Nakahama

Yasuki Honoka wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 8:30 pm

Boogiepop wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 7:43 pm --ping--

Anything I should do special for looking for how to get the nearby doors open, or would a investigation check looking for that specifically suffice?

Investigation/Awareness
Engineering/Intelligence
Computer/Intelligence

works!

Can I get if an enemy is injured or not? Shinsei's smile gives me a bonus to hit equal to half their wound penalty.

I *might* have hit the Kuni but I am not sure

The Moto intel!

Moto Shiwahime wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 10:01 pm Can I get if an enemy is injured or not? Shinsei's smile gives me a bonus to hit equal to half their wound penalty.

I *might* have hit the Kuni but I am not sure

Yes, you do hit him, it seems. You can roll for damage retroactively.

RANK 2: SHINSEI’S SMILE
The Moto are famed for slicing their enemies’ throats from ear to ear, a gruesome display they proudly call Shinsei’s Smile. You take advantage of your opponent’s weakened state, gaining a bonus to your attack rolls equal to half of his Wound Rank TN penalties, rounded down. For example, if your opponent is unhurt and in the Healthy Wound Rank, you do not gain a bonus. If your opponent is in the Crippled Wound Rank, you gain a bonus of +10 to the total of attack rolls.

added, thanks!

Ghosting updated in my PF--I'll head to sleep if our captain is out for the night!

I should be checking in tomorrow, mostly, but just in case--fyi to the battle companions, once Sorato gets in the door and sees the situation he'll probably make a beeline for the injured Haruto. If he can hit some mooks on his way there, he might, but that depends on the distance/move economy

Ghosting instructions: aim is to flank behind the other Kuni and scions. Next turn move up but behind as much cover as possible while being within free movement of line of sight.

Focus Kuni, then scions

Hiroto will be a force you all can rely on up until the moment it is possible for Honoka and Umiko can escape, as his priority will be then covering and protecting them. Should that happen he will still make a fighting retreat, but the man's gotta protect his charge!

This is in my ghosting instructions, as well as how I will guide him to give you all the heads up there!

With permission from y'all, and in the interest of expediency since I'm heading for work soon.
My next turn will be Hinata shifting into Full Attack stance and rushing down Nagisa. With a CP for the Attack roll and Another for damage I can feasibly bring her into wound penalties and start the wet noodle fight that is combat once WP start stacking

I'd be rolling 9k5-12 (Injured but Strength of Earth goes BRRRRR) to attack against (re-rolling with Hinata's own Lucky advantage if missed)
And then 7k3 for damage (re-rolling with lucky for higher damage in case it was under like 20)

That's all folks!

If Clue Points work like Void Points, you cannot dump two into your turn.

Ah crud
Well we'll focus on the Hit roll cause that's the least likely to do something without it

Free Move action (15')
Complex Action Attack

Again, in the pursuit of expediency, here's the hit roll against Nagisa it's a 44 WITH the penalties so that's a solid hit

Damage roll About as much as I can aspire to really, throwing in lucky might be a stretch there..
Nagisa will be fatigued! +5 to all TNs!

Hinata's in FA Stance so ATN 20 vs everyone

Will be at work, so asides my lunch break won't be available until like 9pm EST

Hinata's gonna stay on Nagisa trying to whittle her down and keep Fatigue on her

bureaucracy one liners for Junpei:

''Your deadline is near''

''Your life was filed in the wrong cabinet''

''Your death will be an addendum''

''I'm filing a form 37 against your life''

''Your corpse will be filed as John Doe-sn't worth anything''

I think Junpei would cringe even thinking about saying some of those.

That was some pretty brutal dice roller math on Shiwahime :-/

Yeah...Exploding dice happen in L5R, but I think we can agree that it was in the range of "freak accident" at 1% or less.

I had a feeling something like that would happen. All strong women I play die in the second game they appear in...granted that's only two but it's odd it happened twice.

For those wanting to participate in clean-up and follow-up after the fight, Kazushi's got a thread running for it.

Yoritomo Ochiba
Kaiu Ryosei
Bayushi Hinata
Agasha Sorato
And Kuni Junpei

Everyone in the above list is purchased a day pass at the luxury Natsuzora Ryokan and Spa to be turned in at their leisure by Honoka personally.