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 Post subject: Island Downtime Goals
PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:24 am 
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General Note: For this specific downtime more Island-focused personal goals cost 25 VIP and roughly provide 5-xp worth in benefits. More internationally focused personal goals cost 50 VIP and roughly provide 10-xp worth in benefits (though they still have to be executable from the island). Goals depend in their success and approval on the prior role-playing.



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 Post subject: Re: Island Downtime Goals
PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:43 am 
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Matsu Yasuhiro

Yasuhiro devotes his time and resources to make greater sense of the visions that the essence of the Jinn of Windless Air last residing in the elder brother of the current Iuchi daimyo conveys. They are of battle of war. By extensive cross-referencing with resources he acquires on the island during the final weeks of the month of the Dog he is able to get a good grasp of the military history of the Ki-Rin/Unicorn the jinn-blooded Iuchi took part in between 305 and 476, including the Battle against the Shadow, the ride through Laramun, the bringing of the Desert Moto into the fold by Shinjo Yonaru and Shinjo Kublai and finally the campaign against the Dahabi and the Senpet culminating in the Battle of Nahr'Umar Valley against Chephren in which forces of the Tarkhanate under Moto Hulagu join with their steppe cousins.

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Mechanical Benefit: Forbidden Knowledge: Clan Secret (Unicorn)



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 Post subject: Re: Island Downtime Goals
PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 11:14 am 
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Miya Suihime

Suihime works intensively on making trade arrangements between the East Port of Kameyama Jima and the Isles of Spice and Silk by connecting directly with local stakeholders in the maritime trade. The money entrusted to her by Ryoshida prove just enough to make it going and for a Dahabi merchant vessel flying the banner of the Tarkhanate outbound for Anisrana to change the cargo and take a new direction. Some of the visions she experiences because of the essence of the jinn residing in her hailing back to Medinaat a-Salaam aid her in the field of trade that has not been her area of expertise before, also indirectly as she explores the linguistic and cultural lore of the Burning Sands accessible thanks to the jinn.

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World of the Daimyo Advantage, with 3 Duty Points dedicated to the Secret Trade Route feature.


She also has grounds to purchase Location, Port Network and Merchant Master for East Port. If she does so, she will receive Product (1) for free to represent cargoes her new contacts dedicate for transoceanic shipping. Once she does it, she would need no further justification to conduct Trade actions with Asihtae Maru, understood as export processing. These actions can benefit from Secret Route as investment from various stakeholders flows in in anticipation of gains from Mantis markets.

As the ship will call safely at Toshi no Inazuma in a fortnight after the game is concluded, her Debt is considered paid in entirety and she acquires Gusai Ryoshida as Ally during the intergame downtime.



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 Post subject: Re: Island Downtime Goals
PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 11:21 am 
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Seppun Hikari

Hikari chooses to devote the time to improve her skills in the line of work as a Jade Magistrate in order to no longer be considered inept.

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Mechanical Benefit: Dutiful Service XP



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 Post subject: Re: Island Downtime Goals
PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 11:37 am 
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Agasha Utsusemi

As a safe passage to the top of Mount Kappa has been finally discovered, a spot for the Temple of Sadahako is found and the construction begins in earnest. Utsusemi mobilises her resources to give speed and artistic and religious direction to the effort. While transportation of building materials up the mountain is arduous, by the beginning of the month of the Boar it has proceeded satisfactorily. Her brother-in-law has been lending a hand with both the architectural and the technical side of the effort.

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Mechanical Benefit: World of the Daimyo Advantage toward Keeper of the Temple Station, with Duty Points to be assigned to various facilities of the Temple of Sadahako.



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 Post subject: Re: Island Downtime Goals
PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 11:39 am 
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Mirumoto Kenzo

Kenzo dedicates the time to improve his skills as yojimbo to Agasha Utsusemi, preparing himself to defend her in duels... and against food poisoning.

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Mechanical Benefit: Dutiful Service XP



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 Post subject: Re: Island Downtime Goals
PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 12:22 pm 
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Hida Ringo

Driven by his subconscious thirst for blood and fear of others fuelled by the shozaigaki of Rey the Amarillo attached to him, Ringo spends the time working in the foundries of the lepers. He has been active in acquiring goodwill of the local communities and it pays off; after initial distrust the gunsmiths accept the polite giant among them and assist in his work for a good pay. Benefitting from his previous trial and error efforts back in Rokugan, Ringo develops a design for a ship cannon and enters the month of his Kami namesake with a freshly cast prototype with promising parameters.

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Mechanical Benefit: Gaijin Gear: 2 Ranks (Cannon Prototype)

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New Siege Weapon: Tanegashima Cannon "Karingo"
  • Skill: Cannon
  • Crew: 4
  • Range: 800 feet
  • Damage: 6k6
  • Area: Can only shoot roundshots (smaller than gaijin ones). These inflict full damage to the target and then blast through and inflict 3k3 damage to anything within a line twenty feet beyond the target. (This follow-through may be stopped by a solid target such as a stone wall.)
  • Rate of Fire: 1 shot per three minutes, six minutes with a crew of 2. The cannon cannot be operated by a single man.



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 Post subject: Re: Island Downtime Goals
PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 6:40 pm 
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Muhaki Ran

News of Ran's personal experience of meeting Lady Sadahako soon spread and few disbelieve them. Considered blessed by the new Fortune, she is promoted by local authorities as the Someisa in charge of organising the cult as by far not all Tortoise are happy that the Dragon have dominated the effort, especially after the displeasures at the Shrine to Agasha Kasuga. There are more practical concerns behind this: as religious self-consciousness in the East Port is on the rise with the new temple being erected in a place where it would dominate over the landscape it needs the legitimacy only the Tortoise can award vis-a-vis other denominations. By distinguishing Ran, Yubari diffuses displeasures against the Dragon.

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Mechanical Benefit: Ran acquires 1 Rank of Social Position (+1.0 Status)



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 Post subject: Re: Island Downtime Goals
PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 7:00 pm 
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Seppun Hinami

Initially, Hinami cleverly moved into the background, letting her nomination as the Imperial Superintendent for Kameyama Jima to quietly advance the matter of Imperial authority over the island even if for now it is mostly the West Port. She has personally held meetings with people of power and position who would cross her and somehow managed to encourage cooperative attitudes from most of them in ways they wouldn't want to speak extensively, be that Juan de Almeria, Muhaki Yubari, Muhaki Kiara, Muhaki Aiteru, Armando Roxas or others. A quick consensus has emerged in the West Port that to be on her wrong side is a generally bad idea, at least as long as Imperial Navy presence is maintained. As her rise coincides with the more frequent sightings of large spiders in the north of the island, she is whispered about as La Reina Araña.

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Mechanical Benefit: Hinami acquires Spy Network, Ambassador Station and both a rank of Reputation and of Notoriety.



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 Post subject: Re: Island Downtime Goals
PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 7:58 pm 
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Iuchi Ruqqayah

Over the two weeks Ruqqayah is discretely meeting Hantei Jama, leading a second life as Ban, at secret locations. Their romance flourishes, fuelled by common interest in arcane mysteries of the Burning Sands. During the time she strengthens his commitment by teaching him the Hakhim's Seal and introducing into the ways of Iuchi sahirs. The nature and extent of their relationship is unknown to all but Shiba Suru.

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Mechanical Benefit: Hantei Jama as Ally.



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 Post subject: Re: Island Downtime Goals
PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 8:30 pm 
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Asahina Tori

Adjunct to her home on the Hillside in West Port, Tori employs her crew and resources she's gathered to erect several buildings in a fortnight that would serve as the premise of the Library of the Imperial Explorers on the island. They are furnished in memory of the artwork lost to fire during the recent burning of Jukami Mura by Crab forces. The initiative attracts an unexpected interest of the locals who come to look into the books she's has brought from Rokugan, but also many of them bring their own on various topics, in various languages and in various condition to leave a significant contribution or peddle them for good money as Yajinden has designated a special small budget for the purpose. The place soon changes into a less contemplative and tranquil one but benefits from the melting pot attitude most of its visitors honour. It actually becomes Yajinden's favourite and into the month of the Boar he can be often found there reading.

The housing premises created nearby resolve the festering issue of the religious folk brought by Agasha Utsusemi from Rokugan staying conflicted with the pensioners at the Shrine to Agasha Kasuga. Stories of Lady Sadahako manifesting herself to Tori have spread and the head of the group happens to be also an Asahina. Once they move into the estate Tori rents they take care of staff duties at the library while waiting for the Temple of Sadahako to be finished.

As there is always an Asahina around, it is soon dubbed Biblioteca de Hasaxena by denizens of the island.

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Mechanical Benefit: 0.5 Glory for Tori, as well as 0.5 to ease Tension (and corresponding VIP and Reputation gains). Tori also receives 2 Duty Points to allocate to the library premises. Tori also can acquire any Gaijin Virtue she wishes with a 2 xp discount.



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 Post subject: Re: Island Downtime Goals
PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 9:11 am 
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Kitsu Keiji

For the fortnight Keiji works on his plan to arm Kunshu Maru with cannons. As his crewmate and friend Hida Ringo develops a workable variant with the leper gunsmiths, he takes care of orchestrating the effort to enable large-scale production once a viable prototype is invented. He uses his impeccable seamanship to find a spot along the northern coast where Kunshu Maru can take anchor and directly assist in providing supplies and means of their trade to the lepers, increasing their manufacturing capacity and distribution channels. Thanks to this producing cannons for the Imperial Navy becomes both plausible, feasible and viable, and once the idea is worked through with the command Kunshu Maru can begin to be equipped with karingos.

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Mechanical Benefit: World of the Daimyo Advantage, with its Duty Points to be allocated to a Secret Trade Route and other Commodore and Merchant Patron features. Once Keiji purchases the Daimyo's Path he can acquire Gunpowder Weaponry features without further justification.



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 Post subject: Re: Island Downtime Goals
PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 11:23 am 
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Gusai Wataru

Despite various prior debacles in exercising leadership, Wataru continues the arduous process of asserting himself as the real commander of the Teppodoka as opposed to just a nominal one. The incident on the beach when Sakkaku spirits caused mayhem and death among unprepared troops may have not helped in building their confidence in him, but made many soldiers deeply conscious of problems of lack of disciplined command. While some quietly petitioned to see Wataru replaced by someone more worthy, no-one has issued a challenge to replace him, so in the end some have decided to roll with what is.

Especially that Wataru himself has not been idle, and took to diplomacy and industriousness to finally secure a garrison for the Teppodoka on the island at a strategic yet controversial spot that didn't help much in instilling higher morale. Governor of the East Port granted to them a complex of buildings in the northeast, near the guano cliffs, in a poluvora processing area, under the condition they would help patrol the Misty Road and fight back against arachnid wildlife that has started to appear in greater numbers. Aesthetically unappealing, the spot was hard to turn down for all other reasons - with supply of food from nearby plantation as well as an easy access to gunpowder and workshops that could repair the equipment of troops. For Wataru, it didn't help that his own quarters have been on the exact opposite end of the island...

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Mechanical Benefit: World of the Daimyo Advantage, with Duty Points to be allocated into Warlord Station features, primarily to accommodation and supply (with GM approval).



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 Post subject: Re: Island Downtime Goals
PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 11:38 am 
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Shosuro Anzai

Anzai spends the downtime on Merenaese cultural immersion and socialising in La Nueva Esperanza, to the point of rarely being found in his rooms in the Floral Estates. Between his life of a bon vivant and his taste for romantic adventures, he rarely has the problem of having nowhere to stay for the night on the other side of the island. He does report the state of affairs to Haruka, but his focus shifts toward endearing himself to La Familia Hidalgo de Almeria. Initially treated with reservations and distrust, over the fortnight he has become a frequent visitor in La Finca and has been seen walking the hacienda with the governor debating various issues. Some say it was him who has put the idea of a ball in Juanito's head as a way to bring the Explorers and the denizens of the island closer together. He's not exactly called a friend of the family yet, but Juanito has found it convenient to call upon him when he wishes to learn something about the inner workings of Rokugani society, being most interested in the Imperial lineages.

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Mechanical Benefit: Juan de Almeria as an Ally; Ambassador Station.



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 Post subject: Re: Island Downtime Goals
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Gusai Susumu

Over the two weeks Susumu expands his contacts within the Tarkhanate, becoming a friend of the Dahab House of al-Basiri and its local representative Anwar, but also maintaining good relations with the religious authorities at the Purple Mosque where he is exposed to Mekhemic studies of language and culture. He is also well-received by the innumerous but close-knit Ra'Shari community in Little Aqahba. Those are means to an end in his agenda to become a stakeholder in transoceanic commerce. He earns the trust of Anwar al-Basiri enough to be entrusted with sea charts that will allow him to sail for Aqahba in the Tarkhanate with a Rokugani cargo acquired on the island.

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Mechanical Benefit: Anwar al-Basiri as Ally; 5-xp discount on The Daimyo's Path and justification for Secret Trade Route feature.



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Muhaki Berena

During the downtime Berena conducts a private investigation that leads her to the Burial Grounds and the grave of Archibald Dunfrey. She learns from Ben the mortician that the grave-robber was probably peg-legged, what leads her back to the Belching Parrot where Isambard Moss is not overly cooperative when figuring out that she actually may consider him suspect. They come to some reconciliation and if Bellena is any good in knowing human nature she considers the tavern owner not involved... in that in particular. Investigation enters the dead point. If Isambard's version is true, the map had been torn out of the journal before Dunfrey was buried, so the gravedigging pegleg, whoever he was, was rather the one who got the journal that is now in Mahasin's possession. Mahasin doesn't want to speak about how she acquired the journal at all, but Berena implicitly learns from a fringe conversation with Ruqqayah at La Finca that the Unicorn have been late into that game and that Mahasin had sent a group with a similar task before. So likely the killer has it. One exhumation and several vomits later she learns that Archie died heavily pincushioned by means of rapier and from what Ise told her he wasn't a bad swordsman, what significantly narrowed it down to diestros. She does initially suspect Zabieru's elder brother who had sailed away a while ago all of a sudden, but would that not be a reason to stay? And then, Jose and Katarina sail away all of a sudden. An instinct guides her to check closer to home and in a wine cellar in La Finca that was Jose's favourite she finds a muddied crutch that could work as a false pegleg. Not a proof in itself, she does secretly browse things Jose left behind and she does find a hidden compartment where she finds a copy of the torn page, not an ideal one as Jose was not a calligrapher. He had likely kept the original.

A closer inspection of the piece and the part Kenzo gave her leads her to believe that she has mixed luck - they are parts of the same, but not adjacent ones. Still, she studies the matter and the more she is on it the less it looks like a map and more like an elaborate graphic puzzle written into geometric figure with a hidden message. It was probably made in a way that incomplete set won't lead anyone anywhere, a blessing and a curse for someone who has a part. Until the end of the month she actually cracks parts of the code... or not, because the words decoded seem to have little sense, something about torn veils, great spiders and green blessings.

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Mechanical Benefit: Bellena has another part of Hawthorne's map worth 20 VIP if submitted to either Jama or Saionji. She also acquires Thranish emphasis to Lore: Linguistics that doesn't count against the limit.



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 Post subject: Re: Island Downtime Goals
PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 12:38 am 
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Miya Edogawa

Edogawa would not suffer one of his babies demolished if he can help it, and he has full support of the top brass in this. No resource is spared for the ship to be restored in a fortnight and once it enters waves again in the month of the Boar, Edogawa is named its new captain.

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Mechanical Benefit: Social Position (Status: +1.0), Commodore Station.

Special: Due to exposure to the Fire Kami, Yamato Maru remains infused with their energy. Its planks have taken an orange hue and are slightly luminescent in the dark, while all fire burning on the ship is always bright and vivid. For better or worse, on the ship kami scarcity rules don't apply, and shugenja on it are considered to possess Elemental Imbalance (Fire). In addition, Sakkaku has retained its fondness of the ship: all who stay on it and are not Cursed by Sakkaku are considered Blessed by Sakkaku as long as they give in to and practice various mariner superstitions.



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 Post subject: Re: Island Downtime Goals
PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 4:28 am 
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Seppun Kaiya

Encouraged by Hantei Jama to take a more active role in managing his sensitive matters and others' secrets, unbeknownst to many the silent Imperial is turning into the Woman with the Iron Heart. She releases her long-time servant to find happiness with a young musician called Hafez while in reality she installs a proficient operative in Little Aqahba as the master of Hafez is the well connected musical genius Abd al-Urmawi. As Sakia grows into the household and hones her Mekhem few things that happen in Little Aqahba escape her mistress' attention and the web continues to grow. As her new attendant she picks up a girl called Isabella who was the only barmaid at La Gata Salvaje without background in prostitution and refused to change it when the business closed. The opportunity to turn her life around Kaiya gives her are rewarded with loyalty and many stories what has been happening lately in La Nueva Esperanza. Knowing what she knows about the affairs well beyond the island, Kaiya has every reason to keep a watchful eye on the East Port...

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Mechanical Benefit: Kaiya acquires Spy Network at a Daidoji value; her servant changes into a Merenaese-speaking; she can also purchase the Shadowed Heart or Heartless Advantages with 2 xp discount.



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 Post subject: Re: Island Downtime Goals
PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 8:54 pm 
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Ide Akaichou

Effective in garnering support of local Unicorn stakeholders and endearing herself to many of the progressive Explorers, in a time of improved relations Akaichou eventually establishes herself as the Unicorn envoy to the Imperial Explorers with little controversy on either side, showing that the gentle ways of Ide are not lost among his descendants. Fuad al-Maut, Iuchi Mahasin and Ide Mohan acknowledge her mandate with just minor reservations. While she is offered a minor office space in the Floral Estates and awarded permission to visit Imperial vessels, the Admiral names Anzai as her temporary liaison officer for the Explorers so the East Port can remain her locus of operation.

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Mechanical Benefit: Social Position: 1 Rank (+1.0 Status) and Ambassador Station.



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 Post subject: Re: Island Downtime Goals
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Muhaki Zabieru

Zabieru spends the time on restoring the influence and mustering the resources of his family in the wake of his brother's departure. He makes some long-term, clandestine arrangements with captains leaving for Merenae. By quick and assertive moves he re-institutes the position of Arrigorriagakoa on the Isla de la Tortuga.

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Mechanical Benefit: The Daimyo's Path Advantage.



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