gold in the tea house as well.

In reply to Totsu (msg # 139):

8 weeks of training.

Bajutsu here I come. I will for sake of ease just start after the previous week of training even though this would technically be before, if ok?

Week 1 of Bajutso training:1+2+1+(70-28)/10=4+42/10=8.2 for 36.2
Week 2 of Bajutso training:4+(70-36.2)/10=4+3.4=7.4 for 43.6
Week 3 of Bajutso training:4+(70-43.6)/10=4+2.6=6.6 for 50.2
Week 4 of Bajutso training:4+(70-50.2)/10=4+2.0=6   for 56.2
Week 5 of Bajutso training:4+(70-56.2)/10=4+1.4=5.4 for 61.6
Week 6 of Bajutso training:4+(70-61.6)/10=4+0.8=4.8 for 66.4
Week 7 of Bajutso training:4+(70-66.4)/10=4+0.4=4.4 for 70.8
Week 8 of Bajutso training:4+(70-70.86.2)/10=+2=2   for 72.8

So just 2 after 70?  Is this ok? Did I get it right? I rounded up and down off of 5 up, 4 or less down.

Also, if all checks out, can I have a pony, I mean war horse requisitioned retroactively for the journey?

Almost Arashi.

Anything after 60 score is at a hinderance.  So:
Week 4 of Bajutso training:4+(70-50.2)/10=4+2.0=6   for 56.2
Week 5 of Bajutso training:4+(70-56.2)/10=4+1.4=5.4 for 61.6
Week 6 of Bajutso training:4+(70-61.6)/10=4+0.8=4.8 (divided by 2 for 2.4) for 64.0
Week 7 of Bajutso training:4+(70-64.0)/10=4+0.6=4.6 (divided by 2 for 2.3) for 66.3
Week 8 of Bajutso training:4+(70-66.3)/10=4+.4=4.4 (divided by 2 for 2.2) for 68.5

You are allowed to requisition a horse from Jizai's stable.  Or course, it is not yours, but you have access to it.

Anyone with investments with Ayare will gain 30% return at this point.

In reply to Chiisai Tori (msg # 143):

I ask Ayare if she is looking to reinvest in the tea house.  If she is I will reinvest, if not I'll take my 30%

She can reinvest, but it won't be the teahouse.  She has other options and if you'd like to keep fronting her the money, she'll keep looking for opportunities.

Having traveled with her so long, you DO know she loves to gamble.  Most of her spare time is taken up with gambling.  That may, or may not, affect her style of investing.
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In reply to Ayare (msg # 145):

I let Ayare know that if she has another business opportunity (not a dice game) I'd be interested.  Let me know what other business opportunities she has and I'll let her know which ones I'd be interested in investing in.
If she has nothing at the moment then I will hold onto the money until she has one.

In reply to Totsu (msg # 147):

Arashi will reinvest with Ayare.

More for Totsu and Hiro-matsu, I sent an email with a Roll20 link.  I thought we could schedule a day to show you two how it works (if you don't know already).  Then, when we get to fight scenes, we might set up a 2 hour block to do the fight and go back to RPOL.

Let me know if you didn't get the email.

In reply to Chiisai Tori (msg # 149):

I got the email.
I'll try to set it up in the next couple of days.

Sorry for the delay everyone.

House hunting got intense, and we found one, are moving, cleaning, organizing, ditching, donating, etc, etc.

I'll get a date for an online soon.  Might be another couple weeks though.

Thanks.

Ito listened with half an ear as the Buddhist nun droned on and on about the beauty and elegance of the Buddhist spirit.  What could she possibly know about symmetry and perfect structure of the ‘real’ universe rather than our imperfect clay one?  It seemed that the older people got, the more they needed a world where all the pieces of the puzzle fit in such a clean line that nobody ever would know it was a puzzle.

Clean.  Perfect.  Symmetrical.  Words that groped for the feeling of Nirvana when language hindered understanding it.  Ito felt, not without reasons, that language failed so spectacularly to help bring people to harmony was because it was pure structure.  Pure system.  The opposite of Nirvana.

“Are you even listening to me?”

Ito tried to catch himself in mid-eyeroll and immediately realized the biddy old nun’s little beady hawk eyes would have caught it at first squint.

“Oh.  Humor the old cow?  Is that what you think was your smartest option?  You’re supposed to be the bright shining student of the monastery and all I see before me is a snotty little kid who has been coddled his entire life.  We’ve been pouring our learnings and money and energy into you and I’m the only one around here that seems to understand that it has been a complete waste.  You’ll never see even the smallest piece of Lord Buddha.”

Ito had gathered his patience and just let the nattering of the nun to wash over him.  He thought about his latest meditations about the chaos of rain patterns and how different they were from the spray of blood from the chiburi move of the katana.  He understood the physics.  He just didn’t understand why physics controlled it.  After a while, he realized silence reigned.

Looking up at the crusty ole bag, Ito figured the yelling was over and he’d take his punishment for stealing three of the monk’s desserts.

The nun just stared at him.   “What?”, Ito said.

The woman just shook her head.  “I said, Brother Uteta is packing your old personal belongings.  You will leave immediately.  You will have no succor from any of the monasteries or priests for a period of five years of your pilgrimage.  You will not be taught by us, we will not shelter you.  You will live however you can.  You will live as part of the world rather than our insulated school.”

She watched his horror with just a little bit of satisfaction.  Punk kid.  Hope he never came back.

In reply to Ito (msg # 152):

Who is this Ito guy hanging out around town.  He seems real suspicious.  I say we rough him up and make him tell us what he knows.   ;)

Don't piss off the guy that can summon those electrical dudes that kicked your teeth in before.

In reply to Ito (msg # 154):

I have my rubber gloves and want a rematch

In reply to Totsu (msg # 155):

Yeah, Hiro is back.  I thought maybe Ayare had killed him.  :)

In reply to Totsu (msg # 156):

Please disregard longspear attack roll.

In reply to Arashi Fukushu (msg # 157):

It's all about the Chicken.  I think it is a super chicken that will kill us all unless we stop it.  :)